DJ Franzen | ROC Solid w/ Memphis Bleek - ROC Solid

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What up, y'all. This is your main man, Memphis Bleak
right here.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome to rock Solid, a production of iHeart Radio and
the Black Effect Network in partnership with my guys over
at Drink Champs.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Big with the year Memphis. I'm back at it, niggas.
Notice the difference, just more pro pressing, No stones, what
it do? What it do? Y'all?

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Back at it with another exclusive episode of rock Solid Podcast.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yours truly, M Greasy.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
I got my brother in the building all the way
from the Bay Area. Now we're out here in Vegas.
One of the greatest DJs I ever met in my life.
I met this man in nineteen ninety seven on the
Chitlin Circuit tour when I was out there dropping Issaul
right single. I was on the road with Diamonds in
the rough. My guy Ral, you know what I'm saying.

(00:50):
We had some rep from dev Jam. I forgot his name,
but he told me tuk my chain. I told him
he was insane, you know what I'm saying. But we
here now, who was that? I forgot it? No, no, no, no,
it was somebody else. It was an LA based dude,
LA based dude. I forgot his name. Though, but we
here and I got my brother in the building, none

(01:11):
other than DJ Mother France Swab my brother Jay Franny
from the Bay. Before we get started, I just want
to say, happy birthday, my brother, my brother, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Today is officially your born day.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
And you know, birthdays are very important to me because
you know, I think a lot of these holidays are
made up and ship. Yeah, you got a lot of
Hamburger Day, Yeah, yeah, today today. I mean even even
like Valentine's and all that, you know, it's made up.
It's a it's a move to it's a move to
make us spend money. But our birthday is our real
holiday because because you know, it's it's an official day

(01:50):
that we were brought into this world.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
So therefore it's a true holiday.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
So happy birthday, my mother, brother, all my cancers out there, salt,
it's a.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Season, baby outside with it. My brother, man friend, the
lay bag man, honor sitting here with you. Like I said,
I knew my first time sitting in the studio with you.
Let me bring the people back nineteen ninety seven. Yes,
my first time in the Bay in San Francisco. We
pull up the kmmel. I'm on the Chinling Circuit. So

(02:17):
this was one of the you know, most known radio
stations that opened their door to the new guys because
we was just doing college ready.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
And this is the number four market in the nation.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yes, and we pull up, now, mind you we pull up.
I don't know Franny, I don't know nobody in there.
We're talking about the single eight thing. And my guy
looked at me and said, yo, roll up, you smoking dutches?

Speaker 1 (02:40):
What you guy? I got? I got somebody right and
roll love?

Speaker 2 (02:42):
And I said to you, you know we could smoke
on it, and you was like, yeah, right here. Since then,
number one DJ in the world, nobody come close.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
I don't interview win the best.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
And you got to think I was in nineteen ninety seven,
right way before we was legal.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
That's way before this is what I'm saying. These dudes
would never get it. I don't think no DJ in
the world got that much props in the station. And
you know, I was still a kid back then. I
was twenty when you met me, right, seventeen sixteen.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah, And and I didn't even know like the impact
it would have years later, because you know, weed has
brought a lot of people together. Man, A lot of
good people to me. Yes, I know Fred, I know
my partner because of you.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, Fred, that's the dog. Remember I remember coming to Vegue.
We'll get it to the Vegas later.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Let's talk. We were in the bay right now.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
This is this is actually when Bleek was I mean
Bleak been smoking backwoods. But this is when packs of
backwoods came in eight eight. But no, when I first
met it, we was on dutch Master. Yeah, true, true, true,
Dutches the Dutchess.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
That's right. I was on my dutch Master swag back then.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
That's crazy because when I first met Biggie in ninety
four at him and CS, they were smoking Dutches and
white owls and you know, and I was smoking Garcia
Vegas Geas was the shit. Yah.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
I wonder to ask you too, because that's another thing
like knowing being around you.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
One thing.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
I know you've been around for some of the most
prestigious classic errors and not only been around like you
mingle rub shoulders, shook hands. Yeah, DJ for a party
with with the dinner with some of the greats that
some of these people never even got to meet in
their life.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Like you said, Biggie, little Seeds. I know God Rest, Biggie,
God Rest of Leyah, No, you knew TLC on the
come up let God Rest Left Eye.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yes, think E forty and them, all of them.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
I broke E forty records like, oh, you got to
understand in the nineties, you know I came YEO, we
broke everybody from Mariah Carey, the boys, to men to
Joe to see the Pete Rock and see us smooth,
you know, you know, I mean the list goes on,
and you know that era was special and I met

(04:59):
you during that era. Guess you know that to me,
that's like the golden era of hip hop. You know
it'll always be yo.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
I tell people that I knew LA before the East
West Coast, the Bay Excuse me, my first time going
like they treated us like as if we was foreigners.
Like when my first time coming to the Bay LA
and all that bro we was like foreigners.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
They loved us.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
And then once the you know, the drama happened, I
was your security be on point, check in tap in.
But we talk about the era before that, Like I
remember you introduced me to.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Richie rich Yes, you guys are on the same level.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Richie was on jam and I remember Richie rich taking
me to the DJ pools, like all the little stores
out there in the Bay and all that shit. Like
we used to be moving, doing crazy. But I always
wanted to ask you, what made you get into DJIL.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Well, I've always been into music because my mom. You know,
growing up, my mom, she loved music. You know, she's
from the Philippines, Filipino mom that loves music. Anybody out
there that knows Filipinos, they're soulful, they love music, they
love to dance, They just you know, they love the
culture of the whole thing. So when I was growing up,

(06:14):
my mom listened to her little Filipino music. But at
the same time, she put me up on the Beatles,
she put me up on Whitney Houston, she put me
up on Stevie Wonder, you know, Cooling, the Gang, you know,
Earth Went and Fire, Frank Sinatra, you know what I mean,
Elton John like it was, it was heavy. But then again,
you know, I grew up in an urban area in

(06:37):
San Francisco and the Ingleside District shout out the leg View,
I'm saying, Bay Area. Yeah, the city, the city, and
you know, when I when I grew up and I
would go to my friend's house and their parents would
be playing music. You know, back then, it was no Shazam,
Like you had to really like ask for the information.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
Who is that? Yeah, like that, what's the name of
our song? And who is that?

Speaker 3 (07:00):
And it's not like you go on your phone and
stream it like this is something you would have to
go to actually fine at the record store or find
a station that's playing it. But you know, a lot
of the old school stuff, like I was listening to
KMEO when I was a kid. That was my jam,
you know what I mean. Yeah, so that was a
dream come true. But getting back to your question on
how I got into DJ, and I think it was

(07:21):
got Lee. I was maybe ten eleven years old. I
seen my cousin playing with a turntable and he started
scratching on the turntable.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
You know.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
I was always intrigue with music, Like music was my
shit already. So I was like, man, that's kind of
cool right there. So I was like, let me try
it out, you know, that's how I go. And I
tried it out and I was like, oh this is
I like this. I like this, you know. I was
also like when I first got into hip hop. Of
course run DMC jam ash J is like a big influence.

(07:53):
Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince shout out the DJ
Jazzy Jeff, I blessed Jay, yeah whatever. You know in
some of the Bay Area DJs as well, like Hubert,
you know, some of the old school DJs that's been
doing it. I got influenced by them as well. And
when I got this opportunity, I was a kid who
was always calling the radio station requesting songs, trying to

(08:15):
introduce songs, you know, twelve thirteen, like yo, let me
be against DJ. So that's how that shit started right there.
And by the time I turned twelve, my dad bought
me a pair of generic ass turntables, Like they had
these roll pitches. They weren't technique twelve hundreds. They were
called Scots. And you know, at twelve, like that's when

(08:36):
my journey started. I had a pyramid mixture to Scott
turntables and whatever records I could buy, you know, So
my allowance, I had.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
A paper route.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
I used to get a little allowance the way you
was going to use a paper boy.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Aw man around the block for sure. As a hustle.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
I tell everybody this music shit like DJing and you
know what I do radio, Like this is the only
real job had in my life. I've never like, I'm
not one of those DJs that had a second job
that depended on something else, you know, like this is
this is my only job.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
That's what It's my only form of income. That's what
I tell people with the music. I never had a
job outside of rapping down do say? But you know
that's now cheers of that happy birthday, you.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (09:19):
My brother, but yo, and another thing like the DJing
you got in the cammeat boom and moving one thing
I've always been intrigued about. And you know I hung
around you for years. We smoked the hell smoke probably
seventeen pounds in our life together right now. Facts, And
I never asked you this. What was it like even

(09:42):
knowing Mac Drake because his influence, his impact, Like I
never got to meet him, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
I know his music.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
I know him through you know, Pelly playing the music,
through you playing the music right, and I know him
through every rapper. I don't care New York to Bay
even Drake, shout out Mac dra like you know what
I mean, Like his influences is crazy. I like, he's
somebody that I you know, I wish I could have
got a chance to meet.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
From the mac Dra was really just a genuine person
like and you know, if you listen to some of
his early music, like this is way before is entertainment, This.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Is way before all. This is like the early early nineties.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
He talked about, you know, what was happening in the streets,
you know, the hustle, the struggle, you know everything. You know,
everything with rap is about everything, what the culture is about.
And he was just always a chill person. I mean
he loved to turn up, you know, I see, man,
you watch the videos this shit. He was always on level.
Time I seen mac Dre, I'll never forget a rest

(10:38):
in peace, mac Dre. The last time I seen him
on Las Vegas Boulevard not too far from here, lessing
them off from where we're doing this podcast at. And
I seen him in the S five hundred and this
dude was ghost riding the S five hundred. I was
doing an event at a club called Utopia, remember, and they.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Pulled up right there right next to the MG.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
I'm by a fat Burg right behind the Fat Burger,
and he pulled up. But I was already done with
my gig. Man, he was out there the five hundred
brand new. He was much money.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Oh man.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
You know thou think about mac Dre like he was
really like mac Dre.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Was a I could see he was.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
He was like everybody with him and like you know
what I mean, like the West Coast, My influence from
the West Coast. You know, everybody always going to bring
up the Tupacs, you know what I mean, Doctor Dre snoop.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
But you got the e forties, you got.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
Rapid fou ta, you got too short like you had
Richie rich You know about you. You know you've always
you've always been in tune with with Bay Area music
all the time, bro. And you would even ask me,
I remember, you know back in the day, you would
ask yo, man, yo, send me some of that Bay
Area music, send me a mixtape. This is back in
the mixtape days when I actually had the ain't no

(11:54):
email and send me three like, send me an actual
musical copy of a mixtape.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
So I bumping out here, and you know in New York, No,
that's a fact.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
You know, I've always been you know all the different
regions because when I started traveling, you know, when you
first start making music, you think it's all about your neighborhood.
Yeah yeah, and then when you go down South, here's
these people. You go to this town South, here's this.
You go over to Texas, is that? Get over the
New Orleans?

