THE BIG PODCAST - NEW BIG INTERIVEW W/ OhGeesy on New Album, Shoreline Mafia, Rolling Loud Set, Working At Popeyes, Nipsey Hussle Influence
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is big boys neighborhood on the mand.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Big boy neighborhood. Beautiful dy in the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Ladies and gentlemen been waiting on this when the old
jez walcome to the neighborhood. My brother, of course you can't,
my brother, You got to hold in front of the
top o. Jez Come on, now, you're lucky to do,
got a successful career.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You want that. You're on the hell out of that? Man,
what went to your neighborhood?
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Bro? It's because I heard it my whole life growing up.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hey man, thank you, my brother, thank you. What part
of LA Where did you grow up? East Hollywood?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm telling I grew up Okay, So what.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I was born in? Like the South Bay, like hot Thorn,
like I spent a few years are, but I grew up.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
There like just just growing up out here.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Bro.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
It was a turned up. I love Hollywood. I love
Hollywood because this is in the mix right and when
everyone's passing through and.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I want people to understand what part of Hollywood you're from? Yeah,
And I want people that don't understand.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I got Hey, it's not that Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I'm talking about this the one. If you're not from here,
you'd be like, this is Hollywood, you know what I'm saying.
So so growing up in East Hollywood, man, had you
always been around hip hop?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Are?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Like?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
What was the household? Was it also traditional as well? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
It was mixed exactly because my uncle's my mom's they
was born in Mexico, yes, sir. And then the other
half wasn't. My other uncle, my auntie was born here.
So like like I was just around hip hop, like
and I was around Mexican stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Oh so so when when when people say like like
Mexican American, or when people say the slash between hip
hop and slash this, so you had to slash so
you knew the embrace. And that's what I think a
lot of people don't understand about what this LA really
look like exact, and I think they're starting to see
it even more so, especially on the black and brown.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
It's always been rocking.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
My best friends since I was a kid has always
been black, Yeah, first grade.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
And people I can see that, and I think the
world is seeing that. And the one thing that I'm
loving about what's going on in LA right now too,
especially what you guys are really doing too, is that
the collaborations and the culture that I'm seeing.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Man, this is my thirty first year.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
As we're breaking down walls like we break in there,
like stereotypes and all types of like because you know
what it is, everybody from different hoods that would not
normally meet each other. It's like, are you just like me?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Man, they're telling the Himmies that there's never been nowhere.
I'm like, bro, the people you be for it because
I be with everybody from everywhere. I'm like, it's just
like you like, we all the same, yeah man, all
we are so much more like than we think.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
And we started to see that a lot too. Man,
because I've been in radio, this is my thirty first year.
But just life, bro, you know, I've seen the separations,
but I knew how everybody always really got down, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
What I'm saying, And it's all mutual respect, yeah man.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
And but now you're seeing like I remember when it
was taboo for for Crimson Bloods is just you know,
not even be on a project together, just together for.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Period, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
And we saw black and Brown got down through the
low rit of scenes and music and so on and
so forth. But now what we're looking at now, Bro,
this is is beautiful man. And what I love about
it too, man, is like together unt do anything, yeah, man,
And that's what I'm seeing even and I not. You know,
we don't need to talk polities, but all the goofy
stuff that we see in right now, they're going to
try to create this separation, bro, and it's up to
(03:04):
us to allow it, not to make sure that it
don't happen.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
I feel like real, Oh, you're going recognize real and real.
He's gonna prevail though you from.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
OJZ, Hold on for a second. We got way more
to talk about, y'all. Stick around, y'all radios. Man, we
got O g Z in the neighborhood, Big Boys neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
This is big Boy on demand, Big Boys Neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Alright now is going down paid in for the new
project is available for you right now.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
We got O g Z in the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Did you see anybody early on OJZ that was you
know how people say, man, I can do this because
I see such and such.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I see you know.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
So when when I started at like nineteen, I think
the reason I got also everyone when I was a kid,
there was obviously older, like fifty cents was.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Like right right, and I'm a kid.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
I'm like, you can't just do it like that. When
like Rocky came out, I was like, oh, he fly young.
I'm like I could do this too, because I was flying.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So you saw it, you saw it, and.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Then I started noticing because then I started listening to
music from every reason, but it was really of it.
It was like everyone trying to make it out the hood.
So I'm listening to like relevant stuff. You feel me
they're saying, they're using the same slang, the same lingo everything.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah, and you know what, I think, we seeing two ojzu,
we seeing the like even with the device of social
media and the funt like it made the gaps smaller,
but it made the reach so much broader, you know
what I'm saying, Like you could literally.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Gave us a chance to like get our message across.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah man, And do you use that to your advantage?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
I feel like just making the music is just doing
it for me.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
And that's another way, like we all feel like we
could relate.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
To each other, yeah man, because you see it now.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
I didn't even know what the valley was like growing up.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Hey, man, ain't that crazy?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
And I didn't know the value was turned up when
I was a baby, because I'm like, as a kid,
you don't leave like and then just coming from like poverty,
you don't leave like you're block. You don't leave the
five block radius.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
That's exactly what I was about to say, bro, And
the other parts of the places felt far And I
was just telling somebody this a few days ago one
of our interviews. I was like, Man, I said, I
remember one time I was in San Diego and I
really thought, like, boom, I'm out of town, Like you
know what I'm saying. And that's when I'm already on
with the far Side and Bodyguarden. I'm like, man, were
out of town And I'm like, but it was out
(05:09):
of town, bro, because I wasn't used to getting off
the block.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I hadn't been on planes, trains, automobiles. I never had
a passport, you know what I'm saying. I hadn't been anywhere.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Yeah. My first flight was like to the Bahamas, like
a week before I did like a label meeting.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Was it just a vacation.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Yeah. My my baby's mother forced me to go. She's like,
you gotta go do something like this.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
And you had never been anywhere, and I hated it.
