Yo, it's the Bootleg cap podcast. Look, we got a shout out to Slim four hundred. This interview took place after I was extremely toxicated, intoxicated doing a doobie interview, so I'm not gonna lie. You know. We get into some shit, but uh definitely had better interviews. But if you definitely want to kind of tap in with with with some of the history with YG and some of the stuff that's been going on with Slim four hundred, he gives a real wild description of like how it
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recording this shit. Oh yeah, Man, I'm for a bombing bro, Like is hectic now. I just feel like, you know, I feel like this album to me, for you is like a statement. Yeah was it that? Yeah? Bro? I feel like, man, you gotta make your point. You know what I'm saying. And a nigga real bombed the Native you know what I'm saying. I already do this shit for my city, you know what I'm saying, and my culture,
So I have to just let people know. Man, like a nigga really come from Spruce Street, you know what I'm saying. The block. You know what I'm saying. And along with a couple other people, you feel me. But it's different from me because I really was running my fucker running around doing some shit. That's sort of thing right right right, So I just have to just tell my story of what I was doing and me going through the shootings and all types of different shit. You feel.
I do feel like one thing I've always appreciated about you, Slim, is wherever I be at I see you. I might be in San Diego F six DJ's hood ass ship, and you be there probably four five niggas right in and out like you. You're fucking out outside, bro, Like you know what I'm saying, Like that be the thing? Nothing cut you up? And people be like, man, like what he be? What he be? Man, y'all don't be nowhere because because you be everywhere that part man, So
people want to talk. Man, say that bulletit about a nigga. Man. But after I even after I got shot, you feel me. That's about fifteen what fifteen days after I shot, I'm back outside. You feels about two years ago, a year and a half, year and a half now it was about a year and a half. Yeah, straight to the studio became a walk proper. But I'm outside, you feel me.
It's crazy because when you go through a situation like what you went through, it has to kind of put things in perspective, does it kind of give you like a does it check you to kind of re re check what your priorities are in life? Now how you live in I used to be living reckless. You feel me this straight up. I'm gonna keep one hundred. But now it's like a having some couple of people with me in my extra eyes in and out. You feel me.
Ain't no lollygagging as far as drinking liquor drinking around my homies, not being beligion in public because with people you don't know that, that's when you get caught slipping a lot of things. Bro. Yeah, I feel like when you got shot, I was like, fuck, I feel like I just saw you in San Diego, like not too far before. I was like, damn, I hope the homie pulls through you getting shot. I feel did you? Did you?
Cause when something like that happens to you in life, you're gonna get a lot of people hitting you up who might not have been talking to you prior. Did you notice some some some fake energy shit coming around like during that time, Because whenever some shit like that happens, I feel like everybody's gonna come after Woodworks make sure they check in, but it's like where were you at, like a month ago type shit. You know what I'm saying, I feel like, you know that come with this rap shit.
You feel me. That should a rap game. Half of the shit fake, but for the most part, you feel me. My real ones that I already had songs with, or really no personal without even have a song. They take me. You know what I'm saying. My phones is off at that moment when I got back home, I turned it on and shit study ringing. It's like, all right, I like that from the people that I really mess with thoroughly, but you know all the rap shit now you feel me.
