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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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get to the interview, Yo, Bootleg keV Podcast, BOOTLEGKEV Show,
we got a legend in the building, man, King Makers
come and win exhibit in February. I was about to
say I'm kind of mad because I put my Albums
of the Year a list out. Yeah, now I know
it qualifies for next year.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Oh, thank you man. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Great body of work. Man X to the Z exhibit
is here.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Welcome sir, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, now this is crazy. Like you just played me
your album and I just was like wait a minute,
Like bro, you was like really like locked the fuck in? Uh,
this album is crazy and it's not. I'm not just
telling you like this ship is. It's up there with
your you got to Me, you got three classics. It's
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up there with with with all three of your first
three albums.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Thank you man.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
You know when when I when I sat back and
we talk about this with my circle of friends, we
talk about the record, and I think the best way
I can explain it is that I found my voice right.
Not not the way my voice sounds or the inflection
or of it. I'm talking about like I know what
(02:04):
I'm supposed to say, I know how I'm supposed to
be talking. I know I know what my message is.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
It's crazy because you've had like a was your last
album May Pum Yes, And that was in twenty eleven twelve. Yeah,
so it's crazy to think, like, in the last twelve years, right,
you've been known for a lot of things in terms
of like your entrepreneurial shit. Right, you've been leveling up
(02:33):
in the weed game, and by the way, put out
some amazing stuff with the Serial Killers, Yes, Shout to
Be Real and Deemrick. Yes, the last album you guys
dropped was fucking crazy yeah album. Yeah, Yes, it's not
a sam shit that But you know, like was there,
like you said, you found your voice, Like what was
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the motivation to get you cause you know, I know
what it's like to own a bunch of businesses and
have your eye on so many different balls at the
same time. But it just, like I said, it just
felt like you were just really like re engaged on
this album, like in a way that like I haven't
heard in a long time.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, you know, I think.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I think how we all deal with different parts of
our life with stress and and finding other things to
do and you know, testing the boundaries, and I do that.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
I like to take risks. I like to take.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Chances, right, you know, film, television, even going into different
aspects of business. It's a risk, you know, because time
is the most valuable thing, so you got to spend
it wisely, right. And so as I'm doing these things
and I'm you know, going out and venturing out. You
know when you have that that that thing that you
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want to feel, you know, full, you don't want to avoid,
you know what I'm saying. And I was feeling avoid
so and so when I started going back and you know,
working in the studio again, that's what you know. Actually
it started when I started with I did a James
Savage j O Felony. We did a project called James
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Savage and that really got.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Me going first, and you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
And once I produced that for him, then I started
like making records for myself again. And then I was like,
oh oh shit, you know what I'm saying. Like I
was finding what made me feel solid and feel that void,
and so I only did records like that. Now we
have all kinds of you know, we did I don't know,
we did like fifty.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Some records for this, for this that, this album.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Wow, you know what I'm saying, and there, but there's
eighteen that made it, you know what I'm saying. And
so I feel really good and strong about everything on
this record, because I haven't had that before, you know
what I'm saying, Like, even though I can go back
to Restless and still hear things that I would have
did differently.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Which song did you not like Onrestless? I'm just curious
which one you would have left off? Was there a
song that you like listen back that didn't age the greatest?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
No?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Asking which one is curious because I always wonder, like
back in the day, right back in the day, when
you're on a major label, sometimes the label would win
an argument on a song, you know what I mean,
Like maybe you were like I would have didn't focus
that song with the label wanted it on there, right.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
No, I feel like that about different records, but not
on Restless.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, restlessess fucking yeah, I like that one, like one
of that. I wanted to ask you something I always wondered, right,
because sometimes like it frustrates me because I'm like a
fan of your ship from real like at the speed
of life, like forty days, forty nights, like chamber music,
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recard Molly, like oh my god, like just fucking amazing
Los Angeles times.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Of course.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
You become a star, which you know is I feel
like it's very hard to be a certain level of
famous and you've achieved that level of fame through a
show like Pimp My Ride, through doing movies, through doing TV,
through doing films. But while doing all of that stuff,
there is like an entire generation of people that strictly
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only associate you with those television shows, and or while
associating you as a rapper, discount your career as a
rapper because they just, oh, it's to pit my Ride. Guy.
Was there ever, like the gift in the cause, I'm
never gonna call being on pim My Ride a curse
because that changed your life, right, But what was the
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fame and the success of the other stuff in front
of the camera. Did it take a hit like on
the MU like, did it?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Did it?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Did it affect the music stuff in a negative way
at all?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I was the first, the first, right, because we didn't
have a TI reality show.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
We had nobody is okay, so let's start. Let's start there.
I was the first, so we didn't know at the
time what you know twenty some years later was going
to look like. So being the first, there was a
lot of risk versus reward, you know what I'm saying
I was too close to it in the beginning. But
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as you know, now I look back and I can understand,
like this made me a global brand. This made me
somewhere where I can be. You know, the people who
don't even know I do music, they they know me, right,
and that's something to start with, right, And so when
then you look at you know, Okay, so now everybody
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that's in music is doing something other than music in
order to.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Just everybody to get everybody's got their side quest to.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Get it, to get the you know, use the music
as a backdroper and then be able to you know,
like put them put theirselves out, put themselves out there.
So I think that you know, the people that try
to dismiss the music because of the show, I don't know.
(08:11):
Everybody is entitled to their opinion.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
But was that something that you would like notice was
happening at the time, like once the show really popped off, Like.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
No, it definitely bothered me, you know what I'm saying,
because I was too close to it. Like I said,
I wanted people to know me for one thing, but
then you know, they they recognized me and know me
for this other thing.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
And then you're doing.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I had, I had you and you and bust Ryan's
had a horrible movie I had. I bought that movie
from Hollywood Video. It was terrible, but I bought it
and I watched that motherfucker that was on my shelf.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Thank you, man, I appreciate I let him know.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I'll tell yo, it's crazy. So my best friend I
have like one of my real first like hip hop
two hip hop stories in life. Really, my best friend's
name is rams His brother is Raka from Dilating. So
Ramses came to LA. It's Roca's dad has a lot. Yeah,
that's Buddy. Buddy's my best Yes, of course Buddy who
(09:09):
was in the Was he in the.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Paparazza as the Yeah, and now he's a lawyer.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yes, he's a lawyer.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Right.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
So Ramses comes to LA to meet his brothers. And
this is a before the platform came out, so this
was I don't even know what.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Year this was.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
He comes out to LA. I think at the time
he's probably seventeen. I'm thirteen something like that, hangs out
with the alcoholics you're around, comes back, He's like, Yo,
my brother's in this rap group and I was hanging
out with Exhibit and whatever the case is. Then you
ended up like not long after that, having a concert.
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It was like a college show at Arizona State University,
and me and Ramses with the hope of finding you
backstage so you would remember him, we legit as like children,
snuck into the backstage of this concert, was moving around
like crazy fast forward. You're on the is it that?
What was the tour with Popper Roach Anger Management Tour?
(10:19):
And again we're on a mission sophere rest is soul
is on that tour, sees Ramses recognizes him and brings
us backstage. Yes, And I'm a little kid back at
the Anger Management tour and you're the first Well, no
you're not. I don't know if you're the first. Yeah,
you're probably the first rapper I ever really kind of
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like I was a little dirty ass white kid. I
was probably thirteen, twelve thirteen, and like you were super
cool backstage, and I remember just being like what.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
The fuck, Like, yeah, was that what was that?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Eminem?
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yeah, yeah, Roach, elizab Biscuit, Yeah, Biscuit.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
It was just yeah, whatever the case. But yeah, man,
by the way, man, we got to acknowledge the fear
passing away man. Obviously, I know he was a big
part of your story.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Absolutely, Yeah, that was that was tough to do, you
know what I'm saying. But I'm glad, you know, me
and Rasp we were able to go up and see
him before he passed.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
And that's important.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
That was very Uh, that was very dope that we
were able to all be together, and you know, shout
out to the whole family, all the kids. You know,
his brother Sonny, you know from the Hoo Riders. He uh,
he was there, you know what I'm saying, Like he
(11:45):
did a lot of the heavy liftings, so shout out
to him, and uh, yeah, I'm glad we got to
see my brother.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
That's good. Uh. One of the all time never got
an album but needed an album was the Golden State Warriors.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah yeah, you know, yeah, it was supposed to happen, you.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Know, and then like there was like an NBA thing
where they stepped in like you can't call yourself then
it was like project.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Yeah. When we called ourselves the Golden State Project, we
actually got a cease and desist letter from from the
Golden State Basketball organization. They was like, yo, if you
do that, we're gonna fucking murder you. Like, okay, we won't.
