#Throwback Episode - w/ Duck Down | (Ep.67)
160 min
•Feb 11, 20264 months agoSummary
This Drink Champs throwback episode features Duck Down Records founders discussing the label's origins, the formation of their artist roster including Black Moon and Smith & Wesson, legal battles with the gun manufacturer over the name, and reflections on Sean Price's solo career and legacy. The conversation covers East Coast hip-hop history, the Biggie/Bad Boy dynamics, and Duck Down's evolution from management to independent label.
Insights
- Duck Down Records emerged organically from artist management rather than as a premeditated label strategy, evolving into a full-fledged independent operation out of necessity when major label deals fell through
- The label's success was built on loyalty and family dynamics rather than industry connections, with artists choosing to stay together through legal and financial hardships rather than pursue individual major label deals
- Sean Price's transition from group member to solo artist represented creative liberation, allowing him to develop a distinctive comedic persona that set him apart from his peers
- Independent labels in the 1990s had to develop multiple revenue streams (distribution, consulting, artist management) to survive industry consolidation and major label competition
- East Coast hip-hop rivalries were often manufactured or escalated by industry players and media rather than organic beef between artists who maintained personal relationships
Trends
Independent label resilience through artist roster diversification and multi-service business modelsArtist loyalty and collective branding as competitive advantage against major label poachingMedia and industry manipulation of artist narratives to create commercial conflict narrativesEvolution of hip-hop from group-based to solo artist models enabling greater creative expressionGrassroots fan engagement and street credibility as foundation for sustainable independent music businessesLegal challenges to emerging brands from established corporations with similar namesDistribution and publishing education gaps for emerging artists in the pre-digital eraRegional hip-hop identity as marketing and authenticity differentiator
Topics
Independent Record Label OperationsArtist Management and DevelopmentHip-Hop Group Dynamics and Solo CareersMusic Publishing and Royalty StructuresEast Coast Hip-Hop History (1990s)Trademark and Legal Disputes in MusicArtist Loyalty vs. Major Label DealsDistribution and Retail StrategyDJ Culture and Radio PromotionHip-Hop Rivalry and Media NarrativesCreative Freedom in Group vs. Solo SettingsMusic Industry Consolidation EffectsStreet Credibility and AuthenticityArtist Mental Health and StressHip-Hop Legacy and Historical Documentation
Companies
Duck Down Records
Independent hip-hop label founded by the episode guests; discussed throughout as case study in artist loyalty and ind...
Nervous Records
Early independent label where Duck Down founders worked; signed Black Moon and served as launching point for Duck Dow...
Priority Records
West Coast-based major label that signed Duck Down artists; legal disputes prevented label from supporting artists du...
Bad Boy Records
Major label mentioned in context of East Coast hip-hop landscape and artist rivalry narratives of the 1990s
Death Row Records
West Coast label referenced in discussion of East Coast-West Coast hip-hop dynamics and industry competition
Smith & Wesson (Gun Manufacturer)
Sent cease-and-desist letters to Duck Down Records over artist name 'Smith & Wesson,' creating legal challenges for t...
Wu-Tang Clan
Mentioned as contemporary supergroup model that influenced Duck Down's approach to collective artist branding
Hot 97
New York radio station where one guest worked as DJ; important platform for hip-hop promotion in the era
People
Buckshot
Black Moon member and Duck Down Records co-founder; key figure in label's formation and artist recruitment strategy
Sean Price
Solo artist and former group member; discussed extensively regarding creative liberation and personality development ...
5FT (Heltah Skeltah member)
Artist and dancer; part of Duck Down roster and discussed in context of group formation and creative contributions
Tek (Smif-N-Wessun)
Artist and Duck Down co-founder; discussed regarding group dynamics, legal battles, and label evolution
Steele (Smif-N-Wessun)
Artist and Duck Down co-founder; discussed regarding artist recruitment and label building strategy
The Notorious B.I.G.
Referenced in discussion of East Coast hip-hop rivalries and alleged conflicts over song samples and industry dynamics
Diddy (Sean Combs)
Bad Boy Records founder; mentioned in context of East Coast hip-hop landscape and industry competition
Chuck Chillout
Influential DJ who brought Buckshot to Nervous Records; instrumental in Duck Down Records' early formation
Prodigy (Mobb Deep)
Referenced in discussion of East Coast hip-hop and artist dynamics during the 1990s era
Nas
Referenced in context of East Coast hip-hop landscape and artist relationships during the era
Quotes
"When you're in a group, you have to worry about your team. When you become a solo artist, it's just fuck me. You don't have to worry about exposing anything."
Guest discussing Sean Price's solo career transition•Early in episode
"MC, a lot of people like to do it. It's like baseball in a way. You can have a rec league, you could play little league, you could play high school, but that doesn't mean you should be in the pros."
Duck Down founder discussing aspiring rappers•Mid-episode
"We can just do this ourselves. Like the way we're doing it right now, let's just keep doing it like this until we see if we need more help."
Buckshot proposing independent label model•Label formation discussion
"That was the worst thing that we did in our career. I was the biggest choice I was the biggest stupid duck down."
Guest reflecting on Biggie conflict video•Late in episode
"We never got caught up in none of that. That was like real for Brooklyn. We came up in gang life, decepticons."
Guest discussing street dynamics vs. industry beef•Later in episode
Full Transcript
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We are not and we should introduce our guests But let our guests introduce themselves first. We're gonna start with the white man Random Marathon yes, drew high up in here. Let's make real girls a few high Yeah Yeah, text Smith and Wesson Yeah, yeah, General still Smith and Wesson Burn a dead price on price like So being that You you started the last last year be first so I'm gonna start with you and I'm gonna say with When you heard that Sean Price was what duck down? What was your first initial reaction? I was like wow, are you sure you want to do this? All right cool. I don't know if that was good or bad That was good actually because I know since I was 13 so he yeah, Sean So you know he would You know Say as little rap and be like oh, is you still gonna be around and listen? And I'd be like yeah, when I'm going you don't want to go somewhere You know me and then he'd be like nah, I'm gonna do this and he would rap to me and I'd be like you're pretty good Basically, you know the starting and so so what's the show? Price you like more when he was in a group or when he went solo When he went solo I ain't gonna lie me too Because I felt like I felt like I felt like he felt like I don't feel like I feel like as a as a all a fan I felt like he felt like he was held back in a certain way So everything he did as a solo artist was like rebellious right it was rebellious and the most like Respectful disrespecting yeah, I agree deal agree. You know You know when you you're in a group Um Ways you carry yourself you know you carry in your team You know and then when you become a solo artist is just like fuck so me You know I'm saying you don't have to worry about you know exposing anything or whatever the case is because it's you So you know I It's different from Sean So so deep So now I want to take it to beginning of Duck down Juhah Buckshot came to you or you came to Buckshot. How does this how does this conversation start? I was working. I was an intern at a at a independent label nervous records No, we're not in and but I was talking nervous own duck down. I was long No, I was saying the way they they in literally on this but they they had a situation for a minute But yeah, Buck Buck was a newly signed artist Chuck chill out brought him to the lady to nervous to nervous Okay, and I literally was like I was right out of college There was a small independent label like three four people up there And I just started doing a little bit of everything and Buck would come up to the label every day He would like literally come in To try to you know see how he was gonna advance his career up at and they're putting the pressure on the on the label and Eating five would be there but buck was there pretty much like a few times a week and we just developed a friendship I was an aspiring rapper Only was I You I have a song on the black moon album on into the stage called you the man with with my deep smith and western and black moon So you can it's the ill Caucasian Out I Bet $2000 Chuchill I know Chuck Chillab right. For the people that don't know Chuck Chillab. It was a classic DJ. Still is a classic DJ. But even at the time he was an influential DJ on, I think it was one of seven point five. He's gonna be a last one. On BLS, seven plus. Let's check Chillab's round of applause. Yeah. That's right, right. We have Chuck Chillab too, man. Anyway, long short, I quickly learned my calling wasn't to be an MC, you know, being around professionals, you know, being around certain artists. You could joke around about it, but I often say like, you know, MC, a lot of people like to do it. It's like baseball in a way like you can have a wreck league, you could play little league, you could play even high school, but that doesn't mean that you should be in the pros. And being around professional MCs, I learned quickly the difference of like what I was doing and what was being done. And just for me, it didn't seem the route that I was gonna go. So you started out trying to be an MC. I was working, I had a job, but that was on the side. And then, so what initially made you say, I'm gonna get down with you, Bob, to make this. Well, I mean, just the circumstances, like it wasn't like it was this grand plan, it was just more, we were going through the motions. And it was, it was really when Bob, when Bob Chill introduced me to these two right here. It was undeniable. Because that was your first artist? That was the first time that we looked at it and said we could take another group and kind of do what we're doing with Black Moon a little bit. And it wasn't even official, right? At that point, it was more like filling in and doing something. Because Black Moon was, because essentially, it seemed like Black Moon was like the new Eric V. and Rock him because they had a DJ. And then it had the artist, Bob. So actually it's two, Buck and 515. Yeah. Yeah. So Bob, so what is he at? Bob is chillin, he's home. Okay, okay. So, so, so, so, let's get ahead, let's, let's, let's describe your story. Oh, man, let's, the Black Moon started, yeah. Yeah. Well, first of all, Beat Monness, Beat Monness started the, I was born. Because that's my, that's my brother, Mr. Walker. Mm-hm. You know, that's my older brother. And I kind of got into what I'm doing, what I, you know, you say this. Are we, are we ever going to save it? You put that back up. Papa, let's just say. I don't want to graduate today. Wait, hold on, we got to graduate, but I don't know why he's just, you know, you gotta graduate. Come on. Guys, you look like they every day. I want them every day. You go. Open it. Open it. Open it. BabyD. Let's, BabyD. Continue. Alright. So, you know, my brother, Mr. Walter. You know, I seen him d.J. Baby. And you know, it's like you see your big brother do something. You get jealous. Right. That's how I got into music. Because I was jealous. Because he's getting on the tension. And anybody was like, yo, yo, yo. I'm like, you know, I'm nicer than him. This is literal, my brother though. Yeah, my brother, he's three years older than me. Yeah, and he, you know, so everything he did I did. My brother worked, he used to work at the Music Factory on Jamaica Ave, of course from the Colosseum. I knew exactly, I knew he still went. And everybody in Queens, everybody in hip-hop in Queens, when they still one time or another. Right. And he knew everybody. So when he started producing music, I started producing music. Right. I started. I'm sorry to cut you off. But when was the time that you said, this is real? Well, as of making records and everything? Yeah, like, when was that moment that hit you and said, this is real? Once we actually went to the studio. A studio before? Like, we got the deal. You know, you had a head. Yeah, all right. We got the deal. And, you know, we had a deal before and it fell through. And we got the second deal, which was nervous records. And, you know, I still was like, yo, whatever, man, I'm still going to hustle, sell these tapes, do these parties. And I'm sorry, Tom, the first drink you taking is tag-a-bone? No, I was drinking some of this. What is that? That's something I could have done. I didn't even know it was this. What did I take now? I'm kidding. You're supposed to say, don't stop your food drinking. No, no, no. I just want to say trouble. Oh, my