Drink Champs - Episode 465 w/ Anderson .Paak

Episode Date: August 8, 2025

N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. In this episode we chop it up with the one and only, Anderson .Paak! Anderson .Paak pulls up for a conversation full of laughs, game, and West Coast wisdom. The champs pop bottles with the Grammy-winning artist as he shares stories from his rise out of Oxnard, CA to becoming one of the most dynamic forces in music. Known for his genre-bending sound and electric performances, .Paak talks about working with legends like Dr. Dre, Bruno Mars, and creating magic as one-half of Silk Sonic. The crew dives deep into his journey — from homelessness and struggle to rocking stages around the globe. Anderson drops gems on how he stays authentic, what it's like balancing mainstream success with staying rooted in the culture, and the importance of family, funk, and fun. And of course, the drinks keep flowing as he gives fans an inside look into his creative process, favorite collabs, and what's next for the multi talented musician. Full of laughs, real talk, and unforgettable moments, this episode is a celebration of artistry, hustle, and good vibes. Whether you're a fan of hip-hop, soul, or just raw conversation, Anderson .Paak on Drink Champs is smokin’ (out the window)! Make some noise for Anderson Paak! 💐💐💐🏆🏆🏆 Listen and subscribe at https://www.drinkchamps.com Follow:   Drink Champs https://www.drinkchamps.com https://www.instagram.com/drinkchamps https://www.twitter.com/drinkchamps https://www.facebook.com/drinkchamps   DJ EFN  https://www.crazyhood.com https://www.instagram.com/whoscrazy https://www.twitter.com/djefn https://www.facebook.com/crazyhoodproductions   N.O.R.E.  https://www.instagram.com/therealnoreaga https://www.twitter.com/noreagaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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up is DJEFN. And this is military Crazy War podcast, make some love! Now, this brother's a legend. We've been trying

to get him for a long time. They said he came out 2012, but his freshman year couple is about to hit 10 years. We're going to talk about that.

We're going to talk about that Super Bowl stage. We're going to talk about them six Grammys. We're going to talk about this legend. Nine Grammy. Nine Grammy?

Oh, oh, my God. Oh, my God. My Google is fucked up. My Google is fucked up. You know what? In case you don't know what before we're talking about The one, Oli!

He's about! Let's go! Now, I had, my first hip-hop name was MC Yahoo with the balder bean. And your first name... Yeah, I thought my shit was fucked up, but you up there was... me. Your shit was Breezy Lovejoy?

Yeah. It's much better named. What was the way you said? Okay, I'm going to get you that. So, that was your first name. Yeah, that was my first name. I was like, yeah, this is going to get all the hos. Breezy Lovejoy. It was already called me Breezy when I was

just a kid. It was 12 years old. And I was a big chubby kid. I was farting all the time. And my brother-in-law was like, I'm going to call you Breezy. He was from Brooklyn. He was like, I'm going to call you breezy. Right.

Because you fought to be crazy. And then when I got to, like, high school, I was like, I'm going to add the love joy. Right. Because that's going to get the ladies when I started writing music on my first little demo tapes. And that's what I went with for years. And then my manager was like, you need to change that shit. When you were going to meet Dr. Dre.

Yeah. Okay. And I was like, I got 500 Instagram followers. I don't need to change shit. I'm on. And he was like, you're going to really meet Dr. Dre one day and say, my name is Breeze Lovejoy, and I was like, damn, so I changed it. Two years later, I was signed a drag.

It was crazy. That's wild. And you went with your own name? Mm-hmm. Okay. Most people don't do that. My name, my government name is Brandon. Okay.

Park Anderson. Wow. It's Korean and white, I guess. I don't know what it is. But my mom, they thought I was going to be a girl, so it was going to name me Brenda. And I came out the G, the man that I am. Right, right, right. And they said, Brandon.

Right. And then I just switched it up I went by Anderson Pack And then I changed the denunciation to Pat Because my manager was like You need them guessing, need them talking They won't know if it's Pat Park They won't know if you one man, a group

And I was like, all right And I just did it Anderson Pack And yeah, it took a little bit Like rebranded for a little bit But it was It kind of just all the line It was perfect timing after that I just kept going with it

All right Now, we heard you drinking Casa Zoo. I almost... It's natural tequila day tomorrow, right? Is it? Really? Let's get it. Let's get a jump on it. I'm going to celebrate. You're drinking sake.

I'm going to drink in sake. Yes. You're not going to do tequila? He's like the only person saying that right. Yeah, sake, right? I just came from Shibuya. And you've been to Korea? You've been to Korea? That's great, by the way. Thank you.

I have been to Korea. You've been to Korea. Several times. Because I heard your son speaks fluent, Korean. Yeah. My in-laws are Korean. All right. His grandparents.

parents, his mom, the whole house Korean. I'd be like, you black, too. Right. Little niggins, look at your feet. Now you like to get whooped. Nah, but no, yeah. What's the Korean version of sake? What's it called?

Soju. I had it for the longest. Remember I kept saying my mom gave it to me because she went to Korea and you brought him back? Do you like it? I love it. Yeah, yeah. I get it at Naz restaurant, Cocoa, the caviar and chicken spot,

and they didn't have sake. I asked, and it was like, we have the Korean version of Saki. And what is it called again? Soju. You spoke with that? Yeah. Oh, okay. Okay.

It's strong. It's strong. It's like Vaka. Yeah. But you're not, you're not Korean yourself. I am. So my mom is actually born in Korea. She was adopted in Korea.

So she was found, her and my uncle were found during the Korean War in the 50s. When the, when the whole place was going crazy. And there were abandoned kids, they assumed from, you know, military. American and a Korean mom and they were found in them brought over to the States. My mom grew up black adoptive parents who were also in the military. She grew up

in Compton, moved to South Central, and when she was late 30, she was living in Oxnard. Oxnard. She had me and my little sister, but she grew up in L.A. My pops was from Philly. Wow. Black from Philly. Yeah. Yeah.

So I'm from Belasia. Okay. You're Balasian. That's what I tell my son. Black Asian. We're from Belasia, son. Our people. Heinz War. Obama. We start claiming it.

So, how, all right, so you said your moms was from Compton. How did you get to Oxnard? How do you pronounce it? Oxnard, Oxnard, California.

And where's that at? It's a little north to L.A. El-Sagando? Like towards Al-Sagando? No, you go one-on-one north towards Santa Barbara. Okay. The first time I heard of it was. On the way.

Calabasasas, like past Calabas. Oh, okay. Yeah, Ventura County. It's nice. Okay. And it's a little more secluded, but it's by the beach. But, you know, more people moving there now. But back then, it was a lot of people would be there because of the military base.

Oh, wow. And you get a lot of military people there, a lot of retirees, and a lot of agriculture is out there. So it was a lot of Latinos, a lot of Mexicans, El Salvadorians, because it's all like strawberries. You can grow everything there. Right. So the majority of it is agriculture and like immigrants that be over there working and my mom She grew strawberries, right? Yeah, that's how my mom winded up over there.

She got gifted a business for her, one of her friends gave her a strawberry stand that he's going to take over. And he was like, take this. He ain't doing shit. She was like doing junior college. She had two kids already. She was like, fuck it, you know? And then she did that and it got bigger and bigger every year. And by the time.

She always worked for herself. Yeah, entrepreneur from the job. And then she met my dad, and they started doing that together. And that didn't work out. My pops went to prison when I was, you know, barely young, six or seven. But then she continued to go and married again, and they got into the same business. And by the time we was high school, you know, it was a multi-million dollar business. You know what the illness shit about you is I always kind of see you smile, right?

Yeah. And to me, I'm scared of people who smile, right? I'm going to tell you why. It's because they want to protect their peace. That's what that means for person. I'm talking about me now. Yeah, yeah, so I'm saying, like, you know, I don't know, I mean scared. Like, what I mean is, like, what I mean is, like, this guy, like, if you see somebody smile,

it's like, that's a, that's a person you don't want to break day peace. Yeah. And I didn't know that. And when I, you know, start researching you, and I realized both of your parents went to jail, right? Yeah. Wow. Yeah, both of them did stretches in penchantry. My mom's was seven and a half years at Corona State.

and my stepdad did about a year less. Wow. But yeah, the same business that she did, you know, she ended up getting in over her head, caught a case. It's like they had crazy, like, you know, counts against her. She pled guilty, took a plea, and she did seven and a half state.

Wow, man. Did that shit. Went in, got her degree. Both of your parents was locked up at the same time? Yeah. It's a separate time. No, they were locked the same time. Wow.

It was my stepdad, and he came in around when I was, like, six or seven. Okay. And all the way until I was about in high school. But, yeah, they both got put in the same time. And I was, like, senior in high school. Like, I thought I was about to be, like, I was making beats already, DJ. And I was, I was like, I'm about to be signed to Rockefeller. Like, be the youngest over there.

I'm going to do this. And then that happened, senior and everything just upside down. My sister's had to move in. and everybody was just scrambling. Me and my little sister were still in high school. How many siblings total? I got three sisters from my mom, and it's two older sisters, Ronnie and Camille. Shout out to Ronnie and Camille and my little sister Fielding.

And that's who we grew up in Housewood. I was the only boy, and I'm the middle. And so... That must have been a rough time for all. Yeah, it was tough. But we're all really close. So everybody banded together. And once I graduated.

I was like, okay, I'm not signed yet. I'm going to get a job, so I moved down. It's when you worked in a weed farm. Working everywhere. Weed farm. I did groceries. I did assistant living. Sold shoes, sneakers, sold weed. It was the worst weed dealer.

Yeah. You smoke on your own. I was getting robbed, just, yeah, just kidding. No negotiating skills. It was going all of them. vibes and shit. You didn't weigh it. You're like, yeah. You got to pay other people. The names are trimmed it. Like, damn. I didn't have no gun. It's just chilling. Yeah, it was just, I was just having fun out there. Yeah, but then eventually I got in my right lane and my right

mind. It's like, I'm going to do music. So California, like, from what we always know, it was like heavily gang populated? Was Oxnard? Yeah. Heavyly gang? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, heavily. Yeah, growing up, that's all I knew. That's all I knew. Growing up when I was coming up, my earliest memories of hanging with my cousins, you know, they were gangbangers and they were always, you know, beefing with different people in the neighborhood. And I was just remember people always going in and out of jail

or, you know, getting, you know, hooked on drugs. And early on, they were like, all the gang members I knew were early on there we used to say, like, you were different. To about you. Yeah. Because you don't look like you belong in a gang. Not at all. Not in the least bit.

It's funny, though, like the music that I love the most is the most gang banging. It's like, shoot a lot. I heard you show away a Snoop Dog CD one time when you cross over. Yeah, when I was little, you know, like since I was little, I was listening to Snoop. Right. You know, for show and tell, I used to learn every lyric and just rap, you know, the song. You know, that would be my show and tell.

And I was obsessed with hip-hop. My sister would have all the tapes. And I was obsessed with everything that she was obsessed with. And that was what my meter was for cool. So I was like, yeah, but all the early people that were in that life, they were like, you're special, you're talented. I used to just sit and they, like, do it, and I just dance. I'll do all the kid and play, like, criss-cross. Like, I would do all that.

I was such an entertainer. I wanted to just entertain. I do the Bobby Brown. I put the jacket over, and it would be like a, every day, a party for my family, and I would be just entertaining Michael Jackson. I'd be flipping all over the place. And so there was, like, boom. And then when I started playing drums, I started getting interested in musical,

there was, like, really, like, you ain't, this ain't for you, you stick with that, you know? When you started playing jumps, that was in the church? Yeah. So was that a 360 moment for you when, the Super Bowl, when you were on the drums? Because it's like, that's where you started out in the church. But look at you're on the biggest stage in the world, and you're going back to how you started. How was that moment for you? Cheers to the Super Bowl.

That was a moment. That was a moment. Clap it up for that. That's right. That's right. That makes a noise for that. Super Bowl, baby. Scott Starch must have been sitting back like, man, fuck this motherfucker.

How did he get in a bite of that? on stage. Blang, blang, blank, blank, blank. But yeah, describe that moment. Shout out to Scott Storich. You got me in trouble with him. Got my man, hell, y'all, yeah, he's playing. But he know that joke is funny.

That's my daughter. He know that joke is, buddy. I had to hit Dreya. I was about to be left off that motherfucker. I was like, I ain't about to be. We had Scott talk about it on here, and we had Dre talk about it on here. I asked Dre, particularly, I asked Dre, did you think you missed somebody off of the stage?

and he looked at me this was the hardest part of the interview in my opinion he looked at me and was like no and I said oh shit

he was sure in his answer I didn't want to yeah he was he was I had they had already dropped the flyer

for the Super Bowl right and you hadn't you weren't involved I was not on that shit I hit Dre direct Dre what the fuck

let me get on that joint let me play drums something let me you know I guess I can get in there some way he said hey it's all good

I made my own flyer I superimposed myself on that shit shit. You a. This is before AIA. Before an AIS. How long ago they threw niggas played 10 years ago?

That shit was before AI. I hit my people up. I'm like, look, you got to figure it out. I threw myself on there. I was like, yo, it's good. Like, he's like, we're going to find something for you. I was at bet. I'm put myself on the fly.

I'm going to just take a few liberties. I'm going to just throw myself on there. And I showed it to him. He started cracking up. He was like, make sure they know what's a joke. I was like, that's all good. I'm a post it. And I was on that shit next.

You know, I was... Way to manifest it, though. There's a force manifest. It's not fake it to you, make it. It's bringing to fruition. I mean, he had the connection. He had to just see it all the way through. Yeah, shout out to Jay.

