WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:03.520 Who you are, sir, and what are you your new stuff? 2 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:06.519 You have your podcast coming out? Are you actually already 3 00:00:06.519 --> 00:00:09.960 started a Gangsters Chronicles? What do you have that's currently 4 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:11.839 going on right now? Tell private talk about it? 5 00:00:12.199 --> 00:00:16.120 Uh, people know me, see it'd have been a music 6 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:21.800 business for a while, long time. Couple of albums, you know, 7 00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:27.320 familiar albums I've done movie soundtracks, had a couple of roles, 8 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:30.760 had a movie role, and Minister Society played a character 9 00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:34.960 named a Wax come from a group Compton's most wanted. 10 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:39.320 Been doing a lot of things, you know, Grammy Nominations, 11 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:41.439 had a big song with Kendrick Lamar a couple of 12 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:47.840 years back. Just released an album called Lessons, done some 13 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:52.359 work with DJ Premier, and uh just started this new podcast. Well, 14 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:55.679 I just joined as a co host to a podcast 15 00:00:55.719 --> 00:00:57.399 that's been going around for a while. It's called The 16 00:00:57.439 --> 00:01:01.880 Gangster Chronicles. Podcasts getting a lot of good reviews. I 17 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:04.840 just joined as a host. So you know, a lot 18 00:01:04.840 --> 00:01:07.560 of new things coming, you know, podcasts, the new things. 19 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:10.359 So just trying to get myself, get my feet wet 20 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:11.959 into it. It's been kind of fun, you know what 21 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:12.439 I'm saying. 22 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:14.439 That's awesome. It's one of those things where it's like you, 23 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:16.120 you know, you're such a businessman. You have all these 24 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:17.799 different things that have been going on for the years 25 00:01:17.799 --> 00:01:19.400 and stuff like that. But it's like sometimes you don't 26 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:21.719 get to just sit down and talk to people, and 27 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:23.400 people don't get to know you, except like if you're 28 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:25.959 like close circle of friends or whatever. So for me, 29 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:28.000 it's been great to have private talk because it's given 30 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:30.400 my voice with no censorship. I get to meet new people. 31 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:32.280 It gets to like, you know, you get down to 32 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:34.560 the nitty gritty and you just have fun. It's like, 33 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:36.920 you know, we smell drink kind of fun. Do what 34 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:38.560 you want to do, what you want to do. So 35 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:41.879 that's the glory about podcasting. So tell us all about 36 00:01:41.879 --> 00:01:43.599 Gangster Chronicles. How did you get asked to be a 37 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:44.280 co host? 38 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:48.760 What are you shout out to? My boy Big Steal, 39 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:54.959 my boy James McDonald. They were originators of the show. 40 00:01:57.280 --> 00:02:00.599 I went on to do an interview, you know, interview 41 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:03.599 came out pretty good, Acceptance was pretty good with the audience. 42 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:08.080 They were in the process of a deal with Charlomagne 43 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:10.919 to God for a Black Effect network and iHeart so 44 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:15.879 it was mentioned that they probably needed another co host 45 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:18.800 on the show, somebody who was familiar with the history 46 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:22.319 of hip hop, you know, also associated to the streets 47 00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:27.199 and somewhat, so they tossed out a few names. My 48 00:02:27.319 --> 00:02:31.759 name came up because of the interview I had done, 49 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:34.479 me and one of the producers from the show. It 50 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:38.240 was pretty good friends. So he basically asked me what 51 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:41.439 I joined the show. Me. I'm you know, I didn't 52 00:02:41.479 --> 00:02:43.680 have a hand at podcasting, so I really didn't know 53 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:46.759 about it. But I've done interviews throughout my career, so 54 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:50.280 I always like connecting with the fans and giving people 55 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:54.400 an in depth of what we do outside of what 56 00:02:54.479 --> 00:02:59.960 they see on videos human exactly. So I joined the show. 57 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:02.919 It's been a great run so far. We're about to 58 00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:08.639 do our hundredth episode. It's been pretty good. I always 59 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:11.560 feel that you should connect with the fans, so to speak. 