Well they didn't say that, but basically it was like,
don't funk with our ship?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Was there? Like how how did you guys ever? Like
like actually with intent work on that album?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
We we had four songs completed and.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Then like that we haven't heard that.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
You haven't heard Wow? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
One day, man, one day.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I got them sitting on das. I know exactly what
they got. Yeah, I got them. Yeah, I'm organized like that.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Three is one of the best postall I got.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
I got the I got it organized, some other stuff.
I got some thing nails. You made me think about it.
I have like these big bins of like it kept
all my cassettes, I kept all my CDs, and I
start going through the CDs.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I got, like Kanye West beat CDs.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I got, like you know what I'm saying, like like
like instrumental CDs I got.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
It'd be crazy if you like listen, you're like, damn,
I passed on this beat.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I want to figure out I gotta I gotta put
that ship into some hard drives or I got to
get a system where I can like organize it but
I want to like maintain that library of ship I
have because I've been like collecting.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Remember you used to give out.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
CDs like you know what I'm saying, like the like
the singles and the little promo CDs and you got
instrumentals and ship on there.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I mean that's how everything was. Beat CDs, Like I
got beats here you go.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yeah, I got bet CDs from like man, you name it,
I got them.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Can you talk to me about, like, uh, how you're
feeling with the because you know, the West Coast has
a very interesting opportunity right now to like take hip
hop back be back on the forefront, right you know,
I feel like, you know, me and Snooper talked about
it a little bit. You know, the ball gets passed
(14:04):
around and the South has had the ball for a
long time. Atlanta's had the ball for a long time.
But it does feel like with this Kendrick situation, that
there has been an opportunity to take the ball. You
know what I'm saying, How do you feel about about
just like the West having that opportunity right now?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
I feel the shift, you know, I feel it.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I think, I think, I think timing is everything, you know,
I think, you know, to have these records, These records
weren't done like in three days or or within a
six week period, like we all have been working on
our own pace and whatever, and it just so happens
that everything everything lined up. Yeah, And I feel like
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when things organically happen like that, it tends to be
a movement. It turns, it shifts the time, you know.
So I think there's a lot to be said in that.
And I think, you know, Kendrick Lamar being the two
but the spear, you know what I'm saying, and really
igniting a lot of a lot of that energy to
be uniform. So people are looking out for each other
(15:09):
and hearing it and hearing each other and okay, cool.
So you know, now we're gonna do it. Now, We're
gonna alley open now. You know what I'm saying. Now
we're on the court.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
You know what I'm saying. It's it's feeling good. It's good.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah. It's been such a crazy year for West Coast
hip hop. We were talking about Bence Staples, Tyler Cbe
Cube album is Hard, the Snoop album is dog Pound.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Yeah, be Real and Psycholastic Drop Something, hell Ship absolutely
your Keeaenmaker's coming. I'm glad I got to get some
music out, you know, and then we're coming in February
with the whole project.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
How did you end up signing with Connor McGregor's new one,
because when I saw you announce the label, yeah, and
then I want to Now you correct me if I'm wrong,
but I want to say Bone Thugs is on the
label as well.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I'm not sure if that's done, but.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I mean that was that's the intent. Okay, that was
at least in the air. Yeah, yeah, I don't know
the first person to sign.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
No, I believe Bone was. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I believe they are, you know, but I don't want
to speak you don't business Yeah, yeah, but I know
we were brought up second, but my project was more
close to being completed because I had already been working
right right, So that's why we were able to get in,
make the announcement, and.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Boom, pull the trigger like I already got music ready,
I'm ready to go.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
But take me through the process, because a lot of
people might see Connor Gregor's got a record lab. We'll
be like, well, this is the tax right off for
this guy.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Now I said the same thing I was, you know.
But then.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Because we were getting close to being done with the
record and I wanted to, you know, start, I started
looking at ways to distribute it.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
How are we going to put this out?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
How now that I got the record, I want how
am I going to put it out? So we started
looking at everything, and you know, shout out to the
Russell you know, I want to go see him. I
like to Larussell's. Yeah, I love what he's doing. I'm
very inspired by that young man. And you know, he
got a movement going to and he's gonna do huge things.
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So you know, I went to go see you know,
I familiar with all the DSPs and the sights and
all that other stuff. So I wanted something different because
I'm at this point of where I am musically, I
have very small windows of opportunity for me to be
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totally transparent, for me to make the mark that I
need to mark, and shift the tie.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
And you gotta put some respect on the body of
work you're sitting on. Correct, You don't want to just
don't throw it out, correct, be patient.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
And so I was patient.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
And so then the opportunity came from you know, shout
out to Bobby D. Shout out to you know, Big Tato,
who've been with me for years now, you know what
I'm saying. Like, we got a call and said that
Connor McGregor was starting a record label and they wanted
to hear some music. We sent him the music. They
was like, fucking this is we want to do this,
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you know what I'm saying. So then I was like, well,
what the fuck is kind of a what is gonna do?
But then they explained it's like okay, so here's the deal.
So everything he does involves music.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
You know what I'm saying. He has to pick this
for this fight, he has to do that as he
trains to it. D da da da da.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
He is very locked in on the music side, right,
And so I was like, yeah, listen to the music
in marketing and promoting and selling music.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Three to seventeen thousand different.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Things, right, And so he's like, okay, well just let's
kind of have a conversation. We went out to Marba, Spain,
and uh, well, first we went to Ireland and I
met the team of people that he wants to form
green Back Records with, right, and so there's there's some
business side of people that you know, do a multitude
(19:01):
of things in the in the McGregor world. But then
there's you know, people he brought in specifically to do
the record side of things. And these people have worked
in the in the buildings, they've been in their music
people with the business people. So I wanted to get
check that out. I was like, okay, cool, that makes
me feel a lot better, you know what I'm saying.
And so from there we went to to actually meet
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Connor and then sat down you know, got to see
the Bare knuckle Box and ship. I No, that was
in Spain, man, So so that's basically how it happened.
And then when we come home, you know, it was
just like okay, it's time to go. We're gonna push go.
And we pushed the button and that ship's working, you
know what I'm saying, Like it's fucking working.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
So because we've seen athletes try to do the label things,
you know.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
But he's not in it like that.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
No, I know what I'm saying, But we've seen it, right,
like we've seen it. It's it's very I don't know
if it's ever worked, to be honest.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
No, no, it's it's not because he's.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
But usually it's like to be fair at you. Usually
like football players and basketball players that also kind of
want to wrap.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Yeah, no, he's not. He's not trying to rap whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
So, like you guys have that initial condo and like,
was there anything he said to you that made you
kind of be like, yeah, fuck it, let's let's let's
give this a try.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
He's approaching it differently, and he's not jaded by any
of the record politics that we all know about, right,
He's he's he's literally looking at this like fight promotion.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I love that, you know, a different way to approach
to do it.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah, were talking about we're talking about approaching it like that.
You know what I'm saying, Like really like build it
in that fashion and and and that's exciting to me,
you know what I'm saying, Like again, the risk versus reward.
I've never been afraid to step out on faith, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
So, and like, dude, the video has been insane.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Yes, it's working.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yeah, you know what I'm saying. You said that that boat,
there's a boat in the video you have and that's
it's it's that's that's Connor's Lamborghini boats.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Yeah, yeah, it looks crazy. Yeah, it's dope.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I'm glad man shout out to uh the big the
big Mac. You know, let me use his boat, like dope.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Would you say there's any misconceptions about that guy because
I'm I'm I'm I would say I'm like a surface
level fight fan, but not like super in it, you know.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Yeah, yeah, I see.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
You know now that we've been you know, collaborating, you know,
people like you want to see him fight. You know,
the stuff in the press about the whatever suit or
whatever he's.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Got going on.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
You know, look, dude, I gotta look at it like this.