Shout to everybody that was on a stage. So let me ask you, though. But you actually got the call. What was that you for? You're like, AP. Got an idea. A.P. It's a person who's a person who's dead off.

What's that? You're AP. All right. I'm in. Right. That was pretty much a just of it. And next thing, you know, I'm at rehearsals. And he's like, I got this idea.

You're down to play for Marshall, you know, like, and I'm like, let's do it. Like, lose yourself. And the fucked up part was that I was rehearsing for the Silk Sonic shit at the same time. We was rehearsing for our residency. Yes. If you went to the L.A. residency, that was, we were rehearsing for that at the same time. And I feel like we only had like a month to get the show right. And we did a month straight.

And I had to keep telling Bruno's like, I got to go for Super Bowl rehearsal. I got to leave early, you know, and stuff. And both of them are just like they're so fixated on having the greatest show. And that's why they do have the greatest show because they really work at it. And Dre is no exception. And he was getting these rehearsals in. And they put together an amazing show. And I was able to sneak in like really two or three rehearsals with Dre and them.

And they shout out to my boy. that was the MD over there. Oh, my God, I'm drinking and smoking, but, you know, charge it to my heart. No, man. But, you know, my boy, Adam Blackstone, who put together the show, was incredible in his band, and he took care of me and got me where I was comfortable because I can jump in there

and also get back in rehearsal, so on. And we had to do the Super Bowl. It was insane because right before we go on to the field, you know, we're like on the side of the field, and, you know, they get like 30 seconds. to set up the stage or whatever. Wait, 30 seconds? I mean, something like that.

It's crazy. Yeah. And I'm hearing, you know, you put your in-airs in, and you can hear everybody talking, and, like, it's seconds before we go up, and I hear Snoop go, he go to Dre. Hey, cuss, is it laity, da-di-da, or da-di-da-da-da. And Drey goes, what?

And then five, four. Slites off, because of the drum on stage. oh my god and i'm playing to lose yourself you only get one shot right i'm like do not drop your sticks bro this is like the biggest thing it was this incredible man like the way they orchestrated it and they went off without a hitched it was it was uh that was a big moment for sure and everybody was like i was like should i smile you know when i'm on damn i couldn't help it and i'm like i'm gonna be straight face and then as you can see i had the biggest fucking smile the whole time yeah i tried I was high.

So did he say la-di-da-a-da-a-ha-hurt-di-da? I blacked out. I don't even know. I think he's la-di-da-di-da. Yeah. But go back to when you get your hands on drums. How was that presented to you in the church? Like what, how did you get drawn into drums yourself?

I started playing drums because I wanted a girlfriend or something, you know? I wanted, like, girls to, you know, like I was getting into drums. 12, 13, and everybody had a thing. And I thought I was going to be an NBA player. I thought I was going to be like a wrestler, like all this thing. And I was, you know, drawing. And I wanted to be in a cartoon. Like I wanted, I was like, why I couldn't like be a cartoon?

But I was like, I need to do something. And then I was like, I love music. And I was very percussive. And the drums were the one thing that I, when I got on, it was like second nature. Like I never had to really overthink it. So that's why I stuck with it. Just came natural. Yeah.

In sixth grade, I started playing in, like, orchestra band, and it was cool. I was about to quit. But then my step pops, I came home one day, and he had a drum set. And he was playing Prince. And I didn't even know he played drums. And I was like, okay, the full drum kit, that might be more of my thing. And he was just always jamming. He went and let me get on the drum kit for a minute.

And then he finally got off, and I hopped on, and I started playing. And it was just like, man, a few minutes. I was getting it. I had the mechanics, and my mom was hopped out of the room and was like, you're crazy. My mom was a really big critic, you know? And she was like, you got it.

She was dancing and shit. So I was like, okay, yeah. I can't make people dancing shit. So I'm going to keep doing it. And I kept learning all her records. Earth went afire, Frankie Beverly and Al Green and, you know, George Vincent.

Yeah, she would just, yeah. She would give me, she had booklets and CDs. And you wouldn't know how to play it on drums, you're saying? Yeah, drums. Well, learn this. Learn this. I mean, everything. Freddie Jackson, HeavyD, Tony, Tony, Tony.

Wow. So much stuff. And then I started, you know, getting older and listening. Then my God's sister came through. She's like, you need to go play at church. That's where all the musicians are. You playing drums? Oh, you're ready. You need to play at church.

And we never been to church before. I was like 12. And my mom grew up in a church house. Her parents, her father was a pastor. But they, she never really made us go to church like that. And so when I was invited by my god sister, it was because the music initially. And when I went, I saw the best music.

I saw the best players. And then I was under people that were reading the word and the best mentors and stuff. And they were just taking me in. And I got a bunch of kids that are my age that were going to church too. So that became like my little network, my social network. And that was everything.

That's where I learned like, that was like my camp. You know, like every day. I was a church. And I heart. To tell the truth, you could hear the soul in your voice. You could tell that you had to start early in the church. Yeah, that was it. And they didn't let me play shit, like, for years.

I was just staring at the drums for a long time. Yeah. You used the bench for that. And then for communion or offering, you might get a chance to play. Like, come on. And you play, you fuck up one time, get off, get off. And they embarrass you for everybody. just the next guy come in, you know, and that's what it was about.

You're playing, you know, I think DeAngelo said this one time. It's not for any form of fashion. It's to glorify God and you're a vessel. So any little thing, you know, it's like it's very sacred. So you get the best musicians and eventually you're able to play more and more and get, you know, it's like training. Yeah, the practice hours. If you're playing in church, it's crazy. And I was there every day.

other week down there. It's like Monday youth service and choir rehearsal and eight o'clock, 11 o'clock, then we travel, you know, shout out to Jeree Mitchell. I was me and an organist and that was how I grew up playing for years all the way until I was in my late 20s until I couldn't do it anymore. That was how I got paid every week. When I didn't have a job, I could always play at the church. I was literally feeding my kid with that. Like, it's, yeah, it was my everything for Sure. Hey guys, it's AZ Fud. You may know me as a gold medalist.

You may know me as an NCAA national champion and recent most outstanding player. You may even know me as a people's princess. But now, you're also going to know me as your favorite host. Every week on my new podcast, Fud around and find out, I'll give you an inside look at everything happening in my crazy light as I try to balance it all. From my travels across the globe to preparing for another run at the Nadi with my Yukon Huskies, just trying to make it to my midterms on time. You'll get the inside scoop on everything.

I'll be talking to some special guests about pop culture, basketball, and what it's like to be a professional athlete on and off the court. You'll even get to have some fun with the fud family. So if you follow me on social media or watch me on TV, you may think you know me. But this show is the only place where you can really fud around and find out. Listen to fud around and find out, a production of IHeart women's sports and partnership with unanimous media.

On the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever. you get your podcast. Sometimes it's hard to remember, but... Going through something like that is a traumatic experience, but it's also not the end of their life. That was my dad, reminding me and so many others who need to hear it, that our trauma is not our shame to carry, and that we have big, bold, and beautiful lives to live after what happened to us.

I'm your host and co-president of this organization, Dr. Leitra Tate. On my new podcast, The Unwanted Sorority, we weighed through transformation. to peel back healing and reveal what it actually looks like and sounds like in real time. Each week I sit down with people who live through harm, carried silence, and are now reshaping the systems that failed us. We're going to talk about the adultification of black girls, mothering as resistance, and the tools we use for healing. The unwanted sorority is a safe space, not a quiet space, so let's walk in.

We're moving towards liberation together. Listen to the unwanted sorority, new episodes every Thursday. the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Noah. I'm 13. And as you might have seen from the news, I got a podcast. And I explain those fake headlines like your uncle would, like your cousin would if he actually did the research. Honestly, adults don't ask the right questions. Now you know with Noah de Barroso is a show about influence. Who's got it, how they use it, and what it means for the rest of you. It's not the news. It's what the news should be if someone Jen Zee.

or Jen Alpha made it. And I'm watching everything. Sheesh. Majority of the youth, 18 through 24, say they trust Republicans more than Democrats differ on the economy.

You kidding. Politics is wild and I'm definitely not here to payment, but I'm here to make sense of it. Just what's happening, why it matters, and what it means for us.

Bring your brain. Listen to Now You Know with Noah DeBarossa on the IHeart Radio app. Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. We all know, right? Genius is evenly distributed.

Opportunity is not. It's Black Business Month and Black Tech Green Money is tapping in. I'm Will Lucas spotlighting Black founders, investors and innovators, building the future, one idea at a time. Let's talk legacy, tech, and generational wealth. I don't think any person of any gender, race, ethnicity,

should alter who they are, especially on an intellectual level or a talent level to make someone else feel comfortable just because they are the majority in this situation and they need employment. So for me, I'm always going to be honest in saying that we need to be unapologetically ourselves. If that makes me a vocal CEO and people consider that rocking the boat, so be it. To hear this and more on the power of black innovation and ownership, listen to Black Tech Green Money from the Black Effect podcast network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So did you ever find out from Boosie Collins with the Silk Sonic really mean? Or we're just riding with this. You got to ask Bruno.

It was Bruno. Yeah. Okay, okay. And it was like. It's true. He named. Yeah, like they came together. But I think, you know, Bootsie solidified it, you know what I'm saying?

Like, he really, like, put a stamp on it. And we couldn't do nothing without his blessing first. but you know B is like such a mastermind man he's really visionary and a perfectionist and is a dude that is cut from the same cloth another musician knows about playing in church knows about showbiz from an early on point you know playing when he was like imitating Elvis in a full family band since he was like six seven you know like that's some shit right there So he comes from a different side of it. So he knows, I don't know, he's just really good with not only constructing these songs and putting in the work to make it happen, but also how is it going to look, how we're going to position it, what suits, what kind of choreo, like, now let's really drive a home.

Let's show them how to dance to it. Like, you know, so this is a whole other part that I learned a lot from, you know, in that process with Silk Sonic. and we didn't have shit else to do it was COVID COVID yeah there's nothing else to do so that's probably why it was perfect and that's no how you can ever get that back in a time where things weren't fun like it looked fun yeah we were having so much fun some days we just pull up not a single bit of work would get done and we're just laughing talking shit and uh next day we try to do something because this day we just laughed all fucking day you know that's that's rare you meet people that's rare that in the industry when he works this long, I've been blessed to work now on the double

digits. And it's like to meet people that are you in your peer group that are like that still and have that passion for it and still want to win. It's refreshing and it's like something you cherish. Now, let's talk about, you just use the word perfection, right? One of the people that is known for perfection is Dr. Dre. Like, I've heard Dr. Dre may use people come through this. Have you worked with him? Yeah, I have. But I worked with him early on in 1997. I told him that he didn't even remember.

That's how dope his life is. He was like, word. I mean, he remembers the track. He doesn't remember the session. This was a track called I'm leaving on the firm album. That was insane. So I'm asking you, has it ever been frustrated or you always respect the process? Because I heard like perfection, perfection.

I heard he had people come back 10 times to get one line. I heard you guys battle perfection. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's about the growth. When I started with him, you know, 2015, I was just really excited to be in there with him. Like, I couldn't tell you how crazy the energy is to where someone that grows up in Southern California grows up where I come from and to actually make it to Dre that was like making it to the top of the top. That's the top. That's the top. And maybe, honestly, that might be a universal thing. Like, even though I come from the West Coast, I know there's dudes from New York that feel that way. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We're all over the world that. Quincy Jones of him. Yeah, of everything. Arguably the best producer of one of the most legendary groups, you know what I mean? Right. So to be in a studio, let alone be signed by him, like, I'm telling you, I never in my wildest dreams. So when I was just getting in the studio with him when he was working on content, he was inviting me over, man.

And I was just... That's the first time I worked together. Yeah, it really put a battery in my back. It gave me a gusto that I needed because before that, I didn't think I was going to get to meet him. I think I was going to get to work with him. You know, coming up as a writer in L.A., you always got hit up to do detox sessions and work on stuff that, you know,

the might or may or not come out. It may never make it. It was always a thing. And so when I actually almost missed the opportunity to work, with him because I, you know, was thinking that, oh, that already came and went, you know, and was such an idiot that almost like, you know, let, that was that close to letting an opportunity go because I was thinking, like, nah, he ain't going to be at the studio. I'm not, I don't, I'm got my own thing going. I don't need to go and work on this. Wow. Yeah, you know, at the time,

you know, and my manager was like, are you idiot? This is when you had the 500 followers. Okay, all right, cool. You know, $1,500. 1500. I was spiking up. Okay, all right, cool. I get the spike in a double double that. But no, I was just like, no. And then he was like, dude, you go, bro. Like, just go, you know. And then I went and it was like, wow, right there. First two people on me, Dre and D.O.C.

Because then you have a record out, and they didn't play it for him yet? I did have a record. It was bubbling. It was like, you know, floating around. I had a single out. I don't even know if it was officially out or what, but I think it was out, actually. I had a record out through Stone's throw through another group called No Worries.

Shut up to my brother. And you had to play it for him. You were nervous and shit. And I got invited, and he was there. And so I went into the studio I was working with, he was working on a project called Compton, and he was working with these two writers, Mez, my dog to this day, and J.T. Incredible writers. And they were, like, going crazy.

They were playing me the music they were working on for Dre, and it was incredible. And they were like, yo, we love your song, Swade. And that was the song I had Bubbling. And that's the song I had. And it was a single, and he was like, we love this. and we want to play it for Dre. And I was like, Drey ain't heard it yet. Yeah.

