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#285 - Mack 10 · The Bootleg Kev Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Bulet cav show special guests a legend, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: Mac one Ozh for show. Mac Tanner is in the building, Man,
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  Speaker 1: what's up with how you doing? I'm such a big
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  Speaker 1: fan of yours that I own Thicker than Water on VHS.
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  Speaker 1: You has seen a couple of them in the garage
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  Speaker 1: on VHS. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I always tell people, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: y'all understand, like when you had like who Banging Records
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  Speaker 1: like c Mac and you were dropping movies and shit,
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  Speaker 1: like I felt like you were kind of doing this
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  Speaker 1: like real independent West Coast it before everybody, like kind
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  Speaker 1: of like, you know, obviously you were doing your thing
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  Speaker 1: on the major level, but you also had like who
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  Speaker 1: Banging Records was going. I remember every damn Source magazine
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  Speaker 1: and Double XL y'all had the full ads and everything. Man,
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  Speaker 1: That's how you had to do it. Then, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying? So shit, you know when when when
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  Speaker 1: I play, I'm gonna play? Yeah, So you know I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't you know, cutting no corners or nothing. We was
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  Speaker 1: trying to get to it. Yes, sir, What have you
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  Speaker 1: been up too lately? Man? I feel like you've obviously
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  Speaker 1: kind of taking a step back. You got the new
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  Speaker 1: single album. You kind of have been you know, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like you've been kind of away from music for
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  Speaker 1: a while. I have, uh the artist side of it,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But I've been really involved
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  Speaker 1: with you know, as being like a concert promoter. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I heard that. Yeah, since like
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  Speaker 1: twenty ten or eleven like that, been like my bread
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  Speaker 1: and butter, Like I do a couple of hundred shows
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  Speaker 1: a year, wow that I promote. So you know, I've
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  Speaker 1: been in the music business. But I just making Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, I've been putting shows on man,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, like because obviously from an artist's perspective,
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  Speaker 1: you see you be like, damn, Okay, I got paid
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  Speaker 1: this much, but the show sold out, so the promoter
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  Speaker 1: made this much. So what made you kind of get
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  Speaker 1: into the promoter game? Shit? I done have nights where
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  Speaker 1: I had four and five shows going in one night
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  Speaker 1: in different states just as a promoter. Just as a promoter,
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  Speaker 1: I might have had Keith sweating, uh Kansas City or something. Right,
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  Speaker 1: you know, somebody else's somewhere and somebody else somewhere and
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  Speaker 1: somewhere and I might have been doing crush groove or something,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. It's just I Dodn't it
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  Speaker 1: have been situations like that where I really had like
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  Speaker 1: four or five shows going in one night, damn dude. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The promoter game is do you feel like, because I
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  Speaker 1: do feel like there's kind of probably a saturated market
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  Speaker 1: in people trying to throw shows, do you feel like
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  Speaker 1: you found like a niche and the type of artists
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  Speaker 1: and type of shit you're doing well. The thing is
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  Speaker 1: is that anybody could try to do it, but you
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  Speaker 1: gotta get good at it in order for it to
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  Speaker 1: be you know, and you gotta be willing you you
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  Speaker 1: gotta have enough to lose. Yep. It's like going like
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  Speaker 1: if you stand at the craft table, you shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: standing there with nothing that you you care if you
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  Speaker 1: lose it straight up you feel me so so like
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  Speaker 1: that's the same thing with this. You know it's a gamble,
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  Speaker 1: but but like you know, as you as you get
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  Speaker 1: good at it, you learn like what's a smart bet?
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  Speaker 1: Was not a smart bed? You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: But you got to be able to like, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with Stan losing you you got to be able to
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  Speaker 1: deal with that because that's a part of the game.
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  Speaker 1: So are you this tour that you just announced, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's you. I saw a man in perezz on. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of people think dog Pounds on the tour, dog Pound,
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  Speaker 1: Warney Quick, Yeah, sugar Free, that's your tour. That are you?
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  Speaker 1: Like you're the promoter as well? Yeah, doubling up? Why not?
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  Speaker 1: Why not? Man? Why not? Yo? I just got to say, dude, like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you're like, there's not a lot of people I'll call legend,
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  Speaker 1: but I do feel like you are one of the
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  Speaker 1: greatest to ever come out of the West Coast. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that bang or Ball is low key, You're
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  Speaker 1: most slept on album. That was a high record, yo.