60 00:03:11.800 --> 00:03:14.080 You know, they make you in the sense they spend 61 00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:17.240 their hard earned money, you know, to watch you, or 62 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:19.560 listen to your records or buy your shit or whatever. 63 00:03:19.639 --> 00:03:23.400 So that's one of my pet peeves about the music industry, 64 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:26.319 people that don't want to connect with their fans. But 65 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:29.360 I'm one of those artists who's down to earth. You know, 66 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:33.240 I'm sort of simple. So I like connecting with people, 67 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:35.919 hearing what they got to say about us as artists 68 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:39.159 and what they feel as human beings, like you said, 69 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:41.080 just normal motherfuckers on the daily. 70 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:42.719 I like that. I relate a lot to that because 71 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:44.599 for me, it was like I'm one of those people. 72 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:47.120 You know, obviously different industries, but you know, seeing where 73 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:48.560 we have fans and we go. So I would have 74 00:03:48.599 --> 00:03:51.039 conventions and whatnot, and I'm always the one like I'm 75 00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:52.319 not going to talk to you for an hour, but 76 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:53.840 I'm gonna conversate with each and every one of you. 77 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:55.360 If you're gonna stand in the line, if you're gonna 78 00:03:55.360 --> 00:03:57.599 buy my stuff, if you're gonna be you know, supporting 79 00:03:57.639 --> 00:04:00.280 what I'm doing, then why not give you the time 80 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:01.719 of day? And so you know what I mean. So 81 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:03.840 and I also think that you know it also, you 82 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:05.520 know the people that go on and were just like 83 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:08.080 they kind of forget that that's their fans kind of 84 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:10.080 made who they are. It's like, that's why you're having, 85 00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:12.479 you know, the accomplishments that you do, is because they're 86 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:13.840 the ones that are doing it. So I feel like 87 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:16.120 with the podcasting thing, it's just like you said earlier, 88 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:17.839 like the new wave of it now. So it's like 89 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:20.319 giving a new piece of you and your knowledge and 90 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:23.040 you're like, you know, you're you know no of everything 91 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:25.040 from the streets to hip hop and everything and giving 92 00:04:25.079 --> 00:04:27.240 your spin on it. So I'm excited. I think that. 93 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:28.920 I mean, I want to watch one of them. Got 94 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:30.519 a little tipbit of it, but I didn't watch the 95 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:33.240 whole entire clip. But welcome to the podcast. 96 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:36.800 Wrong, Yes, indeed, it's it's been fun and enjoyable. 97 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:39.519 So so tell us about your album, Revolution and Progress. 98 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:42.680 Uh, I'm working on that. That's my next album. I'm 99 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:45.000 about to drop in Uh, trying to get it ready 100 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:48.639 for May. Seeing what's been going on with a lot 101 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:51.720 of unrest in the streets and what's been going on 102 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:55.360 with politics and you know, black lives matter and just 103 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:58.800 trying to get along as humans and whatever, and coming 104 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:01.800 from the streets and come from Compton born and raised 105 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:05.000 and going through the process of gangs and selling dope 106 00:05:05.079 --> 00:05:09.040 and transitioning into an artist and a father and that 107 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:14.160 type of shit. This record is to reflect what we're 108 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:17.120 trying to stand for as far as in the streets, 109 00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:22.319 not as a whole, as just gangsters or whatever, but 110 00:05:22.920 --> 00:05:25.439 as a people, what we've been fighting for and what 111 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:28.079 we're trying to come through and what we're trying to establish, 112 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:32.720 and so coming