QLS Classic: Snoop Dogg

Published Oct 20, 2021, 5:02 AM

The legendary Snoop Dogg joins Team Supreme to talk Doggystyle, producing with Dr. Dre, and how he became the ultimate entrepreneur.

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Of Course Love Supreme is a production of I Heart Radio. This classic episode was produced by the team at Pandora. The legendary Snoop Dog joins Team Supreme to talk Doggie Style producing with Dr Dre and how he became the Ultimate Entrepreneur. Originally released in December nineteen. Suprema s Suprema role called Suprema Subprema role called Suprema so Suprema role called Suprema su su Suprema role. Call. Our name is Quessla. Yeah, and I'm out of breath. Yeah snoops, Jim, Yeah I'm not roll Suprema Subprema role called Suprema up. Sub Prima road call. My name is Fante. Yeah, please hold my calls. Yeah, because everybody got to heal. Yeah, ship on w ball, rolla sub primo, roll call South Prima su primo road called. My name is Sugar. Yeah, I'm a friend indeed, Yeah, but a friend in need. Yeah. We'll still your weed. Sub prima rogue subma s ro in the cut or tiva Yeah once joints We're bad. Yeah, somebody grind this weed before the end of this song. Ro Callma sub primo roll call sub Prima sub Primo roll call. Yeah, and Snoop is it true? Yeah? I heard Tima ain't real. Yeah, how about you roll call Prima So premo, roll call, Prima Primo road call. My name is Snoop. Yeah, I'm not no Beagle. Yeah, I'm a Laker fan. Yeah, and I like the Eagle. So Premo road call, Prima Primo, roll call, So Prema, so so primo, roll called So prima, som roll call, Ladies and gentlemen. We have reached the pinnacle this podcast, Black Life Goals. Y know, I have nothing prepared. This is course love of course, Love Supreme. As if I got to reintroduce the show that we're um, this is our Christmas episode, but I'll be very honest with you. It's still August and we are in We're in heaven right now. Compound. Yes, we are in the compound of all the compounds. A lot can be said, uh about our guest today, but in my opinion, he's probably hands down the most beloved, unique, charismatic, talented m C and hip hop culture period and music period in life period and I mean hip hop is forty five years old. And I said period. Um, if I ponder and gave a thorough investigation. You actually might catch me saying that he's easily, if not the top three, but one of the best voices in hip hop. He is the coolest of the cool his catalogs outstanding, his his anthems or people's high lives. Uh, he's the craziest live show I've ever seen. And I guarantee he's your mom's favorite rappers. That's yo, ladies and gentlemen, your mom's favorite rapp straight up Snoop Dog in the building. Appreciate that. And that roll call was off the hook. Man. I'm a rapper though, so I stay ready, I ain't gotta get Oh yeah, Keith falls all day? Your your album like my mom would like she because I was talking DJ Quickly, had DJ quick on the show earlier, and uh, his album. I couldn't listen to the Curson But when Doggie Style dropped, that was the one album like my mama was saying, ain't no fun whitby mom. The real mothers around the world that was allowing their kids to listen to that shoop music back then because they knew. I guess they knew that I didn't really mean no harm. I just was I was the young voice, and at the same time, I appreciate the mothers for allowing y'all to listen to it because we grew together. Oh yeah, absolutely yeah. I'm literally out of breath from just being out in the basketball court. I don't know how you do it, bro, I don't know. Um, I don't lead us on. Where'd you grow up? Right? Where were you bare? I grew up in Long Beach, California, on the east side of Long Beach. Okay, And what was your when you were first started? Like what was music like in your household? In my household, music was like, uh, Isley Brothers, My mama loves some Teddy Penagrass, Oh Jay stylistics, Uh, Manhattan's definitely the daily black Nutrients. Come on, man? Okay? Well, shockers like what what Jowin like? Street Philly? What joined? What all right? What Jowin like? Would you would we be shocked that you listened to that was outside of the lane of what you're known for listening to your Cadillac music? Like what I loved um Rod Store was hot to me when I was he was dope, Like I loved his get down, like the way he sung his he seemed like he was singing off what he was on and and and it seemed like he was on the wrong bar, but he was always in the right you know what I'm saying, possessition, Like I love the way his voice sounded rock. He had a recipe soulful voice called to me. I loved me some ross to it. X. Now, did you have any siblings growing up? Brothers you youngest, older, older brother, and younger brother. And then my mother adopted my cousin and we made him my brother. So it was four boys in the house, you know what I'm saying, raised by one single mother. Um. Music was key, but I probably was the only one that like really had a knack for it, like was singing the choir and uh talent shows, rapping other people wraps like the sugar Hill Gang and Jimmy Spicer when they first came out. I learned all of the raps and ship because I was like these niggas's flawed. So I learned all of the wraps and went to school and would just put my name and they wraps. Like that was like my first you know, intervention with me trying to become a rapper. Listening to good music and seeing if I could emulate it, and not being afraid to do in the front of people, even though if I was white, real good. So when did you first start realizing that you had a knack or gift for m seeing or singing, or you know, just overall talent. When did you realize six m eighty five I was cool. I was, you know, basic rapper, you know, rapping about cars and swimming pools and ship I didn't have you know what I'm saying, you know, the old basic rap back then in the beginning, I got a big old house and a big old car, right and they have nothing, you know what I'm saying. Then I gradually grew into you know, style like put stout do I want to use and watching and studying the greats, listening to how they vocals and how they controlled the microphone, not just what they were was, but their vocal tones. There was a lot of studying that went in to you know, what I was doing. I wasn't just trying to be a regular rapper. I wanted to be great. I wanted to like find ways to affect styles and perfect things that nobody had done. But at the same time, watching people who inspired me. I always heard you say that Slick my man, love him to death, and that's still one of my answer this day. Like when I got a chance to meet him, he became my friend. And it's like to have somebody like that that you idolized and that you were able to finally get a relationship with his beautiful because he's very you know, unique, And I still look at him as the same Slick Rick when I was a kid, because he still dressed fresh and hunted. Chains On still got the coldest conversation and he remained him at all times, and that was like helpful to me to find out who I was and trying to remain me and not try to get caught up in the phase but wrapping hard or wrapping fast or rapping loud, because when I was coming out, most rappers was rapping like aggressive and hard and very aggressive. There was a couple of smoothments, but not the pocket I was trying to find so well with Slick Rick though, I mean your your your baritone is also key to your your little voice. Your baritone is is key to your delivery. But I mean, how did you did you finness that style that you have now? Your snarl. I wouldn't know how to It's somewhere between snaggle Puss and I think what it is. Boost Common said it was like a cartoon of mine. He like, you got a cartoon mind, So a lot of times when you're wrapping, the voices that you hear will be you know, cartoon related, you know, some sort of cartooning. I may have heard as seen as a kid, and I emulate that and put that vocal into my rap with the delivery, like you said, snaggle Pus like because to me, because the way he talked, it's sort of kind of like the way I swan it when I'm wrapping. Right, So even as a team, you had this style developed. No, hell no, I would hate for you nigga to here to me music. All right, That's what I'm trying to lead to. No, you know something has been like well coming down N seven version when you were Snoop rock Ski and you know what was your first name, Snoop rock Skate. Yeah, wrong with that ship for a minute. It's weird, I mean because it's most most West coast Yeah, most West Coast cats. I know, I won't even admit to having any sort of East Coast and floridace that nigga. We loved everything about the East Coast. If you don't knock it off, nick yall niggas was the the pavement to are walking on ship nigga. We wanted to be like y'all with the bell buckles, the mink coach, the Obama jackets, the motherfucking can go, the gold chains, all of that ship. We wanted to be what y'all was because y'all created that. And I say y'all, I say the Eastern General because they from Philadelphia to New York. Nigga from Steady be the motherfucking all these niggas that had all that flavor in that style. We watched that and then we emulated and put our own flavor on it. That's how the hip hop game was created. Somebody had to start it, somebody had to see it and then add their pieces on what they saw, and then that's what created hip hop. That's why it's growing into different nations now. That's why people in different countries, Uh do hip hop. They don't even speak English, but they do hip hop. What was the first show that you've ever seen conscoct wise music, hip hop or the winds? What wait? What the weirds? In nineteen seventy nine, when Stephanie Mills was playing on Again, I saw that one. Yeah, that ship was dope. Don't wow? Lie? Who took you? Moms? Did you see it? You know? It was like a church thing. That's when I was good boy, and you know, you know, the church got us a couple of tickets ago through the winds. You know we're gonna take brother snowby Waters to he been not going good and church, you know you're gonna get well. All right? So hip hop wise, what was the first show you saw run DMC? First Fresh Fast? Yeah, okay, I remember when we shut that ship down. I was going to ask, was it the Long Beach show that? Ye? Can you? All? Right? All all the the idea of a riot breaking out at a hip hop concert, I'll never forget, like the coverage and right on magazine where like they had to. I remember Vanessa Williams was even at the show for some