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  Speaker 1: That dude, that dude the damn day Yeah, man, that.
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  Speaker 1: I just feel like you have so much catalog. I
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  Speaker 1: like today I was like riding around like, God, damn man,
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  Speaker 1: I forgot about hating your eyes and there's so much
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  Speaker 1: shit for you. Do you feel like because you're kind
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  Speaker 1: of like behind the scenes now, you're not as visible
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  Speaker 1: as maybe some of your peers when we think of
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  Speaker 1: West Coast legends these days, do you feel like you
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  Speaker 1: get the love and respect you you deserve and when
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  Speaker 1: we talk about that, yeah, but most of all, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I get the money. That's all that matters,
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  Speaker 1: you feel me. That's the kind of guy. Yep, they
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  Speaker 1: could have all that other shit, give me the bag.
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  Speaker 1: I respect that. I don't give a fuck about famous
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  Speaker 1: and none of that. You care about the bag. That's
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  Speaker 1: some real shit, you know, that's some real shit. So
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  Speaker 1: so like, if I cared about famous, it would have
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  Speaker 1: took me fourteen years to do another record, right, It's
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  Speaker 1: been that long, Yeah, two thousand and nine. That was
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  Speaker 1: the last time you put out music. Yeah, I put
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  Speaker 1: an album all yeah, Jesus. So if I cared about
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  Speaker 1: famous and with this internet shit and everything, how it is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I would have been in front of the camera. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But I've been getting to the bag, so you know
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  Speaker 1: that's that's you know, I feel good about that. You
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  Speaker 1: were the first guy I ever heard talk about Inglewood
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  Speaker 1: on records. And now obviously Inglewood is blown up. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of people are saying has become gentrified, SOFI stadiums
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  Speaker 1: over there. How do you feel about Inglewood these days? Man?
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  Speaker 1: Because it is kind of the it's city now in
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  Speaker 1: La been to. It's city for me my whole life,
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  Speaker 1: of course, you know, but that's for like everybody. The
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  Speaker 1: Clippers are gonna play there. I mean, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: we welcome everybody with open arms. It's all good. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I love Inglewood, man, Yeah, you know that's that's that's
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  Speaker 1: that's always home at the end of the day. There's
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  Speaker 1: a dope obviously a lot of dope artists coming out
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  Speaker 1: of Inglewood. Are you hit to like guys like Roucci
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  Speaker 1: and like that kind of yeah, yeah, oh yeah. And
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  Speaker 1: I love to see Little Roccie in them getting theirs,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like, like I'm I'm a
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  Speaker 1: real like fan the of the youngsters, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: everybody had a time yep. And you know I've been blessed. Man,
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  Speaker 1: God has been good to me in this game. So like,
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  Speaker 1: I ain't the kind of guy that like not want
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  Speaker 1: everybody to win. You know what I'm saying, You a
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  Speaker 1: sucker if you don't want everybody to win. That's hater
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  Speaker 1: type shit. It's real shit, man, you feel me so
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  Speaker 1: so like it's enough money for everybody printed every day.
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  Speaker 1: That's some real shit. Uh. You know, I think back
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  Speaker 1: to like some of your catalog, You've been a part
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  Speaker 1: of so many dope projects obviously, uh, man, the recipe.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I've the West Coast, the West Side Connection. Shit.
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  Speaker 1: Like when you think back of your catalog, what's your
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  Speaker 1: favorite mac ten album that you've got part of? Man,
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  Speaker 1: they all like feel different because I was at different
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  Speaker 1: times in my life, you know, with them. But like,
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  Speaker 1: let me see, uh, based on the true story. One
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  Speaker 1: of my one of my favorite records, Banga Ball is
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  Speaker 1: one of my favorite records because I went about it different.
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  Speaker 1: I had never made a record like that. I made
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  Speaker 1: bang a Ball in two weeks, two weeks, two weeks
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  Speaker 1: from start to finish. Literally wow, literally hating your eyes,
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  Speaker 1: pud By dre Right, Yeah, doctor Drake did that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so you just got a dre bat like in the
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  Speaker 1: two week process. He just sent a pack over and
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  Speaker 1: that was one of them. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, Well
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  Speaker 1: I actually went it said with him. He played me
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  Speaker 1: some stuff and I like that when he said, all right,
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  Speaker 1: this one you if you want it, you can get it.
