No Jumper - Eastwood on Signing to Death Row, Kurupt, Left Eye & More

Starting point is 00:00:00 God tier podcast, the coolest battle rap podcast in the world. And we back again with another installment here with my co-host. Rising like the prices of Petro coming live and direct with a legend from the West Coast. You did. Eastwood. What's the deal, man. This one's special, man. West really.

Starting point is 00:00:23 Appreciate it, West really. As we should say, West really. What's up with my guys, man? Man, it's great to see you. I want to, before we get started, I want to tell the story of my first interaction with you, which to this day, I don't know if you remember this, but you might when I bring it up. There's a battle event. This is 2009.

Starting point is 00:00:45 It was a battle event that we had a grind time event called Battle of L.A. Disaster invited you. That's why you popped up. Oh, I think I know what you're talking about. Yeah, yeah. And Eastwood shows up, and it's in the middle of a battle going on. between one of our undercards. Yeah, I was a little late, though.

Starting point is 00:01:02 Yeah, yeah, you were a little late, but not really, though, because it was still, like, early in the event. And it wasn't really known dude. Yeah, it wasn't the cracking show yet. And you come through, you're like, what's up, but I'm like, oh, I'm meeting Eastwood right now. This is like an emcee that I admire. He's a dude in L.A.

Starting point is 00:01:18 Like, if you don't know, this is, he's a guy out here in L.A. Respectable. Respectable, certified. And I'm like saying, what's up, do you who oompe? And then one of the dudes that's battling, he's like, he's like, yo, chill. Everybody shut up. Let me spit my shit. And then East was like, you're talking to a beast in the game, homie.

Starting point is 00:01:37 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember. I remember you know. They got to stay in this place. They got to stay in this place, man. And I was like, yeah, bro, like this is a dude here right now. He's like, oh, my bad, my bad. Yeah, you've liked him out.

Starting point is 00:01:51 I mean, shit, he, come up, well, you got to stay in your place, man. I'm here to respect everybody here. I'm doing their thing. I'm showing love and support. Y'all told me to come out. I pulled it up and then he just hold up. Wait, hold on. Yeah, it was bad time.

Starting point is 00:02:05 It was bad time. For him, very unfortunate because it's in his battle and it gets used against him. For sure, for sure. Yeah, that was horrible for him. Shout out to dude. I hope you're all right, bro. Yeah, I hope he. I actually haven't seen him since to keep it a bundle with you.

Starting point is 00:02:19 And like, for those who don't know, you know, like, you know, Eastwood is another somebody that, like, you're talking to a beast in the game, honey. A beast in the game. I actually go way back even further than that with, you know, probably like 2005, 2006. I think the first time I met you was when was it at the time you, like, judged one of my battles, right? I think you were judging a tournament that we were doing at the pit. Of course, we always been talking about the pit and to bring it up, that's where, you know, the most certified legends used to come through. Yes, sir. You know, to add more confirmation to it, you know, Eastwood was one of it.

Starting point is 00:02:57 them dudes up there and you know he had a certain respect level where people you know as an emcee like you know they looked up to your opinion and you was really up there and like you know it was a rowdy crowd you remember what type of shit that was what was your first impression of seeing disaster rap i'm curious the crazy as fuck this i'm like this dude is crazy as fuck but he was so lyrically inclined with his creativity and his animation it was just like yo this dude and he had heart you know what i'm saying i love that about him you He just had heart that the boy would talk his shit. You know what I'm saying?

Starting point is 00:03:30 Yelling at Crips and Bloods and all types of shit. I'm saying in my head, please don't, don't fuck this nigga disaster. Because he in there battling with some real, some gang members that get rap, though, you know what I'm saying? But that's with that shit. And you know, gang members don't like getting their feelings are, bro. I don't give a fuck what level it is. You know what I'm saying? Niggis tripping.

Starting point is 00:03:49 But yeah, disaster was talking that shit. And for the sport, though, he used to fuck shit up. And that always, that drew me to him. And then when I'm actually met him, I'm like, oh, he's a good fucking kid. this niggas a good dude. Yeah, I'm saying? And I respected that. And then I would hear the little, the talk in the streets about him,

Starting point is 00:04:03 and it would always be respect. And if it wasn't, or a nigga had a question mark, I'd always be like, yeah, that's my dog. Like, he's solid. That nigga go. Yeah, man, you were a real one, man. You supported from day one, man. You was up there in the, shit.

Starting point is 00:04:16 My first fucking battle over there, I remember was like, like, I went up against, like, a whole squad of bounty hunters. And, like, it was like the craziest shit ever, bro. Like, and I battle, you know, I battled a dude. And like, they gave me my respect at the end of the shit. Speaking of that shit, actually, that's really crazy. Like, you fuck with TDE and Ray Vaughn. Yeah, yeah, man.

Starting point is 00:04:39 So you brought him to TDE as far as I kind of understand. So what's the deal with that? Yeah, yeah, Rayvon. First of all, Rayvon from Long Beach, he's a monster. Crazy-ass fucking nurses, man. So he's definitely, he's going to be a superstar very soon. He shouts out to my boy Reggie, too. Yeah, that's who brought him to the table.

Starting point is 00:04:58 Yeah, yeah. Like, brought him to the table to me. And then. So Reggie brought him to, shout out the Reggie, man. That's a real solid. Shout out to my guy. So he brought him to you and you brought him to TV.

Starting point is 00:05:07 Yeah, he brought him to me. And then I hit Top and me and Top was talking about a song I did called California. And I just thought about it, you know what I'm saying? In the midst of talking to him about it, I'm like, yo, Ray Vine, Ray Vaughn, Ray Vaughn, it just popped in my head, like, let him know about Ray Vine. Yeah. go any further at least let him know y'all was on some homie shit before that's your boy that you were ray von yeah no no i met him through mike i got you right and then we jailed

Starting point is 00:05:38 so right away yeah so we jailed a relationship for about a year you know i'm saying and we did a couple songs together yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that was my dog i just you know i like his energy i like this flow you know he was hungry and uh i like his story you know i'm saying that what he's been through and he's a real single single single parent of two girls two little girls two beautiful little girls you know I'm saying. And I felt like this dude, he needs his chance. He deserves a chance. And I just did what motherfuckers wouldn't do for me. That's what I was about to say, though. That's like a super selfless. Yeah, a very altruistic move because a lot of people, you know, you're in a position talking to one of the top executives in the game. You could make it all about you in that moment.

Starting point is 00:06:16 Yes, totally. And I didn't do that, bro. And I just felt it in my spirit to do it because this is a young dude. You know what I'm saying? I've been in the game. I didn't have deals. And, you know, I know what feel like you know what I'm saying but I wanted to send that love back to somebody that I believed in you know what I'm saying and make that shit work if it could work and uh when I sent top I just told top like yeah I got a dude named Ray Vaughn from Long Beach he like yeah he's like I'm on my way to the career right you said he said same I just told him I got a beast that this dude is something special he's something special and he from Long Beach and he from the city you know we fuck with our backyard I'm just like he's incredible bro you need to put your ear to this

Starting point is 00:06:51 and he like send it to me right now gee shit send it to me right now so what you sent him. That's what I want to know. Oh, what did I send him? Yeah. I sent him a couple records. I just send them two records. I don't want to put it out because I don't know. Yeah, yeah, but I sent them two records. I thought it was something that might be out by now. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. It's not out. I sent them some exclusive shit. Yeah, yeah, oh, it's coming. You know what I'm saying? And he hit me back within like 20 minutes. He has some shit on what is it. I think it's the leakers, the Lakers? Is that the, is that the first? That shit is what's crazy. He's so just natural man it's crazy having

Starting point is 00:07:27 and sees like him are judges at Ray Vine man you feel me don't follow the man but the man if you see that shit no I'm talking about the world oh yeah yeah yeah at the end of the day I swear to God bro the nigger shit went viral like four or five times you know what I'm saying so I'm like damn it keep going viral and it's

Starting point is 00:07:43 surprising him and that and that's just the world catching up though to his greatness and I love that you know what I mean so so I hit Top hit me back bam he after he heard the music he was like man because y'all meet me at Iniscope tomorrow at Wooty Woooo Woo I got with Ray Vaughn, we went to Enoscope, had the meeting, and it was curtains from there.

Starting point is 00:08:00 He played the same songs, plus more. You know what I'm saying? And it was curtains from there. Shout out to TD. You're looking out on the alley hook. Shouts to TD. Shouts to Tatee. Now, obviously, you're an Englewood representative.

Starting point is 00:08:12 You know, East High, L.A. Englewood representative. So you were born in East L.A., grew up in Englewood. I'm glad you said that, bro. Eastwood. Yeah, let's clear this shit up right now. So my name comes from, I was born at Lynnwood. Memorial Hospital, right? East Side of LA, right? I'm a foster kid.

Starting point is 00:08:29 From the East Los, homie? Yeah, come on, man. All of the East, the East, the East, the side, all the, everybody on the East Side. So I fuck with the East Side. That's what my East Side shit come from. Right. Then I moved to Englewood, right? I ran away from my foster home, you know what I'm saying? My grandma tried to take care of me, rest in peace. She died in 2013, rest in peace. But that's my baby. That's like, like, that's like my mama. You know what I'm saying? She raised me. You know what I'm saying? She tried to do her best, and she had her kids in her house. I was like the, you know, the fourth, fifth wheel, you know what I'm saying?

Starting point is 00:08:57 But she did the best as she could. So I moved to Englewood. And this is where my basketball career come into play. And I met like, you know, just going to Englewood High School, I met all the bloods. You know what I'm saying? They was just around. They went to the school and then I was a hooper. So they would come to the game.

Starting point is 00:09:12 Same school as Paul Pierce, right? Same school as Paul Pierce. Shout out to Paul Pierce. That's my dog. He's older, though. Yeah, he's older to me. Yeah, yeah, about four years. But I got mad love in England.

