No Jumper - God Tier Podcast #2 - Crips Invade Battle Rap | Aktive & Geechi Gotti

Episode Date: March 15, 2022

Dizaster and Lush sit down with Geechi Gotti and Aktive to talk about the latest news in the battle rap scene! https://www.instagram.com/geechi_gotti/ https://www.instagram.com/mrdizaster/ https://www....instagram.com/lushoneca/ ----- NO JUMPER PATREON http://www.patreon.com/nojumper CHECK OUT OUR NEW SPOTIFY PLAYLIST https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5te... FOLLOW US ON SNAPCHAT FOR THE LATEST NEWS & UPDATES https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE STORE!!! http://www.nojumper.com/ SUBSCRIBE for new interviews (and more) weekly: http://bit.ly/nastymondayz  Follow us on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ENxb4B... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Follow us on Social Media: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... http://www.twitter.com/nojumper http://www.instagram.com/nojumper https://www.facebook.com/NOJUMPEROFFI... http://www.reddit.com/r/nojumper JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Q3XPfBm Follow Adam22: https://www.tiktok.com/@adam22 http://www.twitter.com/adam22 http://www.instagram.com/adam22 adam22hoe on Snapchat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 God tier podcast. Live on No Jumper, the coolest battle rap podcast in the world with my co-host. Man, don't play with us, make plays with us. We got them wet like angel dust. You'll play a partner, Lush Uno, Aiming Bus, up in the Function. Oh, was a crazy punchline for you, motherfucker. Yeah, yeah. So anyways, I was about to go off.
Starting point is 00:00:21 We got a real special interview today, special guest. We really think this is important. we got two of the most prolific Crippers in battle rap The ambassadors are Cripping in battle rap Look, this ain't your typical Typical battle rap interview We're doing it through a blue lens today
Starting point is 00:00:43 But with that being said We got active and Gitchie Gotti of course What's up? Yeah, what's popping, man? Hub and the dub in the building Now, Gichi, first of all, we'd be remiss if we didn't start this interview off without acknowledging the fact that, you know, politics aside, affiliations aside, coast aside, you are most likely the most decorated battle rapper in history,
Starting point is 00:01:09 and for show since 2016, have had the most dominant run that anybody has had in battle rap history. The only possible exception might be sitting across from you at the table right now. No, I give it up to Gichi, man. Now, what you've done is Beyond Amazing, three champion of the years in a row. That's, I ain't been a pocket watch. No, no, no. That's a lot of bad. Yeah, doing the right, man.
Starting point is 00:01:36 Do it all right. You know what I'm saying? Can't complain. You know what I'm saying? Life is good. Now, when I first became privy to you, actually it's funny because I've both, I've known active for several years, known you for about six years, but both of y'all made an appearance before battle rap.
Starting point is 00:01:54 I've seen you on hood to hood. Oh yeah, for sure. And I seen you on Street Gangs TV. Yeah. And, you know, at that time, you wasn't even battle rapping yet. Nah, no, I probably did, like, one or something. Like, you know, it was something, it wasn't no real battle rapping, though. Like, I wasn't on no U.R.R.s and King of the Dots and none of those big platforms.
Starting point is 00:02:15 I think I just probably had, like, one little local battle that I tried out or something. So yeah, like, no, I wasn't really, like, doing nothing outside of that. That's why, like, you feel me? they pulled up for that. Like, what's going on in the hood? Like, that was all I can talk about for that moment. So, yeah, man, you know, but it's just crazy years later full circle. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:02:33 That you was able to do something. Because even in that interview, I'm still, like, talking about, like, getting out and doing something different. Like, you know what I mean? Free my boy Bezzles that was in there with me, my nigga, had three. Free Bezze, man. He didn't see that, you know, me. He'd be back, and he was, you know, basically saying that, like,
Starting point is 00:02:47 most people got to rap or play sports like to get up out of them environments, you know what I'm saying? So it's crazy that the rapping did it, you know what I'm saying? And the first actual rapping I heard from you was there was a disc track. Yeah. You was going at the game. Tell us about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:05 All right. So, yeah, even that, like, so that's the emotional. I'm just in the hood hanging, right? This, this, this, this, this is true story, man. My other partner, he locked up right now, too. Cahs was a fan of Meek meal. I think they was beefing. We in the hood.
Starting point is 00:03:18 He's like, man, disc, he didn't beat. Like, yeah, I ain't fucking. They can play the beat. nigga, Chris Jee, get right on him. I remember that shit. So it wasn't even really nothing. Yeah, it wasn't even really nothing personal. Like, I ain't know because I had no real beef with him,
Starting point is 00:03:32 but it was just on some rap shit. Like, we in the hood of these, I'm just in the, you got, I think in that area in my section, like, even though a nigga in the street's trooping, my partners in them, they know a nigga from rapping too, like on the beat, fuck the battle rap and shit. So one of my young homies, like, man, on the real, just like, you should do this.
Starting point is 00:03:47 Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, niggas be getting on from that. Like, we kids. Like, nigga, fuck it, let's do it. You feel me? He was ahead of the game for us, that rap shit, for sure. Because he was on the scenery before I knew him. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:58 I knew him before I knew him. On the real. Like, I was doing hell of shit. How did y'all first meet? Man, somebody tried to book a battle or something like with us, too. Wait, didn't y'all, you knew each other before the pick? We knew each other. That's another thing people don't know you actually came there.
Starting point is 00:04:13 Yeah, yeah. So wait, not before. We got a lot of close friends. Because, like, our hoods is, like, you know, like brother hoods. You know what I'm from there. So that already goes without seven having to do. Fuck around. So it's like, no, it ain't nothing from like some of his closest homies is my close
Starting point is 00:04:29 homies. Some of my close homies is his. Niggas went to high school with this, like, some of my homies went to high school with him. So we always cross paths. We just, you know, never hung out into, you know, he really got into battle, you feel me? That's a fuck. I'm there you know.
Starting point is 00:04:42 What's interesting about active. I'm gonna go on record and say it. I know Disaster said it before as well. You are the very first Crip in battle rap. I like to think so. Well, I mean, actually reping a gang. That's actively pushing lines. Like, you actually were the first one pushing that and even just made that a thing.
Starting point is 00:05:06 Because when I started doing the battle shit, like, the shit was corny to my homies, you feel me? Like, game bangers didn't do battle rap, like, at all. I always kept it as a secret and went out and did this shit. It's like one of those things. So I was always rapping my shit. It was like a side bitch. It's like that one song you're shaming to tell people.
Starting point is 00:05:26 You sneak off and go do it real quickly. You know, YouTube and shit went out. That wasn't me slapping Britney Spears. Yeah, yeah. We was like on MySpace and shit at the time. So YouTube and shit went out. So we weren't able to like, niggas weren't able to see me battle rap or nothing.
Starting point is 00:05:41 Right. And even when YouTube first came out, we didn't understand that it was going to be this big thing. So to us, because we were all street battlers, we looked at YouTube as, what is this new thing? So even 05. we didn't up because YouTube came in 04.