They pulled through, pulled through, I let you blood, and that's the fake shit. So it's fifty to fifty man. I try to weak it off. You know what I mean by this, being respectful but knowing that they're gonna fuck with me like that or like you weren't even caring about my situation even when I was doing prior to this. You feel me, So I take it run with it, man, you feel yeah, Man, I feel like the rap game is so finicky. Man. It's a lot of associates, but not a lot of friends. You know
what I'm saying. In this game, bro, not like that. But you don't got no friends in this game. You already know what it is you see. You might see someone at the club be like, Yo, let's do something, and you never hear from them, my nigga, until you run into them again, until you run into them again in the same shit. Yeah, let's say you know what it is. That shuit happened a lot that shit. Man. Look,
I don't do that ship. That's why. That's what's the difference between me and other people is like I hold it down and make it, make it my word of like what I'm gonna say, I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do it. You feel me like like a lot of people just you know, they just just talk a good one. So get take me back to the moment you got shot, man, because I feel like that's gotta be a pillow a moment and anyone's life when someone tries to take your life and you survive, Like, you know, what do you
recollect from that day? Like that moment that all the crazy shit I was doing, like I said, loaded riding around the city just for nothing. You feel me, I was just coming from my folks house. But I could have left got the freetway and got to got Ye. Study wanted to just ride around and I don't know,
like what's something meant to happen is gonna happen? So I was over there and you know what I mean, And that's what it happened like that, And my life is just flashy for my bro I've seen people that I really be cool with, really hang away family members. It's just like I blacked out. You feel me, like from the gun shells and I'm just seeing my life like this crazy shit. But it's like it's like that's
when you see the lot you feel. That's what's crazy is they always say right before there's a some shit called uh dimensionally what is d MT. I don't know what DMT stands for, but there's a chemical called d MT. You have it when you're born and right before you die, and it's supposed to like when people say they see the light, that's supposed to be what they see. Yeah, and it's there's a way you could smoke. There's like
you could smoke d MT to feel that. Now if you wanted to try to like go through some ship did you feel like when you come out on the other side of it, you're in the hospital, Ben, did you feel like you went through some shit that kind of maybe changed your life. Yeah, Like at the moment, I think about my daughter, you know what I'm saying, my mama, my close friends, peers. It's like, damn, it can be over, you know what I'm saying. So it's
a mind thing. You feel me going through that. I bounced out of it and I just told myself, like the ignorance I was doing, I'm gonna stop. I gotta be more like like hands on about my life, you know what I'm saying, and not like fun and games, and I mean, like shit is real and that sh would have been over. It's like it was over all this shit. I worked for all this, you know what I mean. My daughter's like of course, of course, So I know now you know what I mean, Like, do
the right thing. Stop sucking off. You feel me, And I think you'd be doing a good job on your campaign. Shit, So listen, you got ice water records. I want to shout out to I'm from Phoenix. Someone I've been paying attention to from Arizona's a desert baby. Who you've been working with. Yeah, that's my boy right there. Man, we got a couple of songs he worked on his tape. I just got a squad. I got a squad I'm putting together man. You know what I mean, Ice Water Rock,
Desert Baby, you're putting together the label. Yeah, the movement. Yeah, it's like it's like a new day time of like a no limited summer cast money. But everybody got their own little ways about you know what I mean, their life, So it's about to be told. Yeah. I think I think what's crazy is like your background in music. I think a lot of people associate you with YG, right yeah, so and shout out to YG's doing this thing. Yeah, but I feel like you've done a very good job
of creating your own ship. Yeah. It was like it was a time in my life, Like it was just like an everywhere I go, it's like, oh, that's why g homy, that's why g on me. So not to be offensive or nothing. So I took them by myself to separate it to where they know slim FOULX hunting, you know what I mean, Like that's my boy, that's
my boy, Like that's life from the hood. Yeah, it's crazy because like I remember me and you originally YG over and over over the years, and you know him and b Moore and and just the whole crew, like, and you've done a very good job of just kind of like I don't even when I think of Slim four hundred, I used to always be like, oh that's why, you know why? I just I think of you as your own entity. Now ye'll have to just put in
that work. You feel me from the so and songs I'm getting with people, you know what I mean, Like Gez looking out for me. You know what I mean, Like school Boy Q doing certain shit for a nigga. It's just some shit on them levels. It automatically showed the fans like, Okay, he is a stand up god by himself. You feel me? What you was putting it in a box? Is your relationship? Why? G you solid? Yeah? We're good. Yeah, that's my bro. You know what I'm saying.
He's been through a live sh and he's been through so many eras of his career ups and downs and ship ups and downs, new management, all kinds of shit going on. Yeah, I think I think you know, being as I always looked at YG, Mustard and Tie as like our our generation Snoop and Dragon r Bro. Yeah, and it was crazy because I mean I remember meeting YG in two thousand and nine or ten when Tutor and Buddha came out Him, Tie and Bobby Brackens. You remember that tour. It was the Young and X Rated
or young, I don't know. They was on tour and Bobby Brackens was the biggest hardest on the tour. How crazy is that? That's wow? I was like that was that was really the homie like no, no, no no, and sho Bobby. He's a great dude. Just fucking I love that dude. But like, it's crazy that was fucking eleven years ago and he was the biggest artist on the tour. Tye was a nobody. Yeah, I didn't even realize he was the dude on the Tutor and Buddha fucking record.
