WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:08.439 Realities said. I heard that she likes the we live in a dream world. 2 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:12.800 Y'all know how I'm matter broke, yes, yes, y'all, and 3 00:00:12.919 --> 00:00:18.160 you don't stop because we're talking about y'all is hip hop? Yeah, this 4 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:23.320 is hip hop. Baby Time, the Baby, the Missus Street Ray Gio 5 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:28.160 for Unsung. He wrote, riding in the Rego time of state, look 6 00:00:28.280 --> 00:00:30.719 like this in the whole coach. If I don't like it, I don't 7 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:35.600 like it, that don't mean that I'm having and we communicating. I've been 8 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:41.880 thinking about you, Ladily when they reminisce over you. My god, he 9 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:55.079 brought this one for the crew. Can promoti what kind of I'm so brother? 10 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:58.079 Oh no, Black from the future, make beats on the table. 11 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:02.560 If I break my computer, it's still make hits like I used to keep 12 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:19.959 guitar five. I'm god favorite. That was excellent, My god, shut 13 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:30.159 man set it up. Awesome. Yeah, bro, that's d J Hewes 14 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:33.840 in the mix. Man, He's awesome. That was crazy, Thank you, 15 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:38.760 glad. Hit it again, Hit it again, this reality and I 16 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:46.680 heard they seem like the we live in a dream world. Y'all know how 17 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:51.719 I'm mat broke, yes, yes, y'all and you don't stop because when 18 00:01:51.719 --> 00:01:55.719 we talk, get out y'all this hip hop. Yeah, this is hip 19 00:01:55.760 --> 00:02:01.480 hop, baby baby the business stream dio for Unsung, he wrote riding in 20 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:06.959 the regal time, the statement look like this in the whole coat. If 21 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:07.879 I don't like it, I don't like it, that don't mean that I'm 22 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:14.680 important and we communicating. I've been thinking about you, Ladily. When they 23 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:22.599 reminisce Silver, you my god. He brought this one for the crew from 24 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:32.439 him kind of you, I'm sure, brother. Oh no, Black from 25 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:36.520 the future. Make beats on the table. If I break my computer, 26 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:39.719 it's still make hits like I used to keep you talk five. I'm god 27 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:47.280 favorite man, so nice. I had to do that twice. I think 28 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:57.360 I think, I think that'll be in fellows. I appreciate it that these 29 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:00.719 infuses the truth. You know you're a fan the You know what I mean? 30 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:05.719 Man, This is why it helps. That helps. Pete Rock is 31 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:07.759 here, comm sence comment is here. Let's get it man, cruise show. 32 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:10.879 I'd like to point out Common's jacket. It's a pro club. Very 33 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:15.159 l A, very out of you. Yes, brother, Yeah, I 34 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:19.400 love LA. I'm Chicago, but I got love for l A. Very 35 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:27.280 too of your ahead of your fellow on this. All good, yeah clean 36 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:34.719 right here, we're here like Buddhists were Buddhists. That's right man, Yo, 37 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:37.599 listen again, Pete Rock Common, We're here, man, all kinds 38 00:03:37.599 --> 00:03:40.719 of ideas. Congratulations on that. That's crazy. The project is on its 39 00:03:40.759 --> 00:03:45.879 way. July twelfth, Auditorium, Volume one, Pete Rock. I don't 40 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:47.120 know if you want me to say this, but I'm going to say it 41 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:50.879 anyway. You guys already started working on volume two. Yeah. Yeah, 42 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:57.000 he's got beats, yeah ya know. Yeah, this man is infinite with 43 00:03:57.400 --> 00:04:00.520 creating music. So I mean he's been sending me beat since we started, 44 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:04.680 but it's like infinite sending records. This is like that process I love when 45 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:09.120 you get to just put your heart and soul into the music. It's about 46 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:18.639 the music. Music bars somestance. I'm saying estable, you know, lyrics 47 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:23.759 we could hear exactly. I understand, not just saying but like this is 48 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:26.600 this is hip hop. This is what it is about. Yes, yeah, 49 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:31.439 excitement, you know that's and he always been a carrier of hip hop. 50 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:36.040 Like this is like like when I got to get around him even more. 51 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:40.160 We known each other for a long time, say for how long ninety 52 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:44.240 one, Yeah, somewhere in the ninety early nineties for sure, Like and 53 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:47.279 then you know, fuse play one of the first records we did, which 54 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:51.439 was the Cube Song, but but that was that was the first record we 55 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:56.959 did together or shout Out to cute shout Out. But at that time, 56 00:04:57.079 --> 00:05:00.759 that was a time broa. Yeah, but I think it and hip hop 57 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:02.319 we have to go through things like that. You know. We got to 58 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:08.560 test deal with it exactly. We kept it on Wax. Everything was good. 59 00:05:08.600 --> 00:05:12.879 But we've been we've been brought brothers for a minute and just being around, 60 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:15.600 like getting to connect with him on the music and just see how much 61 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:19.959 he loved like creating beats and what I love. I love him seeing man. 62 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:24.759 I love to say some bars that that that people respond to. You 63 00:05:24.839 --> 00:05:28.759 know what I'm saying that My homiees like, oh you said that. You 64 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:30.360 know what I'm saying that. That was part of the way I started rapping. 