WEBVTT - QLS Classic: Snoop Dogg 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:04.240 Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. This classic 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:08.600 episode was produced by the team at Pandora. 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:13.320 The legendary Snoop Dogg joins Team Supreme to talk doggy 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:16.479 style producing with Doctor Dre and how he became the 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:21.240 Ultimate Entrepreneur. Originally released in December nineteenth, twenty. 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:37.800 Eighteen, Supremo s S Suprema Roll Call Suprema su su Supremo, 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:45.560 Roll Call Suprema so So, Supremo, Roll Call Suprema so So, Supremo. 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:47.159 Roll Call. My name is. 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:53.320 Questla Yeah, and I'm out of breath. Yeah snoops gym, Yeah, I'm. 0:00:55.000 --> 0:01:01.440 Suprema su Suprema Roll call Suprema Up Supremo. 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:02.240 Roll Call. 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:06.160 My name is Fante. Yeah, please hold my calls. 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YEAHVA ain't real. 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:56.960 Yeah, how about you? 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:04.400 Roll call Suprema Sun Supremo, roll call Suprema Suck Suck 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.080 Supremo roll call. 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:10.040 My name is Snoop. Yeah, I'm not no Bagle. Yeah, 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:13.360 I'm a Laker fan. Yeah, and I like the Eagle. 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:21.320 Supreme Supremo roll call Suprema su Su Supremo. 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:27.800 Roll call Suprema Sun South Supremo. Roll call Suprema Suck 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:29.200 Suck Supremo. 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:35.240 Roll call, Ladies and gentlemen, we have reached the pinnacle. 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:42.320 This podcast Black life goals, Yo, I have nothing compared. 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:46.280 This is quest Love of course, Love Supreme. As if 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.839 I got to reintroduce the ship that we're going. This 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.040 is our Christmas episode. But I'll be very honest with you. 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:57.400 It's still August, and we are in We are in 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:00.919 heaven right now. Compound. Yes, we are in the compound 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.639 of all the compounds. A lot and be said about 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:08.400 our yesterday, but in my opinion, he's probably hands down 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:13.200 the most beloved, unique, charismatic, talented MC and hip hop 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.480 culture period and music period in life period fact, and 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:18.359 I mean hip hop is forty five years old and 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:23.160 not said period. If I ponder and gave a thorough investigation, 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.520 you actually might catch me saying that he's easily, if 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.040 not the top three, but one of the best voices 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.640 in hip hop. He is the coolest of the cool 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:37.480 His catalogs outstanding, His anthems are people's high lives. It's 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:40.120 the craziest live show I've ever seen. 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:42.640 And I guarantee you he's your mom's favorite rapper. 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:46.440 That's yo, ladies and gentlemen, your mom's favorite raps straight 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:48.520 up Snoop dog. 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:50.520 In the building. 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:52.160 Thank you. 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.200 I appreciate that. And that roll call was off the 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.960 hook man. I'm a rapper though, so I stay ready. 0:03:57.960 --> 0:03:59.160 I ain't got to get oh yeah. 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.760 Key Balls all day, yeah your album like my mom 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.000 would like. She because I was talking to Dj Quick. 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.800 We had Dj Quick on the show early and h 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.800 his album. I couldn't listen to the cursaon But when 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.640 Doggie Style dropped, that was the one album, like my 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:14.400 mama was saying, ain't no fun with me. 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:20.279 The real mothers around the world that was allowing their 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:22.400 kids to listen to that Snoop dogg music back then 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:24.120 because they knew I guess they knew that I didn't 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:24.880 really mean no harm. 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:26.679 I just was I was the young voice. 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:28.560 And at the same time, I appreciate the mothers for 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:30.960 allowing y'all to listen to it because we grew together. 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:32.280 Oh yeah, absolutely. 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.200 I'm literally out of breath from just being on the 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.640 basketball court. I don't know how you do it, bro, 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:39.360 I don't know. 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:42.680 I don't leaders on. 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:44.600 Where'd you grow up? 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:45.240 Right? 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:47.400 Where were you born? LBC? 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:49.240 I grew up in Long Beach, California, on the east 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:50.000 side of Long Beach. 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.919 Okay, And what was your when you were first started? Like? 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:55.760 What was music like in your household? 0:04:55.920 --> 0:05:01.280 In my household, music was like brothers. My mama loved 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:09.200 some Teddy Pendergrass, Oh Jay stylistics, Uh, Manhattan's the dramatic, definitely. 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:13.440 Band, the daily black nutrients dipped in the sauce. 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:14.360 Man Okay, Well. 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:19.479 Shock is like what what Jawn like? Straight Philly? What Join? 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:21.080 What all right? 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.680 What John like? Would you would we be shocked that 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.000 you listened to that was outside of the lane of 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:31.039 what you're known for. Listening to your Cadillac music like what. 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.760 I loved Rod story was hot to me when I 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:39.200 was young. He was dope, Like I loved his get down, 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.120 like the way he sung his he seemed like he 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.719 was singing off what he was on and and and 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.159 it seemed like he was on the wrong bar, but 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.400 he was always in the right you know what I'm saying. 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:52.320 Position Like I love the way his voice down. 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:53.040 He had. 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:55.520 Told me I loved me. 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:05.480 Now, did you have any siblings growing up? It's not 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.920 two brothers, you youngest, older older brother and a younger brother. 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:10.960 And then my mother adopted my cousin and we made 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:15.200 him my brother, so it was four boys in the house, 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.520 you know what I'm saying, raised by one single mother. 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:23.479 Music was key, but I probably was the only one 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.640 that like really had a knack for it, like was 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:27.159 singing the. 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:27.840 Choir and. 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:33.840 Talent shows, rapping other people raps like the Sugarhill Gang 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:37.600 and Jimmy Spicer when they first came out, I learned 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:39.080 all that they raps and shit because I was like 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.640 these niggas fly. So I learned all they raps and 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:43.240 went to school and was just put my name and 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:47.080 they raps. Like that was like my first you know 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.800 intervention with me trying to become a rapper, listening to 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:52.960 good music and seeing if I could emulate it, and 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:54.760 not being afraid of doing in front of people, even 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:56.000 though if I was whack real good. 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.960 So when did you first start realizing that you had 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:04.159 a knack or a gift for them seeing or singing, 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:08.200 or you know, just overall talent. When did you realize. 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.600 Eighty six eighty five I was cool. 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.640 I was a you know, basic rapper, you know, rapping 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:17.000 about cars and swimming pools and shit. I didn't have 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:19.920 you know what I'm saying, you know, the old basic 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:21.600 wrap back then in the beginning, I got a big 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.000 old house and a big old card right, and they 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.400 didn't have nothing right, you know what I'm saying. Then 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:31.400 I gradually grew into you know, style, like what style 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.040 do I want to use? And watching the study and 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.480 the greats and listening to how they vocals and how 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.240 they controlled the microphone, not just what they was, but 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.840 their vocal tones. There was a lot of studying that 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:43.440 went in the you know what I was doing. I 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.040 wasn't just trying to be a regular rapper. I wanted 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:49.800 to be great. I wanted to like find ways to 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.640 perfect styles and perfect things that nobody had done. But 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:54.800 at the same time watching people who inspired me. 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:56.920 Yeah, I always heard you say that slick Rick was 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:57.240 on your. 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.520 Face, my man, love them to death, and that's still 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:01.000 one of my an to this day. Like when I 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.400 got a chance to meet him, he became my friend. 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.880 And it's like to have somebody like that that you 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.720 idolized and that you were able to finally get a 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:12.160 relationship with. It's beautiful because he's very you know, unique, 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.840 And I still look at him as the same slick 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.119 Rick when I was a kid, because he still dressed 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.600 fresh and honey, chains On still got the coldest conversation 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.520 and he remained him at all times, and that was 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:25.800 like helpful to me to find out who I was 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.160 and try to remain me and not try to get 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.280 caught up in the phase with rapping hard or rapping 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.319 fast or rapping loud, because when I was coming out, 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:37.200 most rappers was rapping like aggressive and hard and last yeah, 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.000 very aggressive. It was a couple of smooth ones, but 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:42.320 not the pocket I was trying to find. 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:48.320 So well, what slick Rick though, I mean, your your 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:52.440 your bartune is also key to your your low voice, 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:56.640 your baratune is key to your delivery. But I mean, 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:59.280 how did you did you finesse that style that you 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.840 have now? Snarl? I wouldn't know how to. It's somewhere 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:04.760 between snaggle Puss flick Rick. 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:08.520 And I think what it is. 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:11.400 Bosi Conent said it was like a cartoon mine. He like, 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.120 you got a cartoon mine. So a lot of times 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:17.160 when you rap and the voices that you hear will 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:21.520 be you know, cartoon related. You know, some sort of 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.559 cartoon that I may have heard or seen as a kid, 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.880 and I emulate that and put that vocal into my 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.680 rap with the delivery. Like you said snaggle Puss like 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.640 because to me, because the way he talked, it's sort 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:33.920 of kind of like the way I swing it when 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:34.440 I'm rapping. 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:38.480 Right, So even as a teen you had this style developed. 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:45.040 Nah, hell no, I would hate for you niggas to 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.200 hear the met music, all right, That's what I'm trying 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:51.120 to lead to. Might know, you know some niggas be like, well, 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.960 coming up the nineteen eighty seven version when you were 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:58.160 Snoop rock Ski and you thought you what was your 0:09:58.160 --> 0:09:59.640 first name, Snoop rock Ski? 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.280 Yes, yeah, got wrong with. 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:03.080 That shit for a minute. 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:07.080 It's weird though, I mean because it's most most West Coast. Yeah, 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:11.320 most West coast cats I know won't even admit to 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.240 having any sort of East Coast in Floridenace. 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.760 Fuck that, nigga. We loved everything about the East Coast. 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:18.480 If you don't knock it off, nigga, y'all niggas was 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:21.080 the pavement to all walking on shit. 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:21.480 Nigga. 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:23.840 We wanted to be like y'all with the belt buckles, 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:27.200 the mink coats, the bomber jackets, the motherfucker cane goals, 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:30.160 the gold chains, all of that shit. We wanted to 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.080 be what y'all was because y'all created that. And I 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.679 say y'all, I say the East in general, because they 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.800 from Philadelphia to New York, Nigga from Steady Bee, the 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.120 motherfucking all these niggas that had all that flavor in 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:43.439 that style. We watched that and then we emulated and 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:45.160 put our own flavor on it. That's how the hip 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.040 hop game was created. Somebody had to start it, somebody 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.200 had to see it and then add their pieces on 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.280 what they saw, and then that's what created hip hop. 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.760 That's why it's growing into different nations now. That's why 0:10:55.800 --> 0:11:00.320 people in different countries do hip hop. They can even 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:02.320 speak English, but they do hip hop. 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:08.800 What was the first show that you've ever seen? Contract wise? Music? 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:09.760 Hip Hop? 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:11.160 Or the Wiz? 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:12.079 What? 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:12.439 Wait? 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:15.600 What the Whiz? In nineteen seventy nine, when Stephanie Mills 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:16.360 was playing. 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.440 On I saw that one. 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:23.480 Yeah, that ship was Dope Man, Dope Wow Lie, who 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:24.080 took you mom? 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:24.640 So you see it? 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:26.959 You know it was like a church thing, and that's 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.640 when I was a good boy, and you know, you know, 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:31.200 the church got us a couple of tickets to go 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:33.320 through the Wiz. You know we're gonna take brother snowby 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.040 Waters too. He's been acting good in church. You know 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:36.800 you're gonna water. 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:40.320 Well. 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:40.720 All right? 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:42.920 So hip hop wise, what was the first show you saw? 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:51.319 Run DMC? First Fresh Past, Yeah, eighty okay, I remember 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.240 when we shut that ship down? I was gonna ask 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:56.080 was it the Long Beach show that? 