Speaker 1: West Cracking Riders. This still from The Gangster Chronicles and
Speaker 1: I want to bless y'all with this recent YouTube live
Speaker 1: that was put together with the Homies Midwest, AJ and
Speaker 1: s J from the Connected Experience podcast where we sat
Speaker 1: down with Glass and Malone and did a breakdown of
Speaker 1: his recent release Glass House. We're actually playing some of
Speaker 1: the joints and giving us a little context behind each.
Speaker 1: Soon make sure you follow our podcasts at the Gangster
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Speaker 1: Here we go, yeah, yeah, okay, see that's what we
Speaker 1: do to this to home of the exclusive I'm a
Speaker 1: J or you can call me me. It was swine
Speaker 1: m a s J. Mail was as J the Connected
Speaker 1: Experience and what we're like, what we're about to do
Speaker 1: on this and book live is we're about to do
Speaker 1: our album breakdown with the Low Glasses of Milan for
Speaker 1: his recently released project. So this project, it's not that's
Speaker 1: not gonna be a review. That's going be a breakdown
Speaker 1: because who are who was anybody to review? Somebody else's music, right,
Speaker 1: because music is an art form and usually the artists
Speaker 1: know what they're trying to get across and the consumer
Speaker 1: don't even understand it. To the artist's long gone. So
Speaker 1: to have our artist's on explaining what his art form
Speaker 1: is based on, like real time is very rare, and
Speaker 1: that's something that we like to do with the connected experience.
Speaker 1: So we hooked up with this some bood dot com
Speaker 1: with Big Steel, and he introduced us to Glasses Malone,
Speaker 1: somebody we've been listening to and been uh she last
Speaker 1: time we was in California, we was trying to get
Speaker 1: up with you. Uh it was Mother's Day. Uh without
Speaker 1: was two times ago, but it was Mother's Day. So
Speaker 1: it has been in the Megan for at least two years, so,
Speaker 1: but the album wasn't out there. So kind of get
Speaker 1: into the album uh concept that you was trying to
Speaker 1: get across, and then we're gonna have some songs that
Speaker 1: stuck out to us, and then we just wanted to
Speaker 1: break those songs down as we tell you what's steal
Speaker 1: it out to us about this on and then you
Speaker 1: can kind of uh tell us what you were feeling
Speaker 1: at that time that you did the music. So this
Speaker 1: particular project, um, and thanks for having me on though.
Speaker 1: But this particular project right is uh it's called glass
Speaker 1: House one UM. I released it initially in two thousand twelves. Um.
Speaker 1: The concept of Glasshouse that was a name my homeboy
Speaker 1: pat Dog Rest in Peace used to call me Um
Speaker 1: when I used to kind of be on my tip.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, whatever tip I was on,
Speaker 1: he would call me that, like, yeah, glasshouse, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like that means I was tripping normally,
Speaker 1: I'm the voice of reason with my homeboys and being
Speaker 1: in this business for so long, and I spent a
Speaker 1: lot of early years in my career, you know, I
Speaker 1: got my deal in two thousand seven, and I spent
Speaker 1: a lot of early years of my career just you know,
Speaker 1: using the microphone as a therapy, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: talking to it and explaining all the trauma that like
Speaker 1: we suffered from where I'm from. So Um, by the
Speaker 1: time I got to Glasshouse around two thousand eleven and twelve,
Speaker 1: I felt like I had, you know, exhale so much
Speaker 1: like BS that I was ready to kind of start
Speaker 1: having fun. And Um, Glasshouse is just this the actual
Speaker 1: music is really just ego, you know, ego and pride.
Speaker 1: It's all attitude. It's it's me and my most gang
Speaker 1: bangery moments. What I'm saying. As far as like the
Speaker 1: Bravido part of it, there's not a ton of that
Speaker 1: in my music, but every now and then I'm able
Speaker 1: to get it off. So Glasshouse represents that. So when
Speaker 1: I started working on it in two thousand and twelve, um,
Speaker 1: I thought it was dope, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But at that time, I was kind of learning about records,
Speaker 1: what records represent. Um, I was starting to learn what
Speaker 1: hip hop really was, and I was starting to learn
Speaker 1: about marketing. So I was able to make one record
Speaker 1: make sense, you know, the conveyor attitude I wanted to convey,
Speaker 1: to show everybody where I'm from and really the attitude
Speaker 1: you know, in this culture, and that good. But I
Speaker 1: don't think I did a great job with the whole project.
Speaker 1: So now that you know, streaming apps are totally dominant
Speaker 1: and that's how most people are consuming all music, I
Speaker 1: have to start moving past projects to streaming apps, and
Speaker 1: um it gives me a chance to kind of now
Speaker 1: eight years eight years, you know, eight years forward, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Moving into streaming apps from mixed
Speaker 1: tapes and websites, I get a chance to kind of
Speaker 1: convey the exact thing I wanted to convey with music
Speaker 1: with that project, I wanted to bring you to California,
Speaker 1: and eight years of research, I finally learned how you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So that's what you're hearing in
Speaker 1: this particular project. You you're getting to come to California,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And whether you're in Michigan,
Speaker 1: whether you're in New York, whether you in Florida, you know,
Speaker 1: you get to come see what it's really like. And
Speaker 1: that's what great hip hop is all about. Project record
Speaker 1: that we want to talk about was Their hip Hop
Speaker 1: with school Boyque. How did you come up with the
Speaker 1: concept to get school Boy Que to do that poem?
Speaker 1: At the beginning of the record, the irony is I
Speaker 1: was telling Still, I had an idea to write a
Speaker 1: poem called their hip Hop, And the idea was kind
Speaker 1: of because this project really represents our culture out here.
Speaker 1: I was telling Still, I wanted to write it to
Speaker 1: hip hop as if hip hop was like this dead
Speaker 1: beat father you know that tried to disown his child.
Speaker 1: I always felt like that growing up listening to you know,
Speaker 1: New York hip hop, and then how they looked at
Speaker 1: the West Coast, you know, how lack of love they
Speaker 1: showed the whole experience. It's like but your birthdays experience.
Speaker 1: And I came to Still with the idea and Still like, oh,
Speaker 1: let me let me write it, let me write of it.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, all right. So he started writing the poem.
Speaker 1: When he sent it to me, I like where he
Speaker 1: was going. So I kind of added some pieces to
Speaker 1: it and made some changes to where exactly what I
Speaker 1: had in mind. But it was really good. And we
Speaker 1: just wanted somebody that sounded like I sound like a
Speaker 1: West Coast nigga, you know, I mean, I sound like
Speaker 1: a l a I mean. But it was two names
Speaker 1: that kept coming to mind, schoolboy Que and nice Cue.
Speaker 1: And Que was a friend of ours, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. We watched him come up in the business
Speaker 1: to become a multi platinum success, so coming to him
Speaker 1: for a favorite was never gonna be a hard thing.
Speaker 1: It was always gonna be easy. But what's important about
Speaker 1: that poem is it's funny because as time has went on,
Speaker 1: like since we released that project maybe three weeks ago.
Speaker 1: I've noticed this conversation starting to steer harder where it's
Speaker 1: like they're talking about this meeting that happened in hip
Speaker 1: hop where they decided that they was gonna turn hip
Speaker 1: hop into like this evil thing, and the irony is
Speaker 1: a letter popped up out of nowhere recently within the
Speaker 1: last decade, and it was like, oh, you know in
Speaker 1: hip hop went bad and the labels decided they was
Speaker 1: gonna put people in prison. It's like a popular letter
Speaker 1: Google it where they talk about how they was gonna
Speaker 1: cause this evil turn of hip hop. But I always
Speaker 1: found it funny that that's the majority of that's a
Speaker 1: that's a majority East Coast take. And guess who happened
Speaker 1: to have the rock you know in the culture three.