65 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:33.920 It's just like I wanted to say something real dope like so that my 66 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:38.879 friends respond, you know. And it's still that Common will freestyle wherever he 67 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:43.839 is. Common. I mean, he's just that artist, right He that's 68 00:05:43.879 --> 00:05:46.639 his DNA. The freestyle is all the way in his blood, you know 69 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:50.839 what I'm saying. So when I heard a couple you know online, I've 70 00:05:50.839 --> 00:05:54.879 seen this one that was like, Wow, I gotta post this one. 71 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:58.720 You know what I'm saying this, people got to see this this talent for 72 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:00.639 sure. How do we feel about hip hop today? Man? As the 73 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:05.480 gods? I feel like, you know, the only thing that's listening is 74 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:11.199 the realness of the music, and you know, and making lyrics that people 75 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:13.639 could really understand. Sure, you know what I'm saying. I mean, 76 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:17.079 yeah, you can make fun records and you can make the little simple joints, 77 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:21.319 you gotta really speak on reality. It is. It is. It's 78 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:26.240 like the ill thing is like, could I be listening to a lot of 79 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:29.879 like just hip hop or definitely the nineties is where my head is stuck. 80 00:06:30.199 --> 00:06:32.399 And it was some of the songs was very simple. But it's just to 81 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:35.319 me, it's all about the spirit of the music, Like where is it 82 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:40.120 coming from? And it's some young artists that's coming with dope stuff that's coming 83 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:43.879 from the love of the music. Like I can I can tell the difference 84 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:47.199 in the artists that like that that of a new generation that actually listened to 85 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:51.519 hip hop from before. I can tell the difference. You could hear it 86 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:56.120 in the in the quality and the standard that they have no matter what style 87 00:06:56.199 --> 00:06:59.959 it is. That you could just tell that they know that the art form 88 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:02.519 of hip hop and that and I think and point blank you know, it's 89 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:06.079 been dope. The battle was dope, like the Drake Kendrick Battle added to 90 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:11.480 the culture of of of hip hop and like to me, it's it's hip 91 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:15.000 hop is in the thriving spot because you have all these young artists doing doing 92 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:18.399 their thing, and now you haven't people like Pete Rock and I dropping albums 93 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:23.040 and you know what Naves is gonna do with Primo or you know l L 94 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:25.879 and Q Tip. But you know, we all got our own things. 95 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:29.240 I ain't gonna try to put us exactly in the same like category, but 96 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:31.839 it's good to hear that, yo, you can actually evolve in the in 97 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:36.519 the art form and make new music and make it fresh. Carry that. 98 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:42.600 So I think there's a lot of artists today like Simba yeah yeah, yeah, 99 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:47.560 yeah yeah. Shout shoutout to Lamar Hindel. Lamar to me is one 100 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:53.360 that would in any generation is one of the greats in any generation. He 101 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:56.759 just point blank is one of the greats. I like Earl Sweatshirt, I 102 00:07:56.879 --> 00:08:01.040 like, I like it's some it's some dope. Joey's my guy. Yeah 103 00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:05.199 you were you not that yet, but I've been talking to him. We 104 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:09.240 didn't having, you know, conversations. I need to get done. Yeah, 105 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:13.040 for sure. Everything cyclical too. I mean, you got my kids. 106 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:16.560 The first music they ever heard was tripe called Quest Wow and Pete and 107 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:20.600 you because they're gen z right, so you were all up on y'all. 108 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:22.560 And the first thing is we played for them. So when they get ready 109 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:26.920 to start making music, you're gonna hear that sound. That's a promise. 110 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:31.000 Yeah, it's inevitable. You know, yo, I ain't go for I 111 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:33.240 love that. Man. When I'm like, when I hear like youngest being 112 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:37.320 like they know, like nineties stuff. I remember I went to this college. 113 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:41.240 I went down to speak at this college Pray if you down in Texas, 114 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:43.159 and this dude was wearing a trip called quest Sure. He was like 115 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:46.879 nineteen years old. I was like, but you know about Trial? He 116 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:50.679 was like low End Theory my favorite album. What It just blew my mind 117 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:56.000 and just let me know, like how the seventies was. Seventies music was 118 00:08:56.120 --> 00:09:01.120 for me growing up and for us like nineties music that for the kids now 119 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:03.799 like and they hearing that, like you said, parents, parents, it's 120 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:11.120 crazy. I mean I think to me, it's like that's part of the 121 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:15.399 beauty of hip hop was it was passing on like music that our parents listened 122 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:18.279 to because they were sampling that stuff. So we got to hear like all 123 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:22.039 the some of the music our parents listened to it. We were just putting 124 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:24.919 it out in the way we do. So now the kids go take some 125 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:28.639 of the nineties stuff and put it out in the way that you know, 126 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:31.559 it's crazy, p rock. What you did with jazz and hip hop and 127 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:33.399 mess those two change the game forever. Yeah, man, I mean help 128 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:37.679 change the sound. That's I have to thank my dad for that resting piece. 