Realities said. I heard that she likes the we live in a dream world.
Y'all know how I'm matter broke, yes, yes, y'all, and
you don't stop because we're talking about y'all is hip hop? Yeah, this
is hip hop. Baby Time, the Baby, the Missus Street Ray Gio
for Unsung. He wrote, riding in the Rego time of state, look
like this in the whole coach. If I don't like it, I don't
like it, that don't mean that I'm having and we communicating. I've been
thinking about you, Ladily when they reminisce over you. My god, he
brought this one for the crew. Can promoti what kind of I'm so brother?
Oh no, Black from the future, make beats on the table.
If I break my computer, it's still make hits like I used to keep
guitar five. I'm god favorite. That was excellent, My god, shut
man set it up. Awesome. Yeah, bro, that's d J Hewes
in the mix. Man, He's awesome. That was crazy, Thank you,
glad. Hit it again, Hit it again, this reality and I
heard they seem like the we live in a dream world. Y'all know how
I'm mat broke, yes, yes, y'all and you don't stop because when
we talk, get out y'all this hip hop. Yeah, this is hip
hop, baby baby the business stream dio for Unsung, he wrote riding in
the regal time, the statement look like this in the whole coat. If
I don't like it, I don't like it, that don't mean that I'm
important and we communicating. I've been thinking about you, Ladily. When they
reminisce Silver, you my god. He brought this one for the crew from
him kind of you, I'm sure, brother. Oh no, Black from
the future. Make beats on the table. If I break my computer,
it's still make hits like I used to keep you talk five. I'm god
favorite man, so nice. I had to do that twice. I think
I think, I think that'll be in fellows. I appreciate it that these
infuses the truth. You know you're a fan the You know what I mean?
Man, This is why it helps. That helps. Pete Rock is
here, comm sence comment is here. Let's get it man, cruise show.
I'd like to point out Common's jacket. It's a pro club. Very
l A, very out of you. Yes, brother, Yeah, I
love LA. I'm Chicago, but I got love for l A. Very
too of your ahead of your fellow on this. All good, yeah clean
right here, we're here like Buddhists were Buddhists. That's right man, Yo,
listen again, Pete Rock Common, We're here, man, all kinds
of ideas. Congratulations on that. That's crazy. The project is on its
way. July twelfth, Auditorium, Volume one, Pete Rock. I don't
know if you want me to say this, but I'm going to say it
anyway. You guys already started working on volume two. Yeah. Yeah,
he's got beats, yeah ya know. Yeah, this man is infinite with
creating music. So I mean he's been sending me beat since we started,
but it's like infinite sending records. This is like that process I love when
you get to just put your heart and soul into the music. It's about
the music. Music bars somestance. I'm saying estable, you know, lyrics
we could hear exactly. I understand, not just saying but like this is
this is hip hop. This is what it is about. Yes, yeah,
excitement, you know that's and he always been a carrier of hip hop.
Like this is like like when I got to get around him even more.
We known each other for a long time, say for how long ninety
one, Yeah, somewhere in the ninety early nineties for sure, Like and
then you know, fuse play one of the first records we did, which
was the Cube Song, but but that was that was the first record we
did together or shout Out to cute shout Out. But at that time,
that was a time broa. Yeah, but I think it and hip hop
we have to go through things like that. You know. We got to
test deal with it exactly. We kept it on Wax. Everything was good.
But we've been we've been brought brothers for a minute and just being around,
like getting to connect with him on the music and just see how much
he loved like creating beats and what I love. I love him seeing man.
I love to say some bars that that that people respond to. You
know what I'm saying that My homiees like, oh you said that. You
know what I'm saying that. That was part of the way I started rapping.
It's just like I wanted to say something real dope like so that my
friends respond, you know. And it's still that Common will freestyle wherever he
is. Common. I mean, he's just that artist, right He that's
his DNA. The freestyle is all the way in his blood, you know
what I'm saying. So when I heard a couple you know online, I've
seen this one that was like, Wow, I gotta post this one.