from the gang side, from being from 113 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:35.319 the cripping blood side and being in the streets and 114 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:38.879 having a lot of civil unrest between each other and 115 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:42.800 the neighborhoods, I felt that this record would be a 116 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:45.560 positive note and to try to come in together on 117 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:47.600 what we're trying to accomplish right now. 118 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:49.639 For sure. I mean, I'm you know, everything going on 119 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:51.240 in the world, it's like it should be more you know, 120 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:54.160 unity and you know everything. You know, just so much 121 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:56.439 bad stuff in the world that it's like why not 122 00:05:56.519 --> 00:05:58.879 that it's small stuff, but it's like why you know, 123 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:00.639 at the end of the day, life's too short. 124 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:04.279 Yeah, and people have to understand that, you know, you're 125 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:07.639 not promised tomorrow. So you know, trying to get along 126 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:11.399 and uh, you know, and established that trying to be 127 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:14.839 together in a hole as people, uh will probably make 128 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:17.959 shit a lot easier, you know what I'm saying. Then 129 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:20.920 to go through the conflict that we've been going through, 130 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:23.560 you know what I'm saying, to have no beefs and 131 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:26.680 to have no motherfucking bullshit going your life is kind 132 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:29.639 of you know, it's kind of cool. Yes, indeed good. 133 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:32.639 So how does your writing process from the nineties until now, 134 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:34.480 you know, if your new project coming up you're working on, 135 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:36.759 how is it change? Is it similar? Do you know, 136 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:38.600 we change with what's going on. 137 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:40.480 I try to adapt to the times. You know, music 138 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:44.040 is different today, you know what I'm saying. People who 139 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:47.639 have come from my era of hip hop, we differ 140 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:51.759 in the musical direction that tends to go on from 141 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:53.920 the day. You know, we got a lot of you know, 142 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:58.319 shit that goes on with artists, you know, glorifying, uh, 143 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:01.199 you know, the drug you used to you know, popping 144 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:03.879 pills and whatever to each is on. I'm not one 145 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:06.439 to criticize artists on how they come up or how 146 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:09.160 they establish themselves, or what they went through as a 147 00:07:09.199 --> 00:07:12.160 struggle as an artist, you know, to make it. But 148 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:16.240 we my writing process is just trying to deal with 149 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:18.839 what I see is in the everyday struggle in hip hop. 150 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:24.079 You know, everybody's not millionaires. Everybody's not as fortunate to 151 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:27.079 be in a position that we are as artists and 152 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:32.600 as entertainers so to speak. So my writing process deals 153 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:36.839 with everyday life, people on every day struggle. You know, 154 00:07:37.319 --> 00:07:39.399 people who are still out there who are trying to 155 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:43.240 make it. You know, life is not a party so 156 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:46.279 to speak. Not that I don't like to party and shit, 157 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:48.839 but there are people out there who are still in 158 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:52.959 the struggle. And then I tend to think music kind 159 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:56.959 of strays away from the realism of life. Everything is 160 00:07:56.959 --> 00:08:00.800 glorified on money. And look what the car I got, 161 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:02.920 and look where I live, look where I can vacation, 162 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:07.600 and it kind of, you know, separates yourself from normal 163 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:10.839 motherfuckers because the average person out there spending that ten 164 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:15.319 dollars on downloading your music, they ain't driving the Lamborghini 165 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:18.439 or Rose Royce. They struggling, They working the nine to five. 166 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:21.639 So I try to keep my writing in that process. 