#684 - Kurupt & Battle Cat Talk New Album, Daz & Snoop Dogg Beef, Nate Dogg, Cali Iz Active & More

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Bootlet cav show. We got a special guest, two of them,
two legends in here. The new album Tales from the Hood.
By the time you see this, it'll be out.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Go stream it.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
You will enjoy it. Is it a very, very incredible
body of work. Eleven songs straight, just fucking cohesive, West
Coast classic vibes. We got corrupt, We got battle Cat
in the building, the one two punch. What's up, fellas,
how y'all doing?

Speaker 2 (00:28):
We're good? What's going on?

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Good looking for having this cave?

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Back again?

Speaker 1 (00:33):
You are back man. You guys obviously have classic music
together already. What was the idea to say, you know what,
let's get together and let's do a whole project.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
We've been trying to get that accomplished for many years.
When we got originally you know, it's battle Cat, Yeah,
who I first worked with when I was a kid.
So when went solo and left Death Row, I basically
told John McClain and Big Redge, they said, who you

(01:07):
want to work with production? I said, go get battle
Cat so we can start where.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
We ended off, which was in the hood.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
We started now we're gonna start again here and that's
crazy because we started working on my next solo album Space.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Nope, this is after Spacebook and all that, right, And
if I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Not mistaken, I think I just got back with Snoop
and the homies. We did Cali is Active. This is
after Cali is Active.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
By the way, one of the most legendary music videos.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Every other videos.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
And uh and quick.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Everybody was in it, even like the underground, like dilated people.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
That was a beautiful day. Dog Dog put that together
so elegantly, and everybody came out and showed out for
all of us, Battle Cat for me and Dad and everybody,
and Snoopy.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
But that's you know.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
After that, I got with Cat and he said, we're
gonna start working on your next solo album.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
I say, cool.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
First record we made was Mystic River. So ten eleven
years later, you know, Snoop comes to me and Cat
because Snoop co manages me with my wife Lisa, and
he comes to Cat and myself and says, okay, so
it's time for corrupt solo thing. And he says corrupt

(02:31):
battle Cat gonna produce it all. Me and Cat is
just stuff like Wow, we finally get the opportunity to
do this.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
So do you feel good to put out mister River
after so many years? Definitely, it don't sound like it
sounds like y'all just did it.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
And you know it's crazy to put it out on
this level though, because I threw it on a mixtape
way out just to see what people thought. I couldn't
hold it no more. I can't lie, and it just
went everywhere. But it's never been.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
On an actual real project.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
We're saving it for my solo, so that's one of
the first things we went was took that we're gonna
make the basis from this. Everything else is spanking brand new.
And stories was the main kick to it. Kendrick really
sent me on the page when I was working on this.
I love his stories, I said, you know what, He
was the inspiration because I'm gonna give a lot of stories.

(03:18):
And then Cat got these beats that just help you
to make this movie. Each one of his beats is
a score, so all I gotta do is pin the
script to this score.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
And that's that's what it felt like.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
That turned into a full track. So I know he
said beats, but you know, I'm a man and know
how to fully produce and I thank God for this
dude Corrupt because he was part of my upbringing before death.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Row to.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Go from a beat maker to a real certified producer
who understands the arrangements and bringing all uh.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
The white people.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
Always been a producer, even the records we made when
I was a kid man fall in love that wasn't produced.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
I was producing. But you know, I just want the
people to hear the beat making. It's another level of
being a full fledged musician, who can play drums, who
can engineer, who can bring the right singers in uh rings,
And it's all that.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
I really want to follow.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Uh the greats that done it and and R and
B and and and uh R and B and uh
and Uh. I say R and B, R and B
and rock and roll. I ain't gonna lie. I love
them both jazz too, and then you know, and then
when hip hop came, it was it was. It was
the next, the next level of following the greats like
DJ Pool and UH and Doctor Dre and Uh. We

(04:57):
didn't we didn't, we didn't stop. I just want to
get this man a sound that would really vibrate the
nation because we in another level of understanding all of
records that was done from Corrupt with some beautiful pieces.
But to have one man, to have one sound behind

(05:17):
this one man, it's phenomenal now and they can understand
how a one producer can really get it off the
same way with Hi Boy. Hit Boy did the same thing.
He's another one that touched me greatly. And his contribution
with nas Oh my god. So you know what I
wanted to do. I want to make sure we called

(05:39):
all a ka. You know, Corrupt have the finest things.
That was going to set this movement off.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
This has been my favorite, I think. I mean I
didn't get to the last two tracks because I was
because he said it to me pretty late last night,
so I didn't get to listen to the record rbax
the last BJ record better when I heard man, it's
it's probably my favorite in the new era death Jam
or death Row. This is my favorite album that Glad
said death Jam too, because you know I'm a part

(06:06):
of that too. I'm glad you said that. My first
hit is with death Jam all the way to death Row.
So what was your first hit? Was a ghetto jam dom? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (06:15):
And that's a guy yeah yeah, yeah, ninety four and
he grew up with with Domino. Domino grew up with
with with Snoopy as well, and so to have that
backbone the voice. Yeah, all the whole album, you know,
except for one record produced by A by by AMG
What's up? AMG? And H. But it was it was

(06:36):
a dope, dope foundation to really get in the game
because that was the record that certified battle Cat.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
You know you're seeing going that way, sweet Potato, you.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Hear me, Domino don't get talked about enough, man, Yeah,
that's my guy. Great body, what's up?

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Boy?

Speaker 1 (06:57):
So like it feels like like I was saying, like
you got the features on this album, feels like like
I feel like like the Jane features, the BJ features,
Like is that is that you being like okay, I
can hear BJ on this or is that like.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
I like how you said that that's Snoop. Yeah, it's
it's Snoopy and it's myself. We both are playing ping
pong with this thing.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
You know. You's take a lot of guest pilots on
the album.

Speaker 5 (07:23):
We got Snoop on some records. You got Jane Hancoff
some records.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, he wanted he wanted this foundation that already exists
on the label, which was a very unique idea, you
know what I'm saying, because I remember how death Row
was back in the days. It wasn't nobody outside being
a part of the situation. Yeah yeah, they cut that out. Features.
They're all in house, you know, incredible talent, but we
found uh, you know, BJ has always been a death

(07:51):
Row and West Coast family out of Chicago. He got
classics with Kendrick Yeah, come on, man, I mean I
got classics with him in an earlier upcoming vibes, you know,
of doing doing hits. So we've been connected in more
ways than you can imagine. So I couldn't help but
hear his voice and anyone else who had to be

(08:12):
on there, Charlie Burrell.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
I got to give it to him. Charlie Burrell did
the record that you like?

