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00:19Oh, that's the sub. There we go. Sub Rez, put you in.
00:39What up? What's up? How are you, brother? I'm good, I'm good, I'm good, my brother.
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01:03What's up, everybody? I see people hopping in, man.
01:06Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This what's up? What's up? Welcome, welcome, guys.
01:11Shout out, guys. You guys are...
01:14Miko, hi.
01:19This what's up? This what's up?
01:20Where you calling from, man? Where you at?
01:22Where, uh...
01:23I'm from Chihardinsburg.
01:26Oh, South Africa.
01:26Oh, Joe Berg. Okay, South Africa.
01:29Yeah.
01:29This what's up? Digi, what up, my peoples?
01:33This what's up? You should come sometime.
01:36I've been. It's been a while.
01:38Yeah, yeah.
01:39It's been a while. For sure, for sure.
01:41I was, uh... Damn, it's been years, bro.
01:43But, uh, yeah, I went, uh...
01:45I loved it, man. I love Cape Town, Joe Berg.
01:48Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:49I was about to eat the goat head. I didn't get a chance to eat it.
01:53So, when I go back, I want the goat.
01:56Yeah.
01:56This what's up? This what's up? This what's up?
01:59What up, everybody?
02:02Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:03Can you hear me?
02:04What up, Nicky? How you doing, crazy lady?
02:07Yeah, I can hear you.
02:09Yeah, for sure, for sure, man.
02:10Um, I just wanted to ask, man, for, for, for, for us, the youngsters, man, you know,
02:14because we, we started listening to you, maybe, like, at a later stage.
02:19Um, just, just tell us about yourself.
02:22Like, you're growing up in, in Carson, California.
02:25Yeah, man, I'm, uh...
02:27I always claim both.
02:28Uh, I was, uh...
02:31I was raised by my grandmother in Watts,
02:35but we always lived in Carson, so I'd give them both.
02:38You know, I'm the CRs in Watts, baby.
02:40Uh, but, uh, yeah, Carson is just a suburb, middle-class, uh...
02:45They used to call it the Rich Crips.
02:49Long Beach and Compton people called it, called it the Rich Crips.
02:52Uh, but I lived in a blood neighborhood, which is the Patch,
02:55which would go on to become the Patchwork Studio of Atlanta.
02:58Uh, this post could, could, you know, attest to that.
03:01So, you know what I'm saying?
03:02And, uh, we, uh, you know, I'm, uh, you know,
03:06I got into, uh, the hip-hop as a, as a culture.
03:09I, uh, I got into, uh...
03:13I was late getting into hip-hop.
03:15I was just more running around the streets
03:16because I didn't have no brothers.
03:18But, uh, once I really started listening to the lyrics
03:20and hip-hop, like, the, the, the N.W.A.'s
03:24and, and, you know, the, the, the Rock Kims
03:29and the Big Daddy Canes and the Nas' and Tupac's,
03:32and, like, it just inspired me, big puns.
03:34So, yeah, just, that's when I got motivated
03:36to actually try to write, try to rhyme,
03:38and, uh, the rest is a journey.
03:41What's up, Jay?
03:42The Wild Child is in the building, man.
03:43For sure.
03:44Luke.
03:45Milk Bone, my brother.
03:48Much love, much love, California.
03:51So, so, yeah, um, I mean, uh,
03:53so looking at your name, like, Rez Kez,
03:56you named yourself after an Ethiopian emperor.
03:59Yes.
04:00Yo, that's deep.
04:01What, what, what, what, what, what inspired you to do that?
04:06Uh, I couldn't come up with a name for myself, honestly.
04:09It was that, or, so initially,
04:13I was gonna be MC Cereal,
04:15because I just, like, a lot, I ate a lot of cereal.
04:17I was spoiled, so my mama would always let me eat.
04:19So one year, I ate all pancakes all year.
04:23Then it was waffles all year.
04:24Then it was French toast.
04:25Yeah.
04:25Then it was cereal, like, for dinner, for lunch.
04:28I was like, maybe I'll be MC Cereal,
04:30because I ate a lot of cereal.
04:32I didn't have no idea.
04:33What up, Lily?
04:34Yeah.
04:34Ha ha.
04:36Yeah, and then I actually went to Shakey's Pizza.
04:40It was, our family would go eat pizza every once in a while,
04:44like, kind of after church type stuff.
04:46My grandmother and my mom and whatever,
04:50and the Shakey's Pizza, it was Black History Month,
04:52so it was around that time.
04:54And there was a, there was a, a poster of, like, you know,
05:00you know, great people, and Dismos called me Raisin.
05:04But that ain't where it's from.
05:05People always think the Raisin is the Raskaz.
05:07It's not.
05:08There was an Ethiopian king.
05:09He was Raskaz.
05:11He was John IV.
05:12I'm John IV.
05:13So, like, Rastafari.
05:15So it would be more Rasta.
05:17It's Raskaz.
05:18But because, because I'm not a Rasta,
05:23I figured I would interpret it more like an L.A. person
05:25and put the twang on it.
05:26So I was like, okay, I'm going to be Raskaz,
05:28because we kind of country L.A. dudes.
05:31We put a little country twang on everything.
05:33So that's what it was.
05:34I thank you, Kenny.
05:35Kenny Lida.
05:36It's your love.
05:37Thanks for, I'm glad I could inspire, man.
05:38Appreciate you.
05:40That's awesome.
05:41Much love.
05:42So, I mean, fast forward,
05:44then you're, one of the tracks that got you,
05:47that got, like, you on the spot was the Trick or Treat, right?
05:52Was it the one for the source or whatever?
05:54You are going deep, brother.
05:57Wow.
05:58Bro.
05:58Bro, my housemate Julio in the building.
06:00Yeah.
06:02Yeah, man.
06:05Ironically, the first,
06:08it's one of the first songs that I ever,
06:11that came out.
06:13Yeah.
06:13Was, it's probably the second.
06:15No, I think,
06:17I think that's the first thing I ever did
06:20that actually became a record, a vinyl.
06:23So, that was Battle Cat.
06:24Thanks to Battle Cat and Box.
06:26Yeah.
06:26Box had a record deal
06:28and he, he had a,
06:30he put us on a, on a feature record
06:34and it was called Trick or Treat.
06:36So, it was,
06:38produced by Battle Cat featuring Box
06:40and I rhymed on it.
06:42Yeah.
06:42After Five in the building,
06:47the legend,
06:48the great,
06:48what,
06:49man,
06:50man,
06:51Jimmy in the building, man.
06:52Salute.
06:53You know what I'm saying?
06:53Salute.
06:55Yeah, yeah.
06:56Eric Ubichi.
06:57Wow.
06:57Shit, all my friends are in here.
06:59That's big bro, though.
07:00You know what I'm saying?
07:01Yeah.
07:03Mr.
07:04Mr.
07:05Mr.
07:06Roseman, Mr.
07:07Henchman.
07:07So, shouts out to Jimmy, man.
07:09Good to have you back on the block
07:10and back out in civilization.
07:12Salute.
07:12Salute to,
07:13salute to Mr.
07:14Henchman.
07:15Salute.
07:17For sure, for sure.
07:19So, so, so,
07:21I remember,
07:23if I'm not mistaken,
07:25were you signed by your friend
07:27or the guy from an NFL
07:29or something like that?
07:31Yeah.
07:31I don't know if you were a friend.
07:32Yeah, yeah.
07:33My,
07:36basically,
07:37Patchwork Studios
07:38was,
07:40was,
07:41the neighborhood
07:42that we lived in
07:43was called
07:43The Patch
07:43in Carson.
07:45When he went off to play,
07:47he got drafted
07:48and played for the Atlanta Falcons.
07:50So,
07:52and then
07:52I
07:54did a whole bunch
07:54dumb shit
07:55and went to jail.
07:57I went to jail,
07:58juvenile hall.
07:59When I came out,
08:00Curtis,
08:01who now owns Patchworks,
08:03suggested,
08:04like,
08:04hey,
08:05you know what I'm saying?
08:05Like,
08:06you a dope rapper.
08:07B got this money
08:09from NFL.
08:09He's making a shitload of money.
08:11You know,
08:12and he suggested
08:13that we
08:14kind of join forces
08:15and so that's what happened
08:17is that
08:17our friend Curtis,
08:19who,
08:19Curtis is my first,
08:23first of all,
08:24he's like a very critical
08:25hip-hop head.
08:27What's up,
08:27HQM?
08:28Salute.
08:29Yeah,
08:29so,
08:30he's the first person
08:31I ever heard of my demo,
08:32my friend Curtis.
08:33Yeah.
08:33So,
08:33he's such a critic.
08:34Like,
08:35I always knew
08:36if he liked something
08:37that was dope.
08:38Like,
08:38he was a hip-hop,
08:39like,
08:41arrogant critic,
08:42criticizer,
08:42but they ain't dope
08:43if you don't fuck with it.