I was like, well, let's make some new shit, you know? Let's get them excited about something else, you know, in case he don't like it. And they're like, nah, fuck that. We're bringing them in here. He brought him in. He was like, what the fuck was that? It was one of those.

Any time you get the two thumbs up, you did something crazy right. And he just wouldn't stop playing it. And it was just like, wow He just cranked it up And after like three or four times playing it He's like, let's do something new And we must have made like three or four records that night

All in the day's work we did that night Yeah, we did a bunch of shit And then it came back the next day He did more and more And just like kept working We kept working on the first track And building it and trying different ways He wanted to do it. They were playing with the production

And then I just kept coming I would just some days I would go I wouldn't do anything. I just watched and other writers would come in, other artists would come in and record

and I would just shoot the shit with the producers and then some days I do like three or four jams like crazy stuff and next thing I know I wake up and the album's out

and I'm on, Calampton's out it's on iTunes and I'm on like five records and then it updates them on six records then they was called me six pack track nothing was ever the same

no it was crazy how dope does that feel because it's also been rumored that Dre would make a whole album with somebody you never know if it'll come up and you never know but that was he actually put it out and I didn't have an album out really yet I had this I had my first album out Venice

and I had the single out but then boom Compton came out and I didn't even have my album out like to I was like shit I need something to go off I heard him and Elle did a whole album and no one would never edit it. Like, what I'm saying like,

it's LL. Like, didn't rock him too. Yeah, that's right. Rock him assigned to the label. Yeah. So when it actually comes out,

are you like, fuck yeah, I made it? Yeah, I'm different. I'm different off Rick because I think that was the beauty of it.

It's like, you call your ex-girl and be like, hey, bitch. He was calling me. Yeah, they was calling me. What was that shit?

What was that change? I had a lot to deal with that that time. I was married. I always had my oldest, you know, was getting older. And I was like, yes, perfect. Like, thank God. Like, something's happening, you know, like, man, and I wasn't signed.

I was, boom, he put it out, surprise drop, had the movie. He had the motion. Right. And it was like, no, check him out. When he had the motion, I was like, wow. And I couldn't buy a deal before that. We was going everywhere. So let me ask you, did you stick with aftermath because he felt loyal?

You felt like you deserved, like, this guy really gave you a shot. Absolutely, absolutely, because he put his, he put his cards forward, you know, and I feel like he put himself out there and kind of showed, you know, gave it that cosine, when a cosine really meant something, you know, like that's what he did for me and before anybody else. So now I felt like, so now you're going to go sign to somebody else now after he didn't put, he did the motion did that. And also, I was assigned in, so I got to really figure out that choice for myself, you know.

And it was dope because I had another deal with Stone's Throw under a different group. That's what I was about to add. So I could always do no worry stuff, which is the reason why, how he found me. So I could always have that that has nothing to do with anybody but me and my brother in Stone Throw. And then I could do Anderson Platt for whoever I wanted to do it with. And I was like, wow, that's the pity me of what I always wanted. Did any other label offer you as a sonhood? Nobody had no offers on table until after Drey.

Okay. The album came out then I got all these, everyone's, all these meetings. You were in at that point, right. And what was dope is now I had other producers. He said, all these meetings. All these meetings. I know exactly. All these, everybody wanted to circle back.

That felt good then. Indeed. I'm pulling up. I'm ordering shit. You know, before we talk. Yeah, sushi. Yeah, me get sushi for him and her. Yeah, so it was dope.

But now what was really cool was I had all these, like, because I had a halfway done album, Malibu at the time, was about halfway done. And I started reaching out now to these other producers that I've been wanting to work with, Madlib, Night Wonder, high tech. And started finishing at the rest of the album, you know, DJ Khalil. And it gave it the texture that it needed to finish up the rest of the album. And I got to do that.

And I was assigned. and then when I came with the album, Dre was like, I want to do a brand new album with you. So I was like, all right, well, I got Malibu. I'll drop that indie, you know? So I got to drop Malibu indie with my partners that I was already working with. Wow, and they let you do that. Empire, yeah.

And at the time, Art Club and OBE, which was... We say Empire to Maghazi? Okay, go ahead. So they put the first two albums out, Steel Wool. and it was like a bunch of motherfuckers on her, you know. But when you make a movie, it'd be a bunch of motherfuckers so I had to be involved. So it's the same thing with some of these first records.

But yeah, we got to do that, you know. And I got to put out Malibu and tour. I toured forever after that. And then we did tiny deaths, and then it just blew from there. And people were seeing that, oh, he's different. He could play instruments. And so it was cool to be under Dre, with all this people saying, you'll never drop all this stuff.

And honestly, I never stopped dropping. I never stopped just doing shit. As soon as I was with Dre, he set the standard by him dropping his project, boom, off red. He was always working. I had all those records over there. I got to do my own indie record. And then I got to then sit down with Dre. Again.

Let's sign now. After everything, I've been on the road. I've got my bread, you know, like everything's good. Let's sign and let's do it. And now let's make an album. And I got to sit there with him and make my next album, Oxnard. and that was some of the funny It's the name of your hood

and you got Dr. Dre producing it Come on Come on to the city Like man it was beautiful It's kind of unheard of for someone to have that Where you were able to put out all this music independently as well Right yo

Most people would have it doesn't happen often You would have to block you from doing that Don't tell too many people Yeah yeah That's like you know That's not a hater like that's how you know That's what I'm saying Right right right

Right because he can And the fact that he put out that record Without signing you because he would have been like, we're not putting this out to sign his paper. No, never blocked me, man. Never, none of that, man.

And it's always working, man. And even incorporates me and so much stuff. I'm on GTA. Because, like, how am I in GTA? I don't even, like, last time I played it was like the camp, the birds I view joint.

And now I'm in the fucking video game and shit. Like, man, that was, it's beautiful, man. Like, pops out, Coachella shows. Like, I mean, just, that's my dog, man. Yeah, big shout out to Jay. our show is about giving people their flowers where they can smell them they thought's where they can tell them and they drinks where they can drink them

we want to give you your flowers man we know you got nine grandmas we want to give you your goddamn flower go ahead be careful mister you got a little light breaking shit there you go do you ever reflect on your success

I'd be like, yeah. Yeah. When I pull up in Delta One lounge. Right, right, right, right, right. I ain't got a scan shit. Right, right. I want sushi, man. It's 6 a.m., bro.

I need it. Yeah, but yeah, we're really feeling that shit. Like, you know, it's usually at the airport. You get to see how successful or not successful you are. And it's good. TSA let you know. And everyone's going to let you know. fans or lack thereof or, you know, drivers, it's all about the people and it's great.

And, like, I love it when I'm able to meet people and they lose their shit, like, you know. And sometimes I'll be with my mom or, you know, my kid is now 14. He got friends and we go out and sometimes people geek out. And it's like, you know, the kids are like, okay, yeah, my dad, yeah. I told you, little niggins. I really am. I really am. But this is great, man.

Like, I love it. And it's like, it's dope to be able, like, I feel like there's still such a ways to go. And I love having fun with it. The journey's been sick, man. Like, you know, I like getting into new shit. I've been doing a lot of DJing. Wow. Getting into film.

I'm doing a movie with my son. And we shot it already. It's been, you know, doing the film festival circuit. But it'll be out next year. on theaters. You and your son? Yeah. We shot a whole film.

Like, you guys independently? A little bit. You speak a little bit of Korean? Yeah. Gotta mess me up, seeing a black person speak Korean. I ain't called out of you. I don't know. What?

Niyang. Oh, shit. Ah? She don't? Yeah. Niggas, Phil. If you feel me, you know what that meant. That's universal.

Even niggins know what that meant. You don't know. you know. Y'all. Like, oh, that could only mean one thing. Fuck wrong with you. It's a universal. It's almost Jamaican, it's a little bit, right?

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, some of a little dependence. No, that's, they'd be saying that. That's when his mom get real, man. Yeah. I ain't going to tell you again. That's something more like, yeah, I know a little bit. But yeah, we did a whole movie independently.

I directed it. Co-wrote. Shout out to Kayla Amazon. Stampete, Live Nation, Alula, EST. You know, we put together a film. I pitched them a film. I got to do it, and it's going to be out. And it's like, that was one of the hardest, most, like,

creatively fulfilling things, man, and to do with my son. It's like, you're supposed to place for that. Let me talk about the album Malibu. But I want to speak about the place Malibu for a second. Malibu is one of my favorite places on earth Malibu doesn't even seem like it's in California Right It seems like it's in another state

So yeah It almost seems like A L.A version of Hawaii Right That's absolutely love it I've even seen you in Malibu one time He was driving around with the drive top We always see

sushi That's right that's like a noble That's right Yeah that's right Yeah Right What made you want to name The Independent

album Malibu. You know, I was going with this thing because I was making my albums, like, I wanted to make it like a series where people could follow along, like how people were doing the mixtapes, you know? They kept their audience because it was like Instagram's and it was always, sorry for the way or like the name title, you know, and connected. Yeah, connected. So I was like, okay. And I was into doing, I didn't want to get boxed in either because I like to do R&B, but I knew I would get bored of that and I would like to do some house, sometimes rock funk. you know, switch it up. So I would have all these records.

A lot of times I sit on my records four or five years before I put them out, you know, on average, you know. So I had a lot of these songs, even from Malibu, when I had Venice, and Venice came out first. But I was just kind of sitting on them, still working on them. But I had these songs that were like more electronic base, more lit up tempo. Some of them were dance tempo. Some of them were trap. I was playing around with, like, auto tune on this first record. So I was like, this, I want to take them on a journey.

So I'm going to start them. I'm going to put my albums in beaches and beach form and then they could follow me. Then I have the luxury to kind of, when I go to Malibu, that could be my like serious, like, bluesy. It's more, you know, serious tone. And like I saved these, but Venice is more like turned up. You can buy some drugs. You can go surf. You can go take some LSD.

Oh, shit. You can do some trip out, you know. And so that album is more of that. And then I was like, but I'm going to take it. him on his journey to be we're going to go up the coast and get a little more into nobu different vibe for different beats sashimi yeah yellow tail now yeah yeah so yeah you got a just you got a vibe for me turn it down not too much aida waits on this one yeah yeah so then we started doing that and i had more like introspective joints and songs that i

was like really i didn't i didn't know if i could put out because i was like a little too like i felt a little too shy about them or something they were a little too vulnerable but by the time we i was on to make that album i was like yeah it's perfect timing and i had other songs that i was gathering you know am i wrong and everything so i made it made sense with the environment uh and i was just continuing on the series of going up north so i knew the next one would be oxnard the next one would be bintura oh wow you know and that would be like kind of something to so the album was the name not the beaches Yeah, keep going. Where should I go next?

Life's a beach. Just keep going up to the West Coast. You're here. Vancouver. You can't come to the county line. You can't come to Miami from there, right? I mean, you have to cross Mexico or Texas or something. Oh, shit.

We got to, yeah. Oh, you got to go to San Diego, not that way? If you want to stay in water, you got to go all the way to Panama Canal. Oh, fuck. I'm in. Panama. Panama's fire. Make the whole movie in Panama.

That's so crazy. Yes. All right. don't talk through lawyers so quick time of slide well let's go let's do it all right now

this is our drinking game you've seen this before we're going to give you two choices this versus this that or this right if you pick one of them you don't have to drink nobody drinks so if you decide the politically correct answer

you say both or neither the two then we drink okay so there's no comment Yeah, yeah, you know, if you have any stories about this. Yeah, this is really about bringing up stories about the people and places we're talking about. If you know them, if you don't know, it's not about this. Everybody's got their drinks ready? Yeah, yeah, I'm going to take shots.

Two more. Let's refill. Thank you. Oh. All right. So we, you ready? Yeah. Like this first one.

Dr. Dre or Quincy Jones? And it's whatever criteria to you. Yeah, whatever criteria. If someone made better macaroni and cheese one day, that's why you like them more. Good. Dr. Dre. Okay. I just never got to work with Quincy, and I've always adorned and a worship

Quincy. Right. Never got to work with them. Rest and peace to the icon of legend. That would be dope. Now, you guys would have been together. That would be amazing work. Yeah, yeah, and also this trajectory of the life that I would like to live is, like, just

how that went down as an artist and the people that he got to touch and work with. The array of artists and genres that he does. And to live that long, and then it's kids. And then everything, like, wow, like, that was, that's what, I mean, who wouldn't want that kind of life. And so bless up, you know. Oh, so you're taking a shot? Yeah.

Take a shot for a good. Yeah. Let's take a shot for a good. It's really both. Shout to drink. Tupac or Nipsey Hustle? Dang. No, we just got to take a shot.

All right. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Cheers. Mm. Snoop Dog or the game? Uh, we're going to go.

Snoop dog because first of all that is who taught us all and one of the biggest inspirations

you know period we're going to also take a shot too because don't kill him a game

that's my dog too but you know Snoop is our that's our superhero like that's the game in Malibu

a lot too yeah yeah we're going to have to say yeah yeah yeah so you say Snoop too

right I was I was a game he said he's young so we all agree with Snoop

so we all Check it up with Norrie. Good, good, good, no, no, no. This is George. No, no, no, this is yours. Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gay. Oh, Stevie Wonder. I got to say Stevie for me.

Did you see what Stevie got on the stage and he front, like, that he could see? He would know he addressed it, like, I was tired of y'all niggas, bro. I think she's done. Like, stop with all that shit. We have not two by hands for all of y'all, still. You know what the one of them shit.

Shaq came on his show. And we was like, yo, do you think Stevie Wonder? And he said that Stevie Wonder, he said they lived in the same building at one time. I swear to God, you could pull this up.