Starting point is 00:05:54 We ain't do shit then. We didn't do shit in 05. We ain't even do shit to like 06, 07 when like YouTube was around for a while and then we're like, damn, everybody's uploading. We should have been. Yeah, we should have been, but we didn't really know it's going.
Starting point is 00:06:05 It was just a new thing. It was a new platform like anything else. The way it sounded to us was like YouTube. That was like, it was just a new app, like how anything would sound. Yeah, I was just shit. I got my first cheer out of that shit. I was fascinated by any shit.
Starting point is 00:06:19 So I kept on towing that shit. But on a love. Like I said, we was street battling. Dudes used to bet on me against other hood cats and shit. And I used to go in there and tell them apart. That's why I got my name from, really. Gichi, what was your first exposure to battle rap? Because growing up in Compton, obviously, like, gangster rap is really prevalent.
Starting point is 00:06:40 There's a lot of hip-hop legends, but there's not really, people aren't known for battle-rap culture. What was your first exposure to that? My first one was, it was kind of like similar to what he just said, you know what I'm saying? my homeboy, he ain't up here right now, but he was gonna come up here just to just be in the background and just, you know, see the experience, my nigga, Eli, the mayor. Oh, yeah. Shows to Eli. He was always battling niggas, like, like, the homies would like, because he was always, that
Starting point is 00:07:04 was his style, so the homies were same way. Like, we'd go to other hoods, and if it's some niggas rapping there, be like, man, my nigga, eat them niggas up at school or something. Eli get cut. Like, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, you feel me? So I see Eli doing that shit like, damn, like, it's a nigga. I know that really can battle, like, and, like, rip niggas up and, you know, and
Starting point is 00:07:21 And at that time, he was just like how New Yorkers, I guess, did it. Like, he always just had raps on deck. Like, so you could just tap him at any moment and he was ready to rap. So, like, to me, that shit was always dope. All my battles was midstate rap. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Like, I just took my 16 off the midstate. And just get on a nigga.
Starting point is 00:07:39 Yeah. Directed his own. Exactly. So that was my first experience. Like, I didn't even know the right, like, battle wraps. Like, I just took it off my tracks and spit it as a- I mean, I've seen your early days battling. I got to say, like, people don't understand, like,
Starting point is 00:07:51 when you first were punching and you were doing like the stop pauses and the thing like even like like yeah i hit you with three k's like racist white people like you were the first one using that like like you heard thousands of people used that punchline after but he was like mackie manaj or drakes start using it like when she was like it's going down basement yeah yeah they say big john was the origin in the mainstream of that and they had taken it from them years ago yeah yeah because because That style... It's crazy that, like, not to cut you off. No, you're good.
Starting point is 00:08:24 That, like you say, it's a lot of styles that I feel like since I've been, like, watching battle rap doing, like, that come from that underground style. You know what I'm saying? It just people don't really get to see it because at first, now it's getting mainstream. You got all these big endorsements, big companies getting into it. But for so many years, it was so underground that people was rapping at these levels and starting these trends and nobody would know that it started somewhere, you know what I mean? In battle rap before it even made it to a beat, you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:08:49 They could use it as a set. secret little influence. Yeah, they can go watch it, boom, and I go rap to a beat with this nigga style. You know what I mean? That shit crazy. Yeah, for sure, for sure. You'll see it all through the raps. So we're going to touch on the pit in a second, and we know that that was a seminal venue
Starting point is 00:09:04 for battle rap in L.A. That doesn't get the flowers it deserves, considering how much talent in and outside of battle rap came from there. But I first became privy to active in 2010. You battled on grind time. And at that time, grind time wasn't really known for like the gangster style. There wasn't no... It was like mostly funny shit going on, lyrical funny shit.
Starting point is 00:09:29 So did that kind of like make you discouraged because you... Yeah, like I didn't see no place in there. Like, tell you the truth, the dude daylight told me like, man, it's some battleshit out here and I went and tried it. But I was like, man, that's some corny shit. I really looked at it like that. Because I didn't have no place and I didn't see nobody like me. But you feel me, dudes knew me from the pit, like, conceded.
Starting point is 00:09:52 He came to the pit and seen me, so he was able to vouch, like, yeah, that dude's dope. So when I finally came over there, like, it was certain dudes able to vouch. Like, he got bars because I ain't have footage like that at all. But then in your second battle, you wound up slapping somebody across the face when they have the money. Oh, yeah, I threw a whopping money at the nigga, Heartless. Shout to Heartless, though, man. Hardless is incredible, but, yeah, not. No, you...
Starting point is 00:10:19 He, like, one of the punchline kings to slip on. Was that, like, were you... Was that kind of just, like, showing fools, like, look, I don't even give a fuck. I'm feeling just doing it. I don't know why I do that, like, but my style was always, like, to mark somebody out. Yeah, well, that's how the pocket check thing originated, and then we, if you want to talk about that. I was always trying to, like, because it was nerves, remember I was telling you. I'm like, all these dudes nerves.
Starting point is 00:10:40 I'm going to come in and mark all them out. So, shit. So I was, like, marking them out, like, taking their meals and shit. I'm like, that made me. dudes not want to battle me no more, though. We talk about this a lot. And Gichi, did you, like, were you aware of grind time, or was that kind of, like,
Starting point is 00:10:57 off your radar? No, I mean, I definitely, I was aware, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, once I started, like, getting into watching battle rap, like, I've seen all the leagues, you know what I'm saying, that was coming up around that time and all the different battlers that was doing their thing. So, like, yeah, I got privy to pretty much everything, you know what I'm saying? But, like, did you kind of feel like, damn, like, this West Coast battle rap at this time?
Starting point is 00:11:16 Yeah, like, for me, I didn't really, like, understand like because you know we watching it as far as like you seeing the smack DVDs and shit like that so it was a little something different so to me I'm like okay it's a little different from like what you're seeing on the YouTube that's dropping you know what I'm saying but but at the same time I think that style the grinds on style introduced really to what's going on now like rounds and time limits and like really like organizing battle rap like that's what I did see as watching that you know something of organized battles that's a good that's a good observation that's That's really what it mainly was, because it was, it was a plethora of different styles
Starting point is 00:11:51 and there was no real, like, structure to it. But there was, there was gangster shit happening. There was, like, rappers that were coming with street shit, but it was very, like, random. And it wasn't, like, events based on it, where you felt like the environment would take you in and receive you. Exactly. And we always talked about this, you know what I'm saying? But as time evolved.
Starting point is 00:12:08 Yeah. It was happening. Yeah. Because I got into battle rap because of, like, often watching, like, read dollars and People battling in the streets, you feel me, Moot versus Jay Mills and stuff. All that type of shit. So when I came to battle, I'm thinking like, it's going to be like that.