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Uh what you do to me?

Speaker 6 (08:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, we weren't playing with that. I had to get him.
You know, he's got attack come on, yeah, yeah, the
way to kick the album off. What's the other one?
Stay mind state? Yeah, we got him a mind state.
Don't get toll. Charlie Burrell.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
He killed him with that. You know what I'm saying.
BJ's on that one.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
Too, and then we let Charlie Burrell just express his
musical muscle, you know, with the guitar and bringing that
that blue soul.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
If people forgot about that, Like, man, we was raised
on all that, Like how could you say we got
to just be one way? But when we grew up
and you heard our production, if you really was in tune,
you'll go, oh my god, this makes sense. This is
a wide range of a production. You know, me being
fifty eight years old, I still feel like, you know
how Michael Jackson and Q and Q got a Quincy Jones,

(09:17):
They did a phenomenal movement when he was fifty. So
I'm fifty eight. I feel like the nineties all over
again through this twenty twenty six movement with this corrupt.

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(10:54):
you drop corruption. It's a double album, it's on Answer.
This is your first venture outside of you know, yes
it is death Row. So it was important. How important
was it to have a song like we can Freak It,
like really kind of solidify your presence at radio? And
I feel like that was the record that kind of

(11:15):
showed everybody like, oh no corrupts, like hes gonna be
all right. You know.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
The thing was, like I said, John McClain and Big Red,
he sent REGs to come give me. But the key
was the key words they used was who do you
want to fuck with? Production wise, you know, with the music.
And I said, go get battle Cat. Let's just start

(11:42):
my my new venture. Let's started off with me and
battle Cat. We never had the opportunity to really work
and actually put out, you know, some product. So they win,
got me battle Cat. We made under pressure and then
we made we can Freak It, and uh, we can
freak it. Just when we heard it, it was just

(12:05):
like I said, Damn, I made it. I think I
think I really made it. My nigga, you know what
I'm saying, this ship right here is unheard of. And
I even went back and got Dazz. And I went
back and got doctor Dre. I asked yourself a question.
I got Dazz, and uh who that think the monster
who put that was on the streets is the mother?

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Okay, okay, okay, I'm just making sure.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Doctor Dre Dazz.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
It's not on the week.

Speaker 4 (12:38):
You know, the first record we made with him, his
girls are Paul Okay trilogy all right? Oh yeah, yeah,
those was the kids right there, and then.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
That that's the sea walk right there's this sea walk.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
Dads did fresh you know what I'm saying, went back
to dad the first to go to cat and get
this original corrupt that they ain't hurt yet. Yeah boom
from there. Okay, now I gotta go get the corrupt.
They love dads and nothing like corrupting dads cause nothing,

(13:16):
so Boomer to go and get the key the doc.
You can't beat corrupting doctor Dre. But we never had
that one record just me and because so this is
this is epic. I'm getting my first real record with
just me and doctor Dre. Del Mar's back at it

(13:37):
gave me one of my biggest classics in the streets
and in this game Seawalk.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
And then I started with.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
The producer who originally was a part of who is
actually a foundational member of Building Corrupt from the door,
you know what I'm saying, which was battle. Okay, so
this this was a beautiful album for me.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
Then I went to the Bay and I got studio
to it was like this too, was like the.

Speaker 5 (14:07):
East Coast vibe.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
You had Buckshaw on there.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
Which is that's another thing. You know, also got a
chance to give it up to the two places that make.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
People who don't know you're born in Philly right in
the East, Yes sir, Yes, California, man, Philornia, and.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
That that was a beautiful thing. I was able to
give it up for both.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
I really enjoyed you gote Nori at the time on
the remix to the East Coast Weekend freaking remix.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
That's right with with Stevie J on the beat. Yeah,
Stevie J did this lead Stevie.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
That was back in the day when when remixes happened,
there'd be a whole new beat.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
That was like remix back then, you know what I'm saying,
where they make a whole new beat, and you redid
your lyrics, became with new lyrics to it, added new people,
you know what I'm saying, like, uh, flavor in your
ear remix.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
Yeah, all the stuff j D would flip if your
main flipp then my bad Drew Hill and then the
remix remix.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
In the switch of the beat, and you know that
was the beauty of it back then. And Stevie J.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
He was he was a bad boy back then. Stevie J.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
He was a hit man. He's a hit Yeah.

Speaker 4 (15:15):
And he came and laced my trucks with the beat
and then came we could freak it out?

Speaker 3 (15:21):
What we could freak it out? That's that?

Speaker 2 (15:23):
What what? What?

Speaker 1 (15:24):
What's that?

Speaker 4 (15:25):
That's so crazy?

Speaker 3 (15:27):
That was fun and you know they made l A
l A so that was also classic.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
That was the first record of this unification of me
and Noriega, you know what I'm saying. And then after
that me Prodigy and Havoc Mob Deep we got our
thing together and Copone was gone at the time. He
was like, pin, that's well, I gave it up for Copone,
which is, you know, one of Dazz's best friends now

(15:53):
and mine. So Nori and Copone seeing then in DPG
we run this ye mean, life is crazy.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Did you get any blowback from working with Nori based
on the fact you guys did New York New York
they did La La.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
No, Actually we got to blow up because people were
happy about it.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Loving.

Speaker 4 (16:09):
Yeah, it was loving the fact that Nori and Corrupt
was together on a record. This felt like, man, that
East Coast West Coast shit is over right, you know
what I'm saying. This is the unification And that's when
my album represented unification? Was it West Coast and the
East Coast where I'm from and where I'm at boom
just giving it to them all?

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Was that important for you because obviously you you've been
a part of, you know, in proximity at least to
a lot of the East Coast West Coast. Ship Pocket
already passed Big he had already passed. It was a
very you know, traumatic time for hip hop. So for
you to be like, yo, I'm coming out with my
first solo album leaving Death Row and it's gonna be
East Coast this too, West Coast disc one, bringing everybody together?

(16:54):
Was that was that very like like you were self
conscious that that was an important thing to push.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
It was the most import with all the East Coast
West Coast stuff going on and all that that.

Speaker 4 (17:06):
You know what, you know, they know me as the West.
They know I'm from the East Coast. I'm from Philly,
Darby Township, Shone Hill, but I've never done anything dedicated
to where I was born. So I gave this whole
East Coast section of the project.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
And remember this is.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
Right after all eyes on me, So inspiration came from
Park to be able to do a double CD. And
here I can give it up for the West Coast
and then I can give it up for the East Coast.
That was just everything to me, you know what I'm saying,
to show the East my love for them and appreciation,
to give it up for the West, who basically made Corrupt.