08:44So,
08:45I snuck my demo in one day
08:47and Curtis heard it
08:48and was like,
08:50he was like,
08:50who this nigga?
08:51I was like,
08:51oh,
08:51some new nigga.
08:52He's from the East Coast
08:53or something.
08:53I was trying to throw him off
08:54and then Curtis heard the music
08:57and by about three songs in,
08:59Curtis was like,
09:00man,
09:00whoever the fuck this is
09:01is dope.
09:01And then I was like,
09:02it was me.
09:02He was like,
09:02you lying,
09:03bitch.
09:03You lying,
09:04nigga.
09:04I was like,
09:05no,
09:05biggest man.
09:05And then he tripped out
09:06and from there on,
09:07we were kids.
09:08We were about 15
09:08or something like that.
09:09I was about 15.
09:10My biggest fan
09:11is my homeboy,
09:12Curtis.
09:12He owns Patchworks
09:13and it was really his idea
09:15to think with Bob Whitfield
09:17who was older than us
09:19that was playing
09:19for the Atlanta Falcons
09:20and that was the journey.
09:22Yeah.
09:23That's amazing.
09:24That's amazing.
09:25So,
09:27with Solon Ice,
09:28wow.
09:30That's amazing
09:31because I remember
09:34was it written
09:36after somebody
09:38from the Black Panther Party?
09:40Yeah.
09:40Eldridge Cleaver
09:41wrote the original book
09:44called Solon Ice.
09:45And it's an ill book.
09:49I always encourage people
09:50to read that book.
09:52I mean,
09:52it inspired me personally.
09:54My mother gave me
09:55that book
09:56amongst some other books
09:58when I was in jail.
10:00So,
10:00when I was in Juvenile Hall
10:02or,
10:02yeah,
10:03I think I was in Juvenile Hall
10:04and then I went off
10:05to CYA,
10:06California Youth Authority.
10:07But when I was in Juvenile Hall,
10:08my mom brought me that book.
10:10And out of all the books
10:12that she brought me,
10:13that one really resonated with me
10:15and it just inspired me.
10:18I didn't,
10:19you know,
10:19I had no idea
10:19I was,
10:20you know,
10:20going to ever get a chance
10:21to make an album
10:22or record an album.
10:23I just thought,
10:24oh man,
10:24thank you,
10:25Kenny.
10:25I appreciate you.
10:26Yeah,
10:27I just never thought,
10:28I never,
10:28I didn't know,
10:29I figured,
10:29you know,
10:30when young,
10:31I figured my life is over
10:32and I'm fucked up
10:33and,
10:33you know,
10:33whatever.
10:34You need music,
10:35making plans,
10:36that's a wrap.
10:37But then I got out
10:38and I was able to,
10:39you know,
10:40I knew that if I ever
10:41had a chance to say something,
10:42it was going to be inspired
10:43by that book
10:44because it kind of gave me
10:45a different perspective
10:46while I was,
10:47you know,
10:47younger and
10:49fucking up a little bit.
10:50Messing up.
10:52Because I saw with,
10:53even with the track
10:56Nature of the Dread,
10:58that was like,
10:59that was like similar
11:00to the ISIS paper books.
11:03Exactly.
11:03I read the ISIS paper books.
11:05Yeah,
11:06yeah,
11:06yeah.
11:06I read the ISIS paper books.
11:07That was,
11:09that was,
11:09that was a very controversial song.
11:12And how was that like,
11:14I mean,
11:15at the time,
11:16like the 90s and everything.
11:22I wrote the song
11:23for myself.
11:25Yeah.
11:26My mother,
11:28I played it for her.
11:30Yeah.
11:31Pardon me.
11:33I wrote the song for myself.
11:34I made it.
11:36I wrote it
11:37and planned on putting it
11:38on my second album.
11:39I did not want to put it
11:40on my first album
11:41because I already knew
11:41I was going to piss
11:42some powerful people off.
11:44What up, Sandy?
11:45How you doing?
11:46Hey,
11:46what up?
11:47It's been a while.
11:47Wow.
11:49Yeah,
11:49man,
11:51after,
11:52it was on my demo.
11:54So,
11:54when,
11:55when the,
11:55when I went to the record labels,
11:57when I went to Def Jam,
11:58when I went to
12:00Def American,
12:01which was Rick Rubin,
12:02when I went to Priority Records,
12:03they already heard that song.
12:05They knew the song.
12:06Yeah.
12:08And so,
12:10but I didn't really plan
12:12on putting it
12:12on the first album.
12:14I was going to put it on
12:14what would have been
12:16Racination.
12:16That was kind of the plan.
12:18But then my,
12:19you know,
12:19we had some,
12:20some,
12:22we had some label.
12:24There was some tension
12:24between me
12:25and the production company.
12:27Yeah.
12:28My mother felt like
12:29the song was very important
12:30and we didn't know
12:31what was going to happen
12:32if I'd ever get a chance
12:33to make a second album.
12:35Yeah.
12:35So what I did was
12:37I just decided
12:37to bite the bullet
12:38and put it on the first album
12:40because I didn't know
12:40if I'd get a chance
12:41to make a second album.
12:43And so that's,
12:43that's why,
12:44that's basically why
12:46Nature of the Threat
12:46is on the first album.
12:49I,
12:49I,
12:51again,
12:51I knew I was going to
12:52piss off
12:53some powerful people
12:54and that,
12:55and so I probably
12:56shouldn't put it
12:56on the first album.
12:57But,
12:58you know,
12:58you do what you do
12:58and,
12:59you know,
12:59let the chips fall with it,
13:00man.
13:01True,
13:01true,
13:02true,
13:02true.
13:03Plus,
13:04I mean,
13:04you even had Coolio
13:05on,
13:06on that,
13:07on that album.
13:09On that album,
13:10yeah.
13:10That's like,
13:11that's like the Ochi
13:12and then to you
13:13being the new era.
13:15Plus,
13:15I mean,
13:15you came at a time
13:17around the Tupac's
13:18in,
13:19in,
13:19in WA.
13:20How was that like?
13:22Oh,
13:23man,
13:23you know,
13:23being a fly on that wall
13:25is,
13:25is,
13:26is what I call
13:26boredom,
13:27you know.
13:28I,
13:28I was around,
13:30although,
13:30you know,
13:31I was younger,
13:31I was not a factor
13:33like that,
13:34but,
13:34you know,
13:34I was around
13:35with Pun
13:36and,
13:36and,
13:37and,
13:38and,
13:38and,
13:39and Pox alive
13:40and Biggie's alive
13:41and,
13:42you know.
13:43Oh,
13:43what up,
13:43Kia?
13:43How you doing?
13:44Um,
13:45yeah,
13:45man,
13:45just to be
13:48not only alive
13:49that I was,
13:50you know,
13:50working on my stuff
13:51in that those people
13:52knew my name
13:54and thought I was
13:55talented.
13:56So,
13:56that's,
13:57for me,
13:57I always look at that
13:58as like,
13:59a lot of artists,
14:00you know,
14:00I watch a lot
14:01of artists,
14:02they'll do songs
14:02and be like,
14:03you know what I'm
14:03saying,
14:03me and Pox
14:04and you,
14:04you know,
14:04whatever,
14:05me and so-and-so
14:06and it's like,
14:07bro,
14:07you never even met
14:07some of these people.
14:08Like,
14:09you know,
14:09it's good,
14:10you show a love,
14:10but you're kind of
14:11fronting,
14:11like,
14:11you had a rapport
14:12with these people
14:13and so,
14:14for me,
14:14I always feel very
14:15blessed that,
14:16you know,
14:16I'm not saying
14:17we was best friends
14:17or no shit like that,
14:18but,
14:19you know,
14:19I've sat and drank,
14:20I drank with pun.
14:22You know,
14:22I drank Hennessy,
14:23I put it out
14:24of my back pocket
14:25like a little
14:25pint of Hennessy
14:26and just drinking
14:28and just drinking
14:29and salute the Divine
14:30South always.
14:32Rest in peace,
14:32Kalani.
14:34Bear Connors
14:35in the building,
14:35salute,
14:36bro,
14:36bro.
14:36So,
14:37yeah,
14:37man,
14:37you know,
14:38to have that journey
14:39when you,
14:4017,
14:4118,
14:42with icons,
14:43people that,
14:45game changers
14:45in this culture,
14:47you know what I'm
14:47saying,
14:47again,
14:48to some still alive,
14:50some rest in peace,
14:50I was able to break
14:52bread with some
14:53of the greatest,
14:54and that's how
14:55nobody can take
14:55from me.
14:56I always say this
14:58to people,
14:59I say,
15:00like,
15:00a lot of people
15:01talk about people
15:02they never met
15:04and I feel like
15:04I'm blessed
15:05that I can talk
15:06about people
15:06that know my name.