And he said that, Stevie, he got in the elevator. The button was already pressed. Like, Stevie used to go to his floor. And then he said, what's up, Big Diesel? Like, as he walked in.

Now, it's not that far fresh. It's not that far fresh because they say people who can't see. They have their senses are in heighten. So, like, obviously, you know, But who said it was it George Clinton or was it the Isaac brothers that said he crossed the street, a busy street. They seen him crossing the street.

It's all on his show. It's all on his show. His stances are heightened. I mean, crossing the busy street by itself. Yeah. He can hear that shit before he comes. You've seen the Matrix. They described it like, it was a highway.

It's like, wait a minute. It's a clicking that shit one more time. Yeah. And plus, people won't stop. You see Stevie crossing on you thinking what are you going to do. Cut him off. That's a good point. Yeah.

He's going to be it. Yeah. Who the fucking hit? He's clear his shit. Yeah. That's a good point. That's a good point. That's a great point.

Tire's just screeching, bro. I never thought of that one. 21 Savage or Kodak Black? Let's, yeah, that's tough. Both. Okay. But, uh, yeah, it's from, he's from Florida, right? Yeah.

Man, he got some cuts, man. He's a soulful dude. Mary J. Blyzer, Mariah. Mariah. And I'll drink to that. That's true. Hey, guys, it's AZ Fudd. You may know me as a gold medalist.

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from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. MJ or Prince? And if you got any stories, please. I wish I could say I've met either. Either? One of them or either, but no,

I never got to meet him. But some of my biggest inspirations, and I don't know, because I feel like if I would have met Prince, I feel like he wouldn't like me. Nah, I think he would have worked with you. Like he would try to play basketball against you. Yeah, he would have just did some sort of psychological thing to me.

He would have done that anyway. He wouldn't like to play, because I would have been such a fan too. Like, or maybe I don't even know. Like, I wouldn't know how to take it if I would have met him. And I know he probably would have just had fun with that. But maybe he would have really been, you know, cool because. Took you to take Lake Minnetana? Yeah.

What was it called? In San Antonio. Lake Minneton. I don't know. And then Michael, you know, what is? Yeah, so I don't even know how I could even, my brain could even function, like, Michael, like, that was, like, the epitome. So, um, I just say both because, you know, Prince, I got so much respect for it because really, man, you look at Prince, how he did it and how he was playing everything and how he did it with his business acumen and was such a, uh, had a punk rock attitude from the jump and didn't take no shit and was very, ass out and all that he he 100% in and another did him for sure he did him and Michael the same

yeah you know different styles juggernauts at that business so you never had a character all in their shit production um fashion performance so it's tough man so you heard about day beef that's what I was I was about to say it's getting more epic as the time goes by you hear the story yeah will I am one there Will I Am? Oh, yeah, that was a great story. And Will I Am invites him to the show, to his show, I believe, a Black IP show. Yeah.

And he tells him, what is it? No, he tells Mike that Prince is going to be there. Well, Prince was on the show. Are the Prince is going to be there? No, it was Prince's a show and he was going to go. Okay. And he said he's a meanie. He said that.

He said that. The Mike said, Prince is such a meanie. Imagine. I heard about this. Yeah. the fact that they didn't get along is fucking I think that's some gags that It makes so much sense

It makes sense right Because I mean There would have been a lot of sensitivity It was like a flash of the icons Yeah And did you see the We are the world documentary Yeah

Michael was a fucking The mic on the press shit there too I'll play a solo that's it Guitar solo Come on Come on Prince Pull up Everybody here

We got some Hennessy Nah here Fuck them Nick my mind. Fuck you, niggas. Let me ask you, let me ask you,

do you think this? This is my theory. I could be totally wrong. I have no inside information. But in my mind, Mike and Prince were both gangsters. Oh, all day.

In their own right. Yeah. 100%. Like, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Like, date and play, bro. Like that level, that bar is gangster level, man.

Like, this, some of them, I don't know. you think we ever have that again? No. No, no, no, no. I don't think we...

To think they were coming out the same time, you know, they were putting out at the same time. Yes. Yes. Not the way that was. That was a different time, a different era, different technology.

So I'm sitting right here and we're, y'all just going to say that ain't going to never happen again. No, it's a different. It's a different. Y'all going to play in my face like that. It's a different guy.

It's a different. Like, he was throwing them cryptsides, it's different. Let me take a chat for my own self. Hold on. I told you. game, right? Let's go. Let's go. I'll take a shot.

Take a shot. I'm old with him. Yeah. Let's go. You and Bruno are very close. You and Bruno. Yeah, that's very close. 4-4-4. That's the time. Okay. All right. 50 cent and M&M. What was the question again? 50 cent or Eminem? Oh, man. Let's drink to both. Okay. I'm into that. That's, that takes for talking. All right, shit. Mix it up. Cheers.

Come back. Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah, that. Okay. You know what I'm saying? I'm saying? All right.

Ouse with it. Okay. Oh, Chub Rock. Wow. Chump Rock jumps up on the scene. Clean with the pop up with a green. That's a cut. Jump in that, cast it.

Take me right. Oh, man. I got nothing but love for you. I'll fool you, but you... Look at Mr. Lee sends us right now. What's this? Yo, yeah, he was really... He was really tapped in.

He was really tapped in. That's how you know he was killed. Yeah, we got to watch up because AI's going to go crazy with this type of shit. Yeah, yeah. They're going to have Mike running fates with people. Like, yeah.

But when we had DJ Quick up here, he was like, nah, man, he wasn't throwing up blood-friendly shit. And I was just like, holy shit. Like, DJ Quick didn't like that. Like, he... I mean, look, you could... He respected,

Mike, he was on some hood shit, but he was like, man, at that time, that's not cool, right. And he was with the hops. And he knew he got the money to push the button, God. Like, damn. And you heard the story where his voice that he would change it? I don't know if it's true. Yeah, that's what I heard about all.

But they said that when he would talk normal, he would be like, what's up? What's going on? Yeah. Oh, damn. What's going on, nigga? What the fuck you call it for? Hello? It's Michael there?

It's him, nigga, what the fuck going on? He's about this money, nigga. So, heavy D or Chabot? I say heavy D. Okay. Yeah. The rest of peace. I like this one.

Yay or for real? For real. I mean, day, that's tough, too. I mean, I know everybody's like... I feel like you both from their school, too. Yeah, I mean... Like, kind of. Guys, I don't know, like, now I'm drinking stuff.

But I know everyone's... Phil has their opinion about, you know, both... artists and stuff but all I know is like I was in high school and both of them were putting out stuff again so it's like man these are like people we looked at as like wrestlers like this is like to be in high school

and all this music is coming out when like I was on the West Coast like trying to convince people like no Kanye is going to be sick like he really wraps and produces and you know when you can really look at the book list and yeah he did this and Bing did this and like

just plays and but he was also rapping and he was putting out mixtapes and then Farrell then he teams with Farrell and you remember when he shows up and Ferrell's trying to tell him like you know, Ferrell's the hottest dude too and he said for real still sits there and like listens to him and even Farrell knows

that it was crazy and give him advice through the wire. Yeah, through the wire yeah, yeah. Okay, but I just into the underground. Yeah, it did you know I just just you know remember all this stuff coming out the same time so sounds like we're taking a shot. I think

I think we take a shot. All right, cool. Salo. Salah. Sake. Sake. Sake, that's the one. Bruno Mars or the weekend?

Bruno. Okay. And I'll drink to the. I love it. I love the loyalty. To my dog. To my dog. Yaddy or Denzel Curry.

Wow. Shout out to both of them, because they was both on my, my, my, freshman class and they both doing well killing it i saw yadi open for tyler uh with my son because my son was uh he's obsessed with tyler's 14 so we got to see yada we got to see paris paler's callie paris and uh yadi killed it and he was fucking i didn't realize nigga got hit and i was like damn it was like my first little twitter beef like years ago i'm gonna yaddi niggum got rid and got rich now. Right, right, right.

No, yeah, that was funny. I remember early on. It was like, when he was like coming out, you know, he had some views about Tupac or about hip hop and I responded to something and I was like the first time I seen like, oh shit, shit could get taken out of, you know, and blowing up and stuff. And then everybody goes on their way, you know, and I've seen him since then and he's super cool and we're good. But I got to see full circle him go from that, you know, when people were kind of, I feel

like a few people in my in my class where people were already trying to get them out early and kind of saying they wouldn't last and stuff and now they've become you know, now my kids don't you know. And by the way that 2016

cover like it's like mainly all of y'all are still here. It aged very well. It aged very well. It's like I would say 98% of might be one of the last ones that aged well to be honest.

Who? Might be one of the last one of the last one of the last one of the age world. Yeah, that's why I put that in the end show

the 2016, yeah. Shout out my 2016 freshman. Yeah, yeah. Everybody on the 2016 cover. All of y'all are still doing your thing. Come on. We got to talk to.

Live nation. Right. What we're talking about? Y'all open up. I'll knock them down. Okay. Schoolboy Q or J Rock? Wow.

Both of my dogs. That's dirty. BDE. That's dirty. Saloo? I ain't got nothing. Y'all can't keep up with me. Let me take this one.

Oh, you got one right there. Okay. Oh, hey, you right? Okay. Yeah, there's a little shot. Cheers. Salo, that's right. Cheers.

I got to say, is that tequila? You switching it up? Yeah, I get to mix and match you. Okay, okay. He's going crazy. I'm belatian. You're going to put him. You got to peas both sides.

Right. And a little bit of Mexican, too, because of the tequila. Yeah. This is a good one. You're all to me, bass, bass, or rap city? Whoa, I'm having to say rap city That's why I grew up on I know y'all in two raps

But that's like Until the hit Trugger's your don't stuff They're looking for I don't know It's not too It's all right With me

God damn I'm a big ass big On the GUI I got to be so Sick that old K And I was tripping on the rim On the turn of the street

On the 20s A hundred 25 It's not true That's not It's always It's always a hundred 25 Or like some number They got a

They never tripping out of the big so sad. I get to look it in other, a good impression of it too. You got to do assessment of the city. Holy shit. Tell a story about the story. That was a lot.

That was the time. Jack, don't make it like that. All right. So, honestly, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I rap city, the big tigger and the freestyles. Okay. Like, that's what I remember, like,

everybody, like, do it coming and doing the freestyles with, like, do rags and, like. He did the freestyle? Yeah. Yeah, I did it. I DJ in the basement. We bring them the same. Let's a quick time.

Because you do be rapping, but what do you like more? Rapping or singing? If you say both, we're drinking. It just depends on how many women are present. Since there's two here. I'm pretty sure you're going to go with rapping. Here. We're here.

I'm like, come on, man. That's more than two. Like, no, no, that's sitting here with This is what happens when you have married people. We'd be like, oh, don't bring the women around here. I'm happy to be versatile, yes. And it just depends, man.

I think, like, naturally, I always, I want to rap. It's just like, it's like talking. It's like, you know, thing, you know? You just always rap, like, I love it. It fell in love with it from an early age. And you're good at it. It's not a lot of people who rap and sing that's actually good at home. I mean, he just did 1987.

rap right now. That's how good he go. He could go back. Coming from you? Yeah, Sal loo. That's everything. Thank you, No. Sal loo. Thank you, man. One time for Norrie, bro. Thank you for showing us how to rap on Neptune's beats. God damn. God damn. Okay. Beg a connoisseur. That's right. All right, but hold on, so

we picked that. We picked that, right. You discovered the Neptune, ma'am. Sorry, that's right. Sorry. All right. But this is a good one again. You got it? Earth went in fire or the Ozzy brothers? Oh. Dang. I'm going to say Earth went

and Fire, you know? Because they joint squeaky clean. Like Ronald Isaac, he probably can't perform some of them are Kelly joints all the time. So you got to think. Earth on the Fire, they ain't got no, they can just play all they said. Sometimes, you know, Mr. Biggs.

Mr. Biggs got a pivot here in there. Yeah, yeah. But you still do it. Yeah. but earth on the fire to be clean now okay but

it's a mood thing but I'm gonna say it front of fire okay so we took we picked earthen drinking oh but he's the only one that drinks when he says the last we didn't get rapping

and we didn't answer rapping or singing you said depending on how many you know which one yeah yeah but period overall let's make sure that both both equally the same yeah all right I like that then All right. So we're taking a shot for that?

Sure. Let's take a shot. Why not? Okay. I like this one. Lionel Richie. Oh, okay. Smokey Robinson.

Smoke dog. Yo, you got records for Smokey Robinson. Yeah. How does that happen, bro? How the fuck do you get in contact with Smokey Robinson? Exactly. Exactly. Do you get, do you, do you, do you, do you, do you, do you, do you, do you, do you,

that's where Smokey Robinson got to be at? I don't know what you say. A fireplace. Like, I feel like he live in a fireplace. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. He got the forever backdrop Of the fireplace

He's that guy Yeah So how do you get in contact That was man We reached out That was the Dre card I was like Yo Trey reach out

You know I had all hands on deck My manager Adrian Miller at the time He was like yeah I had a song that we was working on I was like We should get smoky for this And

Adrian And hit him up And he was there And he was like Man my daughter loves you And I was like, okay, hell yeah. And he was like, let me hear the song. I'm getting there.

I play him the song. He's like, just cut it off. See, you got to make love to them with your words, baby. Like, you're doing it right. And so he was like, just print me a CD, CDR, one instrumental, one went out the lyrics, and I'm going to come back, I'm going to fix it. And then he came back, and he changes the words, but he kept the melody. And we had, like, all this raunchy shit, and he just cleaned it all up.

