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Wake your ass up.
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It is time for the podcast.
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We are live and uncut.
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Well, we back again with another one, man.
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It's the wake your ass up podcast, but I'm gonna catch a head.
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You hear me?
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Let me get a cheers to the player himself, man.
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I got a legendary guest.
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Before I start, let me give a shout out to my motherfucking sponsors, man.
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But look, today I got a very special guest, man, by the name of who?
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Shady motherfucking late.
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Come on, man.
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This right here is epic right here, right?
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Because it's this brother really don't do interviews.
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You can't really even find too many on them.
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And to be able to get this, you know what I'm saying, daily debut for myself and himself.
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It's a true hundred, bro.
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So you know what I'm saying?
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So from the beginning, to have you here, man, for the people that might not know, where's Shady Knight from?
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I am from the place they call Oakland, man.
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The west side of Oakland.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Where everybody used to live.
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You feel me?
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If you're a nigga, man, you came from West Oakland.
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Fabio, yeah, I'm from West Oakland Acorn Projects, man.
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But you feel me?
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And ain't where you from is where you at.
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That's really one of the slogans I live by too.
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It ain't where you from is where you're going.
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So how was your upbringing and shit?
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Man, it was it was it was it was a learning experience, man, that uh you can't even you can't you can't like can't make this can't make that shit up.
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Feel me?
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Like, it was beautiful, but it was ugly at the same time.
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Feel me?
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You know what I'm saying?
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It was a learning experience that I want my kids to go through.
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If they can come out unscathed, you feel me, but most people can't.
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You know what I'm saying?
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So it was something that I just appreciate to um make it out of.
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You feel me?
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And to be, you know what I'm saying, to come out unscathed, man.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Name good, jacket good, you feel?
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No scores on me.
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Feel me?
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Man, that's a true blessing and an honor.
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You know, like where we come from today.
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Some people don't make it out from that.
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A lot of people, a lot of them, man, most of my partners, man, feel me.
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Having a hundred obituaries ain't normal, man.
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You feel me?
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You know what I'm saying?
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So that's what my environment.
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Okay, that's how I came up.
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So with that being said, like what elementary or middle school shit that you attended?
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Some of the the school that you attended was all West Oakland schools, or did you know?
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All West Oakland schools for sure.
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I went to Martin and the Cave across the street from French Jets, then I went to Lowe, and I went to Cole, I went to Mac, I went to Lafayette.
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You feel me?
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All the schools that was close, that was walking distance.
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Oh, the real.
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So at that time, like you grew up in a time in West Oakland where majority of West Oakland was together at one time.
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For sure.
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Hell yeah.
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We used to walk the house party, we used to walk the we used to walk the ghost town, walk the blow up bottom of house parties and shoot house parties.
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Feel me?
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Like no shooting like that, my brothers were, you know what I'm saying?
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Uh occasionally, but it was mostly just, you know, everybody was fucking everybody was cool with each other, man.
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Okay, that's when I came up when you can walk or catch the bus, you know what I'm saying, type shit to anywhere.
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And the OGs, they was hooking up too, you feel me?
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So when you say house party, right?
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Can you give us a little bit of insight of what like a house party really is or what we call a house party out here in the town that people might not know what it is?
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Say it, man.
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It's just, you know, it's just motherfuckers just, you know what I'm saying?
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Just rocking from everywhere, like from all the neighborhoods.
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It's like neighborhood shit.
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You probably had like three house parties in, you feel me, in one block, you know.
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But it was, you know, it was like motherfuckers were sticking together, man.
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Like it was a family thing.
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It was more like a tribe, you feel me, instead of people, yeah, sections and games, shit, and all that shit.
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It was just like family, you feel me?
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That's what house parties is, family, basically, you know.
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In the town.
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But now that shit, I don't know what it is, where you know.
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So when you say things as family, right?
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Like you said at the time, that we grew up, it was family orientating, it was family structure, it was family value.
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Yeah.
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What do you think are some of the things that's missing from today that we had back then?
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Structure and respect for each other.
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Feel me?
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But back then we had people have more respect for each other that look like us.
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You feel me?
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I'm saying.
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You know, so I think that's what's really missing.
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Feel me, I'm saying the the respect for the next person life or the next person mother, or you feel me, I'm saying.
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It used to be like that where motherfucker used to, yeah, I'm saying, oh, where you from?
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Oh, boy, that's what's the name, son?
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And you know, like, okay, yeah, y'all can fight it out, but y'all need to break that shit up.
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Like, you feel me?
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There'll be a mob meeting or something, you feel me, before it just go all the way straight out, crash out.
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You feel me?
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You have to go through certain steps to do to get to a violent level like that.
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You feel me?
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And I'm saying now it's just like it's up with anybody.
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You feel me?
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Yeah, I'm saying so.
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That's the that's the major difference.
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But it's the same game, man.
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It's just the players change.
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Facts.
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Facts.
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Do you believe that a lot of the things that were shown to these people of stature today, the young man, is due to our generation being shown wrong, so we show the the new generation with what was taught to us?
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It's for so systemic, bro.
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It's a it's a system on this shit.
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This shit been put in our culture for this exact thing to happen.
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You feel me?
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This shit ain't no fluke, you feel me?
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You know what I'm saying?
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It's eventually getting to that.
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But at the same time, people, we waking up, you feel me?
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We waking up for sure.
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We can't play, we can't blame, we can't blame what this shit on one generation, you feel me?
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You know what I'm saying?
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We can't do that.
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Yeah, that's out of pocket too.
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You feel me?
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I know the crack generation came after, you feel me, after the Black Panthers and shit, you know what I'm saying?
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But at the same time, it's some it's some motherfuckers out here with some big paper that could have that could have invested into more education and more, you know what I'm saying, activities for the kids to have, you feel me?
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It's motherfuckers with big paper out here that didn't that chose not to do that, you feel me?
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It's for a reason.
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You know, you know what I'm saying?
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So it is what it is, though.
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It's on us though.
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Right.
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Do you feel that a lot of the opportunities that was gave to us growing up, that these people have the same opportunities?
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No, not at all.
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Like I said, but I came up playing basketball for but but um boys club on Tufo, you feel me?
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Over there, deforming me, it's going everywhere.
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You feel me?
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It was something for us to do.
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Like it ain't nothing for these kids to do now.
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All that shit is gone.
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Yeah, I'm saying it's a couple of little things, but they the parents gotta pay him.
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These parents is broke, you feel me?
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So you know what else they gonna do?
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I think the cycle of life have changed because we grew up and we be we replaced our parents.
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Yeah, and with us replacing our parents, it made things kind of different due to how the money source was given to us.
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Back then, like you said, with the dope endemic hitting them, that fucked up a lot of the black parenting things because they ran into that shit.
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You feel me?
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So us, we ran into a different era of it, the pills and shit, and being really strong out on weed and shit.
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But our stature of limitations of growth has been better, you know what I'm saying?
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Because a lot of us, but what I feel like we fucked up as when it comes to, like you said, a structure.
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Us getting a lot of whoopings, we didn't really want to whoop our kids.
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You know what I'm saying?
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And I think that's where them being so privileged of today's society makes things kind of confused, you know what I'm saying?
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Because we already knew if you did this or you was talking out of the hand or you're getting fucked up for sure.
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And it's like now we gave a motherfucker so much leisure to be able to run their mouth before you really get mad enough to even want to fuck them up.
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Right.
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You know what I'm saying?
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But I understand it because I'm one of those parents myself, you know what I'm saying?
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I was a badass kid, got my ass whooped, started my own family, and didn't want to whoop no ass.
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You know, but it's a cause and effect with that because our kids might not be involved strictly, but they might have a man in his mouth to talk back to me at times.
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You know what I'm saying?
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But it's a learning factor of I was like that too.
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Right.
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So it's like you correct what you what you can't do.
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What you are?
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I'm going through the same thing, I ain't gonna lie.
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I'm going through the same thing for sure.
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But um, it's just, you feel me, just just just being there.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Just being there, and it ain't like that all the time, you feel me?
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Everybody can't ain't got that situation where you can wake up to your kid every day.
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So uh, you know, and they got both parents in the house, and they got, you know what I'm saying?
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They know yin for yang because it's a balance to everything.
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You feel me?
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And I'm saying, especially the kids coming up right now, they need that, but that's what's missing.
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Either the mama there or the girl, you know what I'm saying?
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It's so halfway.
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It's a halfway thing, and they got nowhere else to go to be like, oh, okay, I look up to blood.
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You feel me?
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You know what I'm saying?
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Instead of them motherfuckers that they see on the TV or the fucking the niggas who sell it dope or the fake niggas they see on the fucking that's on the internet and shit.
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You feel me?
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Right.
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We used to be outside, man.
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These kids be in the house watching somebody else play the game.
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You feel me?
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So it's like, oh man, you feel me?
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I hope nope, bro.
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You know, it's outside, man.
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Fair exactly.
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What you say, cuz?
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I say the advantage he got is your kids go see you on the TV and and get that inspiration off the internet, see you on YouTube, and Spotify.
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Yeah and Apple Music and know that pop that nigga.
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Off top, off top, off top, bruh.
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So let's rewind it back a little bit.
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Let me get one of them drinks.
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Let me get another one of them drinks to your teenage D.
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So with the teenage days, right?
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Uh going into high school with that, where was the introduction of you having this mind state that you want to fuck with the music?
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Is it something that you've been knowing since you were a child?
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Yeah, hell no.
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I mean, I used to write little poems and shit, but what really made me want to rap is little Dame.
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That was my nigga.
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Lil' Dame, man, free little Dame.
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You feel me?
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That's the first nigga that made me want to rap.
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That was like my my little my right-hand man, but he was dope as fuck, though.
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You feel I'm talking about ridiculous talent.
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You know what I'm saying?
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I just have one rap.
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I have my little bum rap, he'll go rapping and shit, being ciphers and shit.
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And he'll point at me, I'll say my little bum rap and back out.
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And he'll finish ripping them.
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You feel me?
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That's what made me like, okay.
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And somebody told me I was saucier in the dang one time.
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I was like, okay, I'm really I got some.
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I got some.
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I got some on the rail.
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That's what that's what really made me, you know what I'm saying, step up on this shit.
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My niggas telling me that I was dope, you feel me?
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And I cut from motherfucking hood.
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Niggas ain't glazing, you feel me?
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Niggas gonna tell you that shit weak, nigga.
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There I said, so when my neighborhood starts getting behind me, that's why I was like, okay, yeah, let's do it.
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I messed out a nigga, it was up.
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So let's rewind it back.
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Cause you said something that was unique that I picked up hella fast when you said this.
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When you first stated what you said, you said I was writing poems.
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Yeah.
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How many people even know that?
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Or what was poetry to you at that time?
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Poetry was like, I used to write pimps and I used to write a daily journal about how my day, you feel me?
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You know what I'm saying?
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From like third grade, all the teachers had me doing that shit.
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So it turned that turned into poems, and the poems turn into the gangsp.
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You feel me?
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Same shit.
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I write about like, you know, from for the moral the king, you know?
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And then the poetry turned to the um the music.
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I always been all my shit is poetry.
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I rap, but it's as I write it like it's poetry.
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Feel me?
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From the rip.
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So you also said that too.
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Man, so you also said something that was unique too, so you brought up Lil Dame, right?
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So it's a lot of people might not even know who this is.
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Because it's a name that you just blurted out, like you said, it's a guy from your neighborhood that actually has some value of inspiring you to be getting to this music shit.
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But who really is Lil Dame?
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Who is Lil' Dame?
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Lil Dame is a little crazy motherfucker from Cypress, the village, right?
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But he always fucked with acorn niggas.
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He fucked with everybody, but he loves he loves acorn niggas.
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But he from Cyprus, though.
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You know what I'm saying?
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That's my nigga, man.
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Since from from Neeha, but uh he was the dopest nigga.
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When I seen me and we used to, we uh we went to Tit, right?
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We got kicked out of Tit.
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Cause somebody fired, somebody was trying to fight a nigga, and the nigga fired on me and I whooped the nigga and we got kicked out and went to Mac.
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So when we get to Matt, we run into MA, MA coming up to the school at the school, and they end up taking Lil Dane to the studio.
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I'm playing basketball, shit.
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I play, I play cool, football, all the shit.
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I play all the sports.
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So they ain't letting me grind, they ain't letting me sell no dope thing, but you feel me?
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I can't do nothing.
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They say go back to go back to practice.
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I'm like, nigga, these niggas took little thing, little dang went to the studio, they took Dan to the studio and then came back with a banger.
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You feel me?
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I'm like, okay, yeah.
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Fuck that.
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Oh, the real.
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Well, I went to go split my little one rap, nigga, and it was over.
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That little one rap I had, then made like nigga, okay, make that part of hook, put that on there, do the ad lifts, and it was over.
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I never left the studio search being, nigga.
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I ain't know I was gonna, I wasn't trying to be no rapper though.
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Hell no.
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I was gonna be something, but I wasn't gonna be no rapper, like you feel me?
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I wasn't thinking about music like that from album.
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I always got good grades at school, you know, always was a uh a saucy ass trapper too.
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You feel me?
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But the music, I started selling my music, started selling my CDs, then my start my bundle was I still had a bundle left after my CDs was gone.
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So, you know, I that's the easy, easy choice right there.
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You feel me?
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So, so you just you keep dropping a lot of valuable good points that a lot of people might not understand how intelligent you are.
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And I see why.
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The key factor you just said not too long ago was I got good grades in school.
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To even acknowledge, to hear this shit now that we grown, even even understand that, hearing that from you right now, is vividly clearly giving you the mind state to understand that's why your penmanship is so like that.
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You really paid attention and you value probably reading the dictionary and the distortions and that type of shit, because the word play, it's not an average word play.
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Right.
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And the way how you put these bars together with orchestrating lingo that you do is very articulated, you know what I'm saying?
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And uh just hearing that, bro, that's that's amazing because a lot of time when you judge a book by its cover of even knowing a situation of being a nigga named Shady Knight, the gas man from Acorn.
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Right.
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You're gonna be like that nigga, gotta be retarded.
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No, okay.
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I know, but this is the one thing that I know.
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I know uh I know the I know the streets, you feel me?
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And I know the I keep my ear to the streets, and I'm a street nigga, you feel me?
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But at the same time, you know, I know how to talk to my people.
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You feel me?
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You know what I'm saying?
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So I always was like, okay, I'ma say, I'ma say this shit.
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I'm gonna say my street shit to will them in.
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Once I will them in, I'm gonna give them, I'm gonna give them some more of this, you know, I'm gonna keep feeding them some, I'm gonna keep dropping Jews.
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You feel me?
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The ones that stay with me, they gonna stay with me.
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The ones that don't, that's cool too.
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Facts, facts.
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So with hearing that, with Dane being from Cyprus, you being from Acorn, right?
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Yeah.
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Where did the alignment come up between Dane, you, and Stalin come in that?
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Okay, there Stalin used to always be following me.
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But Stalin was saucy though.
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He was he a little crazy motherfucker too, but he was he was hella talented too.
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But he but when Dame Dane went to jail, when Dane went down, Stalin had just started fucking with Rich and it.
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You feel me?
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And I heard that shit and I went down there to cycles ago, holler at Jack.
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When we was just like, nigga, Dame gone, nigga, we gotta keep this shit lit.
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You feel me?
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You know what I'm saying?
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Dame Stalin damn near took dang place.
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You feel me?
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You know what I'm saying?
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By when it came to my side, you feel me?
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You know what I'm saying?
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Stalin took dang place for me.
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You feel me?
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As Stalin already knew how much I love Dame, you feel me?
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Then, you know what I'm saying?
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That's how that shit came, you feel me?
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And I was, and that's how I kicked off, you know?
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So, with some of your earliest creations of creating Shady Night the Gas Man, right?
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And the things of the beginning of the live ride, right?
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Was a lot of the recording in a like a close-knit house environment recording out the closet, or was it in the actual big studio?
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Like, which I already go in there.
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Fuck, bro.
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We have we was great, we recorded anywhere we could.
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We'll go to motherfucking soundwave when it's over there on 21st, spend like$40 an hour, then we end up at Lonnie Mac house in the bottom in the closet, motherfucking rapping.
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Lonnie Mac.
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You feel me?
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Sound my nigga Lonnie Mac.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Yeah, no, we was we studio gladiators rap everywhere.
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Nigga, pick wherever, wherever they let us get in, that's where we was going.
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Whoever had a show, nigga, that's where we was going.
00:20:05.839 --> 00:20:06.960
We all together though.
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You feel me?
00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:10.160
We writing, we doing music.
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Style, like, what you got so far?
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I'm like, well, I got this.
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Whoa, we helping each other write our bars and hell and shit.