129 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:41.120 He was jazz, like, yeah, what you making? So you 130 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:46.120 know what I'm saying. My pops listen to reggae, of course, but 131 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:50.679 it was always jazz, so classical. I mean, he had a variety, 132 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:54.159 and so I kept that in mind when I make beats, I want 133 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:58.120 to be able to make different kind of beats, not just one style. 134 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:03.159 You know, like various kinds of you know, yeah, because that like 135 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:07.240 the boom bap like that gets it done. Yes, of course, once 136 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:11.480 you start adding certain elements from other genres, that turns it into another movie, 137 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:13.720 something different, And it's beautiful. Man. Yes, the creation is 138 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:24.279 a beautiful thing. This is Jackie. She's sixteen years old. I looked, 139 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:33.840 like, hold up, what's going on? But it's crazy to see 140 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:37.279 how like when you look back in your guys' career and you're putting out music, 141 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:41.279 like still, how does that feel to be known that? Like for 142 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:45.919 people like me, you guys are legends, Like, how does that feel 143 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:52.360 for you guys? You know, man, it feels great for one passion 144 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:56.360 in my heart and just like you know, those are the things that drive 145 00:10:56.480 --> 00:10:58.519 me to keep making hip hop. And I see the reaction of the people 146 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:03.799 and that inspires me even more to keep putting out good music because it's needed. 147 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:07.480 You know what I'm saying, We need it. I feel like, 148 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:11.399 man, I just thank God for us being able to continue to make music, 149 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:15.840 Like that's that's the creator, that's the creator working through us. And 150 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:20.120 at the same token, it's yesterday we was doing a rehearsal and I was 151 00:11:20.200 --> 00:11:22.000 like, Pete, this is crazy. We went from a record you made 152 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:26.639 in ninety one to a song off our new album right now, which is 153 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:31.240 you know, twenty twenty four. You could have never You couldn't have told 154 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:35.200 a young Rashi with my name young Common that when I got in on the 155 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:39.639 mic in ninety two with my album, that I was going to be like 156 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:45.279 thirty years later rapping and putting out a new album and the joining it too, 157 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:48.039 you know, like, because I used to think, like what Nah 158 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:50.960 said on one in song, he was like I thought like when you was 159 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:54.919 thirty, you was done like forty eight, you never would think you would 160 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:58.720 be able to be like an artist. But man, we've shown because hip 161 00:11:58.759 --> 00:12:01.279 hop was young for us at that time, that we can't evolve as artists 162 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:07.200 and musicians and be like, you know, experience and half years and decades 163 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:09.360 in this music and still be doing fresh things if you got the love for 164 00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:15.759 and the purity and you got to stay humble to grow doubling off of that, 165 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:18.399 like you're saying, like you know, thirty years later, like it's 166 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:22.080 never too late for anybody to start it either. Yeah. No, I 167 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:26.879 always say age is nothing but a number and if you know the feelings still 168 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:28.159 in you, because you know, hip hop is special. Man. Once 169 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:33.240 you get a good dose of it, you'll never let it go. Fact. 170 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:37.480 And so that's that's what I go through and I'll be thinking about like, 171 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:41.759 you know, when I was listening to Michael Jackson, I wasn't thinking 172 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:46.279 how old he was with Stevie Wondoll. But I never thought about it age. 173 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:48.759 I look like, it's like if this music hit me and hit me, 174 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:52.159 like like, sometimes listen to music that was made before I was born 175 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:56.720 now, and sometimes I'm listening to to somebody that's like twenty one making music 176 00:12:56.799 --> 00:13:00.799 and I'm like, it's just if it's great, I just enjoy, you 177 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:03.360 know, and if it makes you happy to create it, you gotta feed 178 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:07.360 that, Joey, That's what life is about. Yeah, that's the life, 179 00:13:07.480 --> 00:13:09.639 yo. You got to feed the joy. That's what yo. One 180 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:13.159 of the things I feel like And he made a record on on Yay and 181 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:18.440 jay Z's I'm Joy. It's called joy. Joy is so underestimated in life, 182 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:22.519 man, Like we talk about a lot of things, but joy is 183 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:24.600 like one of the things that I was like, just real organic joy joy. 184 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:30.039 Joy. Like I'm starting to more, more and more, just appreciate 185 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:33.759 those moments of joy and just be present in it, not like be trying 186 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:35.279 to think, like, man, how is this and how is this gonna 187 00:13:35.320 --> 00:13:39.639 be later or what happened yesterday. When I get those moments of joy, 188 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:43.759 I'm like, damn, I'm sitting here right now, this I'm grateful with 189 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:48.679 what we were right here talking about working on. It'll fly by, Yeah, 190 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:50.639 it'll fly by, and we and we we spend so much time like 191 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:56.120 worrying about the future or holding on to things that happen to us that it's 192 00:13:56.200 --> 00:13:58.960 like, man, just being able to be present. It's one of the 193 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:03.320 things that I consistently try to work on because it's like, man, sometimes 194 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:07.759 people will come to me and tell me stuff that I mean, They'll tell 195 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:09.360 me like yo, like man, I was with you, we had a 196 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:13.080 dinner and blah blah blah. It'll be somebody that's like a big celebrity. 