Why really?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Because I was like, I want to be back on
the block.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Us so strange do you trip off of where music
takes you to now and what you see and the
just the way you are, Like, that's you.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
You didn't have to put on a suit, You didn't
have to go corporate for nobody, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
And then I also soak a game from everywhere like yeah,
it's beautiful. It's like and I was saying that exact thing.
We was in Alaska. We such down in an Alaska show
and I was like, we shot a video on the
glade right there.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Slow down, bro, slow down. Now you were doing a
show in Alaska. How crazy now you you it can
come out your mouth now, But think about O. G
Z ten years ago, fifteen years of the kid, Think
about the when you say, yeah, we were doing the show
in Alaska.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Your music took you to Alaska. Ain't that crazy?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
So we said we all got off the plane, were
like a lot of play. I didn't think.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Music, did you? And you said, y'all shot a video
out there.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
A video and the festival over there.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Hey man.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
And but you did it your way though, too, and
that's what's beautiful about it.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Bro.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
We shot a video on a glacier.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Mother, are you bragging it with some pole? I thought
he was bragging out and yeah, we're on a glacier.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Like I took a helicopter to take glacier and then
in the video I got my DJ DJ vision krip
walking on the glacier. I'm like like, well we're going up,
hey man.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
But how crazy? And I'm looking at it now, but
how crazy? Bro?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Is it that you can look at people that you
just like the homies for real though, Like that's the
best feeling of traveling is that you people to expect
and probably something they never seen. More to talk about,
oj Z stick around with us, man. We got more
O g Z in the neighborhood, Big Boys Neighborhood.
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Speaker 3 (07:16):
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We've got O g Z in the neighborhood. How young
are you now?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Jeez?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
I just turned thirty one.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, man, and your father now father just one, he's
five okay damn.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
So ever since him, like I've been girl. I guess
I've always like that's life though too. Yeah, in the
back of my head, like, oh, he's been trying to grow.
But now like I got intention of girl, like every
day I want to be better.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Man, But You'm in competition with myself no one else.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I say that all the time, bro. Yeah man, being
competition with yourself bro, And that's real. And when you
had your son, did it change for your perspective on
certain things and a different kind of hussle?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Hunh?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
That's when that's and the whole group split up because
I was like I felt like like I was in
charge of everything and it was like where I can't
be in charge of the hommies, Like I got to
go into it. My son in my life a man.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
With the success of Shoreline Mafia, right and and Shoreline Mafia,
that's one of the things where y'all had achieved so
much together and there's individuals in there, but it's like
it's this group thing. Was it scary for you to
break off from that? And what did you feel like
(08:29):
definitely it was. It wasn't even just scary. It was
like it was like it was mentally draining. It like
it was like I'm just like not the hommies, no
more like it's crazy. Did you did you ever second
guess like yourself either material or are people gonna are
people gonna rock with me?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Like when they used to see?
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I believe in myself? So yeah, and I felt like
we were at where we at even though it was
a team effort, like we're at where we're at because
of like the moves that like I made, not even like.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And it's not disrespectful when you say.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Because it's not like it was understood like you feel
me and they understood. It wasn't like money or it
wasn't nothing. It was just creatively what I've came up
with you for me. Yeah, And that's the same thing
with Jing that's nothing money can buy.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
With Jop, you know they're there and not nothing. No
one else is working hard, but there's a different kind
of connector And do you feel like at some point
you was kind of that with Shoreline my field for sure,
But then.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
It was draining because it was like no one was
reciprocating the energy feel me. Yeah, man, it's like damn
like it was just But.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
It's crazy too, man, because when you look to your
side and you do see like phoenix or you see
someone you know. Because even with me, when I left,
I was like, damn, there's an identity, you know what
I'm saying. And but then you step out on faith
even if you can't see the whole staircase kind of thing.
Did you feel like that identity like, damn, this is
my identity too.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Not really, I just believe myself so much, but I
get what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, man, yeah, and it worked.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Is it different though when you when you're an individual
like man, I know I'll get up, I know I'll
make it to the studio.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I know I'll do the interview. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
It just makes you go harder. Yeah, yeah, go harder.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
And it's a different kind of focus when it's you.
You know what I'm saying, and then you have nobody
to blame it, and.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
It's just not energy mixed up. So it's like you
just like your energy is gonna set the set the tongue.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
More to talk about O g Z stick around with us.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Man, we got more O g Z in the neighborhood,
Big Boys neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
This is big Boy on demand, Big Boys Neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
All right down your big interview, man O g Z
in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
What does that feel like when you come out on stages?
Speaker 4 (10:35):
That feels amazing?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
That's what was like to pop out for you?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Because I think my first roll in loud as a group, oh.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
So Rolling Loud when you did, Because you gotta think
as a spectator, we see rolling Loud, you know what
I'm saying. And even if your name is like this
on the Rolling Loud fly, you're like.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Man, la la festival. We get we only got to
pay five thousand to come. Like they're acting like we
don't even want to. Like, bro, we went and shut
down the stage. It was like over ten thousand people
up to stage, like shut it down, the first festival ever.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
What does that feel like?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Amazing?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah? Man, yeah, is that one of them feelings? Man?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
You can't explain And especially when you're hopping around here
and like you're not one of stands like you all
over the.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Place walking out to the phone lights is like it's unexplainable.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Hey, man, does that want you to keep on chasing
it too? Though?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Yeah? Man, that's my favorite part about it. Performing and
just like giving people a show.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Do you like being in the studio more or performing.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Studio really like a nine to five of me, Like
I'm in there, like it's no parting, we're not doing nothing,
Like it's quiet like you. And that's when you got
to show up for yourself for me, like, no one's
the label's not telling you to do this, No one's
telling you to do nothing. I think that's where people
it's like going to college.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah yeah, I mean we can put it off till tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Adults like, yeah, it's yours.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Because I even see people that have businesses, right, and
even though I've been in radio, so I see people
that have businesses and then they're like, yeah, man, you know,
I getting here at nine o'clock and sometimes I even
think seven o'clock eighty time. I'm like, damn, you own this,
you don't, but yeah, you get out what you what
you put into it.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Sho I show up first, I leave loves Yeah, hey.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Man, With rolling loud and being able to do those
kinds of shows, Man, you've been on some big stages.