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  Speaker 1: So you know what I'm saying. And then I flew
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  Speaker 1: I did it, and then I flew back to Houston
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  Speaker 1: to finish my album because I was working with Many Fresh.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So Fresh work like that,
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  Speaker 1: like Do the Damn Thing was a freestyle. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: even write that because he wouldn't let me write it.
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  Speaker 1: He was like this, going there, you listen to the
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  Speaker 1: rhyme pattern and everything. He was like, just going there
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  Speaker 1: and you a pro just going there and just rhyme.
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  Speaker 1: That kind of makes six. I do the Damn Thing.
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  Speaker 1: I let my nuts hang. Yeah, it was a straight
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  Speaker 1: free style. He said, I don't want it if you
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  Speaker 1: write it like just going there and just whatever you say,
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  Speaker 1: just just make the next word rhyme if you can.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. He said, I'm telling you
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna come out hard like that. Just do it
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  Speaker 1: like that. So, you know, Many Fresh one of the
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  Speaker 1: best ever. So I listened to him and I did it,
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  Speaker 1: and Do the Damn Thing is one of them records.
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  Speaker 1: That was a good one. Me and my small group
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  Speaker 1: of friends in Phoenix had an actual funny dance we
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  Speaker 1: would do when that song came on that we still like,
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  Speaker 1: if I play that song right now. My best friend
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  Speaker 1: Ram was here. He would do it. What was like,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, talk about like how you ended up
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  Speaker 1: on Cash Money for that one project. It was just
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  Speaker 1: a situation, man, I mean, you know, Priority was uh,
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: you know, making some some changes at the time, and
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  Speaker 1: me and Stunner was already homies, and so it really
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  Speaker 1: was just a move. It was just a play, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It was just a move like
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  Speaker 1: like that was already my homeboy. And so when I
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  Speaker 1: had to, I had a choice either sign a new
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  Speaker 1: deal with Priority or sign this deal. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to try something different. And Cash Money is
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  Speaker 1: like the hottest label in the world at the moment. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and like yeah, yeah, but but but most of all
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  Speaker 1: them dudes was like solid dudes with me, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. We clicked as people. They was you know,
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  Speaker 1: I would go to New Orleans and it was all
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  Speaker 1: open arms, like we was family, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: and vice versa. When they was out here, it was
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  Speaker 1: like that. So this was something man, that we was
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  Speaker 1: really trying. I just wanted to like do something different.
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  Speaker 1: I had been putting. I had put a lot of
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  Speaker 1: records out on Priority already. Yeah, you know, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: when the when, when the opportunity came and that bag
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  Speaker 1: was silly. For that one record, I had to do it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what was it? What was that creative process like working
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  Speaker 1: with a guy like Manny Fresh, because you've been in
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  Speaker 1: obviously in the studio with so many other legends like
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Dramon. Yeah, what was the difference between the Manny
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  Speaker 1: Fresh and some of the other guys. Fresh is like,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, he the first one to get me
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  Speaker 1: to just go in there and just rap, just don't
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  Speaker 1: write nothing, just going there and just say it, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And Fresh work faster than anybody
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  Speaker 1: I've ever seen. He had cooked the beat up right
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  Speaker 1: in front of you, like in a few minutes, and
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  Speaker 1: it's a hit, it's connected for life, it's do the
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  Speaker 1: damn thing is whatever. But he cook it up right
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  Speaker 1: there like quick, like right in front of you, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So, you know, Fresh one of
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  Speaker 1: the best ever man for real for sure, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Like I remember at one point Fresh had missed platinum
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  Speaker 1: in a couple of it was some years had went
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  Speaker 1: by and everything was platinum. You know that's crazy. Yeah, No,
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  Speaker 1: I think I think Fresh when we think, when we
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  Speaker 1: always talk about the goats I feel like we got
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  Speaker 1: to keep his name in that conversation because he kind
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  Speaker 1: of formed the whole sound kicked off Wayne Juvie, every human.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy, Yo. You have always been really good at expanding,
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  Speaker 1: like the West Coast shit to like other areas we
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: talk about obviously the cash money situation. You had a
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: great relationship with Fat Joe back in the day. What
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  Speaker 1: do you like a tribute to that? Because I do
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: feel like you kind of like a lot of LA
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  Speaker 1: guys were just kind of like working with other LA guys,
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  Speaker 1: but you did a really good job of like breaking
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  Speaker 1: out of that mold and just working with everybody from
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  Speaker 1: all over the place. I'm a player. You know, players
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  Speaker 1: is internationally known, nationally recognized, and locally accepted. You feel me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a player, man. If you're trying to get to it,
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  Speaker 1: you you got to step outside your neighborhood, you feel me. So,
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  Speaker 1: so I fuck with who fucked with me, you know,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of where they're from or any of that. If
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  Speaker 1: you fuck with me, I'll fuck with you, you know. So,
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  Speaker 1: So I always had that kind of mentality, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So I was always trying to expand, and I you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's good to have allies everywhere. Man, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, I'm thinking, like I've always thought big Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: was there ever anybody you tried to sign to Who Banging?