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Is this?

Speaker 2 (12:20):
You get the las This you get to the Bay,
It's that you get to San Francisco, I mean Seattle,
you like, it's this, It's like wait a minute. So
that's what made me intrigue to listen to everything and
you know, brought in my my heir to the music
and getting more familiar with everybody. Like one thing, I
wish I got a chance to do what it's been
more like, you know, Jay did a lot of collapse

(12:41):
with Biggie, spend a lot of time studio Yo or
they hung out. I never really got the chance to
really build that relationship with them. Who sees is my dog? Yeah,
a little se life. You know what I'm saying. People
don't even know, like you was there for the big
rise and everything, like.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
I was the first DJ to play juice like word.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Up, Like even when the e forty situation with biggin
and them happened in the bed.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah, it called me by dog. Yeah yeah. Facts.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
You know a lot of people don't know that. But
you know that's that's something that'll be told later on
in time, whether it's a book or a biop. You
know what I mean, because I have a lot of
interesting stories that sometimes I don't even believe, yo, Like
like when you when you bring that up, like you
were the first DJ to say roll up in the studio.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yo.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
When I think about that now, I'm like, Yo, what
was I doing? I know it was a young and
wilding on the radio, but what was I doing back then?

Speaker 1 (13:36):
Like, Yo, nobody nobody was on all on? Turn that
light on? Man? Why not there you go? No, I mean, yo, And.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Just to be in the studio just to say light up,
nobody can do. To this day we just legal and
people still can't smoking the studio and they place a business.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
I don't care where you work at. You not lighting up?
Got it? We got away with murder came you're kidding me, bro.
I used to be out there.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
I used to love when it used to be like Yo, bleak,
you got to do radio in San Francisco.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
It's like Hell yeah, book the flag. I'm on my way.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
I'm getting up with my dogs. Like you introduced me
to a whole wave sham Pelly. Remember he had his
own weed Kelly was like sixteen.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Yeah, that was that was like my favorite till this day,
favorite weed and brother.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
And you listen Mac dre e forty Snoop dog me Beans,
everybody done. Shout it out that they're smoking Chapelly even
dog pound. Everybody them my dogs man like word dad
is my dog man word. Shout out the dog Pound.
But yeah, like you was on the wave way before everybody, Bro.

(14:45):
And that's why I wanted to bring you here and
give you your flowers, because this platform is for those
I deemed solid.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
Like I said, you know, Weed has really brought a
lot of great people together. Hell yeah, Bro, I've met
a lot of I've created a lot of relationship and
met a lot of you know, big, big time people
in the industry because of this flower.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yo, Bro, I met you through Hove. I still don't
even know how you met ho how.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
Hole used to be, Like Yo, I don't care where
we at Hove used to put the call in Burnt Franny,
make sure Franny backstage with us get Franny at the show.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
I used to be like, who is how Franny got
so cool? Like this?

Speaker 3 (15:23):
I think it was the first show I did with
jay Z was back in nineteen ninety six.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
This is like even before he was doing radio. It's
like this.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
This is right before Reasonable Doubt came out. So it's
the five thousand dollar hold Thursday. Yeah, let me tell
you the story real quick. So there's a promoter named
Chuck Live. Shout out to my boy Chuck Love from
San Jose, California, and he used to do these these
parties called the booty Hop hip hop parties though, right, Yeah.
And the crazy thing about this is the majority of

(15:57):
the crowd I'm talking about like maybe eighty the ninety
percent of the crowd with Filipinos. This is a Filipino
hip hop party going down like partying.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
It's crazy. You know.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
I'm eighteen nineteen DJ and these parties and we're carrying
creates of records, carrying creates a record for me, you know,
KT gods like I've been around y'all guys, like my
whole life going thirty years.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yes, bro, like you know it KT. Yeah, I'll let
you finish though, Yeah, so so we did this event.
I'll never forget. Was that the Great American Music Hall
in San Francisco. Oh, we had a we even had
I don't know, you know, back then it wasn't called
to working, but we had we had a dance contact basic,
it was Windy whatever was called.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Two one.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
So jay Z performed. It was I think one of
Jay's first performance performances in San Francisco, if not his
first one.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Wow. Yeah, And I'll never forget.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Chuck Live told me, yeah, man, you know, I paid
Jay five grand to come here tonight. And I'll never
forget because I met jay Z, I met Dame, and
I met Biggs all in the same night and at
that exact table with the two dudes from Chris John.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yes, yes, yes, the brothers.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah brothers, yep uh they were there, and I remember
hearing something about, oh yeah, we're gonna sign these dudes.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
They was ahead of a time, bro. Yeah, Chris John Home.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
Full of Smoke that album, bro is the whole album was.
They was ahead of the time, them and Jay Damon
Biggs with the R and B wave.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
Yeah serious, Oh, let me promote my R and B
party every Wednesday night. If you ever in Vegas, come
to Hakkasan, we do this R and B vibe. It's
it's it's a beautiful thing.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
Do say do say all over them everywhere? Man, do
say always Man. So whole perform for five thousand, that's insane.
And that's when I introduced myself to him. I'm like, yo,
I walked up to him.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
I'm like, yo, man, I really appreciate you shouting out
to Filipinos because on on on, ain't no he.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
Said, coach bag looking half black.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
And Filipino, and I was like, yo, yo, nobody ever
gave Filipinos a shout out until that song. And then
you know, and it's crazy that when you come out
to the Bay, it's majority Filipinos in the.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Band, a lot of Filipinos.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
You be. You look at the videos and you'd be like, oh,
it's this, and then you get there you'd be.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Like, oh lord, it's mixed. It's like New York. I
could get around out here.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
So that was nineteen ninety six. So every time next
year ninety.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Seven, right, and just think you were on you were
on Reasonable Now on that album. So when that album
came out, I was like, Wow, this is a this
is a masterpiece. That's when I first heard you. I
was like, okay, Memphis bleak. I got to meet this
dude one day and then we smoked that dis session.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
The next year.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
So every you know, every time you Hove came, came
to the Bay, you held it down. It was most
likely me who was gonna you come first with y'all.
You held it down all the time. I get off
the airport, the plane, you had somebody there to pick
me up. You had a bud ready at the airport.
Word up like yo, bringing up Gino, Gino. I think

(19:27):
he knowed.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
You know, Geno saved my life before right in the bay, Yo, bro, listen,
we in the bay. I had a show. Bro, I
don't even know who booked me. This is when I
was doing to get low records thing, and you know,
shout out JT Bigger. So we out there right, you
know what I'm saying. And mind you, I didn't know

(19:50):
who he was. I didn't know the drama. It was drama.
I didn't have no clue. So Gino was at the
show with me. So I'm on stage performing, you know
what I mean, doing my thing, and Gino walk on
the stage in the middle of the show. This is
the last song. So I'm looking at him like what up?
He was like this the last song. So soon as
we I'm like, all right, I tell my man Don DeMarco,

(20:11):
let's go. Let's get out of here. And Gino why,
He's like, yo, stay right behind me. We get out,
like we get outside the club, and.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
Niggas was really trying to roll on us, and Gino like,
you know, he telling him like yo, he with me,
like how y'all go disrespect?

Speaker 2 (20:23):
And you know, they fell back on the strip for Gino.
But we got in the car and then I'm like, yo,
what's going on? He like, yo, bleak, Niggas is on
you like that JT. Shit is serious. She got to
get to the bout up of it. So I'm out
there at lunching. You had no clue.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
You got get reckers and they get posse.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
Yes see, I had no clue, so they always thought
I stole like like that I came to the bed
because I was in the base so much with y'all
that they figured that I got that and they had
no clue that it was never that.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
And then I remember, I'm tell you a story, right,
it's JT. Right after that happens, So now you know
my alert is up.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
All right?

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Every time I come to the bay is on a T.
I gotta watch out. I don't know who this guy is, right, yo, bro?
So I get to LA. We have a short LA right.
J is so foul because hole like, yo, you know
JT bigger figure looking for you.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
So I'm telling.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Yes, he like yo, JT is looking for you. So
I'm like, what, like, how you know.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
What's going on?

Speaker 2 (21:20):
You know, I popping my ship mak before we see
j T is up. It's whatever, yo, bro. We get
to the bay, so now we have to show you know,
hope like we in the bay, you better watch out.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
J T looking for you.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
So he keeps saying this aday right, we backstage, I
go a j dressing room for say who in the
dressing room with him? JT bigger figure look at home like, yo,
you trying to set me up? The wow Yo, I
swear to you don't lie. And that's when I met
the homie. We kicked it.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
Everything was chill, man. It's a really really good dude.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
Man.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
Word up. We've been cool ever since.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Man, you see a lot of rap beefs is all
over misunderstanding. A lot of people could get to the
bottom of things if they that down and communicated, like
key Man, you know what I'm saying, yes, sir yo.
So with that being said, Franny in the Bay is
a different Frandy from Franny and Vegas.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
You know that, right? Oh yeah, I know that. You
got to think.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
You know, when I lived in the Bay, I didn't
drink hard liquor, but you was active.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
I was active.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
I think that's just the coach of the Bay y'all
made I think y'all Vinny active, yo, we active.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
I think that came from the Bay. Am I correct?
Most definitely, because y'all definitely had your own vibe.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
Y'all ghost ride the whip, y'all got dance music and
come on the whole club.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
Shift crazy Like you've seen it, yo, bro, it's many
of even like it's unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
You've seen the culture even out here in Vegas. You've
seen it.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
People come out here from the Bay because it's a
hop skip of the jump, right, like what is that
our flight?

