August 4, 2025 • 25 mins
Will.I.Am + Taboo cam by the Cruz Show to play their new song "East L.A." + talk about the culture and beauty of the city. Will.I.am also told us a great story about Usher's OMG & Taboo confessed he wanted to be an MLB player before rapping
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Chundle the crew shown crew will do for a cruise.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Show and Real eighty three start start.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Stas joint chat turning ship again.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
That's the joint again level the time of my life
and I.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
Nailed the failed this again and time's come. I don't
(01:00):
want to ring and shout and Lenny a loud scream
and gotta get get, gotta get get, gotta.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
Get, gonna do it, Joe, I'm gonna get get you,
get you.
Speaker 7 (01:21):
I don't want to look ridest one.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
That's the hardest one. That's the hot harness.
Speaker 8 (01:38):
Show eighty three, whoa yo, were like the building little
That last one is the hardest one.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Had hold wait, let's go.
Speaker 9 (01:51):
The last one. It's like the journey. I was like, yeah,
waited this long to make a song for my neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Doing all this songs.
Speaker 9 (02:00):
I'm like, yo, we got some hits. And then when
that one dropping my right, I told you, I.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Told you I'd be back last Hey, Nico blitz on
the intro Dog Nico.
Speaker 9 (02:11):
Flitz On, don't the joints of Jim Bebble one that
was that was I never wanted thought of that represent
for the Filipino.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I was doing.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
That's right. The song is East l A.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
It's for East La, it's about East La, and it's
for Latinos in general going through it.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Man, talk to us about it. Let's go.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
So you know, I originally.
Speaker 9 (02:37):
It was like February February, I was like, I want
to I want to flip freaking Maria Maria, and I
always want to just highlight the East La part. Yeah,
I'm like, yo, if Rihanna could sample that, I'm just
gonna sample the part right here. I'm taking it and
and I want to do a cumbia on it, right,
(03:00):
but I want to do like a trillo. I want
to wrap over a thriello with some like some eight
A weights because I just want to do a sandwich
of what of what like to me what East La
Boyle Heights feels like. And so it's like there's threeos.
If you want to go to a restaurant and like
you know, get off freaking like romantic, that's right, that's right,
(03:20):
you know, I mean you take you take your your date.
You make sure you go to a restaurant, whether whether
where there's a three. Oh, there she's gonna be like off,
like damn, you know, he put in some efforts your
care and.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
So and so. Then I wanted to have a kumba there.
Speaker 9 (03:40):
Like doom doom jommom right and then over over that
flip and so I was I had the idea for
a minute. I threw it over to Keith Harris came
through with the you know, with the first version of it.
We went back and forth and I'm like, well, I
got the shape. So then we had I had the
(04:00):
song pretty much finished, and then the ice rays started happening.
So I'm like, yo, I got to put this out
because I want to change the vibe. The vibe because
there's a lot of people in the community that are
fearful there's traffic. There's no traffic, so that means it's
like a lot of people at home because they're afraid
to go out, and residents people that are documented feel
(04:25):
like because they're they're nabbing folks that are there's no
method to how they're doing it. It's like, yes, I
understand the concept of like protecting our borders. I agree
we should protect our borders, but the way they're going
about it, you know, you know in your heart and
your mind and your logic that ain't that.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Ain't that ain't the flow, That isn't the recipe.
Speaker 9 (04:46):
That is like theatrical fear installation, you know, going after
and apprehending people that are that make our city beautiful,
that take care of you know, people's families that aren't
even their family but love them, that that are in
the fashion district, that make you know, our our industry
(05:08):
go around, that you know that are working three jobs
to take care of their family, that are responsible for
our our groceries and our markets with food.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
You have food on our table shop.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
And so you know, why would you go after those people?
You know how to find people? You you already have
everybody like addressed up right. You remember when we were
in freaking.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Like COVID markets, is who they went after?
Speaker 9 (05:37):
Yeah, Like you know when we were in COVID everybody
was swabbed, everybody. Yeah, most some of the people that
were swabbed and vaccinated were in the lines at Dodger Stadium.
You know where these you know where the you know
the difference between the people that make the community go around,
and and and and and then the ones that you
claim to be trying to apprehend and we didn't see
(05:59):
not one freaking criminal. We didn't see like they're like
chilling actually, you know, and the way they went about
it is from like a villain us.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
State, like people in masks, crazy inciting.
Speaker 9 (06:12):
Like right now you're giving a recipe for wackos out
there to go and just grab any you know, Q
looking Latina and freaking like.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Take her nah for sure? For sure? Yeah, like that
to me.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
You get a tactical vest at a surplus store, you
can look like an agent. You can buy that on
Amazon and you don't necessarily have to be that, and
now you're kidnapping people.
Speaker 10 (06:33):
Yeah, along with all that that we'll just mentioned, we
want to paint the tapestry the beauty that is the culture,
the richness, the flavors with your Boulevard mar Plaza. Yeah,
you know, the videos, the boos, all the beauty that
is East La that we come from. You know, Will's
mom went to Roosevelt, My mom went to Garfield High School.