You know what I'm saying this, people got to see this this talent for
sure. How do we feel about hip hop today? Man? As the
gods? I feel like, you know, the only thing that's listening is
the realness of the music, and you know, and making lyrics that people
could really understand. Sure, you know what I'm saying. I mean,
yeah, you can make fun records and you can make the little simple joints,
you gotta really speak on reality. It is. It is. It's
like the ill thing is like, could I be listening to a lot of
like just hip hop or definitely the nineties is where my head is stuck.
And it was some of the songs was very simple. But it's just to
me, it's all about the spirit of the music, Like where is it
coming from? And it's some young artists that's coming with dope stuff that's coming
from the love of the music. Like I can I can tell the difference
in the artists that like that that of a new generation that actually listened to
hip hop from before. I can tell the difference. You could hear it
in the in the quality and the standard that they have no matter what style
it is. That you could just tell that they know that the art form
of hip hop and that and I think and point blank you know, it's
been dope. The battle was dope, like the Drake Kendrick Battle added to
the culture of of of hip hop and like to me, it's it's hip
hop is in the thriving spot because you have all these young artists doing doing
their thing, and now you haven't people like Pete Rock and I dropping albums
and you know what Naves is gonna do with Primo or you know l L
and Q Tip. But you know, we all got our own things.
I ain't gonna try to put us exactly in the same like category, but
it's good to hear that, yo, you can actually evolve in the in
the art form and make new music and make it fresh. Carry that.
So I think there's a lot of artists today like Simba yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah. Shout shoutout to Lamar Hindel. Lamar to me is one
that would in any generation is one of the greats in any generation. He
just point blank is one of the greats. I like Earl Sweatshirt, I
like, I like it's some it's some dope. Joey's my guy. Yeah
you were you not that yet, but I've been talking to him. We
didn't having, you know, conversations. I need to get done. Yeah,
for sure. Everything cyclical too. I mean, you got my kids.
The first music they ever heard was tripe called Quest Wow and Pete and
you because they're gen z right, so you were all up on y'all.
And the first thing is we played for them. So when they get ready
to start making music, you're gonna hear that sound. That's a promise.
Yeah, it's inevitable. You know, yo, I ain't go for I
love that. Man. When I'm like, when I hear like youngest being
like they know, like nineties stuff. I remember I went to this college.
I went down to speak at this college Pray if you down in Texas,
and this dude was wearing a trip called quest Sure. He was like
nineteen years old. I was like, but you know about Trial? He
was like low End Theory my favorite album. What It just blew my mind
and just let me know, like how the seventies was. Seventies music was
for me growing up and for us like nineties music that for the kids now
like and they hearing that, like you said, parents, parents, it's
crazy. I mean I think to me, it's like that's part of the
beauty of hip hop was it was passing on like music that our parents listened
to because they were sampling that stuff. So we got to hear like all
the some of the music our parents listened to it. We were just putting
it out in the way we do. So now the kids go take some
of the nineties stuff and put it out in the way that you know,
it's crazy, p rock. What you did with jazz and hip hop and
mess those two change the game forever. Yeah, man, I mean help
change the sound. That's I have to thank my dad for that resting piece.
He was jazz, like, yeah, what you making? So you
know what I'm saying. My pops listen to reggae, of course, but
it was always jazz, so classical. I mean, he had a variety,
and so I kept that in mind when I make beats, I want
to be able to make different kind of beats, not just one style.
You know, like various kinds of you know, yeah, because that like
the boom bap like that gets it done. Yes, of course, once
you start adding certain elements from other genres, that turns it into another movie,
something different, And it's beautiful. Man. Yes, the creation is
a beautiful thing. This is Jackie. She's sixteen years old. I looked,
like, hold up, what's going on? But it's crazy to see
how like when you look back in your guys' career and you're putting out music,
like still, how does that feel to be known that? Like for
people like me, you guys are legends, Like, how does that feel
for you guys? You know, man, it feels great for one passion
in my heart and just like you know, those are the things that drive
me to keep making hip hop. And I see the reaction of the people
and that inspires me even more to keep putting out good music because it's needed.