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We was really like, you know, that's how we came, nigga, when they even when it came to the east, even when we went to get Stevie and Filthy.
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It still was like that.
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You feel me?
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You know what I'm saying?
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That's how the shit started.
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You know, all right, all right.
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So you skipped over something, now he's gonna let you do it.
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That's when me and that's when when we met up, nigga.
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What about them high row days, nigga?
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Yeah.
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Oh, them real.
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By the time we got by the time we got the high row, nigga, it was established.
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It was already up.
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But before, but but face, face before high row.
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This is how we got to high row, right?
00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:56.000
Me and Stalin used to press our CDs up.
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We used to burn them motherfuckers because motherfuckers was knocking at my door at two in the morning trying to get it, trying to get that new, that new mixtape.
00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:05.039
You feel me?
00:21:05.120 --> 00:21:08.640
So we used to go to J Mo when they was in the ducks on 2-8.
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Me and Stalin go over there, burn hella CDs right on the motherfuckers and take them, you feel me?
00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:17.279
And then a bitch.
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Press up like 20 of them at one time.
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Yeah.
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J More used to charge us like$20 an hour.
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And that's when we met Bita.
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Feel me?
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That's when it that's when Stalin introduced me to Bita and this nigga and this nigga face and them, you know what I'm saying?
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Bita was hella sauce.
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You feel me?
00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:38.559
But that's how, that's how really, you know what I'm saying.
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We started.
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Feel me with the um with the bright CD shit and start fucking with Bita, and then they got that spot in Hyrule.
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It gets a rap.
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It was up.
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It's up after that.
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So even we're gonna go back a little bit.
00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:53.759
So with you and Stalin, right?
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Yeah.
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Y'all always hella tight, right?
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But how did y'all figure out the mind state to be like, okay, you go first, I'll go second, you go third.
00:22:04.319 --> 00:22:15.519
Because like the order of process that y'all created for the strength brought a value, unique value on how shit was supposed to be documented.
00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:16.240
Right.
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The thing was, I think y'all were so ahead of y'all self on the time that y'all was really on some no limit masterpiece shit and didn't even know it.
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Right.
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Right.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Because like you said, right?
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Going to Walmart or in the Office Depot and go to them CDs and going to J More, go pressing them up.
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That's what you call independency.
00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:43.360
A lot of people are confused on what independency is.
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If you're not spending your money going to go buy the product, pressing the product, making sure the product hits the strings and going to be your all-around delivery sales person.
00:22:52.079 --> 00:22:53.759
Now that is independence.
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Right.
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So it's safe to say that you guys helped value the present day of the CD era, of what Show was doing in the 80s out the trunk, but y'all brought it in the 90s, late 90s, early 2000s out the trunk with a CD form.
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For sure.
00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:20.480
And the grind that y'all had was amazing because y'all had things like this, and this is where I was gonna pinpoint on to you.
00:23:21.039 --> 00:23:22.960
Y'all had the demolition man, right?
00:23:23.120 --> 00:23:23.440
Yeah.
00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:26.240
Dev Row and Demolition Man, right?
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So DevRow and Imperial.
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What did that mean to you coming up at that time of Mishtake Valley?
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Because we had heard and seen the East Coast people doing this shit.
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Right.
00:23:39.759 --> 00:23:45.839
And at the time, when it came here, you guys was kind of like the forefront of that shit.
00:23:46.000 --> 00:23:46.640
Yeah.
00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:54.960
What type of purpose of today do you think is missing that the music needs to hear from that shit today?
00:23:56.720 --> 00:23:58.640
Um shit.
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That's it's cold, man.
00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:08.960
I call this new shit microwave rap, you know what I'm saying?
00:24:09.120 --> 00:24:16.079
That was kind of like microwave rap, but we came from a soul-ful era, so we was putting content to it, like, you feel me?
00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:17.039
You know what I'm saying?
00:24:17.120 --> 00:24:23.279
More than now, but uh I feel like I feel like they need to bring that shit back though.
00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:33.360
Cause that let a motherfucker know where, you know, like because we used to we used to drop the CD, we used to do the mixtape, then you put out a little pre-album, then you drop the album.
00:24:33.440 --> 00:24:34.000
You feel me?
00:24:34.160 --> 00:24:36.960
So I feel like the mixtape error is necessary.
00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:37.440
You feel me?
00:24:37.600 --> 00:24:40.400
To let a motherfucker know, okay, where I can go with this shit.
00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:42.079
Where he where he going with this shit.
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You know what I'm saying?
00:24:43.519 --> 00:24:47.680
Then you come out with a little pre-album or whatever, you feel me, I'm saying it come like that.
00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:50.079
Little A little EP, then you drop the album.
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That was our blueprint.
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You feel me?
00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:53.680
We had to do that every 90 days.
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Each artist.
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Every artist do it by their own shit.
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And then we got to do our shit together, too.
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You feel me?
00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:05.200
So I feel like that's needed to let a motherfucker know where you at.
00:25:05.279 --> 00:25:06.640
So you bring, you know what I'm saying?
00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:07.600
Okay.
00:25:08.799 --> 00:25:09.039
No.
00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:11.279
That's what we need though.
00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:14.799
So y'all created hella body of work, bro.
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Solo, like you said, group.
00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:19.680
Y'all did some shit with the whole shebang and DJ Fresh, you feel me?
00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:22.960
And uh did some shit with the town fizz and this shit.
00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:23.920
You know what I'm saying?
00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:29.600
Like, y'all broke a lot of different barriers that uh actually wasn't a barrier there.
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Right.
00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:42.400
And uh the creation of that value is uh heavily expressed by me, bro, on uh appreciation because y'all opened the door.
00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:44.000
You know what I'm saying?
00:25:44.319 --> 00:25:54.079
And uh the cause and effect of what y'all brought to the table, bro, is very unique and very appreciated by those that understand appreciation.
00:25:54.240 --> 00:25:54.880
You feel me?
00:25:55.039 --> 00:26:03.360
Because the scrutiny that y'all had to go through to be able to decipher what people can do today.
00:26:03.519 --> 00:26:04.319
You feel me?
00:26:04.480 --> 00:26:11.680
Like, y'all niggas was kind of like the first niggas to do the East and West Oakland shit together when that shit wasn't cool.
00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:12.160
Right.
00:26:12.559 --> 00:26:13.279
You know what I'm saying?
00:26:13.440 --> 00:26:18.960
When it was treacherous and notorious for a lot of mishaps, things can happen where it can be backdoors or smarkers.
00:26:19.120 --> 00:26:19.600
You feel me?
00:26:19.680 --> 00:26:21.600
But y'all move with God and move with faith.
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We move with God.
00:26:22.960 --> 00:26:23.360
You feel me?
00:26:24.079 --> 00:26:28.559
And uh we ain't had nothing, but I can't put that, I can't get nobody to glory but God.
00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:31.920
Oh the real cause when I look back on that sino.
00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:34.640
Oh, the real.
00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:35.519
Y'all asked.
00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:39.360
I'm gonna add to ask every artist, every inner, right?
00:26:39.519 --> 00:26:39.920
Uh-huh.
00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:45.920
Because I be locked in on I'll be locked in on certain songs that helped me through a certain time, right?
00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:58.319
Two songs that Shady Mate got that helped me through certain times in my life when I was fucked up and trying to figure shit out was uh Strap with Max and wherever I go.
00:26:58.480 --> 00:27:03.759
So I wouldn't know what mind was you in when you made them two songs.
00:27:06.480 --> 00:27:06.880
Yeah.
00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:15.120
Probably damn near the same mind stay at both times, because I think you was there when we wrote wherever I go, me, Chris the fifth.
00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:16.799
Yeah, yeah, I was there for sure.
00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:18.400
Yeah, me, Chris the fifth.
00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:20.000
Uh, who else was on there?
00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:21.039
Uh Moses.
00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:21.680
Moses.
00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:24.559
With Moses and T Wet, right?
00:27:24.880 --> 00:27:28.000
It was like the hardest lyricist at the time in the back.
00:27:28.720 --> 00:27:29.519
On one album.
00:27:29.600 --> 00:27:29.759
Yes.
00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:31.600
I was missing Gully.
00:27:31.759 --> 00:27:32.000
That's it.
00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:34.240
Yeah, I was listening to Gully for sure.
00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:44.160
That mindset when I when that, well, whatever I go, nigga, I was just trying to, I was just trying to kill and be the sauciest nigga on the stone.
00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:47.200
Because I knew little Chris the Fifth and I was recording with Moses.
00:27:47.360 --> 00:27:48.640
I knew Moses was saucy too.
00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:50.000
And you let him go first.
00:27:50.160 --> 00:27:50.640
Yeah.
00:27:50.799 --> 00:27:53.039
I let Craig go first for sure.
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Uh the real.
00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:59.680
I was just trying to, you know, I knew it was gonna be one of them ones or strapped to Mac strapped with Max.
00:28:00.160 --> 00:28:01.839
I was just mad than a motherfucker, bro.
00:28:01.920 --> 00:28:02.960
I ain't gonna even lie.
00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:04.799
I was just hot.
00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:12.720
I was just gonna ask you, and that's one of my favorite songs because I put that motherfucker off.
00:28:19.120 --> 00:28:20.160
You feel me?
00:28:20.240 --> 00:28:22.400
I was you feel me.
00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:23.200
You know what I'm saying?
00:28:23.360 --> 00:28:25.600
It was a lot going on at that time too.
00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:26.559
You feel me?
00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:33.920
Nigga going through the know you little bruh all day, and so I ain't nigga, I ain't niggas scared to ever say, nigga.
00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:35.440
I'm a fan, a big fan.
00:28:35.759 --> 00:28:37.519
But top, I appreciate you, big flu.
00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:41.360
In them, in them, bro though, but I'm a big fan first.
00:28:41.600 --> 00:28:42.880
For sure, for sure, for sure.
00:28:44.079 --> 00:28:44.880
Up top, bro.
00:28:45.039 --> 00:28:45.519
Off top.
00:28:45.600 --> 00:28:47.759
You know, as many times I didn't hit you, nigga.
00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:50.640
For you know what I'm saying, for some guidance, you know what I'm saying?
00:28:50.720 --> 00:28:52.480
Uh the real you think, bro, for sure.
00:28:53.039 --> 00:28:54.799
And you you you on my rush more.
00:28:55.120 --> 00:28:55.759
For sure, bro.
00:28:55.839 --> 00:28:56.880
I appreciate that, bro.
00:28:57.120 --> 00:29:02.079
So we say that too, uh, about being fans, you know what I'm saying?
00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:13.039
Because when when when a lot of times of artists hearing niggas is fans, they looking at niggas like groovies or they tell niggas they fanned out.
00:29:13.200 --> 00:29:14.079
You know what I'm saying?
00:29:14.319 --> 00:29:19.759
But we want people to know it's okay to be a fan, you feel me?
00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:25.759
Because that's that's what that's what's missing from the music today.
00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:30.000
Because, like you were saying earlier, niggas don't take it as niggas lazy.
00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:40.799
But we need this aura of dividers between it's okay to be a fan, a supporter, and it's also be a just a this is a motherfucker that just whatever.
00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:41.839
You know what I'm saying?
00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:51.440
And uh it's fucked up because everything of a nigga try to show some type of appreciation today is you dig rye.
00:29:51.839 --> 00:29:52.559
You know what I'm saying?
00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:56.000
And uh the value of that is fucked up, bro.
00:29:56.160 --> 00:29:58.480
And you great, bruh.
00:29:58.640 --> 00:30:03.440
Like you created, you created some some amazing things, you feel me?
00:30:03.519 --> 00:30:08.400
And uh people need to understand our purpose while we here.
00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:09.360
You know what I'm saying?
00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:19.759
For niggas to understand their purpose, you know, and uh to go back a little bit when I say with purpose, right?
00:30:20.319 --> 00:30:26.240
You play football and shit, like you said, uh what did Qaddafi mean to you?
00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:26.799
You know what I'm saying?
00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:33.920
Cause Qaddafi was like one of the people uh from Acorn that lost their life kind of early in those days when y'all was still in school.
00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:35.120
You know what I'm saying?
00:30:35.680 --> 00:30:38.240
You lost people like Green, you know what I'm saying?
00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:41.120
You lost uh JJ, you know what I'm saying?
00:30:41.360 --> 00:30:44.240
You lost the brother Boobay, you know what I'm saying?
00:30:44.319 --> 00:30:50.640
Like uh how has that shit affect your mental health?
00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:56.799
Man, see, um it make you stronger for sure.
00:30:56.960 --> 00:30:59.759
It don't never get easier, you feel me?
00:30:59.920 --> 00:31:03.360
It just you just get callous to you know what I'm saying?
00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:10.960
To like how when you get them thoughts, say how you like my nigga was a lot of season shit today, right now, you feel me type shit.
00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:12.079
You know what I'm saying?
00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:17.039
It um it make it it make it make it make me stronger.
00:31:17.279 --> 00:31:18.240
It makes me stronger.
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:19.039
You know what I'm saying?
00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:20.960
Let me know that I got a purpose, you feel me?
00:31:21.120 --> 00:31:23.200
And let me know that I ain't never alone.
00:31:23.360 --> 00:31:24.160
You know what I'm saying?
00:31:24.319 --> 00:31:27.279
Even when I'm alone by myself, I know I ain't alone.
00:31:27.600 --> 00:31:28.160
You feel me?
00:31:28.319 --> 00:31:29.200
Type, you know what I'm saying?
00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:34.160
So it just, you know, it's a it's a it's a blessing, but it hurt though.
00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:36.559
It hurt like a motherfucker, but it's a blessing.
00:31:37.120 --> 00:31:40.799
Back then, really KD, KD was KD was my best friend.
00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:42.640
KD, the reason why I play football.
00:31:43.200 --> 00:31:43.839
You feel me?
00:31:43.920 --> 00:31:46.079
I ain't I wasn't worried about no hoop, you know what I'm saying?
00:31:46.240 --> 00:31:48.799
Coach Moe and Boozy was like, nah, you feel me?
00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:53.200
Right playing football, now you football niggas calling me out, I gotta go play.
00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:55.279
I was a little bit youngster, you feel me?
00:31:55.440 --> 00:31:56.240
You know what I'm saying?
00:31:56.319 --> 00:31:59.680
So KD baby would have me play a hoop, you feel me?
00:31:59.759 --> 00:32:03.440
I mean, KD had me playing football and my nigga greedy, man.
00:32:03.519 --> 00:32:06.880
I think it was just the sauciest nigga I got ever freaking with, man.
00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:08.160
You know what I'm saying?
00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:11.200
Uh the real he was like my twin, you feel me?
00:32:11.279 --> 00:32:12.079
You know what I'm saying?
00:32:12.559 --> 00:32:14.000
My better have, bro.
00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:14.640
You feel me?
00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:15.440
You know what I'm saying?
00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:18.000
I got so I came up with some saucy niggas, man.
00:32:18.160 --> 00:32:18.799
Yeah, man.
00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:24.319
And I know that um I'm here for I'm blessed and highly favored through my ancestors, you feel me?
00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:29.279
That's why I'm move, like I move, and I try to I try to get the same game to whoever gonna listen.
00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:31.279
Yeah, I'm sure.
00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:36.640
So throughout the little break, you had a break from music for a minute.
00:32:36.880 --> 00:32:40.480
And uh throughout that time you created a beautiful family.
00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:40.880
Yeah.
00:32:41.120 --> 00:32:43.759
I mean, what does family mean to you?
00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:44.960
It's everything.
00:32:45.120 --> 00:32:46.000
Family is everything.
00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:54.319
Family reason why I figured I took that hiatus off of music, you feel me, and stopped doing this shit because I had to see what I was like without this shit, you feel me?
00:32:54.720 --> 00:32:55.440
You know what I'm saying?
00:32:55.680 --> 00:32:58.880
See how I was like, see myself without being shady naked.
00:32:59.039 --> 00:33:01.519
I mean, right doing music and rapping and shit so long.
00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:05.039
I've been around these wretched motherfuckers, you feel me, and these demons.
00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:07.519
I just feel like what God was like, you feel me?
00:33:07.600 --> 00:33:10.079
And I had to go up into myself to find that.
00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:11.279
You know what I'm saying?
00:33:11.680 --> 00:33:15.839
I had to move all the way up away to Dallas and make my way back.
00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:16.640
You feel me?
00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:18.799
That's what mental health and failing mean in me.
00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:20.480
It means sacrifice.
00:33:21.120 --> 00:33:21.600
Feel me?
00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:23.680
I had knocked all this shit over for my family.
00:33:23.839 --> 00:33:24.160
Feel me?
00:33:24.240 --> 00:33:25.279
Fuck all this shit.