(06:54):
So the Eastly classic has been intrinsic to the Black
Eyed Peas, DNA.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
The vendors, the vendors bro like l A wouldn't be
l A without the vendors.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
No, no, you guys growing up from me to La.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
The vendors they know you by your name or by
your nickname, or they give you a nickname.
Speaker 9 (07:09):
Yeah, right, and that and that was that all that
I was both.
Speaker 11 (07:15):
I was a school crossing gardens.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Give me that was me.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
That's me.
Speaker 9 (07:28):
Or you know, I was gonna change my I was
gonna change my rap name to your boy Chay.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Right here, right here in real ninety two three.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
You get a giant food on every Saturday night. Let's
get it. Let's go. We saw the video.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Tab who showed us the video on the video just yeah,
like you know you you guys hit it, man, you
guys hit the landmarks, the people, the vibes captured, the
essences City six Street Bridge less less is homegirl is
in the video.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Really, what's up?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
So we see ourselves and we see our people in there.
Speaker 9 (08:11):
Yeah, shouting out freeways that people like overlook or don't
acknowledged on the on the on the Beanchee sixty free way,
like we bleep out the Panchee, but you know the
sixty free ways Like dude, that's right off, that's my
that's near my house.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I'm off the sixty and even the slang no mom
is way.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
You know what I mean. You guys have a show,
say it every every day on the show.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Yeah yeah, Willie's not a chune th.
Speaker 9 (08:41):
All that yeah shot shot.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Shout out to Carlos. We grew up in the same projects.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
You know.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
Carlos, he's like, you know, always in the uh in
films And when I was like, uh in the lyric
shoutow the people from a neighborhood and he was like, Yo,
will you gotta let me, let me do one of
the A libs. And he was like, that's that's Carlos.
(09:09):
They come, they come here, they come.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yeah, that that's that's that's that's Carlos on the whistle.
Thanks for thanks for that, bro. No publishing, no publishing.
Speaker 12 (09:27):
Always thinking about the business man. Yeah, you gotta keep
it short man, you know not.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
But the song sounds like the show too, Bro, what
we represent, you know what I mean? And I mean
it's like almost divine timing with you guys, man, And
I think it's always been that way with the music,
you know, and you guys have always uh remained with
your community.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
You've never strayed away.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
You know your performance they used to lay classic was crazy.
That was super Bowl worthy, bro, Like yo, man, like
you guys are the city man.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Let me play.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
We played the super Bowl, we played the World Cup.
Speaker 9 (09:57):
But I got to say the one that we did
uh at USC and then the one that we did
at Sofi. You know, it feels just as if not more,
it was more like personal, more monumentous. It was like
in my whole life, like growing uh, you know Roosevelt
(10:18):
football games. You know, my best friend Virginia, she was
like Roosevelt cheer squad, the cheerleader.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
She's a cheer captain.
Speaker 9 (10:28):
And like, you know, I lived right across street from
Roosevelt right now that La Vendida, right on Fourth Street.
I lived in the in the back house with the
La Gospis. Thank you so much for keeping me safe
throughout all the years. When I moved out of the
projects to that back you know garage ally, thank you
to the Lagospi's. But yeah, like I love my community.
(10:50):
My school is right there on First Street. We teach
kids robotics and computer science. We had another graduating class
this year. We send kids, we sent We've sent kids
thousands of kids too. For your colleges. We have kids
that go to Dartmouth to Brown the Stanford to usc
U c l A to Georgetown, San Diego State, cal State, Northridge,
(11:13):
cal Tech, you know, Long Beach. You know, we have
awesome scholars. Just one kid that from my projects then
went to and joined the I'm Angel program, went to
school for computer science and now works with us at
FYI dot AI And he's in charge of putting.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
The AI in Mercedes.
Speaker 9 (11:33):
Bro like from them, I mean yeah, like true true,
Like oh like, how dope is that?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Man?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, that's amazing. Congratulations dog.
Speaker 9 (11:44):
And we're getting ready to go to like we're getting
all of our our stuff together because we go to India.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
So I'm like, yo, you're ready Ford, We're about to
go to India.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
That's right, Willie. I'm like, that's right. Food a passport, homie.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
No no.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Shots, yeah yeah yeah yeah shots.
Speaker 9 (12:05):
We're going to Indian Shot. We're going to see a
whole different type of brown.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Nah, that's another level.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Of brown over there, whole other level sure.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Man, brown, get down bro. Hell yeah, man.
Speaker 10 (12:16):
The Mexicans are spicy.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
What I'm saying, They water are spicy.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Hey, lookey right now the top.
Speaker 9 (12:30):
You look like you played for the Dodgers, and you
know what, you know what.
Speaker 10 (12:35):
I thought I was gonna be a baseball player before
I became a B boy Is that right? I'm pretty
good at baseball, bro, that's right.
Speaker 9 (12:40):
Don't we have a baseball game and you look like
you play for it, Like you look like I would
like collect your baseball card.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I like that. I got your rookie card, hot corner.
