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#603 - Jay Worthy Talks “Once Upon a Time,” Finding His Sound, A&R Work, Freeway Rick Ross, Kendrick & More · The Bootleg Kev Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Bootleg keV podcast. We had a special guest in here,
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  Speaker 1: my bro Jayworthy.
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  Speaker 2: What up keV? Have you be back?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, So we got to talk about this your
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  Speaker 1: debut album. It's a double disc Once upon a Time, Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy to think that this is your debut solo
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  Speaker 1: album because you have such an insane catalog of music.
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  Speaker 1: But like you said it, you're like, yo, every one
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  Speaker 1: of my projects has either been fully with the producer
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  Speaker 1: or fully like a collab with another artist.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. So I wanted to give people a real
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  Speaker 2: studio album. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: What was like for you? Because you've been putting this
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  Speaker 1: body of work together for a long time, long time.
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  Speaker 1: What has the process been like if you had to say,
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  Speaker 1: just like the amount of time like when you first.
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  Speaker 2: Started, Well, I mean it's crazy because you got records
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  Speaker 2: on there like Reckless that was supposed to be on
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  Speaker 2: active when I started with Yam, So you got records
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  Speaker 2: on there that are actually older than ten years one.
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  Speaker 1: So there's there's a. Yeah, there's a red a.
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  Speaker 2: Ten year process. Man. I feel like when people tell you,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it takes like ten years to get to
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  Speaker 2: where you really need to be, ten years to make it,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that's really real because I could have
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  Speaker 2: been in the game. But I feel like now the
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  Speaker 2: eyes are on me. I've worked up to this point
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  Speaker 2: to where people are wanting to listen to a debut
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  Speaker 2: solo album from Jayworthy. You know what I'm saying. I
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  Speaker 2: got the history, I made, the moves, the pop out,
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  Speaker 2: the collaboration albums, you know what I'm saying. So the
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  Speaker 2: time is now we hear. I'm very proud of this
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  Speaker 2: body of work, and I felt like, because it took
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  Speaker 2: such a long time to put it together, it was
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  Speaker 2: only right to give you all a double disc. You
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: You've taken like such an interesting, I guess like approach
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  Speaker 1: to the music game because you've always kind of been
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  Speaker 1: like around and then you kind of turned that into
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  Speaker 1: like this catalog of incredible music. Like when did you
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  Speaker 1: kind of realize like you were onto something when it
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  Speaker 1: came to just like collapping with producers and just like
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  Speaker 1: reaching out to artists and being like yo, let's let's
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  Speaker 1: get in.
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  Speaker 2: Like when was the f Like, well, I think this.
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  Speaker 2: I think when I wanted to do something different, because
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  Speaker 2: I when I was doing Jayworthy, the only thing that
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  Speaker 2: I had out was a tape with DJ Mustard and
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  Speaker 2: that really wasn't my sound.
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  Speaker 1: What year was that?
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  Speaker 2: Ooh? That was probably twenty ten, And that's when Nima
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  Speaker 2: came knocking on my door because you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: I knew Nima was like, yo, I run dub CNN,
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  Speaker 2: but I also have this distribution company called Empire, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, damn, just from dropping this mixtape. So and
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  Speaker 2: you know at this point, like I'm just one foot
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  Speaker 2: in this, one foot in that, like I wasn't really
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  Speaker 2: taking music too seriously. So yeah, that that uh yeah
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  Speaker 2: when was that? That was twenty ten? What was the question?
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  Speaker 1: I was just saying, like when did you kind of
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  Speaker 1: like hit your stride where you were like okay, okay.
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  Speaker 2: So so after all, right, that was Jayworthy. I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to do something that that that wasn't really my sound.
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  Speaker 2: So when I formed London Drugs with Sean, we actually
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  Speaker 2: made a sound. I think that's very important for every
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  Speaker 2: artist to have their own sound. And own identity that
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  Speaker 2: led Alchemists to hitting me up, Carlo got Wings to
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  Speaker 2: hitting me up, who else, Harry Fraud, Mugs all you know,
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  Speaker 2: the list goes on. But yeah, that's that was the
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  Speaker 2: turning point I think is when like Alchemists was like, Yo,
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  Speaker 2: I want to do something with you, and then before
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  Speaker 2: you know what, I have all these bodies of work
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  Speaker 2: with with either rappers like Currency or laycoh. Yeah exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So you think that it was the London drugs thing.
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  Speaker 2: It was the London drugs thing that kicked it off
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  Speaker 2: because people were, you know, listening to that and being
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  Speaker 2: like they ain't heard nothing like, and then that just
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  Speaker 2: led people to wanting to work with me. And then
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  Speaker 2: before you know it, I don't even think I knew
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  Speaker 2: I was like starting to trend because back then you
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  Speaker 2: didn't see a lot of collaborative projects. There wasn't a
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  Speaker 2: lot of like this rapper with this producer, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really like I'm thinking that maybe Alchemists.
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  Speaker 2: Alchemists and Domo Genesis and like Prodigy. I think like
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  Speaker 2: after the Prodigy wanted was Domo.
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  Speaker 1: But because what year was your first.
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  Speaker 2: Fifteen?
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  Speaker 1: I guess before that was Freddy and Madliba twenty fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: But I think that was I mean, it's obviously all
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  Speaker 1: a part of that.
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  Speaker 2: Like that era era, you know what I mean. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that led to the to this and then it's just like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, being able to work with all these legendary producers.
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  Speaker 2: It was nice to just be able to like form
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  Speaker 2: something where I could collectively put everybody on one project.
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  Speaker 1: You know, what was your initial link up with Yams?
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  Speaker 1: Like explain y'all's genesis, y'all's relationship.
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  Speaker 2: Yams was my boy, you know what I'm saying. We
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  Speaker 2: met in Texas at south By Southwest.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we.
