The 85 South Show with Karlous Miller, DC Young Fly and Chico Bean - ICE CUBE in the Trap! | 85 South Show Podcast

Episode Date: February 9, 2025

The Black Effect Presents... The 85 South Show! West Coast legend Ice Cube pulls up to the trap to talk about his new album and kick it one good tine with Karlous Miller, Chico Bean, DC Young Fly and Clayton English! Off the rip they start talking about DC being in the New Friday movies. Cube takes it all the way back to how he started in Compton and Karlous asks about the lyrics to "Today Was A Good Day!" The squad talks about The Big 3 and the struggle to build an all new league. Cube talks about how the govt opposition to his early music and talks about how he got involved in developing a political plan for Black People. From Mike Epps to Bernie Mac, the conversations sways to talking about how comedians impact the movies. Cube talks "All About The Benjamins" and tells a crazy story from the time he was filming Anaconda with J Lo. This is the coldest podcast! || 85 SOUTH App: www.channeleightyfive.com || Twitter/IG: @85SouthShow || Our Website: www.85southshow.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You know what's that? Two, two, two, two, okay. Yeah, what's up? Two, three. No way's hand and got the motherfucking OG in it, me. That's a very one, yeah. Hey! Come on.

Yeah. Man, this ain't a little, we be whooped Goldberg now. Hey, man, welcome back to the 85 South Show. Yeah. Now look, over here at the 85 South Show, we have made it our business to invite all of the ghetto legend.

Oh. We want to speak to all the ghetto legend. Oh, Hall of Fame. This man right here is definitely a certified ghetto legend all by himself. Yes, sir. They've been talking big shit in the rap game. Come on.

part of one of the biggest groups in rap history. It's the big three. Yes, sir. TV show, animation, cartoon, boys, boys, teenage music, nerds. Come on. Educated nigga and high learning. What are you on?

Come on. All right. Ice cute. Yeah. Hey, hey. Hey, hey. Hey, hey. Hey, hey.

Hey, hey. How y'all do it? That's how y'all do it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. How to bat that boy like that. West Coast. West Coast.

Yeah, he hit it without having to twist Yeah, you know, that's been a lot of stuff. We're doing like this, you put it on the side. Okay. Okay. First of all, we gotta say thank you. Yes, sir. For all the work you put in, all the game you put us up on, all the movies, all the everything you contributed to the culture, man.

Thank you. Man, thanks. Checking it out, you know what I'm saying? Thanks for absorbing it and, you know, making it part of the culture. All right, first thing I got to say before we even start anything, first shit, I've got to say. Because I know you've been online, I know you're not seen. The fans been making posters put in D.C. in Friday for the last 10 years. What we got to do to get D.C. in that, man?

Not too much. Not too much. You know what I mean? Once it comes around, we're going to make it happen. All right. That's what you happen. Speaking of Friday, like, you always talk about the executive side, and I think that's something that is important to talk about. Like, what made you so understanding of that side of the business being an artist so early? You know what I mean?

You came in and was already a superstar, so you could have had people around you take care of. all of that. What made you want to be so involved in that side of the game? That's the fun part. You know, creating, you know, being able to, you know, touch every aspect of the project, you know, this is what we get off on. At least me is the creative part, you know. I love the finished product, you know, but, you know, I'm just addicted to the journey. You know what I'm saying? Addicted to, you know, putting it together, the meetings. creative input, you know, people coming in with their talents and, and the pressure of getting it the day, you know, do all this planning, but you usually only got one day to shoot these scenes.

Right. So that's the day we need you to be the shit. You know what I'm saying? We need you to be, you know, on your top level. So to me, all that's fun. And then the finished product, you know, we show it to the people they love it. And I'm usually off to the next. No, you've been in the game for quite some time.

And that's not something to say to be like, oh, now you old school, no, young buck. You want to be in the game for quite a long time. Which period was the best? Because you are icon. You are a staple. Every era. When it was, when your beginning state,

the shit that y'all like, they're in the NBA shit. yeah it can't be recreated it can't it can't be duplicated you did what yeah it's a moment of time oh man you know the beginning is always um the most vivid you remember the beginning right more than you know the the whole journey so um you know just starting off as locals and you know being underground you know we didn't we didn't even know Yeah, he said, Rodin and Swat Me. We didn't even know the music we was doing was going to make us big.

Right. We thought we was just going to be local, underground, ghetto stars. That's what we was trying to be, you know, get people in our own hood to really dig it because they was fans of, you know, what we considered the pros. You know, they was fans of the run DMCs

and the rock cams and, you know, everybody doing it on a major level. And so we figured if we can just, you know, make noise in our own neighborhood, then, you know, we can get a little bit of luck because y'all ain't run their sin coming around here. You know what I'm saying? Rock Kim ain't coming through here, but we are. Right, right, right. So that was our plan to, you know, conquer Compton, Watts, South Central, L.A. And then, you know, as soon as we, like, put our mind to that, it went the other way, it blew up.

went to, it went, instead of going more underground, it went up. Now, let me ask you this, as a hood, nigga. Right. Last week, you fucked around and got a triple double. Yeah. Just as a gangster rap of a nigga. Just fucking around. Just in the hood and fucking around.