If he can't stay down with the people in their
dark times, you don't deserve to stand up with him
in the light you know facts.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
So you know, like he denies the whole thing, Yeah understood.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yeah, yeah, but I mean there's no criminal charges. You know,
it was a silk suit, So I'm not gonna get
in the middle of it.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I don't want to get into the you know, the
weeds with that.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
But right, right, But but I do I do feel like, okay, cool, yeah,
you know what I'm saying, Like we just started collaborating,
and from what I've seen, you know what I'm saying,
the dude is doing the best he can.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Great businessman too, Like his whiskey is fucking huge.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yeah, but I think they, I think they actually, you know,
went as far as you know, trying to distance themselves
from Connor McGregor.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
And you know, like, dude, you know.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Oh the whiskey company did. Yeah, I saw that right right,
which is crazy because he's just like, like, you know,
there's no well, yeah, I mean, it is what it is.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
It is what it is.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
But but again I'm I'm I'm I stay down, you
know what I'm.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Saying, like, and and I don't. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I don't desert my people in their time of need. So,
you know, shout out to the McGregor family, shout out
to his wife and kids. You know, that's that's who's important,
you know what I'm saying. So I see him actively,
you know, doing that.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yeah. Yeah, And I also feel like there was just
a lot of things that didn't line up with that
whole situation where you look.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
But that's not that you can't even get into the
weeks with that either, for sure, you know, what I'm saying.
But but again it's like you know when you when
you make a character judgment and you decide to align
yourself with someone, you know what I'm saying, Like, you
gotta trust your gut, and my gut tells me that
we did the right thing.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Take me back. So you come to LA you were
was there a certain point in time you were in
Was it New Mexico or Arizona.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
New Mexico, New Mexican Albuquerque to be exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Yes, you end up in Los Angeles. You end up
kind of getting in with the Liquid Crew, which you
would have been like the Licks, King T, the Farii
and those guys. How do you initially get signed Aloud?
(23:57):
Because at that time Loud was they had the I
don't know if they had the Lick Shit. I don't
know were you first or was the Licks first?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Alcoholics are first?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
So they had like twenty one and over and Shit,
which was a great album. So was that kind of
your pathway to getting on Steve Riff kids? Like? Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Actually, actually King T put me on first through a
production group called three sixty with James Broadway. Okay, so
that's how I kind of like learned you know, they
were the first people I knew with record deals. So
being around King T is how I met the alcoholics.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
And King T's one of them more like I would
say underrated hip hop figures on the West Coast maybe ever,
I mean he's up there, you.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Know, like absolutely, yeah, he's one of the forefathers, like
he was.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Out he's behind so much shit exactly.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah. But King T gave me my first opportunities in
hip hop.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
And so.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
From there, I never made a demo, I never made
a tape. I never made any of that kind of stuff.
I was only on King T. He's you know, Keing
T for Life album and I did a song called
Freestyle Ghetto and that was that was kind of like
my demo and it was like out on the record.
And so from there, we were doing a show at
(25:14):
Glam Slam, which was Prince's nightclub downtown LA, and we
were about to go out because I used to go
and due to ad libs and support for the alcoholics
on that show and then sometimes I'd be able to
freestyle the stuff at the end if they had a
spot for me, I would get down. And so we
was about to go on and Steve record was acting.
(25:35):
He's like, hey, I want to sign you just like
that crazy and then yeah, we went there and the
next week got it done.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
And then when you're working on At the Speed of Life,
you got records on there like Paparazzi in Los Angeles
Times and just an amazing It was like an undergrounded
West Coast album really, because you know, like it was
kind of like I feel feel like, is it safe
to say, like the what you See is What You
Get video kind of like made more the most, Like
(26:08):
it got you the most attention at that time, hm hmm,
because it was it was like a one on one
video is obviously on your second album, But I feel
like At the Speed of Life was a very under
the radar project.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yes, yes, Papa Rozzi was the biggest look from the
first album.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
The video.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
The video was the Orchestra on the Beach, got a
lot of got a lot of run. I still performed
that song today in my set. What You See Is
What You Get was great on a couple different levels,
Like it showed the creativity that I wanted to have
(26:45):
injected into my visuals and what I was capable of.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
For people who don't know it was like the first
one take constant shot video.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
No edits, you know there was no it was edits.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Oh there was.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
There was thirteen edits in that video.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
The chops.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, but you know there's a bunch of stuff in
that video I can point out, but you know, what
you see is what you get. Definitely got creatively out
there and got the conversation going. But you know, it
also allowed me to be put on like, you know,
(27:21):
an award show.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
You know what I'm saying, or it was.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
It was a real big moment, and yes, I was
really excited to go forward from that, but Steve didn't
want to shoot another video and I got so fucking.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Bad because you had the record on there with with meth.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Yeah, he's like on that record yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, which felt like it was like a radio record.
Yeah yeah, pussy pop, Pussy Pop. Pussy had the vinyl. Yeah.
My favorite shit on there is three card Moley though, yes, yes,
which is fucking just up there.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
But they didn't want to shoot any more visuals. I
got so fucking hot. I was like what He's like, Yeah,
I just gonna make another record.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I was like, We're not then pushing this album?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
No, I was like one single, that one.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, that's crazy when you said, uh, that's like Christopher
Reeves doing the crip walk, man, that's like, that's foul.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeah, we got away with a whole lot of ship, though,
you know, we gotta wait with a whole.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Do you feel like because like that whole pocket of
artists right like, and I feel like even like, uh
we mentioned Afari ev Rocker dilated all those guys, but
I kind of feel like just that pocket of underground
la rap was you, the Licks, King, t the FARII
feel the agony all those guys. I just feel like,
(28:52):
man like that was such a I feel like when
we talk about West Coast hip hop like a lot
of times, like those guys get kind of like left
out of the conversation and they're so like, like your
rap life, Tash's rap life, it's such a great alp.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Okay, So so here's the thing. People have to identify
things by name, right, So if you look at you know,
the g Funk era to death Row era, people know, yeah,
all the exactly people want to name something, right, So
(29:33):
we came after the death Row era and all these
other things. We were right in the middle right before
you know, my era started my graduating class, and so
you know we've started calling it like West Coast Lyricists, right, because.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
At that time there's there's like Preestyle Fellowship and you
know what I'm saying. Yeah, and even guys like Roscoe and.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Yeah, and then you had you know, Crooked Eye was
you know what I'm saying, like.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Part of Asia.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yeah, all these like West Coast lyricists because that was
our that was that was our angle, that was what
we were doing, you know what I'm saying. Like, And
I think that kind of sums it up. So now
you can come to mind and think of all these
other artists that were around that that genre. You know
where I am comes out of.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
That graduating Yeah, I mean I think about that. That
first Black Eyed Peas album.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Was yeah for sure, Before that he was signed Ruthless, right, Yeah,
you know will one X.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Yeah that sh.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
It's crazy, man, Yeah, it's crazy. So you end up
uh putting out forty Days forty Nights was the black
and white soundtrack before Restless, it was, right, Yes, so
you had the year two thousand song. Mike Tyson was
in that movie, I believe, wasn't he in Black.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
And White Yes slapped the ship out of Robert.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
How you go from the loud situation and then bridging
it to aligning with Dre?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Huh huh?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Like I said, it goes back to that video that
they shot one video for that album and then told
me to go and make another album.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
I was like, we haven't even you.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Know, we haven't even got into the meat and potatoes
of this.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Album, Superman, Superman.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
So I was, you know, basically throwing the temper tantrum,
you know, rebelling, you know, fuck that.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
I'm not gonna get another album. So I got a call.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Snoop dogg, Hey, I want you to work on this
this record, doctor Dre, gonna do the beat. When when
went to the studio, no limit, top Dog, No limit,
top dog, bitch please came out that ship out of
the out of here, trying a video to it even
(32:02):
more out of here.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Oh ship, he's heating up.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
No then uh, you know, got the call again, no
Doc like working with you.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Come through. You know, we want to see what you
can do.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Two thousand and one.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Yeah, two thousand and one, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
He's heating up yo x Hey hey you uh you guys,
what you're doing The next few months, you want to
go on this tour.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I bought tickets. That's the first content I ever bought
real tickets tour. Oh my god, he's on and the date,
the date I went to Q wasn't on it.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Oh man.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
But yeah, that was. That was a crazy tour.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
So that's the progression. Now, now we got to have
that conversation. I don't want to do another record.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
You're on fire?