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:56.760 Yep? 0:11:58.240 --> 0:11:58.880 Can you tell? 0:11:58.880 --> 0:11:59.280 All right? 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:03.760 All the the idea of a riot breaking out at 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:07.480 a hip hop concert, I'll never forget, Like the coverage 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.319 and write on magazine was like they had to. I 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.000 remember Vanessa Williams was even at the show for some reason. 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.560 But now I know Russell Simmons the way I know him. Yeah, 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:19.960 of course Vanessa Williams was there, but they had to 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.680 give it like a press conference and the whole ideal 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:24.640 rapp being violent or whatever, like. 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:25.719 They put my city on the line. 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:27.400 It started with this ship. That's how I know what 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.520 Long Beach is. Well, when you do retcall what happened 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:31.200 at the show. 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.280 Like it was a youngster, I probably was like thirteen fourteen. 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.000 I couldn't get in, so I ended up sneaking in 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:39.160 one of the homies and when I got in, they. 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:40.160 Just didn't have no security. 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:41.800 Like no, it was a good It was a. 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:43.959 Good show, was tight. It was like LLL Houdini and 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:44.319 all of them. 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.040 But what the problem was it was some La Niggas 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:50.040 that came down to Long Beach, and the La Niggas 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:51.960 was basically known for just you know when you go 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:53.920 to La they fucked the concerts up and you know 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.400 they run everything. They came to Long Beach and didn't 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.920 realize we was deep and we was we was all 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.640 one gang at one time, was three different gangs and 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.560 Loan Beach, but they all was together at that particular time. 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.320 And when they tried to come and do some shit. 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.440 It happened to be doing the intermission and I spoke 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.600 with Leora to find out exactly what the moment was. 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:14.720 Leora told me he was like it was a break 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.320 between acts, and when the acts would have a break, 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.320 they wouldn't have a DJ and nobody playing on music, 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:22.679 and it just went black on stage. And that's when 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:24.720 niggas seeing each other and was like, I think it 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.840 was between LLL and Houdini as LLL came out with 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.320 all red on and our city is all crips we 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.280 didn't have and that's when bloods and crips wasn't cool 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:36.120 at all. Like now it's way better, but back then 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.600 it was no dialogue, no understanding that when he came 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:40.480 out with that red on, niggas. 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:41.520 Was like that was problematic. 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:43.320 He waned them, you. 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.360 Know what I'm saying, Like it was shit that was 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:47.959 going on from that perspective, And then that the La 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.559 Niggas came and tried to push up in Loan Beach, 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:52.200 and the Loan Beach Niggas had to defend their turf 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:53.840 and the it was some essays there and it was 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.320 just a bunch of mayhem that had nothing to do 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:00.640 with the concert, and it fucked the concert up and 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:02.200 they put our city on the map for all the 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:02.840 wrong reasons. 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:05.199 But then I came and cleaned it. 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:09.800 Up all right. 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.800 So, speaking speaking of those early tapes that you made, 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:17.240 how did you like was two one three your first project? 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.640 What was your first development actually in doing tape sting? 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:24.760 No, my first development was probably eighty three. It was 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:27.520 a rapper named Captain Rap a long but she had 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:28.840 a song called bad Times. 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:31.440 Oh Captain Rap from Long Jimmy Jam. 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:32.320 Yeah. 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:36.120 So he lived his mama lived on Alm Street, which 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.440 was like the gang Bang Street, twenty first in Alm Street, 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:40.400 and I lived on twenty third Lungcus, which was like 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:43.400 three or four blocks away, and I heard that Captain 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:44.200 Rap was over there. 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:45.440 So I had made a cassette. 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.440 You know, you push record and play that old school 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.760 shit with you know what I'm saying, rapping into the cassette. 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:51.680 Yeah, did that? 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.960 Did like about five songs. They was all whack went 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:56.920 over the Sea the nigga and he listened to him. 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:58.440 He was like, Nah, you ain't ready. You need to 0:14:58.440 --> 0:14:59.680 buy Whooping the game he game. 0:14:59.760 --> 0:14:59.960 He was. 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.320 I appreciated that because now I hear him and see 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.040 him in real life right now today, and I remember 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:07.600 how he treated me and how he was to me 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.080 on some real shit like and he was like the 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.800 first rapper from Loan Beach to have a song out, 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.320 but at the same time, he didn't have no more 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.440 songs out. So when I listened to his song, I 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:18.800 was like, Okay, I want to make a hit, but 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.200 I don't want to just make one hit, you know 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:22.880 what I'm saying, Like I'm gonna learn from this, like 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:24.240 fuck that, I'm too greedy. 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:24.840 I want more. 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:27.720 So he was just pimping that one song. I got 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:29.800 no follow up and just nothing else. 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:32.080 I don't know what happened, you know. Around that time, 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:33.760 West Coast Rap was limited. 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:36.760 That was like fast. West Coast Rap was like bad. 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:40.200 Times, that's what we was rapping like that, you know 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:40.680 what I'm saying. 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:42.440 So that shit came and went and. 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.280 Then an effect on you. 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:50.840 Tidy T is one of the coaches in my football league. Yeah, 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.560 he me and he'd been friends for the past twenty 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.200 five years. But Tody T had a real big effect 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.240 because I was a drug dealer and the bad around 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:01.240 was really real, like we would really see it come 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:05.720 through the neighborhoods in that song was so symbolic to 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:08.280 West Coast music because it was like the first time 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.480 that we had a record that it was about us 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.480 and the ship we was going through that everybody on 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:17.200 the West could relate to that was selling drugs, and 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:20.400 most drug dealers became rappers. You know what I'm saying, 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:23.040 because that's what Tardy TNM was. They were drug dealers 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.920 that were rappers. It just so happened to be making 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:28.040 music because they were like, like we got a spare time, 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.840 that's mixing music. It was him and another rapper, Nayed 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:31.760 mixed Master Spade. 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:33.080 That was the ship. 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:34.720 He used to rap like he was in church, like 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:36.200 welcome part. 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:37.360 Of people in some class year. 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:42.520 Here got the ladies in the front and whole raps 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:42.960 sound like. 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:46.240 It was cold with it. 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:54.840 I gotta look at he had singles out yeahs yes, sir, 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:57.480 okay maybe for n w A. 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.480 They were they were the ones before we n WA's 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.520 like they was from Compton. They was representing that gangster shit. 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:08.840 They was real drug dealers. Theyre the ones, not the tools. 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:14.640 Did you have any experience like any Uncle Jam situations 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:15.879 or any of. 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:20.080 Those actually Uncle Jam Roger Clayton Rest in Peace, came 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:23.800 to Long Beach in nineteen ninety and was working a 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.359 club called the Toe Jams. And that's what me and 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:30.280 Domino used to rap at. You know, Domino ye together. 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:34.040 We was rapping Theirs and the Twins and Warren g 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:35.080 and the whole little click. 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:35.960 We was all rapping there. 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:39.160 And he kind of like knew that me and Domino 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:42.080 had some special because he would always separate us and 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.080 let us like come in a little booth. He had 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:46.560 like a space boof in the air, like old school shit, 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:48.720 like up here, but it's over the ground, and he 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.080 would let us come up in there and let us wrap. 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:53.960 And it's like you could tell that he knew that 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.520 we were special. And I didn't even know this motherfucker 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:01.080 was Uncle Jam until after the fact, because he wasn't like, 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.800 I'm Uncle James, just like it's Roger Clayton. Then I 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:06.160 was telling people, yeah, I did this with right, They're like, nigga, 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:09.160 you know Uncle Jam? Like what was Uncle Jam? 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:09.280 Like? 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:12.119 When did this party start? I've heard of his parties, 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:12.879 but I just don't know. 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:14.560 The seventies, late seventies. 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.080 Oh he went back that far. Okay, I think. 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.280 George Clinton blessed him. I think George Clinton was like, 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:21.679 you know what, you the young gut here in La 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:23.840 that's pushing and promoting my ship and doing that thing. 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:25.760 And I think he took it on and say all right, 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:26.879 I'm Uncle Jam. 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:28.720 I understand you. 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:32.080 I'm Uncle Jam's army because I'm part of you know, 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.639 what George and them is doing, and I'm just a 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:36.440 culmination of it. Like you know how it is. They 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:40.520 inspired us everything, Uncle Jam. It's funk based. Everything that 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:43.080 we do is funk based because those were the originators 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.720 of what we love. Damn Rick James, Yeah, being the 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:47.120 whole funk man. 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:49.840 Can you explain to us the importance of the roodium 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:52.040 and like what that was heard all me? 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:54.520 It was a flea market, Yeah, it was. 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:56.840 A flea market, but it was the spot that NWA made. 0:18:56.840 --> 0:19:01.800 They first like mixtapes that really broke ice, like Dope Man, 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:04.159 Gangster Against All. That ship was in there first, like 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:07.119 on mixed tapes. So they was like there making like 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:09.520 songs with Cube would be rapping and Dre would be 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:12.399 on the turntables and it was like jacking for beats 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:14.159 before Jack and for Beasts, you. 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:14.760 Know, what I'm saying. 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.520 But Doctor Dre was doing the mixing and taking niggas 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:19.560 beats and Ice Cube was rapping and sucking it up, 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:22.080 and they was wrapping Gangster Ship. And back then it 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:24.720 was it wasn't common to rap Gangster Ship. 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:24.920 More. 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:29.119 More rappers were, you know, rapping the right way or 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:32.480 you know tra correct. Yeah, like Kara rest More didn't 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:32.960 give a fuck. 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:34.920 He was going hard. You know what I'm saying. 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.320 He was one nigga just ice didn't give a fuck. 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:38.960 He was hard, you know what I'm saying. It was 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:40.800 certain niggas that just didn't care. Ice t didn't give 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:42.639 a fuck. He was hard. But some of them was 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.199 just like you know, Rock Kim was hard. But I 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:48.400 never heard him cuss, right, I wanted to hear. 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:49.880 Him except. 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:57.199 On the original of My Melody he says, pull up 0:19:57.200 --> 0:19:57.520 a chair, and. 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:04.359 I ain't ship. I want him to motherfucker give me 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:05.480 some good shit. Right. 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:14.200 So for for those tapes, like, were you an ardent 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:17.600 collector of him? Like, as far as Doctor Dre's concerned, 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:21.000 were you was it a goal for you to like, Okay, 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:22.400 one day I got to get to him, or. 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:25.240 One day I wanted to get to Steve Steve Yano. 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:28.800 He was the one that ran to Rodehuim swapped. 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:31.439 Me, Oh so you just want to get your product in. 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:33.720 I just want to get to him because to me, 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:37.640 fuck them, he was the one because he could get 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:40.240 you out there. I wasn't good enough for them. I 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:42.159 didn't want to go to them and like get him 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:44.640 music that wasn't dope as theirs, Like that's the kind 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:46.560 of rapper I was. Like, I never wanted to rap 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:49.240 for Drel, wanted to get down for w A because 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:49.760 I didn't think. 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:50.800 I was ready. 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:53.520 Like so I would rather make music and get ready 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:56.680 and then once they discover me and feel like I'm ready, 0:20:56.720 --> 0:20:57.680 then we make that happen. 0:20:57.680 --> 0:20:59.040 And that's exactly what happened. 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:05.480 Good say, oh so from the first explained us exactly 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:08.200 how when you first started, when you Warren and Nate 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:12.119 from two and three, When did y'all start recording together? 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:17.439 Well, me and Warren g was friends from like elementary school. 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:20.000 I met Nate dog in high school in eighty six, 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:21.720 when I was in the tenth grade, he was in 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:22.399 the twelfth grade. 