You know what I'm saying, We need it. I feel like,
man, I just thank God for us being able to continue to make music,
Like that's that's the creator, that's the creator working through us. And
at the same token, it's yesterday we was doing a rehearsal and I was
like, Pete, this is crazy. We went from a record you made
in ninety one to a song off our new album right now, which is
you know, twenty twenty four. You could have never You couldn't have told
a young Rashi with my name young Common that when I got in on the
mic in ninety two with my album, that I was going to be like
thirty years later rapping and putting out a new album and the joining it too,
you know, like, because I used to think, like what Nah
said on one in song, he was like I thought like when you was
thirty, you was done like forty eight, you never would think you would
be able to be like an artist. But man, we've shown because hip
hop was young for us at that time, that we can't evolve as artists
and musicians and be like, you know, experience and half years and decades
in this music and still be doing fresh things if you got the love for
and the purity and you got to stay humble to grow doubling off of that,
like you're saying, like you know, thirty years later, like it's
never too late for anybody to start it either. Yeah. No, I
always say age is nothing but a number and if you know the feelings still
in you, because you know, hip hop is special. Man. Once
you get a good dose of it, you'll never let it go. Fact.
And so that's that's what I go through and I'll be thinking about like,
you know, when I was listening to Michael Jackson, I wasn't thinking
how old he was with Stevie Wondoll. But I never thought about it age.
I look like, it's like if this music hit me and hit me,
like like, sometimes listen to music that was made before I was born
now, and sometimes I'm listening to to somebody that's like twenty one making music
and I'm like, it's just if it's great, I just enjoy, you
know, and if it makes you happy to create it, you gotta feed
that, Joey, That's what life is about. Yeah, that's the life,
yo. You got to feed the joy. That's what yo. One
of the things I feel like And he made a record on on Yay and
jay Z's I'm Joy. It's called joy. Joy is so underestimated in life,
man, Like we talk about a lot of things, but joy is
like one of the things that I was like, just real organic joy joy.
Joy. Like I'm starting to more, more and more, just appreciate
those moments of joy and just be present in it, not like be trying
to think, like, man, how is this and how is this gonna
be later or what happened yesterday. When I get those moments of joy,
I'm like, damn, I'm sitting here right now, this I'm grateful with
what we were right here talking about working on. It'll fly by, Yeah,
it'll fly by, and we and we we spend so much time like
worrying about the future or holding on to things that happen to us that it's
like, man, just being able to be present. It's one of the
things that I consistently try to work on because it's like, man, sometimes
people will come to me and tell me stuff that I mean, They'll tell
me like yo, like man, I was with you, we had a
dinner and blah blah blah. It'll be somebody that's like a big celebrity.
I'd be like, how did I forget that time? You know? You
know, like I mean, I mean, I'm like, wait, I
gotta start appreciating these moments and just being in it. Yeah, we acually
had that, right. There's you know photos on your phone, this time
last year and I'm like, wait, we did that. Yeah. Yeah,
And it's crazy because we're always constantly thinking about tomorrow. Constantly constantly,
man, you know, point blank. Like within the past few years,
I learned to slow down a little bit and just not like Phil I used
to think I had to do like twelve things to be successful. I'm like,
yo, I could do it three or four, but just doing them
at the highest level and give my heart and soul to it and enjoy the
process of it too. Like, yeah, that's right, that's right.
We were talking about this a few days ago. What do you guys think
besides the music, you guys make the perfect hip hop song? What song
is that? Not? Like us? Not like it's the perfect hip hop
song. I'm serious, man, That joint is murderous. Yeah for a
Grammy too. Yeah, that's that's that's that is one of the most perfect
hip hop songs. But I'm Gonna go with the world is Yours too?
Produced by Pete Rock song that's one of the most Like for some reason,
that song like had the lyrics, the inspiration. Yeah it's just raw Street,
but it's just he's sampled the jazz record. It ended up being a
hip hop boomback classic. Yeah, yes, sir, and yeah, that's
one of my doesn't get better than that, right. Also, the light
is a perfect So thank you, bro, thank you. Admit that woman
is my favorite. You know what I said in the game, he got
kind of like some shipboard. I said, this is how we do it,
Jordan. I know, it's more like it promotes that feel good times
a classic class. That's what the thing is about music, man, is
what what you what you feel. That's why one thing I don't let nobody
do is determine what's supposed to be dope for me. There you know how
you feeling, how you feel freedom, It's called freedom. He rock.