(17:51):
Here just my first entrance into the solo game. It's
a dedication record where I got the producer who was
there in the beginning of Corrupt, the producer who believed
in Corrupt afterwards, doctor Dre, and the producer who was
my best friend and my brother Daz, and then producers

(18:12):
I wanted to work with all this time, like a studio.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
Tone out the bay.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
Yeah, you know who does sick with it and forty
and all of that right there.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
So I got out there.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
What got to knock that down storm out in Jersey,
you know what I'm saying. Got to work with him.
He brought the venoms to the table. It was like
the female Wu Tang, you know what I'm saying, and
Davante Davonte swang from Joonesy.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
I always wanted to know for you. You were an
instrumental part of the Bang on Wax album, which is
ninety three. Gang culture is at an all time high.
The movie Colors has been out. I mean it's boys
in the Hood, boys in the Hood, all of this,
and like there's all this a lot of people who
aren't from Los Angeles. There's this lure about the gang

(19:02):
culture in California and the fact that this album came
out where you had Bluzz and Grips on the cover,
and it felt like a bit. It was being a
kid from Phoenix who ain't from LA seeing that ship,
seeing that my cousin.

Speaker 5 (19:14):
CD books, I'm like, oh, this is crazy.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
This is whose idea was it? And then how did
you kind of get brought in to help with the
production And was there ever any like real blowback from
the making of this album.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
Well, Red Rum out of Inglewood and Tweaty bird Lok
from Kelly Park was the original founders of Banging on
Wax and always been friends with them both for about at.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Least two or three years.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
So we had a cool relationship and that's what bonded
the respect that we had for one another, because that
had to happen first, you know, I know, I really
understand the back dry oup and and and the movement
of of of that gang culture, you know, and we

(20:09):
wanted to do something different and showed that it's uh,
the skill set of being a rapper's beautiful, but when
you decide to be an EMC, like corrupting all the
rest of the you know, Ice Tea and anyone else
who told the story too is well from the West Coast.

(20:31):
We wanted to show that that they do have a
voice as well, because that's been a part of the
upbringing of MC eight and DJ Quick and anyone you
can think of Game, you know, YG or anyone else
who come out the hood you know problems, you know,
Glasses Malone just to name a few. You know, because

(20:53):
we do have this young and older generation that that
always been like a crazy thing about being of it
to exist in California, right and in the industry. So
they we did that, and uh, it was gonna it
was gonna be crazy. It was a crazy beginning of
seeing both sides trying to come together and then came together.

(21:16):
Because this was around the time when Who's the Man
soundtrack was out and we was listening to some classic
hip hop you know, you know, Biggie was just being
born in the hip hop so while we was in
the mix of making this album, we want to be
on another different level of of our crek crek creation.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah, I feel like it was like it was like
a CD that like was everybody was trying to cop
like at least in Phoenix. I feel like everybody had
it in their CD book.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah yeah, I mean I don't want to put too
much on it, you know, I think I said enough,
but you know, the Bloods and Crypts are very unique
in their own way, and they being MC's behind behind
the table. It's some, it's some. It's some guys us
who you know, want to speak on it, like how
Q did or maybe they felt he wasn't the one

(22:07):
to do so, but he was the only one who
could speak from a very intelligent way of how the
streets was, and others was able to do it too.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
You know.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
N w A did a phenomenal job of talking about
the things. What I happened to say, blood or crip.
You know, we just was talking about the struggle or
what it was to become a black man and the
things that was so crazy being in the community, you
know what I'm saying, And we wanted to wanted to

(22:39):
paint a better picture. So when you start seeing these
different artists coming from these walks of life, especially DJ Quick,
you know, who really made.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
His his point felt loud as a blood.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
It was just crazy how everybody in the mature aspects
start to happen, because uh, you know, people end up
moving in different neighborhoods and have to understand how can
we get along, you know, as as as as blacks,
and then the Mexicans was right there. They've been seeing
so much of it as well, you know, from low

(23:15):
riding to barbecues to concerts and supporting us on a
radio station. You know, I'm an original kJ mixed master,
so that yeah, yeah, I started way back. I really
wanted to get minds off because me, I I grew up,
you know, from a place where you know, we understood

(23:36):
uh jazz and hip hop and uh all the Puerto Ricans,
you know we're talking about Santana. Santana was one of
my favorites my mother raised me on, and so I
I really want to pay homage in all different ways
in the earlier days before I even met Corrupt, you know.
So you know, I can go anywhere when it comes

(23:59):
to land escaping the sonics of music that come out
of Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Can you guys take me to the day of the
Calias Active video shoot. I don't think people need to
go rewatch this video because the park was this a you.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Know what corrupt it was like you guys, I think
Snoopy got got the drop on that. And I'm sure
like you'll ever see a day like this where there's.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
So much just legends from from the Bay to l
A and in between, all in the same time. It
was so many Yeah, I mean, I mean the spot
in the video.

Speaker 5 (24:38):
I mean it's it's it's a it is comes out.
You feel, it's an all time come out.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
God, were you guys surprised by like looking around like God,
you know, I was because I came a little late.
Alesion Park a Lesion part. I love that, so Leegion part.
It's not a part that every one goes to. So
I'm glad he found that place. So yeah, we had

(25:05):
to exist on another level, bringing all those different vibes
at one place, you feel me. I mean we had
Oakland up in there. You see how two shirts and
everyone came through there. It was just it was just
a phenomenal move about Callius actor. We didn't really want to.
We could have said, uh, one part of California, but

(25:27):
it's California all the way around from the Bay to La.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
We didn't want to.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
We didn't want to leave nothing out. So I'm glad
Snoopy thought about the visuals on another level to bring
it more. I didn't even understand how that was going
to happen, but he pulled that off.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
Is that the Snoops putting in the costs?

Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I mean, I mean he
really was practicing his see his CEO movement though too though,
because he he he's a person that has a great,
great uh mind state of being a creator. I just
didn't understand how this thing was going to happen. But
when it happened, it makes sense, So I see why

(26:06):
he's so or looked at like, Okay, this is the
this is the man that got the courage to take
our coasts or another level.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
Did you guys see the verses you get to see
any of this?

Speaker 3 (26:21):
It wasn't beautiful.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
It was one of the most entertaining verses of all time.
And I felt like it turned into like just like
a love fest, like everybody.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
Was just it was like it was they had fun.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
Man, they had fun.