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:23.399 We had a class together. 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:26.280 We just used to be fucking around, you know, beating 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:28.560 on the table and singing and rapping. Then we had 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:30.880 seventh period together, which was pe and we never went 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:32.560 to that, so we would always be singing and shit 0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:35.000 in the back of the gym. So but war and 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:37.320 G was my dog, and waring G was always wanting 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:41.000 to do music with me, but we never like did music. 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:43.359 So then I figured out a way to get all 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:46.320 three of us together. And once we got together and 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:49.200 got past all the argument and fighting and shit, because 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:51.000 them niggas used to fight all the time, Waring G 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:52.960 and they though them niggas can not stand echere. That's 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:54.280 why it fucks me up that they got all the 0:21:54.359 --> 0:21:57.280 fucking history right. And them niggas was always fighting each 0:21:57.280 --> 0:21:57.639 other like. 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:00.520 Brother like water, just like I really go. 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:03.119 Brother like way, like Nigga like you know how brothers 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:06.200 is like like what the fuck is y'all? And I'm 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:07.760 in the middle of ship like this the fuck is 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:10.760 y'all fighting about? This is bullshit? And this is even 0:22:11.359 --> 0:22:15.480 own records before the know it happened a lot before 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:18.840 the records. When the records came out, only conflict was 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:22.600 like just in the studio, you know, Nate Dog like 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:23.840 doing the ship a certain way. 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:24.480 He like fucked that. 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:26.440 He hard aded in the studio. He like doing shit, 0:22:26.840 --> 0:22:29.040 no fuck that, I'm doing it this way. I'm taking 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:30.600 the motherfucker the way I want to sing it. 0:22:32.480 --> 0:22:36.360 Nate was always singing. Always was he ever at any 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:37.080 point in his life. 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:41.000 Never, never, but he could he could, you know, Like 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:42.879 like I said, when I met him, we was rapping 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:45.080 and singing in the back of the class. Like he 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:47.960 wasn't just coming up. Nigga was rapping with me, you know. 0:22:48.000 --> 0:22:50.760 I was, you know, beating on the table and ship 0:22:50.840 --> 0:22:52.479 rapping it at the same time. And he would come 0:22:52.520 --> 0:22:55.320 in and rap and then certain points he would maybe 0:22:55.400 --> 0:22:56.359 sing some ship and they would be. 0:22:56.359 --> 0:22:58.800 Like that was flying and he always had that movie. 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:01.119 Always had that ship Like He's sounded like an R 0:23:01.160 --> 0:23:03.760 and B Nigga. That to me, you always sounded like 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:09.399 the dude from A What's the group? Mind blowing decisions? Nigga, 0:23:09.440 --> 0:23:11.840 He sounds just like us if Nate when he used 0:23:11.840 --> 0:23:16.680 to sing always in Forever, he sounded exactly like damn 0:23:16.960 --> 0:23:18.919 like niggas just singing that for the Homiesga, be like 0:23:19.040 --> 0:23:26.360 he sing always in Forever, always Forevergas in the rooms. 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:27.560 Niggas sing high. 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:35.879 Part so from the time when y'all started making records. 0:23:35.880 --> 0:23:38.760 I've always heard you credit the DLC is actually teaching 0:23:38.760 --> 0:23:42.000 you how to write rhymes or or structure your rhymes. Rather, 0:23:42.640 --> 0:23:46.080 how did you go from like just freestyling, Like how 0:23:46.080 --> 0:23:48.960 did you start developing, you know, your pen game before 0:23:49.080 --> 0:23:50.720 meeting uh dre and doing. 0:23:50.560 --> 0:23:54.080 Deep free styling was my main thing because I was 0:23:54.160 --> 0:23:55.560 it was easy for me to come to my head 0:23:55.600 --> 0:23:58.520 real quick. I would always you know, I was quick 0:23:58.560 --> 0:24:01.560 with it. And then I started writing. But my rhymes 0:24:01.600 --> 0:24:05.160 that I wrote were like so basic, Like I would 0:24:05.160 --> 0:24:07.760 freestyle complex shit, but I would write basic shit. And 0:24:07.760 --> 0:24:09.439 I couldn't understand, Like why the fuck am I so 0:24:09.560 --> 0:24:12.840 basic when I'm writing? But I ain't, you know, basically 0:24:12.840 --> 0:24:14.600 when I'm freestyling, because I guess it was a more 0:24:14.680 --> 0:24:18.959 challenge exactly. So then I started saying fucking it. When 0:24:19.040 --> 0:24:20.919 we started making tapes, I just started going in there 0:24:21.000 --> 0:24:23.080 just saying shit like fucking I ain't gonna write no shit, 0:24:23.680 --> 0:24:25.720 and that shit was sounding better than the shit I wrote. 0:24:26.800 --> 0:24:30.760 And then once I got with you know, different producers 0:24:30.800 --> 0:24:33.240 and certain motherfuckers giving me game on. 0:24:34.359 --> 0:24:36.000 This is a sixteen bar? What's up? 0:24:36.040 --> 0:24:39.080 Sixteen bar? That's when the shit started. Here and in 0:24:39.200 --> 0:24:42.639 here Nigga rapped forever. You know, back then we had 0:24:42.640 --> 0:24:44.680 one hundred monthfucking bars. You know, that's what rappers did 0:24:44.680 --> 0:24:46.480 back then. Niggas din't know how to break that shit down. 0:24:46.520 --> 0:24:48.440 You know, we just rapped it. We couldn't rap no more. 0:24:48.920 --> 0:24:49.040 So. 0:24:49.080 --> 0:24:50.600 Then once the nigga learned how to structure, it was 0:24:50.640 --> 0:24:53.240 like cool, I got it. But then when I got 0:24:53.280 --> 0:24:56.320 with drinking, DC Doc showed me how to make songs 0:24:57.080 --> 0:25:00.199 like I would bust at least they bust something us 0:25:00.359 --> 0:25:03.679 like three minutes. He'd be like, all right, see what 0:25:03.720 --> 0:25:07.160 you said right here, that's the hook. What you said 0:25:07.200 --> 0:25:11.560 over here, that's the last sixteen. Over here, it's the 0:25:11.600 --> 0:25:14.600 first four right here, that's the next eight. Like he 0:25:14.640 --> 0:25:18.800 would take my restructure. This nigga was nigga like he 0:25:18.840 --> 0:25:20.240 worked for motherfucking Microsoft. 0:25:20.320 --> 0:25:21.720 Nigga. 0:25:24.040 --> 0:25:26.159 Yeah, Nigga put put the thing together. 0:25:26.280 --> 0:25:28.679 Like even when it came to g thing like I 0:25:28.720 --> 0:25:32.320 wrote it on the east side, but the last part 0:25:32.960 --> 0:25:33.639 I was stuck. 0:25:34.400 --> 0:25:35.119 And he came in. 0:25:35.240 --> 0:25:37.200 He because it's something I had said a long time ago, 0:25:37.320 --> 0:25:39.359 and he was like, Nigga, remember that ship. We was 0:25:39.440 --> 0:25:44.080 like like this that and this and up because I 0:25:44.080 --> 0:25:46.400 said that in the freestyle when I was just freestyl 0:25:46.440 --> 0:25:48.919 on one time Nigga's doctor drink and snoop. 0:25:50.280 --> 0:25:53.920 And we do it like this, and he. 0:25:53.920 --> 0:25:55.439 Was like, yeah, do that and put that at the 0:25:55.560 --> 0:26:00.600 end and then put my name in there. 0:25:57.680 --> 0:26:04.760 Like put your opinion now on younger MC's and being 0:26:04.800 --> 0:26:08.080 able to freestyle versus not the. 0:26:08.160 --> 0:26:10.480 Same where it used to be, you know, like basketball 0:26:10.480 --> 0:26:12.199 and what it used to be, football and what it 0:26:12.280 --> 0:26:14.399 used to be. You can't expect them to be on 0:26:14.440 --> 0:26:17.600 the level of the game that ain't the same. You 0:26:17.640 --> 0:26:19.600 know when we came out, you had to have skills 0:26:19.640 --> 0:26:21.320 like that. I remember I had to battle like forty 0:26:21.359 --> 0:26:23.880 niggas in New York one night, like on some real 0:26:23.920 --> 0:26:26.840 shitting and corrupt stepped up and served about a thousand niggas. 0:26:27.000 --> 0:26:28.480 I'm not making this shit up. It was like a 0:26:28.560 --> 0:26:29.160 karate movie. 0:26:29.240 --> 0:26:29.720 Nigga like. 0:26:31.320 --> 0:26:34.280 Niggas was running up with the same outfits on niggas. 0:26:37.480 --> 0:26:40.359 But that's what That's what hip hop was for me. 0:26:40.400 --> 0:26:43.399 When I came in in the eighties, I started rapping 0:26:43.520 --> 0:26:45.960 like eighty four eighty five. I had to battle about 0:26:45.960 --> 0:26:49.640 one hundred niggas before I even got to a microphone. 0:26:50.640 --> 0:26:54.000 Before I even got to a microphone. Yeah, then when 0:26:54.040 --> 0:26:56.080 I got to a microphone, it be like a house party, 0:26:56.800 --> 0:26:58.680 and if you ain't saying the right shit nigga, they' 0:27:00.240 --> 0:27:02.160 DJ put on some shit like Nick, get out of here. 0:27:02.840 --> 0:27:05.080 I say, niggas get shut down to get house parties. 0:27:05.119 --> 0:27:07.760 Then I start doing talent shows. So it's like I 0:27:07.800 --> 0:27:09.800 started getting familiar with the mic in my voice, and 0:27:09.840 --> 0:27:12.600 I started recording myself like I hear what I sound like? 0:27:12.640 --> 0:27:15.199 All right, my voice needs to be like this, not 0:27:15.359 --> 0:27:17.440 all wrapping, all loud and talking like that. 0:27:17.960 --> 0:27:20.240 That ain't me. I need to be in pocket. 0:27:20.520 --> 0:27:20.840 Damn. 0:27:20.960 --> 0:27:24.920 See that's how Usually with people that have low register, 0:27:25.240 --> 0:27:28.120 they do that a lot. They practice and practice, yeah, 0:27:28.200 --> 0:27:31.280 and then they find their zone. That's weird that you 0:27:32.240 --> 0:27:36.879 knew to discover that even without someone you know instructing 0:27:36.920 --> 0:27:38.720 you to practice on tape. 0:27:38.840 --> 0:27:40.640 Ain't that ideas for a drummer too. 0:27:42.040 --> 0:27:45.439 Ah, that's just different. Mindset was more like there's the 0:27:45.440 --> 0:27:48.639 basement going in it don't come out until after five hours. 0:27:48.760 --> 0:27:49.480 Like it was just. 0:27:51.840 --> 0:27:53.399 It wasn't like let me find my style. 0:27:53.480 --> 0:27:56.120 It's more like, yeah, it's better be home right after school, 0:27:56.280 --> 0:27:56.880 But how do you. 0:27:56.880 --> 0:27:59.320 Like For example, like if I say give me some 0:27:59.359 --> 0:28:03.200 Al Green and then give me some James Brown drums. 0:28:02.880 --> 0:28:04.000 Well that see. 0:28:04.040 --> 0:28:07.480 The thing is is that the mic even. 0:28:07.040 --> 0:28:14.440 I think, even beyond drumming, I am, I mean, I'm 0:28:14.440 --> 0:28:20.800 a record collector and I process information different. So for me, 0:28:21.200 --> 0:28:24.600 I've discovered that it's really in the microphone, in the 0:28:24.640 --> 0:28:27.159 mixing I mentioned in the style. Also, so if you 0:28:27.440 --> 0:28:30.320 want Al Jackson and I know that, okay you want, 0:28:30.720 --> 0:28:32.760 I'm so glad your mine or whatever, then I know, okay, 0:28:32.800 --> 0:28:34.600 I gotta tune this down and all that stuff. But 0:28:34.720 --> 0:28:41.040 that really just comes from listening to listening to drummers 0:28:41.080 --> 0:28:43.360 and knowing how to tune my drums to sound like their's. 0:28:43.880 --> 0:28:47.160 It's not even a technique. So I consider myself more 0:28:47.320 --> 0:28:51.160 like a mirror than an actual person with the style. 0:28:50.920 --> 0:28:53.040 Because I noticed you can get those sounds. It's like 0:28:53.200 --> 0:28:54.960 I listened to you. I'm like, okay, he can get 0:28:54.960 --> 0:28:58.600 any sound. He won't like the wots y'all be playing 0:28:58.600 --> 0:29:01.360 with all kinds of sounds. That sound I like is 0:29:01.360 --> 0:29:02.080 when y'all did that. 0:29:02.640 --> 0:29:11.400 If you don't want me about that, baby, you don't 0:29:11.440 --> 0:29:12.880 want me, you know that. 0:29:12.760 --> 0:29:15.239 You got me, Thank you, bro. 0:29:15.880 --> 0:29:16.440 Appreciate that. 0:29:18.160 --> 0:29:18.360 Shit. 0:29:18.800 --> 0:29:21.320 I almost got talked out of that. The label was 0:29:21.400 --> 0:29:24.440 like dog y'all got to hit, don't do this fancy. 0:29:24.720 --> 0:29:28.720 The thing was we we lived in London. We had 0:29:28.880 --> 0:29:34.160 exiled to the UK from like ninety three to about 0:29:34.240 --> 0:29:38.960 ninety seven, even though we was living like both in 0:29:39.000 --> 0:29:42.760 Philadelphia and abroad, but we were torn more abroad, and 0:29:42.800 --> 0:29:46.480 so that's when drum and bass was just starting to 0:29:46.480 --> 0:29:48.880 pop off garage and two steps and all that stuff. 0:29:48.920 --> 0:29:51.160 So when I got back to the stats, I was like, 0:29:51.160 --> 0:29:51.920 all right, let. 0:29:51.840 --> 0:29:53.400 Me add some of that London shit that I learned, 0:29:53.440 --> 0:29:56.440 which is weird because outcasts and doing bombs over Baghdad. 0:29:57.080 --> 0:29:59.320 That was their version of that. You know, okay, let's 0:30:00.160 --> 0:30:01.920 do what we learned in London. But I tried to 0:30:01.920 --> 0:30:03.840 do it in the label like try to talk me 0:30:03.880 --> 0:30:06.160 out of it, like real nah, radio is not going 0:30:06.240 --> 0:30:10.120 to play this, You're messing it up. So I fought 0:30:09.480 --> 0:30:12.680 they taught me out of Jills Scott, but I kept 0:30:12.680 --> 0:30:13.640 the drumming biggs. 0:30:14.360 --> 0:30:17.440 Who get rid of Jill Scott, But I'm keeping my drums. 0:30:17.840 --> 0:30:20.720 That crazy labels like back then had more say so 0:30:20.880 --> 0:30:22.600 and could really like come in there and say some 0:30:22.680 --> 0:30:24.720 ship that you had to do well. 0:30:24.840 --> 0:30:27.120 At that point, we were unproving, and it was just 0:30:27.160 --> 0:30:29.440 like this was our fourth attempt at trying to make 0:30:29.480 --> 0:30:29.960 it happen. 0:30:30.240 --> 0:30:32.680 Even for the proven, they did that like they were 0:30:32.720 --> 0:30:34.400 coming there and tell them motherfucker on some where else 0:30:34.480 --> 0:30:36.920 did It was many times where I sat down with Jimmy, 0:30:36.920 --> 0:30:40.000 I being on some good ship, but I liked his respective. 0:30:40.000 --> 0:30:41.920 But then sometimes we clash because I was like, Nigga, 0:30:41.960 --> 0:30:43.520 you can't tell me, nigga, you don't know my ship. 0:30:43.640 --> 0:30:46.280 Nigga Like hold on this, nigga, do no nigga, this 0:30:46.360 --> 0:30:50.560 nigga didn't work with nigga boot Springsteens. 0:30:51.640 --> 0:30:53.880 Can you give us an example? Can you give us 0:30:53.920 --> 0:30:55.520 an example of something you two classed over? 0:30:56.600 --> 0:31:01.120 Oh man? Uh? Producers? 0:31:01.800 --> 0:31:02.120 Really? 0:31:02.320 --> 0:31:02.760 Yeah? 0:31:03.320 --> 0:31:04.840 Who did you want to work with that he didn't 0:31:04.840 --> 0:31:05.720 want you to work with him? 0:31:07.240 --> 0:31:08.640 I don't want to say no name, but it was 0:31:08.680 --> 0:31:11.880 a producer that I really fucking wanted to work with 0:31:12.360 --> 0:31:15.960 that He didn't really see it, but he kind of 0:31:15.960 --> 0:31:22.320 saw it, and then once we started doing it, he 0:31:22.400 --> 0:31:23.880 understood it was for real. 0:31:24.880 --> 0:31:30.440 Wow wait wait wow, he couldn't see that. You know what, though, 0:31:30.720 --> 0:31:34.840 I'm gonna tell you something. In the beginning, you. 0:31:34.720 --> 0:31:35.440 Couldn't see it. 0:31:35.800 --> 0:31:39.640 Pharrell was a hard sell for me. Here's here's the 0:31:39.640 --> 0:31:43.080 stupid ship I loved. I can't make a mistake by 0:31:43.200 --> 0:31:45.760 mc light. I love this shit because it was loud 0:31:45.760 --> 0:31:52.520 as ship. But it's almost like there's some unconventional there's 0:31:52.520 --> 0:31:56.239 something unconventional about the Neptune sound drew me to it 0:31:56.360 --> 0:32:00.120 that took me. It took me two months to to 0:32:00.120 --> 0:32:02.760 to really really get it and get aboard. And now 0:32:02.800 --> 0:32:05.760 it's like, the weirder this shit is, like take like 0:32:05.840 --> 0:32:08.480 the clip second album. The weirder that ship is, the 0:32:08.480 --> 0:32:10.120 more I'm all for it, you know what I'm saying. 0:32:10.120 --> 0:32:12.000 But that's what they were hard sell because I mean 0:32:12.040 --> 0:32:14.120 the first my first I CA remainer was on the 0:32:14.160 --> 0:32:16.520 Mace album, like they're looking at me joint and. 0:32:16.800 --> 0:32:18.720 You didn't like that, Okay, I didn't know who they were. 0:32:18.840 --> 0:32:21.640 You feel me like I remember this, But then like 0:32:21.720 --> 0:32:25.240 I think I got it around like super Thug like 0:32:25.320 --> 0:32:28.440 super Thug and like I mean the stuff with Norway, 0:32:28.480 --> 0:32:30.720 like all that shit got But I could see the So. 0:32:30.720 --> 0:32:34.840 Your first of the palace right at least, no, I think, uh, 0:32:34.960 --> 0:32:35.920 the chronic's blowing. 0:32:37.200 --> 0:32:41.520 Uh yeah, yeah, blowing chronic to me is like a tradition. 0:32:41.640 --> 0:32:43.640 To me, I got to pick the So sit down 0:32:43.720 --> 0:32:46.000 and listen to me. Don't go against me food, go 0:32:46.120 --> 0:32:48.080 with me, and we can blow it all together like 0:32:48.120 --> 0:32:51.400 Bobby Brown and with me. Yeah, we got something to 0:32:51.480 --> 0:32:53.800 come and nigga search your nigga, but they never finding 0:32:53.880 --> 0:32:57.120 my bomb and I got the stashot my cash, got 0:32:57.320 --> 0:33:00.080 a lot of motherfucking punk police shot. I'm not the 0:33:00.120 --> 0:33:02.760 one nigga. You can call me the two Bob Marley. 0:33:02.800 --> 0:33:06.320 We incordinated, pupils, dilated and maxipated. 0:33:09.440 --> 0:33:12.760 This almost like that I'll be sure episode again you 0:33:12.760 --> 0:33:14.680 get hypnotizing someone's voice. 0:33:14.640 --> 0:33:19.440 And then the nigga just stopped. Thank you for sucking 0:33:19.480 --> 0:33:20.240 over me fast. 0:33:21.600 --> 0:33:24.520 Was it true that Deep Cover y'all didn't even have 0:33:24.840 --> 0:33:27.560 the record done before y'all signed the deal to do the. 0:33:27.800 --> 0:33:29.920 I like, sure, I tell this story, he'll tell it 0:33:29.960 --> 0:33:33.320 better than me. What it was was Doctor Dre was 0:33:33.320 --> 0:33:36.440 going to the gym right and we was in Calabasas 0:33:36.440 --> 0:33:38.800 at his house living at the time. You know, he 0:33:38.880 --> 0:33:40.480 gave me a beat and he was like. 0:33:41.960 --> 0:33:42.560 This the beat. 0:33:42.760 --> 0:33:46.120 I want my ship to start off like this tonights tonight, 0:33:46.160 --> 0:33:49.800 I get add some ship deep cover on the incognito tip. 0:33:51.160 --> 0:33:52.160 And then he left. 0:33:52.960 --> 0:33:54.640 So he gave you those four lines. 0:33:54.320 --> 0:33:56.400 And then the nigga left. I'm not making it up, 0:33:56.720 --> 0:33:59.160 so they sure call about an hour and a half 0:33:59.280 --> 0:34:02.760 letter Doggie Dog, I'm gonna call you back on the 0:34:02.840 --> 0:34:07.040 phone with the people from Sony. You got the song done? 0:34:07.080 --> 0:34:07.400 I said no. 0:34:07.520 --> 0:34:09.520 The nigga just tolked, just gave me the beat and laft, 0:34:09.520 --> 0:34:12.440 what what the song about? I don't know what it's about, 0:34:12.960 --> 0:34:16.440 but the movie is about the undercover police officer. 0:34:16.680 --> 0:34:17.799 So I'm gonna call you back. 0:34:18.200 --> 0:34:21.000 I want you to like freestyle a little bit, and 0:34:21.040 --> 0:34:23.040 then I want you to get to a certain point 0:34:23.360 --> 0:34:25.319 and I'm gonna say, all right, cut it off, and 0:34:25.360 --> 0:34:27.200 you're gonna hit the button and cut the music off, 0:34:27.280 --> 0:34:29.799 like everything cut off, and I'm gonna call you back. 0:34:30.360 --> 0:34:34.000 I'm like, all right, come on, and nigga ain't making 0:34:34.040 --> 0:34:36.640 this shit up, Nigga. The nigga called me back about 0:34:36.640 --> 0:34:38.920 an hour later, and I had a little bit of it, 0:34:38.960 --> 0:34:40.759 had like maybe like four bars of it. 0:34:41.360 --> 0:34:42.080 So he called back. 0:34:42.160 --> 0:34:44.200 He like, Doggy Dog, I got the people on from 0:34:44.200 --> 0:34:46.120 a Sony didn't want to hear the song. 0:34:47.000 --> 0:34:48.040 Nigga, I put the beat. 0:34:48.080 --> 0:34:51.000 Old Nigga just start busting their freestyling and going and going, 0:34:51.000 --> 0:34:52.239 and Nigga, all right, cut it off. 0:34:53.400 --> 0:34:54.439 I'm gonna call you back. 0:34:55.280 --> 0:34:57.279 Nigga called me back and said, Nigga write the song 0:34:57.360 --> 0:35:02.279 niggas called Deep Covers about a undercover police officer going 0:35:02.360 --> 0:35:05.680 undercover and selling drugs. I'm like, Nigga, my dope case 0:35:06.160 --> 0:35:08.560 was about me selling dope to an undercover cop in. 0:35:08.440 --> 0:35:09.320 My real life. 0:35:10.400 --> 0:35:14.680 WHOA yeah, So I took my real life and put 0:35:14.719 --> 0:35:15.280 it in Deep. 0:35:15.200 --> 0:35:16.960 Cover and it just so happened. 