What does that look like from you? Do you ever
on the on the side, because even now, man, I'll
still be like, oh geez, I'm like, man, I never
got used to that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
I'm used to it, Yeah for sure. Like when I
did a lout of La this last time, they called
me like thirty minutes before.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, explain how why
they called you thirty minutes before.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
I don't know why. I don't know why we did it.
I think maybe the feed was lower something.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Really, but that wasn't the fill in year of rolling out,
wasn't there.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
A yeah, that's when. So they're like, yo, we got
to replace a Mexican with a Mexican. Everyone's gonna be mad.
And it was crazy because that I realize it, they
put that weight on me, like because everybody was going
to have yeah, but Mexicans love Mexican's. When I popped out,
They're like.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
And then also, man, it wasn't like we don't know
you you know what I'm saying. Yeah, but that, yeah,
that's one of that's one of the hard things too,
Like wait, hold on, we replacing who and what was
the reason?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
And you want me to get on stage anyway.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
But then when you come out, Man, I think you're
more confident in your show too, Like, Man, you got.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I do something. So I probably do like two hundred
and fifty shows a year or something. That's crazy though, Man,
I remember there's nice to her. I said, I'm doing
like three shows a night.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Yeah, like I've literally seen you leave. You know what
I'm saying, Like this dude is really gone more to
talk about. O j Z. Stick around with us, Man,
we got more O g Z in the neighborhood, Big
Boys neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
This is big Boy on demand, Big Boys Neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
All right, now your big interview Man oj Z in
the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Hey, Man, isn't that crazy to you though?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
When you when you come from certain things and you're
like man and a legal hustle, like almost like man,
not that it's easy, but you're like, man, this is easy.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
And then that's why I take it so serious because
it's like, Bro, I could have been doing what I
was doing back then. It's like, why jeopardize it?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, man, saying with me, BRO Radio was the first
job I ever had in my life that you know
what I'm saying, So I never filled out an application.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
And you see, I worked jobs, so I've seen how
hard I worked to like, did you work well? I
didn't work hard at the job.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Showing up, I remember Creative was like, yeah, man, you
worked at Starbucks.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
As I said that, I got a flashback, Like I
remember one time I had a pill on a blank
sleeping at my job and there looking like where is he?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Where? Amen? Where did you work at? O gz? I
worked at popa and just which one? The one on kwanga?
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I love their work?
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Oh god? Look and people will come in and I'll
be giving up a free chicken all day. Yeah, man,
Like one time, I remember someone came back and said, yo,
you gave me the wrong order. I said, free chicken.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Man, stopped coming your pieces?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Man, a man, it ain't letting nothing like when you
get an eight piece and it's in there.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
You know what I'm saying, like, oh man.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
You know why you was probably putting extra chicken in
there too, because you know you struggle.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
You ain't had like I remember, not like being able
to up until that point, I didn't even have money
for anything, like.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
A man, that's crazy. Do you ever pass by that?
Speaker 4 (15:24):
I just did a video on the Day's the last
track on my album Yacht Master.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I'll check that out.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
That is that is classic popeyes and those that now
popies are so jankin And you gotta know how to
get in.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
You gotta know how to park.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
You got you know what I'm saying, Like, that's a technique, man,
And then that's the one that they know. They're like, man,
we're gonna keep this thing open pretty much all night
because they coming from But you worked in there?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Which where else did you work?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Subway? I worked that subway one time, and then I
worked at I Pick Theater and west That's like I
was like a little more recent. That was like right
before I got on or something. That's when I was
rapping and working, like and I was trapping out there.
I met I met one of my plugs right there.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
But like in Westwood area is my life? Hey man,
how crazy?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
But you know what though, that shows me too, bro,
that you were you were never afraid of work.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Oh, I wasn't afraid of work. And that's why I'm
so well rounded because I would travel the city like
I'm like, I'm not gonna kick like even though like
I said, like growing up like as a kid. But
once I have my own choice and my own freedom,
Like I'm like, I'm gonna go kicking in Santa Monica.
I'll cook, kicking in South Central, I'll kicking in West
d kicking and Beverly hit. Like I have friends everywhere.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
And you can find this entire Big Interview with Ogz
is right there at Big Boy TV.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
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Speaker 1 (16:46):
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Speaker 3 (16:50):
All right, now, your big interview Man Ogz in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
How did you start finding the mental health and mental
well Like.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Off the top of my head, I don't know, but
off the top of my head for show Nipsey, like
I can remember, like clearly, like as I'm talking, like
things that I will see like Nipsey.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Saying yeah that's real man, I'm telling you man, nip
gave a lot of games.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
It was different.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
And the crazy thing about it, too, old Gez, is
that it wasn't like nip passed and we was like,
oh he was special all that, like you knew it.
I knew it when he was here. You we knew
that nip was special and the same with you. Nippo
be like, hey, hey, bag you at this book, Broke,
I gotta read this. But he also gave you so
(17:32):
much game, you know what I'm saying. And he was
thinking outside the box. I remember, man, one year we
did this cruise and it was like, you know, Cardi,
b Migos, everybody's future was doing a show on an island.