Speaker 1: So it's perfect timing for that poem where it's like,
Speaker 1: instead of you embracing the reality that the culture brings
Speaker 1: that the West brings to the table, is like you
Speaker 1: shun it. And I always felt like that was the
Speaker 1: relationship between hip hop and gangster wrapped like a father
Speaker 1: and a son. So it was dope to put it
Speaker 1: in words like that, and then having th X, you know,
Speaker 1: score th X is the super doll producer from from
Speaker 1: the West, and people don't really know. He's like a
Speaker 1: real hidden secret. So this is what he does. It
Speaker 1: was just magic. It worked out like that when he
Speaker 1: recorded it. Or did he send him the poem and
Speaker 1: then he sent it back? No, I sent it to
Speaker 1: him because if I would have went to the studio
Speaker 1: with him, I would have over we would have over
Speaker 1: produced him. Q. As a professional, you don't need nobody
Speaker 1: helping him. You knew exactly what I was looking for.
Speaker 1: How has the reception been for that poem as far
Speaker 1: as did it go across? How you wanted it to
Speaker 1: go across? Because I totally understood it when I heard it, Like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: but how your comrade is that's in the East. Did
Speaker 1: they get it? Yeah, some of them got it. I
Speaker 1: mean some of them talk ship um, some of them
Speaker 1: A lot of them liked it. Everybody pretty much came
Speaker 1: together and liked the idea. They knew the idea was legitimate,
Speaker 1: so they gave it props. But I think it's not
Speaker 1: really going to have his four in pack until people
Speaker 1: see the video. People see the video for it, that's
Speaker 1: when they'll be like, that's when all the bullshit, I
Speaker 1: could say, it's gonna start okay up by myself. That
Speaker 1: was produced by Buzzy You Yeah, OTV, I was alive
Speaker 1: in that record. What are you saying? Something similar to
Speaker 1: if you're scared, you better get sharmed up right? Explain
Speaker 1: why you would tell you they get that? Hey, let
Speaker 1: me get show this. Are y'all gonna play deer hip hop?
Speaker 1: I thought you was gonna be playing the records after
Speaker 1: you all talked about them. I actually thought you was
Speaker 1: gonna play the records after we mentioned it. Well, when
Speaker 1: I'm waiting for y'all cue, just like I'm still looking
Speaker 1: at y'all. Y'all want to play? Okay, let's get into it.
Speaker 1: Let's get into it. Deer hip hop, damn deer hip hope.
Speaker 1: At one time I wanted your acceptance and art, your perfection.
Speaker 1: When you came to the creative I welcomed you with
Speaker 1: re freshman fluence and adolescence. We y'all peep game. He
Speaker 1: was in the spinning on cardboard boxes, Vanalize and trains.
Speaker 1: I ain't understand that ship with his family, you said.
Speaker 1: I was never in the Battley's and Thams. I preferred
Speaker 1: all stars and fourteens threw next and levies watch rock.
Speaker 1: I looked the most ominous with the loaves on my eyes.
Speaker 1: When I started to rise and cart about my own niche,
Speaker 1: you permitted rejection, started acting like a bitch. He wasn't
Speaker 1: kidded up for us, my nigger, that wasn't there. I
Speaker 1: saw looking your broad eyes every time I hit that swift,
Speaker 1: just to let the stash with the fullest stinny cliff,
Speaker 1: because without it you fall, my niggas, so don't slip.
Speaker 1: You couldn't interpret the foreign language, the essays bloods and
Speaker 1: Christian talking to the band which you couldn't understand, and
Speaker 1: the slaves of a random ship with a Master overboard
Speaker 1: crushed the dust off my dickies and crushed the remain
Speaker 1: and nigga's like an empty can of meets, smack the
Speaker 1: statue of liberty and snatched the torch from her Stargy
Speaker 1: style brand ship. For thirty straight summers, terrorists want predicted
Speaker 1: I was heading for self destruction. Now look at you,
Speaker 1: all the finger banging and flag tusing. We turned the
Speaker 1: world out. Now you have set in the car. I'm
Speaker 1: executing the head. But PIMC made the car. This is
Speaker 1: for my baby brother Drill and my kid brother trapped.
Speaker 1: We don't need you, sincerely yours gangster racket. So what
Speaker 1: you're trying to do? Nick? What on the strips of
Speaker 1: saying what a my niggas saying say that? Yeah? Like
Speaker 1: there you go, not just delete the whole page. So
Speaker 1: the next song, the next song that stood out to me, well,
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna say so the next song, like when
Speaker 1: I played a record as I listened to it one
Speaker 1: whole time that I just go back to. It's Roly Time.
Speaker 1: Explain that because I like that, especially that first verse
Speaker 1: you say times ten thousand and forty thousand real quick
Speaker 1: heard some nigga said, who was that? Has a real
Speaker 1: nigga cue? Is time to go? Or you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? So kind of talk about that, just talk
Speaker 1: about what Rodie time is and in that concept. So
Speaker 1: make sure we get back to third by myself because
Speaker 1: I was a good point, but um well, Roly time
Speaker 1: is true stories. It's three true stories that I turned
Speaker 1: into one day and I thought it was unique because
Speaker 1: they were both like it was too buster moments in
Speaker 1: my life, you know, I mean, I got a list
Speaker 1: of probably six Buster moments seven eight buster moments maybe,
Speaker 1: and all of my years living and to document those
Speaker 1: two to me with special you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That was a real dice game from me in the
Speaker 1: PJS where I was wearing nigga's ass out in the
Speaker 1: dice game and I really didn't know the other niggas.
Speaker 1: I only knew a couple of niggas I was shooting with,
Speaker 1: and it was niggas who came home for prison for me.
Speaker 1: And they're looking at me like this old rap nigga
Speaker 1: from around the corner over here, and you know, it
Speaker 1: gets real territorial in the ghetto. So I'm wearing their
Speaker 1: ass out in the dice game, destroying them. You feel
Speaker 1: me whooping on them, putting tips, And I could see
Speaker 1: niggas kind of coming together like looking like hold up
Speaker 1: and this nigga just killing them, and I could see
Speaker 1: the play unfolded. And when I see the nigga kind
Speaker 1: of tuck off behind the bill and like to do
Speaker 1: whatever he thought he was gonna through, I told my niggas,
Speaker 1: I'm like I'm gonna be right back and got up
Speaker 1: out of there. You feel me. But that was a
Speaker 1: buster moment and the other time it was in the Jungles.
Speaker 1: That's a real time too, where this girl I was
Speaker 1: messing with her brother came home and brother really you know,
Speaker 1: knew who I was, and they gave me the the
Speaker 1: crip treatment. You know you and you and the Jungles
Speaker 1: that saw bloods they gave the crip treatment. And the
Speaker 1: only difference is I went out the side window on
Speaker 1: the bottom floor, and I mean I didn't end up
Speaker 1: going out the door. I came out the window and
Speaker 1: I really got on when he came back with his
Speaker 1: people's So and the third stories about some ship happened
Speaker 1: with some niggas, some niggas I knew from Hoover, not
Speaker 1: particularly the niggas I know, but some niggas I funk
Speaker 1: with from a Hoover gang. But it was these it
Speaker 1: was these moments in my life to me where I
Speaker 1: went out like a buster. So I wanted to put
Speaker 1: him in the wrap, like I feel like gangsterism is
Speaker 1: over highlighted as this always triumphant thing, Like Na, there's
Speaker 1: some sucker moments in these times where you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta make a choice, how important is
Speaker 1: survival to you? So you could come back and do
Speaker 1: the same thing again. So it's funny, like, don't listening
Speaker 1: to that record, it always takes me back to those
Speaker 1: times when that ship happened. Well, I don't know what's
Speaker 1: wrong with his Mikey obviously having some mike issues. So
Speaker 1: let's take it back to thud By myself. Because the
Speaker 1: first time my brother heard that record, that part stood
Speaker 1: out so hard to him. He said, Hey, man, did
Speaker 1: you hear when that niga say you're better off getting
Speaker 1: sharmed up? So kindie explain that. And before you explain it,
Speaker 1: like we we listened to your podcast, so we know,
Speaker 1: like you don't do no drugs, and when you was
Speaker 1: gang banging heavy, uh, you would say, like, you can't
Speaker 1: do it if you gotta get shumed up. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So that's why that stood out to him.