167 00:08:22.040 --> 00:08:24.839 That's awesome. How do you feel that it's changed from 168 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:26.079 hip hop today now? 169 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:35.840 Oh? Well, today today music is basically it's wide open. 170 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:39.799 The time of music where I came from, you had 171 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:44.000 to prove yourself in the difference sense. You know, labels 172 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:48.320 really didn't give artists that easy chance to get signed 173 00:08:49.039 --> 00:08:53.200 or to uh, you know, get yourself noticed. Nowadays, everybody 174 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:57.480 has a studio, everybody has a YouTube channel or whatever. 175 00:08:57.600 --> 00:08:59.879 So the music differs in today to where people have 176 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:03.919 a lot of different expressions, you know, so to speak, 177 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:07.440 we couldn't say a lot of shit. We got banned, 178 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:12.639 we got not played on the radio. But nowadays, you know, 179 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:17.320 with music being so open and being so fort right 180 00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:19.159 with you can do what you want to do and 181 00:09:19.159 --> 00:09:23.120 it's accessible to everybody with downloading and streaming. It differs 182 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:25.559 from the content. You know. You know, a lot of 183 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:28.960 content we couldn't we couldn't deal with back in my days. 184 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:31.440 But now that it's so open and you have all 185 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:34.120 these sights and all this ability to get your music 186 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:37.960 out there as a solo, independent artist, it differs from 187 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:41.440 the content, from the music, from what's talked about, from 188 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:45.240 what's expressed in music. So you know, it's different from 189 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:47.600 the nineties to what's going on today. 190 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:50.240 Do you think as a father it is make you 191 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:52.279 has grown more into an artist? 192 00:09:55.559 --> 00:09:59.840 As a father, I kind of see the transition of 193 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:02.559 my parents went through when I was getting into the 194 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:06.120 world of music. You know, they didn't believe or they 195 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:09.679 didn't understand, you know, So the music that my sixteen 196 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:14.559 year old listened to, I kind of I kind of 197 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:17.919 don't understand it, but I get it because it's like 198 00:10:17.960 --> 00:10:21.240 I said, it's a freedom of expression. The youth live 199 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:25.399 a little differently than we did back in our days. Yes, indeed, 200 00:10:25.639 --> 00:10:27.600 so shit. They have a lot of access to a 201 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:31.440 lot of shit that we couldn't. But it differs from that. 202 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:34.159 You see a lot of youth in music today. You 203 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:38.440 see a lot of freedom of expression, so to speak. 204 00:10:38.559 --> 00:10:41.440 So I mean, to each his own, I just kind 205 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:44.279 of watched the content. I don't tell him he can't 206 00:10:44.360 --> 00:10:47.720 listen to shit, you know, because I was a kid 207 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:51.759 at eighteen who wrote about what I needed to write about, 208 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:53.840 about what I saw on the streets, what I did. 209 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:57.960 So I don't ban him from particular music. If he's 210 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:00.759 listening to I'm a Fuck your Girl, or you know, 211 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:03.879 give me some pussy, or I shoot a nigga with 212 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:07.519 the drago or less pop a gang appeals, I don't go, 213 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:09.480 all right, you can't listen to as shit, you know, 214 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:11.240 because you're gonna listen to it anyway. 215 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:13.039 Censorship anyways is going to make you want to do 216 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:14.039 it even ten times more. 217 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:17.399 I just hope that the way I've raised him, he 218 00:11:17.559 --> 00:11:21.720 sees the difference in judgment and knowing that it's entertainment 219 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:25.159 and it's Nigga's making record then going through some real shit. 220 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:27.360 So I'll let him do what he I'll let him 221 00:11:27.399 --> 00:11:28.279 do him. I like it. 222 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:30.240 But do you think that it's changed you as who 223 00:11:30.279 --> 00:11:32.080 you are as an artist? Like? Has it grown any 224 00:11:32.120 --> 00:11:34.519 sense of like in the way that you portray your music. 