Speaker 9 (12:52):
You don't got the baseball glasses and that like you're
really giving me, like, hen.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
My card I got. I should have brought the bad food.
I got the glove, right right, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 11 (13:05):
You played third, but we have the swag of a shortstop.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Okay, yeah, I mean it's the same.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
It's right there is right there.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Yeah, but baseball has always been my thing.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Now for football, no, hell yeah, Jackie's always played foftball.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I think I chose right performing and B boying.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
No, you did right, You did okay for yourself, so yeah, yeah, yeah,
you could have been a dope one, bro.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I could have.
Speaker 10 (13:24):
It would have been that ten thousand hours that I
put into B boying, performing and MCing probably would have
been a dope ast.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
You either look like a Dodger or a cool cop.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
From you look like undercover. Favorite restaurant in East l
a L.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Yeah, it used to be the one right across the streets.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
About that all the time.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Yeah, there there's a it's not there no more.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
It's still there's a restaurant that took its place, but
before it was right across from uh, right across from
from Eastern East.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
I love on on on First Street. I forgot what
it was called, though.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Don't look it up. I'm just we have a connection
to it. That's right. Yeah, that was the spot.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Allen B's is nice too, Okay, Jackier favorite spot in
the East l a.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Oh, she went deep. We had to go General King Tackle.
Speaker 11 (14:33):
No, but I love seeing that, Like you know, you
guys in that music video put all like landmarks. Is
there any landmark that you wanted to go to that
didn't make the video?
Speaker 9 (14:45):
I wanted to go Via, I wanted to go to
Madivia projects. But we we have some we have a
we have some footage from when I was because you
to be swift, so when we were when we just
took the crew and I down Hazard, you.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Know, so there's a mural.
Speaker 9 (15:11):
There's a mural when we were driving through hazard Ramona Gardens.
So I wanted, I really wanted to go to La
you know show because that's east that's East l A too.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
I wanted to go to Lake Lake, okay, you know.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
To get the Montabello some Montabello love because that's that's
that's East LA as well.
Speaker 11 (15:34):
Yeah s gdy.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Garcia right there.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
I wanted to go to uh Belvedere Park.
Speaker 9 (15:41):
But because you know, there's a there's so many places
that I wanted to go to that we couldn't just
with the time.
Speaker 11 (15:48):
Yeah, but you know, I think that you guys did,
even with the landmarks that are that are on there,
like even if like you did go to Montabello or Lapin,
that you guys did such a good job because yeah,
I grew up on the border of like Montabello, East
l A. So I still feel like.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
What you want to Sure high School? I did you
seem like a Sure high school?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
What does that mean? That mean sure?
Speaker 9 (16:10):
I mean Sure high School versus Montabello, not like that,
not that.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Dang food.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Wait what is it?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
What is a Sure high school? He claimed? You hardcool.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Man hilarious.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I don't know, like you.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Being from c l A.
Speaker 9 (16:43):
You know the difference between people that want to Montabello
High School and want to Sure High School that want
a John Bosco Tech.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
That's what it's like.
Speaker 9 (16:49):
You know, you know you could tell the difference. You know,
so you're like, you know Sure High School Bosco.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Polo wonted John Bosco.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
That's right, he knew it right away. Jack. You went
to share high school like.
Speaker 11 (17:00):
Damn Ramona right the other school, No, it was man
Bella because we were sure was up the hill was
down there.
Speaker 9 (17:12):
So so yeah, so in on Hambro then you have
that private school. It's called not a Macular Heart. Uh anyways,
Sacred Heart boom.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Uh yeah. They looked out for us many times, Sacred Heart.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Yeah. So we wanted to, you know, just show love
to the community.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
You know.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Even I wanted to go to Southgate. I wanted to
go to freaking Downy.
Speaker 9 (17:44):
I wanted to go to Bell Gardens cut A Hay,
like I wanted to go to there's a project. Right,
if you keep going down Soto and then you see
these where the factories are. You peak to the right,
there's these factories. These projects look exactly like Strata Chords.
I wanted to go to those projects before you get
to like it's right before you get to Watts.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
It's still in the north mm hmm.
Speaker 9 (18:08):
It's we all the fashion uh, where they do the
where they sell you, where they where they washed the
if you if you have denim, you go to that
area to get the denim washed. Okay, yeah, so it's
all throughout the factories area.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
I wanted to go. I wanted to cover as much
as possible.
Speaker 9 (18:26):
I wanted to go tagging and the train tracks got
bomb Yeah you did, that's right, hey, but we cleaned
it up. That was for theatrical purposes. I wanted to
(18:48):
go to I want to go to Santa Face Swami.
There's a lot of things that we wanted to get.
I wanted to go, like I wanted to go to
the Citadel, like you know what I mean, you know
how Snoop Dog was on the liquor store on that
one video. I wanted to be right there on the
freaking top of the castle. On the top of the castle.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
You know. The song is full of sounds, right, there's
a chant at the end. What's that chant?