Speaker 1: So kind of explained that concept for people who might
Speaker 1: not know what's going on in the active gang banging world.
Speaker 1: Most of the ship that's happening, you know, the violent
Speaker 1: crimes of the vin Most people are just high dog
Speaker 1: like hi that the niggas be high. You know, whether
Speaker 1: you know niggas is popping pills at this point in
Speaker 1: time or niggas was doing pre modes before my time,
Speaker 1: and during my time, niggas was smoking shun too, you know,
Speaker 1: or getting drunk. I call it liquid courage. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, to go do these same things. And
Speaker 1: it's funny. I was, I'm gonna have I was having
Speaker 1: a conversation with my homeboy scaff and um we was
Speaker 1: at a Chinese full restaurant. He had just got out.
Speaker 1: Was in Bellflower, and my rap career is starting to blossom.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody's starting to know who I am. So
Speaker 1: he was really proud because this is somebody that pretty
Speaker 1: much he taught me a lot of stuff I know
Speaker 1: about gang banking and really how to survive and really
Speaker 1: pushed me to be, you know, the man that I
Speaker 1: could be as well. You know what I'm saying, like
Speaker 1: not let nobody do nothing to me. He taught me
Speaker 1: a lot like honestly, like watching him and watching him
Speaker 1: develop his reputation was special, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: He only a year or two older, but he was
Speaker 1: way off the porch. Faster, long story short, I go
Speaker 1: pick him up at my homeboy house, you know, to
Speaker 1: take him out to eat. So we're chopping it up
Speaker 1: and we're going over old times and I'm like, he like, man,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm so happy for you, like you did
Speaker 1: a good job for yourself. I was like yeah, because
Speaker 1: you know, and I was like, man, I was tripping.
Speaker 1: He was talking about these rap records I was writing.
Speaker 1: He was like, man, that's crazy. How you put that
Speaker 1: into a rap And I'm like, yeah, I know. I said, man,
Speaker 1: you know what blowed me away? I said, Man, when
Speaker 1: we had to go do certain ship, our niggas would
Speaker 1: get so high. Y'all niggas are smoke so much shy
Speaker 1: nigg to go do this ship. I mean, and I
Speaker 1: used to be in a car just like, damn, man,
Speaker 1: how these niggas gonna do this high? I'm like, how
Speaker 1: did y'all do that? And that nigga flipped it and said, Nikka,
Speaker 1: how didn't you get high? And I remember thinking to
Speaker 1: myself like, wow, I think the joke is on me,
Speaker 1: because somehow I was able to rash and that like
Speaker 1: to rashing in my mind why it made sense and
Speaker 1: to them it had to never make sense to some degree,
Speaker 1: you know, some of the missions. Some still let's get
Speaker 1: into a little thug by myself. So the audience can
Speaker 1: hear that a G M. S J. Give me one second,
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Speaker 1: the more down like a kick kid. I ain't couldn't
Speaker 1: care for the ship, well, I brain make a kitty kid.
Speaker 1: Were what's the rock grods pitty with the check for me?
Speaker 1: One reason? They don't really distract. That's why I try
Speaker 1: falling on the back. That's what I'm saying that I
Speaker 1: don't blf myself crazy, right. I always do this song
Speaker 1: at the show, and I wrapped the second verse acapellaub
Speaker 1: by myself, won't e mind guinea. I don't need a
Speaker 1: huntinggoons with me out thub by myself, my bitch go
Speaker 1: to wartime. Ain't no rules, tuly, only nigga not pro tools.
Speaker 1: One deep fucking with a fool, sucking with a folly,
Speaker 1: and they got a foolie. And up to this point,
Speaker 1: because my life be in a movie, Mama was a
Speaker 1: d girl. Brother still at it y'all been to jail.
Speaker 1: Nobody rady to sixteens, call that magic. Bring two racks.
Speaker 1: Let the nigga have it, got two straps, Let the
Speaker 1: nigga have it. Hold the trigger there because they're fully automatic.
Speaker 1: Don't make me mad, pussy, don't make me mad. I
Speaker 1: empty these rounds. Replace that mad. If I should first
Speaker 1: get intee, you won't last. Why because it's bad for
Speaker 1: your health. Drop foe hunted on the belt. Guess what's
Speaker 1: sent it? I don't that they can help. You're dealing
Speaker 1: with a low got thugged by myself, by myself every
Speaker 1: time I do that song I do with acapella. You
Speaker 1: know what's dope about that? And I'll see why you
Speaker 1: do with acapella. You were actually you're saying some ship
Speaker 1: on that record, and most people don't really chip off
Speaker 1: of what I was saying because it sounds like rapp
Speaker 1: and it's like, nah, this is like wrapp. You know,
Speaker 1: my bitch, go to war time. Ain't no rules totally
Speaker 1: only they can not proteos one deep. You're fucking with
Speaker 1: a full fucking with a fully nigg got. I'm a
Speaker 1: fully up to this point because my life be in
Speaker 1: a movie mama was a d girl. Brother still at it, Like, no,
Speaker 1: I lost my mom to prison. You know, she twenty
Speaker 1: years for going to jail, you know, getting caught on
Speaker 1: the forty Freeway with ten keylows and seven gallons of PCP. Right,
Speaker 1: So that that line really stuck out to me too
Speaker 1: when we heard it, and you say, brother still all
Speaker 1: at it, like like my brothers still getting it right now? Allegedly,
Speaker 1: Uh to me that you feel me, But to me,
Speaker 1: that's like that's why we said. This was to us
Speaker 1: like classic West Coast rap. Right, We're from the Midwest,
Speaker 1: We from Einstra, Michigan, but we gravitated towards West Coast rap,
Speaker 1: the northern California rap in l A. And when we
Speaker 1: heard this new project, we say, Yo, this this classic
Speaker 1: West Coast ship. Like this that West Coast ship. Another
Speaker 1: running theme throughout the album is storytime with Corrupt, kind
Speaker 1: of talk about what what made you decide to put
Speaker 1: Corrupt on there? And uh, how you actually feel about
Speaker 1: Corrupt because he's actually has three interludes and is also
Speaker 1: on one song on the album. Well, really he owned
Speaker 1: more than that. He owned Like, so to me, Corrupt
Speaker 1: is like, yeah, my guy he asked me on three racs. No, No,
Speaker 1: it's funny, he's on mores. This is funny, right, So yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: he's all three. But it's funny how it works, right, what? What?
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to find the right words. Corrupt first off,
Speaker 1: is one of the earliest people that isn't Corrupt are
Speaker 1: two of the earliest people when I got into this
Speaker 1: business that didn't care about what they thought of my
Speaker 1: street reputation, on me being from where I was from,
Speaker 1: who showed me love. So that's starting even personally with
Speaker 1: my career. Previously before that, Corrupt just always been this
Speaker 1: really top tier MC who can still make great rap records.