00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:26.319
You know what I'm saying?
00:33:26.559 --> 00:33:29.120
Just so my kid can smell for sure.
00:33:29.600 --> 00:33:30.160
You know?
00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:32.480
But music is.
00:33:33.839 --> 00:33:34.559
Music is me.
00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:35.039
Feel me?
00:33:35.120 --> 00:33:45.759
God gave me that, so I gotta I gotta stay on, I gotta keep my foot on the gas, whether I'm rapping or I'm pulling my little niggas out or I'm making a you feel me, keeping the door open for the mob, you know?
00:33:48.960 --> 00:33:55.920
How is it like being like a forefather of this shit that we call, you know, street independent music?
00:33:56.079 --> 00:33:56.880
You know what I'm saying?
00:33:57.039 --> 00:34:11.199
Because without shoes styling, you know what I'm saying, Ace D, Lil Blood, Rogue, Filthy, uh, Stevie Joe, RB, Roller Stutter, Major D without, you know what I'm saying?
00:34:11.279 --> 00:34:12.960
I can keep keep going, bruh.
00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:23.679
Like uh how does that feel, bruh, to leave an imprint that can never leave the value of ultimate?
00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:25.920
Man, it's a beautiful thing.
00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:28.000
It's a beautiful thing, you feel me?
00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:32.800
Well, youngsters look at a nigga like, okay, you said he do it, I can do it.
00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:33.519
You feel me?
00:34:33.600 --> 00:34:35.360
That's what it that's how I look at it.
00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:36.640
It's inspiration.
00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:37.600
You feel me?
00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:39.360
A boy motivators, man.
00:34:41.760 --> 00:34:50.800
So, throughout time of you doing this music shit, I know it might have been times probably where you didn't understand the business since right.
00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:51.360
Right.
00:34:51.680 --> 00:34:58.320
So, since then, what have you learned about business that you didn't know about in your parents?
00:34:59.680 --> 00:35:04.400
It's the um, it's say the music business, but it say it should be the business of music.
00:35:04.480 --> 00:35:05.040
You feel me?
00:35:05.120 --> 00:35:08.160
Because business always comes first before the music.
00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:12.640
And you gotta have your business right before you even think about doing some motherfucking reason.
00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:13.760
You know what I'm saying?
00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:16.320
That's what business taught me about this shit.
00:35:16.640 --> 00:35:21.760
It's business first, 90% business, 10%, 10% talent.
00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:22.640
You feel me?
00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:24.400
Damn near five now.
00:35:26.320 --> 00:35:27.120
You know what I'm saying?
00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:29.920
It's 95% business, you feel me?
00:35:30.160 --> 00:35:30.880
You know what I'm saying?
00:35:31.040 --> 00:35:32.000
That's what I learned, man.
00:35:32.160 --> 00:35:33.440
It was a hard lesson.
00:35:34.720 --> 00:35:35.280
Facts.
00:35:35.440 --> 00:35:43.760
So would you knowing that, and stepping away from the music for a minute, what is your perspective on financial literacy?
00:35:45.120 --> 00:35:47.440
It's um it's a necessity, man.
00:35:47.600 --> 00:35:51.440
You gotta know how to gotta know, you gotta know how to count your money, man.
00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:52.400
You know what I'm saying?
00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:55.760
If you ain't counting your money, man, you somebody else counting for you.
00:35:56.320 --> 00:35:57.120
You feel me?
00:35:57.360 --> 00:35:58.400
So that's it.
00:35:58.560 --> 00:35:59.360
You know what I'm saying?
00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:03.440
I come up from a I come from the crack era, so you know what I'm saying.
00:36:03.520 --> 00:36:08.320
I'll always value my motherfucker money in my good business, you feel me?
00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:09.120
You know what I'm saying?
00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:10.640
So that's how I look at it, man.
00:36:11.040 --> 00:36:15.760
So how do you feel about the state of hip hop in the Bay Area right now?
00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:19.520
I feel like it's good.
00:36:19.760 --> 00:36:20.400
You feel me?
00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:23.520
We going through it, we're going through the motion, you feel me?
00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:24.640
You know what I'm saying?
00:36:25.040 --> 00:36:30.080
We still the we still the creators of all this shit, and it's the mechanic.
00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:31.280
You know what I'm saying?
00:36:31.440 --> 00:36:32.880
So I'm loving it.
00:36:32.960 --> 00:36:34.720
I love what I see out for, you feel me?
00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:36.720
Tell us to motherfuckers out there, man.
00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:37.680
Keep pushing that shit.
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:38.400
That's all I say.
00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:41.120
It's like consistent and represent.
00:36:41.280 --> 00:36:41.920
Feel me?
00:36:43.200 --> 00:36:45.600
So stepping away for a minute, right?
00:36:46.560 --> 00:36:55.200
You were also picked amongst a lot of spitters to be on XM radio and uh give them some gas.
00:36:55.520 --> 00:36:56.400
On what radio?
00:36:56.480 --> 00:36:57.440
Well, what messed up?
00:36:57.840 --> 00:36:58.240
What was that?
00:36:58.320 --> 00:36:59.120
XM radio?
00:36:59.200 --> 00:36:59.680
Oh yeah, yeah.
00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:00.640
What was that?
00:37:00.720 --> 00:37:02.560
Uh that was Shady45.
00:37:03.520 --> 00:37:04.080
Yeah, yeah.
00:37:04.240 --> 00:37:12.240
Uh, how did that feel to step away from the minute and uh actually come back to the star lineup like you ain't never left this motherfucker?
00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:15.200
Man, it was great, man.
00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:17.440
It was great to let me know that, you know what I'm saying?
00:37:17.680 --> 00:37:20.560
I should have never motherfucking left, you feel me?
00:37:20.960 --> 00:37:21.840
You know what I'm saying?
00:37:22.160 --> 00:37:28.320
It's all it's it's great because I ain't even, you know, I wasn't even tripping off that shit, you know?
00:37:28.640 --> 00:37:33.440
And I'm saying, it's great, bro.
00:37:35.040 --> 00:37:39.520
How how does it feel about understanding the value of your driven purpose today?
00:37:46.160 --> 00:37:47.920
Oh no, say that again.
00:37:48.320 --> 00:37:54.000
How does it feel of understanding your value of your driven purpose today?
00:37:55.120 --> 00:37:56.320
It's wonderful, man.
00:37:56.560 --> 00:37:58.080
It's hard, it's pressure though.
00:37:58.320 --> 00:38:01.200
But you know, pressure make diamonds, right?
00:38:01.680 --> 00:38:02.880
You feel me?
00:38:05.520 --> 00:38:11.520
Already, I know that I gotta keep doing this shit to keep the door open for my for my audience, you know what I'm saying?
00:38:11.600 --> 00:38:13.600
So it's lovely, man.
00:38:14.640 --> 00:38:16.720
So they can stay alive and stay free, man.
00:38:16.880 --> 00:38:17.760
You know what's up.
00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:18.560
Tracks.
00:38:18.720 --> 00:38:25.760
So I heard through our conversation that you have an artist by the name of Baby Shady, right?
00:38:25.920 --> 00:38:26.560
Yeah.
00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:29.280
So, who is Baby Shady?
00:38:29.520 --> 00:38:33.440
How can we get to know who baby Shady is and where can we find Baby Shady?
00:38:34.080 --> 00:38:36.160
Baby Shady is my niece.
00:38:36.560 --> 00:38:38.240
Baby Shady is my niece.
00:38:38.320 --> 00:38:39.840
She's hella dope.
00:38:40.480 --> 00:38:41.520
You feel me?
00:38:41.920 --> 00:38:47.760
Um, I just put out a project uh called No Love Lost, filming like a couple months ago.
00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:50.720
Her shit on all platforms, you feeling all the shit.
00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:51.360
You know what I'm saying?
00:38:51.440 --> 00:38:54.320
I'm about to be bringing her out to my shows and all the shit.
00:38:54.560 --> 00:38:56.320
It's up for sure.
00:38:56.640 --> 00:39:01.200
Well, go find her on motherfucking Instagram, wherever, just type in baby shake.
00:39:01.760 --> 00:39:03.600
We are somebody that we should be looking out for.
00:39:03.920 --> 00:39:05.680
For sure, you gotta look out for her, man.
00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:07.840
On the real, she dope as fuck, though.
00:39:08.160 --> 00:39:09.280
She got it on us.
00:39:09.520 --> 00:39:09.920
Feel me?
00:39:10.560 --> 00:39:11.360
She got it out.
00:39:13.120 --> 00:39:23.600
What are some of the things that you are telling young men right now that might have been guided into the streets the wrong way, but might have the talent to get there, but they just don't have the focus.
00:39:24.720 --> 00:39:27.600
Man, focus on what God gave you.
00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:31.040
God gave you the talent, you gotta use it or you will lose it, man.
00:39:31.280 --> 00:39:31.920
You feel me?
00:39:32.160 --> 00:39:34.720
If God gave you a talent, man, it's not yours, man.
00:39:34.800 --> 00:39:35.840
It's for the world.
00:39:36.080 --> 00:39:36.800
You feel me?
00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:42.480
So don't be selfish and do some stupid shit, like go fucking rob a bank or cook kill somebody.
00:39:42.640 --> 00:39:43.520
You know what I'm saying?
00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:47.120
And risk your life when you got a fucking talent that can help.
00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:49.920
Uh you feel me, that can help your people, you feel me?
00:39:50.160 --> 00:39:51.040
That's how I look at it.
00:39:53.200 --> 00:39:58.480
So responsibility that and accountability that niggas gotta have, you feel me?
00:39:58.640 --> 00:40:02.000
And I'm saying don't look out for don't expect nobody to help you.
00:40:02.240 --> 00:40:03.600
Your talent don't help.
00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:07.200
Have faith in your talent, have faith in your drive, have faith in your hustle.
00:40:09.040 --> 00:40:11.920
If you could change one thing about Shady, what would it be?
00:40:15.680 --> 00:40:17.040
I wouldn't change nothing.
00:40:18.640 --> 00:40:23.600
On the real God got me here, you feel me this far, I guess, for a reason.
00:40:24.640 --> 00:40:26.400
I wouldn't change nothing, bro.
00:40:27.120 --> 00:40:28.800
I I promise you I would.
00:40:29.280 --> 00:40:30.000
On the real.
00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:32.160
This shit is a movie, bro.
00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:34.560
I'm just uh I'm just here for the experience.
00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:35.600
You feel me?
00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:37.120
On the real.
00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:38.640
On the real.
00:40:39.040 --> 00:40:41.200
We are you know what I mean too, nigga.
00:40:41.360 --> 00:40:41.760
Facts.
00:40:42.560 --> 00:40:45.840
What what can we expect from Shady in the next year?
00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:49.520
Because a lot of times when people ask questions, they say in the next five.
00:40:49.600 --> 00:40:51.600
Like, what can we expect from Shady in the next year?
00:40:51.760 --> 00:40:53.840
Man, me and my uncle working on this, you know what I'm saying?
00:40:53.920 --> 00:40:59.840
This up and tribute, man, 40 years of 40 years of motherfucking town business, man, about to come out, you know what I'm saying?
00:41:00.080 --> 00:41:10.400
Got me, kick, beat us, styling, chippers, G-Stack, motherfucking Dollar Wheel, J Jonah, 35.
00:41:10.640 --> 00:41:12.320
There's hell of motherfuckers on there, man.
00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:13.440
Straight lineup, man.
00:41:13.520 --> 00:41:14.080
You feel me?
00:41:14.160 --> 00:41:14.720
You know what I'm saying?
00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:16.000
We've been working on it for a minute.
00:41:16.080 --> 00:41:17.760
That's what that's what's up next, though.
00:41:18.000 --> 00:41:18.480
See what I mean?
00:41:18.560 --> 00:41:19.280
Be looking out for that.
00:41:19.680 --> 00:41:22.560
That'll make me pick them keep that keyboard and make it beat for that.
00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:23.040
Right.
00:41:24.240 --> 00:41:28.480
Look, uh real that sounds real orchestrating and elaborating real right, right there.
00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:29.040
Yeah.
00:41:29.520 --> 00:41:30.880
Wait till you hear this shit.
00:41:31.120 --> 00:41:36.640
I mean, how did that feel to get that brotherhood of energy back?
00:41:37.120 --> 00:41:38.960
It feels like it feels like old school.
00:41:39.120 --> 00:41:41.680
It feels like old school PTB live days.
00:41:41.840 --> 00:41:45.120
When you feel me, when nigga caught a mob meeting and nigga came together.
00:41:45.200 --> 00:41:45.840
You feel me?
00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:47.440
It's still this, you feel me?
00:41:47.520 --> 00:41:48.320
The crew still there.
00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:50.320
The crew still locked in.
00:41:50.640 --> 00:41:52.640
That let me know the crew still locked in.
00:41:52.720 --> 00:41:53.200
You feel me?
00:41:53.520 --> 00:41:54.000
Facts.
00:41:59.040 --> 00:42:00.560
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
00:42:00.720 --> 00:42:02.160
They think we done fell off.
00:42:02.400 --> 00:42:03.200
We went underground.
00:42:03.280 --> 00:42:05.200
We had to go underground like demolition, man.
00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:07.520
Yeah, we didn't fall out, we just fell back for a second.
00:42:08.720 --> 00:42:10.400
We on the ground, nigga, working on you, nigga.
00:42:13.520 --> 00:42:16.000
On top, but you feel me.
00:42:16.320 --> 00:42:25.600
Oh no, you know, I just I want to take this time out, bro, to I really brought and appreciate you for what you contribute all these years, bro.
00:42:26.240 --> 00:42:28.320
I just want to tell you, bro, thank you, bro.
00:42:28.560 --> 00:42:29.280
I appreciate you, bro.
00:42:29.760 --> 00:42:38.960
Everything that you done brought to the table that we call gangster music for the streets, underground, independent, and just holding it down, bro.
00:42:39.040 --> 00:42:42.480
Thank you, bro, for everything that you have done for Oakland, bro.
00:42:42.560 --> 00:42:44.800
Thank you for what you did now for your neighborhood, bro.
00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:51.120
Thank you for being a sacrifice to people that even know how to contribute themselves into the game, but y'all created the blueprint, bro.
00:42:52.160 --> 00:42:52.800
You feel me?
00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:56.480
It's time for people to just say, bro, we appreciate you for that, bro.
00:42:56.560 --> 00:42:58.000
We appreciate Stalin for that.
00:42:58.080 --> 00:43:07.920
We appreciate Jonah, ROBs, filties, the motherfucking stingy joes and all that, bro, because y'all y'all pushed something to the surface, bro, that can never be forgotten, bro.
00:43:08.720 --> 00:43:09.520
So I appreciate that.
00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:13.200
I'm honoring your legacy and y'all's legacy as a whole, bro.
00:43:13.360 --> 00:43:17.120
It's it's an actual beautiful thing to give it to you while you alive, bruh.
00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:21.280
And uh, we got this shit called Wake Your Ass Up Trophy, bruh.
00:43:21.360 --> 00:43:25.280
And uh, you've been waking your ass up for like 20 plus years, bruh.
00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:31.440
And uh, we just want to honor you today, bro, to say thank you again, bruh, for being the gas man for waking their ass up.
00:43:31.520 --> 00:43:34.880
So something that you can put on your table.
00:43:35.040 --> 00:43:38.640
It's up, it's up to let them know that we appreciate you.
00:43:38.720 --> 00:43:42.960
If nobody else appreciates you, bro, my legal for you.
00:43:43.680 --> 00:43:44.240
Thank you, bruh.
00:43:44.400 --> 00:43:46.560
Off top for your contributors, bruh.
00:43:46.720 --> 00:43:50.480
Thank you for putting your life at risk for all of us to understand, bruh.
00:43:50.640 --> 00:43:53.360
This shit ain't guaranteed to make it in no type of way, bruh.
00:43:53.520 --> 00:43:53.920
What's up?
00:43:54.240 --> 00:43:55.840
But y'all did that for us, bruh.
00:43:55.920 --> 00:43:59.520
And uh I just want to say, bro, keep pushing, bro.
00:43:59.680 --> 00:44:01.040
I love you to death, bro.
00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:20.880
I honor you as a friend, a family member, bruh, uh peer, you know what I'm saying, a brother, you know what I'm saying, because it's it's it's too much of this weird shit that takes place in our city, our area, and we don't we don't think about that shit until people gone, bruh.
00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:27.680
To be able to give this shit to you here today, bruh, still mean the world to me.
00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:28.640
You know what I'm saying?
00:44:28.800 --> 00:44:31.520
Because how much I did for Oakland, bruh.
00:44:32.240 --> 00:44:36.480
And it it takes a person from Oakland that's been near play.