225 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:38.720 No, it hasn't changed me as an artist because I 226 00:11:38.759 --> 00:11:41.759 saw a lot of what they're seeing today. You know, 227 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:43.639 I went through a lot of what they're going through 228 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:46.559 as young artists. So it just changes me in the 229 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:49.799 perception that I'm acceptable to a lot of shit that 230 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:52.679 I hear and I understand it, even though I might 231 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:55.240 not like it, or you might not catch it playing 232 00:11:55.279 --> 00:11:58.120 in my house or in my car, you might catch 233 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:01.480 my son playing it. But I respect artists for being 234 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:04.360 an artist and the freedom that we have as artists. 235 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:06.360 So fuck it. If that's what you want to rap about, 236 00:12:06.399 --> 00:12:09.200 that's you. I mean, I'm not gonna disrespect you, or 237 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:11.480 I ain't gonna tell them, motherfucker not to listen to it. 238 00:12:11.879 --> 00:12:13.960 If my son listening to it, I ain't gonna tell 239 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:16.159 him to go turn this shit off. You don't do 240 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:17.440 what you do walk out through. 241 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:21.159 Indeed, do you remember your first demo? 242 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:28.720 Oh? Man, My first demo was a song that I 243 00:12:28.759 --> 00:12:33.440 wrote called Kicking Dust. I was a youngster just trying 244 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:38.120 to get on, trying to follow in the footsteps of motherfuckers. 245 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:45.120 Like I was a big EPM D fan. Living in Compton. 246 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:47.200 I grew up on a lot of New York rap, 247 00:12:47.559 --> 00:12:53.039 so listening to easy and shit like that. My first 248 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:56.080 demo was basically talking about the neighborhood. I grew up 249 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:59.679 in what I saw every day, what we did as 250 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:02.919 far as selling drugs and getting into it with the 251 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:06.399 enemies across the neighborhoods and different shit like that. So 252 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:10.000 my first demo was an expression of who I wanted 253 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:12.320 to be as far as an artist was, and I 254 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:16.240 wanted to let people know about my hometown of Compton 255 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:19.039 and what we went through on the daily. So yeah, 256 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:20.639 I still remember my first demo. 257 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:25.759 Nostalgia that your finest. Yeah, how do you feel about 258 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:28.000 hip hop being the number one genre of music right now? 259 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:33.759 I feel proud to be a part of hip hop. 260 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:36.519 You know, it was something that started a long time ago, 261 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:39.320 even before I got started. You know, I grew up 262 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:43.320 listening to the dudes like Treacherous Three and you know, 263 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:47.480 the whole Utfo saga with Roxanne Chantey and all of them. 264 00:13:47.559 --> 00:13:50.639 And then I grew up listening to Coogi rap and 265 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:56.000 Gang Star and the whole genre of rap, you know 266 00:13:56.039 --> 00:13:58.720 what I'm saying. So to see where it's come from 267 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:01.879 from back then now and to see that it's still 268 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:04.039 going and that, you know, you see hip hop and 269 00:14:04.080 --> 00:14:08.559 everything now. You know, commercials to you know, selling insurance 270 00:14:08.639 --> 00:14:13.799 to everything, you know, which I was a part of. Uh, 271 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:16.840 it's in everything. Shout out to rock Star Games for 272 00:14:17.080 --> 00:14:17.799 Grand theft All. 273 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:19.080 You get royalties on that. 274 00:14:19.879 --> 00:14:23.720 Uh yeah, I got a couple of songs. I got 275 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:26.039 a couple of songs in Grand Theft Aullo and I 276 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:28.399 also played a character in the Grand Theft All. I 277 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:32.159 didn't know that, so yeah, I did the voiceovers for 278 00:14:32.200 --> 00:14:35.080 the whole series and the character Grand theft Ault. Never 279 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:38.799 played the game. I never got into it. But it's 280 00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:43.000 it's real popular, it's real popular. It's real big guy here, 281 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:45.799 