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  Speaker 2: Got into it. We got into a squabble I remember
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  Speaker 2: at the Fader Fort with its like a legendary story.
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  Speaker 1: And then you got into a squabble with not with me, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: no together.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like a something broke out over there
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  Speaker 2: and they were like, oh, the homie down, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: he just took a liking to me. And then I, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, went back to LA and then I did
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  Speaker 2: this record and he put it like this is back
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  Speaker 2: in like the tumblr days.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So Yamborghini had the Yamborghini Tumbler and he put my
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  Speaker 2: record on there and then that started getting motion, and
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  Speaker 2: then blogs started picking me up. And then he was like, man, like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think he should really like do this.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is fire. But back then, the goal
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  Speaker 2: was to get Earl Swavey through the door. You know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. That was my little bro rescing peace.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, you know, focused on getting him
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  Speaker 2: through the door. When he went to prison and came back,
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  Speaker 2: my career kind of blossomed. So it was like tables
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  Speaker 2: like it kind of you know, reversed.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel like because back then I feel like
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  Speaker 1: we don't get it, like like Yams doesn't get enough.
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  Speaker 1: I guess he had such a great year, like he
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  Speaker 1: was such a great curator of like taste, Like you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like I feel like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the stuff he touched, a lot of the people
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  Speaker 1: he co signed, like went on to do such big things.
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  Speaker 2: Man, yeah, I know he happy looking down because me
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  Speaker 2: and him, like that's really how we connected, is just
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  Speaker 2: like our love for music. He was like, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean? And same with Cardo, Like Cardo hit
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  Speaker 2: me cause he's like, you know, Yams was my boy.
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  Speaker 2: Yams used to pull up and play me your stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And then when me and Cardo LinkedIn, we realized, like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like Cardo talking about brother Lynch and Hollow Tip
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  Speaker 2: and X Rated and kicked the sneak like you know,
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  Speaker 2: Northern Cali, like from the Bay all the way to
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  Speaker 2: Sack was like a huge influence for me when I was.
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  Speaker 1: All that, all that black market records.
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  Speaker 2: Market records, was this ship.
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  Speaker 1: Season of the sickness.
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  Speaker 2: All of that, you know, and shout outs to X Rated.
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  Speaker 2: That's my boy man.
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  Speaker 1: Such a dope dude. Man, I just had him on
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  Speaker 1: the pot not too long.
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  Speaker 2: He's great, great human being. Yeah, and uh that to me,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like you know, when we were younger, we
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  Speaker 2: pride ourselves on like kind of finding the like underground ship,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Now the X Rated tree, you'd be like, Yo, this
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  Speaker 1: motherfucker's really got cutting records in prison.
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  Speaker 2: In prison, and it was hard. So you know, when
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  Speaker 2: I found out that Cardo was was into that, and
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  Speaker 2: then he just really wanted to to work and we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna do the tape. That's when I brought g Prico
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  Speaker 2: in you know what I'm saying. I met G Perico.
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  Speaker 2: Uh at my boy dub Quincy White.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, of course going he's alien.
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  Speaker 2: Alien, you know. And we we walked. I walked from
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  Speaker 2: you know, my hood from to Athens Park is real close,
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  Speaker 2: so I walked over there and that's when I met
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  Speaker 2: BG Perico for the first time. Worth Well, that's when
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  Speaker 2: we first met. And then he ended up going to jail,
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  Speaker 2: and I got a call from one of my homies
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  Speaker 2: that was locked up in there with him and was like,
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  Speaker 2: you know so and so, And when he was locked up,
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  Speaker 2: I would start playing yams his music. He had this
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  Speaker 2: song called Busting, So when he came home and then
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  Speaker 2: I was with Earl, that's when we formed us a
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  Speaker 2: trick and then that that song came out, and then
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  Speaker 2: that's when me and freeway Rick really started, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the rest is history, man. So when you go
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  Speaker 2: listen to Once upon a Time, man, there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of history on there. You know, freeway Rick narrated it.
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  Speaker 2: He know me. You know, he's seen my whole come up,
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  Speaker 2: and I you know, I'm a big movie guy. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if anybody's seen the movie Once Upon
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  Speaker 2: a Time in America, But of course you know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying, that's where the aesthetic comes from.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, having him narrate obviously, you say, you guys have
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  Speaker 1: businesses together. People don't know. Give me the history you
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  Speaker 1: freeway Ricks relationship.
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  Speaker 2: It's real crazy, man. At the time, you know, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: I was living at Big Face House, Uh, games Brother
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  Speaker 2: on Brazil and Wilmington, you know, the old Black Wall Street,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, you know, I was trying to transition from
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  Speaker 2: street life into just being more legit, and uh I
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  Speaker 2: had got the idea after watching the movie Good Hair
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  Speaker 2: by Chris Rock to uh to us to start selling hair,
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  Speaker 2: to start like important weaves and selling Indian hair, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, because I'm Indian. And uh Rick
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  Speaker 2: also was doing the same thing, and he had heard
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  Speaker 2: about my name, and I was doing it like on
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: some baby boy ship pulling up to the beauty supply,
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: the spots being like popping the trunk like hey, no,
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  Speaker 2: don't go in there, come shop with me. So anyways,
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  Speaker 2: me and rick y'all doing that. Yeah, yeah, you guys
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  Speaker 2: are going there, or yeah I got the loan, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, Yeah, yeah, yeah, So uh, me
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  Speaker 2: and Rick we met up on I'm like, yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm Compton and he's like, oh, well, I'm in Carson.