00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:48.560
My own foot into it and my own opportunities and everything else to be a part of this shit just as well, but just to see how far y'all came because Conquer Road opened these doors and still kicking them, right?
00:44:49.200 --> 00:44:54.240
Y'all are the things at the grounds, at the independence of the streets and everything else.
00:44:54.480 --> 00:44:55.360
Real bike.
00:44:55.520 --> 00:44:56.240
Thank you, bro.
00:44:57.440 --> 00:44:58.000
Off top, man.
00:44:58.080 --> 00:44:59.360
Thank you for staying being shady.
00:44:59.600 --> 00:45:00.960
Thank you for being the guys, man.
00:45:01.120 --> 00:45:01.840
You know what I'm saying?
00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:06.240
Thank you for being a true uh sportsman, bruh.
00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:07.440
You know what I'm saying?
00:45:07.600 --> 00:45:12.960
Never being no weird person getting on the internet trying to fall into what's going on with that, bro.
00:45:13.040 --> 00:45:14.960
You kept it through all the way through, bro.
00:45:15.120 --> 00:45:21.440
And it's only right that we can honor you with something that we feel that what we got going on right now, you feel me, is waking their ass up.
00:45:21.520 --> 00:45:22.400
Man, waking their ass up.
00:45:22.560 --> 00:45:22.800
Devil.
00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:23.680
Very long time.
00:45:25.520 --> 00:45:25.920
Thank you, bro.
00:45:26.800 --> 00:45:27.280
Thank you, brother.
00:45:29.440 --> 00:45:35.920
I think where we from, we just trying to show motherfuckers that homage is okay.
00:45:36.080 --> 00:45:37.040
You feel me?
00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:40.160
Uh showing people respect is okay, bruh.
00:45:40.320 --> 00:45:42.240
Showing people appreciation is okay.
00:45:42.320 --> 00:45:43.200
You feel me?
00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:46.720
Don't look at motherfuckers like that's a bad thing.
00:45:46.880 --> 00:45:48.960
Or like my nigga said earlier, you glazing.
00:45:49.120 --> 00:45:49.760
You feel me?
00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:52.640
It's okay, bruh, to tell a nigga you saucy, bro.
00:45:52.720 --> 00:45:57.600
It's okay to tell a motherfucker that you overcome some obstacles, bro, that ain't guaranteed to come from, bruh.
00:45:57.760 --> 00:45:59.120
It's okay, bruh.
00:45:59.360 --> 00:46:00.400
You know what I'm saying?
00:46:02.160 --> 00:46:03.920
Show a nigga some love, bruh.
00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:05.760
Like love more, say just love a little more.
00:46:05.920 --> 00:46:11.760
We got some of us hatred value in our hearts sometimes when it was fucked up, where nigga, we just need to learn how to love a little bit more.
00:46:11.840 --> 00:46:12.400
You feel me?
00:46:12.560 --> 00:46:15.200
Show a nigga the love that he deserves, you feel me?
00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:18.080
Show a nigga the appreciation that they deserve, man.
00:46:18.560 --> 00:46:28.240
These dudes, man, these guys, these men, you feel me, they overcome these obstacles that keep pushing for us that they deserve these roses, these flowers, these gold bars, these wake your ass up trophies.
00:46:28.320 --> 00:46:28.800
You feel me?
00:46:29.680 --> 00:46:32.240
And uh keep pushing this shit, bro.
00:46:32.480 --> 00:46:34.880
Your endeavors, bruh, your legacy, bruh.
00:46:35.040 --> 00:46:36.000
You know what I'm saying?
00:46:36.160 --> 00:46:37.520
You a mogul today, bruh.
00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:38.640
Nobody never told you.
00:46:38.720 --> 00:46:39.120
You feel me?
00:46:39.200 --> 00:46:40.560
You a mogul, bruh.
00:46:40.880 --> 00:46:50.240
You might not have things that what everybody else might have in a materialistic value, but you have things that people had never accomplished before, bruh, and that's being authentic, no gimmick.
00:46:50.800 --> 00:46:51.360
You feel me?
00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:52.640
You straight true to you, bro.
00:46:52.720 --> 00:46:55.120
You straight true to self, you straight true to the family, straight true to you.
00:46:55.200 --> 00:46:58.160
I'm not really straight true to the thoroughness of Oakland, bruh.
00:46:58.400 --> 00:47:00.160
And that can never be raised, bro.
00:47:00.640 --> 00:47:00.800
Top.
00:47:01.040 --> 00:47:01.600
You know what I'm saying?
00:47:02.240 --> 00:47:03.840
Ain't no safety without the 3A.
00:47:04.160 --> 00:47:05.040
You feel what I'm saying?
00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:07.200
You feel me?
00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:08.400
I appreciate you.
00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:12.240
Shout out to the home team, Acorn, you know what I'm saying?
00:47:12.320 --> 00:47:14.640
I've been fucking with Acorn my whole life.
00:47:14.960 --> 00:47:18.800
This ain't something that I'm just doing or just showing appreciation of this shit.
00:47:18.880 --> 00:47:21.600
I've been blessed to play for Taylor Memorial growing up.
00:47:21.760 --> 00:47:23.600
I've been blessed to play with Oakland Saints.
00:47:23.680 --> 00:47:24.240
You know what I'm saying?
00:47:24.320 --> 00:47:27.360
I've been blessed to be around West Oakland a long time.
00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:28.240
You know what I'm saying?
00:47:28.400 --> 00:47:34.800
So, as me being who I am, I always feel like it's always a right to show honor, even though I might be from the East.
00:47:37.120 --> 00:47:37.520
For sure.
00:47:37.680 --> 00:47:38.640
You know, on the real.
00:47:38.880 --> 00:47:41.280
They're trying to just keep this endeavors, bro.
00:47:41.520 --> 00:47:42.480
Just positive.
00:47:43.040 --> 00:47:44.160
It's okay, bruh.
00:47:44.320 --> 00:47:45.040
You know what I'm saying?
00:47:45.120 --> 00:47:47.840
We might be into some things, but ain't where you're from, it's where you're going.
00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:50.000
It's where you're at, where you're going, man.
00:47:50.240 --> 00:47:50.560
Nah.
00:47:50.800 --> 00:47:52.240
Never judge a book by its cover.
00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:58.800
If you ain't never read that motherfucker, because there's some dope lyrics and some dope concepts, some dope inspirations that come from reading books.
00:47:58.880 --> 00:48:00.960
If you just take the time out, they understand knowledge.
00:48:01.120 --> 00:48:02.960
Knowledge is power, and power is wisdom.
00:48:03.200 --> 00:48:06.080
That part, you know, and you gotta lie to that, bro.
00:48:06.160 --> 00:48:10.000
And you you open my eyes and say, there's some things that I would never forget.
00:48:10.240 --> 00:48:13.840
Just understanding that my bro was a poetry writer.
00:48:14.080 --> 00:48:16.240
My bro got good grades, bro.
00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:22.800
My bro was inspired to be the king that he is of greatness, bro, because he paid attention to the little things.
00:48:23.040 --> 00:48:23.520
That's true.
00:48:23.680 --> 00:48:24.480
You know what I'm saying?
00:48:24.560 --> 00:48:26.560
And uh, that shit's dope, bro.
00:48:26.720 --> 00:48:31.280
And I hope somebody that's listening today, you feel me, are taking in from this interview, bruh.
00:48:31.520 --> 00:48:36.960
That just because you come from a neighborhood and the people got a perspective from you, that don't mean that's always you.
00:48:37.200 --> 00:48:38.160
You know what I'm saying?
00:48:39.120 --> 00:48:40.000
That's a fact.
00:48:40.160 --> 00:48:41.280
Keep being unique, bruh.
00:48:41.360 --> 00:48:49.280
Keep holding these values, bro, and anything that I can help bring to the table to help push the new endeavors that you got going on for Baby Shady and your company, bro.
00:48:49.360 --> 00:48:50.640
I'm here to help with that, bruh.
00:48:50.800 --> 00:48:52.800
You already know I do the billboards and shit.
00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:57.280
So the next contributors of what I want to do, I want to put up for you and your team, bruh.
00:48:57.360 --> 00:48:57.760
For sure.
00:48:57.920 --> 00:48:58.560
You know what I'm saying?
00:48:58.720 --> 00:48:59.840
So I want to do it.
00:48:59.920 --> 00:49:02.480
I want to put that motherfucker up in acorn like I damn and shit.
00:49:02.560 --> 00:49:06.560
For setting up right here by the by the home team, bruh, because you desire this shit, bruh.
00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:08.800
Yeah, you know, and uh I appreciate that, bro.
00:49:09.040 --> 00:49:10.800
Keep this keep this legacy going, bruh.
00:49:10.960 --> 00:49:15.920
This new journey that you got going on with this shady nation, let them know it's a nation for real.
00:49:16.080 --> 00:49:16.240
Right.
00:49:16.400 --> 00:49:16.800
You feel me?
00:49:16.960 --> 00:49:21.840
And just because it's say shady in the front, don't mean that we live a uh a negative oral lifestyle behind this.
00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:23.840
It's just cool out here.
00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:25.600
Shady mean it's cool, man.
00:49:26.160 --> 00:49:28.160
It's cool under the shade, man.
00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:29.120
You feel me?
00:49:29.440 --> 00:49:29.760
Really?
00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:33.600
Well, you know, I like I said, man, I want to thank you for coming today, man.
00:49:33.680 --> 00:49:35.360
I want to thank you for giving me a little bit of your time.
00:49:35.440 --> 00:49:36.000
You know what I'm saying?
00:49:36.240 --> 00:49:40.400
Sol you and your driven purpose and giving you your flowers and your gold bars while you're here, bruh.
00:49:40.560 --> 00:49:41.600
Thank you again, man.
00:49:41.920 --> 00:49:42.880
I appreciate you.
00:49:43.040 --> 00:49:43.920
I value you.
00:49:44.080 --> 00:49:45.360
And today is your day, bro.
00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:46.160
It's about shady.
00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:46.720
You feel me?
00:49:46.880 --> 00:49:47.200
For sure.
00:49:47.520 --> 00:49:47.920
Thank you, man.
00:49:48.400 --> 00:49:48.960
Yes, man.
00:49:49.120 --> 00:49:49.360
Thank you.
00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:53.520
So before you call them, give a message to our people, right?
00:49:55.040 --> 00:50:00.400
So, so when we our generation that's raising these kids right now, and our kids, right?
00:50:00.560 --> 00:50:05.280
Because the biggest question I didn't heard was what we gotta do to stop the violence.
00:50:05.520 --> 00:50:11.760
And in order to stop the violence, you gotta realize that it's our kids out here that's that's that's putting the violence in.
00:50:11.840 --> 00:50:12.320
You feel me?
00:50:12.640 --> 00:50:18.320
So in order to stop that violence, we gotta get our get control of our love for the kids, have a relationship, right?
00:50:18.480 --> 00:50:23.600
In order to do that, we gotta break that cycle of what we was taught because you gotta think about it.
00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:32.720
Us right here, these three, we was taught that when we talked back, it was it was it was it was it was it was it was a it was a problem.
00:50:32.800 --> 00:50:34.240
We gotta ask for talking back.
00:50:34.400 --> 00:50:35.200
We was asking a question.
00:50:35.280 --> 00:50:37.520
Your mama asked you a question, like why the fuck you do that?
00:50:37.600 --> 00:50:39.920
And you'll ask her, and she'll smack the fuck out you right?
00:50:40.160 --> 00:50:43.040
So it made us lose sight of communication.
00:50:43.520 --> 00:50:44.320
You feel me?
00:50:44.560 --> 00:50:46.640
And we can't let that spill into our children.
00:50:46.720 --> 00:50:48.240
We gotta communicate with these kids.
00:50:48.320 --> 00:50:52.160
If we ask them a question, we gotta accept the response that they give us.
00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:52.560
Right.
00:50:52.720 --> 00:50:53.600
Because we ask.
00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:54.080
Right.
00:50:54.400 --> 00:50:57.280
Because we're not gonna kill the communication, you feel me?
00:50:57.440 --> 00:50:59.360
And then that goes with accountability.
00:50:59.520 --> 00:51:01.760
We gotta teach these kids how to be accountable for it.
00:51:01.920 --> 00:51:02.720
It starts, it start.
00:51:02.800 --> 00:51:04.880
All that shit start in the hot in the house.
00:51:04.960 --> 00:51:10.560
And some parents, some parents might not know how to um discipline their child, but that's where fellowship comes in.
00:51:10.720 --> 00:51:14.480
That's why we hook up all the time and we can ask for our next our next folks.
00:51:14.560 --> 00:51:15.120
Do you feel me?
00:51:15.200 --> 00:51:18.080
Hey, man, you have to not go through this to my kid and all of it.
00:51:18.320 --> 00:51:18.800
You feel me?
00:51:18.880 --> 00:51:21.840
But that comes with fellowship and it starts that starts in the house.
00:51:21.920 --> 00:51:24.560
But we can't just go out there and say, hey, y'all stop shooting.
00:51:24.720 --> 00:51:25.760
It gotta start in the house.
00:51:26.160 --> 00:51:27.600
No, you gotta start with the in the house.
00:51:28.080 --> 00:51:32.480
It's start with the parents because they in the house, nigga, that 30 in the house with you.
00:51:32.720 --> 00:51:33.600
Right, that part.
00:51:34.320 --> 00:51:34.960
That part.
00:51:36.080 --> 00:51:38.640
That motherfucker sitting in the house with that 30 with you.
00:51:39.040 --> 00:51:40.240
Yep, it started with us.
00:51:40.320 --> 00:51:41.360
It started with us, good bro.
00:51:46.160 --> 00:51:47.360
It's all about communication.
00:51:47.440 --> 00:51:48.880
Like, we gotta learn how to communicate.
00:51:49.120 --> 00:51:51.200
We can't tell them they talking back no more.
00:51:51.360 --> 00:52:00.240
Because if we if we ask these questions, trying to figure out what they're going through, we gotta be able to reciprocate the answer and deal with it and fix it.
00:52:01.120 --> 00:52:03.920
So we can't keep on doing what our parents did us.
00:52:04.080 --> 00:52:08.240
We gotta uh elevate and uh yeah, yeah, that's all I want to say.
00:52:08.400 --> 00:52:18.480
I just wanna I just want to make sure that like I just tell my generation, my my people that's raising our young men right now, and that's out here destroying shit and and not.
00:52:18.960 --> 00:52:21.120
Yeah, but you told you we gotta stop this violence, man.
00:52:21.200 --> 00:52:24.400
This shit is a kid, because we can stop it with this with the less.
00:52:24.640 --> 00:52:26.240
You gotta like accountability, county.
00:52:26.400 --> 00:52:27.440
They start with us, bro.
00:52:27.600 --> 00:52:27.920
For sure.
00:52:29.040 --> 00:52:30.400
Because it's our kids doing it.
00:52:30.640 --> 00:52:31.200
For sure.
00:52:31.840 --> 00:52:33.680
It ain't somebody else's kids doing it.
00:52:33.760 --> 00:52:36.400
It's art, not not necessarily art, bringing kids.
00:52:36.880 --> 00:52:37.200
Right, yeah.
00:52:39.680 --> 00:52:40.240
Yeah.
00:52:40.480 --> 00:52:45.440
Yeah, but before we go, is it anywhere that these people can find you, connect with you?
00:52:45.520 --> 00:52:46.080
You know what I'm saying?
00:52:46.240 --> 00:52:48.960
Reach you might want to get a feature with you, might want to, you know, just man.
00:52:49.040 --> 00:52:54.080
You can hit me on uh Instagram at Shady28 Nate.
00:52:54.400 --> 00:52:55.120
You know what I'm saying?
00:52:55.280 --> 00:52:57.120
Everything is Shady28Nate, man.
00:52:57.280 --> 00:52:57.840
You feel me?
00:52:58.000 --> 00:52:58.640
You know what I'm saying?
00:52:58.720 --> 00:53:01.440
Or just tap in with my unk, man, Cal Love, man.
00:53:01.520 --> 00:53:02.000
You feel me?
00:53:02.160 --> 00:53:03.760
Shout out Cal Love, man.
00:53:03.920 --> 00:53:05.440
Yeah, come on, man.
00:53:05.520 --> 00:53:08.400
Before we go again, man, let me give a shout out to our sponsors, man.
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Let me get a cheers to the player himself, man.
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I got a legendary guest.
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But look, today I got a very special guest, man, by the name of who?
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Shady motherfucking late.
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Come on, man.
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This right here is epic right here, right?
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Because it's this brother really don't do interviews.
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You can't really even find too many on them.
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And to be able to get this, you know what I'm saying, daily debut for myself and himself.