Starting point is 00:09:23 Wood from all the bloods you know what I'm saying so it's like the Crips on the east side the blood's in Inglewood and that's why I'm able to bridge the gap and be a real person to these people where I don't have to pick a side bro you feel me I fuck with the Crips just as much as I fuck with the bro I remember I came visited you in Inglewood we hung out you should you gave me a tour of your neighborhood and all that I always thought my my assumption before I heard about the Side Roots was like, this dude's of blood because he's from Englewood. No, man. So this is what I hear.

Starting point is 00:09:57 This is what I hear. So in the streets, I hear so much shit. So it's the Eastwood from Long Beach right here, Crip. It's another Eastwood. These are their gang names. So it's another Eastwood from East Coast. East Coast Crip. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:10:09 People seem to mix me up with them. Okay. And they see me, oh, you're from Long Beach? Yeah. Like, no, that's not me, bro. But yeah, shout out to that Eastwood. Oh, you're from East Coast. No, that's not me either.

Starting point is 00:10:18 But shout out to them because my family is from the six-pack. That's my family. And that's the. That's East Side shit. That's the East Side shit. No, that's about my family. My East Side family, they raised me. You feel me?

Starting point is 00:10:28 East Side raised me. That's when I started doing this music shit. It was from the East Side. My nigga Magic from A-7. You know what I'm saying? It's Dundeele Records that's tattooed on my arm. I was doing that at like 17 running with the wolves. 17.

Starting point is 00:10:39 I was still going to school, still hooping, ranked in the nation. You feel me? Crazy. With a scholarship to go to Fresno State. Started with Dundle Records, Magic in them. Shout out to them. They started my career. They believed in me.

Starting point is 00:10:50 You know, just hood niggas. And we had Dundiel record. So Dun Deal records consist of niggas from all types of hoods. You know what type of different LA hoods. Compton, Watts, Long Beach, just real niggas just came together and we believed in one thing. I feel like you represent that as a whole. That's me, bro. I'm polished it. That's my, and that's why my IG is Mr. Black Bandana. That's why I changed. People be like, right? That's fire. Yeah. People be like, get your handle back. You at Eastwood at Eastwood. Well, people know I'm at Eastwood. Well, people know I'm saying. I've been in the game 23 years. You feel

Starting point is 00:11:20 Yeah, no, that's good bread. No, that's how that's smart. That's the neutral side of the streets. Yeah, yeah. But I'm still, still a bandana, so don't get it fucked up, nigga. You know what I'm saying? I'm still gangster, even though. I mean, you know.

Starting point is 00:11:33 With that being said, so just to clarify, is it... Got to roll one to that. Were you born in the east side of South Central or East L.A., East L.A., East L.A. Memorial. Right. Now, South Central, as soon as I was just born there. You know what I mean?

Starting point is 00:11:47 Now, when I got taking out that fucking hospital, I went to the east side of L.A., South Central. I have my East Side, South Central, 80s, LA baby. Yeah, because there's a big difference, because there's like, you know, East LA predominantly Mexican. There is one, there's one East Coast hood over there, like the only black gang in the East Los. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:12:03 But you grew up East Side. East Side, South Central LA. Yeah, yeah. And then, you know, just by moving to Englewood, you know, when I was like 15, I know, the wood show love to me. You know what I'm saying? They had my back just like my crib niggas. And you hold it down for the wood on wax.

Starting point is 00:12:18 Yes, I do. Yes, I do. If not every verse, every song. Yes, I do. Yes, I do. You're going to hear East Side in the Wood. Yes, because, I mean, that's my lifeline, bro. That's my lifeline.

Starting point is 00:12:29 I'm really, I'm true to where I come from. Man, you cruises me around your shit like you was the mayor of that bit. Yeah, I mean, and you know what? I was young when I came and was hanging with him at Englewood. I was young, bro. You might think this is some recent shit. No, no, he was a baby boy. Yeah, he was a baby boy.

Starting point is 00:12:45 I was not 18 yet. Nah, that nigg was a baby boy. Or I was like 18. Okay. 18 or 19 years old. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you're rolling around with the certified liability. You don't know.

Starting point is 00:12:55 Certified just risking it off. But it was the love that Inglewood had for me, bro. It wasn't about me like, oh, I'm Inglewood. No, no, it was the love that Inglewood had for me that allowed me to move how I move, you know, on top of me being a guy for him, man, I'm going to do what I want to do, you know. But at the end of the day, you know, that the love allowed me to move how I wanted to move. and, you know, they pay that shit forward. I pay it back.

Starting point is 00:13:22 I can still go there right now. I go to the east side and whatever I'm at now. I just went to Six-Duce East Coast Hood Day. I got pictures, video, all that. June 2nd. Yep. It's family, though. That's family.

Starting point is 00:13:34 So I feel at home when I, you know what I'm saying? So, yeah. It's culture, man. Did you ever feel like pressure from one side or the other? Like, yo, you get put on. I did. I'll be alive. I said, I didn't.

Starting point is 00:13:46 I was, by me being on the east. side it was more like niggi we family you know what I'm saying this family so that pressure wasn't really there besides you should be from the hood because we love you right you know I mean not just because we're feeling you stay in the hood we're fin to jump you in you a mark

Starting point is 00:14:04 you're going to do what we say so right you know what I mean we're going to turn you up no it wasn't none of that it was just more like nigga we love you nigga you be on your shit you might as well claim the hood almost to where a nigga didn't even have to get put on we're going to ride for you regardless yeah we're going to ride for you regardless but see that's good because I'm glad that I didn't. You know what I'm saying?

Starting point is 00:14:21 Because at the end of the day, I still squabbled up with niggas. I still did what I had to do. You know what I'm saying? As a man. Not a gang member, but as a man. You feel me? If I'm with my East side niggas

Starting point is 00:14:32 and we go out and they crack, I'm squabbling. I'm with whatever they about. You feel me? If I go out with my Englewood niggas and they crack and I'm with them, I'm with whatever they about. You feel me?

Starting point is 00:14:44 That's just how I rock. You feel me? I've always been that dude. You know what I mean? Yeah. Now, having a lot of, I want to touch on your history. You have an crazy history, but something I was wondering about and wanted to get, like, as a real Inglewood constituent. But you're from, you know, you're a couple years younger than me.

Starting point is 00:15:03 You're like, we're damn near the same age, though. I think y'all are about the same age. Yep, yep, yep. You know, RIP, Draco, the Ruler. Yes, sir. He had a lot of static with Inglewood. How did you feel about, like, the Ingleweird disc track and all that? I mean, me and my love for Inglewood.

Starting point is 00:15:19 Of course, I'm not with nothing that, you know, that, that this Englewood, because I got love for Englewood, you know what I'm saying? But I understood his politics, but I also felt like it wasn't a good move. I felt like, you know, with beef, you've got to be more strategic, you know what I mean? You got to be more careful, you know, with how you get down because shit like that causes shit like that. And, you know, I wasn't comfortable with that whole shit. I wish both sides could have, you know, made the shit make sense and just got along for the sake of the youth and for the sake of giving back and just us being brothers. But, you know, I can't, it's politics and that shit, you feel me? 1,000.

Starting point is 00:15:58 Yeah, it is what it is. I just, I don't agree. I didn't agree with that. It was a bad move to me. No, I told what I was expecting you to say. And obviously, you know, Draco, a vital voice for Los Angeles, an incredible talent. Super talent, man. Super talent.

Starting point is 00:16:14 was the purveyor of the entire next generation of LA rap. Do you feel like there's like a big disconnect in the generations? Because I don't feel like a joint like that would have been made, you know, 10 years ago, 15 years ago. I do feel like it's a disconnect. I think it's more of the younger cats feeling like the older cats and teachers shit. They ain't really look out for me. Fuck these niggas. You feel me?

Starting point is 00:16:45 I'm a do what I do, how I do it. And now you see what it's causing. You see what's happening. It's a lot of chaos, a lot of drama, unnecessary bullshit, labels losing money, families losing money. I mean, it's kids that's losing their parents. You know what I'm saying? Right.

Starting point is 00:17:02 It's fucked up, bro. Me as being an older homie to the young ones, I make sure that I pay that shit back and let them know and try to guide him as much as possible, you know, in the right path because you could be the next lawyer for me, bro. You could be the next doctor for me. You know what I mean? Or my kid.

Starting point is 00:17:24 You know what I'm saying? I got kids. I'm just saying like I just don't want to see us in that same cycle. So to answer your question, I do think it's a big gap in that shit. And I want to be why I am going to be a person to bridge the gap. I'm not with none of this beef, whack shit, this goofy ass. I'm not doing none of that. I'm not.

Starting point is 00:17:43 I'm not with none of it. that shit, bro. I want to see, if we got a problem, let's handle it how we handle it, and move forward. You feel me? Period. So, yeah, I just wish, I wish that the big homies would be big homies to the little homies and really got them right. That's it. And you see, that's a really incredible point, first of all. But, you know, you see a lot of, in your city, in Englewood, you know, you're seeing the results of that, even like Youngens, like Frosty, you know, wound up, thank God he survived, he got shot, you know. See shit like that.

Starting point is 00:18:14 It's just, it's fucked up, man. It get a game of black eye. You know what I'm saying? And to all the youngsters out there, I just feel like y'all need to, uh, every, every OG ain't, ain't bad, homie. Every big homie ain't trying to tell you something just to control you, you feel me? It's actually some out there with some sense. Unfortunately, it's rare, you know what I'm saying?

Starting point is 00:18:32 But it's something with some sense, man. So I advise the little homies to listen. You know what I'm saying? Just listen up some time. You know what I mean? Everybody ain't trying to put a battery in your back. You feel me? Sometimes a nigger want to just.

