November 18, 2025 • 44 mins
De La Soul came by the Cruz Show to talk about their new album Cabin in the Sky. They talked about how emotional it was to do an album without Dave + The great features including; Killer Mike, Q-Tip, Slick Rick, Black Thought, Common & more. The guys also talked about being called OG, Pedro Pascal liking their music. They also talked about Kendrick Lamar, new Hip Hop & more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh my god, is that Nico Blitz.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
That's a magic number. It is, It's the magic number.
Even though they got a cat, but she won't let
it out. No tough luck come the ejack.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Hey, how you do?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Man?
Speaker 5 (00:32):
Sorry they can't actually and I'm uh, I'm petting back
to you.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Dancing on the dan or girl.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Let you that I had through stepped up stage the
steam for more, need them talking, got bounced.
Speaker 6 (00:47):
The proper basketball Lady Street Wall the wall like a
click click, let's find its back at it. We need
(01:10):
soy rocks the cruise Show one.
Speaker 7 (01:15):
Days, I was crazy crazy, so many more songs, right,
it's crazy brou Be here for hours, Bro, that was
a crazy man.
Speaker 8 (01:25):
Shot the Nico Blitz for that intro. That was dope
b Nico. He ready to go on tour today, man,
let's get let's go. He got a wedding to pay
for it.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Let's go.
Speaker 8 (01:36):
Go starring Nico Blitz in the mix, Cavin in the Sky. Congratulations,
Day Lost Soul Walls. You know we've been talking about
this album all morning here and you know you guys
did it. Man, You know you protected the artistic DNA
that is Day Last Soul. But evolved once again.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
How do we do that? You grow as a person?
Speaker 9 (01:56):
Yeah, man, that's it off the mic. Yeah, actually, you're
truly grow as a person. That's that's pretty much.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Yes, that's really because the root is still there, but
you're just still reaching for other things.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Man.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
But it's still authentically as you said us. Man, we
didn't we didn't want to. We would never abandon that,
you know, that's all we would do.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
And it's that sound.
Speaker 8 (02:16):
That sound, that that sound that so many people love,
so many people have been inspired by.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Have you ever met, you know, an actor, someone else
who does music outside of hip hop, someone you wouldn't
expect and says, yo, y'all changed my life, or you know,
you know your music is a soundtrack to my life.
You know, well, I'm sorry that.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I think we're probably going to say the same thing.
That's one of the biggest rewards meeting people like that
I met, you know, meeting a couple and saying I
met my wife in college and we were at a
record store and we actually met buying three feet high
in Rockston and they're still married to this crazy stuff
(02:59):
like that, or somebody saying they name their kid Macio,
like that. So all of those things, man, it's like
truly rewarding. It's like it's when you hear those things,
it's really overwhelming because I never thought that would I
didn't thought that would be you know, for sure, I
(03:19):
didn't think I was moving people in such a way.
You know what I mean, I just have to do
my thing.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Has it ever been a celebrity? Yeah, a few spotless, right.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yeah, a few celebrities that said we have been the
soundtracks to their their lives going through high school and
college and all that. So that's some really cool stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 10 (03:40):
Yeah, speaking of soundtracks, man, I don't mean to get
too far, but I was very much put onto you
guys with NBA Street Volume three, crazy right, crazy, a little.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Younger, but you round what let me guess thirty five,
thirty six.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
See.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Where it is.
Speaker 10 (04:01):
That's why I got put on to day I saw
That's when I started digging and whatnot. But you know,
for something like NBA Street Volume three, for you guys, like,
how did that come about? I've always wanted to ask
you guys that question.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
No, I mean we've never well when we're asked about
these different opportunities, you know, We're humbled by it.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Man.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
We don't just look at it's like oh you know check, No,
it's like oh wow.
Speaker 10 (04:23):
You know.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
It's like we're saying, like we're blessed to be these
guys from nineteen eighty nine with the first album and
still have people wanting our music, our fabric included in
whatever's going on in that current motion of time, and
it's a blessing, man. So we don't take none of
it for granted.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Man.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
We was like, yo, let's go, like you know, let's
do it. And it's like you said, to have people
feel connected to it. No different than how several years back,
you know, Marvel came to us and wanted to put
theree is the Magic number in the Spider Man movie.
And then like a whole bunch of people learned about
Daylight just from there and that was their journey, that
was their entrance point.
Speaker 8 (04:58):
Yeah, and then the audience continues to grow, the group
continues to grow, the soul continues to grow.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, it's amazing, man.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
This is Garcier is our producer, big fan, huge fan
for sure. You know what I'm saying, like big time dog.
Speaker 11 (05:13):
I was telling them before you're walking in there like
Buddy gave us a definition of what we were looking
for in school.
Speaker 12 (05:25):
You feel me and then drive double down with looking
for that.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
You know what paint is a picture for you?
Speaker 12 (05:34):
Thank you for giving me the soundtracks in my life.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Now y'all have for real, and then now being.
Speaker 11 (05:40):
Able to pass it down to my kids, which is amazing.
He's seventeen turned seventeen in a couple of days and
you know, I said day lost comany.
Speaker 12 (05:46):
Oh shit, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Man?
Speaker 12 (05:48):
And that makes me feel really good that he knows,
you know.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Like, what's amazing. Yeah, in this day and age to
see a seventeen year old or fifteen year old like
yo of your music because of my dad, yeah, my
mom or my uncles.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
It's like welcome, right, welcome.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
No, it's beautiful because we've been seeing it for the
last fifteen twenty years, where like you know, you figure
when we first came out, we were like eighteen, but
there were people who were thirty into our music then.
Speaker 13 (06:19):
So you have these people at our concert.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
It's like this this person who's like twenty years older
than us with their kid, who has their kid. It's
like three generations at our show. You know what I'm saying, Like,
we can have someone who's you know, like sixty something
and someone who's eleven at our show.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
That's crazy, y'all. Disneyland, Yeah indeed, Yeah, but it Disneyland.
Give it up.
Speaker 12 (06:45):
Word, it's small.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
It really is.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Our soul. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
That's so true, though, that is so true. It's for
all ages, man, all ages welcome rights. It's fun and
it's always food for thought man, you know, and then
the beats are crazy.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Hip Hop in its early stages was for all ages.
So nah, before he had a name called hip hop, yeah,
you know, it was for all the ages.
Speaker 11 (07:18):
But when Native came came through, you know, it came
to be and all you guys started putting out music consecutively.
It was different because it was fun man, that Daisy
Man just everything was different because before that it was
a lot of boom back boom bap.
Speaker 12 (07:31):
You had a couple of crews arguing with each other
and the juice brew and everything.
Speaker 11 (07:35):
You guys kind of just you brought the lightheartedness but
also had a message, man.
Speaker 12 (07:38):
So it was very different.
Speaker 11 (07:39):
I mean, you guys started something that needed to be
started because your thought process and what you were talking
about was different from the stuff that was before you.
Speaker 9 (07:47):
Yeah, man, it's like, well it's like you know, and
I want to say nerdy, but the guy who was different,
it didn't matter if they were from the hardest point
of Brooklyn, the Bronx. Those were the people who who
took to us, and then even some of the hard
kids even when we were like blessed to come here
for the first time and we had guys who was
in the street and they were like, Yo, man, that
(08:08):
me myself and I like.
Speaker 13 (08:09):
They you know, they have the deep love what we
were doing.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Because music just speaks to everyone and it's kind of
put the ego to the side and you're like.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yo, that's my jam, Like I can have funk crazy.
You're like yo, U iced t though.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Saying but even yo.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
And God Rest the soul easy loved. Yeah, Like yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
We did the Nitrol tour in nineteen eighty nine and
we hung out with NWA. We was just all hanging
out and that was the one thing. Also musically at
that point you can have all these people under the
same umbrella at the same coliseum where you know, it
got to a point where in the nineties where if
you was maybe Rough Riders. You if someone was more
in the same atmosphere as them or universe as them,
(08:54):
opposed to when we started Ghetto Boys pe NW way
too short.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
We could all be on the same bill together, you know.
Is there any newer voices in hip hop that we've
learned from?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
I mean I try, not even try. I think we
learned from everything, whether you want to take it in
or accept it as a whole other thing. And sometimes
we can pay attention to what's been in the past,
but you're always moving forward, so I pay attention to
it all. Like you know, I love Jid. It's a
lot of people I really really appreciate, you know, but
it could be Baby Tait. I can just hear something
(09:28):
that it's like it's cool to hear, and it's like
this particular song. I mean, I'm all over cardi Be
latest album. Like there's things about it that I can
take to and things that don't take seriously. Like I
know I don't live like.
Speaker 10 (09:40):
That, but.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
It is what it is to me, you know, m
what about for you?
Speaker 4 (09:48):
No same thing? Good music is good music. I mean
I'm not even as critical because coming from a place
being a DJ first, a great record, a record.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
You know a lot of people would think, now you
know they're from that time, they're gonna pick apart or
they pick apart.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
They don't necessarily understand what's going on with what you know,
with what's happening now. But that's the opposite, I believe.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
I mean, as a DJ, come on, much as our
love boogie down productions and poetry being a dope single,
I did have a love for Himmer, you know, I
did have a love for Ice Ice Baby. Maybe not
him over all as a package, but the song was crazy. Yeah,
(10:34):
it's still hold up today, you know what I'm saying.
So just saying, man, there's a lot of wide variety
of music out there, and my palate is broad.