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  Speaker 2: I said, well, let's meet up right there with on
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  Speaker 2: the ninety one freeway down Central right where like the
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  Speaker 2: borderline of Carson and Compton are at. And I'm thinking
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: at the time, Rick gonna pull up, like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's freeway, Rick, it's the Kingpin. I'm thinking he's gonna
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  Speaker 2: pull up in a ben Lee or you know, Rose
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  Speaker 2: Royce or whatever. I had no idea and he just
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  Speaker 2: pulls up in his bucket, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: a little high and die. And at the time, it's
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: another crazy story. I had Tory Lanez with me and
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: I brought Tory Lanes for his first time to Compton
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  Speaker 2: and he just rolling around with me and he wanted
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: to get back home. He living at Sean Kingston House
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: at the time. I remember this one was when he
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: was a songwriting or whatever. But I had him tipping
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  Speaker 2: with me through the hood. So I'm like, we're gonna
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: go meet Freeway Rick. Freeway. Rick is like yeah, man,
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: so we chopping it up and he's like, man, I
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  Speaker 2: gotta do a podcast. This is like on too, like
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  Speaker 2: I don't even think like many podcasts were really even out.
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  Speaker 2: And he's like, he's like, let's go up. He's like, man,
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: let me put some gas in your car and let's
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: go to Marino Valley and let's go do this podcast.
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, for sure, you know toy from Toronto.
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  Speaker 2: He don't know what where we're going or whatever. This
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: is a mission hour and a half two hour drive.
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  Speaker 2: He mad as a motherfucker. Man.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: Now he's just stuck.
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: He just stuck and then we gotta go do a podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I'll never forget that though, man, me and Tory still
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: joke about that. But that's when that relationship for him.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know Rick scene where I was living,
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: and you know, knew that I was hungry and trying
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: to get about uh from my situation, just you know, elevating.
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  Speaker 2: Me and him would link up every day with our
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  Speaker 2: hair or we would go to Fairfax and we would
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  Speaker 2: get a bunch of free clothes and then we would
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  Speaker 2: come back to the hood and sell them. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: me and Rick, we started together, man, like for real.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: All and it all started with hair.
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  Speaker 2: It all started with hair. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, what's something about the hair industry that most
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  Speaker 1: people don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I haven't been in it for so long.
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  Speaker 1: So like, say, what what what would you flip a
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: weed for? Like what would it cost?
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  Speaker 2: Would you be able to sell like a bundle was
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: like going for like one fifty or something like.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it go for on the street.
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  Speaker 2: Like it was, yeah, would you a hair or something
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  Speaker 2: like that? And you would have to have like the
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: Remy or like the real like Remy virgin I think
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  Speaker 2: it was called or like n Yeah. They would come
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  Speaker 2: in bundles though, and you could buy them in like keys.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: So it's funny that I was like dealing with Rick
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  Speaker 2: and we're buying like KOs.
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  Speaker 1: Of hair, So what's a kilo hair costs?
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  Speaker 2: Back? Oh, I can't even remember, Like I remember the
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  Speaker 2: bundles were like one fifty or something. But the money
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: was good. I made good money in it. And then
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  Speaker 2: it just got oversaturated and the music took over, and
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: you know, my passion wasn't obviously selling hair, so and
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: then with Rick too, you know, we Rick's a hustler.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: He like Rick was selling T shirts, hair, doing appearances, books,
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: were just moving all the time together. And then it
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: got so busy for him and so busy for me.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: When you listen to the intro, you know what I mean,
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: he says something that touched me. It was like, you know,
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: he said so often. Me and Jay had a kind
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: of parted ways, but not on back bad terms, but
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: when we run into each other. We would see each
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: other in different cities and we embrace each other like
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: lost brothers because it was like damn, like here you are.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: He might have an artist, or he might be dealing
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: with a boxer and here I am in a different
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: city and I'm doing a show or whatever, and yeah,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: but that's my brother. Man. We still talk every day
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: and shout out to Freeway Rick. You know what I'm saying.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: You have so much music, with so many producers. Who
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: would you say you got the best chemistry with?
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Probably say Sean House because you know London drugs. Yeah, man,
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: we started together, we kind of made a sound together,
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: and then you know, yeah, that's why he's on nine.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: He's on nine of the joints on Once upon a Time,
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: So that speaks first.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: So when did you decide there's too much music I
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: gotta do a double disc?
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Well, I just wanted to be able to There's just
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: too many different songs that I liked, and I was like,
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: I was just gonna put it all on one disc.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: But I'm like, who am I I'm not. You know
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: a lot of big artists put out a double disc,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So I was just I mean,
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: you know, the way people consume music these days is
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: be a lot to give thirty one records at a time.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: So I did Disc one and then two weeks apart,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: I did this too, but you listen to it. Like
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: I said, if you've ever seen the movie Once upon
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: a Time in America, it's like a four and a
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: half hour long movie. There's an intermission on disc too.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: That's when the intermission starts. But I sequenced the album
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: from act one to act too. It's how you spoke
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: to listen to it. So if you if you fuck
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: with Jay Worthy and you like the album, go make
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: a playlist and let that ship run through you know
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: what I mean? Would? Uh?
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Was it on purpose that most of the features are
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: on the second disc?
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: No?
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Just did it just work out that way?
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Is there more features on the second disc? Because I
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: feel like the first disc has quite it? I think
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: it's equally. I mean the first disc.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I have Quick Well, you know, I just looked because
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: I was looking at the playlist on Spotify, and the
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: only featured artists on the first disc or Quick and
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: turn on something.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, but those are the features. But because everyone else
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: is primary, I got west Side Guns, so Boldie, James,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Larry June.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Jesus, Chrisy just a list of artists.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: With Khalifa, E forty, Jim Jones.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, fucking Thundercat, Undercat.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: George Clinton, Parliament, funking delic ice Tea, Mac Yeah, Marciana Yeah,
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: and shout outs to Wacko. You know, like I'm you
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: know me, I'm an A and R my el so
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: you know, I ain R my whole album. But Wacko
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: stepped in and uh he introduced me to Mac ten,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: which me and Max became friends and asked my brother, now,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: so that's who connected that dot. He also connected the
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: dot with Wiz for me, and he connected my favorite
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: record on this to iced Tea. You know what I'm
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: saying in that record right there, Uh it sounds like
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: it sounds like, uh, you know, it sounds like six o'clock,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: six in the morning to me, So I called it
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: bis in the morning, and uh put Tea on that
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: and I love that verse. You know, I don't think
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: a lot of when do you see ice tea name
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: pop up on a feature list? I mean even Mac ten?