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Fuck that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Fuck that I was. I was definitely feeling myself, but
you know, we had to we had to find a
common ground and uh yeah man, yeah, I'm glad it
worked out the way it did.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
I mean it did. Uh what was it?
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Like?
Speaker 2 (33:17):
Can you take me into the session where you're working
on what's the difference? Because that is we talked about
posse cuts earlier. That's another all timer. You know your
verse obviously Eminem's versus fucking crazy, but I feel like
you're Lyne. What's the difference between me and about five
Baker counts three out of two vehicles? I feel like
(33:40):
just an all time verse on that album. What was
that studio session?
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Like?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
I think it was at Larrabie. I think it was
at Larrabie and it was like one of the last
things that we worked on before for no, I'm thinking
about the X record. That was my that was that,
that was that record. But in that session, Dre was there,
(34:12):
I think Scott Stortch was there engineers, and I think
I think that's it.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Down.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Oh we didn't hear I didn't hear I didn't hear that.
I didn't hear anything until I laid my verse and
so he's like, you got something for this, yeah, yeah,
And then went over there and uh, you know smashed it.
You know, of course, you know, you know, got the
direction from Dre, you know, made sure that it was
(34:46):
right in the pocket and had everything delivered in the
right way the way he wanted to hear it, and uh,
that was it. So then I think Dre's verse was
on it, you know what I'm saying. And then when
he put it all together, it came out crazy crazy
that could that could That beat was just at the
time when you heard it come on, it was like
(35:07):
it was it was a highlight, you know what I'm saying.
It was it was it was not just like you
know it was at the top of the record. It's
just like Showcase, this is this is gonna be a
big one.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Yeah, you and Eminem have had some amazing moments on
records together. Don't approach me as.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
A great record by the way, thank you?
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Uh bitch please to ended up on his album, yeah,
which was random as fuck. Yeah, like, how fuck Eminem
get the second bitch please?
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Yeah? It was good.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Can you talk about your guys' relationship because obviously you're
on tour with him to the up and Smoke tour.
Eminem's not quiet Eminem yet, but he's still Eminem. You know,
he came out in the fucking jumpsuit and ship. Yeah yeah,
but what was what was y'all's like friendship like and
and and like. Your guys' chemistry was pretty crazy on songs.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
No, it was good, man.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
I think we just cut from the same cloth as
far as where our taste in hip hop is right. So,
you know, everybody has their own original way of presenting themselves,
and you know, he's definitely, you know what I'm saying,
one of the greatest you know what I'm saying, And
so seeing him, you know now from then is dope
(36:20):
to be able to see how the integrity of what
he's doing is still intact and still in place. So
you know, we we were definitely were in the same circles.
But you know, I can't say, you know, like we
had like the best of friendship. I think they're like
denying it together. Yeah, yeah, denying and and Royce and
(36:42):
you know what I'm saying, like his family is Paul
and Tracy that you know, like he's he's with his
people's you know what I'm saying. But when we do interact,
it's love, you know what I'm saying, Like, yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Can you speak to like because you got Royce on
the new album? Yes, uh he fucking spazed out a yeah,
Royce is I always tell everybody I think, like at
the skill of rapping, you know, you gotta talk black thought,
you gotta talk question. There's just names that like we
don't hear enough. It's like, yo, like Royce is up
up you know Loop is up there too. I mean
like there's a few. But uh with this new album, man,
(37:19):
you're you're like you are. I don't I don't know
how much I could give away about the album because
you did play it for me and it's not come
until February, but you have a great uh mixture of
like OG's. I guess guys from your class, I would say,
and then you have some new younger artists. But it
(37:40):
didn't feel like See, this is the thing that I
feel like when like artists I grew up listening to
work with younger artists, it feels forced. It feels forced,
and it's just like yo, like I don't want to
hear you on their ship, like I don't mind, you
know what I mean. And so with your new album,
(38:01):
I feel like you brought people to at your world.
And what I appreciate about this project is it feels
like an exhibit album. Yes, it doesn't feel like you're washed.
And I mean that, bro. You know you know what
I'm talking about though, because you'll hear some of these
(38:22):
but you'll hear some of these o gs and they'll
put out some new ship and you'll be like this,
we don't want we don't want to hear this from you.
That's what I appreciated about about the Cube single. It's
my ego. I said, this is some fucking ice Cube ship.
This is what I want to hear from ice Cubes.
I don't want to hear it, you know, Yeah, put
that being said, this album feels like, like you know, the.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Time, I don't think I needed to conform. I don't
think I needed to go set find a new sound
or try to do what's current. I think I just
need to do what I do extremely well. And I
think the quality and standard of people that you know,
(39:08):
like music, that it has it, you know. Like you said,
I think people, regardless of how they know me, regardless
of what they know me from, I deserve one listen
for sure, you know what I'm saying, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Before you dismiss it, before you say I fuck you,
fuck him, whatever, you know what I'm saying, or whatever
(39:29):
you want to come and blast the comments or whatever,
just one listen, give it, give it, give it one run.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
You know what I'm saying. I think the game on me.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
That you have somehow, you're one of the people who
doctor Dre has always just had uh an insane amount
of love for since you've gotten into his you know circle,
I would say, right, I feel like Dre has always
had your back behind the scenes. I've heard that he's
(40:02):
always had your back. You know, he may or may
not have had your back on this album.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
What what do you do you remember like kind of
like when you and Dre like kind of hit like
a real momentum, like oh, like we're this is this
is like a this is not a music relationship, This
is not a label head relationship. This is like a
brotherhood type shit. You know.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Yeah, I think over the time that we spent making
those records and then being able to see you know,
that might my outside studio activities were just as strong
as my inside studio activities, meaning that you know, I'm
trying to get the job done. I'm not here for
the bullshit. You know what I'm saying, like to be
(40:52):
an asset. I want to be an.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Asset, not a liability, correct, And.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
So that's always been my drive, you know. You know,
sometimes I fail.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
You know what I'm saying all that everybody's.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Perfect, but you know I most ninety nine percent of
the time I hate the mark, right, And so now
being able to you know, go forward and you know,
like families be involved and people know, you know, our
personal lives, you know, our you know discussed, you know,
(41:25):
we we built it over time, and you know, I
think that you know, when people get around certain individuals
and they I think people's intentions and you know, whatever
they they override the desire to be a good person, right.
I think he experiences that more than anybody. But he's
he's definitely in ConTroll of his his his circle of
(41:47):
people that he decides to associate with. I'm just you know,
I'm I'm blessed enough to be able to, you know,
have those conversations with him and talk about things other
than music, and you know, I get a little I
get a lot of wisdom and a lot of you know,
like good direction, you know, saying because he's seen it all.
So he's built you know, empires and you know he's
(42:10):
seen him crumble and you don't built him again, you know.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
What I'm saying. So there's a lot of there's a lot.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Of good ship you can learn, you know, and discussions
with him, you know, And I'm glad. I'm glad I
had that relationship with him.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
When you guys were in those two thousand and one sessions,
did you guys have I mean, it's still dre right.
Should Knight try to drop like the hater chronic two
thousand with the fake snoop?
Speaker 1 (42:34):
Yeah, Yeah, that's why, that's why, that's why he named
it two thousand.
Speaker 6 (42:38):
And one, not come out two thousand and one, but
but like was like the y'all like because that I
always I do make the argument a lot.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
I think two thousand and one age better than the
first Chronic. Like to me, like two thousand and one
sounds like it could have came out today personally for me.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Okay, so if you go listen to Okay, so look,
records are phenomenal, and but you know, if you don't
get the first Chronic, you don't get the second one.