And why she's a kid? You know what I'm saying? What, like, what did you learn from being around? Just because I do feel like we've literally witnessed an entire generation of West Coast music progressed through our eyes that you've been a part of. Yeah, what you what did you learn from being a being a witness to that because that's history. Bro. Yeah, I feel like they taught me how to perfect my crad bro. Just watching them in a sense of you know,
making bees. You know what I'm saying. Tome make bees, mustle made bees. So I'm just sitting there watching them. How they put together some shit and a real song, making a real song, you know what I'm saying. Or they changed up the whole verse, you know what I'm saying, Or that's just sound tight, but we got to change this line. It's just they perfect their ship to the point where it ain't just know all I'm done with it.
Nigga might come back tomorrow and do some other shit. Yeah, looking at them work, the way they work is just like tiding me up, Like all right, I worked a different way, bro, but it made me a better worker when I looked at them. Make you like more tentative and details and ship real ship. I feel like a lot of people that will do a record and they'll be like, all right, cool, we on it. The next one. They might go back in and make a sound on the beat. You can add some string. That type of ship.
They go farther than what a normal rapper would go you feel me, so I tend to go hard. You know what I'm saying. This album bomb Thing's officially out right now. Talk about what this album means to you, what it means your career, man, Like this is my life, bro, I feel like this is kind of my best type as so far. And so we're considered in this a mixtape. No, it's like an EP, Bro, it's like an album. I don't know, because you we never know anymore. Yeah, yeah, No,
when it's a mixtape, you're gonna know the mixtape. I'm going back to the old the old GP beats right now. This is a real tape, you know what I'm saying. And I would just tell my story on like I said, growing up on Spruce, being in comping rund around the city like all types of ship you feel. Yo interrupting your podcast experience to tell you about our sponsor, odd Socks. By the way, man, can we just talk about how
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Go to odd soxsofficial dot com and spend some fucking money and support the podcast. They're good people. When you think of people who come to LA to visit and how Compton has become like a thing worldwide, you know what I'm saying, feel like in LA like South Central content, but Compton is like it's like an iconic hood in the entire world. Everybody gotta count you gotta just you can go buy a content visit or you can buy
a Compton hat in Australia. Yeah, you know what I'm saying, Like, is that something that do you consider that to be a gift or a curse because you know people might not understand what that means, what all comes with that. It's it's a curse, you know what I mean, a gift at the same time because comptent is so wild you feel me in haters, you know what I mean. And the politics, the gang violence, shit like that. So you can get caught up in that, you feel I'm saying,
and you can go to jail. You can be dead, you see, and it got shot. There's a lot of shit come with it. But the name is itself comped in the city from Easy and Them and all that time. Man, it's fucking straight out of content. I love it. I gotta see it. So it's a good thing. It's a bad thing. Bro Let me ask you something. When you watch something like uh, like the like the NW a movie, right, and that's like a movie that's like really based around your area. And uh again, it's being consumed on a
very large scale. There's white kids in England watching straight out of com like you feel good and like you know what, Like, look, let's be honest. Compton's the most famous area in LA outside of Hollywood. It's people come to LA and if they're like, yo, I want to go to Compton, you know what that means. Right? But you have some people that come to Los Angeles and this depending on who they are, they feel like they just encomped because they I don't know, you be in Hollywood,
so I want to go to the hood. That's what I wanted to get you right there. You know, everybody comes to LA, they go to Hollywood, they come to the Valley. That's all they do. They go to Lax, to Hollywood, they do the little West Hollywood Ship, they do Melrose, all that. They get back on the freeway, they get back on that four or five. They go back to Lax to go home. The split something. I
ain't saying nothing, but it ain't seen nothing. So let's talk about like what like Okay, obviously for anybody watching this way from LA, the valley is not La. Hell No, if you from San Fernando, if you're from it's in Sino North Hollywood. God bless you. That's not La. Hollywood is not LA. What is real LA? What you gotta say like like south Central? You know what I'm saying, Like like all of the down shit Main and Broadway,
you know. Yeah. I feel like there's just this big disconnect from people who come and visit and be like, yeah, I was in LA, but like but were you were you at like Tokyo Madera in West Hollywood, Like it's not the same thing. I'd say. They just say that shit this to be saying. The most LA you were at was when you landed at La X, the suburb part of it. It's crazy, right, But Nah, nigga's in a straight hood, Bro, they know what's happening. Who do
you consider real friends in this rap game? Because there's a lot of people we talked to earlier, there's a lot of associates, a lot of people you see at the club, you might see a playhouse whatever, But who's like some real homies in the rap game? For some four hundred and mom and Mom, I feel like like I can't really say, bro, I don't want to, Like, I don't want to just say some bullshit, bro or speak on some people names and shit and it's like, oh,
