INTERVIEW: Warren G Sculpted The West Coast Sound, Introduced Snoop To Dr. Dre, Remembers Nate Dogg + More

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wake that ass up in the morning.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Breakfast Club Morning.

Speaker 3 (00:04):
Everybody is the j Envy just hilarious. Charlamagne the guy,
we are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
In the building.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Yes, indeed, we got a legend in here today, the
legendary Warren G.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
What's up. What's how you feeling, brother? I'm good man,
feeling good? Yeah, yes, indeed, all right?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Does the East Coast time mess with you a little bit?

Speaker 1 (00:25):
I know how to adapt. I've been in it so long,
I know how to switch it up when Yeah, I'm
good absolutely.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Straight off the BT Awards performing with Stoopid Tu, how
was that?

Speaker 1 (00:35):
It was fun? It was fun from the rehearsals all
the way to doing the actual show, just vibing with
everybody and you know, even seeing the other artists that
was there. Just it was just good, a good vibe
all the way around, just seeing everybody and having a
good time, joking, talking, talking ship a little bit.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
I want to got the phone call you was looking for.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
I saw the interview that you did and you saying,
how like, Yo, I just want Snoop and Drada holler
at me.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Man, I don't want you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Ain't that didn't have nothing to do with nothing, none
of that. Okay, okay, No, Well I got a call,
you know, Uh, I got hit to you know that
that that he wanted me to do do the uh
the honor with him. So you know, that's my dog,
you know what I mean. You know, anytime they need me,
I'm there, man. Yes, indeed, I.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Think that conversation was good though, because you know, when
you said that on it. I can't remember what he
was interviewing with, but when you when you said that,
it's like everybody started giving you your flowers. Everybody started
talking about you know, what Warrent G Has contributed to
hip hop, what he's contributed to the West Coast coaches.
I think sometimes you got to speak up for yourself, man.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, yeah, you know, yeah, I mean, I mean a
lot of people don't know about, you know, a lot
of the things that I've did, you know, so I
speak on it, you know, and interviews and just you know,
just you know, trying to trying to let the new
generation see you know what I've contributed to hip hop,

(02:05):
you know, and not let it let let it get erased.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
But let's let's let's go back there so so for
people that don't know Warrengy, let's say right from the
West Coast, you introduced Snoop.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
To doctor Dre.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
But before that, how did you get into the rap game?
What made you get into rapping?

Speaker 2 (02:20):
How did you.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Meet Dre? And and and I guess create that family.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Now, well, I've been I've been around Drey since I
was probably about I say, maybe twelve eleven or twelve
something like that. My father married his mother Vernon, and
you know, I didn't have no no older brothers. I
just had sisters. But my sisters was was you know
my sisters was you know, they bodyguard hard. They wouldn't right,

(02:50):
you know. And I mean that's where it started at,
uh your step brother, yeah yeah yeah. And then h Musically,
my father I used to he would pick me up
on the weekends, bring me to his house and play
jazz all day. So I would listen to the jazz
and just just fall in love with And to this

(03:11):
day he still asked me, like, you remember Chuck Man
J on the I'm like, yeah, I still got it.
Daddy's in my playlist. And that's what instilled the the
the good vibe as far as went in my music
the way I like to have that good feeling music
that came from that. But as far as in the
hip hop, it was just like all the groups run

(03:31):
dmc h n W A uh, Easy, the Fat Boys
is l L everybody that was in hip hop. You know,
I wanted to be like them, you know, because that
that's what was going around the neighborhoods and stuff like that.
And then you know me being you know, around Dre

(03:53):
and Tyree. You know that I had two big brothers, so.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Were y'all closer? Was it one of those things with step.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
We was always close always, so just being you know,
the young, the young, the young one around two older brothers.
You want to follow what they do. So Dre was
djaying with the with the not it wasn't the world
class wreaking cruise, a high powered crew was Easy and

(04:21):
Shane and and they're gonna get mad at me everybody.
I couldn't mention everybody, but they had a crew. So
I hear mixtapes all the time. So I fell in
love with with with a lot of the music that
he was mixing and stuff in the room. So I
asked him to show me how to how to do
it one day and he showed me. So I fell

(04:42):
in love with that. I was an athlete as well.
I played football and just having somebody a bigger brother
to look up to him and Tyree was just that
was that was that was cool, you know what I mean?
And uh, they taught me a lot. And you know
I had to. I had to go through a gladiator school. Uh,

(05:05):
from Long Beach to Compton, just back and forth. So
you know they had me right. They used to call
me kibbles and bits because I used to get it
in the.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
District Long Beach and Compton. I mean not you know,
we're not from out there, like different world.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
It's pretty much the same. Only the only street that
that uh, it's one street that separates it is called
green Leaf. And uh, once you pass green Leaf, you
and Compton, uh, or you go up Atlantic right before
green Leaf. Everybody from Compton coming here. Every it's some
it's it's all the same. And then you got Carson

(05:42):
right next to us, and then you got Compton Linnwood,
and then you got Watched. That's all. We call it
the mass circle. Yeah, and it's it's real close, you know, everybody.
It's damn there. The sign.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
You know, vent you introduced Snoop to Dre, But did
you ever feel like you were also introducing Dre to
the sound that you know him and Snoop was kind
of about to define for a whole coast.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Not I was just trying to get us all put on.
We didn't. We didn't know that that we was gonna
uh you know, that they was gonna turn into what
it turned into. But it all No, we didn't, We didn't.
But what we did when we started working on the
Chronic is we brought all the energy that we had

(06:32):
and what we wanted to do, you know, and brought
it in and put it into Dre to bring him
back to where he should be, you know. So that's
when we did the Chronic and we collaborated and made
that a classic.

Speaker 5 (06:47):
You celebrated thirty years of the regular album. How does
that feel?

Speaker 1 (06:51):
It feels good? You know still I still feel the
same as I did back then. Uh, I really don't.
I really don't be tripping that much. I just be
wanting to keep working, like just just keep working, keep working. Uh.
But it feels good, and you know, just to you know,

(07:12):
see that my records is still spinning, uh, since like
ninety two around that time, and uh, it's a it's
a good feeling. And I just I just keep trying
to creating.

Speaker 6 (07:28):
You've been seeing that I don't keep up with a
six But like it's a couple of your songs, like
these kids are making like viral trends with it.