15:07You know what I'm
15:08saying?
15:08Like,
15:09some people run
15:09around and,
15:10gossip about Jay-Z
15:11or so-and-so
15:12or Drake
15:13or Kanye.
15:13I'm like,
15:14you know,
15:14I'm blessed to be
15:15able to mind
15:16my own business,
15:16but those people
15:17know my name.
15:18If I walk by,
15:19I'm not saying
15:19we best friends again,
15:20but at least I'm
15:21blessed enough that
15:21because of my talent
15:23they know who I am
15:24because I've worked
15:25on my talent
15:26and I care about
15:26the skill set.
15:29Yeah,
15:29because I mean,
15:30with Ressessination,
15:32that was like,
15:33you had Dre on it
15:34and McTen
15:36and even RZA.
15:38RZA,
15:39yeah,
15:39man.
15:40Quista,
15:41Corrupt.
15:42Yeah,
15:42man.
15:43You know,
15:44I've had records
15:44since then
15:45with Snoop Dogg
15:46and CeeLo
15:47and,
15:48you know,
15:49I've worked,
15:50you know,
15:50I've worked with
15:51a lot of incredible,
15:53talented people.
15:54I'm just blessed
15:54for that.
15:56Yeah,
15:56yeah,
15:56yeah.
15:57Because,
15:58I mean,
15:58even with their
15:59assassination,
16:00you were also
16:01controversial
16:02with RZA's song,
16:04the song you did
16:04with RZA,
16:05the end.
16:05The end.
16:06Yo.
16:07That was,
16:08oh,
16:09yeah,
16:09people got mad
16:10at me for that.
16:10Yeah,
16:10I remember.
16:14Is that probably
16:15why you had
16:16a lot of trouble
16:17with the record label?
16:19With my record label?
16:20Yeah,
16:21yeah,
16:21yeah.
16:21I don't know.
16:21Hey,
16:22man,
16:22you know,
16:24probably,
16:25but,
16:25you know,
16:25I can neither confirm
16:27nor deny that.
16:28What's up,
16:29Shelly?
16:29How you doing?
16:30Yeah,
16:32booyah,
16:33of course,
16:33Carson's finest,
16:34booyah,
16:35try.
16:35Um,
16:36yeah,
16:36man,
16:37you know,
16:37I don't know.
16:38I,
16:38like,
16:39some,
16:40some of my friends
16:41in this industry
16:41have said,
16:43nature to threat
16:44sealed your fate.
16:45You know what I'm saying?
16:46So,
16:46I don't know,
16:48because I wasn't
16:50in that room
16:50if a decision was made.
16:52They just did what they did.
16:53I know that my company
16:54didn't really market me well
16:56or whatever,
16:56but,
16:57you know,
16:58you know,
16:59it was still fun.
17:00Yo,
17:00yo.
17:01So,
17:01yeah,
17:01you know,
17:02at the end of the day,
17:03um,
17:04nobody,
17:05people can only slow you up
17:07but they can't stop you
17:08from doing whatever
17:09you're supposed to do.
17:10So,
17:10I always look at it like that,
17:11you know,
17:13you know,
17:14whatever.
17:14So,
17:14have you ever felt,
17:15like,
17:15the pressure of
17:16maybe trying to be
17:18more commercial
17:19because of,
17:20of,
17:20of being
17:22probably blackballed
17:23because of making
17:23those type of songs?
17:25There was nothing
17:26I was going to do
17:26if you blackballed,
17:28what was I going to do?
17:29Like,
17:30to unbeaten blackball.
17:31I mean,
17:32you know,
17:32I try to explain that
17:33to people.
17:34Like,
17:34I got Kaepernick
17:35before Kaepernick.
17:37You know what I'm saying?
17:38He still wasn't able
17:39to play.
17:41All that shit,
17:42it didn't matter
17:42what he did.
17:43He could go train
17:44and work down
17:45and throw the football
17:46far.
17:47If they,
17:47if they got it out
17:48for you and they don't,
17:48what up,
17:49Bear?
17:49That's my brother.
17:50You know what I'm saying?
17:51For sure.
17:51So,
17:52we live in a system
17:53where somebody
17:55kind of controls
17:56what you see.
17:58The algorithm,
17:59you can blame it
18:00on the magical algorithm.
18:01It's probably one
18:02white boy that say,
18:03I like that
18:04or I don't like that.
18:04Let's get real.
18:05Yeah.
18:06Niggas is bullshit.
18:07If,
18:07if somebody wants
18:08this shit on YouTube
18:10right now,
18:11they can make it go viral,
18:12bro.
18:12Stop it.
18:13True.
18:14Stop it.
18:14Everybody be talking
18:15all this magical bullshit.
18:17It ain't no,
18:18the algorithm is
18:18fucking power,
18:20money,
18:20and a white nigga
18:21that own it.
18:21Whoever own it
18:22gonna decide who wins,
18:23bro.
18:23That's how life works.
18:24Whoever owns it
18:25decides who wins.
18:27Period.
18:28So,
18:29if we don't own our industry,
18:31if we don't own
18:31the music industry,
18:33how can we really decide
18:34who gets a chance
18:35to be heard?
18:37Who do,
18:37how do we,
18:37we don't even own BET,
18:39so how do we decide
18:40what artists
18:41perform on BET?
18:43Yeah.
18:43Black entertainment
18:44is not owned
18:45by black people.
18:47Yeah.
18:48True that.
18:49True that.
18:49True that.
18:50True that.
18:51Yeah,
18:51I think a lot of things
18:52need to be decentralized
18:54at this moment.
18:56Well,
18:56I mean,
18:57I always just,
18:58I just say it like this,
18:59man.
19:02I'm gonna give a comparison
19:04and it's,
19:05you know,
19:06I mean,
19:07yeah,
19:07fuck it.
19:08So,
19:12Jewish television
19:13is not owned
19:14by Nazis.
19:16Yeah.
19:16Black entertainment
19:17television
19:18is not owned
19:19by black people.
19:21Owned
19:21by people
19:22that may not be Nazis,
19:24but they don't really
19:25care about,
19:25they don't have black
19:26people's interests
19:27at heart.
19:28True,
19:29true.
19:29You understand
19:30what I'm saying?
19:30True.
19:31So,
19:31we gotta,
19:32until we take
19:33some responsibility
19:34in our own community
19:36and start owning
19:37our own shit,
19:37then,
19:38yeah,
19:38what do we expect?
19:40Yeah,
19:41yeah,
19:41because,
19:41because the,
19:42you know,
19:43it's not,
19:43it's even,
19:45also here in Africa,
19:47they've got so much
19:48control
19:48with,
19:49with,
19:50um,
19:51our resources,
19:52especially like
19:53in my country here.
19:54Like,
19:54yeah,
19:55I know.
19:56I mean,
19:56I'm under the problem
19:57and stuff.
19:58It's,
19:59yeah.
19:59I've been there,
20:00brother,
20:00so I,
20:00you know,
20:01I've been there,
20:01yeah,
20:01yeah,
20:01I've been in Doberg
20:03and,
20:03you know,
20:04and watching who got
20:05and then,
20:06you know,
20:06you know,
20:07you know,
20:08the colors,
20:09just,
20:09there's a lot of
20:10broken stuff
20:11in South Africa.
20:13The mentality,
20:14broken,
20:15you know,
20:16colonialism,
20:17leftover lingering
20:18mentality there,
20:19so none of us
20:20are out the blue.
20:21None of us
20:22are out the blue.
20:23You're right,
20:24Shelly Lynn,
20:24yeah,
20:25we got to do that
20:25across the world.
20:26Mm-hmm.
20:27But we,
20:27we,
20:28we,
20:29we,
20:29we,
20:30you know,
20:31we don't,
20:32you just called it,
20:33we don't own our resources.
20:35We haven't collectively
20:36put our resources together
20:37here in the States
20:38and we're diaspora children
20:40just like a Dominican
20:41or Puerto Rican
20:42or whatever,
20:43you know,
20:43Jamaican,
20:44but even at home,
20:46you know,
20:47it's like,
20:47we look at y'all like,
20:49come on,
20:49man,
20:49y'all get it together.
20:50You know,
20:50we the motherfuckers
20:51that's 5,000 miles away,
20:53but if y'all can't get it together,
20:56you know,
20:56it's tough.
20:57Yeah,
20:58yeah,
20:58yeah,
20:58because I,
20:59you know,
20:59I watch it,
21:00they,
21:00they more concerned about a,
21:02you know,
21:02about a,
21:02a Afrikaans farmer
21:04than they are about the starving
21:05other people around
21:06the Afrikaans farmer.
21:08Exactly.
21:09Exactly.
21:09Because like,
21:10all this fucking land
21:11and can farm
21:11and then these,
21:13these different tribes
21:16can't,
21:16can't even walk over here,
21:17can't be over here.