reason. But now I know Russell Simmons the way I know him. Yeah, of course Vanessa Williams was there, but but they had to give it like a press conference and the whole ideal Rappi and violent or whatever, like they put my city on the map. It started with this ship. That's how I know what Long Beaches. Would you recall what happened at the show? Like young, I probably was like thirteen fourteen. I couldn't get in, so I ended up sneaking in one of the homies and when I got in, um, they just didn't have no security. And like it was a good It was a good show. It was tight. It was like l Al Houdini and Allan. But what the problem was it was some l A Niggers that came down the Long Beach and the l A Niggers was basically known for just you know when you go to l A. They suck the concerts up and you know they run everything. They came along Beach and then realize we was deep and we was we was on one game at one time, was three different gangs and Loan Beach, but they all was together at that particular time. And when they tried to come and do some ship, it happened to be doing the intermission and I spoke with le Or to find out exactly what the moment was, and Leora told me he was like it was a break between acts, and when the when the acts would have a break, they wouldn't have a DJ and nobody playing on music, and it just went black on stage. And that's when niggas seeing each other was like I think it was between l L and Houdini because l L came out with all read on and our city is all crips we didn't have And that's when bloods and crips wasn't cool at all. Like now it's it's way better, but back then it was no dialogue, no understanding that when he came out with that red on, niggas was like that was problematic. He wanted them, you know what I'm saying, Like it was ship that was going on from that perspective. And then that the the l A Niggas came and tried to push up in Long Beach, and the Long Beach Niggers had to defend their turf and it was some essays there and it was just a bunch of mayhem that had nothing to do with the concert, and it sucked the concert up and they put our city on the map for all the long reason. But then I came and cleaned it up all right, so speaking speaking, of those early tapes that you made, how did you like it was two or three your first project? What was your first development actually doing tapes? And No, my first development was probably UM eighty three. It was a rapper named Captain Rapp Long when she had a song called bad Times. Oh Captain Rap Okay, Yeah, So he Um lived his mama lived on Alm Street, which was like the gang Bank Street twenty one and Alm Street, and I lived on twenty three Locust, which was like three or four blocks away, and I heard that Captain Rapp was over there. So I had made a cassette. You know, you pushed record and played that old school ship with you know what I'm saying, rapping into the cassette. Did that, did like about five songs. They were all Whacke went over to seat the neg and Heaton listened to him. He was like, no, you ain't ready, you need to blah blah whoop in the game. He game he was. I appreciated that because now I hear him and see him in real life right now today, and I remember how he treated me and how he was to me on some real ship like and he was like the first rapper from Long Beach to have a song out, but at the same time, he didn't have no more songs out. So when I listened to his song, I was like, Okay, I want to make a hit, but I don't want to just make one hit, you know what I'm saying, Like I'm gonna learn from this like that. I'm too greedy. I want more. So he was just pimping that one song. I got no follow up and just nothing else. I don't I don't know what happened. You know, around that time, West Coast Rap was limited. That was like fast. West Coast Rap was like bad times little Look, that's that's what we were rapping like that, you know what I'm saying. So that ship came and went and then effect on you. Tidy t is one of the coaches in my football league, but yeah, he uh. I mean they've been friends for the past twenty five years. But Ty had a real big effect because I was a drug dealer and the bat around was really real, like we would really see it come through the neighborhoods. And that song was so symbolic to West Coast music because it was like the first time that we had a record that it was about us and the ship we was going through that everybody on the West could relate to that was selling drugs, and most drugs dealers became rappers. You know what I'm saying, because that's what T T and then was they was drug dealers that were rappers. They just so happened to be making music because they were like, like we got to spare time, it's mixing music. It was him and another rapper named mixed Master Spade. That was the ship. He used to wrap like he was in church, like welcome part of people, and I'm some class you. Yeah, I got the leaders in the fronts a whole rap sound like that year it was cold with it. I gotta look at he had singles out of hell. Yeah, what's what's his name? Yes, sir, okay baby four n W. They were they were the ones before n W A like David from Compton. It was representing that gangster ship. There was real drug dealers. They the one was not the tools. Did you have any uh experience like any Uncle Jam situations or any of those? Actually Uncle Jam Roger Clayton rest in Peace, came to Long Beach in nineteen nine and was working a club called the Toe Jam and that's with me and Domino used to wrap at you know Domino together. We was wrapping there, and the twins and Orangey and the whole little click. We was all wrapping there. And he kind of like knew that me and Domino had some special because he would always separate us and let us like come in a little booth. He had like a space booth in the air, like old school ship like appear but it's over the grownd. He would let us come up in there and let us wrap. And it's like you could tell that he knew that we were special. And and I didn't even know this motherfucker was Uncle Jam until after the fact because he he wasn't like I'm Uncle jamess, like it's Roger Clayton. And then I was telling people, yeah, I did this one right there, like nigga, you know uncle Jam, Like who was Uncle Jam? Like when did this party start? I've heard of his parties, but I just don't know. The seventies late seventies. Oh he went back that far. I think George Clinton bless him. I think George Clinton was like, you know what, you're the young guy out here in the l A that's pushing and promoting my ship and doing that thing, and I think he took it on and say, all right, I'm Uncle Jam. You understand I'm Uncle James army because I'm part of you know, what George and them is doing, and I'm just a culmination of it. Like you know how this is. They inspired us everything, Uncle Jam. It's phone Base, everything that that we do, his phone Base, because those were the originators of what we loved. Damn Rick James. Yeah, being the whole phone mac. Can you explain to us the importance of the rhodium and like what that was heard? Yeah, it was a fleat market, but it was the spot that n w A made the first like mixtapes that really broke ice like Dope Man, Gangster gatest All. That ship was in there first, like on mixed tapes. So they was like they're making like songs. The Cube would be rapping and Drey would be on the turntables and it was like jacking for beats before jacket for beats, you know what I'm saying. But Dr Dre was doing the mixing and taking Nigga's beats and Ice Cube was wrapping and sucking it up, and they was rapping gangster ship, and back then it was it wasn't common to wrap gangster ship. More more rappers were, you know, wrapping the right way of you know, yeah, like Caress One didn't give a fuck. He was going hard. You know what I'm saying. He was one to get just Ice didn't give a funk. He was hard, you know, was certing niggas. I just think here Ice Tea didn't give a funk. He was hard. But some of them was just like you know, Rock him was hard, but I never heard him cuss like I wanted to him, except I was like on the origin of my malory, I didn't work ship tears ship. I don't want him to motherfucker give me some good ship Rock. So for for those tapes like where you an ardent collector of him? Like as far as Dr Dre's concerned, were you was it a goal for you to like, Okay, one day I gotta get to him, or one day I wanted to get to Steve. Steve, you know, he was the one that ran the roodium swap me. Oh so you just want to get your product and I just want to get to him because to me, fuck them. He was the one because he could get you out there. I wasn't good enough for them. I didn't want to go to them and like get him music that wasn't dope was theirs, Like that's the kind of rapper I was, Like, I never wanted to rap for dre. I wanted to get down for a w because I didn't think I was ready. Like so I would rather make music and get ready and then once they discovered me and feel like I'm ready, then we make that happen. And that's exactly what happened. Goad oh um, so from the first explained us exactly how when you first started, when you warn and Nate for two and three? When did y'all start recording together? Well, um, me and Warren g was friends from like elementary school. I met Nate Dogg in high school in the eighties six, when I was in the tenth grade he was in the twelfth grade. We had a class together. We just used to be sucking around, you know, beating on the table and singing and rappid. Then we had seven period together, which was pe and we never went to that so we would always be singing this ship in the back of the gym. So but More was my dog, and More was always wanted to do music with me, but we never like did music. So then I figured out a way to get all three of us together. And once we got together and got past all the argument and fighting and ship because them niggers used to fight all the time, waring and not standing why it su me up and they got all the history. And then Nigga was always fighting each other like just like I really go brother like way, like Nigga like you know how brothers is like like what the fund is y'all? And and and I'm in the middle of the ship, like fun is y'all fighting about? This is bullshit? Record before there happened a lot before the records. When the records came out, only conflict was like just in the studio, you know, they dog like doing the ship at a certain way. He like that. He hard at it in the studio. He's like doing ship. You know, funk that I'm doing it this way. I'm singing the