197 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:16.519 I'd be like, how did I forget that time? You know? You 198 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:18.360 know, like I mean, I mean, I'm like, wait, I 199 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:22.480 gotta start appreciating these moments and just being in it. Yeah, we acually 200 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:26.080 had that, right. There's you know photos on your phone, this time 201 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:30.960 last year and I'm like, wait, we did that. Yeah. Yeah, 202 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:35.600 And it's crazy because we're always constantly thinking about tomorrow. Constantly constantly, 203 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:37.720 man, you know, point blank. Like within the past few years, 204 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:41.879 I learned to slow down a little bit and just not like Phil I used 205 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:46.480 to think I had to do like twelve things to be successful. I'm like, 206 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:48.639 yo, I could do it three or four, but just doing them 207 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:52.679 at the highest level and give my heart and soul to it and enjoy the 208 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:56.360 process of it too. Like, yeah, that's right, that's right. 209 00:14:56.559 --> 00:14:58.279 We were talking about this a few days ago. What do you guys think 210 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:01.200 besides the music, you guys make the perfect hip hop song? What song 211 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:07.200 is that? Not? Like us? Not like it's the perfect hip hop 212 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:13.960 song. I'm serious, man, That joint is murderous. Yeah for a 213 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:16.600 Grammy too. Yeah, that's that's that's that is one of the most perfect 214 00:15:16.679 --> 00:15:20.679 hip hop songs. But I'm Gonna go with the world is Yours too? 215 00:15:22.519 --> 00:15:26.759 Produced by Pete Rock song that's one of the most Like for some reason, 216 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:31.960 that song like had the lyrics, the inspiration. Yeah it's just raw Street, 217 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:35.919 but it's just he's sampled the jazz record. It ended up being a 218 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:39.279 hip hop boomback classic. Yeah, yes, sir, and yeah, that's 219 00:15:39.320 --> 00:15:43.120 one of my doesn't get better than that, right. Also, the light 220 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:52.559 is a perfect So thank you, bro, thank you. Admit that woman 221 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:58.080 is my favorite. You know what I said in the game, he got 222 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:02.279 kind of like some shipboard. I said, this is how we do it, 223 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:07.759 Jordan. I know, it's more like it promotes that feel good times 224 00:16:07.799 --> 00:16:11.440 a classic class. That's what the thing is about music, man, is 225 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:14.320 what what you what you feel. That's why one thing I don't let nobody 226 00:16:14.360 --> 00:16:17.200 do is determine what's supposed to be dope for me. There you know how 227 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:22.320 you feeling, how you feel freedom, It's called freedom. He rock. 228 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:26.320 You said, Jay Diller is your favorite producers J Dela, mad Lib and 229 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:30.360 some new guys you know, Theory has it, Vitamin D, a bunch 230 00:16:30.440 --> 00:16:33.080 of you know, new guys that are out here that get it, you 231 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:36.279 know what I'm saying. And so yeah, so yeah, man, there's 232 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:38.519 so much great music, so much so. I mean there's there's hip hop 233 00:16:38.600 --> 00:16:41.120 out there. Man, there's a real raw hip hop. And you guys 234 00:16:41.159 --> 00:16:47.840 saw it the other night right at the Hollywood. Yeah, just see it. 235 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:52.159 It was like hip hop Yeah, that dude. That was like the 236 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:56.720 Roots. The Roots are one of the greatest bands ever just not just only 237 00:16:56.759 --> 00:17:00.360 a hip hop and and just the fact that they got two balls stage, 238 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:04.559 they got trombones and they playing Pete Rocks to create it and it sounds incredible. 239 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:10.240 But it's like the sounds like the record, and they presented like a 240 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:12.480 mixtape where you got Black Sheep coming out, and then you got Far Side 241 00:17:12.519 --> 00:17:15.440 coming out. Then you got the Jungle Brothers, who I'd never seen perform 242 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:19.319 live like that. Then Queen Lati for bringing out em C like Yo Yo 243 00:17:19.480 --> 00:17:23.279 money Love, and then you know, it's just was like arrested development. 244 00:17:23.640 --> 00:17:27.559 It's skill moment. Everyone was on on on a different planet. Yeah, 245 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:33.279 it was on high on that stage. Man's high and just man, I 246 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:36.400 ain't see no artists just go to their dressing room. No, they ain't 247 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:40.920 go to Everybody was just sitting there watching each other. You know what. 248 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:48.240 I think The artists also that make the music also missed the nineties vibes. 