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  Speaker 1: That was like that ended up going on to be
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  Speaker 1: like really big that like maybe it almost happened or didn't,
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  Speaker 1: you know, almost got to the finish line, but maybe
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  Speaker 1: for whatever reason it didn't work out. Snoop, Snoop. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: was this after Yeah, he was already. It was when
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  Speaker 1: when death Row was like you know, when he was
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  Speaker 1: before he went to no limits. So before he went
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  Speaker 1: to no limit, you guys had those combos, paperwork was done. Wow. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's crazy. So death Rows obviously a rap, Snoops, a
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  Speaker 1: free agent and you approach him to come on, who
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  Speaker 1: Banging and it almost happens. I mean, if he a
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  Speaker 1: free agent and I'm in the game, you know what
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  Speaker 1: kind of motherfucker would I be not to shoot for
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  Speaker 1: the biggest free agent out there? That's real shit. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones gonna shoot for the Kohlers motherfucker out there
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  Speaker 1: if he if he can get his hands on it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you feel me? So how close it was really close
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  Speaker 1: to happening? When it is the paperwork literally was done.
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  Speaker 1: It's just you know, some things you know went on,
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  Speaker 1: but like it was, it was done. That had been crazy, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Snoop on who Banging Record? Yeah, Who's Done? That had
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  Speaker 1: been crazy too, just for like the perceived politics of that,
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  Speaker 1: because like Snoop's a big grip you know, we know
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  Speaker 1: you are. That had been crazy, especially in the nineties.
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  Speaker 1: But listen, I feel like he would have probably put
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  Speaker 1: out some better music too, because I didn't like the
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: first I didn't like the game is to be Sold
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: not to be Sold. I didn't like that album. I
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: did like No Limit Top Talk, but yeah, shout out
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  Speaker 1: to Snoop, that'd have been crazy. Are you going to
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  Speaker 1: be putting out a body of work obviously the singles out?
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  Speaker 1: Are you following this up with the actual body of work? Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do. I'm gonna put an album out. Is
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  Speaker 1: it done? It's almost done? The red print, the red print, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's fire. Yeah, it's almost done. Features. I got some
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: secret features. You know what I'm saying. I got it.
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  Speaker 1: I can't really speak on it right now, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, because uh, you know, I'm still in
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  Speaker 1: the process of doing it, but like it's a hot album,
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: like the records, and shit is one of them good ones.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, fourteen years is a long time man. People
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  Speaker 1: want to hear from you. Yeah, yeah, I understand, Yo.
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  Speaker 1: Do you still go back and listen to any like
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  Speaker 1: of your old catalog like on a regular basis. I
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: always wondered that as an artist like you got classics,
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  Speaker 1: do you got to go back and bump your own shit?
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  Speaker 1: Not really every now and then. Every now and then
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  Speaker 1: I'll run across something and I had to rewind Black
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  Speaker 1: Shit was hard right there, you know, and I turn
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  Speaker 1: it up. But like usually, I really don't don't listen
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  Speaker 1: to my music. Really, I heard it so many times
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  Speaker 1: making it until I'm you know, I really don't listen
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  Speaker 1: to my music. I'm wondering when. Okay, you obviously are
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  Speaker 1: part in my opinion of the best supergroup in rap history,
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  Speaker 1: west Side Connection. Yeah. I think Boutdown is the top
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  Speaker 1: five rap album in West Coast history. It's up there, man.