Starting point is 00:18:43 to just start you're in the right direction. So do you feel like because you're so sensible sometimes, your voice might get drowned out because like when they hear the other OGs, a lot of them are with the fuck shit. So and those are what they're... Yeah, that's what they used to. Yeah, that's what it is. It's more them out there than the nigger like me trying to, you know,

Starting point is 00:19:00 just going against that. This is a sharp contrast to the dialogue I typically hear. I hit it on a nail, bro. I promise you that's what it is. Very sharp. Very sharp. Very sharp. There's not, I mean, it ain't no way around.

Starting point is 00:19:13 around it, bro. They're growing up in the hood. Nobody to listen to, nobody to, you know, no mom, no dad, probably a foster kid like me, you know, no guidance. Or if they got their mom and their dad, they own drugs and it's fucked up, you know what I'm saying? And all they can lean on is the streets. The homie on the corner will be, you know, rocking with the gold chains and doing his thing. That's all they can lean on. Let's see what he's talking about. I want to be like him, you know what I'm saying? It ain't no, it ain't no role models out there no more, man. That's, yeah, no, absolutely. And, and I I think that the whole new generation, just speaking of Inglewood, you know, you got guys like Frosty, you got guys like Rucci. There's incredible talent coming out of that region right now. So they could behoove some of them to have voices like you that resonate with them. I mean, I just hope they listen, man. I hope they listen and learn, man, because I want to see, you know, them young brothers go far and all my other young brothers.

Starting point is 00:20:08 It's talent coming out of South Central, too. All of South. Yeah. I mean, it's crazy. It's crazy. It's crazy. I want all them to go get it, bro, and be safe doing it. You know what I'm saying?

Starting point is 00:20:16 Just be conscious doing it, man. You know what I mean? It's okay to pray. It's okay to say, you know, let me get on my knees and pray and make sure that my day go well. And you know what I'm saying? That bring you guidance, bro. You know what I'm saying? Even if you ain't religious, though, you're going to pray to somebody.

Starting point is 00:20:30 It's somebody you're going to look as a higher being up to, you know what I'm saying? Your mentality is rare, man, in the shade. You know, we share a homie, RIP blackout man. RIP blackout man. Oh, right in peace, blackout. Well, pretty much, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, you know, you know, you know, you know, he pretty much embodied that. Like, you know what I mean?

Starting point is 00:20:49 Like that just positive energy and just building, you know what I mean? Black would have some cold conversations, man. I know we'd be at the studio with a me and the Compton Minutes, man, and we would just sit down and have... Shout out the men. Shout out the men. We'll have some cold conversations about life, bro. And Black was like me, bro. And I was like him.

Starting point is 00:21:09 We had the same ideas. Like we wanted to see niggas get along and actually do this shit on a high level to where we can give back. You remember, it shit was feed the babies. Remember babies got to eat? Yeah. Babies got to eat. And for him being, for those that don't know, Blackout RIP,

Starting point is 00:21:26 he was from Jordan Downs, Grape Street. Yeah, that's my God. Blackout the Great, rest of peace, bro. Really dope, dope, dope rapper. Super dope. He was unique as fuck, man. He was unique as fuck. He told you from his side.

Starting point is 00:21:38 Black, he walked in a room. Yeah, he was just. Unmatched. His look already will make you be like, oh, shit. You know what I mean? He's somebody. You pay attention, yeah. You pay attention like, oh, shit.

Starting point is 00:21:47 And then when he talks. He's hard to miss. Yeah, that's, man, black is a, that's a, man, that's a, man, listen. Black, he foresaw a lot of shit, man. You know what I'm saying? I really miss that dude. You know what I mean? He's a good dude.

Starting point is 00:22:00 I hate the way, you know, this shit happened. Terrible. No, it's like, come on. And it's like, just not to speak on that, but to speak on that, this whole, like, cock killing shit. like this shit is for real bro this shit is serious they they really knocking my people down you know what saying and i have a i i i don't like to say hatred because i don't want to hate my heart but i if you know if if someone doesn't know how it feels to get their heart broken by a police officer

Starting point is 00:22:29 like it's it's a real thing and i i pray nobody goes through it because it's it's a certain it's a different type of thing for someone who hasn't felt it like to get your heart broken by a cop yeah Because it's different than when you know somebody did it and you have something to aim at. When you get your heartbroken by a cop and a cop take somebody from you, you got to just fucking accept it. Because what the fuck are you going to be able to do about it? And it's kind of one of those feelings where you know you just can't do shit. That's almost like some Orwellian 1984 type of shit. It's a whack-ass feeling, bro.

Starting point is 00:23:03 It's a whack-ass feeling, bro. Like I was saying, though, I pray that I don't develop that hatred for cops because all cops are not bad. But at the end of the day, the display of what we're seeing, they ain't shit. They're showing they ain't shit. And they're making the good cops look bad. You feel me? So at the end of the day, man, I just, I hate that. My boy had to go out like that, but I love him.

Starting point is 00:23:25 And I'm here for his family. And we talk about it every day, and he's going to live on, you know, through us. And I'm glad you brought his name up. R.P. Blackout. Yeah, this was very, this as well. Yeah, man. I mean, you know, active and key and AJ. and, you know, my people that I grew up around, you know, he's a family member,

Starting point is 00:23:44 and he pretty much, I met him to them and, you know, became close to him. You know, I knew him for like seven years or something. Like, I didn't know him as long as I, yeah, we were just super close. Yeah, he spoke highly of you, man. That's crazy as fuck. That's my dog, bro. The show, for show. And just reiterate the talent level, because even, you know,

Starting point is 00:24:03 Free O3, Grito, but before Grito, I thought that, you know, Black was about to be the dude from from that section to really take off on it. Oh, he was on his way. He was on his way out of here. Yeah, yeah, he was on his way. He was up out of here. He was on his way for show, for show. For show.

Starting point is 00:24:19 Him and the Triliano have been moving. Like, Triliano, little 100. Yeah, they was moving, man. Those are all by people too. Yeah, shout out the Trill. Yeah, that's my guy too. And a little one too. Yeah, little one too.

Starting point is 00:24:30 Yeah. The whole lot of the whole lot. The whole watch moving, yeah, they're solid though. Solid, solid. Just the name of few. Just the name of few. For show, for show. But yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:24:38 Yeah, Blackout, he's definitely missed. And he was one of my go-toos when it came down to, you know, just chopping it up about life and getting that motivational speech. He would give it to me. Man, and it's like, it's crazy how much people he's affected like that that he actually loves because hearing that from you is like crazy because that's who he was to me and the countless others. He was just that dude that like seeing you in a dark place

Starting point is 00:25:04 and motivated you and lifted you up and reminded you why your place ain't really that dark yeah crazy yep yeah it's a fendi fat oh you blackie that this is just spot this but for you you already yeah yeah that believe that but yeah man no you we we've we've we've we've got a rich history out here man with a lot of shit man what are you what are you next moves right now i got so much shit going on right now man i'm actually proud of myself man because uh i came a long way man you know I'm saying and for those who don't know my story yeah your history is fucking crazy you got to remember man i started okay remember i told you all with Dundill, right?

Starting point is 00:25:40 Bam. So from there... Death Row? Yeah, definitely. I'm about to tell the whole... Break it down. Break it down from the jump screen. Look, so from Dundeele, bam, I was running with Speedy.

Starting point is 00:25:51 Put the years in, too. I was running with Speedy. It's hard to put the years. That's got to be late 90s. Just try ballparking. Late 90s, right? I can know because I didn't you feel me in? Yeah, it started late 90s.

Starting point is 00:26:01 You already know. I've been slapping it for a minute, so yeah. So late 90s, so look, Dunedil, bam. I'm running around with Magic. You're like in high school still. Free speedy, too. free my uncle speedy yeah yeah i'm in high school still but i'm running around with these cats man they sneakie in clubs i'm fucking with everybody but it was around the time crooked i was with them too

Starting point is 00:26:16 right right before before so i'm about to tell you something special that a lot of people don't know bus it so bam so as i do that bam i move with a chick you know i'm saying uh after my my scholarship so i went to fresno state bam the first year i caught a gun case so they took my scholarship so this is what having this get and now i got to come back home to L.A. to go to to a, you know, a JC to get my double A degree. You know what I'm saying? So, bam, I'm like, all right, fuck it. I came home.

Starting point is 00:26:43 Nothing I could do. I was heartbroken. Took my fucking scholarship. Bam. Still trying to hoop. Still trying to hoop. So I go to El Camino, bam. I go to El Camino.

Starting point is 00:26:51 I play, I wasn't really filling the system. You know, I played the first year. After that, you know, in between those times, though, I'm dabbling and dabbling in music. I'm still running with the cats that I told you about. So I'm back now. Now, first I went to Fresno to go hoop, but I'm back now.

Starting point is 00:27:06 So I'm back in L.A. I'm back running around. Fresno's so janky. Yeah, janky's fuck. But yeah, I'm back out. That's why I took my shit out there.

Starting point is 00:27:11 But yeah, that's a hard thing. I can't believe you went out there. I don't blame you. Yeah, I mean, you know, you got skipped to my loop, bro. It was, I had my,

Starting point is 00:27:16 you know, my coach. So shout out to Patrick Roy, Eaglewood High School coach, but he had it set up to where, you know, if I go hoop and do my thing for two, three years and go kill, I'm going to the league.