249 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:51.759 Yeah, you know what I'm saying. Different, So that night we got 250 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:53.680 it all back. That's crazy. It was Dave Chappelle there because I feel 251 00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:59.720 like if he wasn't he's kicking himself. Should have been there at life right 252 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:03.079 now. But he probably put together another block party and do something like that. 253 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:07.759 You know. I said, watched that with my kids, man, 254 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:14.200 and they were just astonished. Watch energy and the rain the rain bro it 255 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:17.039 rained that day. I was like, we didn't think it was gonna happen, 256 00:18:17.160 --> 00:18:18.200 man like, and we have been planning for a long time. Yeah, 257 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:22.839 the first time the foujis that got back together and remember ya yay. 258 00:18:22.920 --> 00:18:26.559 It was like he had a show in Chicago that day, but it was 259 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:30.680 trying to stay that afternoon to at least get to get to perform, like 260 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:33.759 and it was like it all worked out, bro. It was like divine, 261 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:37.960 divine nature. But knowing, knowing, Dave, you're throwing another block 262 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:41.720 party, We're going out there to performing it Heights in Ohio. Yeah, 263 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:45.279 he had shows at his house. It's like it's like he got a house 264 00:18:45.319 --> 00:18:49.279 out there that's on the corn fields. Yeah, comedy shows is incredible comedians 265 00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:56.200 for just him and his friends. Him, we can't buy tickets, tell 266 00:18:56.319 --> 00:19:04.279 me Live Nation doesn't want to cut tickets on Yo. He make you put 267 00:19:04.319 --> 00:19:08.240 away your phone. That's right, Yes, that's about the moment the moment, 268 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:12.720 bro, It's about the moment. I think before this, no cell 269 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:15.680 phones and nothing, that's how our lives was being lived. Like you know, 270 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:18.000 no listen, I was thinking about this today, man. I mean 271 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:26.400 Pete Rock and Common they had to get famous the hard way super grind. 272 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:30.440 The super Grind was too red. But you know what, we didn't feel 273 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:34.079 that work because we loved what we was doing. I was just talking about 274 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:37.359 I was talking about Troy. You know, Troy shot out to Troy marsh 275 00:19:37.400 --> 00:19:41.880 because like my record the life, he he was the guy taking that, 276 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:45.279 taking me everywhere we had to go. And I was just telling the stories 277 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:48.640 about how man, then you have to go see the DJs in the morning. 278 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:52.079 I mean you go ready on the morning, you go see somebody. 279 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:55.200 Afternoon you're going to do record stores. And then at night you got to 280 00:19:55.240 --> 00:19:56.960 go to the DJ, go to mix show DJ, and then go to 281 00:19:57.039 --> 00:20:04.119 the club that they work at. He wasn't getting paid, promotion promoted, 282 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:11.039 right, You scratched my back, I scratched, But Marshall had you at 283 00:20:11.079 --> 00:20:15.720 the radio station that I worked at in Palm Springs At six am in Palm 284 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:18.920 Springs, commonists there to promote the Lightning yes, bro, that's what it 285 00:20:19.079 --> 00:20:22.039 is. And our videos started at six am in the in the morning. 286 00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:26.880 That's the work we were willing to put in. It was exactly. It's 287 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:30.240 about that work. It's like it's a collective effort. It's a bigger picture, 288 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:33.119 right if it wasn't for those efforts of doing it for free. And 289 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:37.039 so you guys helped create what hip hop is today, how profitable it is, 290 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:41.400 for help change his lives and perspective, show people how to do it. 291 00:20:41.480 --> 00:20:42.920 That part people eat off of it, they can keep their families off 292 00:20:42.920 --> 00:20:45.200 of it. Yeah, but it's part of that grind. Yeah, I'm 293 00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:48.960 grateful that we can be a part of it and that more people are being 294 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:53.079 able to like get the fruits of it. And I kind of be tripping 295 00:20:53.079 --> 00:20:56.720 because I'll be looking at basketball playing. I think Michael Jordan didn't get paid. 296 00:20:56.880 --> 00:21:00.680 No, he like off off of a sport. He didn't get what 297 00:21:00.920 --> 00:21:04.519 these dudes is getting like and like like I'm like, wow, this dude 298 00:21:04.599 --> 00:21:07.640 took it up, but you know times he got and everything else got it 299 00:21:07.640 --> 00:21:11.440 through Nike. Yea, the contract was nowhere near nowhere. No, man, 300 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:21.319 I was looking at the money these cats stuck to my been a million 301 00:21:21.400 --> 00:21:32.440 dollars started. Read Big three for real exactly for real? Man. You 302 00:21:32.480 --> 00:21:34.799 know, all kinds of ideas out now on all digital streaming platforms. The 303 00:21:34.839 --> 00:21:38.440 Auditorium Volume one out July twelfth. What can we expect as far as features? 304 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:42.000 Can we talk about that? Yeah? Yeah, we got loud, 305 00:21:42.359 --> 00:21:48.200 Yeah we got positive news. Yeah yeah. So and then this new artist 306 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:51.519 named PJ. But be honest, like this was one of those albums. 307 00:21:51.559 --> 00:21:53.720 Initially, as Pete and I started just creating it, I was like, 308 00:21:55.079 --> 00:21:56.960 we want to create a sound. At one point, I was like, 309 00:21:56.000 --> 00:21:59.799 Pete, I don't want to have no features because I just remember some of 310 00:21:59.880 --> 00:22:03.079 the like MC's I love they have to have a lot of people to do 311 00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:07.000 it and done the matter with features. But I just was like, man, 312 00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:10.759 we're gonna deliver this sound. But then it just organically happened with Prostitute 313 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:14.759 from Daylas Soul because they they've been inspirations for me, and he just connected 314 00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:18.319 with that beat. Butlile is one of the greatest vocalists that a lot of 315 00:22:18.359 --> 00:22:21.680 people don't know, but that dude is one of the greatest. And then 316 00:22:21.839 --> 00:22:26.480 you know PJ and Jennifer Hudson is on the joint. Yeah, it's good. 317 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:33.880 Great, that's great work that the world to hear. And I think 318 00:22:33.920 --> 00:22:37.079 the world needs it especially. You know. It's funny. I didn't even 319 00:22:37.119 --> 00:22:40.319 ask him about features, you know, but when I heard Belial on that, 320 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:44.920 I said, okay, maybe one, Yeah, Jennifer Hudson came and 