0:35:17.000 --> 0:35:22.239 It all came came. And then when we do this 0:35:22.320 --> 0:35:23.920 song right now, this the fucked up part. When we 0:35:23.960 --> 0:35:26.680 finish it, everybody in the room like this a hit. 0:35:27.600 --> 0:35:33.560 Only one motherfucker don't like it? Doctor Dre What he's 0:35:33.560 --> 0:35:34.759 the only nigga that don't like it? 0:35:35.360 --> 0:35:40.160 Seemed like an insatiable perfectionist, where like, do it again? 0:35:40.280 --> 0:35:41.759 Do it that? 0:35:41.840 --> 0:35:45.000 Nigga did not like it. And when the trick was 0:35:45.360 --> 0:35:47.239 they tricked me too. They tricked him too. They were like, 0:35:47.239 --> 0:35:49.839 we're gonna do a photo shoot, Higo, five hundred dollars 0:35:49.840 --> 0:35:51.480 snooker get you something to wear. So I go to 0:35:51.520 --> 0:35:54.640 the swap meet. Give me some Kaki Chicago white Sox 0:35:54.840 --> 0:35:56.319 jacket with the long beach hat. 0:35:56.680 --> 0:35:58.359 You know what I'm saying. I'm like T shirt and chucks. 0:35:58.400 --> 0:36:00.919 I'm like, I'm cool. We get to the photo shoot. 0:36:01.000 --> 0:36:07.200 Nigga, it's a video, so I ain't never been on 0:36:07.200 --> 0:36:08.839 no video before, so I don't know what the fuck 0:36:08.960 --> 0:36:12.640 is going on. So now the director like he talking 0:36:12.640 --> 0:36:14.040 to me and Dre like all right, I try. I 0:36:14.080 --> 0:36:17.319 need you to act on this scene right here, and like, shit, 0:36:17.400 --> 0:36:19.080 I don't do all that. Let that nigga do it. 0:36:22.520 --> 0:36:25.080 I'm like They're like, yeah, well, the you know, and 0:36:25.080 --> 0:36:27.600 what with the beauty of it is? It was the 0:36:27.600 --> 0:36:29.440 part I did at the beginning of the song with 0:36:29.600 --> 0:36:32.320 the I think you hit this in front of you 0:36:32.600 --> 0:36:35.920 with the whoop that ship. So he was like, do that, 0:36:36.120 --> 0:36:37.960 but I'm gonna have somebody acting with you. You don't 0:36:37.960 --> 0:36:40.319 have to do both parts. You just do your part 0:36:40.760 --> 0:36:42.520 and whoop the wap. So he had the actor come 0:36:42.560 --> 0:36:46.560 in Drake just sitting down the whole scene just just look. 0:36:47.400 --> 0:36:49.120 I'm like, nigga, you the star, nigga. You got me 0:36:49.160 --> 0:36:52.120 doing all these lines in this dialogue and I thought 0:36:52.120 --> 0:36:53.120 this was a photo shoot. 0:36:53.160 --> 0:36:59.920 Nigga, How long did it take for you for Dreda 0:37:00.280 --> 0:37:08.320 know that in you he had his greatest discovery. 0:37:09.160 --> 0:37:10.839 That would probably have to be a question he would 0:37:10.840 --> 0:37:11.600 have to answer. 0:37:11.840 --> 0:37:13.880 Because I mean from the first from the time you 0:37:13.960 --> 0:37:16.560 met him to the time where he's like come to 0:37:16.640 --> 0:37:19.239 the studio, how many how much time was in between them? 0:37:19.880 --> 0:37:21.839 At least four years? But I never rapped for him? 0:37:21.880 --> 0:37:22.439 Wait what? 0:37:22.880 --> 0:37:24.400 I never rapped for him? Let me tell you how 0:37:24.440 --> 0:37:25.040 I used to go there. 0:37:25.680 --> 0:37:27.759 Warn G and Dre. 0:37:29.440 --> 0:37:33.239 Mother and father were married, Okay, so there would be 0:37:33.280 --> 0:37:37.200 functions at their house and Dre would show up and 0:37:38.400 --> 0:37:40.360 warn G had like some turntables in the back, and 0:37:40.360 --> 0:37:41.840 he would try to always get traded to come in 0:37:41.880 --> 0:37:46.360 the back like Snoopy can rap m And you know, 0:37:46.400 --> 0:37:47.640 back then niggas was like I don't want to hear 0:37:47.719 --> 0:37:49.319 nigga rap. So he would never be like, let me 0:37:49.320 --> 0:37:50.279 hear something. 0:37:49.960 --> 0:37:52.359 This n w A era, Dre just like. 0:37:52.400 --> 0:37:56.560 This is when the nigga was making he shot. I 0:37:56.680 --> 0:38:00.560 shot because he played that for us. He was like, 0:38:00.560 --> 0:38:01.960 I want you all to hear this shit I'm working on. 0:38:02.320 --> 0:38:05.040 He just played that one particular part of the song 0:38:05.080 --> 0:38:08.319 was easy he said he shot and niggas like, damn 0:38:08.360 --> 0:38:12.040 that shit hard and one he was like, Snoopy can rap, And. 0:38:11.960 --> 0:38:13.719 I'm like, what the fuck did he say? 0:38:15.480 --> 0:38:17.479 And then luckily the nigga did say let me hear something. 0:38:17.480 --> 0:38:18.480 He was like, okay, all right. 0:38:18.520 --> 0:38:22.200 Then he walked in the living room. I was like, yes, like, nigga, 0:38:22.200 --> 0:38:24.560 don't ever tell that nigga I can rap. Nigga we nigga. 0:38:24.560 --> 0:38:25.759 I don't want that nigga to hear me. 0:38:27.239 --> 0:38:27.399 Say. 0:38:27.440 --> 0:38:30.360 Do you finally get to you? Being on decover, who 0:38:30.440 --> 0:38:31.160 made that connection? 0:38:31.880 --> 0:38:33.000 Warren Jill Warren. 0:38:34.960 --> 0:38:38.360 We had a tape two one three mixtape and it 0:38:38.440 --> 0:38:42.040 had a song on there called super Duper and a 0:38:42.080 --> 0:38:47.120 song called Gangster's Life. And the Gangster's Life song was 0:38:47.160 --> 0:38:50.400 like a story about me being born. You know, the 0:38:50.440 --> 0:38:52.120 first day I get born, I go to the liquor 0:38:52.160 --> 0:38:54.480 store and get arrested. Like it's like a cold ass 0:38:54.520 --> 0:38:57.239 gagster story. Then at the end, my brother ends up 0:38:57.239 --> 0:38:59.520 becoming a gangster and ended up getting killed. So it 0:38:59.600 --> 0:39:01.520 was like it was a gang bang ass story, but 0:39:01.560 --> 0:39:03.680 it had like some positivity. You could see the writing 0:39:04.400 --> 0:39:05.200 was the next level. 0:39:05.239 --> 0:39:10.080 So Dre. I guess he liked that style. But how 0:39:10.120 --> 0:39:10.759 he heard it. 0:39:11.360 --> 0:39:14.359 They was at a bachelor party and the music cut 0:39:14.400 --> 0:39:15.719 off for one and G used to always go to 0:39:15.760 --> 0:39:18.320 their parties and the music cut off. So Warren g 0:39:19.360 --> 0:39:22.360 slide in my tape when the music go off, Okay, 0:39:22.480 --> 0:39:25.520 now the party back rocket and Niggass like. 0:39:25.440 --> 0:39:25.839 Who is that? 0:39:27.120 --> 0:39:30.399 Oh that's uh my homeboy snoopy and woofed it woo 0:39:30.440 --> 0:39:33.399 woo whoop. So Drake like, oh, nigga, that shit sound hard, 0:39:33.440 --> 0:39:36.480 nigga let me And then that's how he heard it, 0:39:36.560 --> 0:39:40.040 from watching the reaction of the people and having the 0:39:40.080 --> 0:39:42.279 air at the same time, probably hearing my voice, hearing 0:39:42.280 --> 0:39:44.960 the delivery the way, like I say, the song was structured. 0:39:45.080 --> 0:39:47.200 It was one of my best structured songs. 0:39:48.080 --> 0:39:51.719 Is that Yeah? It is? It is? 0:39:51.800 --> 0:39:54.279 Yeah, it is. Okay, I can get you that gangscious life. 0:39:54.320 --> 0:39:56.719 I can get you the original version and it was 0:39:56.760 --> 0:40:00.400 a version that we did with Nate Dog on it after. 0:40:00.239 --> 0:40:03.480 We was on pissing everything. Okay, great, awesome. 0:40:05.160 --> 0:40:08.000 So from the time that y'all got into after you 0:40:08.080 --> 0:40:11.239 do deep Cover, how did the transition go from deep 0:40:11.280 --> 0:40:12.040 Cover to death Row? 0:40:13.480 --> 0:40:13.840 Oh? 0:40:14.120 --> 0:40:17.600 When we did deep Cover, we didn't have no money. 0:40:17.719 --> 0:40:20.279 We was just it was also on Solar right, yeah, 0:40:20.800 --> 0:40:22.440 maybe that Solar records exactly. 0:40:22.440 --> 0:40:25.320 Did you have any interactions with Dick griff Yes. 0:40:25.160 --> 0:40:28.160 Sir Griffy used to give us money for chicken wings 0:40:28.200 --> 0:40:30.799 and bout us our first apartment where we was living 0:40:30.800 --> 0:40:37.479 next door to Calvin from two to seven. We're acting 0:40:37.520 --> 0:40:40.120 like you and watched that show exactly what. 0:40:43.239 --> 0:40:45.200 I'm saying with the Calvin at the time. Was he Calvin? 0:40:45.640 --> 0:40:47.759 He was still that was. 0:40:47.760 --> 0:40:51.319 After Calvin, but he was always gonna be in. 0:40:51.400 --> 0:40:52.960 Your family around. 0:41:00.200 --> 0:41:03.800 It's like bad that mean no. 0:41:03.760 --> 0:41:14.360 Place, no place, I mean no place child. 0:41:21.239 --> 0:41:24.000 Ya'll play too much, I'll watch too much like television 0:41:25.360 --> 0:41:27.680 when you can get into your watching. No hell yeah 0:41:28.480 --> 0:41:29.000 a syllable. 0:41:29.440 --> 0:41:31.360 You should have heard us in here singing the Amen's 0:41:31.360 --> 0:41:32.160 theme song early. 0:41:33.200 --> 0:41:42.279 That it was like shoutow like bump. 0:41:42.680 --> 0:41:54.759 Know me, know me. 0:41:54.520 --> 0:41:58.240 The words, anyone your words. 0:41:59.320 --> 0:42:03.279 That's worse than good time, that's awful like credit. 0:42:03.760 --> 0:42:06.319 Who was singing that the home was on the lead? 0:42:06.440 --> 0:42:09.960 Was I think it was? 0:42:10.320 --> 0:42:10.880 That was? 0:42:11.280 --> 0:42:12.719 Yeah, I'm almost of. 0:42:12.800 --> 0:42:17.640 The sisters right from Yes, I did not know she 0:42:17.680 --> 0:42:19.000 had a deal back in the seventies. 0:42:19.719 --> 0:42:21.360 Y'all was next door to Calvin. 0:42:23.920 --> 0:42:26.719 That this Dick Griffy got his apartment with us. They 0:42:26.719 --> 0:42:28.400 say death fro got it, but Dick Griffy got it 0:42:28.400 --> 0:42:30.680 because they had no motherfucking money at the time. So 0:42:30.719 --> 0:42:34.120 Dick Griffy got his apartment right. So the apartment was 0:42:34.160 --> 0:42:36.240 in Rage name because she didn't want to had credits. 0:42:38.680 --> 0:42:41.080 All of y'all, Rage and War and g was living 0:42:41.080 --> 0:42:43.759 in a one barroom apartment and Rage had a dog 0:42:43.840 --> 0:42:49.080 named Buster. We all stayed in at one bearing apartment 0:42:49.200 --> 0:42:51.239 on Third in Detroit Street, and we used to walk 0:42:51.280 --> 0:42:54.640 from Third in Detroit all the way to sixteen Kwana. 0:42:55.560 --> 0:42:57.239 That's a that's a long ass walk. 0:42:57.360 --> 0:43:00.200 Yes, every day in the studio and then we the 0:43:00.239 --> 0:43:02.239 pop Eyes chicken if we had like five or ten 0:43:02.320 --> 0:43:04.480 dollars to get a few wings and try to figure 0:43:04.480 --> 0:43:06.120 it out that men. 0:43:06.600 --> 0:43:08.279 Let me don't split that last wing. I'm gonna take 0:43:08.280 --> 0:43:08.680 this part. 0:43:11.920 --> 0:43:14.080 You know, this is the Jimmy jam story all over again. 0:43:14.600 --> 0:43:15.560 That's how it was. 0:43:16.320 --> 0:43:18.640 They came out to l A with what three hundred 0:43:18.680 --> 0:43:22.320 bucks and a cassio machine because when they made the 0:43:22.840 --> 0:43:27.280 Hard Times beat for Captain from Captain Ratt. 0:43:26.920 --> 0:43:31.600 They made that beat. Yes, wait a minute, yes, they 0:43:31.640 --> 0:43:32.640 can't they. 0:43:32.520 --> 0:43:35.840 Make that beat they got they got fired from a 0:43:35.920 --> 0:43:39.080 time and then Terry Lewis is like, yo is either 0:43:39.120 --> 0:43:42.080 doing die Let's go back to La. 0:43:46.440 --> 0:43:46.920 Yeah. 0:43:47.040 --> 0:43:49.239 They came out there with yeah and Terry little three 0:43:49.320 --> 0:43:53.759 hundred dollars each and some suits and they lived off 0:43:53.760 --> 0:43:55.800 of chicken wings and milkshakes. 0:43:56.880 --> 0:43:58.160 And sold that beat. 0:43:58.440 --> 0:43:59.719 And that's you. 0:43:59.680 --> 0:44:02.040 Know, his history right, thirty million albums. 0:44:02.120 --> 0:44:05.680 But see how they moved on and he didn't. And 0:44:05.760 --> 0:44:08.680 they were just the production and he was the face, 0:44:08.760 --> 0:44:10.400 the voice, the whole nine. 0:44:11.000 --> 0:44:14.760 But they moved on. They probably had more dry. 0:44:15.400 --> 0:44:17.879 Well, they had something to prove, you know, they had 0:44:17.920 --> 0:44:18.399 more dry. 0:44:18.640 --> 0:44:19.480 You shouldn't have fired. 0:44:19.360 --> 0:44:22.160 His nig Bigga gonna find me gota rap song that's 0:44:22.160 --> 0:44:24.279 hot right now, Nigga wait till I get a hold 0:44:24.280 --> 0:44:29.680 of Janet Nigga and funny how time fish. 0:44:27.760 --> 0:44:31.880 That story Prince uh Wait through Control out out the 0:44:31.880 --> 0:44:35.720 car window, Jimmy Jam's house and through it at Jimmy 0:44:35.760 --> 0:44:39.959 Jam's mom script Why the Control album after it was done? 0:44:40.040 --> 0:44:41.719 Yeah, yeah, after it was out? 0:44:42.200 --> 0:44:46.920 Why because he's petty like that, like when you leave him, 0:44:47.080 --> 0:44:49.000 even if you fire him, if you leave. 0:44:48.880 --> 0:44:51.560 Me, yes, no disrespect, but you know you couldn't fuck 0:44:51.560 --> 0:44:56.200 with that album. She was all grown up? Nigga one nine? 0:44:56.239 --> 0:44:57.040 What's samping? 0:44:57.200 --> 0:45:07.960 Team? I did what people told. 0:45:08.600 --> 0:45:15.799 Whatever, it's gonna be a hard to clear episode. 0:45:16.320 --> 0:45:16.919 We got time. 0:45:16.960 --> 0:45:19.400 It's August? 0:45:21.520 --> 0:45:24.960 It is Christmas? Should I ask one Chris? No, it's 0:45:25.040 --> 0:45:30.600 Christmas in August anyway? All right, So in the beginning, 0:45:30.800 --> 0:45:37.239 I mean at the time, did you even envision that 0:45:37.440 --> 0:45:41.560 this would happen? Like what was around the corner? Was 0:45:41.600 --> 0:45:43.359 it just like, all right, we're gonna work on this 0:45:43.400 --> 0:45:44.440 one song and then. 0:45:45.840 --> 0:45:47.360 You know, you know, you don't really I don't know, 0:45:47.360 --> 0:45:48.480 I don't know how big it could be. 0:45:48.960 --> 0:45:51.120 When did you realize that something is about to happen? 0:45:51.840 --> 0:45:55.959 When I was on the box, Remember. 0:45:55.600 --> 0:45:58.480 The box, nigga, the box was the ship, niggah. 0:45:58.239 --> 0:45:59.319 You call joint? 0:45:59.400 --> 0:45:59.719 Right now? 0:45:59.800 --> 0:46:00.560 Girl, what's coming on here? 0:46:00.680 --> 0:46:03.640 One day, that motherfucker came on like fifty times, back 0:46:03.680 --> 0:46:10.080 to back to back, the thing. Hey, where y'all going today? Drake? 0:46:10.120 --> 0:46:11.600 Can I go with y'all? You know, when Dad's run 0:46:11.640 --> 0:46:13.719 down the steps, they're showing the same shit just over 0:46:13.760 --> 0:46:16.360 and over again, over and over again. It's just getting 0:46:16.360 --> 0:46:18.960 requested and then they show you what's the next video coming. 0:46:18.719 --> 0:46:19.120 On with them? 0:46:19.680 --> 0:46:21.640 I'm like, damn, my poppet. And I was staying with 0:46:21.680 --> 0:46:24.160 my cousin on the couch and I woke up on 0:46:24.200 --> 0:46:26.200 her couch and she was like, Nigga, you a star. 0:46:27.200 --> 0:46:29.239 I'm like, I'm a star. She's like, yeah, nigga, your 0:46:29.280 --> 0:46:32.600 video came on like all day and night. And I 0:46:32.640 --> 0:46:34.960 was on the couch like, damn, this is our stars. 0:46:35.280 --> 0:46:38.200 I ain't got no money. I'm on your couch. 0:46:38.239 --> 0:46:40.800 You want to know something, you know? You sampled with 0:46:40.880 --> 0:46:47.239 my parents, right what my mom and my dad? My 0:46:47.239 --> 0:46:47.959 mom and my dad. 0:46:49.800 --> 0:46:55.080 Just chill to the next episode. 0:46:55.560 --> 0:46:56.600 It's my mom and my dad. 0:46:58.600 --> 0:47:03.759 And then the yeah, the shot holding back on that 0:47:03.920 --> 0:47:10.120 ass with the hell of five. I came off. 0:47:10.040 --> 0:47:15.520 From Mom's and back like, Yo, this is the funny shit. 0:47:15.640 --> 0:47:17.160 So when the ship would come on the box in 0:47:17.239 --> 0:47:20.040 Philly and I heard that, that. 0:47:20.080 --> 0:47:20.520 Was like. 0:47:21.960 --> 0:47:23.640 Yo, me and to lost. 0:47:23.360 --> 0:47:26.959 It, like because y'all know you that's your mom and dad. 0:47:27.080 --> 0:47:29.880 Yeah, it was like we won the lottery ticket. 0:47:31.320 --> 0:47:36.160 It was a big record, man, A big, big record man. 0:47:36.239 --> 0:47:38.960 For real, man, how did y'all never have this conversation? 0:47:39.080 --> 0:47:42.160 I don't it's the first time y'all to know each other. 0:47:43.440 --> 0:47:46.319 Yeah, I mean I want to introduced, like, yeah, you 0:47:46.360 --> 0:47:50.640 said I forgot you said ge thing. 0:47:50.680 --> 0:47:52.719 I was like, thinking, oh, ship, I forgot my mom 0:47:52.760 --> 0:47:53.120 and dad. 0:47:53.400 --> 0:47:55.040 That ain't what I wrote thing off of. 0:47:55.719 --> 0:47:57.719 No, I know, the bitches ain't ship. 0:47:58.239 --> 0:47:58.319 No. 0:47:58.400 --> 0:47:59.120 I wrote it off of. 0:48:06.160 --> 0:48:08.600 Really the south Side. 0:48:08.680 --> 0:48:10.560 Uh, it's called south side. 0:48:10.840 --> 0:48:14.080 It's that was the initial beat for g think. 0:48:13.960 --> 0:48:15.960 That's what That's the beat he gave me. 0:48:16.640 --> 0:48:18.480 And I took it on tenth and line on my 0:48:18.680 --> 0:48:22.120 over my cousin house, and I wrote the whole g 0:48:22.360 --> 0:48:25.480 thang songs that came back to the studio and bust 0:48:25.520 --> 0:48:29.600 that ship off of that for him. Yeah, drinking to 0:48:29.760 --> 0:48:32.960 the Snoop Doggy Dog and doctor Drake is after Doug, 0:48:33.200 --> 0:48:34.319 ready to make him entrist. 0:48:34.400 --> 0:48:36.880 So back on up because you know about the rocks, 0:48:37.520 --> 0:48:37.879 give me. 0:48:37.840 --> 0:48:41.120 The microphone, FoST walking bus like a bubble, comping the 0:48:41.200 --> 0:48:43.520 long beach together and now you know you can trouble 0:48:43.560 --> 0:48:47.640 with saying nothing but the cheek thanks to loath thinking 0:48:47.719 --> 0:48:52.000 so and death wrote is the label that we done 0:48:52.040 --> 0:48:53.920 fainted most please don't try to fade? 0:49:00.320 --> 0:49:00.640 Was winning? 0:49:02.920 --> 0:49:03.160 Man? 0:49:03.239 --> 0:49:06.399 Can you describe so like break down what was kind 0:49:06.440 --> 0:49:11.600 of the division of labor in the studio between like Dazz, Dre, Nate, 0:49:12.239 --> 0:49:15.400 uh corrupt, you know what I'm saying, Like what was 0:49:15.480 --> 0:49:17.680 kind of each person's job? Was one person better at 0:49:17.680 --> 0:49:19.719 hooks or so then the other? Or like how did 0:49:19.760 --> 0:49:20.200 y'all work? 0:49:20.360 --> 0:49:24.600 And DLC, because DC he was for the chronic as well. Well. 0:49:24.680 --> 0:49:28.880 D OC was like the guy that he was like 0:49:28.960 --> 0:49:32.480 the sen and say you had to the rap had 0:49:32.520 --> 0:49:36.200 to pass his I fucked with it before Dre would 0:49:36.200 --> 0:49:39.240 fuck with it. Like those the ears that Dre trusted 0:49:39.280 --> 0:49:42.719 most was his, you know, with everything. Remember he had 0:49:42.760 --> 0:49:45.000 just came off with the easy w A h. He 0:49:45.000 --> 0:49:46.880 wrote all of that shit. He wrote a lot of 0:49:46.880 --> 0:49:48.759 that n w A and niggas for life shit. Listen 0:49:48.800 --> 0:49:50.880 to them styles and all that always into something and 0:49:50.960 --> 0:49:53.640 all that. He was Dre's most trusted ear and he 0:49:53.680 --> 0:49:57.000 was a VET. So we was trying to impress DC, 0:49:57.480 --> 0:49:59.960 and then once we impressed DC, then he would work 0:50:00.040 --> 0:50:03.920 with us accordingly, okay, And then I attracted to him 0:50:03.960 --> 0:50:07.360 more because I moved in with DCA, like he became 0:50:07.440 --> 0:50:09.520 like my real sense. They and everybody else was like 0:50:09.920 --> 0:50:12.840 not under us, but they were like playing their roles accordingly, 0:50:12.920 --> 0:50:15.640 like Corrupt was like the assassin. Raige was like the 0:50:15.680 --> 0:50:18.439 hard female Jewels had to sing in vocals. Nate Dogg 0:50:18.440 --> 0:50:20.120 will come in with the hook. But that's what doctor 0:50:20.200 --> 0:50:25.480 Dre was like Phil Jackson, like a great coach that 0:50:25.600 --> 0:50:29.600 can take everybody on the team and make him valuable, 0:50:30.400 --> 0:50:33.800 Like everybody was valuable. Wasn't nobody more valuable than nobody? 0:50:34.440 --> 0:50:36.759 He made everybody valuable. When that song came on with 0:50:36.840 --> 0:50:38.680 Nate's voice, you loved it. When it came on with 0:50:38.760 --> 0:50:40.920 Dad's voice, you loved it. When it came home with Corrupt, 0:50:41.120 --> 0:50:42.600 you loved it. When it came home with me, you 0:50:42.640 --> 0:50:45.000 loved it cause he he knew how to put everybody 0:50:45.000 --> 0:50:48.160 in positions to make them strong. And to me that 0:50:48.160 --> 0:50:50.279 that was the strength of the team. That doctor Dre 0:50:51.080 --> 0:50:54.239 was the visionary. Like it wasn't us. We just was raw, 0:50:54.600 --> 0:50:56.160 you know what I'm saying, Just a bunch of raw 0:50:56.200 --> 0:50:59.080 motherfuckers that was bringing it to the table. But he 0:50:59.120 --> 0:51:01.000 had to clean the table up and set the table, 0:51:01.640 --> 0:51:04.440 prepare the meal, you know, And he knew what people like, 0:51:04.560 --> 0:51:06.760 so he had the ingredients to put it all together. 0:51:07.120 --> 0:51:09.800 He knew what the rock was that was a diamond. 0:51:09.840 --> 0:51:12.080 We didn't know. We just was Rocks trying to, you know, click. 0:51:11.960 --> 0:51:17.200 Like, what's the sixteen songs that make up the Chronic? 0:51:17.480 --> 0:51:22.400 I mean, were those the only the specific sixteen that 0:51:22.440 --> 0:51:25.880 you worked on, or was the Chronic like a combination 0:51:26.000 --> 0:51:29.319 of forty or fifty songs worked on and then we'll 0:51:29.360 --> 0:51:32.400 pick the best of the lot, and this is the album. 0:51:32.719 --> 0:51:35.120 I say it was probably twenty five songs at the most. 0:51:35.320 --> 0:51:37.760 It was one song that we really liked that didn't 0:51:37.760 --> 0:51:40.759 make it was called Whole Hopper. I really wanted it 0:51:40.800 --> 0:51:44.080 on there. It went like, you know, I like buzzy, 0:51:44.480 --> 0:51:46.600 so you can call me your hound. So here's the 0:51:46.680 --> 0:51:48.600 name I go by, one of them rolling around the 0:51:48.719 --> 0:51:54.600 Whole Hopper. Tell your friends, bitch all you I give 0:51:54.640 --> 0:51:57.239 it to you, smooth hoh. Can't you see then when 0:51:57.280 --> 0:51:59.640 you need some dig bitch, call old me the Whole 0:51:59.680 --> 0:52:04.480 hop But tell your friends all your friends bitch. 