21:18So,
21:19you know,
21:19we're dealing with some bullshit
21:20and we,
21:21I always say at least,
21:23let's get the elephants
21:24out the room.
21:24It may make people uncomfortable,
21:25but we need to start talking
21:27about this shit
21:27a little more often.
21:28We ain't got to talk about it
21:29all the time,
21:30but we need to talk about it
21:31more than we have
21:33because a lot of times
21:33we're just distracted
21:34with wanting to have
21:35these party songs.
21:36That's the reason why
21:37I don't make a lot
21:38of party music
21:39because,
21:40because that partying
21:41is a distraction
21:43that still don't solve
21:44your problems.
21:45Yeah.
21:46You understand what I'm saying?
21:47People like to hear party music
21:48because they don't want
21:49to deal with reality outside.
21:52Yeah.
21:53And so,
21:55I felt like I personally
21:57had a responsibility
21:58to,
21:58to let's talk about
22:00some real shit.
22:00It's fun.
22:01Getting drunk,
22:02getting pussy,
22:02throw the money in the sky.
22:03All that shit is super fun.
22:05You know what I'm saying?
22:06But,
22:06that don't solve
22:07our people's condition.
22:09And what if that's all
22:10Malcolm X and Martin Luther King
22:11said,
22:12yeah,
22:12let's go to the club.
22:14Yeah.
22:15That would be weird.
22:17Yeah.
22:17Oh,
22:17I wouldn't have been through that.
22:18I'm Martin Luther King.
22:19I don't care.
22:20I had a dream
22:21that I got some pussy.
22:22I had a dream
22:22I was popping through
22:23with money in the sky.
22:24Nigga,
22:24that don't solve shit.
22:26The fuck you talking about?
22:27Oh,
22:28what up,
22:28absolute salute.
22:30Is that,
22:30is that what,
22:31is that what inspired you to,
22:32CR's finest,
22:33man.
22:33That's what we talk about.
22:34Salute to my bro, bro.
22:36Much love.
22:37Is that what inspired you
22:38to do Soda Nice 2?
22:40Because,
22:41man,
22:41yo.
22:42You know what?
22:43I'm glad you asked
22:44that question,
22:44man.
22:46my inspiration
22:47for Soda Nice 2
22:48is two parts.
22:49I never really planned
22:51on doing a second part
22:52of anything.
22:53Yeah.
22:55Especially not that
22:56particular album.
22:58Yeah,
22:58yeah,
22:59yeah.
22:59But,
23:00I was trying to work
23:01on another album.
23:02And as I was making
23:04these records,
23:05I think it might even
23:07been like
23:07around my sons,
23:09around Coach Contra,
23:10playing them shit.
23:12And,
23:13kind of us realizing
23:15this ain't,
23:16this don't sound like
23:17whatever album
23:18you're trying to make.
23:19This is Soda Nice shit.
23:20So,
23:21it was basically
23:22where I was at
23:23spiritually,
23:24emotionally,
23:25mentally,
23:26I was already writing
23:29whatever beats
23:29I was picking,
23:30whatever themes
23:32I was coming up with,
23:33it was something else.
23:34So,
23:34I was fighting it.
23:35Basically,
23:35I was fighting myself
23:36trying to make something
23:37that I wasn't ready to make.
23:39I was ready to make
23:40Soda Nice 2.
23:41And once I realized that,
23:43then I just focused in
23:44and finished the project off.
23:46But also,
23:47the second reason why
23:48I did Soda Nice 2
23:49is because
23:52Pac will never be able
23:53to make a part two.
23:55You understand what I'm saying?
23:56Big D,
23:57Pun,
23:58Nipsey.
23:59Nipsey won't even be able
24:00to celebrate the 10-year
24:01anniversary of his album.
24:02You understand?
24:03Yeah.
24:03And so,
24:04that's a heartbreaking thing.
24:05It's not a happy thing.
24:06I'm saying it's sadly.
24:08So,
24:08some of our most amazing,
24:10you know,
24:11Big L,
24:12even some of these young brothers.
24:17man,
24:18the brother that got killed
24:21out here in LA.
24:22There's a lot of nipsey's.
24:24They'll never even celebrate
24:25the fifth anniversary
24:26of their album.
24:27And that's heartbreaking.
24:28Right?
24:29I'm blessed enough
24:30that I could celebrate
24:3115 years of an album.
24:35Just that is an accomplishment
24:36in rap.
24:37Nowadays.
24:39Niggas is ODing
24:40or niggas getting
24:40their head peeled off.
24:42Or niggas telling
24:43and going to jail
24:44for a long time.
24:45Kill Roy in the building.
24:46So,
24:46the fact that I'm
24:47of sound-minded body,
24:49I'm free on the streets,
24:51I'm not strung out
24:53on some shit,
24:53I can celebrate
24:55just surviving for me.
24:57I may not get
24:59the big concert
25:00and TV
25:01and people show up
25:02and show me
25:03the love of tens
25:04of thousands of people
25:05or a million people
25:06following me,
25:07but I made it
25:07and I'ma celebrate me.
25:09I celebrate myself.
25:10And so,
25:11I'm blessed.
25:11I'm blessed to have
25:13made it
25:1425 years
25:15doing what I love
25:16to do
25:17thanks to hip-hop.
25:19You know what I mean?
25:20And so,
25:21and if I live another
25:2425 years,
25:25I'm gonna do part three
25:26because I will
25:27have seen some other shit.
25:29You know what I mean?
25:30That's the bar,
25:31the real bar
25:32is surviving.
25:34What the fuck
25:34is fucking
25:35being on this planet?
25:36I mean,
25:37no disrespect,
25:37people pass
25:38and it's gonna happen,
25:39we all gonna go.
25:40But some people
25:41are just sad
25:41to watch all that talent
25:43or that good human being
25:44like make one mistake
25:46that cost them
25:46and they gone
25:47and they out of here
25:48and they,
25:48you know,
25:49I said it in a song
25:50where I said,
25:51you know,
25:53you know,
25:54we got martyrs,
25:55but what about
25:55the daughters
25:56with no fathers?
25:57You know what I'm saying?
25:58You know what I'm saying?
25:59Like,
26:00I don't really want
26:01to be a martyr
26:01at this point.
26:02My career's been martyred.
26:04They fucking blackballed me
26:05for the longest
26:05and I still spend my cars.
26:07But,
26:08but,
26:09but I want to be alive
26:11to see change
26:12and help foment change
26:13and,
26:14and,
26:14and celebrate,
26:16you know,
26:17the journey.
26:18I'm,
26:18I'm,
26:19I'm able to do that
26:20and that's,
26:20you know,
26:21to answer your question,
26:21that's why,
26:22you know,
26:22it's a two-parter
26:23of why it's
26:24solo nights too.
26:25It came innately
26:25and I'm happy
26:27to celebrate it
26:28after 25 years
26:29that I,
26:30that I,
26:31that I learned something.
26:32It was for me
26:32to juxtapose.
26:33Did I,
26:34did I get anything
26:3425 years later?
26:36Do I agree
26:36with the things
26:37I wrote 25 years later?
26:38You know,
26:39and that was the,
26:40that was the interesting part.
26:42Well,
26:42well,
26:43well,
26:43well.
26:44I mean,
26:45just,
26:46just looking at,
26:46I mean,
26:47the artists
26:47not,
26:48not,
26:48not living for long.
26:49Do you think maybe
26:50even us as,
26:52as,
26:52as hip hop fans
26:53or the hip hop community,
26:55we,
26:56we,
26:56we are responsible
26:57for that
26:58because
26:59we,
26:59we,
27:00we pressure
27:00our artists
27:01to,
27:02to,
27:02to live,
27:02we expect them
27:03to live a certain
27:04lifestyle,
27:05you know what I'm saying?
27:06Or maybe they seek
27:07validation or something.
27:10That's a,
27:11you know,
27:12we all have a responsibility,
27:14right?
27:15What up,
27:15six man?
27:16Salute.
27:18Damar,
27:18brother too.
27:19Yeah.
27:20Um,
27:21I would say,
27:23I would say
27:25we all play a part.
27:27It takes a village
27:28to raise a child.
27:29You know,
27:29it takes a team
27:30to make a,
27:31a song.
27:33Um,
27:34this is a hip hop community.
27:36Um,
27:37I think there's some
27:38outrageous expectations
27:39nowadays for what
27:40an artist is supposed
27:41to look like
27:42or a rapper
27:42is supposed to look
27:43like.
27:44Uh,
27:46even young dudes.
27:48Like,
27:48I was,
27:49I was talking about
27:50this,
27:50uh,
27:51to a friend of mine.
27:53Uh,
27:55I was thinking
27:56about the fact
27:56that when
27:58maybe
28:00even 20 years ago,
28:02all you needed
28:02was like one chain.
28:04You know what I'm
28:05saying?