Speaker 12 (10:49):
So much now and it's kind of like, man, I'm
not in that box. Like man like we're still putting
We're good.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
No, I'm in that box. I'm CuO, I'm the og,
I'm the still putting out music.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
But you know that's right, that's right.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Us this Daylight never allowed ourselves to be trapped in
a box create creatively, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
No, no, not for sure. It was never a peak.
It was it was evolution.
Speaker 13 (11:17):
Yes, with day Live.
Speaker 11 (11:19):
Yeah, definitely it's weird because I'm not saying us what
you do, but I say, like a lot of you know,
fans of hip hop have a tendency to do that.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, it's disappointing because labeled things. Yeah, people getting.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Cut off some I know what you mean, because they'll
do it in kind of a negative tone and have
a condescending tone to it, you know what I mean.
But at the end of the day, hopefully one day
you'll be my age, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
You know, getting older is that's the success.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Getting older? You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
It's like, yo, I always tell people the side effect
from being alive is living and getting older.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
All right, I'll take it, Yo. The beat on Don't
Push Me is crazy. Talk to us about that and
creating that.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Well, our brother, our brother Dave, he produced that record,
and you know that was just unnatural talent of him. Man,
he could just he could take something and it's create
something and it could it could have such a bounce,
and then he knows how to marry his lyrics himself
lyrically to the record. So I mean, yeah, man, don't
push me with just a dope record that Dave had
(12:26):
played for us like a while ago, and it was
just like, you know, he would make as we all
do make music in the house. So when it came
about for for thinking of a way to end the album,
I was like, yo, man, it could be dope as
if Dave is in heaven in the studio and you know, but.
Speaker 13 (12:42):
Still talking away. He talked talking reckless.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
A little bit. Yeah right right, talking that ship. That's
so that's what he was.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Doing, man, And I loved it. It's such an infectious
groove to it. We added the strings to it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah, it's perfect.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
There you go.
Speaker 14 (13:04):
You know, you guys have mentioned that this album. Creating
this album was very therapeutic and healing. What's the hardest
thing that you would say that you've discovered about yourselves
through grief and creating music?
Speaker 5 (13:14):
For me, God, and I think a Mason can relate
to what I'm about to say. I handle grief well.
And the thing is because my mother passed at a
very young age for me, the day I graduate from
high school, she got uh. She she was diagnosed with
lung cancer and she died maybe a few months after that.
Never smoked the day in her life, so I mean
(13:36):
then and always going to church with my end and
it's figuring out things for myself.
Speaker 13 (13:41):
I just had this really weird way of looking at death.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I was just like, yo, if I could lose my
mom's I was like, I could lose anybody.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
That's how I used to just talk to them, and
they thought it was crazy until we got to an
age when even Daves lost his father first and his mother. Yeah,
so it's like I just kind of have to deal
with death really earlier, Like I had two funerals with
my moms, like New York and where she grew up,
and that that just sent me in a path of numbness.
(14:09):
But then I have to learn to heal from it
as well and understand that you know what, this woman
she did such a great job with her family, where
the people that she did leave, like her memories means
everything because she was such a beautiful person.
Speaker 13 (14:24):
And it's the same with Dave. David lived such a
dense life.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
He got to travel so many places and you know,
inspire so many people, and that's a blessing opposed when
you lose someone and you'd be like wow, and they
didn't get a chance to correct things for themselves, and
we didn't have a chance to get things right with
each other.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
You don't want to have that.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Right right right.
Speaker 13 (14:42):
Death is it's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah, something we.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
All have to face at some point. Passua's been teaching
me a lot about it. It's been more really sensitive
to me in this moment because of losing Dave, and
I've been learning that. I truly have learned that nothing
or no one really dies. We just transition. You know,
(15:09):
those spirits. I feel those spirits. I felt those spirits
for a long time.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
You know.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I think I have a really good relationship with spirits.
I do feel them, you know, and when it's over,
but times comforting, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
You have to welcome it for sure.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
And grief can be slightly selfish because we want them here.
Speaker 13 (15:38):
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
It's a very selfish thingmree.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yeah, sure, you know. So I'm I was I'm learning.
I'm learning.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I was happy when my mother was no longer in
pain from the cancer.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
So it was like, yo, I'm just happy that she's
not going through that or she's you know, just so
that's that's me and that's what I've.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Really been adopted. That's what I've adopted for Dave, Like
he's no longer in pain.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
No, that's right. There is happiness to be found in
an ending. Yeah it is, it.
Speaker 13 (16:05):
Really is, without questions, Yeah, without question.
Speaker 12 (16:12):
Was that a difficult decision on how and where to
use him on Cabin and the Guy?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
No, Yeah, it was easy.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
It just it was.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
It was in the muscle memory of just being creative
and knowing, like, yo, we gotta sprinkle him throughout. We
made sure his energy was felt in the right places.
I mean, the first song you hear is a song
called you Don't Stop. They produced that. The last song
you hear is Don't Push Me, and he produced that,
you know, or on cruel summers like he's not romy
but you hear him doing the chorus. Like, we made
(16:42):
sure his energy was in the right place at the
right time.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
What makes it easy is having a blessing from the
family and friends. We all came up with, you know,
poss put in the rhyme. The conversation we had with
his sister, you know, at his memorial at his house.
She said, listen here, if y'all stop, he stops and
(17:05):
then like held no pressure, but I'm just saying, you
know what I'm saying, that's right, And that's Cindy and
her real comical jollichoor Away. Yeah you know, that's their
last name. So that was like I saw every bit
of her brothers when she did that.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was very familiar, right, yeah, And.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
It was comforting to know that we could still continue
on with our plans that we actually had.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
When is that why we make a song called good Health?
Speaker 7 (17:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Well, I mean it was just really just talking about
when that song came about. That was more like to
saying like treating music as if it's like a health food,
Like you just need healthiness at some point, going through
your ears to your mind, you know, to just to
live a certain way. So we were just trying to say, yo, man,
we got to give healthy rhymes and get on some
(17:57):
good health because we can all listen to some bad
health stuff like I don't want to eat fried chicken
every day. I know it tastes good, but I mean
I just can't eat it every day.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I want to, but you know maybe yeah man, man.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
So that's that's where that was about just having healthy
lyrics but prepared in such a way you want to
like take it in.
Speaker 12 (18:22):
Yeah, there's a line on there.
Speaker 11 (18:23):
I'm gonna I think I wrote it down right. Finding
finding real rappers is like a needle in a haystack.
You guys have never been shy about that, whether it's rock, cocaine,
float to Mike.
Speaker 12 (18:31):
Ryme right, no, right, right, right, right to call out
people that aren't living. Nah, yeah, you know, is that
do you feel like it's your responsibility?
Speaker 13 (18:39):
I don't know if it's I would say so, you know,
you do the worst.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
It's not even really calling anybody out, it's you know,
it's it's reflecting on what's not happening. Yeah, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
We're calling that what's not happening.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Yeah. And if the shoe fit, yeah, nothing I can
do about it, nothing, you know what I mean. Yeah,
you know, but just being fans of it first, you know.
And I love that in him when he just say
it for what it is.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Yeah, you know, like we've had fun with that, like
you know, over the years, like and like you said
on it was some record I did on Declaration when
I say salute to the soup e mcs of being
clever and never using weed as a ghost rider it's
all my my rapping friends with smoke winders.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Like I really really bost I feel attacked. Yeah, Okay,
Like nah, man, I just you know, I'm just making
my drugs true what I'm saying.
Speaker 10 (19:37):
Man, you know, fellas, since we are talking about like
you know, modern hip hop and whatnot, Like, how do
you guys feel about hip hop not even being in
the top forty of the Billboard charts right now?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I mean, it can happen, you know.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I mean, it's it's it's something that is here forever.
I mean that's how I always saw, Like it's a culture.
It's it's it's music that's going to be here forever,
regardless of what if someone says. So at some point,
it can lose, it can fall off, because at some
point it's going to still be here and some other
new kids is going to come along or some veterans
like ourselves and put them put us back up in
(20:10):
those in those those corners.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
But we held it for a long long time.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
And you know, I think when you take yeah, when
you take things for granted, you know, and get people
a redundancy of this stuff, Yeah, it's time for you
to be pushed out the way and let something else
come through, but we're gonna be back up in there.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
No, I think that could only make you work harder
square like that. It should be.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
It's got to be a filtering processor at some point.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Filtering process, no filter, no man, even.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Even people within hip hop, we all like we.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Gotta be honest.
Speaker 14 (20:52):
I mean you it shows you who's going to step
up and who's going to prosper, you know, and you're like, yes.
Speaker 11 (21:01):
Well then yeah, because everything is cyclical and it's nice
to see that come back around for the different generations
that you mentioned earlier.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Indeed, yeah, it's good to have them have the different.
Speaker 12 (21:13):
The different you know, types of hip hop to be
able to listen to it and not be you know, the.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Same thing, exactly right. Totally agree with you, man, totally agree.
Now for sure you're running all the same page.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Bro run it back with nas yo like yo, like
that's it sounds like it was done in one take,
dog just raw like boom, you know, like probably.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
I mean when that was the track produced by our
brother Super Dave West, who you know, we got to
Day in the Sun record out. Now he did that
one too, but when he when he sent to us
that beat. Everyone's reaction is the same. You hear this,
this amazing famous record by the group Police, You're like,
where is this going? Because how is someone gonna rhyme
O it is? We're just then he goes backwards. They're like,
(22:01):
where's this going? Then when the beat kicks in, man crazy.
