The Game | Ep. 137 | ALL THE SMOKE Full Episode | SHOWTIME Basketball

we got a good one today. Man to me, someone I've been working with since early early Yeah, man to me, one of the best in the game, no pun intended. Welcome to the show game. Appreciate you pulling up on us us. Uh Man, what's going on with you? We heard the album's coming soon. How's life right now? Um Man? You know if I feel, I feel like if I wake up man in life is good. You know what

I'm saying this? Really, if you wake up and your kids is good, and you know you can with your toes and fingers, you shouldn't have much to complain about. How are the kids? I know you put the kids first, So how are they doing. Yeah, I don't nobody need help with nothing. That's all I'm hearing is I got it, I got it right. And it's like, yeah, once you get them to that point, you can kind of, you know,

dive back into you know, living your own life. Harlem is at Oregon um hoping and uh he almost nineteen. That's the baby on the documentary, which is crazy because time just be out of here, you know. I'm so I can remember really trying to get him, trying to trying to get him to stop crying on the album cover so we can get my photo. Now he doing this thing up in Oregon, man, and then uh my

my middle something by the turn fifteen on Saturday. And then Callie is everybody Mama, she eleven, She's the boss five eight though, so it's like, you know, yeah, uh album coming, Drillmatic tells us about that, who's on it, who helped produce it? Into dropping Drillmatic. What I can say about is, uh, this is like, uh really really me and rare forms it's probably my it's not even probably it's my best album to date. I know that's you know, when I tell people that, saying yeah, it

is ain't a lot um. But you know, I've been with myself my whole career, and I know, uh, I know when I'm pushing, when I pushed myself to certain limits, what I'm what I'm gonna be able to accomplish. So this album is definitely definitely the best best album of my career and definitely gonna be the best best hip hop album this year. Who who'd you get to work with?

Who helped produce producing it? Straight? It's hit boy um off off rep Hip and boy majority is hit Boy, my dog Big Duke, and then uh, this kid Davon, who is amazing, came in the fourth quarter. You know, I got the Timerlins and Swiss beats and you know, just blaze um in there. But yeah, it's just work and with my working in the house with my guys, you know, the guys you build a chemistry with. It's

sort of like that Premo Nas moment. You know what I'm saying, when you when you're working with people you're comfortable with. It ain't nobody from the West Coast that go hard on the jet Blade you belong with. Yeah everything. Yeah, that's why I had to make sure I gotta you know, I got one from Josh Blade, Sir going and raised in competent in nineteen eighties. You said you don't even like to talk about your past because it was so messed up, you know what saying? You want to talk

about the future for your kids. Explain that to me. Um, I just feel like, you know, a lot of people like just like to delve in in in the past past situations. I think, uh, um, when you think about situations to sort of rendered you helpless, you know what I'm saying, You get you can, it's easily for you. I mean, it's easy for you to dive back into those emotions too, and then to pull yourself back out of that and try to function in a in a present day can be a little bit more difficult, you

know what I'm saying. So I'm trying not to focus on the past at all. Like the past, the past, and you know my past is so you know back there that um, it almost seems you know, it's surreal, like it didn't even really happen or it wasn't my life, Like getting shot. That's starting to be like a fad of memory, you know what I'm saying. Like, really, you know some people that I even went to high school. What I see and you know, don't know, you know, not to you know, shoot on nobody. It's just that

I leave that there. You know what I'm saying, I'm so focused on like tomorrow that I can't even like turn around for too long, you know. Yeah, and and and that that kind of goes to me not being able to really relate to people that they've really been through nothing. You know what I'm saying, You go through so much in the past to give what we are now is like Mann, what happened back then? Like I'm here and I'm trying to stay here, especially especially the

hurtful moments. You know what what I'm saying, the things that you know could have damned they're killed you or you know, people that you know passed away or meant untimely demonss back then. Like I ain't really trying to think about that, you know facts. What's your favorite part of being a father?

I think just that that aspect. I think that, uh, having people that you created, you know what I'm saying, Like you like we we don't even give ourselves as much praise, you know, as we should, Like you're creating humans like that, Like you know, you've got people out here. You know they you know, working factories. They're creating trucks. You've got people creating computers, micro shop were creating people

that create things. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, man, it's like yeah, yeah, Like as a father, you know, that's what you really want. You know, you know, the mothers be hot when they come out looking just like you.

But yeah, man, Um, the best part of being being a father is just that, like being able to um reredo, you know what I'm saying, relive your life doing them, being able to you know, tell them yo, no no, to go around that or go left for them, go here, I've been through that, you know what I'm saying, Like, that's that's the best part to me, is just being able to really really be like the tutor for them. Uh. You were known for hooping back in your day, probably

one of the best rapping basketball players. Uh. Talk to people how you fell in love with basketball? The young age? Um? Basketball, the young age it was. It was the first of my grandmother. Um where I got my you know, got my name from games. She used to take me to the Great Western Form. We used to watch magic and you know, Magic do his thing and the showtime Lakers,

James Worthy and all of them. Uh, Michael Thompson, Michael Cooper, like you know those guys so early on, Like you know, basketball has always been like you know, really implemented and and was was implementing my childhood. My pop star used to hoop a little bit. He wanted to shoot with two hand niggers. You know what I'm saying. But yeah, but but we but we was out there, you know what I'm saying. But all love and all praise due

to my grandmother Rest in piece. She would always take me to the Lakers game, and so I repaid her a few times. Um, you know before she passed, taking her to see you know, the Lakers and you know Kobe and and and getting getting her shoes signed by Kobe and sitting on the wood and so I got to it was sort of a three sixty moment. But yeah, who is you know, you know what it is? Man?

Like who your hoop dreams? Man? Um that outlet being able to play basketball at the same park as Venus and Serena's playing tennis, but not knowing you know, we're going parallel universes. It's crazy. So it's like the King Richard movie. I could have damned there have been mad and I wouldn't in it because right now, But you know what's crazy about that is they really was out there man, and like he really caught some some hard days, some hard times, really trying to get his daughters through.

But we was all trying to make it out, you know what I'm saying. So you run across them of the young age all the time. It was always on the tennis court, always on the tennis court, because we're all come of the same age. Right. Yeah, Since you spoke on the Lakers, Uh, you know that's the team you have to live if you're from here, if you're in charge, they say, I want you to run this franchise. They don't have no significant draft picks this year, no

real cap space. How you fix the Lakers? Um? How you fix the Lakers? She um? I would damn you listen to trades for I listened to No, I don't listen to trades for us. Keep Rush, keep keep Russ, I keep Lebrian, I dump everybody everybody. Yeah, and I read I keep Monk, I keep on, I keep on and look and all those my guys. You know de Howard, those my guys. I mean, that's my guy. Um a d that's my guy. Um mellow, that's my guy. You

know what I'm saying. I just think that you know, too much firepower on the same team is just you know what that man? You need? Yeah, you got you need role players. Man, it's only one ball. We're talking Westbrook, Carmelo, A d um Dwight Howard, we're talking Lebron like you know, Monk, like obviously need to rocket some person, man, because he just one of those guys. He was like that in Charlotte,

um and I've been following him since college. But yeah, I would I would keep Westbrook for she again, similar age you grew up in with, grew up in a similar hoops scene. Who is some of the dudes you grew up playing with that went pro and maybe some