Everybody was like it was like full turn up and
so on Nipsey's day, there was like Nipsey could have
did anything he did, like a symposium where he just
(17:52):
taught people about books and business and point.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
He could have been in the sun on the deck
like turning up, but he did a simpost him. He
was different and he gave you tools. You know what
I'm saying, Yeah, gave me, gave me game.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
What was the relationship with him, bro Just I don't think.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
I don't think I ever even got to meet him.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
No relationship through music.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I mean I got knowledge, yeah, damn so so you
never had a oh my god there it was such
a such a great indivie.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
But you know what's crazy about.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I got a lot of mutual friends and always telling
me nothing but great.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
But that also shows you, man, you know how people
people can say, Man, the music and the message in
the music, and you saw that. I feel like you've
seen it in social you've seen it in interviews.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
You saw through the music.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
And not just that. I feel like our message goes
over people's head. It sounds ignorant, but we're talking from real.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah. Man. I think that's what we saw too with
Kendrick at the super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
When you saw when you saw Samuel Jackson saying, Oh,
it's too loud, it's too ghetto.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
It's like, yeah, I know, I know that you're taking.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Now that I'm older at this point in my life,
I've been listening to a lot of Tupac lately and
I'm like, now I get it right, Like everything saying,
I'm like, yo, he's talking some real yeah man.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
And you know what it is, Man's when you get
to it at a certain time. Because I've seen people
that said, man, you know, I didn't grow up with
park you know what I'm saying, And then when they
kind of dive into it.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
And I even seen people that say yeah, but.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
See the message wasn't there because I didn't understand.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
But also you didn't grab it the way that you
grab it now because there's still songs that I listened
to and I'm like, oh that's what he said.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Yeah, and now everything next week talking about I'm like,
I understand.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Yeah, man, Like and you gotta think now people are
listening to your music like that.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
They soaking game up because it make them better.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
And you can find this entire big interview with OJZ
is right there at big Boy TV.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Plus.
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All right, now, your big interview man Ogz in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Was your energy different for the recording of the newest.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
This News one?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, for sure, explain that to you because.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
I've been working on since jez World one, since my
first other one. That's when I separated myself from a
lot of stuff, Like a lot of my hommies died.
I separated myself from the hummies. My baby was a baby.
What else was going?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
It was a kind of like scary moments.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
I moved into a suburbs, so I'm like, there's so
many changes, and im like I'm like, what else can
I do? So I was working myself so immediately, like
that's when I started and booming in the suburbs, like
and not having people around me, like I was able
to start walking going on hikes. So I've been working
on myself for years and years. So I feel like
all that was a catalyst for this album right here.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Man. And it's crazy because you feel like you you
didn't leave nothing, but you put your life into it too, though,
you know what I'm saying. And I don't think that
anybody can look at it and say, man, what did
th jeez? Do you know what I'm saying, because there's
a formula there. But also, man, people don't understand the longevity,
not in the game, but the longevity, oh jeezy, of life.
That's what you work for, sure, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Even because I'd been thinking about and I'm like working
out when I'm doing anything like making good decisions for tomorrow,
I'm thinking about I just want to be healthy and
be able to like turn up with my son when
he older, you feel me. I want to be able
to take trips with him and have that energy. I
want to be able to match his energy when I'm sick.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Man, Where where did the wellness come from? Though? You
know what I'm saying, because you got to think, Man.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
We're in this like little things, and we're in the world.
We wasn't taught that.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Yeah, so I'm gonna say we're in the world of
you're taking care of yourself. And then you gotta think, man,
you got every right to turn up and do the
crazy every day for you could be a celebration.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
That's what I was saying. Yes, I'm just telling people
that I'm like, yo, I could really do whatever I want,
but I choose not to.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
You I do It's right, yeah, man, but you and
you've had those times when.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
It was like I'll get crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
And you got something to compare it to you?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Though, Man, did you ever think that you will think
of like man, like man, I got to take care
of me my son. Did you ever think that you
would be saying hikes and and wellness and meditation, not
growing up?
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Not growing up? And it's funny, like I didn't even
put my son on the other day he was like
he was like he just put on like a guided
meditation thing and he's like that's what he's into. And
I'm like, this is crazy, hey, man.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
But you know what's crazy about that too, man, is
whenever you arrive there, you arrived, yes, exactly, and your
son is already there, you know what I'm saying. And
so those are the and I'm telling you, man, even
with me, you know, I weighed over five hundred pounds.
It was just things that I did in life that
you get a chance like, man, you know, let me
focus on this for sure, and when you do it
(22:29):
and other people see it, oh jeezy as.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Well aspiring to Yeah, that's what I want to do.
I want to inspire, yeah, man, and I know I
have and I feel like that's my greatest achievement.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
And then there's a lot of product inspiration that you've
given to a lot of people, you know what I'm saying,
Just for the skin that you're in and for what
you do when a craft and the way that you
look in the way that you present yourself, like there's
somebody else that's looking at you that say, man, I
can do that too, exactly.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
I feel like I made kids feel like they could
just be themselves still be hard like.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, man, And you can find this entire big interview
with Ojiz is right there at Big Boy TV.
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Something your partner doesn't do that you wish they did.
Scratch my back? Oh yes, God, you.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Should scratch my back like when we first started dating.
I just hit it one finger now.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
And what's your queen's name? Man?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Do you want to put a plea into a scratch
you back?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Man, she's hearing me big scratch scratch his back?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Hold on, Oh my god, No, hello, you don't scratch
his back?
Speaker 4 (23:53):
No, im to He just want twenty I heard that, y'all,
and he just still wants it.
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Speaker 1 (24:15):
Cuddly big Boy has left the building.