So yeah, it was like you just have this energy, like, oh,
I got to write something crazy to is Like I
was like, and that's what I did. So when let alone,
when I handed it to nas like, I was like, yo,
I think I got something. And I remember him getting
it that day and at least around like maybe one
(22:23):
at night, I get the call from my people's strong seat.
He's like, yo, nazis trying to hit you. I was
like what he said, Yo, Naz need you to call him.
He just wrote two rhymes to it. I was like
what And I called him. He said, Yo, I got
to send you both rhymes. Listen is to the first
one and the first one is one we kept and
then the second one just is dope. But I was
like no, man, I said, yo, you you you lean
hard on the meanness on.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
The first one. Let's get the first one so that
other verse you have, Yes, I have, I have that one.
Speaker 8 (22:51):
I need to hear that shit, yo, I gotta hit
y'all stop playing, man, I gotta hear it.
Speaker 13 (22:57):
He tried to be a little bit more call and
for cool was like nah boy, no, no, no, the way.
Speaker 8 (23:04):
You s yeah, the Queen's Bridge, that brave hearts chance
and there be jungle.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
His brother's in it, like right, that's him and right
in the middle before he rhymes like yeah, I was like, man,
we gotta have this authentically Queen's Bridge.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
When we stop rhyming, I was I love that record
many so do we? It's crazy yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 12 (23:29):
Someone brought it back artists from Japan.
Speaker 11 (23:31):
Yeah, and then we kept it in the studio and
when artists would come through, we take a shot.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It's like wriskin fused wine. I guess we got a
snake in there.
Speaker 13 (23:43):
So it's like the flakes of the snake skins, like
you know, you see, like.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
And it was meant for what like to aphrodisiac, right.
Somehow we only shared.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
It with guys, but whatever, we're brotherhood other hood, yo,
I know, I know. Bottle isn't that big man. We
drank it in celebration. Yo, the Silent Life of a Truth?
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Right?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Is that too?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Change at the true? Yeah, that's a two change. Yeah, Yeah,
that's Primo.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
You know.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Primo always got to find the right thing that works
with it, and he's just such a surgeon with stuff
like that.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
When he threw it, I was like, oh, prem, you
just killed it.
Speaker 13 (24:26):
Tell the truth. He's doing the salt and pepper joint
and like, Yo, that's Premiere crazy.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I love the you know, the initial Premiere sound that yes, yes,
you just know, here we go.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
And he's crazy because he asked my he was like
asking our permission because when he did it in Sunny Storms,
he said, yo, I just kind of felt it like
I was like, pream come on, man, it's authentically you
do it.
Speaker 10 (24:49):
Do it?
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Yeah, Like even with Silent Life for the Truth, no,
n F. I make sure he talked. I was like, yo,
I want and he hates the way his voice sounded,
like prem your voice is classic hip hop, like we
gotta talk.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
So yeah, man, it was.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
It was beautiful and I love that dude. This dude know,
like me and prem we are jokesters with each other,
like we just can't stop. Yeah, he'll call me and
curse me out. I'll call him back and yeah we
yea next week.
Speaker 9 (25:25):
I love.
Speaker 13 (25:27):
That's my brother.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I love prem I love preing. What was the toughest
song to create, Cabin in the Sky.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Yeah, it was easy in the sense of the production
because uh it was that was also produced by super
Dave West. It was something that was he had already
given me before we even had the title of the album.
And you know, it has the Boston sampling it more
than a feeling and the voice is singing like in
the sky and it's saying slip away. And so once
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we knew he was gonna call the album been in
the Sky, I was like, that song is the title
track and immediately start writing to it, and like I
was crying while I was writing because I knew it
was going to be like not saying that We're like
it's our Troy, you know what I'm saying, Like how
our peep and Cel had theirs, Like that's our reminisce
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over you, you know what I'm saying. Like, and I
I just like those worstes flew out and they were
like one takes that was it.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Like I just kind of like yeah, I gotta.
Speaker 13 (26:28):
I just felt it.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
It was like more than me writing it. There was
that spirit.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Yeah, it's a beautiful met you look at breakdown the artwork, fellas.
Speaker 12 (26:38):
Yeah, remind me a lot of Yellow Submarine man.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Graffiti.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
It's Dave working on the album from the heavens and
we just.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
No doubt that's right, that's rights.
Speaker 13 (26:57):
It was great to have this album.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
It was done by the really dope artist, Hebrew Brantley,
who does his thing, and I mean it was a
blessing to like hit him up. He just happened to
be on a call with us with our manager and
we just started speaking to him and he was like, Yo, man,
I would love to, you know, take a shot at
doing the album color and like so when I saw that,
I was like, yes, man, this is it.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
So yeah man, right, well done, well done.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Yo.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Can y'all break down the intro with you know, the
features checking in in the class?
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Yo.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
It was something that I know myself and David always
talk about, like, Yo, why don't we start a record
And it was around the time we did the AOI
Mosaic Thump album and it was like, Yo, why don't
we do something where we have everyone who we have
featured on the album rhyme on a on a record
at the top of the album.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
So it was always something we thunk. Dope.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
It's almost like a roll call, and so I just
want to honor that idea finally and yeah, I started
off on some seminar classroom thing and like Jean called
him and he.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Just had such an amazing voice.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
He he came to a show we did in London
one time, hung out with us and I was like,
I think he may you know, hey, he may say
yes or no.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
And he was in when he heard the idea. He
was in.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
I mean he came in and knocked that thing out
like that. He's like, what else you got for me?
Like he's like, this is this is what I love
to dude, like talk.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
On to mic. So it was beautiful, man, it was
just like it was.
Speaker 13 (28:23):
It's really like a dream.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
It's like a dream because it's like with these older dudes,
like in a classroom setting. That doesn't make sense, but
it's really like a dream because then when it when
they say Dave's name at the end, and then you
it's a moment of silence. You hit Dave's voice. The
first thing I say in my rhyme is like wake
up with a voice in my head. So it was
like a dream for me and Dave's voice is waking
me up. So yeah, man, it was just a creative
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way just to put all the great people on the
album up top.
Speaker 9 (28:50):
Yeah, man, killing Mike did his thing like he always
getting me as he always do. Crazy what that song
is produced by Knots and like it had the samples
saying what it was saying, we're not the sample that's
a you know, not took a young lady he knew
and just took her voice saying these things. But y'all
was beautiful, and I was like I just immediately thought
(29:11):
again with where we was going with Cabin in the Sky,
like y'all want to talk about my mother who's not here?
And I was like, I just want another rapper to
to kind of express it the same way. And I
was like, yo, killer Mike, he will destroy this as he.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Did kill her.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Of Mike's kill her. Yeah, man, crazy four.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Make it easy, bro.
Speaker 13 (29:35):
Yeah man, it was fun because you know it's it's
almost comedy.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
As I said to Mace, like you love your mother,
how can you really talk about your mother in sixteen lines.
But that's why I thought it was a comedic way
of like doing something that's loving for your mother called
it a quick sixteen for mama.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
That's right, that's right. Common's in there. He checks in
in Common. It's just that guy and he's got baby.
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Slick Rick crazy and it those voices that these are
voices in hip hop that are just undeniable.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Tell me about it.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
It was a blessing, like we had to because we
already we had, you know, the kind of like messing
around with this this feel of what slick Rick song was,
So we want to get his permission for that to
use like kind of the Hey Young World interpolation. And
he loved it so much, Like he called and was like, Yo,
can I can I say the chorus? Because I was
(30:27):
I was the one doing the chorus originally, and he
was like, Yo, can I do the chorus? He really
just loved the record. I was like, how of course
slick Slick.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
On my record?
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Like he really liked the way we use Hey Young World. Yeah,
And he was like a lot of people have tried
to use it and didn't really compliment it. And he
really like the way we did it at the same time.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, I really appreciate it, and that's true.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
I really appreciated that just simple things like that can
make a record, you know, from one point to another
exactly exactly.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
And it's this always show our appreciation of where we
came from, the songs that were the soundtrack of our lives,
and we always love including those.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
In what we're doing.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
So I mean the throw in you know that, that's true,
and then they have it go into a word that,
you know, into a sentence. You know, that was just
us being creative, but like I said, still showing homage
to people like Rick.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Answer, what are some of your earliest memories of coming
into Los Angeles?
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Yeah, one time we used to stay at the Holiday Inn,
remember over by the Hollywood Sign. Well, it was like
a holiday inn over there. We were walking around, uh
me and Dave was walking somewhere else. You were walking
with Dante Ross and they end up walking Jay and
(31:59):
up jaywar.
Speaker 13 (32:00):
Because we're New Yorkers, man, right, came a thing back then.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
It was illegal back then.
Speaker 15 (32:05):
Hey, yeah, yeah, it was illegal here, but jaywalking was
whatever in New York, right, We just that was our thing,
so right about that? So they were walking and talking
and they were jaywalking, and the police officer got on
this radio and he said black guy, white guy.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Because we wasn't listening, like hey hey you hey, hey you.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Hey you guys, So he said, hey, black guy, white guy.
Either stupid or just color.
Speaker 13 (32:39):
He was nice about it afterwards.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
You know, we're from New York.
Speaker 10 (32:42):
We know.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Sorry, the funniest looking at it to like, oh my god.