of the dude that didn't. I think that the only person there was one, one, one guy that I didn't want that I fear playing where like when we matched up, it was like my heart was beaten before the tip off, and uh, we don't know two guys, one of them here, one of them not beatty, was so fear Beatty was feared three three crazy um. Beatty was feared, and it didn't matter when you matched up against cross Roads like I've seen like me and beat we we played slimm

and jam together. He played like you know, we we we was around the city like you know, hooping like and Beaty did a lot of like street hooping too, with street scrapping with a smoke be Yo facts out the swans like you know, yeah and uh, and so Beattie was. It was fair because even though he played for Crossroads and that was in Santa Monica, like that was a real hood nigger and so he he knew how to keep his composure enough to like not let it shine. But that's why we grew up in content

went to cross Roads. That's why he don't know who he wanted to be. We don't know who we want to be. But so we we we we we we we We went for the tip off at our teas at one time, it was probably like tenth grade and I had hot like I had dumb bunnies, right, dumb hops. So of course I go for the tip I tempted, but it go I don't know behind me, So no, it went in front of me. Beat caught it that nigga muster did like three moves to two steps after

that and jumped. I jumped with him. Ship in the rim, got me, got me, and I ain't been dunked on a lot of times. You know, I get physical, like it's gonna be a flagrant. But yeah, but not Beat took it off. They called my you know, coach call the time out and off rip because I was at Freemont, you know what I'm saying with Houston and and and um in my whole squad there. But yeah, man, they called the time out and coach was like, Yo, what's up?

And I was like, Yo, I'm ready, I'm ready, and then we end up getting smacked anyway, he was crazy. And then I caught Uh. I scored thirty on a on a Ray Young but he had forty five right there. Yeah, so let me tell you why they used to They used to call Ray NBA Ray. Ray is one of the coldest hoopers l A ever seen. We talked about Ray taking this thirty piece though, said Ray, Look, I remember the day. I remember the day, like like yesterday. We was. We was in the gym Domus Dominus. Uh

cow State, Domingus Hills right for a tournament. Thinking. Ray walk in Cortet's home. Some short white tea, blond hair, blond hair, beautiful eyes. Look, I had a look. I had a little chick. I had a little chick with me from west Chester. Right. She's like, oh, that heard her friends, Oh that's Ray Young. Everybody around the gym, pretty boy Ray, like yo, all talked about Nicky. I'm like, Yo, we're not going down. It was pretty yo. Man. Ray was nasty. He could do everything. Bro. He was. He

had to jumper. He had his cold little little shimmy fade. Hops was out of his world handles. Ray was crazy. I don't know what he got now go back then, remember that date though, right, crazy And we chopped it up after the game, man, and I wonder the thigs like I needed, I need to take a shower. After the game, Ray was so so pretty boy. And they put back his clothes and like the nig didn't looked like he sweated. Put he put back on the white

T shorts. Was still crispy. You know what I'm saying, threw back on the court's heads, walking by the right. It was good for that. Ul did never used to take shot. He liked to lay in the bed after we played, like, Bro, get your motherfucking as the show. Now I'm gonna take a quick nap. This nick used to take them pills, nah man, shout out the ray young man. One of the coaches. Some of the other ones, well, Jimmy Bruner obviously obviously stronger than every other nigga on

the court, just like a pit bull, you know what saying? Um, definitely David Hamilton's super crip. Yo. Yo, let me tell you all Star game with us the next day. Bro, you got shot in the leg and played in the game the next day. But look, let me tell ay Stack crept. Look, they used to put the nigger in

the newspaper as David supercrip Hamilton. Yo, bro, we can you know you asked the recruiters who they came to see all we heard this super cript like I don't know if it's you know, I want the internet back then, so it was like too many people couldn't too many people couldn't weigh in on it. But you know it was in the It was in the newspaper and super

like David supercrip Hamilton. And we're looking like it's bloods like I want to be super blood and it's like while he had it, bro, he had it man, Yeah, and not shake cotton. That was our lebron Shaye cotton. Shake cotton was all Lebron. Bro. When he walked in the gymnna, tell you like she walked in the gym, everything stopped. Everybody stopped, everything stopped. Whoever he was playing got scared coach everybody, every every tournament and it was

a fifty piece every night, every night. It's just one of those freaking nature type of niggas where he just you just knew he was gonna be like you know, he was going to like be a Kobe or the last freshman in high school that was on the cover, crazy bro bro Right, No, not a freshman in high school was on the cover as a freshman high school. Yeah, I don't think nobody's ever done that as a high school. It was, uh, is it truth for rumor that you

got a scholarship to play hoop at Washington State? Yeah, but it was short lived because I chose, I just chose gang banging off the rep ro weed on the scholarship letters. Mombs was piste off and I really not, it's it's a real thing. You know, a lot of people it's a it's a laughing moment, yo, it's a laughing moment now. But you know, in in in retrospect, like I really wanted to take Gangbangers there. That ship was cool to me back then, and and like niggas

was really getting to it. And I didn't have to go far to go to Washington hoop and they got had to take a plane train, you know what I'm saying. To game bang and be an all star in the hood and still be able to go to Southwest College and you know hoop and and and stay local was like a nigga's dream. And you gotta think the mindset of a of a of an African American teenager back then,

you Loki scared the leader hood number one. We can't even go too much too far left right, and you know in content anyway without getting sweated a trip and some thing of going to like you know, having to go play in Long Beach just you know, in the More League and really going to have to play niggas

and go that far. So the thing going out of state and going that ship like wasn't realistic for a kid with no Internet who couldn't see a Washington like you couldn't google it, couldn't see it, like just to throw yourself into that, like niggas was scared and what you were comfortable with was right in front of your face.

So that was a decision that was a career choice for me at the time and for you know, everything that happened from Nanta now, I mean, and I'm on the couch, so I mean, it was some fucked up things that I went through. But I mean, I'm where I'm at. What other music did you grow up on? I'm really I'm really an old these R and B dude, Like when I get in my car, I don't listen to no rap like I put on you know, Marvin Gaye, appointer Sisters, Like I'm in there rolling to what my

mom's cleaned up on Saturday. When I when you wake up on Saturday and you hear that, you know you Annita Baker and Mary Jane girls in the Vacuum, you know what I'm saying. Like that, those that like that was the type of music that wrote the soundtrack to my childhood. So as an adult, you know, I find solace in the listen, you know, listen to what I came up on. You got shot and batter injured, You're recurring from the hospital and had your brother bring your

classic hip hop album from there. That's when the game took off. Um, I had it was It's a little bit more complex than that. I was. I woke up bout Tacoma and, uh, for some reason, like I had this long recurrent dream that I was, you know, on one or six and part couch. I don't know why. I never wrapped in my life up to this point. Actually my brother was a rapper. But um, for some reason, I had rode out in my mind five things that