Speaker 1: And I've always felt he represented you know, even though
Speaker 1: he's from Philadelphia initially, right, I always felt like he
Speaker 1: represented the West so well, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: like unbelievably well. And I like him as a storyteller
Speaker 1: really well, because I think he always saw it from
Speaker 1: this different perspective, like he's able to break down moments
Speaker 1: completely different, because I think when you live out here
Speaker 1: your whole life, you know, you you're born and raised here,
Speaker 1: you you kind of take it for granted, you know,
Speaker 1: it becomes like it doesn't happen. But if you lift
Speaker 1: still or iced tea or uh, Corrupt talk to you
Speaker 1: about you know what's going on. When they something happened,
Speaker 1: the story is a lot more visual because a lot
Speaker 1: of the things they don't take for granted. It's still
Speaker 1: very much all they can notice, every last thing. And
Speaker 1: I like that when Corrupt would tell stories, like whether
Speaker 1: he would tell a story about Red Run rest in peace,
Speaker 1: him and Red Rum in a car, like he knew
Speaker 1: how to tell you what's gas station he was at,
Speaker 1: what streets, why it was important once he crossed Manchester
Speaker 1: being in Inglewood. That would be a story that most
Speaker 1: of us would tell you, and we wouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to get that point across because we would think you
Speaker 1: already know once you cross Manchester on Chris Shaw, you
Speaker 1: in Inglewood, But to somebody that's not from me or
Speaker 1: you have no idea. So I just always like Corrupt
Speaker 1: as a storyteller. I always thought he was a really
Speaker 1: intelligent person um and he's one of the most underrated
Speaker 1: storytellers on the coast. So minus the rap side of it,
Speaker 1: but just listening to him tell them stories is amazing,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? It was dope. We could
Speaker 1: get into a little bit of the storytime with Corrupt.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna do one, you gotta do the one
Speaker 1: with red room. No no, no recipes read because I
Speaker 1: don't that said have maybe sad don't do number three?
Speaker 1: Do number two with him and Snoop. And this is
Speaker 1: what's so awesome because if you know the story of
Speaker 1: how Snoop and Corrupt met, right they met challenging each
Speaker 1: other in a cipher. So is that one because you
Speaker 1: know what here ain't really don't give it to Okay, cool,
Speaker 1: I got you radio station was giving out dealing corrupt
Speaker 1: out of town nigs. Three niggas came up and corruptious
Speaker 1: that nobody got no deal, like hold up and the
Speaker 1: pride cause take right now at being an MC like,
Speaker 1: you're not serving corrupt bro Like right now, a young
Speaker 1: nigga could come up, that's a dope, like Benny the Butcher,
Speaker 1: like you could get some of them niggas. Yo, them
Speaker 1: niggas is not serving corrupt right now? Corrupt like they
Speaker 1: ask up, I'm gonna tell you a story, um. And
Speaker 1: this is when corrupting them was kind of at they height.
Speaker 1: We was in Mexico, with black tone them. Sugar Free
Speaker 1: was there on the Dog Pound was there, and it
Speaker 1: was a bunch of you know, every concert, it's a
Speaker 1: bunch of niggas that wrapped, and so it was some
Speaker 1: young niggas out there and it was kind of talking.
Speaker 1: Next thing, you know, Corrupt is off the stage and
Speaker 1: he liked these little niggas ass up. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: the mercy, no remorse. He's a real m seat dog.
Speaker 1: That nigga is the real and if you listen to him,
Speaker 1: like this is him as Snoop. Snoop is the greatest
Speaker 1: hip hop artist ever. Corrupt is like you know day
Speaker 1: in the same click, Corrupt is a multi platinum success
Speaker 1: you mean successful records all that. This nigga is still
Speaker 1: like that. You don't hear him talking about his plaques.
Speaker 1: You don't hear him talking about the success. So we
Speaker 1: can freak in the streets as a mother the classic
Speaker 1: it is, or like this is what he wants to
Speaker 1: tell you, Like yeah, ain't nobody got no deals, Like
Speaker 1: oh they thought there was gonna serve me and get
Speaker 1: a deal, or you niggas is leaving here deal, Like
Speaker 1: how don't you love that about that nigga? Man, I
Speaker 1: love that about because that nigga is really a real animal.
Speaker 1: You feel me with this ship and man, it's so
Speaker 1: important that you stay that way. And he's like that
Speaker 1: right now, man, like you could pull niggas out. Man,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna serve if if if niggas had to
Speaker 1: get if niggas had to side corrupt to get a deal,
Speaker 1: my nigga, the record industry would have so much budget
Speaker 1: left over all year because niggas is not serving corrupt, bro,
Speaker 1: it just ain't gonna happen right now. He takes pride
Speaker 1: in what he do. He take pride in this craftsmanship. Dog,
Speaker 1: and he's very serious about the dog. Him and rb
Speaker 1: X is really the rap niggas over there, because you
Speaker 1: know they here. You gotta hear X tell them stories too, dog,
Speaker 1: because he talked about in the early days of death Row,
Speaker 1: how they used to just get in the car and
Speaker 1: go to the projects, like they'd go to the knicks
Speaker 1: and gardens, they go to the pueb blows and they
Speaker 1: was just over there battling. Niggas are really just serving niggas.
Speaker 1: But another person who don't get credit for being like
Speaker 1: that is Trade e oh, Trade, Like that trade. Niggas
Speaker 1: is not gonna step on Tracy Davis. Man, you just not.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because they all that's the one thing
Speaker 1: that's underrated about that dog pal camp, whether it's Snoop, Yeah,
Speaker 1: them niggas is rappers. Man, Them niggas ain't sucking around
Speaker 1: so funk all the street ship and all the ship
Speaker 1: you want to think about. You're not going to get
Speaker 1: on these niggas, man, they will battle you and get
Speaker 1: on your ship. And I think Dog became such an
Speaker 1: icon of hip hop about that Dog used to be
Speaker 1: that like he steal lives dog. But Dog used to
Speaker 1: be just yeah, you can see and they go out
Speaker 1: the room right now. If you put nigg is in
Speaker 1: the room with Dog right now, and and Dog take
Speaker 1: off them glasses and take that ship out of here
Speaker 1: and start going, you'll be you'll be reminded why he's
Speaker 1: Snoop dog freestyle Doggie style. I don't think you really
Speaker 1: understand he's off the hook man that niggles into the
Speaker 1: song with you, Snoop and another o g iced tea
Speaker 1: kind of talk about your love for the original record,
Speaker 1: which made you want to g mix the next record?
Speaker 1: Uh six in the morning, Like, what was it about
Speaker 1: that record that made you say, you know what, I
Speaker 1: can mix this and get the reception that I want
Speaker 1: and then steal out to he speak on it, Get
Speaker 1: into that, get into that record a little bit um.
Speaker 1: I really didn't know how it would be received. Honestly,
Speaker 1: like a lot of this ship I'm doing now, I
Speaker 1: don't think I really care about that. I just care
Speaker 1: about what I think is dope and what I think
Speaker 1: hip hop needs, and what I definitely think hip hop needs,
Speaker 1: especially the West Coast, especially the up and coming seen
Speaker 1: on the East Coast in New York. I think we
Speaker 1: really need to tap back into the legends, you know,
Speaker 1: the the Ice t the LLL co Jays, the method Man,
Speaker 1: the Corrupts, the dass Is Swiss Beats. I think that's
Speaker 1: why it's so hard for the next wave of artists
Speaker 1: to succeed. You know what I mean, It's not a
Speaker 1: it's not a wave of different niggas. Is you know,
Speaker 1: it's only one or two niggas that's having it consistently.
Speaker 1: Everybody else's you know, it's inconsistent. You know, it's no
Speaker 1: new DMX is You know what, as far as success
Speaker 1: goes there's no new jay Z's as far as success goes.
Speaker 1: There's no new biggies as far as success coast. And
Speaker 1: I think it is because it's a break in the lineage.
Speaker 1: So being able to connect the lineage of the West
Speaker 1: Coast Iced Tea with Snoop Like, I feel like Iced
Speaker 1: Tea is the West Coast gangster rap god. Like our
Speaker 1: whole staff was built off of what Six in the
Speaker 1: Morning was. You know, we took this year the first
Speaker 1: person I heard on a record. Yeah, and that's crazy,
Speaker 1: But I feel like he created this reality sense of
Speaker 1: how we do it where you know, people that was
Speaker 1: doing gangster rap before him or the idea they were
Speaker 1: still rapping about how good of a rapper. They were
Speaker 1: talking about DJs and rappers and ship this nigger ship
Speaker 1: is all about pimp and howin going to prison, running
Speaker 1: from the police, you know what I mean. Like it
Speaker 1: was just reality and I think he's the god of it.