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: I mean I don't that's the one because Iced Teo
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: step out every once in a while. I feel like
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Mac ten is very like.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Mac don't get get Yeah, he don't. He don't come
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: out for anybody. So, you know, Wacko put me with
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Mac and then Mac took a liking to me, and
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: you know, we formed our own relationship and we've been
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: locked in ever since. But those those are the things
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: that like make me happy having Spice one. Spice one
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: is like in my top five.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: So that was going to ask you about that because
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Spice one is somebody who is so underappreciated when we
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: think of like hip hop in general. Some of the
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: hardest West Coast albums ever and some of the hardest
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: album covers of all ever.
• 20:28
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• 20:29
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• 20:31
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• 21:30
  Speaker 1: to the podcast. But you like like Spice one somehow,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Like I feel like we forget about him, Like he's
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: not talked about enough. Where's the ice the Spice one
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: feature come from?
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Well, this is kind of crazy man. This dude his name,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: he produced it. His name was never heard of. He
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: paid me for a feature to get on that beat.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: And uh and then he was like, Yo, my pops
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: is homies with Spice one because when I heard the beat,
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: I'm like, remind me of some old Spice one ship.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: And then he was like, yeah, I can, I can
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: get spice on it. And I'm like man, I'd be
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: chopping it up with spice here and there on it,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: and he linked us together. Man, and then uh, I
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: put spice on it in the video. Yeah it's a
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: video and uh and then I went and got bun
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Be on it because you know that's my brother right there.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: And uh, I just thought I called the song Jive
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: ninety five because it reminded me in the era when
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: like all these rappers were on jive.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Remember, yeah, Jive was crazy.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: They had all the Bay Spice one was Jive too short,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: too short, forty lit and UGK you know K, and
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: they had all the good soundtracks.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I think their offices. They had an office in the Bay.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: They had to back in the day, they had one
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: in San Francisco.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: They had to because everybody came out on jives. So
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: I just said, Jive ninety five, you know what I'm saying.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: And so what did you? Did?
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: You end up giving the dude's money back? Who paid
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: you for the future?
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: You know what? Actually we ain't even worked that part out.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: You're like, I'm gonna take the song and your money.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Crazy cold game man. All right though, Man, you're getting
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: great exposure and uh, he's happy for it.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean, are you gonna get you
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: got even another record?
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Now? Oh for sure, Yeah I own another record definitely.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: He's like, you know, I like this so much, Yeah,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: put this on there.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: But he knew, you know what I'm saying, Like, yeah,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: So it was It was cool.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: In an era where so many like of the behind
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: the scenes guys, I want to be in front of
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: the camera and want to do podcasts and just you know,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: go and sit down on vlad. You got a guy
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: like Wacko, who is the name we always hear about
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: in l A. And I don't think it's like really
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: talked about enough. Like the moves he's able to kind
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: of help within the.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Somebody right over there. I don't know if you want.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: To, but but I just kind of speak to like
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: his importance in the city and just like some of
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: the stuff he's able to.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Kind of well see Whacko, Like people always ask, they like,
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: this is Wacko? Your manager is Wacko? I said, Wacko
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: is one of my best friends. He's my business partner.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: But it's funny, I said, we wear different hats. Now
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Wacko is involved. Wacko is a filmmaker. You know, Wacko
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: is an artist. Wacko is an entrepreneur. Wacko put out
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Cali Swag District and broke the record, teach me how
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: to douggy along with many other things. With's helping form
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: meet the Whoops with me. So you know, Wacko is
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: just one of those dudes that what I respect about
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Wacko is like this man, he don't want the fame,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. He out here to just
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: push the culture and be involved in dope things and
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: make good artwork and a real doc connector like myself.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: But it's funny though, because sometimes we'll go out to events,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: right and like say, I'll be with Wacko and we're
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: going to a movie premiere or whatever, and you know,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: he represents himself and sometimes I'll be like, yeah, I
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: managed Wacko. And then sometimes will be somewhere and I'll
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: be like, oh, yeah, you need to talk to my
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: manager Wacko. So we uh we trade hats man. But
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: a great person, great individual, and he deserves flowers. It's
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: a part of so many, uh so many great things
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: that have happened in the city of Compton and La period.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean real doc connector man kind
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: of like myself.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: You know, you said, like obviously you're You're in A
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: and R. And I feel like so many people tap
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: in with you because of your taste and your ear.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Huh is because you helped A and R the Troop
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Ofcabra album, which I thought was one of the most
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: slept on projects from Was it last year?