Starting point is 00:12:24 I'm like, this shit's going to be some street shit. Yeah. Right. L.A. had it more of like friendly. Like, so. Because for that, for that dope on the West Coast, we heavy into gang banking, right? And Battle Rap is super disrespectful. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:12:38 So you're not fend to be on the West where the gang of crips and bloods in here and then against a blood. You're not fend to get up there and disbloods, you know, for the disc, cribs. And then battle rap, disrespect is rewarded, though. So you get more points if you say a disrespectful gang term to a motherfucker that's a game member because it's like, oh, you ultimately disrespect.
Starting point is 00:12:58 Even though we understand it's a business. We're getting paid to let you shit up here and say this. So, yeah, how do you feel about that? I mean, now, I mean, I'm getting paid money for it. I'm going to be totally honest. I understand the business of it, right? So I understand that this is something that, like, you know what I mean? This is feeding people lives and shit like that.
Starting point is 00:13:15 like, like, I'm already mentally already understanding this is bigger than just the streets, you know what I'm saying? It's the entertainment business now at this point, but just realistically I still, I don't do it though because I'm the type that only things I'm going to say to you in a battle is something I'm going to say to you outside of a battle.
Starting point is 00:13:31 So me calling you a bitch, I mean, I really call you a bitch for real, though. You know what I'm saying? But like, I'm not feeling like if you use a dumb moo rapper, I'm not going to I'm not going to disson. I'm not going to slurs. You did what I'm saying? You inspired another question right now. We kind of just off the cuff.
Starting point is 00:13:46 How did you come up with what was the moment this happened? You was a bitch. Yes, thank you. He's like he's synchronized with me. I just came up with this. My first battle ever doing it. I battled a shout out my nigga, $6,500. My first battle ever saying that was I battle him.
Starting point is 00:14:02 Now, he was, he like, you know, over there in Ahad. He's kind of a big young nigga, you know what I'm saying from the Long Beach and he cripping or whatnot. But for me, I just felt like I was already like the same way how he was thinking, I'm already coming in the game like man I'm really like one of them niggas like in my hood I'm really one of the niggas in the street
Starting point is 00:14:19 so like all right not to knock him or what he got going but since he's been talking crazy to all these other battles when I get in there I don't really got no bars I'll have to get you a bitch I said it every round I was a bitch I said like me's a bitch you know what I'm saying so it was meant to be like almost like filler
Starting point is 00:14:34 like yeah meant to be on some like I'm gonna say some shit to like nigga because you actually not even a bitch but I'm gonna call you a bitch just to show you How little of a fuck I give. Yeah, like, yeah, because to me, it's like we showing up to these battles at that time. We ain't really getting paid.
Starting point is 00:14:50 It ain't nothing. So it's like, we thugging like, I'm a dish respect. My fuck, boy, right. Your money is making somebody feel bad. Yeah, that's how it is. The thing is that's crazy about it is in battle rap, like, we say so much crazy. Check it out you. We say so much crazy shit to each other.
Starting point is 00:15:08 I don't understand why when you say it. He makes it sound cool. If there's some about it. the way you say it because people be called bitches a million times you know why don't I ain't don't like I sound like I sound like I sound like I sound like Snoop when he said it on on baby boy niggins that's it I'm gonna tell these things like like like Crip niggins be using that little squeaky thing that yeah yeah you know we know how to bring that out yeah so after I did it with the 65 and it got received like that to where everybody was like oh man he was disrespectful for that
Starting point is 00:15:41 battle that I'm just like, oh man, it's me. I'm using this from the gate on everybody. Like his battle, I think I did it every round, but then after that, I'm like, that's going to be my opener. That last mic t-ish was disgusting. Oh, we're going to talk about that for show. We're going to definitely talk about that. I'm curious, though. So, you know, Crippin's been around as five decades deep at this point, you know. We've definitely seen generations of gangster rap. I want to say, like, it wasn't until banging on wax, really, you know, Bloods and Crips where we started to actually hear full set tripping in their raps, which is now very prevalent.
Starting point is 00:16:16 You know what I'm saying? Not really in L.A. like that. Not as, but more than ever. That's what I really want people to know. Yeah. L.A. Game-Banging shit is respectful, my name. You ain't never heard me getting no battle in this. No type of bloods or none of that.
Starting point is 00:16:30 Right, right, right. We're respectful because we know what it comes with. We know what it comes with. So when out of town dudes come and do that, like, it's weird. So, but, you know, you got to have a same respect. Because the respect. There, it's my main enemies like that. And then that comes from the respect of, like he say, just being in the streets.
Starting point is 00:16:47 Like, it's just certain conversations a motherfucker going to have. If a crippling the blood is having a conversation, I'm not going to keep cousin. He's not going to keep blood in me. We're going to have a regular respectable conversation because we understand we're from two different walks of life. So I'm not going to enforce my culture on you. You're not going to enforce your culture on me. It's really a culture. You dig what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:17:07 Like, you feel me? So we're going to respect it. It's going to be bro. All right. My G. Whatever. however we said to where we got respect, you know what I mean, on both sides, you know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:17:14 Because a blood nigga would be like, don't cuss me. Yeah. Or a crip would be like, don't blood me, nigga, like any. And just respect, you feel me? Like, that's because if I'm saying cuss at this point, I'm calling you a Crip. You did what I'm saying? Right.
Starting point is 00:17:26 So, in battle rap, I think the West already understands so many other politics because this is where began that. You know what I'm saying? Like banging his, like, birth here. You know what I'm saying? Like, this ain't like we adopted this shit. Like, you know what I'm saying? This shit was birthed here, like,
Starting point is 00:17:41 Nick, it's in the head of us. It's in the head of us. It's like, saying, all that started in the West Coast. So it's real culture. It ain't like some niggas watched it on TV, decided to pick this color rag and liked it this rapper. Like, nah, niggas like, this is it. It's rules, regulations, code of conduct,
Starting point is 00:17:57 all that shit is right here. And we ain't bigger than the program, so we can't change the program just because we in front of the cameras. You dig what I'm seeing? That's how we woke up. Like, you feel me, like, boring in it. People need to hear this shit.
Starting point is 00:18:07 No, no, that's game right there. Yeah, that's game. Now, being from Nutty Black, like, there's some pretty well-known, like, represented a big influence on me from that, from that neighborhood, from that over there, like, BG Knockout and Drace to. So you was in, like, you was in, like, probably, like, a little kid running around. When they was, yeah, hell year. When they was popping, what was that like?
Starting point is 00:18:30 Oh, them niggas was already big. Like, when I was a young nigga, and then them niggas, I liked that. BG had caught his case. Got locked up for a five minute. But at the same time, they was huge. Like, you know what I'm saying? They was with EZE, so you got to think I'm like 7, 8, 6 running around, like, seeing that influence of just like on that side of Compton and somebody to be at that time
Starting point is 00:18:49 with who the biggest rapper on the West Coast is, respectfully, you know what I'm saying, like they had it popping over there, like, you know what I'm saying? So that was just big to be a part of after that. There's other rappers like the young horse. I'm rest in peace, my homeboy, nutty nuts. Man, hey, I love the young hog. They were assigned to Mac 10 and they label the Hubebanger. People don't know about that shit.