Jumped out to six folks. Triple double on these niggas right quick. And who was keeping the stats? Well, you know, I kept my own stats, you know what I'm saying? You got two. They keep their own stats. Nick, I know I got 10 points. You know, we've been missing.

I know I got at least to let him rebound, you know what I'm saying? So, you know, I just play basketball all the time. You know what I mean? It was like we'd be at the studio shooting hoop. You know, just having fun. He's, well, he's the best. No, he never played with cat. I never played with cat.

I probably retired by the time he came before. Cat going to call me. I can't believe you really asked him that question. And the video cube shot a hook. I was so sorry. Yeah, I had a hard hook shot. man, what's the type of big? I used to play with a lot of big niggas when I was little.

Right. I had to develop a shot to get it over their ass. So I developed this, you know, kind of like going to the basket, but I'm not going for a layup. I'm actually going wider. Right. Throw that fucking hook up. Hey.

Today was a good day. Today was a good day. For a black man, that was a hell of a day. That was a hell of a day. That was an amazing day. You got the freak, been trying to dance since the 12th grade. Come on, man. This shit had to be fun.

Come on, man. Then when you woke up and said, hey, get up. Went outside and read the lights of the good year of blimp. What is it? Ice cubes of pimp. Blimps are illegal, my niggins. It's like 11 blimps in the world. He said it was a good year blimp?

Yeah, it was a good day, man. You know, I just wanted to. It was a trip because when I did that song, you know, niggas in my crew was like, What is this, man? Before I related, I was just rapping it on the paper. I was like, what you're talking about, Q? You're a hardcore rapper, nigga.

You can't be having a good day and shit. Having a good time, what's wrong with you? Man, you folks be talking about. Blasting and then I'm like, nah, you know, I'm a reality rapper. And I'm having a good day. I'm a rap about it. It's okay to feel good. It's okay.

That's right. That's crazy, though, to go from your basketball, line that you just said to the big three like your love of stuff show it's like you're saying that you enjoy creating I'm like oh okay that's why you wrote the movie you know what I'm saying that's why you the basketball day that's why you got the big three and that ain't no easy shit to do man any stepping out of any sport man and and you're facing a lot of opposition with that so I just got to tip my head to that yeah thank you that's that's all need man these niggas out here bowling it's the hardest it's the hardest it's

the hardest shit I ever had to do. I'm gonna try to do an entertainment. Because, you know, hip hop was already here when I started. You know, rap was there. Movies was gone when I started. You know, they got basketball, but they don't have three on three. And then to try to elevate it

to the professional level and get, you know, first people to take it serious and then for people to become fans, you know, that's been a, you know, That's not been the hard part. The hard part is going against this opposition from other leagues. They don't want new leagues to come in

because you start, you know, cutting up that sponsor dollars. It's only so many dollars to go around in the sponsor world. NFL won it all, NBA want it all, MLB won it all, NHL, you know, all these other established leagues. They want all their money, and they have a new league coming in, siphoning those funds into our league. It's just a lot of people hating on that and trying to stop it.

And, you know, you got to be down to fight for what you believe in. And can't be scared. You got to be down to go after the big boys. You should be used to it. You said fuck the police. Yeah, I mean, you know. You've been going against the system since you came. in the game, man.

And that's the only way I know how to do it. Because, like I said, we thought it was going to be locals and we didn't know. So we was just being real. And then when it start to blow up,

now you have, you know, reporters in our face. You got people, you know, coming at us with all kind of opposition, you know, from the FBI to, you know, billboard and all these

established music you know publications everybody's coming after it's even music industry rap industry

the government you know PMRC which was the parent music resources and some shit like that

and shit to us you know we was like yo better than you know Crips coming

after, you better than blood's coming after. You know what I'm saying? This is easy. Like, to deal with these people. They're just talking. Ain't nobody going to pull out no pistol. You know, it's just going to be a bunch of questions. And then we went through that storm and realized, you know,

hey, we're pretty unscathed, you know what I'm saying? Like, keep going. You know, don't let nothing stop us. And that's been my attitude and entertainment. Don't let nothing stop. So to go from fuck the police, now you're talking to the president.

and shit like that man what was that transition like to cover that much ground to go from fuck the police like I got a plan I need to go holl at somebody yeah you know um what a plan was really uh a plan for us like for us to to have a 30,000 foot view of the big problem you know after 2020 George Floyd everybody was saying This need to change, this need to change. And it was coming from all angles. It was mostly on police brutality and law enforcement and all that shit.