0:52:04.560 --> 0:52:04.880 Wow. 0:52:05.960 --> 0:52:07.440 And Drake was on one on that one. 0:52:10.000 --> 0:52:10.640 Make the cut? 0:52:11.400 --> 0:52:15.360 Why did that not make the I don't know. There 0:52:15.360 --> 0:52:16.200 stuck around this. 0:52:17.719 --> 0:52:20.239 Doctor dre was on some real ship like he would 0:52:20.320 --> 0:52:22.520 let us make any fucking kind of song we wanted. 0:52:22.560 --> 0:52:26.239 Who would write the hooks, because the thing that I 0:52:26.320 --> 0:52:32.759 didn't appreciate until much later was just how effortless you 0:52:32.840 --> 0:52:37.239 guys were with hooks and b parts, Like even you 0:52:37.239 --> 0:52:38.880 can take parts that weren't the hooks. 0:52:39.120 --> 0:52:41.359 You could take any four balls out of g thing 0:52:41.480 --> 0:52:43.399 and that to be a hook for another song. 0:52:43.480 --> 0:52:46.920 Right, So I never until we started, until like you know, 0:52:47.000 --> 0:52:51.319 writers block catches and you realize, like how effortless that 0:52:51.360 --> 0:52:52.120 shit sounds. 0:52:52.320 --> 0:52:56.719 So it's like, how, I don't know how uh. 0:52:58.960 --> 0:53:01.600 I think the thing was us When it came to 0:53:01.680 --> 0:53:04.239 like that kind of ship, we just went, We just 0:53:04.280 --> 0:53:06.359 threw it in the air. And then, like I said, 0:53:06.400 --> 0:53:08.680 that's when it was people like Dre who knew how 0:53:08.680 --> 0:53:12.080 to take it because bitches ain't ship but holes and tricks. 0:53:12.440 --> 0:53:15.680 That was Corrupt's first that was the start of his verse. 0:53:15.760 --> 0:53:18.680 His verse started like that bitches ain't shit but holesing trick. 0:53:18.960 --> 0:53:20.719 No no no no, no, no no no no no, And 0:53:21.760 --> 0:53:24.600 the makeup going to the store and doctor Dre said, nah, nigga, 0:53:25.320 --> 0:53:28.360 that's the hook, and he made bitches ain't ship but 0:53:28.600 --> 0:53:33.480 holes and tricks. Ain't shit but. 0:53:33.680 --> 0:53:34.520 Holes and tricks. 0:53:36.320 --> 0:53:38.839 So it was like Corrupt wrote the hook, but didn't 0:53:38.840 --> 0:53:41.560 know it was a hook, You get what I'm saying, Like, 0:53:41.760 --> 0:53:43.880 that's what the our ship was so good that we 0:53:44.040 --> 0:53:46.759 we would always write the hook within the song where 0:53:46.800 --> 0:53:49.759 it was somebody's job to find that, and we didn't 0:53:49.800 --> 0:53:51.520 know that all the time, Like we didn't know that, damn, 0:53:51.560 --> 0:53:54.160 this was the hook. But Nackdog and Juells is probably 0:53:54.160 --> 0:53:56.799 the only ones that knew what the hook was because 0:53:56.800 --> 0:54:00.200 they was definitely writing for the hook for everybody that's 0:54:00.239 --> 0:54:01.000 was just right and here. 0:54:00.960 --> 0:54:02.759 Just come with the power verses and then they were 0:54:02.800 --> 0:54:03.760 coming and. 0:54:05.120 --> 0:54:05.920 Just take it with fit. 0:54:06.000 --> 0:54:09.480 Certain times it would fit like certain songs, a motherfucker 0:54:09.600 --> 0:54:10.880 just it just fit in place. 0:54:13.080 --> 0:54:16.279 Was it a certain time? We talked last night. 0:54:16.360 --> 0:54:17.920 We've had a couple of people on the show that 0:54:18.040 --> 0:54:20.719 always talk about the night of the Source Awards. And 0:54:21.480 --> 0:54:23.680 one thing I was always curious to hear from you, 0:54:24.360 --> 0:54:26.920 like what was going through your mind, like when you 0:54:26.960 --> 0:54:29.600 got on stage. My I remember watching it because at 0:54:29.600 --> 0:54:31.240 the time I was like, this is what ninety. 0:54:32.520 --> 0:54:35.040 I was. I was fifteen to sixteen. 0:54:34.520 --> 0:54:37.640 And like I watched it, and so then the next day, everybody, 0:54:37.680 --> 0:54:39.600 you know we in high school around lunch statement shit, 0:54:40.120 --> 0:54:42.600 and so everybody was like, well, man, Snoop. 0:54:42.320 --> 0:54:44.879 I can't believe, like he was so mad, like that's 0:54:44.920 --> 0:54:46.080 the fuck what Snoop said? 0:54:46.160 --> 0:54:48.640 And me, I always looked at it as I said, 0:54:48.760 --> 0:54:50.160 I don't know if it's necessarily anger. 0:54:50.160 --> 0:54:51.759 I said, think it may be anger me I said, 0:54:51.760 --> 0:54:54.239 but man, yeah, give him misrespect. I said, come on, man, I. 0:54:54.239 --> 0:54:56.680 Said, each and every one of us got Doggie style 0:54:56.719 --> 0:54:59.279 and my walkman right now, like everybody's bumping and shit 0:54:59.360 --> 0:55:02.360 like we loved the Imagine how fucked up it feel 0:55:03.000 --> 0:55:06.040 to be a dude that is respecting the auto hip 0:55:06.040 --> 0:55:08.960 hop making incredible fucking records and you come to the 0:55:08.960 --> 0:55:11.440 place that you got so much reverence for and they 0:55:11.520 --> 0:55:13.879 pissed on you. I said, man, that's like for real, 0:55:14.040 --> 0:55:16.080 you know what I mean? So I was always curious 0:55:16.080 --> 0:55:18.560 to hear, like what was going through your mind when 0:55:18.760 --> 0:55:20.720 you know y'all got no love as New dog. 0:55:21.640 --> 0:55:24.319 Well, I was in the moment. The moment was more 0:55:24.400 --> 0:55:28.239 about what Sugar said. It wasn't about nothing else but 0:55:28.360 --> 0:55:31.560 that because New York respected us, and they respected me, 0:55:32.239 --> 0:55:33.920 and they gave me that because I gave them that. 0:55:33.960 --> 0:55:35.880 I came into game saying that this is the mechan 0:55:35.960 --> 0:55:39.200 I respect and appreciate everybody before me. When I met 0:55:39.239 --> 0:55:41.400 him a bow down, I treated him with love and respect. 0:55:41.520 --> 0:55:44.640 So it was a feeling was mutual when I spoke, 0:55:45.000 --> 0:55:47.120 because I didn't speak from a point of view of 0:55:47.320 --> 0:55:49.799 I want to fuck y'all up. I spoke from the 0:55:49.800 --> 0:55:52.839 perspective of we know where we at. Nobody should get 0:55:52.880 --> 0:55:55.520 fucked up based off of the fact that we all 0:55:55.920 --> 0:55:58.920 gangsters in here. So what we got to prove is 0:56:00.160 --> 0:56:02.520 we know where we're at, we know where we're from. 0:56:03.080 --> 0:56:05.600 This ain't the time and place for that. It was 0:56:05.640 --> 0:56:09.160 some dialogue that was needed. It wasn't planned, it wasn't 0:56:09.400 --> 0:56:13.080 It just was needed and my calling, you know what 0:56:13.120 --> 0:56:15.040 I'm saying, Like to me, that was my calling, Like 0:56:15.719 --> 0:56:17.920 this show moment Dog to step into that role of 0:56:18.480 --> 0:56:21.000 being the leader and being a role model and being 0:56:21.040 --> 0:56:24.000 a piece advocate for hip hop that you're going to 0:56:24.120 --> 0:56:28.000 end up being ten years from that day, because twenty 0:56:28.080 --> 0:56:30.920 years after that day, me and Doctor Dre was on 0:56:31.000 --> 0:56:35.520 stage at that same building doing the show, and Puffy 0:56:35.600 --> 0:56:38.920 was there too, and we all performed together, and then 0:56:38.920 --> 0:56:42.280 we were just thinking back of how it was based 0:56:42.280 --> 0:56:45.959 off of comments and small shit, but we always loved 0:56:45.960 --> 0:56:48.160 each other, but we never could show it because. 0:56:49.320 --> 0:56:52.439 The bullshit we had steeched out on like not too 0:56:52.440 --> 0:56:54.959 long ago. And he kind of echoed what you said. 0:56:55.000 --> 0:56:57.160 He was like, man with Snoop got up there, he said, 0:56:57.160 --> 0:56:58.879 you actually kind of calmed things down a little bit. 0:56:58.920 --> 0:57:02.200 Like if he didn't, it would have been almost. 0:57:04.200 --> 0:57:06.640 If I didn't say nothing niggas, some niggas would have 0:57:06.640 --> 0:57:11.400 died that night. Nod said it perfectly on defying ones. 0:57:12.239 --> 0:57:14.520 He said something to the fact that you know, when 0:57:14.560 --> 0:57:19.800 Snoop got up there, he said the right ship, because 0:57:19.960 --> 0:57:22.680 at that point, when they first got there, it was 0:57:22.760 --> 0:57:25.280 New York versus New York, it was Borrow versus Burrow. 0:57:25.800 --> 0:57:27.680 And when Shug said what he said, he made it 0:57:27.760 --> 0:57:30.920 New York versus them niggas. Then when Snoop got up 0:57:30.920 --> 0:57:33.280 there and said what he said, a lot of New 0:57:33.360 --> 0:57:35.680 York niggas had love for Snoop and just couldn't see 0:57:35.720 --> 0:57:39.080 themselves just taking off on him for something that this 0:57:39.160 --> 0:57:42.760 nigga said. So it was like it was it was 0:57:42.840 --> 0:57:46.320 that deep in that detrimental because these was real street niggas. 0:57:46.320 --> 0:57:51.200 He wasn't like record label executives or managers or agents 0:57:51.280 --> 0:57:55.960 or may the production guys, this was nigga. That nigga 0:57:56.080 --> 0:57:59.640 just got out. He just got out fifteen minutes ago. 0:58:00.080 --> 0:58:02.560 He been in twenty years. He ain't got no money. 0:58:02.920 --> 0:58:05.440 He looking to do something so he can get on 0:58:05.480 --> 0:58:09.720 the payroll. Like everybody had forty of them niggas with them. Like, 0:58:10.080 --> 0:58:12.800 imagine that time in the early nineties, how hip hop was. 0:58:13.280 --> 0:58:15.320 You had to have a hundred niggas of your entourage. 0:58:15.680 --> 0:58:18.120 That just was part of how you was, like whether 0:58:18.160 --> 0:58:20.120 you wanted it or not. Like even the roots had 0:58:20.120 --> 0:58:21.120 a hundred niggas with them. 0:58:22.200 --> 0:58:24.919 We couldn't afford that. But when you have a large 0:58:25.080 --> 0:58:29.560 encage like hotel bills front, Like, how were y'all y'all 0:58:29.560 --> 0:58:33.760 were touring during that period, How are y'all handling just 0:58:33.800 --> 0:58:35.800 the basic shit fights. 0:58:35.840 --> 0:58:40.160 My first fifteen years a torn I can say this, 0:58:40.480 --> 0:58:43.440 and I ain't ashamed to say, I probably made like 0:58:44.400 --> 0:58:47.480 fifteen percent of my tour money. 0:58:48.360 --> 0:58:51.840 Because of everything you had to cover as far as hotels. 0:58:51.920 --> 0:58:54.960 Yeah, fifteen percent of my tour money is what I 0:58:55.000 --> 0:58:58.880 made my first fifteen years because I would have thirty 0:58:58.960 --> 0:59:01.360 niggas on the road. Everybody was getting paid and this 0:59:01.400 --> 0:59:03.640 and that, and then I wouldn't look back until the 0:59:03.800 --> 0:59:06.440 end of it, and it'd be like, well you uh, 0:59:07.040 --> 0:59:11.360 you grossed this amount and you netted this amount, and well, 0:59:11.400 --> 0:59:15.800 god damn everybody on tour and enjoying life except me. 0:59:18.080 --> 0:59:19.280 Man, it's a business man. 0:59:24.320 --> 0:59:28.200 I gotta jump to the real white elf in the room, 0:59:28.800 --> 0:59:32.000 which to mean is the dog Father. Okay, I gotta 0:59:32.080 --> 0:59:36.200 jump to that. Do you do you feel that the 0:59:36.240 --> 0:59:40.440 dog Father has gotten this proper just due respect, because 0:59:41.240 --> 0:59:45.480 for some reason, I don't think the world realizes how 0:59:45.520 --> 0:59:51.120 incredible that shit was when it came out, and the 0:59:51.160 --> 0:59:56.120 fact that it's still timeless late, Like, you know, was 0:59:56.160 --> 0:59:57.000 it twenty years later? 0:59:57.120 --> 0:59:59.720 Yeah? About Yeah, it was ninety six. 1:00:00.680 --> 1:00:05.280 Yeah, Like, what are your personal opinions on your follow up? 1:00:06.000 --> 1:00:08.760 When I first came out with it, I was getting 1:00:08.760 --> 1:00:10.560 a lot of hate and a lot of like, oh, 1:00:10.600 --> 1:00:13.720 it ain't doggy style, drain't do this, and why it 1:00:13.720 --> 1:00:16.160 ain't and this and that, and it used to fuck 1:00:16.200 --> 1:00:18.480 with me a little bit. And then I used to 1:00:18.520 --> 1:00:21.200 go out and do shows and then fans would bring 1:00:21.200 --> 1:00:24.200 me the album to sign, like you know what I'm saying, Like, 1:00:24.240 --> 1:00:26.760 that's a cold twist when they like niggas talking about you. 1:00:26.840 --> 1:00:30.160 But then a fan bring three copies of Doggy Style 1:00:30.240 --> 1:00:32.720 and two copies of dog Father and say can you 1:00:32.760 --> 1:00:35.880 sign these? And you sign these and I'm looking like 1:00:36.360 --> 1:00:38.920 damn from signing dog Father. I mean, they bought it. 1:00:39.440 --> 1:00:41.680 And then I started doing songs from the dog Father 1:00:41.760 --> 1:00:45.280 on stage, Snoops, upside your Head, big fucking record. Charlie 1:00:45.320 --> 1:00:48.360 Wilson started rolling with me. Me and Charlie became like this. 1:00:48.840 --> 1:00:50.800 So it was blessings that came out of that that 1:00:51.280 --> 1:00:53.400 they was making happen and didn't even know that they 1:00:53.480 --> 1:00:56.200 was making happen. Then we went overseas to Europe, and 1:00:56.280 --> 1:00:59.320 I toured in Europe and the record was so big 1:00:59.400 --> 1:01:02.400 over there to where it's like it solidified me as 1:01:02.400 --> 1:01:06.040 an artist that was gonna be here on the follow 1:01:06.120 --> 1:01:08.480 up tip. So it's just in America where it was 1:01:08.520 --> 1:01:12.000 a lot of not covering it the right way or 1:01:12.080 --> 1:01:12.800 saying the right things. 1:01:12.800 --> 1:01:13.880 I remember, Biggie. 1:01:13.720 --> 1:01:17.520 Got killed, Tupaca got killed, Biggie's album came out, Tupac's 1:01:17.520 --> 1:01:20.400 album came out, So they just drowned me out on 1:01:20.480 --> 1:01:22.440 some Oh this nigga ain't gang banging no more. He 1:01:22.960 --> 1:01:25.040 just beat a murder case. He's a family man. Now 1:01:25.040 --> 1:01:27.880 he's soft. Now he'd be happy. Now look at him 1:01:27.920 --> 1:01:29.880 rapping about happy shit doggies laying. I had a song 1:01:29.960 --> 1:01:32.840 called Doggie land that was a song about peace, love 1:01:32.880 --> 1:01:36.080 and nobody dying and just a beautiful record that was 1:01:36.120 --> 1:01:39.800 about Doggie landing. Niggas didn't understand it, like, Nigga, that's soft, nigga. 1:01:39.800 --> 1:01:43.360 I'm like, what's living? Life is soft? Like I don't 1:01:43.360 --> 1:01:45.200 need to be with you, niggas if y'all deaf is 1:01:45.280 --> 1:01:47.000 cool nigga, Nigga, I'm gonna die, Nigga. 1:01:47.000 --> 1:01:49.520 That shit hard nigga. How you gonna die? 1:01:49.560 --> 1:01:52.880 I'm being a blaze of bullets nigga, the hard way 1:01:53.000 --> 1:01:54.400 nigga like a Western movie. 1:01:54.680 --> 1:01:56.560 Fuck that, Nigga. I want to die nigga sipping on 1:01:56.600 --> 1:01:57.040 some coffee. 1:01:57.080 --> 1:01:57.720 Nigga land in. 1:01:57.720 --> 1:02:00.200 Bed, not a shelf eighty years old? You know what 1:02:00.240 --> 1:02:00.560 I'm saying? 1:02:00.640 --> 1:02:02.720 Men? What was it like? 1:02:02.880 --> 1:02:02.960 Uh? 1:02:03.160 --> 1:02:06.040 I was always curious to know the transition from death 1:02:06.160 --> 1:02:09.520 row to no limit and like being with being under 1:02:09.520 --> 1:02:11.440 somebody like Shug versus somebody like Pete. 1:02:11.480 --> 1:02:13.400 What was p like as a businessman? 1:02:14.520 --> 1:02:16.800 Sug was a great businessman first and foremost. Let me 1:02:16.840 --> 1:02:21.360 say that very strong, very shrewd, got to it like 1:02:21.400 --> 1:02:23.720 you do. It did a lot of things that was, 1:02:23.880 --> 1:02:25.800 you know, groundbreaking for the industry that I see a 1:02:25.840 --> 1:02:28.600 lot of niggas doing now. But when I got with 1:02:28.680 --> 1:02:31.280 master p he was more of a He was a finesser, 1:02:32.160 --> 1:02:35.680 like I want to shake hands with him, pump shoulders 1:02:35.680 --> 1:02:38.600 with him, do business with him, be executive. 1:02:38.880 --> 1:02:40.000 I want to own shit. 1:02:40.400 --> 1:02:43.080 I want to be a part of the executive branch 1:02:43.760 --> 1:02:46.160 and not just the you know, employee side of it. 1:02:46.560 --> 1:02:48.520 And then he passed it on. You know, he was 1:02:48.560 --> 1:02:52.600 one of those informative guys that hey put this in 1:02:52.640 --> 1:02:55.160 your name. Hey get you a bank account, Hey, get 1:02:55.200 --> 1:02:57.439 you some credit cards, Hey get you some property, Hey 1:02:57.480 --> 1:03:01.000 get you some this like get your record label, get 1:03:01.040 --> 1:03:03.960 you some clothing, clothing line. Like All the shit I 1:03:04.000 --> 1:03:07.040 did was by being with him. He showed me how 1:03:07.040 --> 1:03:07.360 to do it, and. 1:03:07.360 --> 1:03:10.800 I went, that's so dope. 1:03:11.320 --> 1:03:15.480 And don't be afraid they laughed at him in the beginning. 1:03:15.480 --> 1:03:16.920 They used to laugh at him. I used to watch 1:03:17.000 --> 1:03:19.280 him laugh, laugh, laugh. Then when I sign him with 1:03:19.360 --> 1:03:22.000 no limit, like I'm not saying, I made the laughs 1:03:22.040 --> 1:03:23.840 go away. But all the laughs was gone after that, 1:03:24.360 --> 1:03:27.640 and Niggas was like this, Nigga really is a business man. 1:03:27.720 --> 1:03:30.400 He really sharp because my first album with them paid 1:03:30.400 --> 1:03:34.200 the cost to be the boss two million records in America, 1:03:34.400 --> 1:03:37.000 two million records overseas. Then we put out a movie 1:03:37.640 --> 1:03:39.520 called The Game of Life and he sold it for 1:03:39.640 --> 1:03:42.800 nineteen ninety five and it sold two million copies. You 1:03:42.840 --> 1:03:46.360 do the fucking maths, and he made all the fucking money. 1:03:46.920 --> 1:03:48.240 Wasn't no middle man, none of that. 1:03:48.320 --> 1:03:50.280 That was the thing about master P and nobody really 1:03:50.360 --> 1:03:51.000 re emphasized. 1:03:51.040 --> 1:03:53.080 It wasn't no rap. It wasn't no money a rapper 1:03:53.160 --> 1:03:55.600 til No Limit came. And I say that honestly. It 1:03:55.720 --> 1:03:58.800 wasn't no rappers making no money into No Limit. Niggas 1:03:58.840 --> 1:04:01.680 was getting crumbs and a little bit negotiating and fighting 1:04:01.680 --> 1:04:04.000 with record labels and artists and management. Master he cut 1:04:04.040 --> 1:04:05.800 all that shit out. He was the what Sugar should 1:04:05.800 --> 1:04:09.680 have been, the less violent, more business. 1:04:09.280 --> 1:04:10.920 Approach and he shared information. 1:04:11.080 --> 1:04:13.840 Yes, all of the above. You know what I'm saying, Like, 1:04:13.960 --> 1:04:14.760 come on, man. 1:04:15.880 --> 1:04:19.200 From the time that you went from because after you 1:04:19.200 --> 1:04:21.160 did the three records on No Limit and then. 1:04:21.320 --> 1:04:26.840 Three album deal five million dollars, I can say that now, 1:04:26.920 --> 1:04:29.920 respectful I wanted to put that contract out there so 1:04:29.960 --> 1:04:32.080 in case you niggas want a new three albums do, 1:04:32.160 --> 1:04:33.400 it's gonna be way more than that. 1:04:33.560 --> 1:04:33.760 Now. 1:04:34.400 --> 1:04:38.000 Last I mean, I like, did the records get better 1:04:38.000 --> 1:04:40.960 for you as I got to know the first one? 1:04:41.200 --> 1:04:44.120 I didn't. I was like, right, but no limit to 1:04:44.320 --> 1:04:45.320 do in last MILLI. 1:04:45.760 --> 1:04:46.080 You see it. 1:04:46.200 --> 1:04:48.520 But you know when my mind state was there, I 1:04:48.560 --> 1:04:50.840 started grabbing my mind state the first record. You know 1:04:50.880 --> 1:04:53.160 what I did. I said, pee, do it with me, 1:04:53.240 --> 1:04:56.280 whatever you want to do, nigga. I'm doctor. I'm doctor Frankenstein. 1:04:56.320 --> 1:04:58.160 Ig I'm gonna pay on the table and let you 1:04:58.240 --> 1:04:59.919 go ahead and put me together the way you think 1:05:00.360 --> 1:05:02.240 is y' all hot right now? And this is your label. 1:05:02.240 --> 1:05:04.520 When you got the Snoop Dogg as your artist, Nigga, 1:05:04.920 --> 1:05:07.240 go to work. You just paid for this, nigga, it's 1:05:07.280 --> 1:05:09.680 gonna be your record forever. You got a Snoop Dogg record. 1:05:10.120 --> 1:05:12.440 My third solo record is yours. So he did it. 1:05:12.920 --> 1:05:18.640 Second record. I was like, all right, I got the 1:05:18.720 --> 1:05:21.720 joy stick back. Yeah, and I'm going back to the west. 1:05:21.400 --> 1:05:23.960 Man, Okay, speaking the joystick the two one three albums, 1:05:24.440 --> 1:05:24.880 why is. 1:05:24.840 --> 1:05:27.200 That not out? Like on streaming whatever. 1:05:27.520 --> 1:05:29.120 Man, we didn't get no love for the two one 1:05:29.240 --> 1:05:29.640 three hours. 1:05:29.680 --> 1:05:32.080 Man, we Warren. She pushed that shit so hard. 1:05:32.120 --> 1:05:33.960 I don't know what I love that I love man, 1:05:34.080 --> 1:05:37.600 the only girl. Motherfucking you gotta find a way, yeah, 1:05:37.720 --> 1:05:38.240 find a way. 1:05:38.720 --> 1:05:39.760 You gotta find a way. 1:05:39.960 --> 1:05:43.080 Yes, fine, man, I don't know. I don't know what 1:05:43.120 --> 1:05:45.800 goes on with And then I'm watching music nowadays like 1:05:46.040 --> 1:05:51.920 that's a hit. He said the same thing twenty five times. 1:05:52.440 --> 1:05:56.080 Oh my god, did they when you end up doing 1:05:56.440 --> 1:05:58.880 I'm jumping to your Uh well, first I want to 1:05:58.920 --> 1:06:00.360 go to your snoop line record. 1:06:01.920 --> 1:06:03.280 What moved you in that direction? 1:06:03.360 --> 1:06:04.600 Like what was going on in your life at that 1:06:04.680 --> 1:06:07.200 time that made you want to go there? 1:06:07.720 --> 1:06:11.840 Man, I just love reggae music. 1:06:12.320 --> 1:06:15.240 And I was like, you know what, every time I 1:06:15.240 --> 1:06:17.000 go to Jamaica, I always just go to my room, 1:06:17.080 --> 1:06:19.440 smoke weed and do the show and leave and never 1:06:19.480 --> 1:06:21.560 get to explore Jamaica. I never get to see it. 1:06:22.000 --> 1:06:23.680 Like fuck that. I want to see Jamaica because these 1:06:23.720 --> 1:06:25.800 niggas love me over here and I love them. So 1:06:25.840 --> 1:06:27.280 I said, I'm gonna set up a trip. I'm gonna 1:06:27.280 --> 1:06:29.880 go over there for thirty days and just live over 1:06:29.920 --> 1:06:34.600 there get with some producers called a dip Loo Major Laser. 1:06:35.080 --> 1:06:37.840 Look y'all gonna do my whole record called a Vice. 1:06:37.960 --> 1:06:40.680 Vice was a magazine company at the time that was 1:06:40.720 --> 1:06:42.760 creating content, and I was like, look, I want you 1:06:42.880 --> 1:06:44.840 to come shoot this shit for me, cause I like, 1:06:44.840 --> 1:06:47.720 how y'all be doing on location shit in dangerous neighborhoods, 1:06:47.760 --> 1:06:50.440 in dangerous areas. And this shit is dangerous because Chris 1:06:50.520 --> 1:06:54.200 Koki just went to jail, which was dudas. So I said, 1:06:54.200 --> 1:06:55.640 I want to go beat that nigga family. 