Speaker 5 (07:36):
Yeah, so like it's that's that's what's happening.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, it's a trip. It's like it keeps starting over,
like every generation, the new generation that comes, it starts
over and then they fall in love with us. I'm
down with that.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
You know, you know, did when when you when you
first Inju Snooped Dream and y'all was in the studio
during the chronic did did he ever teach you anything
about producing that you turned into your own style or
did you always feel like you had a more distinct
sound from.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
His using live live musicians. I used to just sit
there and watch and it. He actually taught me how
to splice tape, put tape back together, and I.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Used to watch young kids know what you're talking about
with that one.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
But where it's where you cut the tape and you
gotta you gotta actually piece it back together yourself with
with alcohol and the tape, that special tape that it
has with it. He taught me that. UH taught me
how to EQ. I mean he taught me. He taught me,

(08:41):
you know, sampling uh on the NPC sixty him and
called seven from above the law. I mean he showed
me some things, but I pretty much, you know, learned
the basics and then started doing my own style, you know,
because I didn't want people to say, oh, well he
just because he with Drake, because this is you know,

(09:02):
that's why now I created my own you know ship
over here. So do you feel like.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
You missed the bus? I don't want to say miss
the bus, because you didn't miss the bus. But when
you were seventeen, you got locked up, right, and that's
when Drake took off.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
And I wasn't that locked.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
I don't get long because.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
That's what That's what you got your name from. Warrang
and said you got your name in jail. No, no,
I did get the name.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Warrang G Warren Griffin.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
The name is Warren that they said, my first nick
jail name A nigga in prison?

Speaker 2 (09:33):
You name they said, that's what they said, They said,
what that's why?

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Uh No, I'm not. No, I ain't no like, I ain't.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
No brutal like he thought was forgetting.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
That's no it, Warren g that's that's a Griffin. No,
I wasn't. I wasn't in the in and out of
I mean, i've been, but you know I wasn't like
like always going to jail. I was. I was cool.
They called me sir cool.

Speaker 5 (10:00):
Yeah, total opposite.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yes, you know, I don't mean I won't get off
on the motherfucker.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Don't say that in jail. You don't want to now
on the outside.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
Looking at it, to us, or at least to me,
g Funk looked like it was created by you and
doctor Dre.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
But then when I you know, you do research, you
hear names like big Hutch.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah. But the law you'll call one eighty seven. But
the law camg go Mac, total chaos, Laylaw, cocaine. They
took me in when I was when I was a
pupp I didn't I didn't, you know, I you know,
really didn't have nowhere to go at the time, and

(10:46):
Laylan and one eighty seven had had took me in
and I started hanging with them, you know, And that's
why I say that that one eight seven taught me
a lot as far as the NPC sixty as well
as Dre, but they made me G funk. You know,
they was already saying, uh, gangster Funk, g funk. So

(11:06):
but what I did was I took, you know, the
my mop you know, for me being in it. I
took and branched it off, and I said the g
funk era, you know, just it's still this, but then
I started my own sound within uh, the gangster Funk
and made it the g funk era, and you know
it's it's hey, those the guys that that put me

(11:29):
in it, and I took it and made it worldwide,
you know, for the world to know what g funk
was about, along with Snoop and Dre everybody saying g
funk as well.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
So if G Funk had a mount Rushmore, who would
be on it?

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Like?

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Who do people forget that? I guess what would be
the Brothers, right?

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah, but the Law would definitely be on there ship.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Uh uh, you don't know.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
I ain't that I'm saying I'll be on there too,
uh uh. Laylaw because he he was he was the
head head guy over everything. Recipes. Lay Law recipes go Mac.
But he was the the head honcho of Gfunk And

(12:17):
like I said, I got my branch and created uh,
the Gfunk era, you know. And that's when I took
took it worldwide. And but then was my guys they
set it up. That's that's it right there.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
When did they dog come into the picture.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
They came in. Well, he was always in Loan Beach,
But as far as when he came together with me
and Snoop, we was me and Snoop was up already
like up in North Long Beach. We was moving around
doing little things here and there, trying to build our name.
And they just popped up one day on the spot,

(12:57):
you know, where we was hustling at and uh, and
he had heard about us doing what we was doing.
So he came up and just blended in with us,
and we started calling ourselves two one three. But as
far as Nate a period, all of us knew each
other from King's Park, from elementary school all the way up.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Did how was he received?

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Though? Good?

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Now he was all were rappless and he was singing.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
So what do you remember the first time he said, Hey,
this is what I do When he's.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Saying with you now Nate as Nate was in the
church circus, so he was singing a lot. But it
just happened, you know, when we when we would get
in the room and we'll be freestyling and you know,
be boxing, freestyling stuff, Native started just singing along, like
while we busting. He just started singing some gangster shit.

(13:49):
You know that's different than it wasn't like, you know,
just like it wasn't normal. He was just it was
kind of like a rap uh singing singing thing type
of vibe that he would do. And he was just
saying some some real, real real things with it.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
And how did how did the Deaf?

Speaker 1 (14:07):
The Deaf?

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Jmdal come about?

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Death? Jam started with UH, let me see that wash
I had a record. Actually I was at the studio
once again, I'm moving at the studio. It was me,
Snoop dre oli Us. They was working on UH. I
think it was they were in the studio. They was
working and Paul Stewart and John Singleton was there for

(14:33):
Snoop to do the first single for the for the
UH just a soundtrack. So I'm in there just hanging out.
This is like later on when I was like, I
was kind of by myself, but I still would come
to the studio and things like that. But so I
asked John and Paul Paul Stewart, are they looking for

(14:55):
any more songs? So they was like yeah. So I
was like, can I play a record phase? So me
and Paul walked to the car. I had a raggedy
little rigo, jumped in the car, popped in the tape deck.
It was a song called Indo Smoke with me and
mister Graham. It went for about maybe like thirty seconds

(15:19):
and he said stop. So I stopped and he was like,
can I take the tape? I said yeah, just give
it back to me. Yeah, give it, yeah, give it back.
So that that Monday, Monday two is whatever it was,
I know, it was a weekend. We was working. But
they called me and they was like, we want this
to be the first single on the party, just a soundtrack.

(15:40):
So I was like, are you serious? He was like yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
I was like, damn, And you weren't signed at the
time at all.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
I wasn't signed with nobody. So that whole thing went through.
Uh Indoor Smoke blew up. Uh. It actually went gold.
It was everywhere. It was going crazy, and so a
bunch of companies was trying to find out, you know
who the artist was. Yeah, who was these guys? So

(16:07):
there was a lot of companies calling. So Paul hit
me like, death Jam want to talk to you. So
I'm thinking, like, ship, they ain't. They don't want to
talk to me, They want mister Graham because mister Graham
was was dope dope as well. He that's who the
record was for. And so we had uh got on
the car. It was le Or, Chris Lighty and Tracy

(16:32):
Waples they actually all flew out to as well. But
so we on the car and I'm like, I can't
believe this is death Jam on the phone with me.
So that they was asking about the guys on the song.
So they was like, okay, well who is the guy
with the kind of like melody to what he's doing.
So I'm like, damn, they must be talking. They talking

(16:53):
about mister Graham. So I was like, that's mister Graham.
He wanted you know, that's one of the guys rapping
on there. They was like to know the guy with
the kind of like singing things. He said, you mean
this little chant type of I said, that's me. So
they was like, yeah, that's the guy we won't So
I was like me, like shit, So we just from there.