28:05Like 2005,
28:06you just needed
28:07one chain,
28:08right?
28:09Yeah.
28:10And then maybe
28:10one watch.
28:11Niggas got like
28:11two rollies on.
28:13Niggas got 15.
28:15So now,
28:17you know what I mean?
28:18Like,
28:18we used to complain
28:19because the shoes,
28:20you know,
28:20the Jordan cost
28:21like 150.
28:22These niggas shoes
28:23are like $500.
28:24for the new drop.
28:25Like,
28:26it's hard
28:27to keep up
28:27for these young boys.
28:29You know what I'm saying?
28:30Like,
28:30it's like
28:31we've created,
28:32we've pushed the,
28:33not the talent bar,
28:35but we put the,
28:35the shit you gotta have
28:37bar out the roof.
28:39You know what I mean?
28:40So,
28:41so,
28:42I'm like,
28:43nigga,
28:44if I'm 17
28:45in high school
28:45and,
28:46and every girl
28:47looking at me
28:48to fucking do this
28:49and have two rollies
28:51and like,
28:51nigga,
28:52you are gonna have
28:52to kill somebody.
28:53You're gonna have
28:54to rob some banks.
28:55You're gonna have
28:55to sell some crack.
28:56You're gonna have
28:56to do something.
28:58You know what I mean?
28:59They have,
29:00they have raised
29:01the,
29:02the,
29:03uh,
29:05materialistic bar
29:06out of
29:07the range
29:07of most people
29:08of most people
29:09getting it.
29:09So you gotta,
29:09you gotta be
29:10a dope dealer
29:11or you gotta be
29:12a jacker
29:13of the dope dealer
29:14or you're gonna
29:15credit card scam
29:16or something.
29:16You know what I mean?
29:17So that's where we're at.
29:18We fucked these
29:19little niggas up.
29:20We fucked,
29:21I'm saying we collectively
29:22the,
29:23the 55
29:24to the 40 year old
29:25niggas,
29:26that's the parents
29:26and the grandparents
29:27of these little niggas.
29:29We did this shit.
29:30We gotta take
29:30some responsibility
29:31that we fucked
29:32these niggas up.
29:34I didn't do it.
29:34You know what I'm saying?
29:35But I'm part of that,
29:36I'm part of that class.
29:38I'm part of that
29:38graduation class
29:39of niggas, man.
29:41Yeah.
29:42Niggas ain't trying
29:43to even have a jump shot.
29:44I hear you.
29:45Niggas are selling meth
29:47and they ain't selling rock.
29:48These niggas selling meth
29:48and they doing the meth too.
29:50These niggas,
29:51then they's cut
29:51the fentanyl,
29:52then they get a bad batch,
29:53then they get dead, bro.
29:55Niggas,
29:55it's a whole,
29:55it's ugly right now.
29:57So,
29:57you know,
29:58we just made it unrealistic
29:59for these new artists
30:00and trying to keep
30:01that kind of lifestyle.
30:02I mean,
30:02think about it.
30:03We got shit called drill music
30:04where niggas is really like,
30:06I'm gonna kill a nigga
30:06and then rhyme about it,
30:08which is a self-snitch.
30:09That ain't smart.
30:10Trying to tell niggas,
30:11like,
30:12don't do that,
30:13my nigga.
30:13Don't murk a nigga
30:14and tell on yourself.
30:16You can't get on the gram
30:17and talk about
30:18the nigga,
30:19you can't,
30:20you know,
30:20niggas is like,
30:21keep it,
30:21this skit,
30:24when keeping it real
30:25goes wrong.
30:28Yeah,
30:28this is keeping it real
30:29goes wrong.
30:30These niggas really out here
30:31drilling
30:31than really out here
30:33telling on they self.
30:34Then talk about a rat.
30:35Nigga,
30:36you ratted on yourself
30:37on your songs.
30:39Yeah.
30:41Yeah,
30:41because I mean.
30:42Wednesday night,
30:43hit that nigga.
30:44What,
30:44nigga?
30:44You better,
30:45no.
30:46No.
30:47No,
30:47no,
30:48no,
30:48no,
30:48no,
30:48no,
30:48no,
30:48no,
30:48no,
30:48no,
30:48no,
30:50no,
30:51no,
30:51we got,
30:52we fucked up the game,
30:53man.
30:53We,
30:53we,
30:54we,
30:54we,
30:54we are,
30:55I,
30:56bro,
30:57the bro got,
30:58a bro got hit,
30:59you know,
30:59God bless the dead.
31:00The bro was on the live,
31:02you know,
31:03dissonancey or whatever.
31:04He was an Englewood brother.
31:05And then niggas just pulled up on his live,
31:07bro.
31:08Like you can't do that stuff.
31:09It ain't.
31:10The president can die.
31:12So any of us niggas should know better than that.
31:15Ain't nobody bang out a tough line.
31:17You can't get shot,
31:18nigga.
31:19And keep making it.
31:20Stop with the,
31:21with the,
31:21with the shenanigans.
31:22Niggas that went too far and trying to trend.
31:25Niggas that troll the trend.
31:26Niggas that pop too much shit to trend.
31:29Niggas that tell way too much truth to trend.
31:31Niggas that lie to trend.
31:33Niggas that suck a dick to trend.
31:34Niggas is just out of control to get attention.
31:39Attention starved.
31:40You know what I mean?
31:41So it's crazy.
31:42Yeah.
31:43Yeah,
31:44yeah,
31:44yeah.
31:45But,
31:45but,
31:46but do you think that there's something missing with,
31:48with,
31:48with,
31:49um,
31:51with,
31:51with trying to deal with,
31:54is there something that we can do with,
31:57uh,
31:57the development of artists from a young age and then protect them in,
32:03in the community?
32:04Maybe,
32:05because I mean,
32:07we need to protect and create outlets,
32:09but there is a responsibility again.
32:11Like an artist can only do what an artist can do.
32:13Like if you don't support that artist,
32:16I used to always say this to people,
32:18man,
32:18and I don't want this to come back about me.
32:20It's not about me.
32:21It's just about any talent.
32:23It's just a plant.
32:24If you don't go support that art,
32:26but then you'll go,
32:27it's easy to support Kanye.
32:29He's got fucking,
32:31he's got 40,
32:32you know,
32:33whatever,
32:33he's 20 million people to support him.
32:35I find that people support the people that don't need support and he never
32:39support the people that need support because everybody's trying to do the
32:43shit that everybody already liked.
32:44They don't support the thing that's up and coming that needs the support.
32:48And so if you're rewarding bad behavior,
32:52what do you think people are going to do to get a reward?
32:55Yeah.
32:57I don't have that answer completely,
33:00but what I am,
33:01what up,
33:01Satin Salute?
33:02I'm just trying to throw it out there that,
33:04you know,
33:05we,
33:05we tend to collectively,
33:07uh,
33:08we,
33:08the chick on the ground,
33:10I want to look at it with the body and the titties.
33:13And then she,
33:13you know,
33:13she's got an only fans,
33:15you know what I'm saying?
33:16Right.
33:17My man Lamont just said it.
33:19They chase what's popular already.
33:21So if you keep rewarding,
33:22but that body being innovative and creative,
33:27you're not giving them those,
33:28those opportunities to be heard.
33:30Then you,
33:31you kind of force everybody down the same funnel where it's like,
33:33well,
33:34if I'm a chick,
33:34I got to do a dance and make sure a little challenge and make sure the
33:37titty is out.
33:38And if I'm a nigga,
33:39I got to burn around and put on that show.
33:41So you ain't,
33:42when somebody might do,
33:44I'm watching people,
33:46a dude put his sister to,
33:47uh,
33:48you know,
33:48college and,
33:50uh,
33:50you know,
33:51he don't get no,
33:52you know what I'm saying?
33:53Cause,
33:53cause they didn't have no father or whatever,
33:55whatever the story is.
33:56He get his money,
33:58put his sister through college.
33:59That don't get no likes.
34:00But if a nigga go give some,
34:01some,
34:02no disrespect,
34:03but some chick,
34:03he just met at a strip club,
34:05a bag,
34:06niggas act like that's a win.
34:08That is fucked up.
34:10Collectively,
34:11our values is fucked up.
34:13And,
34:13and,
34:14and again,
34:15it's a lot of,
34:18it's a lot of escapism.
34:20People don't want to deal with the reality.
34:23I,
34:24I said this a long time ago.
34:25I said in all these drill records,
34:27I said,
34:28um,
34:29all these killing records,
34:31all of,
34:31you know what I'm saying?
34:32With,
34:32you know what I'm saying?
34:33You let the ratchet,
34:34you let the stick hit him.
34:35I said,
34:36if you took out nigga and said,
34:38white man,
34:39see what would happen.
34:40How many of them songs would never play again?
34:43Yeah.
34:44Should it,
34:44should it,
34:45should it?