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  Speaker 1: Gangs to killing a Dope Dealers fucking you know one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite songs ever? Right? Do you give Mount
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  Speaker 1: Wesmore a listen? When they dropped their super album like
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  Speaker 1: do you check it out as a fan, like just
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: to see like, oh, you know, we kind of did
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  Speaker 1: our supergroup, like let me see what these guys are doing.
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  Speaker 1: Uh not really yeah, not really. I mean, uh, I've
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  Speaker 1: heard bits and pieces of it, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: But not not really. Yeah. West Side Connection was a movement,
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  Speaker 1: a movement. Yeah, it was a little different a movement. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it's crazy too because like if you think about
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  Speaker 1: like from like bow Down to terrorist Threats? How many
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: years was that? Was that? Like nine or ten years different?
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  Speaker 1: Seven years of five something like something like that. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: something like yeah yeah, And it felt like y'all kind
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  Speaker 1: of like picked up right where y'all left off with
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  Speaker 1: those like right bow Down. Would you put that up
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  Speaker 1: there with any one of your solo albums in terms
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  Speaker 1: of just bodies of work? Oh yeah, oh yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: a complete body of work. Yeah. And it was sincere
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  Speaker 1: what were like those studio sessions like when you guys
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: do like Gangsters make the World go Round? Like tell
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  Speaker 1: me about that record, like that studio session. Uh you
• 15:02
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  Speaker 1: a who Banging film back then. I mean I was
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  Speaker 1: just doing them films like that for you know, like
• 23:35
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  Speaker 1: I probably put a million aside or something, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, And that's a good budget for yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but like I'm gonna do the movie in a soundtrack
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  Speaker 1: to it. At the same time there was the soundtrack. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so it was the one two punch, the one two,
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  Speaker 1: the double up, the double up man. Yeah, would you still,
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  Speaker 1: to sign artists or are you kind of like I
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  Speaker 1: mean obviously once you kind of you're in your bag
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  Speaker 1: as a promoter now, you know what I mean. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if it's kind of worth a headache that
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  Speaker 1: part right there? You feel me. But but but like
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  Speaker 1: a in a good sport that that if I could
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  Speaker 1: something I could do, I'll do it. Yeah. But you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, if I could help somebody'll give
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  Speaker 1: them a shot to win, you know, shit, I will,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: But it got to be like that though, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, It got to be something that you know,
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Yo, Back in the day, there
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  Speaker 1: was a bit of a response to Commons. I used
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  Speaker 1: to love her, Am I right about that? Yeah? It
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: was west Side slaughter House and West Side Connection. Period
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  Speaker 1: was just it was just you know, uh uh, we
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• 24:59
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  Speaker 1: my favorite songs ever. Common I Still Lover is such
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful record if you actually you know. But at
• 25:06
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  Speaker 1: record inspired the group to come together. I ain't gonna
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  Speaker 1: whoever had a problem, right, whoever was out of line,
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  Speaker 1: nothing or hiding from nothing, it was. We was responding,
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  Speaker 1: Yeah what what west Side slaughter House? Fucking classic record.
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  Speaker 1: But did you ever like cross paths with common ever
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  Speaker 1: it this shit though you didn't heard them stories though, Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know what it is. You know what I'm saying. Yeah,
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• 25:57
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  Speaker 1: yeah of course, yeah, of course people know about that.
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  Speaker 1: Was that something that ever got resolved? Like? You know,
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  Speaker 1: didn't have no problem with him. I didn't have no
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  Speaker 1: It's been there, it's been there. Yeah, that's what's up.