Starting point is 00:27:27 It was already, you know, Coast Arcadian. I was, it was already, he already had the, You know what I'm saying? It was cracking. But the gun case threw me off. So bam, I move with the chick when I come home. My grandma, she got, you know, a house full of people. I don't want to stay there. So I got a little chick at the time. I move with her. I go to the liquor store to get some blunts. The outlaws is in there. Right? Shirts off. They're chilling, you know, give me some energy. You know, just doing their own one, two. It's moot. It's moot. It's moot, his brother and a young noble. Bam. So shout out to the outlaws. Yeah. Shout out to the noble too, man. That's my family. Yeah, yeah, for sure. So we do that right. Bam. Bam. go to the story, I notice them off the rips as I walk in. You know what I'm saying?

Starting point is 00:28:04 I'm like, fucking, I ain't gonna say, man, whatever yada yada yada, yada. You know, I'm a fan already at Tupac, of course, who wasn't? You know what I mean? No shit. Bam. So something in me say, shit, you better let him know you rap.

Starting point is 00:28:14 If you rap, if you call yourself some type of talent, let them know what you got, you feel me? So I'm like, I told Nob, I know I told Moot. He was at the counter. I told Moot, hey, bro, I get out, I'm from LA with you, Whoop. I'm a fan of y'all music. Appreciate what y'all do for the culture.

Starting point is 00:28:27 He like, yeah, he's like, let me hear you. I'm like, right now? Right now, right now. In the store, bro, he ain't even paid for his Hennessy or nothing yet. Like, like, the niggas said, let me hear you right now. I bus. I bus for like about a good, a good minute, like straight just, and he cut me off. It was like, yo, come to the studio.

Starting point is 00:28:45 Give me another number, come to the studio in like two hours. Our studio right here on Lancash and with you, woo. Bam, so I'm geeked. I'm like, for show, I give him the info. I'm thinking, though, niggas ain't going to hit me. You know what I'm saying? Shit, two hours later. you know my chick at the time hit me like hey um some guy just named uh napoleon just called

Starting point is 00:29:03 called the house yeah Napoleon looking for you he said they had the video i mean they had the studio or something that that if they want you to pull up or he'll come pick you up or whatever and i'm like yeah like yeah i'm like oh shit i'm gas so i call him back he said you at the studio i take her car i go up there to the studio it's like 50 niggas in one room bro yeah 50 niggas that's how they're talking about deep as fuck But you gotta think I'm a young nigga, bro. I'm a hooper, you know what I'm saying? But I rap and I believe in my shit.

Starting point is 00:29:31 My boys believe in my shit. I was one of the artists that was pushing the top artists with the main artists at the time. So I got confidence. Ben, walked in that motherfucker. They like, yeah, spit that shit you were spitting at the store for everybody. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:29:42 Just, hey, put the beat on, put the beat on. Just out your nigga, like, hey, you fuck with this beat, you fuck with this. Hey, put the beat on. Man, I just went crazy again. After that, it was curtains. They caught the, I mean, I'm just saying they fuck with me.

Starting point is 00:29:57 Everybody liked that shit. It was curtains. They kept in touch with the niggas. So about a week later, rest in peace, Nate dog, Nate dog and corrupt and dads and them were shooting girls all pause. Now, video shooting. RIP to go.

Starting point is 00:30:08 RIP to go. RIP to go. RIP to go. You feel me? And I just want to highlight on one thing on how you got to this position from the liquor store, to the studio,

Starting point is 00:30:17 to the next move. Yeah. Is that if you stay ready, you don't got to get ready, man. And I think that's like one of the main things people should get from this, that you wouldn't have be where you're at

Starting point is 00:30:28 if you were still trying to, you know what I mean? Lack of confidence. I'm talking about, and I ain't going to lie, bro. It almost, you know, they almost,

Starting point is 00:30:36 the pressure was, but one, that's for life too, man. Once pressure get on you, man, once you bust through that shit, you'd be surprised.

Starting point is 00:30:43 It ain't on you, it in you. Come on. It got to be in. You'd be surprised what happened on the other side, bro, once you bust through that pressure

Starting point is 00:30:49 of life, it's all the test. And you weren't too cool for school because you could have been like, I'm not going to even say It was up to these dudes. No, yep, and I was almost on that shit, but I would have, I would have regretted it because I'm a fan of these shit, so I was geeked out at the same time, but it worked.

Starting point is 00:31:03 So bam, I go to the video shoot, RIP Nade Dogg. I'm in the trailer with Nate Dog, Snoop, I mean, not Snoop, corrupt, and Daz, and then we all smoking Roscoe, we all smoking, we get a knock on the door. They're like, hey, Eastwood in there? I think it was corrupt, they got, hey, cuz, outlaws up here, the fuck with you. I'm like, I don't even know how they knew I was at the shoot, bro. When I walk out the trailer, bro, they 50 deep again, bro. Oh, my God.

Starting point is 00:31:30 I saw my life, bro. They 50 deep again. This is, this is, rest in peace, fatal. Like, no, they was all there. Fatal. Fatal and fatal. Fatal is hard as fuck. He was, you know, he was real stern.

Starting point is 00:31:42 You know what I'm saying? He had to learn me. You could tell he had to learn me more, but he was still there. He still came. It was all of them, though, bro. They was there. They came to, what happened was they called the house again looking for me in my chick said, hey, he had the girls all pause.

Starting point is 00:31:56 They found out where it was and came up there surprised me just to tell me, yo, let's get in the studio. That's so far. Super fire, bro. So I get my camera, no, and then in the midst of that, this will happen. So they're there. Now it's everybody, you know, oh, how laws, you know, with your movement, dog pound, you know, is kind of gassed up now.

Starting point is 00:32:15 Roscoe, they corrupt gas my boys up to have me and Roscoe battle. Oh, man, let's go. Hold on. Let me, let me, let's have to stop you right here because. now we going right back into this full circle. Shout out the Rosco too. You know, I know I fuck with him too. I was supposed to battle him.

Starting point is 00:32:32 But before all that, he came to the pit and did a battle. I don't know if you know that. Who he battled? He battled Duke gutter at the pit. And really, the second time I was trying to battle corrupt at this restaurant, which, man, the night ended up with fucking bullets and all that shit, like, raining. Like, it was a crazy night.

Starting point is 00:32:56 Yeah. But, like, in the beginning of the night, we were, like, doing all this shit, like, on stage, and, like, I was supposed to battle him. But Roscoe had a thing for wanting to battle. That's what I wanted to highlight. He was a freestiler, yeah. That boy is called.

Starting point is 00:33:10 Because Roscoe always used to be called, like, I remember this, people would be, like, you riding off your brother's shit. Yeah. You know what I mean? And he was always ready to battle anybody. And, like, he wasn't just a studio fucking rapper. I really respect Rosco.

Starting point is 00:33:24 I'm about to tell you some shit. See, what the fuck happened? So look, so we battle. We battle. My homie's bet. You see money on the ground. You see Correpan him put money on the ground for Roscoe. Cyphers there.

Starting point is 00:33:35 All on set, right? We battle, bro. He do a verse. Ah. I do a verse. It's a type. Roscoe, me and Roscoe look at each other like, everybody picked their money up. You're like, man, you're hard as fuck.

Starting point is 00:33:51 He's like, no, you hard as fuck. We ain't stopped rocking since. Damn, that's a crazy ass way of battle, right, called Y.A. Young Assessons, try. We had, I mean, we got a squad to own the whole, you know, we had a nice squad, rest in peace, slow, but you had a nice-ass team, all under corrupt, right?

Starting point is 00:34:06 This is corrupt now. This is before you was in a group called M-O-B too, right? We get into that. We get, it gets juicy, hold on. So, look, so, so, so, man, we do that. This is how I get on death row. So we do that, right? So I get kicked out the crib.

Starting point is 00:34:21 Me and Old Girl getting to it. get kicked out the crib. Roscoe happened to call me that morning. So he, like, hit me when you, you know, up and out. Let's go to the studio. And I hit him. I can't even go, bro. I'm, you know, I can go to the studio, but I'm about to find somewhere that, you know,

Starting point is 00:34:35 I got to bust some over, bro. Some bullshit happened here. He's like, what? Hold on. Give me five minutes. Came five minutes. He called me back. Man, Krip said, come over here, bro.

Starting point is 00:34:43 Bring your shit. Come over here. I'm like, what? For real? He like, yeah, bring your shit. I got my shit. Bam, smashed over there. We had the group, Y, A.

Starting point is 00:34:52 Bam. Then, you know, the shit happened with Corrupt and Snoop. You know, it was beefing a little bit, the little bullshit. And then, you know, as I'm over there with Corrupt, should get out of jail. So it should get out of jail. We campaigned already, this Y-A group now, right? With Corrupt.

Starting point is 00:35:08 So we go to Power 106 and it comes Bunn Tree and all the guys. All the guys. All the Duff-D-Roddniggers, you know, and they was already cool with corrupt. So they weren't coming on a beef shit. They was coming to highlight Corrupt and let Corrupt that Shug, he out and he wanted to holl at them, right?

Starting point is 00:35:25 Bam, so we go up there. We go, we lead the radio station after we do that, Ben, we go up there. Shook sending messengers. Yeah, so we get up there, bam. Cold groups of messengers. Yeah, so we get up there. Ain't no IGDMs.

Starting point is 00:35:36 Look, though, we get up there, we holler at Shug, bro. And I didn't holler at Shug. This is all, this is corrupt and Shug talking and, you know, they doing their thing. But you're there. When I'm right there, I got, I mean, Timmy Roo, I mean, the squad, the death row, the real, you know, they're there. You know what I mean, I'm in there. So, you know, the energy is a little off.

Starting point is 00:35:56 We don't know what the fuck going on, but we know it ain't nothing foul. So, and I'm like, you got to remember, bro, I just got to the situation, right? Nigga, I don't know what the fuck going on, but I'm a street, nigga, though. So my antennas is going up to make sure my nigga corrupt is cool. And you know the stories. Right. I know stories. I didn't heard them.