Speaker 4 (26:34):
That's the most important thing, you know what I'm saying.
The Bloods showed that they can't have a good time
and nobody get in no trouble, nobody get hurt.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
And all the good things. But this was really really
big for the entire coast, you know.

Speaker 4 (26:49):
What I'm saying. And they both represented so so well.
Game came with this level of of the West Coast
and then why g CA with this level, so they
both was on levels going up and up in each
other's gendres connected game.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
It was made you remember, like, okay, game really was
like the face of l a for this pockeast, right
and then and then there was like the New l
A which was like g Malone ned but a little
bit after that is right, I.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
Say, high unfolded. It was incredible. Another thing that was
very unique.

Speaker 4 (27:25):
About them getting in, you know, they just they joined themselves.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
On a run.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
They set it off so cold. It was amazing almost
you know, had a low tear in my eyes just
seeing it because it was so many levels of faces.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
You if you really know the game.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
It was other other hoods there that was that was
bloods and it was a couple of crips there that
was on that stage that I liked and so that
you know, I saw it. It was so amazing that
they could level their respect and and communication with one
another to even have them there, you know, because back

(28:08):
in the days, man the color colds, the cold, the
whole culture. You know, we couldn't even stand each other
to do that. And it's sad because it's a black thing,
you know. And when you see that now you see
the level of them saying, you know what, we don't
want to let this exist like that. We want to

(28:29):
show different colors. So I love the Red Rags Uh
family and foundation for putting that together and seeing some
real players that that there you go, that's what I'm
talking about.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
You see. It was like you said, it's two different errors.

Speaker 4 (28:48):
Yeah, you know it's this era and this era, two
separate different eras.

Speaker 5 (28:54):
They're kind of blend into each other. They like each
other because his Nipsey records and why.

Speaker 4 (29:01):
Why you hit him with that last time that I checked?

Speaker 3 (29:05):
You get about it.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
You understand me game with his nipp See, it was
just all love. They got so much, uh that they
have in common different eras. You know, this one was
from this day and age, and then after him came
this day and age and shouts out to to Swizz
into Timberland.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
And the people.

Speaker 4 (29:25):
Uh versus versus for allowing you know, and giving the
West Coast, I.

Speaker 5 (29:32):
Want to say, versus I don't know who he will
go against. They got to bring Quick into the arena
just so he could just show out.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
You know, because people for he gonna show it is
so deep.

Speaker 5 (29:44):
It's like it's crazy, like.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Who would it be? You know, because I damn near
think like I know, like Dres Dre, Like no one's
going to get dra. But I feel like it'd be
fun if it was like Dre and Quick, just because
I feel like they both both was vocal both got records,
they both got you know.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
Yeah, they both was vocalists in that, you know, and
I would love to see that too. See with me,
I gotta be with someone if I go, I've gotta
be someone who who only just did production. And don't
put me with somebody who's a MC and rap.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
You know what, I'm right, right right, you know, make
make make it, make it match.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
So I see what the family's doing, you know, Timbling
and Swiss, they doing it right, they making it, making
it mess because they've been calling my name up. But
it's got to make sense, man. Right now, I'm just
enjoying everyone else who's very unique and uh and can
really be a part of the new creation of that.
You know what I'm saying. It's just super dope.

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(31:20):
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Speaking of the love corrupt, I wonder we've seen between you,
Dazz and Snoop thirty eight falling out over the last
twenty five years. Right, corrupt This family, Snoop and corrupt
Or Snoop and Dads are literally family. So when they have,

(31:42):
you know, a public spat', you're in the middle, no
matter what, right do you feel like, do you kind
of feel like they're gonna work it out, or do
you feel like you got to try to kind of
bring everybody to the table or you know, you know,
it's not the first of the last time.

Speaker 4 (31:57):
I'm sure you know, it's not our first rodeo as
a whole. And I feel, just like you said, man,
they gonna get it together. You know what I'm saying,
because that's what family does. You know, we butt heads
and we need that time apart and then eventually, you know,
you uh be cause Snoop is the champ.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
So you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (32:16):
You know, dogs say, hey, man, you know it's time
to come home. That's what he told me, and I
was like, cool, I'm ready, let's go.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
And my mind was right. And same thing with him
and dads. You know, they both leaders, but Snoop is
the champ.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
Dads know that, and so you know, but you know
he's still his own man.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
They gonna work it.

Speaker 4 (32:36):
Out because you know, that's that's what family does.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
See, that's what the in between thing is. See when
people say he's in between, it's in between with knowledge
and information and understanding. For people, when they see the
ship going, they wondered what's happening. He never feels like
he's a wink link or a person who can't do
or do what he do. He He's just got an

(33:00):
incredible h level and relationship between the two. I really
admire his his his manhood and common sense and reality
to to to what he be seeing. It's dope for
for all of us, you know, for the coast, you know,
because it's white before our eyes. What y'are saying is
I never thought social media would be so so crazy

(33:24):
with seeing so many.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
People expressed themselves because usually you couldn't do that. We
didn't have that.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
You would just hear about it unless you was in
in in it's uh in a circle or some shit.
But the social media and ain't nothing nice. It could
it could pant some good and some bad.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
How's your brother man? Because you know your brother got
smooth Sailing is a classic his by the way, his
verse on I called shots. Oh my goodness, yes you
want to talk about that's one of the most impressive
lyrical just performances out of the West Coast. That song
as a whole, and it was the first.

Speaker 5 (33:58):
Song on streets.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
But how's your brother doing that?

Speaker 4 (34:01):
He's doing real good, you know, enjoying being a father,
you know what I'm saying, more than ever, and also
getting ready for his new projects to be dropping. He's
got new projects, cracking solo, we got other projects.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
With other people.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
So I just remember when he just to California. I
was like, oh yeah, that you saw him and David
Banner perform at a halftime show at a and one
mixtape tour.

Speaker 4 (34:28):
When that's right, I think back then, I had on
on site on the and one mixtape. Crazy was running
the circuit him and David Banner, and uh, you know
it's crazy because David Scotie. You know, I just put
him on four bars on Girls All Pauls when he

(34:51):
flew to the Moon, and that just goes to show
you it's not only a skill, but the people adapted
to him and loved him.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
You know.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
Yeah, he's working hard, he's doing his thing.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Battle Cat. I always wonder, man, when we think of
West Coast production, as much as West Coast has like
a spirit and a soul that's that connects sonically. I
feel like guys like Quick, guys like Warren G, guys
like Dre, they have their signature sounds where you kind
of know and I feel like your baselines are very distinct.