321 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:48.559 then you know, the whole thing. Yeah, and that was it. 322 00:22:48.720 --> 00:22:52.079 Man, we need it, Like all right, let's keep going, right, 323 00:22:52.440 --> 00:22:55.519 At what point did we know we were done? Because we I mean, 324 00:22:55.759 --> 00:22:59.039 we can record and record and record. At the point someone's got to 325 00:22:59.039 --> 00:23:03.039 say, yeah, well yeah, twenty thousand songs, guys, he send 326 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:06.839 you beats man. This is a treat like to like when he like sometimes 327 00:23:06.920 --> 00:23:10.680 I get something at three in the morning, he'll send me like a record 328 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:14.359 or something that I'm like, yo. And then you know, when we 329 00:23:14.480 --> 00:23:18.119 we we got to about fourteen songs, about thirteen songs, and I was 330 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:21.319 like, people were done, We're good man. And then and then and 331 00:23:21.359 --> 00:23:25.440 then people was like, because I mean, we recorded more than bro like, 332 00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:30.200 people was like he started playing this one sample of the bridge MC sharing 333 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:32.920 the bridge, and then and then I was like, look that up. 334 00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:34.960 Hooked that up. So then he hooked it up and he was like right, 335 00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:38.119 and I wrote to it and then I was like, this is gonna 336 00:23:38.119 --> 00:23:41.960 be the bonus song. And we got some mastering. The Iron people put 337 00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:44.920 that joint right in the sequence like no, but this this is going on 338 00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:52.599 the album right here, like this is going mastake Manna. But thank god 339 00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:55.680 he did that. That became the first drop. We dropped that first to 340 00:23:55.759 --> 00:23:59.319 wise up song and that that that that hit that hit the crowd, that 341 00:23:59.480 --> 00:24:03.160 hit the peace boom yeah, and the familiar simples yeah, the bridge right. 342 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:07.079 So man, we know it's fourteen songs on there, like fifteen including 343 00:24:07.119 --> 00:24:11.079 the outro, but we wanted this to be a piece of art. Man. 344 00:24:11.160 --> 00:24:14.720 It just it just really just felt like what Pete Rock and Common is 345 00:24:14.759 --> 00:24:18.039 about. Like we're about the music. Were about putting that love out there, 346 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:22.160 great great music, great energy, joy and you know we're about hip 347 00:24:22.200 --> 00:24:26.200 hop. Man COmON, what's the line out there that you didn't write that 348 00:24:26.359 --> 00:24:30.440 you wish you did? Oh, that's a great question, you know, 349 00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:36.240 you go. I love when Lil Wayne said real G's moving silence like Lasagna. 350 00:24:36.680 --> 00:24:40.480 I thought that shit was clever because it's like like the way it slices 351 00:24:40.519 --> 00:24:45.519 off the plate, it's real. You know, I love when somebody say 352 00:24:45.599 --> 00:24:49.599 something like that, g Is Island is in Lasagna and just to play a 353 00:24:51.039 --> 00:24:53.839 real bad boys moving silence real G's I always thought that was just a super 354 00:24:53.920 --> 00:24:59.920 dope line. Many yeah, yeah, yeah. He also had that late 355 00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:03.640 tax, late tax. Yeah, getting that Wayne is dope. I hope 356 00:25:03.640 --> 00:25:06.279 we could get with him and do something that dude got. He got bars 357 00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:11.640 for real for sure. Hey, we had Mustard on the other day, 358 00:25:11.720 --> 00:25:15.039 right, and he told us that he's gonna wrap for the first time ever 359 00:25:15.119 --> 00:25:18.000 on the project. Yeah, so this next one he's got coming out late 360 00:25:18.079 --> 00:25:21.759 July is gonna he has some bars on there. And he said he's obviously 361 00:25:21.880 --> 00:25:23.519 very nervous, but we can't wait for everybody here. He actually played for 362 00:25:23.599 --> 00:25:26.920 Hope, and Hope loved it and a few other people. How nervous for 363 00:25:27.079 --> 00:25:30.880 you that first time? Oh? Real, nervous, big time. I 364 00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:34.799 mean, my first rap ever wrote by myself was Don't Curse d D and 365 00:25:34.839 --> 00:25:38.799 the Boys, And then Poohba wrote the Creator for me and he wrote so 366 00:25:38.960 --> 00:25:42.640 brother number one. So I was just a young kid. He and when 367 00:25:42.680 --> 00:25:45.039 I spoke, he liked my voice and he said, maybe I could, 368 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:49.240 you know, make you an MC that's dope. Window. I was his 369 00:25:49.440 --> 00:25:53.920 I was his science project, that's right. And it worked out. Yeah, 370 00:25:55.039 --> 00:25:57.359 it worked out there pet rock Versus, Like, that's the one thing 371 00:25:57.440 --> 00:26:02.359 I'll be like, man when I hear shut them down remix or jump around 372 00:26:02.519 --> 00:26:04.559 remix, you know, like you know or down with the Kings, I'm 373 00:26:04.640 --> 00:26:11.680 like, I love hearing the rock versus. They created something and I worked 374 00:26:11.720 --> 00:26:15.559 closely with Messa Day on that song. Is that right? Yeah? Damn 375 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:18.680 yes, God bless God, bless all day. How are you people? 376 00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:22.000 How are you clearing samples? Are you friendly? When you're on top of 377 00:26:22.119 --> 00:26:25.559 me? We on top of this. We know we have to do this, 378 00:26:26.240 --> 00:26:29.640 so you know, it's a it's a must for the music. If 379 00:26:29.680 --> 00:26:33.079 I was a musician that someone sampled my stuff, I mean, I wouldn't 380 00:26:33.079 --> 00:26:37.759 want to get paid, but I wouldn't like take a big shock whatever, 381 00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:44.079 you know. But you got some musicians that will take seventy and it just 382 00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:47.519 be a little clip. Yeah, but they want the world. Yeah, 383 00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:52.519 well listen sometimes to be honest, like one of the songs we just talked 384 00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:56.079 about, the Light, God bless his soul, Bobby Conwell, he wanted 385 00:26:56.079 --> 00:27:00.759 one hundred percent and uh and and and my team was like my team was 386 00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:03.039 at the time was they was like, Yo, you need to take this 387 00:27:03.119 --> 00:27:06.799 song off the album. I said, no, I'm not taking this song. 388 00:27:07.799 --> 00:27:11.799 And I thank God like that. I thank God that that that I 389 00:27:11.880 --> 00:27:17.079 mean because that hundred percent that he got. Man, I'm still performing this 390 00:27:17.160 --> 00:27:19.240 song to this day, and it's the song that's seen people sing the most 391 00:27:19.319 --> 00:27:22.759 that I do. Like it's like it's worth it sometimes and it's worth it 392 00:27:22.839 --> 00:27:27.839 sometimes absolutely because it lives on and it's bigger than just that. That song 393 00:27:27.880 --> 00:27:30.400 is such a classic. I mean, there's so many classics between you two 394 00:27:30.440 --> 00:27:37.200 and now we've created another classics Like money shouldn't stop your good feelings inside when 395 00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:38.799 it comes to me. Yeah, you know, when you start something, 396 00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:42.799 it shouldn't be because of money or form, right. I think that's an 397 00:27:42.960 --> 00:27:48.559 l right, the money even and not even awards either, to be honest, 398 00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:51.799 Like people be asking me like, yo, I know you're trying to 399 00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:55.119 get that Tony Award because you know, and I'm like, yeah, I 400 00:27:55.160 --> 00:27:57.079 would want it, but I can't go into a project thinking like yo, 401 00:27:57.200 --> 00:28:00.119 let me go get the ward. And you got to go in there with 402 00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:03.359 the love and the passion and create and then and then once it's created. 