1:06:55.680 --> 1:06:56.280 I want a nigga. 1:06:56.280 --> 1:06:56.480 I went. 1:06:56.680 --> 1:06:59.480 They took me everywhere and so by me going all 1:06:59.520 --> 1:07:01.480 into these areas, which this is the real nigga that 1:07:01.480 --> 1:07:01.720 I am. 1:07:01.760 --> 1:07:02.640 I love to explore. 1:07:03.280 --> 1:07:06.120 I go to the Naibinie Temple and when I go there, 1:07:07.320 --> 1:07:10.040 the spirit is in me. I can't even fake it. 1:07:10.040 --> 1:07:12.040 When I walk into temple, it's a lady about ninety 1:07:12.120 --> 1:07:14.920 years old. As soon as I walk in, she like 1:07:15.000 --> 1:07:17.840 the prodigal son has returned. I don't even know what 1:07:17.840 --> 1:07:21.120 she's saying. Well, like the prodigal son has returned. The 1:07:21.200 --> 1:07:24.600 prodigal son has returned. I don't even know what this means. 1:07:24.640 --> 1:07:27.080 At the time, she grabbed me by my hands and 1:07:27.120 --> 1:07:28.800 she started praying with me, and they like, the whole 1:07:28.840 --> 1:07:33.280 wound just collapsed on me, like it was crazy for me. 1:07:33.720 --> 1:07:36.200 It's crazy as the whole spirit. And we walked around 1:07:36.200 --> 1:07:38.840 the fire. Fire was burning. Me and my wife were 1:07:38.840 --> 1:07:42.600 holding hands. Long story short, when we leave, my wife 1:07:42.600 --> 1:07:44.120 didn't eat no meat. From that day on, when I 1:07:44.160 --> 1:07:49.120 was twenty ten, learned from that dawn and I took 1:07:49.160 --> 1:07:53.080 on a new peaceful approach. I ain't been into it 1:07:53.080 --> 1:07:54.320 with no niggas. I ain't got it, you know what 1:07:54.320 --> 1:07:58.160 I'm saying, And that she used to always come on, man, 1:07:58.400 --> 1:07:59.120 I'm waking it. 1:07:59.160 --> 1:08:01.080 Is that how it led to your gospel. First, let 1:08:01.080 --> 1:08:03.440 me just say the gospel record is jamming. That ship 1:08:03.520 --> 1:08:04.360 jamming like a motherfucker. 1:08:04.360 --> 1:08:05.560 I say that. 1:08:06.920 --> 1:08:07.640 That match. 1:08:13.040 --> 1:08:14.720 That this is hard. 1:08:15.080 --> 1:08:16.640 But the thing I liked about is it's like you 1:08:16.720 --> 1:08:19.200 got like real, You got the real Oh Jesus. 1:08:19.000 --> 1:08:21.240 You had rams Allen on the ship, and I mean, 1:08:21.680 --> 1:08:23.639 that's like, how did you put all that together? 1:08:24.240 --> 1:08:27.040 First of all, shout out to my homeboy, Lonnie Lonnie Brell. 1:08:27.240 --> 1:08:29.200 He was one of the main instruments to putting this 1:08:29.280 --> 1:08:35.040 project together. I had a dream and a wishless making 1:08:35.080 --> 1:08:37.960 my grandmother proud of me. My grandmother was here, she 1:08:37.960 --> 1:08:42.040 would always you know, talk to her friends and people 1:08:42.080 --> 1:08:44.439 about me, but she can never talk about my music. 1:08:45.160 --> 1:08:47.320 And I always wanted to make something that she could 1:08:47.360 --> 1:08:49.240 be proud of, that she could hear, and that her friends, 1:08:49.240 --> 1:08:51.840 her church friends could really you know, be proud of. 1:08:51.960 --> 1:08:53.920 So and she passed away, I was like, you know, 1:08:54.080 --> 1:08:56.200 that's my mission. I've been always talking about doing it. 1:08:56.360 --> 1:08:58.200 I'm just gonna do it. And I just went in 1:08:58.240 --> 1:09:00.519 there and did it and started all and all of 1:09:00.560 --> 1:09:02.600 the people that I wanted to be on it and 1:09:02.720 --> 1:09:04.640 expressed to them while I wanted the moment what I 1:09:04.720 --> 1:09:09.280 was doing, and they already loved my spirit as before that. 1:09:10.080 --> 1:09:11.840 It wasn't like, oh, we're gonna do it now. We've 1:09:11.840 --> 1:09:14.320 been following you, brother, We've been with you. You know, 1:09:14.400 --> 1:09:17.559 we got you what you need. I need a saying 1:09:17.560 --> 1:09:20.439 something on their brother rams, Clark sisters. I need you 1:09:20.560 --> 1:09:23.519 to do something on there, Kimberrell, you do something by 1:09:23.520 --> 1:09:26.840 friend Hammon, John p Key, Jesus. 1:09:26.920 --> 1:09:27.360 Yeah. 1:09:27.400 --> 1:09:27.639 Yeah. 1:09:27.640 --> 1:09:28.240 It was incredible. 1:09:28.320 --> 1:09:32.200 And seeing it at the Essence Festival that knocked me out. 1:09:32.360 --> 1:09:35.360 That was pratty I felt like it was the right 1:09:35.400 --> 1:09:36.000 moment for that. 1:09:36.000 --> 1:09:37.280 That was the best thing I've ever seen. 1:09:37.400 --> 1:09:40.680 That was amazing moment. Brother, we thank you, we got 1:09:40.680 --> 1:09:44.160 ap Okay, damn, let's do all right. 1:09:44.720 --> 1:09:49.080 I was just you know, we was getting the rap rap. 1:09:51.400 --> 1:09:53.160 Y'all doing good. I like when the ship is good, 1:09:53.160 --> 1:09:53.800 I break ruds. 1:09:54.360 --> 1:09:59.519 Thank you Jesus appreciate a central seduction. 1:10:00.560 --> 1:10:01.519 Yes, that's one of that. 1:10:01.920 --> 1:10:03.800 I want to say, you have one of the only 1:10:04.720 --> 1:10:07.320 like rap records or records and hip hop that I 1:10:07.439 --> 1:10:08.880 like the clean version better than I. 1:10:08.840 --> 1:10:15.799 Like, yeah brook. 1:10:16.640 --> 1:10:17.200 Brookly Zoo. 1:10:17.439 --> 1:10:20.040 But yeah, so talk about that record because the cat 1:10:20.080 --> 1:10:24.439 that did that, Red Shorty Red. He was so talented man, 1:10:24.520 --> 1:10:26.120 and he did like a lot of ship for Jez. 1:10:26.400 --> 1:10:27.439 He was on some gangster ship. 1:10:27.439 --> 1:10:29.479 He was like really one of the gangster producers, right, 1:10:30.000 --> 1:10:32.920 so he's one of my little nephews. And he was like, 1:10:33.960 --> 1:10:36.720 I got a song, but it ain't gangster, and I 1:10:36.720 --> 1:10:39.920 think I think it's I think it's for you. And 1:10:39.960 --> 1:10:41.599 he played it for me and he was he was 1:10:41.720 --> 1:10:43.680 he was doing everything that I was doing. But he 1:10:43.800 --> 1:10:46.360 wasn't like he didn't put that thing on it. He 1:10:46.439 --> 1:10:48.680 just like just laid it and I was like, I'm 1:10:48.720 --> 1:10:50.240 gonna put that T pain on it, but I ain't 1:10:50.280 --> 1:10:52.920 gonna put all of that te pain. I'm gonna put 1:10:52.920 --> 1:10:55.200 a little trip of T pain with my real voice. 1:10:55.400 --> 1:10:58.120 Then I'm gonna put like a vote colder and twisting 1:10:58.160 --> 1:11:00.280 this waite so that when when you're hearing, he ain't 1:11:00.320 --> 1:11:02.720 two row body like them. Because I didn't want to 1:11:02.800 --> 1:11:06.840 sound like everybody that sounds like auto tune. I wanted 1:11:06.880 --> 1:11:10.280 some of my voice to overwhelm the auto tune because 1:11:10.280 --> 1:11:12.280 I feel like I got a nice voice that could 1:11:12.320 --> 1:11:12.880 blend with that. 1:11:13.720 --> 1:11:14.479 And that was the key. 1:11:14.479 --> 1:11:17.960 And then watch this when I do it. I take 1:11:18.000 --> 1:11:20.840 it to the label and it's a motherfucking white boy 1:11:20.920 --> 1:11:25.920 up there, and he like, let me mix it. I'm like, 1:11:26.040 --> 1:11:31.840 he don't know. He's like, let me mix this, motherfucker. 1:11:31.880 --> 1:11:34.360 I know what it needs. Give it here. But we 1:11:34.439 --> 1:11:35.920 kind of clashed for a minute, and I end up 1:11:36.000 --> 1:11:38.000 letting mix it. Right when he mixed it, I called him, 1:11:38.000 --> 1:11:43.040 I'm like, man, you a bad motherfucker motherfucker named Ron Fair. 1:11:44.360 --> 1:11:46.800 Wait, oh my god, that's the last name. 1:11:49.040 --> 1:11:51.840 Look request you gotta you're dealing with Snoop Dorog. You're 1:11:51.840 --> 1:11:54.680 dealing with ignorant ass Snoop Dogg, you ain't dealing with 1:11:54.680 --> 1:11:57.360 the nigga right now? To hey, okay, you're sure whatever 1:11:57.720 --> 1:12:00.599 you're dealing with the na tell me how mother fucking 1:12:00.600 --> 1:12:01.479 mixed my song the. 1:12:01.439 --> 1:12:03.320 Way the way you built it up. It's just that 1:12:03.400 --> 1:12:06.200 we had a few episodes where Ron's names come up 1:12:06.640 --> 1:12:09.479 and it wasn't and it wasn't too savory. So he 1:12:09.600 --> 1:12:12.720 was like, name Ron Fair. I was like, oh God, yes, 1:12:12.880 --> 1:12:13.680 he's haunting us. 1:12:13.920 --> 1:12:16.120 Yes, And that nigga mixed the ship out of it, 1:12:16.200 --> 1:12:18.360 the dog ship out of it because I could play 1:12:18.400 --> 1:12:20.880 the mixed before he mixed it. He made it a 1:12:20.920 --> 1:12:23.479 fucking big record like the Ship. That he did was 1:12:23.520 --> 1:12:25.840 just making my voice and the music and the way. 1:12:27.280 --> 1:12:27.479 Right. 1:12:28.680 --> 1:12:31.959 Because it fooled everybody. When we heard it, my jaw. 1:12:31.840 --> 1:12:33.800 Dropped like, oh shot, that shit go hard. 1:12:33.840 --> 1:12:34.839 It was an instant classic. 1:12:35.240 --> 1:12:35.439 Yeah. 1:12:35.560 --> 1:12:37.479 See that was on the record that I think for real? 1:12:39.080 --> 1:12:39.920 Was that a record for real? 1:12:39.960 --> 1:12:41.280 Producer? Was that ego tripping? 1:12:41.560 --> 1:12:43.160 That was okay? 1:12:43.240 --> 1:12:46.840 That was me Teddy Riley and Quick on that record? 1:12:48.520 --> 1:12:51.280 Was not on that record? You work like hoe. 1:12:51.320 --> 1:12:53.320 He was not the ship. 1:12:53.840 --> 1:12:55.839 How did y'all hold up? Man? Because he's Virginia. 1:12:56.120 --> 1:12:58.360 And so that's something about me and Virginia. I got 1:12:58.960 --> 1:13:02.120 a real bond with you. With Virginia, man, I fucked 1:13:02.120 --> 1:13:04.559 with the Virginia crowd. I don't know why how, but 1:13:04.600 --> 1:13:07.280 it's just like we just magical when we're together. It's 1:13:07.280 --> 1:13:10.519 been like that, from timbling the parral to not even 1:13:10.520 --> 1:13:14.439 the nigga drum like Teddy Riley, Like I just fox 1:13:14.479 --> 1:13:17.280 with it like and then, and I never looked for it. 1:13:17.280 --> 1:13:19.160 It was like, I'm gonna focus and niggas from Virginia. 1:13:19.200 --> 1:13:21.160 The ship just fall in place like that, Like it 1:13:21.280 --> 1:13:24.200 just happens like that. And every time it happens like that, 1:13:24.280 --> 1:13:27.280 it's like it's some magical ship. And then I find 1:13:27.280 --> 1:13:29.840 out this nigga from Virginia too. It's something in the 1:13:29.880 --> 1:13:31.200 water man, y'all cold man. 1:13:31.479 --> 1:13:35.599 Yeah, you also had like the only for a long time, 1:13:35.640 --> 1:13:37.280 you had the only D'Angelo feature. 1:13:37.760 --> 1:13:39.400 Imagine that the. 1:13:39.760 --> 1:13:44.559 Imagine shut out to shut out to Angie Stone, Oh 1:13:44.600 --> 1:13:45.799 my god, going to Guinea. 1:13:47.000 --> 1:13:49.360 So y'all don't understand how hard it was to get. 1:13:55.960 --> 1:14:02.960 Stories. I'm gonna tell mine, million all. So we call 1:14:03.040 --> 1:14:05.519 the nigga, right, everybody scared to call him? Give me 1:14:05.520 --> 1:14:12.680 the mother fucking phone DeAngelo. Hey, nigga is snoop yah 1:14:13.200 --> 1:14:15.720 he nigga. I need them vocals because it's already wrote 1:14:15.720 --> 1:14:16.679 pool Beard and wrote the ship. 1:14:16.720 --> 1:14:17.960 All you gotta do is just singing this ship. 1:14:18.040 --> 1:14:18.320 Nigga. 1:14:18.600 --> 1:14:20.680 Understand me, and you're gonna be there with you. She 1:14:20.760 --> 1:14:23.000 take him to the studio. He listened to it. 1:14:23.080 --> 1:14:24.640 He like it. He go to the car and she 1:14:24.760 --> 1:14:25.240 came back. 1:14:25.560 --> 1:14:28.320 He left whoa Break You Off? 1:14:28.360 --> 1:14:28.760 Part two? 1:14:30.720 --> 1:14:33.680 Next day he comes in, he sings two lines and 1:14:33.720 --> 1:14:34.720 then he leaves what. 1:14:35.920 --> 1:14:37.840 You should be here? 1:14:39.760 --> 1:14:42.719 Fourth day, Pool Beard, go sing all of that ship 1:14:42.920 --> 1:14:44.960 and have that nigga up under you, and we're gonna 1:14:44.960 --> 1:14:47.559 blend your voice together because this nigga keep ripping and running. 1:14:47.800 --> 1:14:49.960 You serious listen to it. 1:14:50.400 --> 1:14:53.840 Wow, it's him on and poo bear. He's all pool 1:14:53.960 --> 1:14:54.719 from fifteen hundred. 1:14:55.479 --> 1:14:57.960 He used to be with Scott Stores that one, okay, gotcha? 1:14:58.120 --> 1:14:58.320 Yeah. 1:14:58.439 --> 1:15:01.640 He used to write for Justin to be Yeah, but 1:15:01.680 --> 1:15:03.479 that was but you know I had to me and 1:15:03.520 --> 1:15:05.560 my conversation with him, and then Angie she pulled it 1:15:05.600 --> 1:15:07.120 all together. Like That's why I got to give her 1:15:07.120 --> 1:15:09.920 a shout out, because she was instrumental. I'm going to 1:15:09.960 --> 1:15:12.120 get him. I'm finna make it happen, and like she 1:15:12.360 --> 1:15:14.800 was really a soldier, you understand me, Like going to 1:15:14.840 --> 1:15:15.799 make shit happen. 1:15:15.880 --> 1:15:17.240 Man, what year was that? 1:15:17.840 --> 1:15:22.639 Two thousand and three and two thousand and six album 1:15:22.680 --> 1:15:25.760 came out in two thousand. Yeah that sounds just about right, man, 1:15:26.280 --> 1:15:31.120 Like you have to well, you know, rap your story right. Yes, Yeah, 1:15:31.400 --> 1:15:34.680 physically got on the plane to knocked on his door. 1:15:36.640 --> 1:15:38.080 To make him come to the video. Shoot. 1:15:39.800 --> 1:15:43.240 Every generation needs one. It's fine, fine, fine. 1:15:44.880 --> 1:15:48.960 Whoever seven thousand private jet, whoever d is? Every generation 1:15:49.080 --> 1:15:50.280 needs one. It's all I'm saying. 1:15:52.479 --> 1:15:57.920 And then I just feel goody me. Biggie Puffy, a 1:15:57.920 --> 1:16:00.040 couple of my cousins were in New York for he 1:16:00.080 --> 1:16:05.040 ange little concert. Supposed to get on it nine twelve thirty. 1:16:05.040 --> 1:16:07.760 We out there still smoking one in the morning, Me 1:16:07.800 --> 1:16:08.879 and Biggie fall asleep. 1:16:10.720 --> 1:16:11.240 Two thirty. 1:16:11.280 --> 1:16:13.559 The nigga finally hit the stage and do five songs 1:16:13.560 --> 1:16:13.920 and leave. 1:16:14.120 --> 1:16:14.320 Wow. 1:16:14.960 --> 1:16:16.360 Wow, didn't even do them. 1:16:16.360 --> 1:16:17.160 While I liked. 1:16:20.800 --> 1:16:25.200 That this nigga didn't do double fine, nigga, you didn't 1:16:25.200 --> 1:16:25.360 do it? 1:16:26.320 --> 1:16:28.240 Yeah, man, what's it like? You work? 1:16:28.280 --> 1:16:29.880 It's another one my homeboys. You work with a lot 1:16:29.960 --> 1:16:33.280 Denan Porter, Oh, what's man in the studio? 1:16:33.360 --> 1:16:37.360 Twelve like Me and Detroit got a cold, Cold Cold 1:16:37.400 --> 1:16:40.479 Twist two then nin like I discovered hear him off 1:16:40.520 --> 1:16:44.760 of like Nigga's not taking his beats, Like he's a 1:16:44.840 --> 1:16:46.960 nigga on the sideline and I'm listening to that nigga. 1:16:46.960 --> 1:16:48.120 Be's like, Oh, they don't want that. 1:16:48.760 --> 1:16:51.840 They don't want that. He didn't want that. Get here 1:16:52.720 --> 1:16:55.000 and you can stay on the hook, nigga. You know 1:16:55.040 --> 1:16:57.200 what I'm saying that I am mind the kind nigga 1:16:57.200 --> 1:16:58.599 toll be. Oh man, it sounds awesome. If we can 1:16:58.640 --> 1:17:02.760 get our Chris Brown or may be Jeremi had senig 1:17:03.080 --> 1:17:05.719 something niggas stay on there, see if you can become 1:17:05.800 --> 1:17:06.360 something nigga. 1:17:06.680 --> 1:17:09.160 Yeah, her him and the girl Tone Treasure. 1:17:10.880 --> 1:17:14.320 Nigga, what nigga? I got hits with her, he around 1:17:14.360 --> 1:17:16.320 the world hits. 1:17:16.800 --> 1:17:18.680 She go go, go, go go. 1:17:19.439 --> 1:17:21.400 That is one of the most talented females I've ever 1:17:21.439 --> 1:17:22.320 worked with in the studio. 1:17:23.160 --> 1:17:26.200 Yeah, So, Snoop, where are you at musically right now? 1:17:26.240 --> 1:17:30.600 Because you didn't done pretty much everything done country I 1:17:30.640 --> 1:17:31.479 couldn't remember. 1:17:31.920 --> 1:17:34.600 I feel like you have I feel like a will record. 1:17:36.600 --> 1:17:37.479 Record that actually might be. 1:17:37.680 --> 1:17:39.920 I mean a bluegrass I can see that. I don't 1:17:40.200 --> 1:17:41.120 like where you at. 1:17:41.240 --> 1:17:42.400 Well, I have a couple of things that. 1:17:42.400 --> 1:17:45.040 I'm working on. Bluegrass has a lot of connotations. 1:17:45.160 --> 1:17:45.960 Does I like that? 1:17:49.040 --> 1:17:51.439 Way you gotta come to North Carolina to do it? 1:17:51.560 --> 1:17:52.000 May happen. 1:17:52.800 --> 1:17:54.600 Well, right now, I just finished the EP with the 1:17:54.880 --> 1:17:58.599 Dave East We did a nice little EP together, east 1:17:58.600 --> 1:18:00.439 Side Stories, Ship. 1:18:01.240 --> 1:18:04.800 Dame, Well the Dame thing on two. I was thinking, 1:18:04.800 --> 1:18:06.679 you say east Side Stores the east Siders. 1:18:06.920 --> 1:18:11.320 Yeah, oh yeah, Trady, God, Yeah, what I got? I 1:18:11.400 --> 1:18:13.639 got a new single that I just did for them 1:18:14.160 --> 1:18:17.320 for to Meet the Blacks to soundtrack. I may want 1:18:17.360 --> 1:18:19.200 to play for y'all in the studio, let y'all get away, 1:18:20.000 --> 1:18:21.519 but it's gonna be the lead single off for the 1:18:21.600 --> 1:18:24.040 Meet the Blacks to soundtrack produced by battle Cat. 1:18:24.320 --> 1:18:28.040 Yes, okay, that's what I mean. 1:18:28.120 --> 1:18:32.200 I learned he's going, don't look at the clock, keep talking, 1:18:33.080 --> 1:18:40.400 watch that man, look out the clock. I pushed Paul's 1:18:40.439 --> 1:18:40.560 on it. 1:18:40.600 --> 1:18:41.000 Don't want to. 1:18:42.680 --> 1:18:44.400 You're talking the walk away because I'm scared of that. 1:18:50.120 --> 1:18:52.240 Talking about battle He is just another one of those 1:18:52.320 --> 1:18:55.000 dudes that just so underrated. 1:18:54.560 --> 1:18:55.840 So unsung. 1:18:55.920 --> 1:19:00.479 He Battle Cat is like Doctor Dre on stereo to me, 1:19:01.040 --> 1:19:03.880 because you know he's always been that that spot to 1:19:03.960 --> 1:19:06.680 fill in the blank. When Dre is on hiatus for 1:19:06.800 --> 1:19:09.160 making music, Battle Cat always feel in the blank spots 1:19:09.479 --> 1:19:12.200 with some good music, that feel good, that got great bottom, 1:19:12.280 --> 1:19:15.360 that got great musical arrangement, nights singing. So it's like, 1:19:15.479 --> 1:19:17.519 you know, he feels in the blank and he does 1:19:17.600 --> 1:19:19.840 his part because he is a part of Uncle Jam's army. 1:19:20.320 --> 1:19:23.320 So he's been around since to get around and he 1:19:23.439 --> 1:19:24.920 produced Domino's first album. 1:19:25.720 --> 1:19:27.439 We were talking about that earlier, that East Side is 1:19:27.479 --> 1:19:28.479 the albums just expect. 1:19:30.920 --> 1:19:34.080 We did that at my house in Claremont, Like that's 1:19:34.120 --> 1:19:35.880 when we used to make records in my living room, 1:19:36.000 --> 1:19:38.120 like on some real shit like Trade and Goldie Lope 1:19:38.400 --> 1:19:41.400 from two different neighborhoods, Goldie from my neighborhood twenty Crip 1:19:41.880 --> 1:19:45.000 and Trade from Masane. And we all started together when 1:19:45.040 --> 1:19:47.680 the fresh Vest was happening. We was all together. Then 1:19:47.720 --> 1:19:51.880 an incident happened where they separated, and this was like 1:19:52.040 --> 1:19:54.400 us bringing it back together again on the music tip 1:19:54.720 --> 1:19:56.639 and putting the hood back together. So when we put 1:19:56.760 --> 1:19:59.599 the east Siders together, it was a movement in the streets. 1:20:00.120 --> 1:20:03.639 That really was the real movement on we Ain't killing 1:20:03.680 --> 1:20:04.360 each other no more? 1:20:05.560 --> 1:20:09.560 Man, you please tell me there's an unreleased album or 1:20:09.800 --> 1:20:10.559 something coming out? 1:20:11.320 --> 1:20:14.040 Brother, where is LaToya will? I was gonna ask about her. 1:20:14.240 --> 1:20:17.759 Bruh Wreatha Frankment just passed away, rest in piece of RYTHD. 1:20:17.960 --> 1:20:21.679 That was like the closest thing to like I always said, 1:20:21.720 --> 1:20:23.920 I never made a record with Aretha, but I made 1:20:23.960 --> 1:20:25.080 a record with a wreath. 1:20:24.800 --> 1:20:28.040 Of Spirit with toy Like. I don't know, man, I 1:20:28.080 --> 1:20:29.080 don't know what she on right now. 1:20:29.120 --> 1:20:31.439 I love her voice. I really love to see if 1:20:31.479 --> 1:20:33.000 she'd like to get back in the studio again. So 1:20:33.040 --> 1:20:35.320 if you're listening to it, we love for you to 1:20:35.360 --> 1:20:35.760 come back in. 1:20:35.840 --> 1:20:39.320 And yeah, her and Knats was doing something for a 1:20:39.360 --> 1:20:41.120 little bit and then I don't know whatever. 1:20:41.120 --> 1:20:43.120 It came the follow through. Some some people don't have 1:20:43.160 --> 1:20:44.639 that follow through, you know what I'm saying. It takes 1:20:44.680 --> 1:20:46.000 the team to make sure that you got the whole 1:20:46.040 --> 1:20:46.559 follow through. 1:20:48.240 --> 1:20:50.600 Oh okay, so. 1:20:52.160 --> 1:20:56.160 The record of it was on the Snoops it was 1:20:56.240 --> 1:20:58.080 the compilation record Doghouse Records. 1:20:58.120 --> 1:20:59.960 Compilation? Was it that one doing with Trump? 1:21:01.320 --> 1:21:01.439 Oh? 1:21:01.560 --> 1:21:03.720 Trouble Trouble guess where you're from. 1:21:04.000 --> 1:21:05.799 Where Virginia? 1:21:07.160 --> 1:21:10.400 For real nigga named Vinnie. Guess where I met him? 1:21:10.400 --> 1:21:15.280 At Nigga seven eleven. It was snowing my night. Wait what, nigga, 1:21:15.479 --> 1:21:18.479 It was snowing one night Nigga seven eleven. Nigga and 1:21:18.600 --> 1:21:21.120 I get out the little van and go buy me 1:21:21.200 --> 1:21:24.360 something out of the store right in Virginia. The nigga like, 1:21:24.640 --> 1:21:27.080 got to CD, man, I make music, Like, let me 1:21:27.120 --> 1:21:28.960 hear this motherfucker. I said, I it's white. Niggam gonna 1:21:28.960 --> 1:21:31.559 slang that motherfucker on the freeway. Get in the van, 1:21:31.680 --> 1:21:35.599 were riding. This nigga should sound good. This nigga got arrangement, 1:21:35.680 --> 1:21:38.560 and this nigga got toned, and I'm like, nigga, I 1:21:38.640 --> 1:21:40.800 call a nigga like, Nigga, your shit hard, nigga, Let 1:21:40.840 --> 1:21:43.360 me let me buy that song. So I bought that 1:21:43.479 --> 1:21:45.680 song Trouble and put it on my ship. And then 1:21:45.720 --> 1:21:47.479 we made a couple of songs we didn't want called 1:21:47.520 --> 1:21:50.840 a uh just Get carried Away. 1:21:52.520 --> 1:21:58.040 And my uncle Rell, Oh wow, okay, yep, that was another. 