Speaker 9 (19:10):
We are los angeleles who that chant is from l
a FC thirty fifty two, and that that vibe that
you get when you go there is exactly like.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
The energy of what Proud Angelino's feel. And it's the
only sport.
Speaker 9 (19:35):
Sporting team in America that feels like when you go
to Real Madrid, when you go to Spain, when you
go to you know, Manchester United or man Man City,
when you go to Berlin or Brazil. It's the only
thing I feel like that feels like, you know, this tribe,
(19:59):
this flock.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
It's flocking dope, bro flock, I said, flocking.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
But there's the energy to the song, right, And I
think that's always been the intent with you guys, right,
energy behind the music. I think I had heard that
for for omg that oh that's a sample. That's a
sample from a crowd that you guys.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Yeah, we did.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
We did this this TV show called in France and
whereas I got a film was about to just boom,
it hadn't really boomed yet, and we we we performed this.
We were all tired. We were like four shows in
a row morning show and this was like right when
(20:45):
we were about to break, and we were all grumpy,
and we had to do rehearsals early in the morning.
We wanted to sleep, so we went. We did our rehearsals,
we slept in the car, and then we did the
show and the energy the crowd was like electric. And
then that was our like red Bull or or our
dose of adrenaline the crowd. And so then after the show,
(21:07):
after that performance, the crowd was like, oh, so I
go up to the to the to the host. I'm like, yo,
what's that. He's like, we like, I'm the is the French?
They love the black a peace. I'm like, no, no, no,
what is that?
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Like?
Speaker 4 (21:24):
This is their appreciation for performance? You guys? Did we know?
You'll tell you. I'm like, no, no, whatever, bro, And.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
What's that that?
Speaker 5 (21:32):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
What?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Can you send it to me? You want me to
send you a performance?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Like?
Speaker 9 (21:37):
No, not the performance, I want that, send me that
just the recording of the crowd.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Oh, I was sending it to you tomorrow two days
from now.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
So I'm like great, So I got it had it
on my on my phone on that that chant from
trot to tom Two days later, I got a call
from Mark Pitts.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Now we're in New York.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
He's like yo, well, I am, uh you need to
hit like what kind of hit, like an international hit?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Like what type of international?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah, bro, what we're doing?
Speaker 9 (22:06):
He was like, you know, give me that, give me
that international black eyed peas like everywhere.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Stup.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
I'm like, say no more, bro. So I go into
my email. I'm like, Yo, there is a there's a
capsule that I have. Let me build a song around
a hit, the response of a hit. It's like, yo,
if I could, if I could build around a response
from a hit, it's already hit the energy already, it's
already hit energy.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:31):
So oh yeah, yeah yeah, and then I'll okay. So
I listened to the Oh I was like, what Baseline
would go to this chant boom doom doom doom doom.
Oh that's funky town doom boom boom boom boommmmmmoomoomoomm.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Let me do a different type of funky town toom
boom boommmm. And at the time it was a major Laser.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Is crazy.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
So that I'm like, then I could go.
Speaker 9 (22:57):
Doom doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom doom doom too too,
too too. I was like, okay, so now what if
I follow the bassline on the chorus on the verse,
because that's what everybody does.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
On h.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Doom Doom.
Speaker 9 (23:19):
I was like, ooh, I do the my verse is
the same as the bass. Then it's already locked in
the brain. It's like a melody worm. You can't get
it out of your head. So then I, you know,
put the song together like a forty minutes. I send
it back to Mark Pitts is like, yo, check it out, bro,
this is it right? OMG bro, everybody already texts it.
(23:40):
It's already like already in the zeitgeist. It's already in
our lexicon. OMG you a song called OMG yet And
so that was that, but but it came from that.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
That's crazy. At any point we're like, you know what,
I'm keeping this ship.
Speaker 9 (23:56):
No, there's too many songs on my hard drive, bro,
Like I have too many, too many of that type
of recipe cooking. Like if you're like, yo, I need
a song like this, I'm like, I got you, bro.
I think I got that in my heart drive somewhere.
And the booms like I got too many? Can't save
too many?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
For sure?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
You got to get married, right, Yeah, I mean that's
how you did Girl Like Me.
Speaker 9 (24:22):
Girl Like Me was in my hard drive from two
thousand and eight, sitting there, sitting there, so I was like, Yo,
who do I die in my hard drive?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Let me go get that one.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, that's crazy, that's crazy, Ted. Do you ever do
that with rhymes as well? Do you ever go back
and be like, yo, I've never I never did this.
Speaker 10 (24:39):
We have like we call it lyrics to go like
stuff that we've had. Oh maybe this will fit you
know something, But usually we write together.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
That's the magic that Yeah, bro, one hundred percent s
energy Energy collab.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Get it done. How's doing? AP's good? We just came
back from tour.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Hey, I called out. He didn't even answer the phone. Bro,
I'm like, yo, man, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
We got a Filipino here though, Hey she's married. My
mom is way.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
He would answer the phone if there was a filippinat here.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Answer true, true, What'll stop? This is a call on
the Cruise Showy, this is your boy k side. What's good?