Starting point is 00:19:06 I'm not saying. I still, I still bumped that shit to, um, the, uh, the, uh, it's a, um, um, A lot of history in the hood with rapping King Tee in all them is out of the neighborhood. King T is a fucking. King T, that's where Biggie got his stuff from. That's where big he got his shit for ever people know that out here. So the rap in that area is just kind of like contagious over there. You did what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:19:22 It's just kind of contagious over there that like you know, I'm saying? I was on the 95, he's getting off. I was going to be crazy. I'm crazy for saying. Looking like life so simple, man. Come on, man. I was literally, come on, man.
Starting point is 00:19:38 I might trip him for saying that literally, my favorite verse in the history of hip hop is, well, it's the knockout. Can't finish the original movie gay stuff? Yeah, that is, though. You got to, yeah, you got to. Respect, that was like, like, like, no dick, but as a disc record,
Starting point is 00:19:55 that was a dope disc record, you know what I'm saying? Like, at that time, that's a hard-ass disc record. But that time, that shit was one of the biggest, and it's still, like, dope to this day, like, as a record. So, I feel like the West talk is not, like, be dissing, like, feel me on some real-hood shit. Yeah, you know what me. Yeah, the West disson.
Starting point is 00:20:10 was different. No Vaseline. No Vaseline. You know what I'm saying? Dollars and cents. You feel me? DJ quick. Go wrong. Like the West, that's what I'm saying. But it's all like it's still in the means of like nigger lyricism too. I think sometimes people get that mixed to. That's one thing that we try to do with this battle rap. Like you said, even with the gang and not letting them get it mixed up that even though we're banging and we pushing that, we really rap. You know what I'm saying? I think that first we got bored. I think that's the most important thing that people need to always remember. You know what I'm saying? I really want to talk about, you know, how basically, even before Gichi, like, the whole New York thing
Starting point is 00:20:47 that happened with you. Oh, yeah. Break that down. People forget about the New York thing. So when y'all went out to New York. When daylight was supposed to battle. Oh, a suave seven, I'm going to clap this shit up. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:21:00 You and Keith were walking bandanas. Like, y'all literally were, I don't want to say in costume because you feel me. But they were walking bandannery. That's uniform. We call that uniform. I had my great street uniform. You were that uniform on a real. Y'all literally looked like you was straight off the cast of colors or some shit.
Starting point is 00:21:17 Exactly. That was some throwback like really nice. Like the nigga the game said, I was watching Dreamtams. And he was like, I thought this shit was real. Right. So when I came to the east of New York, the Mecca, I'm like, nigga I'm going to let them know where I'm from. I don't know all that niggas from Cali already.
Starting point is 00:21:35 Like that's what we want to see. So we got to paint the picture, though. So it's you, you would date, your brother. Bro, UTK, and Dave. Right. We was like five six thick. And y'all like literally wearing like khaki suits, rags, purple and blue rags and all that. So the smack line was like around the corner.
Starting point is 00:21:54 Smack line around the corner. We marching up. Like niggas looking from afar like, who the fuck is them? Like, who's that? As we got closer. Remind you, they didn't know me like that. You feel me? They knew day.
Starting point is 00:22:06 So as we getting closer, they like, oh, that's daylight. That's daylight. So the crowd started whaling like, damn, these niggas crazy. Yeah, yeah. So we mobbing to the front, like on everything. They're like, hey, y'all ready, already. Some niggas like yelling like, take that shit back uptown and all the tape of shit. Like, I'm from Watts.
Starting point is 00:22:26 I don't know what no uptown. That what you mean? So we mobbed. So was it New York Bloods or whatever? They wasn't feeling that? No, nobody said nothing to us. Shit, I don't know what things is feeling. But New York ain't really a game-bang-ish vibe to me like that.
Starting point is 00:22:40 Like, it's a lot of randoms and shit. Like, you know, LA, you're going to find somebody banging on every event. You feel me? Like, New York is like, the niggas that bang ain't tripping on you, like, where you're from type shit. So, like, that's from my experience. And then the battle wound up not happening because a fight broke out at the event. The fight broke out. Yeah, man.
Starting point is 00:23:00 This went mad face serious that time. And then what happened? Oh, what happened? You got mad. Oh, yeah. We got mad. Like, we in the crowd. Like, daylight going next.
Starting point is 00:23:10 Mind you, they like going next, so we all in our crypt shit. Mind you, we had a little shit. Like, we had a little thing we was going to do. I was going to come out like Snoop, like, y'all niggins don't got no love for the West Coast? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, y'all love. I was going to do that shit.
Starting point is 00:23:27 Like, in New York, the crowd was huge and shit. So we had all this shit planned out, like we was going to bring the West to New York. So, uh, math stole on the dude. He hit the Matrix. Like, Matt stole on him. And they all cleared the stage or whatever. We like, what? We're gonna get some shot.
Starting point is 00:23:45 We went and ran to the stage, jumped on stage anyway. Like, what? We in this bitch. We still ain't. Yeah. The security, like, nays get off stage. Like, me like, fuck y'all. Nicked, he vending over it.
Starting point is 00:23:57 We take it over this bitch. So after that was over, we went outside. We're steaming now, though. Because, remind you, we played thousands of dollars for rooms. We ain't getting paid like that. They probably got $1,000. Remember you're getting right. He's going to clap this shit up.
Starting point is 00:24:13 So we get outside, my nigger. I see bow-wow, all these stars and shit. I'm looking. I'm like, daylight. Go get your money, dog. I told you like, go get your money, though. Yeah, fuck that.
Starting point is 00:24:28 Nicky that. Nicarra. Now, we got to get the back in for sure. In my mind, Daylight a star. I ain't thinking he getting fucking a thousand dollars. So, I'm like, go get that money. I need some money on this room. Amen. We're on the trip.
Starting point is 00:24:41 We got to get that. This nigga Storm. I ain't know he was going to storm to smack like this. Like, he storm up to smack like, hey, smack with my money. Brum, br, brum, br, br, brum. We, fuck, man. Smack like, hey, Sean, get off me, Sean. New York.
Starting point is 00:24:55 Niggas, like, you know who you're talking to and all that shit? Man, we're like, we don't give a fuck, man. This baby love, like, we're banging out there and shit. Because smack ain't playing out there. Like, he got to be in. Yeah, no, yeah, there's folks. Like, but we were just so, man. Smack got his people's with him when.
Starting point is 00:25:09 We had our jersey grapes and New York Graves with us too. Like, but like, we didn't give a fuck. We was mad that that shit happened. Yeah. We like, the nigga just in the moment, it ain't even, Nick ain't even assessing all these situations. Exactly. I'm not assessing, man.
Starting point is 00:25:24 I am now, but in the moment we like, man, fuck all this shit. Like, the event got shut down. We did, Daylight get the battle. So we're steaming. So Daylight put that move on them. They went and talked to the side. So we banged out out there. That's when we do all.