1:21:58.120 --> 1:22:00.439 It was on that album you had. It was the 1:22:00.479 --> 1:22:04.280 Trouble record and it was somebody else. God Man who 1:22:04.320 --> 1:22:05.720 was on that record? I used to I used to 1:22:05.760 --> 1:22:06.240 play the hell. 1:22:06.120 --> 1:22:08.040 Out of that album. It was another cat that you've 1:22:08.120 --> 1:22:10.640 oh tripping superfly? What's going on with him? 1:22:12.600 --> 1:22:14.560 He got a song right now on to Meet the 1:22:14.600 --> 1:22:16.759 Black soundtrack that's called Past the Sticks. 1:22:17.400 --> 1:22:18.640 I like to play that for y'all us. 1:22:18.640 --> 1:22:22.599 When does it come out? The soundtrack went up next month, 1:22:23.560 --> 1:22:24.360 the next month. 1:22:24.200 --> 1:22:24.599 Of to be Out. 1:22:29.040 --> 1:22:31.240 It's it's not. I don't know he was. I think 1:22:31.280 --> 1:22:34.320 he was one D Dre's camp, but nocturnal. Is he still? 1:22:35.920 --> 1:22:37.680 I heard from him minute minute? Yeah, he was, Uh 1:22:37.760 --> 1:22:39.760 what with the circle? You know he was in the crew, 1:22:40.320 --> 1:22:41.880 but I ain't heard from him in a minute. You know, 1:22:42.200 --> 1:22:43.760 this is the one wild West you got to stay 1:22:43.760 --> 1:22:44.320 in at the winning. 1:22:45.760 --> 1:22:47.760 I just ask, at what point in your career did 1:22:47.800 --> 1:22:51.719 you know that you could sell things to all of America? 1:22:51.800 --> 1:22:54.320 Like it was a point where you crossed over white people. Yeah, 1:22:54.400 --> 1:22:54.960 to white people. 1:22:54.960 --> 1:22:57.840 What was like, how did you get Martha Stewart's trust? 1:22:58.200 --> 1:22:58.400 Yeah? 1:23:00.080 --> 1:23:05.840 Start, but yeah, beforet it was before all of that though. 1:23:05.880 --> 1:23:08.479 It was before Martha Stewart. It's been for a while now, 1:23:08.520 --> 1:23:08.920 you've been in. 1:23:08.920 --> 1:23:12.800 The Charisma goes a long ass way. 1:23:13.360 --> 1:23:15.960 Most charismatic people aren't talented. 1:23:16.200 --> 1:23:16.920 But it must have been. 1:23:17.320 --> 1:23:19.360 It must have been a point though where you were like, ship, 1:23:19.720 --> 1:23:21.880 look at this, they're paying attention, and they gonna let 1:23:21.920 --> 1:23:23.080 me sell this to everybody. 1:23:23.680 --> 1:23:25.800 You know, whatever it was, it's like you don't never 1:23:25.880 --> 1:23:29.240 realize until it actually happens, Like because you don't. Nobody 1:23:29.320 --> 1:23:32.160 really watches their highlights while they playing the game, you know, 1:23:32.960 --> 1:23:38.640 like true superstars, they don't really you know, look at that. 1:23:38.720 --> 1:23:41.320 They're too busy trying to get more highlights. And then 1:23:41.360 --> 1:23:42.599 at the end of the day, then I'll be able 1:23:42.600 --> 1:23:44.960 to look back and say, Wow, I didn't realize I 1:23:45.120 --> 1:23:46.760 was doing X, Y, and Z. Right now, I'm just 1:23:46.840 --> 1:23:49.600 doing me and all the opportunities that that happen to 1:23:49.680 --> 1:23:52.080 fall my direction, I try to make the most of 1:23:52.160 --> 1:23:54.919 them and try to put things together that are gonna. 1:23:54.680 --> 1:23:55.479 Be here for the future. 1:23:55.520 --> 1:23:57.320 I had like stages of my life when I didn't 1:23:57.320 --> 1:23:59.800 really give a fuck about the future, and I feel 1:23:59.840 --> 1:24:01.880 like those moments are see many and they mean a 1:24:01.960 --> 1:24:04.880 lot because they helped raise people and they helped cement 1:24:05.080 --> 1:24:06.680 who I was and how I'm supposed to do it. 1:24:07.200 --> 1:24:09.280 Then his stages in my life where was like I 1:24:09.360 --> 1:24:12.720 gotta mean something. I gotta like give some information and 1:24:12.840 --> 1:24:15.680 direction because now I'm on the on the level of 1:24:16.080 --> 1:24:18.560 one who has that, and I shouldn't be selfish and 1:24:18.640 --> 1:24:19.719 try to keep it to myself. 1:24:21.080 --> 1:24:23.080 How long did Jun Pharrell work on the Bush album? 1:24:23.640 --> 1:24:25.479 I love that recormend and I don't know. 1:24:26.520 --> 1:24:30.439 What Bruno Moore's album. It sounded just like. 1:24:33.439 --> 1:24:36.840 Now that's sound like a the Spruntle nigadamous front Now 1:24:36.920 --> 1:24:38.960 Bruno Moore shout out to Bruno for writing a young, 1:24:39.040 --> 1:24:41.960 Wild and Free and not wanting no credit. 1:24:42.439 --> 1:24:43.360 Oh he wrote that one. 1:24:43.520 --> 1:24:46.080 Yeah, wow mm hmm. 1:24:46.120 --> 1:24:49.840 He was going through some things judicially, So we worked 1:24:49.880 --> 1:24:51.519 it out to where I wrote it and you know 1:24:51.720 --> 1:24:52.360 he wrote it it. 1:24:52.720 --> 1:24:55.519 Wait, I forgot we did that together. Yeah, you came 1:24:55.600 --> 1:24:58.160 to the show. It was Bruno back when I knew 1:24:58.160 --> 1:24:58.840 who Bruno was. 1:24:58.960 --> 1:25:03.519 Yes, know you and uh yeah, see quest I forgot 1:25:04.080 --> 1:25:05.200 every nigga, Yeah. 1:25:05.280 --> 1:25:05.719 I forgot. 1:25:05.880 --> 1:25:07.880 It's like, what's your name? 1:25:07.960 --> 1:25:08.240 Bruno? 1:25:08.439 --> 1:25:09.880 Okay, nice to meet you. 1:25:10.400 --> 1:25:14.200 Now look at him, now, who are you? Nigga? 1:25:14.200 --> 1:25:15.000 Who is your right? 1:25:16.320 --> 1:25:21.400 On the California Road joint with Stevie watched it, Watch 1:25:21.479 --> 1:25:21.760 this moment. 1:25:21.800 --> 1:25:24.680 I got tell you the moment first, so we're up 1:25:24.720 --> 1:25:27.160 there with the music right. First of all, he made 1:25:27.200 --> 1:25:30.840 the song the school Boy Q, school Boy the school 1:25:30.840 --> 1:25:32.759 Boy Q that morning. It was for like a remix 1:25:33.040 --> 1:25:35.439 or something. He didn't morning I heard, I was like, Nigga, 1:25:35.439 --> 1:25:37.519 I need that nigga. That shit hard give me that. 1:25:37.800 --> 1:25:40.040 I'm a sing and I'm gonna have my nigga, James 1:25:40.080 --> 1:25:41.360 Fundroy write my verses. 1:25:41.439 --> 1:25:43.600 So that way I got some some melody about it. 1:25:44.080 --> 1:25:46.920 So then I'm listening to Pharaal saying, I'm like, so 1:25:47.040 --> 1:25:48.920 now we're in the studio, I'm smoking. 1:25:49.000 --> 1:25:50.559 I'm like, we need to get Stevie one on. 1:25:50.640 --> 1:25:53.640 This mother, Like you got his number? Like, yeah, I 1:25:53.680 --> 1:25:57.880 got the nigga number. Nigga. Hold on, Stevie, what's hadding it? 1:25:58.400 --> 1:25:58.559 Hey? 1:25:58.800 --> 1:26:01.120 Hey, I need you have to studio, nigga. What you're doing? 1:26:01.160 --> 1:26:01.280 Man? 1:26:01.280 --> 1:26:02.760 I got to hit record with me and forhar Real. 1:26:03.240 --> 1:26:07.120 I'll be right there. Stevie comes to the studio. Now, 1:26:07.439 --> 1:26:09.519 mind you, me and Pharreal in the studio were smoking. 1:26:09.720 --> 1:26:12.040 He ain't smoking, but we smoking. He right next to us. 1:26:12.040 --> 1:26:13.840 He's smoking him out the fuck out. 1:26:18.400 --> 1:26:19.920 So now Stevie get there, right. 1:26:20.479 --> 1:26:22.800 So Stevie listening to the record in the in the 1:26:22.960 --> 1:26:24.639 in the room with us. Then he going to booth. 1:26:25.680 --> 1:26:27.760 So he in there f the sing. He got his 1:26:27.840 --> 1:26:29.960 head fus on. He's singing, and I'm like, for real, 1:26:30.040 --> 1:26:33.360 tell him what to do and for real, like m 1:26:35.360 --> 1:26:38.519 I said, because Stevie, been in there for five minutes, 1:26:38.560 --> 1:26:40.360 cause you ain't told cause nothing. He just sitting in 1:26:40.439 --> 1:26:43.360 the booth for like five minutes. I'm like, first of all, 1:26:43.439 --> 1:26:45.160 somebody need to go in there for that nigga fall. 1:26:48.080 --> 1:26:48.920 So he don't say that. 1:26:49.040 --> 1:26:50.960 I'm like, cud tell the nigga what to do because 1:26:51.000 --> 1:26:51.880 so he don't say nothing. 1:26:51.880 --> 1:26:55.320 So he pushed the little thing I said Stevie Pharrell said, 1:26:56.320 --> 1:26:58.439 sing on this part and sing on that part. 1:26:58.560 --> 1:26:59.479 So he started singing. 1:27:00.320 --> 1:27:02.240 He doing this thing, and I'm like, for real, tell 1:27:02.280 --> 1:27:04.320 the nigga be comes. This ain't my expertise. I don't 1:27:04.320 --> 1:27:06.559 do all that. But niggas is saying, I just sit 1:27:06.640 --> 1:27:08.280 back and watch nigga. You're suposed to telling him to 1:27:08.320 --> 1:27:11.479 do the runs. And this nigga, for real, just sitting 1:27:11.520 --> 1:27:12.360 there stuck. 1:27:13.800 --> 1:27:14.599 Some of the coaching. 1:27:14.640 --> 1:27:16.160 Stevie. I'm like, I know, I'm for the fuck this 1:27:16.280 --> 1:27:18.519 song all right, Stephen, When you get you this part, 1:27:18.560 --> 1:27:23.559 need you to go. And then Steven did you bring 1:27:23.640 --> 1:27:24.280 your harmonica? 1:27:24.720 --> 1:27:25.000 Wow? 1:27:25.439 --> 1:27:28.160 Did you bring it? Pull it out? All right, Stevie, 1:27:28.240 --> 1:27:31.160 just play anything you want. When Pharrell gets sober, we're 1:27:31.160 --> 1:27:35.719 gonna take the best part. And that's how that motherfucker 1:27:35.800 --> 1:27:38.720 song came about. I ain't making this ship up. 1:27:39.280 --> 1:27:40.880 Thank you over, I love it. 1:27:41.280 --> 1:27:42.519 I love it too, Thank you, thank you. 1:27:42.880 --> 1:27:45.320 Can I ask one week question? Okay, yeah, because I 1:27:45.360 --> 1:27:46.559 got a few, so listen. 1:27:47.040 --> 1:27:50.200 First of all, that's not like a black woman. Can 1:27:50.240 --> 1:27:52.679 I asked one week question there because I got a few. 1:27:53.080 --> 1:27:54.400 Well, I wanted to go back to my roll call 1:27:54.439 --> 1:27:56.200 because I was serious about this question because it's been 1:27:56.240 --> 1:27:58.280 like some documentaries and some studies and whatnot, and I 1:27:58.360 --> 1:28:00.559 wanted to know your opinion on what people are saying 1:28:00.560 --> 1:28:03.160 about the Indica versus s Tativa and saying that it's 1:28:03.479 --> 1:28:05.600 it's all bullshit, Like where are you with that? 1:28:05.760 --> 1:28:05.920 Well? 1:28:05.920 --> 1:28:08.639 I think that sativa is for certain people and Indicas 1:28:08.680 --> 1:28:11.000 for certain people. That's whatever you make it is. It's 1:28:11.040 --> 1:28:14.760 like some people like gins, some people like uh whiskey, some. 1:28:14.800 --> 1:28:17.320 People like bring it down to like a kindergarten. 1:28:17.240 --> 1:28:22.080 To versus Indica is for the aggressive, for the ones 1:28:22.200 --> 1:28:23.720 like myself, the ones who've been doing it for a 1:28:23.800 --> 1:28:26.519 long time. We need like a high tolerance who looking 1:28:26.560 --> 1:28:30.439 for the highest level of getting there. Sativa is more 1:28:30.439 --> 1:28:33.080 of a female relaxation. 1:28:33.439 --> 1:28:33.600 You know. 1:28:33.920 --> 1:28:36.840 To me down, I never heard it described. 1:28:37.680 --> 1:28:39.600 It's real. I don't see a lot of niggas that 1:28:39.760 --> 1:28:41.840 be like, you want to hit this sativa. 1:28:43.120 --> 1:28:45.000 Damn so fast? 1:28:46.760 --> 1:28:48.519 You got a flower with that too, nigga. 1:28:48.920 --> 1:28:50.880 But the word is that it's not real. The concept 1:28:50.960 --> 1:28:52.400 is not real. That's what I was saying. The word 1:28:52.479 --> 1:28:54.679 is that the concept is not real. And some bullshit 1:28:54.880 --> 1:28:57.840 Indica and different so that that is. 1:28:57.960 --> 1:29:01.759 Very real because they're two different and strange. They're two different. 1:29:01.800 --> 1:29:03.800 How would I explain that, Frank? What are they two different? 1:29:03.840 --> 1:29:09.599 What I want to make you want to go to sleep, 1:29:09.640 --> 1:29:10.880 the other one will keep you up eating. 1:29:11.439 --> 1:29:15.880 Yes, it's like like a relax like Sativa is more 1:29:16.000 --> 1:29:20.479 like connected with medical you know, because it's the yeah, exactly. 1:29:20.560 --> 1:29:23.880 And then the Indicas like the party ship where all 1:29:23.920 --> 1:29:25.960 the rappers and you know what I'm saying, the high 1:29:26.080 --> 1:29:27.599 energy and you got ship to do when you're trying 1:29:27.640 --> 1:29:28.160 to get it done. 1:29:28.200 --> 1:29:29.719 And you know what I'm saying I've. 1:29:29.560 --> 1:29:31.320 Heard what I've heard described, and I don't know if 1:29:31.320 --> 1:29:34.000 it's in different strains within them, but like one is 1:29:34.080 --> 1:29:36.880 like a body high and one is overhead high. So 1:29:37.000 --> 1:29:39.040 which one would you recommend, like for pain, like for 1:29:39.400 --> 1:29:41.439 like joints off writers out that kind of ship, which 1:29:41.479 --> 1:29:42.400 one words better for pain? 1:29:43.120 --> 1:29:44.680 You would have to be prescribed. I would go to 1:29:44.760 --> 1:29:46.400 a real, real ship. 1:29:46.560 --> 1:29:48.280 You could go to a real yeah. 1:29:48.200 --> 1:29:50.360 Dispecially and go see a real doctor and they'll tell 1:29:50.400 --> 1:29:51.240 you exactly. 1:29:50.960 --> 1:29:54.280 What rub some tossing on it? Are you? 1:29:54.520 --> 1:29:57.120 Are you looking to get into the dispensary games? 1:29:57.160 --> 1:29:57.400 That's what? 1:29:58.120 --> 1:30:01.040 No, not that game you That's what I was gonna say. 1:30:01.040 --> 1:30:02.840 How invested are you in that? In that game? 1:30:03.120 --> 1:30:06.679 Snow premium nutrients, That's what I was going to speak 1:30:06.720 --> 1:30:09.000 about that. Just think about what a nutrient is. A 1:30:09.080 --> 1:30:13.280 nutrient is what you need to grow the flower. So 1:30:13.680 --> 1:30:21.880 everyone who grows flowers, I know. 1:30:22.120 --> 1:30:23.360 Some genius you was gonna drop. 1:30:24.880 --> 1:30:25.439 I don't want to. 1:30:28.280 --> 1:30:28.719 Stadium. 1:30:29.080 --> 1:30:30.880 I don't want to be the grass that they playing 1:30:31.000 --> 1:30:31.519 on man. 1:30:34.160 --> 1:30:34.800 That every night. 1:30:35.880 --> 1:30:37.439 I can't play the game without grass. 1:30:39.280 --> 1:30:41.400 Just wow, you just give me food for thought. 1:30:42.400 --> 1:30:44.160 Yeah, go that direction. You know what I'm saying, because 1:30:44.479 --> 1:30:48.960 I can trying to everybody because it's a race horse? 1:30:49.120 --> 1:30:52.080 Is it public to get to the pinnacle of I 1:30:52.160 --> 1:30:53.600 got the best product. I'm doing this. 1:30:53.720 --> 1:30:56.880 I'm in this industry. But it's like alcohol. This probably 1:30:56.880 --> 1:30:59.840 happened when alcohol was pro prohibition. When it became what 1:31:00.000 --> 1:31:03.200 I were legal, it was probably sixteen seventeen different brands 1:31:03.240 --> 1:31:06.280 that was competing, and then there were seagums. Then there 1:31:06.439 --> 1:31:08.519 was you know, certain motherfuckers that just pushed out the 1:31:08.560 --> 1:31:11.679 way like there were just four exactly like, ain't nothing 1:31:11.680 --> 1:31:13.519 had any y'all can't fuck with this because we thinking 1:31:13.600 --> 1:31:14.960 way further than y'all. 1:31:15.160 --> 1:31:16.080 The product is better and. 1:31:16.160 --> 1:31:16.720 We do it better. 1:31:16.840 --> 1:31:18.080 Can you advise for the middle man? 1:31:18.120 --> 1:31:20.639 Because literally, my my mother was like she really wants 1:31:20.640 --> 1:31:22.240 to invest in the marijuana industry. 1:31:22.280 --> 1:31:24.160 And tell Mama and I'll let me give me a 1:31:24.160 --> 1:31:25.240 few dollars. I'll give a nice look. 1:31:25.360 --> 1:31:26.920 Yoh, okay, all right, I got you. 1:31:26.960 --> 1:31:30.160 All right, then Mama double up pack to get it going. 1:31:31.040 --> 1:31:34.880 I got to ask bones, Yeah, what was it like 1:31:34.960 --> 1:31:40.639 shooting at when I When I got the role Ernest Dickerson, 1:31:40.920 --> 1:31:45.519 he was like Pam gres signed on and I was like, yeah, 1:31:45.800 --> 1:31:46.960 you know, I'm cool as a motherfucker. 1:31:47.040 --> 1:31:47.200 Yeah. 1:31:47.320 --> 1:31:50.080 So he like, I got y'all flight together. 1:31:50.200 --> 1:31:52.120 They y'all gonna fly in so that way y'all can, 1:31:52.200 --> 1:31:54.320 you know, get acquainted because there's a lot of scenes 1:31:54.360 --> 1:31:56.160 that y'all got together. I'm like, all right, cool, bamn, 1:31:56.240 --> 1:31:59.479 grand nigga do this shit. Nigga flying to first go, 1:32:00.280 --> 1:32:03.479 she flying the fresh Go. I'm sitting down. She come 1:32:03.560 --> 1:32:05.720 behind me and tap me on the shoulder and I 1:32:05.800 --> 1:32:08.400 look back and I'm like, damn cause it's Pam Grid. 1:32:12.680 --> 1:32:15.360 So I'm like I look at her, give her hug, 1:32:15.439 --> 1:32:17.080 and she like chopping it up with me for a minute. 1:32:17.080 --> 1:32:20.679 I'm like, all right, I go to the bathroom. Nigga 1:32:20.840 --> 1:32:22.080 just faint, just. 1:32:22.160 --> 1:32:23.920 Fall out, boom, right on the floor. 1:32:24.479 --> 1:32:26.160 I'm laid on the floor for like five minutes. 1:32:26.240 --> 1:32:27.840 My security coming in, like, nigga, get off there. 1:32:28.120 --> 1:32:34.280 Literally, nigga for real, metaphorically, Nigga, I got a heap niggas. 1:32:34.360 --> 1:32:35.320 I've seen Pam. 1:32:37.960 --> 1:32:40.000 Nigga said, It's like when I saw Janet Jackson. 1:32:41.040 --> 1:32:41.760 Nigga went limp. 1:32:41.840 --> 1:32:42.080 Nigga. 1:32:43.800 --> 1:32:45.760 Niggas come grab me off the floor. They throwing water 1:32:45.800 --> 1:32:48.200 and shit on the niggas. So I regroup and Nigga 1:32:48.280 --> 1:32:51.360 are a flight. We sitting side by side the whole flight, Nigga, 1:32:51.400 --> 1:32:53.880 my heart beating like ninety go West, and she just 1:32:54.000 --> 1:32:56.280 chopping up with me, just being so real. She makes 1:32:56.360 --> 1:32:59.280 me comfortable, like this is one of the only motherfuckers 1:32:59.360 --> 1:33:01.800 ever been like struck around because I'm like, I got 1:33:01.880 --> 1:33:04.200 scenes whatever, I gotta catch her, and I gotta so 1:33:04.240 --> 1:33:06.720 I'm getting nervous and shit like. But then she like 1:33:06.880 --> 1:33:10.679 break me all the way down and she like, call 1:33:10.760 --> 1:33:12.640 your wife for me when we land, and then she 1:33:12.760 --> 1:33:14.439 how let my wife when I land. I'm like, this 1:33:14.600 --> 1:33:18.320 is a real fucking queen devil right here, you hear me? 1:33:19.560 --> 1:33:21.040 And it just put me in his zone where I 1:33:21.160 --> 1:33:23.320 was like, all right, cool and I went to set 1:33:23.600 --> 1:33:25.760 and then Ricky Harris was there rest in peace. 1:33:26.160 --> 1:33:26.360 Yeah. 1:33:26.760 --> 1:33:28.960 He made my job real easy because he had already 1:33:29.000 --> 1:33:31.360 been on many movie sets and he was just like, 1:33:31.520 --> 1:33:34.679 Nigga killed this shit, Nigga like we used to do. Nigga, 1:33:34.760 --> 1:33:37.800 fuck that, nigga, you know, giving me that confidence, like Nigga, 1:33:37.800 --> 1:33:39.560 you the league, Nigga, you to start Nigga. And it 1:33:39.680 --> 1:33:42.160 was like I needed that, not in the cocky way, 1:33:42.200 --> 1:33:44.479 but I needed that in a confident way. 1:33:44.640 --> 1:33:46.840 You talk about Ricky Man, because I didn't really know 1:33:47.200 --> 1:33:49.120 much about him, but I know he was. I mean 1:33:49.200 --> 1:33:50.560 we knew him from their comedy. 1:33:50.320 --> 1:33:52.479 Jam and like he was like on all the skits 1:33:52.680 --> 1:33:54.200 and the voice from the w Ball. 1:33:55.320 --> 1:33:57.880 Yeah, what was Ricky like? Man working with him? 1:33:58.160 --> 1:34:02.960 Funny, real, serious, Like My whole childhood was put him 1:34:02.960 --> 1:34:04.840 in church. His father was the preacher of our church, 1:34:05.080 --> 1:34:10.840 Reverend Richard George has the Fund. Ricky was always athletic. 1:34:11.000 --> 1:34:14.240 He taught me how to play quarterback in nineteen seventy 1:34:14.320 --> 1:34:16.040 nine behind revend Vin's house. 1:34:16.760 --> 1:34:18.679 He was funny in church. 1:34:18.800 --> 1:34:21.840 He was he could sing, He was like all this, 1:34:22.120 --> 1:34:25.000 all the things that you see me doing, it had 1:34:25.000 --> 1:34:27.360 to be somebody you've seen doing it first. He was 1:34:27.400 --> 1:34:32.520 probably the first person I seen doing the do you know, multitasking, 1:34:32.640 --> 1:34:35.400 being funny, being real, being an athlete, being this, being that, 1:34:36.120 --> 1:34:38.120 you know what I'm saying. So it was like when 1:34:38.160 --> 1:34:41.080 he made it, we made it. Then he got on 1:34:41.160 --> 1:34:42.200 ice Cube album. 1:34:41.960 --> 1:34:44.880 First and he was. 1:34:47.000 --> 1:34:56.240 Ice That was Ricky. I did not know that. 1:34:57.000 --> 1:34:58.680 So when I hear that, I'm like, Nigga, I need 1:34:58.800 --> 1:35:02.439 you on my ship, Nigga for our radio station w Ball. 1:35:04.000 --> 1:35:06.720 He just handled it from there. But like even from 1:35:06.920 --> 1:35:09.800 just being kids to us making it, it was a 1:35:09.880 --> 1:35:12.200 comfort zone working with him, like whenever I would have 1:35:12.320 --> 1:35:14.400 him around, like he would be in a lot of 1:35:14.439 --> 1:35:17.360 the writing, like when I had my show Doggie Fillers 1:35:17.439 --> 1:35:19.559 and all that shit. He was one of the writers, 1:35:19.640 --> 1:35:21.639 and like I would always bring him to the job, 1:35:21.760 --> 1:35:23.280 like to be one of the niggas behind the scenes 1:35:23.320 --> 1:35:26.200 with that pen because he knew me, like a lot 1:35:26.240 --> 1:35:27.680 of them writers in Hollywood didn't know me. 1:35:27.720 --> 1:35:29.000 They just was writing bullshit. 