God, what's your problem? But tag-a-bone is a nice thing. You're going to start with tag-a-bone. We should all just do the tag-a-bone at that. No, I have nice. We're going to start with it. We're going to start with it? No, I had something this. He started with the road. Oh, I started with the road. Whoa. But you haven't finished your rolls because it's still in your hand. Well, we're going to make this quick. You're going to make this clear. She cannot drink tag-a-bone. No, wherever, y'all be ripping somebody's cat because I ain't got a way. Oh, that's right. OK, so all right. Tag-a-bone for the whole day. So I'll need to understand. OK. Because you guys, you work that nervous. I'm intern. Here's the intern. Buck is the artist at nervous. You are the artist. The artist. Yeah, when Buck got signed, we all got signed. Buck and Fom. Was it already Black Moon? The group was already Black Moon. Yeah, it was already Black Moon. It's a nervous. And here we go up. And nervous drew is in there holding it down. Right. I didn't know what the fuck I was doing. I was going to put it down. But you're not from Brooklyn, too. No, I'm from White Plank. White Plank. So we came into the label. It was a factor of we came into the label. That was catch me working. It was just dude out there just now. Bush, Bush, Bush, White Plank. I said it all into the name. All right. I can say it. But nervous. You're not even worried about it. You're not even worried about it. You're not even worried about it. You just look around and looking at everybody. You see that one person that you know, that's my nigga right there. Yeah, he did it. Drew was that dude. Yeah. And when we walked in, we gave everybody, yo, what's up? We seeing Drew. It was like, yo, what up, Drew? You good? Did it, did it, did it? And what happened was, the situation happened. And Drew actually jumped in. He's from into action. OK. You know what I'm saying? He went from being Drew to do the label to Drew of Duck Down without even knowing it. You know what I'm saying? And that's what happened. Like, yo, believe it or not, I literally put my head down. I looked up, Drew and Brooklyn, like, yeah, Duck Down. What? That was Duck Down after the May. That's makes it worse, man. That sounds amazing. That's it. That's Drew. How was the May? How was the May? How was the May? How did they happen to you? Because then I'm going on. That's the strangeest thing for me. I mean, that was essentially it. It was like, over time, they had the management. Some management situations were going on. We were acting and serving in that role. We started doing a lot over when we got the props came out. Cool out, the props. Start making the record. Start going on the ball. I don't know. Evil D in boxing. Yeah. I never thought. I never thought. I never thought. Before you're on the show. Let me walk you out. It's 5ft Evil D in boxing. Everybody does that. Everybody does that. You know, I'll skip right over that part. Everybody does that. You know, it's 5ft Evil D in boxing. That's a good question. 5ft Evil D in boxing. Now I'm making sense. No. Look at it. Look at it. Look at it. Look at it. Look at it. Look at it. Look at it. I'm sorry. Look at it. I swear to God. I don't know if it's all right. We're running around. The buck is, at this point, he's looking for a new manager. Right? And so we're running around. We're doing a lot of things. I actually set up a whole bunch of meetings for buck with different managers that I knew, where I was coming across and like I wasn't even seeing myself in that role yet. I'm still young. I'm still, I just, I just didn't picture it like that. We did a few meetings and buck would come out. And at the end, he said, you know what? And I give buck all the credit because he said we can just do this ourselves. Like the way we're doing it right now, let's just keep doing it like this until, you know, we see if we need more help. So I didn't argue with that. And you know, at that point, like I said, I was speaking on it earlier, but he introduced me to Smith and Wesson. That's exactly what I was going. And that's what it took. So now he's, that's what you was official to me. Let's do it ourselves. No. So after he said, let's do it ourselves. I said in my mind, well, we're going to, this is at a time, right? Bad boy and you're starting to get a little bit of no limit. These things are starting to pop up. These labels, right? We're here with Jerry, 94, right? 94. You know limit, I know limit. Oh, maybe it's coming up. No limit, no limit. No limit, no limit. No limit, no limit. No limit, no limit. No limit, no limit. They just thought it real. They just thought it real. So I said to buck, if we're going to do this, then we obviously need the next group. And he, I think he was testing me early because he broke me a few things that would just be noodles. And I told him I was like, no, not this guy. Like, artist? Yeah, he brought, he brought a couple of things and I was like, I don't know. What's your brother? Maybe he maybe. He brought me. He brought me. He just brought me some berserk shit. What you guys are saying? I called him out on it. And he said, all right, all right. I got, I got two guys you need to meet. And he said, I'm going to bring them to an in store in New Jersey. And the next in store we went to, he brings Smith and Wesson. I'm videotaping. You can look this up on YouTube. But I'm videotaping them, take a microphone, he will be put some deep cover and needs to step up to the microphone in this. And you remember, you got to know what an in store is. Like, these young people won't know what an in store is. We're going to explain it. Right. But it was packed and they already take their heads off in that in store if they don't represent. And he was up above the beach. There's a black moon in store. So now I got to ask y'all, where was y'all at in life when y'all met them? Was this the focus to meet them, get signed? Or this was just like, I'm nice, I live for you know, live for me. I was named, I was his security. I was named. No, I was his security. Yeah, I was still security. I was on your lap. But I see that. We was fresh out of high school in the streets. Not even one foot in high school, about to get thrown out. The other foot in the streets in a hood. I'm from Bestie, he from the village. So it's already tension in the hood with them. But some was doing mad talent shows and went in. For me, I always wanted to be behind the boys like an engineer. And you say you're from Bestie, you from Browseville. Browseville. Oh, that's very killer. Very killer is right. Very killer is right. Up the hill down the hill. Exactly. And like he was doing just talent shows and shit. And he had another partner that was rocking with him in the last hit. All I was doing was just security, just keeping the negatives in the way. Right. So after that, after we met him riding around in a way, it was super rude. But the way he said, he said, he said, you know, is that what actually meeting happened? I know. That wasn't the very first time. I'm the first time I've ever seen that. So what I'm asking is, did you know that when you met him and bought this, this was it? No. Like for me, I wasn't on it like that. That was his dream. That was his dream. That was his dream. We used to, like before, I guess before we actually met Drew, like me and Buck, you spent a lot of time together on Franklin Avenue, Franklin Union, just standing outside talking. Like Buck is a visionary. Right. So he sees the future this guy. But yeah, I was aspiring to be on. And at that point, it's like, these guys got the deal, so we're just going to ride with them. You know, we was just shadowing these guys and we was learning everything that they was doing from the interviews, for the end stores, the studio work, and we shadowed them. So from there, yeah, we just picked up everything, man. We knew he was next up. Wow. I want to say this though, when we was working on, like me and Buck first started working, we were like, bucking always though. Just shadowing. My man still, my man still, my man still. And I was like, yo, at the end of the day, let us do what we got to do first. And you bring your man still on. You know what I'm saying? And it was funny because it would be still, I always knew it's still and his man. Because tech didn't say anything. So you called him still in this man. I was still. Because talk to him was mute. I was talking to him no matter what. You thought you were texting him, speak. I was texting him being like, what up, what up still, what up, what up tech? I had it something. And when he started ramen, I was like, did I talk to talk? So now you guys come together. Now, immediately you did it don't on you that you, we got a form of full-fledged label or was you more or less, let's just, let's just get the production company logo on there and not really be a label. We still would be happy. Honestly, we still weren't even really thinking that far ahead. I wish I could tell you it was this grand plan, but at that point it was. We brought them into nervous, introduced them to the same place we were. It wasn't until we went, got the first round of, you know, royalty statements that we were figuring out maybe something wasn't, wasn't matching up to the work. Was the royalty statements bad or they were, you know, every first artist was born in the race? I remember I was distributed. No, this was independent. Independent was bad. Yeah, there'd be negotiate. It was 187. You see, you see. I was just saying, they had a dollar in 70s. Between seven groups. And that's when we, you know, and now at this point we are seeing other entities pop up. And we said, you know, let's go, let's go shop this, right? As soon as they came from the door, it wasn't long before they introduced us to Still's brother, Sean, Ruck and Rock and Strang and Louisville as the Fat Five. So it didn't take long. Now all of a sudden, you know, look, it wasn't hard to tell when you have eight MCs that rhyme the way they rhyme. Everyone had a unique style and a unique look and came together to form like a Voltron. Like you know, you just knew there was something special there. Even at that point, I think that's when we saw we could take this outside of nervous and do our own thing. But the first apples into the stage, first ones on into the stage, then the shiny, they call so much disruption in jail. I was in jail. I was in jail. They call so much disruption. Did you know that can't be going there? I'm not in jail part. I'm serious. I got to judge. I got to judge. But did you know, like, because I always ask people when they come on this show, did you know you were making a classic? No, we didn't even know what we were doing. We didn't know what, Still and Buck was the professionals in rhyming and rapping. I didn't know what bars was. I didn't know what bars was. I didn't know how to put together a song. You do 8, 16, dinner chorus and this and come back. I didn't know none of that shit in there. But you were nice though as soon as you let versus that. That's so nice that you still being honest. Yeah. So that'll even be. You see this empire taking on. But for some reason, we heard that Amy Deez has disappeared at one point. He told us to talk about it. That's fun. I was not a real fan. And as a fan, we loved WAP shot. We loved ducked down, but we missed you. We wondered where were you at? I was like, this is not a nori. I'm not talking about nori. This is a fan as hip-hop. I missed the guy with the shit, the guy like this. And I'm like, where did he go? Is there an explanation? Because I really don't know. You know, I went to go DJ. This was DJ. I went on my DJ tour. I had my hot 97 show. Oh, yes, right. I went to 97. On a flex. Flex. Actually, how do we hope? I'm gonna say. That's another duck down there. Oh, no. It all falls to duck down. It was like, you know, I concentrated on my DJ and beatmen. Me and me, me, Buck and Fah was going through the whole nervous record stack. And you know, like that whole thing kind of left for solid taste. And you got sort of blaming each other instead of looking at the bigger picture. Yeah, kind of like, it wasn't like that. It just felt, it just, we took out Jay to buy the whole business thing like that. And plus Buck wanted to build duck down. You know what I'm saying? Fah was locked up. And you wanted to build. And I just, you know, I got on my DJ shit. Well, we've been around with bouquets. Yeah. And I was at the same time. They was running around. They was doing bouquets. Right. So you look at that E and Wul. I mean, we're instrumental in those first four albums from, from into the stage of the shining to help the scalters. Nineturnal to OG season storm. I think when you look back on it in a, you know, piece of time, it's easy to say where they go. But it wasn't really like that. It was, you know, you tell them out from 93 to 97. And then to his point, to clarify like the nervous situation, when we, when we did our deal with priority records, which was a West Coast based label, part of what was still going on. The first East Coast. No, it was like Brian Turner. All the dudes you saw in the count of them. Yeah. They were like, what was the worst thing you know about the rest of you? But, but like, one was how that priority, they tried to put it down. They held up in contract. We were moving forward with, with duck down with health, the scalter and OGC. That's like a year and a half, two years of time in the making