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah? It was last year, man.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Last year Quick Problem album was fucking fire.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Man man a great album.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: But I'm just curious, like for you is like when
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: it comes to like putting that hat on, like when
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: did you kind of understand? Like damn, Like I kind
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: of got some I got, I kind of got the juice.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Low key.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: I look at it like this, right, if you look
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: at my career, all the things, all the projects that
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: I put together, they were I said, man, I need
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: to do one with currency I ain't R and that
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: me and Larry June, I ain't or all the features
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: on that, me grabbing Priko for g Worthy, etcetera, Etceterright,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: So I feel like, you know, me putting it introducing
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Alchemists and Larry together. Now they got a whole franchise.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: So I was like, damn, I'm always kind of been
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: at A and R and Jason Martin and Quick gave
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: me my first time to like wear that hat officially,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: and then that open doors for me later to start
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: working with Terrorist Martin on an RN and YG and
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: the list goes on. So you know, you know, it's
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: just something I got a good year and I love
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: music and I just want to see people that should
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: make music together rock, you know what I'm saying.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, who's been like, because I feel like you've also
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: worked with so many underrated artists out of the city
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: that still maybe not necessarily have gotten their flowers as
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: much as like a guy like TF, like dope.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: TF one of the best to me, YEAHF one of
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: the best.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Another one of those guys who I feel like, you know,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: quietly got a crazy catalog.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Man for sure, you know, And and now him and
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Harry Fraud dropping the project, which is going to be crazy.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: So it's just things like that, Like I've always just
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: wanted to see different people work with different people.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Is there anybody though from LA you feel like that
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: you just kind of have your eye on. Either it
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: could be someone you work with, someone who you haven't
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: worked with that's young that's on the come up and
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: you're like, Yo, that dude's got it.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Let me think, let me think here. I love Nano Okay,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. I love I mean what
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: else that's just really dope out here, just push and
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: doing that ship. I love all my group meet the Whoops.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: I think those dudes right there are incredible. But I'm
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: trying to think outside the box, just like of somebody
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: that's not so known that I would that I would
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: want to work with. Damn. Oh, you know what. I
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: got to give it up for my boy for Casso
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Man Picasso, one man out of Compton, a conscious rapper,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: really dope, like real really like a real hip hop MC.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: But you know from our section, and uh, I think
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: he I featured him on my album. He's on a
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: song with me and Weside. Yeah.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah. For you, if you were to go back through
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: your catalog, what do you think is your take away?
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: This this once upon time?
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Huh?
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: What do you think is your best album? Active Active
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: twenty eighteen.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Twenty Well, we put it out twenty eighteen on digital,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: but it came out on Fools Gold in twenty fifteen,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: and the original that was on fools gold Gold. Yeah.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Shout out to a.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Track, yep, shout outs to a track. You know what
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: I'm saying, A tracks of g though. Yeah, that's crazy,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: it is crazy, and y'all, y'all see, I got an
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: article coming out and we talk about that whole shit
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: and how that unfolded. But yeah, man, a track yep,
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: So that's twenty fifteen. That's my baby active. I took
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: like three years to make that, so that, yeah, I
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: would say.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: That, it's kind of like you're ellmatic.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's my illmatic to me, but this is like
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: the that if that's illmatic, then this is all eyes
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: on me. I repent that.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of jumped rappers in the references. I thought
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: you were gonna go like this is my It was written.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Right right right, right, right right right, But it's like,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: but it's like I'm paying, I'm paying how I'm into
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: the double disc era? Man, you know, like you from
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: my era, we don't see that a lot.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: No, Yeah, I'm thinking like obviously all eyes on me
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: life after Death. But then like eight Ball had lost.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: And that came out.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Triple Triple CD, yeah, and.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Then uh m P the last and we had the
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: bone Thugs one, but people forget about this one part
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: of war Element of Surprise.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's some great double I'm trying to
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: think what I'm forgetting?
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: What about jay Z? Didn't he do a no, there's
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: a blueprint? And no it was one and two? I forget.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know why I thought that.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: But was that the crazy double disc? Oh? Obviously diplomatic community.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Great, that's a great one too, diplomatic.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: I was just bumping that ship yesterday.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Somebody I loved that album. Oh yeah, yeah, that's my ship.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: I still slapped that faithfully phenomenal. It's crazy, changed my
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: whole ship in high school. That was like it came
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: to I came to school the next day. And the
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: pink T shirt. For sure.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: How do you end up linking with because you also
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: have a full album or body of work that you
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: completed with George Clinton? Yeah, now he's on the album.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: He's on the album.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: No one's able to just like connect with George Clinton.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: That's a diabolical.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Yes, you know. Yeah, he he reached out to me
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: and he was just like two pie's in a pod
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: different so so he was just listening to you and yeah,
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: but he would he'd tapped in with me before that. Uh,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: he started following me on Twitter like back when I
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: probably put out active, so he's probably like, you know, seeing, okay,
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: this is a new dude that's coming with the funk
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: and pushing the genre. And uh, he might have been
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: paying attention to what I did with Dame Funk. I'm
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: not sure, but he hit me up and was like
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: two peas in a pod different and then the next thing,
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: you know, he invited me to his show, and that's
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: when we got to hang out. Uh that's today we know.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: We went to the movie premiere, I think, and I
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: went with Wackle. That's when Wackle connected the dot with
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Wiz Khalifa for me and then uh as far as
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: uh George and me, Yeah, we hung out. It was cool,
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: and then he invited me to the next show and
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: that's where when I met Quick. And then you know,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: George was like, you got to listen to this kid
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: ship and that's what put Quick on my radar, and
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: you know, the rest is history.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: When you're in the studio with George Clinton, yea, does
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: he wear shoes?
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: You do?
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: I always wonder because I always hear the old funk
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: dudes like this, like like record with no shoes on because.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: They feel grounded.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: They feel like the funk comes from the ground. So
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: I got a random question. I heard that Herbrick James
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: recorded with no shoes.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Really. I mean, if you go look at like George
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Clinton's interview with David Letterman, he like comes out there barefoot,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: just like sitting cross legged and ship like that, I
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: would want.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: To do mushrooms or just something like, Yo, George, what
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: were you doing in the seventies, Let's do it together
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: right now?
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: The aunt peyote Yo. The amount of game and knowledge
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: you again from George is crazy, and the stories it
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: was great. I mean we spent a week together.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: How many songs did y'all do?