You said, Jay Diller is your favorite producers J Dela, mad Lib and
some new guys you know, Theory has it, Vitamin D, a bunch
of you know, new guys that are out here that get it, you
know what I'm saying. And so yeah, so yeah, man, there's
so much great music, so much so. I mean there's there's hip hop
out there. Man, there's a real raw hip hop. And you guys
saw it the other night right at the Hollywood. Yeah, just see it.
It was like hip hop Yeah, that dude. That was like the
Roots. The Roots are one of the greatest bands ever just not just only
a hip hop and and just the fact that they got two balls stage,
they got trombones and they playing Pete Rocks to create it and it sounds incredible.
But it's like the sounds like the record, and they presented like a
mixtape where you got Black Sheep coming out, and then you got Far Side
coming out. Then you got the Jungle Brothers, who I'd never seen perform
live like that. Then Queen Lati for bringing out em C like Yo Yo
money Love, and then you know, it's just was like arrested development.
It's skill moment. Everyone was on on on a different planet. Yeah,
it was on high on that stage. Man's high and just man, I
ain't see no artists just go to their dressing room. No, they ain't
go to Everybody was just sitting there watching each other. You know what.
I think The artists also that make the music also missed the nineties vibes.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying. Different, So that night we got
it all back. That's crazy. It was Dave Chappelle there because I feel
like if he wasn't he's kicking himself. Should have been there at life right
now. But he probably put together another block party and do something like that.
You know. I said, watched that with my kids, man,
and they were just astonished. Watch energy and the rain the rain bro it
rained that day. I was like, we didn't think it was gonna happen,
man like, and we have been planning for a long time. Yeah,
the first time the foujis that got back together and remember ya yay.
It was like he had a show in Chicago that day, but it was
trying to stay that afternoon to at least get to get to perform, like
and it was like it all worked out, bro. It was like divine,
divine nature. But knowing, knowing, Dave, you're throwing another block
party, We're going out there to performing it Heights in Ohio. Yeah,
he had shows at his house. It's like it's like he got a house
out there that's on the corn fields. Yeah, comedy shows is incredible comedians
for just him and his friends. Him, we can't buy tickets, tell
me Live Nation doesn't want to cut tickets on Yo. He make you put
away your phone. That's right, Yes, that's about the moment the moment,
bro, It's about the moment. I think before this, no cell
phones and nothing, that's how our lives was being lived. Like you know,
no listen, I was thinking about this today, man. I mean
Pete Rock and Common they had to get famous the hard way super grind.
The super Grind was too red. But you know what, we didn't feel
that work because we loved what we was doing. I was just talking about
I was talking about Troy. You know, Troy shot out to Troy marsh
because like my record the life, he he was the guy taking that,
taking me everywhere we had to go. And I was just telling the stories
about how man, then you have to go see the DJs in the morning.
I mean you go ready on the morning, you go see somebody.
Afternoon you're going to do record stores. And then at night you got to
go to the DJ, go to mix show DJ, and then go to
the club that they work at. He wasn't getting paid, promotion promoted,
right, You scratched my back, I scratched, But Marshall had you at
the radio station that I worked at in Palm Springs At six am in Palm
Springs, commonists there to promote the Lightning yes, bro, that's what it
is. And our videos started at six am in the in the morning.
That's the work we were willing to put in. It was exactly. It's
about that work. It's like it's a collective effort. It's a bigger picture,
right if it wasn't for those efforts of doing it for free. And
so you guys helped create what hip hop is today, how profitable it is,
for help change his lives and perspective, show people how to do it.
That part people eat off of it, they can keep their families off
of it. Yeah, but it's part of that grind. Yeah, I'm
grateful that we can be a part of it and that more people are being
able to like get the fruits of it. And I kind of be tripping
because I'll be looking at basketball playing. I think Michael Jordan didn't get paid.
No, he like off off of a sport. He didn't get what
these dudes is getting like and like like I'm like, wow, this dude
took it up, but you know times he got and everything else got it
through Nike. Yea, the contract was nowhere near nowhere. No, man,
I was looking at the money these cats stuck to my been a million
dollars started. Read Big three for real exactly for real? Man. You
know, all kinds of ideas out now on all digital streaming platforms. The
Auditorium Volume one out July twelfth. What can we expect as far as features?