(35:24):
I feel like you have your own pocket of like
oh no, that's a battle Cat shit like for you,
when do you feel like you kind of you had
your sound was defined where you were like, okay, you
know what.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
It still kind of reminds me of Quincy Jones because
that man touched all levels of what music was. And
if you listen how I do my R and B
with Raf Brian McKnight on Faith Evans, you can see
the level.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
Of my creation. I don't want to just be a
one man.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Vibe of what what kind of music I do, and
so I think it was very uh respectful for me
to keep this thing we always had on the West
Coast in the eighties going into the nineties, and that
was to be your own man and sound like your
own self and be original, you know what I'm saying.
That's another thing that Corrupt loved about me because when

(36:19):
it came in the backyard to hear me, he I
didn't sound like no one else who who created the
music that that was being being produced, and it could
level up to his expectation of what he did. Because
if I couldn't handle him, then I wouldn't be I
wouldn't be wearing him at today.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
So he is the man one of the main factors
of why Battlecat is so dope. You know what was
the y'all had a corrupt you had a joint. I
want to what was the soundtrack? Was it Players Club soundtrack? Yes?

Speaker 2 (36:52):
Sure, yeah I remember.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Remember the name of that fucking song.

Speaker 4 (36:56):
That's the first record we worked the Yeah, yeah, that's
under pressure. Yeah, it's under pressure. We made it was
it was a we can freak it so under pressure
they put on the Players when.

Speaker 5 (37:09):
We had real soundtracks.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
Yeah, come on, man, something to uh. And that's kind
of like what Snoopy was looking at too. He wanted
us to start off with the EP, but the way
it was knocking things down, we went past that and
blung more greatness to the table, you know, because I
missed when we looked at a soundtrack and then you
had the music that with Taylor right behind that thing

(37:35):
and give you a notion of of of of happiness
and and and the vision of what the what the
movie the movie is about.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
Well then you end up having the baby Boy song too.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
Yeah, come on, you see how that goes, which is
like you see how that went and now now you
now you're putting, you're putting your painting a picture. That's
what we're talking about. So I'll be glad when we
get back to making movies on the West Coast. You know,
we missed John Singleton Dealey, and I'm glad were we
gave him a record that was set it off. You

(38:10):
know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
Each of you guys have history with Nate Dogg. Obviously, Yeah,
Nate Dogg, Yeah, to me is the greatest hook guy ever.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
Oh my god, that's how Smokey Robinson. If you asked me,
he is the Smokey Robinson.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
Of the game.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
You know, if I had to put him next to greatness,
I would say him for me because well, you.

Speaker 5 (38:32):
Know, he's the greatest.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
Because no matter who's hot at the time, they'll be like, oh,
you're like the Nate dog right now.

Speaker 5 (38:37):
Everybody's trying to get a hook for me.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
Like you know what I'm saying, Like not to say
anbody's name, but there's so many people who like they
go on a run and then everybody wants someone on
the hook and they always.

Speaker 5 (38:45):
Will be like, oh, you're like Nate Dogg right now.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
But Nate was the guy. Can you guys have any
can you guys share any stories about Nate because obviously
you guys. I mean you did the Chico on Cool
Water record, a very slept on random West Coast song.
But that song was all over the fucking radio.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
High come down, Yes, come on, man, Eviden Champagne, we
did that. We make I put my own music to it,
cause at first I had her vibe. But I still
want to keep it alive because the way that Nate
Dogg was coming to it, you know, that's what the
foundation was. But when we found out we couldn't get
it clear, then I made another version and and then.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
You hear his vocals over that.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
It was amazing that we did the second version because
it pushed me to be another level of a of
a real producer.

Speaker 5 (39:34):
What's his vibe in the studio is Nate?

Speaker 2 (39:36):
Like?

Speaker 1 (39:37):
Is it automatic? Does it take him a while to
lay some shit down?

Speaker 5 (39:39):
What's that vibe like?

Speaker 1 (39:40):
Working with Nate?

Speaker 2 (39:41):
I mean, for me, it was automatic because at that
time he was already seasoned from being in the Church
game and then the Death Role movement and R and
B world.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
He was a crooner.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
You know, I gotta give it to him, you know,
like Teddy Penograd and that that man can make some
shit crack, you know, and I'm glad that he had
that foundation and coming up, you know with the two
one three and that whole movement, and it's it's phenomenal
for me to just look at it and see how
it goes. So but when he got in the studio, man,
he was just it was just a breath of fresh

(40:15):
fresh air. I seen him when I had my crib
in West Covina. I got a chance to see him
hands on, and uh, I'll just look at him sometime,
you know, and uh, give him his freedom. I always
respected that seeing Nate Dogg as a man, like where
is he at?

Speaker 1 (40:31):
Where you want to be? What kind of drinks for?
Kind of walk?

Speaker 6 (40:34):
You know?

Speaker 2 (40:35):
What? You what you want to see?

Speaker 6 (40:36):
You know?

Speaker 2 (40:37):
And when I did that, and it's giving him a space, man,
you'd be surprised would come out of out out of
his dome. It's just amazing of the things he's been
able to see as a young man all the way
up to an artist.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
So he definitely can paint a picture.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
Corrupt.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
You have some of the most memorable verses on Doggie Style,
which in my opinion, is the greatest rap album of
all time.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
Depending on the day, it always switches between like Doggie
Style and Illmatic and get Richard I trying, but all.

Speaker 5 (41:07):
Those for you man, Like, what was the spirit of
like those sessions?

Speaker 1 (41:12):
Like, did y'all understand like, because obviously Snoop is coming
off the chronic everybody always is a highly anticipated project
y'all are working on.

Speaker 5 (41:23):
Yeah, did y'all feel like, damn, we nailed.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
We landed the plane on this motherfucker, like.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
When we made it, during the time we made it.

Speaker 4 (41:33):
That was right during the time off we started probably
in ninety four Doggy Style and then we had time
off where we would just get to work and then
but it was the case.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
Came and then above the Rim.

Speaker 4 (41:47):
By the time above the Rim, we was already songs
all in, so you know, we felt like we was there.
We went to Sugar with it and he was like, yeah,
this is this that against shit, Yeah, keep going, and
then he put us in the room so we could work,
gave us own studio to work out of, and when
we got finished, he was like, damn, this is cracking.

(42:09):
Next thing, you know, Doctor Dre's gonna mix it and
I said, oh, it's a rap.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
It's a rap.

Speaker 4 (42:14):
Dre's mixed over Dazz's beats and DJ Pooh.

Speaker 5 (42:19):
Crazy God, what kind of sober.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
You know what I'm saying. Yeah, I felt real confident.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
Were you in around for any of the recording of
the skits, because that's some of the best skits ever
on that album.