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: We did a whole.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Album and ten piece eight piece piece.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Like ten to twelve, and just to give you all
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: some game. Because his grandson is like a fan of
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: like what I doing with London drugs, he was like, yo,
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: I took a chance on this too. So I came
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: to George with me and Sean had already did all
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: the parts, and he was like, Yo, these are the
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: songs that George owns outright. So we just did what
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: we do with London drugs. We looped them. And then
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: I came to George and he couldn't believe it, and
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: then I got him to like rego over the classes.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Oh shit, So you guys were able to kind of
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: like so his grandson tapped in and was like, hey, guys,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: these are the songs you don't have to worry about clearing.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Yes, so original, So flip them sample downs like an
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: exact It sounds like the original Parliament Funkadelic, George Clinton,
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: your favorite ones. I'm not going to tell you.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: So Sean was able to kind of like just do
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: what he does.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Sean did what he did, and I did all my verses,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: and then I came in there with George and I
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: had George go over his classics and ad lyrics or
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. And then he.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Tripping when you guys brought that to him on a platter, like.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Yo, he was tripping, and I was like, damn, I'm like,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: you never know how that's gonna work, yeah.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Because he might be like, yo, what the fuck did this?
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Like, you know, let's make some new shit. He said
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: to me, this is all I've ever wanted somebody to do.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: And I couldn't believe it, and I was like, oh, yeah,
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: this is really my big bro, Like he get it.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: So we did it and he loved it. And I'm
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: not kidding you for like the like last like we
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: did that like probably you know the album's gonna come
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: out twenty twenty six, but we did that. Like that's
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: you know, sick, like eight months ago or something like that,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: and he's still talking about it, man, And I'm not.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: If you guys think that the features are crazy on
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Once upon a Time, wait till you see the features
• 35:14
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• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you kind of open yourself up to a whole
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: new world of like artists who might I could get
• 35:19
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• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Be like, oh.
• 35:21
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• 35:24
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• 35:27
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• 35:31
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• 35:31
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  Speaker 2: Nah, Snoop's definitely on the George of course is no ship. Yeah,
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: he's on there. Yeah, shout out to wackle you know
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: another another person that connected that dot too, you know,
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: because you know Wacko see me moving and do so
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: many things. It's hard to like really like, you know,
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: be able to. What Wacko was able to do is
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: like tap me in with the O g's you know.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: And that's what I love, you know what I'm saying.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: I got all the young dudes, I got all the guys,
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: the Griselda, the Larry, He's the this and that. But
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: it's like the legends, Snoop man, come on, man, but yeah,
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: that that record right there, me Snoop and George. I mean,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: it's crazy it's crazy. That's all I'm gonna say for you.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Uh. You know, you have like a kind of like
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: a trailer to your album. I guess I would call you.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: I have two things. I got one which is like
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Rick and me were in the La River and he's
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: doing the intro narrating and telling my life story for me.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: But then I also have a documentary trailer which is
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: about to come out probably we got these edits right,
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: hopefully by the time this Brick magazine drops on in
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: the news stands, because they just announced yesterday. I got
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: the cover of Brick magazine and we did a documentary
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: with it, and it just it's got.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Like a lot of people talking about you. Everybody from
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: like Antmark Herot's like mugs and on and on.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, a lot of legends and they're just
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: you know, I've been outside for a while and I
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: got a lot of connections and know a lot of people.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: And the whole premise of the docu was like, I
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: don't speak, everybody just tells their story for me, you know.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: And then there's a lot of archival footage and you know, what.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Was it like for you? Because would you say, like, uh,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: when you had kind of first started to kind of
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: get like a itch to.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Do the music.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: What year was that? Not even like recording, like were
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: you just like yo, I want to be around this shit.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: I want to tell you this. I'll say this. I
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: always was like in high school, we were making music,
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: you know, like you I think my early beginnings, like
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: I was running around and I was making music with
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: my homies, and and my homies were tied in with
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: like the Project Blowed and the Good Life and just
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: different shit like that and Living Legends whole yeah, whole
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: other shit. But this was like early on, like I'm
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: talking like thirteen, I was rapping, like was putting tapes
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: out in high school. That's how I came to meet
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: like my homies from my hood like Ram and H
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: the Black Text and Faux Band and everybody like that.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: Rest in Peace. So I lost my knack for music
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: when I figured out, like you know, it was kind
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: of like this like at the time, you know, when
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Game came out and like everybody said he brought the
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: West Coast back, it was like my circle of frames
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: were like this is like we were trying to piggyback
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: off of that and like be like all right, some
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: shit Finna Go and the dude that I was making,
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: who's my brother Ram? You know, he had a lot
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: going on for kids, he cutting hair and it was
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: just slow motion.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: And now, yeah, because that game comes out, and then
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: there's like the whole like New West movement. You know,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: there's there's Glasses, Rockstar, There's like all this shit that
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: starts kind of moving around, and like then I read like,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: obviously Nipsey's going crazy. And then there was like this
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: weird like I don't know if you remember, like when
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: there was like the New West movie, the New West
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: resentment towards the old heads because nobody.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: Knows they weren't like like all right GM alone and
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: like all of them were like these they don't fuck
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: with us, they don't support us, and all that shit.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Nipsey I got an interview with Nipsey where Nipsey was like,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: because you know Nipsey, I think Nipsey caught.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Out dre at the time, really crazy. I remember all
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: that that. That was like the New West Movement, and
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: I was around for all of that.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Black Wall Street had fifty million artists.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Man, it was crazy. Yeah, I remember it.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Around the boy they signed My Boy from Arizona juice.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: I think I started looking and you know, you mind you,
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: I'm seventeen eighteen at the time. I think I just
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: jumped in the street life, man, and I didn't What
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: was it like being.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Around that era, man? Because that was like an era
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: that like, you know, that era.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: Was cool, man, because everybody was working together. There was
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: a it was a great time for the West as
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: far as new artists. You know what I'm saying. You
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: had Like these are the names that I remember very
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: very much, so Disco Problem, bad Luck, Demani. You know
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying that it was so tough, man, man,
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: come on, bad Luck one of the ones. You know what,
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: what's my brother's name? Man, while he gonna kill me?