Speaker 2 (22:52):
Let's give you your props for Vegas because for the
last I got to say about good what you've been here,
what fifteen years, twenty years, It'll be twenty four years
in August, so think for the last twenty four years.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
You the reason why hip hop is still alive in Vegas.
You're the only club you DJ at, the only club
that still play hip hop. And who's the DJ there,
Brandy that club Dre's. You know how big that is?
Man life, Man, I'm going on my eleventh season over there.
Like that's insane.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Bro Like, when a person come to Vegas for them,
they hear real hip hop, they gotta come here you
play it.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
Did you ever think about it in that aspect?

Speaker 3 (23:36):
Well, you know there was a time when I was
banned from playing hip hop on the strip.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
Yeah, because Vegas they got a lot of rules. You
get banned on the strip, and it's serious.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
There's a black buck out here and everything. It's serious.

Speaker 3 (23:48):
But there was a time where I don't know, a
three four year period where I couldn't play if I
was playing hip hop or or R and B, I
couldn't play it anywhere on Las Vegas Boulevard. Yeah, so
you know that happened. So that's when I used to
throw all the sweet parties at the Palms you're still

(24:10):
doing sweet We still do the sweet parties. But that's when,
you know, that's when we started doing that. It started
out small and then and then people heard about it.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yo, yo, yo, listen, if you haven't been to a
Franny sweet party, I don't think you ever really been
to a sweet party. I remember when I first met
my wife. We came to your birthday party out here
in Vegas. It was like twenty fourteen. No, that's when
I got married. This was around two thousand and ten,
two thousand and nine. First sweet party you invited me

(24:41):
to is me and Wifey. We pull up palms yep,
and I get in there with Wifey and I'm looking
around and I'm like this before we was married. So
I'm looking around, like why I bring her with me?
Franny didn't give me this, He didn't update me that. Yo,
it was gonna be nine to one. It literally was
only like six dudes of the party.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
And that's what that's what's crazy about that those sweet
parties is because you know, I wanted to do this
really for the ladies, just for them to have a
comfortable space to to dance, chill, bring the girls and
you know, have a drink without dudes harassing them because
we're we're different over here. We don't we don't harass
the females, you know what I mean, we don't believe

(25:26):
in doing that. So they would always feel comfortable. So
every time I did one, they always wanted to bring
more girls and more than and that's how it happened.
It was unbelievab like literally like like the majority of
my parties, like you say, probably six to one yo.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
As you see, I've never been to another one his life.
He been in that one Like, oh no.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
That ain't happen. We cool better go to the day
after frandy birthday.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
Yeah, so I did that. I did that for a good.
Well I'm still doing that right but like from my
pleasure from my friend, you know, I did that for
a good when I got banned from the strip. Why
I got banned As a matter of fact, I was.
I was doing it when I was at Poetry and
Gallery in preve Like I've djled at a lot of

(26:16):
clubs out here in Vegas.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Like people don't know, man, Like when you hear Drake
say me Franny and Morley Maul at the Cribo, they
I don't think they know who Franny is. That's why
I had to bring you here, because you got legends
like Drake shouting you out on records, Like I remember
when I came here in the record. I remember hearing
the record home and then calling you when I came

(26:39):
to Vegas and sink the record go off and you like,
blizz he did this at the crib And I'm like, no,
he did this at the Cribo studio. That's why he
shouted out the Cribo. Yeah, that's crazy. I know that
session had to be ill my gee. You know you
know how that happened.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
I've told this story before, but some of these people
I know probably never heard this. But that happened because
he wanted to use a studio to do a hook
for a Rick Ross song, which was dice Pineapples. Wow, damn,
that's crazy. That's crazy. So he's like, yo, I got
to record this hook right quick for Rose like perfect

(27:16):
come through.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
He did that and then pulled out his laptop. He
had a beat pack. He started playing beats. I heard
the Modo beat. I was like, yo, what is that?

Speaker 1 (27:28):
That's it? What is that right there?

Speaker 3 (27:30):
So we put that beat on on repeat for a
good fifteen minutes. He's got his BlackBerry. I'll never forget
this dude pulls out as BlackBerry. As a matter of fact,
before we even recorded this song, he said, Yo, you
have your laptop. I always have my backpack.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
I stay ready, ye, stay ready ready, bro.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
So he was like, Yo, I need you. I need
to hear some mac Dre songs. So I played them
some mac Dre songs.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
I'm telling you that's the impact mac Drake got, my
g I'm telling you, bro, like he's one of the
most influential rappers outside outside the Bay that I think,
because you know, when you people don't have respect of
the biggies, the tupacs, you know, the pop smokes like
all of those, the big puns. Mac Dre never saw
that industry success, but he definitely got that industry respect.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
If not more facts, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Like his respect on the West is you know, God
bless another soul, nipsy respect.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
It's it's the same level, bro, Like exactly insane and
Victory Lap is one of the best hip hop albums ever, ever,
ever ever Front the Back. You could play it run
no skips, no skips, no skips, shout out fifteen hundred,
shout out the Mike and Keys Oh, Yo Bro, and
shout out the Granny to rest in piece, Granny resting peace.

(28:49):
Snip definitely man, it's the fan Man fifteen hundred or
nine and Mike and Keys Man, that's from.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yo, Bro.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
You introduced me to all of these guys, Like I
met all these people through you at the Cribbo Bro.
We used to be down there, Wilin and y'all had
Drake there. I came to one of your birthday parties.
You had Drake there again, and I used to be
like that, hold on this nigga friendy not only pull
whole out, pull big out, pull it drake out too.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
Like that's what I mean, Fred, all organic thing though
you and you know that that's.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
What I mean.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Gee, Like a lot of these guys try to get
these relationships with these people and.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
It could never be done.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
And I watched your abilities organic relationships and really genuine friendships.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
Because you'll go.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
To Ovio Fest, You'll be made in America with us,
You'll be everywhere like and you know what I'm saying,
in this organic love with everybody, that gotta feel like you.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Know, you ain't just rapped ug.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
Come on, it's a blessing to be around that because
you know, a lot of that shit is history, Like yeah,
go down in history history like you. You took me
to my first coach ever. No, Wow, I'll never forget
it was. It was right after BP three came out
whole perform and I'll never forget this bleak.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
It was me you, it was me you and Woo.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
We were on a woll Ski were on the side
of the stage. And I'll never forget when when b
came out what she do forever young, she did for
every young they performed that, And I'll never forget looking
at the crowd and looking at everybody going crazy and
I've seen this one chick just pass out, Bro'll be

(30:27):
And I haven't seen that like at a concert since
Bone Thugs and Harmony back like in ninety nine when
when when when busy and what's the other lazy lazy
busy and crazy? No, but when the two light skined
dudes were rapped over with, over with like these dudes,
I mean, these dudes, as soon as they hit the mic,

(30:49):
these girls are crying and they're passing out. I've never
been to a Bone Thug crazy. That's crazy, man, I'll
never forget. I'll never like that's one of those moments
in my life. Like I remember, we're seeing it vividly,
like these girls are passing out over these dudes like
rap singing.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
It's crazy.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
Like so when I've seen when I seen Beyonce come
out and surprise the crowd. People are excited taking out
their phones and I've seen a couple of girls pass out.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
I was like, Oh, this ship is real.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
RN.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
You see how big Coachella is now? Man, they got
Lady God got it. Yeah, like yo, they.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
They got they got like these big E d M
DJs like with full production and these dudes are spending
their whole budget on their show and not even making money.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
We got to get a helmet for you. They got
danger Mouse, Marshmallow. We gotta get that helpt that.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
This is like the hat, the hat, my glasses, Like
I've been wearing hat and glasses ever since I was
like six years old.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
I know they.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
Ain't gonna know it's you. We don't know who the
people are. It's like the Blue Man Group. That could
be any blue dude doing the people Like, they ain't
gonna know what you like have a moro DM DJ
Transinatra or some ship gets two hundred and fifty grand DJ.
I want to learn how to DJ like crazy, And
you know what's crazy is you know? EDM is like

(32:13):
the easiest genre to DJ.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
It's the same beat on every record, every record is
have fun with it though no, and then they have fun.
They live their life. I'm not taking nothing away from DM.
They have major fun. They have fun. It's not my fun,
but they have fun. You know, there's different types of DM.
I like the more soulful like I like. I like melodies.
I like to hear the lyrics, flash of Lights, I'm

(32:36):
gonna get a headache.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
Your songs like you know Rihanna that one song and
you know you got you know Chris Brown Saw Yeah yeah, yeah,
like those are those are good songs.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
If they flip your record the d m oh Man
out of here.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
Yeah, I ain't playing no hip hop or I'm playing
no EDIM version of a hip hop record.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
Out of here.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
You see whatever, You'll never hear me. What's the homie?
What's the homie? Biggs artist my man Saint John.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
You see what they did to Saint John when they
remixed his record, ship with Diamond Crazy.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
They here Bro and I think some dude from Russia
did that. Russian DJ flipped it and brought.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
Those like European, Russian, German DJ, franceang Bro Crazy and
sang Bro.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
I got the superstars. Yes, they are man talented.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Steve Aki, you know what I mean, Zed, David Guetta,
DJ Snake, He's a beast. Yeah, Snake plays, he plays.
He plays hip hop though.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
Man, a lot of them, Man, all them DJs. Man,
all the DJ's overseas.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
Man shut out all the DJ's overseas, overseas showing love.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
You're connected overseas, bro, Yeah, everywhere. This guy right here
is connected overseas. I don't think you guys understand anything
you guys need, yo. He somebody there it Blizzell.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
You got to do is spin the globe wherever your
fingerstop it, blizz I got the plug there.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Like, what's your favorite spot?

Speaker 3 (34:07):
Like, as far as I know, you've been all around
the globe, what are some of your favorite spots to travel?

Speaker 2 (34:13):
I don't have, Like I'm still learning them. Man, I'm
doing his hands a ball. This shit, it's ain't an
interview with me, whether it's you.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Don't try to flip it off me like what just
but it's not an interview, know, this is more like
it's your birthday, my favorite spot that I've been to?