Speaker 5 (42:31):
There's the bathtub skit, there's the skit before murder was
the case.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
Like, hey you Snoop Dogg.

Speaker 5 (42:36):
Snoop Dogg, were you around for any of that shit?

Speaker 2 (42:39):
Uh No, I was just wondering what that's like.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
How does it take to nail the fuck it?

Speaker 4 (42:45):
It's like twenty sacks, like you know, twenty sack pyramid
on the Chronic. You know all of those skits. You know,
I never really was around for those. You know, they
were doing them random, right, so you know I don't
be at the studio, and then they know when I
come back, there's a skip made.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
I don't know if you notice. We added a poster
to the wall. If you look behind you, you're on
the set. Now. We got the dog food you get
the dog food og promo poster exactly.

Speaker 3 (43:16):
I'm in there's Vince shout out the.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Trill for hooking me up with that post.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
I went to a store in Phoenix and they had that,
and the guy gave it to me. I was like, look,
if you give this to me, I'll put it on
the podcast set.

Speaker 4 (43:26):
He's in there now, right next to Scoff.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
Do you ever revisit dog Food? Like maybe on a
Sunday just let me just kind of just jump in
a time machine because it is one of the greatest
albums to ever come out of the West Coast.

Speaker 6 (43:40):
Man.

Speaker 3 (43:40):
No, I really haven't.

Speaker 4 (43:42):
I really excuse me, I really haven't been really visiting.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
Uh my original music.

Speaker 4 (43:51):
I really don't do that because I'm always trying to
come up with something new and ann and get.

Speaker 3 (43:55):
Stuck in the past.

Speaker 4 (43:57):
But every once in a while, you know, I'll listen
thento something and then they slide something. Then k They
always does it right, you know what I'm saying. Ship
Shade forty five always does it. They be throwing things
in and I just be like, oh, ship and take
me back. I don't even know how to react when
you start playing. I'd be like, oh shit, be looking

(44:18):
around like be happening like that. But I don't really
like soak on it because I'm always trying to come
up with something new. I don't want to get boom,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (44:28):
So yeah, yeah, outside of the new album obviously, do
you consider Streets as a mother your best solo project?

Speaker 3 (44:37):
Indubitably so fucking oh totally.

Speaker 4 (44:40):
You know, Streets is a mother. I didn't even expect
that to be as big as it was.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
No fucking skips man.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
Yeah know, I mean for real, that one there, I
do go back to the Streets crazy.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
I'm glad, Yeah, I go back on that record.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
Yeah, yeah, you had yours, Yeah, you had you had.

Speaker 5 (45:03):
A chip on your shoulder on that motherfucker that that boat?

Speaker 3 (45:07):
What's that called?

Speaker 1 (45:08):
That?

Speaker 3 (45:08):
Talk about that?

Speaker 4 (45:12):
And that's twist right there because you go Cat on
the on the talk box. Cat took it to a
whole nother level.

Speaker 6 (45:23):
Friend was like, yeah, man, yeah, I got battle Can
on my ship, bitch, And it's just like, you know,
all this camaraderie when you do everybody rapping on it
on the music dazz picked the.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Record crazy, when you do the top boxes it like
because you know, we always think about Rocher Troutman.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
Of course my foundation, but you know my teacher is
Charlie Wilson. That's who taught me.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
Who's on the new album.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
By the way, Charlie Wilson, he's on whose album the.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
New Corrupting Battle.

Speaker 2 (45:56):
Funny because that is his nephew is the reason why Tulsa,
Oklahoma fam Bam who put his voice over there. So
when you hear that over special, that's what you hear.
The lineage of the family is continuing.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
Also Uncle Charlie's family, the lineage We can freak.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
It Andre Wilson written by Casey Wilson, the younger brother
crazy you feel me so. But to talk about that
talk box, you know, because my man Snoopy is definitely
a lover of Roger Trump and and did some great
things to DJ Pool and that was that was a

(46:43):
fine time of having a voice. That's one thing I
love about Roger. Roger to me was a center voice
like Martin Luther King or like just you know, you
got Herbie Hancock. He's another one that doesn't use it's
just fabric, like yeah, like he used a vocoder kind

(47:04):
of synthesizer to do his voice, but he's still speaking
his real voice through it. That's Herbie Hancock. But then
Rogers see Rogers taking it to another level because we
had other people who do it to you, Stevie wonder
you know the people who did tear me something good,
you'd be surprised who's all behind these crazy records? So,
but Roger took it to another level. And me, I'm

(47:25):
just keeping it alive.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
That's why I love think his nephew is on the
Yay album Bully bringing it back. You know, yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
So for me, you know, I got my blessings from
the Troupman family to continue doing them doing it, and
I did some great Me and him did some great
records with a Roger Trupman's family zapping them.

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(48:56):
it's out. Tales from My Hood is such a cohesive.
Every song goes into the next song, you know what
I'm saying, Like, was was that something that you kind
of figured out after where you were like, oh, we
could these these kind of go together? Was that or
was that kind of like a cognitive effort to be like,
now we're going to connect these.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
I think, I think you in the great place and
mentioned in all those things, because it was all of it.
It happened simultaneously. It happened from a uh singing Snoopy
have that that that incredible ear of the connection of
my music, and I always have had that with me,
even doing Domino album. And so when I heard my my, My,

(49:42):
my family on the West Coast.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
Uh do it?

Speaker 2 (49:46):
You know for so many years, you know dre Quick,
you know whoever m C eight, you know, King t
the foundation in the Tukie uh and then the homie
rest in Peace, Crazy Tunes who did a r p
uh from a not from a very unique way and

(50:09):
Jinks from you know, from the Lynch Mob. You know
get I would never do that.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
You know.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
I gotta bring my my, my upbringing of my my
family into this because they also play the role in
me understanding what production would be to the foundation of it,
you know what I'm saying, the new the new generation
of it, you know. And they did a great job.
So I did the same. I was DJ Battlecat and

(50:36):
then I was battle Cat the producer. You know, you
got two different vibes of what what what my what
my contribution is on this album. So that's another reason
why I'm here with them. I'm gonna be We're gonna
tour together, you know when the time is white thanks
to Death Ruin and Uh and Snooping and you know,
it's gonna be super super dope.