right there. And black movement, Smith and Wesson were kind of, they were in this legal battle with nervous. Yeah, they were frozen for. My thing is, I'm not, I'm not just going to sit down. I'm like, I was producing other people. So it was no, it's for more, it was just like, you just want to know. No, no, this is my family. We go through a little family stuff, but at the end of the day, these are the dudes I came in the door with. And I'll never front on them, you know, and I'm loyal to them. But I have to say, it's my family. It's my family. That's the best thing. I'm doing it, I'm doing it, buddy. A lot of tests. Thought it was some bullshit, whatever. No, the whole thing is, basically, we had, we was going through the bullshit of the, the, the label shed. And you know, and also, catch was building their own entities. Yeah. Because if it was, if it was some bullshit, trust me, it would have came up. Right. You know, say that. All the time. But that's the whole thing. It was just, you know, family doing other things. So now, now, buck, this is box idea, or this is you and box idea. No, it was, it was box idea. But I was saying. Now, Wu Tang had already came out. Just, yeah, Wu Tang was, we were, black moon was a, was ahead of Wu Tang. Because I remember old dirty bastard came, we'll couple the show. We was caught, we went camp came after Wu Tang. Yeah, not really because of mix of everything, bubble and not we, we came in and right in a minute. Well, your idea was a really before Wu Tang, you say. But I don't think we looked at it like a super group, even though we kind of, we're already, having just, just, missing, western black moon. Yeah. There was one conglomerate right there. They came out with the protect your neck as a whole. So now that you say, Smith and Wesson, what actually happened with that lawsuit? Smith and Wesson tried to sue you. Yeah. I don't know, fuck is a gun company who kills me. So fucking you. That's the poster boys. It's like, it was a, we was confusing the consumer. One sales music, one sales. So by CDs and some guns. One sales day. Right. Let me find out. One sales music, the other sales day. They sent us a season to see. A stack of papers of legal turn. 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I went to school, um, night school, you know, and I was... I was a night school, Weston House, Brooklyn, and all of that. And I had a show at the Apollo. Mm-hmm. You know, man, she... I had to... I did a couple, um, you know, with a variety of shows, along Alexander's books, book, and niggas, and Metin Hollow. Mm-hmm. Well, we would meet up in Brooklyn and shoot up the... The first day. We actually met... No, we... We were... Super New Yorkers. You know me, that's the thing. That's the thing. You know, we had that... Let's get a bit of... Let's get a bit of... So... You better... No, we had a show at the Apollo. Okay. You had a show before you knew, before I knew, brother. You know, the first time we actually really, you know, met. But before then, it was just... I know it's just... I was in class with a... But that was... We had no... No building, no... Nothing before that. And we was on our own twists. So he sent you at the Apollo and he performed with us. He was... 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I'm a denominator to that was the link between still and and what and from then Yeah, big up Tracy yeah, and from then that's when because then if buck was still on his grind doing We just doing but it just happened he's like, oh my sit my brother rap and he dances so at the Apollo That's when you know Yeah, he can't you can't do it right there. Yeah Back back in the days we was dancing in the club That's standing on a wall Now one thing I want to know this about Everybody You guys get loose I'm gonna have to actually So that's it one thing I notice about price When he was in the group Like he was held not almost a hell back, but it felt like he was contained The minute he became Sean Price and I remember he took on the on our key of the broken scrapbook Oh, it was really that's it was true He said the movement is a special boss Ever while he was claiming the book is rap well, I mean I was just like you know, you know I don't know if you know that was my favorite rap Like Characters mode when he changes name he changed name from rock to his real name Price and people still thought that was rap If you know people run it on yo tell Sean Price You know me that ruckus me on sand or tell rock that Sean Price and he's the same person You know what did you notice dad once he it felt like he was liberated like not in a way like he felt like he was But it felt like he was able to be himself But when you have a partner Y'all work together You understand you can't direct the attention that just you you got to think about your partner Team play it all the way So you become solo It's all you Because some people go solo and they don't embrace the character They embrace he was so low and he was the exact opposite Everything I Write it Sean if you would So to a barbecue in love Noripys from a darn So when I saw your video I was like this and they got no That no fun. No, he's open I was doing because when he said that he had a gator read this air and I just really This thing is crazy Has for funny This is like a natural comedian funny, but at the same time his bare hands was slapped the shit It's just you either accept it and you rock with it or you don't fuck with him or he don't fuck with you So I mean I'm so sorry to go in this dark place, but I just have to be in that way here So how hard was it because the hip-hop community sat back and we heard that you know Sean passed away and me personally I Was fucked up because Me and me and Sean being great forever, but we were getting closer and closer and closer and I was getting closer to the point where I just Will call them and be like you're found He was one of the I remember I told bust up I said you never listen to his lyrics All me it was like I think I got I think I gotta start and the week after he passed away and bust kept hitting me and I didn't answer bus calls for that week Not because I don't respect bus because I absolutely do, but it was just like I just wanted to deal with the morning There's a post So it was going on and then and then afterwards I'm gonna be honest this Everybody see how great Sean was One second says one second how many times that I was trying to call you Tell Sean to come fuck with me right then because I really knew how special this kid was I didn't know what to do with it Right, I didn't know what to do with it. I know to do it now But it's so many but but a lot of people a lot of people did yes, I got you says I'm so now I'm just gonna a lot of people day you have to understand He he had put out three solo albums and no shes for an artist to reinvent himself right? That's a very difficult thing to do especially for what you call an old school artist or You know whatever that whatever the phrase is Yeah, I was following he called recreating himself where he was torn where he was selling albums where he was He was making a good-ass living stuff would be reinstated himself. Yeah Sean was a big thanks I'm saying I bought a wrap and they kept doing it Now that was a lot of labels at that time and point that word recognizing what was going on I saw a buster one day in front of transit on Broadway. I remember he pulled me in Sticks all yeah, I saw him outside transit. You know I bust a grabbing pull you went to y'all and he this is a couple This probably like a year before or year maybe two before he passed and he was like, you know I'm gonna work with Sean. I want to and like you're right Well, we already move him but everything would would always come back to Sean But one thing was Sean is and he had the choice he never switched teams You've seen you've seen him in the group and then you've seen him as a solo artist Where did you think his space was more comfortable as as a solo artist where he became Sean Price? Yes, okay Explain he was able, you know Because he wasn't funny at all Like I never laughed they're rocking rock at all Now show price comes I'm like I always look at myself like Bismarkey With a gun That's always Damn turn to the Bismarkey with two guys Like So I always look at Sean because this marquee was my item and everybody hated bizz not hated They just did it. I mean from from my era. Oh, they did take No, I'm saying I'm just saying my people didn't take bizz as serious as came as Rock him whatever but this made me laugh Right, and I always wanted to be entertained and laugh at the same time Yeah, and that's what show when bizz came it was like oh, that was the ultimate show And then I'm not gonna laugh. I felt like I took on that On our key, what is that? I don't know that word. I'm sorry I So I took on that and then I left it alone Now left alone I tried to make club records party records and all that and John So do you think because me personally and this is some fucked up shit to save it on the keyboard rail keep it around I Developed this perfect personality when I gain weight Okay, after I gain weight I was 360 pounds. I didn't want to look at my stomach So I became funny Everything else but me But Sean never got big as me So how does Sean in your opinion develop that that you know personality? I would say you know the struggle Take you there You know the ups the downs you got personal problems you got real problems You understand what I'm saying You know as artists and I say this a lot We have to deal with The world with the fans want how people gonna look at us how they perceive us at the same time You dealt away personal issues from your family you want to help everybody you want to make everybody happy and and all that shit just builds up You you try to direct your attention elsewhere You know it's hard like he lost his mom's and then he had to get out there and do a show You know say his mom you know she didn't raise them but Sean Price I'm not gonna lie see how we see got on stage. It's so beautiful I don't know if you know we do here at this show, but I'm gonna read I'll introduce Sean price of state. Yes, he's that talk about it. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey She was And prospect part that was what the woman's that show call that was what I was Yeah, from his she was actually doing photography Everything You can't stop it without a name Drew I got a question and this has to do with Sean Price and this might be kind of wrong in a sense And I'm gonna tell you why this is one of the most depressing times I had in hip hop I went to shady records I don't know I remember the year exactly and I went to visit Briggs Morales and you walked in and You was pitching Sean to them He was like yo and he was giving the illest pitch to them and I remember rigs just like not Not being sure what you were saying And I'm like because I already know I'm a I know what what he meant to the movement Right like how could why would you question this? So I walked away from from that office like this heart of hip hop Like why the fuck would they not? Understand this is a legend already. Why would you not pick this up? But and then you had to pitch it. I mean I probably went up there for Paul because we were already cool We first of all we have this yeah, we have history with him right that goes back to another whole other story that we We have one time I do remember that day You also have to remember at a certain point right that we're talking about like it is a lot of comedy to it But then like to Burns point there was a lot of struggle also around 98 99 we lost that glorious Ducks in deal that priority records Smith or Western sign of rocus, right with me and buck was sitting back on We got a regroup and we got to find new funding. We got to find We went back to my apartment like we went from offices on in the penthouse With copy machines and all types of crazy shit to the copy machine being in my kitchen So at the same time we're looking out we have artists that are active and we're saying we got to we got to do something for them as well And we started making deals that that killed us like we were dismantling the roster like literally at Smith Western was signed a rocus records Yeah, but at the same time like that I think that was like something that hurts and it began Signs of workers hurt it hurt because we couldn't provide the home anymore. We come provide the kind wasn't just Us no more right it was outside Inside entity we made a new deal. We signed you know, we signed a group like everybody said all right They said priority. Yeah, I had so Sean was also without a deal and so at this time like rock The partner and health the shelter rock. He had a deal With with priority they kept him through that deal so Right they will but it was it was through that contract But they were allowed to keep one artist from our roster and that's what they chose they chose that's what they chose they will in our contract They were allowed to keep one act and they chose rock and that I think that put a huge chip on Sean's shoulder And so we went back to We went we went back to put now 12 singles and at that time there were a lot of like you know different different labels because Steve Rift can call You know Paul calls so we were taking a couple of these exploratory meetings like I thought that might be a good fit for him Like if M if he did a deal with with with M I swear like but I don't know how