(17:20):
I had to decide, like because there was other companies
coming in after that, you know, started piling up. I
guess the word got around. So I had to think about,
you know, who would be best for hip hop? Right,
So I had a flashback. I went all the way
back to Crush Groove, the Beastie Boys, Fat Boys, Run

(17:42):
DMC and Russell and Rick Rubin and I'm like, this
is the lay and I started thinking about Slick Rick,
Dougie Fresh, everybody, and uh, I was like shit, I'm
ll cool J. I said, I'm I'm fucking with this
right here. I'm with them. So I said, fuck everybody else.

(18:03):
I want to row with these people because they hip hop.
This is huge and I'm a fan of Crush Groove
and B Street and you know, like so I was like,
you know that's that'll be different and signed and he.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
Said, you saved the label. During that time, they said
the label was going through a lot of yeah, of
losing money and artists weren't selling. They said, you revitalized
the label back then.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah, yeah, I didn't know it. I didn't know it,
and you know, until you know we started, you know,
the record seal started going like every week, I was
selling like two hundred and some thousand every week, so
it started. It was huge, and but I didn't know.

(18:48):
I didn't know they was in debt or anything like that.
And then Leord told me one day, he was like,
we use like credit cards and different things to get
you this money. Wow, you know your advance. And I
was like wow, I couldn't believe it. But he was
like you really, you really did? You know, it's a
big favor and we had a big parties and you

(19:12):
know all of that.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, that's cute, But where my money that far?

Speaker 1 (19:18):
My mother fucking money?

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Did you ever feel like they owed you more because
of that? Like that should have been?

Speaker 1 (19:23):
It was ah, a whiteboard in there and it said
like how my album had made like a hundred million,
So I'm like a hundred million dollars where my ship
at let I didn't over recooped. They can't never say
I ain't recoop And uh, I mean I made I

(19:46):
made some money. I was. It wasn't like it should
have been, but I made some pretty good bread. It
wasn't like stupid money out of that hundred million, it wasn't.
It wasn't a lot out of that.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
Did you see at least ten from that?

Speaker 4 (20:01):
No?

Speaker 1 (20:01):
No, nowhere near what? Nowhere near it?

Speaker 3 (20:04):
Does it bother you though? That when a lot of
times they mentioned death jam Sometimes you don't hear Warren.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
G they do, but it's quick, yes, brief.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
That especially when when Lee telling yo, we was we
was using credit cards to pay yourself and you helped.
You know, we made a hundred millionaire in a time
when it wasn't happening.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
Does that bother you though? Yeah? It pissed me off
of you know sometimes, but you know I charged it
to the game. I'm like, look, I'm like, god damn. Uh. Yeah,
you know, it ain't nothing I could do, you know
what I mean, Ain't nothing I could do. But yeah,
I get pissed off about it.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Were you supposed to see that white boy? Damn?

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Just being you know in the office. I used to go,
this was on very street out here. I just used
to walk around the office, like walk around the whole building,
and uh, I've seen that ship And I was like,
God damn. Now and Leo Slawsi too. He'll tell you, yeah,
this made this, made this much money. And then like man,

(21:12):
I got you know, let's let's get it cracking. But
anything I needed they would do it though I know that.
You know I told him I needed I need this
house Da Boom, the same old record company. It was
like Cadillac Records kind of uh where you you know
I need this? Okay, they get it, but you know

(21:34):
I made bread too. It wasn't nowhere near what you
know that, but you know I'm at it.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
How did you break the news, mister grim Ship It
won't be not you?

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, I mean that's that's just what it was, you know.
But I still would would would uh bring Graham on
on things. And Graham actually got signed. I think he
had signed right with with Sony, but we were we
was cool. I still was was pushing for him, you know,
even though he hadn't I thought they wanted him, but

(22:12):
never never went on, no big head should I still
still fucked with him, and whatever he needed I was
with him.

Speaker 4 (22:19):
Why do you think you were never fully bought into
the death row circle as far as like being signed,
I don't.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
Know, should uh.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
Because I probably right?

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah? Well yeah, I was right or die. Uh.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
The politics was your personality was somebody.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
I think, you know what what what what kind of
uh you know, had Shug pissed off at me? Was
because I wasn't like one of those type of artists
that had just signed any other fucking thing, and you know,
and we was presented with contracts, so I told everybody,
we need to get lawyers to look at these kinds

(23:00):
tracks before we signed them. So, you know, the word
that got back to him that I was trying to
get a lawyer to look at the contracts. So he
came out pissed off.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
Because you was doing the right thing.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Because because I was doing that, nigga that exactly that
nigga wouldn't have even had been doing the same shit.
So I'm like, how can you get mad at me?
So that's he's probably pissed off about that. And then
you know, I just wasn't. I wasn't like, you know,
with a lot of shit. I wasn't gonna just follow
whatever everybody else was doing. I wanted to do my

(23:34):
own shit. I ain't gonna you know, I you know,
they not like I always say, I ain't. I ain't
really that he been knowing me since I was like fifteen,
sixteen years old, you know. So it's just like I
hadn't known this motherfucker all my life. I ain't even
ready to be man, I'm cool. Uh, But that that's

(23:55):
probably was that probably was one of the main things
that that uh you know, had him pissed off. And
then I used to get into it with with different
guys around, but I just wasn't wasn't with the bullshit,
you know. And and he had talked shit about me
here and there, and then I talked ship back just

(24:15):
to let him know, like, but to be facts, you know,
I ain't gonna say something that's a lie, you know.
And but at the end of the day, I ain't.
I ain't got nothing against that dude. He it is
what it is. He do what he do. I just
keep pushing and doing what I do, you know. And
and and actually it was a blessing that I didn't

(24:36):
go that route because it turned out even better for me.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
You know.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
I'm able to do whatever I want to do. I
can go every wherever I want to go. And that's
why I came to the East Coaches to be different,
you know than the regular the same old, same old,
just to get away, you know. And and and when
I came over here, it was nothing beloved, you know,
it was nothing beloved. Wasn't nobody talking at East Coast

(25:04):
West coast shit. That wasn't no East Coast West coast
thing that was beat That was cruise shit, this person,
these people against these people, none of that. Because I
got I had love over here. I was in Brooklyn,
the Bronx. I was everywhere like Harlem one hundred and
forty six and Linux, uh everywhere, Queens, Jamaica, Queens Lell

(25:28):
took me to Jamaica. Queens showed me his grandmother house
where he did all his ship. I was blown away,
like that shit was I even seen the sidekick that
was in Tina got a big old but I was like,
damn yeah.