But then I was like, man, this problem is bigger than just police brutality. It's an economic problem, it's social, it's a wide issue. So I got with a bunch of scholars and started to research how did we get here. How did we get here? Why do we have it so fucked up in this country? And came up with a plan that I thought, you know,

could help us get out of it if the country was serious by making a turnaround. And I put it out there, and just to be clear, these people came to talk to me. They was asking, could you come in, talk to us about your plan, Democrats and Republicans. And so I was like, man, no problem. Shit, what you want to know?

Here's what we're thinking on this. Here's what we're thinking on that. And some people ran with it. Some people didn't. You know what I'm saying? But to me, I felt like I had the resources. And, you know, I had the, just the energy and the passion to take a long look at it

because nobody was doing that. You know, it's like, man, I don't. All these people that have been through office, ain't nobody came up with a plan for us. Right. You know what I'm saying? Nobody, you know, from going back to Jesse Jackson and Thurgood Marshall and all these.

Like, nobody came up with a plan and went to the government and said, this is what we need to do for black people to start, you know, gaining the rewards out of this country that we're putting in, putting in a lot of tax money and shit. But they ain't getting no benefits. of it or just bullshit benefits. And then, you know,

it became controversial because one side looked at it, one side didn't, and now they was trying to use me as a political football. Like, you with him, you with them, you with that, you with this. And I'm like, I ain't with shit. These motherfuckers called me. You know, I was minding

my own business. I did this plan for us to look at. And now everybody thinking I'm, you know, this or that, or the other. and it wasn't true. So to be honest, it's just

giving a fuck, you know, seeing the issue and trying to address it and, you know, the best way we can to get the government to look at it and fix it. And so that's how you go from,

you know, doing movies, music, you get in a position with people. Respect your opinion. Did they say some shit? used did they give you some insight who the people you was talking to with the plan did they say any good shit man you know it's it's all a it's all a game at the end of the day everything in that

plan them niggas knew it wasn't like i was coming up with you bringing up something they didn't know they know what's going on they know they're not giving us what we need you know i'm saying that's part of the plan and um you know that's what you realize when you get to the levels that you know People just capping to get a vote. And then when they get the vote, they're going to go do what the fuck they want to do. You're seeing that? That's the gang.

You know, you see hip hop now with all of the, you know, the way that people are affiliated with all this different type of stuff and niggas is going to jail and all that. You come from the city of gang banging, but you never was affiliated with anything. How did you manage to navigate that? And what advice could you give the new audience? to how they can navigate it

and being able to become as successful as you are without associating yourself with something that you might come from but you don't have to be a part of. Just make up your mind, you know. Everybody in L.A. affiliate affiliated with something. You can't be from L.A.

And not be from somewhere because every neighborhood is somewhere. You know what I'm saying? Every neighborhood you're in. It's somebodyhood that you part of. And it was no different from me. It's just, You know, making up your mind.

Like I saw something in music and being creative that took a lot of my time, took a lot of my attention, took me off the street, and I was in the studio. So in them years 14, 15, when you're making a decision on what you want to do, you know, you're going to be a rider, you're going to be a regular guy. You know what I mean? At that age, that's when you start making those decisions. And thank God I was hanging with Dr. Dre and making me. And, you know, in them years, I'm thinking about something creative and positive and is bringing in money and, you know, it was just fun.

Good time. You were talking about this shit for a long time with, like, sellouts and the black people who just black on the outside who don't really give a fuck about the black community. Yeah. Even in the music with the, like, who's the Mac and shit like that where you always made fun to sell out black people. Yeah. I mean, you know, it's... It's the thing where you can't forget where you come from, of course. And you got to look to help people that's ready.

Everybody ain't ready to ride. Everybody ain't ready for, you know, they're not ready for prime time. So everybody can't go, but, you know, always reach back. You know, I've always reached back talent or people or just, You know, people from a neighborhood that can help, you know, help me, you know, on my journey. And, you know, the people that's serious, that's down, that's willing to change their life, they get to go. The people that's still on that bullshit. They got to go.

Yeah, they got to stay. And speaking of giving back, like, you're always going to get people. It don't matter. I don't hear the bullshit. They're coming from a lane who don't know nothing about nothing. I can tell off the projects that you bring, you don't have to put niggins in the movie if you don't want them in.

Yeah. Yeah, that's true. You feel it? Yeah, straight up. Yeah. You have made so many movies with other niggas in it that put them on.