motherfucker the way I wanted to sing it. They was always singing. Always was he ever MC at any point in his lifever neverybody could he could? You know, Like like I said, when I met him. We was rapping and singing in the back of the class, like he wasn't just coming on. Nigga was rapping with me, you know, I was, you know, beating on the table and ship wrapping it at the same time. And he would come in and rap and then certain points he would make, maybe saying some ship and they'd be like that a fly And he always had that movie, always had that ship. Like he's sounding like R and B nigger. That to me, you always sounding like to do from uh what's the group? Mind blowing decisions? He sounds just like us if Nate when he used to sing Always and Forever, he sounded exactly like, uh damn like niggers just saying that for the homies, likening always and forever, Always and forever. Nine niggers in the room. Yeah. So from the time when y'all started making records, I've always heard you credit the DNC has actually teaching you how to right rhymes or or structure your rhymes. Rather, Um, how did you go from like just freestyling, Like how did you start developing, you know, your pen game before meeting uh dre and doing deep cover. Freestyling was my main thing because I was, it was easy for me to come to my head real click. I would always you know, I was quick with it. And then I started writing. But my rhymes that I wrote were like so basic, Like I was freestyle complex ship, but I would write basic ship, and I couldn't understand, like why the funk am I soul basically when I'm writing, but I ain't, you know, basically when I'm freestyling, because I guess it was a more challenge exactly so. And then I started saying fucking when I was started making tapes, I just started going in there just saying ship, like funking ain't gonna write no ship. And that ship was sounding better than the ship I wrote. And then once I got with you know, different producers and certain motherfucker was giving me game on. This is a six team bar? What's up? Six team bar? That's when the ships started here and in here nigga rap forever. You know, back there, we had a hundred motherfucking boars. You know, that's what rappers did back then, niggas, in order to break that ship down. You know, we just wrapped it. We couldn't rap no more. So then once'igna learned how the structure was all right, cool, I got it. But then when I got with DR and d O C d OC showed me how to make songs like I would bust at least they bust something my us. Like three minutes. He'd be like, all right, see what you said right here, that's the hook. What you said over here, that's the last sixteen. Over here, it's the first four right here, that's the next eight. Like he would take myself. This Nigga was nigga, like he worked for motherfucking Microsoft. Nigga. Yeah, Nigga put thing together, like even when they came to g thing like I wrote it on the East Side, but the last part I was stuck. And he came in because it's something I had said a long time ago, and he was like, Nigga, remember that ship. We was like like this that and this set up because I said that in the freestyle when I was just free style on one time Nigga's Dr Drene snooped up and we do it like this and he was like, yeah, do that and put that at the end and then put my name in there, like what's your opinion now on younger mcs and being able to freestyle versus not. That's ain't what it used to be. You know, like basketball and what it used to be, football and what it used to be. You can't expect them to be on the level of the game. That ain't the same. You know, when we came out, you had to have skills like that. I remember I had the battle like forty niggas in New York one night, like on some real ship. And then Corrupt stepped up and served about a thousand niggas. And I'm not making this ship up like a karate movie nigga, like he was running up with the same outfits on the niggas up. But that's what that's what hip hop was for me. When I came in in the eighties, I started rapping, I had the battle about a hundred niggas before I even got to a microphone. Before I even got to a microphone. Then when I got to a microphone and be like a house party, and if you ain't saying the right ship nigga, they Boo d J put on something like they get out of here. I say, niggas get shut down to get house parties. Then I started doing talent shows, so it's like I started getting familiar with the mic and my voice, and I started recording myself like I hear what I sound like? All my voice need to be like this, not all rapping, all loud and talking like that. That ain't me. I need to be in pocket, damn. See that's how usually with people that have low register, they do that a lot. They practice practice, yeah, and then they find their zone. That's where that you new to to discover that even without someone you know instructing you to to to practice on tape. And that idea is for a drummer too, that's just different. Mindset was more like there's the basement going there, don't come out until after five hours. Like it was just it wasn't like let me find my style. Was more like, yeah, it's better be home right after school. But how do you like for example, like if I say give me some al greens and then give me some James Brown drums? Well that see. The thing is is that the is that the mic even I think even beyond uh drumming, I am, I mean, I'm a record collector and I process information different. So for me, I've discovered that it's really in in the microphone, in the mixing. I'm mentioned in the style also, so if you want Al Jackson and I know that, okay you want, I'm so glad you're mine or whatever, then I know, okay, I gotta tune this down and all that stuff. But that really just comes from listening too, listening to drummers and knowing how to tune my drums to sound like theirs. It's not even a technique. So I consider myself more like a mirror than an actual person with the style because I noticed you can get those things just like I listened to you. I'm like, okay, he can get any sound. He won't like the boost y'all be playing with all kinds of sounds. Ye sound. What I like is when y'all did if you don't want a thing that you got me, thank you brother should I almost got talked out of that. The label was like, dog, y'all gotta hit, don't do this fancy. The thing was we we lived in London. We we had exiled to the UK from like ninety three about ninety seven, even though we was living like both in Philadelphia and and abroad, but we were torn more abroad, and so that's when drumming bass I was just starting to pop off garage and two steps and on all that stuff. So when I got back to the States, I was like, all right, let me add some of that London ship that I learned, which is weird because outcasts and doing bombs over Bagdad. That was their version of that. You know, Okay, let's do what we learned in London. But I tried to do it in the label, like try to talk me out of it, like radio is not gonna play this, You're messing it up. So I fought they taught me out of jil Scott, but I kept the drumming bass. Who get rid of jil Scott, But I'm keeping my drum. That labels like back then had more say so and could really like come in there and say some ship that you had to do well. At that point, we were unproven, and it was just like this was our fourth attempt at trying to make it happen. Even for the proving. They did that like they would come in there and tell them mother, some weird ship. It was many times, but I sat down with Jimmy iving on some good ship. But I liked his perspective. But then sometimes we clash because I like, NIGGI, you can't tell me Nick, you don't know my ship. They're like, hold on this nigga do no nigga, This nigga didn't work with nigga boots, springs things. Can you give us an example? Can you give us an example of something YouTube classed over? Oh? Man? Uh? Producers? Really? Yeah? Who did you want to work with it? He didn't want you to work with him? H I don't want to say the name, but it was a producer that I really wanted to work with that He didn't really see it, but he kind of saw it, and then once we started doing it, he understood it was for wait wait, wait wow. He couldn't see that. You know what, though, I'm gonna tell you something. In the beginning, you couldn't see it. Pharrell was a hard sell for me. Here's a super ship I loved. I can't make a mistake by MC light because it was loud as ship. But it's almost like there's some unconventional there's some unconventional about the neptune and sound. I think that's what drew me to it. That took me. It took me two months to to really really get it and get aboard and now it's like, the weirder their ship is, like take like the clip second album. The weirder that ship is, the more I'm on for it, you know what I'm saying. But they were hard sell because I mean the first my first I can remember them was on the Mace album like they're looking at me joint and you didn't like that, Okay, I didn't know who they were, feel like I remember this. But then like I think I've got it around like super Thug, like super Thug and like I mean the stuff with Norway like all that ship guy. But I could see the nep your first to the palace right at least? No, I think the chronics blowing uh yeah, yeah, blowing chronic To me, it's like a tradition. To me, I got the pit the so sit there and listen to me. Don't go against me food, go with me, and we can blow it all together like Bobby Brown and with me. Yeah we got something to come and nickel such. But they never finding my bombing. I got the stash, spot, my cash, got a lot of motherfucking pump police shot. I'm not the one nigga you can call me to two Bob Marley. We incordnated, pupils dilated a maxipated deslutely. This is almost like that. I'll be short episode together. You get hypnotizing someone's voice and then n just stopped. Thank you for sucking over me fast. Was it true that Deep Cover y'all didn't even have the record done before y'all signed a deal to do the night? Tell this story, he'd tell it better than me. What it was was Dr Dre was going to the gym right and we was in Calabashas at his house living at the time. You know, he gave me a beat and he was like this to beat. I'm want my ship to start off like this. Two nice tonight, I get ad some ship Deep Cover on incognito tip and then he left. So he gave you those four lines. Been a nigga left. I'm not making it up. So they should call about the hour and a half letter, Doggy Dog, I'm gonna call you back on the phone with the