Starting point is 00:36:13 Nick, I'm like, I am officially here now with this nigga. He's out of jail. You feel me? This is for real. Yeah, you're in the middle of the story. Yeah, I'm in the middle of some shit. So it's like, nigga, man. It's like, man or a mouse.

Starting point is 00:36:22 at this point you know what you gonna do niggins so I'm immediately just like I can feel the realness so I just I fit right in so I was able to ask the questions they corrupt cool he's straight you know what I'm saying yeah he's straight everything cool so they ended up being cool but then should I should hurt the music that why it was doing what's up with Eastwood then I played a mixtape that I did oh man he's raw man I heard about him with you a whoop and he got to bar me being with the outlaws set up a meeting with me, called me at the house,

Starting point is 00:36:55 at Corrupt House, asked to send a limousine to come give me. You know what I didn't have no whip in a-ed-up in a death row limousine. They got me to the office, brought me to the office, and we chopped it up and played more music. What year was this?

Starting point is 00:37:08 After that, it was curtains. It's got to be like 2001. 2001, 2001. 2001. And, you know, like, you were a part of,

Starting point is 00:37:16 that was essentially the resurgence of death row. Yes, yeah. People try to act like, you know, they don't want to give it. the credit that is deserved because, you know, Pac was already, you know, he passed or whatever, but you've got to think, if this is the empire that shifted to world, that shifted hip-hop,

Starting point is 00:37:34 and the same guy said, I see this lighten Eastwood after Tupac died, I see this lighten crooked eye. After Tupac died, it's like it got to be something special about the talent that, you know what I mean, that's being handpicked from this man. Everybody that was on death row wasn't handpicked from him. They was probably stamped and approved after, you know, whatever, after somebody else over there found him or somebody else over there found him. I was really handpicked. You know what I'm saying? And the nigga really fucked with me.

Starting point is 00:38:02 And his homies really fucked with me because I was with whatever they was about. And I came humble and I was just solid. And I was a young dude who was hungry. And I wanted it. And you embodied this West shit too. Yeah. I lived it. I lived it, bro.

Starting point is 00:38:15 I lived the shit. So bam, I got with Death Row. Unfortunately. You never want to drop in an album with Death Row. I'm glad you fuck. You on your shit. I'm glad you said that. So I didn't, but I am now.

Starting point is 00:38:25 That's what I got going on now. I'm going to talk about that, too. But let me get there. So, Defro, bam, unfortunately, you see the bullshit happen or whatever. But I did hop on the Jaru's album, remember? Right. Absolutely. I do got to ask you a question.

Starting point is 00:38:39 Shout out Jaru. That's my guy. I got asked you. So. Irv God, they got me my plaques. I like his fucking Vetti Viti Vici shit. It was the one where he had the, in my race against Todd, the one running through the red light. Yeah, that shit was hard.

Starting point is 00:38:51 That shit was hard as funny. a fucking sit. Like before he did like his mainstream shit, like, I felt like Jaru was like one of like the hardest motherfuckers. Yeah. Yeah. Underground shit crazy. Rool. Just when he went with the Shanti route and all that, he just got, though. A lot of people love it. I'm just person. Speaking from personal shit, I love his old shit. That's what got him his bag. That music aged well. But what got him as fans, I feel like someone like me who fucked with his shit was like the older shit that he did that he put out. If you want to hear some fire Jail. You want to hear some fire jar rule? Look up. Get Money Click.

Starting point is 00:39:22 That's what got him signed from like the mid-90s. He was on some straight. And like the shit he did with Mr. Biggs, the shit with Ronald Isley that he did. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like that shit was fucking crazy. You know what I mean? He's a super talented dude. Beyond a bunch of sick ass.

Starting point is 00:39:38 Beyond John, I got to ask. What was the situation? And I'm pretty sure it's squash now with like, was there like beef with you and dog pound at one point? Or like you and corrupt? No, man. It never was no beef. So that was just me riding with corrupt. when he was beefing with dads.

Starting point is 00:39:54 Okay. Because you were on like distrax and shit like that. Exactly. So I was right. We, hell yeah. When it was up, it was up. That's what it was. I hate that.

Starting point is 00:40:02 Yeah. And I, dude, I hate that. I hate that. I hate that too. I hate that too. I wish I could too because it made, it made no sense. It got a nigga to know the ride.

Starting point is 00:40:13 It doesn't care. It ain't get a nigga the bag. And that too, though. That's goofy as fuck. Because that shit was stupid as fuck. And they bros. And we got in the middle of that shit. You feel me?

Starting point is 00:40:21 In red. They bros, though. We got in the middle of that shit. It's like big bro's fighting, but they took the shit public and act like they weren't never gonna fuck with each other no more, you feel me? Yeah, you, they had crook in the mix?

Starting point is 00:40:30 Like- All of us, bro, even with Snoop, you know what I'm saying? That shit was all bullshit, bro. And I was the nigger who I fucked with Snoop before I signed that bro. You feel me? I fuck with niggas, even with fucking with Corrup, I had to fuck with Snoop.

Starting point is 00:40:42 And Snoop always was cool with me. You feel me? I don't, I never wanted to see Snoop beef with Shib. I never wanted to see Corrupt, Beef with Dads. I never want, My dream of the music shit that I had, bro, I really saw the West at that time together. Yeah, you have that.

Starting point is 00:41:01 Pushing, bro. That's really what I felt. That's why we always got along. Exactly. I mean, with every, even, it was a couple of niggas I could have, you know, I could have spent their chin when I saw them just off a disrespect of not even knowing how real and cool I am, just trying to smut my name behind, you know what I'm saying? But I ain't do that shit.

Starting point is 00:41:19 You know what I mean? A niggas just looked them in their eyes like a man. You know what I'm saying? I check the temperature is cool. I keep it moving because I'm not here for all that shit. I'm here to serve a purpose, bro. We're all business is now. I know fight.

Starting point is 00:41:29 Come on, man. So, bam, the death row shit, right? Bam, that shit didn't work out now. Then it was Black Wall Street, right? Here we go, game shit, right? So we get with gaming. And shout out to my nigga technique from Long Beach. This was the M-O-B.

Starting point is 00:41:40 It was me, him, Tech. It was Cicero. Cicero from Philly. Yeah, Cicero from Philly. Shout out to him. That's my God. Who's also a battle, also a battle. I was got to be for him and Cassidy, too.

Starting point is 00:41:51 at a was it I want to say was it with New York summer jam Okay I put Cassidy to the side Nigel where I was moving with them we just seen them backstage put him to the side Put Cass to the side man Squash this shit you know what I'm saying Whatever the fuck y'all got going off

Starting point is 00:42:05 Y'all gonna fight fight if y'all not gonna fight bro Let's squash this shit they shook hands You know what I'm that dude You know what I mean? I want to make that shit Make sense you feel me But if you gotta defend yourself defend yourself But at the end of the day if it's not worth it bro You know what I'm saying let's make that shit

Starting point is 00:42:18 You know make it make sense because we can you know, build a broader generational wealth for our people. You know what I'm saying? And it brings sense like, yo, we don't always got to be on this fuck shit with each other. Sometimes we could pull a nigga to the side, find out the difference. See if we could shake hands and keep it moving. Bam, so I do that.

Starting point is 00:42:34 Game shit. Now, just to point out, during that time, you have two of my favorite Eastwood verses is from this era. And it was, one was on the Cali N-Words song. That's my shit. Yeah, one of, such a fucking dope record.

Starting point is 00:42:49 That's my shit. Callie niggas. That's my shit. Shout out to Kendrick, too. Kendrick J-Rock. That's the first time I ever heard Kendrick Rap was on that record. Who is me? Kendrick. J-Rock.

Starting point is 00:43:00 Topic. Your boy. Your boy from Frisco. And Duh. My boy, Duff from L.A. And it's like a nine-minute song. Yeah, shit crazy. Everyone rap like 20 bars, 24 bars.

Starting point is 00:43:10 That was gaming and my idea of putting the hardest, the hardest out the city. I love that song. And you have a standout verse in a song with, Titans in the game. And you went crazy on that. And then the other one, you, J. Rock, in the game, West Really. That shit is a fire. I got to give you, I owe you residuals because of this day, I say, West really.

Starting point is 00:43:34 Man, I'm saying what's up to people? West really. You got that from Eastwood. My dog. I appreciate that. Man, shout out my boy Jay Rock. Yeah, man, I was, another standout verse. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:43:45 Thank you, bro. With Titans. Yeah, for sure. Then both of my guys, me. J. Rock is nice as foot. You see what happened. Look at them. They made it. My boy's doing their thing. And they talented and they deserve everything they get him. But you see, like, I was that piece to the puzzle that just wanted to see niggas win.

Starting point is 00:44:00 The game didn't know J-Rock at that time. Right. So what you introduced them to each other? No, I think they met on some whole other shit. But I introduced that record to J-Rock because I had it with game and said, fucking, I'm going to put J-Rock on it too. And from there. And that's also why I thought you was the blood.

Starting point is 00:44:15 Yeah. Oh, no. See, I get it all the time. See, motherfuckers think that. I learned afterwards, but not. Just being on, that's like a, that's a serious. Blood record. That's a blood record right there.

Starting point is 00:44:26 Hell no. If anything. That's a furious record. Yeah, I'm, nigga. I was the only nigga, nigga, you know, I'm the neutral side. But I grew up with the Crips. So before I would be a blood, I would be a Crip. Right, right, right.

Starting point is 00:44:35 That's just, I would have to be true to the story. It's crazy. Like, when I first met you, I thought you were a Crip. Yeah. I mean, I get it all the time. Yeah. I get the, is he a blood? Is he a Crip?

Starting point is 00:44:44 I mean, like, what the fuck? Migget just asks me. You know what I'm saying? I'm gonna tell you. Niggas be just. Well, that was like trying to bang on you though. You feel me? I heard people tell me like you're unapproachable.