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It's a true hundred, bro.
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So you know what I'm saying?
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So from the beginning, to have you here, man, for the people that might not know, where's Shady Knight from?
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I am from the place they call Oakland, man.
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The west side of Oakland.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Where everybody used to live.
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You feel me?
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If you're a nigga, man, you came from West Oakland.
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Fabio, yeah, I'm from West Oakland Acorn Projects, man.
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But you feel me?
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And ain't where you from is where you at.
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That's really one of the slogans I live by too.
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It ain't where you from is where you're going.
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So how was your upbringing and shit?
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Man, it was it was it was it was a learning experience, man, that uh you can't even you can't you can't like can't make this can't make that shit up.
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Feel me?
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Like, it was beautiful, but it was ugly at the same time.
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Feel me?
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You know what I'm saying?
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It was a learning experience that I want my kids to go through.
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If they can come out unscathed, you feel me, but most people can't.
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You know what I'm saying?
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So it was something that I just appreciate to um make it out of.
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You feel me?
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And to be, you know what I'm saying, to come out unscathed, man.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Name good, jacket good, you feel?
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No scores on me.
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Feel me?
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Man, that's a true blessing and an honor.
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You know, like where we come from today.
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Some people don't make it out from that.
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A lot of people, a lot of them, man, most of my partners, man, feel me.
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Having a hundred obituaries ain't normal, man.
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You feel me?
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You know what I'm saying?
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So that's what my environment.
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Okay, that's how I came up.
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So with that being said, like what elementary or middle school shit that you attended?
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Some of the the school that you attended was all West Oakland schools, or did you know?
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All West Oakland schools for sure.
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I went to Martin and the Cave across the street from French Jets, then I went to Lowe, and I went to Cole, I went to Mac, I went to Lafayette.
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You feel me?
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All the schools that was close, that was walking distance.
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Oh, the real.
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So at that time, like you grew up in a time in West Oakland where majority of West Oakland was together at one time.
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For sure.
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Hell yeah.
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We used to walk the house party, we used to walk the we used to walk the ghost town, walk the blow up bottom of house parties and shoot house parties.
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Feel me?
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Like no shooting like that, my brothers were, you know what I'm saying?
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Uh occasionally, but it was mostly just, you know, everybody was fucking everybody was cool with each other, man.
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Okay, that's when I came up when you can walk or catch the bus, you know what I'm saying, type shit to anywhere.
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And the OGs, they was hooking up too, you feel me?
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So when you say house party, right?
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Can you give us a little bit of insight of what like a house party really is or what we call a house party out here in the town that people might not know what it is?
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Say it, man.
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It's just, you know, it's just motherfuckers just, you know what I'm saying?
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Just rocking from everywhere, like from all the neighborhoods.
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It's like neighborhood shit.
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You probably had like three house parties in, you feel me, in one block, you know.
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But it was, you know, it was like motherfuckers were sticking together, man.
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Like it was a family thing.
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It was more like a tribe, you feel me, instead of people, yeah, sections and games, shit, and all that shit.
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It was just like family, you feel me?
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That's what house parties is, family, basically, you know.
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In the town.
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But now that shit, I don't know what it is, where you know.
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So when you say things as family, right?
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Like you said at the time, that we grew up, it was family orientating, it was family structure, it was family value.
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Yeah.
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What do you think are some of the things that's missing from today that we had back then?
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Structure and respect for each other.
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Feel me?
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But back then we had people have more respect for each other that look like us.
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You feel me?
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I'm saying.
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You know, so I think that's what's really missing.
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Feel me, I'm saying the the respect for the next person life or the next person mother, or you feel me, I'm saying.
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It used to be like that where motherfucker used to, yeah, I'm saying, oh, where you from?
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Oh, boy, that's what's the name, son?
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And you know, like, okay, yeah, y'all can fight it out, but y'all need to break that shit up.
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Like, you feel me?
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There'll be a mob meeting or something, you feel me, before it just go all the way straight out, crash out.
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You feel me?
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You have to go through certain steps to do to get to a violent level like that.
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You feel me?
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And I'm saying now it's just like it's up with anybody.
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You feel me?
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Yeah, I'm saying so.
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That's the that's the major difference.
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But it's the same game, man.
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It's just the players change.
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Facts.
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Facts.
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Do you believe that a lot of the things that were shown to these people of stature today, the young man, is due to our generation being shown wrong, so we show the the new generation with what was taught to us?
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It's for so systemic, bro.
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It's a it's a system on this shit.
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This shit been put in our culture for this exact thing to happen.
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You feel me?
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This shit ain't no fluke, you feel me?
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You know what I'm saying?
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It's eventually getting to that.
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But at the same time, people, we waking up, you feel me?
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We waking up for sure.
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We can't play, we can't blame, we can't blame what this shit on one generation, you feel me?
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You know what I'm saying?
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We can't do that.
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Yeah, that's out of pocket too.
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You feel me?
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I know the crack generation came after, you feel me, after the Black Panthers and shit, you know what I'm saying?
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But at the same time, it's some it's some motherfuckers out here with some big paper that could have that could have invested into more education and more, you know what I'm saying, activities for the kids to have, you feel me?
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It's motherfuckers with big paper out here that didn't that chose not to do that, you feel me?
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It's for a reason.
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You know, you know what I'm saying?
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So it is what it is, though.
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It's on us though.
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Right.
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Do you feel that a lot of the opportunities that was gave to us growing up, that these people have the same opportunities?
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No, not at all.
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Like I said, but I came up playing basketball for but but um boys club on Tufo, you feel me?
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Over there, deforming me, it's going everywhere.
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You feel me?
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It was something for us to do.
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Like it ain't nothing for these kids to do now.
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All that shit is gone.
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Yeah, I'm saying it's a couple of little things, but they the parents gotta pay him.
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These parents is broke, you feel me?
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So you know what else they gonna do?
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I think the cycle of life have changed because we grew up and we be we replaced our parents.
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Yeah, and with us replacing our parents, it made things kind of different due to how the money source was given to us.
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Back then, like you said, with the dope endemic hitting them, that fucked up a lot of the black parenting things because they ran into that shit.
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You feel me?
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So us, we ran into a different era of it, the pills and shit, and being really strong out on weed and shit.
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But our stature of limitations of growth has been better, you know what I'm saying?
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Because a lot of us, but what I feel like we fucked up as when it comes to, like you said, a structure.
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Us getting a lot of whoopings, we didn't really want to whoop our kids.
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You know what I'm saying?
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And I think that's where them being so privileged of today's society makes things kind of confused, you know what I'm saying?
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Because we already knew if you did this or you was talking out of the hand or you're getting fucked up for sure.
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And it's like now we gave a motherfucker so much leisure to be able to run their mouth before you really get mad enough to even want to fuck them up.
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Right.
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You know what I'm saying?
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But I understand it because I'm one of those parents myself, you know what I'm saying?
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I was a badass kid, got my ass whooped, started my own family, and didn't want to whoop no ass.
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You know, but it's a cause and effect with that because our kids might not be involved strictly, but they might have a man in his mouth to talk back to me at times.
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You know what I'm saying?
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But it's a learning factor of I was like that too.
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Right.
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So it's like you correct what you what you can't do.
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What you are?
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I'm going through the same thing, I ain't gonna lie.
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I'm going through the same thing for sure.
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But um, it's just, you feel me, just just just being there.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Just being there, and it ain't like that all the time, you feel me?
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Everybody can't ain't got that situation where you can wake up to your kid every day.
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So uh, you know, and they got both parents in the house, and they got, you know what I'm saying?
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They know yin for yang because it's a balance to everything.
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You feel me?
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And I'm saying, especially the kids coming up right now, they need that, but that's what's missing.
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Either the mama there or the girl, you know what I'm saying?
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It's so halfway.
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It's a halfway thing, and they got nowhere else to go to be like, oh, okay, I look up to blood.
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You feel me?
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You know what I'm saying?
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Instead of them motherfuckers that they see on the TV or the fucking the niggas who sell it dope or the fake niggas they see on the fucking that's on the internet and shit.
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You feel me?
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Right.
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We used to be outside, man.
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These kids be in the house watching somebody else play the game.
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You feel me?
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So it's like, oh man, you feel me?
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I hope nope, bro.
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You know, it's outside, man.
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Fair exactly.
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What you say, cuz?
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I say the advantage he got is your kids go see you on the TV and and get that inspiration off the internet, see you on YouTube, and Spotify.
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Yeah and Apple Music and know that pop that nigga.
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Off top, off top, off top, bruh.
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So let's rewind it back a little bit.
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Let me get one of them drinks.
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Let me get another one of them drinks to your teenage D.
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So with the teenage days, right?
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Uh going into high school with that, where was the introduction of you having this mind state that you want to fuck with the music?
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Is it something that you've been knowing since you were a child?
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Yeah, hell no.
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I mean, I used to write little poems and shit, but what really made me want to rap is little Dame.
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That was my nigga.
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Lil' Dame, man, free little Dame.
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You feel me?
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That's the first nigga that made me want to rap.
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That was like my my little my right-hand man, but he was dope as fuck, though.
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You feel I'm talking about ridiculous talent.
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You know what I'm saying?
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I just have one rap.
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I have my little bum rap, he'll go rapping and shit, being ciphers and shit.
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And he'll point at me, I'll say my little bum rap and back out.
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And he'll finish ripping them.
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You feel me?
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That's what made me like, okay.
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And somebody told me I was saucier in the dang one time.
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I was like, okay, I'm really I got some.
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I got some.
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I got some on the rail.
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That's what that's what really made me, you know what I'm saying, step up on this shit.
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My niggas telling me that I was dope, you feel me?
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And I cut from motherfucking hood.
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Niggas ain't glazing, you feel me?
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Niggas gonna tell you that shit weak, nigga.
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There I said, so when my neighborhood starts getting behind me, that's why I was like, okay, yeah, let's do it.
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I messed out a nigga, it was up.
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So let's rewind it back.
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Cause you said something that was unique that I picked up hella fast when you said this.
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When you first stated what you said, you said I was writing poems.
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Yeah.
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How many people even know that?
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Or what was poetry to you at that time?
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Poetry was like, I used to write pimps and I used to write a daily journal about how my day, you feel me?
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You know what I'm saying?
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From like third grade, all the teachers had me doing that shit.
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So it turned that turned into poems, and the poems turn into the gangsp.
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You feel me?
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Same shit.
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I write about like, you know, from for the moral the king, you know?
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And then the poetry turned to the um the music.
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I always been all my shit is poetry.
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I rap, but it's as I write it like it's poetry.
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Feel me?
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From the rip.
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So you also said that too.
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Man, so you also said something that was unique too, so you brought up Lil Dame, right?
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So it's a lot of people might not even know who this is.
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Because it's a name that you just blurted out, like you said, it's a guy from your neighborhood that actually has some value of inspiring you to be getting to this music shit.
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But who really is Lil Dame?
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Who is Lil' Dame?
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Lil Dame is a little crazy motherfucker from Cypress, the village, right?
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But he always fucked with acorn niggas.
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He fucked with everybody, but he loves he loves acorn niggas.
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But he from Cyprus, though.
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You know what I'm saying?
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That's my nigga, man.
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Since from from Neeha, but uh he was the dopest nigga.
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When I seen me and we used to, we uh we went to Tit, right?
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We got kicked out of Tit.
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Cause somebody fired, somebody was trying to fight a nigga, and the nigga fired on me and I whooped the nigga and we got kicked out and went to Mac.
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So when we get to Matt, we run into MA, MA coming up to the school at the school, and they end up taking Lil Dane to the studio.
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I'm playing basketball, shit.
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I play, I play cool, football, all the shit.
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I play all the sports.
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So they ain't letting me grind, they ain't letting me sell no dope thing, but you feel me?
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I can't do nothing.
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They say go back to go back to practice.
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I'm like, nigga, these niggas took little thing, little dang went to the studio, they took Dan to the studio and then came back with a banger.
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You feel me?
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I'm like, okay, yeah.
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Fuck that.
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Oh, the real.
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Well, I went to go split my little one rap, nigga, and it was over.
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That little one rap I had, then made like nigga, okay, make that part of hook, put that on there, do the ad lifts, and it was over.
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I never left the studio search being, nigga.
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I ain't know I was gonna, I wasn't trying to be no rapper though.
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Hell no.
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I was gonna be something, but I wasn't gonna be no rapper, like you feel me?
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I wasn't thinking about music like that from album.
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I always got good grades at school, you know, always was a uh a saucy ass trapper too.
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You feel me?
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But the music, I started selling my music, started selling my CDs, then my start my bundle was I still had a bundle left after my CDs was gone.
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So, you know, I that's the easy, easy choice right there.
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You feel me?
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So, so you just you keep dropping a lot of valuable good points that a lot of people might not understand how intelligent you are.
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And I see why.
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The key factor you just said not too long ago was I got good grades in school.
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To even acknowledge, to hear this shit now that we grown, even even understand that, hearing that from you right now, is vividly clearly giving you the mind state to understand that's why your penmanship is so like that.
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You really paid attention and you value probably reading the dictionary and the distortions and that type of shit, because the word play, it's not an average word play.
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Right.
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And the way how you put these bars together with orchestrating lingo that you do is very articulated, you know what I'm saying?
00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:26.720
And uh just hearing that, bro, that's that's amazing because a lot of time when you judge a book by its cover of even knowing a situation of being a nigga named Shady Knight, the gas man from Acorn.
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Right.
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You're gonna be like that nigga, gotta be retarded.
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No, okay.
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I know, but this is the one thing that I know.
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I know uh I know the I know the streets, you feel me?
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And I know the I keep my ear to the streets, and I'm a street nigga, you feel me?
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But at the same time, you know, I know how to talk to my people.
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You feel me?
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You know what I'm saying?
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So I always was like, okay, I'ma say, I'ma say this shit.
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I'm gonna say my street shit to will them in.
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Once I will them in, I'm gonna give them, I'm gonna give them some more of this, you know, I'm gonna keep feeding them some, I'm gonna keep dropping Jews.
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You feel me?
00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:03.519
The ones that stay with me, they gonna stay with me.
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The ones that don't, that's cool too.
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Facts, facts.
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So with hearing that, with Dane being from Cyprus, you being from Acorn, right?
00:18:13.360 --> 00:18:14.000
Yeah.
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Where did the alignment come up between Dane, you, and Stalin come in that?
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Okay, there Stalin used to always be following me.
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But Stalin was saucy though.
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He was he a little crazy motherfucker too, but he was he was hella talented too.
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But he but when Dame Dane went to jail, when Dane went down, Stalin had just started fucking with Rich and it.
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You feel me?
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And I heard that shit and I went down there to cycles ago, holler at Jack.
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When we was just like, nigga, Dame gone, nigga, we gotta keep this shit lit.
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You feel me?
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You know what I'm saying?
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Dame Stalin damn near took dang place.
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You feel me?
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You know what I'm saying?
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By when it came to my side, you feel me?
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You know what I'm saying?
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Stalin took dang place for me.
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You feel me?
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As Stalin already knew how much I love Dame, you feel me?
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Then, you know what I'm saying?
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That's how that shit came, you feel me?
00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:14.799
And I was, and that's how I kicked off, you know?
00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:22.240
So, with some of your earliest creations of creating Shady Night the Gas Man, right?
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And the things of the beginning of the live ride, right?
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Was a lot of the recording in a like a close-knit house environment recording out the closet, or was it in the actual big studio?
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Like, which I already go in there.
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Fuck, bro.
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We have we was great, we recorded anywhere we could.
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We'll go to motherfucking soundwave when it's over there on 21st, spend like$40 an hour, then we end up at Lonnie Mac house in the bottom in the closet, motherfucking rapping.
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Lonnie Mac.
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You feel me?
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Sound my nigga Lonnie Mac.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Yeah, no, we was we studio gladiators rap everywhere.
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Nigga, pick wherever, wherever they let us get in, that's where we was going.
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Whoever had a show, nigga, that's where we was going.
00:20:05.839 --> 00:20:06.960
We all together though.
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You feel me?
00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:10.160
We writing, we doing music.
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Style, like, what you got so far?
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I'm like, well, I got this.
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Whoa, we helping each other write our bars and hell and shit.
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We was really like, you know, that's how we came, nigga, when they even when it came to the east, even when we went to get Stevie and Filthy.
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It still was like that.
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You feel me?
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You know what I'm saying?
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That's how the shit started.
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You know, all right, all right.
00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:33.120
So you skipped over something, now he's gonna let you do it.
00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:36.559
That's when me and that's when when we met up, nigga.
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What about them high row days, nigga?
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Yeah.
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Oh, them real.
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By the time we got by the time we got the high row, nigga, it was established.
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It was already up.