34:46We,
34:46we always talk about how much we kill each other.
34:49We ain't never talked about defending,
34:50you know,
34:51women from,
34:52from rape or,
34:53or,
34:53you know what I'm saying?
34:54Or defending,
34:55you know,
34:55uh,
34:56our own people from police beating the shit out of them.
34:58A lot of us are murdering us in the streets,
35:00niggas,
35:00but niggas will talk.
35:02And,
35:02and everybody love it up in the club about how many times I want to shoot a nigga.
35:05Cause he stepped on my shoe.
35:06So I shot him.
35:07He walked in and he had on blue.
35:09So I shot him.
35:09You know,
35:10niggas,
35:10niggas is real good at killing each other,
35:13bro.
35:14Scared to death when,
35:14when,
35:15when,
35:15when you're real oppressive beating your ass.
35:17That's all I'm saying.
35:19South,
35:19South,
35:19my homie Jamal.
35:20That's it.
35:21Yeah.
35:23For sure.
35:24I mean,
35:25speaking of that,
35:26you're using a hip hop hit.
35:29Uh,
35:30you know,
35:33they don't get,
35:34my father said this,
35:35uh,
35:36they don't give you a manual.
35:37So,
35:38you know,
35:38you make your mistakes,
35:39you know,
35:40um,
35:41it's a journey.
35:42Um,
35:43the one thing I told Raz and Taj from the beginning was learn from my
35:46successes and learn from my failures.
35:48I don't have the answers and I'm out here trying to get my shit
35:51together,
35:52trying to get my bag together and trying to make money to protect y'all
35:55niggas.
35:55So I'm,
35:57I'm out here.
35:58What's up,
35:59Savannah?
36:00What's up with you?
36:02Um,
36:02you know,
36:02so that's all you really can do sometimes is just try to,
36:04uh,
36:06lead by example as best you can.
36:08I wish I had everything right.
36:09And I wish I had puffy money to give my kids and give my,
36:13you know what I'm saying?
36:14I do.
36:15Of course I wish I had that kind of money.
36:17I didn't,
36:17I didn't get there yet.
36:18We don't know what the future holds,
36:20but I thought,
36:21you know,
36:21what I did try to do is,
36:23is,
36:24is show them who I am as a human being with my successes and my failures.
36:29And I feel like,
36:30you know,
36:30one,
36:30one thing that inspires me is as scary as it was that those fellas went
36:37and did,
36:38you know,
36:38went after the same thing.
36:39So journalists,
36:40um,
36:42you know,
36:42um,
36:43that,
36:43that they're shining at it.
36:44And so I'm,
36:45I'm super excited about their journey.
36:48And,
36:48and the one thing I tell coast contra,
36:50and I mean,
36:51it's for all of them is when I started this journey of music,
36:55I didn't have anybody.
36:57It was my mother,
36:59my father,
36:59nobody had ever done this,
37:01this job,
37:02this business entertainment.
37:04My father's LAPD.
37:05My mother worked for the city of Los Angeles.
37:07You know,
37:08they also go get it,
37:09go get it,
37:10go get education and go work for the city.
37:12Not no dream to dream.
37:13And nigga,
37:13you go rap and tap.
37:14That was never going to be a fucking idea.
37:17And so to have,
37:19um,
37:21to have,
37:22to start from zero,
37:23my friends were my brothers and my experts.
37:25We were learning together,
37:26bumping our head against brick walls,
37:28the battle cats,
37:29South,
37:30South West coast creations.
37:31Um,
37:32but now,
37:33you know,
37:33the same thing,
37:34you know,
37:34what I,
37:34what I tell,
37:35what I told their mother,
37:37Tidra,
37:37once I had made my mistakes,
37:38I'm like,
37:39well,
37:39look,
37:39learn from my successes and my failures.
37:40So now I have an expertise.
37:42I've been doing this.
37:43Their mother has expertise.
37:44My sister,
37:45Tiffany Austin is a jazz singer.
37:48She's also,
37:48she graduated Berkeley law,
37:50top five law school.
37:51What up,
37:51Jay Wex?
37:52So now with my sons and,
37:54and,
37:55and any other people that join our family and our team,
37:57we have all this family wealth,
38:00whether it's information,
38:00it may not be money,
38:01but it's information.
38:03It's experience.
38:03And so those are the things that I look,
38:07uh,
38:08what up,
38:08uh,
38:10yeah,
38:10that,
38:10that's,
38:12shout out to my,
38:13that's the,
38:14I ain't gonna say that.
38:15Anyway,
38:16say hi to my kid,
38:17Jack.
38:17Anyway,
38:18that's my parents.
38:19I got a little.
38:19Yeah.
38:20Yeah.
38:21Yeah.
38:21I was talking,
38:22I was talking about coach Conjure anyway.
38:24So yeah.
38:24And then I got a little thing,
38:26the terrorists.
38:26Yeah.
38:27But,
38:27um,
38:28yeah,
38:28man,
38:29you know,
38:29it's that thing is,
38:30is like,
38:33everything I wasn't able to get it financially.
38:36Um,
38:37I hope that I'm able to give them mentally through experience to,
38:41you know what I'm saying?
38:42Giving them them bars.
38:43So,
38:43and then we keep passing out on it's all.
38:45Well,
38:47the song,
38:47the album I did right before,
38:48uh,
38:49soul on ice too.
38:51It's really,
38:52it's really an extension of soul on ice too.
38:54It's the pre soul on ice too.
38:56The album is called IP.
38:57It's called intellectual property.
38:58And I really wrote that song to my kids because whether I have a lot of money or not,
39:04I'm going to tell you some real fucked up shit that's going to happen.
39:08Probably no matter what I sell,
39:10if I didn't sell another record today,
39:13if I go do something stupid and get killed,
39:17some nigga,
39:17nigga,
39:18you know,
39:18bland me out.
39:19I jump off a roof.
39:20Niggas about your record.
39:21And I have quadruple my motherfucking follows right now.
39:24People suck.
39:26Niggas is groupies.
39:27Niggas.
39:27All of a sudden now everybody care.
39:29I watched the,
39:29Oh,
39:30I watched,
39:30I watched people do that for Jay Dilla.
39:32I watched people do that for everybody that die.
39:34All of a sudden you give a fuck.
39:36Now you want to play my song.
39:37You didn't give a fuck about me when,
39:39when,
39:39when I was alive,
39:40you give a fuck.
39:42Cause,
39:42cause niggas is like,
39:43uh,
39:45uh,
39:46voyeurs.
39:47You like seeing death and destruction.
39:48You support that.
39:50It's fucked up how our people are.
39:52So when I was writing IP,
39:55I was thinking.
39:57I'm,
39:58it doesn't matter.
39:59I'm gonna make money for my family,
40:00no matter what,
40:01because I'm going to die.
40:03And when I die,
40:04then you'll care.
40:05Nas and so on.
40:06So no disrespect to Nas.
40:07I'm not saying Nas,
40:08but I'm just saying the Kanye.
40:10Oh,
40:10that was my man.
40:11You know what I'm saying?
40:11I miss him so much.
40:12And then it never,
40:14that was so good.
40:16He sure didn't fucking come to my shelf.
40:19Somebody,
40:20somebody said it.
40:21They said,
40:22somebody said,
40:24people will go walk a mile,
40:26walk,
40:26travel miles to,
40:28uh,
40:29to,
40:29to visit your death,
40:30but won't walk across the street to support you.
40:34And it's true,
40:36especially in our,
40:37in this music shit.
40:38Um,
40:39so yeah,
40:40again,
40:41to answer that question,
40:42I'm constantly aware of my mortality and I'm also aware of my riches and I'm rich here.
40:48I'm rich here.
40:49I got a heart.
40:50I got a smart brain.
40:51I got bars.
40:52I'm rich here with this pen.
40:54And so that's going to turn into wealth for my children,
40:57no matter what happens today,
41:00tomorrow.
41:01So I'm already walking through confident.
41:02Like I want already.
41:04There's nothing you can take from me.
41:05My kids is going to get this bread.
41:07And then,
41:09then whoever the fuck is popping this,
41:12you know,
41:12Oh man,
41:13you know,
41:14nigga Tupac died.
41:16Nipsey died.
41:16Niggas.
41:17He's never liked.
41:18They got songs with him.
41:18I mentioned Nipsey.
41:20Okay.
41:21All right.
41:22Kids get some money,
41:23but I told my mom,
41:25if you put me on a song with a bitch ass nigga,
41:27I don't like,
41:28I'm a haunt you.
41:29I told my mom,
41:29man,
41:31don't put me on a song with no niggas.
41:34That wasn't the homies.
41:35Nigga,
41:35fuck these niggas.
41:36You don't help me here.
41:37Fuck you afterwards.
41:38Yeah.
41:40That part.
41:41That's what's up.