Yeah, and kept the same melody, and then we cut it, and that was a gold record. Yeah. Jesus. Is there any plans to try to work with Lionel Ritchie? I would love to work with Lano Ritchie. Lionel, let's do an album. Let me, let me produce it. I got a great team.

Let's do it. I know you got a huge budget. Let's do Mexico. What is we talking about? The more we talk about it. Like, let's make it happen, Lionel. Fools with me. Yeah.

I see Lionel Richie. What's that restaurant downstairs from the Soho House? The Soho House in Malleable, the Soho House downtown? I'm not sure. Rosco's? No, no, no, no. What does that shit go? No, it wasn't.

People were going to fry me for this. But anyway, I've seen Lionel Richie. And so I came there the night before. before. And the lady was like, Nauri, I have two tables open right now. So I said, okay? She said, one next to Lion of Richie and one where you sat last night. So which table do you want? Like, let me think to the one. Like, yeah. And I walked in and I called my mom. It's how much it was, it was legendary for me to meet Ronald Rishi. I called my mom. I called my mom. It's how much it was legendary for me to meet Ronald Rishi. I called my mom. I called my, mom and I was like mom are you a line of richie fan and my mother's voice she was just like oh baby so once he said that I said I'm going to get a line of rich you're a picture so I stood there I had a big

had the big chain on I pulled the big chain out just so I know it's and his people was like yo no that's norrie so he said hi I send him a bottle of wine and never forget this rest in peace hovane hovain was with me send him a bottle of wine he ordered the most expensive bottle on the menu, but I already had committed. I was like, I'm in. And he took like four sips of that shit and left it. And as he left, I went and got that wine.

Yeah. I wouldn't have got back my bottle. He didn't give a fuck. But that was legendary for me, me and motherfucking line of Ridge. Yeah. Yes. Okay. You get a pet.

Okay. You get this one. Yeah, I'm not even open. Okay. Jenae Iko or Alicia Keys? Wow, shout out to both. Jenae, I've known for years. We still have the same manager.

Shout out to Taz. Love Jene, love Alicia. I haven't worked really with Alicia, but I got to work with Jenae a couple times. We haven't put anything out, but we've worked. And, you know, Jean-A, that's West Coast, you know? So I feel like. certain but it's tough because i could hear you and alicia kees you know real musician like again i

remember where i was when i first heard her too poof you know i think she kind of paved the way too i'm gonna say leisha because shut out to the people that paved the way right okay okay you technically don't got to take a shot but i'm with you i know he's he's like i'm gonna answer and a shot I'm not going to answer in a shot. That's my boy, Swiss, thank you. All right, cool. I'm taking a shot. All right.

Al Green or Curtis Mayfield. Wow. Y'all crazy, man. Both. So now we got to... Y'all's ketchup. Yeah. What should be to catch up?

We've been trying to. I thought this was drink champ. Yes, yes, it is. Good. Cheers. Oh, man. I love this one. No, hey, we got to take our shit.

Now he don't want to take a shot when he's supposed to take the shot. There you go. Our show. or Chris Brown? The finger. This is a good one. This is insufferable. But again, like,

okay, this is what it is. You got to give it to usher just because where it starts, you know, like, again, the blueprint, you know? You got to work with all the the greats too amazing songs and to be able to still be doing it be relevant now at his age is still doing it at a high level high level yeah very high level both of them doing at high levels um but i feel like you know usher is solidified he's he's done so much stuff now he's you know just continuing and continue to keep his legend known and and continue to make new

stuff and i feel like chris is still yet to be seen even what he's going to do in the future so Um, I just feel like, you know, props to both again, but yeah, ushers, it's like, yeah, I want to tell everybody was doing that sideways, sideways shit, sideways moonwalk joint. Right. You know. Yep. Okay. Took a shoe off. The nigger was, you know.

All that. Gliding. All right. And, and he's singing the niggas bitches right now. So it's dead. Feeding cherries. I don't even understand. No, no.

He walled out. How is this a part of our life. Yeah. Well, I got to see that every time I open up this. It's a bitch eating cherries. Yeah, if you bring your girl there. Never. Okay.

We go to Cirque de Soleil. We're going to fucking anything. Just not doing her show. I mean, it looks a little crazy. It is crazy. We go about some other shit. Your girl in front of you going like that. Try to tie it to not.

Hold on this. And you just like this. And you just heard of the burking. Like, what is your whole life? You just... You're just... What is you thinking? In no way.

I love a lot of respect with a couple of my dudes. I was like, wait a minute. Yeah. You're just going to let that. That's love. I'm not sure. No, I don't know what that is. Didn't he break up a whole, like...

He just went on a warpath? No, I don't know. Is it really his fault? It's not his fault. It's not his fault. Yeah. He's the home girl. Everyone has a choice to me.

Come on, you know what name? Who's the home girl? What is your thoughts, funny? Is it his fault? Kiki Palmer. Kiki Palmer, yeah. Like, surprise. It looked like Homeboy, we thought his whole relationship out today.

Like, man, you don't have the dong out. You don't have, and you've got roses and strawberries stuff in your mouth. And he's doing it smooth, too, like. He's not like throwing, he's not taking a foul. Like, you know what I'm saying? With the fur coat off? He's not taking a three-pointer. He's coming in for the layoff.

Yeah. He's like this with the layoff like this. He's like, I mean, honest, man. We ain't going on a hustle concert. Yeah, anything with that. Okay. I respect that, man. The source or double Excel?

Okay. Oh, the source or double Excel? Yeah. That's tough. I say the source, yeah. Really? Five mics, yeah. Give me five mics.

Damn, you never got five mics. I don't know if they were doing it still. No, I love, I love your passion. You want to go back to it? I think she should get an honorary five mics. Yeah, go back and get you a retro mic. Yeah. Yes.

Don't get. No, that was it. The source and like all those iconic covers. Mm-hmm. Yeah, that was just missed it. But I'm probably on a digital cover somewhere. for sure and that's dope too

man but that's the culture man so I grew up collecting and taking all those like putting them on my wall did you buy you the fake jewelry from the back of the sauce I didn't I didn't do fake jewelry he's from the tail end of it

yeah but I didn't order stuff nah but I didn't do they would do Wu-tang pieces like you know like you know just a you know yeah naz pieces shit like that I bought my first turntables from the back of

horse. Was that the bootleg section? No, no, they had a DJ starter kit. Oh, that's, and it was affordable. It was good to do the podcast. Two Gemini's and a Scratchmaster. You gotta do that right now. I'm very frugal with jewelry.

I'm very cheap. A lot of my jewelry's been given to me. Okay. I just, yeah. Buy me jewelry for my birthday. You're going to see it. I appreciate it. And I wear it.

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What you say? You say, don't leave the witness. Don't leave the witness. He been doing this whole lot. He likes that you drink every shot. He likes that. Loyity or respect. Whoa.

Yo, both for sure. That's the right answer. That's the right answer. That's the right. That's the answer that we think is correct. Yes. Oh. Salute.

now you want nine motherfucking Grammings yo right what the fuck does that shit feel does it get old um like when you have one and you have two and you have three you have four uh nah it doesn't blessings with me is i've gotten to do it with all kinds of different acts you know across three different acts from anderson pack myself to then doing it with uh uh silk sonic and then most recently with no worries so it's a different journey every time. It's a different experience. It's a different experience. And to be, you know, for these albums to be, to receive Grammys from, you know, the peers and the voters and all that stuff, it's amazing. But yeah, can it get, you know, that can easily turn into, oh, this is why I do it now, you know? And then the music, you know, it could also make you real lazy, you know? Really?

Yeah, in a sense, you know, if you think that if you're starting to. to think that that's why you have to do it, why you have to make the music in order to reach these deadlines or to do something that appeases them. Right, right, right. Yeah, that could drain on your creativity and your natural trajectory as where you might could go if you weren't thinking about that.

And that's what I want to get to as an artist is where I'm not thinking about none of that. I'm just creating and I'm able to, you know, put it in the best posture it needs to be to bring it out to the people. Because I've well thought about it and everything. And I'm able to tour it and do so much stuff with it. And if it gets acknowledged by anything from Grammys, anybody, it's great.

You know, but it's not like, okay, now we have to do it for this reason only. And if we don't get one, it means that it's a failure. It's like, it's not that. But to be able to have those, it's like, fuck yes. Fucking huge, bro. Let us brag for you. It's easy. It's not even to have one or two.

Like, the amount is great. You know what I'm saying? People don't even get one. Right, right. You got to grab me? Not yet. I ain't got a gripping now. All right.

You got to hook grabbing. You got to go to me now. Yeah, Chad. Now, another unicorn you got to work with, Andre 3,000. Yeah. Oh, my God. First off, I've known Andre D.000 for 27 years. Right.

I'm on Outcast, Big Boy for 27 years. Andre D.000 is the most mysterious man on earth. That's right. How did you get him to, because he doesn't even lay a verse for Alcass right at this point. Right. Like, how do you get him to lay? It's Andre hundreds of thousands because that's what you have to pay

to get that verse cleared. Okay, wow. And then he gets inspired. He miraculously finds the inspiration. You have to, you have to pay for that verse, bro. I ain't, I ain't that he charged. Why you think he gets to hang out with just a flute? That nigga pays that.

Nigga, how many verses this nigga then calculated that don't even got to come out? All right. Only a couple niggas walk around with a flute. Yeah. Niggas is rich. You got to be insane or rich. That's it. That's it.

Three features and pay for the flu life. You paying for the lore, nigga. If I put it out, I might want to just not put it out. Still, that check got a clear, bro. Right. So, you know, he's just, he moved with the wind. Yes. Circle, you know.

I love that. It's a flute. Mystique. It's a mystique. Well, it's money well spent. Yes. Most rappers lost a mystique because of Instagram. That's it.

He didn't play himself out. Yeah. Same overalls. Same little Jordan threes. And he's out here, a beard. Sometimes you'll see him in Japan. Right. Same flu.

Same Jordan. Same overalls. Right. Imagine. He has not hired a barber in your. years. Right. He's just in there. No tape. Imagine how to money he's saving. No taper, no, no, that. I'm free.

Yeah. Now, get off me. That is freedom. Yeah. That is freedom. Yeah. He don't shout out to our barbers, but, you know. Yeah. Well, no. 150, 300, 400 for the 1,500 to the 1500. He does not. We want time for Andre 50,000 just in case. You ever want to rewant time on $150,000. Right. We got it. Just a little hair off the neck.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, shout out to Andre, man. I got him. I got him. Yeah, so I was like, yo, Andre, I got a record, and he came through, and he was like, all right, I want to hear the beat. And I played him, like, a bunch of records. And he's like, I like this one. No, there wasn't. He came in with a composition book. But y'all together.

It was real. Like in Berks. We did. He pulled up. And this is when I was working with Dre. And this is now I'm working on Ventura album. And I was working on both of them at the same time when I did Oxnard and Ventura. I did them all at Dre's studio at Record One.

Yeah. Okay. And so this is where they did all these iconic records, you know, not. The Aftermath Records, and I think Michael did records there too. So I was like having a field day there. First time I ever really had a budget to do an album. So top of the line studio working and I have both rooms going. And then I started seeing that it was, I had different kind of music.

One was a little harder edge. One was more armbes. So I started separating. I was like, oh, I got another beach. I could do Ventura after this, you know, double back. And so I had this joint that I wanted to open up the album with, which was come home, and I played it for him, and he loved it. And then he was like, cool, let me write to it.

So, Bet, he was like. When you say, let me write to you for Andre. Yeah, Andre. So I was like, Bet, we're going to get out the room, you know. And Dre, everybody was there. So we got out the room, and he would be in there for hours. Was this sage burning? No sage.

There's him in his book. Okay. No sage. We wanted him to be sage, but. Okay, there was sage burning for the sake. For the sake of the story. It's a sage. A little fond of.

to. A shaman came in. A shaman. I'm talking ayahuasca. Chickens and shit. And he gets writing some shit. I said, God damn, Andre.

He said, I'll be back. I said, huh? He said, I'll be back tomorrow. I think I'll be ready. I said, okay, show you right. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.

Next day, we come in. He's right on time, 3 p.m. Same beat, Andre? Load up the beat. Just need a little privacy. He goes in there, you know. Sage is burning. Right.

Out of sage. The shaman's still there. He's there before me. Shaman's there before me. It's a little funky. But I'm rocking with him. I walk out, you know, six hours later. You ready to do this?

I'm going back tomorrow. Oh, I say, God damn. That's how DMX you. That's how DMX you do people. Go ahead. All right. Third day. Come back.

Third days the charm. Third days is what they're usually in the business. We say third days the charm. And you can go ahead. I'm going to come back. I say, God damn. All right. So I'm fatigued now.

I'm thinking about how much is it cost. Yeah, that's a lot. You start to think about the bill. I got to go. So I got to hit the road. So I go on tour. I double back. Go back on tour.

Do a few gigs. Do a few gigs. Get on my feet. I hit Italy. We're about to play Italy. I get it. Look at my email. Andre 3,000.

Boom, he sent it. It's in the email. I could see the little audio. I'm like... And it's the MP3 or it's the session? It's a wave. Okay. I'm afraid.

Because I would be like, damn, it's got to be good. If not, I'm going to stay. Like, what if you don't like an Andre D thousand verse? What do you say? What if you don't like an Andre 3000 verse? Do you think you could just do the first half again? I would just take it.

Right. I'm taking it. I'm being like, fuck it. I'll take ayahuasca. It's great. It's an amazing. What if he really would have been like? Scooby-de-booby-de-s scoops.