Yeah, you know, it's, look, somebody put me on. John Sincolson, discovered me. Right. You know, he just was like, man, I want to put you in the movie. Man, I know you could do it. And when I see people and I know they can do it,

I can't wait until I got something this person or that person or that. And the key, the key, the key, the key is to set them up for success. You know, not to just put them in anything with any role, but to give them that perfect role where they can get busy. like, you know, still a scene or two. And then from there, continue to, you know, to show the world what they got. I was like, I was happy that I had a way to show the guys that I thought was funny and good

that wasn't getting, you know, the shine that I had a project or something that they was right for and they, you know, was down to do it, trusted me and, you know, I'm busy. Do you have a defining role, like, for yourself and one that you wrote? Do you feel like you have? Not really. Really? You know what I mean? I'm not, like, looking to play any thing.

You know, it's just like, you know, whatever's dope. You know, and I don't have to be the one to think of the idea, you know, some time. Like, barbershop. Somebody brought that to, you know, Tim's story and them dudes brought that to the QVision, and we did it. And so, you know, I'm up for that too. You know, ride-along was another movie that was dope brought it to us. We put the polish on it and end up doing it. Your entire identity has been fabricated.

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Oh, for real. I ain't had a cable during that time. I watched that movie 3,000 times. Yeah. That turned the show when she gets busy, I was like, ooh-hoo. Well, I had a secret. Yeah. No care.

So, yeah, he was supposed to do the movie. He couldn't do it. And then they was like, yo, would you consider doing a movie for kids like that and I'm like I was like I said yeah I say yeah I want to do it because for one black kids don't get movies

done you know in that way special facts and the stunts and just a big movie for black kids you know and so because I had little five year olds coming to me saying

you create you got knocked the fuck out and all this is like you like a little I'm watching that movie So I said I need to do something For the little bitties You got tired of getting knocked the fuck out My fans got kids

And I know they're watching Friday When they should be watching some shit like All right My little brother played that my fucker every day No Friday Every day Now I'm going to ask you They know I love

You always got a dope-ass car Gras that in the contract somewhere You got to have a nice ass ride I mean, I'm next four, the dope boy had that shit, was so, the gold on gold. Yeah, yeah, that was hard. The 96, book him. Yeah, yeah. I definitely requested that Impala right now.

I had an impala, you know, I had one for real. I was like, man, this ain't been in a movie yet. Right. Put this one in a movie. Yeah, you know, I try to make sure my shit is right in the movies. I know a lot of people got fly-ass cars and call them up, man. you want your shit in the movie. And like, yep.

Who I need to give my number two over that? Right. Give it to keep up right. And when you did Friday and they wanted to come up the secret, right? Yeah. And when OG wanted to go do his thing, how did you manage to transition and say, you know, I ain't need tripping, I can respect both sides,

but I still got to be me. I got to go find new talent, and we got to keep this franchise going. Well, I knew like, okay, everybody got a crazy friend, But everybody got a crazy cousin, too. So I'm like, well, since Smokey now going to be in the movie, I got to take it off the block.

Because everybody's going to be like, we're smoky at if we steal in this neighborhood. Right, right. I said, okay, I'm going to take Craig off the block. He worried about Debo fucking him up, and he's going to go live with his cousin. And, you know, finding Mike Epps was like a jewel. Like, when I first seen him, I knew he was day day.

First seen him on stage and just was checking him out. And I was like, this nigger is hilarious. Like, his comedy was all over the place. It was here, there, everywhere. Right. And it was just hood and funny. He was funny. And I said he could play my cousin.

And, you know, to me, you know, I wanted Chris to be in every movie, but I'm glad Mike Cabs, me and Mike Cabbs, we didn't did some great movies to get. Jackie Promoting, man. Jackie Promoting. All about the Benjamin got the view on the mine. All about the Benjamin got to be on the mine. That's all about the fish.

When your fish died, nigga. Oh, yeah. Jellyroll. Yeah, that boy, jelly roll by jelly roll. And like you said, that wouldn't happen without probably, you know what I'm saying? Everything happens for a reason. So that's somebody else getting an opportunity, man.

Yeah, yeah. No, but you work well with comedians, though. You do? You do? Rattalong Kevin Hart, one or two? Yeah, yeah. You know, some of my, all my buddies, you want to play the series role,

but they end up saying some funny shit where you like, you make them, like them at the end of the movie. Like, you're all right. Yeah. I was talking about you. You get your shit off in there too. Among some great comedians. Definitely, you know, the key to me is, you know, not trying to be funny.

You know what I mean? Just, you know, let the situation ride. Right. Let the comedians or whoever I got, that's their job. But my job is to support and throw them jabs in the middle of, you know, you know, the, you know, comedian I'm working with getting busy. You know, it's a comedy, and, you know, it's really the cast and the people around that's really making the movie super funny.

I don't have to be, you know, I'm not a comedian, so I got to put that straight, that straight man, and let him get busy. One of my favorite Ice Cube characters was from Higher Learning. Yeah, Fudge. He played this. Played the woke serious nigga, but you still had, you know what I mean? Still kept it real street and hood. But throwing the education shit in there, too, though.