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• 28:59
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  Speaker 1: Was ninety six? Right? Am I tripping? Or is that
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: ninety six? You can tell me more than what it
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: was about ninety six or ninety seven, Probably like ninety six,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: ninety six, probably a ninety seven, probably. Yeah. Do you
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: feel like when you look back at those days that
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: like the media, like the source, the vibes of the
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: worlds were kind of like creating this East coast West
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: coast narrative that necessarily was not as big as it
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: really was. I think we I mean to a certain
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: to a certain extent, but at the same time it
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: was going on, it was actually going it was going on,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But yeah, like of course,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: you know, beefs and shit like that. You know, it
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: makes for better press. You know, ain't nobody gonna say that,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: you know, everything is cool that ain't that ain't a
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: good story. It's only a story of everybody like feud
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: and shit, you know what I'm saying. But yeah, it
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: definitely was a situation going on, and yeah, all media
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: outlets do that to a certain extent, but there it.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: You know, we did feel some kind of way at
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: the time. Yeah, it felt like it was like, you know,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: there was like certain artists kind of taking like subs
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: at each other back then, and then they'd be like
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: but then you see like you know, method Man pop
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: pop up with Tupac, you know what I'm saying. Or
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, even a little after that, you were obviously
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: real tight with Fat Joe. Yeah, because players recognize players. Man,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: game recognized game. You feel me like man it's it's
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: players everywhere, you know, And like I said, I ain't.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be the kind of guy to have this
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: a problem with an entire set. I got a problem
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: with who got a problem with me? Straight? Just like
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: you fuck with who fucks with you? Period? You know
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And you know that's it. I got
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: some real sould the dudes that that that I've met
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: over the years from New York and from the East Coast,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: you know, some solid guys. Yeah. Do you uh think
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: thinking back to two thousand and one, right, you end
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: up signing with cash Money putting out banger Ball. That's
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: around like right before we get like peak little Wayne,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: like Superstar Wayne. I feel like it was like four
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: oh five when he dropped the first carters when that
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: kind of started. But like, were you around Wayne back then? Yeah,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: he was a kid like like fourteen fifteen years old
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: or something when I was around. Yeah, I feel like
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: it's crazy people don't even understand that. Like back then,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: like obviously Juvi was Juvie, but the big timers were
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: the biggest shit on Cash Money out once juvenile kind
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: of like you know, four hundred Degrees came out and
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: like I felt like soldier Rag came out or not
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: sold ks sol dregs before that g code. But uh,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: the big Timers were fucking lit. Big Timers was good.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Big Times was good. But but but but Junior was
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: a special talent, like a like a different kind of motherfucker.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Like he was. I knew he was incredible. Like when
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: he was a kid, I told Stunning that boy here
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: gonna be the business. He gonna be the ship for real.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: You guys have sessions together back then and all that.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, it was like a family right, Like
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: I was around, like around around, and we was all
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: around each other like for real, and you know, Wang
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: was young, but I could tell at a young age
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: he was gonna be probably the best ever. Obviously, Birdman
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: is like one of the most pro prolific CEOs ever.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: We hear like mixed things though when it comes like
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: signing with cash money, there's people who have complaints, people saying,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: went great, your your experience was great. I don't got
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: nothing to say. Yeah, you know my experience was was
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: was was was player. It was a player situation. I
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: can't do nothing but but but but have a you know,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: love and respect for for for him and Slim, you know,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: and all of the guys that that that I've met
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: through them or you know, everybody associated with cash money
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: has been all open arms with me for you know,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: since the beginning. For sure. Who you put on your
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore of La rap, not California, l A, your
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: personal Mount Rushmore. It don't got to be like who,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: like the you know, the the publicly politically correct list,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: just your personal list. That's a hell of a question, bro,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, that's a really good question.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: It don't matter what era, no, not. We're talking about
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: rap music from l A, the LA area, the Los
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Angeles metropolitan area. You're personal, Well, well, I'm putting Easy
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: at the top of the list for any motherfucking thing
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: they want to come to rap straight up, that's me.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Erica is number one, right and then go for sure