I wanted to do. Number one was like go apply at Home Depot because I was just always drive by. Home Depot would always say now hiring, and I figured, like, you know, like one day, like I probably could manage this thing and be district manager. I'll be running Home Depot. I don't know why I had that, uh damn my mind, but that was number one. Number two on my list was after I got shot, I was like, I'm really about to, you know, go back. You know, I'm gonna

go go hoop. I'm gonna find somewhere to hoop because that was always my love. But then I was shot up, so it's like, Niga, how long is that gonna take? So third on my list was to uh become this huge rap superstar and had no idea that it was even possible. It was just I was trying to figure out I definitely don't want to get shot again. That

ship was crazy. So I had to come up with five things that that you know, would would be an escape for me, and so rap was number three, with which ended up and number one because it was the easiest to attain. I felt like because all I would have to do is get this notebook, study some of the greats, and then I would have me some bars. Well, even though I thought it was that easy, it wasn't

because my first ship was like trash. My sister was like, you need to stop this now, like nigga weak, and I was just like fun that, like I'm about to

you know. I started watching one of sixty Parkers. I was recuperating from my gunshot wounds at my grandmother's house and uh lo and behold like after like sixty days, like I was ready, Like I was ready, So I started entering and I remember I went back to school and I tried to hoop at US three of those college but my ankle would you know, would give out and ship from my wounds. So I was like enter this little rap contests and I wanted a few of

them ships at the at the college. And then Russell Simmons had um had this hip hop summit at UH at the college sum I mean not the college, c UM the convention Center in in l A. So I went to it. Saw Snoop Dog Snoop Dog Nigger in my life, I was nine nineteen. I've seen Snoop Dogg Nigger. Never seen Snoop Dog ever in real life. Ship was like crazy that I'm walking up on Snoop Dogg. And the nigga was like what's happening? Cup? And I was like, yo, I'm game. He was like okay, he was like what

you do? And I was like I was like I raped, and so he was like what's this something? Because I was like Ship. Then I was going in my mental roller decks and I got like hell of wraps, so um, you know, I come out there, I come out and I'm just like it's the game. Mr. Tinder Windows with your brain since young ing up and coming on, I did was cop Cane ain't trying to change the game. They got still cop Cane. I ain't moved out the hood.

Still stay where the cops Cane. He was like, hi, nephew, you could go, cause he was like, good luck with your career. And I was like, oh, okay, So you don't just meet and gets on because that means he Snooper tell you. So Snoop mobbed off with like trade and Goldie logan. I was like, man, were they go Snoop in the East Siders? So then I was like, all right, cool, Snoop ain't sucking with it. And so I found a pack of niggas freeestaling. So I and

over there spits some most ship. Well it was a nigger name uh fat Rat and uh this nigga named j T. Big j T the Bigger figure. They was over there and uh and I was spitting and then I was walking away. As I walked to my car, JT the Bigger Figure was like, hey, you're hard. He was like, I want to bring you to the Bay record a demo. So, um, you know we go to the Bay and uh, well no, he said I'm gonna

have a flight for you back. Then again, man, nigga's selling what tickets all the time, so I'm like, yeah, whatever, I ain't never even been on the airplane, you know what I'm saying. So he had a flight, and I'm like, shouot. I told my brother name, I'm going to the Bay. So I went up to the Bay and I end up staying out there for a month recording my whole demo. And because I was so fresh to hip hop and in the recording process, when I wrote my wraps, I

didn't know. I didn't know like wrap format, so I didn't know you had a sixteen bar verse or twelve bar verse and then you have an eight bar hook. I didn't know any of that. So all my ship was freestyles. But I'm from Compton, So when I was doing my uh, when I was recording them, niggas was thinking like I was on some New York freest that I just didn't know when to stop. So all my ship on my demo just sound like a bunch of freestyles.

So that you know, that's how I end up getting signed because niggas is like, who is this nigga from Compton's freestyle and like you from New York and really I just didn't know soon for Matt, So nigga's niggas had to tell me like, all right, that's like five minutes, like you're good, because I would just keep rapping until I felt like it, you know, like I'm out of breath of something. So that ship ultimately end up getting me a deal with DRE and uh yeah, how was it?

You can't just say gotta deal with how I want to hear? How that? So yeah, so basically I came back with my demo and um, I end up meeting uh, you know d you know d Mac. I end up in d Mac and Cato and they had some connections with you know, so with Puff. So I went around with Puff for a minute and this nigga Puff never let me get in the studio. All we did was party, nigga. And I'm like, Nigga, I really want to be a rapper, nig Like we just partying. He was like here, here,

here go another bottle of cheff. Hain't playboy, and you know some bitches over there and me and Mario wan Is, you know, traveling with Puff and and Loom back in the day, and I never got in the studio. So one day Puff came over the idea. He was like, after all this party and for a whole year, this nigga was, you know what Playboy, you should go see Dr Dre And I was like, I don't know how

to do that. But d Mac was like, you know, I know somebody and then um uh, Mike Lynn, who was Dr Dre's homie, ended up coming to Cedar Block and uh, you know, like asking who was game. And the first time he came, we pulled guns out on him and because we didn't know, like nigga came on the block, somebody like I'm looking for a game Dr Drey Simmon, So we didn't believe him, so we pulled guns and run him off the block. Second time he came back and he was like, you know what Dre

told me, come back and get the game. And you know, if I die over here, I gotta die, but come back with the game. So I told I told my brother body. He was like, well, let's go. So we went up to Aftermath and uh, when I walked in, um I had seen Snoop again. Yeah, yeah, be a dog. We shocked up him and Nate Dog was smoking in the kitchen. Uh you know, God rested. So Buster was there. I saw Eve that night. Rock Him was there actually rapping on the end of like right into the end

of the the club beat Crazy. So it's like before fifty had in the club, Rock Him had in the club. And so when I walked in the opened the door, that ship was just like, you know, it was that moment because it's like Dr Dreyson right there and gang of itches all over the studio and women for the groups out there are gonna try to say cancel, you know, but yeah, gang women in the studio and Drey turned down the music and he was just like you game.

I'm like, yeah, I just finished whipping up, cracking everything. My T shirt was, my neck was drunk and definitely was opposite of what Ray Young had on that one day when there. But I walked in and he was like welcome aftermath, and I was like, damn, yeah, I feel good. So I went out. I walked out and I freestyle with busting rhymes and that ship was like

the one of the highlights of my career. And then after that it was on explain when you're getting on so what years this when you're getting on this is two thousand and two. What's the rap scene because you you went after Yeah, it ain't no rap scene. It's uh. I think Kanye just had a car accident and he was getting signed. I think I came in right when Kanye was like getting his Rocketfeller chain on it on the stage and Through the Wire. I think Through the

Wire was just coming out. UM fifty had mixed tapes out, but the album wasn't done. Um the rap scene ship, it might have bet the hottest nigger might have been Nelly and Cheney no cat like, it might have just been them. I know Rick Ross was coming in Miami, but he was still young. Jeezy Jez was the Magic City and the strip clubs in the Atlanta getting his rotation.

Because I was out there with d Mac and Big meach and and Baby Blue and all those niggers running around with bmf UM and so yeah, the the rap scene was real. Little Johnnish and little and and and Chingy Changy was And when I say Chaney nig don't even I'm not. I don't say that. I ain't even talking about the units. I'm talking what we are all doing for had bit ship Yo, Cheney Nigger. You see Chengy coming b. I remember being in the Beverly Center

one time with Cheney Nigger. They was running chasing the nigga through them all like it was crazy chinky. So yeah man, so yeah man. The rapt scene as far as the West Coast, it wasn't nobody. It was Snoop and Dre, but there was iconic already at that moment, and so it was wide opened. So it hadn't been uh ship since really since Pok died, you know what I'm saying. It wasn't nobody like no freshman, so it was it was wide open for him. The documentary it's

how did your life change? After that? I could remember I had a shootout in the hood with some uh with some with some Mexicans, um, and we had to shootouts on the same day as the documentary drop, which is crazy. So I went to my album release party with my windows shout out my Range Roverer crazy and you know it's crazy. B d Um B d Co signed for my first Range because I ain't no credit.