This is big boys neighborhood on the mand.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Big boy neighborhood. Beautiful dy in the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Ladies and gentlemen been waiting on this when the old
jez walcome to the neighborhood. My brother, of course you can't,
my brother, You got to hold in front of the
top o. Jez Come on, now, you're lucky to do,
got a successful career.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You want that. You're on the hell out of that? Man,
what went to your neighborhood?
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Bro? It's because I heard it my whole life growing up.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hey man, thank you, my brother, thank you. What part
of LA Where did you grow up? East Hollywood?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm telling I grew up Okay, So what.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I was born in? Like the South Bay, like hot Thorn,
like I spent a few years are, but I grew up.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
There like just just growing up out here.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Bro.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
It was a turned up. I love Hollywood. I love
Hollywood because this is in the mix right and when
everyone's passing through and.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I want people to understand what part of Hollywood you're from? Yeah,
And I want people that don't understand.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I got Hey, it's not that Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I'm talking about this the one. If you're not from here,
you'd be like, this is Hollywood, you know what I'm saying.
So so growing up in East Hollywood, man, had you
always been around hip hop?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Are?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Like?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
What was the household? Was it also traditional as well? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
It was mixed exactly because my uncle's my mom's they
was born in Mexico, yes, sir. And then the other
half wasn't. My other uncle, my auntie was born here.
So like like I was just around hip hop, like
and I was around Mexican stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Oh so so when when when people say like like
Mexican American, or when people say the slash between hip
hop and slash this, so you had to slash so
you knew the embrace. And that's what I think a
lot of people don't understand about what this LA really
look like exact, and I think they're starting to see
it even more so, especially on the black and brown.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
It's always been rocking.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
My best friends since I was a kid has always
been black, Yeah, first grade.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
And people I can see that, and I think the
world is seeing that. And the one thing that I'm
loving about what's going on in LA right now too,
especially what you guys are really doing too, is that
the collaborations and the culture that I'm seeing.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Man, this is my thirty first year.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
As we're breaking down walls like we break in there,
like stereotypes and all types of like because you know
what it is, everybody from different hoods that would not
normally meet each other. It's like, are you just like me?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Man, they're telling the Himmies that there's never been nowhere.
I'm like, bro, the people you be for it because
I be with everybody from everywhere. I'm like, it's just
like you like, we all the same, yeah man, all
we are so much more like than we think.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
And we started to see that a lot too. Man,
because I've been in radio, this is my thirty first year.
But just life, bro, you know, I've seen the separations,
but I knew how everybody always really got down, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
What I'm saying, And it's all mutual respect, yeah man.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
And but now you're seeing like I remember when it
was taboo for for Crimson Bloods is just you know,
not even be on a project together, just together for.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Period, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
And we saw black and Brown got down through the
low rit of scenes and music and so on and
so forth. But now what we're looking at now, Bro,
this is is beautiful man. And what I love about
it too, man, is like together unt do anything, yeah, man,
And that's what I'm seeing even and I not. You know,
we don't need to talk polities, but all the goofy
stuff that we see in right now, they're going to
try to create this separation, bro, and it's up to
(03:04):
us to allow it, not to make sure that it
don't happen.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
I feel like real, Oh, you're going recognize real and real.
He's gonna prevail though you from.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
OJZ, Hold on for a second. We got way more
to talk about, y'all. Stick around, y'all radios. Man, we
got O g Z in the neighborhood, Big Boys neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
This is big Boy on demand, Big Boys Neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Alright now is going down paid in for the new
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Speaker 2 (03:26):
We got O g Z in the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Did you see anybody early on OJZ that was you
know how people say, man, I can do this because
I see such and such.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I see you know.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
So when when I started at like nineteen, I think
the reason I got also everyone when I was a kid,
there was obviously older, like fifty cents was.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Like right right, and I'm a kid.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
I'm like, you can't just do it like that. When
like Rocky came out, I was like, oh, he fly young.
I'm like I could do this too, because I was flying.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So you saw it, you saw it, and.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Then I started noticing because then I started listening to
music from every reason, but it was really of it.
It was like everyone trying to make it out the hood.
So I'm listening to like relevant stuff. You feel me
they're saying, they're using the same slang, the same lingo everything.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah, and you know what, I think, we seeing two ojzu,
we seeing the like even with the device of social
media and the funt like it made the gaps smaller,
but it made the reach so much broader, you know
what I'm saying, Like you could literally.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Gave us a chance to like get our message across.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah man, And do you use that to your advantage?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
I feel like just making the music is just doing
it for me.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
And that's another way, like we all feel like we
could relate.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
To each other, yeah man, because you see it now.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
I didn't even know what the valley was like growing up.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Hey, man, ain't that crazy?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
And I didn't know the value was turned up when
I was a baby, because I'm like, as a kid,
you don't leave like and then just coming from like poverty,
you don't leave like you're block. You don't leave the
five block radius.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
That's exactly what I was about to say, bro, And
the other parts of the places felt far And I
was just telling somebody this a few days ago one
of our interviews. I was like, Man, I said, I
remember one time I was in San Diego and I
really thought, like, boom, I'm out of town, Like you
know what I'm saying. And that's when I'm already on
with the far Side and Bodyguarden. I'm like, man, were
out of town And I'm like, but it was out
(05:09):
of town, bro, because I wasn't used to getting off
the block.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I hadn't been on planes, trains, automobiles. I never had
a passport, you know what I'm saying. I hadn't been anywhere.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Yeah. My first flight was like to the Bahamas, like
a week before I did like a label meeting.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Was it just a vacation.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Yeah. My my baby's mother forced me to go. She's like,
you gotta go do something like this.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
And you had never been anywhere, and I hated it.
Why really?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Because I was like, I want to be back on
the block.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Us so strange do you trip off of where music
takes you to now and what you see and the
just the way you are, Like, that's you.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
You didn't have to put on a suit, You didn't
have to go corporate for nobody, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
And then I also soak a game from everywhere like yeah,
it's beautiful. It's like and I was saying that exact thing.