41:42But I mean,
41:43yeah,
41:44I mean,
41:44but looking at also those collaborative album,
41:47like Golden Child with DJ Premier,
41:49and then also like to Balmageddon with you doing with Kendrick Lamar and stuff like that.
41:56Cause like,
41:57now like,
41:58it's like you paving the way for,
42:00for,
42:00for,
42:00for Kendrick.
42:01Cause like,
42:01you know,
42:02at the time with the West coast,
42:04it was you guys.
42:04How is that like?
42:06Oh man,
42:07you know,
42:07we all do our part.
42:08You know,
42:09we all,
42:09I think we all.
42:16That.
42:19I think misses sometimes sometimes a little bit on the West coast.
42:23I think we don't know how to like,
42:26it's just hard to give props to each other,
42:29which I was even raised that way.
42:32Like,
42:32cause the first thing that LA do is going to be like,
42:34but,
42:34but men in general,
42:36especially American black men,
42:37and we'd be like,
42:38I ain't no groupie or nothing.
42:39Just shit dope.
42:40Like,
42:40bro,
42:40I know you're not a groupie.
42:41So I know how we are,
42:42man.
42:42It's really hard sometimes for us to show,
42:45you know,
42:45support and appreciation of people that,
42:47that man paved the way for us and are not inspired.
42:51And what I've tried to disarm that is just to show love and tell people like,
42:56man,
42:56that was really dope,
42:57man.
42:57And I love what you're doing.
42:58So,
42:59you know,
42:59instead of being anti,
43:01I'm trying to be proactive about,
43:03you know,
43:03whoever those MCs are,
43:06whether it's a dude or,
43:07or,
43:08or older OG,
43:10you know what I'm saying?
43:10I always just tell them,
43:12you know,
43:13like,
43:13yo,
43:13cause they,
43:14you know,
43:15older homies inspire me.
43:16And then some new,
43:18you know,
43:18new dudes come out and do some shit.
43:20I'm like,
43:20or pick a record or say,
43:22and you know,
43:22we all learn from each other,
43:23but still sharp and still don't matter which blade was older or,
43:26or,
43:27or newer.
43:28So I,
43:29I just,
43:29that's what I've been trying to do is I know I've inspired a lot of West
43:34coast MCs.
43:36Um,
43:37I know I've inspired Detroit MCs.
43:39Royce will tell you that he's going to tell you all the time.
43:41Royce five nine.
43:42He's going to tell you.
43:42Yeah.
43:43Me and Royce five nine so long.
43:45I said,
43:45we rapped like brass cats for a year.
43:47That don't make him any less of a great MC.
43:49It just means he gave me my credit,
43:52which is nice because a lot of times people won't.
43:54And credit is kind of,
43:56you know,
43:56just giving somebody the credit sometimes goes a long way.
43:59You know,
43:59um,
44:01you know,
44:03we appreciate that.
44:04I appreciate somebody who I look up to that's,
44:07that's gotten to a pinnacle or get something amazing.
44:10Say you dope,
44:11man.
44:12Cause that's what,
44:13you know,
44:13that's what pun did,
44:14man.
44:15You know,
44:15just like,
44:16I remember him just being super nice,
44:18man.
44:18And just one time just saying,
44:20uh,
44:22he was just like brass and I'm young,
44:24you know,
44:24and I'm just,
44:25I bought these albums.
44:26I'm a,
44:26I'm a pun fan.
44:28And he was just like,
44:29man,
44:29you want to,
44:30you want to go have a drink?
44:31And I'm just like,
44:33me?
44:33Like,
44:33he punned.
44:34What?
44:35Like,
44:38but him to be human and show me some love,
44:40man,
44:40I should go a long way.
44:41I ended up telling his son that,
44:43you know what I'm saying?
44:43You know,
44:44Chris Rivers and I,
44:45you know,
44:45Chris Rivers.
44:46Yeah.
44:47Incredible MC.
44:48And I,
44:49you know,
44:49it was great to be able to tell him,
44:51man,
44:51your father made such an impact,
44:53not only as an MC,
44:54but even as a human,
44:55man,
44:55he treated me with dignity and respect.
44:58And,
44:58and,
44:59and I,
45:00I just told him like,
45:01you know,
45:01I want to always offer that to you.
45:03You know what I'm saying?
45:04You know,
45:05your father was,
45:06it was very impactful at,
45:08at the age I was and where I was at my journey.
45:10And I want to make sure that I send that out to you.
45:13You know what I'm saying?
45:14That you,
45:14you know what I'm saying?
45:15Because your father helped me at that age and you may,
45:17you may or may not,
45:18you don't need it from me,
45:19but I just want to offer it to you because,
45:21because it's love.
45:22And giving that credit from his father and applying that credit to him,
45:27you know,
45:27that's his wealth.
45:28You know what I'm saying?
45:29You know,
45:30that was his father's IP that,
45:31that I got,
45:32you know what I'm saying?
45:33That's an intellectual property from his father that Chris could cash in on,
45:37whether,
45:37if he wants to or not,
45:38but he,
45:39it's already there that,
45:41that he has,
45:42he has in the bank,
45:44he got bread in the bank in my heart.
45:45You understand what I'm saying?
45:46Based on his father.
45:47And so my friends are realizing that,
45:49you know,
45:49the coast contrast,
45:50they like,
45:51yo,
45:51you know what I'm saying?
45:53You know,
45:53like pop battle cat,
45:55you know what I'm saying?
45:56He saw us and,
45:57and,
45:57you know,
45:57battle cat,
45:59you know,
45:59he get me like,
46:00y'all,
46:00I saw your son at the,
46:01you know,
46:02Crenshaw and Wookiee Ram.
46:03And yeah,
46:04it's that equity because the love is there and,
46:06you know,
46:06the support.
46:07And I just think we can do a lot more of that building each other up.
46:11I know it's competition.
46:12And so what a lot of MCs do is they don't like to mention other rappers
46:16because they feel like it might mess up their business model.
46:21Like,
46:21Oh,
46:21I don't want to promote him.
46:22That's bad business.
46:23And they tell you like,
46:25you don't promote Coca-Cola.
46:27I'm like,
46:28I get it,
46:28man.
46:28I get the branding thing,
46:29but you know,
46:31some people,
46:32you know,
46:32share some love.
46:33We can all,
46:34we can all coexist.
46:35There's enough money and enough shopping.
46:37There's enough time for all of us,
46:38actually.
46:39And I think,
46:40but you know,
46:41you know,
46:42that's all like individually.
46:43I take notice of the people that purposely try to sweep me under a rug.
46:47And obviously I'll return the favor.
46:49I will never mention you again.
46:50And certain people,
46:50you'll never give me the mention.
46:52Like we're going to play that game.
46:53Then if the table's turned,
46:54then I would never mention you again.
46:56The 50 cent y'all rule thing.
46:58I would 50 cent you.
47:00Yeah.
47:01It was dope.
47:03I think,
47:03I think,
47:04I think,
47:04I think it's a,
47:05it's a,
47:05it's a,
47:05it's a common problem with,
47:07with,
47:08with the black community.
47:10Everywhere,
47:10I guess.
47:12Especially like even,
47:13even here at home,
47:14like,
47:14you know,
47:15cause I felt like,
47:16you know,
47:17we,
47:17we want giving the OGs here in my country also.
47:22That kind of love.
47:24But like,
47:24I can't remember who,
47:26who said it.
47:27Like,
47:27like someone was saying it was,
47:29it's only,
47:30it's only in hip hop where we don't give respect to the older artists.
47:35You know what I'm saying?
47:36Like if you look at rock music and other genres of music,
47:39they,
47:40they give,
47:41they give a lot of respect to that.
47:43Yeah.
47:44We got trained.
47:45They trained us to do that.
47:47And it's really,
47:47it's one of the saddest things is like,
47:51trust me,
47:51a race car driver knows all the race car drivers,
47:53guitar player,
47:54know all the guitar players,
47:56the drummer,
47:58like literally in rap is the only one.
47:59Oh,
48:00he old.
48:01Like nobody's telling Dolly Parton,
48:03she can't sing anymore.
48:04Like,
48:06and I'm,
48:07and I'll tell you the truth.
48:09Oh,
48:09oh,
48:11executive,
48:12an old rich white guy started that.
48:14And then niggas started repeating it.
48:15And we got to stop repeating like puppets.
48:17What our slave masters tell us.
48:20Yeah.
48:21They don't do it to their own.
48:22But now we started talking about he old,
48:24he ain't relevant.
48:27Like those are not,
48:28those are not,
48:29those are not even terms that we use.
48:31And like,
48:32I'm telling you,
48:33I'm telling you for a fact,
48:34New Yorkers didn't even say that was hot.
48:36That was executive.
48:37That term hot.
48:38Oh,
48:38that's hot.
48:39That's,
48:40think about it.
48:40That's a period.
48:41Oh my God.
48:41That's so hot.