BD went down to the Range Roller. He took me down to the Range Rover dealership and you know, I took the money and he put half with me and was like, yeah, you deserve it. And then then and we left with two range Rovers. So yeah, and then I got the windows knocked out of mind and Beatty went back to doing what he do. But yeah, so I drove to Hollywood with no front window. Hello wind coming through the tor released party to the album released party,

and Nigga drove up. Nigga thought I was crazy, but I was like, Nigga, this is my whip, Like I'm not getting back, I'm not getting out of this and getting into Monte Carlo. Nigga like this is range Rover. So I drove it like that I'm talking about. Nigga looked like one of the whole Max Hill uh take negative logo. Yeah, I can remember like still like being like the album was like went platinum and we're still on the block. Is it a competitive thing? Is it real? Beef?

What is it? Because y'all had some great motherfucking music together and then you guys do some competitive type ship talking on the internet, Like where is that situation that fifty is? Like? Uh, fifty at one time used to be like this this real street, super street Nigga, Right, and uh, you know outside of you know, his his you know, the snitching allegations and all the paperwork that they got on him to say he told and all that ship, which is his business, and not mind Um,

the nigga was a really hood nigga, you know. Um. And so I can't I can't not validate who I met and who he was because we you know, we had some times in the streets, um which ship got real when I was right there and see him do his thing. But um, as far as like now, I mean, obviously he's older and you know into the you know, uh you know in the TV and doing that star on Hollywood and all that, and I like all the TV shows. I think it's great. His his hip hop presence,

he don't have none, not not in today's time. So it's like me and me and him. I think I'm the only negative he really, he really don't play with because when you you know, when when when it's me, it get, it gets for real and and it don't end. So he might say a little something, I might say a little something, he might go away. But other than that, like you know, fifty is like he like the like

like a bully. You know what I'm saying, but at these at this like today, it's like a comedic bully, you know what I'm saying, because it ain't really gonna be too much actually, and it's more it's more so you know, jokes and memes and ship like that. But um, I think that he knows, he know where where I stand as far as like you know, holding myself now and he staying where he's staying. And like I said, I ain't got nothing, but you know, kudos to get

him for everything on TV. But this rap ship like lead that alone? How important is the Easy to you everything? Easy was a person that I met one time, Um, not enough to say like we had a whole meeting. I was a kid and he was in Competon like handing out like turkeys and Christmas gifts. He was always there for that Easy. He was always there for the kids, the community and Compton, like he really wanted Compton to flourish.

And so when I came in the game, like of course, like I grew up in the eighties, so in w A you know, was everything, uh you know for me and my siblings. So I always I'm always gonna go back to giving Easy everything he deserves. I mean, this is a man that took dope money and put a group together and that group end up being you know, one of the biggest uh you know, rap groups of

all time, if not the biggest. UM And look who Easy was like the first Dr dre if we can say Dr dre put On like you know me and fifty and Eminem and Snoop and did all that like Easy put on the whole n w A. Not to take nothing away from Cube and nothing in his writing and what he did, but it was easy that Um really went and got the deals done and got really you know, made of something to doctor. Go back to

the documentary for a second. My uh start my Life from scratch and the song with Faith that's the That's some songs that I jammed a lot of times and songs that probably I jam when I got it on my mind. You know what I'm saying. So salute to those, UM. I tell how Kobe personally thank you for making that album. Um. Kobe throughout his career UM with just he would he

would either shoot me a text. And it's funny because having Kobe number in your phone and not abusing it was like you had to ask some real restraint because I had so many like niggas Kobe, like they wanted to talk to Kobe every day, you know what I'm saying. Even even if even if, like you know, you had obviously different mothers and fathers, like you still felt like he was a brother, you know, because any time he

talked to him, he always had some game. And one thing that Kobe asked me, he was like, yo, when you're going like get on your business and step aside, you know what I'm saying. From the from the streets, and I was just like never he was like ah see see and just you know, he'd be like, all right, I get with you. But um, one thing about Kobe and the documentary, every time I've seen him, every time we talked, he would just always tell me how much that album meant to him. But even more so then

the documentary, it was the doctor's advocate for him. The doctor's advocate was the one. You know what I'm saying. He was just like, yo, like one blood and like I work out every day every morning, I'm up and I throw this on. And every time I came to the Staples Center to see Kobe, like he if he saw me. I don't know, I've never seen the nigga with the phone in his in the shorts. It was it was, yeah, it was, it would start, it would

start running man. And so like, I still feel in debt it to Kobe just for his contribution to the city, for him never wavering from you know, like playing for the Lakers, never being traded, and never abandoned the ship, like just taking it in the last game. Oh my god, I said that, Yo. I watched it. I watched his double team. It wasn't easy. I watched the get sixty on the way out, and it's like that, like when

we talked about Kobe, I mean under these glasses. If I say that, say his name too much, I'm gonna start crying because it's like you would never I would have You would have never thought in a million years that Kobe would me the untimely demiseed Sperhero. And let me tell you about that day, erie as fun as it was, I was leaving the recording studio and it was hella foggy, like I'm talking about on the on the ground level. It was foggy. I couldn't see and

I was like, Nick, I got a damn there. Take the streets home. I can't get on the freeway. Just when I went up the ramp on on I mean on Barham and I got on the one on one and the ship was way too foggy, so I got off and then I took Ventura all the way home, and the whole time I was saying that I can't see I'm driving slower ship. And then um when I woke up phone crazy and I was like and niggas, niggas just hit me like, yo, you heard about Kobe. And I'm thinking like Kobe, Like I know Kobe, right,

but maybe it's like some other news. Definitely wasn't thinking like nah. And then when they told me like you know, his kids or his wife might have might have been with him, you know, the father, and the kicks in and I'm just started, I'm real visual started. I started thinking of last moments and I put myself there, if it was me, what would I tell my daughter? What would I tell my family? And that ship like to this day, bro to this day, like I drove by

the crash site on the way here. I live in Calabaska, so I mean I can't if I'm going you know, down last virginesses. It's you know, it's what you gotta do to get you know, over here here to Sena Monica and that Kobe man. And she's still feeling real, probably to y'all too, probably to me. It's just like Kobe.

But if anybody's legacy memory, if anybody is in the afterlife looking down or has a presence, that's the only it's really the only reason I believe that you know you should leave you know, valuable footprints is because of people like Kobe, like you could fill him. He everywhere. It's his city, man, and that's my brother, and uh, you know, I appreciate everything that he did for me the city of Los Angeles, and uh, you know, my my breasts gets short and and my eyes well up

when um when when talking about him, everybody. After following out with g Unit and Interscope, you went to New York to uh create the Doctor's Advocate. Yeah, what was it? What was going on in your mind at that time? I hated everybody and everything that had anything to do

with fifty, Interscope and Wrap. It was me time, and I just wanted my people that was riding with me and fucking with me to to ride with me, and everybody that I thought that was did except Dr dre Um and and again he had his reasons and and you know, to let you know, I thought like I thought hip hop was something totally different than what it was.