Speaker 2 (34:29):
Yes, because y'all love, I ain't go front. I gotta
go to Cabo with you.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
I love.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
I gotta do Cobo with Cabo. Y'all boys make Cabo
look like it's the ship.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
I ain't never relax, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
See we were just talking about Geno now, but Cabo
is very relaxing. We stay in San Jose and not
saying Lucas, saying Lucas is like where all the clubs are.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
You know where all the college kids goes. You know
it's eighteen and over.

Speaker 3 (34:53):
They could drink out there eighteeneen and no, I can't go,
So we stay in sound say, but if we want
to turn up, we take that twenty minute ride to
Saint Lucas.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
It's about life is little can Coon is different and
Coon is it. I've never been to Cowboy. I gotta
do that.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
But what's your favorite place to travel? I just came
from Hawaii, you know, from my birthday, Like I love them.
I love that spot that's right here, that's and that's
like me saying Puerto Rico.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
That true, true, but it's just it's just something about
that spot. You know.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Now Hawaii is lit. You saved my life in Hawaii, Yo,
let's get to that. You and I don't even remember,
but you don't my life, yo.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
I don't remember a lot of things.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
You know that you have to remind me for me
to have that memory. Click back on bro twenty nineteen,
twenty twenty. It had to be before COVID, Yeah, right
before COVID. Me and wife, he go out there during
Thanksgiving week and we're like, yo, we're gonna do something
different this year because we seeing the homies go lad
the year before, they had a ball, swimming with the dolphins.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
Doing everything Hawaii in Hawaii. I've never swam with the
dolphins in Hawaiian.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Wiley right, doing everything, doing something everything. They was wild
and doing unbelievable boat out in the water. So me
and wife be like, all right, cool, this year, we're
gonna do what they did. We're gonna go out there
and they rained, it was cold, we land, we had
to go to the mall by sweat pants and everything.
And I remember I didn't even get to see the
beach one time, and I remember calling you, like your

(36:26):
friend and you gotta had a plug out here, and
you're like, yeah, I got my guy out there, so
nil and he pulled up.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
You know, he brought me to that's my guy. Listen.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
He he from what is he from Pakistan or Palistan?
Some of his family, so they bought they you know,
they were having a Thanksgiving like family thing at the cribs.
So he invited me and my wife over there.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
Family. It's wonderful family. We had a ball.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
One thing that stood out to me, right, I learned
some interest in that day because one of his cousins
was in town from Pakistan and he's like, Yo, my
cousin's visit. I want to introduce you to him. I
was shocked. The guy knew who I was talking about.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Bleak.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
Yeah, we heard your music. I'm like, oh, that's dope,
you know what I mean? That's ill. So boom, soon
they'll walk away or whatever. We're in the kitchen. I'm
talking to the cousin. So you know, they got the
ice trade there with the bucket sodas and everything.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
So he look at me and he like, yo, Bleak,
can I get one of those cokes.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
So I'm like, fam, I'm a guest here, like you family,
How you asking me for something?

Speaker 1 (37:27):
I don't even know these people.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
I just met all of y'all forty minutes ago, and
he's asking He asks me for a coke. So I'm like, yeah,
go ahead, they for everybody. He was like, man, where
I'm from, that's a Christmas gift. Blew my mind, blew
my mind. Like what He's like, Yeah, bro, that's a
Christmas gift.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
You can't.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
I ain't just out there freely like that. You get
stuff like that, like a snicker or something like that
for Christmas. Like that's insane, bro, And you think it's
people out there living like that.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
And ever since then, me and suon Nyil that's my guy.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
Man.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
I go to go to Hawaii vibe with him. You
know how many people go out there now? I tell him, Yo,
I got the plug. I get like, I'm you down.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
No, that's good people. So Hawaii is definitely one of
my favorite spots to go. I like, you know, I
like to go to Toronto too. They love music out.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
There, you ovo, yeah, yo, g o v oh facts
facts yea.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
Even like there's times I go to Toronto, where I won't
even lick with nobody from O Yo, except like forty
forty is always down to smoke.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
I go to the studio a real good dude, really
really good. You never met him.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
There, really good to man. Shout out to forty man.
Smoked that bull rider bleak. They got that bull rider
from Canada.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
Yo.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
Word, No, I'm telling you, bro, that bull Rider is special.
It's like the version of the O. G.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
Cush. It's weed bull riding boy, It's called bull Rider. Bro.
Facts need to try some of that.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
I haven't been to Toronto and forever, man, you know,
I mean I got a gold plaque from too My
dude shot clear out there.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
I mean, oh yeah, I did a rect you know
what I mean? Yep, Carton Man.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
Cardinal Official was he was Drake before Drake and Toronto
there was nowhere you.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
Could go out there.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
If people didn't say yo, you know Cardinal Official has
to be like, no, I never met him.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
Then they're playing his music everywhere.

Speaker 3 (39:30):
When I got signed, I remember he came out here
to Vegas and he came to the show and I
interviewed him. Ransom of his songs and we've been cool
ever since.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
Yeah, no, he's a good dude. I met him.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
Hell yeah, man. It's a lot of artists out there
and too doing anything. It's a lot of talent. I'm
married now, but I'm be honest, Toronto, come on, might
have hello.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
I know where the most beautiful women in the world.
They really do facts. I just.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
I just have to say it one. And I'm, you know,
really nice. Canadians are really nice to you know. I
think I felt, you know, London got some pretty women too,
but cigarettes.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
London, London, bro.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
But I think I found Victoria's secret secret plant because
you know, you look at Victoria's Secret book.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
You like where these girls at. They don't walk the street.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
These girls don't exist. They're growing these girls in the
plant somewhere Toronto. They all Finland or Sweden, all nationalities.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
To my wife is gonna hate me.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
But if I if I was Swedish or Finnish, blick,
it's not your though. You got you got everything out
there though, everythings, Bro, I don't know, they got everything
out It's really bad. You know who's really really bad?

(41:00):
Those East African ones? Oh yeah, yes, yes, And.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
I was in beautiful yo, Bro, I was in Gabong,
then I went to Tanzania, then we went to Cape Town.
But I never seen more black people driving ben Lee's
and Lamborghinis and Ferraris in my life.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
It's insane.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
And then going through the mall, you look at that
certain girls and they're like, yeah, she's a princess.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
Where Like I want to be king.

Speaker 3 (41:30):
How many different countries we've been in in Africa?

Speaker 2 (41:35):
I did Gabong, Tanzania, Cape Town, Joe Burgh, Morocco. I'm
trying to do Egypt. That's my next stop. What was
the hottest spot everywhere? Hot everywhere? Because I know Africa
is always hot? Yo, bro, listen, is this hot to
you today in Vegas?

Speaker 1 (41:56):
No?

Speaker 2 (41:56):
Okay, nothing in America is Africa hot. There is nothing
in the humidity. There is nothing in the world gonna
prepare you for Africa hot. And there's nothing gonna prepare you.
Been to Dubai, Never been to Dubai. Listen, the flags
is mad in Dubai. Them sh it's just like why
you hang me up? You know, ain't no wind coming

(42:18):
through here? Fan Like I got flags golf. If there's
no wind and it's hot, travel them.

Speaker 3 (42:27):
Glasses is gonna fog up, so that already happens when
I go to Houston or Miami Atlanta during the summertime.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
Me and Wifey with for her birthday during July. Bro
I wanted it.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Was it one thing I like about traveling in them places,
though I look at it as that's my cleans, because
you know, can't smoke. It ain't no weed out there.
Only person can smoke in Dubai is your man. I
don't know why and call you Snoop. No Snoop is
written in the law in Dubai.

Speaker 1 (42:56):
I din't even know.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
I didn't even know that, yes, because one of the
prince I heard out there wanted him to do a
show and he didn't. He was like, nah, I'm cool
because I can't smoke, and they made it a law
that Snoop Dogg is to blow it down in Dubai,
that is.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
But I don't got Snoop number.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
When I'm out there, it's like, yo, I gotta hit
Snoop so he can hit the homies and let them
know blizzle the homie.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
You know, it's crazy to like back in those days,
we had sessions with Snoop Bro me you.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
And died in the room with you and Snoop Gang.
Tell m Gad I died. I lost my life in
Vegas in the room with you and Snoop.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
That's all that was. That was like early two thousand.
That's when I first moved to Vegas. Yep.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
That's when he had the YO think about it. He
had the teen Summit Sweet and the poems. Remember that, Oh.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
Sho, that's what. As I'm thinking about it.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
I'm like, Yo, the teen Summit Sweet in the poems.
Remember Snoop was smoking so much. That's my first time actually.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
Seeing So that was around two thousand and six, just
flowing through the air like this, sitting there.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
He came out with the whole box of swishes already rolled.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
Because you know, once once that blunt is like once
that backward is like half done, it's over with. But
this was swish of Snoop back This wasn't with Jackwood's
right swish or Snoop.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
He smoked my life away. I left that room a
little half Dad put his day.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
I'll never forget, you know.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
I used to do Snoop Dogg Radio right, this is
like way before podcast. Like so, so when I left
CAMEO before I came to Vegas. There was like a
seven month period where I did Snoop Dogg Radio, a
syndicated radio show. Well we uh well, we were syndicated
in like thirty different cities, you know what I mean.

(44:38):
We were on every Sunday. I think, damn every Sunday
we were on. We were on, uh the beat remember
the beating that la Yeah. Man, So we were on
that station. So that was like a big deal to me,
even though like I didn't really do a lot. Basically
all we were doing was conversing and playing records, you
know what I mean, and smoking and his his wife

(45:00):
would write me a check every every week.

Speaker 1 (45:04):
Yes, would write a check.

Speaker 3 (45:05):
Yes, I got like Snoop paid me to be on
there talking ship with him. I'm like, I'm getting like
when I think about it now, I'm getting paid to
smoke weed, get flown.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
Out to Eli's job in the world with Snoop Dogg.
You know.

Speaker 3 (45:20):
We do that for like six or seven months before
I moved to Vegas. Man, that was that was an experience.
But like Snoop is another guy like we've known for
a long time. Yeah, Snooped the big I remember I was,
you guys, I did that record on rock Lofe Familiar,
get your mind right, and.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
You know what's crazy.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
I didn't even know he was going to be on
that joint and jaylaid that verse first, and then you
know where did you guys record that base baseline?