Speaker 10 (32:50):
My.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
My crazy first memories driving here in l a friend
of ours came to pick us up. He was down
with kind of like digital Underground, and he came to
pick us up, start driving me around. He go gets
me a car, So I'm driving around in LA with him,
and then we wind up to like old SHARE's house.
(33:13):
A man to will share you something, but Curtis blow
on it.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Okay, we walking?
Speaker 15 (33:17):
Yeah yeah, the pot Piper, the Wrapper, the pot Piper, Cheebaba.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
He was originally from Amne, originally.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
From Long Island, but he lived out here for many years.
He was on priority and the record was produced by
shot G. Yeah, it was produced by Shock. But he
was really close with a lot of the old school
rappers that at that time. He came from New York,
and lived out here, ron Syndicate all that, you know,
he was the plug.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Yeah, he showed up the Curtis Blow house unannounced, and
Curtis Blow was not with it. He was he was
not happy about that, and I'm like, yo, here's my
idol and he just pissed off at my friend and
he saw men. But he was cool after I he
let us in. But yeah, I man like, that was
like a time of my life. It's too many to
(34:07):
talk about that, too many.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
I mean, l A had been a world of wheels.
Speaker 13 (34:12):
Were the first place we did out.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Yeah, the wheels world the wheels like every time. Yeah, yeah, really,
my stupid ass had a red jacket on in a
red Corvette one time. I don't know what the hell
I was thinking. We had, we had this what we
had made some money at this point. He was out
(34:34):
here for one of the award programs and we were
just having a great time. And it was these African
brothers that rented these exotic cars out to all the artists,
and I end up I always wanted to drive a
Corvette and they had the rest right, But I forgot
about the gang climbing out here. Yeah, so it didn't
(34:56):
take me no time to go take that car back
that I had an experience at one of the gas
stations and they was like, your cousin set you from
I'm like what and he knew I wasn't from Yeah,
I wasn't playing anything. I was like, what are you
talking about? He was like, because you can't try that car.
(35:17):
I got schooled by a gang banger, like very nicely
though he was because once he knew I wasn't from here.
I was like, I got to put you on you know.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
He like, excuse me, sir, He was like, he said,
because cause you got to go take that car back
and wearing red to he was really, I was just
trying to make the car.
Speaker 10 (35:46):
Tell me that.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
I really was trying to install I was.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
That was about.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
That was about I was white Avalon or something like that.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Came back in the I.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Dumped it all the way down for real, dumped it
all the way I did. I've dumbed it all the
way down for life like that was from my life.
Start with earth starterway earth tones. Every time I came
to calig Okay, a little beige, little little green.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Yeah, there was times where l A was just hot
like that, you know, no, come on, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (36:28):
I mean, you know, it was a it was a
learning experience, and you know, but thank god we had
people around us who just showed a lot of love
and because, like you said, it could have went a
lot of other ways, but we had We've had the
best time, made some of the most amazing friends out here.
Like like even quite honestly, even when the whole you know,
unfortunate East Coast West coast thing going on, like we
(36:49):
really had no problems still coming because we were just
in other circles and it was just nothing but positivity,
and you know, no one was really messing with us.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
And when that was kind of thin and we were
coming out here, the person who had my corner all
the time, well outside of tribe, the other person who
had my corner all the time and he would come
kick me and we would just go out and have
a blast would be one eighty seven Hunch. Okay, yeah,
big up the Hutch.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Yeah wow.
Speaker 8 (37:18):
Hutch is a real one. Yeah, real one. And I
had a lot of fun on Hutch. Yeah yeah, yeah
has some fun. Were there any alternative names for the album?
Speaker 5 (37:36):
Well, I had one name written down because normally we
are just let it just come to us when it
comes to us. And one title was like something like
after the finish line, like what's next something like that.
But yeah, but uh, one day, just sitting down watching television,
(37:59):
flipping through like I video, I come across the famous
movie that I didn't even I had never heard.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Of, called Cabin in the Sky. And time I saw
that title, I was like, this is it?
Speaker 4 (38:10):
There it is?
Speaker 12 (38:10):
This is it?
Speaker 5 (38:11):
Like this feels like it remind me of medium Dave
and like it just flowed off your tongue.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
I was like cabin and.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
Scott when he said it to me, I was like, yeah,
that's it, just you just know it.
Speaker 9 (38:24):
This sounds right, Yeah, it tells you. Yeah, put me
right in the mindset of what I was already thinking,
yeah album.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
No, that's right.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
And that prime password was that yours are you sharing
it with other people?
Speaker 13 (38:39):
Because I've had enough of.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
Like sharing it with my kids. And then all of
a sudden there's someone else profile who it is. They
lint it out to one of their.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Phrase what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Seven profiles and.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
They'll go into your profile and start like watching a
movie you saved and moved it from where it was like.
Speaker 12 (38:58):
Your suggestions are all crap.
Speaker 8 (39:02):
My wife shares our passwords with her family and stocked
and stocked and out in northern California, and I'm just like, so,
I'm paying for everybody's on the town.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
I'm like, yo, and they watching some wolsh wows. Indeed,
I had to stop that all of a sudden, you
got Twilight on your cabin in the sky Garcia, you
got one.
Speaker 14 (39:25):
You know, you guys mentioned we talked about, you know
a lot of celebrities coming up to you guys and
telling you that you know your soundtracks for the records
of their lives. There's one recently, and I don't know
if you guys have known about this, but Pedro Pascal,
who I think is one of the biggest actors right now,
he credits that Dela Soul Is Dead is one of
his favorite albums.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
Yes, I was just so.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
I was humble when he when he said it, man,
like you has seen how you love us and tribe
and yeah, it's amazing, man. I mean, like like we said,
it's a it's an honor because we made these records
for us, and you know, you figure like there's like
minded people around the world. But you know when you
see that this like minded person is an amazing actor
and you know, and you know, you just don't know.
(40:06):
And to find out that, wow, like just moved them
in a certain way. It's a blessing.
Speaker 8 (40:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
A lot of people in the comments were like, no,
I didn't know Pedro Bald like that. You just never know,
you don't tripping me out.
Speaker 5 (40:20):
And it's incredible, Like funny enough when we were just
talking about different La stories like even to have we
used to stay at the High when it was be
right across from the House of Blues and then that,
and you know, little Richard used to live in and
like at the Penthouse and like when he heard we
was that he would be searching us out, like we
hear him on the four like where the day our
Soul boys at, Like he wanted to hang out and
(40:41):
talk to us like crazy rich It was kind.
Speaker 13 (40:44):
Of scary and and honorable the same, like, Yo, what
does he want?
Speaker 8 (40:48):
Man?
Speaker 2 (40:49):
What do you want? That's going on?
Speaker 12 (40:52):
Man?
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Let's go see, right, we got to go see what's
going on.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
See. All I want to do is just see.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
I just want to say, maybe see the wigs and
the hats.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
That's all I want.
Speaker 5 (41:06):
But now it's a blessing to have just people you respect,
show love with people you just didn't think but know
who you are, know who you are.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Nothing like it, man, that's right now.
Speaker 8 (41:16):
We were talking about you know, Tyler creator before we
got started, right, and there's somebody there that clearly has
has listened to y'all you know, yeah, and has created
from what he's heard, you know, amongst other of course,
of course.
Speaker 5 (41:30):
No, we're definitely proud to have people like that considered
part of our DNA. I remember recently because me Mason
Q Tip we talk all the time and q Tip
my mom.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
He was talking to me.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
He was like, yo, I was just with Tyler. I
guess Tyler was in New York for something.
Speaker 5 (41:44):
Him and Q Tip hung out and he was just
he was like, because they My name is Kelvin Mercer,
so everyone called him Merse.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
And he was like, Merse.
Speaker 5 (41:52):
Them guys are like us when we were young, like
running around, like we would do crazy stuff like fart
and play and it run from each other, pass gas
and then play tag like this silly stuff.
Speaker 13 (42:03):
He was like, yo, these guys I'm saying. He was like,
these guys are like us like give me shot.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
Shot.
Speaker 5 (42:13):
So No, it's just it was just dope to hear that,
because like you can hear in their music how how
they move. It just felt very familiar as how us
as native tongues move.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
No, that's right, Cavin in the Sky, congratulations, love man.
We hear you know, we hear us.
Speaker 5 (42:33):
I hear like I think of even Dell like this,
the lyricism that he has, like you know, like a
person that had not only just be lyrical, to be lyrical,
but he put thought, I.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
Just heard somebody that's really inspired by a certain era.
Speaker 10 (42:49):
You know.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
He truly.
Speaker 4 (42:53):
I mean, like I said, I could put him right
there with Dell and c at the same time, you know,
and just rock him all them. I put him right there,
you know.
Speaker 5 (43:03):
And not only understanding that lyrical error like save us
being New Yorkers, and he's understanding that, but he appreciates
and talk about his culture his life like what you know.
And I love that when people cannot just we have
a lot of arts who will separate themselves. They will
become this person who's on the mic opposed to like
(43:24):
this person who's really talking about their life and what
they've been through. And what you know, what his mother
could have said, what his uncle could have said. Like
you hear that, Like you almost feel like the characters
he's talking about, which is his family, you almost want
to meet them.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
And I always love that about him.
Speaker 8 (43:40):
Yeah, that's right, you know yo, Cabin in the sky. Congratulations,
let's go, man, you got a home here. Whenever you
guys want to pull up, Man, we're here for you.