You know what I'm saying. I thought like when niggas signed you that like it's a camaraderie and it's a brotherhood and it's like, uh, you know, bad boy, or it's like a rocket fell I had like when you're twenty five years old, you're not thinking paperwork, and you're not thinking business, and you're not thinking bold black print. You're just thinking like, I'm after math and we got these chains on and I'm g unit and we're supposed

to be a family. But it wasn't like that. It was all business for them, and it should have been all business for me. I just had nobody to tell me years old if that was the way it went. If if I had known, I would have not been as violent as I was. I would have had an understanding, um, because that's one thing about me. When I get an understand about something, I'm good with it. You know what I'm saying. Long as it's been communicated that this is how it is and I can't you know, I'm not

I'm not mad. So um, yeah, doing the Doctor's Advocate. I went into the Sony studios to the bottom, the further studio I could get from, you know, the surface, and I sat in there for you know, three months, and I recorded this album and it's my most West Coast sounded album, but it was all recording in New York. Um and Naas came down there with me. Buster came down there with me, and they contributed to the album.

Jamie Fox came in. He flew in from l A to New York on a private jet just to you know, be you know, be a part of the album because I asked them to Um and yeah, man that that album meant a lot to me because it was me showing the world that I could do it without Dre.

Fifty was saying he was writing all my raps, which was crazy to me because like the here comes another you know album that went five times platinum and they're gettn't write nothing and they had no Dre beats um and so yeah, man, that album is the one that meant a lot to me. So again going you know, doubling back on the Kobe thing when he told me that that was the album that he funk with the most out of you know, the two that I had

at the time. It meant a lot to me because I know what I put into it, I know what I sacrificed, and I know how hard it was to get it to see the light of the day because fifty had just went Diamond, and so to put out my album when I was disrespecting Jimmy, I been disrespected Interscope and disrespecting everybody except Dr dre Um at that moment, and for them to still put that album out, that means what I did in New York, like had Warrant and One Blood drove that album because niggas like fleg,

dj K slig R, I p Um, like nigg is still behind me, DJ clue um uh everybody like Kid Capri, they always bumping One Blood And so that when I bought it, by the time I got back to it was on yeah, Nas buster legends. I was being spending that time with them. Nas. Hey, you get a you get a glass of red wine, man and and and a wine glass and you pour nas some opus one or some one of them expensive bottles that he liked to drink. Man, and you're gonna see Sincere from Belly.

You're gonna see God's Son. You're gonna see Illmatic. You're gonna see not like it's it's it's crazy when you see Nas, that nigga just looked like the coolest nigga. And I don't care what room you walk into. It just he just he becomes the coolest nigga around when you see him. And so, UM, it always been that way. And so I've always been a big Nas fan. Um, one of my top three best rappers, most that most

you know, motivated me to most of my career. Always show him love when I see him, seeing him with hit Boy, you know a few months back and you know, we gave each other kudos again. I thanked them again. Um. The album is half named Dramatic because of you know Nas, Yeah, because of that and his contribution to that, Um and buster busters like it ain't we like that. That's the only nigger that uh that I listened to literally to

this day. Um, when he said and it might not be right then, but I when I get back in my car, I go sit by myself somewhere in the dark. It what he said starts. Uh. I started to recollect, you know, those memories of the conversation before, and it always resonates later on Buster called me borderline disrespectful. He always say that he go the line and you just run full speed up to it, and they didn't hit the breaks like this much. So yeah, he was like, yo,

so you gotta you know that's bust man. But I love him to death. That is that is my absolute, absolute big brother. Uh, inside and outside of music. He'd been there to steer my career and I feel like, uh, and I never said this before on camera. I feel like if it wasn't for Buster, um, then me and fifty probably be Biggie and Pop in this hid crazy. Yeah, he slowed you all down. H You mentioned that? Yeah, real, you said in your early career in you didn't know

it was business. You later found out it was business. Broke Free created your own label, UH in two thousand twelve of the World. The thought process behind that, I sat, I sat in my home with UH, with myself and my glock, and I felt like I should I want to be off this label me myself and my clock. Yeah, man, I felt like I felt like I wanted to be

off this label. I feel like I had a you know, like a nine album deal with some crazy shit and that's basically a whole career if you even make it to that for and I was like, I had one more album to put out. I think, uh that our old Interscope and uh So I went up to Interscope with this gun and uh I demanded to be let go. Um. I ain't brandish it in the lobby or you know,

pull it out until I needed to. But I went up there and the you know, the heads that were in the room when I came in, they know, and I was let go. And uh I've been independent ever since. I made more money than I did being signed to Aftermath M and Interscope and Geffen after as an independent artist, and I ever had times ten. So yeah, man, independence,

I feel like it's the way. Um. But you know, for people you know signing the major you know the album deals, you know with majors and ship I don't knocked them either, because you know they got the machine and it's easier when you let them do it. And you know, but at the end of the day, you want your masses and you want to if you really like to work, and you really like to put in the work, and you know, so that you can enjoy the Fusia labor and be ableestly, I did it by myself.

If you want those people. The independence is the way question. Creating control and being independent is the same thing basically, right, Yeah. Yeah, Well, if you're big enough independent artists to begin with, and you go sign to a major, you can have your people implement um created control into your into your you know, your contract still be signed to a major and still signed to it later. Yeah, so it's like even though they're the major, you you know, you still call the shots.

And that's what like, uh, let's say quality control or you know, like uh, you know a pe um, you know, the guys that run them labels like you know they like or a birdman like you ain't. Bird man might go put you know, something out through Universal, but he gonna have all to say. So so it's like that, but he asked you know that that catalog. What's your message to the new generation of rappers that continue you get caught up in the street life you didn't see

in the first hand. You grew up in it, um, And like we all know experience as the best teaching. You know, we lost nil, we lost golf, you know, pop smoke, King Vaughan. You know, it's just we all know it's enough as enough. But as we all know too, we know how the streets are too right. So talk about that from him for the new generation, I would say, um, um, I don't know why with me, man, I only I can give. I give advice to my younger guys all the time. It's hard to stand on it when I'm

still ten toes in it. It doesn't mean that I haven't been through what I've been through. Um, Like I got this one line and I and I and I gave nobody no bars on the album. But I say, um, you know I say on my own outro to my album Drillmatic, I said, you know this is nazis it will?

And I say, the audacity of me at forty two years old is still drill because it's like and so the the psychology behind that is that at forty two years old, you should be, you should have you should be in a mindset to where the street life is in the past. But if he died, what two thousand nineteen, two thousand, nineteen, they killed you know, killed my partner

right on crashawn S Lawson, where he's from. Thirty three years old though, and even though he was a bit removed from you know what, what you know what he came up as, which is being a rolling sixties cript, he still wasn't because he cared about the community. He cared about where he was from. So he had to go there and see his people where he wasn't home. And so him dying there, I mean it, you know it as untimely as it was and as tragic as it was, like that ship is a reality for us

out here. And so me at forty two or at fifty or in sixty or seven years old, like I'm from l A. It's what it is. Nigga's been hating, Nigga's people been hating people. People still hate people. Look what's going on in the world. Look at Russia, look at Ukraine, Like what is that about? Like it can't be about anything other than hate. So for me to be forty two years old in the city that has killed Tupac, Biggie, Nipsey Pop, Smoked, slim Fold, Hunted Draco

just got stabbed months ago. For me to look at my peers, these are all niggas that like, you know, either I grew up with I never met Poppet Big, but I grew up on their music. Um, Nipsey was my brother, you know what I'm saying that, Like he came out like I helped him. I helped usher him into hip hop along with him and everything he was doing with his hood and his brother and all that.