Starting point is 00:25:39 that on Vlad and go crazy on Cammy and shit like that, but we didn't even know it's going to be that big. That shit went viral on some shit. Legendary moment. Oh, yeah. And that kind of like... That's forgotten too. Like, that shit was funny.
Starting point is 00:25:53 I feel like that set the precursor for like, for what was to happen with like people openly banging in battle rap. But then obviously when Gichi blew up, it's like, it's a different time. Gichi took that shit to another level. Because they used to give like... He like, niggas, niggas really want to beat Crips. Well, they used to give his. hard time.
Starting point is 00:26:10 These are like, right? Hey, hold on. I know what you about to say, Buss it. Fuck that.
Starting point is 00:26:15 Yeah. I was called all types of fucking names because all I brought gangsters around and he got crips and battle rap and now all you motherfuckers got a card all of a sudden. Everybody's showing up with a whole fuck. You can't even be in battle rap without a card and shit. Like I was the first soldier boy shit, bitch.
Starting point is 00:26:34 I was the first one. That's all. That's all. You know, man. I started this rat around the head shit. That's how y'all think me. But, hey, I love what's going on in about around. My niggins seem like a motherfucker.
Starting point is 00:26:49 And I'm still getting my plate. I've been on some shit. And we're still pushing like, you know what I'm doing. Here's the thing with Gitchie. So, like, I went, the first time this happened to me was probably, I forgot the year it was, but it was when New York was telling me, oh, you can never win a battle out here. We gonna body you out here.
Starting point is 00:27:10 And I went out and did the Swave thing. And I was really big. But I did it once and you know how New Yorkers are. They're like, do it again. Do it again. And I never really did it again because I knew I got up out of there. You know what I'm saying? I got luck because they don't want me to win no battles.
Starting point is 00:27:26 You know what Gichi did is a difference because Gichi went out there and made them eventually be like, fuck it, we give up. Fuck it. You know what I'm saying? That's what he chees. That's a thing. I feel like, you know.
Starting point is 00:27:42 And he became the dude that niggas won the battle. Because like I look at that as the ultimate difference with us because even during like those years people try to ignore this shit I was doing. I was bringing in like each year I would do six, seven, eight, nine to fucking 15 million views by myself, you know what I'm saying? And like I was damn near competing with smack by myself. Like the reason King of the Dot was floating. Yeah, the reason why King of the Dot and then we're floating is because I was letting.
Starting point is 00:28:06 You're letting you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Um, I forgot what was it. But what I was about to say, like, um, leading up to that, like, I feel like when Gichi became popular on URL, they low key were trying to get you the fuck out of there. Oh, yeah. Yeah, no, that's what I was trying to say. Damn, I blanked out.
Starting point is 00:28:23 So I was trying to say, you know, I got you. They, they was literally, um, making it, like, look like I was, like the West wasn't doing shit. Even though we was bringing in crazy shit. Cannabis was coming here. Cassidy was coming here. We were like launching crazy shit. But if it ain't smack it don't count.
Starting point is 00:28:36 But they were made, yeah, like that. So what Gici. did essentially is putting crazy fucking work and made them respect it. Like I that's what I wasn't able to do. Even though I was still fucking putting the West on the fucking on a worldwide map.
Starting point is 00:28:49 I just couldn't make them get on their knees like me. Well they also tried to get you the fuck out of there. Yeah. Yeah. On your knees. I think it's because it's partially my fault that rivalry was there and because I did a lot of shit that
Starting point is 00:29:04 like, you know what I'm saying? I did a lot of shit that made me the feeling. He was co-s-been. Yeah, I was. I was I was playing in the village. I definitely right now, I want people to genuinely know, and this is not no cop-out type of thing. I just don't feel like that no more. I do feel like it's it's, it's, it's, it's, it's,
Starting point is 00:29:19 I love everybody. But you gotta think, but at the time, somebody from the West, I would admit it now. Like, I'm not on some like super, you know what I mean? Just like,
Starting point is 00:29:26 at that time though, when y'all was coming up, it wasn't just like that for the West and East. It was the South, the Midwest. Everybody was, right. We was fighting for respect.
Starting point is 00:29:33 It was all regional. Like, like if you come from the West, you're trying to put on for just, You're coming from the east, you're trying to... Hey, yo, the New Yorkers didn't make it easy for anybody. Which we get... Honestly, that's a good thing, too, because it made motherfuckers try harder. But they made it tough for motherfuckers to get love.
Starting point is 00:29:51 And they know that shit. Yeah, and I respect it because they're the maker, you feel me? Yeah. Just like we're gonna make it tough for y'all to do just jump on this game bang and shit. You can't just jump on anything like that. Yeah, yeah. They made it tough for us. They're...
Starting point is 00:30:06 Hip hop is theirs. You know what I'm saying? That's what kind of with me, that's where I, like, took it personal to just, like, make sure I put on dope showings every time I'm out there. You know what I'm saying? Because I know how much, like, I was at the forefront of it, you know what I'm saying? So me taking the bad loss, me just out there not representing it, right? That's going to affect everything that's coming after me. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:30:28 So I'm like, let me represent this shit all the way right. Even when times, like, when they say, like, man, ain't no way he doing that because he and Callie and he got a hundred cribs in there. And they all cheering for him. Watch when he go out of town. Nobody's going to fuck with him. You know what I'm saying? And I just dispelled that by just showing that, like, being real is universal. I definitely want to give a shout out to Rum Nitty and Danny Myers too.
Starting point is 00:30:50 Because they were a part of that, you know what I'm saying? You guys definitely, I feel like you three, like, especially at the period of time where I kind of took a more backseat to shit and just stop. You was battling overseas. Because the thing is about me, though, like for the longest, it was just me by myself. You know what I'm saying? When you guys came around, it was like a breath of fresh air. That's why I'm so supportive. I've been supportive of you guys from day one in your careers
Starting point is 00:31:13 because I've always seen it like that. Like the reinforcements have arrived. Yeah, like all along the troops is here. Yeah, and you know what? The British is coming. Hey, the blue coach is coming. Hey, I'll tell them all that they better not never let me on there. I'm going to slap some people's up, more.
Starting point is 00:31:29 They body up, boy. That's the thing, though, like, I mean, them giving you surf when they did. Like, if you look at the list of opponents, Oh yeah, they were trying to get me out of there type of shit. They was trying to get you out of there. Yeah, because I had tough opponents back to back to back the back to back to back. Like everybody, for like two, three years, I'm battling. We was out here, Mike's watching that shit.
Starting point is 00:31:47 Man, two three years, I'm battling the toughest opponents they got, you know what I'm saying? And none of them was in Cali. I'm battling in Houston. I'm battling in Florida. I'm battling in Philly. I'm battling in every other state, you know what I'm saying? Like everywhere else we're going, we're pulling up and we're putting in that work like that. So that's what gained me that respect, though.
Starting point is 00:32:04 Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I'm pulling up, staying consistent. Like, you couldn't use that. He at home, like, you feel me? Like, I'm on the road just like everybody else pulling up. Main event, all these lights, you know what I'm saying? And camera, because that shit is a, all this shit is that. You feel me?