Coming again, and it's Andre three in the thousand. Got picked the boat and I'm ready to blow. Got a nigga and a strict show. It's a freak show. Oh, oh. It's a freak show. Oh, ho. That would have been a freak show.

Yeah. No, Audrey doing that would have killed. I would have been going crazy. Yeah, but he didn't do that. No, he destroyed it. Yeah, he did a crazy verse. And I listened to it right from our show. We were the honest guy.

I never told anybody about this. But honest of God, we were like, first listen, like, all right, we're not back? You know, like. Because it was so intricate. It was crazy. If you listened to his verse, he's spitting. It's like a love song. Then he comes in, you know?

And it was just like, when we first heard it, it blew our minds. That was like, all right. One more time. Like, and it took a while to, like, even just. process it. And then, um, but I had had the verse. I was like, wow, we got the joint. And I started, you know, and it was great. Yeah, I started producing, it took, uh, it took the verse and we, you know, we worked the production around it a little more slightly. And then, uh, it was time to go. And then we loved it. Everybody loved it. And then, like, right before it was about the drop,

he was like, I don't want to drop. And he was like, I don't want to drop it. I was like, He's like, I think I'm not adding to it. I'm not adding to the song. It doesn't need me. Oh, fuck. I'm like, it's about to drop. Holy shit. It's too late.

Yeah. Sorry, can't help you. Bye. Yeah. Me, no, me, no. He said, he said, no, no, no, no time. Grendo, what he said, he said, added him to the song. No, he said he's not adding to it.

Like, he's not making it better. So he was like, take me up. I want to be off of it. Wow. So, okay, so what is that? What the fuck you say about it? I mean, we know kind of how it ends. I was like, fuck

I did the one thing I get I hate the other Dre, Dr. Dre. I was like, Dre. Talk to Dre, Dre. What are we going to do? Talk to Dre. This sounds like something you need to take up with, bring up the two Dreys. Right. You know, Drey, talk to you, man, Drake. Oh, it's Dre on Drake, man.

You guys got something. I don't know what it is. You guys got something in common. You guys need to bench it happen. So they... Go on you, see? Yeah. Oh, see? Andreine came in here. And that ain't how it went down, little Nick.

Do wee-wee-wee-wee-wee-wee-wee-do-wee-wee-wee-wee-le. Speak on my name, Nick, no, yeah. So they did that. And then it came out. They talked it talked. So Drake called? And the next thing it was out. And then it's history.

It's like we got, and then to take it all to the next level, we get a Grammy for that song, specifically. And that's the Grammy I keep in my mom's house. I love you, mom. Damn, are y'all getting robbed or? Like the floor. Do you guys share the location? Should we leave? No, no. They just moved in.

All right. Don't get me involved. None of this shit. We have an efficiency. Molly, where's my other white girl? I said, yeah, are you good? We're good, right? I see a few white people here still. We good.

Yeah, yeah, get some coffee out this mother. Oh, man, it's a good thing to Drake gets the line. Yes. Yeah. That's an amazing story, man. Yeah, we got the Grammy, God bless everyone involved. And it was such a great thing to be able to not only have the verse, but the Grammy, real song. Did you speak to Andre?

Yeah, yeah, afterwards. Yeah. Appreciate it, man. Just so humble. It's just like, he just was just like, wow, you know, we both were like, wow, you know. But y'all never, like, went back on the story and be like, remember how this went down? No, he's going to. You're going to be texting me now after he watches this.

A little nigger hang how it went. Fuck around with you. I don't even know you talk like that, Andre. You're going to get voicemen of just flutes. It's going to be a little eerie. Wee, we, we, we, we, uh, oh. Shut, shah, shah, shah, shah, shah. How much of an Andre fan, I am.

We're going to be at no boot? The flute. The flute album is hard to me. I mean, I brought the vinyl. Yeah. The flute album is hard to me. I think it's why that he did that. He committed to it.

Like, that to me is what's dope. Like, he's like, fuck that. I did reggae don't. I got to give everybody a chance. Yeah. I got to give everybody a chance. When someone he's trying to break the mold, I can't sit back and be like,

I'm judged them. Okay. Yeah, it's all right. You can't judge it. Especially that kind of stuff where you could be obviously doing one thing. You completely just be like, nah, we're going to take it here. That's the most punk.

No, yeah. But also rock and roll shit you could do, you know? and be playing in, like, in the middle. Like, you could catch him anywhere. Like, that's crazy. Yeah, he'd be at a gas station playing or whatever. But the only thing I'm concerned with right now is you got a hip record called smoking out the window. And you didn't smoke no end up.

Okay, can I get my, I'm waiting for. He's been rolling that in the beginning. Time out. Yeah, you've been rolling out in the street out there. Time out. Can I get a crutch? Can I get the tobacco I asked for? Like, what are we talking about?

Oh, you smoke. European. Yeah. You're a rock star. I mean, that we should have business. We should have

I knew that. Got me out here. Still waiting on the crutch. But now I know you're a rock star. Remember somebody rode tobacco? He got the worst tobacco ever. Him and Dave Chappelle smoked the best.

Sonny D. B.E.T. Oh, you don't want his tobacco. But he got a cigarette. American spirit. Him and Dave and Dave. Somebody got a Newport in this month. Oh, then I guess you do want his tobacco.

That's fair. He got an American spirit. Yes. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Okay.

Don't give them no more money, though, come on. Edit this out. Let's talk about smoking out the window. Because it's a part where you say, Bia, y'all say, bitch! I'm about to show you. Okay, all right, cool. This is that European.

Let's show them. This is how they smoke in Europe. I just got off the crews, bro. Yeah? That's our crew shit. The crew shit? Split, well, who said it? That's right.

Uh-huh, yeah. Huh? Spliff. Okay. What? Stop it. Yeah, we all know split. Come on, let's give it up for that.

I want to, I want to, I want to. Oh, you smoking that. No, I'm, I'm, my, my lungs is in the 90, smoking bloods. Yeah, my, yeah, my mother's old school California shit too. Smoking a Philly blood. Yeah, Philly blood. This is, yeah, California's just to come right out of you. Damn, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you can.

I have not elevated. My, some might, some might upside. It's been like, yeah. Don't need to be To pick your phone To pick the phone Taking the votes to hide the phone Ticking the boat to survive

They're like We wouldn't got sign on that one Yeah Yeah But we need Dous and Fats Don't need to get the pressure Knicks Listen Dyson Fix

We're having their time Yes Especially on the drums Oh you fucked it up None of them niggas Is playing drums And doing that kind of shit You ain't rolling

A long time No nobody I just I got a little scared Hell, let me roll, bro. Talk about you 90s, niggins. Bro, you ain't been the ass to that, right? Listen, I'm a little fucking jet mac.

The PJ is insane. All right. I get good, boy. I'm getting used to the captain pressures. Come on, bro. Got to make my own crutch. But you've been rolling for two. hours, so me and EFN is better.

He wrote from the beginning. You know, by the way, I'll tell you, did I tell you, I, did I tell you, I, did I, did I did I, did I, did I, you know, I, we have, we didn't really bet. We didn't really bet. No, no, no, we have two things, right? Right. We always judge you from who, from what you drink, right? We always judge the artist and was like, yo, what are they going to drink?

If they're going to really drink it. And if they're going to really drink it, right. Because they, they order it and they don't drink shit. Right. But I ain't going to lie to you. It's just a PR stunt. Right. I said, I said, he's coming late.

And what did I do? You came 10 minutes early. 15 minutes? Yeah. Let's make some noise. It's the Asian. And I got your phone number.

Me and you're okay. We speak to each other. And I bet against you, bro. That's one of my phone numbers. Okay, but I'm on my name. Excuse me. It's got me now. What you better understand about me is.

It ain't about how fast you get there. Yeah. Now he's cool with the romance. It's when you get there. Now. Is that Bruce Leroy shit? I'm taking a shot for that, man. See, me, I like to be fashionately late.

Yeah, nah. But today you were especially early. Yo, I was very impressed, bro. I got time impressed, yeah. I was very impressed. All right, right. Cheers, cheers, we're taking a shot to. Sal loo.

Oh, saloo? Yes, all right. Jimmy, you don't have nothing? I mean, I got this one. Yeah, I like sake. Come on. That's your second drink you took on my sockies. Come on.

You know, all right, cool. Let's go. Let's go. Do you ever want to try my mawana, please? Is that rum? It is rum-based. I'll try it. Give him a shot.

Here. Put it in one of these. I'm not going to lie. Pass it off the card. I knew he's going to start turning up. Hold on. It's not going to be putting other shit in my sockie cups. Only socky go on my sockie cups.

Here, here. Yeah, yeah. Let me this. Only sock. My sockie comes. Okay. What is torch? So.

Get him a shut up. I want to. No, just, we spoke about twins. We spoke about on Victor. Yes, yeah, yes, absolutely. Come on. Yeah, Jan. Get a little napkin.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We spoke about that. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Let's talk about leave the door open.

Mm-hmm. I got hits now. Okay, yeah. You got, you got, you got hits. Yeah. I got a whole roll. So let's talk about that. How did that get me?

We got a plop for that shit getting rolled up. It took a minute, but we got there. Right? Come on. Right. Appreciate you too, big homie. Thanks. He got you if you need another one, man.

That's fucking big. Right. He's hippie mood. I'm going to how y'all. What are you saying? That's hippie mood. Look at this shit. Hell yeah.

Oh, hell yeah. He's hippo. That's right. So one of us, they're not like us. So leave the door open. How did that get created? So leave the door open was during COVID. And can y'all hear me?

Yeah, I will hear you. My number one world hit song, Leave the Door Open. Do we make some noise today? Come on, bro. That's my first number one hit. And I went number one twice. That's it. I mean, like, I got one.

And I'm telling you, I've been, I've done records underground, you know, semi-records. It's not way. Have you ever had a hit record, man? Everybody knows. Ain't no feeling like having a current hit record when that shit is playing. He says it all the time. He says it all the time. Oh.

Please keep talking. Please keep talking. Yes, it is the greatest feeling. And then when you did it with no comfort. Like, it's real, like, instrument. No, you didn't have to, you know, it ain't something you got to be like, you know, it wasn't forcing.

Like, I'm a mad at it. I can't keep this up or something, you know, and it looked good, and you got to do it, and everywhere you go, you like, you know, oh, I'm talking old-ass motherfuckers to young. Like, you know, it's like one of those records. It's like, yeah, like, that's what it is about. And that's how, you know, Bruno was like,

this is the songs, these are the, this type of music that's superstars sing. That's what he has, that's how, that's, that's how, he went into making and like when he said we're going to make an album because that this lead to draw up and came later but he was like it's music a superstar scene we're going to go in here and make some shit nobody's doing this shit no more like us like that can do it you know and pull it off like that and i was like let's go bro he was i was like big rock star shit yeah you know and he was like i only know how to do it one way it was like in mind me like at the same time i was watching

like uh last dance you know the michael jordan shit Oh, yeah. And I was like, oh, yeah, he's like Michael. And I was like, I ain't going to be Pippin, now. Why? This is the Netflix shit. Yeah. During COVID, yeah.

That killed COVID. But I'm Rodman. You're going to have to wake me up and be hung over some days. I'm in Miami, you know. Rodman was a rock star. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he still, you know, he knew he needed that element. He came and did it and kind of got, you know, it was still, I don't know what worked.

And so, and he had, you know, same, Bruno was same way. He had an incredible team. And for these records that we put together, shout out to Chuckie, his engineer, who was getting all the real 70 sounds, all the mics, all the real drum heads, all the shit. Like, from the root to the tutor, like, these records were built from real musicians that love the art that, like, we're getting every detail so that we can make something current that had the- You know, that had the feel, but we could take it somewhere, too. But how did they do it? What was they really doing these things on, you know? That was the part that went into it

and the troubleshooting that went into it and that was the beauty. Like how many different versions we did of the bridge and trying to get their drum sound and the mix. We did so many fucking mixes where one day we just boycott it against Bruno. Like, we don't have to fucking do this. Because you said he was like Dre in that song, right?

But even more like, dude, one song. bro. Even Dre will bounce around. When he might, bust the rhyme's going to at least come in and they're going to do four or five tracks, you know? Game might show up. They're going to do shit. Like, you know, he's going to do shit. What you're saying one, one is because he's spent all that time on the same one, okay. For like how long? For months.

Oh, I was going to say weeks. I thought that was crazy. Months. And then we go, maybe we go tap into something else and you can't sleep when we're still working on leave the door, trying to get one part of it. Like the bridge or maybe we think we have it, but then, like, we mix it, and it's like, why does it sound like that? And it's like, okay, we need to replay the drum again. Like, now every, when we mix it, we didn't have none to hide behind. It's not a bunch of processing or anything on the album.

It's just, we're just playing on instruments. You were playing the drums, right? So when we mix it, we got to mix it loud. So all the, we got to make sure it's loud now. You can hear everything. So now it's like, oh, it hurts, you know? Why does it hurt? Because you guys need to re-mic, replay.

Don't play so loud. Maybe do something different. You know? And so we played with that so many times. And then sometimes we would start playing with that. We remake the whole bridge again and all this stuff. And then it's just like, oh, my God. Everyone's about to lose their mind, you know? Meanwhile, niggas is dropping every week.

Like, hey. Something they just drop on borrow, you know. Like, damn, we should be out right now, you know. Like, hold on. Just trying to get this bridge right. Yeah. So I was like, shit. And then when it was right, boom.

Wow, we was on. Gucci suit. Grammys, everything, red carpet. You show up, but Bruno is red carpet. And it all made sense at that point. Yeah. All right. He was like, I'm going to show you how to do this shit.