you know what I'm saying. I never participated, but again, 282 00:14:46.399 --> 00:14:48.759 hip hop has come a long way. It's accepted in 283 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:51.440 a lot of shit we do nowadays. So just to 284 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:54.039 be a part of that in the beginning, and to 285 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:57.399 come from that foundation, you know, you gotta feel proud 286 00:14:57.480 --> 00:15:00.600 to see where it started from to where it's come through, 287 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:03.399 and to see the roller coaster ride that it is taken, 288 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:07.720 and from motherfuckers wanting to band us and from the 289 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:12.879 whole presidential the Lord's Tucker and running over our CDs 290 00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:15.240 and all that type of shit and banning us and 291 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:19.120 you couldn't get played here to now it's accepted everywhere 292 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:23.360 and motherfuckers is performing at super Bowl parties and you know, 293 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:27.200 presidential inaugurations and shit like that. So wow, you know, 294 00:15:27.399 --> 00:15:29.440 hip hop has come a long way for sure. 295 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:32.080 What is your maintains your driving force to continue to 296 00:15:32.120 --> 00:15:33.159 make music now. 297 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:39.200 Because I've always loved hip hop. You know, if you 298 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:44.600 were in this shit for the fame and the glory, 299 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:50.639 then you probably couldn't withstand what goes on in hip 300 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:54.240 hop because it's a struggle. Nowadays, it's easy to become 301 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:58.720 overnight to success, but when I started, it was hard 302 00:15:58.840 --> 00:16:02.080 to even get no and to think that you would 303 00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:05.919 get signed to a major label like a Sony like 304 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:10.519 I did, or Universal or a Capital or whatever. You know, 305 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:13.200 it was a dream. It was a fantasy. Like Biggie said, 306 00:16:13.240 --> 00:16:15.279 it was all a dream. You know. I used to 307 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:18.440 see other rapper artists in the magazines with the gold 308 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:22.600 chains on, so you know it, it was. It's a 309 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:25.320 great experience to have to go through, you feel me. 310 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:30.960 So nineteen ninety four, October fifteenth, you and Bigger headlining 311 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:33.080 a show. Tell us about that night. 312 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:40.000 Big was a cool you know. I got to know 313 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:47.519 big doing shows over the course of touring and being 314 00:16:47.639 --> 00:16:50.120 back and forth in New York and stuff like that. 315 00:16:50.279 --> 00:16:53.360 So he was a dude that I respected, you know 316 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:57.120 what I'm saying. We performed together. He would call me 317 00:16:57.200 --> 00:17:00.279 up on stage. It was like I said, that night 318 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:02.320 he called me up on stage and I was able 319 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:04.640 to just stand there and watch him get down in 320 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:08.799 his in his aura. So I was, you know, like 321 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:12.480 I tell people not to just be in this business, 322 00:17:12.519 --> 00:17:14.920 but you got to be a fan at first. So 323 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:18.119 that was my thing. I was fans of all the artists. 324 00:17:18.279 --> 00:17:21.960 So that's what made me gravitate to motherfuckers. 325 00:17:21.960 --> 00:17:24.160 Like you respect it more, I feel like, because it's 326 00:17:24.200 --> 00:17:25.519 like you see, you know what it is, and like 327 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:27.799 those are like become your people, and like you're in 328 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:30.720 it and you see how like that feeling of it, 329 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:32.400 like just you know, it's just like going to a 330 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:36.279 fork feeling I feel like in the crowd and the response 331 00:17:36.359 --> 00:17:38.759 they're like knowing the songs, like doing all that stuff. 332 00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:40.799 You know, it's just like it's a vibe that I 333 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:43.359 feel like music. It just speaks to everybody. It's crazy 334 00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:45.920 that it's cool that you can be notified that to 335 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:48.200 being a fan of it, to become something, to be 336 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:51.559 a great artist, right because you got to respect your craft. 