We was in Alaska. We such down in an Alaska show
and I was like, we shot a video on the
glade right there.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Slow down, bro, slow down. Now you were doing a
show in Alaska. How crazy now you you it can
come out your mouth now, But think about O. G
Z ten years ago, fifteen years of the kid, Think
about the when you say, yeah, we were doing the show
in Alaska.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Your music took you to Alaska. Ain't that crazy?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
So we said we all got off the plane, were
like a lot of play. I didn't think.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Music, did you? And you said, y'all shot a video
out there.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
A video and the festival over there.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Hey man.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
And but you did it your way though, too, and
that's what's beautiful about it.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Bro.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
We shot a video on a glacier.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Mother, are you bragging it with some pole? I thought
he was bragging out and yeah, we're on a glacier.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Like I took a helicopter to take glacier and then
in the video I got my DJ DJ vision krip
walking on the glacier. I'm like like, well we're going up,
hey man.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
But how crazy? And I'm looking at it now, but
how crazy? Bro?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Is it that you can look at people that you
just like the homies for real though, Like that's the
best feeling of traveling is that you people to expect
and probably something they never seen. More to talk about,
oj Z stick around with us, man. We got more
O g Z in the neighborhood, Big Boys Neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
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Speaker 3 (07:16):
Big Boys Neighborhood alright now that is going down. Paid
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We've got O g Z in the neighborhood. How young
are you now?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Jeez?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
I just turned thirty one.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, man, and your father now father just one, he's
five okay damn.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
So ever since him, like I've been girl. I guess
I've always like that's life though too. Yeah, in the
back of my head, like, oh, he's been trying to grow.
But now like I got intention of girl, like every
day I want to be better.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Man, But You'm in competition with myself no one else.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I say that all the time, bro. Yeah man, being
competition with yourself bro, And that's real. And when you
had your son, did it change for your perspective on
certain things and a different kind of hussle?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Hunh?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
That's when that's and the whole group split up because
I was like I felt like like I was in
charge of everything and it was like where I can't
be in charge of the hommies, Like I got to
go into it. My son in my life a man.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
With the success of Shoreline Mafia, right and and Shoreline Mafia,
that's one of the things where y'all had achieved so
much together and there's individuals in there, but it's like
it's this group thing. Was it scary for you to
break off from that? And what did you feel like
(08:29):
definitely it was. It wasn't even just scary. It was
like it was like it was mentally draining. It like
it was like I'm just like not the hommies, no
more like it's crazy. Did you did you ever second
guess like yourself either material or are people gonna are
people gonna rock with me?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Like when they used to see?
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I believe in myself? So yeah, and I felt like
we were at where we at even though it was
a team effort, like we're at where we're at because
of like the moves that like I made, not even like.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And it's not disrespectful when you say.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Because it's not like it was understood like you feel
me and they understood. It wasn't like money or it
wasn't nothing. It was just creatively what I've came up
with you for me. Yeah, And that's the same thing
with Jing that's nothing money can buy.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
With Jop, you know they're there and not nothing. No
one else is working hard, but there's a different kind
of connector And do you feel like at some point
you was kind of that with Shoreline my field for sure,
But then.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
It was draining because it was like no one was
reciprocating the energy feel me. Yeah, man, it's like damn
like it was just But.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
It's crazy too, man, because when you look to your
side and you do see like phoenix or you see
someone you know. Because even with me, when I left,
I was like, damn, there's an identity, you know what
I'm saying. And but then you step out on faith
even if you can't see the whole staircase kind of thing.
Did you feel like that identity like, damn, this is
my identity too.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Not really, I just believe myself so much, but I
get what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, man, yeah, and it worked.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Is it different though when you when you're an individual
like man, I know I'll get up, I know I'll
make it to the studio.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I know I'll do the interview. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
It just makes you go harder. Yeah, yeah, go harder.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
And it's a different kind of focus when it's you.
You know what I'm saying, and then you have nobody
to blame it, and.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
It's just not energy mixed up. So it's like you
just like your energy is gonna set the set the tongue.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
More to talk about O g Z stick around with us.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Man, we got more O g Z in the neighborhood,
Big Boys neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
This is big Boy on demand, Big Boys Neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
All right down your big interview, man O g Z
in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
What does that feel like when you come out on stages?
Speaker 4 (10:35):
That feels amazing?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
That's what was like to pop out for you?
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Because I think my first roll in loud as a group, oh.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
So Rolling Loud when you did, Because you gotta think
as a spectator, we see rolling Loud, you know what
I'm saying. And even if your name is like this
on the Rolling Loud fly, you're like.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Man, la la festival. We get we only got to
pay five thousand to come. Like they're acting like we
don't even want to. Like, bro, we went and shut
down the stage. It was like over ten thousand people
up to stage, like shut it down, the first festival ever.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
What does that feel like?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Amazing?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah? Man, yeah, is that one of them feelings? Man?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
You can't explain And especially when you're hopping around here
and like you're not one of stands like you all
over the.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Place walking out to the phone lights is like it's unexplainable.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Hey, man, does that want you to keep on chasing
it too? Though?
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Yeah? Man, that's my favorite part about it. Performing and
just like giving people a show.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Do you like being in the studio more or performing.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Studio really like a nine to five of me, Like
I'm in there, like it's no parting, we're not doing nothing,
Like it's quiet like you. And that's when you got
to show up for yourself for me, like, no one's
the label's not telling you to do this, No one's
telling you to do nothing. I think that's where people
it's like going to college.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah yeah, I mean we can put it off till tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Adults like, yeah, it's yours.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Because I even see people that have businesses, right, and
even though I've been in radio, so I see people
that have businesses and then they're like, yeah, man, you know,
I getting here at nine o'clock and sometimes I even
think seven o'clock eighty time. I'm like, damn, you own this,
you don't, but yeah, you get out what you what
you put into it.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Sho I show up first, I leave loves Yeah, hey.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Man, With rolling loud and being able to do those
kinds of shows, Man, you've been on some big stages.