Speaker 4 (25:43):
Sure, you think being close to death Row but not
actually being in it gave you a clearer lens on
the chaos that was happening within depth Ro because.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
He was on the outside looking.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
I mean, shit, I was I used to be I
used to be wild too, but I mean it it uh,
it wasn't. I mean, it wasn't like a gang of
just super duper crazy ass ship going on when I
was around. I mean some of the things that that

(26:16):
that that went on after I was gone, you know,
I was like, damn, Like I said, it was a
blessing to be away, you know, away from that ship.
And I get caught up in that because it just
it wasn't cool, you know. And but I still had
to deal with it. Even though I wasn't signed to

(26:36):
death Row, this, that, and this. Everywhere I go, niggas
was still tripping with me, like because they still I'm associated,
So everywhere I went, I still had to deal with it,
you know, even though I was with death Jam, I
had to deal with that ship. Like on the from
the street side.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
I just wonder, how did it feel for you watching
like the death Row story unfold right, Like, you know,
they were growing and you know that you're sound helped
build that house, but your name wasn't necessarily.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
On the least sit Uh just pissed off, you know.
I was pissed off at them, And I was pissed
off with myself for not being more business savvy as
far as knowing about publishing and contracts and this, that
and this. I just wanted to uh help Dre. I

(27:25):
just wanted to help him however I could, to help
him get to where he needed to go and the company.
You know, but I got one shout out, you know,
Snoop gave it up for me on stranded on death Rod.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
Do you ever wish you signed Snoop?

Speaker 1 (27:46):
Like I said, if I, if I was business savvy,
I could have Snoop signed and then signed him over there.
But uh, yeah, I wish I would have signed him.
You know, I wish I would have signed him. Uh.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
How did you meet him?

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Elementary school? I mean, and we that's me and Snoop's brother, Jerry.
When when I say Snoop Dogg's big brother, call him
dirty left and this DJ that's that Snoop's older brother.
He just Jerry is just a year old. Uh, we're
just a year older than Snoop. And uh we went

(28:20):
to elementary school together. So Beverly would walk Jerry and
Snoop across the park. I would be coming up twenty
I from I Bank, my right on Orange, but they
would be walking across King Park and I'll be walking
because we went to a school called Cis right there
across the street from the park. So she would be
walking in and We always used to just meet up
in the park and then we'd go into the going

(28:42):
to elementary school together and then Snoop ended up leaving
Cis going to I forgot what what the name of
the other school. It wasn't Prisk. It was another school
where they are swimming, they teach you tennis all kind
of We wasn't getting that, so we were pretty we
was upset because if they only chose a few kids

(29:05):
to go to the school, so uh, Snoop got to go,
we didn't get to go. And uh, but it was
from elementary all the way up through Kinge Park, through
youth sports, all the way into the to hustling.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
How do you know he was high school because everybody
I'm sure was rapping back then, right, I'm sure because
it was a final How did you know now he
got something special?

Speaker 1 (29:30):
Ship he was He was just he was dope, just
always always dope, and and funny. The motherfucker had you laughing,
you know. Uh. He he just was always doping with
everywhere we went. You know, when we were just fucking around,
I would I would be the guy we're around and

(29:51):
I would point at something as soon as our point
at his Snooper started rapping about it when he battling
somebody I point at, like some roses or anything he
had he had bust and then he had turned it
say something about the roses, and then he had tear
ass up at the same time while he's talking about
whatever I pointed at. And that's when I knew he

(30:11):
was special. You know, I was like, this, dude, is
he's special. I'm gonna push as hard as I can
to try to help him, Me and Nate, all of
us get on because we got something special here. And
so that's what I kept doing. I just kept pushing
for us, just non stop.

Speaker 4 (30:28):
What was the version of Snoop that only only you know,
like like way before the fame? And do you think
that version of him still existed?

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Uh? Ship, he's still the same. Ain't nothing changed. Uh
let me see. Uh well he he he Uh. He
gets a lot more serious uh than he did. Uh
when we when we was coming up, he more serious.

(30:57):
He'll snap on the motherfucker fast. Now. He wasn't like that.
Uh you know when we was coming up, he was
more calm.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
And uh he got on dre aid bt was immediately
when when he says, yeah, I wrote a deep covered
for you and immediately immediately did you beat that?

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Yeah? Yeah, I was just like damn, I said, Ship.
I thought it was part of the script.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
And when you're gonna do that one, when you're gonna
say I really produced that.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
Man's always the room of the room is that there's
records on the chronic and doggy style that you never
got credited for.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
But I ain't. I ain't never taking nothing away from Dray.
He's an incredible producer the whole nine I was. I
was the guy that used to go out. I would
bring all of the ideas, so I would bring the
samples and I would sample it and I played for
Drake like listen to this, and he'd be like that
ship is dope. And then he would take it and

(32:02):
add his parts to it and and different things that
he would do, Like I said, I you know, my, my,
what I was trying to do is just give back
to for you helping me learn this, that and that
and this. Now look what I'm doing. I'm bringing this,
that and this to you to help you, uh grow,

(32:24):
And hell yeah, I did a lot of that Ship. No,
I didn't get no credit. I didn't get no credit,
no nothing, the D the d's nuts skit. I did
that ship that was off the off the down, turn
the mic on, when got the phone, called my homegirl,

(32:44):
put the mic up on the set the mic up,
and just did the skip right then and there.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
So these nuts, you invented that.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
I did it right there. I did that right there
in the studio. I invented that right there.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
That's live history, black history, American. Everybody does that.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
Records like a lot of the records on there, like
like let me Ride. That was a a uh we
called him now, it wasn't back then. It was called
a dove record. It wasn't a break record. It was
a dove record, but I bought it from a break
record store and it was a little I still got
that record in my crates too. At in the studio.

(33:29):
It was a little part on the on the on
the on the record that and then it boom boom
boom boom boom boom. Let beat ride boom boom boom.
So I let dra hear that ship. He took that
motherfucker and turned it into some other ship, you know.

(33:49):
So that that's what I used to do. I would
bring records like that sometime I would sample him. Sometimes
I just played a record like listen to this ship
Drake and that record like even like the Little Ghetto Boy.
That was a me and mister Graham record, and I
gave it to him. They was like, we want to
use this so because I had it just how Little

(34:12):
Ghetto Boy sound, but I had the drums going boom
boom backs, boom boom boom backs. And then Drake took
it and changed the drums and did it the way
he wanted to make it feel. But that idea, all
of the Rudy ray Moore stuff. I went and bought
all those records from off of Mail Road Street, all

(34:34):
black exploitation, UH soundtracks. I bought all of that stuff
and we would listen to him. The skit where from
the Mac that was something how and I always say
this this That's the way I was feeling when that
that little skit, the way it it was talking, the

(34:56):
way it was sounding, was like I was like, this
is me and you. In order for to make this
thing work, we got to get rid of the pimps,
pushes and start all over again. You know. That's how
I was feeling. So that skit was right on top.
So I said, listen to this, you know, and he
used that skit just you know, I mean just as

(35:17):
a doggie style. I didn't. I didn't do nothing on
doggy style, you know, I wish I did.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
Did you get compensated at all even though you weren't
in the in the credit.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
So I didn't get ship? Uh? And it ain't I ain't.
You know, I ain't bitter about that. Uh, you know,
because I went and did my own thing. You know,
I saw ship six million records, eight million records all
together on my own. Outside of that, I wasn't. I
wasn't bitter pissed off. Yeah, because I didn't have my

(35:50):
business mind together.