Speaker 4 (50:57):
Man.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
It's a great album. So glad that we could get
the vibration and the energy. Everybody can be on something crazy,
but we just want to be very unique and not
with the same flow as someone.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
Else's storytelling on the album sharp on this we wanted
to do ship.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
I'm not even gonna lie and Uh, but did no
one make it hard for me? But I'm still I
was still open for the whatever that was gonna come
to make me better, and I got a lot of
that from from them. Both swooping and correct was phenomenon
and making sure that I came out swinging hard.

Speaker 1 (51:37):
You also have an album I've been seeing getting promoted
with you rock Him and Master Killer from the Wu
Tang Clan. Sure, how does this this is came out?

Speaker 5 (51:49):
It's kind of random.

Speaker 1 (51:51):
But by the way, indeed I heard the rock Kim record.

Speaker 5 (51:53):
The Rock Kim record is hard, But how does those
three worlds come together.

Speaker 4 (52:00):
Actually it was from the rock Kim record when we
did uh b Ill. We did the video and then
approached rock Kim because I just from talking to rock
Kim found out how extensive he was in the production
side of things and DJ of course, so we came

(52:21):
to him and basically was like, you know, uh, what
do you think about producing me and Master Killer's project.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
So it went from him producing it to now.

Speaker 4 (52:30):
It's basically master Killer Corrupt, Rock Kim, the God, Gotti
and the Killer you understand me, and that's we Wu
Tang DPG, the God Body Project, you know what I'm saying,
produced by the God.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
So you know it was.

Speaker 4 (52:49):
Made all the music, you know what I'm saying. We're
already complete, We already shot all the videos to it.
He just shot a video to his solo record from
the project called Distance Different, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (53:03):
So yep, he just did that one.

Speaker 4 (53:05):
You know, we're getting ready to drop that in a
couple of months too, were getting ready to go for it.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
So you and Master Killer had already kind of said, Yo,
we're gonna do something, Oh definitely, and then it just
so happened and we were like, hey, let's see if
you know, we get some beats from rock Kim and
it turns into no, we.

Speaker 4 (53:18):
Want him produced the entire project. Yeah, and let's get
rock Kim to just produce the old thing. We want
you to get your production credit that you deserved, you know,
just you know, producing another act or artists producing them
and overseeing all the production, overseeing putting it together, to

(53:38):
do the full production, not just the beat on it.
You actually put it all together. You produced this project, right,
me and master Killer. So he came in and just
laced our chucks and then jumped on some records and
next thing, you know, you know, became all three of us,
you know, master Killer corruptly.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
I had saw like this, a bunch of stories getting
posted that Like, you guys got Eminem and jay Z
on the album.

Speaker 5 (54:03):
But I guess it's an interlude.

Speaker 3 (54:04):
It's the interlude, yeah, a jay Z jiggle.

Speaker 4 (54:10):
He was speaking on the R. Eminem was speaking on
the R. So Kim put them both together to go
into his album, his solo album, which is the difference.
So you know what I'm saying, He used them instead
of just you know, uh, just the album just coming in.
He said, you know what I got an idea. He said,

(54:32):
em gave it up for me. Jigger gave it up
for me. I'm gonna have this come into this record
right here, Like wow.

Speaker 1 (54:37):
That's big now listen in two thousand and two, was
that when eminem show came out? I want to say,
that's two thousand and two probably then I wonder how
my name is until I Collapse comes out in shady
Emin then gives you love, he says Andre from malcast
Jada corrupt nasing then me.

Speaker 4 (54:56):
Indeed, em is so humble, it's a humble man.

Speaker 3 (55:01):
And he uh, yeah, he gave it up.

Speaker 4 (55:03):
And I was like, wow, you know, it's just it
feels good when uh, somebody gives you your props, like.

Speaker 1 (55:10):
Yeah, he puts you in his top. I mean he
puts you above himself and it's crazy.

Speaker 4 (55:14):
Yeah, So it's like, how do I repay that? You know,
some things are priceless. That was priceless, be crazy, yes, indeed,
especially from somebody's.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
One of the best Nate dog hooks ever too. By
the way that it is like sink up.

Speaker 5 (55:30):
Go down, cinematic.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
Right right right, and that beat.

Speaker 1 (55:37):
What's your guys favorite record? Each one of your guys,
it's a different answer maybe, But what's your favorite record
on the new album Mystic River? Okay, the first one, right,
the first one I'm saying, but that was that was
like the foundation of this.

Speaker 4 (55:53):
Yeah, mister River was the key from there, you know,
that set the tone going back to where we set the.

Speaker 3 (55:59):
Tone, and then from there we just started creating you know,
his music.

Speaker 1 (56:03):
Like I said, crazy movie by the way, just that
movie in general on the side with Yeah, and you
know that's.

Speaker 3 (56:09):
Why I got the title.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
Mine's is a love letter mind Steak and Gunner. God, yeah,
let me hear him.

Speaker 3 (56:23):
Okay, I didn't know we could.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
Yeah, I had to do that, man, because this man
when we first met, he was about love coming in
and it was crazy because I didn't see the girls
he was with just yet. I said, but why this
this dude is so so phenomenal with painting a picture
about his expression of love. Right, So we had that
vibe when we first met. So for so to get

(56:49):
this vibe from Snoopy about how the importance of him
showing that because she she's been the number one legally
is an incredible end of Well, she's not a back
seat this type of person. She's just got a very
unique way of expressing herself when she want this man
to win. So uh Snoopy was like, hey man, this

(57:12):
is the record that you don't have listen to what
Cat did for me. Now I got a record that
Cat wants to produce for you, and I want you to,
you know, paint the picture and get into another another
level or expressing yourself about someone that is dear to
you in the later days, I mean in the better
days of your life. Now you know what I'm saying,

(57:34):
because we know what we know. The bitches did they thing.
But this ain't this, ain't that, This ain't that vibe.
This is the one who's actually a queen to your
heart and this the song is super dope.

Speaker 1 (57:47):
I saw you talking about your coma situation on Big Boy,
which I remember. I think I saw N eighty posted
when you were in the hospital. What is obviously, when
you come on the other side of something like that,
shakes you up, your buddy, probably changes a lot of
how you're looking at life and some of the decisions
you're doing, and what are the you know, three weeks

(58:09):
you're in a coma, something like that.

Speaker 3 (58:11):
Three weeks. Yeah, when you.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
Get on the other side of that, man, Like, I mean,
you gotta be thinking God every day that you're still
with us. But is there you know, do you change behavior?
Do you kind of have to switch up like how
you're taking your health like well you.