people from Sony. You got the song done? I said no. The nigga just told, just gave me the beat and left. What's you what's the song about? I don't know what it's about. But the movie is about the undercover police officer. So I'm gonna call you back. I want you to like freestyle a little bit, and then i want you to get to a certain point and I'm gonna say, all right, cut it off, and you're gonna hit the button and cut the music off, like everything cut off, and I'm gonna call you back. I'm like, all right, come on, dog and the guy ain't making this ship up nig and the nigga called me back about an hour later, and I had a little bit of it that like maybe like four bars of it, so he called back. He's like, doggy Dog. I got the people on from uh Sony didn't want to hear the song, and they gonna put the beatle and they could just start busting the free style and going and going, and they said, all right, cut it off. I'm gonna call you back. Nigga called me back and said, Nigga write the song Nigga's called Deep Covers about an undercover police officer going undercover and selling drugs. I'm like nigging my dope case was about me selling dope to undercover cop in my real life. Whoah yeah, So I took my real life and put it in deep cover and it just so happened. It all came came together. And then when we do the song right now, it's the funk up. Or when we finish it, everybody in the room like this a hit. Only one motherfucker don't like it? Doctor what the only nigger that don't like it? Seem like an insatiable perfectionists were like, do it again? Do it? That nigga did not like it? And when the trick was they tricked me to. They tricked him too. They were like, we're gonna do a photo shoot. They go five hundred dollar snoop, get you something to wear. So I go to swap meat, give me some khakie Chicago white Sox jacket with the long beach hat. You know what I'm saying. I'm like T shirt and chuck somebody. I'm cool. We get to the photo shooting. It's a video. I've never been on a video before, so I don't know what the fun is going on. So now the director like he's talking to me and Dre like, all right, I try I need you to uh to act on this scene right here and trade like ship. I don't do all that let that nigga do it. I'm like, They're like, yeah, well you know, and what what what the beauty of it is? It was the part I did at the beginning of the song. I think you hit this in front of you with the whoop that ship. So he was like, do that, but I'm gonna have somebody acting with you. You You don't have to do both parts. You just do your part and WHOOPI wapp So he had the actor come in. Dre just sitting down the whole scene just just look. I'm like, nigga, you just start. Nig You got me doing all these lines in this dialogue, and I thought this was a photo shoot, nigga win doing. How long did it take for you for Dree know that and you he had his greatest discovery? That would probably have to be a question he would have to answer, because I mean from the first from the time you met him to the time where he's like come to the studio, how many how much time was in between that? At least four years? But I never rapped for him? Wait what? I never wrapped for him. Let me tell you how he used to go there warn you and Dre mother and father were married so there would be functions at their house and Dre would show up and war had like some turntables in the back, and he would try to always get rad to coming to back like Snoopy can wrap, you know back there. Nigga like, I don't want to hear nigga raps, so he would never be like, let me hear something like this is when the nigga was making he shot. I shot because he played that for us. He was like, I want you all to hear this ship I'm working on. He just played that one particular part of the song was easy said he shot Popp and niggas like damn that ship hard. And then one was like Snoopy can rap, And I'm like what the did he say? And then luckily nigga did say let me hear something. He's like okay, alright, and he walking room. I was like, yes, like Nigga, don't ever tell that nig I can wrap. Nick. I don't want that nigga to hear me. So did he finally get to you? Being on decover? Who made that connection? Warren jill Um We had a tape two and three mixtape and um it had a song when they're called Super Duper and a song called Gangster's Life. And the Gangster Life song was like a story about me being born. You know, the first day I get born, I go to the liquor story that arrested, Like it's like a cold as gangster story. And at the end, my brother ends up becoming a gangster, ended up getting killed. So it was like it was a gang bang as story, but it had like some positivity. You can see the writing was the next level, so Dre I guess he liked that style. But the how he heard it, it was at a bachelor party and the music cut off from wrang to always go to their parties, and the music cut off for orange Slide in my tape when the music off not a party back rocking, and Niggas is like, who was that? Oh that's uh my homeboy Snowby and whooped the whoo whoa whoa. So Drake like, oh, Nika, that'sh it something hard never let me And then that that's how he heard it, from watching the reaction of the people and having the air at the same time, probably hearing my voice here and the delivery the way, like I said, the song was structured, it was one of my best structured songs. Said, yeah it is, it is, Yeah it is. I can get you that Gangster's Life. I can get you the original version and it was a version that we did with Nate Dog on it after we was on Pissing Everything. Okay, great, awesome. So from the time that y'all got into um after you do deep Cover, how did the transition go from deep Cover the Death Roll? Uh? When we did deep Cover, we didn't have no money. We was just that was also on Solar rights. Exactly. Did you have any interactions with Dick Griffree what's over? Yes, Sir Griffy used to give us money for chicken wings and that us our first apartment where we was living next door to Calvin from to seven who acting like watch that show. He still what I'm saying with the Calvin at the time with the Calvin, he was still no. That was after Calvin, but he was always gonna be car family around. It's like bad believe that main No no no place, I mean no place. Child, don't played too much. I don't watch too much television. Watched it when you can get in you're watching. Yeah, it's syllable. You should have heard us in here singing the Amen's theme song earlier. It was gene no not like oh me shut like shint on me anyone your word? That person could of time. That's awful. Who was singing that? I think that yeah almost yeah cold. I did know that she had a deal back in the seventies, So y'all was next door to Calvin watched this. Did Griffy got an apartment where they say death Row got it? But did Griffic got it? Because they hand on motherfucking money at the time, So did Griffy got his apartment? Right? So the department was in Rage then because she's on't one that had credit and was living in a one barroom apartment. And Rage had a dog named Buster, and we all stayed in that one bearo apartment on third and Detroit Street, and we used to walk from third in Detroit all the way to sixteen hunty ka. That's a long that's a long as walk, Yes, every day in the studio. And then we the Popeye's Chicken if we had like five or ten dollars to get a few wings. And I got to figure it out. Inderstand me, don't let we're gonna split that last wing. I'm gonna take this part. You know, this is the Jimmy Jams story all over again. That's how the ship was. They came out to l A with three hundred bucks and a Cassio machine because when they made the hard Times beat for Captain from Captain Ratt, they made that beat. Yes, wait a minute, yes they make that beat. They got they got fired from the time and then Terry Lewis is like, yo, it's either do or die. Let's go back to la They came out there three each and some suits and they lived off of chicken wings and milkshakes and sold that beat. And that's, you know, is history, right, thirty million albums. Let's see how they moved on and he didn't and they were just the production and he was to face the voice the whole nine. But they moved on. They probably had more drive, well they had something to prove, you know, they had more driven the You're Gonna find me I got a rap song that's hot right now, wait till I get ahold of Janet. They're funny time that story Prince uh through control, out out the car window, the Jimmy Dam's house, and through it Jimmy Jam's mom's grip? Why control album after it was done? Yeah, yeah, after it was out. Why because he's petty like that, like when you leave him, even if you fire him, if you leave me, no disrespect. But you know you couldn't funk with that album? She was all grown up? Was sampent? I did what people to Yeah, this is gonna be a hard to clear episode. We got time. It's August, it is Christmas? Should I ask one? No, it's Christmas in August? And anyway, all right, so in in the beginning, I mean at the time, did you even envision that this would happen? Like what was around the corner? Was it just like all right, we're gonna work on this one song. And then you know, you know, you don't really know. I don't know, I don't know how big it could be. When did you realize that something is about to happen? When I was on the box, Remember the box was the ship when you joint right, the girl is coming over one day? That motherfucker came on like fifty times, back to back to back. Thing. Uh, Well, y'all going to day Drake and I go with y'all. You know what Dad's running down the step. They showing the same ship just over and over again, over and over again. It's just getting requested. And then they show you what's the next video coming on. I'm like, damn, my papa. And I was staying with my cousin on the couch and I woke up on her couch and she was like, Nigga, you a star. I'm like, I'm gonna star. Like, yeah, Nikki, your video came on like all day and night. And I was on the couch like, damn, this is our stars. I ain't got no I'm on your couch. You want to know something, you know what you're saying with my parents? Right? What my mom and my dad? My mom and my dad just chill to the next episode. What my mom and my dad? And then the yeah, the side, Yeah, pulling back on that ass with the hell of five. Yeah, I came off from moms and back like it was a funny. So when this ship would come on the box in Philly and I heard that, that was like yo, me and to Reek lost it light because y'all know that's your mom. Yeah