Like, this is how, you know, he got joy out of, like, having someone that he could do it with, a partner that was, he respected just as much. And that we was making new music with and that we could have fun. If you see all the stuff that we did, we're having the time. It looks, it looks fun, man. I started wearing a wig, Bob wig. I should have brought that motherfucker the night, but the humidity. They would have fucked up the wig, too. But it was the time of our lives, and we were just having fun.

Drinking rum, we was drinking that rum, too. Is this it? Yeah, try some. Mewana. That's that Mammu. It's made in a clean tub and Kind of. I can see, I can see that's money. Let's go.

That's triple distil. You can make a do a spell with this shit, too. All right. Now, me and you got something else in comment. I want 30%. I'll give you 29 and a half. Let me have you got something else in common.

I heard you don't fuck were edibles. I took some before I did this for better or worse. I did. Really? I took one and I was like, I said, I'm really working. Let me take three more. Oh, because I heard a story you on first class airplane while and out. I almost thought I was going to die.

Right, right. And you did it again today? Yeah. Let's smoke some more. No wonder it took you so long to get that shit. I need a little taste of that. Right. So I thought you sworn off with edibles. I did, but I was like, you know what?

Let me just go here and this seems like a great format to do it. Do edible, safe, bunch of shoes. You're in a circle of trust. You're in a circle of trust. You're in a circle of trust. Right. Yes. You're in a circle of trust.

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No, I'm just saying that's, that's, that's for you. I'm like, I'm happy for you. Like, I ain't going to lie. Because everybody's like, whoa. The other marriage is kind of weird. Slum is now upgraded. Like, oh, whoa, whoa, I don't want to say it like that. But what I want to say in is, you know, you like, you look like you're in a different,

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It sounds like a son. Yes. And my vision was to work with the greatest, and I got to work with Mariah Carey, and I never would have thought. Like, it just keeps getting better and better. I have to admit, it's getting better. That's a man that's in love. Yeah, I just say.

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We are happy for you, man. I'm happy for you guys. I can't wait for y'all to hear this. No, you can't flip it on us right now. No, I'm just like, I can just... This is your moment. I wish I could give you the feelings. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, we feel it.

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Super bootleg. That shit is smooth. Yeah, it's the most obscure, like, like, collection of records, but it looks like it's like Japanese import records. I love it. I was like, this is great for this. Perfect for this.

You all have it framed up, right? It's great for the show. Can I see the monitors? Yeah, but I can tell, like, A lot of these artists are going to hit me in, be like, I ain't get paid for none of that shit. And that's what I'm saying. So I like to keep a little collateral.

So you really going to put this out? I got them really on standby. So let's make sure the edit is good. So we can actually have a good time, right? We're going to be mad at. Let's play nice. We're going to add to me to hold that. Stay red.

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That's me. Hey, great. Oh, my God. Let's talk about animals on a Compton album. DJ Premier and Dr. Dre. Who else can do it to you? How the fuck you get to work with D.C. Premier, this is so awesome.

Let me be quiet. It's the charmed life. I don't know. God is so good, man. I'm just in there maneuvering and just like these things happen, bro. Like, I trip out of myself. And that was happening again early on

when I was just going in there fucking with Dre, just being there every night. I wasn't worried about if I got on the mic or if I didn't get on the mic, I was just in the studio. I didn't care. Like, I was a studio rap in there whenever I could. What's up?

We're working on this. So-and-so is going to sing it. Okay, we write in. Like, everyone's riding. Like, it's crazy. Like, crazy because new artists are coming up. It's a great energy in there. And it's all Dre.

Everyone's like, you know, Dre, you want to give the best performance at best, everything. So I was already working. I got a thing where I worked with Premiere in Europe again, through knowledge. With no worries Brider Compton? Yes We got the thing in Germany With Boiling Room

Where we did this thing I'm sorry not Germany Russia We went to Russia With Boilerm And one of the things Is that I work with Premier Like it was a part of the thing

Because Premier was on the gig And we did our first song There with this other kid from Russia And that's what we Our relationship started And we started building And then when I started working on Dre He was like you're working with Dre

Bermina So I hit him up And he came through They go way back They started geeking out I'm hearing about You know they're talking about records and like all this stuff.

It would be ill hearing them. Yeah. I want to understand what you're trying to say just now. You just said that obviously, Dre and Premier knew each other prior, but you were the initial reconnection? Yeah, because I had, did two records with Premier in Russia,

and one of them I didn't use for the thing. So that was, that was ended up being animals. And I had that record. And it was these old sneakers, it was like, and I was playing records for Drey

and he was like, this is crazy. I was like, it's Premier. Like, he's like, yeah, have him pull up.

And I know Drey's a Premier fan. Yes, yes, that's another one. Dude, people give it up to, like, shout out to Premiere.

Like, he's the one. Another one. Universal that they all give it up from Alchemist, everybody, that's the God, you know,

so it's great, you know, and there's only a few people. Yeah, take a shot. Take a shot. And I've been around to see people,

like, thank God I've been around to see this happen where people like Premier and Drake in the studio and they are both geeking out and you see that these are just two dudes that are like vinyl heads, sample crate diggers. Comaraderie between them? That's what they are, you know, kids that like,

you see that and it's like, whoa. And it's like, that all comes back. And then I've seen it happen when I saw Q-Tip and Dre. And it's like, same thing, man. The very few people where I could see university, everyone has that mutual respect for it in that era you know um and so yeah i had the record i brought it to dray and uh dray started working with it and then he brought premiere in to scratch and uh to start uh building the beat and then they started clapping on the beat and uh that was that

uh i think it ended up just being me on the record right because they tried some features on there too but i think it's just me but yeah it was and it was like you know semi good it was like a commentary what was going on at the time and I like those records too we're due for a record like that you do a record with Premier. I'm working on it. Premier should do a record together. Yeah, I want to get another one. Like no,

an album, a project. Yeah. That would be crazy. Wait in line. I don't know who you're talking about. No, no, Premier answered that call. Premier answered that call. Let's make some noise. Now, Premier will be first up. What about Alchemist? Or Madlib? Of course.

Of course. We're supposed to have Alchemist and Erica Maddo on here. But a whole album, though, who would you want? Premier? I just, I mean, that's what I'm thinking in this moment. But yeah, Madlib is amazing. Are you saying, who's our choice? Who would y'all choice be for me to do a whole album?

For me right now, I'm saying, Premiere. Premiere. Premiere. I would say Premiere. I would say just as my second choice. Alchemist. I just love that Venice Beach. No, I can see the Alchemist synergy with you.

Yes. Yes. You are Alchemist. Cloud? Oh, we're taking a shot for both. Oh, fuck. So no one's making money? Come on. We're taking a shot.

It's okay, so what do you want to hear? I'm going to split that between how many? What do you want to hear? I'm doing a flu album. I like the flute album. I'm doing something. I got to do something. Oh, let's see a shot for that.

I want you to do just a production album. I got to do something just instrumental drums, beat breaks. Here, I'll just, I'll just swing it. Shots, you know, like, you hear shit clanking in the back. Cheers. So, I don't know, I just want to point out, those rings. These is crazy. I walk a lot of jewels, Norrie.

Are mood rings? See what the fuck going on. 25 right here. Easy. 45. Is that a paddock? Is that a paddock? $45?

That's like a fuck you to the haters Take a dive You see what's going on Are they watch wins? This is $100.50 Okay 100, 100. This is all porcelain.

Ooh. But from Rome. Fire. Stupid import. $50. All right. So you do the math. I'm not a number's guy.

I'm not a whole hand. I'm just pointing out this. A lot of time on my hand. Yeah, a lot of point out. I'm not pointing out I'm taking the Phoebe's I don't even fucking about your job

right now go ahead yeah so let's let's talk about come down yeah are we talking about

off the high off the hike oh are we what are we coming down off I don't ever want to come down off the charm life you know

after blessings and this good time you know it's like you know you don't want the party to stop and I'm having a great time and still am even when i wrote that record it was like the epitome of what i was going through

and i was doing all this stuff with all these people i was like i was the last song i did for the record so i was having a great time and i didn't want i didn't want the party to stop you know you worked so hard to get to this level of bliss you know absolutely but you the work don't stop you know yeah now speaking about party you did a party um uh i believe nelly's birthday Yeah, I did Wasn't that he's birthday? Yeah And who was in Vegas?

Ashanti surprised him It hit all his closest friends And put together A really nice event for him In Vegas Right I didn't know they was filming A reality show too

But I got some time In the reality show too So Yeah I want my check Give me get the lighter Okay my bad I want a reoccurring role now

Yeah but that was an honor to be called huge honor to be in that lineup i mean she had everybody pulled up and it's great man like germina pre was like hosting it had everybody there man lloyd it was it was beautiful it's beautiful anybody ever throw a birthday party for you like that for you that you didn't have to pay for i throw my own birthday party right i've been that nigger for some minutes. Oh, shit. It's my party.

No, but, um, bro, man, I'm, I'm, I'm proud of, I'm proud of your story. Like, you know, you know, when you hear your story, or you, like, could Google your story, right? It starts out with, you know, turmoil. You know, you had two parents that was in jail.

so one more thing damn man this guy is supposed to be he can't be a winner like right and the fact is you you flip the rocks or you flip the everything

and the fact that I love like not only me like everyone we love you a smile you smile bro and like I said I'm not fool about a smile because I smile a lot too and the reason why I smile a lot

because I know what I've been through. Right. And I'm so happy to be where I'm at. Right. And without you telling me that, I could tell that you, that same person, like we, we'd have people that we probably wasn't meant to be here. But we're here and we beat the odds so much that that smile is like, of course, motherfucker. So I relate to your smile.

Yeah, thank you, man. Let's tell you to know, man. I relate to that. Because I relate to being in the odds, but now let me ask you, you know, we got exhibit from over here, we got, you know, game from over here. Everybody's from California, but Oxnard is a town that people didn't really know, right? Is there ever a time where you doubted yourself and it was like, man, no one that's going to understand, you know what I mean? Like, has there ever been a time like that for you? the time it wasn't making sense money wise monetary wise you know and I had kid yeah and that was the big battle

it's like that's the artist's battle that's every artist's battle and it's like you know what do you do at that point where some artists know how to switch it over and become an entrepreneur at that point and see okay this is about if I want to do this for a living

there's going to be a certain amount of business acumen I need to go into this with brand and I'm going to really, especially you have a family. Yep. I need to at least organize how this is coming through, funneling and all this stuff, right? How young is it that you have your family, man? Like how you sounds like you're young, 24. That you had your first kid?

Yeah, 24. And we was, you know, at the gates, you know. And my wife was straight from Korea and didn't have any family out here. My family was her family. We just all banded together and just made it happen, you know. And supported you obviously. Support it, watch the kid full time. I'm always out there hustling.

You know, I would do shows. I started the band that I played with now, the Free Nationals. Shout out to the Free Nationals. Shout out to the Free Nationals. Take a shout for the Free Man. Yeah, take a shot for Free Nationals. Let's do it.

Let's do it. That's right. Cheers. Oh, look. Cheers. Cheers. Yeah, banded with my brothers, started a band and was like,

okay, we're going to take the shit serious. We're going to start getting our show together. Right. And we became, we got a badass show, and that's what we were. when things started happening, but yeah, that was it was pivotal

with the kids and growing up. That's critical. Yeah, it's critical. Yeah. What was your question again? Fuck. He was just saying that. I had to hustle from the ground up. I mean, yeah, that was kind of his answer he was looking for. WIC. We was on WIC. He was on the government assistant. He was on the government assistant. Yeah, yeah.

Well, it was like the milk. You get the groceries. You know, you can get a little check. Now, he was just saying, did you doubt yourself being... Oh, I doubt it. Yes, I did. We're taking the buzz. The area is not known. You know what?

Well, that's kind of like where he was coming from. You know what? But coming from Oxnard, though, I had the battery and went back because when I was coming up, I was like, you know what? I grew up that knowing that Madlitt was from Oxnard. I know that we had a big impact. I didn't know that, Matton? Yes, yes.

Madlis from Oxnard and one of our biggest heroes. And we have... Mattlib is an incredible producer. Absolutely. He's an MC, too. Absolutely. I'm saying, but Lupec

Oh no, like the whole There's a whole What's his alter ego? Oh man Quasimoto So I was like Oxnard got it So I'm gonna be

You know I was like I want to be next coming out You know And to show that we got you You know It's already on the map And as far as I was concerned Through that

And so I was just trying to You know Continue to raise the bar with it But I wanted to go to LA I was determined I was like I want to get out of Oxnard When I was coming up

in high school I see I was born in St. John's hospital in Oxnard in 86 and I stayed there until about seven years old and I moved to Ventura and that's where I did like middle school, high school, everything and that's just the suburb over. But then I started playing drums in church and Oxnard

and this is all the same, you know, to me. But it's very different too, Oxnard and Ventura. But I always wanted to be like, I'm from Oxnard, you know? Because it's like, that's where the soul's at, you know? But I got love for the whole county. But, yeah, I was like, I want to go to L.A. though, because there is not enough out here, you know. I was playing shows in Oxnard Mentor, and it'd be nobody there.

Right, yeah, you had to go. And so I was like, is this really for me, you know? Like, it's not, I can't pay, I can't support my family with this. Maybe I should try to, at this point, switch over. It's now or never. If I can do something different right now, I'd be good by the time I'm 30-something, you know? But I was like, I'm just going to do it. I couldn't not do it.