It's Junior on the Cruise Show.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
Happened to the number one afternoon show in l A
from two pm to seven pm on Real nine two
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Chundle the crew shown crew will do for a cruise.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Show and Real eighty three start start.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Stas joint chat turning ship again.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
That's the joint again level the time of my life
and I.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
Nailed the failed this again and time's come. I don't
(01:00):
want to ring and shout and Lenny a loud scream
and gotta get get, gotta get get, gotta.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
Get, gonna do it, Joe, I'm gonna get get you,
get you.
Speaker 7 (01:21):
I don't want to look ridest one.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
That's the hardest one. That's the hot harness.
Speaker 8 (01:38):
Show eighty three, whoa yo, were like the building little
That last one is the hardest one.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Had hold wait, let's go.
Speaker 9 (01:51):
The last one. It's like the journey. I was like, yeah,
waited this long to make a song for my neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Doing all this songs.
Speaker 9 (02:00):
I'm like, yo, we got some hits. And then when
that one dropping my right, I told you, I.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Told you I'd be back last Hey, Nico blitz on
the intro Dog Nico.
Speaker 9 (02:11):
Flitz On, don't the joints of Jim Bebble one that
was that was I never wanted thought of that represent
for the Filipino.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I was doing.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
That's right. The song is East l A.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
It's for East La, it's about East La, and it's
for Latinos in general going through it.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Man, talk to us about it. Let's go.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
So you know, I originally.
Speaker 9 (02:37):
It was like February February, I was like, I want
to I want to flip freaking Maria Maria, and I
always want to just highlight the East La part. Yeah,
I'm like, yo, if Rihanna could sample that, I'm just
gonna sample the part right here. I'm taking it and
and I want to do a cumbia on it, right,
(03:00):
but I want to do like a trillo. I want
to wrap over a thriello with some like some eight
A weights because I just want to do a sandwich
of what of what like to me what East La
Boyle Heights feels like. And so it's like there's threeos.
If you want to go to a restaurant and like
you know, get off freaking like romantic, that's right, that's right,
(03:20):
you know, I mean you take you take your your date.
You make sure you go to a restaurant, whether whether
where there's a three. Oh, there she's gonna be like off,
like damn, you know, he put in some efforts your
care and.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
So and so. Then I wanted to have a kumba there.
Speaker 9 (03:40):
Like doom doom jommom right and then over over that
flip and so I was I had the idea for
a minute. I threw it over to Keith Harris came
through with the you know, with the first version of it.
We went back and forth and I'm like, well, I
got the shape. So then we had I had the
(04:00):
song pretty much finished, and then the ice rays started happening.
So I'm like, yo, I got to put this out
because I want to change the vibe. The vibe because
there's a lot of people in the community that are
fearful there's traffic. There's no traffic, so that means it's
like a lot of people at home because they're afraid
to go out, and residents people that are documented feel
(04:25):
like because they're they're nabbing folks that are there's no
method to how they're doing it. It's like, yes, I
understand the concept of like protecting our borders. I agree
we should protect our borders, but the way they're going
about it, you know, you know in your heart and
your mind and your logic that ain't that.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Ain't that ain't the flow, That isn't the recipe.
Speaker 9 (04:46):
That is like theatrical fear installation, you know, going after
and apprehending people that are that make our city beautiful,
that take care of you know, people's families that aren't
even their family but love them, that that are in
the fashion district, that make you know, our our industry
(05:08):
go around, that you know that are working three jobs
to take care of their family, that are responsible for
our our groceries and our markets with food.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
You have food on our table shop.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
And so you know, why would you go after those people?
You know how to find people? You you already have
everybody like addressed up right. You remember when we were
in freaking.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Like COVID markets, is who they went after?
Speaker 9 (05:37):
Yeah, Like you know when we were in COVID everybody
was swabbed, everybody. Yeah, most some of the people that
were swabbed and vaccinated were in the lines at Dodger Stadium.
You know where these you know where the you know
the difference between the people that make the community go around,
and and and and and then the ones that you
claim to be trying to apprehend and we didn't see
(05:59):
not one freaking criminal. We didn't see like they're like
chilling actually, you know, and the way they went about
it is from like a villain us.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
State, like people in masks, crazy inciting.
Speaker 9 (06:12):
Like right now you're giving a recipe for wackos out
there to go and just grab any you know, Q
looking Latina and freaking like.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Take her nah for sure? For sure? Yeah, like that
to me.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
You get a tactical vest at a surplus store, you
can look like an agent. You can buy that on
Amazon and you don't necessarily have to be that, and
now you're kidnapping people.
Speaker 10 (06:33):
Yeah, along with all that that we'll just mentioned, we
want to paint the tapestry the beauty that is the culture,
the richness, the flavors with your Boulevard mar Plaza. Yeah,
you know, the videos, the boos, all the beauty that
is East La that we come from. You know, Will's
mom went to Roosevelt, My mom went to Garfield High School.