Speaker 1: You know, we've built so many songs off of that
Speaker 1: one song, whether it's you know, six in the Morning
Speaker 1: easily is um. You know, you get boys, you don't
Speaker 1: have boys in the hood without Six in the Morning.
Speaker 1: You don't have um wild thing without that, you don't have. Uh,
Speaker 1: tonight is the night you don't have. Regular you don't have.
Speaker 1: Murder was a case you don't have. Today was a
Speaker 1: good day. You don't even have. You don't have Roly
Speaker 1: time because rolling time very much was old to six
Speaker 1: in the morning. And Snoop If Ice Tea is the
Speaker 1: god against rap, then Snoop Dog is the Jesus of
Speaker 1: Gainster rap. Like he came and fulfilled the prophecy of
Speaker 1: everything it could be. Like he, like like ice came
Speaker 1: and laid it down and created this thing where we
Speaker 1: could have in w a where we could have you know,
Speaker 1: t and space, We could have this stuff, We could
Speaker 1: have some success. But when Snoop came, he just transformed life,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and changed it all and
Speaker 1: pushed pushed our culture and our will upon the whole masses.
Speaker 1: So connecting them they had never did a record together,
Speaker 1: could necting them became really important, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So that just became the driving force. It just happened
Speaker 1: to be the time. And I really wasn't worried about
Speaker 1: how successful the record was. I was more focused on
Speaker 1: trying to make sure I connect that lineage of West Coast.
Speaker 1: Know what I'm saying, making sure I bring it all together.
Speaker 1: It's dope and here it is right here. G mix
Speaker 1: G mix this ug like a lot of Nika City
Speaker 1: thug and nil tug run the real thug fans and
Speaker 1: my tea flegle tan with that water for the dreenk
Speaker 1: say soon up this motherfucker clean, come for the Bruno
Speaker 1: like a fresher. The big said that whole damn when
Speaker 1: it's trying to go and get him. I never sent him.
Speaker 1: I'm in the car with him. Pass I'm a leader.
Speaker 1: Ain't by the leader copy ship that's gonna get your
Speaker 1: nigga beet. It's what the bs these niggas can't. I'm
Speaker 1: a real nickel in the rap game. Knee up to
Speaker 1: tent tate. My nigga is trying to eat up and
Speaker 1: like trade d I still keep it cheat up to
Speaker 1: the eight, double down a side East Teddy Bear with
Speaker 1: these bitches on you niggas, I'm a beast still a
Speaker 1: little dolpful weak got your ditch. She freaking all night.
Speaker 1: We can't get just six in the Mona and six
Speaker 1: in the Mona, six in the Moana six in the
Speaker 1: niggas don't really fun in the mona get your bang on,
Speaker 1: nigga lets. You're not saying I give a funk about
Speaker 1: your hood. That's on everything. Don't ask me what's good.
Speaker 1: Ain't ship sweet, I ain't never loan. I'm like six
Speaker 1: black mass, black hoodie, black gloves, talk shit kid body,
Speaker 1: don't love kind of ill like blood my path. The
Speaker 1: Sikes say social path, CALLI nigga fund about to put
Speaker 1: it on the map. Low riding crypt walking, that's a
Speaker 1: fucking fat. I'm only happy when it's lead flying out
Speaker 1: the strap. I'm gonna tick, just punishment and pay back.
Speaker 1: I'm a sucker for war. I love conflict. I love
Speaker 1: the way my wrist feeling when that clock kick death threats,
Speaker 1: fantetics and pain treats of killing half the nigga's in
Speaker 1: the rap game. My nigga glass Malone, Si, let's kick
Speaker 1: Kake Iceberg on your track equals yellow take my nigga
Speaker 1: glass Malone. So, let's kick Cake Iceberg on your track
Speaker 1: equals sellow take still some little out we get Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's and to watch him strike that verse bro in
Speaker 1: front of me, that was like Craig, you know to
Speaker 1: be good. This nigga been good for forty plus years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think people underestimate how good I T really is
Speaker 1: because they think it as VU not understand that he
Speaker 1: had to make it to s VU. You understand what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. People act like they don't even know he
Speaker 1: liked the O G real O G when this ship
Speaker 1: comes when it comes to this music. But you talked
Speaker 1: about Trey D and Corrupt and his obviously you have
Speaker 1: a great deal of love for those brothers. So talk
Speaker 1: about the song that job created together active, Like what
Speaker 1: was your mindset going in there, because like you already said,
Speaker 1: these are two or the heaviest of the heavyweight in
Speaker 1: l A on the West coast. So kind of talk
Speaker 1: about your mind state going in there and there and
Speaker 1: then we would get into that song. Really again, it's
Speaker 1: two brothers that I really respect. You know. Um, Tray
Speaker 1: is a legend like in the streets. Tracy is a
Speaker 1: real life oh G is a real legend in the streets,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like, so my respect, he's
Speaker 1: somebody to me that pack of the wife of people
Speaker 1: like me that really came from the dirt doing it
Speaker 1: all to transition into the music business, and for him
Speaker 1: to have multi platinum success is incredible. I mean because
Speaker 1: it's tough when you're real, when it's authentic and people
Speaker 1: know you know, they cut you off faster, they cut
Speaker 1: away from you. So my respect for him and like
Speaker 1: like still said, I've literally been on records saying he's
Speaker 1: like he's he like rock Kim has so many uh
Speaker 1: students and people that that they funk with, and I
Speaker 1: think Trade is our He's what rock Kim would sound
Speaker 1: like if he was from here. So I met Trade
Speaker 1: on the streets before, on some drugship before. Honestly, um,
Speaker 1: but I was always a fan. So when he came
Speaker 1: home from prison the last time, I made sure. Even
Speaker 1: before he came home, I'll let him know. You know,
Speaker 1: like my my energy was going crazy and I'm like,
Speaker 1: look my nigga, like I look up to you, bro.
Speaker 1: If you need someone, you come home funk with me, man,
Speaker 1: like I want to get up with you. And it
Speaker 1: was loving respect back. He was able to check you know,
Speaker 1: who I was, and it made sense for him to
Speaker 1: funk with it. So ever since he came on from prison,
Speaker 1: I've been rocking with him. Whatever he wanted, whatever he needed,
Speaker 1: whatever he asked me for you know, I just want
Speaker 1: the best for the ones that's like me what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: especially so that was dope and corrupt you know him
Speaker 1: and Corrupt Goss songs. They on one of my favorite songs,
Speaker 1: see walk. You know what I'm saying, off for corrupt
Speaker 1: off one a corrupt project which is as a California classic,
Speaker 1: and just reuniting them again, know what I'm saying, and
Speaker 1: just making it funky and hard, That's it. I really
Speaker 1: didn't even go hard as an m C on it.
Speaker 1: I just really just set down exactly what it is
Speaker 1: on the street ship, like, let's get this understood. That
Speaker 1: was my mentality walking into the record. I wasn't walking
Speaker 1: in trying to m see you know, neither one of
Speaker 1: these legends off the record. I walked in like, let
Speaker 1: me stake my claim with all of this ship. Let
Speaker 1: me lay this ship down flat. Nigga, I'm the first
Speaker 1: nigga I left my ship running in the projects. Nigga,
Speaker 1: this is what I really did. This is these niggas.
Speaker 1: I really got at these niggas. This is what it is, Nigga.