You know, like I said, it's like breathing and you are always going to want to do something musically creative, doing something in that. And when I came to LA, I found out like how good I was at drums, at being a live musician and how much I had to learn about. And I had so much to know about. And it was like a field day because I was going to this music college and everything, my mind was being blown. So I was like, okay, it gave me the battery. Like I'm going to do it. And I met Jose, my guitar player. and he was like from San Diego,

he was going through the same thing. We were just bandied together and we were like playing these shitty-ass gigs, man, getting fucked over, you know, getting not paying nothing. But we loved it. We loved waking up smoking weed just as good as this, you know?

Our weed was a little better, but this is good. Take a shot. Let me give a shot for your coming up days. Come on, come on. Let's take a shot for your coming up days. That's over there. It was something that. And look how big of my shot there is than yours.

Will we? You want to, no. I'm sipping rum now. All right. We're taking a little shot. This is the good mama wanna. That's the one that's made in the shower, not to tell. It's moonshine.

It is moonshine. I like it. Yeah, but continue. I was coming up, but it was great. So I did think about stopping though, but I had some good friends that helped me out there. They were like, keep going, bro. Do it for us at least. We love to see.

So you had doubts. Yeah. I stopped. Let's stop. I full on quit a couple times where I was trying to work the job. Yeah, if you can't, if you can't provide for your family, you're going to be doubt yourself. Yeah. But then you had to know that.

I had to be real myself. I was like, this is what I was born to do. I want to do this. I'm going to make it work. I'm going to figure this out. Can't be that hard. You know? And I'm glad I did.

And it was really like the people I had that was really supportive, you know, that were like you, like we love your smile. We'll keep doing it. Even if you've got to stay in our spot. Yeah. Use our studio. Shut up to dumbfounded, Johnny Park. You know, like people that were Shafi Hussein, Sarah, Omas. Like, the people were very supportive and helping me grow and taking me over.

Was Stone Throw a connection through Madden? Because I know that too back and all the one day. No. Didn't it come to Outthrough? I had that song Swade before I got the Stone Throat and we were dipping around on SoundCloud. Because they're a dope label for people that don't know. Yeah. So that was what Madel was on.

So knowledge was already signed to Stone Strows. So I was like, I met Knowledge and we did Swade. And I was like, yo, knowledge. Play this for them. Like, let's get it. He was like, let's start a group. We started, same thing like how Bruno did. Let's start a group.

Same thing. We started a group called No Worries. And we had that song, but it wasn't officially out. It was just bouncing around SoundCloud and band camp and stuff. But they obviously saw the talent. They saw us perform it. And then they were like, cool, swoop it up. They signed that group.

They were the one to put it out on wax and got it going south-by-self-west. We started pushing it. You got a show list for labels like that. Yes, bro. Shut up for some throw. yeah i'm telling you bro because that's what it is because a lot of artists that get into labels now they don't know it's a partnership like they got to be bringing something to the table too if you're artists that has no like no way to it doesn't translate what you're doing doesn't translate to tours

or to units sold or anything like that or getting you in these places then uh i don't know i don't know what you're doing it maybe just doing it for yourself you know right but if you partner with people then these are people that usually can help you get to that that and you're aligned, you guys got an understanding, like-minded folks, and you're doing it. They're curating vinyl. They put my shit on vinyl. They got it, and they got it, and they got me, my shit bubbling to enough where it got to those writers that got me to dray.

And it was like, because they have some cultural equity. Yeah. Because of what they've been doing, right? Yeah. Yeah, that's it. So, yeah, God bless Stone's throw, and we did that. And we, we just, we went, we went for it. Hey, guys, it's Azee Fud.

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listen to Black Tech Green Money from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So let me ask you a question. This part should have been in quick time or slime but i'll ask you now independent or major this depends on what you want to do with what you negotiate if you need a major to do what you need to do if you see that working and what you're doing as an artist the artist has to really know what the whole ends and out what they want okay there's no more there's no more of this like you know, I was a child. Yeah.

I mean, some of them. They took 100%. Yeah, like you just did it. Or maybe, you know, some of those that needed that little oomph and then they got them to the thing and then they made it happen. So everybody I've ever been involved with, I got paperwork with them even as I go in that I have had to pay off, you know, slowly and now to become like free, you know, eventually, you know.

Now. I mean, the producers, I mean, from people that maybe were managed labels, paying off that, you know, but to be blessed to have the masters of my first two albums already, you know what I'm saying, and see that, and then get a deal where I worked out with Dre

where I can eventually get my master's for all our shit. It's like, you know, all that shit is cool. And then sometimes Dre can be like, you can own the master on that, on a single. And then that joint gets picked up for six. This song's bubble.

That's what we talked about the other day, about the sinks, the licensing. Couple joints I own outright singles that I get things for crazy that goes straight, you know, That Drey reduced, too?

No, but that I was assigned to Drey for that he said, you can keep that one, whatever, keep the mouse running. That he produced? Not produced. Oh. No, no. But that, yeah, but that, you know, I was, I made while I was signing him. But he was overseen.

Overseed. Yeah. I mean, he could easily, I have to clear everything through Drey, you know, still. And everything is still very much like a label. So it's like, he keeps the quality control of his artist, you know. So you have to clear stuff. And now it's like, you know, he's, he's, he's, been like, hey, this one I like, this one is for you, blah, blah. And so it's like to have

some of those and to have the first two, it's like, it's really dope, man. And I think that you, I've been blessed to be able to have the versatility to work with both. I've done major. I've done the indie. I've gotten to do, go back and go back to do indie with my band, the free nationals, let their album come out with an indie empire. I've been working with Empire for years. Shout out to Ghazi and Nima. Nima. Yeah, I've got gold platinum records with them on the Indy Tith. And with my, with my record label, ape shit.

And I just, yeah, I got my own record label, ape shit. Ape shit. Yep. Anderson Pack Empire shit. Dip shit records, yeah. No, no, ape shit. Yeah. And I signed in my band.

I got Ray Khalil. I got this other group called Still Beans. He's like a one-man band. Well, we got records out there, and I've been able to play with both with the indie and the major. And I think it's all about the artist, what you want. You don't get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. Absolutely.

Now, Silksonic, what label did that drop on? It never dropped off. You see, the chain remains. Oh, see. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, y'all stay independent. I think we could tell you the motherfucking label right now. Just look at Atlantic.

Oh, Aftermath. Okay. And that's when AfterBath stopped being a major, correct? No. Because Aftermath has a very... Stop messing with Apple and Interscope. They made the sell. AfterMap is indie label still.

It gets to do distribution with whoever they want to do. Right. Yes. And the last thing that they did, which was very successful, was the West Silk Sonic with Atlantic. So they killed it. Did you have to sell that idea to

No, everybody was down. Everybody was good. I was like, you know, Drey would prefer me to work on my own stuff. He wants me to work on Anderson Pack. Over that? Yeah, he wants to like, do your thing. This is great. I keep doing, Matt. I do a lot of collaborative efforts. If you look at a lot of my records,

always collabs. That's been my thing. I love it. It's not fun unless I'm like working. I like working with other people. It's like that's where it's fun for me. And so, uh, but when it's time for me to work on my own shit, it gets a little like, okay, I get a little, I take a little more time and it gets a little more methodical and stuff. But I love when I can work in a duo or something like that, you know, I don't know, does something to my brain. Yeah. And so, um, yeah, I told Dre and he was with it. And then, um, we played him at a lead to the open and he was like, yeah, go crazy. And then

we was doing the residency and it was just That's dope I didn't I didn't know that after I was involved Yeah absolutely And then And Julie at Atlantic at the time I mean it was it was

It was a fucking It was incredible Julie Greenwald yeah Yes Julie Green War solid Yeah right So who the regime was on the Was it Julie Greenwald Mike Kaiser

Um I'm so terrible names with Julie Black dude and like some other people yeah there was a black guy for sure yeah my glasses yeah that's my yeah that's my brother i bleed for that niggas what you don't know how about kevin lous do you remember kevin lous okay wait i don't know i don't want to get you know i don't know who was exactly but i was there you get way too much money you know you don't know you just know you getting way too much money.

I mean, that's where it seems for you. And that's, you know what? That's a beautiful fucking thing. I'm at no boo. That's a beautiful fucking thing. That's a beautiful fucking thing. So, um, uh, is there anything in this industry that you regret? Um, I mean, my double Excel freestyle freestyle was a bit cringe.

but I don't regret it I just could have been in a better outfit and that's all I'll say no regrets I think it's great man I look back I just love that I'm able to learn

from my mistakes and failures but that's the best part about this whole thing and I learn in front of those enjoying those moments too soaking those in and then moving on learn how to get better and enjoying the ride, being open to new stuff, being okay with not being the best in the room with something, just, like, learning about other people and trying

to keep growing and learning, and that's it. And try to keep your dogs that you wait. It's tough, man, you know? You don't meet new friends these days, you know, I'm really, like, I'm grateful for y'all having this platform, you know. Thank you. I always see you, you know. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm going to take my light of it back because you ain't trying to. I just Hey man you're saying some nice words about us and you go

Is this why niggas can't express shit this is why we need therapy bro yeah I just I had anxiety

at the same time I wanted to like my blood I like you but get my shit back you're here no no

thank you I know no man like you man nah man I'm gonna be honest with you man

you're a legend you're a legend you're a legend um we've been you know you know know me and you got a relationship I've been trying to get you on here because I want to

give you your flowers and that's the thing about our culture is um most of us don't really do that like it takes nothing for me as a man to tell you how much I appreciate you as a man that you know what I'm saying it doesn't take nothing away from me doesn't take nothing away from us and that's what our show is about our show is about giving people and making people know how much the culture I appreciate you. And God damn it, we appreciate you, motherfucker. Thank you. All right.

And it's not like, you know, you deserve this shit, you know what I'm saying? Like, I've been seeing you for years and me and you've been kicking it. I'm just like, yo, I just want to give you, I want you to understand, you know, and watch. Your fans are going to, when your fans see this shit, they're going to be like, oh, wow. You're going to take care of me, right? Yes, of course. No, no, no, we're great. you, man.

No, because... Edit it down a little bit. No, no, no. We're going to edit it down a little bit, but you got to understand. We can't edit it down a lot of bit. You know, I watched you on, like, every interview you did and your story, like, you know, has kind of... It's been told, but it's, you've been telling it with a smile on your face, right? So people might not take it as serious as what it really is.

Like, and I read that your parents both did a bid. One, seven years, the other 14 years. That doesn't sound like a man who smiles like to me. And when I see you on and off camera and you smiling, that shit is the ultimate version of success to me. to me this is what I'm trying to tell you is because you know

had I been through that exact thing I might have not been able to smile as confident as you and you do smile confident doing like three different groups you tour like a wrestler

and you just live life and I want to say that's something that I admire as a forget a rapper, forget an artist, forget an entertainer. I admire that as a man. It's a man, the shit that you've been through and how you approach life

and you look forward, I salute you. I salute you, brother. Big time. one more shot let's do it you got two you got two you got two you got two little two little boquitos in spanish because of that boquito let's do a bocettico let's do a little bit sounds Korean I told you we got more in common than you think so and just for the last thing so we know last shot yeah one last shot I got um before we get up out of here is there anything you want

to say to your fans because I love you thank you so much for your patience thanks for riding with me Thanks for just, you know, grinding with me. I'm enjoying a ride, and I love you. I'm nothing without you. I got so much stuff on the way. And just know that I'm going to be taking care of y'all because y'all taking care of me. And shout out to my family, my baby, soul, shine, hey, y'an. Shout out to Ronnie, Willie, Camille, Paris, Knight, Kenya.

Kayla Kalani Kendrick Carousel Who was you Shirenell That got real I'm like

This better not be his kids You want some Nick Cannon shit I'm the opposite way Come on He got weird He said I got a couple

DEMs that came in earlier Right God All right All right Okay. Yo, my brother. Holy shis good ball.

Thank you so much, man. Love y'all. Thank you. Hey, and one more thing. By the way, this is your house whenever you want to come. Wait, take this last shot. Last shot. Yeah, yeah.

I got three shots. I'll do the sake with you, yeah. Okay, take a socky with it. Yeah, thanks. Jesus. That like the point, guys. Cheers. Mm-hmm.

But then I got one more, and you got a tequila right there. You did the killer with the one more. Let me pour up. I'm in, yeah, you're offing on the flight. Come on, come on. Are you got a plate? Yeah, that's okay. Oh, I feel sorry for you, sir.

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Listen to Fud Around and Find Out, a production of IHart Women's Sports in partnership with Unanimous Media on the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm Noah and I'm 13, and I started this podcast because honestly, adults don't ask the right questions. Now You Know with Noah DeBarrasso is a show about influence. Who's got it, how they use it, and what it means for the rest of you. It's not the news.

It's what the news should be if someone Gen Z or Gen Alpha made it. Politics is wild and I'm definitely not here to payment, but I'm here to make sense of it. Listen to Now You Know with Noah DeBarroso on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. It's Black Business Month and Black Tech Green. Money is tapping in. I'm Will Lucas spotlighting black founders, investors, and innovators, building the future, one idea at a time. Let's talk legacy, tech, and generational wealth. I had the skill and I had the talent. I didn't have the opportunity. Yeah. We all know, right? Genius is evenly distributed. Opportunity is not. To hear this and more on the power of black innovation

and ownership, listen to Black Tech Green Money from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the IHartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome to Pretty Private with Ebeney, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free. I'm Ebeney, and every Tuesday I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that would challenge your perceptions and give you new insight on the people around you. Every Tuesday, make sure you listen to Pretty Private from the Black Effect Podcast Network. Tune in on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. This is an IHeart podcast.