We're here with you all day. Congratulations, Thank you, let's go.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
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Speaker 14 (44:01):
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Speaker 10 (44:06):
So so
Oh my god, is that Nico Blitz.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
That's a magic number. It is, It's the magic number.
Even though they got a cat, but she won't let
it out. No tough luck come the ejack.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Hey, how you do?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Man?
Speaker 5 (00:32):
Sorry they can't actually and I'm uh, I'm petting back
to you.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Dancing on the dan or girl.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Let you that I had through stepped up stage the
steam for more, need them talking, got bounced.
Speaker 6 (00:47):
The proper basketball Lady Street Wall the wall like a
click click, let's find its back at it. We need
(01:10):
soy rocks the cruise Show one.
Speaker 7 (01:15):
Days, I was crazy crazy, so many more songs, right,
it's crazy brou Be here for hours, Bro, that was
a crazy man.
Speaker 8 (01:25):
Shot the Nico Blitz for that intro. That was dope
b Nico. He ready to go on tour today, man,
let's get let's go. He got a wedding to pay
for it.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Let's go.
Speaker 8 (01:36):
Go starring Nico Blitz in the mix, Cavin in the Sky. Congratulations,
Day Lost Soul Walls. You know we've been talking about
this album all morning here and you know you guys
did it. Man, You know you protected the artistic DNA
that is Day Last Soul. But evolved once again.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
How do we do that? You grow as a person?
Speaker 9 (01:56):
Yeah, man, that's it off the mic. Yeah, actually, you're
truly grow as a person. That's that's pretty much.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Yes, that's really because the root is still there, but
you're just still reaching for other things.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Man.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
But it's still authentically as you said us. Man, we
didn't we didn't want to. We would never abandon that,
you know, that's all we would do.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
And it's that sound.
Speaker 8 (02:16):
That sound, that that sound that so many people love,
so many people have been inspired by.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Have you ever met, you know, an actor, someone else
who does music outside of hip hop, someone you wouldn't
expect and says, yo, y'all changed my life, or you know,
you know your music is a soundtrack to my life.
You know, well, I'm sorry that.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I think we're probably going to say the same thing.
That's one of the biggest rewards meeting people like that
I met, you know, meeting a couple and saying I
met my wife in college and we were at a
record store and we actually met buying three feet high
in Rockston and they're still married to this crazy stuff
(02:59):
like that, or somebody saying they name their kid Macio,
like that. So all of those things, man, it's like
truly rewarding. It's like it's when you hear those things,
it's really overwhelming because I never thought that would I
didn't thought that would be you know, for sure, I
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didn't think I was moving people in such a way.
You know what I mean, I just have to do
my thing.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Has it ever been a celebrity? Yeah, a few spotless, right.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yeah, a few celebrities that said we have been the
soundtracks to their their lives going through high school and
college and all that. So that's some really cool stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 10 (03:40):
Yeah, speaking of soundtracks, man, I don't mean to get
too far, but I was very much put onto you
guys with NBA Street Volume three, crazy right, crazy, a little.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Younger, but you round what let me guess thirty five,
thirty six.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
See.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Where it is.
Speaker 10 (04:01):
That's why I got put on to day I saw
That's when I started digging and whatnot. But you know,
for something like NBA Street Volume three, for you guys, like,
how did that come about? I've always wanted to ask
you guys that question.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
No, I mean we've never well when we're asked about
these different opportunities, you know, We're humbled by it.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Man.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
We don't just look at it's like oh you know check, No,
it's like oh wow.
Speaker 10 (04:23):
You know.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
It's like we're saying, like we're blessed to be these
guys from nineteen eighty nine with the first album and
still have people wanting our music, our fabric included in
whatever's going on in that current motion of time, and
it's a blessing, man. So we don't take none of
it for granted.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Man.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
We was like, yo, let's go, like you know, let's
do it. And it's like you said, to have people
feel connected to it. No different than how several years back,
you know, Marvel came to us and wanted to put
theree is the Magic number in the Spider Man movie.
And then like a whole bunch of people learned about
Daylight just from there and that was their journey, that
was their entrance point.
Speaker 8 (04:58):
Yeah, and then the audience continues to grow, the group
continues to grow, the soul continues to grow.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah, it's amazing, man.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
This is Garcier is our producer, big fan, huge fan
for sure. You know what I'm saying, like big time dog.
Speaker 11 (05:13):
I was telling them before you're walking in there like
Buddy gave us a definition of what we were looking
for in school.
Speaker 12 (05:25):
You feel me and then drive double down with looking
for that.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
You know what paint is a picture for you?
Speaker 12 (05:34):
Thank you for giving me the soundtracks in my life.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Now y'all have for real, and then now being.
Speaker 11 (05:40):
Able to pass it down to my kids, which is amazing.
He's seventeen turned seventeen in a couple of days and
you know, I said day lost comany.
Speaker 12 (05:46):
Oh shit, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Man?
Speaker 12 (05:48):
And that makes me feel really good that he knows,
you know.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Like, what's amazing. Yeah, in this day and age to
see a seventeen year old or fifteen year old like
yo of your music because of my dad, yeah, my
mom or my uncles.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
It's like welcome, right, welcome.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
No, it's beautiful because we've been seeing it for the
last fifteen twenty years, where like you know, you figure
when we first came out, we were like eighteen, but
there were people who were thirty into our music then.
Speaker 13 (06:19):
So you have these people at our concert.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
It's like this this person who's like twenty years older
than us with their kid, who has their kid. It's
like three generations at our show. You know what I'm saying, Like,
we can have someone who's you know, like sixty something
and someone who's eleven at our show.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
That's crazy, y'all. Disneyland, Yeah indeed, Yeah, but it Disneyland.
Give it up.
Speaker 12 (06:45):
Word, it's small.
Speaker 8 (06:53):
It really is.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Our soul. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
That's so true, though, that is so true. It's for
all ages, man, all ages welcome rights. It's fun and
it's always food for thought man, you know, and then
the beats are crazy.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Hip Hop in its early stages was for all ages.
So nah, before he had a name called hip hop, yeah,
you know, it was for all the ages.
Speaker 11 (07:18):
But when Native came came through, you know, it came
to be and all you guys started putting out music consecutively.
It was different because it was fun man, that Daisy
Man just everything was different because before that it was
a lot of boom back boom bap.
Speaker 12 (07:31):
You had a couple of crews arguing with each other
and the juice brew and everything.
Speaker 11 (07:35):
You guys kind of just you brought the lightheartedness but
also had a message, man.
Speaker 12 (07:38):
So it was very different.
Speaker 11 (07:39):
I mean, you guys started something that needed to be
started because your thought process and what you were talking
about was different from the stuff that was before you.
Speaker 9 (07:47):
Yeah, man, it's like, well it's like you know, and
I want to say nerdy, but the guy who was different,
it didn't matter if they were from the hardest point
of Brooklyn, the Bronx. Those were the people who who
took to us, and then even some of the hard
kids even when we were like blessed to come here
for the first time and we had guys who was
in the street and they were like, Yo, man, that
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me myself and I like.
Speaker 13 (08:09):
They you know, they have the deep love what we
were doing.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Because music just speaks to everyone and it's kind of
put the ego to the side and you're like.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yo, that's my jam, Like I can have funk crazy.
You're like yo, U iced t though.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Saying but even yo.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
And God Rest the soul easy loved. Yeah, Like yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
We did the Nitrol tour in nineteen eighty nine and
we hung out with NWA. We was just all hanging
out and that was the one thing. Also musically at
that point you can have all these people under the
same umbrella at the same coliseum where you know, it
got to a point where in the nineties where if
you was maybe Rough Riders. You if someone was more
in the same atmosphere as them or universe as them,
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opposed to when we started Ghetto Boys pe NW way
too short.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
We could all be on the same bill together, you know.
Is there any newer voices in hip hop that we've
learned from?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
I mean I try, not even try. I think we
learned from everything, whether you want to take it in
or accept it as a whole other thing. And sometimes
we can pay attention to what's been in the past,
but you're always moving forward, so I pay attention to
it all. Like you know, I love Jid. It's a
lot of people I really really appreciate, you know, but
it could be Baby Tait. I can just hear something
(09:28):
that it's like it's cool to hear, and it's like
this particular song. I mean, I'm all over cardi Be
latest album. Like there's things about it that I can
take to and things that don't take seriously. Like I
know I don't live like.
Speaker 10 (09:40):
That, but.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
It is what it is to me, you know, m
what about for you?
Speaker 4 (09:48):
No same thing? Good music is good music. I mean
I'm not even as critical because coming from a place
being a DJ first, a great record, a record.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
You know a lot of people would think, now you
know they're from that time, they're gonna pick apart or
they pick apart.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
They don't necessarily understand what's going on with what you know,
with what's happening now. But that's the opposite, I believe.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
I mean, as a DJ, come on, much as our
love boogie down productions and poetry being a dope single,
I did have a love for Himmer, you know, I
did have a love for Ice Ice Baby. Maybe not
him over all as a package, but the song was crazy. Yeah,
(10:34):
it's still hold up today, you know what I'm saying.
So just saying, man, there's a lot of wide variety
of music out there, and my palate is broad.
Speaker 12 (10:49):
So much now and it's kind of like, man, I'm
not in that box. Like man like we're still putting
We're good.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
No, I'm in that box. I'm CuO, I'm the og,
I'm the still putting out music.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
But you know that's right, that's right.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Us this Daylight never allowed ourselves to be trapped in
a box create creatively, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
No, no, not for sure. It was never a peak.