Speaker 6 (35:54):
And you know that's why I think it is like
cool that you are even donating pieces of your history
to the Hip Hop Museum, you know what I mean,
Like even that that what you just taught us, you know,
the skip you're responsible for, Like are you going to
put that type of stuff in there too?

Speaker 1 (36:08):
Definitely? Yeah, all that I think I still got the shirt.
I woren't regulate.

Speaker 5 (36:14):
Are you donating pieces like that?

Speaker 1 (36:17):
Yeah? I got some things that that I'm donate. I
even got the mic I did the whole album. Yeah,
I got all. I have every piece of equipment that
I used, all the craze that I use, from the
chronic to my records to even doing behind Bards for
Slick Rick and pick it Up for red Man. People

(36:37):
don't even know that pick it Up for red Man.
I did the remix to pick it Up and just
you know, you gotta get yours. I gotta get my
tupac Breed did Breed's whole album. Worked with Michael Jackson,
did everybody. You know, I've worked with a lot of people,
you know, so I wasn't tripping shit. I'm able to

(36:59):
move and groove still.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
Michael Jackson session like cool.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
You know, he was cool with nah No, but he
was like on some like regular like like when that's
straight up, it's like, what's up man? Like that kind
of ship.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
Did he reach out to you or they reached.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Out to me him. It was Renee and Bruce at
the time. They was producing for him, and they asked
me if I could come meet him, you know, come
over to the studio. He liked like your work, so
he wanted you to come by the studio. So I
came by. It was record one and ship I couldn't

(37:42):
believe it. I was like, I like, God, damn, this
is Michael motherfucking Jackson. I can't I can't believe this ship.
I couldn't believe it. I thought I was in a dream.
And we chopped it up and I produced some records
for him. He done, He done vocals on him, so
they somewhere in that vault somewhere. But I did some

(38:04):
good records for him too. They was dope, and was
also at that time a lot of press was against him.
So I was telling him to do a song to
you know, express yourself about you know, because everybody was down,
and I forgot what It wasn't not that stuff that
came later on with the kids stuff. It wasn't none

(38:24):
of that stuff. It was some stuff before that. They
was trying to criticize him over and I was telling
him to fight back and talk about it, like express
yourself about how you feel about how these people are
attacking you.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Old when he used the Jewish slur, I think, I'm
not sure.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
I'm not sure, but he was. He was being attacked,
and I just told him to just you know, express
itself that way. You know.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
I want to go back to the credit thing.

Speaker 4 (38:49):
Do you think West Coast history would look different if
the credits were truly accurate?

Speaker 1 (38:55):
Yo, Yeah, it definitely would look good from my pocket. Nah,
but uh uh uh yeah, I mean it it would.
It would look different. You know, people people would you know,
would would really be like damn. So you was really involved,
you know, and know that I did have input, and

(39:18):
I ain't trying to Like I said, I ain't never
trying to take nothing away from Drake because he is
He's that's my sense, you know what I mean. And
he's one of the dopest producers in the game, you know.
But I did get down with him, you know, me
and Snoop and rbx D as a corrupt We came
and brought all our our and Nate Dog, we brought

(39:39):
our energy in and we put it into him to
blow him up. You know.

Speaker 4 (39:43):
It's interesting people always ask all those questions. They don't
never ask Dre But if as he probably would just
tell you if you asked him, you know what I'm.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't think the nigga do interviews
that much.

Speaker 4 (39:56):
Yeah, you know, but I mean it is what it is,
uh you know, uh, was regulate your way of saying
I don't need Dre, I don't need Sugar, I don't
need Snoop, I don't need nobody to make a class.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
No. That was just regularly was just just you know,
just wanted to I just wanted to do ah, just
be different, you know, I wanted to take a record
something that that not that's not too hard and sounding
too gangster, but having a good feeling but still telling
the story on it. And then you know, mimic well,

(40:34):
I'm not gonna lie. We mimicked uh what Snoop and
dra did. We did it a little bit different, but
we was doing the back and forth like they was doing.
So that was like how Snoop and Drake partnered it up.
It was me and Nate. That was my partner, that
was my my guy that you know, our chemistry was
incredible like how Snoop and Dre's was. And so we

(40:57):
just wanted to be different. But that at the same
time ship, Hey, letting letting these niggas know ship. I
could do my ship outside of y'all ship, you know,
like you said, Hey, I'm dope too, So and I
went and started doing my own thing, like fuck this ship,
I'm gone you.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
Think it would be easier to tell that story if
Nate was still here.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
It very easy, Yeah, very easy, boy Nate to be
going in, he would go in. I actually tried to.
I tried to sign Nate uh over at death Jam
had a bag on the table for him, and sure
got at him before I could. And so he went

(41:40):
and did to deal with with uh with death row.
And then I told him what I had for him
on the table, and he was like, nigga, what I said, Nigga,
I've been trying to tell your motherfucking ass the whole
time that this is on the table for you, but
you wanted to go ahead and dip, so you know,
but it's still worked out again because I would, I

(42:02):
would involve him in a bunch of things that I
was doing, like to nobody, No, nobody does it better.
I was. That was like I did that for him
two to to build him up. And that's that became
one of his biggest records that I produced.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
How much how much of you left with?

Speaker 1 (42:23):
How much I left with?

Speaker 4 (42:24):
How much of you personally and professionally left when he left?
I'm talking about that passed away?

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Yeah, yeah, I mean a lot left that was my dog,
you know, as far as just every day we talking
on the phone or in the studio working, and uh
we used to talk ship to each other. I ain't
gonna lie. We would go at it, but you know
he'd be like, fuck you are? He say, Nigga, you

(42:51):
a bitch, you know, and I'll say, I'll get back
at No, nigga, you a bitch, you know, back at it.
We'll fight, squabble, you know all that. And the next
day he would call, like, what's up. So I'm like, motherfucker,
why you calling me after all that bullshit that you
talk to me? And uh ah, nigga, no, just what

(43:12):
time we getting in the studio? And I'm like, nigga,
what you mean what time we're getting in the studio
three o'clock. Let's go.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
But uh apologize, nigga, No we jump yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
Yeah, I should have been on him, but we had
jumped right back in and uh now he he would
uh was was was was my guy. So a lot
left on the musical side because I don't I do
music that some artists don't understand that. I know he
had killed it and that shit had turned it too
some classic ship. So I have to try to teach

(43:49):
certain artists when when I do the music for him,
like look, do this. You know, he knew what to do,
so I would try to. I try to school him
and tell him, Okay, I want you to do it
like this, and you know, sometime it works, sometimes I don't.
But he knew exactly what to do.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
I always wanted to hear you and Ti Dallas Signs
work together because I feel.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
Like I got a record. Actually I got a it
didn't it didn't get out there. It didn't get out there.
But I got a couple of records with Tie. I
got records with with a Tie. I got records with Snoop. Uh.
I did a record with Wiz that's me and Me
and Wiz, got a smash, Come and call Mad at

(44:29):
All That's That's That's a smash. Got a record with
Wayne called All Alone. I got records. I got some
really really really dope uh music that I've been putting together. Man,
some really dope dope ship.