Can we talk about that? Yeah? Yeah, we got loud,
Yeah we got positive news. Yeah yeah. So and then this new artist
named PJ. But be honest, like this was one of those albums.
Initially, as Pete and I started just creating it, I was like,
we want to create a sound. At one point, I was like,
Pete, I don't want to have no features because I just remember some of
the like MC's I love they have to have a lot of people to do
it and done the matter with features. But I just was like, man,
we're gonna deliver this sound. But then it just organically happened with Prostitute
from Daylas Soul because they they've been inspirations for me, and he just connected
with that beat. Butlile is one of the greatest vocalists that a lot of
people don't know, but that dude is one of the greatest. And then
you know PJ and Jennifer Hudson is on the joint. Yeah, it's good.
Great, that's great work that the world to hear. And I think
the world needs it especially. You know. It's funny. I didn't even
ask him about features, you know, but when I heard Belial on that,
I said, okay, maybe one, Yeah, Jennifer Hudson came and
then you know, the whole thing. Yeah, and that was it.
Man, we need it, Like all right, let's keep going, right,
At what point did we know we were done? Because we I mean,
we can record and record and record. At the point someone's got to
say, yeah, well yeah, twenty thousand songs, guys, he send
you beats man. This is a treat like to like when he like sometimes
I get something at three in the morning, he'll send me like a record
or something that I'm like, yo. And then you know, when we
we we got to about fourteen songs, about thirteen songs, and I was
like, people were done, We're good man. And then and then and
then people was like, because I mean, we recorded more than bro like,
people was like he started playing this one sample of the bridge MC sharing
the bridge, and then and then I was like, look that up.
Hooked that up. So then he hooked it up and he was like right,
and I wrote to it and then I was like, this is gonna
be the bonus song. And we got some mastering. The Iron people put
that joint right in the sequence like no, but this this is going on
the album right here, like this is going mastake Manna. But thank god
he did that. That became the first drop. We dropped that first to
wise up song and that that that that hit that hit the crowd, that
hit the peace boom yeah, and the familiar simples yeah, the bridge right.
So man, we know it's fourteen songs on there, like fifteen including
the outro, but we wanted this to be a piece of art. Man.
It just it just really just felt like what Pete Rock and Common is
about. Like we're about the music. Were about putting that love out there,
great great music, great energy, joy and you know we're about hip
hop. Man COmON, what's the line out there that you didn't write that
you wish you did? Oh, that's a great question, you know,
you go. I love when Lil Wayne said real G's moving silence like Lasagna.
I thought that shit was clever because it's like like the way it slices
off the plate, it's real. You know, I love when somebody say
something like that, g Is Island is in Lasagna and just to play a
real bad boys moving silence real G's I always thought that was just a super
dope line. Many yeah, yeah, yeah. He also had that late
tax, late tax. Yeah, getting that Wayne is dope. I hope
we could get with him and do something that dude got. He got bars
for real for sure. Hey, we had Mustard on the other day,
right, and he told us that he's gonna wrap for the first time ever
on the project. Yeah, so this next one he's got coming out late
July is gonna he has some bars on there. And he said he's obviously
very nervous, but we can't wait for everybody here. He actually played for
Hope, and Hope loved it and a few other people. How nervous for
you that first time? Oh? Real, nervous, big time. I
mean, my first rap ever wrote by myself was Don't Curse d D and
the Boys, And then Poohba wrote the Creator for me and he wrote so
brother number one. So I was just a young kid. He and when
I spoke, he liked my voice and he said, maybe I could,
you know, make you an MC that's dope. Window. I was his
I was his science project, that's right. And it worked out. Yeah,
it worked out there pet rock Versus, Like, that's the one thing
I'll be like, man when I hear shut them down remix or jump around
remix, you know, like you know or down with the Kings, I'm
like, I love hearing the rock versus. They created something and I worked
closely with Messa Day on that song. Is that right? Yeah? Damn
yes, God bless God, bless all day. How are you people?