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Bishop Lamar was Josh.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Lamar was dope, k boy, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: like all these cats, you know what I'm saying, We're
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: doing their thing and it was it was cool. Now,
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: mind you. Mac Ten went in and fucked with Glasses.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: So he was one of the older dudes from that
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: era that was. Now you got to remember, I'm younger.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: I'm way younger than Glasses and all these dudes. So
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: I'm like, at this time, I'm still a teenager and stuff.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: But for me, you know, in my in my neighborhood
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: and stuff, I just you know, it was more influenced
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: to take a different path.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: And j Rock too, is that in that timeframe, you know?
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So it wasn't for me, like you know, I
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: fucked off for ten years and just was in the streets.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: And then what brought me back to wanting to wrap
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: and be creative was coming on Fairfax and meeting Anmar
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: and meeting Casey and meeting Tyler and all that before
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: like like odd futures just getting formed. And now I've
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: seen that. Now I'm meeting Bobby and Ben hundreds and.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: It's like a peak Fairfax days, peak Fairfax days.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: I was there from the beginning of it. So that
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: inspired me to be a creative again. And that's when
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: I was talking about that tape of mustard. I pressed
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: up CDs and my home homie was like, who was
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: up on Fairfax? He was like, instead of putting your
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: CDs in the swap meets and the liquor stores, bring
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: it up on Fairfax. And those kids took a liking
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: to my ship and they fucked with me. So it
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: was my young Homemi.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: And those are all the cool kids.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: You know, they were all the cool kids at that
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: and that's how I got immersed in that, and that
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: like reminded me back when I was a kid in
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: Vancouver and and like you know what I'm saying, I
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: came up and like I was telling you on the
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: underground hip hop, the graffiti to skateboarding. So it brought
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: me back and realized I am an artist. I am
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: I am supposed to be here and supposed to do that.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: So that gave me my second win. And Casey Veggie
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: shout out to Casey he just dropped a single featuring me.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: And that's full circle moment because Casey was in high
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: school man, and this dude was killing it. Man, odd
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: future was killing it. And you know I was running
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: around with Casey and going worldwide and.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: He was like I feel like AC and in the Bay,
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: I am Sue. Don't get talked enough about. Oh yeah,
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: able to do kind of like h like HBK in
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: the Bay, but like I am Sue and like Casey
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Veggie's and like what they did for that era.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, man doesn't get is a legend. He went from
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: being broke because Casey was there with Earl and Tyler
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: and then he went to be with Dom and then
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: he just is his own entity. But it's just a
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: full circle moment, you know what I'm saying. And that's
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: why I got my billboard up on Fairfax right now
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: on Rosewood and Fairfax, right above the old hundred store,
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: because it just it was like, damn, you know, I'm
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: looking at my young homies, maked and.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: What's there now Dave's Hot chickens.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: And Dave's Hot chicken is gone now? Yeah? You know,
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: yeah that Fairfax died man as far as like, you know.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: They got a good burner spot over their trophy.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: That one, yeah ran And you know what I ran
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: into over there with sour milk. I was riding my
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: bike and I was like checked out, coming to go
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: see my billboard, and he's.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: He's probably running or eating.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: No, yeah, he went. He said he drove there just
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: to eat and he's got to come in there. And
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: I'm like, man, I've been dealing with cholesterol issues. But
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: I said, all right, you know what, let me try.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: It was an incredible burger.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: And what is going on with Meet the woops Man, Meet.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: The Wolves Man? We got it. We got a deal
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: in place. You know what I'm saying, Uh, yeah, you know,
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: we gotta.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: While he's going crazy with Cactus Jack, you're going you.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: Got chef boy going crazy? Come on, yeah, but we
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: got you know, we got a deal in place with
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: a major. I don't want to let the cat out
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: the bag, but yeah, is that?
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: Is that a project that you guys already finished?
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: Her hundred percent produced by hit Boy? Yeah, it's finished,
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: and that's all I can say about that. It's finished.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: We've just been pashing out the last bit of the terms.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: And have you been able to chop it up recently
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: with it all? Because obviously yeah, hell yeah.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: I talked to just to put him up. You know,
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: he's busy and moving, but you know, you can. He
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: congratulated me on my new album and he told me
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: he loved the aesthetic and the direction that I'm going in,
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: and you know, like he also see what I'm doing
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: with George Clinton and he's like wow, like you like
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: you know, the King of p funk like you know,
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: so he he loved what I'm doing.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: Man, crazy you had Snoop and George Clintons.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: Man, man, I need I need you to pull through
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: for that, for that, for Uncle George and me man.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: But now that's my brother man. When you know, he
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: busy and he moving. But when the time is right,
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: I'm sure it all come together.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: What do you think is the most the biggest misconception
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: about you that people are miss have misunderstood.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I think, like you know that
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: they love to judge a book by its cover, or
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: they might go look on the internet and see this
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: or see that, or I don't know, but I'm like,
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: don't get me fucked up. But the thing is, I
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: don't really have to speak, like the street's gonna let
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: you know. Everybody will let you know. And it's like,
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: you know, we in this internet age where like people
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: just get on there and say everything or say anything.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: And it's like, you know, I'm a little bit older too,
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: so I've been around, so I don't know. For the
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: most part, all I know and all I receive is love,
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: But you know, and you're everywhere. I feel like I
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: feel like any time I go anywhere, you're there. Yeah,
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: I'm there, damn fool Like you must not. You don't
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: have kids.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: That's why I don't got kids.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: But Also, I don't go out that much, but when
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: I go out, you're there.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: You name somebody, though, Like I've been there from the
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: beginning of like bro I was putting Griselda in twenty sixteen,
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: we met at Alchemist's house. I was there, I met Yams,
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: and then from the start of the ASAP, I was
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: there with Odd Future, and then when they was just bubbling,
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: like I just been around and know anybody. I was
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: running around with Dot when tde formed and he had
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: me and the homies everywhere to pimb A Butterfly and
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: you know, good kid, Mad City. So it's just like, yeah,
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: I've been around for a minute. And before that it
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: was with Sugar and Brick Squad and you know what
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: I'm saying, and and Big Face and Chuck and it's like,
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: so you know, you get you got all this under
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: your belt. And then it's like, now that's what I'm saying.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: It's like, once upon a time, you got the doc.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: You got people gonna do their history and learn and
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: figure it out for themselves, you know. But I don't
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: really got too much to say. Man, I come with
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: peace and love, and I think you know, uh, if
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: they don't know what's up they feling on? Now?