Starting point is 00:32:18 This is big. This is like, no disrespect. But, like, you got to be honest. Like, you are real, especially is really like the NBA. Some people don't understand it. That shit is different. To you stand in front of all them lights. Yeah, to you stand in front of all them lights.
Starting point is 00:32:29 And you got 3,500 people right there. And everybody right. And you're going against a nigga. And they know his slogan. and they know when he take off his jacket, they're screaming, and it's like, you gotta make him like, you know, you know who taught me that shit, though?
Starting point is 00:32:41 When I battled Big T on Ether. Yeah. Because when, and then he did like his little chalaca. And everybody's going crazy. I'm like, I ain't got no slogan for these niggas to go with. I ain't got nothing, yeah. What, that nigga had some shit. I'm like, he told me some shit.
Starting point is 00:32:53 And that's a crazy testament to how powerful that scene is. I know that wasn't URL, but it's still like a URL. Yeah, yeah. Because because because you're going against Big T, he's a hit. At that time, he's a URL star. So wherever he goes, boom, he's still a big team.
Starting point is 00:33:09 Even though it's in your city, he still has more of a home field advantage. Because the crowd knew, the crowd knew, boy slogans, everything. So he had the, you know, you feel me? Shout out to him, man. He had the presence over me, you feel me? That's a fun. I mean, was it, did you ever feel like at a certain point discouraged? Like, damn, these fools is really trying to treat me at a certain point.
Starting point is 00:33:31 You feel me? Not, not. Like him? Yeah, yeah. Oh, when he was getting, he ran, they was running. Not me, not me. I took the challenge. I understood it.
Starting point is 00:33:41 It's just like any situation, man. It's like you got to already, like, you got to already know what time it is. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's just like you feel what I'm saying. You're going in the county jail or something. You're going in one of these dorms and Wayside and all your ops in there and shit like that. And you got to run in phase. You got to run.
Starting point is 00:33:57 You ain't no way. Hold on, man. Wait a second, man. Let me come back tomorrow and do, let me do a hundred push us first. Like, nigger, you're in here, you ready. So I'm already in the mix. In battle rap, I'm already, I'm in there. So whoever y'all throw me, I got to take them.
Starting point is 00:34:09 I can't. And that brings up a good point, though, because literally, you, right when you first started popping off, had to sit down for a second. Like, what were your thoughts at that point? I mean, yeah, at that point, it was just me just, like, that's when I knew, like, I, man, I got to, like, figure it out. You know what I'm at, like, a crossroads. You know, like, like, in any, like, what's them movies and all that weird, motherfucker like, uh, like. You feel me? Yeah, like one of them, like, changing situations, you know what I'm saying? So when I seen at that point, like, okay, I went to jail when they bailed me out.
Starting point is 00:34:42 They was booking me to battle Ave on traffic, you know what I'm saying? Right, right where he did was going to battle rock. So in my head, I'm like, damn, like, he's like, like, I'm sitting in jail, you know what I'm saying? But, nigga, I'm feeling to be battling on one of the biggest cars ever, you know what I'm saying? Like, and I might have to go back and do some time. It's like, man, hold on, man, I might really got some here. Let me start, like, really taking this series. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:35:01 Let me really focus and see how far I can vote this year. I was still one of the biggest West Corr's. So here's the, so we heard all that, right? Here's the ultimate question. I'm going to ask you the same shit right after. Where do you go from here? That's it. Okay.
Starting point is 00:35:17 That's it. What do you? We got a big battle with you on this car coming up. We're going to talk about that too. But what's your, what do you, how do you get bigger than this? Because look what I just did because of what I've done. Yeah. So how are you in movies next?
Starting point is 00:35:35 Like I want to know what you're thinking is you got a million avenues. Yeah, yeah. So for me, you know, I feel like it's just building the brand. You know what I'm saying? Like once I finally was able to like realize that like it's more than just rapping like that I'm also a brand. You know what I'm saying? So like the Gigi Gotti brand is everything to me. So like my team and the people that's supporting me is me trying to do everything.
Starting point is 00:35:56 If anybody know they know I got clothing. You go to official gichigati.com. Got got all the merch. you can ask for hoodie shirt shorts. No more bundles for the ladies? I got bundles. You go to Gotti-Gi-Gybundles on the ground. We got the website coming up.
Starting point is 00:36:09 Me and my wife got that on a lot. I ain't even know the bundles. Come on. You know, people are trying to talk about that. Listen, listen, listen, I'm legitimate business, though. You hear me like, my phone before I came up here, I had to go drop off like three, you know what I mean? Bundles, he wanted three-thirties. I got him to get him.
Starting point is 00:36:25 I mean, it's in the real niggas shit, though. You know what I got it, you know what I'm saying? It's illegal hustle. I love it. So everything. You're making money off the females. You got to love it. So everything to me from this point is just continuously growing the brand.
Starting point is 00:36:40 So shit like you're saying, being in movies, being whatever I can take it to the next level. Because look at Snoop Dogg. A nigga who started from just gangster rap and then now he's a world-rise star. His brand is everything like he can sell Snoop Dog water. And you're going to buy the water. It can be the same taste of water. Hey, you're a great actor. Oh, yeah, salute.
Starting point is 00:36:57 I wanted to say that like you definitely, if you haven't been thinking about it, I need to get in there. From my opinion, from the little clips that I've seen you do. I got it. Like the judge shit you did when you said some shit. You belong in the fucking proof of court. That's just being in the hood, though. You know, we all got jokes.
Starting point is 00:37:15 Like, you feel me? Like, we do. We know how to be funny. So for me, that shit comes natural. But as far as like, salute Emerson Kennedy and them over there. Yeah, Frank called us the other day. By putting us on, they show last seven see in gray area. That prank goes crazy.
Starting point is 00:37:27 They put us on that shit. You feel? I want to, uh, I want to, so. Being, I want to ask you the same question, but you being one of the biggest inspirations for us to have our own platform. People don't know, like, you were one of the guys that from day one was advocating for us to be independent. Talking shit. Talking shit. Like awesome.
Starting point is 00:37:46 Like both of these niggas is. It got out of control. It got out of control. I was waiting for him to say, you know, I'm like, where my father is that? That nigga right there, the reason I'm right here. You have a platform. He had to hurt my feelings. You've always.
Starting point is 00:38:00 I heard all you knew. You've always had incredible potential but struggled to be motivated because of your opponents and now you have a platform that is basically there for you to fucking battle on. What are your plans
Starting point is 00:38:11 and how do you see yourself moving in the battle community for the next like one or two years? I'm tired of being the best West Keltz secret type shit, nigga. I need to get on the platforms and battle some top names, dog. That's where I'm going from there.