337 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:54.359 Oh definitely, you have to. And if other artists are 338 00:17:54.480 --> 00:17:58.640 just as just as gifted and put just as much 339 00:17:58.680 --> 00:18:01.359 as hard work into it as you, then you respect 340 00:18:01.359 --> 00:18:04.200 that and you're able to appreciate it a little more, 341 00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:04.920 you know what I'm saying. 342 00:18:05.880 --> 00:18:08.599 So, what is one of the craziest things you've seen 343 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:12.160 on the tour bus back in the nineties. I'm sure 344 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:14.920 you have stories. Private Talk wants to hear some stories 345 00:18:14.920 --> 00:18:15.960 you've never told before. 346 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:24.160 I usually I usually on my tour buses, was usually business. 347 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:31.319 I've seen some crazy I've seen some crazy motherfucking sexcapades. 348 00:18:31.880 --> 00:18:33.680 I've seen some crazy fights. 349 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:37.079 What's like crazy sex coupay, like an orgy like just 350 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:38.960 like what I've seen spined. 351 00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:42.039 I've seen spin the bottle of motherfucking get downs on 352 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:43.200 the tour bus. 353 00:18:43.240 --> 00:18:44.720 You just spend the bottle and you just got to 354 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:47.079 fuck somebody, or you just do one position only. 355 00:18:47.759 --> 00:18:50.559 They probably do multiple positions like jump. 356 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:54.000 And then again next position, who's next go to? 357 00:18:54.759 --> 00:18:59.160 We had fun, but I've never heard you never heard 358 00:18:59.200 --> 00:18:59.960 of spind the bottle. 359 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:02.279 I mean it's been the bottle, but not for sex 360 00:19:02.359 --> 00:19:04.920 positions and then like you just switch partners and you're 361 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:06.680 just fucking everybody. 362 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:08.000 Or shit, that could be a fun You might have 363 00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:09.880 to try that, Texas you. 364 00:19:09.799 --> 00:19:16.839 See where you're going after. What is the best advice 365 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:17.680 you've ever gotten? 366 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:22.720 The best advice I've ever gotten is to stay humble, 367 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:31.559 Stay humble, always be yourself. You can't please everyone, you 368 00:19:31.640 --> 00:19:35.559 get me, especially coming from where we come from as entertainers, 369 00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:39.440 you know everybody's gonna have a problem with you, you know. 370 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:43.119 So I've just learned to stay humble and appreciate where 371 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:46.079 you are and what you have, not to be too 372 00:19:46.119 --> 00:19:49.359 big headed, and just stay grounded. That's the best advice 373 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:50.279 I've ever gotten. 374 00:19:50.680 --> 00:19:52.839 I love that. That's very similar to my mine was 375 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:55.039 stay humble as well, because it's like to each his own. 376 00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:56.799 You know, what works for you doesn't work for me. 377 00:19:56.880 --> 00:19:59.240 But as long as you know you're comfortable with yourself 378 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:01.599 every day at night, if you're comfortable, who is a 379 00:20:01.640 --> 00:20:02.680 fuck right exactly? 380 00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:05.920 We live right? Why not? Fucking shit? 381 00:20:06.200 --> 00:20:07.839 What is the word legend mean to you? 382 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:13.680 Legend is somebody who has withstood the test of time, 383 00:20:14.039 --> 00:20:19.119 ups and downs, who's always stayed grounded, who's always supported, 384 00:20:21.240 --> 00:20:28.839 who has always been in the struggle to maintain his authenticity, 385 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:33.519 and uh, someone who fights for the cause. You know. 386 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:38.200 That's somebody who's legend to me. Uh. It's not about value, 387 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:43.240 it's not about wealth. Uh, it's not about stature. It's 388 00:20:43.319 --> 00:20:47.400 just someone who believes in their craft or someone who 389 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:50.359 puts in that work and who never strays from that, 390 00:20:51.000 --> 00:20:53.559 who looks out for other motherfuckers who are trying to 391 00:20:53.599 --> 00:20:56.240 come up from behind him and give him the motherfucking 392 00:20:56.319 --> 00:20:59.880 tubes and knowledge of how they can withstand the test 393 00:20:59.880 --> 00:21:04.519 of time, you know, and somebody who's respected by all people. 394 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:08.440 You know what I'm saying, got no beeves, got no enemies, 395 00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:11.359 and try to just like I said, stay humble and 396 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:13.559 accept what comes to me. That's a legend. 397 00:21:14.240 --> 00:21:19.000 I felt that legends legends. So tell us what do 398 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:21.319 you have any movie roles coming out? Are you going 399 00:21:21.400 --> 00:21:23.319 back to go and doing movies? What do you have 400 00:21:23.400 --> 00:21:23.759 about that? 401 00:21:24.039 --> 00:21:26.799