Speaker 3 (45:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (45:42):
This was really man.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
We did the whole the whole album. The whole album
is such a classic, too crazy. We did it in
like a week too. Jay was putting pressure on heybody,
I remember when we.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
Like it was a meal, always late to the.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
Studio sometimes, like you know, like a mail caught the
bad end of the man, like I want. I would
love to let her come up here and tell her story.
But you know, like she's one of those girls I
looked at that was you know, love, man, love will
cost you a lot in this game, you know what
I'm saying, Like, and everybody loved like That's why I

(46:16):
say you can never question how people love or grieve.
Everybody deal with that in their own man, in their
own way. You gotta just respect it, you know what
I'm saying. But she had a major shot, bro yo.
But I remember I was in Africa, right, We had
a show and Snoop came in the room. You know,
what I mean.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
He was hollering that Hole in Africa.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
In Africa, Snoop, pull up right, So you know he
come in the dressing room.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
He had a whole.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
So then he asks whole. He's like, Yo, we're bleak
at the whole. Musta told him like Bleak got his
own dressing room. But before he came over there, Hole
came in the dressing room.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
He came to me.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
He like, yo, Bleak, and why Snoop looking for you?
I'm like, you know that's my dog Me and Stu hate.
He's like, oh, man, I thought it was something guy
like you did something or something like nah me and
would be blowing it down.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
That's the homie, man. You ain't even know that we
was cool like that. He was looking like hell Snoop
doing looking for a little bro like that. Let me
find out what's going on? Word that Snoop Dogg.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (47:12):
Were he was looking for me? Were we held it
down in Africa?

Speaker 1 (47:16):
Snoop? Is that guy? Man?

Speaker 2 (47:17):
Like, I'm gonna tell you an ill story about one
time I was in La just popped up right, l
a shit. They said, Snoop having the pimping players, the
pimping players ball oh yeah, yeah, and he used to
do that with with don One. He had all the
pimps there, everybody with the curls. Heybody right, So you know,

(47:40):
so somebody must have told Snoop I was in the building.
He had no clue I was coming to this Huh,
he had no clue I was coming to this pimper
players Ball.

Speaker 1 (47:52):
Oh you actually went to one? Yeah, I went. Regular dress.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
You've never told me this. Regular dress, regular dress, regular clothes.
Anybody suited, booted girls dressed to impressed dogs, boobs out
and yo, listen, it's the pimpsen players Ball.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
They carry girls by the leash everything. It's crazy. Listen.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
So somebody tells Snoop I'm in the building. He gets
on the stage. He never even comes out say what
up to me? I'm in the crowd, chilling, gets on
the stage. I like to make an announcement. We got
one of the young o g's in the building, and
I just want to bring him to the stage, give
him an award, because ever since I met him, he's
been a stand up guy. I'm like, you know me,

(48:35):
I don't know who we talking about.

Speaker 1 (48:37):
What's going on? Yeah, he said, but.

Speaker 2 (48:38):
He everything so he said, I got my guy Memphis
bleek all away from the East coast Brooklyn.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
Make some noise, y'all, Memphis come to the stage. So
I go to the stage.

Speaker 3 (48:48):
He like, Yo, I got this award for you just
because you a real one. You like us and we
support our people from the east that support the West.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
You know, all listen giving me the speech.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
He give me the award, said, this award here is
for the best assistant pimp in the game.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
What year was this?

Speaker 3 (49:07):
This just like two thousand and three, two thousand and two, yo, bro,
I still have the Trophy of the Creed. I've never
told me that. Never heard in the world. Have you
ever told that? No I never is crazy.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
No I sweet the best assistant pimp in the world.

Speaker 3 (49:25):
It was like he just dissed me or he showed
me love like I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
But I take the one and think about stoopids.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
He's a very stand up guy, yo, major genuine bro, very.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
Stand up guy, very nice. I've never like the times
being around him. I've been around him for many years. Right,
he was even a resident artist at dres Yes, I
remember Snoop will take a picture with anybody, really, he
will miss his flight to take a picture with anybody
like he's he's a genuine he's a genuine guy. And

(49:57):
this guy I'll never forget one time after we were
one of the shows, we leave the house with no security,
Bleak like no and.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
We take off.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
But look at what you're saying, Broke. You're telling me
stories about mac Dre, Biggie Hole Drake snoop.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
Yo, bro, that's legend.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
I got stories with Bleak too, Yes, getting fine smoking
backstage das charge of us. Y'all have big five honding
he's smoking. Yeah, we got those type of stories, yo, Bro.
It's insane the life you live.

Speaker 3 (50:35):
Man.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
I'm I might not never say it, I might not
never show it, but just knowing one of those guys
that's on the sideline, however they want to say it,
admiring bro Like I always.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
Admire what you do, how you move, how you did it?
Always like me.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
One thing I always said that, why FRANI never did this?
You had all the plugs in the game, every wrapper up.
When they come to Vegas or the Bay, the first
person they're hitting is Brandy.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
Why you never did an album? Like a clue.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
I've been thinking about, like for the last twenty years
and it never came to fruition.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
Bro, Like, just know you about that ship. You could
drop a photo album. You don't have to drip an album.
You could put out a photo album just of the
pictures you have of the history. I say, between you
and Lennys, y'all have more history in the game in
any other photograph I believe, because y'all was there for

(51:35):
the real moments, you know what I mean, the moments.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
That solidified people as stars, as icon.

Speaker 3 (51:41):
Damn, Lenny, you're talking about Lens. I remember when Lenny
s you should drive the E Class with the logo
and with the Rockefeller logo.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
No, he still got that car. No, on god, Lenny
still have the car. No, Lenny, I need to see that. Yeah,
Lenny still have the car, the hole and all that
he was trying. They took pieces of it and put
it in the museum for the book.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
Of It's crazy Kodak lns Man and think he started
as a photographer.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
Yeah, but back to my question, why you never did
an album on mixtape. It's never too late. I just
dropped the joint and they said it's my best work.
I can't believe it. It's like twenty years later you got
I take it that it's never too late and you
a DJ that last forever.

Speaker 1 (52:25):
I told you, let's put the masks on.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
Man.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
Who is gonna be is Marshmallow.

Speaker 3 (52:29):
It's danger Mouse. Come on, man, let's get some money.
They ain't gonna know who you is. I'm gonna be
the voice.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
You just DJ.

Speaker 3 (52:36):
Let's make it happen. But even out there like this,
let's make it happen. You know, we could definitely get
some people on the album.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
Too, yo, bro, you know you can your connects E
forty or your the whole bag.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
Gonna come out and support you.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
You know that half of the East Coast when it
comes to fab Jada kiss in the locks like brom X,
everybody fucked with Frandy by Nigga. You kidding me, yo, yo?
I should have called you to get some features on
my album. Maybe I'd add some features. I got no
one on it. I should have hit Freddy.

Speaker 3 (53:14):
Sometimes it's better like that though, Like when you don't
have features on the album, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (53:18):
Yeah, of course you still got it bleak.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
Like sometimes you need that boost, remember, like flipping and
put their hand, you put your foot there like one,
two three, you need a boost sometimes what fuck it?

Speaker 1 (53:28):
Facts, it's never too late. And you know I've had this.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
I've had this title forever, like for an hour called
better late than never.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
And when you come to the when the people come
to the West man, like I told you, you've been
keeping hip hop alive Vegas, bro, Like, when people come
to Vegas, the only place they gonna hear that real
genuine hip hop, authentic music is by your hand spinning it.
It's nowhere else you go everywhere else it's flashing lights

(53:58):
and not the Kanye so neither.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
Fact.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
Straight up, you better be ready to get your your
jersey shore fist pump ready, bring pack that in your luggage.

Speaker 3 (54:16):
Blake once again, Happy birthday. Believe my brother appreciate you, bro.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
My brother Man Cancer gang were out here man cancer season.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
Yo. So what made you switch?

Speaker 2 (54:26):
You getting the golf because now I see everybody golf
and job joah.

Speaker 3 (54:30):
They can't now man, golfing is Golfing is like part
of my life now is changed my life, like for real,
it's big money. I wake up at five am. I
used to go to sleep at five am.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
Yo.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
That's how me and Fred got cool. That's why I
was gonna tell you before you finish that question. Let
me remember I said earlier.

Speaker 3 (54:51):
The Franny in the Bay is different from the Freddie
in Vegas.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
The Franny in the bay.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
I used to land in the bay Franny active, we outside,
we go, Freddy and they used.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
To be sleep all day. Yo.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
I used to come to Vegas and be like, yo, Freddy,
call it and call it and call it and call
them no answer. That sun go down, yo, bro. You
know I was in the crib dad. I was sleep
all day yo. Now that sun go down.

Speaker 1 (55:18):
That's when I used to wake up.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
All I had to bring you with some golf clubs.
I guess, I guess. But it's really changed my life though,
I see, man, it's just something I found that I
really had a passion in. Like I've seen other, you know,
other people playing it. I was at Top Golf one night,
just you know, playing some of the feature games that

(55:43):
they have have over there, and I invited one of
my boys, Will and he seen me hit, you know, hitting,
and he was like, you should come out in the
golf course and you know and play around. I was like,
I don't know, man, I don't have that confidence. But
then he threw a tournament like three weeks later. He
was like, I got you around, just come out here.

(56:05):
So that right there made me buy golf clubs right there,
that off the top. I had to buy some irons.
I had to buy a driver, I had to buy
a putter, you know, the whole deal. I had to
buy ball.

Speaker 2 (56:17):
I had to spend the most expensive sport man golf
is the most.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
I've spent a lot of money on that ship. But
you know, it's brought me joy to my life, and
I want some money, definitely want some money off this shit.
But at the same time, it's also made me change
my whole lifestyle. Like I said, I wake up at
like five six am. Now you up now, and I
go to sleep, and I go to sleep before midnight. Now,

(56:44):
if I don't have to work, you know what I mean.
If I'm not at Hakkasan, I'm not at Dre's, I'm
not at any of the other events that I do
at nighttime, I'm going to sleep early.

Speaker 1 (56:52):
So I guess what's said, not just do that? You know,
I just got.