Speaker 4 (44:47):
What a record with Tie never came up? Because I
feel like Tie is fruit off the dogs.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
Uh. I still got him, you know, I still got him.
You know I'm made. I may drop it, you know,
I got it, I may drop it on you know,
the I got different projects that I'm working on, so
I made it's probably I'm sure it's going. I'mna dropping
on one of these uh EPs I'm doing. I don't
want to do no full lengths, no more. I just

(45:13):
I like the EP thing where I give him like
eight here, eight here, eight there. I even got one
with me and Nate, just me and him EP that
that IM have coming as well, unreleased. Yeah, we got
some some dope ship. Uh people gonna be tripping like
how dope he is. We did a lot of records.

(45:36):
We was actually working on on the album right around
when he passed away, so that that, you know, we had,
we had at least we had about fifteen in the
can already and we had other ideas as well. So
I got I got a bunch of stuff that we
did and we're gonna put together a warrant gy and
they dog ep just me and him.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
About the bad business back in the day. Did you
own everything for regulators?

Speaker 1 (46:04):
Is that all yours? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (46:05):
Okay, so every time we hit sampled, every time it's
in the movie, yeah, every time it's a TV commercial.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
They got a class of publishing. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's why.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
Your skin looks so good.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
I ain't gonna lie. You know, it's still it's still
uh it's I mean it's I still get traded good,
you know, from doing that song and and and what.
The thing I loved about it the most is being
able to meet Michael McDonald at a concert and and
him telling me how much he appreciate uh me doing

(46:42):
the uh the redoing regularly, and he liked my son
don't even like my version. He like your version better
better than mine. So I was like, I was blown away.
I got I got it on video. I'm gonna put
it in before did he bring up I was he
I was sitting in the crowd and he was just, yeah,

(47:03):
you know this, this this is a song that a
guy you got name of Warren G. And uh by
the way, Warren G is in the crowd down there,
and was like and they shined the light and ship
and uh but it was just cool just to get
that experiences. Me and my wife, we just we went

(47:23):
up in there and uh, you know, just sat right
up in the front and then they pulled us to
the back and we chopped it up.

Speaker 4 (47:32):
I know, you let him road checks even getting off regularly.
Oh yeah, yeah, how much you have to pack this thing?
Had to pay two grand a.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
Day week every week. We got it split. Uh to
where everybody when it's time, you know, quarterly when they
come boom, they get there. Dooie brothers get there, Michael
McDonald get his, and they stay, get his, and then
I get mine.

Speaker 5 (47:58):
You know how to make money other ways?

Speaker 6 (47:59):
You the barbecue business now, yes, indeed yes, and you
competing in the barbecue festival next?

Speaker 1 (48:06):
Yes, and well actually, uh this weekend's a national barbecue
festival and uh, god dog of this a long island. Uh,
getting ready to get down. You know That's what I
love to do outside of hip hop is is uh
you know, cook? I love that. And I'm a pit mask,

(48:28):
a mega chef. I'm a pit master, but all the
chefs still call me a chef. They like, hey, chef.
I'm like, god, damn okay, big big name still and
I'm like damn, so I I created my own sauces
and rubs. I didn't have a brain for it. I
ain't got my ships sitting on the gravebolt prier for
you guys. I'm gonna get I'm a I can't believe God,

(48:51):
I got this. I got in so early. It's all along.
I got damn bus So.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
That video wasn't no what video was you on the grilling? Yeah? Yeah,
I was slipping.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
Well now I was hanging. I was the pit lling
it up. I've always been doing that though, from from
day one, everything we've done, I've always would cook. And
it just it came from my father, you know, just
around family functions. When we would have functions, everybody having

(49:23):
a good time, he'd be cooking on the grill, you know, motherfuckers,
be drunk, you know, squabbing a little bit here and there,
but just not serious, but just family reunion type stuff.
And it stuck with me. So I started doing it
ever since I was probably like i'd say, about fourteen
fifteen years old, just all just everywhere I went, even

(49:47):
with hustling everything, I would always cook. And and to
where I got serious about it. I was grilling at first,
and then I got into the smoke world and started
learning that world from a bunch of differ and pit
masters from like Austin, Texas and you know, from all over,
and uh, they embraced me and showed me a lot

(50:07):
so you know now now I got it, you know,
not all the way down like some of them when
I'm damn chauffeurs to try to kick some ass and
and uh win it.

Speaker 5 (50:17):
Well, congratulations on Snip and Griffin, Thank you Barbecue.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
Just other other business vesus outside of hip hop. And
I always like to tell the young world, you know,
because dudes be walking having money. Stak this motherfucking what
the fuck is you gonna just keep walking with money
like yeah, that's why you hear about them getting ribbed

(50:41):
and ship. Nigga, Go invest that ship, Go buy some land,
go by, get into real estate, create you a business
outside of hip hop, but use hip hop as a tool.
I love hip hop and i ain't gonna never stop
doing it, but I'm gonna use that as a tool
as well to push this and push that, just like
the corporation dude. You know, So all these young guys

(51:03):
out there flashing with that money, y'all go invest that
ship because when it run out, then you're gonna be
back to trying to do some ship that you don't
want to do.

Speaker 5 (51:14):
You know how you come with an icewear vesel.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
Yeah, yeah, Actually, my cousin, one of my cousins out
out of Chattanooga. Man, he had hit me. He was like, hey,
cous you've seen this, and so he sent me the video.
So I played and I was like damn. I was like, damn. Okay,
he redid that's that?

Speaker 2 (51:36):
Just sound hard?

Speaker 1 (51:38):
Yeah, And then one of my other homies hit me
because I'm an xbox head, so I'm on the Xbox.
And then the party, one of my homeboys in the
Xbox Party Mama hit me. He was like, one you
heard that ice war vessel. I was like, damn, nigga,
you said it. He said it. So I started listening again.
I was like, this motherfucker is hard. And then Snoop
posted it. I was like, damn, this ship is hard,

(51:59):
and so I DMed him. I said, I said, look,
send me an Open twelve. I'm a bust on that motherfucker.
So he sent it and I sent it back and
he was like he was like, oh gee, this is
this is I love it, this is this is a classic.
He was like I'm gonna push this and I said, hey,

(52:19):
it's all good, and he was like so he thinking
that that I will be tripping because you know, he
was like he didn't try to use so many different
samples from other artists, and they like hell now you
know they you know, meaning boy it. I was like, nigga,
use that, motherfucker. I don't care because it ain't nothing
but recycling, you know, because you blow it up, then hey,

(52:41):
that's even more that come in. You know, I don't
want nothing. You ain't gotta pay me nothing, none of that.
It'll it'll pay for its up, you know. So I
said you could use anything I got, use it because
it's gonna you know, it's gonna help you and it's
gonna help bring in, keep keep the recycling going.

Speaker 4 (53:00):
So you know, have you have you ever confronted anybody
about not getting your flowers? Are you just to let
the music in the work speak for yourself?