Starting point is 00:38:27 No more nerds for active. Yeah, people that mean. something you feel me when I beat them that's impressive you feel me that's a fine not emcee uh San Diego yeah MC Pomona oh my god hey you did good in San Diego people don't know I took active with me down to San Diego to the king out there I'm the king of San Diego we did a tournament he wrecked the whole entire fucking place started throwing money at everyone at the end after he won it and shit he was going out of control the fact that you're still like an up-and-comer I hate to even use that word to describe you because you like you
Starting point is 00:39:00 You're a certified vet. Break down the crack city crew. Who are the members? What's the origins? I think people need to know that. As today. How do we start? Let's go back to 05.
Starting point is 00:39:15 05, all right. We started from the pit. What's the pit? The pit is like it ain't even a battle league. It's like a hip-hop place. It was a platform in L.A. It was the hub of this city where everybody could get together. Everybody used to be there.
Starting point is 00:39:30 But then B2K, KD, Kendrick, Bad luck, Tyga, all these things. DeMoney, Jado. Everybody used to be in there just rapping. So it wasn't just about battle, but battles were happening in there.
Starting point is 00:39:41 You feel me? Mickey Monday, Jagged. Everybody was up there, man. Like, all them. Everybody was in there, though. So we felt like we was outnumber when we was there.
Starting point is 00:39:52 So that's how me, this, AV, and Daylight came together. So that's the original members. We kind of like clicked up. Disaster. Compton A.V. Compton A. And daylight.
Starting point is 00:40:01 Yeah, them the original four right there. We had other people too, but like, we came to the pit and got adopted by gangsters. Yeah, we adopted. We was like, digger, this are white boy. We thought he in here. I'm keeping. Y'all also would your white boy not even white. That's the coldest part.
Starting point is 00:40:20 But, you know, they used to look at it like that back then. Anybody that like, black and like, we know you're not. I got all the eight white boys. Bro, I got all the hate white lines. Everything was like all black black boy. I still get the eight mile lines. I got all the eight mile lines back then. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:34 He was B. Rabbit back then, like, for sure. Gitchie, did you ever go to the pit back then? Now, yeah, I've been around it, though. You know what I'm saying? I wasn't battling a none, but I was able to go in there and just see the same. A lot of people slipped in that. A little bit of everybody slipped in that. Anybody that's successful in the modern landscape.
Starting point is 00:40:49 Yeah, Tyree's Jim Jones, Redmond. Yeah, you were hell of young. Yeah, for sure. Like 17 years old? Yeah, super young. Yeah, probably younger. Probably younger, probably younger than that, though. You were like 15.
Starting point is 00:40:59 I'm gonna say probably younger than that. Like you say like, my niggas like my nigga spitfire and them, they used to battle down. Oh, spitfire. You fuck with Dan, that's it. That's a great spitfire. You know, the nigga bullied even better.
Starting point is 00:41:12 You kill bully up there. That's so, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, a lot of niggas. So what was your first impression when you saw disaster? Disaster? We battled. Did we battle? Yeah, I battle him.
Starting point is 00:41:24 We battle. My first battle, I battled disaster. Yeah, that's so crazy. I was Daylight's first battle too. Yeah, so I ran through like two niggas, and then I ended up battle on him. He was the king. He was the bee rabbit back there. He was the king of that place.
Starting point is 00:41:39 So I got to him. I got to him, we rap. He did dis me hard as he could. He was like, nigga, I was like, I'm killing this white boy. He says the wrong shit. But after it ended, they did like crowd participation. He won because he had all the fucking fans. So that was my first shit.
Starting point is 00:41:59 but my first cheer I got that got me hooked on that shit. And I was graping in my battles back then. That's why I'd be like, man, I was the first gang banged because I didn't see nobody banging like that. I'm like, where the bang? I want to battle a blood. I'm a cripple. Well, did you battle Jack back then?
Starting point is 00:42:16 I thought battling blood. There was Bloods battling then, though. Shots out to put, rest in peace, Polk Sloan. Elsburg. Jack battled one time. And after that, he just got on stage and spit free styles and shit. That's where him and Kendrick and them. did. They just got on stage and spit like they sit too. Yeah, a lot of people didn't
Starting point is 00:42:33 battle. They just spent a lot of bars up there. Lilfiz tried to jump in the ring. Got killed by someone from Great, right? Wait, Lil Fizz from B2K? B2K. He was like, nigga, I thought it was a Mario, that's what so funny. It was Little Fis. I said, Omario on Mario on Battle. It was Lil Fis. Damn, I forgot. Nigger bit going around telling niggas for years like, you know, Mori Kla got killed. Yeah. It was Lil Fis. It was one of them motherfuckers. This was back in the days when You're right.
Starting point is 00:42:59 It's essentially the same person. Less successful. So be a 2K member. That's fucking funny. This back when Lady G. Lady G. Lady G. Lady G.
Starting point is 00:43:07 She was writing for Lil Fizz. Okay. Lady Gizzle. She came in and held him that. He got bodyed by this dude and Lady G. Jumped in and body to him. Wait a sec, a second, though. So you, daylight's a part of this too.
Starting point is 00:43:21 So if you look at that level of success between you, him, Compton A.V., daylight. That's like, you know, that wound up being a real powerhouse. Yeah. You grew up with daylight? What's the origins of you in Daylights? I know Daylights since probably around when I was like 11, 12 years old. Okay. So I want to say we weren't friends and shit back then, but we would go to the same school
Starting point is 00:43:42 and play basketball and shit. After school, like, it was elementary. So Daylight was always around, like, at the pool and shit like that. But he wasn't, like, who I hug would until we start rapping. Okay. So. What was it like? Because, like, y'all, didn't y'all live together at one point?
Starting point is 00:43:58 young. We lived, no, he lived with me. Ain't no litigate. No, he didn't have nowhere to go and he lived with me. But this probably when we was like, probably a little growner, though. Like, not in our younger days. Was that, like, was shit already popping for y'all at that point? Was he, like, already? Well, we was battle rappers, but daylight was more popping than me.
Starting point is 00:44:21 Okay. So this one, he was just getting the spine mask and all this shit. Oh, so that was already, like, he had face tats already and shit. No, he didn't have shit, and then he went and got that out of nowhere. Okay. We like, what's wrong with you? Like, that's the point where he was blowing up. He was doing these funny blogs and shit.
Starting point is 00:44:38 Then New York started catching on to him, start flying him out. So I'd add, hey, he came up off my couch, basically, digger. Wow. And he got a real hood story. Wow. He got a real hood story. Shots out the day. Yeah, and it's incredible to see what he's done since then, you feel me?
Starting point is 00:44:56 Like another one of the dudes that really put the West on the map. Oh, yeah, for sure. For sure. He got to get credit for that. For sure. But as far as like the, as far as like he wasn't like, because there seems to be like a lot of confusion as far as like him out there. Like, because, you know, he was hollering the Grape Street thing a lot,
Starting point is 00:45:16 but then you don't really hear from him saying that so much anymore. Like, uh. I don't even know. I ain't seen daylight in five years. Okay. Personally, I ain't seeing him, so I don't know where his mind state at right now. Okay. He seemed like he's a conscious person, so I don't expect him to game bank at all.