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But before, but but face, face before high row.
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This is how we got to high row, right?
00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:56.000
Me and Stalin used to press our CDs up.
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We used to burn them motherfuckers because motherfuckers was knocking at my door at two in the morning trying to get it, trying to get that new, that new mixtape.
00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:05.039
You feel me?
00:21:05.120 --> 00:21:08.640
So we used to go to J Mo when they was in the ducks on 2-8.
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Me and Stalin go over there, burn hella CDs right on the motherfuckers and take them, you feel me?
00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:17.279
And then a bitch.
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Press up like 20 of them at one time.
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Yeah.
00:21:23.200 --> 00:21:26.160
J More used to charge us like$20 an hour.
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And that's when we met Bita.
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Feel me?
00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:34.400
That's when it that's when Stalin introduced me to Bita and this nigga and this nigga face and them, you know what I'm saying?
00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:35.680
Bita was hella sauce.
00:21:35.920 --> 00:21:36.480
You feel me?
00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:38.559
But that's how, that's how really, you know what I'm saying.
00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:39.120
We started.
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Feel me with the um with the bright CD shit and start fucking with Bita, and then they got that spot in Hyrule.
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It gets a rap.
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It was up.
00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:50.079
It's up after that.
00:21:50.240 --> 00:21:52.160
So even we're gonna go back a little bit.
00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:53.759
So with you and Stalin, right?
00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:54.559
Yeah.
00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:57.680
Y'all always hella tight, right?
00:21:57.839 --> 00:22:03.440
But how did y'all figure out the mind state to be like, okay, you go first, I'll go second, you go third.
00:22:04.319 --> 00:22:15.519
Because like the order of process that y'all created for the strength brought a value, unique value on how shit was supposed to be documented.
00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:16.240
Right.
00:22:16.640 --> 00:22:25.279
The thing was, I think y'all were so ahead of y'all self on the time that y'all was really on some no limit masterpiece shit and didn't even know it.
00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:25.680
Right.
00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:25.839
Right.
00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:26.799
You know what I'm saying?
00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:28.160
Because like you said, right?
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Going to Walmart or in the Office Depot and go to them CDs and going to J More, go pressing them up.
00:22:36.880 --> 00:22:38.960
That's what you call independency.
00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:43.360
A lot of people are confused on what independency is.
00:22:43.440 --> 00:22:51.920
If you're not spending your money going to go buy the product, pressing the product, making sure the product hits the strings and going to be your all-around delivery sales person.
00:22:52.079 --> 00:22:53.759
Now that is independence.
00:22:53.839 --> 00:22:54.240
Right.
00:22:54.480 --> 00:23:12.240
So it's safe to say that you guys helped value the present day of the CD era, of what Show was doing in the 80s out the trunk, but y'all brought it in the 90s, late 90s, early 2000s out the trunk with a CD form.
00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:12.720
For sure.
00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:20.480
And the grind that y'all had was amazing because y'all had things like this, and this is where I was gonna pinpoint on to you.
00:23:21.039 --> 00:23:22.960
Y'all had the demolition man, right?
00:23:23.120 --> 00:23:23.440
Yeah.
00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:26.240
Dev Row and Demolition Man, right?
00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:29.600
So DevRow and Imperial.
00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:34.960
What did that mean to you coming up at that time of Mishtake Valley?
00:23:35.120 --> 00:23:38.880
Because we had heard and seen the East Coast people doing this shit.
00:23:39.039 --> 00:23:39.440
Right.
00:23:39.759 --> 00:23:45.839
And at the time, when it came here, you guys was kind of like the forefront of that shit.
00:23:46.000 --> 00:23:46.640
Yeah.
00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:54.960
What type of purpose of today do you think is missing that the music needs to hear from that shit today?
00:23:56.720 --> 00:23:58.640
Um shit.
00:24:01.200 --> 00:24:02.799
That's it's cold, man.
00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:08.960
I call this new shit microwave rap, you know what I'm saying?
00:24:09.120 --> 00:24:16.079
That was kind of like microwave rap, but we came from a soul-ful era, so we was putting content to it, like, you feel me?
00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:17.039
You know what I'm saying?
00:24:17.120 --> 00:24:23.279
More than now, but uh I feel like I feel like they need to bring that shit back though.
00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:33.360
Cause that let a motherfucker know where, you know, like because we used to we used to drop the CD, we used to do the mixtape, then you put out a little pre-album, then you drop the album.
00:24:33.440 --> 00:24:34.000
You feel me?
00:24:34.160 --> 00:24:36.960
So I feel like the mixtape error is necessary.
00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:37.440
You feel me?
00:24:37.600 --> 00:24:40.400
To let a motherfucker know, okay, where I can go with this shit.
00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:42.079
Where he where he going with this shit.
00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:43.279
You know what I'm saying?
00:24:43.519 --> 00:24:47.680
Then you come out with a little pre-album or whatever, you feel me, I'm saying it come like that.
00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:50.079
Little A little EP, then you drop the album.
00:24:50.160 --> 00:24:51.279
That was our blueprint.
00:24:51.440 --> 00:24:52.079
You feel me?
00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:53.680
We had to do that every 90 days.
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Each artist.
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Every artist do it by their own shit.
00:24:58.079 --> 00:25:00.640
And then we got to do our shit together, too.
00:25:01.200 --> 00:25:02.000
You feel me?
00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:05.200
So I feel like that's needed to let a motherfucker know where you at.
00:25:05.279 --> 00:25:06.640
So you bring, you know what I'm saying?
00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:07.600
Okay.
00:25:08.799 --> 00:25:09.039
No.
00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:11.279
That's what we need though.
00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:14.799
So y'all created hella body of work, bro.
00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:16.160
Solo, like you said, group.
00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:19.680
Y'all did some shit with the whole shebang and DJ Fresh, you feel me?
00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:22.960
And uh did some shit with the town fizz and this shit.
00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:23.920
You know what I'm saying?
00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:29.600
Like, y'all broke a lot of different barriers that uh actually wasn't a barrier there.
00:25:29.839 --> 00:25:30.160
Right.
00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:42.400
And uh the creation of that value is uh heavily expressed by me, bro, on uh appreciation because y'all opened the door.
00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:44.000
You know what I'm saying?
00:25:44.319 --> 00:25:54.079
And uh the cause and effect of what y'all brought to the table, bro, is very unique and very appreciated by those that understand appreciation.
00:25:54.240 --> 00:25:54.880
You feel me?
00:25:55.039 --> 00:26:03.360
Because the scrutiny that y'all had to go through to be able to decipher what people can do today.
00:26:03.519 --> 00:26:04.319
You feel me?
00:26:04.480 --> 00:26:11.680
Like, y'all niggas was kind of like the first niggas to do the East and West Oakland shit together when that shit wasn't cool.
00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:12.160
Right.
00:26:12.559 --> 00:26:13.279
You know what I'm saying?
00:26:13.440 --> 00:26:18.960
When it was treacherous and notorious for a lot of mishaps, things can happen where it can be backdoors or smarkers.
00:26:19.120 --> 00:26:19.600
You feel me?
00:26:19.680 --> 00:26:21.600
But y'all move with God and move with faith.
00:26:21.839 --> 00:26:22.640
We move with God.
00:26:22.960 --> 00:26:23.360
You feel me?
00:26:24.079 --> 00:26:28.559
And uh we ain't had nothing, but I can't put that, I can't get nobody to glory but God.
00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:31.920
Oh the real cause when I look back on that sino.
00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:34.640
Oh, the real.
00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:35.519
Y'all asked.
00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:39.360
I'm gonna add to ask every artist, every inner, right?
00:26:39.519 --> 00:26:39.920
Uh-huh.
00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:45.920
Because I be locked in on I'll be locked in on certain songs that helped me through a certain time, right?
00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:58.319
Two songs that Shady Mate got that helped me through certain times in my life when I was fucked up and trying to figure shit out was uh Strap with Max and wherever I go.
00:26:58.480 --> 00:27:03.759
So I wouldn't know what mind was you in when you made them two songs.
00:27:06.480 --> 00:27:06.880
Yeah.
00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:15.120
Probably damn near the same mind stay at both times, because I think you was there when we wrote wherever I go, me, Chris the fifth.
00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:16.799
Yeah, yeah, I was there for sure.
00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:18.400
Yeah, me, Chris the fifth.
00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:20.000
Uh, who else was on there?
00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:21.039
Uh Moses.
00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:21.680
Moses.
00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:24.559
With Moses and T Wet, right?
00:27:24.880 --> 00:27:28.000
It was like the hardest lyricist at the time in the back.
00:27:28.720 --> 00:27:29.519
On one album.
00:27:29.600 --> 00:27:29.759
Yes.
00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:31.600
I was missing Gully.
00:27:31.759 --> 00:27:32.000
That's it.
00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:34.240
Yeah, I was listening to Gully for sure.
00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:44.160
That mindset when I when that, well, whatever I go, nigga, I was just trying to, I was just trying to kill and be the sauciest nigga on the stone.
00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:47.200
Because I knew little Chris the Fifth and I was recording with Moses.
00:27:47.360 --> 00:27:48.640
I knew Moses was saucy too.
00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:50.000
And you let him go first.
00:27:50.160 --> 00:27:50.640
Yeah.
00:27:50.799 --> 00:27:53.039
I let Craig go first for sure.
00:27:53.360 --> 00:27:54.000
Uh the real.
00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:59.680
I was just trying to, you know, I knew it was gonna be one of them ones or strapped to Mac strapped with Max.
00:28:00.160 --> 00:28:01.839
I was just mad than a motherfucker, bro.
00:28:01.920 --> 00:28:02.960
I ain't gonna even lie.
00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:04.799
I was just hot.
00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:12.720
I was just gonna ask you, and that's one of my favorite songs because I put that motherfucker off.
00:28:19.120 --> 00:28:20.160
You feel me?
00:28:20.240 --> 00:28:22.400
I was you feel me.
00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:23.200
You know what I'm saying?
00:28:23.360 --> 00:28:25.600
It was a lot going on at that time too.
00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:26.559
You feel me?
00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:33.920
Nigga going through the know you little bruh all day, and so I ain't nigga, I ain't niggas scared to ever say, nigga.
00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:35.440
I'm a fan, a big fan.
00:28:35.759 --> 00:28:37.519
But top, I appreciate you, big flu.
00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:41.360
In them, in them, bro though, but I'm a big fan first.
00:28:41.600 --> 00:28:42.880
For sure, for sure, for sure.
00:28:44.079 --> 00:28:44.880
Up top, bro.
00:28:45.039 --> 00:28:45.519
Off top.
00:28:45.600 --> 00:28:47.759
You know, as many times I didn't hit you, nigga.
00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:50.640
For you know what I'm saying, for some guidance, you know what I'm saying?
00:28:50.720 --> 00:28:52.480
Uh the real you think, bro, for sure.
00:28:53.039 --> 00:28:54.799
And you you you on my rush more.
00:28:55.120 --> 00:28:55.759
For sure, bro.
00:28:55.839 --> 00:28:56.880
I appreciate that, bro.
00:28:57.120 --> 00:29:02.079
So we say that too, uh, about being fans, you know what I'm saying?
00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:13.039
Because when when when a lot of times of artists hearing niggas is fans, they looking at niggas like groovies or they tell niggas they fanned out.
00:29:13.200 --> 00:29:14.079
You know what I'm saying?
00:29:14.319 --> 00:29:19.759
But we want people to know it's okay to be a fan, you feel me?
00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:25.759
Because that's that's what that's what's missing from the music today.
00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:30.000
Because, like you were saying earlier, niggas don't take it as niggas lazy.
00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:40.799
But we need this aura of dividers between it's okay to be a fan, a supporter, and it's also be a just a this is a motherfucker that just whatever.
00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:41.839
You know what I'm saying?
00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:51.440
And uh it's fucked up because everything of a nigga try to show some type of appreciation today is you dig rye.
00:29:51.839 --> 00:29:52.559
You know what I'm saying?
00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:56.000
And uh the value of that is fucked up, bro.
00:29:56.160 --> 00:29:58.480
And you great, bruh.
00:29:58.640 --> 00:30:03.440
Like you created, you created some some amazing things, you feel me?
00:30:03.519 --> 00:30:08.400
And uh people need to understand our purpose while we here.
00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:09.360
You know what I'm saying?
00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:19.759
For niggas to understand their purpose, you know, and uh to go back a little bit when I say with purpose, right?
00:30:20.319 --> 00:30:26.240
You play football and shit, like you said, uh what did Qaddafi mean to you?
00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:26.799
You know what I'm saying?
00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:33.920
Cause Qaddafi was like one of the people uh from Acorn that lost their life kind of early in those days when y'all was still in school.
00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:35.120
You know what I'm saying?
00:30:35.680 --> 00:30:38.240
You lost people like Green, you know what I'm saying?
00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:41.120
You lost uh JJ, you know what I'm saying?
00:30:41.360 --> 00:30:44.240
You lost the brother Boobay, you know what I'm saying?
00:30:44.319 --> 00:30:50.640
Like uh how has that shit affect your mental health?
00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:56.799
Man, see, um it make you stronger for sure.
00:30:56.960 --> 00:30:59.759
It don't never get easier, you feel me?
00:30:59.920 --> 00:31:03.360
It just you just get callous to you know what I'm saying?
00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:10.960
To like how when you get them thoughts, say how you like my nigga was a lot of season shit today, right now, you feel me type shit.
00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:12.079
You know what I'm saying?
00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:17.039
It um it make it it make it make it make me stronger.
00:31:17.279 --> 00:31:18.240
It makes me stronger.
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:19.039
You know what I'm saying?
00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:20.960
Let me know that I got a purpose, you feel me?
00:31:21.120 --> 00:31:23.200
And let me know that I ain't never alone.
00:31:23.360 --> 00:31:24.160
You know what I'm saying?
00:31:24.319 --> 00:31:27.279
Even when I'm alone by myself, I know I ain't alone.
00:31:27.600 --> 00:31:28.160
You feel me?
00:31:28.319 --> 00:31:29.200
Type, you know what I'm saying?
00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:34.160
So it just, you know, it's a it's a it's a blessing, but it hurt though.
00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:36.559
It hurt like a motherfucker, but it's a blessing.
00:31:37.120 --> 00:31:40.799
Back then, really KD, KD was KD was my best friend.
00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:42.640
KD, the reason why I play football.
00:31:43.200 --> 00:31:43.839
You feel me?
00:31:43.920 --> 00:31:46.079
I ain't I wasn't worried about no hoop, you know what I'm saying?
00:31:46.240 --> 00:31:48.799
Coach Moe and Boozy was like, nah, you feel me?
00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:53.200
Right playing football, now you football niggas calling me out, I gotta go play.
00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:55.279
I was a little bit youngster, you feel me?
00:31:55.440 --> 00:31:56.240
You know what I'm saying?
00:31:56.319 --> 00:31:59.680
So KD baby would have me play a hoop, you feel me?
00:31:59.759 --> 00:32:03.440
I mean, KD had me playing football and my nigga greedy, man.
00:32:03.519 --> 00:32:06.880
I think it was just the sauciest nigga I got ever freaking with, man.
00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:08.160
You know what I'm saying?
00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:11.200
Uh the real he was like my twin, you feel me?
00:32:11.279 --> 00:32:12.079
You know what I'm saying?
00:32:12.559 --> 00:32:14.000
My better have, bro.
00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:14.640
You feel me?
00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:15.440
You know what I'm saying?
00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:18.000
I got so I came up with some saucy niggas, man.
00:32:18.160 --> 00:32:18.799
Yeah, man.
00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:24.319
And I know that um I'm here for I'm blessed and highly favored through my ancestors, you feel me?
00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:29.279
That's why I'm move, like I move, and I try to I try to get the same game to whoever gonna listen.
00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:31.279
Yeah, I'm sure.
00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:36.640
So throughout the little break, you had a break from music for a minute.
00:32:36.880 --> 00:32:40.480
And uh throughout that time you created a beautiful family.
00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:40.880
Yeah.
00:32:41.120 --> 00:32:43.759
I mean, what does family mean to you?
00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:44.960
It's everything.
00:32:45.120 --> 00:32:46.000
Family is everything.
00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:54.319
Family reason why I figured I took that hiatus off of music, you feel me, and stopped doing this shit because I had to see what I was like without this shit, you feel me?
00:32:54.720 --> 00:32:55.440
You know what I'm saying?
00:32:55.680 --> 00:32:58.880
See how I was like, see myself without being shady naked.
00:32:59.039 --> 00:33:01.519
I mean, right doing music and rapping and shit so long.
00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:05.039
I've been around these wretched motherfuckers, you feel me, and these demons.
00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:07.519
I just feel like what God was like, you feel me?