403 00:28:03.480 --> 00:28:06.839 Yeah, you want to get into the world, and then you pray and 404 00:28:06.920 --> 00:28:10.599 hope that you could be in the awards being celebrated by your peers. But 405 00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:14.119 ultimately you got you gotta go in in with the love for sure. You 406 00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:23.640 want that. He got Yes, yes, show premiree hundred percent. I 407 00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:27.279 know he's dying to have a question. You got a question. Come here, 408 00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:33.119 man, sit in on this interview. Man first off, Man, 409 00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:40.880 Pete Rock, listen to man. I'm sorry. NBA Street Volume one of 410 00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:44.799 my favorite video games all time, my favorite common top five all time. 411 00:28:45.079 --> 00:28:48.240 Thank you, thank you, I appreciate. I know you had a movie 412 00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:52.920 where you were a basketball player. Yeah, right right, just right right, 413 00:28:52.039 --> 00:29:03.119 I know, real home, bro, what's the question? Word? 414 00:29:04.160 --> 00:29:07.960 Out of all the new cats right now, who do you think you could 415 00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:14.440 beat on the one on one basketball basketball player? Basketball players? Oh? 416 00:29:14.640 --> 00:29:19.720 Man? Who could I bet on the one one? At least get a 417 00:29:19.759 --> 00:29:22.640 three pointer on? I mean, well, I could I could score on 418 00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:34.079 Luca Dncis because he don't play defense. Being real, that's what it is 419 00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:41.839 us. Yes, I do have a question. I feel like both of 420 00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:45.279 you humans are very aware of that words are very powerful. With that being 421 00:29:45.319 --> 00:29:48.519 said, is there a word or something someone told you throughout your life that 422 00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:52.200 really stuck with you and help change the trajectory of where you were headed? 423 00:29:53.440 --> 00:29:59.279 Man? I mean, I guess it was. I remember being around some 424 00:29:59.400 --> 00:30:02.119 of my brothers that was a part of the Nation of Islam, and they 425 00:30:02.200 --> 00:30:04.920 had a phrase this that accept your own and be yourself. That always stuck 426 00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:10.359 with me because it's just like man to be able to love my own and 427 00:30:10.519 --> 00:30:14.039 be able to be me just resonated with me. But I'm a word. 428 00:30:14.519 --> 00:30:17.559 I read the Bible, man, I read the New Testament a lot, 429 00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:22.160 so like it's this thing about love keeps no record or wrongs and love is 430 00:30:22.279 --> 00:30:26.000 kindness, love is gentle. I respect those words. So I try to 431 00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:30.720 live by those words even in the most difficult times. It don't always happen. 432 00:30:30.759 --> 00:30:33.960 I'm a human being, but I try to abide by them words. 433 00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:41.920 Yeah, I'm gonna say my cousin Heavy D always always recon peace, always 434 00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:44.559 told me to be inspired. You know what I'm saying. That was like 435 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:48.319 his model. He took on for himself and just passed it on to me. 436 00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:52.279 Wow. Great words, right, those are words that just resonate forever. 437 00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:53.759 Yep. And I'm still out here doing it. We're still here. 438 00:30:53.839 --> 00:30:57.160 Man, Hey coman, you gave me one of the things that I like 439 00:30:57.240 --> 00:31:00.920 to repeat a lot. You talk about phrases. If I don't like it, 440 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:03.240 I don't like it, doesn't mean I'm hating, right, because not 441 00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:07.559 every piece of music is for everybody. Not everybody's gonna brace everything. Everyone's 442 00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:10.920 so quick to call each other a hater you don't like what they like, 443 00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:15.200 and people have such a tough time now accepting differences. We see how this 444 00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:18.000 country is divided. I mean when you sat and wrote that line, was 445 00:31:18.039 --> 00:31:22.799 it a particular time in your life or scenario that made you say that? 446 00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:25.559 Yeah? Man, I mean I just was a at a point where I 447 00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:29.160 was like, man, if I didn't like something, everybody was saying, 448 00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:32.000 yo, you a hater like I. And I looked back and was like, 449 00:31:32.960 --> 00:31:34.400 man, that ain't what it is. I cannot like something, and 450 00:31:34.440 --> 00:31:37.799 then that's that's okay. It's like it was to me, it was reinforcing 451 00:31:38.200 --> 00:31:41.799 that we got to think for ourselves and like and it's and it's I to 452 00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:45.680 express your truth. You know, it's hard in this in this day and 453 00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:49.799 a to express your truth without without like being ridiculed, without being like judged, 454 00:31:49.839 --> 00:31:52.960 without being like, oh you hating or you don't take this. We 455 00:31:53.319 --> 00:31:59.559 complex individuals and human beings. So I just was really expressing in that line, 456 00:31:59.640 --> 00:32:01.640 like, man, I can say what I don't like. I'm a 457 00:32:01.720 --> 00:32:05.119 grown person. Man, I'm gonna tell you I don't like that. I 458 00:32:05.200 --> 00:32:07.480 don't like it. Down mean, it ain't got to be nothing personal. 