How are you clearing samples? Are you friendly? When you're on top of
me? We on top of this. We know we have to do this,
so you know, it's a it's a must for the music. If
I was a musician that someone sampled my stuff, I mean, I wouldn't
want to get paid, but I wouldn't like take a big shock whatever,
you know. But you got some musicians that will take seventy and it just
be a little clip. Yeah, but they want the world. Yeah,
well listen sometimes to be honest, like one of the songs we just talked
about, the Light, God bless his soul, Bobby Conwell, he wanted
one hundred percent and uh and and and my team was like my team was
at the time was they was like, Yo, you need to take this
song off the album. I said, no, I'm not taking this song.
And I thank God like that. I thank God that that that I
mean because that hundred percent that he got. Man, I'm still performing this
song to this day, and it's the song that's seen people sing the most
that I do. Like it's like it's worth it sometimes and it's worth it
sometimes absolutely because it lives on and it's bigger than just that. That song
is such a classic. I mean, there's so many classics between you two
and now we've created another classics Like money shouldn't stop your good feelings inside when
it comes to me. Yeah, you know, when you start something,
it shouldn't be because of money or form, right. I think that's an
l right, the money even and not even awards either, to be honest,
Like people be asking me like, yo, I know you're trying to
get that Tony Award because you know, and I'm like, yeah, I
would want it, but I can't go into a project thinking like yo,
let me go get the ward. And you got to go in there with
the love and the passion and create and then and then once it's created.
Yeah, you want to get into the world, and then you pray and
hope that you could be in the awards being celebrated by your peers. But
ultimately you got you gotta go in in with the love for sure. You
want that. He got Yes, yes, show premiree hundred percent. I
know he's dying to have a question. You got a question. Come here,
man, sit in on this interview. Man first off, Man,
Pete Rock, listen to man. I'm sorry. NBA Street Volume one of
my favorite video games all time, my favorite common top five all time.
Thank you, thank you, I appreciate. I know you had a movie
where you were a basketball player. Yeah, right right, just right right,
I know, real home, bro, what's the question? Word?
Out of all the new cats right now, who do you think you could
beat on the one on one basketball basketball player? Basketball players? Oh?
Man? Who could I bet on the one one? At least get a
three pointer on? I mean, well, I could I could score on
Luca Dncis because he don't play defense. Being real, that's what it is
us. Yes, I do have a question. I feel like both of
you humans are very aware of that words are very powerful. With that being
said, is there a word or something someone told you throughout your life that
really stuck with you and help change the trajectory of where you were headed?
Man? I mean, I guess it was. I remember being around some
of my brothers that was a part of the Nation of Islam, and they
had a phrase this that accept your own and be yourself. That always stuck
with me because it's just like man to be able to love my own and
be able to be me just resonated with me. But I'm a word.
I read the Bible, man, I read the New Testament a lot,
so like it's this thing about love keeps no record or wrongs and love is
kindness, love is gentle. I respect those words. So I try to
live by those words even in the most difficult times. It don't always happen.
I'm a human being, but I try to abide by them words.
Yeah, I'm gonna say my cousin Heavy D always always recon peace, always
told me to be inspired. You know what I'm saying. That was like
his model. He took on for himself and just passed it on to me.
Wow. Great words, right, those are words that just resonate forever.
Yep. And I'm still out here doing it. We're still here.
Man, Hey coman, you gave me one of the things that I like
to repeat a lot. You talk about phrases. If I don't like it,
I don't like it, doesn't mean I'm hating, right, because not
every piece of music is for everybody. Not everybody's gonna brace everything. Everyone's
so quick to call each other a hater you don't like what they like,
and people have such a tough time now accepting differences. We see how this
country is divided. I mean when you sat and wrote that line, was
it a particular time in your life or scenario that made you say that?