Speaker 1: All three of us is active on the song. I
Speaker 1: guess it ain't gonna back down, you mean, oh, for sure,
Speaker 1: let's get into it then, man, I'm gonna play all
Speaker 1: three verses on hold. And before you do that, right, Oh,
Speaker 1: I came to my Nigga Metro and hommy Dante from
Speaker 1: the Chromatics to do it. So when we fucking with it,
Speaker 1: I sent him the idea. I'm like, yeah, I want
Speaker 1: to flip grape Vine like this a Temptation record, Like
Speaker 1: I want to flip Grapevine. And they was like, what
Speaker 1: the hell you mean? So I start telling them how
Speaker 1: I wanted to flip it, and I remember Dante and
Speaker 1: meet your like, oh, I get what you said, and
Speaker 1: just making it way funkier and harder. So to take
Speaker 1: a motown record, and y'all know, y'all from Michigan, to
Speaker 1: take a motown record and even make it more funky
Speaker 1: was hard, but it came out dope, and I'm grateful
Speaker 1: for that. Here we go right here, Just take me back.
Speaker 1: Who brought the ball? Rout? Who fu Billy wrapper put
Speaker 1: the car? Who took it to the bricks? Left and run?
Speaker 1: That was me? They could keep it one hard. She
Speaker 1: at hell staff for love, Play me to the left,
Speaker 1: around and get small see how really about that? Actually, bro,
Speaker 1: that's what separated me from these fronds. Bit you better
Speaker 1: had my bitch guy has speak through the current, make
Speaker 1: him up, crash bank the basis in the top for
Speaker 1: thank these niggas, really baby stop stop, I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 1: the really simmer scrap ship scat chick. Slow couple of
Speaker 1: niggas that I trapped some home club, low couple holdies.
Speaker 1: I got scratched with. Huh man, these niggas ain't acting.
Speaker 1: Show him you don't hit me? M yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: don't hit me. Score that as a stupid nothing can
Speaker 1: store moving something. Come time, front line nigger wasn't loosing
Speaker 1: that the squabbles here got those locking with the bots.
Speaker 1: Poor like that nigger, the shot holes, low beast general
Speaker 1: gang bang. Now I called shots a little homes let
Speaker 1: him fly go continuing straight tripped out, will turn ship down,
Speaker 1: bumping them dumps. You're coming for the kid, damn g rods,
Speaker 1: and we slide and massed up both the pope victims.
Speaker 1: So they're lying the bags of niggas. Know who did
Speaker 1: he come to gil the same? Now back on for
Speaker 1: the first and they skill. They hain't gout become kiddy
Speaker 1: who will fledgs with it. I live it to the limit,
Speaker 1: to the last damn Menutum gave you sucking the factors,
Speaker 1: the east siders and glasses, and we stayed apt You know, yes,
Speaker 1: yeah you don't. He crossed and crossed out like your
Speaker 1: hood's on the wall, motherfucker. And now I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: one of y'all. Motherfucker's get circle dropped in my purple nigga.
Speaker 1: Now don't say another word. Ain't things wonderful? I just
Speaker 1: don't understand what room's coming to. It's like bus get
Speaker 1: praised to be boss. I'm amazed at how he's funk
Speaker 1: motherfuck surviving, stayed alive after without getting folks eyes close
Speaker 1: up with folk. Nine was the only way you're nigger
Speaker 1: like me could get mine. I sit and watch the
Speaker 1: news and smoke fun, figuring how I'm gonna make it
Speaker 1: to two thousand to nine. All of this money is
Speaker 1: still want to do crime. I'm just stuck in my way.
Speaker 1: I'm the same fun back days. You That was the
Speaker 1: heall of the line. We're gonna wrap it up. We
Speaker 1: got two more to talk about. The one that really
Speaker 1: stood out tours is Rihanna and the concept of that title,
Speaker 1: so kind of get into that before we play that,
Speaker 1: because that that's stood out like okay, glasses all still
Speaker 1: with this, So still hates, still hates when I make
Speaker 1: gamester rap um. Honestly, man, I'm just a joker. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm a fool, you know, I'm a I'm a word smith,
Speaker 1: and I know how to craft words enough to where
Speaker 1: they could be taking the ass like I don't care.
Speaker 1: But I also always have insight and I have my
Speaker 1: own taking life, so I'll play around with so many
Speaker 1: words that I want to play around And Rihanna was
Speaker 1: just one of those bolk ideas that to myself like, Yo,
Speaker 1: I'm a flip this. I'm a flip this, I'm a
Speaker 1: flip this. You feel me, and I'm anna put on
Speaker 1: you know what what I'm saying, And I just made it
Speaker 1: something special, you know what I mean. I went in
Speaker 1: there and did that song in five minutes, like I
Speaker 1: was working around. It was like yeah for me, and
Speaker 1: it's funny because people really like that song. But that
Speaker 1: was kind of when I really started understanding and it's
Speaker 1: really my new emphasis of what gang how I was
Speaker 1: going to make gangster rap. You know I was able
Speaker 1: to always tell my management, always tell my older brothers
Speaker 1: and anybody that's been around me, let me be the
Speaker 1: gangster rap tyrant I was born to be, Like I'm
Speaker 1: a cruel person, like I don't care about how people
Speaker 1: feel because I stand in truth and I'm okay with it.
Speaker 1: So if they let me be that person, I'll reach
Speaker 1: my potential. All right, steel, let's get it to Rihanna.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go. So it almost got us
Speaker 1: being here we go Rihanna, and he wanted east to
Speaker 1: read up, read up. When I got texted detO, damn
Speaker 1: what baby hitting me? Fun? Lawing up my phone? Nigga
Speaker 1: steak fun? What's cracking this word? What's the word better?
Speaker 1: And then she kept that nigga to the card and
Speaker 1: she led her way that I wrapped. She want that
Speaker 1: pussy cord on the set. She eat the strouugh like,
Speaker 1: so she wants the gangster has tagged up, like get
Speaker 1: into that pussy do it like it's this and got
Speaker 1: a couple of extra ences. I can give you what
Speaker 1: you're missing and tell you want to slap. Leave a
Speaker 1: couple of heads unconscious on the cabin staring first and yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm talking to me, and I was saying me to
Speaker 1: seat it up. I'm gonna treat it like Rihanna, treat
Speaker 1: it like Rihah, beat it up, beat it up, because
Speaker 1: with the pussy it up, I'm gonna treat it like Rihanna.
Speaker 1: Bench called me Chris Brown, She's uh nigga. Put it down.
Speaker 1: When I treated like Rihanna, Rihanarihana, Rihanna, Rihanna, Triana Lorihan
Speaker 1: treated like Rihanna three, Rihana, Rihanna, Rihanna treated, I love
Speaker 1: a freaky ollum bitch. Not I love a freaky ollum bitch. Not.
Speaker 1: You're trying to hurry cut that off. Man. Listen, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get I'm gonna give still still lucky he
Speaker 1: got dinner because I was gonna give him a heart
Speaker 1: attack for I was done. She right now, he's in shape.
Speaker 1: Y'all don't realize the reason that nigger got his shape
Speaker 1: was to handle the content I'm about to start releasing.
Speaker 1: He know all this ship is light. The he was
Speaker 1: tripping off Rihano or tripping off Tupac must die or
Speaker 1: tripping still know what's in there. He knows what's just
Speaker 1: not just so he wouldn't give me a stroke, so
Speaker 1: I could be ready for these scraps, for these squabbles
Speaker 1: we were to line up. Ain't gonna be no squab
Speaker 1: But before we get up out of here, man, we
Speaker 1: want to thank you for your time project. You just
Speaker 1: mentioned tupac Us Die. We was like, then, we've seen
Speaker 1: that was absent from the project, but then still explained like, no,
Speaker 1: that just was a lucy heat through out there, and
Speaker 1: that was Hella. I think it was Hella controversial because
Speaker 1: the figure that people look at podcasts and they always
Speaker 1: forget that the it's always the most popular person who
Speaker 1: the people champion, and that people forget that these other
Speaker 1: people have stories too. But we're gonna say that one
Speaker 1: because the last song on the record was Monster Cody
Speaker 1: R I P. And we really does that record because
Speaker 1: our introduction to real we're not gang bangers, you know
Speaker 1: what I see what I'm saying by our introduction to
Speaker 1: real gang l A Street Ship was Monster Cody book.