(06:54):
So the Eastly classic has been intrinsic to the Black
Eyed Peas, DNA.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
The vendors, the vendors bro like l A wouldn't be
l A without the vendors.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
No, no, you guys growing up from me to La.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
The vendors they know you by your name or by
your nickname, or they give you a nickname.
Speaker 9 (07:09):
Yeah, right, and that and that was that all that
I was both.
Speaker 11 (07:15):
I was a school crossing gardens.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Give me that was me.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
That's me.
Speaker 9 (07:28):
Or you know, I was gonna change my I was
gonna change my rap name to your boy Chay.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Right here, right here in real ninety two three.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
You get a giant food on every Saturday night. Let's
get it. Let's go. We saw the video.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Tab who showed us the video on the video just yeah,
like you know you you guys hit it, man, you
guys hit the landmarks, the people, the vibes captured, the
essences City six Street Bridge less less is homegirl is
in the video.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Really, what's up?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
So we see ourselves and we see our people in there.
Speaker 9 (08:11):
Yeah, shouting out freeways that people like overlook or don't
acknowledged on the on the on the Beanchee sixty free way,
like we bleep out the Panchee, but you know the
sixty free ways Like dude, that's right off, that's my
that's near my house.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I'm off the sixty and even the slang no mom
is way.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
You know what I mean. You guys have a show,
say it every every day on the show.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Yeah yeah, Willie's not a chune th.
Speaker 9 (08:41):
All that yeah shot shot.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Shout out to Carlos. We grew up in the same projects.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
You know.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
Carlos, he's like, you know, always in the uh in
films And when I was like, uh in the lyric
shoutow the people from a neighborhood and he was like, Yo,
will you gotta let me, let me do one of
the A libs. And he was like, that's that's Carlos.
(09:09):
They come, they come here, they come.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yeah, that that's that's that's that's Carlos on the whistle.
Thanks for thanks for that, bro. No publishing, no publishing.
Speaker 12 (09:27):
Always thinking about the business man. Yeah, you gotta keep
it short man, you know not.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
But the song sounds like the show too, Bro, what
we represent, you know what I mean? And I mean
it's like almost divine timing with you guys, man, And
I think it's always been that way with the music,
you know, and you guys have always uh remained with
your community.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
You've never strayed away.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
You know your performance they used to lay classic was crazy.
That was super Bowl worthy, bro, Like yo, man, like
you guys are the city man.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Let me play.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
We played the super Bowl, we played the World Cup.
Speaker 9 (09:57):
But I got to say the one that we did
uh at USC and then the one that we did
at Sofi. You know, it feels just as if not more,
it was more like personal, more monumentous. It was like
in my whole life, like growing uh, you know Roosevelt
(10:18):
football games. You know, my best friend Virginia, she was
like Roosevelt cheer squad, the cheerleader.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
She's a cheer captain.
Speaker 9 (10:28):
And like, you know, I lived right across street from
Roosevelt right now that La Vendida, right on Fourth Street.
I lived in the in the back house with the
La Gospis. Thank you so much for keeping me safe
throughout all the years. When I moved out of the
projects to that back you know garage ally, thank you
to the Lagospi's. But yeah, like I love my community.
(10:50):
My school is right there on First Street. We teach
kids robotics and computer science. We had another graduating class
this year. We send kids, we sent We've sent kids
thousands of kids too. For your colleges. We have kids
that go to Dartmouth to Brown the Stanford to usc
U c l A to Georgetown, San Diego State, cal State, Northridge,
(11:13):
cal Tech, you know, Long Beach. You know, we have
awesome scholars. Just one kid that from my projects then
went to and joined the I'm Angel program, went to
school for computer science and now works with us at
FYI dot AI And he's in charge of putting.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
The AI in Mercedes.
Speaker 9 (11:33):
Bro like from them, I mean yeah, like true true,
Like oh like, how dope is that?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Man?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, that's amazing. Congratulations dog.
Speaker 9 (11:44):
And we're getting ready to go to like we're getting
all of our our stuff together because we go to India.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
So I'm like, yo, you're ready Ford, We're about to
go to India.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
That's right, Willie. I'm like, that's right. Food a passport, homie.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
No no.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Shots, yeah yeah yeah yeah shots.
Speaker 9 (12:05):
We're going to Indian Shot. We're going to see a
whole different type of brown.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Nah, that's another level.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Of brown over there, whole other level sure.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Man, brown, get down bro. Hell yeah, man.
Speaker 10 (12:16):
The Mexicans are spicy.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
What I'm saying, They water are spicy.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Hey, lookey right now the top.
Speaker 9 (12:30):
You look like you played for the Dodgers, and you
know what, you know what.
Speaker 10 (12:35):
I thought I was gonna be a baseball player before
I became a B boy Is that right? I'm pretty
good at baseball, bro, that's right.
Speaker 9 (12:40):
Don't we have a baseball game and you look like
you play for it, Like you look like I would
like collect your baseball card.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I like that. I got your rookie card, hot corner.