hard I would like I don't know I walked away from that So I was just pitching it. I was like how could this not work but I never felt like they like Not make sense like why do you why do you have to pitch that? No, but I never I'm no brainer I never felt like that's why just that indifference spirit But when I'm saddened I didn't leave that mean it's feeling anyway I So No, no, give us the moil There you go So this is The I know how many just you got a lot of shit Shot with your me I think niggas here right now Shot We You fucking that You know Y'all I can't And they did the joint actually was actually the they did who got the problem Yo, that's what I was shot Oh Russ I don't know if y'all understand what we do here drink champs Diggy champ what we do at drink champs is we support Our legend and I don't know why poor poem has any more shots of anything This is like Because Capone gonna sleep on a terrace And he I see the last war report check Come on And and has the pre-mpt to us. He's He's by far But he's still like the files guy in the world, but that's my brother and you know what we celebrate your birthday tonight And Victor nori sent y'all Represents for you. I love you since I met you and I we stayed together and we're gonna be together And I want you to keep doing what you gotta do cuz you gotta do you gotta stop wearing rabbits I don't make it home. You know what happened Now let me ask you out something as collective as a collective to me that changed the face of him Because y'all was the first people like Wu Tang came after y'all I even asked the p came after y'all said they want to contain their music and keep it together But same lady in priority in my opinion y'all was the first people to do it Yeah, it's the first people to say I'm gonna maintain and stick together and do what they do now What's that? What's that attitude that all of y'all the above? Oh, that was just you I think that that was everybody That's what after One group we always went back and got the next group got on he came back got smith for lessons Missed some guy don't we went back and got out the skeleton out the skeleton got on it came back and they were OGC That's why I was the great That's why they was the fast-fi it was OGC and help the skeleton that was that was we we was used to Being around a being around each other like We didn't have we didn't have the support of like we didn't have the old geez and in the industry Everything we did we learn we was like on the job training like Everything we was doing internet we like yo, we had to come up to the priority to get on the internet Talk to the fans nobody wanted to do that. I mean now everybody is on the phone like sweet and in text and every five So it's like we learned from each other so we was used to that and and when we wasn't on the road We was at we was at home, you know, I mean we was trying to find the best we spots in Brooklyn and all For the best we It was at least two times a week I was bumping to you and Ray at body I see this again We both I just want to keep it to you big enough down because it was something that that really bothered me the other day I believe the guy that was here earlier I think he tweeted me and said when is this guy right no no The guy Down on it and you know what I said are we ready to get vodka? I think it was time for I'm not only one to get I want to hold on Because I Get mad when people mentioned the greatest labels all time I'm people rich and mentioned the greatest independent people of all time and then they don't mention y'all like I personally get mad at that I appreciate that because it's like I survived it I lived it I was sitting and they're still here How can you fucking not include them? I mean we came from a place that that that raised us as warriors man like you know going through going through the other label drama and you know Loosen people Calutaves of war Contrax and stuff like I guess we develop our skin and it's like we always been underdogs and we never look for anything We always did it ourselves like it started as duck down management and with the duck down records When he was when we was down like any other team when we was down Five was up, you know We got back up we got back with the five so it was just us through the whole to the whole thing and we never look for We never look for anything and I think Drew and and buck was geniuses in the sense that they they got it after a while and say So let's just do this ourselves once y'all got popping was there other labels that came into play and said fuck down come with us Let's talk about it. Let's talk about it I Got said man we was already groomed man like we was not it wasn't you couldn't you couldn't take it Joe even sharp right me jokes jump right that I wouldn't let nobody walk me a deal You tell me you would take me with them though he said he always Right he wasn't dead Right it was it was it was it was it was not a lot of it was not a lot of people walk a counter But it was I was getting fan mail. I was getting bags of family. I was getting a lot of fucking family But I got one letter That I was like I love that it was like now this can't be real It was for fucking rock And I look that that shit said dead and he he spoke on behalf of all young ladies like I'm speaking on behalf Like we ride a for you And I came home and I fucked a you separate I fucked a you separate. I spoke to you separate. Yeah, that was the real shit Yo, it was not I didn't get a no mail from no limit. I didn't get a man from there I'm not gonna mail from fucking I got mail from y'all negative Mail from millionaires We know that we know the Venice That's what we came from we was raised in the Nobody Give me loving jazz That's how we hooked up with pop Right Because y'all was fucking on top before anybody The baby They don't got they got Egyptian and she like that like relax You gotta have it fake Kalona every day Baby How dame. How is that Because it feels like all right. No you know. What M.A. We got make you know. We got make this the distinction clear right right because we're going through a couple of decades of what we've done. Yes. And so along the way we evolved and we understood that we had to make the distinction to between between between bootcamp click and duck down right. You can't click is a super group. Comprehensible to artists that we're talking to right now but then duck down is a label. Still what go on and we distributed a lot of records for some artists that you may not even think that we will be a distribution company for. We put out records from KRS 1. We put out records from Brio from Farmer Munch from Black Rob. We've done four records with static selector with 19 more. With Pete Rock. Shit. It's like no checks. We evolved into a label, a consulting company and the distribution company because we had to we had to move with the times and wasn't going to be about. No, it wasn't. But see I'm going to be this real careful because you want to get me in trouble. You see the videos. I know. We have a lot of people who are going to be in trouble. We have a lot of people who are going to be in trouble. We have a lot of people who are going to be in trouble. We have a lot of people who are going to be in trouble. We have a lot of people who are going to be in trouble. We have a lot of people who are going to be in trouble. 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You know We were calling She was in the house She was in my crib I'm a queen I know Every time I was in my house I don't want to go all the way You forget about the I already got messy ass so much and all that Look at her Come on That's what we are right now Because of my man's mom So I'm from south side That's south side, okay Okay So I'm calling the fuck Yeah, I'm calling the fuck You see if I get fucked I know You got this to bring both of them Baby you got fucked Baby you got fucked Baby you got fucked Baby you put it in the mic Baby you put it in the front In the front of mic Baby you want Baby you want Baby you want Baby you want Make some noise, your boxer! Your boxer, can you hear me, boxer? Can you hear me, boxer? You're this your boy in RRE? That's right, he's a bit of this is going on, my brother. How you doing, my brother? It's nothing good, man, I'm good, man, I'm back in the state, I'm just on here, recovering, I'm good as hell. So we heard the major H, everything in order, you know? We heard that you're fighting a certain thing, that's the reason why you couldn't come out tonight. Do you want to share with the people? Or you don't have to if you don't want to? I mean, it's a physical condition, you know, a lot of people know that the whole stand up for the medical marijuana stuff, and then like recently, the people think that was a joke, and then because I started doing a lot of research into that because of, you know, I heard that it helps with epilepsy. And you know what I'm saying? You know, me, that's something I was diagnosed with early 2000s. And you know, it's a real situation, there's not even people out there that have the same situation that I know that they can benefit from a point like me. You know, say that you can't get people on the list, and it's a need for me to change the whole stuff down when the situation is. They may not have the same situation, and not only is, but a lot of other physical conditions can be equal to something from, you know, it becomes a ledger after a while. You live, you see others, I guess, call them home. You know, I know me, which you call normal, regent, but sometimes you don't know what any individual themselves is doing, but I don't do so. Sometimes, you know, an extra voice on the side that tell you, yo, every kid's going to be cool, everybody's giving us something, but no matter what it is, you know, she puts you forward, may change, oh yeah, may change your health, you know, don't stress, you know, staying in your regimen, taking that nature study, studying yourself, make sure you know, today nobody's going to do it like you for you, you know, say no matter what, you're always going to be one that's having a topic itself. But entertainment industry is a real, real real stressful industry, and I know every artist who did it again, you know, saying, yes, time's not done a role, and I was like, and I wish this one more worth anything. But, but, but the law of getting on stage replaces it all. You know, I'm saying, so that combination right here together can become, you know, a rush of some people and a heavy low for others. So, let me ask you something, let me ask you something before you get about here, describe what, what is it, what is it? What does it do to you, it makes you feel weak? Everlapsi is a neurological disorder, basically, everything that we do in our body, our daily process, actually comes from our brain, you know, saying, yeah, sometimes the average person is just saying, you're not that active. People in epilepsy didn't know it was firing extra extra extra study, it's like a more fuckin' as just traveling on extra speed, you know what I'm saying? And, and with that being the case, sometimes when a body stresses out, when it takes on too much, you, you know, you lock up, you know, they call it, they call it a seizure, you lock up, or, you know, people have different forms of this, some people look, some people see it, some people, some people may just, you know, lock on. All the way up, some people just, you know, some people may move, it's, it's, it's, it's out of a different form of it out there, but basically it all stems from the same hyperactive, other, other, other cells in the brain. So, if foundations out there, a lot of little people, I'm pretty sure you're probably seeing them and probably won't write bottom, because people don't know what that disorder was or what I'm relevant it was, whatever, but it doesn't necessarily that. When you donate, try 10 cents, 10, 20 cents a dollar, whatever, actually comes a long way, man, because I started doing a lot of research in the foundation, did that, and it helped, you know, say it helped. Well, fuck yo, I don't know if you know what's going on right now, right now we salute in the whole duck down legacy right now. So, here with you, we here with Miss Jean Price, we here with, you could, we here with the, we here with the tech and still, and then come on once you to, I would tell you what incident you, you forgot about. Okay, tell me. You and your studio. Okay. And we were talking, right, something at the time, me and my dude said, you want to use it, it was, I think you like, you know, that this is the first time and you were, I think it was sticky, you know, something was, you said blacks, right? You just say, cracks, right? Yeah, you think you're going to want to do it. Get the black. Get the black. Uh huh. And you're next to someone to me, but this is not good. This is not me, but I fell asleep, but this is going on. I'm back here, you see the final sleep. My bad, but I'm sorry, but. But your baby, my heart, my heart, your baby, my heart. You from black fracks, a little bit. Oh, you know, you can donate it. You have a black, you know, your phone want to take something to you. Hold on. No, no, no, no, this phone. What's up, baby? What's up, what's up? Hey, you know, I just, I just want you like another people where they can donate that, you know, to have a lot of things in all that. I mean, you can you say it. If you want. It's. Actually. Sound. I'm going to go out there, it's something