it was it was like we won the lottery. Ticket was a big record, man, Yeah, a big big record man. For real, man, how did y'all never have this conversation? I don't. It's the first you got to know each other. Yeah, but I mean I don't want to introduced like yeah, you said I forgot he said thing. I was like, thing, Oh ship, I forgot my mom with that. That ain't what I wrote ge thing off of. No, I know the no I wrote it off do do really? The south side of it's called south side it's that was the initial beat for z thing. That's what That's the beat he gave me. And I took it on champ in Line, on my O my cousin's house, and I wrote the whole g thing so for that came back to the studio and bust that shipped off of that for him breaking took the snoop Doggy Doug and Dr Drake is after ready to make an entrance. So back on up because you know we about the he made a microphone for us, so walking for us, Slacker, bubble comping and loan Beach together and that you know you can trouble with saying nothing but the cheek that back to death thinking so and Death wrote is the label that we've done thinkable some place, don't try another think yeah, hell yeah, man, can you describe so like break down what was kind of the division of labor in the studio between like Daz, Dre, Nate, uh corrupt, you know what I'm saying? Like what was kind of each person's job? Was one person better at hooks or so then the other? Like how did y'all work? And DLC? Because DLC he was for the chronic as well well. DC was like the guy that he was, like the sentence you had to the rap had to pass his. I funk with it before Dre would fun with it. Like those two ears that Dre trusted most was his you know with everything. Remember he just came off of the easy Alm in w A. I'm when he wrote all of that ship. He wrote a lot of that n Niggers for Life ship, listen to them styles and all that always into something all that. So he was Dre's most trusted here and he was a vected So were trying to impress DC. And then once we impressed DALC, and he would work with us accordingly like and then I attracted to him more because I moved in with DC. Was like he became like my real sense, and everybody else was like not under us, but they were like playing their roles accordingly, like Corrupt was like the assassin. Raised was like the hard female Jewels had the singing vocals. Nick darg would come in with the hook. But that's what Dr Dre. It was like Phil Jackson, like a great coach that can take everybody on the team and make them valuable, Like everybody was valuable. Wasn't nobody more valuable than nobody? He made everybody valuable. When that song came on with Nate's voice, you loved it. When he came on with Dad's voice, you loved it. When it came on Corrupt, you loved it. When it came on with me. You loved it because he he knew how to put everybody in position to make them strong. And to me that that was the strength of the team. That Dr Dre was the visionary, Like it wasn't us. We just was raw, you know what I'm saying, Just a bunch of raw motherfucker's that was bringing it to the table. But he had to clean the table up and set the table, prepare the meal, you know. When he knew what people like, so he had the ingredients to put it all together. He knew what the rock was that was a diamond. We didn't know. We just was rocks trying to you know, click Like it was the sixteen songs that make up the Chronic. I mean, were those the only the specific sixth team that you worked on or was it was the Chronic like a combination of forty or fifty songs worked on and then we'll pick the best of the lot, and this is the album. I said. It was probably twenty five songs, like the most. There was one song that we really liked that didn't make it was called Whole Hopper. I really wanted it on there. It went like, you know, I like bussy, so you can call me your how So here's the name I go by when I'm rolling around, the whole Hopper. Tell your friends, bitch, I give it to your smooth whole. Can't you see then when you need some dick, bitch called on me the whole high But tell your friends all your friends bit on that one. Why did that not make the I don't know, We'll see we're stuck around. Dr Dre was on some real ship, like he would let us make any kind of song. We won't who would write the hooks? Because the thing that I didn't appreciate until much later, it was just how effortless you guys were with hooks and b parts, like even parts that weren't the hooks. You can take any four bars out of g thing and that to be a hook for another song. Right, So I never until we started until like you know, writer's block catches and you realize, like how effortless that should sounds. So it's like, how, I don't know how I think the thing was us When he came to like that kind of ship, we just went, we just threw it in the air. And then, like I said, that's when it was people like Dre who knew how to take it because bitches ain't shipped but holes and tricks. That was Corrupt first. That was the start of his verse. His verse started like that it just ain't ship with holes and trick. No no, no no, no, no, no, no no no no, and make it to the store. And Dr Dre said, noah, nigger, that's the hook, and he made bitches they ship but holes and tricks. Bitches ain't ship but holes and tricks. So it's like Corrupt wrote the hook, but then nor was a hook. You get what I'm saying, Like, that's what our ship was so good to where we would always right the hook within the song, where it was somebody's job to find that, Like we didn't know that all the time, Like we didn't know that, damn this was the hook. But Nate Dogg and Joe Wells are probably the only ones that knew what the hook was because they was definitely writing for the hook. But everybody us was just right and then they were coming and it certain times it was fit like certain songs and motherfucker just it just fit in place. Was it a certain time? We we talked last night. We've had a couple of people on the show that always talked about the night of the Source Awards, And one thing I was always curious just to hear from you, like what was going through your mind, like when you got on stage. My I remember watching it because at the time I was like, this is what nanny I was. I was a fifteen and sixth thing, and like I watched it. And so then the next day everybody, you know, we're in high school rounding lunch takement ship, and so everybody was like, well man, Snoop, I can't believe, like he was so mad, like that's the funk what Snoop said and me always looked at it is, I said, but I don't know if it's necessarily a guys. I think maybe anger, I said, But man, yeah, give them misrespect. I said, come on, man, I said, each and every one of us got dog style, and I waltman right now, like everybody's bumping this ship like we love the snigger. How I imagine how funked up it feels to be a dude that is respecting to all the hip hop making incredible fucking records and you come to the place that you got so much reference for and they piss on you. I said, Man, that's like for real, you know what I mean? So I was always curious to hear, like what was going through your mind when you know you got no love was new Dog? Well, I was in the moment. The moment was more about what Sugar said. It wasn't about nothing else but that because New York respected us, and they respected me, and they gave me that because I gave him that. I came in the game saying that this is the mecha and I respect and appreciate everybody before me. When I met him a bow down, I treat him with love and respect. So it was a feeling was mutual when I spoke, because I just speak from a point of view of I want to funk y'all up. I spoke from the perspective of we know where we had. Nobody should get fucked up based off of the fact that we all gangsters in there. So what we got to prove is we know where we at, we know where we're from. This ain't the time and place for that. It was some dialogue that was needed. It wasn't playing, It wasn't It just was needed. And my calling, you know what I'm saying, Like to me, that was my calling, like this your moment, Dog was to step into that role of being a leader and being a role model, being a piece advocate for hip hop that you're going to end up being ten years from that day, because twenty years after that day, me and Dr Dre was on stage at that same building doing the show and Puffy was there too, and we all performed together, and then we were just thinking back of how it was based off of comments and small ship, but we always loved each other but we never could show it because the bullshit we had steeped out on like not too long ago. And he kind of echoed what you said. He was like, man with Snoop got up there, he said, you actually kind of called things that a little bit like if you didn't something, if I didn't say nothing, some er, some niggas would have died that night. Nas Na said it perfectly on the Fighting Ones. He said something to the fact that you know, when Snoop got up there, he said the right ship because at that point, when they first got there, it was New York first New York. It was Borrow first Burrow, and when Shui said what he said, he made it New York first them niggers. And then when Snoop got up there and said what he said, a lot of New York niggers had love for Snoop and just couldn't see theirselves just taking off on him for something that this niggas said. So it was like it was it was that deep and that detrimental because he was real street niggas. He wasn't like record label executives or managers, are agents or the production guys. This was the niggas that nigga just got out. He just got out fifteen minutes ago. He'd been in twenty years. He ain't got no money. He's looking to do something so he can get on the pay roll. Like everybody had forty and the niggas with them. Like, imagine that time in the early nineties, how hip hop was when you had to have a hunter niggas entourage. That just was part of how you was, like whether you want it or not. Like even the Roots had a hunting niggas with them. We couldn't afford that. But when you have a large entourage, hotel bills front, Like, how are y'all y'all were touring during that period, how are y'all handling just the basic ship rights? My first fifteen years of touring, I can say this, and I ain't ashamed to say, I probably made like fent of my tour money because of everything you have to cover as far as hotels. Pent of my tour money is what I made my first fifteen years because I would have thirty niggas on the road, everybody was getting