Like I stopped on um you know, crenshawn Slawson took Nipsey demo and then brought him to the studio smoked and we did three songs like that and I was and then I took him at Kendrick on tour. So it's like, you know, I helped usher this generation of West Coast hip hop into hip hop. So for me to see my brother die in real time. And that's the difference between Tupac and and and Nipsey is the reason that Nipsey ship hit a little bit harder is

because Nigga there was no internet one. We only heard about it, right we saw Nipsey, that ship was on the Internet for us to see him his his soul, damn there leave his body that ship killed me to my core. It made me so angry that I'm still fucking angry. It made me so angry that I can't let niggas get one up on me. And I'm and I'm against the rapper, and I'm still in the streets. And as much as I Calabasas myself to death, and as far as far as I moved my kids to

the valley, I'm around this city. I'm around this city, and so I gotta keep it on me because I don't trust nobody. I've seen nigga's dying in real time, and I'm sorry. I can't like I can't. I just can't. Let I can't give niggas my life, not in the city that has claimed so many of my peers, and I will not. Does it seem crazy to think that, oh to was my first year in the league forty two? Now? Does it crazy? Thing that you're o g in this gang? Now?

Did you ever see this? Did you ever look far to be, to be perfectly honest, being a nigger from Compton and growing up you know, between Watson Compton hundred fifteenth and Womanton and Niggerson Gardens and then see the block and then you know, my youngest spending my younger days in Santana block crep and just being engulfed in gang culture. I never thought that I would even make

it to see twenty one. And I tell people this all the time, like I say, you know, without sounding honoree or or really um really uneducated or just playing out dumb like I've been trying to die since nineteen seventy nine. Right because I'm out here, I speak my truth. I hear we Pete Newton and Bobby Stale myself in front of cameras. You know what I'm saying. I stand

up for my people and then all of us. And then on the same accord, if I have to, I will kill my brother if he is posing threat on me. You know what I'm saying. It's like I tell and I tell, I tell niggass on the album too. I walk people through this all the time because niggas, you know, they want to know, like, why are you still you know, talking about violence in your you know, in your in your in your music. Nign Do they stopped showing violence on Netflix? Do they shop some violent be you know,

Nigga Rambo do the same thing I do. The only thing different between me and Syvestor to Loan and his nick I'm out here in the trenches. You know what I'm saying, and so my ship is real. So when y'all asked uh S investor Stallone to pick up the script, he's reading what somebody wrote for hi, nigga. I wrote that. I wrote this. You know what I'm saying, So I might here living. And so I tell niggas all the time, if I got to look in the mirror and shoot myself,

I will. And what that means is, I don't wake up with no ill intention on no human being, black, white,

no race. But since I don't know when, or early nineteen hundreds when everything was you know, set up, when they allowed you know, white people to um, you know about the Federal House and acting all that, when they allowed white people the body's houses and said as long as you know, white people buying and and no African Americans allowed to buy them, and you can't even rent or sell your kids kids can't even sell um their house to African Americans too. Now it's still in there.

Of course they don't you know, they don't honor it no more because it would just be that it would be crazy to do that. And in this I like to call it this black moment, right, um, and who knows how long it's gonna last, but it's in there. So it goes all the way back then even further back to Willie Lynch letters and all that. You gotta do your history. Um. We don't have enough time hit for you know here for me to break it down, but it goes all the way this deep, deep rooted

hate for a superior race. Obviously or at least physically, we know that, um. And not to shoot on nobody again, but I mean we are faster, taller, bigger and by nature, but we didn't do that. We need create ourselves. This is God, and never everybody praises God's God. Um, every race of some sort, whether you call them Allah or Jesus or God or whatever whatever it is that you pick from, whatever tree you pick from, like it's it's has to be one God. So you gotta say that

we're all equal. And if we're all equal, right, if somebody is just a little bit better, you're a little bit faster, you would think that you want to clap and not hate. Where did we get this deep rooted hate from We can go down any street in America and we can find it, and we could bring it back to this day on four twenty, and we ain't even that high yet, So we know what we're talking about. And say that I have a reason to fear myself. I mean, I can't lie on that one, that is true.

I mean just to to still be getting death threats, you know what I'm saying from George Floyd? Ship that and you know I don't wake up to I wake up to draw my day and get high and make some money. That's all I think about. But then just look at my DM and fuck you, nigger, I hope you died. George Floyd was a crackhead, like damn that those still on that? And then and then you're still on that. Actually, I actually to go even deeper even you know, deeper than that. That's just from that, that's

from the opposition. Now, how does it feel when you when you want to wear your chain? You know what I'm saying to the club, and then you just got a nigg over there who looking who might have watched Mike got your jersey, But tonight you just look like food for his family. That's that deep rooted hay that ship has been implemented in African American mindsets, especially of the black male, the black youth, the the the instruments and the institutions that have been structured to break us

all the way to funk down. Says that I should put my clock on when I leave my house. It's not safe. It's not safe. And so at fifty two years old, if I'm rapping. At sixty two years old, if I'm rapping, I'd rather get pulled over and hand myself over then try to climb out the caskets. I've never seen it, dead man climbing a casket. What state do you think the West Coast hip hop is? Then? Like, is in any artists? We know you rock with Kenjy, But is it any young artists, a new artists that

you rock with? Um? There is, yeah, there's it's there's a whole culture of of of young new hip hop artists out here. Um. I would say the one that that I listen to the most of these days probably Baby Came. I like Baby Came. I like Baby Came a lot. Um Um. He also cousins with Kendrick. Kendrick got a new album coming out. Um, I rock with reason. Um, he hardest fucked um there is. Uh yeah, no, they

got it. They got a lot of cash. Man, Like I would just do myself, uh and do them and injustice if I just try ran through some names and didn't run through. They know who we are man, and they are here going crazy. The Baby Stone Gorillas is crazy. That Yeah, get on them. They early too. It's like, you know, it's a good time to catch them. Um t d um comptons is you know, on the rise again. Yeah's a lot of dope West Coast hip hop artists out here. Shout out to Tyler. A lot of people

don't even know he from the trenches. You know what I'm saying. Um, everything he did was just winning. You know his Grammy and all that. That's was dope. Um. And then yeah, me, I'm still here working a lot with Kanye of late. What's that experience? But like, what are some stuff you learned? What? How was that energy envirobe between your two Yeah Kanye? Uh, since me and Kanye had his freestyle battle, Uh, was you at the

Nike Town party? Yeah? So yeah, and I feel like you was there Me and you had this freestyle battle outside of this, uh this Nike town on wil shirt back in the day, it was a fly party. Everybody was there. Chang He was there, but Changy was there, Nellie was there, and like these the niggers, like these the niggas with the most money, most change, most bitches. So yeah, me and yeah, we we end up freestyle and outside of it and and you know, yeah, because

it's punchlines. The chicks was like, I was my ship was all gangster, you know what I'm saying. But I was going. But you had the punchlines and he had the women, and so he beat me that night. And uh but so every since then, man, me and you, we've been locked in. I can remember getting my first beat CD with just k Dot west on. It had like twelve beats on it. One of them was Dreams, and uh we threw you know, Dreams end up being

one of my biggest records. But from there the second album yet again, yea, he was with me on the second album. You know what I'm saying. He was. He gave me Wouldn't Get Far, and we did it that night. As soon as I heard the beat, I was like, wouldn't get far? These wrap stars. You know, you all put your hands up, lady, but uh, and then you did this verse and then we had, you know, another smash.