Right, right. You know, it's one of those probably on every campus, you know. Dude who'd been there five years, no campus inside now, but also know all the games and, you know, trying to spread that knowledge, which we all need. Players club is another one, man, like just... Nigger. Players club, like, you know, with Bernie Mac, like, was that,

did you have a hand in that? Hell yeah, I wrote, directed that movie. I mean, I'm saying, I mean, as far as... Yeah, specifically picking Bernie. I specifically wrote dollar bill for Bernie Mac. Yeah, that's great. That's hard, that's hard, man. That's one of the greatest all the time like that.

Yeah, Bernie, you know. Tell him country boy, nothing. Yeah, like... Nothing, nuts, yeah. He don't been in a lot. of movies but it's hard for it to me for anybody to to mess with that that's the final yeah sure no we just I just let him get busy I was about to say how much of it did you write it how much ever did you just say action and then

let Bernie do what he did well you know I wrote no I don't I don't start with a wax script right the script got to be funny out loud why you reading it before I even start so if I if I have a script that's funny I was loud while you reading it. I know when I give it to, you know, somebody like y'all, you're gonna go. You know, it's solid, it's funny. If you just said it how it is, it'd be funny,

but I know when I let dudes add their little flavor to it and stick with the script, but also add those, you know, curveballs in there that it just take it to another level. Now, when you take it to a little level, like anaconda, Anaconda. Yeah. Playing some shit. I know y'all was in the swamp.

Yeah, that's true. You were like, I can't get in there. Well, you did. Hell yeah. Hell yeah, that's real. That's real. No, no, no. You got snakes in there.

In there? Yeah, yeah. The reason I did anaconda was because, like, the nigger didn't die. I was like, yo. Yeah. That's one. I saw Jurassic Park. I saw Jurassic Park.

The niggas died in the first five minutes of the movie. Man. So I'm like, if y'all want me to be in this movie, I can't die, and I want to help kill the snake. Right, right. And they was like, all right, and they rewrote it, and I was like, okay, I'll do it. Well, Angelina, Joe Lee, Daddy. That shit is crazy, Haley. We shot that shit in Brazil now, not Rio, nigger.

You know, I was in the Amazon. Manouse, Brazil, in the middle of the Amazon. Yeah, in the middle of the Amazon. and uh that shit was scared for me i know that's scared for real yeah like no mosquito with a mustache out of the movie you see that what you say shit in amazon don't care we doing the movie right yeah i mean they man it was like it was a part where you had to go in the water they told me you got get in the water what the amazon water this it's like back then i didn't really know all the special effects i'm like man just Do some special effects of shit

when I'm walking through the water. It was like, no, man, you got to get in. Right. Everybody getting in, man. You know, it's a part where I'm like, where the fuck I got to go? Right. Now, the Amazon, when it rained,

it rises 30 feet. God damn. So you're at the top of trees. You're on a boat, but you're seeing the tops of trees. Right. And so I'm like, wait a minute. How are you going to get in this water, man? So the water's supposed to be ways high.

So he said, we made a plank where you can walk on this plank and it'll keep you ways high. But if you step off the plank, you're going to blow out of treatment. I'm like, it took him two hours to talk me into that same. Two hours. Like, man, I ain't going, I ain't doing it, man. I don't get a fuck. Shoot it without me.

Right, right. Shoot it without me. That's like, man. A-I-Q. And I ain't got to be in that part. You know what I'm looking at where I can cut. If I cut this out, I ain't got to go. I don't go in the water.

Right. It was like, man, we need you. We need you. We need you. So after a while, man, I put on scuba gear and all kind of shit. Right. I'm like, God damn, man.

It's some real shit. Right. It's some real shit. I'm ready to get out this water, man. You know what I mean? Fuck this movie shit. Right. Yeah.

It's, man, it's, man, it's real anikana out there. You know, piranha, it's all kind of shit in that water, man. And so it was, it was, that was part, yeah, I was like, man, what the fuck am I doing my life? Right. You know what I'm saying? I'm in the middle of the Amazon doing a goddamn movie and in this bullshit water.

You know what I'm saying? So it all turned out cool, you know. We was actually really scared of the electric, the mechanical snake. They had a mechanical snake that these fucking college kids built and that motherfucker went haywire one time almost fucked up Jennifer Lopez it malfunctioned

and that shit just started to tear up the set Oh shit. It swung and almost hit her in the face and shit and they had to grab her out of there so So we After that everybody looking at this fucking snake Like, we scared this motherfucking thing for real

because it was like this metal skeleton. The black one. But it was wrapped in this like attire damn there. So this shit was hit you. Yeah, yeah. Fuck your face up. And we acting with this shit and we're like, man, this is my fucking malfunctioning just pop a nigga right in the mouth. So we're scared of this thing for real. Right, right.