paid and this and that, and then I wouldn't look back until the end of it, and they'd be like, well, you you uh, you grossed this amount and you netted this amount, and well, god damn everybody on tour and enjoying life except men. It's a business man. I gotta I gotta jump to the real white elephant in the room, which to me is the dog Father. Okay, I gotta dump to that. Do you do you feel that the dog Father has gotten this proper just due respect, because for some reason, I don't think the world realizes how incredible that ship was when it came out, and the fact that it's still timeless late, like you know, was it twenty years later? It was s yeah, like what what are your personal opinions on your follow up? When I first came out with it, I was getting a lot of hate, a lot of like, oh it ain't Doggie Style, Drain do this, and why it ain't and this and that. And he used to funk with me a little bit, and then I used to go out and do shows, and then fans would bring me the album to sign, like you know what I'm saying, Like that's a cold twist when they like Nick is talking about you. But then a fan bring three copies of Doggy Style and two copies of dog Father and say can you sign these? And you signed these and I'm looking like, damn if I'm signing Dogfire. I mean they bought it. And then I started doing songs from The dog Father on stage, Snoops, upside your Head, big fucking record, Charlie Wilson start rolling with me. Me and Charlie became like this. So it was blessings that came out of that that they was making happen and didn't even know that they was making happen. Then we went overseas to Europe and I toured in Europe and the record was so big over there to where it's like it solidified me as an artist that was gonna be here on the follow up tip. So it's just in America where it was a lot of not covering it the right way of saying the right things. And remember Biggie I got killed, Tupocket got killed, bigg Eas ALBUMA came out, Tupac's Albuman came out. So they just drowned me out on some this nigga gangbanging no more. He just be the murder case. He's a family man. Now, he's soft, Now he'd be happy. Now look at he rapping about happy ship. Dog He's man had a song called Doggie land that was a song about peace, love and nobody dying and just a beautiful record that was about Doggie landing. Nigga didn't understand that, Like, Nigga, that's soft, Nigga, Like what living life is soft? Like I don't need to be with you niggas if y'all death is cool, Nigga, nigg I'm gonna die, Nigga. That ship hard, Nigga, How you gonna die? I'm gonna go to blaze of bullet Nigga. The hard, but Nigga like a Waston movie funk that nig I don't want to die Nigga sipping on some coffee. Nigga land and bid not hisself eighty years old? You know what I'm saying me? What was it like? Uh? I was always curious to know the transition from death row to no limit and like being with being under somebody like shoebersus, somebody like p What was he like as a businessman? Um Sugar was a great business man first and foremost. Let me say that, very strong, very shrewd got to it like you do it. Um did a lot of things that was, you know, groundbreaking for the industry that I see a lot of niggas doing now. But when I got with master P, he was more of a m He was a finesser, like I want to shake hands with him, pumped shoulders with him, do business with him, be executive. I want to own ship. I want to be a part of the executive branch and not just you know, employees side of it. And then he passed it on. You know, he was one of those informative guys that hey, put this in your name. Hey, get your bank account, Hey, get you some credit cards, Hey get you some property, Hey get you some nests, like get your record label, get you some clothing, a clothing line. Like all the ship I did was by being with him. He showed me how to do and I went. And don't be afraid they laughed at him in the beginning. They used to laugh at him. I used to watch him laugh, laugh, laugh. Then when I signed with no limit, like I'm not saying, I made the laughs go away. But all the laugh was gone after that. And like this nigger really is a businessman. He really shop because my first album with them paid the costs to be the Boss, two million records in America, two million records overseas. Then we put out a movie called The Game of Life and he sold it for and they sold two million copies. You do the fucking maths, and he made all the fucking money. What no middleman? None of that was to think about Master, and nobody really re emphasized one no rap and won no money. A rapper to No Limit came And I say that honestly, when no rappers making no money and to No Limit niggas was getting crumbs and a little bit negotiating and fighting with record labels and artists and management. Master he cut all that ship out. He was the what should should have been the less violent, more business approach, and he shared information. Yes, all of the above. You know what I'm saying, Like, come on, man, from the time that you went from because after you did the three records on No Limit and then three album deal five million dollars, I can say that now respectfully, but you know, I'm like, I wanted to put that contract out there so in case you niggers want to new three album do, it's gonna be way more than that now. I mean, I like, let me talk about the records get better for you as I got him. Know, they got absolutely the first one I didn't. I was like, right, but no limits, talk to the last meal, you see it. But you know when my mind stayed was was there? I started grabbing my mind state the first record. You know what I did? I said, pe do with me whatever you want to do. Nigga, I'm dr. I'm Dr Frankenstein and I'm gona lay on the table let. You go ahead and put me together the way you think. Because you're hot right now. And this is your label. When you got Snoop Dogg as your artists, Nigger, go to work. You just paid for this, Nigger, it's gonna be your record forever. You gotta Snoop Dogg record. My third solo record is George so he did it second record. I was like, all right, I got the George stick back. Yeah, I'm going back to the West man, Okay, speaking to joy Stick the two and three albums, why is that not out? Like on streaming? Whatever? Man, we didn't get no love for the two on three album. Man, We Warringey pushed that ship so hard. I don't know what I love that love? Man. My only girl mother gotta find a way. You gotta yes, man, I don't know, I don't know what goes on with And then I'm watching music nowadays like that's a hit. He said the same thing. Oh my god, did they when you end up doing I'm jumping to your uh well, first I want to go to your snoop line record. Um what moved you in that direction? Like what was going on in your life at that time that made you want to go there? Man? Um, I just love reggae music. And I was like, you know what, every time I go to Jamaica, always just go to my room, smoke weed and do the show and leave. I never get to explore Jamaica, never get to see it like funk that I want to see Jamaica because these niggas love me over here and I love him. So I said, I'm gonna set up a trip. I'm gonna go over there for thirty days and just live over there, get with some producers called up Diplo, Major Laser. Look y'all gonna do my whole record called The Vice. Vice was a magazine company at the time that was creating content, and I was like, look, I want you to come shoot this ship from me because I like, how y'all be doing on location ship in dangerous neighborhoods and dangerous areas. And this ship is dangerous because Chris Cooke. It just went to jail, which was due to So I said, I want to go meet that nigga family. I want to nigg I went up. They took me everywhere and so by me going all into these areas, which this is the real nigger that I am. I love to explore. I go to the Nibini Temple and when I go there, the spirit is in me. I can't even fake it. When I walked into temple, it's a ladybump ninety years old. Soon as I walked in, she liked, the prodigal son has returned. I don't even know what she's saying. Well, she like, the prodigal son has returned. The prodigal son has returned. I don't even know what this means. At the time, she grabbed me by my hands and she started praying with me, and they like, the whole room just collapsed on me, like it just it was crazy for me. It's crazy as the whole spirit. And we walked around the fire. The fire was burning. Me and my wife were holding hands. Long story short. When we leave, my wife didn't eat no meat from that day when I was two thousand ten, from that damn and I took on a new peaceful approach. I ain't been in tool with no niggas. Ain't got it. You know what I'm saying like, and that's she used to always come on, man, I'm waking. It is led to your guys. First, let me just say the guys, a record is jamming. THAT'SHI jamming like a mothercker. I don't know about to say that match, but think that this is hard. And but the thing I liked about this is that's like you got like real You got the real ji like you had rants Alan on the ship. And I mean that's like, how did you put all that together? First of all, shout out to my homeboy, Lonnie Lonnie Barrel. He was one of the main instruments to put in this project together. Um, I had a dream and a wish list making my grandmother proud of me. My grandmother was here. She would always, you know, talk to her friends and people about me. She could never talk about my music, and I always wanted to make something that she could be proud of that she could hear and that her friends or church friends could really you know, be proud of so and she passed away. I was like, you know, that's my mission. I've been always talking about doing it. I'm just gonna do it. And I just went in there and did it and started all and all of the people that I wanted to be on it and expressed to them why I wanted them on it, what I was doing, and they already loved my spirit as I before that. It wasn't like, oh, we're gonna do it now, we've been following when you brother, we've been with you. You know, we got you what you need. I need uh, I need you just saying someone their brother rans Clark Suster, I need you to do something there, Kimberwell, when you do something a friend Hammond John p Key, Yeah, Yeah, it was incredible. And seeing it at the Essence Festival that knocked me out. That was I felt like something was the right moment for that. That was the best thing I've ever seen. That was amazing. Moment. Brother, we think we gotta wrap up. I was not