Speaker 3 (56:55):
Niche surgery a couple you know, a couple of weeks ago,
and I'm still doing physical therapy golf, you know what
I mean, like therapy said that and you know real pets,
so you know, it's definitely helped me out.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
I used to say, people who golf just want to
get you.

Speaker 3 (57:09):
See your boy Jo. John's on it right now. Heavy Listen,
he's already got a hole in one.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
Listen, listen. Joe is different. He invited me with him
for a birthday train Yo.

Speaker 3 (57:21):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
Every morning he thinks, I'm waking up early on vacation
to go golfing, like, Joe, catch you after breakfast?

Speaker 1 (57:27):
Fan. Then I go with him one morning, hurt my knee?
You hurt? You hurt my knee? And they like, yeah,
that's just beginnings. That's beginning. Ship Like you're gonna get
over it. A couple more games, you get Nah, fam,
this ain't for me. It's hot.

Speaker 2 (57:44):
I don't even know how to swing. I'm swinging like
a baseball back. It's not going awhere. I wanted to
go is it was? It was bad, So I told
John cool. Then first of all, this, how I know
it's the most expensive spot. I didn't even have to
buy clubs or anything. I had to buy shoes just
it was one hundred and fifty dollars.

Speaker 3 (58:01):
It's like, wait, these ain't even no Air Force ones
nothing like I remember you showed me the whole fit
bro had me out there, look crazy, had to buy gloves,
you had to buy golf balls. It had the rent club. Yeah,
my wife thought I was gonna get down. I looked
that up. You see state property, get.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
Down and lay down. I'm gonna lay down good.

Speaker 3 (58:22):
Right, Nah. But you know, golfers like life though. You know,
you get that one good shot, You're like, damn, I
could do this shit. I could really do this ship.

Speaker 1 (58:31):
Yo, yo.

Speaker 2 (58:32):
But one thing too, I don't want to look over
I say, you keep you kept hip hop alive in Vegas,
but during COVID you kept that shit alive on Twitch too,
was going, oh you had still for ten fifteen thousand
people a night in there watching you d Yeah.

Speaker 3 (58:48):
You know, shout out to Niel over there Twitch, like
he really made that happen with all the DJs, Like
at a time where we didn't even know if we
were gonna be working anytime.

Speaker 1 (58:57):
Show what was going on?

Speaker 3 (58:59):
Like you gotta think that they were telling us, oh yeah,
we'll be down for like two three months we'll be
back to it. We didn't like. I didn't want to believe.
I don't believe any you know, everything I hear can't
be gullible.

Speaker 1 (59:10):
That's a fact. Whether the news is.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
Saying it, the government's saying it, whoever's saying it, is
all right, I'm not going to believe it. My homework, right,
we all, we're all entitled to our own opinions. But
you know, there was a time where I was streaming
on Instagram and they would cut us off if you
weren't nice. It would cut you off every fifteen minutes.
Because the fement's right, the copyright in Fringland hitting exactly.

Speaker 1 (59:34):
Labels started hitting them. They didn't care.

Speaker 3 (59:37):
They didn't care if you on the radio or we're
doing the biggest clubs in the nation.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
They didn't care.

Speaker 3 (59:41):
Like it's crazy you were going to get cut off.
So Twitch was an avenue to play music without getting
cut off. And I didn't even know you could get
paid from it, you know what I mean? And and
I built a crazy community. And from time to time
I still go on Twitch and they're still there. That's
what's crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
They're real.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
It's a real community. And so of these people I
have met in real life. Like, these people are from
all over the world, from London, from you know what
I mean, from that's all over one reason, New Zealand. Like,
that's why I love Vegas, man, because Vegas to come
you touch everywhere. I feel like between Vegas and Miami,
you get the chance to touch everywhere.

Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
You know where people where, people fluent.

Speaker 3 (01:00:26):
You already know. Florida is different because everything is two
hours away. You could go to any island you want
hours away. That's a hot it's a cheat code living
in Florida.

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
Bro. I don't think a lot of people like who
really loved.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
A lot of people don't take advantage of that, right,
you know what I'm saying. They do a lot of
people don't travel. They stay where they're at. They feel
like they live in paradise. Everything is right.

Speaker 3 (01:00:48):
You got to think like that in that area in
the Caribbean, like you got everything Jamaica, Dominican Republic.

Speaker 1 (01:00:54):
Pier Ricos, same thim as, same kids.

Speaker 3 (01:00:56):
Saint Martin, Yes, Barbados, everywhere, Trinidad.

Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
St.

Speaker 3 (01:01:01):
Lucia. Yo, I just went to Saint Lucia. Oh my Jesus, yo, bro, listen,
I was the weather human. Amazing, bro. Listen, the water
was blue. One of the best countries I think I
visited in a while. Man like an island, like I
was out of fun. Amazing, bro fresh, amazing. They got
some of the best seafood. The coach, it is amazing.

(01:01:21):
I didn't know what the what the what I was
even the straight farm the table crazy bro like, I
love it. Man like Saint Lucia's lit. I'm trying to Columbia.

Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
Yeah, yeah, I did Columbia with fred Ford's birthday.

Speaker 3 (01:01:32):
Columbia has some of the best seafood chicken no, no, no
seafood too in the world. But their chicken. I don't
know what they're doing with their chicken out there, but
it's just it's different. I've tried fried chicken, grilled chicken,
ro tistrie chicken, what everything, smoked chicken.

Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
I've tried everything in Colombia.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
Job you ain't you ever seen them like handle the
chicken right in front of you. Pauls like, nah, listen
in Africa, shout my man sat yo listen, he like
yo before yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:04):
In Jerors that's my dog man yo, he like yo. Bleak.

Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
You got to call me to Africa we're going to
crawl Ghana chilling at the crib.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
Me and be I.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
We was out there for probably like two weeks at
the homie crib, so you know, he had the chefs,
the maids, all that shit at the crib. The one
day the lady was like one of the chefs was like, yo,
what y'all want to eat to night? So be Ill like, Yo,
we want chicken. She's like, all right, well, come in
the back. So we're like, all right, what's in the back.
We go in the back.

Speaker 1 (01:02:33):
She like, pick chicken the fuck out.

Speaker 3 (01:02:37):
Bro.

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
They running around everywhere, chickens everywhere. So I'm like, yo,
we just picking chicken. She's like yeah, so like I
that one yo, bro, that chicken like how they say, yo,
you running around like a chicken with his head cut off?
That shit is one hundred percent facts, yo, bro. She
grabbed the chicken like it was none, grabbed the next at.

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
The head off.

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
That shit started moving around crazy, run around with no
hag like so you know, me blood everywhere. I'm like,
why what's she gonna do? Now? She started the feathering
that she cut it up, cutting it up. Next, you know,
chicken on the table, bro, cookd it done? I'm like, yo,
no way, that's my first time ever seeing that. And

(01:03:21):
she was looking at us like, yeah, y'all city boys,
that is insane, Yo.

Speaker 3 (01:03:27):
Bro crazy. I don't think I could. I don't think
I almost didn't want to eat the chicken because I
don't eat beef for pork, Like I don't eat anything
that walks on four legs.

Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
Lamb, you fuck with lamb? Right, yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:03:38):
I fuck with lamb like the lamb at Fred's restaurant,
at Romans Crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:03:43):
Yeah, crazy, that's what everybody says. Crazy. Do you know
you ever had that lamb? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:03:48):
At Romans Crazy, Man, you know how we do.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
Man, that's the best. But Joe, Yeah, now we got
some stories.

Speaker 3 (01:03:59):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
Remember New York they had me and my guy friend
he sitting on the curb. You remember that the police.

Speaker 3 (01:04:05):
Oh my goodness, yeah yo, remember it was me and
Fred c.

Speaker 1 (01:04:16):
Hawaii.

Speaker 3 (01:04:17):
We did see him, Yeah, and we came after and
we were sat in there smoking.

Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:22):
We got in the car and he came out. Remember
the police tapped on the side of the door. But
if Fred was like, yo, that's a fan right there.
I think you want to picture. There ain't no fan.
That's the police. Biggas like, get out the car. Remember
they had us sitting on the handcuffed, Yeah, on the curve,
sitting there in New York City. I'm telling them, I'm like, yo,

(01:04:42):
my people, not even from here.

Speaker 1 (01:04:44):
The weed is mine. But remember he checked my pocket.

Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
I had the the f O P card for a
police officer, a gold card. Got us off and he
let us go right. Yeah, remember I forgot it. Got
us off with the field with me.

Speaker 1 (01:04:59):
You who are Fred? Fred?

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
And your man Hawaii Mike had us sitting on the
curb in China tap.

Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
And I think Hawaii Mike's wife came out like.

Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
What the hell? Yeah, they was on us. We almost
went through book him Danny.

Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
They were undercover.

Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
Yeah, he pulled this badge out. Fred thought they was fans.
They knocked on the side of the truck like that. Fred, like, Yo,
some fans not going on the truck. I think they
want a picture. I looked out the remview mirror like, Fred,
that ain't no got the fed that's a cop.

Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
Yo.

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
And that that one story And I got another story
where bro you. I always said you my good luck
charm when it comes to gambling and fucking Vegas, yo.

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
And then we left the club. I think it was
dre No, it wasn't Dre's.

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
No, it was way before. It was way before Dre's.
I forgot what club it was.

Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
But we came.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
We was in the MGM and we sat down to gamble.
They got started with five hundred dollars. Remember we sat
there for about three hours. I walked away from that
table with thirty five thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:06:03):
I remember looking at Freddy like nigga, we just cute
them like yo were I Yo, Bro, I was wild.
I do remember that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
Never one ever, I think I gave the thirty five
back by now, because I never why. You know, my
wife hate coming to Vegas with me. She know, I
call her the black Cat. I lose, I say, because
I met you.

Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
I lose. Oh my goodness. She tells me I'm the prize.
That's why. Yo, word bro, crazy you still hell ya?
Hell yeah. I'm not even gonna hit the tables right now. No,
when we left dre other night, I was at we

(01:06:46):
were Johnny Pack right.

Speaker 3 (01:06:48):
I'm telling I've been losing so much that now six
hundred feel like that win.

Speaker 1 (01:06:52):
I'm out.

Speaker 3 (01:06:53):
We have we must blink. We must advise these people
like Vegas is serious and they will take We will
take your money.