why he mentioned my name? You feel me? So that's fair. Listen right now, you ain't got to mention everybody, but just mention a couple it comes your mind. I feel like, once again I said Gez, he a good dude. You know what I'm saying, My nigga Yellow Beezy good dude. You feel me like niggas that be texting me, talking to me back and forth, shit like that. So I leave it like that, you feel me. It's crazy because you said g Ez, Yeah and g Ez. A lot of people might not think that of him to be
just on some humble shit. Hey first watch my dog. I love that guy and I know that about him, but I don't think a lot of people understand that he's really tapped in and he'd be showing love. Yeah, how'd you originally link up with him? Because a lot of peoples been been on touring ship with YG and you know this the tour with Yogttiyeh and DJ Drama, so we you know, just be back behind stage your
little passes on the ship. So we running around before the show doing what we're doing, eating, going out of the you know what I mean, just doing different ship And every time he'd come across me, he'll, you know what I mean, chop it up with me. See what I'm doing this asking different questions about a nigga? You feel me? It's like, Bro, he like doing this for what? But Jess a good dude. He was just like trying
to see what my mind was. And I know it's like I'm about to reach out to him for this song. But this like years after our relationship, so we already kind of built it, so he didn't have no prom of doing this shit for me. You feel me? That's dope? All right? Let me know were you at this show? Celebrity Theater, Phoenix, Arizona, Bustard d Jane. I'm hosting the concert. It's about fifty local acts. YG is headlining. It ends up on World Star. People in the in the fucking
in the in the crowd are banging their ship. Why did you start throwing ship at them? Mustard throw shit at them? Shit became a viral ass moment. Were you there for that shit? I want to say it was bro. I want to say it was like I was. I was with a side bitch, at the time, I'm not with the girl I was with. I can say that now. That was with a little side bitch at the Celebrity theater. And then like the promoter. You know how these promoters be.
They put fifty local acts on charge, each of them having much amount of money to get their money back. So the fucking why g go is going to one thirty in the morning, I'm fucking getting my dick suck backstage and I just hear shit going crazy, And then like two weeks later it's on YouTube, Ygi Mustard and like, and then there was another issue. I think, I just I know why she had a long he had a hard time getting the tour money because off the rip he had kind of like been involved a lot of bushit.
Not to say it like that, but we had words with some with some crip guys out there, you saying, behind some sh sh it, And that's when all that ship took place. You know what I'm saying. He's there was some dudes in the clouds just banging their ship chairs. Yes, a type of you know what I'm talking about, the circular stage. Yeah, sh like this keeps rotating around, ye thinking you're gonna stay in one spot, but the ship
keep really yup. But you walking and ready paying attention doing your thing rappings, so you ain't really notice that this ship moving. We just keep seeing nigas running around, keep shro It's crazy. That was one of the craziest shows because I remember it'd be so crazy, that's it tight. I remember seeing MUNSTERD take the laptop standing and chuck it at these fools, and I know that laptop staying
the way about thirty pounds. Oh yeah, that little solid and I was like, oh shit, what the fuck just happened over here? It's crazy because I feel like you were fully a part of the I remember I always used to tell YG. I used to tell b more at this all the time, like, you know, shout out to YG. But man, early on in his career, the first four or five years, he had a real bad stigma attached to him because of shit like that at shows.
What was like the craziest situation out of town. Y'all ever been a part of wherever some crazy shit, some fights and whatever the fuck. Yeah, Like you're sitting shit all the time, bro, And I feel like we was an once said we was in Miami doing some doing show and shit, and some other people got in the fight and we kind of in the mix of them. But niggas get to shoot and shit too, so it was like niggas fighting throwing chair. Then now you hitting
bullet shields and shit. So I'm trying to look for the team. Makes it we all straight. But it's like you gotta like, you gotta pay attention on him. Man. You see what I'm saying. Shit will pop off any given moment where you ain't even involved in the shit but kind of in the mix. Yeah, you know, I thought what Zovia happened recently was on clubhouse. Bad Luck
squashed his shit with Mustard on Clubhouse. And I remember being at south By Southwest in two thousand and it was either thirteen or fourteen, and I don't know what happened, but I know some shit happened, but it felt like why g had a lot of tension with it was with problem. Do you remember being around that era? Yeah, you know, like Nigga was, you know, it was a it was a bompa thing, compter thing, you know what
I'm saying. And niggas had words, you know what I'm saying, And it took it went far than with the post has been. But you know, people be slick talking, you know what I mean. But niggas over that shit now. But I feel like that that was like a perfect example of how LA street politics led into the music shit.