check, let's do tim all manutes all right? We did. I was just you know, we was getting the rap rap, y'all doing good. I like when the ship is good, I break rules, thank you, thank you, Essential seduction. Yes, that's one of the I want to say, you have one of the only like rap records or records in hip hop that I like the clean version better than I like. But yeah, so talk about that record because the cat did that red. He was so talented man, and um, he did like a lot of ships to Jez and he was on from Gangster ship. He was like one of the gangster producers, right, so, um, he's one of my little nephews. And he was like, uh, I got a song, but it ain't gangster and I think I think it's I thank it's for you. And he played it for me and he was he was he was doing everything that I was doing, but he wasn't like he didn't put that thing on it, just like just laid it. And I was like, I'm gonna put that tea pain on it, but I ain't gonna put all of that teeth pain. I'm gonna put a little trip of tea pain with my real voice. Didn't gonna put like a vote quota and twisting Miss White for that one when you're hearing he ain't too row body like them, because I didn't want to sound like everybody that sounds like auto tone. I wanted some of my voice to overwhelm the auto tune because I feel like I got a nice voice that could blend with that, and that was the key. And then watch this when I do it, I take it to the label and that's some motherfucking white boy up there, and he liked, let me mix it. Don't know, He's like, Nick, let me mix this, motherfucker, I know what they needs. Give it here. But we kind of clashed for a minute, and I end up letting me mix it. Right when he mix it, I called him. I'm like, man, you're a bad motherfucker. Motherfucker. Name't Ron fair Rock Wait, oh my god, that was the last name question you gotta Are you dealing with Snoop Dog, You're dealing with ignorant as Snoop Dog. You're dealing with your nigger right now? To hey, okay, you're you're sure whatever you're doing, NA tell me how motherfucking mixed my song the way the way you built it up. It's just that we had a few episodes where Ron's names come up, and it wasn't and it wasn't too savory. So he was like Ron Fair. I was like, oh God, yes, he's haunting us. Yes, And that nigga mixed the Ship out of it, the dog shit out of it because I could play the mix before he mixed it. He made it a big record Like the Ship that he did was just making my voice in the music and the way right because it fooled everybody when we heard it. My jaw dropped like that go hard. It was an instant classic. Yeah, that was on the record that I think for Real? Was that a record for Real produced? There was that ego tripping that was okay? That was me, Teddy Riley and Quick Yeah on that record. Was not on that record? You work like me? He was naster Ship. How did y'all hook up? Man? Because he's Virginia and so that's something about me and Virginia. I got a real bond with you with Virginia. Man, I funk with the Virginia cry. I don't know why how, but it's just like we just magical when we together. It's been like that from Timberland and for Real to not even the nigger drum like Teddy Riley, Like I just fox with it like and then and I never looked forward. It was like, oh, I'm gonna focus on Niga Virginia. This ship just fall in place like that, Like it just happens like that. And every time it happened like that, it's like it's a magical ship. And then I find out this nigga fun Virginia too. It's something the water man, y'all cold man. Yeah. You also add like the only for a long time you had the only D'Angelo feature, The imagine that the imagine of shut out to shout out to Angie Stone, Oh my god, going to getting because y'all don't understand how hard it was to get person stories. I'm gonna tell nellion number. So we called it. They can write. Everybody is scared to call them. Can't be motherfucking phone degelo. Yeah, like, hey, nigga, this snoop nig I need them vocals because it's already wrote pool Beard and wrote the ship. All you gotta do is just saying that ship. Nick, understand me, and you're gonna be there with you. She take him to the studio. He listened to what he liked to go to the car and she called back. He left whoa Break You Off? Part two? Next day he comes in, he sings two lines and then he leaves what you should be here? Fourth day, Pool Beard, go sing all of that ship and hand that nigga up under you, and we're gonna blame your voice together because this nigga keep ripping and running. You're serious, listen to it? Wow, it's him on Scott Stories that one. Okay, he used to write for just to be Yeah, but that was but you know I had to me and my conversation with him, and then Angie she pulled it all together. Like that's why I gotta give her a shout out because she was instrumental. I'm going to get him and fing to make it happening, like she was really a soldier, you understand me, Like, going to make it happen. Man, what year is that? Two thousand three? Yeah, two thousand six the album came out. Yeah that that sounds just about right, man, Like you have to well, you know, rop your story right, Yes, Yeah, physically got on the plane to knocked on his door, grabbed to make him come to the video shoot. Every generation needs one it's fine, fine, that's fine. Whoever several thousand private jet, whoever d is. Every generation needs one, is all I'm saying. And then I just feel good. Story Me, Biggie, Puffy, a couple of my cousins. We're in New York for as a little concert supposed to get on it na M well that that we out there still smoking one in the morning. Me and Biggie fall asleep. The nigga finally hit the stage and do five songs and leave didn't even do them when I liked, that's just stick. It didn't do that, fine neck, you didn't do Yeah, what's it like? You work? It's a number one of my home ways. You work with a lot the non porter twelve like me and Detroit got a cold question, cold cold twist two then no, I like, I just covered him off for like niggers not taking his beats Like he's the nigg on the sideline and I'm listening to that nigga beats like, oh, they don't want that, they don't want that. He didn't want that. Get here and you can still on the hook, nigger. You know what I like the guy am I ain't kindt bit all man it sound awesome if we can get all Chris Brown and may be German headed singer. Right, you saw me stay and then we're gonna see if you can become something Ni. Yeah, hurt him and my girl tone Treasure, what Ni I got hits with her, he around the world hits she go, go, Go, go go. That is one of the most talented females I've ever worked with in the studio. Yeah, So where you at musically right now? Because you've ben't done pretty much everything I think of my head? Have you done country? I couldn't remember. I feel like you have record, I mean a bluegrass I can see that. I don't like where you at when I have a couple of things that I'm working on. Blue Grass has a lot of connotation. Do I like that you gotta come to North Carolina to do that? May happen? Well right now, I just finished the EP with Davies with a nice little EP together, east Side Stories Ship Well Dame thing too. I was thinking you said East Stories the east Siders. Yeah, oh yeah, tradey God, Look I got I got a new single that I just did for them for to meet the Blacks to soundtrack. I may want to play it for y'all in the studio. Let y'all get a whiper. But it's gonna be the lead single Offer to Meet the Blacks to soundtrack produced by battle Cat. Yes, Yo, Okay, that's what I mean. He keep talking, man, I'm looking out. I pushed pauls on it. Don't want about dud Away because I'm scared of that talk about battle He is just another one of those dudes that just song hero like. Battle Cat is like Dr Dre on Steroid Wars to me, because you know, he's always been that that that spot to fill in the blank when Dre is on hiatus for making music, Battlecat always feeling the blank spots with some good music, that feel good, that got great bottom, that's got great musical arrangement, nice singing. So it's like, you know, he feels in the blank. And he does this part because he is a part of Uncle Jam's army. So he's been around since to get around and he produced Domino's first album. We were talking about that earlier, that East Side. We did that at my house and clare Mount like that's when we used to make records in my living room, like on some real ship, like Trading and Goldie Lope from two different neighborhoods, Goldie from my neighborhood twenty Crip and Tradey from that Sane and we all started together when the fresh Fest was happening. We was all together. Then an incident happened where they separated, and this was like us bringing it back together again on the music tip and putting the hood back together. So when we put the East Side of together, there was a movement in the streets that really was the real movement on we ain't killing each other no more. You please tell me there is an unreleased album or something coming out. Brother? Where is LaToya? Brother? Frankment just passed away, resting piece that was like the closest thing to her. Like I always said, I never made a record with a wreathing, but I made a record with a reath of spirit, Toy, Like, I don't know, man, I don't know what she on right now. I love her voice. I really love to see if she liked to get back in the studio again. So if you're listening, Toy, we'd love for you to come back in and yeah, her and Naz is doing something for a little bit. And then I don't know whatever came the follow through. Some some people don't have that follow through. You know what I'm saying. It takes the team to make sure that you got the whole follow Oh okay, So the record of it was on the Snoops, it was the compilation record the dog House Records complition. Wasn't that one doing with tru Bo? Oh trouble trouble? Guess where you're from? Virginia, Nigga, Guess why I met him? Man? Nigga got seven eleven. It was snow on my night. Wait, nigga, it was snow on one night and they got seven eleven. Nigga and I get out the little van and go buy me some about the store right in Virginia. And Nigga like, I got the CD. Man, I make music, Like, let me hear this motherfucker. I said, if it's whack, and I'm gonna slang that motherfucker on the freeway getting the van, were riding. This nigga should sound good. This nigga got arrangement and this nigga got toned. And I'm like, Nigga, I call it nigga like nigga Yoshi hard. Nigga, Let me let me buy that song. So I bought that song Trouble and put it on