00:33:07.600 --> 00:33:10.079
And I had to go up into myself to find that.
00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:11.279
You know what I'm saying?
00:33:11.680 --> 00:33:15.839
I had to move all the way up away to Dallas and make my way back.
00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:16.640
You feel me?
00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:18.799
That's what mental health and failing mean in me.
00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:20.480
It means sacrifice.
00:33:21.120 --> 00:33:21.600
Feel me?
00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:23.680
I had knocked all this shit over for my family.
00:33:23.839 --> 00:33:24.160
Feel me?
00:33:24.240 --> 00:33:25.279
Fuck all this shit.
00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:26.319
You know what I'm saying?
00:33:26.559 --> 00:33:29.120
Just so my kid can smell for sure.
00:33:29.600 --> 00:33:30.160
You know?
00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:32.480
But music is.
00:33:33.839 --> 00:33:34.559
Music is me.
00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:35.039
Feel me?
00:33:35.120 --> 00:33:45.759
God gave me that, so I gotta I gotta stay on, I gotta keep my foot on the gas, whether I'm rapping or I'm pulling my little niggas out or I'm making a you feel me, keeping the door open for the mob, you know?
00:33:48.960 --> 00:33:55.920
How is it like being like a forefather of this shit that we call, you know, street independent music?
00:33:56.079 --> 00:33:56.880
You know what I'm saying?
00:33:57.039 --> 00:34:11.199
Because without shoes styling, you know what I'm saying, Ace D, Lil Blood, Rogue, Filthy, uh, Stevie Joe, RB, Roller Stutter, Major D without, you know what I'm saying?
00:34:11.279 --> 00:34:12.960
I can keep keep going, bruh.
00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:23.679
Like uh how does that feel, bruh, to leave an imprint that can never leave the value of ultimate?
00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:25.920
Man, it's a beautiful thing.
00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:28.000
It's a beautiful thing, you feel me?
00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:32.800
Well, youngsters look at a nigga like, okay, you said he do it, I can do it.
00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:33.519
You feel me?
00:34:33.600 --> 00:34:35.360
That's what it that's how I look at it.
00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:36.640
It's inspiration.
00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:37.600
You feel me?
00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:39.360
A boy motivators, man.
00:34:41.760 --> 00:34:50.800
So, throughout time of you doing this music shit, I know it might have been times probably where you didn't understand the business since right.
00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:51.360
Right.
00:34:51.680 --> 00:34:58.320
So, since then, what have you learned about business that you didn't know about in your parents?
00:34:59.680 --> 00:35:04.400
It's the um, it's say the music business, but it say it should be the business of music.
00:35:04.480 --> 00:35:05.040
You feel me?
00:35:05.120 --> 00:35:08.160
Because business always comes first before the music.
00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:12.640
And you gotta have your business right before you even think about doing some motherfucking reason.
00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:13.760
You know what I'm saying?
00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:16.320
That's what business taught me about this shit.
00:35:16.640 --> 00:35:21.760
It's business first, 90% business, 10%, 10% talent.
00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:22.640
You feel me?
00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:24.400
Damn near five now.
00:35:26.320 --> 00:35:27.120
You know what I'm saying?
00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:29.920
It's 95% business, you feel me?
00:35:30.160 --> 00:35:30.880
You know what I'm saying?
00:35:31.040 --> 00:35:32.000
That's what I learned, man.
00:35:32.160 --> 00:35:33.440
It was a hard lesson.
00:35:34.720 --> 00:35:35.280
Facts.
00:35:35.440 --> 00:35:43.760
So would you knowing that, and stepping away from the music for a minute, what is your perspective on financial literacy?
00:35:45.120 --> 00:35:47.440
It's um it's a necessity, man.
00:35:47.600 --> 00:35:51.440
You gotta know how to gotta know, you gotta know how to count your money, man.
00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:52.400
You know what I'm saying?
00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:55.760
If you ain't counting your money, man, you somebody else counting for you.
00:35:56.320 --> 00:35:57.120
You feel me?
00:35:57.360 --> 00:35:58.400
So that's it.
00:35:58.560 --> 00:35:59.360
You know what I'm saying?
00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:03.440
I come up from a I come from the crack era, so you know what I'm saying.
00:36:03.520 --> 00:36:08.320
I'll always value my motherfucker money in my good business, you feel me?
00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:09.120
You know what I'm saying?
00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:10.640
So that's how I look at it, man.
00:36:11.040 --> 00:36:15.760
So how do you feel about the state of hip hop in the Bay Area right now?
00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:19.520
I feel like it's good.
00:36:19.760 --> 00:36:20.400
You feel me?
00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:23.520
We going through it, we're going through the motion, you feel me?
00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:24.640
You know what I'm saying?
00:36:25.040 --> 00:36:30.080
We still the we still the creators of all this shit, and it's the mechanic.
00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:31.280
You know what I'm saying?
00:36:31.440 --> 00:36:32.880
So I'm loving it.
00:36:32.960 --> 00:36:34.720
I love what I see out for, you feel me?
00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:36.720
Tell us to motherfuckers out there, man.
00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:37.680
Keep pushing that shit.
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:38.400
That's all I say.
00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:41.120
It's like consistent and represent.
00:36:41.280 --> 00:36:41.920
Feel me?
00:36:43.200 --> 00:36:45.600
So stepping away for a minute, right?
00:36:46.560 --> 00:36:55.200
You were also picked amongst a lot of spitters to be on XM radio and uh give them some gas.
00:36:55.520 --> 00:36:56.400
On what radio?
00:36:56.480 --> 00:36:57.440
Well, what messed up?
00:36:57.840 --> 00:36:58.240
What was that?
00:36:58.320 --> 00:36:59.120
XM radio?
00:36:59.200 --> 00:36:59.680
Oh yeah, yeah.
00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:00.640
What was that?
00:37:00.720 --> 00:37:02.560
Uh that was Shady45.
00:37:03.520 --> 00:37:04.080
Yeah, yeah.
00:37:04.240 --> 00:37:12.240
Uh, how did that feel to step away from the minute and uh actually come back to the star lineup like you ain't never left this motherfucker?
00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:15.200
Man, it was great, man.
00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:17.440
It was great to let me know that, you know what I'm saying?
00:37:17.680 --> 00:37:20.560
I should have never motherfucking left, you feel me?
00:37:20.960 --> 00:37:21.840
You know what I'm saying?
00:37:22.160 --> 00:37:28.320
It's all it's it's great because I ain't even, you know, I wasn't even tripping off that shit, you know?
00:37:28.640 --> 00:37:33.440
And I'm saying, it's great, bro.
00:37:35.040 --> 00:37:39.520
How how does it feel about understanding the value of your driven purpose today?
00:37:46.160 --> 00:37:47.920
Oh no, say that again.
00:37:48.320 --> 00:37:54.000
How does it feel of understanding your value of your driven purpose today?
00:37:55.120 --> 00:37:56.320
It's wonderful, man.
00:37:56.560 --> 00:37:58.080
It's hard, it's pressure though.
00:37:58.320 --> 00:38:01.200
But you know, pressure make diamonds, right?
00:38:01.680 --> 00:38:02.880
You feel me?
00:38:05.520 --> 00:38:11.520
Already, I know that I gotta keep doing this shit to keep the door open for my for my audience, you know what I'm saying?
00:38:11.600 --> 00:38:13.600
So it's lovely, man.
00:38:14.640 --> 00:38:16.720
So they can stay alive and stay free, man.
00:38:16.880 --> 00:38:17.760
You know what's up.
00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:18.560
Tracks.
00:38:18.720 --> 00:38:25.760
So I heard through our conversation that you have an artist by the name of Baby Shady, right?
00:38:25.920 --> 00:38:26.560
Yeah.
00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:29.280
So, who is Baby Shady?
00:38:29.520 --> 00:38:33.440
How can we get to know who baby Shady is and where can we find Baby Shady?
00:38:34.080 --> 00:38:36.160
Baby Shady is my niece.
00:38:36.560 --> 00:38:38.240
Baby Shady is my niece.
00:38:38.320 --> 00:38:39.840
She's hella dope.
00:38:40.480 --> 00:38:41.520
You feel me?
00:38:41.920 --> 00:38:47.760
Um, I just put out a project uh called No Love Lost, filming like a couple months ago.
00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:50.720
Her shit on all platforms, you feeling all the shit.
00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:51.360
You know what I'm saying?
00:38:51.440 --> 00:38:54.320
I'm about to be bringing her out to my shows and all the shit.
00:38:54.560 --> 00:38:56.320
It's up for sure.
00:38:56.640 --> 00:39:01.200
Well, go find her on motherfucking Instagram, wherever, just type in baby shake.
00:39:01.760 --> 00:39:03.600
We are somebody that we should be looking out for.
00:39:03.920 --> 00:39:05.680
For sure, you gotta look out for her, man.
00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:07.840
On the real, she dope as fuck, though.
00:39:08.160 --> 00:39:09.280
She got it on us.
00:39:09.520 --> 00:39:09.920
Feel me?
00:39:10.560 --> 00:39:11.360
She got it out.
00:39:13.120 --> 00:39:23.600
What are some of the things that you are telling young men right now that might have been guided into the streets the wrong way, but might have the talent to get there, but they just don't have the focus.
00:39:24.720 --> 00:39:27.600
Man, focus on what God gave you.
00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:31.040
God gave you the talent, you gotta use it or you will lose it, man.
00:39:31.280 --> 00:39:31.920
You feel me?
00:39:32.160 --> 00:39:34.720
If God gave you a talent, man, it's not yours, man.
00:39:34.800 --> 00:39:35.840
It's for the world.
00:39:36.080 --> 00:39:36.800
You feel me?
00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:42.480
So don't be selfish and do some stupid shit, like go fucking rob a bank or cook kill somebody.
00:39:42.640 --> 00:39:43.520
You know what I'm saying?
00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:47.120
And risk your life when you got a fucking talent that can help.
00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:49.920
Uh you feel me, that can help your people, you feel me?
00:39:50.160 --> 00:39:51.040
That's how I look at it.
00:39:53.200 --> 00:39:58.480
So responsibility that and accountability that niggas gotta have, you feel me?
00:39:58.640 --> 00:40:02.000
And I'm saying don't look out for don't expect nobody to help you.
00:40:02.240 --> 00:40:03.600
Your talent don't help.
00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:07.200
Have faith in your talent, have faith in your drive, have faith in your hustle.
00:40:09.040 --> 00:40:11.920
If you could change one thing about Shady, what would it be?
00:40:15.680 --> 00:40:17.040
I wouldn't change nothing.
00:40:18.640 --> 00:40:23.600
On the real God got me here, you feel me this far, I guess, for a reason.
00:40:24.640 --> 00:40:26.400
I wouldn't change nothing, bro.
00:40:27.120 --> 00:40:28.800
I I promise you I would.
00:40:29.280 --> 00:40:30.000
On the real.
00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:32.160
This shit is a movie, bro.
00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:34.560
I'm just uh I'm just here for the experience.
00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:35.600
You feel me?
00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:37.120
On the real.
00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:38.640
On the real.
00:40:39.040 --> 00:40:41.200
We are you know what I mean too, nigga.
00:40:41.360 --> 00:40:41.760
Facts.
00:40:42.560 --> 00:40:45.840
What what can we expect from Shady in the next year?
00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:49.520
Because a lot of times when people ask questions, they say in the next five.
00:40:49.600 --> 00:40:51.600
Like, what can we expect from Shady in the next year?
00:40:51.760 --> 00:40:53.840
Man, me and my uncle working on this, you know what I'm saying?
00:40:53.920 --> 00:40:59.840
This up and tribute, man, 40 years of 40 years of motherfucking town business, man, about to come out, you know what I'm saying?
00:41:00.080 --> 00:41:10.400
Got me, kick, beat us, styling, chippers, G-Stack, motherfucking Dollar Wheel, J Jonah, 35.
00:41:10.640 --> 00:41:12.320
There's hell of motherfuckers on there, man.
00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:13.440
Straight lineup, man.
00:41:13.520 --> 00:41:14.080
You feel me?
00:41:14.160 --> 00:41:14.720
You know what I'm saying?
00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:16.000
We've been working on it for a minute.
00:41:16.080 --> 00:41:17.760
That's what that's what's up next, though.
00:41:18.000 --> 00:41:18.480
See what I mean?
00:41:18.560 --> 00:41:19.280
Be looking out for that.
00:41:19.680 --> 00:41:22.560
That'll make me pick them keep that keyboard and make it beat for that.
00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:23.040
Right.
00:41:24.240 --> 00:41:28.480
Look, uh real that sounds real orchestrating and elaborating real right, right there.
00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:29.040
Yeah.
00:41:29.520 --> 00:41:30.880
Wait till you hear this shit.
00:41:31.120 --> 00:41:36.640
I mean, how did that feel to get that brotherhood of energy back?
00:41:37.120 --> 00:41:38.960
It feels like it feels like old school.
00:41:39.120 --> 00:41:41.680
It feels like old school PTB live days.
00:41:41.840 --> 00:41:45.120
When you feel me, when nigga caught a mob meeting and nigga came together.
00:41:45.200 --> 00:41:45.840
You feel me?
00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:47.440
It's still this, you feel me?
00:41:47.520 --> 00:41:48.320
The crew still there.
00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:50.320
The crew still locked in.
00:41:50.640 --> 00:41:52.640
That let me know the crew still locked in.
00:41:52.720 --> 00:41:53.200
You feel me?
00:41:53.520 --> 00:41:54.000
Facts.
00:41:59.040 --> 00:42:00.560
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
00:42:00.720 --> 00:42:02.160
They think we done fell off.
00:42:02.400 --> 00:42:03.200
We went underground.
00:42:03.280 --> 00:42:05.200
We had to go underground like demolition, man.
00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:07.520
Yeah, we didn't fall out, we just fell back for a second.
00:42:08.720 --> 00:42:10.400
We on the ground, nigga, working on you, nigga.
00:42:13.520 --> 00:42:16.000
On top, but you feel me.
00:42:16.320 --> 00:42:25.600
Oh no, you know, I just I want to take this time out, bro, to I really brought and appreciate you for what you contribute all these years, bro.
00:42:26.240 --> 00:42:28.320
I just want to tell you, bro, thank you, bro.
00:42:28.560 --> 00:42:29.280
I appreciate you, bro.
00:42:29.760 --> 00:42:38.960
Everything that you done brought to the table that we call gangster music for the streets, underground, independent, and just holding it down, bro.
00:42:39.040 --> 00:42:42.480
Thank you, bro, for everything that you have done for Oakland, bro.
00:42:42.560 --> 00:42:44.800
Thank you for what you did now for your neighborhood, bro.
00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:51.120
Thank you for being a sacrifice to people that even know how to contribute themselves into the game, but y'all created the blueprint, bro.
00:42:52.160 --> 00:42:52.800
You feel me?
00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:56.480
It's time for people to just say, bro, we appreciate you for that, bro.
00:42:56.560 --> 00:42:58.000
We appreciate Stalin for that.
00:42:58.080 --> 00:43:07.920
We appreciate Jonah, ROBs, filties, the motherfucking stingy joes and all that, bro, because y'all y'all pushed something to the surface, bro, that can never be forgotten, bro.
00:43:08.720 --> 00:43:09.520
So I appreciate that.
00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:13.200
I'm honoring your legacy and y'all's legacy as a whole, bro.
00:43:13.360 --> 00:43:17.120
It's it's an actual beautiful thing to give it to you while you alive, bruh.
00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:21.280
And uh, we got this shit called Wake Your Ass Up Trophy, bruh.
00:43:21.360 --> 00:43:25.280
And uh, you've been waking your ass up for like 20 plus years, bruh.
00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:31.440
And uh, we just want to honor you today, bro, to say thank you again, bruh, for being the gas man for waking their ass up.
00:43:31.520 --> 00:43:34.880
So something that you can put on your table.
00:43:35.040 --> 00:43:38.640
It's up, it's up to let them know that we appreciate you.
00:43:38.720 --> 00:43:42.960
If nobody else appreciates you, bro, my legal for you.
00:43:43.680 --> 00:43:44.240
Thank you, bruh.
00:43:44.400 --> 00:43:46.560
Off top for your contributors, bruh.
00:43:46.720 --> 00:43:50.480
Thank you for putting your life at risk for all of us to understand, bruh.
00:43:50.640 --> 00:43:53.360
This shit ain't guaranteed to make it in no type of way, bruh.
00:43:53.520 --> 00:43:53.920
What's up?
00:43:54.240 --> 00:43:55.840
But y'all did that for us, bruh.
00:43:55.920 --> 00:43:59.520
And uh I just want to say, bro, keep pushing, bro.