And it's like, Yo, if we really think about back then, how fire would have been to see Problem and WYG work together, But do a whole fucking album together, like Problem had it, like both of them had some like they had it. You know what I'm saying. That era was so legendary in LA history, like Problem had Welcome to molly Wood. YG had just read up like it was a whole movement, and both of them from the same city, and it was some LA politics shit sometimes
gets in the way of some historical ship. Do you feel like with LA the politics sometimes, because you know, I just had this conversation with with Big U and Whack. We're talking about how sometimes the LA politics have gotten in the way of some real historical shit happened in hip hop, Yeah, money and all that type of yeah, because it might not be rapper A and rapper B having a real problem with each other. It's not about that. It's about the politics and flow to run around them
and above that, you know what I'm saying. Me being an artists, I hang with a certain crew. This artist hang with a certain crew, you know what I'm saying. So it's like they be having inter b so it's looking like it's an artist thing, but we need the friends. And yeah, it ain't even about like you might not even have a problem with the guy, but it's like, hey, I might be from here and you might be from here. So because of that, like this and this don't mesh. Yeah,
oh you had a record with bad Luck. Yeah, we fall love. I mean that's what I'm saying. We got we cool, it's just it's falling out behind other ships. So yeah, well I thought it was dope, but I just thought it was real dope to see bad Luck and Uh and Mustard get on clubhouse and out. Yeah, because it's like we're talking about some serious eras of l A hip hop, Like you know, Problem might not have had had and I know Problem could have signed with anyone at that when when Problem was was fucking
lit out here, everyone offered him a deal. But like to think he had that whole like side of LA hip hop. And then YG I mean YG we're talking about now, he's one of them. I look at YG like our our modern day Snoop. You know what I'm saying. If Kendrick is Dre, YG is Snoop, you know what
I'm saying. So I just think that, uh yeah, I always thought that was like an and and what's cool about that though, too is I dont feel like it ever really kind of bled through the music too much, kind of minus it was minus ship that was said and spoke on here and there and certain little disc songs and you know what I mean, mindus shit. But yeah, for the most part, it didn't get too out of out of hand. So any out bomping is out. This is you've been staying independent shout out to Empire. Yeah,
why stay independent? Why I mean and and and and mind you you got Ice Water Records, so kind of give me the rundown of what's going on moving forward. The album is out. Yeah, I feel like I'm just you know what I mean, like lining myself up to be a real c excuse me, a real CEO bro and a line other people up. So as far as the label deal, I feel Nigga can signed with the
major Nu'm getta twisted. But it be ship that you can't do when you used to do it, can't do what you want to do when you want to do. I want you to drop. And it's like, Bro, I know what's going on in the streets, So why would I drop that when I'm just doing it? Because you're doing it. But when I drop it on my name, the people black slim, what you're doing like, it'd be different shit when it's come another label. So being in dependent it's better because you got your layout. You can
drop whatever you want whenever you won't for me. So and then you building, you know what I'm saying, you building on your own ship now looking back heres. You know what I'm saying, it's like, damn, like I went from here to nothing. I mean I went from nothing or something. You know what I'm saying. Like, that's what I was telling you, Bro, I feel like I went from back always thinking of you and YG together to just thinking if you guys are two separate entities. Yeah,
you did a great job of carving your own ship. Brow. It's hard to do. So man, tell me about it. Well, you know, just stay state, stay truly to yourself, your yell craft, you fit me. You're gonna get there for show. For sure, we'll go support the new album bombting Icewater Records. Is it gonna be anything coming out from the label soon? Any artists, anybody who's dropping. I got my peoples coming in, but like probably another like another month and a half
or something, probably dropped the Icewater orbitape. So it's gonna be like a compilation of Las with all of us. You know what I'm saying. So Desert Baby, so Desert Babies officially Icewater Records, Arizona. Let's go listen. He's from Azy. Got my support that far. I got the Cardinals hat on. You know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying. That's my city, man. So let's go. Yo. Slim four hundred bumped in the album's output kept podcast Let's Go