Speaker 1 (53:07):
Take uh? I let the work and the music speak
for itself. I don't want to get into that mod
where I start tripping on foods because I get I
go hard and I don't want to get there. You know,
everybody else like, warn, you so nice, you so cool,
But I get off of the motherfucker ass. I just

(53:28):
don't choose to go that route. And I don't like
to argue with motherfuckers. And you know, do all that
extra shit. I'm just like, I'm gonna let this. I'm
gonna let this do speak for me. Motherfuckers know though,
I mean, they know I ain't. I ain't gonna sit
up there and play no motherfucking games. I'm uh, I'm cool.

(53:49):
But and I should have I should have been more.
I should have been more uh uh active, Yeah, vocal
and active. But it's just like you know, I've I've
seen so many people do foul ship to a lot
of people, a lot of guys like you know, I

(54:11):
didn't see motherfuckers talk shit about drag. Motherfucker's talk shit
about Snoop and then they ass is right up under him.
You know, I ain't that type of motherfucker. I ain't
gonna I ain't gonna talk about these motherfuckers and and
and then get in their face. If I got something
to say to him, I said to him, and yeah
I did talk about the super Bowl ship. I was

(54:31):
pissed off, you know, just it just wasn't cool, and
you know, and I ain't. It wasn't like something that
I just brought up and did this and did that.
It was a whole story to it that led up
to that and it was a witness there. One of
my guys, he uh, he would with our crew. He

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sat right next to me, and he was even tripping,
and he got down there and went back there, and
I'm still in the fucking crab wo But I just
wanted to go back there and hang out, me and
my son. That was it.

Speaker 3 (55:06):
I don't know that you had a story and you
understand how it is, and the fact that y'all were
so close, and you understand why because people, I don't
think a lot of people necessarily knew. Did you speak
to Dre or Snoop? Well, of course you boke to Snoop.
Did you speak the Dre after that?

Speaker 1 (55:18):
I ain't talked to him. I haven't reached out to
talk to him a few times, you know, but he
always would be busy, you know. But I ain't. I mean,
it ain't. It ain't. I ain't got nothing against him.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
I don't know that was right there.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
I didn't even sing, you know, I was. I was
focused on doing what I had to do.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
But y'all don't have the best relationship.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
I don't even know what kind of relationship we have.
I ain't seen him in a while. We ain't talked
in a while or or hung out. You know, I
ain't got nothing against him or not, but I don't
know what if there is a problem or not, I
don't know. I ain't never done huh.

Speaker 2 (55:57):
Was there something that got y'all to this point?

Speaker 1 (55:58):
Or I have no idea. I don't know what the
fuck is going on, you know, I don't know if
somebody might may have told him some shit or said
some shit, because a lot of motherfuckers that do that
just to get up under a person, you know, they'll say, well,
he did something. I don't know, but and I ain't
tripping either. At the same time, you know, I ain't

(56:20):
got nothing against him, you know, but that shit just
was kind of weird, you know when I look up
to you and you know, and you know that's my
god steal, you know, Like I said, that's my sensey.
And we could sit down and talk whenever, face to face,
you know, and pull it, put it all out, put
it all out there. And if it's something that I

(56:41):
did and I was wrong, hey, it is what it is. Okay,
I was wrong. If you don't want to fuck with
me no more, that's fine. Cool. But being in the
blind and not knowing what's going on. I don't know,
you know, but because that's what it seemed like it
to me, it's seen like it it may be a

(57:01):
problem by.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
You know.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
It just it just felt like a problem. You know.
I'm my own boy. You know, I love that nigga
to death. That's my dog. He said, I don't bring
ship to work with me. This that's totally different that
I don't I don't think he was talking Yeah, I
don't think he I don't think he was talking about
me as far as me being ship coming with him

(57:25):
to uh go to the studio or wherever the work.
Because that's all we ever did was get down and
go to the studio together be you know, go up
there that we would we have fun. That's it. You know,
it wasn't no you know, so you know, just just
just clearing that, you know, Snooper is my homeboy. I

(57:48):
have no problems with Dre. This is my best friend.
You two guys, y'all you got y'all hang out. That's
my best friend and this this is my brother. Uh
it just be it just be weird. And I when
I say weird, as far as it's like we don't

(58:09):
go out to eat together. No more. We don't do
family ship when we get the kids out and do
ship like that, go jet skin or go skin or
it ain't about like some music ship or this, that
and this. I just to hang out like we used to.
I don't know nobody else. You are the motherfuckers I
grew with in this industry. I ain't that that's that's it.

(58:30):
It ain't that's it. Just it's hanging out Litsten, you know,
like being being a crew again, a family again. You know,
I ain't. I'm just that's it.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
It's okay to say I miss you, my brother, I
miss you, I miss you.

Speaker 1 (58:51):
Okay. Niggas know that Snoop know that ship because I
chime in with Snoop, you know, when we don't talk
for a while, chime in with him, like nigga, just
this want this g up. I'm checking in. You know,
we ain't talked in a minute, so I'm checking in.
I can't do that with Dragon, you know. You know,
me and Snoop we talk all the time because recently,

(59:13):
you know, we kind of like was distanced a little bit,
and I'm like, I hear Snoop, like what's going on?
We ain't talking him in a while, you know, but
not knowing that he was going through some things and
as your best friend, you got to tell me that
because I don't know if you don't tell me. So
he had had, you know, like he mentioned, no, no,

(59:34):
not with moms. He was like, you know, my my daughter,
her daughter became premature, so you know, yeah, so and
she's about to go home, like he said, she about
to finally about to go home. I didn't know that,
so he wasn't trying to return to my car. So
I was like, damn this nigga, snoop, ain't fucking with me.

(59:54):
What's going on? And then he finally hit me and
told me what was going on. So I was like,
damn man, And so I told him, you know, I'm
you know, I'm always praying for you and I'm always
there for you. Went like I have been through all
the situations that he didn't been going through because I
went through that same exact thing where I lost my grandmother,

(01:00:14):
my mother, my mother in law, I lost my both aunties,
my grandfather, I lost like all this shit was like
in a row and now I was I was fucked up,
you know, so I've been through it. So that's why
I was able to walk him through what he was
going through with losing his mother because I lost mine
too in ninety nine, so I've been motherless for a

(01:00:38):
long time. Kids don't even know they grandmother, never met
their grandmother. So mine's so just to be able there
to tell him that you and understand that this is life.
This is what we're gonna have to go through, and
you just got to man up. You gotta understand that
this is life we're gonna have to go through. So

(01:01:00):
our kids gonna have to go through that ship. So
just understand that and you'll you'll be better about everything.
You know, you'll feel better. You cry because I still cry,
you know, Charlae, man, I cried now like you said,
Like you said, just say, I miss you guys. You
know what I mean. You know, I ain't. I mean that,

(01:01:24):
that's it's it's just being a family again. It ain't.
You know, I ain't. I ain't. You know, I ain't
tripping other than that. But if it is a problem,
Nigga addressed the ship, tell me and then I'll be
fine with that. You know, I ain't tripping the gat up.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
Keep it moving, But y'all came up together, y'all created
a community and just look at y'all survived. Yeah a lot,
just sit around and kicking and just talking.

Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
Yeah. You know, one I'm one thing that did have
that that I was really crushed about. And I have
said it before, was I It was a situation where
I went into it. I was in a studio situation
and uh, it was after dra left and I didn't

(01:02:14):
know that he left, and I was mad at him
because he didn't tell me that he had left Death Road.
So I went to a studio session and and was
was was you know, you know, people was trying to
get at me, like you know, they was trying to
trying to whoop my ass up in that motherfucker. But
you know, I got up out of the mix. But

(01:02:37):
I was I was kind of pissed off about that
right there. And you know I never got the call
like don't go around that shit. Wow, you know. So
and these niggas if they had the chance to crack
my head up, and they would have cracked it. You know,
I was just able to get away and get out
of that situation and and you know, you know the

(01:03:00):
things that you know, I'm not gonna lie and I
I had, I had, you know, I had, I was,
I had, I was locked and loaded, but it just
wasn't worth it too and everything I got going on
right now for me cracking this motherfucker for snatching my chain.
As the motherfucker snatched my chain. Then another guy came

(01:03:23):
in and caused a diversion. When he calls that diversion,
I walked out. And when I walked out, it's when
I got that was able to. I was able to
get out and you know, get away, and and able
to make my calls for my ship to come right back,
and it came right back. And I still got it
to this day. That sounded like Trump When I.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
Said, did you talk to about that?

Speaker 4 (01:03:48):
Ever?

Speaker 1 (01:03:49):
Uh, we ain't never had, Like I said, we ain't
talking alone.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
Only talked to That's the nineties.

Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
I mean, we see each other, you know, here and there.
We just ain't talk, you know, I don't you know,
I ain't no, ain't nothing. It ain't no like I said,
it ain't no static. He just that's I guess that's
just he just liked that. That's just how he is,
you know. He just he just do his own thing.
You know. But if it is a problem or something.

(01:04:17):
I wish he would say it. I should have said it,
but people who be around be like he always talking
about you, saying this and that and this. You know,
good ship. Well we never talked, so hold on.

Speaker 4 (01:04:29):
So since since aftermath, Eminem, we had we had we
we around that time.

Speaker 1 (01:04:36):
We used I used to be up at the studio.
You know, we even went to the islands. He wasn't
time we did up and small tour. Yeah it's just
made forty five hundred show show swelling.

Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
Guy, didst pay for your hotel and traveling over?

Speaker 1 (01:04:57):
I had to pay for all that forty five all in?
Yeah that Jesus. Yeah, yeah, this is this. I'm just saying.
That's type of the type of stuff that I've been through.
Uh you know, so that's why I kind of like
be to myself and just away from everything. So I

(01:05:19):
try to and try to do a lot of ship
on my own because I you know, ship just you know.
But it's a new day, a new time. Well, I
was I was pretty rough. I ain't gonna lie I was.
I was. I was a hard head. I was immature

(01:05:41):
back then. Uh, I was immature, just you know, I
wasn't like just a mega fighting machine, but I was.
I was down, uh and just doing stupid ship back then.
But I was you still don't you know that's that
that ain't got nothing to do because you grow with anything,

(01:06:01):
because you grow in the business. And I've grown a
whole lot from what I used to be. Getting caught
with guns and shit, and you know, them giving me,
taking me, cuff me, pulling me. I was headed to
do five years, and that motherfucker the judge went in
the holding tank, pulled me back out the holding tank
and told me, he said he's because he seen my

(01:06:23):
son in the room. I just had a baby, and
he said, I could. I'm gonna give you this chance.
He said, you could go ahead and knock the five
years out right now, or you can you can do
joint suspension five years. I said, shit, I take the
joint suspension. So he had them uncuffed me, take me out,

(01:06:44):
and let release me. Joint suspension five years. And I
did that five years. Joint suspension didn't get no trouble.
I did, but I didn't. They didn't know it, uh,
And UH went clean. And from since the beginning of
that that that five year joint suspension. I did do

(01:07:05):
some stupid ship during that time. I just didn't get
like I said, get caught up for a butt. After that,
I have not been to date. I ain't been in
no trouble since then from that from that point, but
not saying I like I said, I don't. I don't
star ship with motherfuckers. I just I keep it pushing
because it's just life is too short for that ship

(01:07:27):
to be Oregon or or you know, motherfucker's trying to
you know, all the talking, all that gang ship, that's
that shit is just I'm I'm past all of that.
I'm trying to create businesses and help people grow. Yeah,
and just barbecue man and barbecue, that's what I love
to do. And drink me a beer, smoke me a joint.

Speaker 4 (01:07:51):
You know what. I want people to watch this interview
and at the end of it, I want them to
think to themselves. Warren G introduced Stoop to dre so
West Coast Rap wouldn't exist the way it does without
you and you save death Jam to the East Coast wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
Exist the way it does without you.

Speaker 4 (01:08:08):
That hundred million dollars death Jam Man that they use
that to invest into the next generation, the East Coast artists, Which.

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
That's what I'm saying, a pillar in hip hop justin
be I like comic books.

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
I like the Marvel Universe, like you like Lowki holding
a bunch of branches together, you know, in this thing
called hip hop.

Speaker 2 (01:08:26):
So man, they gotta give it up to you.

Speaker 1 (01:08:27):
Man, Yeah, Ship, I think, what what?

Speaker 4 (01:08:32):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
What would have been cool? What is cool? Even though
I gotta wait like four more years. It's just if
they gave me my masters back, that would be cool
if I was if I was a company, I was like, damn,
this motherfucker did all this boom. Let me let's give
him this ship we got. We got jay Z, we
got Kanye, we got all this ship, Drake, we got
all these catalogs, and sit over here, we don't really

(01:08:55):
need this.

Speaker 3 (01:08:56):
Don't you get your masters back?

Speaker 1 (01:08:57):
After I got four more years from you said, but
ship funk all that.

Speaker 3 (01:09:05):
We appreciate you for joining us.

Speaker 1 (01:09:07):
Now, it's all good. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:09:08):
Having man love to hear your story.

Speaker 1 (01:09:10):
And I was getting ready to come in here. I
was gonna say, I'm gonna get this ship started off
right now. We finished. Hey, that was classic, I said,
Nigga crazy man. When I say that ship, I was like,
this ship is crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:09:30):
Like the squabb but were glad we're not number thirty two.

Speaker 1 (01:09:32):
So no, it's all good man. I ain't a rowdy,
fighting ass motherfucker, but you know, I just I just
be waring, you know that, Just be myself.

Speaker 3 (01:09:44):
Thank you for joining us, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
It's Warren G Much love you guys.

Speaker 2 (01:09:48):
It's the Breakfast Club.

Speaker 3 (01:09:48):
Good morning shot, wake that ass.

Speaker 1 (01:09:51):
Up in the morning.

Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
The Breakfast Club