Speaker 1: I think we read that when he was like fourteen
Speaker 1: years old, and it seems so at fourteen reading that book,
Speaker 1: it's like this ship serious, Like this is how this
Speaker 1: ship going in l A Like because we know it's
Speaker 1: a million Monster Cody's, it's a lot of niggas, but
Speaker 1: that like right to read that ship and it'll be like, damn,
Speaker 1: this is what l A is about. And to watch
Speaker 1: his progression uh after reading it, because then we start
Speaker 1: seeing him in documentary and then we started learning about
Speaker 1: his little brother. Uh. Monster Cody is who taught us
Speaker 1: how to gang names go whereas little Baby Tiny. All
Speaker 1: of that come from us reading Monster Cody book and
Speaker 1: then when he passed away, and uh, for you to
Speaker 1: have that record, uh, just to pay homage to a
Speaker 1: fellow crip because that's big. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: people know how big that is, because if they pay
Speaker 1: attention to l A, it's a lot of crip on
Speaker 1: cryp violence. But to step away and say it don't
Speaker 1: matter about the crip on cryp violence. This crip was
Speaker 1: that crip. So talk about that record before we get
Speaker 1: into it. So to be honest, like Monster Cody, it
Speaker 1: wasn't even just like doing it because he was another crip.
Speaker 1: Like if that was a blood nigga telling the same story,
Speaker 1: it has been justice intriguing. What I like about Cody
Speaker 1: was it ain't a lot of people as artickuling it
Speaker 1: that got his kind of jacket, Like I don't got
Speaker 1: a jacket like Monster Code Monster Cody is like chopping
Speaker 1: nigger arm off Jackiet. You know them older niggas, man
Speaker 1: them niggas is different. Them niggas like stab you, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean like and I mean I don't
Speaker 1: mean slice you, I mean literally stab you and look
Speaker 1: at your eyes while you fall it. So their generation
Speaker 1: is different, you know. I'm I'm I've always had a
Speaker 1: respect for how articling he was and how he was
Speaker 1: able to express how he saw this ship that was important.
Speaker 1: And honestly I got that piece from a homie a O. G.
Speaker 1: Humble from sixty. He has a a blog, I mean
Speaker 1: well it is a blog too, but he has a
Speaker 1: YouTube page. It's called keV mac Videos. And if you
Speaker 1: really want to learn about Gangs of l a like
Speaker 1: from like his infancy and like a very different kind
Speaker 1: of take where people think it lacks intellect, and it
Speaker 1: very much was all of these younger brothers that were
Speaker 1: really intelligent and had a plan to make something out
Speaker 1: of their life and come together and be something. You
Speaker 1: can go to keV mac Videos on YouTube and see it.
Speaker 1: That's where I took that content from. And I just
Speaker 1: noticed and what's really specialists for that particular thing. Minus that,
Speaker 1: you know, both of them are cripts, phonomen Crypt. It's big,
Speaker 1: it's bigger than that. Kevin mac is a sixty, I mean,
Speaker 1: o g legendary shixty, a real good brother. Monster Cody
Speaker 1: is an a trade So for that conversation, so for
Speaker 1: that conversation to be happening, it was certain things that
Speaker 1: he revealed to keV that he wouldn't reveal to just
Speaker 1: any documentary, some white filmmaker. And that is one of
Speaker 1: those things. I've heard Monster Cody talk about how the
Speaker 1: sixties in the trade beach started a few times, and
Speaker 1: it's pretty much the same consistent story. But that story
Speaker 1: right there, it miss something because he was talking to
Speaker 1: somebody who had been around the culture as long as
Speaker 1: he was. So he was telling Keev right who was
Speaker 1: close to Monster's age, or if maybe the same age,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean right close. He was telling him
Speaker 1: how the first two main characters in Crypt the time
Speaker 1: he got a chance to ride with both of them.
Speaker 1: You know, this is Raymond Washington, the guy who started crips,
Speaker 1: right with his crew, his guy arrest in peace to
Speaker 1: those guys and and and took you who became kind
Speaker 1: of the face of it at the highest level. And
Speaker 1: he's telling him a story about how they were riding
Speaker 1: in the car together and zoom that came out. And
Speaker 1: even what's crazy is if you listen to the rest
Speaker 1: of that interview that I took that from with with
Speaker 1: Kevimc on kevimc Videos on YouTube. If you listen to
Speaker 1: an interview, he tells the story when they finally got
Speaker 1: back to where it was going in the neighborhood and
Speaker 1: Monster as Raymond excuse me, Tookie, as Raymond did he
Speaker 1: wants was he hungry? He's like, yeah, you know, give
Speaker 1: me an egg sandwich. So Monster scraped together and gave
Speaker 1: him the last little bit of change he had and said, Monster,
Speaker 1: go get some food. Monster was so hungry, like and
Speaker 1: this is how I knew that them dudes lives was
Speaker 1: in a different place. They didn't have access to opportunity
Speaker 1: and economics they did. It wasn't available because when they
Speaker 1: got to the when Monster got to the place to
Speaker 1: get this egg sandwich and and the food for Tookie,
Speaker 1: he stole the egg out of Raymond sandwich and I
Speaker 1: know that seems funny, but it's funny to me like
Speaker 1: listening to it. But when I think about it, you know,
Speaker 1: how hungry you gotta be the stiller nigger egg got
Speaker 1: a sandwich. And that's the part of this gang culture
Speaker 1: that we don't really ever get, which is a lot
Speaker 1: of these brothers was poor and and funked up and
Speaker 1: not having a ton of opportunity. They didn't have a
Speaker 1: ton of opportunity to make a livel ways they was.
Speaker 1: You had to take crumbs. That's what they wanted them
Speaker 1: to settle for, and them niggas wasn't going for it.
Speaker 1: And so when you check that out on Kevi Mac,
Speaker 1: look at keV Mac and Monster Cody. But when he
Speaker 1: tells that story, you know you don't hear that part obviously,
Speaker 1: where Manster steals the egg and all of that stuff happened.
Speaker 1: They go back and take all the food from there
Speaker 1: on the players and come back and Marster's bragging about
Speaker 1: how great he ate, like that was a big deal
Speaker 1: that he ate great, which is trip right, But how
Speaker 1: when Raymond is singing Zoom in the car like his
Speaker 1: life something that we look up to these guys and
Speaker 1: we'll be like, oh man, but his life was so
Speaker 1: traumatic he wanted to escape on the spaceship. That's why Zoom,
Speaker 1: you know, should be the black national anthem, because that's
Speaker 1: why black people attest to it. Our life in this
Speaker 1: country is so traumatic that we want to escape this world.
Speaker 1: And this is Raymond Washington, right, the originator of the Crips,
Speaker 1: and and Standy Tiki Williams in this car together, and
Speaker 1: Raymond and Monster is so younger the back seat. He
Speaker 1: don't even realize that the two niggas even look up
Speaker 1: to really don't love the life they live. It's something
Speaker 1: that they banned together because they felt it was necessary.
Speaker 1: And that ship is dope. Like just listening to it,
Speaker 1: like those three brothers in one car. What I'm saying,
Speaker 1: you know, shoutout kiv mc um, shout out hood postman um.