Speaker 9 (12:52):
You don't got the baseball glasses and that like you're
really giving me, like, hen.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
My card I got. I should have brought the bad food.
I got the glove, right right, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 11 (13:05):
You played third, but we have the swag of a shortstop.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Okay, yeah, I mean it's the same.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
It's right there is right there.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Yeah, but baseball has always been my thing.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Now for football, no, hell yeah, Jackie's always played foftball.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
I think I chose right performing and B boying.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
No, you did right, You did okay for yourself, so yeah, yeah, yeah,
you could have been a dope one, bro.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I could have.
Speaker 10 (13:24):
It would have been that ten thousand hours that I
put into B boying, performing and MCing probably would have
been a dope ast.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
You either look like a Dodger or a cool cop.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
From you look like undercover. Favorite restaurant in East l
a L.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Yeah, it used to be the one right across the streets.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
About that all the time.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Yeah, there there's a it's not there no more.
Speaker 9 (13:58):
It's still there's a restaurant that took its place, but
before it was right across from uh, right across from
from Eastern East.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
I love on on on First Street. I forgot what
it was called, though.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Don't look it up. I'm just we have a connection
to it. That's right. Yeah, that was the spot.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Allen B's is nice too, Okay, Jackier favorite spot in
the East l a.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Oh, she went deep. We had to go General King Tackle.
Speaker 11 (14:33):
No, but I love seeing that, Like you know, you
guys in that music video put all like landmarks. Is
there any landmark that you wanted to go to that
didn't make the video?
Speaker 9 (14:45):
I wanted to go Via, I wanted to go to
Madivia projects. But we we have some we have a
we have some footage from when I was because you
to be swift, so when we were when we just
took the crew and I down Hazard, you.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Know, so there's a mural.
Speaker 9 (15:11):
There's a mural when we were driving through hazard Ramona Gardens.
So I wanted, I really wanted to go to La
you know show because that's east that's East l A too.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
I wanted to go to Lake Lake, okay, you know.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
To get the Montabello some Montabello love because that's that's
that's East LA as well.
Speaker 11 (15:34):
Yeah s gdy.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Garcia right there.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
I wanted to go to uh Belvedere Park.
Speaker 9 (15:41):
But because you know, there's a there's so many places
that I wanted to go to that we couldn't just
with the time.
Speaker 11 (15:48):
Yeah, but you know, I think that you guys did,
even with the landmarks that are that are on there,
like even if like you did go to Montabello or Lapin,
that you guys did such a good job because yeah,
I grew up on the border of like Montabello, East
l A. So I still feel like.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
What you want to Sure high School? I did you
seem like a Sure high school?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
What does that mean? That mean sure?
Speaker 9 (16:10):
I mean Sure high School versus Montabello, not like that,
not that.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Dang food.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Wait what is it?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
What is a Sure high school? He claimed? You hardcool.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Man hilarious.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I don't know, like you.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Being from c l A.
Speaker 9 (16:43):
You know the difference between people that want to Montabello
High School and want to Sure High School that want
a John Bosco Tech.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
That's what it's like.
Speaker 9 (16:49):
You know, you know you could tell the difference. You know,
so you're like, you know Sure High School Bosco.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Polo wonted John Bosco.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
That's right, he knew it right away. Jack. You went
to share high school like.
Speaker 11 (17:00):
Damn Ramona right the other school, No, it was man
Bella because we were sure was up the hill was
down there.
Speaker 9 (17:12):
So so yeah, so in on Hambro then you have
that private school. It's called not a Macular Heart. Uh anyways,
Sacred Heart boom.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Uh yeah. They looked out for us many times, Sacred Heart.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Yeah. So we wanted to, you know, just show love
to the community.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
You know.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Even I wanted to go to Southgate. I wanted to
go to freaking Downy.
Speaker 9 (17:44):
I wanted to go to Bell Gardens cut A Hay,
like I wanted to go to there's a project. Right,
if you keep going down Soto and then you see
these where the factories are. You peak to the right,
there's these factories. These projects look exactly like Strata Chords.
I wanted to go to those projects before you get
to like it's right before you get to Watts.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
It's still in the north mm hmm.
Speaker 9 (18:08):
It's we all the fashion uh, where they do the
where they sell you, where they where they washed the
if you if you have denim, you go to that
area to get the denim washed. Okay, yeah, so it's
all throughout the factories area.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
I wanted to go. I wanted to cover as much
as possible.
Speaker 9 (18:26):
I wanted to go tagging and the train tracks got
bomb Yeah you did, that's right, hey, but we cleaned
it up. That was for theatrical purposes. I wanted to
(18:48):
go to I want to go to Santa Face Swami.
There's a lot of things that we wanted to get.
I wanted to go, like I wanted to go to
the Citadel, like you know what I mean, you know
how Snoop Dog was on the liquor store on that
one video. I wanted to be right there on the
freaking top of the castle. On the top of the castle.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
You know. The song is full of sounds, right, there's
a chant at the end. What's that chant?