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: this gangster ship for sure. And so I'm gonna start
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: with Easy. Uh, you know, I gotta mention myself. Of course,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Dog been one of the greats. You know what I'm saying,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: could have been on who band? Yeah, yeah, almost yeah.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, but like it's hard, bro, because like you know,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: forty and short, you know, about l A, just l A,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: just l A, no California, just La La Eric, I
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: mean easy easy U snoop one more Ice Tea, Iced
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Tea not the ice I expected, but a good ice
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: nonetheless because Ice Tea kind of it is like, in
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: my opinion, Ice Tea was hard for six in the
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Morning and all that ship. Well, I also feel like
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: he was like the pioneer of like, yeah, it's like
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: him and easy Elow like Ice Tea was before Easy
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: right in terms of just like I mean, I mean,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to age Paula, but I feel like
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: she would know. Yeah, no ice Ty definitely, I feel
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: like it was before. I mean Ice team was, Yeah,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: and then album covers like the Power album cover yeah
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: with him and his lady with the shotgun. Yeah. Ice
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: was an innovator bro. Yeah, and he's twenty three years
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: straight on SVU. Yeah. It's you know, and when you
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: sit down and have a conversation with him, he's like
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: one of my favorite people to sit down and talk to. Yeh,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Ice be popping that ship like you'll still like you're
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: gonna leave with some jewels fucking with Ice. You know
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You gonna say some players. The man,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: he's gonna say some fly ship for sure. Oh, what
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: is your Chevy collection like these days? I mean, you
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: know the Chevy collection fifty seven, uh, sixty four h
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: fifty two and I got a Tudor Brawl a Cadillac.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Have you, like, can you
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: tell me the most First of all, I'm sure you've
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: you've bought fixed up cars, sold cars, gone in and
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: out of a lot of vehicles. What was the most
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: expec if Chevy you flipped ship? That I that I
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: that I that I flipped? Like so then you sold
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: to someone else? Because I mean I'm sure you've gone
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: through a ton of impalas over the years. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: uh about two hundred two Jesus. But now but like
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: now that ain't ship now because it's like now now
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: now the ship I got, Now, if I was selling,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: I couldn't sell nothing for less than three hundred Wow,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, I don't feel like
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: I see like sixty four polos anymore. I remember, like
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: it was such a big part of the culture when
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: I was a kid man like you. Yeah, but like
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: the King of Chevys build my ship. So like they ship,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: they set the bar at a different standard, you know
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It's like it's all the way like
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: showroom floor like like like like the simile line. You
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: feel me like it's your car. All of my ship
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: is like clean like that? Is that? Like do you
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: take like pride and rebuilding the car like that getting
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: it back to kind of how it came. Because that's
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: got to be expensive, It's got to be hard to get.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: It's expensive and time consuming for sure, you know what
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. But that brings me way more satisfaction than
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: the new ship, you know what I'm saying. And I
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: got every none had everything, got everything like all the
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: new ship, but like that old ship is special. How
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: do you like a Tesla though? Because models? How do
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: you feel about the Tesla is the fastest car in
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: the world. I know what's the fact, but like do
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: you fuck with it? Like I mean, you're shot. I'm
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: a Chevy guy, but I'm just a car guy. I'm
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: a car guy. Like you could have one of them
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: if you got some other shit, right, you know what
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. But like, but like that model s plaid
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: is it's a fun car to drive, Like I heard
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: that sh it's like zero to sixty and like, don't
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: one point nine seconds insane? Yeah, like twelve twelve hundred horsepower.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: So anything somebody pull up on it ain't never gonna
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: be able to fuck with you. Although I ain't even
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: trying to go that fast like that. I'm I'm I'm
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: just trying to just you know what I'm saying. I'm
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: miss a car guy, like all the new ship that
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: come out, Like, I'm a car dude. So you know
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have something. They gotta start giving cops these
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: teslas because if I'm in the fucking tesla, I'm smoking
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: the cop. I'm out of there. Yeah, it's like you
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: can't keep up with me. I got twelve hundred horses here, sir. Yeah, yeah,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: you gotta have. It's like it's like any car, thh
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: you gotta have the right one, though, you know, the
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: right one, because if you got the wrong shit, you
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: you look like a square. You gotta have like the
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: right car. So what's the right tesla to have? Motos plaid?