Starting point is 00:45:33 Right. I never, he never did that. Like, he always told us it was stupid, so they, like, always being a conscious person. Like, he never been. Got to respect it. He never been in a baby like that. So he came and said in a couple of battles and shit. That's probably he was for, like, shock value or whatever he was doing it for.
Starting point is 00:45:51 Is that, is that a difficult line, like, for someone like your, to walk between like I'm pushing this line and like reping like where I'm from in my specific section and like wanting to achieve a greater level of success that you know you haven't experienced that far? I mean it's like with anybody that's probably like you know what I'm saying doing this shit at a high level and like start to take off you know what I'm saying if you really like true to what the shit you're rapping about and really like
Starting point is 00:46:18 it's people in your area that can vouch for it and they can stand on that then they're gonna support it you know what I'm saying The only time it'd be issues is when it's like you're somebody that's just up there rapping. You're like a mascot. Like you ain't really lived it. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like so like when you touch down into that section, you know, I mean, you don't stand the same as when you stand on stage. Everybody love you.
Starting point is 00:46:39 But in the hood, you like a little dude. Like they slapping you around. But I look at day daylight. I look at it like the county jail. Like if you from, like if you grew up in our neighborhood and we see you in the county jail, you're going to roll with us, period. So that's how they was For as the hood aspect.
Starting point is 00:46:56 Like, regardless, he was going to be associated with us. You feel what me? Right. Yeah. And that's kind of like, because like this is a dude that's, because, you know, there's other examples of people from like your neighborhood like, you know, O3 Grito, Free Gritos. Like, he had, the whole entire Still has. So, so
Starting point is 00:47:12 what's your relationship like with Grito and what was that like back in the day? That's my dog, man. We didn't... We didn't be in the studio, man. We did nights together, man. That's my dog right there. I can't wait for his return, man. Yeah, the streets need that. He's still dropping hits from the jail.
Starting point is 00:47:27 Yeah, exactly. He's one of the most prolific, like, hit the catalog of music that he amassed. Hey, he was the one. He was the one. He'll be back, though. You want this? What was it like seeing, like, because you knew him before? He was, like, Gritty-Gitty before.
Starting point is 00:47:44 I really respect that man come up, man, because I've seen when he was just grinding on his little laptop. I remember him before all those tats, too, on his face. No, he always had that. No, not those, but he had more now, but he always had the little. Yeah, no, he had that probably what he was like. Grape and the apple and all that. And he had that since like the A2I era, if y'all know what that is.
Starting point is 00:48:04 Like, yeah, the little E&T era. Right. So he got that way back then. Yeah. So. Was that kind of like Craig? Because that's, there's other rappers that are from like the Jordan Downs that shit. Like I remember like Wolfcat.
Starting point is 00:48:17 Yeah, Wolfcat, little one. Obviously RIP, Blackout. Blackout. Pipe the snipe. Like the snipe, it's a lot of us. But the first, we like old block out there. Pipes too. He's the whole.
Starting point is 00:48:27 But the first one that really was like, you know, I even remember like, I was like, damn, like the way future resonates with people, you feel me with that, like, melodic, speaking the pain of the hood way before, like, all these other cats started doing it. But Grito did that and it really hit different in that way. I think he was like the first one not scared to sing about the hood. Like, when he, when he sing about. People can say I got shot like 50 cent, but he was singing there like, I got shot by who I love it told him by my family. Singing and people like that that shit. So what was that like being, like knowing this dude, being from the same section as him?
Starting point is 00:49:07 I always knew he was dope, but I never thought he would get to that level, though. He was, hey, that came out of nowhere. He started dropping them hitters. I think it was inspired by a mafia raid deaf. Right. That was the first joint that mafia business. Yeah, that's crazy. Which is crazy, which had the cardboard cut out of them in the video and all that.
Starting point is 00:49:27 Yeah. That took you to the top. Everybody knew Mafia Ray, so, you feel me? He came to a King of the Donovan. He's at the Cannabis event, man. He was there when you battle cannabis. Yeah, he was a real one, man. Gigi, did you know Mafia race too?
Starting point is 00:49:43 You know, we went to school together. Oh, that was really hard. Gici, do you feel like that's you in your section? Do you feel like you're that dude at this point? Not from an egotistical standpoint, but like everybody know Gigi Ghi Gadi. Like, and not even just from your hood, but when I talk to people, I talk to people that are supposed like other side and all that, you feel me? And they'll still be like Gigi Gigi.
Starting point is 00:50:05 When you mentioned Bada, I'll be like, oh, fuck with battle. I'll be like, oh, you know, Gichagti doing it big. And this dude, like, from, I ain't going to name no hoods. But, yeah. I think one thing. That boy, personified Compton. Yeah, one thing people need to understand is there a difference between. a mascot and somebody who has
Starting point is 00:50:23 zero blemishes on his shit. You understand? And like, this is what we're standing in front of right here. Man, I really appreciate you guys today. Man, this has been incredible. We need to bring you guys back up. Maybe call this, you know, Crip Ambassador Segment One, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, we're going to need a part
Starting point is 00:50:38 to do that part two. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. We need more stories. I know y'all got hundreds of them, man. This is it. And now we're going to do y'all justice. But before we dip out, before we dip out, we got a few more minutes. We got to hear about
Starting point is 00:50:51 We brought it up earlier the last most recent battle you had when you... They say that, like, you know, obviously, you know, shots to Mike P because he's still at it. He's still thugging. I don't know that.
Starting point is 00:51:03 A lot of people say that his ghost is lingering above us as we speak. That was the most, like, the way you be going off, like, and like, how did that feel? Did you know that you were going to, like, due to this, demoralize this man to that extent? And again, I don't want to,
Starting point is 00:51:18 I don't want to make it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mike P is the man. Fuck with you, Mike, man. Don't listen to this guy. Fuck this guy. We all. We fuck with Mike, man.
Starting point is 00:51:26 But that's the narrative. I'm for Mike, too. We all show you what happy. Hey, y'all should just watch that, man. We ain't going to put too much eye on that, man. We ain't going to kill him. But, like, as far as what he's saying, though, like, I get what he's saying. That's the narrative in the community.
Starting point is 00:51:38 I'm not saying. But Mike Pee, though, in his. Pay the $8 and watch it. He was somebody, though, that this battle was, like, long overdue, though. So you know how when you got somebody that's kind of been antagonized and, like, So, like, he had interviews a long time ago where he was like, I don't think Gucci that nice and shit like that. So it was like, that was just one of them.
Starting point is 00:51:57 Like, I got to get that off on you. I got to get that off on you. He tried to do the Joe Knight thing with him. That's what happened. The same shit, man. Well, hey, Ed, one more thing before we go, we got this big event coming April 22. You know, you battling on the shit versus kitchen clean. Everybody log into that, man.
Starting point is 00:52:13 Go to Getsuettexbattle. You know what I'm in a business. Go get the fucking paper view. Get your ticket. That's a fun. Before the price too high. Bitch. God tiered.
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