reweathering. It's a story. But you're going to know a little bit of the story. OK. If you're going to talk with Stormy, because Google tells you a little bit of the story is a little young lady. What she's about. She's right. She's about 10 years old right now. OK. And she saved the home with the recent and the stuff that he did for her and all of the right opportunities they had, and the resources they had. And everything they came for, she's been good to like a couple of years now. So, you know, you know, and just, you know, it'll even happen to be this. Any other validation that, because again, we're just beating the situation where you just, you can beat an optimal man for both legs and you see all the, you just see all the misfortunes of like all you know what? Your life is a precious thing man. Right. You know, that's what I appreciate. And love it and live it all. And live it out. Man, that's why I get it. Did you see? Look, man, you took down for life. You took down for life. You see when the many coming at you, we wanted the last more eating stuff. That really must have crossed down so many of the labels, right? Right. No, no, that's what we get into tonight. Yeah. We're big in y'all up. Y'all are new y'all. Niggas originated fucking with pop. Pop gave y'all the most love by the day. Y'all are original bad boy. Pop, pop gave y'all the most love. The original death row. The pop gave a lot of life. No. Hold on. What's running your hands on the head of the world to pop? All right. Hold on. All right. Hold on. Let's finish on the block and then we come back. Hold on. You're a block. You're not even a hero. You're the only thing that's on the table. What are you gonna be out of? I'm fucking in there. It's a ha ha. Yo, Buck, I just want to thank you so much, my brother. We want you to get well soon. You already know, drink chance with all about big enough our legends. If we need you on here at some day, once you get well, we want you back. We want you on here. And we want to say thank you so much, my brother. Yeah, we're sorry. You're not sad. You're not sad. You're not sad. You're not sad. You're not sad. Yes. Rest of the peace, y'all price. That's right. All right, one love, my brother. Peace. Talk. So now, I hate to go to this... So I hate to... After this great call, after we have the beautiful Miss Shaw price here, after we have all this, I hate to go to this question, but I have to ask this question. Go for it. Go ahead. How the fuck did your cash beat for Biggie Small? That was way for that one. I wasn't there. I was at half-notty seven. Is that your way of getting out of this one? I was actually at half-notty seven. That's what you're doing. I was like, oh no. They didn't make somebody like you in the video. No. No. That's not money. That's the question. No, no, obviously. No one you bought in the world. No one you bought in the world. No one you heard. Nobody ever asked you out there. Hold on, tell me. And then if I was asking them about it, that was my nigga from long time. Big from the style, from the style, that was my brother. It was just a miscommunication, a misunderstanding, what happened. And you know what I mean? It was the over-get money. No. It wasn't it. It wasn't it. It was deeper than that. No. No. It was just, it was just son that we even wasn't even supposed to go down the way it went down. It was just hot heads against hot heads, youngins against youngins. And the way it got nigga through the water running the fire was put out. I was it. Because you actually recorded the video. We recorded the recorded. We recorded the song. So on a manly the youngest was like, oh, they stole my joint. You know what I mean? Because they had a song called Get Money. No, they had a song with that chorus. I could be asking a shoutout to the person. Which nobody owned that. That's somebody else's super lyrics really. But in that climate, you know what I mean? That climate, that palladium climate. And then you got the label. The label was always looking for the juice. What they could find the juice at. And you know, the label fed the fuel to that. And the free juice was Lee Z. Clark Kent and EZLP. Yeah, LP. Clark Kent was your producer and LP was Big East producer. El, El, El. I'm on point. El, El. You made it like, damn, listen to the door. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? Listen, you know the story. El, you know what I mean? That's what it's been called. I know, you told us the story. You know the story. It was not. It was not. You want. You want. You want. You want. You want. You want. Chill out Talk about it like I said big was my nigga and these are my families are my niggas I'm a bad sign nigga from birth to the death My big was my nigga for like it's still doing my thing. I still So it don't have to be coming up for that shit I know nobody if you don't know about it then it's not you wasn't dead. You don't need to know about it Yeah, I just said that and I respect that till the 100% but you know what we do is we just we just But certain shit and certain things At the end of the day this is hip hop history true so sometimes we have to talk about but things that the the wounds already held Yeah, this is the one right here tech Big it in here to clarify Ain't no I would I would prefer y'all clarify even if even if y'all the Thing is the thing is we have to address this because we were I was in D&D When I felt the pressure I felt the pressure where I'm like they're like yo, you can't go there like why like You know biggest on one side like well, okay, and they like Down the other side like and I'm in the middle. I'm in the middle and we're primo We doing I share primo and then we heard some shit and the thing about it is I ain't trying to deal on the negativity in case you thought it In case No, but think about it is we this is what a fast right sometimes the fans know sometimes they don't know You ain't kill big you ain't kill You know They need it here So what they need is you say that My Pedal bike whatever by even driving through the hood in my car They would pull up on me your park and get in my car. We would go uptown to every week's But that's the week's five dad for at least two hours no no we've been sold and it drugs back cuz me big Money hell is up in there or D Rock is in there for literally an hour and change didn't come back to the black Are you saying and I'm sorry? I'm gonna get a little deep. So are you saying when when the beef actually did happen with big You was in like damn why What is going on? Yeah, because the scrap that moment. That's what I'm asking to scrap that moment because because I heard this is what I heard from the streets dad Get money. He was a duck down racket Big came into the studio. He heard it and he just like fuck it. I'm gonna just Do but he did a different version of it. It wasn't y'all version, but it was the same basis and He felt like he didn't even like talk to y'all so and is that would a beef started from sorry? I mean just you know the problem through all that I think that what what caused the Escalation of the shit was the videos Because there was no communication Communication you lack understanding You know Like when you with there's no communication you have three parts and three entities saying oh well Well why why why son? Oh, why but but big that's your man Is that when pop because then pop? Park and brace y'all because I don't think that really had nothing to do with it because pop was down Yeah, when we Like the me big and pop we all three of us is gymnasso that was our But not always our bond that we had pop wasn't even in the picture pocket nothing to do with it. That was another do it It was the thing is I just want to and look like you know you my name You know you know, but I just want to dress it for hip hop history because right at the end of the day I'm not coming at this as nori. I'm coming at this as a fan. Yeah guys came in a game before me And and me outside looking in that's how I look it looked like big and y'all have problems It look like your head yeah, did a video, but it would I Remember that me and big was still in the hood fucking with each other And all of them you know they all know that you know It's to this day bang season all like you'll take that nigga big really loved And it was the feeling was mutual My family addressed the situation was because I think you use what this plane it Did job play did the get money record? No, no, no, no, the record was the O.G.C. record right and it's like that's that's no That's our little brothers so you know they told you that big her this hook I don't I don't know how he got to How did they start taking pressure? I Said it was a lack of communication that was there the video was made nobody until that day came up when it was happening And we got the call I was on I was in the same studio night you talking about yeah, being like your call tech to the phone Hey, come in big is on the phone like a My hands on like you're big we never It was supposed to kick this ass man and man and dude like you right, but Look what we at now. That's why Be super fucking wrong with this one right like you got these young kids that's on the label Right and when you get like you have the backing of these these industry people like the industry know that they're bleeds and leaves They want you to have drama. They think if they think if we can show this image it may look good for you for your track record So you got them right that shit paid the party these kids wasn't going yo We got beef with baby want to set it with that was nobody was talking about that shit Like yeah, so it's like okay, how can we After we got all out of this shit, so this is where the industry comes in and soups down and take your babies And next thing you know you can't work up the block because you you said a rat and all that so that's what the Miscommunication is that because we should have talked to the homie that wasn't it was like none of us felt like that You know what I mean? It's with all of the right You're all the whole of all of this with all of that rep is in the producers coming and they start giving a little too sense They say well what if let's bring in this guy? Bringing a look alike of of this guy. Let's bring in a Montel Jordan guy like you know what I mean like we not thinking Yo, we're gonna do this in the video and when we sort of video when we saw it going down thing nobody felt comfortable with I'm not gonna lie as Queen's guy as a Queen's guy and I'm gonna be honest This is 100% honest. That's the worst thing that we did in our career. I was the biggest choice I was the biggest stupid duck down. I was the biggest hell that happened like I you know I have fights for y'all in jail I just don't say I know like I have fights for y'all like when niggas is like yo what? I'm like what I fights real fights And when I see the big like you know like Like and I'm a Queen's nigga and I only fought for y'all Nah, that's a big that's it in jail and I fought for all of them when y'all started beefing I was like damn I didn't I didn't understand it makes it was it was no it was nothing So pardon the reason why I'm asking ain't even ain't even Journalist fake Never miss when they say them of communication You know on the podcast nigga we got eight million people listening same. What's up brother? Yo, what up? What's good now? It's my brother I'm no no excuse me You know anything you know anything y'all know I love you my brother No, sir yo yo nigga I've been writing you since she was eight years old in the pin You eight years old now, but you got them right you nigga god damn and you still got your iPhone I got you You know we love you nigga when you come home you good we will give you an executive job you're okay I know yo yo rich rich come on come on. Come on hold on the cameras not on you relax Let's get him. Let's get him now the camera's on you. Oh look at that you got him You got a piece of home look no bitches you gotta give me a pussy so music come on Tell me your pussy That's my nigga that's my nigga I grew up with him mr. Upways me you know it's boss and now you know oh my heaven see you Oh shit And your wife texts you too But listen the bottom line the story is this you This M.O.P. was the nigga the from the head. Everybody else Because I have a Brooklyn name. So you just said never brother. No one ever stays here ever did. Right. Was that you or that was you? I said that. I said that. Why do you feel like it was the one of the worst things you have did? Because you felt like you're going to have to go? I don't think it was a, it was a, I think we should have, for me, like I look at my little homies. I'm like, all right, I'm a rower my little homies. You know what I'm saying? And you can give them with so much information. But I'm sorry to actually deeper that. What do you little homies tell? What did they say? It's there. This is their project. OK. This is their thing. And they can't even say. I can't. They felt like big, heard they shit and been it. I mean, I mean, I would just say this. They express some, this satisfaction with it. This is being the first time out. You know, this is their thing. They want to come out and want to, you know, they want to make a low splash. So if they hear somebody perform in the song, they know they just finished creating in the studio. But, you know, obviously they're going to be a little bit uncomfortable about that. Because that's exactly how I heard. I'm just saying, as an industry person, I don't know if these guys heard the song there, but you already know, D&D was a hub, man. Everybody was in there. Anybody going, you know. I mean, everybody was in different sessions, different people's sessions. But how I heard it was, somebody said, big walked into one of the other sessions. They heard it. They heard the record. And then all of a sudden, he had EZLP, who was also my producer, right? And pull it up. And I almost want to say I asked EZLP that. He said, it was exactly how I heard it. Oh, because he was almost, it was almost to a point where Niz was dug in under the controls boost. So that's how it was going down like that. But it didn't escalate to that. Because at that moment, it was like, you let me talk to it, let me talk to it. So did you actually work out the beat before you died? I like to think with it. Yeah, that last little phone call, yeah, because if it's times that, like I said, I'm from the start. So I would be right there on the block. And big, we go back to Brazil, and Eastern New York. I'm the only one from the start, right? So it was time when big was out of town, and me and C's, and you know, we'd be right there. And big call, they're like, yo, check here. It was like, yo, where? Like I'm being the families of all you then. And really, like, yeah, like, shh. I know what I know what could happen, what's gonna happen, but I'm, you know what I mean? So it's still there with our relationship as far as me and big relationship is cool. And me and my family relationship is still cool. But like I said, it felt like it fucked up Brooklyn because it was Brooklyn, Niggas going against other Brooklyn Niggas. It was starting, and it was, it was always a beat between the veil and the style. And why you were in rule? Yeah. That why you got the Mike Tyson tattoo, you want to tell it? Like, it's been Brooklyn together? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Well, yeah, that's it. Now, this is just, this is just my warrior shit. This is, this is my warrior shit. Like, you ever seen Predator once? That's like Tyson brother shit. I was not. Oh, no, Tyson, this is the same shit. You have to say, like, it's Tyson Esk. I thought you got it. But now it's this sort of like, maybe like a, we don't talk to each other. Maybe like, you're saying we're going to fuck it, fuck the game, fuck the game. That was Tyson. Like, I used to bump into Mike, like, when I was a real, real little nigga where he was shut down, the stores on Belmont, going on, everybody get a V-goose bomber or let the horse on. Rich shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. This is a fit. That was the only time I was bumping to Tyson and he'd be like, oh, yeah, yeah, little nigga is like, but he was Tyson voice. He was with, yeah, because I always, I always was told I had to Tyson voice. Oh, my God. That's why I never even started to judge you to beat nigga's voice. No, man, because I used to bump. I'm really telling the whole thing. That's why I was security for him. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I got it. But, um, well, is it, why would you be talking about? Yeah. Tyson voice. No, no, no. Tyson voice. That's right, Tyson voice. That's right, Tyson voice. No, but, uh, The actual first time I bumped into Tyson was when I used to train and, um, and, um, Marcus Dauvey boxing gym, Tyson and Ridic Bowie used to come through there. We had to champion Mark Breeland, um, sweepies to come through there, and I meant Tyson and then this was way, this was right before right during the time he was training in the cat skills. So, let me ask, thank you so much. Hold on, relax, relax. You act like it's important, one of these two, um, so much. I'm not like, what? You act like it's your birthday. It is your birthday. I know. Relax. You gotta take it, man. If you're celebrating, you gotta take a bow shot. Come on. I'm gonna take a bow. I'm gonna take a bow. I'm in. I'm in. I'm in. We still haven't got your bow. No. You gotta go. I'm in. I'm in. You gotta go. You gotta go. I'm in. You know what, I'm going, I'm going. She makes a sweat, man. She makes a sweat, man. She makes a sweat, man. She makes you do life right here. Life. He's still going. Gentlemen, cheers, cheers. To life. To the odds, bring it in. No, no, no. This is, this is, this is dog, this is a big channel. The dog is a trainer? No, aha, aha, aha. Ha, aha. Ha, aha. Ha, aha, aha. Let me go. I gotta spot the map. Let's go. Let's do it, brother. Wow. I'm so too much annoyed with what he did with my brain. What's up man? You too bad. You do it right at this. Oh shout out to a pole. Shout out to a pole. I have to be brother. Yeah, you have to be correct. You need to talk too bad. Yeah. Let the tiger boat set for one second. Hold on. We spoke about big. You gotta talk about too bad. Relax. Oh, you took a fucking microwave. Staying keeps shouting, yeah. Hold on. You're trying to get that. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. you I'm okay No, the thing about it was the thing about it was I watched hot ones two years straight So I knew exactly what it was gonna do when it was gonna do it So I tried to Bring Tiger bone to offset it To all said hide wings hot sauce that only minute What in any level the highest on the skullville was like You know when we're in Miami, I told my put nory on to Tiger bone. Yeah, he did tell me this Story Joseph for life we was going to do this for life You was coming through your right, I know what you're going Right, but the problem was I was drinking 125th medicine No, no, that's just like the pro You took my hundred twenty-fourth medicine, but I said drink Tiger bone around the corner for 120 You talking about around the corner saw eyes already But you're right you did tell me you did you're right you did tell me you're no fuck with this But I have already used to it, but I never I never say you're telling I've been fucking with He had the new poor What the fuck is this yeah, yeah, and you was about train Drink this shit, man Now at one point he's not Let's go back to sharp price What we're we're we're we're we're we're we're gonna go serious right now. We're gonna serious right now So Sean other than smoking cigarettes. We don't know why a Sean Sorry, but I don't know why Sean is going either, but I was nobody can answer this question I will tell you that Sean is a fit with seek at me And now what is he? Amia is when you snore you and your heart stops Yeah, while you sleep I mean I talked about it back I talked about it because like it was one day I was just talking a pun and the pun That's not galactic Because It's when your heart starts beating You The Brain that's the sleep apnea It tells me to relax No Count from 10 back Talk Six five And you with me I'm gonna say this man when Sean passed No, he was the first person to call that I talked to like right after you like immediately One of firsts Let me tell you something about him. Let me tell you something about Sean price. I Met Sean price I knew who he was I definitely did with him He gave me a certain amount of love and he just kept yeah hit me and he was like nigga Like your funny Some Meaning and I will explain that after the album You heard so he hit me and I was just like damn and I I love this nigga so much But I wanted to spread it to the industry because I knew that he was suffering the same thing that I was suffering During the CNN out as far as a creation you know, I just felt like listen listen and he's right here I'm glad he's right here. I remember I sample some call don't let it go to your head Brandobean Brando I had sampled it on the war with Pony came to studio and said that's hard I'm gonna lay it first right now Tries came to studio and said that's black and Pony said it's right. It's right. Oh I Can I be No, but I rather he was right Tragers right me No, he was right there. It didn't fit with the world. Oh, yeah, because His words his wording was wrong right at that I Was Don't fit what you're doing right at the moment right, but he did he just said it was what right and they were poem came Poms Well, that was trash and it was like oh cool. All right cool. That's what what would land me to I got to go song Once he got a gel Reckers look Stop talking to the box at one time I heard trash wrote your verse for What was it? Is it That's Let me tell you Can't we not talk about Through them. No Baby They might have done Hold on I Listen, listen, I can't, I can't even a father to write some shit that he write I can't I can't even begin to think about the shifters That shit is not gonna happen so for a negative thing that I have a road or tragic a road or he wrote some shit for me He can't rap like me. I can't rap like him That's what makes that special. Like it's certain groups like I'm not taking nothing away from kiss and And the locks and and just the chemistry him and styles p got But you could put a book down sometimes and say I don't know what fuck who wrote it The sounds the same like it's no different you But that don't take nothing away from styles and Jada okay, but Baby It's not N It's not that it's not that I need a This is the total No, but here's how that was I got it I got this Let me just give it to him Let me just let me just let him give you the shit This had that room of starting When this album came up the war report I had no idea what publishing was So when I started for $5,000 I got you I got you I got you I spent all my money on the phone I got you I bet it's not too bad because of that Oh my god Oh my god I had $5,000 Please, bro, for a week, bro I had $5,000 I had $5,000 I had $5,000 I had $5,000 That was coming to separate the back Bring the back Bring the back I got AC called me Megan called me $5,000 $5,000 Oh, for 8GMZ Paul with it Do you ever Is banded a group Do you ever get your shit at point You feel like you have I can't say shit Just talk every day Just talk every day That's the point That's the point Megan is the one This nigga had a deal already Before we put it I'm in jail still He, me and him Telled it in jail So when I came home He said, fuck it Let's do it together We did it together What are you doing? We're going home with that idea Let's go home with that idea I was going home with that idea Okay, I'm going to die What happened to this? I had nothing I had nothing to go I don't know what I'm like But, trash Stola He didn't tell us That's right I was saying Bet you don't trust Bet you don't trust Bet you don't trust Bet you don't trust Of course, I was just going to die. Oh, life. Okay, I'm going to die. I did through it. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. The reason why we even got in a situation was because of me. I was getting money. My man wonderful was trying to rap. He sucked. I'm going to get this in. He sucked. He was one of the fucking bitch ass nigger. I'm going to fuck up. I'm trying to fuck up. I'm trying to fuck up. I'm trying to fuck up. He was one of the people he was dope. He thought he was dope. But he had that guapalena. Right. I was hustling with him. He said, yo, poem. I'm going to the studio. I said, word, but my ring is in Troy and you're young. So he can tell the studio. So rest in peace. Jamest, the J.D. J.O. Felony. And by the way, you're young. And Troy, you're young. Listen, you're young. This is actually my man. This is the same face of a genius. Listen, this is the same studio with Jamest, the J.D. I killed that. Oh, okay. And J.D. Like, um, trash, like, my man wonderful like yo, my man was sitting with his head. Jamest, the J.D. Like, yo, um, trash like yo, my man wonderful like yo, I fuck with a poem. So he tries like, oh, I know kind of. He for the heart, he busses good, whatever, whatever. So my man wonderful like, yeah, he up, he up, he up, he up, top of me. So he put me in trash on the phone. I'm going to let this in the butt real quick. Trash calls me. Yo, what do you know? I'm up, no, I'm getting money. Who come down? I said, I fucking, I can't do it, maybe, can't, whatever. I call a crack head. Crack head brings me down. I get to the studio. We all freestyle. Me, J.O. felony, trash. J.D. Well, J.O. Well, J.O. I'm selling. Go J.D. Jamest, Jamest, Jamest, Jamest, Jamest, Jamest, Jam doing the cuts. He doing the cuts in the booth. So, y'all, I'm trash like, I don't even know you. I'm like, I didn't knock around like that. Good enough for you to sell the junk. I'm like, I don't know. So, hey, low-story junk. Trash is like, yo, I want to fuck with you. I'm like, I bet he like, you got to stuff some of the drugs. That's not going to happen. You get me something, I just have some of the drugs. And that's going to happen. So, a few weeks, a few months after that, Destiny, it comes home. Call it, we said trash, trash, that's not going to happen. So, I got some of the drugs. I said, that's not going to happen. That's not going to happen. You can be something to work, that's not going to drugs. So, then, you don't bring none to the table. And all that process, I'm going to skip a whole way. I'm going to skip to me and him because, you know, I meet Faith No man. You know, side lies, we live in with her. She got the house in Medtown with the pool and the basement and all. We doing it up. So, now, he comes home. Now, Faith, like I got you to deal with Columbia, just chill. It's me and, I'm in Big L. Man, Big L. At the same time, we rode dogging. So, I'm like, I bet she's like, I'm going to get you in Big L. Tight. So, man, Big L. Like, yeah, we good. Right. All in Big L. All in Big L. So, man, Big L. Like, we rode dogs. We like, yo, nigga, we got him. Faith No man got us. And we fucking with butt naked tin dog. This is not fucking like that. This is not Tim Doh. I just came home. He's not gonna get to the point. Tim Doh. Tim Doh. Tim Doh. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean. You know what I mean. You know what I mean. You know what I mean. You know what I mean. You know what I mean. You know what I mean. You know what I mean. You know what I mean. You know what I mean. You know what I mean. You know what I mean. You know what I mean. You know what I mean. You know what I mean. You know what I mean. You know what I mean. He's still thinking, he's not a rapper, he's a shooter. So now we going to studio. So now we going to the studio. So we're like, we're gonna come up with another record. So I'm like, I have fucking whatever, make a long story short, this nigga comes home. So now I'm telling trash, like you're a fuck it. My man is home, but my, you went out on the ranch. We're just in the studio. He comes. He comes to my session. We're in my session and I'm rapping. He's like, yo son, you don't get busy, right? I'm like, what? He like, I'm like, fuck it, let's go rock it. That's my brother. That's what we've got. Let me go around nigga. We never round nigga, but I skipped the point. I took the shot. Yeah, I was in the same house together. I took the shot and bought a man, time in here and figure shit. Definitely don't remember that part. Yeah. You know, you gotta stand up. You gotta stand up. This one, my name is got drunk, and nigga's got thrown in the pool on hot. So when he, when you, when you, when you, when you, when he came through the house that you was in together. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So now look, look, look, I'm going back. So now, so we're going to studio. So now I'm like, fuck it. Let's do some together. This was our first song, Pan Amal Kenan. My team pushed keys to it. I'm Al Amal Kenan. Plus an app, plus simple on Chris Stas. That's right. That's why Jayden is Jayden. Where were we with Jayden Stas? I like that Jayden has that record. I don't even know how you got that record. I don't even know. Jayden Stas does like my team pushed keys to it. I'm like, I don't even know about that. Oh, good girl, black. I don't know that record. I'm getting that drew off. Sorry, man, I was like, Oh, I didn't know that. You know, Jayden American, you know, now we're going to skip, we're going to skip over. So now, try and say, yo, y'all make this is like, like, like, like, brother and toast, y'all night day. Oh, so we like, fuck, we want to do it together. And then from there, we signed that solo in the devil. You did, yeah, but you have to try to see what we have. I know, I'm still not there. And then we did, we did, stretch the bones out of your face. Stretch, oh, strong tomatoes. Stretch, yo, we did LA LA for that one. That's right. And the part they want to use it. Stretch, oh, she's right. We're doing it ourselves. You went to us father and got $20,000. And shot the video and put the record out of self. It's like, you know what? No, I mean, no, you didn't go to his father. But that's what made us. Right. We got the deal and tries to go off fucking money. We don't know who the $5,000 was right. If that even did to for my son, you got to talk to him. Say that in the room, say that, say that, baby. Oh, oh, oh, sorry. Yo, LA LA came out. The cash was mad at me. I was on high at the time. They was like, yo, you know what I'm saying? Yo, the mnx had to pay you under the table with something. I'm like, nah, this is a good record. This was a good record. And that's what they got to say, like, because he was playing it, they thought. Yeah, it's playing in a lot. I think the first time I got it, I played twice on the show. New York, New York was being played in that. In New York. Yeah, in New York, I'm in New York. I took New York, New York, New York, New York. Right. And that's what I'm playing at LA, because I'm New York. And you know, one thing about me, like I represent New York, you know, I don't have nothing against nobody. But you did do it. I didn't do it. I didn't do it. It was West Coast people. It was West Coast people. It was East Coast West Coast people. I wasn't really this and I was like, you don't know the box. They weren't really this and us, but we didn't know it. We can't tell or they didn't know, so we just responded. I see that I saw them. I remember that. That's why. I remember that. Oh, absolutely. That's what it was. That's the only reason why I brought this to kids first of all. Yeah. If you didn't, it was an act. Well, I'm not this and nobody. It's not for the act. There is. It's a real way. You said, you want to burst the print with C. I don't know what that was. I have to give you a little thing to be mega. I got word back from Noriega. I got the one. That's the one. That's the one. That's the one. That's the one. That's the one. That's the one. That's the first time I play. I got that. Did he take his verse? Yeah, let me try that. No. Wait, wait a second. Wait a second. No, you won't say anything. Go. Now. Definitely take the lead. No, we need to get it. Let me talk about it. No, we're getting better. We're getting better. Yeah, yeah. We're all in a chance. So what happened? See what we got? My brother, where are you drinking? Oh, that's a long time to tell the state. I was drinking with him. You have to ask, after every verse that we spit, he was the only verse that actually felt like it went to LA. Now, it was the only verse that actually went to LA. It didn't feel like it. It was it. It was real. It was real. It was real. It was real. It makes down the center part, right? Can I tell you? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Right. Can I tell you? Can you hear me? Can I tell you? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? I'm not relaxing. Listen. I'm not relaxing. We don't. They don't relax. They don't. They don't. They don't. They don't. They don't. They don't. This is the before the builders, the builders came after we dropped a wreck it. Hey man, hey man. They kicked the builders over. He's actually skipping over. What? Two weeks ago. Oh man. He's skipping over two weeks. He's skipping over. What happened was they did it. I'm better than they do. Actually, we lian. Woo. Woo. Woo. You said Smith and Wyson are on the nose. Absolutely. But that's it. Okay. Here's what happens. When I say we lie, I mean this. Not lying, though. No, we are lying. We are lying. We are lying. Not rarer lying. Well, here's what happens. There was something called a DJ list. Back in the days. Back in the days you used to be on a DJ list. And your album will come out two months in advance. Absolutely. And depending on what DJ you fucked with, you would send the DJ this album two months prior to it coming out. Right. The dog pound dropped the album two months prior. I had a duel dance from my hood. His name is Chaz. I will never forget him. I love you, Chaz. Sex off the Chaz. What's the glasses? I don't got glasses. He just wags off the stage. I don't know, Chaz. I do that fly. You don't need big of a Chaz. And Chaz came to me and said, you know, and he had a Panasonic radio. It was $50 of the time. That was the black shit. It's the economic gig. And Chaz, in front of the section two, right, right, right, right, right, because we were starting one. Left, right, right, left, right, right, to a die. Cheekies. Come on, bro. Cheekies. He's like, so hold on. Let me finish. So Chaz put the shit in front of the joint. And said, you know, Chaz said, you think these things are this or not? But Chaz, this was the third set. Wow. Super duster. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. I need one rose in my credit so I can talk to Chas So chas say to me Chas is ready to me can't damn it whoever these people are they gotta go So now this time chas says yo Did you hear the new dog power? Chas has never talked to me about music before his life He always talked to me about other shit. He talked to me about C-Saw's You know I should take masculine I said take shit like that. Yo Stay away my Oh So I did that And then I started to realize When chas came back as chas was crazy the chas were on the road and he came back. He said I think the negative is killing us This before the video none of that is still wrecking So I was like oh shit But now mind stretch all strong text all of us. It's not a text. It is a two way Minds So whatever I did the queens raise I didn't want to go back to Queens So I went back Because they told me to come so I went back then we would stress off struck So we're standing I beat them in stretch. Don't man. So we're standing there for two hours. We don't know what to do So I say your food of the dog power now And they say why I say because my nigga chas was section two the Panama building The Panama bill He had played me he played with his record and I couldn't distinguish it was a dish or not But when we heard it you went in everybody relax who's that Rob relax so they said to me are you sure as a disc and we can I can distinguish it was a disc Capone didn't this thing was a disc Proud as you can this thing was a disc Habrican this thing was a disc tragedy can this it's five of us right only person that went in What's proud of you what's proud of you he said JFK on the way now is though that's how he's So the news kicked over the buildings You're making left Queens Pass it up to you So when when When prodigy says or anybody says we sent them niggas versus We didn't want to deal do business with them and any but person They are lives because No, it's true. I'm not saying But I got you He says people said something that said Acribinant we sent them the verses how that is a lie First off we wanted to kill him when he took the the pot verse off But all of us Well back because the only person pocket with this was him This is our brother we don't right here. We never we never did that so sure was manipulative. Yeah Which part like you Because you definitely don't make sense Manipulate the whole track The whole track is manipulative LLA We didn't get what was supposed to happen Actually we got the original We got No, I face time. No, he last week about it and he looked at the screen and turned around and I'm here from again Anyway, listen, there's one with the dog pound beat which is We are Baby 1 Because the only one took his verse off and guess what? That was his first photo, right? Because he knows. No, no, no. It was the only one that popped when that. If you think about it, pop never said, but he didn't want that with his phone. He was one that was so back. Has Google wicker pop set. We know that. We know that. Close that door. Close that door. Google wicker pop set. Fuck a ball on the rear. He could win. Never. It doesn't exist. And to think about it, even if he wanted to sell, he said, fuck my deep and I'm, and I'm over Vegas. I think I did this. You could have been all the biggest. But so what? You know what I'm saying? I'm going to say this and I'm out. I'm going to chill right here. But yo, five magazine did that whole shit, bro. That was how these cars went to go. No, no, no, no. See? See, see what I'm saying. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. He's got to have a conversation. No, no, no, no. Let me tell you something. Like, let me tell you something. That was that was the story of vibe. Bet you magazine. Yeah. It was so real. Listen. Listen. But it was a photo. And it killed people. And it killed people. And it killed people. And it killed people. And it killed people. And it killed people. And it killed people. And it killed people. Yeah, the newborn saying. Yeah. Listen. He's gone pretty much. You go. You two. you you You're a second child You have a good like out is the black man Let's say right there come on come on You are You cannot make them share secrets static You know Static you better not she and see with him The fuck is going on Hold up Hold up Let's go back to 3chage You two chat right now You see me Holy fuck boys He's all the flyer playin' too He's a brother he really get do whatever my brother No, please relax I'll tell you right now please That's what happens That's what happens Come on Come on I give you my brother My brother He said I made a joke with him Yeah, I'm not a New Yorker so let me live I'm not a child You're a brother You're one of the last dudes at Hungawa Park Tell us that like the like We're recording brother We're recording brother We're recording brother We're recording brother You're the one who's doing it You're the one who's doing it You're the one who's doing it You got you d d d you d I Thank you, but if you don't trust the god No guy what the fuck you think I that's it No I'm number two. No. No. We're talking about pop. Pop. Oh Yes, okay. Wow. Thank you. Come on Now real talk. Real talk I go fucking real talk Y'all were the last one of the last people to fuck you with park Yo, can y'all stop You with me you buddy. You too. I'm a fucking you. Hey, buddy Dumb buddy row Crazy Cheeky get right with you. Oh my god. I'm not gonna be with me. He with me. I'm just asking him. Hey with me You I know I know I know I know Oh Please respect this now you want me to Respect absolutely absolutely I want your respect Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. We're talking about park right now park and y'all I