Yeah, yeah. So yeah, it definitely brought out of reality. Nick can't tell Ice Cube here in the gangston. They ain't never did that in South Central. It doesn't matter how many drive-by in a day. You ain't never been in the Amazon fighting a snake. You did Triple Ed? Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. All right. Which one was the best one when you were like, damn? All about the Benjamin's. All about the, brother. Yeah, that shit was crazy. They were made a smile.

He's like, yeah, man. Yeah, that was fun. You know, we shot that in Miami. And, you know, it was like, you know, to try to make, you know, this action comedy. That was my first time going after the action comedy title. And it was cool. You know, we didn't have a lot of big budget, but we made it work. Don't you make all your great movies with the low budget shit?

I wouldn't consider a low, three, four million low budget. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, you know, in Hollywood it is. It ain't no low to them. That ain't no low budget. Actually, 25 is low in Hollywood. Right. It made movies, give us a low budget.

Yeah, give us a low budget. Why should we come up? We ain't building no snakes. We'll build something, though, 25. We'll use your money. For sure. Back to the music, man. Like, you are literally one of the greatest

to ever touch a microphone, man. What, after all these years of being, being at this high level, what makes you still want to do that part, to rap it? I love it. You know, like when we first came out, we didn't think we was going to make no money. We just was having fun, being able to do something different. A lot of people weren't rapping when we started, so it was unique. You know what I mean?

You come in, you bust, everybody, you know, into it. And it's always been fun. You know, of course it got serious when I started getting deals and having to pay back. the payback budgets and all this kind of stuff but now I do my own records I've been doing my own records since 06 and um that shit is fun because I ain't got to worry about paying nobody back I just do my time you know the game to change everybody that I heard about some of the terrible record deals and you know the snakes in the games or when when young artists come up to you or ask you for advice on the music game or contracts what would you tell

them. When it comes to contracts and stuff like that, like, you know, everybody has a different situation. You know, some people can make their own music and, you know, before they even try to shop a deal. And then some people, you know, need that budget to even make a record. So it depends on where they're coming from. You got to know this. You got your own music. You got your own record you can do content visuals you own a hundred percent of that so you basically signing to go give somebody a piece of oh what you own a hundred percent of you're signing to give somebody a piece of that um and so you know it you got to look at it on that level like if you were just discovered, somebody said,

y'all, I want to do a record on you. You sound good. Okay, it's cool for them to get a piece of that. If you create and do everything, you should be trying to look for ways to put it out and keep everything. If you can. If you can't, then make a deal,

but don't go give up your whole project for a little, you know, 10, 12 points or whatever. When you own 100% of it off the jump. So, you know, we just got to look at it in them terms, you know. You do your own content, you're on that until you go give it away. Straight out of comfort, how much of that is true? All of it's true. All of it's true.

You went in there and demanded your shit. Yeah, I went in there with a bat. That's documentary. That's why they wanted you getting that water. We saw the clip. Get in the water, killed. That's for Jerry. With a movie like that, when you're making a movie about real life

and you're trying to squeeze 10 years into two hours or three hours or whatever, what you end up doing is a summary of what happened. So certain things might have happened in a month, you know, certain situations, but you got to get it out in two scenes. So you try to figure out how to create a scene where, all this information can get out and make sense. So, you know, everything is true, but everything might not have happened in that one scene.

Like, you see us in the studio one time, and I'm like, yo, Jerry, what about the contracts? You know, that probably happened over two or three weeks. So, yo, what the fuck? You know, boom, boom, working, you know, talking shit working. But in the movie, everything is like just crunched been summarized. So it's all true, it's just, you know,

timeline is squosing into two hours when things should actually be stretched. Be stretched a little bit. Somebody never heard Ice Cube before. Somebody never heard your music. What song is Ice Cube playing for a person that never heard Ice Cube? Oh man, never heard Ice Cube song.

I definitely play, it was a good day. That's the one. Definitely played. I got to ask you this, no Vaseline. Yeah, uh-oh. Man, that's one of the hardest motherfuckers song. It's the hardest. The hardest.

It's the hardest. Glad you all said it off. Man, like, what was that day like recording that? Um, I had, I had to rap. I didn't tell nobody the lyrics. I didn't want nobody to even hear what I was saying, because I didn't want it to get back to them what the record was. So just kept it in my book.

I knew what I wanted to rap over, which was Dana Dane had a record called Senderfella. And they used that jazz beat. I'm like, man, he used that a long time ago. I'm about to flip this shit. So I had a DJ pool, a couple of the producers I was working was just flipped the beat and it was just rolling. I was like, all right, I'm ready. And put the beat on, I went in there and rapped that shit. And they was just quiet.

When I came out the booth, they was like, God damn, cute. You putting that out? I'm like, yep, I'm going on the end of the record. It was like, God, man, everybody just was like, eyebrows up. Like, man, we better get ready. It's coming. You know what I mean? This shit about to get crazy around here.