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
Like my dog say. The casinos is not built off winners.
That's some of the best advices that they can can
tell you. Right there, a casino is not building. You
start thinking like you're right.

Speaker 3 (01:07:15):
You know, the other day I'm walking through the casino.
I'm a stoner, so I'll be thinking about crazy ship
and I'm looking at all these slot machines, right. You know,
some people are gifted that they are lucky with. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:07:27):
Yeah, man, the Milkman, he hit on the slot all
the time. Yeah, the Milkman.

Speaker 1 (01:07:31):
Gino too. Gino Gino has.

Speaker 3 (01:07:34):
Selective slot machines that that he, you know, plays.

Speaker 1 (01:07:40):
But I'm looking at all these slot machines.

Speaker 3 (01:07:42):
I'm like, how much money, like as far as Vegas goes, Like,
how many slot machines are in Vegas taking money right
now every day? And how many how many are really
like given? And those given back are the ones that
got that that ice in nervein because they think, Okay,
I won this jackpot, I'm gonna go try it again. Yo, listen,

(01:08:05):
next thing you know, the whole jackpot is spent you
have to get out.

Speaker 1 (01:08:10):
You have to get out. Yes, you have to get I.

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
Can't get trapped in there in the casinos, man, the
longer you stay like me, Listen, I'm the cheapest gabbler,
Like I would be honest. I go in there with
the mindset because since I w thirty five thousand, I
want to.

Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
Win thirty five thousand every time I sit down.

Speaker 3 (01:08:29):
But my limit is five hundred because I look at it, right,
If the table is twenty five dollars a hen or
fifty dollars a hen with five hundred, I got more
than ten shots. If I swing at something.

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
Ten times and I don't hit, I don't think I
need another ten shots to be like, Yo, I want it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
Ain't my night, maam. You feel me eyes, and you're
gonna have your nights. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
You get them.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
But Yo, I was just telling Fred, right, you're gonna
laugh at this story. Shut out Fred, see the whole
be out right, because listen, my man just came out
here for the first time.

Speaker 1 (01:09:05):
Boston George BG. Yeah, yeah, for the first time. Shout
out cheach. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
They go to the casino, he go to the crap table,
win eleven hundred, first timeg eleven hundred. So you know me,
I'll been paying craps with Fred for twenty years. I
never want crafts, right, So Fred told me, Yo, he
probably ran across a hot roller.

Speaker 1 (01:09:32):
So I said, my nigga, I've been down here with
you for twenty five years. We ain't come across one
hot roller. And BG's first time, first time the Vegas.

Speaker 3 (01:09:44):
He get the hot roller. I'm like, nah, dog, I
don't believe that they hurryad what happened? Like, Yo, craps
is not for me. Blackjack three card poker.

Speaker 1 (01:09:56):
You've always got, That's what it is.

Speaker 3 (01:09:58):
When you won that thirty five grand, the three card poker,
three card poker, that's because that's remember the whole say,
I'm calling guts every time, drag my nuts every round.

Speaker 2 (01:10:08):
That was the game we played in the casino was guts.
But the way we played guts was and this is
why Hove set that line. So we put some clarity
to niggas for that. Listen, guts was it could be
ten people playing. Remember you're only getting three cards, so
you're trying to make the three the best hand out
of three cards.

Speaker 1 (01:10:28):
In a poker hand, whether you.

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
Got a flush, straight flush, three of a cond to pick.

Speaker 1 (01:10:33):
Whatever it is, whatever you got.

Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
So however, many people call no, no. Everybody get three
cards and that's it. That's it, nobody.

Speaker 1 (01:10:44):
No. So imagine six people playing.

Speaker 2 (01:10:46):
Only one person could win, but everybody feel like they
got a good hand. So mind you, the pots start
at one thousand dollars. So the call guts.

Speaker 3 (01:10:55):
So you got three cards, So the best hand is
what a three of a kind, a three of a
con all straight flush or roy your flush right, or
whoever got the highest pair, so boom hot start at
one thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
Mind you, six seven people playing, only one winner. Sof
four people out of the six or the seven people
called guts, it's only one winner. The three losers gotta
put what was in the pot. So I take the thousand.
Three losers. Now the pot three thousand. So the next
time a person called guts, it's three grand.

Speaker 1 (01:11:25):
You lose. You gotta put three grand up. Now four
people called.

Speaker 2 (01:11:29):
Guts, All of y'all gotta put three grand up. So
now that shit go to twenty four thousand, and they
keep going. They'll bro I seen the pot one day
get to like a like one hundred and fifty thousand,
twenty thousand, and Hope didn't even look at his cars.

Speaker 1 (01:11:45):
He just guts and.

Speaker 3 (01:11:47):
Niggas looking like even if you got good hand, I'm
not calling it because if I lose, I gotta put.

Speaker 1 (01:11:53):
Two hundred up. I ain't got it.

Speaker 3 (01:12:00):
I can't even know the chance. And Hope don't even
look at his cards. You're just sitting there. He's the
worst nigga to play guts with because he just you
just dealing cars cards on the table. Every head guts
so he'll lose every hair. Put the money up in
school to the one head where it's two hundred now
and you gotta put it up. Oh shit, I remember

(01:12:22):
I lost for a time. He was mad at me
our twenty five grand like I ain't.

Speaker 1 (01:12:28):
Oh yo, listen, yo, yo, listen, No he goes down
on the peach. Listen. Hop don't want no smoking spades, yo.

Speaker 3 (01:12:36):
You hear me, Franny and Spades smoked them John and
Nearly was my partner.

Speaker 1 (01:12:42):
We was doing that bad, yo.

Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
We was doing our things, smoking him and Kaiser damn
and right we land.

Speaker 3 (01:12:51):
He flew his mom's that his mom's his partner. I
can't talk. No smack the mam Obama.

Speaker 1 (01:12:58):
Jay, that's that's my Gloria. I can't talk though, Johnson.

Speaker 2 (01:13:03):
Now we're sitting there playing and John and nearly now Mom,
there here a nigga.

Speaker 1 (01:13:09):
So I'm like, yo, what you doing?

Speaker 3 (01:13:11):
He like, Yo, that's the strategy. What's the strategy? Let
the wind. I'm like, Joe, you're playing with me. You
can't get fired. He not gonna fire you. Dog if
he fire you, we fighting on this play, yo. J'ae
really threw the like he let them win because Mom's
was there.

Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
So Jay don't want no smoke. And in dice, Jay
don't want no smoke. On Sea Low with Blizzle, I
smoked them on three dice, right. That's why we play
on the East. Y'all do craps. That's why I gotta
That's why I'm saying how in twenty five years, I
never met one hot roller like Gino throw the dice.

Speaker 1 (01:13:46):
Come on, baby, there are some hot rolls, you know,
like in Vegas.

Speaker 3 (01:13:51):
Like niggas goody that and be rolling for a hour
in downtown like I think it's like an hour and
forty five minutes. And if you keep pressing and hit
hard ways and hitting like those those crap bets.

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
I don't know how to play craps man, it's not
it's a fast game. Yeah, it's never been my game,
you know. I don't know if you notice.

Speaker 3 (01:14:10):
I don't know if I've ever talked about this, but
there was a time where it was bad for me,
Like you was a gambler.

Speaker 1 (01:14:15):
What when when I first moved out of Yeah, it's
gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (01:14:20):
No, it almost took me out bro, No way, yeah, bro,
like for real, Like I had to talk. You had
to call the hot line, get that it didn't get
that bad.

Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
I had to talk to myself in the mirror. That
was the hot line.

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
That's the hot line. That's the hood Nigga hotline. That's
the first one on everything I know that call.

Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
Everything. I love, everything, no real ship, everything I love.

Speaker 3 (01:14:48):
I had to talk to myself in the mirror and
just you know, wake up and snap out of it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:52):
So like you you know, if I do gamble and
have fun.

Speaker 2 (01:14:55):
With it, like you know, I always had my limit, man, exactly,
always had my limit, man even exactly. That's why I
hope used to know. Don't invite Bleak to the game.
He ain't losing no money.

Speaker 3 (01:15:10):
He's gonna spend his little petty thousand dollars to get
up out of there.

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
You got there right. I had two, I had five
to ten shots in something. I'm telling you I'm good.

Speaker 1 (01:15:19):
I remember with Hoole.

Speaker 3 (01:15:20):
One night he performed at the Poems and we go
to the Blagiah and he's gambling, playing like five hundred
a hand. You know, little little just yo, little something
you know, bought in for like twenty grand, like this
is back in like two thousand'n tell you.

Speaker 1 (01:15:35):
Real gamble it hove two thousand and two. He takes
that bread.

Speaker 3 (01:15:40):
No no, no, started out five hundred a hand, like
I said, five hundred a hand. Next thing, you know,
he started pressing because he started winning. He took like
a good eighty racks ro in that. Now listen and
left and like we're out of here, Like I'm not saying,
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:15:54):
Saying here we hold in Ampster. You're listening to me
in ampsterday. The casino. You gotta get a button up.
Remember this is hoodie. You gotta wear a casino. You
have to wear a button up. You can't wear like
a crew neck. You have to wear a button up, yes,
a polo or a regular button up to go in

(01:16:15):
the casino. On the casino with hold. You know they gambling.
I'm moving around doing my thing. You've seen the movie
Casino Royale. Yes, okay, excuse me. That was my first
time seeing the chips that came in a plastic case.
You remember when he was gambling and they had the
chips that come into plastic It's one big chip and

(01:16:38):
it's in a plastic case. People probably never even seen this.
If you haven't seen it, I'm pretty sure people, but
I don't remember that. If you watch the movie when
he gambling, it's a one big chip in a plastic case.
The chip is a half a million dollars over one,
four of them two hundred grand. Playing like jack, you

(01:17:02):
want four so we want two millions? Yeah, matter of fact, yes,
two million, man, I'm bugging two under grand. Yes, half
a million dollars a chip, right, that's two million.

Speaker 1 (01:17:12):
Yo. Listen my g four pack. Right?

Speaker 2 (01:17:17):
We wilding all night in the car. You're like, yeah,
I got four two m's. I'm up killing it. We
wake up, We wake up in the.

Speaker 1 (01:17:25):
Morning, trying to leave, get on the jet, make our.