Starting point is 00:44:55 Like, really? Well, I will say this. I'm the coolest nigga. You seem a lot like from my first encounter with you and you was super chill back then. Like I'm used to South Central folks. So there's a certain edginess to it. But like you've seemed to have relaxed a little bit over the years. Exhibit just told me that.

Starting point is 00:45:13 Your demeanor is a lot. Exhibit just told you. I promise you, I was in the studio with him never. the day and we was talking and he was like you know what bro he's like you know what i like right now he's like the music hot i like this shit but you know what i like right now i have never seen you smile throughout your whole career that's what i'm saying bro i said bro i really had to think like i'm like i'm like bulls shit nick i smile you used to be a lot more i'm like yeah i smile all the time yeah i'm like that smile bro like get the fuck out of he like you were more serious like i've never

Starting point is 00:45:37 seen you smile that's crazy and i'm like yeah you knew him did yeah you were more serious but i think you know what it is just knowing you it was more of like you wanted to get it and now you have it I think you're more content with where you're at because it reminds me of how active is too, like active was like a hog at one point. Like, and he's built his shit more and relaxed more. You was on the same shit. You was, your mind was occupied. But you got to think.

Starting point is 00:46:01 Like, you just were busy. Like when you were. I'm on the defense. I'm on the defense. He was. I can see that. Bro. I don't know.

Starting point is 00:46:08 All the beefs their pro had, I had shit to do it. You know what I'm saying? You was always. Yes. I inherited all that shit. So I had to be, I was always on the defense. So I'm like militant at all times, but I really, I'm the coolest dude. If you would have walked up to me and approached me, you would have heard my dialogue and

Starting point is 00:46:25 it'd be like, nah, this dude is actually cool because every person that did it, they walked away like, yeah, they got something from me. It's just the aura. Yeah. The aura. Yeah. And I don't like running people or like, I mean, like running people away or running business away or just people, period, because I don't like to do that.

Starting point is 00:46:40 But I feel like I have to stay alert, bro, at all times. You know what I mean? This is a wicked game. me in bro I mean you were enveloped in a lot of you were surrounded by a lot of street shit from different angles man like it was everything I'm talking about what I mean I'm catching shit from fucking with this nigga over here because this nigga I went to school with this nigga then I mean I'm catching shit from all type of angles but I'm handling it accordingly you know what I'm saying I'm not disrespectful I'm not saying fuck you

Starting point is 00:47:08 niggas I don't you know I ain't you know I'm saying I don't owe you niggas no if I really rock with you like that I'm gonna let you know what's happening with this nigga, I'm gonna let him know what's happening with you. So you can see, like, I ain't playing that taking side shit. If we're gonna rock, we're gonna rock, bro. You know what I mean? But yeah, that shit was crazy. So I do the whole game shit. And we beefing with 50. And you remember that shit, man, that shit crazy then. He was on diss tracks against them, too.

Starting point is 00:47:30 Yeah, bro. Listen to how this shit happens. So I'm fucking doing, I got a, it's a case. It's an open case on me, right? I'm doing, I already kind of, a low-key, like, I kind of beat the case because I don't have to do no jail time, right? They got me doing Caltrans, some stupid goofy shit, right? I know about the Caltrans. I hate that shit, right? So I'm doing Caltrans probably like three days in.

Starting point is 00:47:52 I got like 190 days or some shit. This nigga called me, man. Tony Martin actually called me. This is Game's manager at the time. Like, yeah, what's up? He's here, what you want, bro? I'm like, man, I'm just working. You like, yeah, Game got this group.

Starting point is 00:48:05 He wanted to do this group. He got this group idea of me. I mean, you, him and technique from Long Beach, man. We're on tour right now. Shit, he said you fly out, man. We could just get busy and start on this shit right now. Now at the time I'm at fucking Caltrans dude. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:48:19 I'm at fucking Couching Caltrow. I'm like, yo, I'm a fuck Caltrain. I'm like, what do I do? Because now I'm in, I'm in, fuck Caltrans. Now I got on the first thing smoking. Now this is no introduction to beef now. This is, you remember he just said, come fuck with him start the group. So we starting the group, bam, man, we're doing our shit.

Starting point is 00:48:36 He's a smart dude though. Right, right. No, this is very good, right? So look what happened. I'm excited. Tech, we get tech, I'm excited. Tech, my dog from Lone Beach, you know, from the LBC crew. I'm like oh yeah shout out to them shout out my boy tech we fin to kill some shit right we

Starting point is 00:48:50 I'm like oh this is crazy right here and then we we get together and he lets us know that probably about one mix tape in he lets us know he's beefing with 50 and 50 kicked him out the group and it's viral and it's so now we're in the middle of some shit now because it's like either he going to walk away and do his thing and just man up and just you know you know just do his shit. Yeah, that's some crazy shit to get launched into the middle. Yeah, bro, look, though. By the way, the thing is, it's fucking fucked up. But look, so, so, unfortunately for me and technique, you know what I'm saying, it's cool for him. He's still good. He got to deal with Dre. You know, they still can make this shit make sense. But for us, we, now we got to, you know, it's about picking a side now.

Starting point is 00:49:32 Because, nigga, either we're not going to rock with you and say, fuck this shit, or we're going to, you know, rock with you and be all in. Me and Technique at the time, you got to think we stand-up niggas, bro. We ain't fin of, you know what I mean? And it's a little. And it's a West Coast thing too and he the way you know game explained it to us was very disrespectful how to do kicked him out the group you know what I'm saying that's how he explained it to that so I don't you got to keep in mind we don't really know what happened we just going off the man word you feel me so we rock out man we doing our shit we killing the beef though the beef we got you

Starting point is 00:50:01 see you see you know never so the same you know what I'm saying right so it we we did that part but we didn't gang shit from it bro you know I mean but except cloud at that time. You know what I mean? Look at fifth now. Right to the bag. You know what I'm saying? He doing this shit. You know, a genius that what he do. You know what I'm saying? And I just, I say that to say that, uh, that was a tough time in my career, bro. You know what I mean? That was like, fuck, I just jumped into Samo shit. Yeah, that wasn't able to launch, you know, uh, my, my, my artistry just being just and because it's such on a big level. It's so legendary. You can't hide it after that. That's not like, feel some type of way about game, loki. I, I,

Starting point is 00:50:43 You know what? Game is shout out the game, too. That's my nigger, man. And it's like a brother who, you know, you just, like I said, sometimes you just don't see out of eye all the time. You know what I mean? And he has his own agenda. He always, you know, he always been like that. He move, how he move, I move, how I move.

Starting point is 00:50:59 And, you know, sometimes that shit would clash. But at the end of the day, I just felt like, you know, it would have been dope to get, like, a legit project. Yeah, a super project that we, you know, put out, you know, on our own and just did together, bro, instead of this, the beef and shit. And that would have killed some shit off, you know what I'm saying? And the beef shit just continued.

Starting point is 00:51:19 It was mixtape after mix tape after mix tape. Yeah, he wasn't making disc tracks. He was making disc albums. Yeah, yeah, for sure. It was mixed half the mixed hat. I'm like, damn. And it was just, we was just smashing them and smashing them. And it didn't really go nowhere because then nobody want to fuck with the headaches.

Starting point is 00:51:33 So the shit's moving for who? Game only now. Me and technique, we only can move as far as this nigger move. we a group now. You know what I'm saying? So it was fucked up for us and it kind of fucked up our little, you know, situation at that time. But I bounced back again. So after that, then you went to Koch. Yeah, no, no, I went to, uh, well, yeah, we did a deal. I went to Jaded, an independent, uh, okay, that was before that. Yeah, that was before that. So I went to that dude and he was like a, a lifesaver because he believed in the dude. Shout out to my boy,

Starting point is 00:52:03 Klee. Um, he believed in a dude. And, um, he just like gave me my own label. You know what I'm saying? A whole label situation. Did the label situation. Uh, that shit, he got, he had a death in the family, and that shit went bad after like a year, and we was going to do the deal with Koch, but then I signed, well, I got presented to deal with Master P. Master P came through in a clutch for me. One of the realest dudes over. Shout out to Master P. Come on.

Starting point is 00:52:28 Now, that's my bro. One of the realest dudes over. And yeah, he's super real. When I was down and out, he came and threw me to the life jacket, bro. You know what I'm saying? Come on, he's, that's rock. You know what I'm saying? What a real ass, motherfucker.

Starting point is 00:52:40 Yeah, he's stupid solid. I'm forever. grateful for Master P, bro. You know what I'm saying? He came and saved me. He gave me so much. All I hear is crazy good stories about him. Yeah, he gave me so much game.

Starting point is 00:52:48 He just, I just soaked up so much game around being around him and the whole no limit family. You know what I'm saying? That was definitely more about being on my business. You know what I mean? 100%. Yeah. And especially like the ownership. Yes.

Starting point is 00:53:06 Yes. That's what he was on. That's what he was on. He was on ownership. He was one of the first persons, one of the first people's that I heard actually preaching the ownership before Nick. Yeah, he was independent in 19-old. Yeah, he was really the most independent.

Starting point is 00:53:21 Yeah, the most independent. Yeah, the game changer. He moved to the Bay. He moved from New Orleans to Richmond, California, the Bay Area. And that's, you know, he got put up on game by EFody and all them. Soap that shit up and then did his thing and blossomed. You feel me? Like nobody else.

Starting point is 00:53:36 And I learned like a motherfucker would do, you know what I'm saying? And after that. And you had been in the label system, your whole thing, career prior to that. My whole career, bro. Four major deals. Like, I've been rocking. Did that kind of make you wish you had been indie sooner or?

Starting point is 00:53:47 No, what? I always wanted to use the labels money. You know what I mean? To market my shit, I was like, fuck I was. It's good experience. Andy got your name out there. Yeah, yeah, for sure. But then as I got older and I grew, I say, you know what?