It was it was evolution.
Speaker 13 (11:17):
Yes, with day Live.
Speaker 11 (11:19):
Yeah, definitely it's weird because I'm not saying us what
you do, but I say, like a lot of you know,
fans of hip hop have a tendency to do that.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, it's disappointing because labeled things. Yeah, people getting.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Cut off some I know what you mean, because they'll
do it in kind of a negative tone and have
a condescending tone to it, you know what I mean.
But at the end of the day, hopefully one day
you'll be my age, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
You know, getting older is that's the success.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Getting older? You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
It's like, yo, I always tell people the side effect
from being alive is living and getting older.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
All right, I'll take it, Yo. The beat on Don't
Push Me is crazy. Talk to us about that and
creating that.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Well, our brother, our brother Dave, he produced that record,
and you know that was just unnatural talent of him. Man,
he could just he could take something and it's create
something and it could it could have such a bounce,
and then he knows how to marry his lyrics himself
lyrically to the record. So I mean, yeah, man, don't
push me with just a dope record that Dave had
(12:26):
played for us like a while ago, and it was
just like, you know, he would make as we all
do make music in the house. So when it came
about for for thinking of a way to end the album,
I was like, yo, man, it could be dope as
if Dave is in heaven in the studio and you know, but.
Speaker 13 (12:42):
Still talking away. He talked talking reckless.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
A little bit. Yeah right right, talking that ship. That's
so that's what he was.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Doing, man, And I loved it. It's such an infectious
groove to it. We added the strings to it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah, it's perfect.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
There you go.
Speaker 14 (13:04):
You know, you guys have mentioned that this album. Creating
this album was very therapeutic and healing. What's the hardest
thing that you would say that you've discovered about yourselves
through grief and creating music?
Speaker 5 (13:14):
For me, God, and I think a Mason can relate
to what I'm about to say. I handle grief well.
And the thing is because my mother passed at a
very young age for me, the day I graduate from
high school, she got uh. She she was diagnosed with
lung cancer and she died maybe a few months after that.
Never smoked the day in her life, so I mean
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then and always going to church with my end and
it's figuring out things for myself.
Speaker 13 (13:41):
I just had this really weird way of looking at death.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I was just like, yo, if I could lose my
mom's I was like, I could lose anybody.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
That's how I used to just talk to them, and
they thought it was crazy until we got to an
age when even Daves lost his father first and his mother. Yeah,
so it's like I just kind of have to deal
with death really earlier, Like I had two funerals with
my moms, like New York and where she grew up,
and that that just sent me in a path of numbness.
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But then I have to learn to heal from it
as well and understand that you know what, this woman
she did such a great job with her family, where
the people that she did leave, like her memories means
everything because she was such a beautiful person.
Speaker 13 (14:24):
And it's the same with Dave. David lived such a
dense life.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
He got to travel so many places and you know,
inspire so many people, and that's a blessing opposed when
you lose someone and you'd be like wow, and they
didn't get a chance to correct things for themselves, and
we didn't have a chance to get things right with
each other.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
You don't want to have that.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Right right right.
Speaker 13 (14:42):
Death is it's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah, something we.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
All have to face at some point. Passua's been teaching
me a lot about it. It's been more really sensitive
to me in this moment because of losing Dave, and
I've been learning that. I truly have learned that nothing
or no one really dies. We just transition. You know,
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those spirits. I feel those spirits. I felt those spirits
for a long time.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
You know.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I think I have a really good relationship with spirits.
I do feel them, you know, and when it's over,
but times comforting, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
You have to welcome it for sure.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
And grief can be slightly selfish because we want them here.
Speaker 13 (15:38):
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
It's a very selfish thingmree.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yeah, sure, you know. So I'm I was I'm learning.
I'm learning.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I was happy when my mother was no longer in
pain from the cancer.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
So it was like, yo, I'm just happy that she's
not going through that or she's you know, just so
that's that's me and that's what I've.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Really been adopted. That's what I've adopted for Dave, Like
he's no longer in pain.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
No, that's right. There is happiness to be found in
an ending. Yeah it is, it.
Speaker 13 (16:05):
Really is, without questions, Yeah, without question.
Speaker 12 (16:12):
Was that a difficult decision on how and where to
use him on Cabin and the Guy?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
No, Yeah, it was easy.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
It just it was.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
It was in the muscle memory of just being creative
and knowing, like, yo, we gotta sprinkle him throughout. We
made sure his energy was felt in the right places.
I mean, the first song you hear is a song
called you Don't Stop. They produced that. The last song
you hear is Don't Push Me, and he produced that,
you know, or on cruel summers like he's not romy
but you hear him doing the chorus. Like, we made
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sure his energy was in the right place at the
right time.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
What makes it easy is having a blessing from the
family and friends. We all came up with, you know,
poss put in the rhyme. The conversation we had with
his sister, you know, at his memorial at his house.
She said, listen here, if y'all stop, he stops and
(17:05):
then like held no pressure, but I'm just saying, you
know what I'm saying, that's right, And that's Cindy and
her real comical jollichoor Away. Yeah you know, that's their
last name. So that was like I saw every bit
of her brothers when she did that.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was very familiar, right, yeah, And.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
It was comforting to know that we could still continue
on with our plans that we actually had.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
When is that why we make a song called good Health?
Speaker 7 (17:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Well, I mean it was just really just talking about
when that song came about. That was more like to
saying like treating music as if it's like a health food,
Like you just need healthiness at some point, going through
your ears to your mind, you know, to just to
live a certain way. So we were just trying to say, yo, man,
we got to give healthy rhymes and get on some
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good health because we can all listen to some bad
health stuff like I don't want to eat fried chicken
every day. I know it tastes good, but I mean
I just can't eat it every day.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I want to, but you know maybe yeah man, man.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
So that's that's where that was about just having healthy
lyrics but prepared in such a way you want to
like take it in.
Speaker 12 (18:22):
Yeah, there's a line on there.
Speaker 11 (18:23):
I'm gonna I think I wrote it down right. Finding
finding real rappers is like a needle in a haystack.
You guys have never been shy about that, whether it's rock, cocaine,
float to Mike.
Speaker 12 (18:31):
Ryme right, no, right, right, right, right to call out
people that aren't living. Nah, yeah, you know, is that
do you feel like it's your responsibility?
Speaker 13 (18:39):
I don't know if it's I would say so, you know,
you do the worst.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
It's not even really calling anybody out, it's you know,
it's it's reflecting on what's not happening. Yeah, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
We're calling that what's not happening.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Yeah. And if the shoe fit, yeah, nothing I can
do about it, nothing, you know what I mean. Yeah,
you know, but just being fans of it first, you know.
And I love that in him when he just say
it for what it is.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Yeah, you know, like we've had fun with that, like
you know, over the years, like and like you said
on it was some record I did on Declaration when
I say salute to the soup e mcs of being
clever and never using weed as a ghost rider it's
all my my rapping friends with smoke winders.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Like I really really bost I feel attacked. Yeah, Okay,
Like nah, man, I just you know, I'm just making
my drugs true what I'm saying.
Speaker 10 (19:37):
Man, you know, fellas, since we are talking about like
you know, modern hip hop and whatnot, Like, how do
you guys feel about hip hop not even being in
the top forty of the Billboard charts right now?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I mean, it can happen, you know.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I mean, it's it's it's something that is here forever.
I mean that's how I always saw, Like it's a culture.
It's it's it's music that's going to be here forever,
regardless of what if someone says. So at some point,
it can lose, it can fall off, because at some
point it's going to still be here and some other
new kids is going to come along or some veterans
like ourselves and put them put us back up in
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those in those those corners.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
But we held it for a long long time.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
And you know, I think when you take yeah, when
you take things for granted, you know, and get people
a redundancy of this stuff, Yeah, it's time for you
to be pushed out the way and let something else
come through, but we're gonna be back up in there.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
No, I think that could only make you work harder
square like that. It should be.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
It's got to be a filtering processor at some point.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Filtering process, no filter, no man, even.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Even people within hip hop, we all like we.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Gotta be honest.
Speaker 14 (20:52):
I mean you it shows you who's going to step
up and who's going to prosper, you know, and you're like, yes.
Speaker 11 (21:01):
Well then yeah, because everything is cyclical and it's nice
to see that come back around for the different generations
that you mentioned earlier.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Indeed, yeah, it's good to have them have the different.
Speaker 12 (21:13):
The different you know, types of hip hop to be
able to listen to it and not be you know, the.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Same thing, exactly right. Totally agree with you, man, totally agree.
Now for sure you're running all the same page.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Bro run it back with nas yo like yo, like
that's it sounds like it was done in one take,
dog just raw like boom, you know, like probably.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
I mean when that was the track produced by our
brother Super Dave West, who you know, we got to
Day in the Sun record out. Now he did that
one too, but when he when he sent to us
that beat. Everyone's reaction is the same. You hear this,
this amazing famous record by the group Police, You're like,
where is this going? Because how is someone gonna rhyme
O it is? We're just then he goes backwards. They're like,
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where's this going? Then when the beat kicks in, man crazy.
So yeah, it was like you just have this energy, like, oh,
I got to write something crazy to is Like I
was like, and that's what I did. So when let alone,
when I handed it to nas like, I was like, yo,
I think I got something. And I remember him getting
it that day and at least around like maybe one
(22:23):
at night, I get the call from my people's strong seat.