Of course, so the first Chronic, the dynamics to those
mixes are phenomenal because if you listen to that record,
(43:17):
I remember how it shifted everything.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
I mean, yeah, that's the tree that just comes from
just that album. It's forever, like.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Come on, man, it's it's it's things on the it's
things on there that kind of set the standard for
like the next ten to twenty years of music.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
I mean, fu yeah, I mean my opinion, Dog, your
Style is the greatest, if not the greatest album ever,
it's it's the great I mean, it's it's one or
two for me. Yeah, sure, absolutely, And that obviously is
a direct cause and effect from the chronic. Yes, but
uh yo, what have you have you been able to
(43:57):
sit with missionary?
Speaker 3 (43:59):
I have?
Speaker 2 (44:00):
I feel like I listened to it the first go round,
right and I was like, Okay, this is first, but
you probably you've already been hearing it.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
I was in there.
Speaker 2 (44:11):
I was like I was.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
I was in there with him listening to it and
listen when I'm biased already.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
I love the album.
Speaker 3 (44:19):
I'm biased. I love I love I love everything my team.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1 (44:23):
But I think people got to know that Snoop is
a global brand. He is making music. He feels good
right now. He just got done during the Olympics. You
know what I'm saying, like like this is a direct
representation of how good and how much fun he's.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
Having and he's but he is also wrapping his ass.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
Off so fucking loly. You know what I'm saying. I
heard it through the Big Speak crank. You know what
I'm saying, Like, come on, the production is immaculate. Snoop
is at an all time high on his game. You
know what I'm saying, Like.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
I think I think it's an album that like I'm
on my fourth listen at this point and I'm like, yo,
this ship is amazing.
Speaker 7 (45:01):
Absolutely to catch you off guard a little, the first list, Yeah,
like you going in with expectations, don't don't go in
expecting it here doggy style, because you know that was then,
this is now.
Speaker 2 (45:13):
I think they pulled it off. And that fucking Tom
Petty jelly roll record should be like number one in
the world. Like that song is the fucking smash no
incredible body work. You uh have had so many different
parts of your career, uh, you know, movies, uh, TV,
fucking the music and the music has always been a
(45:34):
constant in some capacity. What's the worst movie you ever
been in? I told ice Cube his worst movie was
a movie you were in by the way that she
was crazy, that she was unbelievable. He said it was
(45:56):
Ghost of Mars, and I was like, probably right, that's
probably worth the Triple X two.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (46:06):
I think I think it's full clip. I think it's
a full clip. I think it is I think I
think it's bad. I think it's really bad.
Speaker 1 (46:21):
Yeah, oh bad, oh man, Yeah, yeah, I like the
other you know, but I agree that like Triple X
two was was a turning point for me, right because
it was the first movie role that I had with
a like a major, major motion picture, like.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
A blockbuster franchise.
Speaker 3 (46:42):
Correct, And it was an offer.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Right, I'm I'm not an actor, you know at this point,
I'm not an actor. Here's a here's an offer. You
want you to be a ice cube triple X? Oh yeah, stunts,
what tanks? Yeah, let's do it. So go do the
film and now it's premier. Now the thing about television,
because you know, they obviously wanted at the time, pim
(47:06):
My ride was at a super hot you know, right,
and so fucking I was gonna put acids in the seats.
So the straight offering never had an acting think. I
was like, I got this. You know, how hard can
it be? I do fucking music videos. Fucking what the fuck?
So I do the film. And then the difference about
TV is that in film is that your face is
(47:30):
like seventy feet high.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
So you're looking at your face at the fucking gigantic level,
and you if you don't know what you're doing, it
looks like you don't know what you're doing, right, And
so yeah, I'm you know, I'm looking at this play.
I was like, this is fucking horrible.
Speaker 3 (47:49):
You know what I'm saying. I'm like looking at myself like, ooh,
this fucking night even you know.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
It's not that bad, but it's just stiff, and it's
not there's no life.
Speaker 3 (47:59):
It's just like.
Speaker 2 (48:02):
You know, an actor, Yeah, you're getting through the script.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
And I was like, fuck, they let me do this
ship and I was like, okay, so this is never
gonna happen again.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
So I'm always going.
Speaker 1 (48:11):
To be prepared and I got to take this serious
if I'm because I like the experience.
Speaker 3 (48:15):
I love the experience. Right, So.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
When uh, I went got an acting coach and she
was little, little, little, little little white lady, gray hair.
She became therapy in these acting coaches because she wanted
she was like, she would let make me talk about
my personal life for like an hour before we even
do that, and say and then she said, okay, where's
(48:40):
the script. And so as we go through the script,
you said, that's somebody from that story, that's somebody from here.
That's what makes it real. You have to start putting
a name to like she pulls apart all these datas
and then she put it on this. She put like,
that's to the person that you just had that argument
with three days and not think about them when you
(49:01):
were saying this line, it's saying talking about this person.
And so that's how I started like really learning from
her and like the things I used to be able
to pick up and so that doing it. A few
years of that, you know, now was ready to do
you know, Grid Iron Gang and de Railed and working
with you know, all these you know, high level directors.
(49:22):
You know, it was really dope to go through that
experience and be able to you know, challenge myself because look,
I started from that, and yeah, it was a good
it was a great opportunity and it led to other things.
But when I took is serious and started really like
focusing on Okay, cool, this is what I'm going to
do now. And that's another thing it took. That took
(49:44):
away from music as well, you know, being able to go.
Speaker 2 (49:47):
And like I mean, yeah, I mean that that takes
time if you're going to take acting serious, correct correct.
Speaker 1 (49:55):
So I had to kind of had to pivot and
I had to go that direction, and I'm glad I did.
Speaker 2 (50:02):
You if I'm just throwing this out and if somebody
took like a legendary West Coast rapper A and ice
Cube and put them on like a crazy East Coast
hip hop sample. It would just be crazy.
Speaker 3 (50:14):
Okay, yeah Yo.
Speaker 2 (50:23):
There are so many like uh, like my producer asked
you off the air, but there are so many like
rumors about pip My Ride. Yes, there's a whole Reddit
thread of former people who are on pit My Ride
and the one thing I want, well not the one thing.
But first of all, I mean that was a paid
gig for you. You would show up right when the car
(50:45):
was done. I mean it was you know, in and out.
Speaker 3 (50:48):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
Was there any point in time where you knew like, oh,
that car is fucked up? Like that's not that's not sustainable.
There's a fish taking a car. It happens all the time.
Speaker 3 (51:02):
I would walking.
Speaker 1 (51:03):
I was walking to the sets and after a while,
let's just like, I mean, let's.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
Another day at work.
Speaker 3 (51:12):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (51:13):
But the producers thought that the show needed that. I
was always of the mindset of being like, look, let's
just paint the motherfucker. If we're gonna spend some money,
let's just do something really dope. The exhaust engine, suspension, RIMS,
paint sound system done.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
This has been to GMTV, though they got to do
crazy shit done.
Speaker 1 (51:38):
I know, I know, but it was like, no, it's
more entertaining when they was like, Yo, I'm pretty sure
these motherfuckers just want.
Speaker 3 (51:44):
A dope card to get to work.
Speaker 2 (51:47):
Yeah, pick up a girl on a date baby, Yeah, yeah,
for sure. What's the craziest thing, Like you saw them
do to a car where you were just like, guys
like this, who thought of this ship?
Speaker 3 (51:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (51:57):
Man, I mean there's no shortage of things, you know,
but I think I think the craziest thing was when
they tried to make that engine run on cooking oil.
Speaker 2 (52:09):
Yeah, they were like, we're going to reinvent the entire
the car was so dope.
Speaker 1 (52:16):
I was like, why y'all do that to that fucking car? Yeah,
but but I mean, look, the show was entertaining.
Speaker 2 (52:23):
There was was there a video game? Yes, there was
a pit my ride video.
Speaker 3 (52:27):
It was there was Yeah.
Speaker 2 (52:29):
Crazy.
Speaker 3 (52:29):
Yeah was.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
Obviously when you get coined to do that show, right,
like you don't know it's going to be a big success,
Like you're like, give it a shot.
Speaker 3 (52:38):
So it happened very very very true. You know, we
didn't know what we had to you.