Yeah? Man, I mean I just was a at a point where I
was like, man, if I didn't like something, everybody was saying,
yo, you a hater like I. And I looked back and was like,
man, that ain't what it is. I cannot like something, and
then that's that's okay. It's like it was to me, it was reinforcing
that we got to think for ourselves and like and it's and it's I to
express your truth. You know, it's hard in this in this day and
a to express your truth without without like being ridiculed, without being like judged,
without being like, oh you hating or you don't take this. We
complex individuals and human beings. So I just was really expressing in that line,
like, man, I can say what I don't like. I'm a
grown person. Man, I'm gonna tell you I don't like that. I
don't like it. Down mean, it ain't got to be nothing personal.
I was known as the biggest hater or nothing because I wasn't used. I
wasn't used. Yeah, I wasn't used to the new slang, like you
know, if you don't like something, they ain't gonna like you what they
like. So that's what I'm the biggest hater. You were like, no,
no, no, no, no no. I love Kendrick like from
day one, I'm on butterfly. Yeah. But when he said that,
that resonated with yeah yeah yeah. But some of the youngins that I used
to listen to him be like, oh, he understands, he understands,
you know, So how easy is it to work with common? Very very
and he's fast, that's right, I said, I know if I give
him a beat, he's gonna come back the next day what's something a full
song the easiest process you've had so far throughout your care Yeah, that's great.
It's an artist that are quick, you know. Yeah, you know
I worked with Ross Rick Ross. He's pretty fair. He had a averse
back to me in like two hours an hour. Wow. But this is
an album we're doing, so you know, I give him the time to
write. You know, he want to make corrections, he could do that,
you know. Common You've worked with a lot of producers, right,
is this the best situation you've had? This is definitely one of the greatest.
But I can't you know, take away from Jay Dilly too, you
know, and like, and I was going being blessed to work with some
incredible producers from Yay to No I d so, but this is a very
special connection, like because he is one of the greatest producers and not and
arrangers too, Like, like he arranges the music in a way that's something
that we kind of don't think about. And because you're like, yo,
this dude will make beats, but he actually is arranging the song and making
sure that the drops is in the right place. So and he produced in
like in a way that it was like it was time where if I didn't
lay the verse down right, he said, I think you should just take
it back a little bit, you know, calming down a little bit,
because you know, sometime I get geeked in the studio. I'm out,
you know. Yeah, so but that's producing and you know, like one
of the things I ain't in front, just sitting around them. I was
like, man, this dude is one of the greatest musicians that music has
seen, because like when you listen to the album, you go see that
it's like this, it's not it's not throwback music. It's not throw back.
It got the spirit of it, and you feel like what you feel
when you hear that nineties music, but it's new sounds like this song Fortunate
you never heard Pete Rock makeup beat like this like or you know even what
the song when the Sun Shines Again with Whippops. It's just different, different
sounds. Man. So I appreciated the progress because people be like, yo,
I know it's gonna be throwback. I'm like, man, we can't
go backwards. We're going forward, but we can carry the spirit. The
spirit is as if this is new energy. Yeah, as a producer,
like speak for all producers like, we're fans of you. So that's why
you know. I was happy about this connection, and then we've been inspiring
them to do this for a long time. Minute for a minute. As
a producer, we're fans of great MC. You still have your dad's record
collection, of course, yeah, you have them all. That's how I
started it. Man, you want to sell listen, maybe you got triples?
Maybe maybe if I do, then I'll no doubt. I'm passing mine
out to my kids too. Isn't that great? How that's can't come all
the way back to man and the kids. My sons need that experience to
read the liner notes and open everything up. Man, and artists are getting
smart because for you guys, it's also a better money maker than the streams
for those physical So for the physical, I love it for both reasons.
Are you guys dropping the physical for sure? Yeah? I can't forget.
I'm a DJ too. Yeah, listen, not going down as long as
we physically here, we dropping exactly selling copies of the swamp you got coming
out of my head was from the San Fernando swap. Wow, that's what
I'm talking about. That's legs fuck coming didn't see one dollar, but what
is that for me? Now? I'll give your money later. How much
were the twenty bucks? It was? It was thirteen bucks? I think
twenty interesting. An alternative cover was a different cover. That's crazy, that's
crazy all day it Straightening Out was about boot legging and yeah, that stuff,
that's what it was about. Man. Honestly, you know, Pete
Rock, Common Sense, The Auditorium, Volume one, July twelfth, all
kinds of ideas and this is what they got. Man. It's out now
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