was talking about the relationship with park and y'all See for the music of james Because The lot of slack when it comes to interviews for me Check, let me just say this yeah, I received a lot of slack at one point I said fuck everybody Just talk please Yeah Call you two hours, bro He said call me an hour So yeah, yeah, hold on. Oh you guys are seeing the lot of slack once pop She's Let me let me let me describe the situation pop she don't know the east coast Park did it and the only people he claimed was you guys He was like smooth worst my lips There must have been down What happened was I don't know if they caught what we was just talking about in the midst of the rock is But the this is playing magazine and everything will happen because when we first got Like you got smith and wester we was we we was Not discredited in black moon or e or bug week smith and wester we was all street niggas We was all street like I'm coming from the style like I bring my motorbike up to the this one We was killer bin for green niggas was this was this one I was in it in for green with wrestling and peace Jewel when niggas was in Old This is Young Yeah, I'm just saying I was a young We got the frost the who got the glass when we came one it was For me coming from the style I can't I live in a brownstone on my brownstone My family has generations in a brownstone so coming from the style to the veil going to the projects You always got to be gripped up we coming from we coming from I'm coming from a tree line block If I'm on a motorbike or a pedal bike, I'm coming up the hill to see my brother big up the shot town She's coming to see my red we got killer bed in this car We coming and I'm coming we like Sun was having so when I get to the bill It's like a change of weather coming because I'm leaving a stop I'm trying to get from my hood to experience something different So when I leave the style and get to the bill is like oh son your man over is We got everything we got this building that it's only we got four buildings and several projects You know saying we got niggas and all the buildings but when he come through as a best-doc cat They never seen the best I can he got well He coming through in the dirt box with no him and all she got the engine ripped off And there he comes like yeah, how you know Now No From the bill so they told about up the hill Still in the field and down hill in the field when I say down to him talking about pros and landing Yeah into the style like yeah, you're really with sad but you was the We talk about bug right now y'all give us all that but give us the park side of this the park side We're Yeah, yeah, well They leave out in his two-park Magamation is the outlaws like outlaw is this from Jersey All right, it's from Jersey, you know saying Yeah, yeah, well, we say that all numbers from Jersey and we write that we know of it And if you and if you ever if you were new your name You've ever been in Newark if you haven't been a trend you ever stepped in them dirty swamps You already know that it's you know You're gonna get So where we you know, I mean like do's get money out there and you know you got you got family members out there So I think they spawn the whole thing and then You know when tech put that that real kite out to do so You know Like I think We talk about when you say that kite when I got that letter So it came from that I think I think I'm gonna want that brought that kite up like like like I'm the one that recognize like flip it flip it which way so now yeah, yeah Drink champs low, huh, but listen like that kite was so real like and it was like Not too many more fuckers St. Kites the pop and got responses back from pop and for y'all To be one of the few people who had correspondents were popped in the pen like That's shit. Oh, what I want to know is when he came out and he was on his like straight like Fuck bad boy Fuck this nigga fuck that nigga. She was sure You got a lot of that you make a chance come on day When he came out did he ever say Y'all my brothers y'all exempt So y'all so when it was fuck bad boy, he said fuck bad boy and did a record with them at the same time I Can't get between CNN At the same time when he said fuck knew y'all he actually had a record with That's because it wasn't just a record that he was trying to do with Smith New York It was an album that was in progress that was working It was a one nation project was just as it was bug it was it was um Greg All that fuck your kid Wasn't got him was never screaming fuck me We was in a crib at the height When it was supposed to be the East Coast West Coast battle like niggas would come up from death row and drop Literally paper bag money on the ten be like yo, son said meet him here meet him here meet him here We get to the airport and probably be like yo, we know all the same plane Rip the tickets I get the fuck out here did he bought right out the airport? So it was never time where he felt like he was bigger than us or he was More than us where he was Because we would we would pull up into a gas station in LA and everybody be shrapnel They just be like yo, what's that? What you pull it that nigga could be in the coma sleep just coming off the set of two movies Soon as the van stop he waking up yo, what's happening? Where we at? They like what we just coming to get gas and they could do a quick 360 bonk bonk bink all right? Yo, you know what let's go. We can't stop here But nobody understand Why does niggas mentality is like that, but if you've been hit up? 5 6 7 8 times and you automatically stop it and they just say we just Yeah, we don't get fucking Yeah, why all of a sudden we stop it again. He's supposed to get gas for you guys So the mentality be different, but it was never when we was with pot. It was never a fuck New York fuck big Cold But there's never never there's never there in a time There was There was actually a record where it was like No, it was here. No And it was it was a record You it was you guys What I think you was on it now now safer And sadly bail with us yeah, no because before before that it we we haven't even recorded with pot Right, but it was great man and met the man That record oh To my mom made it No, it was it that was y'all record now the Fucking crazy was the rumor is I was on uh Hail Mary that was me supposed to be doing the chorus on a hell Mary God though chill out Be because music is so broad and the room was make a lot of the music and a lot of the Like I remember when we first dropped Not to say it it was a bunch of Funny different people they just been getting robbed in the industry But we ain't nobody because we wasn't in the industry But when we got in the industry yeah, we was robbing it, but when we got in the industry Right when he was able to go back to the hood and tell niggas how so other news was And they was getting robbed it was different So when niggas was was doing them type of records He was like nah that's not It wasn't understandable to To the people outside, but we understood because we was the people that was making a record and bringing it back When the whole When the whole ancient jack and all that shit was going on Did you ever get caught up in the mix? We never got caught up in none of that That was like that was like real for Brooklyn Yeah, because that was real for we are Brooklyn niggas Yeah, that's right. I'm not gonna say the names that was there, but we Those were niggas that was over us. We came up we came up and gang life decepticons We came up in niggas getting popped in a stomach or popping niggas at 59 shoot Baby you see a nigga on a step to the 357 hole in the stomach Even are like And then can't breathe and when a nigga said yo, your waves ain't better than mine I got a punch and they get his mouth just to prove to him. Yo, I'm not a pretty nigga Like my son was wrong. I wasn't the rapper. He was the rapper. Yeah Anything that he did I was riding with him. That's for some nigga. You can't touch him. You can't do nothing to him He was also he was also like a a stunt guy What the fuck is that? That do shit that nobody My body matrix was built different You Yeah Look let me do the pre-Jay and three boy big of the big old for me. I was I was a see Love I would come through my Wow Let me For the tunnel was Coming from Brooklyn to go to the tunnel every Sunday night. First of all, if you didn't leave with a bitch to fuck Sunday night, something was wrong with you. Yeah. All right. So from Brooklyn, this is what we would do. Boom. Wake up, hit the gym, work out, boom. Get a swollen arm. Boom. Boom. Boom. For the gym, we go to the barbershop. Line is fresh, Chris. Boom. For the barbershop, we show in Uptown, 145th. Why would we see Mugan Brasie? Yeah, that gives us. Salad T-shirts, a nigga even buy A-Solo, Vosko's, some Tams, or some icebergs. We're gonna write it to icebergs. See my nigga, yo, we set, set. Oh, son, we got the new Snoopy. Now I don't want the Snoopy today. I don't want the Snoopy today, son. Oh, we got this. Boom. Match me up. We go, I get the outfit from 145th. By the time we ain't getting nothing to chop up or do, nice, son. As soon as we come onto store for 145th, police pulling us over. Woo, woo. I said I'd go out already. There's my ID, babe. This was pop. As soon as we come out at 145th, police pulling us over. Woo, woo, woo, what y'all got. We ain't got nothing. We ain't, we ain't got nothing. We can't get close. Yes. We can't get close. When the down bags of haze was like, like, yeah, yeah. So when buying 10 down bags of haze, this one I was smoking. We buying 10 down bags of haze. You're buying it in Brooklyn. Then we go into the other store in the corner of 145th. By another outfit from there, take it back to Brooklyn, start a seal of game, went by 1500, park on the corner of murder and clang. And then now we going on 7, 8, 9, 10 o'clock. Get a bottle of handy, some bottles of handy, boom, boom, boom. Think it's just coming out the hood. Now, yo, what's up, what's up? You know what time this is, go to time. Now we rolling out four or five cars deep to the tunnel. Then we get to the tunnel. So as we pull up on the cobble block, it's a ladder around the corner. And it's like, you know what? Something pull up around this way. It used to be a party like we had to go up the hill. Yeah. Yeah. What are you talking about? If me, pack it. I was driving the SC400 to put the pearl weight up in there. It's like, come back down. So how many of you was? It's only about 15, 10 to 10 was 10, 15. That's a Jessica's from this. 10, 15 of us, the big pants. Even son and dude, you know, my nigga, all right, what son and dude, the door training now, the cane corsoes, or the big, the big dude, I was out for, out for, out for, nigga. The out there, he be out there with the dog, yeah, baby, I'm in the dog, I'm gonna help you with it. How many of you with? I'm like, bon bon bon, it's 10 to 15 of us, boom. Now, my first best shit of the tunnel, out for no, that confusion. I remember, it's the comfortable, I remember one day we was in the tunnel. Who the fuck was before? I'm not saying Alex, I wanna say Alex was performing, but John, who was walking on the bar? He was alone, that was on the floor. On the flea, no, how the bar was set up with the tunnel. John was walking on the bar with no shirt on, like, who's getting the shirt on? That nigga is like, no, who the fuck? Fuck, nah, but this is red, this was tunnel day. This is tunnel day. And then we look in that belly, we like, damn, we run up into the bathroom, being, being, boom. Man, when we got assaulted in the tunnel, it was different. But it was different. It was different. It was different, it was different. So little nigga was just born. It was different, and it would never be another spot, like the tunnel, I don't even fuck what, sitting is it? It would never be another spot, like the tunnel. It's so nice. So little baby Mars would be that bitch up in the, that's the thing. That's the thing, that's the thing. That's the thing, that's the thing. I'm gonna get it, probably before twatching the cuckoo. Right now your mom's head, you got your mom. He would do it, front of the tunnel. He's front of the tunnel, let me tell you something. Don't be mad at us. I want the tunnel, and I'm gonna say this, live on here, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. But this was like the prime time of the tunnel. And I had just, it was a salsa warts, in Cali. And this is the salsa warts, with everybody I brought. It was a shit. It wasn't sure that if you ain't used to niggas, then it ain't even. That was a joke. That was a joke. That was a joke. That was a joke. That was a joke. That was a joke. Oh, he said Cali. It's your way out of that. It's your way out of that. It got worse, or okay? It was a rough one. That's when I first came out, and I busted around, I'm on a floor, and then, I was out of that one then, when I had, on a floor, because people ain't got it. Yeah, it was a street one, yeah. And all you got is people in there, right? So please, I saw it. It was real. I saw, exactly everything you guys said. And then, moving on from there. When we moved on from there, I never seen that. And all I saw was, we were trying to have fun. But that, for those days, you put it in the roof. You put it in the roof. You put it in the roof. You put it in the roof. You put it in the roof. You put it in the roof. I was saying. I was saying. I was saying. I was saying. you. This is an I Heart Podcast. Guaranteed Human.