Speaker 2 (52:42):
Know, at your peak of pint my ride. You have
a ton of leverage, right, are you? Like, is the
bag just crazy to do an episode?
Speaker 1 (52:49):
It got okay, yeah, yeah, but it was nothing compared
to the addict that the advertising revenue.
Speaker 2 (52:58):
Yeah, I saw that. They we're talking about bringing it
back or it's coming back.
Speaker 3 (53:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (53:03):
Oh, but you're not involved with the with the reincarnation there,
Like if they find another rapper, because I got a
feeling there's going to be like a younger up. What
advice would you give them?
Speaker 3 (53:16):
H good luck, good luck?
Speaker 2 (53:21):
I love it, yo. Somebody else you're you know, being
on Loud Records, you had some legendary label mates, but
somebody you had a great relationship with and worked with
was Big Pun Absolute You got a pun tattoo? Yes, yes,
and uh, you know pun It is one of the
biggest what ifs ever. You know, I think if he
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was still around right now, we'd be looking at him
like he's one of the greatest of all time, because
I think he's one of the grades of all time.
And yes, uh he's you know, by all accounts, one
of the funniest motherfuckers ever. Can you just share a
bit like a big pun store you might have with us.
Speaker 3 (54:00):
Hell yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (54:02):
So so we went out on this first promo.
Speaker 3 (54:09):
Tour together, right, and so.
Speaker 1 (54:14):
We had two buses and we go we go out
and uh, I think we were I think we were
on the East coast working our way through right to
Detroit or somewhere in Flint, somewhere, I don't know, somewhere
right right, we're out together. Their bus breaks down and
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so they, you know, puns, like, you know, let me
get my family. He got his family with him. It's like,
let me get on the bus, like we come on,
y'all ride with us. You know what I'm saying. It's
all good, you know, hung out, you know, went to
uh went to the gig, right, So they all on
my bus, right, and so no, we went to the
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hotel first. Okay, so I do the night was gonna
be crazy, but I didn't know at the beginning of
the day how.
Speaker 3 (55:03):
Crazy it was gonna get.
Speaker 1 (55:05):
So they're trying to get to the hotel and get
checked in, so they don't want to be on our
bus anymore because they feel like they're in Pete. I
was like, no, you guys are good, you know, just
just go in a chill, but it's like, nah, we
call a car. So this car pulls up and this
you know, this nigga jump out Jerry Curll, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (55:22):
Old school?
Speaker 1 (55:23):
He got a poop pulled up in a limousine, right,
and so something happened. We all on the bus and
we see this guy pull up and he gets out
with an attitude and it's like watching the Sign of movie.
Speaker 3 (55:35):
You know.
Speaker 1 (55:36):
We on the bus and were looking out the window
and so it's just like you can tell what a
body like was that he didn't like what was happening.
He was like, you know, you all you motherfuckers can't
get in my car. So, you know, the whole terror
squads went over. It's like a bunch of shit, right
and so and so I see the dude throws hands
(55:56):
up and I'm like, oh, this is not gonna end good.
So did all the tailor squad niggas come. They start
chasing this nigger around the car. It's like the best
shit ever, right, So I was like, oh, it's gonna
be a great night. So we end up getting everything
together and we get over to the venue.
Speaker 3 (56:13):
So we the venues.
Speaker 1 (56:15):
Packed, super excited, we going first, it's going down. No,
there's a guy named Booby, the boxer that's part of
TS at the time. Booby whatever, you know what I'm saying.
He was on stage with pun You know he's getting down.
We're up on the balcony now, yeah, we're just watching
the show. Place is packed. So there's something going on
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in the front row. Booby's addressing something in the front row.
They having another Siglent movie.
Speaker 3 (56:49):
Yeah, what it is.
Speaker 1 (56:51):
And so then somebody goes off the stage. No, somebody
throws something. Then somebody goes off the stage. Now it's
a fight. Now the fight's coming on stage. And uh, somebody,
somebody from the team pulls out a gun and fires
it right in the air. Yo, this nigga had pulled
(57:17):
out a pulled out of a briefcase BA in the
middle of the stage. No, no, I'm someone everybody in
the first ten rows is you know, it gets stuck.
So everybody's trying to get away. So you just see
like dominoes like people falls and then everybody else turned
(57:39):
around and shout. So we stuck on the balcony. Everybody's
laying down on the balcony and he was like, get
the fuck up. Everybody, get the fuck up and get out.
Speaker 3 (57:49):
So then we.
Speaker 1 (57:50):
We we we were getting down to go into our bus, right,
we do head count everybody good, all right, all right,
let's go. We get into our bus and they trying
to come up. They coming out the back door. They're
coming out of the back door, so they know everybody's righting.
Everybody's you know, we're trying to get pun you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (58:08):
So he throw this.
Speaker 1 (58:09):
The cops is coming, So he throw the motherfucking thing
in the dumpster. There's no trash in the dumpster. The
niggas just walk right up to it the paslight like
there is Yeah, who threw it? So everybody's in cuss.
(58:30):
Everybody's like, you know what I'm saying. It's like, okay,
cool Joe here, Joe is not here, all right, So
so so end up, you know, got to deal with
that ship.
Speaker 3 (58:41):
We get to the hotel and.
Speaker 1 (58:43):
Now there's these niggas walking around the hotel looking for
terror squad.
Speaker 3 (58:48):
Right, you know what I'm saying, Like like.
Speaker 1 (58:50):
People, that was nothing concept and now when I was
niggas walking around, So now we got to run this
covert operation to get everybody on the buses and get
it go. I mean they shot the bus up, busses
up and everything, man, But yeah, it was never a
dupe moment.
Speaker 3 (59:08):
Yo.
Speaker 2 (59:09):
Something I always wanted to ask you about was what
I think I kind of know what happened, but you
had I mean, you've been a part of some dope situations,
shots to serial killers, but also like there was the
strong Arm Steady ship, and your guys' mixtapes were crazy
and they were very like peaked mixtape era. Shit. It
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was kind of like you guys were like kind of
like West Coast gu and.
Speaker 3 (59:33):
It low key. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think it's dope. Man.
Speaker 1 (59:35):
I can't I take I can't take credit for the
mixtapes because they brought me in after they had the idea.
Speaker 2 (59:42):
Originally started it was like you Crown, don Ye, Bill
Mitchie Slick, and then they ended up signing with Talib
and then you you kind of exited that situation. And
I remember you and toe Lib weerre cool because you're
on the reflection of Turtle album Down for was it
Down for the count? Oh with Rod Digga? Oh my god,
fucking fire amazing song. But did that lead to like
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some tension between you guys for a while.
Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
Yeah, but it was it.
Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
Listen, you know, I think with strong Arm Steady, you know,
shout out to all the brothers, man. I think when
people have ambition and my mind comes from a very
genuine place, right. And so when I got involved with
Strong Arm Steady, I tend to be the kind of
(01:00:37):
leader where I don't explain what I'm thinking or what
I'm seeing too far down the road because I know,
I know what the goal is. But right now, we
just need to do these few steps in order to
get to this next thing because I don't want to.
I don't want to waste time trying to explain something
that you can't see, right, you know what I'm saying.
(01:00:59):
And so it's a very small group of people that
I like to do that with, you know what I'm saying,
because then executing is simpler when we break it down
a smaller task, right. And and you know the maturity
of what was happening with the mixtapes was preparing us
for a record, right, so boom, you know, TYLERB has
(01:01:22):
this this Blacksmith record right in print with Cory, I believe, right,
So they approached Phil Phil you know, brought the opportunity
to the group. Oh yeah, I just I just I
just I shot it down. I didn't feel like there
was enough, you know for us to accomplish the kind
of record that we wanted, right, So I went to
(01:01:45):
New York and then I was collecting music for us
to do a strong, steady record. Right, if we're going
to do it, you might as well do it independently
with us, you know what I'm saying, and then work
for a bigger situation. You know, at least we can
all kind of carve out what we need, you know
what I'm saying. I carved it out, came back from uh,
(01:02:06):
you know, because I had just you know, I turned
it down, right, So somehow it was explained to them
that I turned it down, But that didn't mean they
couldn't they they they they can still take it, and
they did. And I just felt as though, like, guys,
you know, like you know, after after investing in what
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we invested in and going around the world and doing
all these things, you know, I think you just trust
me a little bit, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
Did you guys ever, did you ever get to a
good place with those guys? Ever again. Yeah, yeah, doing
some acting and.