459 00:32:07.720 --> 00:32:15.400 I was known as the biggest hater or nothing because I wasn't used. I 460 00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:20.000 wasn't used. Yeah, I wasn't used to the new slang, like you 461 00:32:20.079 --> 00:32:22.920 know, if you don't like something, they ain't gonna like you what they 462 00:32:23.119 --> 00:32:27.160 like. So that's what I'm the biggest hater. You were like, no, 463 00:32:27.279 --> 00:32:30.920 no, no, no, no no. I love Kendrick like from 464 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:35.319 day one, I'm on butterfly. Yeah. But when he said that, 465 00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:39.960 that resonated with yeah yeah yeah. But some of the youngins that I used 466 00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:44.680 to listen to him be like, oh, he understands, he understands, 467 00:32:45.079 --> 00:32:49.359 you know, So how easy is it to work with common? Very very 468 00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:52.160 and he's fast, that's right, I said, I know if I give 469 00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:55.200 him a beat, he's gonna come back the next day what's something a full 470 00:32:55.319 --> 00:33:00.319 song the easiest process you've had so far throughout your care Yeah, that's great. 471 00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:05.279 It's an artist that are quick, you know. Yeah, you know 472 00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:08.519 I worked with Ross Rick Ross. He's pretty fair. He had a averse 473 00:33:08.599 --> 00:33:12.920 back to me in like two hours an hour. Wow. But this is 474 00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:15.880 an album we're doing, so you know, I give him the time to 475 00:33:15.240 --> 00:33:19.359 write. You know, he want to make corrections, he could do that, 476 00:33:19.559 --> 00:33:21.680 you know. Common You've worked with a lot of producers, right, 477 00:33:21.799 --> 00:33:23.759 is this the best situation you've had? This is definitely one of the greatest. 478 00:33:23.799 --> 00:33:27.519 But I can't you know, take away from Jay Dilly too, you 479 00:33:27.559 --> 00:33:30.000 know, and like, and I was going being blessed to work with some 480 00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:35.400 incredible producers from Yay to No I d so, but this is a very 481 00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:39.559 special connection, like because he is one of the greatest producers and not and 482 00:33:39.759 --> 00:33:44.839 arrangers too, Like, like he arranges the music in a way that's something 483 00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:47.200 that we kind of don't think about. And because you're like, yo, 484 00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:51.759 this dude will make beats, but he actually is arranging the song and making 485 00:33:51.839 --> 00:33:55.759 sure that the drops is in the right place. So and he produced in 486 00:33:57.119 --> 00:34:00.119 like in a way that it was like it was time where if I didn't 487 00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:02.680 lay the verse down right, he said, I think you should just take 488 00:34:02.759 --> 00:34:06.559 it back a little bit, you know, calming down a little bit, 489 00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:07.679 because you know, sometime I get geeked in the studio. I'm out, 490 00:34:08.760 --> 00:34:13.800 you know. Yeah, so but that's producing and you know, like one 491 00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:15.280 of the things I ain't in front, just sitting around them. I was 492 00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:21.159 like, man, this dude is one of the greatest musicians that music has 493 00:34:21.239 --> 00:34:23.840 seen, because like when you listen to the album, you go see that 494 00:34:24.079 --> 00:34:29.239 it's like this, it's not it's not throwback music. It's not throw back. 495 00:34:29.280 --> 00:34:30.679 It got the spirit of it, and you feel like what you feel 496 00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:36.199 when you hear that nineties music, but it's new sounds like this song Fortunate 497 00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:39.360 you never heard Pete Rock makeup beat like this like or you know even what 498 00:34:39.559 --> 00:34:44.840 the song when the Sun Shines Again with Whippops. It's just different, different 499 00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:49.039 sounds. Man. So I appreciated the progress because people be like, yo, 500 00:34:49.239 --> 00:34:51.760 I know it's gonna be throwback. I'm like, man, we can't 501 00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:54.559 go backwards. We're going forward, but we can carry the spirit. The 502 00:34:54.639 --> 00:34:58.960 spirit is as if this is new energy. Yeah, as a producer, 503 00:34:59.239 --> 00:35:02.519 like speak for all producers like, we're fans of you. So that's why 504 00:35:02.639 --> 00:35:07.280 you know. I was happy about this connection, and then we've been inspiring 505 00:35:07.320 --> 00:35:08.760 them to do this for a long time. Minute for a minute. As 506 00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:15.320 a producer, we're fans of great MC. You still have your dad's record 507 00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:16.280 collection, of course, yeah, you have them all. That's how I 508 00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:27.960 started it. Man, you want to sell listen, maybe you got triples? 509 00:35:28.840 --> 00:35:34.000 Maybe maybe if I do, then I'll no doubt. I'm passing mine 510 00:35:34.039 --> 00:35:36.159 out to my kids too. Isn't that great? How that's can't come all 511 00:35:36.159 --> 00:35:39.039 the way back to man and the kids. My sons need that experience to 512 00:35:39.119 --> 00:35:43.440 read the liner notes and open everything up. Man, and artists are getting 513 00:35:43.440 --> 00:35:45.559 smart because for you guys, it's also a better money maker than the streams 514 00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:51.599 for those physical So for the physical, I love it for both reasons. 515 00:35:51.599 --> 00:35:57.079 Are you guys dropping the physical for sure? Yeah? I can't forget. 516 00:35:57.119 --> 00:36:00.639 I'm a DJ too. Yeah, listen, not going down as long as 517 00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:09.519 we physically here, we dropping exactly selling copies of the swamp you got coming 518 00:36:09.599 --> 00:36:15.280 out of my head was from the San Fernando swap. Wow, that's what 519 00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:21.079 I'm talking about. That's legs fuck coming didn't see one dollar, but what 520 00:36:21.239 --> 00:36:31.519 is that for me? Now? I'll give your money later. How much 521 00:36:31.559 --> 00:36:35.519 were the twenty bucks? It was? It was thirteen bucks? I think 522 00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:38.920 twenty interesting. An alternative cover was a different cover. That's crazy, that's 523 00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:45.159 crazy all day it Straightening Out was about boot legging and yeah, that stuff, 524 00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:46.920 that's what it was about. Man. Honestly, you know, Pete 525 00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:51.440 Rock, Common Sense, The Auditorium, Volume one, July twelfth, all 526 00:36:51.559 --> 00:36:52.960 kinds of ideas and this is what they got. Man. It's out now 527 00:36:53.000 --> 00:36:59.199 on all digital streaming platformscha get Rich from the Cruisehow thanks for listening to The 528 00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:01.559 Cruise Show Pod. Make sure to subscribe, and hey, auto download so 529 00:37:01.599 --> 00:37:04.599 you don't miss an episode. So so so so so