00:43:59.680 --> 00:44:01.040
I love you to death, bro.
00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:20.880
I honor you as a friend, a family member, bruh, uh peer, you know what I'm saying, a brother, you know what I'm saying, because it's it's it's too much of this weird shit that takes place in our city, our area, and we don't we don't think about that shit until people gone, bruh.
00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:27.680
To be able to give this shit to you here today, bruh, still mean the world to me.
00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:28.640
You know what I'm saying?
00:44:28.800 --> 00:44:31.520
Because how much I did for Oakland, bruh.
00:44:32.240 --> 00:44:36.480
And it it takes a person from Oakland that's been near play.
00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:48.560
My own foot into it and my own opportunities and everything else to be a part of this shit just as well, but just to see how far y'all came because Conquer Road opened these doors and still kicking them, right?
00:44:49.200 --> 00:44:54.240
Y'all are the things at the grounds, at the independence of the streets and everything else.
00:44:54.480 --> 00:44:55.360
Real bike.
00:44:55.520 --> 00:44:56.240
Thank you, bro.
00:44:57.440 --> 00:44:58.000
Off top, man.
00:44:58.080 --> 00:44:59.360
Thank you for staying being shady.
00:44:59.600 --> 00:45:00.960
Thank you for being the guys, man.
00:45:01.120 --> 00:45:01.840
You know what I'm saying?
00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:06.240
Thank you for being a true uh sportsman, bruh.
00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:07.440
You know what I'm saying?
00:45:07.600 --> 00:45:12.960
Never being no weird person getting on the internet trying to fall into what's going on with that, bro.
00:45:13.040 --> 00:45:14.960
You kept it through all the way through, bro.
00:45:15.120 --> 00:45:21.440
And it's only right that we can honor you with something that we feel that what we got going on right now, you feel me, is waking their ass up.
00:45:21.520 --> 00:45:22.400
Man, waking their ass up.
00:45:22.560 --> 00:45:22.800
Devil.
00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:23.680
Very long time.
00:45:25.520 --> 00:45:25.920
Thank you, bro.
00:45:26.800 --> 00:45:27.280
Thank you, brother.
00:45:29.440 --> 00:45:35.920
I think where we from, we just trying to show motherfuckers that homage is okay.
00:45:36.080 --> 00:45:37.040
You feel me?
00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:40.160
Uh showing people respect is okay, bruh.
00:45:40.320 --> 00:45:42.240
Showing people appreciation is okay.
00:45:42.320 --> 00:45:43.200
You feel me?
00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:46.720
Don't look at motherfuckers like that's a bad thing.
00:45:46.880 --> 00:45:48.960
Or like my nigga said earlier, you glazing.
00:45:49.120 --> 00:45:49.760
You feel me?
00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:52.640
It's okay, bruh, to tell a nigga you saucy, bro.
00:45:52.720 --> 00:45:57.600
It's okay to tell a motherfucker that you overcome some obstacles, bro, that ain't guaranteed to come from, bruh.
00:45:57.760 --> 00:45:59.120
It's okay, bruh.
00:45:59.360 --> 00:46:00.400
You know what I'm saying?
00:46:02.160 --> 00:46:03.920
Show a nigga some love, bruh.
00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:05.760
Like love more, say just love a little more.
00:46:05.920 --> 00:46:11.760
We got some of us hatred value in our hearts sometimes when it was fucked up, where nigga, we just need to learn how to love a little bit more.
00:46:11.840 --> 00:46:12.400
You feel me?
00:46:12.560 --> 00:46:15.200
Show a nigga the love that he deserves, you feel me?
00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:18.080
Show a nigga the appreciation that they deserve, man.
00:46:18.560 --> 00:46:28.240
These dudes, man, these guys, these men, you feel me, they overcome these obstacles that keep pushing for us that they deserve these roses, these flowers, these gold bars, these wake your ass up trophies.
00:46:28.320 --> 00:46:28.800
You feel me?
00:46:29.680 --> 00:46:32.240
And uh keep pushing this shit, bro.
00:46:32.480 --> 00:46:34.880
Your endeavors, bruh, your legacy, bruh.
00:46:35.040 --> 00:46:36.000
You know what I'm saying?
00:46:36.160 --> 00:46:37.520
You a mogul today, bruh.
00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:38.640
Nobody never told you.
00:46:38.720 --> 00:46:39.120
You feel me?
00:46:39.200 --> 00:46:40.560
You a mogul, bruh.
00:46:40.880 --> 00:46:50.240
You might not have things that what everybody else might have in a materialistic value, but you have things that people had never accomplished before, bruh, and that's being authentic, no gimmick.
00:46:50.800 --> 00:46:51.360
You feel me?
00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:52.640
You straight true to you, bro.
00:46:52.720 --> 00:46:55.120
You straight true to self, you straight true to the family, straight true to you.
00:46:55.200 --> 00:46:58.160
I'm not really straight true to the thoroughness of Oakland, bruh.
00:46:58.400 --> 00:47:00.160
And that can never be raised, bro.
00:47:00.640 --> 00:47:00.800
Top.
00:47:01.040 --> 00:47:01.600
You know what I'm saying?
00:47:02.240 --> 00:47:03.840
Ain't no safety without the 3A.
00:47:04.160 --> 00:47:05.040
You feel what I'm saying?
00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:07.200
You feel me?
00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:08.400
I appreciate you.
00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:12.240
Shout out to the home team, Acorn, you know what I'm saying?
00:47:12.320 --> 00:47:14.640
I've been fucking with Acorn my whole life.
00:47:14.960 --> 00:47:18.800
This ain't something that I'm just doing or just showing appreciation of this shit.
00:47:18.880 --> 00:47:21.600
I've been blessed to play for Taylor Memorial growing up.
00:47:21.760 --> 00:47:23.600
I've been blessed to play with Oakland Saints.
00:47:23.680 --> 00:47:24.240
You know what I'm saying?
00:47:24.320 --> 00:47:27.360
I've been blessed to be around West Oakland a long time.
00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:28.240
You know what I'm saying?
00:47:28.400 --> 00:47:34.800
So, as me being who I am, I always feel like it's always a right to show honor, even though I might be from the East.
00:47:37.120 --> 00:47:37.520
For sure.
00:47:37.680 --> 00:47:38.640
You know, on the real.
00:47:38.880 --> 00:47:41.280
They're trying to just keep this endeavors, bro.
00:47:41.520 --> 00:47:42.480
Just positive.
00:47:43.040 --> 00:47:44.160
It's okay, bruh.
00:47:44.320 --> 00:47:45.040
You know what I'm saying?
00:47:45.120 --> 00:47:47.840
We might be into some things, but ain't where you're from, it's where you're going.
00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:50.000
It's where you're at, where you're going, man.
00:47:50.240 --> 00:47:50.560
Nah.
00:47:50.800 --> 00:47:52.240
Never judge a book by its cover.
00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:58.800
If you ain't never read that motherfucker, because there's some dope lyrics and some dope concepts, some dope inspirations that come from reading books.
00:47:58.880 --> 00:48:00.960
If you just take the time out, they understand knowledge.
00:48:01.120 --> 00:48:02.960
Knowledge is power, and power is wisdom.
00:48:03.200 --> 00:48:06.080
That part, you know, and you gotta lie to that, bro.
00:48:06.160 --> 00:48:10.000
And you you open my eyes and say, there's some things that I would never forget.
00:48:10.240 --> 00:48:13.840
Just understanding that my bro was a poetry writer.
00:48:14.080 --> 00:48:16.240
My bro got good grades, bro.
00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:22.800
My bro was inspired to be the king that he is of greatness, bro, because he paid attention to the little things.
00:48:23.040 --> 00:48:23.520
That's true.
00:48:23.680 --> 00:48:24.480
You know what I'm saying?
00:48:24.560 --> 00:48:26.560
And uh, that shit's dope, bro.
00:48:26.720 --> 00:48:31.280
And I hope somebody that's listening today, you feel me, are taking in from this interview, bruh.
00:48:31.520 --> 00:48:36.960
That just because you come from a neighborhood and the people got a perspective from you, that don't mean that's always you.
00:48:37.200 --> 00:48:38.160
You know what I'm saying?
00:48:39.120 --> 00:48:40.000
That's a fact.
00:48:40.160 --> 00:48:41.280
Keep being unique, bruh.
00:48:41.360 --> 00:48:49.280
Keep holding these values, bro, and anything that I can help bring to the table to help push the new endeavors that you got going on for Baby Shady and your company, bro.
00:48:49.360 --> 00:48:50.640
I'm here to help with that, bruh.
00:48:50.800 --> 00:48:52.800
You already know I do the billboards and shit.
00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:57.280
So the next contributors of what I want to do, I want to put up for you and your team, bruh.
00:48:57.360 --> 00:48:57.760
For sure.
00:48:57.920 --> 00:48:58.560
You know what I'm saying?
00:48:58.720 --> 00:48:59.840
So I want to do it.
00:48:59.920 --> 00:49:02.480
I want to put that motherfucker up in acorn like I damn and shit.
00:49:02.560 --> 00:49:06.560
For setting up right here by the by the home team, bruh, because you desire this shit, bruh.
00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:08.800
Yeah, you know, and uh I appreciate that, bro.
00:49:09.040 --> 00:49:10.800
Keep this keep this legacy going, bruh.
00:49:10.960 --> 00:49:15.920
This new journey that you got going on with this shady nation, let them know it's a nation for real.
00:49:16.080 --> 00:49:16.240
Right.
00:49:16.400 --> 00:49:16.800
You feel me?
00:49:16.960 --> 00:49:21.840
And just because it's say shady in the front, don't mean that we live a uh a negative oral lifestyle behind this.
00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:23.840
It's just cool out here.
00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:25.600
Shady mean it's cool, man.
00:49:26.160 --> 00:49:28.160
It's cool under the shade, man.
00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:29.120
You feel me?
00:49:29.440 --> 00:49:29.760
Really?
00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:33.600
Well, you know, I like I said, man, I want to thank you for coming today, man.
00:49:33.680 --> 00:49:35.360
I want to thank you for giving me a little bit of your time.
00:49:35.440 --> 00:49:36.000
You know what I'm saying?
00:49:36.240 --> 00:49:40.400
Sol you and your driven purpose and giving you your flowers and your gold bars while you're here, bruh.
00:49:40.560 --> 00:49:41.600
Thank you again, man.
00:49:41.920 --> 00:49:42.880
I appreciate you.
00:49:43.040 --> 00:49:43.920
I value you.
00:49:44.080 --> 00:49:45.360
And today is your day, bro.
00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:46.160
It's about shady.
00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:46.720
You feel me?
00:49:46.880 --> 00:49:47.200
For sure.
00:49:47.520 --> 00:49:47.920
Thank you, man.
00:49:48.400 --> 00:49:48.960
Yes, man.
00:49:49.120 --> 00:49:49.360
Thank you.
00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:53.520
So before you call them, give a message to our people, right?
00:49:55.040 --> 00:50:00.400
So, so when we our generation that's raising these kids right now, and our kids, right?
00:50:00.560 --> 00:50:05.280
Because the biggest question I didn't heard was what we gotta do to stop the violence.
00:50:05.520 --> 00:50:11.760
And in order to stop the violence, you gotta realize that it's our kids out here that's that's that's putting the violence in.
00:50:11.840 --> 00:50:12.320
You feel me?
00:50:12.640 --> 00:50:18.320
So in order to stop that violence, we gotta get our get control of our love for the kids, have a relationship, right?
00:50:18.480 --> 00:50:23.600
In order to do that, we gotta break that cycle of what we was taught because you gotta think about it.
00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:32.720
Us right here, these three, we was taught that when we talked back, it was it was it was it was it was it was it was a it was a problem.
00:50:32.800 --> 00:50:34.240
We gotta ask for talking back.
00:50:34.400 --> 00:50:35.200
We was asking a question.
00:50:35.280 --> 00:50:37.520
Your mama asked you a question, like why the fuck you do that?
00:50:37.600 --> 00:50:39.920
And you'll ask her, and she'll smack the fuck out you right?
00:50:40.160 --> 00:50:43.040
So it made us lose sight of communication.
00:50:43.520 --> 00:50:44.320
You feel me?
00:50:44.560 --> 00:50:46.640
And we can't let that spill into our children.
00:50:46.720 --> 00:50:48.240
We gotta communicate with these kids.
00:50:48.320 --> 00:50:52.160
If we ask them a question, we gotta accept the response that they give us.
00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:52.560
Right.
00:50:52.720 --> 00:50:53.600
Because we ask.
00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:54.080
Right.
00:50:54.400 --> 00:50:57.280
Because we're not gonna kill the communication, you feel me?
00:50:57.440 --> 00:50:59.360
And then that goes with accountability.
00:50:59.520 --> 00:51:01.760
We gotta teach these kids how to be accountable for it.
00:51:01.920 --> 00:51:02.720
It starts, it start.
00:51:02.800 --> 00:51:04.880
All that shit start in the hot in the house.
00:51:04.960 --> 00:51:10.560
And some parents, some parents might not know how to um discipline their child, but that's where fellowship comes in.
00:51:10.720 --> 00:51:14.480
That's why we hook up all the time and we can ask for our next our next folks.
00:51:14.560 --> 00:51:15.120
Do you feel me?
00:51:15.200 --> 00:51:18.080
Hey, man, you have to not go through this to my kid and all of it.
00:51:18.320 --> 00:51:18.800
You feel me?
00:51:18.880 --> 00:51:21.840
But that comes with fellowship and it starts that starts in the house.
00:51:21.920 --> 00:51:24.560
But we can't just go out there and say, hey, y'all stop shooting.
00:51:24.720 --> 00:51:25.760
It gotta start in the house.
00:51:26.160 --> 00:51:27.600
No, you gotta start with the in the house.
00:51:28.080 --> 00:51:32.480
It's start with the parents because they in the house, nigga, that 30 in the house with you.
00:51:32.720 --> 00:51:33.600
Right, that part.
00:51:34.320 --> 00:51:34.960
That part.
00:51:36.080 --> 00:51:38.640
That motherfucker sitting in the house with that 30 with you.
00:51:39.040 --> 00:51:40.240
Yep, it started with us.
00:51:40.320 --> 00:51:41.360
It started with us, good bro.
00:51:46.160 --> 00:51:47.360
It's all about communication.
00:51:47.440 --> 00:51:48.880
Like, we gotta learn how to communicate.
00:51:49.120 --> 00:51:51.200
We can't tell them they talking back no more.
00:51:51.360 --> 00:52:00.240
Because if we if we ask these questions, trying to figure out what they're going through, we gotta be able to reciprocate the answer and deal with it and fix it.
00:52:01.120 --> 00:52:03.920
So we can't keep on doing what our parents did us.
00:52:04.080 --> 00:52:08.240
We gotta uh elevate and uh yeah, yeah, that's all I want to say.
00:52:08.400 --> 00:52:18.480
I just wanna I just want to make sure that like I just tell my generation, my my people that's raising our young men right now, and that's out here destroying shit and and not.
00:52:18.960 --> 00:52:21.120
Yeah, but you told you we gotta stop this violence, man.
00:52:21.200 --> 00:52:24.400
This shit is a kid, because we can stop it with this with the less.
00:52:24.640 --> 00:52:26.240
You gotta like accountability, county.
00:52:26.400 --> 00:52:27.440
They start with us, bro.
00:52:27.600 --> 00:52:27.920
For sure.
00:52:29.040 --> 00:52:30.400
Because it's our kids doing it.
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For sure.
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It ain't somebody else's kids doing it.
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It's art, not not necessarily art, bringing kids.
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Right, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, but before we go, is it anywhere that these people can find you, connect with you?
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You know what I'm saying?
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Reach you might want to get a feature with you, might want to, you know, just man.
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You can hit me on uh Instagram at Shady28 Nate.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Everything is Shady28Nate, man.
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You feel me?
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You know what I'm saying?
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Or just tap in with my unk, man, Cal Love, man.
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You feel me?
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Shout out Cal Love, man.
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Yeah, come on, man.
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Before we go again, man, let me give a shout out to our sponsors, man.
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You understand me?
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Shout out to cookies, man.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Shout out to the sponsor, man.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Shout out to the cookies, man.
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What's my ET, my brother, bro Jack, man?
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And we here, man, with another episode, man, of Wake Your Ass Up.
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And we done woke your ass up, man, with some history report, man.
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Mr.
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Let's get it, motherfucking night.
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Let's get it, man.
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Remember, man.
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Yeah.
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Let's get it, man.
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You go.
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You woke or you still sleep, man.
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Wake your game up.
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Wake your game up, but don't fuck your name up.
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Hello.
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Thank you.
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Love you, face.
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You already know, nigga.