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: Do you feel like now that you got this initial
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: album out into the world, like every you got this
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: certain pocket of fans that are just like Griselda heads.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: Album. And It's funny about that because Gun was like yo,
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: like he's like you are Griselda, so you could drop
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: like he Gun allowed me to do whatever I want
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: to do. I want to put the logo on it
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: sometimes sometimes like for the spice one in uh bun
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: Be video, I threw the Grizzelda logo on there for
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: the me and conductor. Should I put it on there?
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: I did? I left it off of my album cover
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: just because I felt like I felt like I'm I'm Griselda,
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: and I'm that's my team, like you know, like forever,
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: and I'm honored to be a part of something that
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: is like to me, is like that's the new Wu
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: Tang to me for sure, you know what I'm saying.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: And it because like think about it, Staten Island was
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: like some other ship Buffalo kind of some other ship.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: So I love that comparison.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: But is that album done?
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: Which one I look at this is this is like
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: my Griselda release. You know what I'm saying, you know
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: where you said that logo on the vinyl and ship man,
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: I just let the fans figure it out for themselves.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: Man Gun on the album, Conway on the album, Boldie
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: on the album, Conductor produced on the album. I mean,
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: what more do you want? This is it?
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: Is there another collab album you got tucked besides the
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Clinton one?
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Me and Conduct? And then I got me
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: and DJ Quick where I wrapped over all the grooves.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: Oh shit, And I'm not gonna tell you who rapped
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: over it with me. Also, that's yeah, that one's gonna
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: be crazy. And then I got one with an artist's
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: named Idris. It was amazing. Yeah. And then you're gonna
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: have active part too by me and Sean.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: So what is can you give me? Like? If you're
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: if me and.
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: Terriss Martin got one as well, jazz album Jesus Yeah,
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: don't stop and I'm out my deal now, so tap in.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, your catalog's crazy. If you if if there's an
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: independent artist that's watching this, I feel like you're really
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: good at like the rap hustle if you will, yeah,
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: because there's so many ways you can get bags in
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: this rap game as an independent artist, like what would
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: be I guess your biggest advice like untapped money or
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: you know what's what's like kind of break down, you
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: know the secrets of the game in which like you're
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: able to just like.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: Well, I think I think it all starts with the music. First.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: Do something creative and original and build your brand up.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: Give them an aesthetic. Like when you when you come
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: and get a Jayworthy album, you know what you're getting.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: You know, the artwork going to be top tier, the
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: production going to be top tier. Or for example, look
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: at June, same thing, look at Griselda the same thing.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: So it's all about branding and aesthetic. But as far
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: as the hustle goes independently, you know, just try to
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: have ownership. And there's nothing wrong with taking a deal
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: and taking in advancement and getting started like that. It
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: might not be the best deal that you want in
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: the beginning. I didn't sign the best deal that I
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: wanted in the beginning, but it gave me, you know,
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: it gave me a boost and I was able after that.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: I was able to wiggle and do what I want.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: So a lot of cats will be like, well, nah, man,
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: I'm not taking that or nah, man, take that man,
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: use that marketing money and go up with it. I
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: just started using marketing money. This is like the first
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: album once upon a time that I was like, all right, cool,
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: we'll do digital marketing or you know what I'm saying.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, look at your debut album right,
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: kind of pull it out.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah for sure, Empire, Empire shout out Sanima and Ghazi.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: And you know what, even though I'm out my deal,
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: I probably never end up leaving Empire because.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: At least I always have some business.
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: There, always no forever, like my whole catalog over there,
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: I just and they always done good business with me,
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: and they made me a priority, you know, like on
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: the Empire, they pushing my shit like I'm a priority
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: over there. So it's always important to be at a
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: label where they really rock with you. You know. If
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: I go somewhere to a major and it might sound good,
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: oh I'm on wool, you wold. But if you if
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: you're not a priority over there, you don't you don't
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: got somebody in the building that believe in you, then
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: what's that going to do?
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: You might as be on destructet at that point. That part,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: all right, brother, we'll look the album is out once.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: Want to do this one and two?
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, Vinyl coming, Vinyl, VHS, DVD, merch. You already know.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: We did a bunch of collabs. We did one with
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: Awake New York. We did one with Huff This is
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: the Hugh one right here. Fire but yeah, yeah, I'm
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: about to be dropping soon.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: Go support and I can't wait to hear this George
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: Quinn album.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: That'll be the next time I come up on here.
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: Please bring him with you, please.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna bring George though. Trying to be
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: ready to do press, he told me he was like,
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna come run around.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: I don't have no shoes on. Jay Worthy, my brother,
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: I appreciate your mane Yes, sir guy,