Starting point is 00:54:00 I could use my own money to market myself and do my own shit from my own shit. You had the name at that point too. You know what I feel like, and I feel like, again, that's why labels look for young artists. I feel like the way it's structured is, all young people should start with labels at first and then learn their shit and then have their own shit. If you start off young and you're already like, I'm going to do my own shit, it's probably going to take you a lot longer to get there. So if you sacrifice whatever, I mean, I'm not saying it's up to you to decide, but I'm saying if it works out for you as an experience thing, it's part of everybody's young journey to be part of labels and then get to their independent.

Starting point is 00:54:36 That's how we are better up. That was true, but don't get it twisted now. ain't no artist development no more artists are not getting signed when they're young they're getting signed once they have fucking numbers you better go viral everything is viral and I think and I must say this to the fucking whole

Starting point is 00:54:52 record industry whoever fucking using that as a marketing plan bro that viral shit only lasts for so long bro you're going to have to keep fucking going viral you know what I'm saying it's still going boil down to the talent a lot of it is bots and fake views yeah but that's

Starting point is 00:55:08 that's 98% of the shit now but I'm saying And the 2% left, like, you still got to have some type of talent. You still got to sell these records. You still got to stream. You still have to do these things, bro. To be successful as, you know, you want to be. I will hope you're not in it to just do it this small way. To continue to be a valuable asset to whatever label.

Starting point is 00:55:26 Come on, bro. Come on, bro. Come on. You have to still do it the right way. And, yeah, it's tricky out here, bro. It's the viral. Come on. Come on.

Starting point is 00:55:34 Like, what the fuck are we doing, bro? What happened to motherfuckers just liking good music? Taking it to the next level. Moding an artist to be as good as they can be, you know, rise to the occasion, and then doing the same thing with the next and letting them branch off and be free. You know what I'm saying?

Starting point is 00:55:51 That's how I want to see the shit, and that's how I run my shit. I got artists that I manage right now. I want to tell you all that. So after the no limit shit, I decided to go independent. Now, I have a management company. Okay.

Starting point is 00:56:02 Shout out to C Star from Long Beach. Shout out to my cousin. On Bid, B, the label, yes. We got, you know, that situation. That's huge. And shout out to Musa. Musa. Mousai is big with the management

Starting point is 00:56:12 with Rayvon 2. I got a Launjay from L.A. And these are really, this is like real talent, bro. You know what I'm saying? So I'm able to pay that shit forward. I got the cannabis company, bro. Now I'm, I got a moon rocks there, California license. And so I'm with them, you know what I'm saying?

Starting point is 00:56:28 Come on, man. Let's get a GTIS sponsorship for the platform. Yeah, let's get it. I got you. I got, I'm with my boy Jason. You know me. I'm always trying to talk business. Yeah. That's our sponsors.

Starting point is 00:56:38 That's first things. First is, you know, I got you. I'm with a Cabana lifestyle. I was like a touring agency and we, you know, we set up the runs for, you name it. You know what I mean? We got deals with Live Nation and all that. So I got my hands in some shit, man. That's crazy.

Starting point is 00:56:53 Yeah, I'm just working. I'm more. And then the acting shit, you can't forget about that. That shit came to me, you know, the All Eyes on Me movie. Shout out to LT and Benny Bow. Yeah, yeah. Shout out to them, man. They gave me, you know, my big debut.

Starting point is 00:57:06 I was in a few other shits earlier, but I was like, you know, background type shit. Menace was hilarious in that shit. Or no, that was the NWA. Yeah, that was amazing in that. You have like a big role in this shit. Like you're speaking role. You have a fucking, you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:57:21 That was the biggest one. That got me like, you know, it opened up a lot of doors for him. You know, I was able to, you know, get on Netflix after that with Anthony Hemingway. Shout out to Anthony Hemingway. That's my dog. Got on Unsolved with him. Damn, I'm D. I don't even know about that.

Starting point is 00:57:36 Yeah. My shit up, man. Unsolved is, what is that about for those who don't know? It's Tupac and Biggie, the real story. Oh, that. actual, oh. But you know how they had, they got 50 fucking thousand stories about Tupac and Biggie. This is told from the cops point of view.

Starting point is 00:57:48 I saw that one. I saw that one. I saw that one. Yeah. They focus on like Keefe D and all that. Yeah. You see the real layout. That's a really dope.

Starting point is 00:57:57 Yeah, that's the best one. Oh, so they actually put the real story out. That's the real story. That's the best one. Or some shit. What's the cops? The cops name? Yeah, Keaton.

Starting point is 00:58:05 Yeah. Actually, I feel like I seen that one because that's where they put, yeah, they were talking about like Baby Lane and both. of them. That's who I play. I play. That's who I play in that too. Babyland, I play the same, the same person. That's an interesting. You killed all eyes on me. So who came on? Come on with. That's an interesting character to play, too. Because you like, you know, that's a very polarizing figure. You know what I mean? And then shout out to Tray Lane, too. That's actually my homeboy, like my real homeboy. So that was the honor to play him. And shout out to

Starting point is 00:58:32 my boy, Dom Santana for Lincoln, uh, me up with Anthony Hemingway. You know what I'm saying? Because I still had to go read, you know, an audition against like 12 other dudes, you know what who was I think it's fitting for you though being part of death row and growing up around that that niche like that cloth is your cloth I killed it bro I promise and I didn't you know I was acting was just it was fun growing up I said you know I would love to act you know but I was so into the streets and so into just hooping and just being a nigger bro it's just I wasn't even tripping off you know no acting and that shit found me and what they said like you said is they like man you you're organic bro you just so yeah no you fit right in you well it's crazy though like being a part

Starting point is 00:59:09 at death row and then playing a character of someone that was like an adversary of that, you know what I mean? It messes me up to this day, man. Yeah, that's got to be a trip right. Life ain't full of circle. Crazy, bro. That shit was so full circle. Did you ask for another role?

Starting point is 00:59:24 I didn't ask nothing. I didn't say nothing. All I did was got a call. Took the script and just killed it. I got a call from L.T. Shout out to L. I just got a call from LT like as a regular person. Not yet.

Starting point is 00:59:36 No, that's my dog. It's good money with me. But I got a call. I remember driving out. It was probably like 7.58 that night, man. I got a call. I was a little frustrated at some other shit headed to the crib. He's like, yeah, man, we got a row for you if you want, man.

Starting point is 00:59:53 But you got to come ready for it with you, woo. Like, yeah. I'm like a roll in all eyes on me. I'm still shooting. Why you always sound like you don't believe people when they call you? Because, bro, we got to pick it on the net downs. I had so many letdowns in my career, bro. Man, I can relate to that.

Starting point is 01:00:07 I want to see if it's real. So I'm like, for sure. Damn, and he flew me out, man. I flew out and they just, I got the, you know, the script and it was a rap after that, man. I was excited for me from Eastwood to Hollywood. Come on. I went to Hollywood. For sure.

Starting point is 01:00:22 You know Hollywood. Hollywood for the show. I'm very grateful for them, though, because it was a game changer for me. And it certified me with SAG, you know what I'm saying? So now I'm SAG certified. Oh, that's not easy. No, hell, no. You can't just get it.

Starting point is 01:00:35 No, hell not. No, no, hell no. Shit, man, I don't even got that, man. That's on his way, dude. It's on his way. We got some movies to do. We got some movies to do. So, yeah, I got that.

Starting point is 01:00:44 And I'm, I've been blessed to open. Some more doors have opened. I'm talking to Kenya Bearers right now. Shout out to Kenya Bearish. He's super dope writer, super dope director, man. He's super dope. I'm working with him right now, something special. So, you know, I'm just working.

Starting point is 01:00:59 The acting world is a. Come on, man. You need me to show up and blow something up. Let's go. Any terrorist roles available? We got one for you, did. You can be yourself. You can be yourself.

Starting point is 01:01:15 But yeah, I'm grateful for that whole. So that's where I'm at now. That's what I'm doing. Well, speaking of that whole shit, bro. Full circle. Yeah. Back to death row. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 01:01:24 What the fuck is good with that? Like, what's the situation? Oh, yeah. So, yeah. So, yeah. With Snoop. Yeah, yeah. Because it seems like, though, you still have a lot of, like, I don't hear you talking down on Shug.

Starting point is 01:01:36 A lot of, you know. Shug changed my life, bro. I can't. But Shug doesn't have anything to do with this new shit. No, I'm not in the mix with this. Yeah, no, no, no, I don't. But regardless of the whole, yeah. Not that I know of.

Starting point is 01:01:47 My thing is I'd rather Snoop have it than somebody else, you know what I'm saying? Who don't have shit? Nobody better. Snoop is a part of he is death row. You know, him and Dre, you know, that's Deffro. And he's, he's arguably the most. Shout out to Dre, man. Shout out to Snoop's the most famous human being in the world.

Starting point is 01:02:02 I was going to say he's our most successful fucking guy. Man, that nigga, listen, listen, Snoop is iconic, bro. He deserves everything he has. It's just, you know, people hear the stipulations in the bush shit with him having death row, you know, the real death row politics and all that shit. I'll be hearing it all in the streets. But my whole thing is this. I mean, where else would you rather this shit be? Are you going to get defro?

Starting point is 01:02:22 Wait, hold on. But he bought it already, right? So, I guess. Well, if he did, all these opinions don't fucking matter. Exactly. So, yeah. People could talk about it all they want. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 01:02:34 My thing is I'm in full support of it, man. Whatever. whatever, anything. Same here. I mean, come on, man. Anything to make the name bad. I feel like he would revive the fuck out of it. He's the only guy that is doing that.