But I've been my brother, um throughout hip hop. We had sometimes when he called me and he was like, yo, you know, can you please stop talking about my wife? And I was like, you got that, and so I

stopped until I started again. And then and then you know, he wouldn't talk to me for a while, and then and then and then and you know, we're getting the studio and he always he always joked around, you know, like on the contrary with what people might think, like, yeah, is uh you know, he's a comedian too, man, so he'd be shooting me shots um sometimes and I'll be young, he made me uncomfortable in the studios. I'll be like like why you know I'm saying, well, we gotta go there. Um,

But yeah, man, yeah, it's uh. That's my brother. Always got his back and you know a lot of people, I've been catching a lot of flags for saying, um, he did for more for me in my career in the last two weeks than Dre did my whole career. One thing Dre did was signed me right, But Dre signed the hottest nigger in Compton. It didn't matter who was gonna sign me. I was gonna be the next nigger.

So um, as far as Drey and Jimmy Irvin signing me to after Mafia Interscope, they also did themselves a favorite because they had picked up where Tupac left off in signing me because I was gonna be the next nigger. So it's like as much as Dre did for me and signing me, I did for him and bridging the gap for the West Coast. I mean, you have fifty and m but you didn't have nothing on the West Coast. You know what Independent went through, no limit and you know all that. So it's like as much as Drey

did for me, um, I did for him. UM. And he'll tell you that if if we if we're being honest, UM. And so when I say that you did for me, you know more for me in those last two weeks than Dre did my whole career. It's like the conversations I had with you, the billionaire mindset that he put me in, the rooms that I walked in, I've never Dre has never put me in those rooms. So it wasn't to say that Drey wasn't shift. He never did

shipped for me. I'm saying that my mindset and what I know now my financial literacy just from being around this man is more than I could ever repay him. And it is absolutely more than Drey has done for me in my career, because I can remember being signed, the aftermath and being damn there broke. Not saying that with Drey's fault. But Niggas wasn't Puttingniggas on in no money, Like I wasn't part of the Drey the Beats Headphones deal, but I was in the room when Niggas was creating it.

You know what I'm saying. So, and I'm not saying Niggas owe me nothing like you don't. I don't. I don't wake up feeling like you owe me this and you owe me that. It's like the super bowsh it. I didn't feel like like Niggas owed me, you know, like I didn't feel like Nigga's owed me a call

and put me on. I just felt like it's weird that I'm not there and the ship is in the so Far Stadium and it's West Coast and it's like I felt like niggas should have, but I don't feel like they owed me that, you know what I'm saying. So you've been uh talking recently about uh a versus or just a battle with him. Yeah, um again, and I and I hate to break it down like this, but I have to because it's gonna make the most

sense to everybody. It's like, it's like when I just walked you all down Memory Lane with how um, how the housing authority like regulated so that you know, African Americans or Niggers wouldn't ever be able to own nothing. And it wasn't that black people couldn't afford nine thousand dollars and ten thousand dollar homes these homes back and that they cost ten thousand dollars, you know what I'm saying. And there was a lot of you know, working class

black people that could afford it. They just was it was causes where they wasn't allowed to be in there. So we see where black people are now, right, um, And so they we've been in the pits of hell as far as like our financial literacy and our and just our financial status because niggas put weights on our shoulders and held us now well, they did the same thing to us with Eminem, right, because I'm not saying Eminem is not a skilled rapper, right, but there are

men of goats out there. There are niggas out there that are maybe better than Kobe and Michael Jordan will never make it to the NBA. And so I'm saying that Eminem is a and as outstanding lyricists right now, you put him with Dr Dre who is from n w A which you know easy helped create what ice cube and on them. And now Eminem has a stamp. You put him under a machine, right, Interscope, one of the biggest in Universal, which one which is one of the biggest um hip hop conglomerates as far as like

when they put money behind something, it's gonna move. So they could damn there, take this white guy right here behind the camera and tell him that this is who is next. And with the writers and with everything that Dre has an Interscope has under that building, nigas can make him a superstar or you or you could have been a wrap superstar coming under Dr Dre and Interscope.

So I'm saying that we were told that Eminem was the greatest, Oh and by the way, he was white and I had that played a you know, a huge part in his success. Because if you can get white America, you know what I'm saying, Like, you are super solid as far as like album sales are concerned. And then who is he with? He's with Dr Dre. Soon then we got niggas too, So then it's that much bigger than the interscope puts the money behind it. You put the money behind a fucking pal of ship and you

put ship on TV every day. It's only gonna be a certain time before people be like, yeah, we gotta see, we gotta go smell that. I'm yo, I'm not so what I'm saying. So they can literally, they can literally take a nigger who is just skilled, don't put nothing behind him, and that nigger will never see the light of day of the label. Does that mean Eminem's better than that guy? Know? It just means that he wasn't chosen.

So when I say that, you know, I want to wrap battle with Eminem or Eminem is not the rateist rapper or I'm better than him? It is you on Draft night, nigga, who did you think that Matt Barnes is better than you on draft NW you know what I'm saying. And again no, and not know what I'm saying, like what what you got drafted? What at the second round? But your household names? Now, you can't tell me that

what second round? If you was what what thirty pick or forty pick or something like that, that that you thought that thirty nine niggers is better than you're On draft night, you waited till your name was called, but you did. You've seen how many niggers you seeing it up? You'd be like, nigga killed that nigga at someone so or I will kill him? And is that not not the mindset you're supposed to have as a warrior, as

a competitor. So again, start trying to make it sing, like when I see Eminem, I'm a drown Is nigg gonna beat this nigga up? I'm supposed to number one. I'm supposed to think that I'm better than every single rapper else why would I do this ship at all? Well, this is the only point I made because I listened to Eminem too. But I'll tell us that people ain't nobody in our neighborhoods riding around listening to Eminem and

their car. That's all I'm saying, Like we ride to you, you know what I'm saying, But Eminem like we know its songs and renegating on it, but we not riding around Fodem just doing that and we're just not doing that. I and I'll take it away from you. When have you ever heard Eminem song in the club? When have you ever heard the ship in the locker room when they just like, yo, it's the new m I'm about to go crazy when they do the tip off nigger,

so again, so again, so again. It must happen when they get just training for the Olympics or or some ship, or when when white boys are surfing dude, or doing what the fun they're doing, Because I mean, I don't and I'm not taking away from it. I don't hear Eminem in the streets. I just don't. And so again it's like it's it's not saying that he can't wrap the skill set is there. I'm just a better rapper. I just haven't been given the light that he's been given.

They didn't put the money behind me that they did. They put some. But as soon as I as soon as I showed my ass and showed I was a little too black for what they expected. Well the budget stopped. I could have been pushed to eminem heights. Fifty got pushed to those heights because he played nice and Eminem and him or like this, you know what I'm saying. They just don't even know that m wouldn't even do the Super Bowl unless fifty was on it. A fifty way.

Draine put fifty on the on the super Bowl and then then when't showed up, So again that's their camaraderie. So they put the money behind the niggas who played nice. When the niggas told me, you know a lot of people don't notice, like fifty and UH and Jimmy RV. And they gave me a million dollars to UH to stop saying gu not. They wrote me a check. They bought it, bought to try, had the trademark to G nine.