Speaker 1 (01:02:45):
Yeah, yeah it's a shame because we had such a
great momentum and you know, they they killed it.
Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
They put out one album. I don't know if it
was on Blacksmith or not, but it was fucking crazy.
But it's it's crazy too because it's like, damn dude,
Like Phil was so fire. I remember that. I remember
that the solo song he had on Expansion Team on
the Dilated album was so fucking tough.
Speaker 3 (01:03:13):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
Yeah, he had a unique voice, and uh, you know
he's still ill. I think he's still moving right now.
I think I just saw something when he's he's got coming.
Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
Yeah, it's crazy. I remember like when I moved to
l A, Like one of the guys that wanted the
interview was Tofari and I got him on like when
I was I'm still at Real ninety two three, but
when I was like actually working there and not contracted there,
I had him pulled up to the show and I
was like, yo.
Speaker 3 (01:03:34):
Defar.
Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
At the Faria album. He's in front of the forum.
Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
Yeah yeah, focus, daily, focused days so fucking good. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:03:46):
Do you know if THEFARII ever got to because it
felt damn near like he was like after math ish
for a sec.
Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
Yeah, I was trying to listen.
Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
Was he a Tommy boy?
Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
I signed him? Okay, I signed him the open bar.
Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (01:03:59):
Yeah, I signed him. And then we got close.
Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
I mean, you guys never did an album.
Speaker 3 (01:04:04):
Though, I never did it, he said.
Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
After Restless came out and there was a pamphlet inside,
it was like coming soon.
Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
Yeah, I remember, yeah, I got the album and I
was like, you.
Speaker 1 (01:04:16):
Don't have an album ready yet. And at the time,
we're the same age. So if he would have heard
that from anyone else, it would have resonated because I
said it, all right, I'm as peer and and and we.
Speaker 3 (01:04:32):
Had you know, we had just got done.
Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
He just got done and off the excitement and adrenaline
of me putting out the Restless record, and he's involved
in that, he want to come right now. I was like, listen,
we still got a lot of building to do off
this record, and while we're doing the building off this record,
you can be recording the record that you want. He's like, no,
I'm ready to go right now. I was like, all right,
(01:04:57):
just all right, well, let me off the label. Okay,
there you go.
Speaker 2 (01:05:04):
Could have well, could have that's another what if? That's
another what if? Like what if? Like that's the Thefari album.
Speaker 3 (01:05:09):
I wanted to be here for sure. Yeah yeah, but
we were hot headed at the time.
Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
And you feel like you because I feel like, uh,
you know, were you like a hot headed guy during
that Oh yeah, like you have like anger issues?
Speaker 3 (01:05:25):
Would you say absolutely? Yeah? Yes, listen to those records.
Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
I know, I know, I felt like the exhibit in
my head. I just thought this food must just work
out and drink. I didn't even know what a triangular
push up was exhibiting.
Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
I want kick in the screaming, that's what, that's what.
But it was good. I got I got that ship out.
Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
No, that's fucking crazy man. Shout out to Dafari. Do
you still talk to any of like the the Licks
or any of those guys.
Speaker 1 (01:05:55):
Yeah, shout out to shout out to, Shout out to
East West, shout out to j row King, t uh
you know, the far right, the whole team, you know,
rest in peace, beefin biggo Bee, bigga Bee?
Speaker 2 (01:06:09):
Was was that the that's not biggo Bee's not.
Speaker 3 (01:06:13):
The uh let's chase infinitus brother?
Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
Yeah, yeah, Chase Infinite is doing this thing man, absolutely
behind the scenes, becoming a real legend on He's.
Speaker 3 (01:06:20):
An executive and we need to protect him at all costs.
Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
An executive fucking like he's cooking. Yeah, yeah, he's a
boss for you. Man. Do you feel like this album
scratches the itch? Or are you like, Yo, I'm back?
Speaker 3 (01:06:36):
But are you? Are you like?
Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
Because because the thing is is this is twelve years later,
thirteen years later probably prosiputs or no that I mean
so like, like you said, you're you're involved in music, right,
like you're still doing stuff, but like, are you gonna
have to wait thirteen years for another exhibit album? Are
you like, do you feel like you're back in the
(01:06:58):
game now because this out of work when it drops? Men,
it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:07:03):
Yeah, I think, Thank you man, I appreciate it. I
feel invigorated, I feel I feel I do that To
answer your question, yes, I feel like the void has
been filled with this project.
Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (01:07:20):
Go and put my best foot forward in promoting and
getting in front of the people and presenting this album
the way it's supposed to be presented. That's I'm I'm
dedicating my time and energy to that that's.
Speaker 3 (01:07:32):
Going to happen.
Speaker 1 (01:07:33):
But as far as what's going to happen with the
next one and the next one and the next one,
I'm gonna take a case by case.
Speaker 3 (01:07:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
I think it's called king Maker for people who don't know, yes, yes,
what what? Why that name?
Speaker 1 (01:07:49):
Well, king Maker was decided because it has nothing to
do with royalty or riches or any of that kind
of you know, stereotypical thought of kings. My meaning behind
it is it's a transfer of information. This is about
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the things that have made me successful, the consistencies, the
self discipline, the ups, the downs, you know, my definition
of things in the most entertaining way possible that I
could see. Right, there's some bucket list items on here, Yeah,
that I've always wanted to do, haven't been able to
do it until now, big, big records that you know
(01:08:37):
are very.
Speaker 3 (01:08:41):
True to form, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (01:08:43):
Definitely Yeah, Yeah, And I feel like I'm I feel
like I said, I find my voice. I've been able to,
you know, put things in a way that I feel
very comfortable with and I feel are unique and I
feel good. I feel like you could it can be
put up against any music just out right now?
Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
I agree. Can you talk to me. You've had so many,
like you said, you've gone through you speak about some
of the stuff on the album, whether it's some of
your family stuff being on the tabloids or I mean,
I mean, damn, twenty years ago now you know you
got to an altercation that was why you got a
scar on your face. Now you've had some crazy like
(01:09:23):
lows as well as crazy highs. Can you tell me, like,
just like, has there been a moment because I feel like,
you know, you've grown as a man over the years
to the point where, like you said, like this album
is like a transfer of information. Was there like a
point in time where you felt like you had like
an awakening where maybe you were like in a low
place where you kind of like you you really kind
(01:09:44):
of had to only depend on yourself to dig yourself
out of it. Because with that shit comes a lot
of growth.
Speaker 3 (01:09:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:09:50):
Absolutely, I think it's a combination of things. You know,
you know, your family stuff has always found stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:10:00):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:10:02):
I think when you start losing your parents and your
grandparents and all that stuff, you know that that's that's
it happens to everyone. But then you know, like when
you lose a child or something like that. That's a
that's a heavy one, right, So that's what that's what
happened to me. And you know, I think also the divorce,
you know what I'm saying, it was just like a
(01:10:24):
series of really horrible events, you know that that just
kind of put me in a really dark place. So
I would really feel like, you know, being able to
get back to music was another reason why I needed
to be able to find that outlet again.
Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
You know, did you I can only imagine, you know,
losing a kid. That's the ultimate you know, the ultimate thing.
It's ultimate nightmare.
Speaker 3 (01:10:52):
It's not the natural order of things.
Speaker 2 (01:10:55):
Do you like, was it was it therapy that helped
you get through that? Or was there anything you were
able to douse? I can't even I mean, I can't
even imagine. Bro Like, like, how do you how do
you know, grieve?
Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
You got a grief.
Speaker 1 (01:11:05):
Yeah, you gotta go, you gotta grieve, and you gotta
talk about it and you gotta you know, realize what
that means and you know, and yeah, it's it's it's
one of the things, you know, but death is an
our natural part of life, and you know, you you
you don't you don't forget, but you know you definitely grow. Yeah,
(01:11:26):
you know, and I think that you know, being in
that dark place, you know, you have two options. Either
you can stay there, or you can and die there,
or you can stand up and fucking go forward and
see you know what life has to offer.
Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
Yeah, because I mean it is I'm sure very easy
to stay in that place.
Speaker 1 (01:11:47):
Yeah, people to lie down and self and self loathing.
But that ain't that ain't where it's at. You know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (01:11:53):
It's it's easy to die, it's hard to live. You know.
Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
I always wonder, like, uh, you having like a public
to divorce Dre had a public divorce? Is it because
I've never I mean, I'm in I'm married right now.
Shot to my wife. Uh, shot to my wife. But
I'm saying, like, but I want to like when you
get on the other side of that divorce, Like I
(01:12:20):
feel like we when when you're married, right, there's so
much of your like self identification that's dependent on like
this relationship, right, and then even like what your kids
might think or you know, so much was it like
the dynamics of getting over that and like being sleeping
alone at night again, you know what I mean, and
(01:12:41):
not necessarily having like uh, like your fault, like you
don't have the like really knowing the answer to I
suppose was that easy to get used to? Would you say, yeah,
like I'm just gonna go yeah, yeah, yes, like what
do I want to do today? Whatever the funk?
Speaker 3 (01:13:02):
I was like that.
Speaker 1 (01:13:06):
It wasn't like right, But you know, here's the things
you know, I think you have to You have to
be true to yourself. Let me start there. You got
to be true to yourself. I watched my father staying
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in a broken, unhappy marriage.
Speaker 3 (01:13:35):
And I saw his outcome.
Speaker 1 (01:13:41):
And we've had long talks about this. He you know,
he stayed way past what he was. It did a
lot of damage internally to the family. I didn't want that.
I knew where I was, I knew where she was,
and I couldn't. I couldn't you know what.
Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
Yeah, it's like past the point in or return.
Speaker 3 (01:14:09):
Yeah, and you know, like even going to therapy, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:14:14):
That couple's therapy trying to save it.
Speaker 1 (01:14:19):
I want to I want a couple of times, you
know what I'm saying. But I mean it was like
the lady was like you know I shouldn't be saying this,
but I'm just saying anyway.
Speaker 3 (01:14:30):
The lady was like, so, uh, how do you feel?
I was like, you know, how do you feel about
being married? I'm like, I don't want to be agreed,
There's nothing wrong with me, you know what I'm.
Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
Saying, Like, maybe I just don't want to Yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (01:14:49):
Don't want to be married. Yeah, to her like.
Speaker 2 (01:14:57):
Like we're better apart.
Speaker 1 (01:14:58):
Yeah, exactly exactly. It was it was you know, it was.
It was time. There was there was it was time.
Speaker 2 (01:15:06):
I mean, hey that I think that. I feel like
a lot of people, like you said, like are like
your dad, like they hang on Yeah, and look, it's
not good.
Speaker 1 (01:15:15):
It's not good for anyone. And and I didn't want
my youngest to be to see that tension in me
all the time or know that something's in.
Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
There, something about it.
Speaker 3 (01:15:31):
Now he's conditioned to live that way.
Speaker 1 (01:15:34):
That makes sense, right, right, So that's that's I think
that's the And then and then on top of it,
you add that you know things are being put out
in the fucking internet or whatever. You know, now everybody's
in your business, but don't know ship for sure. You
know what I'm saying, you know, but you know, it's
it's how you portrayed this, how what you fed you know.
But you know, I've I've I've lost contact with you know,
(01:15:58):
a significant about of people connected with that, and that's okay.
Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
That's fine. Yeah, you are also kind of one of
the I would say, like one of the guys who
I looked kind of kicked off the h being involved
in the marijuana industry while being a hip hop artist
thing that's happening. I mean, you were behind some really
successful brands that ended up I think you told me earlier.
I won't say that I want to give them any light,
but you but I mean, shit, I remember you had
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the grenades with the fucking giant, fat ass, fucking napalm
fucking pre roll in it. What is the latest with
you in the weed game?
Speaker 1 (01:16:34):
Well, we stopped our California production of napalm, so manufacturing, right,
just shut that down. I think it's a really competitive market.
Speaker 2 (01:16:47):
It's sure, it's a tough market, right, it is, it is,
and the bougiest smokers in the world are here.
Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
Right, So you know, I just parked napon for the moment,
and now I have two dispensaries it's like, you know,
instead of building one or two brands, which I've done,
why not sell everybody.
Speaker 2 (01:17:06):
Ship and then you're not So I always here, I
always hear. The hardest part of the weed uh process
is the cultivation.
Speaker 1 (01:17:17):
Yeah, yeah, but but I mean it's it's like when
you don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
Shout out to the homie from Harden like Dane, Yeah, absolutely,
like they're uh, they don't grow any of them, they're
just selling everybody ship.
Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
Correct, And so we we you know, we definitely have
a have a foothold and on the culture and and
and the blueprint of of what our DNA is and
with the culture, so being able to translate that into
a store is for the stores. The first store in
bel Air, second stores in Chatsworth got the valid in
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the value right, So you know we've been exhibits West
Coast Cannabis fucking record deal and want more logo on
the building.
Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
Do you still have your og X chain, like the
chain from like ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
Yes, I do have it?
Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
You do?
Speaker 3 (01:18:07):
I do have it? Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:18:09):
I told I told you I was. I was like, yeah,
bring the old logo bag, yeah, bring that chain back.
Speaker 3 (01:18:15):
Ship.
Speaker 2 (01:18:16):
So the new album's coming out in February. Yes, uh,
it is incredible. Uh man, you got the Who's Who won?
Speaker 3 (01:18:23):
There? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
Man, for sure.
Speaker 3 (01:18:25):
It's a nice blend. It's a nice mixture.
Speaker 2 (01:18:27):
Yeah, it's a nice mixture. And I feel like you
know any of the Oh and then your son's rapping, yes,
and he's rapping capital Yes, So your kid is like
is he like rapping?
Speaker 3 (01:18:37):
Rapping?
Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
Like, is this like something he's pursuing.
Speaker 3 (01:18:39):
Yeah, yeah, he's been. He's been making music since high school.
Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
Can you has him?
Speaker 5 (01:18:44):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
You know, shout to the homie Chris Rivers. Have they
worked together him in Punsa?
Speaker 3 (01:18:49):
Yes? I had Chris Rivers out here.
Speaker 2 (01:18:51):
Chris River's a beast.
Speaker 3 (01:18:52):
He is a beast. He's a beast. Yeah, he's a beast.
You know. Trey Capitol my son. He's twenty nine now.
Speaker 2 (01:18:59):
So that's just named Tree Capitol Tree Capital. Oh ship,
that's fine. Yeah. I was like, Yo, who's this You're
like it's my son?
Speaker 3 (01:19:04):
Yeah? Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:19:06):
He's on a song on a Kingmaker album called End
of the Day Dope.
Speaker 2 (01:19:10):
That's super dope. I feel like him and Inhale should
do a song be Dope. Nate Dogg's kid is sick.
Speaker 3 (01:19:19):
Yeah, hell yeah in Hell shout out to in Hell.
Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
Yeah yeah, And like you've been running it up doing
a lot of show shot to Bobby. I feel like, man,
I feel like every three months in Ontario there's just
this like fucking summer jam, and then it goes to
like Bakersfield and then it goes to like.
Speaker 3 (01:19:39):
And you're like, come on, man, look look we got.
Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
Like the show that just happened. Oh my god, it's
that ship was crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:19:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:19:47):
But we we have we have we have dedicated people
that love what we do. They love the artistic you know,
you know, things that we put out, and they dedicated.
They come to the shows, they support us. We love
our fans. The people that come to these shows up
and down the coast, all the way to the Midwest,
all the way to the East coast, like we still
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doing arenas, we're still doing stadium shows.
Speaker 3 (01:20:10):
Is incredible.
Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
Great to see. Man. Well, look the album is out.
You got some songs that are out right now, videos
that are going crazy. I'm sure we'll get more details
on the album.
Speaker 3 (01:20:19):
Yes, yes, soon to come back. We'll come back after
it drops.
Speaker 2 (01:20:22):
Exhibit I appreciate you, man, that's all love all right,