48:42That's not a nigga thing to say.
48:45Hmm.
48:47So what happened was execs would say,
48:50we used to argue,
48:51oh,
48:51that shit whack.
48:52Maybe vanilla ice or whatever song,
48:54like that shit whack.
48:56And they'd be like,
48:56well,
48:56it's hot.
48:57It's billboard.
48:58It's on the billboard.
48:58So it's hot.
48:59It's still hot.
49:00It's hot with a bullet.
49:01That's a billboard thing.
49:02That's reading some white man shit.
49:04Yeah.
49:05And we start,
49:06so it took from the white exec to the,
49:08I mean,
49:09the white owner of the companies didn't trickle down to the executives that
49:14were black and Brown.
49:16Oh,
49:17it's hot.
49:18And then the artists that would succeed started saying it.
49:22Well,
49:22fuck it.
49:22Maybe I,
49:23maybe I sold,
49:24sold out my shit corny,
49:25but I'm,
49:25I'm selling.
49:26So I'm hot.
49:28That's my excuse for making whack music.
49:30I'm hot.
49:31I'm selling.
49:31So it don't matter.
49:32And then the niggas got out here in the streets and the fans started
49:36talking about it and talk about old and,
49:37and hot and relevant,
49:39stupid shit that nobody else would ever say about any other business.
49:44Niggas,
49:44the golf niggas don't disrespect.
49:46Oh geez,
49:47you want to learn from them.
49:48Kobe,
49:48Kobe wouldn't have been Kobe.
49:50LeBron wouldn't have been LeBron.
49:51If he was about,
49:52Oh,
49:52Michael tour.
49:53No nigga,
49:53he old,
49:53he irrelevant.
49:54Sounds stupid as fuck.
49:56Yeah.
49:58True that.
49:58True that.
49:59True that.
49:59Salute to Lupe,
50:00man.
50:01Lupe in the building,
50:02man.
50:02That's great.
50:04Shout out.
50:04Shout out.
50:06So,
50:07um,
50:07yo,
50:08are you planning on,
50:09on doing anything new?
50:11Cause I saw you did a track with DJ views and,
50:14and,
50:14and Typhoenix.
50:15I had both of them a couple of months ago on,
50:19on,
50:19on the interviews.
50:20Oh yeah,
50:21man.
50:23by,
50:24uh,
50:24my next album is we shoot the video now.
50:27So be,
50:28yeah,
50:28the people that are here,
50:30I hope you check for,
50:33the next album is the gutter project is G U T T R.
50:38Gutter.
50:39And that is me,
50:41Havoc from Mobb Deep.
50:43Woo.
50:44And,
50:45R.J.
50:45Payne.
50:46So,
50:47woo,
50:47woo.
50:48We drop in the first single,
50:50probably in about a month.
50:52And the first single is called roll call.
50:54And I,
50:54I won't,
50:55I won't unveil who's on the song featuring,
50:58but the album's crazy.
50:59So yeah,
51:00we,
51:00we coming up with that Mobb Deep energy.
51:02Uh,
51:02yeah.
51:03All completely produced by Habit from Mobb Deep.
51:05So that's what's next.
51:07And we about to,
51:08we about to come get,
51:09get niggas.
51:10Yeah.
51:11Yes.
51:11Yes,
51:11sir.
51:12Eric G U T T R.
51:14Back this up with these.
51:15That's amazing.
51:16That's amazing.
51:17So.
51:17Barred and these ugly.
51:21So,
51:21so yeah,
51:22man,
51:22cause I saw you were performing on the weekend.
51:24I think I spoke to your manager and you were busy and stuff like that on Saturday.
51:28Are there still any more,
51:30um,
51:31performances,
51:32man?
51:32And so,
51:32uh,
51:34for people to look out.
51:35Well,
51:36uh,
51:36thanks to Jizzle.
51:37Salute Wu-Tang.
51:38Jizzle brought me out,
51:39uh,
51:40the other night.
51:41So yeah,
51:42I had to head out and go to the Jizzle show.
51:44Shout out to my homeboy,
51:45Patrick and Tony and West Coast Creations.
51:47They performed and brought out Tash from the Licks and then Jizzle brought me out.
51:51So I rocked out.
51:52Um,
51:53and,
51:54uh,
51:54I'll be heading to Europe.
51:56So yeah.
51:57And garden girl.
51:58And I'll be heading to,
51:59to,
52:00uh,
52:00I'll be heading to Europe.
52:02At the end of the month.
52:03So we're going to London,
52:05going to Amsterdam,
52:07going to Spain.
52:08Uh,
52:09hopefully we,
52:10we get to Germany and,
52:12uh,
52:12yeah,
52:12we got a couple of weeks,
52:13uh,
52:14out there.
52:15And then,
52:15uh,
52:16I'll come back here cause we got to shoot,
52:18uh,
52:19another video.
52:20And then hopefully I'll go back.
52:22Cause I know,
52:22I know Onyx and Havoc are going out separately and I'll hopefully,
52:27Hey,
52:27promoters,
52:28if you out there,
52:29nigga,
52:29I want to go,
52:29I want to go on either.
52:31Onyx on their tour,
52:34go on Havoc tour.
52:35So y'all look it up.
52:36I'm coming back out.
52:37And then,
52:38Hey man,
52:38I'm trying to get,
52:38you know,
52:39I'm trying to get back to Joe Berg,
52:40man.
52:40What's good.
52:41Promoters.
52:42Definitely,
52:42man.
52:43Yeah.
52:46For sure.
52:47For sure.
52:47We definitely should plan on that.
52:49Cause,
52:50cause I spoke with Ty.
52:51Um,
52:52I spoke with,
52:53with,
52:53with rusty jokes,
52:54you know,
52:55um,
52:55they want to come to side.
52:56So yeah,
52:57let's see what we can do.
52:59Yeah.
52:59I want to run out with Jux,
53:00man.
53:00That sounds like fun,
53:01man.
53:02We,
53:02you know what I'm saying?
53:03Me and Jux need to go run around and go rock and roll.
53:06But,
53:06um,
53:07yo,
53:07I have to,
53:08man,
53:08it's been a blessing.
53:09I got to head to the studio.
53:10I don't want to,
53:11uh,
53:12please,
53:12please,
53:12please.
53:13I don't want to be that guy,
53:13but thank you for having me King.
53:15Please just leave them your,
53:17your,
53:17your social media handles to reach you.
53:20Oh yeah.
53:21I'm easy.
53:21R A S underscore K A double S.
53:24We got a lot of shit coming.
53:26Salute to y'all.
53:26Hip hop nation TV.
53:28Thank you so much.
53:29South Africa.
53:30Much love.
53:30Let's get after it.
53:33for sure.
53:33And I'm coming,
53:33I'm coming for all the colored girls with the gray eyes.
53:35I'm going to knock their pockets off.
53:37And the Indian girls.
53:38You know what it is.
53:39Well,
53:40love.
53:40Keep it down.
53:44Keep it down.
53:44You heard that.
53:46Peace dog.
53:48Yo guys.
53:49Oh,
53:49that was fun.
53:50That was fun.
53:51That was fun.
53:52Jamie.
53:53What's up?
53:53Eric.
53:54Joseph.
53:56Um,
53:57everybody.
53:57Thanks for coming up and thanks for watching.
54:00Uh,
54:01Um,
54:02you're speaking to Piro,
54:03AKA Eclipse.
54:04I'm most an artist.
54:05So yeah,
54:06this is hip hop nation TV,
54:07South Africa.
54:08Um,
54:09the South side of Chuanas,
54:11but to be more specific.
54:14I want to thank you guys for watching our shows.
54:16So yeah,
54:17guys,
54:17you can catch all our other previous shows,
54:21um,
54:21with Typhoenix,
54:22Rusty Jokes,
54:23um,
54:24there's so many other artists,
54:26even punchline and,
54:27uh,
54:28illustrated chaos.
54:29So yeah,
54:30guys,
54:30um,
54:32we'll definitely announce more interviews coming.
54:36Just not sure about the dates.
54:39So please,
54:40yeah,
54:41do stay in touch and do check our Instagram account,
54:46hip hop nation TV.
54:47I'm also available on,
54:49on Facebook.
54:50Um,
54:51even on,
54:52on Twitter,
54:53it's at hip hop nation TV one.
54:55So yeah,
54:57uh,
54:57I'll definitely meet you guys our way of anything that's coming on all our platforms.
55:04For those that want to support us,
55:06um,
55:07you can support us on our buy me a coffee account.
55:10Um,
55:10you can check that on our biography.
55:14So yeah,
55:15um,
55:15I really appreciate you guys for being here.
55:19Um,
55:20shout out to you guys.
55:21I see I got a request.
55:22Mimi,
55:23um,
55:26yeah.
55:27All right.
55:28Peace guys.
55:29Um,
55:29much love.
55:30I'm out.
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