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: We gotta be a plaid fifty no at least yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: but a plaid if a plaid is the is the
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: that's it. As a businessman, besides throwing shows and building
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: this other empire outside of music, congrats on that too.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: What else are you doing? You're doing real estate or
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: you're getting it involved in any of their Yeah, I've
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: been doing real estate since the nineties, since the mid nineties,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: like since our first got in the in the in
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: the game. Really, I've been fucking with real estate tough
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: since then. I mean consistently. How many houses in Inglewood
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: did you hold onto because right now they got to
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: be booming. I didn't hold on the no houses in
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: Inglewood now now, I didn't hold on another he wish
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: you would have not really, God, really, I mean I
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: got relatives over there that that yeah. Yeah, but like, man,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: I've bought shit in in areas that that like you know, balls, shipping,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: flipping in the areas where that where the value like
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: super low, you know, where the value like quadrupled, like
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: what areas? I mean anywhere? And what real estate? It's
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: all about location, location, location, straight up? You feel me?
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: So so so me. I was always trying to buy houses.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: I done did a couple in the in the neighborhood.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: But like you know, you know some of that Wool
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: and Hills ship. Oh the value is crazy, you know,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: like the ship costs four five times more than what
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: you paid for You feel me so so so you
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: know it's located location, location with real estate for you
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: being an OG somebody who's kind of been through so
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: much in this city. Man, been through so much in
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: the rap game, you know, hits issues, drama, fucking peaks
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: of success. What would be your advice to artists who
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: come out here to LA because you know, there's like
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: we talked about earlier, people are definitely getting targeted out
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: here now. You know, I always tell people, if you
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: canna come out here and move around like a dickcad,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: they're gonna treat you like a dickhead, right Like, if
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: you're gonna come out here and where two hundred thousand
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: dollars in jewelry and just think, shits sweet? That's what
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: do you want people to do if they're hungry? You
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But how would you advise people
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: to move in Cali based on the OG perspective? You know,
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: you know shit, you gotta know where you at. You
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Move accordingly, you know, move according
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: to to to where you at. I mean, be smart,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: be smart for sure, you know what I'm saying. And
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: respect the situation. Because any city did I go to,
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: I respect the situation. That's that's somebody else town and
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: somebody else city. You feel me. So I'm gonna come in,
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: you know, and and and you know, conduct myself like
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: a player and respect the situation. Respectful. Yeah, I mean,
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. You do. You gotta respect
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: the situation and be smart about what you're doing. I mean,
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: some ship ain't gonna fly straight up, straight up, it
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: just ain't gonna fly. That's real ship. You know. As
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: a promoter, who's been the artist you booked the most?
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know, bro, Like that's a hard question. Give
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: me like the top two or three that come to mind.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: That guys did a lot of little Wayne shows, lots
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: of Wayne shows. I did a lot of Wayne shows.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: I did a lot of Snoop shows. Good business to
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: be in. I heard Snoops price is shot up recently.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Once you get in that crypto money asked. Yeah. Yeah,
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: On all the R and B guys, I've I've done them,
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: like you know, over and over and keep sweat all
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: them guys a million times. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. Hey,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: how important has the Latin fan base been to you, man?
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Because I feel like you're heavily uh embraced by you know,
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: the Brown community. Hey man, I love the Brown community.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Been like my number one bass, my number one fan base.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: You feel me so like mag Ten is down with
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: the Brown like a motherfucker, like straight up yeah, Like
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: like I keep them in mind when I'm doing music
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: because I look at I look at the Hispanish is
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: like my core fans, like my real fans. You know
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And before I put a record out,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: I think to myself, like, well, my fans like this.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, right, and if you know,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: if the if, if the answer is no, then it
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: probably won't make the cut. That's what's up, man. We'll listen.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: You're a fucking legend. Appreciate appreciate you pulling up new song.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: King of Chevies is out? Uh the Red Print coming soon? Yes, sir?
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: How soon before the end of the year, before summer, yeah, summertime,
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: summertime probably sometime. You're already getting music videos together, doing that,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: doing that, now, doing all of that. Dude, it's finish.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: Shoot a couple of more videos coming up here in
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: the next few weeks. Uh. My last question, if you
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: were to put together your own supergroup right now, who
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: who's in the mac ten supergroup in twenty twenty three?
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: Who are you calling? They don't got to be anybody
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: from anywhere in particular. It could be it be fucking
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Yeah shit, I'm a one man band.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: I'm calling solo, calling me, you me in twenty three.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: Just you like that? Okay, Well there it is. Man. Well,
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you pulling up Mac ten man, run up
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: the new singero my guy boom right on fire.