So, yeah, it just blew their mind. Everybody was just tripping that I was going that hard. And, you know, yeah, somebody asked me, man, you're going to put that out? Like, yeah, that's going out. That's going out. Your entire identity has been fabricated. Your beloved brother goes missing without a trace. You discover the depths of your mother's illness

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That year. Once upon a time in the prize. What's our favorite one? We be coming? Everybody like when the. Girls shake something. Nika break nothing. We ain't bumming?

That's my shit. Yeah, yeah. What about the one with you and Matt 10 when it was your number head? Pause. What's that one with you, Matt 10, and the other one? D. Do you see?

Yeah, it was. West Side connection. Come on, man. Y'all has a lot. You guys make the world go around. Oh, God. Yeah. Yeah.

Doth songs. Yeah, summer vacation. Um, man, with, uh, what was the first one you said? What you said before? One Spontime on the Project? Jack, the Beets. In 89, so many dope beats came out.

Like, all these records came out with all these beats, and I was just going crazy. Like, damn, I wish that was my shit. Damn, I wish that one was mine. And one day, I was like, you know what? I'm gonna do a song with all these niggas beats. Just cut them up. Every beat I like, I'm gonna rap over that shit. Was you the first one do that?

Do that at that time? I mean, I'm the first one I know to put it on a record. Niggas might have been rapping on other people beats in the projects, but to put it out, like you put that out. See? How did you get that clear? Man, that was a headache. I was about to see how you get that clear.

You fuck around. I'm a rapper. I used to be rapping on my beat better than me. Fuck that, nigga. He can't put this out. Man, they cleared it. But what was hard, like I was sample. like, D. Nice is the first record

to call me D. Nice. It's the first record on Jack and for Beats. But that nigga had sampled it from another record, so I had to pay him and all the money. I had that worked. Yeah. This ain't in your check. Let's go to him. Man, it was on a few different beats. They had used other people's shit, so I had to

double pay. Damn. You were a sample. A sample. You must have really liked that. Yeah, it was. You know, that one fucking song You know, it's only a hundred percent of publishing I think that one was like a thousand percent of just the shit

Goodness gracious, man But you've always been known for being the writer too Like you wrote a lot of raps for other people, man You ever be in that bag where you're just You're knocking the motherfuckers out and you're like, No, I don't even know if I want to get this, nigga, this one Uh I had a song called

a gangster fairy tale. That was supposed to be an E-Z-E song. That motherfucker was so hard. They was tripping, talking shit. I'm like, young, yin. Until we resolve this shit, this going to stay in my notebook. I ain't going to talk about this one.

And then we broke up, and I was like, this motherfucker-money. I changed little boys and girls. They all love me. Come sit on the lap of E-Z-E. And let me tell you a story or two. changes. I'm sitting on the lap of I-C-E. And let me tell your story. You just kept on rolling. Nice with it. Now, you've been writing rap songs 35, 40 years of them. How long it

take you to create some shit now? What's your process? It depends. You know, if I love a beat, if I got the concept, if it's been, if I've been sitting on this concept for a minute, then, you know, I can write, I usually write two. verses you know off the rip just I don't leave to I got two verses and two hooks and then I'll go think about that third verse like how do I sum this song up how do I put the bow on it and wrap it up so that third verse might you know just take me another time to go back in there and just work on the beat was you always nice with words like did you read you know back then motherfuckers than you read

Yeah, I was, when I was young, you know, something ain't about to read those. Back this, niggins about reading, man, it was illegal. When I was young, I used to, you know, my teacher told us, you know, just got off Christmas vacation, what did y'all do? I'd be able to write, you know, vividly what we did. And one day it got into, she read it and it was so cool. put it in the school paper like the little elementary newsletter so i'm like damn that's my name that's my shit i wrote that so it got me where i was like oh shit like people did what i write

and uh and then when i graduated from the sixth grade they asked me to write a speech to to, you know, speak to my graduating class and shit. So I was, did that. I got up there and I delivered the speech and everybody was feeling it. They was clapping and shit. So I'm like, damn, I can write it and I can deliver it. You know what I mean? I can articulate it.

And so that's where I knew, okay, I got something here. And then rap came into my life about two years later. uh when i was 14 and it was it was a trip because me and my homie kiddo we was in a typing class that's when they had typing he no left by typing yeah typing class type and we we didn't want to be in there yeah we we don't belong in this class you know it's just we didn't get our electives we was late so this is all they had left so this is all they had left so Looking at this naked, I'm like, yeah, hell what I want to be no secretary? Come on the head.

So he looked at me one day. He was like, man, you ever write a rap before? I was like, no, eh? You write one, I write one. We'll see which one's the best. And shit, I was typing out of rap and shit. You know what I mean? Thinking of this shit, typing.