What does that look like from you? Do you ever
on the on the side, because even now, man, I'll
still be like, oh geez, I'm like, man, I never
got used to that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
I'm used to it, Yeah for sure. Like when I
did a lout of La this last time, they called
me like thirty minutes before.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, explain how why
they called you thirty minutes before.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
I don't know why. I don't know why we did it.
I think maybe the feed was lower something.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Really, but that wasn't the fill in year of rolling out,
wasn't there.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
A yeah, that's when. So they're like, yo, we got
to replace a Mexican with a Mexican. Everyone's gonna be mad.
And it was crazy because that I realize it, they
put that weight on me, like because everybody was going
to have yeah, but Mexicans love Mexican's. When I popped out,
They're like.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
And then also, man, it wasn't like we don't know
you you know what I'm saying. Yeah, but that, yeah,
that's one of that's one of the hard things too,
Like wait, hold on, we replacing who and what was
the reason?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
And you want me to get on stage anyway.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
But then when you come out, Man, I think you're
more confident in your show too, Like, Man, you got.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I do something. So I probably do like two hundred
and fifty shows a year or something. That's crazy though, Man,
I remember there's nice to her. I said, I'm doing
like three shows a night.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Yeah, like I've literally seen you leave. You know what
I'm saying, Like this dude is really gone more to
talk about. O j Z. Stick around with us, Man,
we got more O g Z in the neighborhood, Big
Boys neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
This is big Boy on demand, Big Boys Neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
All right, now your big interview Man oj Z in
the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Hey, Man, isn't that crazy to you though?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
When you when you come from certain things and you're
like man and a legal hustle, like almost like man,
not that it's easy, but you're like, man, this is easy.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
And then that's why I take it so serious because
it's like, Bro, I could have been doing what I
was doing back then. It's like, why jeopardize it?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, man, saying with me, BRO Radio was the first
job I ever had in my life that you know
what I'm saying, So I never filled out an application.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
And you see, I worked jobs, so I've seen how
hard I worked to like, did you work well? I
didn't work hard at the job.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Showing up, I remember Creative was like, yeah, man, you
worked at Starbucks.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
As I said that, I got a flashback, Like I
remember one time I had a pill on a blank
sleeping at my job and there looking like where is he?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Where? Amen? Where did you work at? O gz? I
worked at popa and just which one? The one on kwanga?
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I love their work?
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Oh god? Look and people will come in and I'll
be giving up a free chicken all day. Yeah, man,
Like one time, I remember someone came back and said, yo,
you gave me the wrong order. I said, free chicken.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Man, stopped coming your pieces?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Man, a man, it ain't letting nothing like when you
get an eight piece and it's in there.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
You know what I'm saying, like, oh man.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
You know why you was probably putting extra chicken in
there too, because you know you struggle.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
You ain't had like I remember, not like being able
to up until that point, I didn't even have money
for anything, like.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
A man, that's crazy. Do you ever pass by that?
Speaker 4 (15:24):
I just did a video on the Day's the last
track on my album Yacht Master.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I'll check that out.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
That is that is classic popeyes and those that now
popies are so jankin And you gotta know how to
get in.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
You gotta know how to park.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
You got you know what I'm saying, Like, that's a technique, man,
And then that's the one that they know. They're like, man,
we're gonna keep this thing open pretty much all night
because they coming from But you worked in there?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Which where else did you work?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Subway? I worked that subway one time, and then I
worked at I Pick Theater and west That's like I
was like a little more recent. That was like right
before I got on or something. That's when I was
rapping and working, like and I was trapping out there.
I met I met one of my plugs right there.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
But like in Westwood area is my life? Hey man,
how crazy?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
But you know what though, that shows me too, bro,
that you were you were never afraid of work.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Oh, I wasn't afraid of work. And that's why I'm
so well rounded because I would travel the city like
I'm like, I'm not gonna kick like even though like
I said, like growing up like as a kid. But
once I have my own choice and my own freedom,
Like I'm like, I'm gonna go kicking in Santa Monica.
I'll cook, kicking in South Central, I'll kicking in West
d kicking and Beverly hit. Like I have friends everywhere.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
And you can find this entire Big Interview with Ogz
is right there at Big Boy TV.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Plus.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Make sure as you're watching you hit that subscribe button
as well. Y'all continue to hang out with us Big
Boy's Neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
This is Big Boy on Demand, Big Boys Neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
All right, now, your big interview Man Ogz in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
How did you start finding the mental health and mental
well Like.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Off the top of my head, I don't know, but
off the top of my head for show Nipsey, like
I can remember, like clearly, like as I'm talking, like
things that I will see like Nipsey.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Saying yeah that's real man, I'm telling you man, nip
gave a lot of games.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
It was different.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
And the crazy thing about it, too, old Gez, is
that it wasn't like nip passed and we was like,
oh he was special all that, like you knew it.
I knew it when he was here. You we knew
that nip was special and the same with you. Nippo
be like, hey, hey, bag you at this book, Broke,
I gotta read this. But he also gave you so
(17:32):
much game, you know what I'm saying. And he was
thinking outside the box. I remember, man, one year we
did this cruise and it was like, you know, Cardi,
b Migos, everybody's future was doing a show on an island.