He's like, yo, nazis trying to hit you. I was
like what he said, Yo, Naz need you to call him.
He just wrote two rhymes to it. I was like
what And I called him. He said, Yo, I got
to send you both rhymes. Listen is to the first
one and the first one is one we kept and
then the second one just is dope. But I was
like no, man, I said, yo, you you you lean
hard on the meanness on.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
The first one. Let's get the first one so that
other verse you have, Yes, I have, I have that one.
Speaker 8 (22:51):
I need to hear that shit, yo, I gotta hit
y'all stop playing, man, I gotta hear it.
Speaker 13 (22:57):
He tried to be a little bit more call and
for cool was like nah boy, no, no, no, the way.
Speaker 8 (23:04):
You s yeah, the Queen's Bridge, that brave hearts chance
and there be jungle.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
His brother's in it, like right, that's him and right
in the middle before he rhymes like yeah, I was like, man,
we gotta have this authentically Queen's Bridge.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
When we stop rhyming, I was I love that record
many so do we? It's crazy yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 12 (23:29):
Someone brought it back artists from Japan.
Speaker 11 (23:31):
Yeah, and then we kept it in the studio and
when artists would come through, we take a shot.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It's like wriskin fused wine. I guess we got a
snake in there.
Speaker 13 (23:43):
So it's like the flakes of the snake skins, like
you know, you see, like.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
And it was meant for what like to aphrodisiac, right.
Somehow we only shared.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
It with guys, but whatever, we're brotherhood other hood, yo,
I know, I know. Bottle isn't that big man. We
drank it in celebration. Yo, the Silent Life of a Truth?
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Right?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Is that too?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Change at the true? Yeah, that's a two change. Yeah, Yeah,
that's Primo.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
You know.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Primo always got to find the right thing that works
with it, and he's just such a surgeon with stuff
like that.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
When he threw it, I was like, oh, prem, you
just killed it.
Speaker 13 (24:26):
Tell the truth. He's doing the salt and pepper joint
and like, Yo, that's Premiere crazy.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I love the you know, the initial Premiere sound that yes, yes,
you just know, here we go.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
And he's crazy because he asked my he was like
asking our permission because when he did it in Sunny Storms,
he said, yo, I just kind of felt it like
I was like, pream come on, man, it's authentically you
do it.
Speaker 10 (24:49):
Do it?
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Yeah, Like even with Silent Life for the Truth, no,
n F. I make sure he talked. I was like, yo,
I want and he hates the way his voice sounded,
like prem your voice is classic hip hop, like we
gotta talk.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
So yeah, man, it was.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
It was beautiful and I love that dude. This dude know,
like me and prem we are jokesters with each other,
like we just can't stop. Yeah, he'll call me and
curse me out. I'll call him back and yeah we
yea next week.
Speaker 9 (25:25):
I love.
Speaker 13 (25:27):
That's my brother.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I love prem I love preing. What was the toughest
song to create, Cabin in the Sky.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Yeah, it was easy in the sense of the production
because uh it was that was also produced by super
Dave West. It was something that was he had already
given me before we even had the title of the album.
And you know, it has the Boston sampling it more
than a feeling and the voice is singing like in
the sky and it's saying slip away. And so once
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we knew he was gonna call the album been in
the Sky, I was like, that song is the title
track and immediately start writing to it, and like I
was crying while I was writing because I knew it
was going to be like not saying that We're like
it's our Troy, you know what I'm saying, Like how
our peep and Cel had theirs, Like that's our reminisce
(26:18):
over you, you know what I'm saying. Like, and I
I just like those worstes flew out and they were
like one takes that was it.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Like I just kind of like yeah, I gotta.
Speaker 13 (26:28):
I just felt it.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
It was like more than me writing it. There was
that spirit.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Yeah, it's a beautiful met you look at breakdown the artwork, fellas.
Speaker 12 (26:38):
Yeah, remind me a lot of Yellow Submarine man.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Graffiti.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
It's Dave working on the album from the heavens and
we just.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
No doubt that's right, that's rights.
Speaker 13 (26:57):
It was great to have this album.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
It was done by the really dope artist, Hebrew Brantley,
who does his thing, and I mean it was a
blessing to like hit him up. He just happened to
be on a call with us with our manager and
we just started speaking to him and he was like, Yo, man,
I would love to, you know, take a shot at
doing the album color and like so when I saw that,
I was like, yes, man, this is it.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
So yeah man, right, well done, well done.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Yo.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Can y'all break down the intro with you know, the
features checking in in the class?
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Yo.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
It was something that I know myself and David always
talk about, like, Yo, why don't we start a record
And it was around the time we did the AOI
Mosaic Thump album and it was like, Yo, why don't
we do something where we have everyone who we have
featured on the album rhyme on a on a record
at the top of the album.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
So it was always something we thunk. Dope.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
It's almost like a roll call, and so I just
want to honor that idea finally and yeah, I started
off on some seminar classroom thing and like Jean called
him and he.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Just had such an amazing voice.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
He he came to a show we did in London
one time, hung out with us and I was like,
I think he may you know, hey, he may say
yes or no.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
And he was in when he heard the idea. He
was in.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
I mean he came in and knocked that thing out
like that. He's like, what else you got for me?
Like he's like, this is this is what I love
to dude, like talk.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
On to mic. So it was beautiful, man, it was
just like it was.
Speaker 13 (28:23):
It's really like a dream.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
It's like a dream because it's like with these older dudes,
like in a classroom setting. That doesn't make sense, but
it's really like a dream because then when it when
they say Dave's name at the end, and then you
it's a moment of silence. You hit Dave's voice. The
first thing I say in my rhyme is like wake
up with a voice in my head. So it was
like a dream for me and Dave's voice is waking
me up. So yeah, man, it was just a creative
(28:47):
way just to put all the great people on the
album up top.
Speaker 9 (28:50):
Yeah, man, killing Mike did his thing like he always
getting me as he always do. Crazy what that song
is produced by Knots and like it had the samples
saying what it was saying, we're not the sample that's
a you know, not took a young lady he knew
and just took her voice saying these things. But y'all
was beautiful, and I was like I just immediately thought
(29:11):
again with where we was going with Cabin in the Sky,
like y'all want to talk about my mother who's not here?
And I was like, I just want another rapper to
to kind of express it the same way. And I
was like, yo, killer Mike, he will destroy this as he.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Did kill her.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Of Mike's kill her. Yeah, man, crazy four.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Make it easy, bro.
Speaker 13 (29:35):
Yeah man, it was fun because you know it's it's
almost comedy.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
As I said to Mace, like you love your mother,
how can you really talk about your mother in sixteen lines.
But that's why I thought it was a comedic way
of like doing something that's loving for your mother called
it a quick sixteen for mama.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
That's right, that's right. Common's in there. He checks in
in Common. It's just that guy and he's got baby.
Speaker 8 (29:58):
Slick Rick crazy and it those voices that these are
voices in hip hop that are just undeniable.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Tell me about it.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
It was a blessing, like we had to because we
already we had, you know, the kind of like messing
around with this this feel of what slick Rick song was,
So we want to get his permission for that to
use like kind of the Hey Young World interpolation. And
he loved it so much, Like he called and was like, Yo,
can I can I say the chorus? Because I was
(30:27):
I was the one doing the chorus originally, and he
was like, Yo, can I do the chorus? He really
just loved the record. I was like, how of course
slick Slick.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
On my record?
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Like he really liked the way we use Hey Young World. Yeah,
And he was like a lot of people have tried
to use it and didn't really compliment it. And he
really like the way we did it at the same time.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, I really appreciate it, and that's true.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
I really appreciated that just simple things like that can
make a record, you know, from one point to another
exactly exactly.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
And it's this always show our appreciation of where we
came from, the songs that were the soundtrack of our lives,
and we always love including those.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
In what we're doing.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
So I mean the throw in you know that, that's true,
and then they have it go into a word that,
you know, into a sentence. You know, that was just
us being creative, but like I said, still showing homage
to people like Rick.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Answer, what are some of your earliest memories of coming
into Los Angeles?
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Yeah, one time we used to stay at the Holiday Inn,
remember over by the Hollywood Sign. Well, it was like
a holiday inn over there. We were walking around, uh
me and Dave was walking somewhere else. You were walking
with Dante Ross and they end up walking Jay and
(31:59):
up jaywar.
Speaker 13 (32:00):
Because we're New Yorkers, man, right, came a thing back then.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
It was illegal back then.
Speaker 15 (32:05):
Hey, yeah, yeah, it was illegal here, but jaywalking was
whatever in New York, right, We just that was our thing,
so right about that? So they were walking and talking
and they were jaywalking, and the police officer got on
this radio and he said black guy, white guy.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Because we wasn't listening, like hey hey you hey, hey you.
Speaker 4 (32:31):
Hey you guys, So he said, hey, black guy, white guy.
Either stupid or just color.
Speaker 13 (32:39):
He was nice about it afterwards.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
You know, we're from New York.
Speaker 10 (32:42):
We know.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Sorry, the funniest looking at it to like, oh my god.
Speaker 10 (32:50):
My.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
My crazy first memories driving here in l a friend
of ours came to pick us up. He was down
with kind of like digital Underground, and he came to
pick us up, start driving me around. He go gets
me a car, So I'm driving around in LA with him,
and then we wind up to like old SHARE's house.
(33:13):
A man to will share you something, but Curtis blow
on it.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Okay, we walking?