1:35:29.280 --> 1:35:30.840 We think this will be funny if you say this, 1:35:31.280 --> 1:35:32.519 and I need a nigga in a room, But like 1:35:32.520 --> 1:35:36.400 that nigga ain't gonna say that. You know what I'm saying, 1:35:36.520 --> 1:35:38.280 Like you need that kind of motherfuck in the room? 1:35:39.000 --> 1:35:42.639 Did you improvise the line fuck your fort little nigga 1:35:43.000 --> 1:35:43.679 and baby boy? 1:35:44.360 --> 1:35:45.400 You know that ship wasn't. 1:35:50.120 --> 1:35:50.280 Yo. 1:35:50.560 --> 1:35:52.439 That is like you know me and my boys, we 1:35:52.560 --> 1:35:54.280 played bad and this ship whoever got. 1:35:56.320 --> 1:35:57.320 That pot? 1:35:57.439 --> 1:35:57.640 That was. 1:36:00.400 --> 1:36:01.439 So thank you for calling that. 1:36:01.520 --> 1:36:07.639 It's so much you've given to the game, every roots argument. 1:36:12.360 --> 1:36:14.360 You know what I was talking to Max is Julian right, 1:36:14.520 --> 1:36:16.800 and Max, this is my nigga, right, here. I love 1:36:16.880 --> 1:36:17.320 him to death. 1:36:17.479 --> 1:36:17.679 Mac. 1:36:17.840 --> 1:36:20.280 So we're talking about the Mac, right, and he's like, yeah, man, 1:36:20.320 --> 1:36:21.640 you know what, So Richard. 1:36:21.439 --> 1:36:23.600 Man, we get to the set the director, because the 1:36:23.600 --> 1:36:26.360 director was a white dude named Michael Campus, You're like, yeah, 1:36:26.479 --> 1:36:28.160 so the white boy, you know, trying to tell Richard 1:36:28.200 --> 1:36:30.320 what to do. Richard like, white boy, you can't tell 1:36:30.360 --> 1:36:35.120 me a motherfucking thing. I write my own mother fucking line, 1:36:35.640 --> 1:36:37.560 he said. So Richard did all his lines. You know, 1:36:37.640 --> 1:36:39.519 he wrote his own ship. Your nigga. I couldn't tell 1:36:39.560 --> 1:36:40.000 him nothing. 1:36:40.320 --> 1:36:42.960 So when you watch the Mac, know that that nigga. 1:36:43.120 --> 1:36:46.840 Every line he did in there was his. Wow, he 1:36:47.040 --> 1:36:47.920 wasn't having it. 1:36:48.800 --> 1:36:50.720 But what was it like with John Singles and man? 1:36:50.760 --> 1:36:52.840 How how did it all go? Man? 1:36:52.960 --> 1:36:55.280 John is a dear friend. He's been with us for 1:36:55.360 --> 1:36:58.320 a long time. He was like always supportive of the 1:36:58.360 --> 1:36:59.920 two one three movement. He was one of the people 1:37:00.040 --> 1:37:01.639 I really wanted to do a two one three movie 1:37:01.720 --> 1:37:03.880 back in the days. Like he was really into what 1:37:03.960 --> 1:37:06.760 we was doing. Remember he gave warn g that shot, 1:37:06.800 --> 1:37:10.800 would you know with the first say yeah, put him on. 1:37:11.439 --> 1:37:13.800 You know what I'm saying. So working with him is 1:37:13.840 --> 1:37:17.559 like it's so easy. But he's so professional. So it's 1:37:17.680 --> 1:37:21.680 like you're getting you're getting your comfort zone. But at 1:37:21.720 --> 1:37:24.759 the same time, this motherfucker's professional. You know when he finished, 1:37:24.760 --> 1:37:26.560 but you're gonna look amazing. You know, it's gonna be 1:37:26.560 --> 1:37:28.760 a part of something that's a story. So you really 1:37:28.800 --> 1:37:30.719 want to follow his direction. A lot of the things 1:37:30.720 --> 1:37:33.240 that we would do, he would give me direction and 1:37:33.320 --> 1:37:35.400 he would say, all right, I won't I want to 1:37:35.400 --> 1:37:37.560 shoot it my way, and then I'm gonna shoot it 1:37:37.680 --> 1:37:38.040 Joe way. 1:37:38.640 --> 1:37:42.400 Like what would Rodney do? What will Rodney say? 1:37:43.200 --> 1:37:43.360 Then? 1:37:43.479 --> 1:37:45.960 Like he'd say, well, do it this way, say it 1:37:46.080 --> 1:37:47.519 like this, and then I do it that way. Be 1:37:47.600 --> 1:37:50.639 like all right, I got that. Now what would Rodney say? 1:37:51.360 --> 1:37:54.000 H shit, fuck your fort little. 1:37:56.600 --> 1:38:00.760 Any plans for your biopic of you? Because everyone is 1:38:00.800 --> 1:38:01.880 doing their biopics now. 1:38:02.160 --> 1:38:04.439 That's what I wouldn't do. I wouldn't do everyone else. 1:38:04.840 --> 1:38:06.120 Yeah, man, what happened? Okay? 1:38:06.400 --> 1:38:09.960 The tupac I just forget the tupop Bob. Why did 1:38:10.040 --> 1:38:13.759 they have you doing your own voice as the characters? 1:38:13.920 --> 1:38:17.400 You think that's what it sounds just like you think 1:38:17.680 --> 1:38:21.719 it was printed somewhere about you post that Oh. 1:38:24.160 --> 1:38:24.759 That Google? 1:38:32.520 --> 1:38:35.040 Can I can I ask the quick John Singleton questions. 1:38:35.080 --> 1:38:35.479 You want to know. 1:38:35.600 --> 1:38:37.680 Since you mentioned John, I want to see what you 1:38:37.720 --> 1:38:38.920 thought about Snowfall. 1:38:40.280 --> 1:38:48.599 Franklin is the ship, yes, but can you else Nigga 1:38:48.640 --> 1:38:54.639 to Snoop Dogg. Hear me, just his train of thoult. 1:38:54.800 --> 1:38:59.720 He's just the way he This motherfucker is so Snoop Dogg. 1:38:59.760 --> 1:39:01.599 When I watch him, I wasn't watching it in the beginning. 1:39:01.640 --> 1:39:03.120 I'm gonna be honest with you. I wouldn't watching him 1:39:03.120 --> 1:39:08.000 like I don't want to see another in the eighties. 1:39:08.040 --> 1:39:11.559 I'm tired of this. But the story watching that ship 1:39:11.600 --> 1:39:17.160 out way, I had to go back and tape season one. 1:39:17.720 --> 1:39:20.120 Now in season two when I'm like this, Nigga, Franklin 1:39:20.240 --> 1:39:24.240 is so motherfucking cold blooded with his spiel, his conversation, 1:39:24.520 --> 1:39:26.160 like he's so snooked. 1:39:26.040 --> 1:39:28.839 Smart and what do you it's crazy because he's British, 1:39:29.040 --> 1:39:29.880 Like how you feel about that? 1:39:30.479 --> 1:39:44.720 Yeah, right, No, he's British, so so in the all 1:39:44.760 --> 1:39:47.040 eyes on me, that's not how did that happen? Because 1:39:47.080 --> 1:39:49.639 it sounds like it was you doing the post. 1:39:49.880 --> 1:39:58.080 Yeah, you have to ask the director and h okay, 1:39:58.600 --> 1:40:01.800 but I was saying about my fan. Okay, you're always 1:40:01.800 --> 1:40:04.640 asking about a Snoop dogg bio pick. I'm like, I 1:40:04.720 --> 1:40:06.559 would never do that for the simple fact that it's 1:40:06.600 --> 1:40:08.759 been done and I wouldn't want to do what everybody 1:40:08.760 --> 1:40:09.360 else is doing. 1:40:10.000 --> 1:40:11.840 But there could be a. 1:40:12.000 --> 1:40:19.160 Series sort of kind of like Knockos. You understand me 1:40:19.360 --> 1:40:25.640 based on the life before there and after you know 1:40:25.800 --> 1:40:29.040 from father in Vietnam sixty eight. 1:40:30.200 --> 1:40:35.880 Spoiler your childhood, Jimmy, that's amazing, right, Like. 1:40:35.960 --> 1:40:37.880 That makes more sense for me as supposed to try 1:40:37.920 --> 1:40:41.040 to squeeze two hours of all of this shit that 1:40:41.120 --> 1:40:43.360 I'm doing and done and try to make it, you know, 1:40:43.560 --> 1:40:46.040 worthy of you understanding it and loving it and appreciating 1:40:46.040 --> 1:40:48.639 it and not offending anyone, because I believe I would 1:40:48.680 --> 1:40:50.760 leave some things out if I tried to buy it. 1:40:50.880 --> 1:40:53.439 You might leave some in and then people, right, you 1:40:53.560 --> 1:40:56.080 know how to starting to tell other people's stories, and right, I. 1:40:56.120 --> 1:40:57.639 See, I think it's better that way. 1:41:02.240 --> 1:41:03.920 So Luke, can you give us some marriage hipsfore we 1:41:04.040 --> 1:41:04.559 roll out month? 1:41:04.880 --> 1:41:09.000 Oh Man, happy wife, happy life. She's always right, You're 1:41:09.000 --> 1:41:15.559 always wrong. Your compound name your company and your compound. 1:41:15.640 --> 1:41:21.439 After make sure that there's constant sufficient funds in her account. 1:41:24.000 --> 1:41:27.760 True keep the girls to a minimum at work and 1:41:28.160 --> 1:41:28.800 after work? 1:41:30.080 --> 1:41:32.000 Can can you talk about what you learned being a 1:41:32.040 --> 1:41:32.880 father to a daughter. 1:41:33.920 --> 1:41:36.280 That this world we live in is fast. These girls 1:41:36.400 --> 1:41:37.479 is hot tailed and fast. 1:41:37.640 --> 1:41:40.720 Ye love showing they rumps and putting their leg out, 1:41:40.800 --> 1:41:44.040 taking pictures and winning makeup and trying to be grown. 1:41:44.800 --> 1:41:46.200 Like you know, I remember when it was the time 1:41:46.240 --> 1:41:47.840 when you was a teenager. You wanted to be a 1:41:47.880 --> 1:41:50.720 teenager for a long time. They do because you you 1:41:51.000 --> 1:41:53.920 enjoy the moment of being a teenager. And now it's like, 1:41:54.120 --> 1:41:56.720 I can't wait to not be a teenager so I 1:41:56.800 --> 1:41:59.200 can be grown. And that's from not age nine, ten 1:41:59.280 --> 1:42:02.639 eleven to go to nineteen. It ain't going from nineteen eleven, 1:42:02.680 --> 1:42:04.960 twelve thirteen no more. It was like and to have 1:42:05.120 --> 1:42:08.760 a girl so many influences and so many girls that's 1:42:08.800 --> 1:42:11.000 doing at her age, younger than her, older than her. 1:42:11.160 --> 1:42:13.200 So you just try to, you know, raise them the 1:42:13.280 --> 1:42:15.360 right way and teach them to you know, the ins 1:42:15.400 --> 1:42:17.200 and outs. But they have their own minds, they do 1:42:17.280 --> 1:42:19.280 their own thing. You just try to make sure that 1:42:19.720 --> 1:42:22.040 we did our part like me and Boss like he 1:42:22.120 --> 1:42:24.200 did our parties for us. Like I was saying, it's 1:42:24.200 --> 1:42:25.920 only so much you can do when your kid leaves 1:42:25.920 --> 1:42:28.360 the house, just like you can't overparent. You just got 1:42:28.479 --> 1:42:30.080 to do your job and pray that you did a 1:42:30.160 --> 1:42:33.280 great job, and you know the results will be seen 1:42:33.479 --> 1:42:34.320 in the near future. 1:42:34.680 --> 1:42:36.880 Who are some of the people that you like when 1:42:36.920 --> 1:42:39.040 you and your wife will have problems in your marriage 1:42:39.160 --> 1:42:41.640 or just y y'all have hard times. Who were some 1:42:41.800 --> 1:42:44.280 of the people that you could talk to to say like, Yo, 1:42:44.400 --> 1:42:46.439 I'm in this situation, how can you help me? 1:42:46.520 --> 1:42:46.560 Like? 1:42:46.600 --> 1:42:49.360 Who was some of the married couples or other couples 1:42:49.400 --> 1:42:51.040 of just old gg men in the industry or whatever 1:42:51.560 --> 1:42:53.679 that you could actually talk to about that kind of stuff. 1:42:54.040 --> 1:42:54.160 Uh? 1:42:54.320 --> 1:42:56.640 With me, it was probably Charlie Wilson was probably the 1:42:56.680 --> 1:42:58.920 only one that I could actually talk to for the 1:42:59.000 --> 1:43:03.120 simple fact that he he loved my wife, my kids. Uh, 1:43:03.240 --> 1:43:05.200 he loves me, and my wife loved him and his 1:43:05.360 --> 1:43:08.800 wife and his family. So it's like it's a mutual understanding. 1:43:08.840 --> 1:43:10.679 When he gets involved and he ain't never gonna play 1:43:11.400 --> 1:43:13.280 to my side. If I'm wrong, he gonna shoot me 1:43:13.360 --> 1:43:15.519 down and tell me, niggas you're wrong. Was the motherfucker? 1:43:15.600 --> 1:43:17.760 Get your ass home. I'm gonna call and try to 1:43:17.760 --> 1:43:19.760 smoothhit over nigga. Hear him get in through the back door, 1:43:19.840 --> 1:43:23.560 nigga before I hang up with him. You know, he 1:43:23.640 --> 1:43:25.080 wanted them kind of niggas. You know what I'm saying, 1:43:25.120 --> 1:43:26.320 One of them uncles will be like, this is a 1:43:26.360 --> 1:43:27.120 good ass nigga. 1:43:27.200 --> 1:43:29.439 Right, was anybody else in the game yet like that 1:43:29.560 --> 1:43:30.360 other than Charlie? 1:43:30.439 --> 1:43:32.240 Just catch that you could really you know, look up 1:43:32.280 --> 1:43:34.519 to and that would like help you in that way 1:43:34.920 --> 1:43:37.080 or just anyway, like career Rise, anybody that gave you 1:43:37.120 --> 1:43:37.880 good career advice. 1:43:38.360 --> 1:43:40.560 I like ice cubes advice. Ice Cube is giving me 1:43:40.600 --> 1:43:42.360 a lot of great advice. A lot of shit he 1:43:42.439 --> 1:43:44.880 told me to pass on. I was hard hitded in 1:43:44.920 --> 1:43:46.879 the beginning because I was like, Nigga, I'm hot, niggama 1:43:46.920 --> 1:43:50.320 doing They want me to be in thirteen movies nigga, Nigga, 1:43:50.360 --> 1:43:51.920 they want you to be in Who's the Man? 1:43:52.000 --> 1:43:52.280 Nigga? 1:43:55.439 --> 1:43:58.280 Who's the man for too? Nigga? Better sit your ass down, nigga. 1:43:58.760 --> 1:44:00.400 You know what I'm saying, Like, it's a couple things 1:44:00.439 --> 1:44:02.960 I did that I'm not, you know, too happy about that. 1:44:03.000 --> 1:44:05.080 I should have took his advice. But as I got 1:44:05.120 --> 1:44:07.559 older and started making better decisions. I could thank him 1:44:07.600 --> 1:44:10.439 and say, well, you know, I ain't about the money, snop. 1:44:10.479 --> 1:44:11.800 We got a whole bunch of moneyf we gelt to 1:44:11.840 --> 1:44:15.960 be in this garbage ass movie. This shit sucks, cock, 1:44:16.400 --> 1:44:19.599 but we're gonna pay you so much fucking money. It's 1:44:19.720 --> 1:44:24.840 fucking horrible. That's basically what the nigga should say, you 1:44:24.840 --> 1:44:26.120 know what I mean, That's what it boils down. 1:44:26.400 --> 1:44:28.000 I was wondering if you was like your own brain 1:44:28.080 --> 1:44:31.520 trust in that way, because you make some pretty awesome decisions. 1:44:32.439 --> 1:44:34.240 That's what it's been for like the past ten years. 1:44:34.240 --> 1:44:36.120 And I got a lot of that from like one 1:44:36.160 --> 1:44:39.360 of the young niggas, fifty cent, Like it was one 1:44:39.400 --> 1:44:41.679 point in time where fifty men him was rolling together 1:44:42.320 --> 1:44:43.920 and he was doing a lot of shit on his own. 1:44:44.000 --> 1:44:45.479 Like it was fucking me up that I would always 1:44:45.479 --> 1:44:47.479 have my people going there meeting. This nigga would be 1:44:47.479 --> 1:44:49.439 in the meeting, and how this nigga in there and 1:44:49.479 --> 1:44:51.519 I'm not in there, and and it's certain shit he 1:44:51.640 --> 1:44:53.320 was doing. He put me up on certain things, and 1:44:53.320 --> 1:44:56.479 I was like, you know what, this nigga's smart, he brilliant, 1:44:56.680 --> 1:44:59.200 and he passed information on and you know when I 1:44:59.240 --> 1:45:01.800 got that information and I ran with it and don't 1:45:01.880 --> 1:45:03.560 mind sharing the fact that I got it from you. 1:45:04.120 --> 1:45:07.840 Yeah, what do you do with your kids now? Because 1:45:07.880 --> 1:45:09.840 how old? How old are your your kids though? 1:45:10.160 --> 1:45:11.400 The motherfuckers in the twenties? 1:45:11.479 --> 1:45:15.840 Yea, I am. I just had a granddaughter I know, was. 1:45:15.840 --> 1:45:17.520 Gonna graduate regulations. 1:45:17.640 --> 1:45:18.040 Gorgeous. 1:45:18.040 --> 1:45:20.520 I think I saw in the bathroom her name is eleven. 1:45:22.320 --> 1:45:22.759 Eleven. 1:45:24.040 --> 1:45:28.519 That nigga's twenty eighteen knocking. You ain't for no regular names, 1:45:28.600 --> 1:45:36.280 No more gonna say her name is Isabella, it's eleven. 1:45:36.400 --> 1:45:40.479 But you know I'm grandpa eleven. Come in back, come 1:45:40.560 --> 1:45:41.080 gr grandpa. 1:45:41.320 --> 1:45:42.519 What's the significance behind? 1:45:43.160 --> 1:45:44.200 I ain't even masked my son? 1:45:44.280 --> 1:45:44.400 You know? 1:45:45.800 --> 1:45:46.880 How do you ask the nigga? 1:45:46.920 --> 1:45:46.960 What? 1:45:47.479 --> 1:45:47.519 So? 1:45:47.640 --> 1:45:48.960 What was y'all thinking? 1:45:50.000 --> 1:45:50.200 You know? 1:45:51.240 --> 1:45:52.080 Ones equal? 1:45:52.479 --> 1:45:55.080 What happened was it was ten nine? 1:45:59.560 --> 1:46:02.360 What I was as a dad? 1:46:02.640 --> 1:46:04.559 Like you know what I'm saying, being that you had 1:46:04.600 --> 1:46:08.000 so much assess in your career and you know your upbringing, 1:46:08.040 --> 1:46:12.040 all your kids upbringing was way different than yours. How 1:46:12.120 --> 1:46:14.679 did you, I guess, how did you navigate that? Being 1:46:14.760 --> 1:46:16.920 that you know how you came up versus how your 1:46:17.000 --> 1:46:18.920 kids came up? But not wanting to spoil them or 1:46:19.120 --> 1:46:20.720 and still wanting to be able to, you know, find 1:46:20.760 --> 1:46:21.479 their own way in life. 1:46:21.840 --> 1:46:24.000 Thank god for the Snoop you football league, because my 1:46:24.080 --> 1:46:27.080 football league was urban and it was them playing with 1:46:27.240 --> 1:46:30.400 kids that came from urban communities, then building relationships and 1:46:30.439 --> 1:46:32.880 then going to school with kids like that and learning 1:46:32.920 --> 1:46:35.800 how to live within but without, and then me and 1:46:35.920 --> 1:46:38.000 my wife would bring them to certain situations where they 1:46:38.000 --> 1:46:39.439 could see this is where we grew up at, this 1:46:39.600 --> 1:46:41.920 is where we lived at, and walk around and look 1:46:41.960 --> 1:46:44.760 aside this one bedroom and like nigga, y'all got a 1:46:44.920 --> 1:46:46.960 room that's yours, and we lived in a house that 1:46:47.160 --> 1:46:49.640 was the size of your room. Like to appreciate, to 1:46:49.760 --> 1:46:52.360 understand the fact that it's a struggle and it's a hustle. 1:46:52.400 --> 1:46:54.439 We want you to live better, but don't take it 1:46:54.479 --> 1:46:56.560 for granted because they can all be taken away. And 1:46:57.040 --> 1:46:58.560 this is where we come from. We know how to 1:46:58.560 --> 1:46:59.920 adjust to it. If we have to go back to 1:47:01.040 --> 1:47:02.840 y'all don't. So the best thing you can do is 1:47:02.880 --> 1:47:05.200 prepare yourself and try to do some things that were 1:47:05.200 --> 1:47:07.479 you not connected to my thing, but create your own thing. 1:47:07.600 --> 1:47:08.519 It's gonna be understood. 1:47:09.040 --> 1:47:11.360 They didn't understand it, but I think as as time 1:47:11.479 --> 1:47:13.479 goes on, they get it. And I'm gonna do what 1:47:13.560 --> 1:47:15.160 the real people do. I'm gonna make sure my family 1:47:15.240 --> 1:47:17.800 tied into my business, so I'm gonna make sure they're 1:47:17.800 --> 1:47:19.120 gonna learn this shit one way or the other. 1:47:19.840 --> 1:47:24.080 Well, Uncle Snoop, we thank you for your why savee device? 1:47:25.160 --> 1:47:28.439 We gotta wrap up even though we got fifty nine 1:47:28.479 --> 1:47:29.360 billion more questions. 1:47:29.760 --> 1:47:30.800 Oh can I thank you for what? 1:47:31.040 --> 1:47:33.040 For the Hall of the Sisters, for what you said 1:47:33.080 --> 1:47:35.120 on the view, because you know, we like forwarded that 1:47:35.240 --> 1:47:37.360 like fifty thousand times, watched it again again and again 1:47:37.360 --> 1:47:40.519 and again and again, and put it on when he 1:47:40.720 --> 1:47:43.120 was asked about well, he was asked about Kanye, and 1:47:43.200 --> 1:47:45.040 he basically said that he needed a good black woman 1:47:45.080 --> 1:47:45.960 beside him, and that's. 1:47:45.800 --> 1:47:46.599 What was wrong with him. 1:47:47.760 --> 1:47:48.920 You ain't never leaving Kanye. 1:47:49.479 --> 1:47:53.800 I was just saying I reposted to John, thank you. 1:47:54.240 --> 1:47:56.120 It was true, and it didn't mean like a lover, 1:47:56.360 --> 1:47:58.360 which just means somebody was the ability. 1:47:58.080 --> 1:47:59.360 That he needed. 1:47:59.439 --> 1:48:01.439 It is no one around you understood what you meant, 1:48:01.479 --> 1:48:03.200 whether it was a sister, whether it was. 1:48:03.240 --> 1:48:04.000 What happened. 1:48:06.040 --> 1:48:09.679 For flowing flying in the day, obviously she coming straight 1:48:09.720 --> 1:48:11.880 over here. Let me know when you get here, like 1:48:11.920 --> 1:48:13.680 you got scared when she coming in. 1:48:13.760 --> 1:48:14.040 She got. 1:48:16.520 --> 1:48:17.040 Bring your. 1:48:19.360 --> 1:48:19.479 Man. 1:48:19.600 --> 1:48:21.040 We thank you for everything. 1:48:21.400 --> 1:48:21.800 Just thank you. 1:48:22.479 --> 1:48:25.720 Come on, man, just watching your journey just for over 1:48:25.800 --> 1:48:28.479 these years, it's been it's been a great and seeing 1:48:28.520 --> 1:48:30.320 what you've built here at this compound and it's like 1:48:30.640 --> 1:48:31.439 you don't want to go home. 1:48:31.520 --> 1:48:32.360 Yeah, life goals. 1:48:32.520 --> 1:48:32.800 Thank you. 1:48:33.560 --> 1:48:35.439 You're one of the people I tell my kids just 1:48:35.479 --> 1:48:38.200 the story of like innovation and like how long is 1:48:38.240 --> 1:48:38.800 my oldest son? 1:48:38.880 --> 1:48:39.559 He likes rhyming. 1:48:39.600 --> 1:48:41.639 You want to wrap and stuff and I'm just like, man, 1:48:41.760 --> 1:48:43.680 but you look at a cat like snoop, it's like 1:48:43.760 --> 1:48:46.439 killing it now to know where he came from. 1:48:47.200 --> 1:48:49.200 And let your son know I was weak once upon 1:48:49.240 --> 1:48:52.920 a time I wasn't wasn't great. I was awake and 1:48:53.080 --> 1:48:56.200 I had to get better. I knew I was wake. 1:48:57.200 --> 1:48:58.200 You know what I'm saying. That's the thing. 1:48:58.280 --> 1:49:00.320 When you're wake and you know you're weak, are you 1:49:00.400 --> 1:49:03.240 gonna accept it or you're gonna get better? You know 1:49:03.320 --> 1:49:04.720 what I'm saying, Yeah, do something about it. 1:49:04.800 --> 1:49:05.360 So let him know. 1:49:06.040 --> 1:49:07.760 You know, he ain't he ain't great right now, but 1:49:07.840 --> 1:49:10.439 he can be great. And don't accept that ship. Keep 1:49:10.520 --> 1:49:11.719 going till he find greatness. 1:49:12.120 --> 1:49:12.559 Why is where? 1:49:12.560 --> 1:49:14.800 It's the live by well, ladies and gentlemen. On behalf 1:49:14.840 --> 1:49:18.559 of Team Supreme. I'm leaving the proper music in the background, 1:49:19.080 --> 1:49:20.000 so anyway. 1:49:23.240 --> 1:49:24.960 On behalf on the rough side. 1:49:30.200 --> 1:49:30.839 He's gone. 1:49:34.040 --> 1:49:40.360 Span Holidays everyone, Yeah, happy holadays. Thank you very much, stupid. 1:49:41.680 --> 1:49:43.320 Be half of What's Up Supreme? 1:49:44.680 --> 1:49:47.880 It's the Supreme team, that's right, h. 1:49:59.800 --> 1:50:03.519 What Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. This classic 1:50:03.600 --> 1:50:10.479 episode was produced by the team at Pandora. For more 1:50:10.560 --> 1:50:15.040 podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or 1:50:15.080 --> 1:50:16.679 wherever you listen to your favorite shows.