Speaker 4 (58:26):
Told you Yeah, you definitely have to do that because
you gotta You gotta have a different diet, You have
to have a different way of thinking to move forward
to where you're supposed to go next, or you just
continue doing what you was doing that was not right
and put you in a position in the first place.
So you gotta change everything from your mind state. You

(58:50):
gotta change your diet, what you're eating, what you're drinking.
You gotta change how you live your life, you know,
the places you go with you're doing, how you're spending
your time. So you got to change all of that,
and uh, you gotta change your whole entire mindset.

Speaker 1 (59:08):
Are you still able to drink alcohol? No, because I
know you like to drink, you know, I do. I know.

Speaker 5 (59:14):
I ran into you at the Hooters.

Speaker 4 (59:16):
Here and there money you know, it was it was
a choice do you want to live or you know,
risk it all? So you know, after so long of
not drinking and being in the hospital. Wasn't that difficult?

Speaker 1 (59:29):
Wasn't that hard? You got over the hard part? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (59:32):
Yeah, because the hard part is when I'm not in
the hospital and I got that wall up to keep
me from the temptation and all that. But when that's gone,
you know to stick to the program and the plan,
so you know, I'm taking it day by day.

Speaker 1 (59:49):
Is that something where you you feel like you got
to maybe like go to a meeting or anything if
you are having that itch to want to pick up
a bottle again? No, No, you just have a support system.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
Why great support system.

Speaker 4 (01:00:03):
And also rest, you know, eating and rest, you know,
because you you know, when you get some rest, your
body heels your body whoop.

Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
Watch.

Speaker 4 (01:00:11):
But you remember you also night night, so the time
goes by, you wake up and your mind is somewhere
totally different.

Speaker 3 (01:00:18):
Also monitoring the phone, keeping the phone like.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
Going to do not disturb important?

Speaker 4 (01:00:23):
You know what, I'm very important because you know it's
just one conversation you can have that will make you
go backwards. So you monitor your phone, monitor the company
you keep, you love all your folks and all that.
But you got this your you got to be into
you now and your family can't really be all of
that and then you gotta you know, can't just leave
them all out in the on the blank. But every

(01:00:45):
day it's just it's not healthy to to maintain this program.

Speaker 1 (01:00:50):
Battle Cat, is there an artist you for whatever reason,
it has just escaped you from working with that.

Speaker 5 (01:00:56):
You were just like, this is the guy I need
to get with?

Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
This guy Like the fact that Battlecat and so and
so I haven't done a record together is crazy. Who
is that artist you still want to try to get with? Uh?
Donnie has to Wagh.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
And Bob Marley for one, and UH Stevie Wonder because
the pictures that they was painting. UH is very, very
unique and phenomenal for me as a as a producer
as far as someone now and I would love to
get with Rod Kim. I would love to finish my

(01:01:33):
work with UH care Arts one and UH slick Rick
you know I did songs with him both too, Snoopy
UH on the West Coast. I would love to even
get my brother Mike Straw, you know, a dope EMC
who haven't got his chan shine yet. So if I

(01:01:53):
had to keep it like that, I would I would
say I would say that I mean I I love
all my other uh hitters from the from the West Coast,
but it's time to bring out somebody new.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:02:08):
Have you ever done anything with Cube?

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
I know you worked with Yeah, I can work with him.
And I did something special with Corrupt and Cube, you know,
and I did. I think it's Uh. He got two albums.
One was what was the name of one of them?
What he did at part one or two?

Speaker 1 (01:02:25):
One? Peace?

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
Yeah, one piece? I think I think I think Peace.
I think I did something on that Purple one, yeah,
or the first one could have been the first one.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
By the war disc was like the one where he
had corn on there. He had like the he had
some wild joint but it also had I think it
had you could do it on there.

Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
Yeah, So I think it's the second one. So uh, yeah,
I've been I've been with him and uh, I did
something with him with uh with the group uh, with
forty Too Short West Wes Moore and I want to
do some more. I want to funk with Ice Tea.
That's somebody else I have that would be great. So

(01:03:05):
if he do something again like I went me and
Corrupt went and support his album, I think it's dope.

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
I think he can.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
He can use some more great ship that's coming from
the West coast. And uh, I'm gonna keep.

Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
It like that. Man.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
Man, Well listen, the new album is out, Tales from
My Hood, fully produced by battle Cap Corrupts in his
Bag on this in his bag.

Speaker 3 (01:03:28):
Thank you very much, Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
Eleven joints. Uh, let's the rb X is on the album. Yes, BJ,
the Chicago BJ, Jane Hancocks snoops all over the album, right, Charlie, but.

Speaker 4 (01:03:43):
Charlie R Kenoby, Yeah, Kenoby's on there. I even got
a black Toven's on there.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
Yeah, Black Toven.

Speaker 4 (01:03:53):
I even had my little homegirl Camille hit with some
of these these wizardry words, not even busting, just poetry
like you know, oh my god, showing the skills that's
beyond just rapping.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
Yeah, we missed that because big pimping was. I blown
her out out to be the female indeed essence of
poetry is and she did a phenomenal job.

Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
And then your The Master Killer Rock came out is
coming out in September.

Speaker 3 (01:04:25):
It's coming now, September October. Good question.

Speaker 4 (01:04:28):
I don't know I got eighty because it may be
so ready to push the button, but giving us the
respect of me and Battlecat project with Dog.

Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
So you know, he's taking his time with it, but
he's so ready to hit the button. That's a good question.

Speaker 1 (01:04:43):
I think of September. I want to say, I've been
seeing the September Day flood around. But all right, man,
well listen, corrupt man. I'm glad you're here. Better, stay healthy. Please,
we need you, man, thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:04:52):
I gotta do it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:53):
You got to hell.

Speaker 1 (01:04:54):
Yeah, yeah, I mean having a crazy year. Man. There's
a lot of dope music coming out this year.

Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
Great year, right and taking next year.

Speaker 4 (01:05:01):
I'm be coming. I got some things coming next year.
You know, I got things setting me up for like
the next two years to go into twenty eight fire.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
Yeah. So you know it's I'm just happy to be
back and working, happy to be up and running after this.

Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
Do you have any other stuff coming in the other
production coming throughout the year.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
Yeah, I mean I got another one with him that
I'm gonna do too, and my brother and a few
other artists. You know, I got a label called New
Shoes Entertainment.

Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
New Shoes. Yeah, we're not playing, we're making some My
wife were not playing love it man, Well, I appreciate
you guys. You guys are legends. Man, the album's dope,
and uh yeah, congrats on the project.

Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
Thank you King, Thank you looking good looking.

Speaker 4 (01:05:45):
You always show up of course corrupt.

Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
Hey, he's on the set. We don't have him sign
the poster.

Speaker 4 (01:05:50):
All right, We got to do it for you.

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