Speaker 1: Then with some of the brothers, first brothers to start,
Speaker 1: you know, when I gotta give Alex Alonso's um wel
Speaker 1: as his props. You know, so Alex, you know, Alex
Speaker 1: is out there doing this thing. I ain't no man,
Speaker 1: he has fantastic, all of them brothers. I'm so yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's so important and it's so important that those
Speaker 1: brothers keep that journey going because it gives details into
Speaker 1: our life. People think it's so ignorant, and it's not
Speaker 1: like it's driven off poverty and oppression what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And that's why that skit is so important. It seems
Speaker 1: like this super creepy thing to do. And I know
Speaker 1: that's what people are gonna get from it. But for me,
Speaker 1: I listened to it and you hear zoom and this
Speaker 1: nigg is singing at the top of his lungs, like
Speaker 1: just think about this though. G you know, Raymond Washington, Tookie,
Speaker 1: those are legendary figures. They've never made the diame off
Speaker 1: of gangbanging, bro. They just you know, they people the figures.
Speaker 1: But and that's what people need to realize that gangsterism
Speaker 1: is a part of West Coast culture, just like um,
Speaker 1: you know the brothers um Graffitian, you know their names
Speaker 1: on the trains and tagging the trains, of bombing the
Speaker 1: trains and stuff like that, and spending on the cardboard boxes.
Speaker 1: It's just the same thing, bros. A part of the
Speaker 1: West Coast coach. It wasn't about and it's not about
Speaker 1: to this day. It's not about killing poor people killed
Speaker 1: because they just deal with things primitively. But that's not
Speaker 1: what gangbanging is about. It's just not It's really about
Speaker 1: that brotherhood of a bunch of brothers coming up together,
Speaker 1: broke and manning together either or persevere and chase economics.
Speaker 1: Let let's go onto that real quick before we go
Speaker 1: into that, man, what is the next project dropping bro um?
Speaker 1: The goal is by the time you see this interview,
Speaker 1: you know, the next single be out in the sky,
Speaker 1: A new single in January. I don't know, we'll figured
Speaker 1: out February, February March. I have so much material, so
Speaker 1: much stuff that I want to present, So I just
Speaker 1: gotta give things a little bit of space to live,
Speaker 1: you know, so people can digest them. But I definitely
Speaker 1: want to deliver them, you know. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna hold back any longer, Like I'm not gonna hold
Speaker 1: back like I'm entirely I have too much to offer
Speaker 1: to not alright for show, so we can look at
Speaker 1: you all right up to this monster Cody R I,
Speaker 1: P and y'all make sure man, y'all go check out
Speaker 1: the Connected Experience Man that drops every Monday on Digital Soapbox.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying we can end off right here.
Speaker 1: Here we go. Take me the first time, I make ready,
Speaker 1: marsh and listen to this. It's just just struck ship
Speaker 1: right side. By the time. By this time I and
Speaker 1: me and took this relationship. I started carrying the gun,
Speaker 1: but took the driver cat mean keybow on from the
Speaker 1: west side of the mind. A second had a white
Speaker 1: girl white sixty eight ship crazies that my fucker's type.
Speaker 1: No high draw les, just sucking sitting on for Tony grapers.
Speaker 1: Girl white with the bullets pearl white. That was took
Speaker 1: like driving on Sundays. We thank sending the other part,
Speaker 1: but I care to gun, so we him. Driver took
Speaker 1: and men it back with the burning big as police
Speaker 1: thirty eight. I already had like two body by this time.
Speaker 1: Honest dream. This day we go sitting at work and
Speaker 1: Rainow said, so everybody's gotting around rain Now I'm sitting
Speaker 1: up like I was supposed to be the burning look
Speaker 1: at us for ship. I know I'm gonna miss everything
Speaker 1: I shoot that ain't shooting range or nothing. I just
Speaker 1: I just gotta drilling to come. Ain't drilling they come.
Speaker 1: But I'm seriously that they bring me a right back
Speaker 1: and now so tricks in here. Yeah, so I jumped
Speaker 1: in the back as usual. Raymond's in the front Kebon
Speaker 1: driving all the windows down. Sunday afternoon, come back Englewood
Speaker 1: on Manchester. Keebon got an eight track tape or the
Speaker 1: new song that just came up by the Common Dude
Speaker 1: was called Zoo and Raymonds stuck on it. He keeps
Speaker 1: clicking that but fucking to the same song. But he's
Speaker 1: singing at the top of his voice, O U, I
Speaker 1: live to fly far away from bed where my mom
Speaker 1: and he's seeing that top of points. But that ship
Speaker 1: is infectious. So we are all just like this right,
Speaker 1: that ship's cool, which is like, this is the top, cryptim,
Speaker 1: this is the fucking top, right, And I'm like Twitter,
Speaker 1: it's just blowing my mom. But I'm like, man, my head,
Speaker 1: my head, man, I just wanted that. When he said
Speaker 1: that real question, he said, this is the type of
Speaker 1: Cryptoine though, and it's really it wasn't really what people think.
Speaker 1: He's not talking about them. Nigga is going to kill
Speaker 1: each other. It was just him and his boys and
Speaker 1: they're just making the best out of something. I really
Speaker 1: want to shout out keV Mac for allowing me to
Speaker 1: use that like as I asked him, it was never nothing.
Speaker 1: He's like Chico Ahead for I got it's nothing, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And and speaking of Warren G
Speaker 1: for that good. I know we didn't talk about it,
Speaker 1: but I want to thank Warren G. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean for like allowing me to flip his sample
Speaker 1: and not asking for no publishing, not none, you feel me,
Speaker 1: and then blessing me with the remix verse of his
Speaker 1: classic song like it's a lot of love on the
Speaker 1: West Coast that don't get talked about. And those are
Speaker 1: two prime examples that outro where all of them dudes
Speaker 1: is from different parts of town, yet it's all love.
Speaker 1: The fact that keV Mac, I'm from the East side,
Speaker 1: Kevi Mac from the West side. He allowed me to
Speaker 1: use it, no question, The fact Warren asked me, let
Speaker 1: me use his sample to make my biggest song, my
Speaker 1: only gold record, you feel Me, and then wrapped on
Speaker 1: it after without ever asking for any publishing. For me
Speaker 1: sampling this stuff, it's it's a lot of love in
Speaker 1: this game amongst the culture, amongst black people in general
Speaker 1: that don't get showcased So it's definitely a big shout
Speaker 1: out to keV Matt, big shout out to Warrant Gy
Speaker 1: No Gig, shout out to everybody who helped me do
Speaker 1: this project. Hell yeah. And there's a lot of all
Speaker 1: them brothers you named as good brothers. Man, you know,
Speaker 1: battle Cat, all the War and all of them. Dude
Speaker 1: is way more down on the earth than what people
Speaker 1: would think. You know, mm hmm, know what I'm saying again, glasses,
Speaker 1: we want to thank you for your time. We appreciate you.
Speaker 1: When we get back to l A, we're gonna sit down.
Speaker 1: How you want a connected experience, We're gonna chop it up.
Speaker 1: But we wanted to make sure that we highlighted this
Speaker 1: project because, like I said, when you talked about two
Speaker 1: and the people really trying to push that, that's when
Speaker 1: the gangster, when the rap music was sending the people
Speaker 1: to jail. We understood that that is when the West
Speaker 1: coast had it, and the West coast y'all got a
Speaker 1: special relationship with the mid and West right now. A
Speaker 1: lot of the l A Cats working with the Detroit
Speaker 1: Cats before that though, before that, man our Sam come
Speaker 1: from the Midwest. You know a lot of our come
Speaker 1: from the Midwest, so you know that's where all the
Speaker 1: brothers come from. So that bond will never be broken,
Speaker 1: right and and we that's what we're here for to
Speaker 1: continue that by so no angster, we keeping the bridge
Speaker 1: right on to l A with the help of steal,
Speaker 1: with the help of you man, and our slogan man
Speaker 1: on the connected experience is I want for my brother
Speaker 1: what I want for myself. And that's how we want
Speaker 1: to end it, Bro. As always, I want for my
Speaker 1: brother what I want for myself. That much love, Bro,