Speaker 15 (33:17):
Yeah yeah, the pot Piper, the Wrapper, the pot Piper, Cheebaba.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
He was originally from Amne, originally.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
From Long Island, but he lived out here for many years.
He was on priority and the record was produced by
shot G. Yeah, it was produced by Shock. But he
was really close with a lot of the old school
rappers that at that time. He came from New York,
and lived out here, ron Syndicate all that, you know,
he was the plug.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Yeah, he showed up the Curtis Blow house unannounced, and
Curtis Blow was not with it. He was he was
not happy about that, and I'm like, yo, here's my
idol and he just pissed off at my friend and
he saw men. But he was cool after I he
let us in. But yeah, I man like, that was
like a time of my life. It's too many to
(34:07):
talk about that, too many.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
I mean, l A had been a world of wheels.
Speaker 13 (34:12):
Were the first place we did out.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Yeah, the wheels world the wheels like every time. Yeah, yeah, really,
my stupid ass had a red jacket on in a
red Corvette one time. I don't know what the hell
I was thinking. We had, we had this what we
had made some money at this point. He was out
(34:34):
here for one of the award programs and we were
just having a great time. And it was these African
brothers that rented these exotic cars out to all the artists,
and I end up I always wanted to drive a
Corvette and they had the rest right, But I forgot
about the gang climbing out here. Yeah, so it didn't
(34:56):
take me no time to go take that car back
that I had an experience at one of the gas
stations and they was like, your cousin set you from
I'm like what and he knew I wasn't from Yeah,
I wasn't playing anything. I was like, what are you
talking about? He was like, because you can't try that car.
(35:17):
I got schooled by a gang banger, like very nicely
though he was because once he knew I wasn't from here.
I was like, I got to put you on you know.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
He like, excuse me, sir, He was like, he said,
because cause you got to go take that car back
and wearing red to he was really, I was just
trying to make the car.
Speaker 10 (35:46):
Tell me that.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
I really was trying to install I was.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
That was about.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
That was about I was white Avalon or something like that.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Came back in the I.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Dumped it all the way down for real, dumped it
all the way I did. I've dumbed it all the
way down for life like that was from my life.
Start with earth starterway earth tones. Every time I came
to calig Okay, a little beige, little little green.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Yeah, there was times where l A was just hot
like that, you know, no, come on, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (36:28):
I mean, you know, it was a it was a
learning experience, and you know, but thank god we had
people around us who just showed a lot of love
and because, like you said, it could have went a
lot of other ways, but we had We've had the
best time, made some of the most amazing friends out here.
Like like even quite honestly, even when the whole you know,
unfortunate East Coast West coast thing going on, like we
(36:49):
really had no problems still coming because we were just
in other circles and it was just nothing but positivity,
and you know, no one was really messing with us.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
And when that was kind of thin and we were
coming out here, the person who had my corner all
the time, well outside of tribe, the other person who
had my corner all the time and he would come
kick me and we would just go out and have
a blast would be one eighty seven Hunch. Okay, yeah,
big up the Hutch.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Yeah wow.
Speaker 8 (37:18):
Hutch is a real one. Yeah, real one. And I
had a lot of fun on Hutch. Yeah yeah, yeah
has some fun. Were there any alternative names for the album?
Speaker 5 (37:36):
Well, I had one name written down because normally we
are just let it just come to us when it
comes to us. And one title was like something like
after the finish line, like what's next something like that.
But yeah, but uh, one day, just sitting down watching television,
(37:59):
flipping through like I video, I come across the famous
movie that I didn't even I had never heard.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Of, called Cabin in the Sky. And time I saw
that title, I was like, this is it?
Speaker 4 (38:10):
There it is?
Speaker 12 (38:10):
This is it?
Speaker 5 (38:11):
Like this feels like it remind me of medium Dave
and like it just flowed off your tongue.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
I was like cabin and.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
Scott when he said it to me, I was like, yeah,
that's it, just you just know it.
Speaker 9 (38:24):
This sounds right, Yeah, it tells you. Yeah, put me
right in the mindset of what I was already thinking,
yeah album.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
No, that's right.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
And that prime password was that yours are you sharing
it with other people?
Speaker 13 (38:39):
Because I've had enough of.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
Like sharing it with my kids. And then all of
a sudden there's someone else profile who it is. They
lint it out to one of their.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Phrase what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Seven profiles and.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
They'll go into your profile and start like watching a
movie you saved and moved it from where it was like.
Speaker 12 (38:58):
Your suggestions are all crap.
Speaker 8 (39:02):
My wife shares our passwords with her family and stocked
and stocked and out in northern California, and I'm just like, so,
I'm paying for everybody's on the town.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
I'm like, yo, and they watching some wolsh wows. Indeed,
I had to stop that all of a sudden, you
got Twilight on your cabin in the sky Garcia, you
got one.
Speaker 14 (39:25):
You know, you guys mentioned we talked about, you know
a lot of celebrities coming up to you guys and
telling you that you know your soundtracks for the records
of their lives. There's one recently, and I don't know
if you guys have known about this, but Pedro Pascal,
who I think is one of the biggest actors right now,
he credits that Dela Soul Is Dead is one of
his favorite albums.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
Yes, I was just so.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
I was humble when he when he said it, man,
like you has seen how you love us and tribe
and yeah, it's amazing, man. I mean, like like we said,
it's a it's an honor because we made these records
for us, and you know, you figure like there's like
minded people around the world. But you know when you
see that this like minded person is an amazing actor
and you know, and you know, you just don't know.
(40:06):
And to find out that, wow, like just moved them
in a certain way. It's a blessing.
Speaker 8 (40:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
A lot of people in the comments were like, no,
I didn't know Pedro Bald like that. You just never know,
you don't tripping me out.
Speaker 5 (40:20):
And it's incredible, Like funny enough when we were just
talking about different La stories like even to have we
used to stay at the High when it was be
right across from the House of Blues and then that,
and you know, little Richard used to live in and
like at the Penthouse and like when he heard we
was that he would be searching us out, like we
hear him on the four like where the day our
Soul boys at, Like he wanted to hang out and
(40:41):
talk to us like crazy rich It was kind.
Speaker 13 (40:44):
Of scary and and honorable the same, like, Yo, what
does he want?
Speaker 8 (40:48):
Man?
Speaker 2 (40:49):
What do you want? That's going on?
Speaker 12 (40:52):
Man?
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Let's go see, right, we got to go see what's
going on.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
See. All I want to do is just see.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
I just want to say, maybe see the wigs and
the hats.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
That's all I want.
Speaker 5 (41:06):
But now it's a blessing to have just people you respect,
show love with people you just didn't think but know
who you are, know who you are.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Nothing like it, man, that's right now.
Speaker 8 (41:16):
We were talking about you know, Tyler creator before we
got started, right, and there's somebody there that clearly has
has listened to y'all you know, yeah, and has created
from what he's heard, you know, amongst other of course,
of course.
Speaker 5 (41:30):
No, we're definitely proud to have people like that considered
part of our DNA. I remember recently because me Mason
Q Tip we talk all the time and q Tip
my mom.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
He was talking to me.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
He was like, yo, I was just with Tyler. I
guess Tyler was in New York for something.
Speaker 5 (41:44):
Him and Q Tip hung out and he was just
he was like, because they My name is Kelvin Mercer,
so everyone called him Merse.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
And he was like, Merse.
Speaker 5 (41:52):
Them guys are like us when we were young, like
running around, like we would do crazy stuff like fart
and play and it run from each other, pass gas
and then play tag like this silly stuff.
Speaker 13 (42:03):
He was like, yo, these guys I'm saying. He was like,
these guys are like us like give me shot.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
Shot.
Speaker 5 (42:13):
So No, it's just it was just dope to hear that,
because like you can hear in their music how how
they move. It just felt very familiar as how us
as native tongues move.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
No, that's right, Cavin in the Sky, congratulations, love man.
We hear you know, we hear us.
Speaker 5 (42:33):
I hear like I think of even Dell like this,
the lyricism that he has, like you know, like a
person that had not only just be lyrical, to be lyrical,
but he put thought, I.
Speaker 4 (42:45):
Just heard somebody that's really inspired by a certain era.
Speaker 10 (42:49):
You know.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
He truly.
Speaker 4 (42:53):
I mean, like I said, I could put him right
there with Dell and c at the same time, you know,
and just rock him all them. I put him right there,
you know.
Speaker 5 (43:03):
And not only understanding that lyrical error like save us
being New Yorkers, and he's understanding that, but he appreciates
and talk about his culture his life like what you know.
And I love that when people cannot just we have
a lot of arts who will separate themselves. They will
become this person who's on the mic opposed to like
(43:24):
this person who's really talking about their life and what
they've been through. And what you know, what his mother
could have said, what his uncle could have said. Like
you hear that, Like you almost feel like the characters
he's talking about, which is his family, you almost want
to meet them.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
And I always love that about him.
Speaker 8 (43:40):
Yeah, that's right, you know yo, Cabin in the sky. Congratulations,
let's go, man, you got a home here. Whenever you
guys want to pull up, Man, we're here for you.
We're here with you all day. Congratulations, Thank you, let's go.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
Please check your rich with the Cruise Show.
Speaker 14 (44:01):
Thanks for listening to The Crui Show podcast. Make sure
to subscribe and hey, auto download so you don't miss
an episode.
Speaker 10 (44:06):
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