Starting point is 01:02:44 And then he cool with Shug. You know, they actually don't, you know, they have dialogue now. That's cool. Yeah, that's what I'm about. I mean, yeah, but they've been through a lot of fucking shit, man. Yeah, but they started shit together. It was ugly. When you've been through that much shit with somebody,

Starting point is 01:02:57 like you gotta have a conversation with him. They cool. They like brothers, bro. I'm telling you. Yeah, yeah. All brothers don't get along, bro. You feel me? And sometimes shit happens.

Starting point is 01:03:06 But now I'm glad that they have that. type of dialogue because I was pushing that shit myself when I was on death row when the heat was up I was I was lying to snoop I would lie to snoop and say hey snoop should should want to talk to you he said no he ain't tripping he want to talk with you I'm gonna put you on the three way he like for show I'm gonna call you right back bam I'll call shit hey shit snoop said he want to he ain't tripping bro I really did that bro oh my god but that's a positive that's for a good reason it was a great reason but I put my neck on the line you know I'm saying just to see that shit happened because did that backfire no no no they would have found out they both thought that

Starting point is 01:03:42 it was cool yep they both thought no it didn't it did what happened let me tell you what happened when i called a dog back and and try to get shig on the phone he didn't answer and i tried to call shug and then they didn't work it didn't work you feel me so i just left it like that but they did have in their head that he wanted to talk he wanted to talk genius come on man at a crease of the cranium you feel me i'm i'm grateful though bro overall like i said i'm grateful to be here man I'm grateful for a shout out to my girl, man, rest in peace, left eye. Man, yeah, I wanted to ask you about that too. Yeah, just thinking, it's just done in my head.

Starting point is 01:04:16 I can't even talk about death row without talking about her. You was around her a lot during her final. Yeah, yeah, we all was, you know, she was embraced as family. That's Nina. You know what I mean? She changed her name to Nina, and she was like, she carried on that image. Like, she was the home girl who was just, she was very serious, you know what I'm saying? Very, very clean, serious.

Starting point is 01:04:36 straightforward and just was excited about the movement. You know what I'm saying? And I was fortunate, I was super fortunate enough to write like four joints on her new album. Amazing. That they had over there. Yeah, and I'm on here with her. You know what I'm saying? I'm on here.

Starting point is 01:04:50 This is amazing to hear. So before she passed, now, so I just told you I did joints with her, right? Bam, that was dope. After, you know, that vibe, she loved it. They called me again, like two weeks later. to write a verse for a single for TLC now. But it's left eye's verse. So she picked me.

Starting point is 01:05:16 Amazing. She could have picked Danny Rapper in the world. Whatever she wanted. She could have picked whatever. I remember she called me. It was like 2.30 in the morning. It was just him and Left Eye in the studio. And I was asleep.

Starting point is 01:05:30 And he said, yeah, could you get up here ASAP because Left Eye need a verse by 8 a.m. in the morning. for this TLC record is a big opportunity. Could you get up here? For show. Woke right the fuck up, you feel me? Smash. I got to the studio, they was there.

Starting point is 01:05:46 The mood had the candles going. You know, left eye is real earthy. So she had the candles going, this shit, nice scent. And Shug's there, the champagne there, whatever, niggas chilling, the beat going. And then she stopped it. And she was like, yeah, Ezo, this is a new single for TLC. And I feel like I like your energy.

Starting point is 01:06:03 And I want to see, like, I got a couple people. why ain't going to lie, like, writing a verse for me. I can see why she likes your flow, though, because she has that kind of nimble flow like that. She's my Gemina, man, she's a gym. So, so I do, I'm like, for sure, I'm excited. But before we do nothing, before we even start the process, she has an onion on the table. And I'm like, what the fuck is this onion for? You know what I'm saying?

Starting point is 01:06:25 You want you to cry? Man, I don't know what the fuck she wanted, but it wasn't that. It was, it was, it was, it was, she took the layer off, the first layer off the onion and started rolling up weed, bro. Hell, man. I saw my life. She was like, this is the purest way to smoke weedies. Fuck the papers. Fuck the blunts.

Starting point is 01:06:43 Fuck the bongs. See, it's like, this is the purest, bro. Yo, this is about to go viral, bro. Left eye used to roll up onions, babe. I'm serious. It's a heart attack. If anybody know her, then they know that. You know what I'm saying?

Starting point is 01:06:56 That's no cat, bro. She had me trying to roll. It smoked, bro. I was fucking like, I was shocked. So wait, are you talking about like, hold on. A onion. No, but like the, the onions. The brown piece, nigga.

Starting point is 01:07:07 You talking about that first. That first layer. That, like, papery. Yeah, not like the actual fucking onion. No, no, just no, not the fucking onion, dude. Yeah. No. Well, I mean, there's a bunch of layers to a, the skin.

Starting point is 01:07:20 Yeah, the shit that dries out. Yeah, no, the skin to the onion, bro. Which was still fucking an onion. How do you even rolled out without breaking it? Well, if you, if you, if you get an onion, you got to think, bro. If you roll it, it's already like, and it's kind of cup. It's kind of cupped up, nah, but she was, I don't know, she finessed it. She finessed the fuck out.

Starting point is 01:07:39 Had me trying to roll that shit. I couldn't roll it for shit. She rolled up about two of them shit. So you ain't never smoked onion with nobody else. Never smoked onion with nobody else. The only time I ever smoked on you was with her. And I was shocked then. But look though, we get the record done, right?

Starting point is 01:07:52 Bam. So now all the verses are submitted from the other rappers who bought it. I mean, who wrote. And then, you know, the morning they hit me up. Bam, about 8 a.m. I got in like 6. They hit me at 8. Like, yeah, they picked your verse.

Starting point is 01:08:04 You know what I'm saying? And I'm like, yo, this is dope. You know what I'm saying? This I don't got right now, though, grill talk. So I don't got a shout out to TLC. That's crazy. Chili, T-Bives, rest in peace, left eye, girl talk. That's so epic to just have that type of placement.

Starting point is 01:08:18 You hear my voice in the verse. Yeah, that was crazy, bro. Just having that placement. That's not a regular fucking placement. Like that type of placement to have as somebody just from the hood from L.A., just somebody that's a rapper from the streets getting a fucking. placement like that is beyond legendary. Yeah, that's dope as fuck. That's not a regular shit, man. Yeah, it was a blessing, man. Shout out to Kevin Louds, too. We need to holl up, man,

Starting point is 01:08:43 and make sure I get straight on that. Hot-Pow. Shout out to Cavs. Big Cab, get with me, baby. Come on. Come on, man. I heard that thing almost diamond, baby. What we're doing, what we doing. Some bandicas is coming my guy's way. Come on, man. Yeah. That's amazing. That's amazing. Yeah, man, I had to let y'all know that, though. I mean, Def Row had a lot of, you know, a lot of shit. But that was like, that was iconic to me. It was life-changing. And that was one of the big moments, man.

Starting point is 01:09:12 So I wanted to share that with y'all and the world, man. That was beautiful. Rest and peace, left eye. Oh, thank you for that. RIP. Now, moving forward with Death Row, what's your, what's your ambition with this? Okay, so I'm glad you asked that. So this is what it is now.

Starting point is 01:09:28 I always wanted to do my Def Row album, bro. I didn't get a chance to do it. You know what I'm saying? And throughout all this time in my career, it's always been in the back of my mind. Like, even I can't do it because there's no more death row. You know what I mean? Now that Snoop got it back and it's been popping up everywhere,

Starting point is 01:09:48 popping up and popping up and popping up, it's back on my mind. It's back in my spirit. You're going to manifest. Listen, I'm doing it already. I'm 98% done. Shit sounds crazy. Y'all got to come fuck with me.

Starting point is 01:09:59 I'm going to call y'all to the studio. I need to hear that. Bro, y'all got to pull up. This shit sounds crazy. And I took it back to... I was going to say, do you have like an OG aesthetic with it? Yes, it's that, but it's the lyrics of what's going on today.

Starting point is 01:10:12 Oh, man. But the sound is how it used to be. You know what I mean? The classic 808s, you know what I'm saying? Oh, yeah, this shit. I'm going to pull up on you. For show. Yeah, I appreciate it, though, man.

Starting point is 01:10:21 I wanted to let you guys know that I'm proud of you guys, too, man. That's love. You know what I'm saying? I'm super proud of you guys. You guys came a long way as well. And I wanted to let the world know as well. like I said, the name of the album is called the double back because it's my double back. I'm a double back and I'm going to do that.

Starting point is 01:10:36 And it's a, it's a death row. He spun the block. Yeah, I spun the block for show. I got another album too. I got some shit though. Shout out to my boy Debbie 2G too from from Watts too. He Hard as fuck. I got an album with him too.

Starting point is 01:10:48 This shit about to be crazy. Wait, you got the date on that or not. It's already out. No, no, no. August I'm dropping the block sheep. Next month I'm dropping the death row project. Yeah, for sure. Oh, that shit coming out next month?

Starting point is 01:11:00 Yeah, next month. I got y'all. I know we're going to push that too, man. You already fucking, though, man. Shit, it's been fucking crazy, man. You know, we appreciate you for coming down here, man. Thank you. It's been one of my favorite discussions that we didn't add on here.

Starting point is 01:11:12 Yeah, man. You're one of those real ones, man. You're one motherfucker in this city, man. Thank you, bro. All right, man. Shout out, shout out to everybody doing their thing, man. Just, you know, keep God first, man, and stay consistent. Shout out to Killer Instinct Studios, man.

Starting point is 01:11:28 Make sure y'all book there, one of the doper studios. in Hollywood and my album will be out soon man so just stay tuned man shout out my artist lonjee c star follow me on IG uh mr black bandana number one and shout out my cousin ace i see you baby free speedy you're ready no man mr black bandana we out of here god yeah

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