And you remember when I was going around with the rat and doing all that ship that ship hurt killed G Unit. You stopped seeing the candies, the candy cane tank tops and all that ship, all the the whole G Unit mark echo artist, the shoes, all that ship died. You know, I'm saying that ship was a hot commodity at once. U and the cloth, the niggas wearing, the sweats, the headbands, the man everything. That ship died, bro. And

then so they had to pay me. I should have asked for more, but the Nis gave me a million. But then I'm a hood niggers. I'm like a a million dollars just to stop seeing that this word with the check. They wrote the check and I stopped saying it. So again they suppressed the movement, you know what I'm saying, And so I had to, you know, fall over here. And after a while, like they stopped giving me the budget.

So as you started seeing, like my record sales started declining, it wasn't that I wasn't still the same rapper I was. It was that they wasn't putting my shirt on TV and pushing pushing in the radio like they used to like they was doing because I was honorary and I was too disrespectful, borderline disrespectful. So Buster would have it. But yeah, if you don't play nice in these buildings, nigga, you know what it is you are. Your career is

Martin Luther King on the balcony. M hm, and they will kill your career in front of your homies, and Jesse Jackson will be left to tell the story. You know, I know, I know what did help him in the hood though when he had Jay Backpeling on that renegade, Oh my god, that it was tough. Yeah, on that rennegade. I give him that one. Yeah, but see it's a it's a it's a story behind the whole you know,

the whole Renegade and all that. Like if I'm not mistaken, that was Royce the five nine record, and uh and M like uh in ja like J had it. And then M was like like again, this is like my like, don't quote me on this, but like J like didn't get a real chance to like go at him him might have had the last verse and the whole verse might have already been on it or something like that.

But it was Race the five nine song. Like I'm saying, like I told you earlier that in the club along the rock him first, like rock him on the in the club beat he was like rock him was like fucking with the you know that, you know, rock him is rock him. So again, man, it's a lot of a lot of stories and a lot of other moving pieces behind what the headline. You know what I'm saying, Like niggas will see this interview, and of course they'll or any interview that I've done, they'll say, oh, Games

says he's a better rapper than Eminem. I said that, but I also gave him his flowers and said that he's a pretty good lyricist. He just better than me. And if he is better than than me, I want to see. Yeah, a lot of people that's in the top seventy five we talked about all times, and I got better numbers. Then we ain't gonna go there. We ain't gonna go there. Hey, when it's all said and done, Kyrie wasn't in the top seven. Howard Jamison has k

points in boys right and he not in there. But again, man, it's politics. When it's all said and done, we want your legacy to be ship. I want my legacy to be that. Then I stood, I stood on what I on, what I was. And if I mean, if it happens like Nip, if it happens to me like Nip, or it happens to me like um, you know, like Dr Marl Luther King and Malcolm X. Like the one thing I'm not scared of his death, right, How can you

be scared of something that is the inevitable? There is no person in this room that will not meet that right. So it's like you can't scare me with what's coming. It's for show coming, you know what I'm saying. So it's like you can't scare me with that. So, Um, I want to go out or I want to be remembered that somebody that stood on everything that they was and that is a father. Um black, I'm blacker than the sony camera I'm looking into Like, I'm black, unapologetically black,

and I'm gonna be heard. I will not be silence. And um, if you got a problem with it, I guess you gotta do what y'all gotta do. Maybe walk past an airport the need or something. But yeah, like I'm here unapologetically I'm praying. I'm praying that a lot of that's your last days will be in the bed at home, right next to your kids. That's what I want for you can't wait. Quick hitters wanted Dawn. First thing to come to mind. If you could be remembered by one bar a lyric in your career. What would

it be? It would be um, ha ha, I got some ship on my chest. I must confessed last night I was the negative shut up your projects. Now I'm back in the hood with rocks and the Tan Khakis and the Nike EDGs with checks. Don't give me started. I was forced to live this life, forced to bust my chrome. My pops left me in the Forster home. I felt abandoned like quick now that Mossburg, I don't happen the assets with the Mossburg. That's it feel that. Uh build your l A starting five and starting five

and you're in it. So U plus four from l A, whether they went pro or not, I'm gonna take six. Man. Um, I'm gonna definitely due. I'm gonna do Kenny Bruner and and bed in the backcourt bullies two bullets, yess, I'll put Ray Young at the three. I'm gonna go Charles O'Bannon at the four for me. And that was like our little hood Barkley and Uh I got Gilani McCoy, Oh yeah yeah. A lot of sported, a lot of spartners in the seventh away U c l A, yeah yeah,

say term you got honorable mention term. He think he's still thinking nice, He's still thinking ask why you be cussing everybody out every time you make a shot? Bro? Your terms like the black hoop in Yosemite Sand, Think about it, Think about that every shot east side east side? Bro, what do you do to you? They know they know top five l A. M C's of all time. Um, definitely in any order, any order, UM m c's I would go because I know the different between rappers and mcs. Yeah,

I would go ice Cube, um Kendrick myself. This is in no order. Um damn That four and five get tricky as fun because um and Sea's West Coast forty forty water Man and uh at five. But it could have been in any order. I'm gonna have to go with mc ran hard hard uh favorite hood spot. Food wise, it's like kind of under the radar favorite just one, yeah, or you give us a cup if you want. Uh, Mama nakusscsin fries fire that should come off the grill like I don't know who who makes Mama Na Mama

nas uh tams TAM's town's been there for nigger. Um, the nigga domino is always brain especially especially when they first when they first see a lot of people don't know when they first came out with it. If it ain't there in thirty minutes, it's free. We want to ask nig would open the door. There's a block the streets like Nigganna. So yeah, man, I'll just do five Randy Donuts. Man. You know, you come on from l A X, you come from Bob, you come from whatever,

like Randy's is there for you? Man, and you take your Mandy You're putting the microway six seconds and then uh five man, Man, Travis Barker's Crossroads. The vegan drink. It's crazy. That's one on melrose Is. They're about to put one in Calabass. Okay, I ain't vegan, but I'd be vegan. Ea there with five guests that are alive. Uh man, I gotta sit with I definitely gotta sit with Bob Marley, um just on the just to smoke,

um that are alive. Dream dinner, Bring back Nick. We got some Moe finished business things we're talking about Tupac for show. Never met poc. You might just a whole all in bro Yeah man, yeah, yeah, Hey hey Kobe ship Man probably buy a dog from exs at the dinner the whole last question, if you could pick one guest that you want to see on All the Smoke, who would it be? But before you answer, but you have to help us, help us get your answer on

the show. All right, So it's uh, let me see. Yeah, damn, I don't know. Help Get him on here. Yo. You said you can't help us. You got sin somebody you can help us. I mean, well, look this this interview would help. I told him come outside, man, it's signed a rap. Yeah yeah, yeah, get him on here. Man, y'all can do it. I would love you to come the show. You Yeah, she'll be up. Come on down bro with you. You did you know what I'm saying?

That was your call out? Yeah? I asked you Regina hard of comes and I was at to Regina Hall. It would be different. They want some passion into it, Okay, I feel you. Oh man, we appreciate your time about that's our dog man. Yeah, my bad. Can't let them leave in the hand it. Come on, you forgive them and where can we find it? Let me ask you this time. This is some merch, but some All the Smoke merch. All the smoke down. We appreciate you coming, bro.

We couldn't let you leave empty handed. Sweat suit, you know what I'm talking about. You can do on one of them videos, you m boy. You know what I'm saying. Out check so you got him early. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, oh man, We appreciate your time, bro. Best of luck with everything up coming out of the pops. Man. That's a wrap all the smoke game here us, Showtime Basketball YouTube and the I Heart platform Black Effects. We'll see you all next week. God the