Everybody was like it was like full turn up and
so on Nipsey's day, there was like Nipsey could have
did anything he did, like a symposium where he just
(17:52):
taught people about books and business and point.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
He could have been in the sun on the deck
like turning up, but he did a simpost him. He
was different and he gave you tools. You know what
I'm saying, Yeah, gave me, gave me game.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
What was the relationship with him, bro Just I don't think.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
I don't think I ever even got to meet him.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
No relationship through music.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I mean I got knowledge, yeah, damn so so you
never had a oh my god there it was such
a such a great indivie.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
But you know what's crazy about.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I got a lot of mutual friends and always telling
me nothing but great.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
But that also shows you, man, you know how people
people can say, Man, the music and the message in
the music, and you saw that. I feel like you've
seen it in social you've seen it in interviews.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
You saw through the music.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
And not just that. I feel like our message goes
over people's head. It sounds ignorant, but we're talking from real.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah. Man. I think that's what we saw too with
Kendrick at the super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
When you saw when you saw Samuel Jackson saying, Oh,
it's too loud, it's too ghetto.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
It's like, yeah, I know, I know that you're taking.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Now that I'm older at this point in my life,
I've been listening to a lot of Tupac lately and
I'm like, now I get it right, Like everything saying,
I'm like, yo, he's talking some real yeah man.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
And you know what it is, Man's when you get
to it at a certain time. Because I've seen people
that said, man, you know, I didn't grow up with
park you know what I'm saying, And then when they
kind of dive into it.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
And I even seen people that say yeah, but.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
See the message wasn't there because I didn't understand.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
But also you didn't grab it the way that you
grab it now because there's still songs that I listened
to and I'm like, oh that's what he said.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Yeah, and now everything next week talking about I'm like,
I understand.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Yeah, man, Like and you gotta think now people are
listening to your music like that.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
They soaking game up because it make them better.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
And you can find this entire big interview with OJZ
is right there at big Boy TV.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Plus.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Make sure as you're watching you hit that subscribe button
as well. Y'all continue to hang out with us Big
Boy's Neighborhood. This is Big Boy on Demand, Big Boys Neighborhood.
All right, now, your big interview man Ogz in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Was your energy different for the recording of the newest.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
This News one?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, for sure, explain that to you because.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
I've been working on since jez World one, since my
first other one. That's when I separated myself from a
lot of stuff, Like a lot of my hommies died.
I separated myself from the hummies. My baby was a baby.
What else was going?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
It was a kind of like scary moments.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
I moved into a suburbs, so I'm like, there's so
many changes, and im like I'm like, what else can
I do? So I was working myself so immediately, like
that's when I started and booming in the suburbs, like
and not having people around me, like I was able
to start walking going on hikes. So I've been working
on myself for years and years. So I feel like
all that was a catalyst for this album right here.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Man. And it's crazy because you feel like you you
didn't leave nothing, but you put your life into it too, though,
you know what I'm saying. And I don't think that
anybody can look at it and say, man, what did
th jeez? Do you know what I'm saying, because there's
a formula there. But also, man, people don't understand the longevity,
not in the game, but the longevity, oh jeezy, of life.
That's what you work for, sure, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Even because I'd been thinking about and I'm like working
out when I'm doing anything like making good decisions for tomorrow,
I'm thinking about I just want to be healthy and
be able to like turn up with my son when
he older, you feel me. I want to be able
to take trips with him and have that energy. I
want to be able to match his energy when I'm sick.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Man, Where where did the wellness come from? Though? You
know what I'm saying, because you got to think, Man.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
We're in this like little things, and we're in the world.
We wasn't taught that.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Yeah, so I'm gonna say we're in the world of
you're taking care of yourself. And then you gotta think, man,
you got every right to turn up and do the
crazy every day for you could be a celebration.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
That's what I was saying. Yes, I'm just telling people
that I'm like, yo, I could really do whatever I want,
but I choose not to.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
You I do It's right, yeah, man, but you and
you've had those times when.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
It was like I'll get crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
And you got something to compare it to you?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Though, Man, did you ever think that you will think
of like man, like man, I got to take care
of me my son. Did you ever think that you
would be saying hikes and and wellness and meditation, not
growing up?
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Not growing up? And it's funny, like I didn't even
put my son on the other day he was like
he was like he just put on like a guided
meditation thing and he's like that's what he's into. And
I'm like, this is crazy, hey, man.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
But you know what's crazy about that too, man, is
whenever you arrive there, you arrived, yes, exactly, and your
son is already there, you know what I'm saying. And
so those are the and I'm telling you, man, even
with me, you know, I weighed over five hundred pounds.
It was just things that I did in life that
you get a chance like, man, you know, let me
focus on this for sure, and when you do it
(22:29):
and other people see it, oh jeezy as.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Well aspiring to Yeah, that's what I want to do.
I want to inspire, yeah, man, and I know I
have and I feel like that's my greatest achievement.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
And then there's a lot of product inspiration that you've
given to a lot of people, you know what I'm saying,
Just for the skin that you're in and for what
you do when a craft and the way that you
look in the way that you present yourself, like there's
somebody else that's looking at you that say, man, I
can do that too, exactly.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
I feel like I made kids feel like they could
just be themselves still be hard like.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, man, And you can find this entire big interview
with Ojiz is right there at Big Boy TV.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
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Speaker 2 (23:17):
There's another in case you missed the moment with us.
Something your partner doesn't do that you wish they did.
Scratch my back? Oh yes, God, you.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Should scratch my back like when we first started dating.
I just hit it one finger now.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
And what's your queen's name? Man?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Do you want to put a plea into a scratch
you back?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Man, she's hearing me big scratch scratch his back?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Hold on, Oh my god, No, hello, you don't scratch
his back?
Speaker 4 (23:53):
No, im to He just want twenty I heard that, y'all,
and he just still wants it.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
He has a big back. There it is. I love it.
Thank you for listening. It is upon the Big Boy
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