Speaker 9 (19:10):
We are los angeleles who that chant is from l
a FC thirty fifty two, and that that vibe that
you get when you go there is exactly like.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
The energy of what Proud Angelino's feel. And it's the
only sport.
Speaker 9 (19:35):
Sporting team in America that feels like when you go
to Real Madrid, when you go to Spain, when you
go to you know, Manchester United or man Man City,
when you go to Berlin or Brazil. It's the only
thing I feel like that feels like, you know, this tribe,
(19:59):
this flock.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
It's flocking dope, bro flock, I said, flocking.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
But there's the energy to the song, right, And I
think that's always been the intent with you guys, right,
energy behind the music. I think I had heard that
for for omg that oh that's a sample. That's a
sample from a crowd that you guys.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Yeah, we did.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
We did this this TV show called in France and
whereas I got a film was about to just boom,
it hadn't really boomed yet, and we we we performed this.
We were all tired. We were like four shows in
a row morning show and this was like right when
(20:45):
we were about to break, and we were all grumpy,
and we had to do rehearsals early in the morning.
We wanted to sleep, so we went. We did our rehearsals,
we slept in the car, and then we did the
show and the energy the crowd was like electric. And
then that was our like red Bull or or our
dose of adrenaline the crowd. And so then after the show,
(21:07):
after that performance, the crowd was like, oh, so I
go up to the to the to the host. I'm like, yo,
what's that. He's like, we like, I'm the is the French?
They love the black a peace. I'm like, no, no, no,
what is that?
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Like?
Speaker 4 (21:24):
This is their appreciation for performance? You guys? Did we know?
You'll tell you. I'm like, no, no, whatever, bro, And.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
What's that that?
Speaker 5 (21:32):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
What?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Can you send it to me? You want me to
send you a performance?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Like?
Speaker 9 (21:37):
No, not the performance, I want that, send me that
just the recording of the crowd.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Oh, I was sending it to you tomorrow two days
from now.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
So I'm like great, So I got it had it
on my on my phone on that that chant from
trot to tom Two days later, I got a call
from Mark Pitts.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Now we're in New York.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
He's like yo, well, I am, uh you need to
hit like what kind of hit, like an international hit?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Like what type of international?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Yeah, bro, what we're doing?
Speaker 9 (22:06):
He was like, you know, give me that, give me
that international black eyed peas like everywhere.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Stup.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
I'm like, say no more, bro. So I go into
my email. I'm like, Yo, there is a there's a
capsule that I have. Let me build a song around
a hit, the response of a hit. It's like, yo,
if I could, if I could build around a response
from a hit, it's already hit the energy already, it's
already hit energy.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:31):
So oh yeah, yeah yeah, and then I'll okay. So
I listened to the Oh I was like, what Baseline
would go to this chant boom doom doom doom doom.
Oh that's funky town doom boom boom boom boommmmmmoomoomoomm.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Let me do a different type of funky town toom
boom boommmm. And at the time it was a major Laser.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Is crazy.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
So that I'm like, then I could go.
Speaker 9 (22:57):
Doom doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom doom doom too too,
too too. I was like, okay, so now what if
I follow the bassline on the chorus on the verse,
because that's what everybody does.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
On h.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Doom Doom.
Speaker 9 (23:19):
I was like, ooh, I do the my verse is
the same as the bass. Then it's already locked in
the brain. It's like a melody worm. You can't get
it out of your head. So then I, you know,
put the song together like a forty minutes. I send
it back to Mark Pitts is like, yo, check it out, bro,
this is it right? OMG bro, everybody already texts it.
(23:40):
It's already like already in the zeitgeist. It's already in
our lexicon. OMG you a song called OMG yet And
so that was that, but but it came from that.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
That's crazy. At any point we're like, you know what,
I'm keeping this ship.
Speaker 9 (23:56):
No, there's too many songs on my hard drive, bro,
Like I have too many, too many of that type
of recipe cooking. Like if you're like, yo, I need
a song like this, I'm like, I got you, bro.
I think I got that in my heart drive somewhere.
And the booms like I got too many? Can't save
too many?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
For sure?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
You got to get married, right, Yeah, I mean that's
how you did Girl Like Me.
Speaker 9 (24:22):
Girl Like Me was in my hard drive from two
thousand and eight, sitting there, sitting there, so I was like, Yo,
who do I die in my hard drive?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Let me go get that one.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, that's crazy, that's crazy, Ted. Do you ever do
that with rhymes as well? Do you ever go back
and be like, yo, I've never I never did this.
Speaker 10 (24:39):
We have like we call it lyrics to go like
stuff that we've had. Oh maybe this will fit you
know something, But usually we write together.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
That's the magic that Yeah, bro, one hundred percent s
energy Energy collab.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Get it done. How's doing? AP's good? We just came
back from tour.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Hey, I called out. He didn't even answer the phone. Bro,
I'm like, yo, man, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
We got a Filipino here though, Hey she's married. My
mom is way.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
He would answer the phone if there was a filippinat here.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
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