And my shit was better than he is. Right, right, right. He was biting. shit i'm like i heard the fat boys say that mine was original and um i just never stopped after that day just be trying to tell my raps to people my fucker was like come on man i was all off beat and shit didn't know how to to like flow it i could write it but i had to learn how to flow and um fucking went the homie jinx from down the street the only nigger that had DJ equipment and the instrumentals and shit.

He was like, man, come to my house because you got to wrap that to a beat. We got to find the flow on this shit. So doing the instrumental and then I started to figure out, okay, the cadence of I'm like, oh, this shit is fun. Bouncing on this beat. And I was just down there every day.

Niggas was clowning me. Niggas in my neighborhood. Why are you going down here, man, hanging out with this dude? Fuck, y' ain't, nigga, you run DMC now, Nicky, you Curtis Blow? Niggins, I'd be like, man, fuck y'all. When out here, we'd be in there hours, man. E.J. and scratching and watching him, you know, try to, you know,

we was all trying to get good. And he just kept on it. Then one day, he was like, you know what my cousin is? I said, no, nah, he said, Dr. Trey. Nigger? I was like, Dr. Trey. And I'm like, uh, he said, yeah, he made a record. I said, you got a cousin and made a record.

It's like, yeah, he pulled out a record. Dr. Drain's surgery. Put that on my foot. I said, Nick, that's your cousin? I don't need to meet this thing, man. This niggas actually, you know, I'm a fan of rap music. This nigg is actually doing music. Like, he's doing it.

Like, he's doing it. Like, he's putting a record on. Right, right. He got a record, so I was just addicted. He was like, man, when he coming over? Man, when he come over? That nigger would never come over. I'm like,

Nick, ain't your cousin. There you go, and then one day, the nigger called me. They was having a barbecue or some shit. Nick called me. He's here. Nigger, come on down. Yeah, I'm grabbing no books, Nick. Running down there.

And the last thing this nigga want to do is hear us rap. Right. You know what I mean? He enjoying the barbecue in there. Yeah, he's in there with, you know, Amy and cousins and everybody. And we just in the garage with the equipment like, man, when is this nigga going to come back here? Right. Don't see.

Trey, you coming back? Yeah, he said he coming right back. We were in there another hour. I'm like, man, come on. Nigger finally came back there. All right, let me see what y'all got. So we started busing. He was like laughing at the shit I'm saying.

And I'm like, oh, okay, got this dude. And I started, he ended up coming over a lot after that. Then we just was hanging out. And then he was like, man, you want to go to the studio? I said, hell yeah. Took us all to the studio. And then I, that was Lonzo Williams, Spott and Compton. He ran the wrecking crew.

And man, these niggas had equipment. They was doing beats and shit. And I'm like, damn, this is a dream come true. I don't want to go home. Right. Yeah. Manzo, you might spend the night. Yeah, right here.

We could do this shit all day. I still got a thousand questions, man. We got to tell you got another project, Gary. Yeah, a new album coming out, man down. Man down. Yeah, November 22nd. Let's go. Man down.

Right in time. I got that song out right now called It's My Ego. It's My Ego. Video is real, it's my ego. Video is looking real movie-like. Yeah, yeah. in a movie bag. You know, we wanted to do a big video

and not just... Just a visual. Yeah, just a... Thank you. Come on. You know, they're doing just visuals. You know, I wanted to do a real video. And it's got a lot of traction and shit,

and we got a remix called Ego Maniacs. That's out. Killer Mike is on him. Me, bust the rhyme. Oh, Katie. At the whole time. Yeah. Let's go.

And so that I'm going to be out, you know, on the 22nd, quintessential ice cube, you know, if you've been an ice cube fan, you're gonna love this record. I ain't trying to be nothing. I'm not, you know, I'm just trying to, you know, give you a fastball right down the middle. Yeah. You brought your pastor with you then. No, that's Stanley, nigga from Friday.

That is Stanley! That's Stanley! That's Stanley! Stanley! I've been looking at that thing the whole time. I'm like, bro, I think that's Stanley. I want to walk on this nigga, Grand. Diggins.

Y'all was stupid. You know, I'm stupid. Nigger! Oh, yeah. Yeah. He was open. You were a real nigger, bro. He brought Stanley.

You got my way to get that. Stalallie! I got to stop you all. You all, man. That's a love, man. That's a love, man. Oh, that was so bad. I got CW here, too, Pinky driver right there,

the nigga in the door right there. Yeah. You hit the poohy fast, man. That he's got in the car. He's about here. I don't give a fuck, fuck. Man, fuck you. This is your first time in the trap.

Don't let it be your last, man. 85 South Show. Ice Q. We're out of here, man. I'm doing, I'll be checking y'all out to see y'all. Very entertaining, man. shows and built a community united by passion. Podcasts that amplify the voices of women in sports.

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