Speaker 3 (01:17:27):
Move do what we do. You know the nigga tell
me y'all lost one of the cases.

Speaker 1 (01:17:33):
What like what you lost half a million? You lost
a half a m. And it was like, yo, fuck it,
I'm still up. Like we even backtrack looked for it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
I wanted to be like when you was hanging that
last night, like where you was at. I wanted to
look for the case like somebody felt the half of m.
They are half a million dollar chip in the plastic case,
bro a half a.

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
Million dollars telling me somebody came up crazy. Yo.

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
I remember you you ever been to Amsterdam? Yes, a
couple of times. Like you ever used the ATM in Amsterdam?

Speaker 1 (01:18:09):
Nope?

Speaker 2 (01:18:09):
You just went with straight cash and cash then ye
see me, my young dumb ass, first time I'm going
to ATM, Like, oh yeah, we're gonna go to the
no smoke, shall get some weed? Let me take out
five honey, No, I get the receipt. Let's just say
like nine honey withdrawing, Like wait a minute.

Speaker 3 (01:18:29):
I ain't take out nine hundred dollars. I only took
out five hundred this bag bugget. I was so young,
I didn't know about conversion rate. They money and the difference.
So you call the bag and the lady on the floor.

Speaker 1 (01:18:42):
I had to tell me, yeah, you and their money
is worth more than hour. So you thought, yeah, so
you thought you're spending.

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
Yeah, how did I get Nah? I only took five
hundred out? Why say I withdrew nine hundred dollars like they.

Speaker 1 (01:18:57):
Extra four hundred, yo, bro, that's how bad it was.

Speaker 2 (01:19:00):
So from that point on, I do in my mind
I need to get some shows out here, because in
America I would go crazy. Thing you get ten grand
over there, you coming home with twenty racks at least
in Amsterdam and in year Ros you coming home you
get ten racks. You probably come home with about good
fifteen fourteen fifteen, almost sixteen thousand, depending on the rate.

(01:19:23):
You got that sterling pound. I guess pounds and then
it's sterling pounds. You get that sterling pound. Oh yeah,
that was one hundred percent, fifty percent up. They get
you up ten grand, twenty racks.

Speaker 1 (01:19:36):
That's all.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
That's why when you see people from overseas come here
and there in the club by your balling, they lick,
they come with grand. They like I got sixteen racks.

Speaker 3 (01:19:48):
I said, like I said, I've been atres for eleven years,
right telling you, I've seen them in the UK.

Speaker 2 (01:19:54):
They come out here, be borce crazy. Then you take
your five pack over there, you got two five hundred.
They take their five pack over here, they got grad.

Speaker 1 (01:20:04):
I just see it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
It's a it's a light show for real. Yo, It's insane, bro.
That's how I knew I always got to get money overseas.
Shout out my overseas plugs. Man, we all do a show.
DJ frand he wanted to do shows, and Yo, listen,
you need to do a party in Dubai. You do
the biggest fucking club in Los Vegas. Do you hear me?
The biggest club in Las Vegas. You need to be
in Dubai letting them know how it goes down. They

(01:20:29):
need to ghost ride the camels. Make them niggas ghost
ride the camel.

Speaker 1 (01:20:36):
You don't make that happen. Man, I'm gonna make it.

Speaker 3 (01:20:39):
But I know it'd be good to you know, good
to go to Dubai so I could get a detox.

Speaker 1 (01:20:45):
Yo.

Speaker 2 (01:20:46):
That's I was saying that earlier. That's my cleanse, like
my wife I heard I heard his hash out there though. Yeah,
but you would get your head cut off. You do
seventy days and sixty nights with what future?

Speaker 1 (01:20:57):
DJH? Yeah, I'm not doing that.

Speaker 3 (01:21:00):
No, I want to detox, you know, but listen, I
want to smoke some She shot this was I member
my wife. Man.

Speaker 2 (01:21:06):
I know I bring up a lot, but that's my
back going sung my best friend. I remember the first
time she wanted. She always telling me I want to
go to Dubai and I'm like, I ain't going to Dubai.
You can't smoke no weed over there. So she like, yo,
you ain't going nowhere you can't smoke weed. And I'm
like no, why She's like, yeah, that's some real crackheads ship.

Speaker 3 (01:21:23):
I was like that rubbed me wrong, Like, yo, you're
kind of right. That is some crackhead ship. I ain't
gonna go see places because I can't smoke. So that's
my like when I go. When I go to Dubai,
I go to Morocco, I go to BALI.

Speaker 1 (01:21:37):
Ever been to Tokyo?

Speaker 3 (01:21:38):
Yeah, I go to Tokyo, but I got to plug
in Tokyo.

Speaker 1 (01:21:46):
Japanese food is my favorite. What's your favorite food? Bro?
My favorite food is Italian?

Speaker 3 (01:21:51):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:21:51):
I love Italian too, Italian. That's why I'm a fab
basted now. I've been Milan all the time. I love
tai food. I love Mexican fo.

Speaker 1 (01:22:00):
I love time, but Mamber. I grew up in Brooklyn.

Speaker 2 (01:22:02):
Chinese restaurants is everywhere, so it's like rice is fried rice.

Speaker 1 (01:22:06):
I can't win come from. I love Caribbean food. Yes,
come on, man, jerk chicken.

Speaker 2 (01:22:11):
That's why I go to Jamaica, lot, all the all
the islands, get that real church t go all over, man.
I gotta do the grill. Yes, that's my next trip
in the grill. Man told wife he we never seen that.

Speaker 3 (01:22:24):
You know, just went uh not too long ago. He
went to uh the whole Bob Marley. Oh yeah I
did that. I did the Bob Marley Tour. Really dope, man,
it's really dope, yo. They shot the studio up. They
really still got the bullet holes in the walls and
the windows and everything. Bro, Like, really dope. You see
the bomb. It's so crazy to know that, you know. Yeah,
seven man.

Speaker 1 (01:22:44):
It's like an hour hour away from you. Yeah, you
did the you did the done.

Speaker 2 (01:22:49):
What is that the Dun's Mountain, duns Falls, Dun's River. Yeah, yeah,
I did the We sent uh.

Speaker 1 (01:23:00):
We went to the grave of Pablo too, and I
did that.

Speaker 2 (01:23:04):
Yeah, Columbia, that's crazy where his brother lives, right, Yeah,
I did that. We went to the up with his brother.
It's crazy. We glorified drug down right, it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:23:14):
That's how you know that.

Speaker 3 (01:23:14):
Nigga said the wave, that's a history. He said the wave.
That's small airport.

Speaker 2 (01:23:20):
That's right there, the most successful deal in the bro.
You see how much money man, you saying it's crazy power, man,
that's what drives a lot of niggas mad power.

Speaker 1 (01:23:30):
Too much power, too much, too much man.

Speaker 2 (01:23:33):
But Franny, man, we got to get you to do
a mixtape, an album, something, my guy. I'm straight up man,
let's put it together.

Speaker 3 (01:23:40):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:23:40):
Fuck that gonna tell Hove come out of retirement. Drake
got about six verses for you. You know you ain't
in the beef. You got six.

Speaker 3 (01:23:49):
Verses, definitely, and that's you know I stay out that.
That's right man.

Speaker 2 (01:23:53):
You know that ship man rap ship is crazy. This
your rap beef today. Man, I'm glad. That's why I
do this pot where we don't talk about no negativity.

Speaker 1 (01:24:02):
You see that, man, we can't put that in the era.

Speaker 3 (01:24:05):
Man, it's like because it's too many people doing that.

Speaker 1 (01:24:09):
It's crazy clicks and ship That's what I mean. Like
the thing.

Speaker 3 (01:24:16):
The thing is, we come from a different era, Bro.
You guys were recording. You guys were recording songs when
you needed the book studio time. Nowadays you got a
MacBook Pro, you got a Mike.

Speaker 1 (01:24:29):
That's what you need. That's it.

Speaker 3 (01:24:32):
You know, we come from a different era, man, where
we really had to listen to the radio to learn
some of these songs if we couldn't afford to buy
the music.

Speaker 1 (01:24:40):
That's a fact. Bro, that's the same time you heard them.

Speaker 3 (01:24:42):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:24:43):
Now everything is right here, everything is right pro bro crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:24:47):
So what's next for my g You know you DJ
and the biggest clubs in Las Vegas, Hakkasan dres my God,
be on Twitch, you on Twitter, let people know where
they can find you, follow you and check all that
fly shout out.

Speaker 3 (01:25:00):
Frandy Man, friend of Layby on Instagram, DJ Franz DJ
Underscore friends on Twitter and then friend of Layby on
threads too. I don't think a lot of people use
thread You use threads.

Speaker 1 (01:25:12):
I gotta get on threads though.

Speaker 2 (01:25:14):
But listen before we close this South because this is
motherfucking rock solid and averybody rock solid. Everybody in the
world think they got an a ka, I need you
close it out with your a.

Speaker 1 (01:25:26):
There's too many, man whatever. They need to hear about
ten of them.

Speaker 3 (01:25:30):
So you know, people know, well, a lot of people
don't know. Friends in is my real name. My dad's
name is Francisco. Okay, my mom's name is Zenaida. So
they put friend and zen together and that's how they
came up my name friends, it is my real name
is not a stage name, but a bunch of akas
from friends Inatra Frand de lay Bay and lay Bay,

(01:25:51):
Frandi pacyall, Caromelo Frantony. You know what I'm saying. There's
a lot. Carlos Frantana, there's a lot. There's too many, like,
there's so many, I can't We can travel, we can
go to fran Antonio, Franuan Puerto Rico.

Speaker 1 (01:26:09):
Yeah, man, fran Francisco, Yeah, I mean let him know.
There's just too many. That's my dog. Fantastic though. Fantastic
is that one though?

Speaker 2 (01:26:19):
Make sure you'll have a fantastic day because this is
motherfucking rock solid. We hear Frand de lay Bay best
DJ in the world West Coast, East Coast.

Speaker 1 (01:26:27):
Put them up. Let's battle. We don't care any DJ.
Shout out to the heavy Hitters one time.

Speaker 2 (01:26:34):
Heavy Hitters Man Big Dog Pick Bulls, New York. We here.
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