my ship. And then we made a couple of songs. We did one called uh, just get carried Away. Oh that's what I'm seeing that my uncle real? Oh wow, okay, yep. That was another. It was on that album you had. It was the Trouble record and it was somebody else. Um, god man, who was on that record? I used to I used to play the hell out of that album. It was another cat that you've oh trip super Fly, what's the one with him? He got a song right now and meet the black sound track that's called Past the Sticks. I'd like to play that for y'all. What does it come out? The soundtrack went up next month, the next month to be out right after. It's Um, it's not. I don't know he was. I think he was one Joe Dreys camp, but no turnal is he still? What's what I heard from him? In a minute? Yeah he was what with the circle? You know he was in the Crow, but I ain't heard from him in a minute. You know, this is the wild West. You got to stay in it to winning. I just asked, at what point in your career did you know that you could sell things to all of America? Like it was a point where you crossed over people, Yeah, to white people with how did you get Martha Stewart's trusty start? But yeah, but it was before all of that though, it was before Martha Stewart. It's been for a while now you've been in. The charisma goes a long way, like most charismatic people aren't talented. But it must have been. It must have been a point though where you were like, ship, look at this. I mean, they're paying attention and they're gonna let me sell this to everybody. You know. Whatever it was, it's like you don't never realize until it actually happens, Like because you don't nobody really watches they highlights while they're playing the game, you know, like true superstars. They don't really you know, look at that. They're too busy trying to get more highlights. And then at the end of the day, then I'll be able to look back and say, Wow, I didn't realize I was doing X, Y, and Z. Right now, I'm just doing me and all the opportunities that that happened to fall my diression. I try to make the most of them and try to put things together that we're gonna be here for the future. I had like stages of my life when I didn't really give a funk about the future, and I feel like those moments are see minute and they mean a lot because they helped raise people and they helped cement who I was and how I'm supposed to do it. And then it stages in my life was like, I gotta mean something. I gotta like give some information and direction because now I'm on the on the level of one who has that and I shouldn't be selfish and try to keep it to myself. How long did Junifer Real work on the Bush album? I love that recommending, like I don't know what Bruno mars album. It sounds just like now I'm that sound like a dispruntled niggonomous fun the words now Bruno More. Shout out to Bruno for writing A Young, Wild and Free and not want no credit. Oh he wrote that one. Wow. Mmm, he was going through some things judicially, So we worked it out to where I wrote it and you know he wrote it and wait, we did that together. Yeah, you came to the show. It was Bruno. Back when I knew who Bruno was. Brun know you and Sequest I forgot every nigger, Yeah, I forgot. It's like, what's your name? Bruno? Okay, would not look at him? Who are you? Nigga? Who is your exactly? On the California roll joint with Stevie, watch this, Watch this moment. I gotta tell you the moment first. So we're up there with the music right. First of all, he made the song the schoolboy Q school Boy school Boy you did that morning was for like a remix or something he didn't morning I heard. I was like, I need that that ship hard give me that, I'm a saying, and I'm gonna have my nigga James Fundroy right my verses. So that way, I got some some melody about it. So then I'm listening to for Rel saying. I'm like, so now we're in the studio, I'm smoking. I'm like, we need to get Stevie one on this motherfucker Like you got his number? Like, yeah, I got the nigga number. Nigger hole, Stevie. What's having it? Hey? Hey, I need you at just studio. Nigga. What you're doing? Man, I gotta hit record with me. And for real, I'll be right there. Stevie comes to the studio. Now, mind you me in for real. In the studio, we're smoking. He ain't smoking, but we're smoking. And he right next to us smoking him out the funk out. So now Stevie get there, right. So Stevie listening to the record in the in the in the room with us. Then he going to booth. So he and there and the saying he got his hairdphones on. He's singing, and I'm like, for real, tell him what to do? And for real, life hid because Stevie been in there for five minutes. Cause you ain't told cul nothing. He's just sitting in the booth like five minutes. I'm like, first of all, somebody need to go in there for that nigga fall. So he don't say nothing. I'm like, tell the nigga, what the dude? Because so he don't say nothing. So he pushed a little thing. I said, Stevie for real said sing on on this part and sing on that part. So he started singing. Need he doing this thing? And I'm like, for real, tell the nigga, cause I just say't my expertise, I don't do all that but niggas a sing I just sit back and watch nigga you posted telling to do the runs and just this nigga for real, just sitting there stuff some of the coaches. Stevie, I'm like, I know for then this sol alright, Stephen, when you get you this party to go? Um? And then Steve did you bring your harmonica? Wow? Did you bring it? Pull it out? Alright, Steve, you just play anything you want. When for Real gets sober, we're gonna take the best parts. And that's how that motherucking song came about. I ain't making this ship up. I love it right, Yeah, I love it too. Thank you, Thank you. You can I ask one week question? Okay, yeah, because I got a few, So listen. First of all, I'm like a black woman asked one week question because I got a few. Well, I want to go back to my road call because I was serious about this question because it's been like some documentaries and some studies and whatnot, and I wanted to know your opinion on what people are saying about the Indica versus the Tiva and saying that it's it's all bullshit, Like where are you that? Well? I think that Sativa is for certain people and indicates for certain people that's whatever you make is. It's like some people like Jim, some people like uh whiskey, some people like bring it down to like a kindergarten, to a kind of Indica is for the aggressive, for the ones like myself, the ones who've been doing it for a long time, we need like a high tolerance, who're looking for the highest level of getting there. Sativa is more of a female relaxation. You know, I never heard it described. I don't see a lot of niggas that be like you want to hit this tva so fast? You got a flower with that tunni. But the word is that it's not real. The concept is not real. That's what I was saying. The word is that the concept is not real and it's bullshit. So that that is very real. Because they're two different and strange, they're two different. How would I explain that, Frank? What are they two different ways? Say I want to make you want to go to sleep, the other one who keep you up eating? Yeah, it's like it's like like a relaxed like Sativa is more like connected with medical you know, because it's the yeah exactly, and then the uh the endicas like the party ship where all the rappers and you know what I'm saying, the high energy and you got ship to do when you're trying to get it done. And you know what I'm saying, I've heard what I've heard describe and I don't know if it's in different strains within them, but like one is like a body high and one is a bo a head high. So which one would you recommend, like for pain, like for like joints off writers that kind of ship, which one works better for pain? You would have to be prescribed. I'm gonna go to a real real You can go to a real especially and go see a real doctor, and then I'll tell you exactly what rub some tossing on it? Are you? Are you looking to get into the dispensary games? That's what I was not that you. That's what I was gonna say. How invested are you in that? In that game? Premium nutrients, That's what I was going to think about that side. Man, Just think about what a nutrient is. The nutrient is what you need to grow the so everyone who grows flowers, hear me, I don't know some genes you was gonna drops I don't want to be at player stadium. You don't want to be the grass that they're playing on man every night, play the game without grass. But just wow, you just give me food for thought. Yeah, go that direction, you know what I'm saying, because everybody can now trying to everybody because it's a racehorse to get to the pinnacle of I got the best product. I'm doing this. I'm in this industry. But it's like alcohol. This probably happened when alcohol was prohibition. When it became ever legal, it was probably sixteen seventeen different brands that was competing, and then there were seguams and there was you know, sertain my Fucker's that just pushed out the way like they were just four exactly like, ain't nothing happening. Y'all can't funk with this because we're thinking way further than y'all. Card is better and we do it better. Can you advise for the middleman? Because literally, my my mother was like she really wants to invest in the marijuana industry, and Mama, now let me give me a few dollars. I give us. Okay, all right, I got you all ready. Your mama double up back to get it going, Yeah, I got asked bones, Yeah, what was it like shooting at when I, um, when I got the role Ernest Dickerson, he was like, um, Pam Grier signed on and I was like, yeah, you know, I'm cool as motherfucker. Yeah. So he like, I got you all flight together there, y'all gonna fly in So that way y'all can you know, get acquainted because there's a lot of scenes that y'all got together. I'm like, all right, cool, damn gan through this shit. Ni flying the frest go, She flying the fresh go. I'm sitting down. She come behind me and tapped me on the shoulder and I looked back and I'm like, damn, caul this Pam. So I'm like looking at her, give her a hug, and she like chopping it up with me for a minute. I'm like, all right, I go to the bathroom and they can just faint, just fall out, boom, right on the floor. I'm late on the floor for like five minutes. My security coming like they get off this literally, nigga for real, metaphorically, nig I got a heap niggas I've seen Pam. It's like when I saw Janet Jackson Nigga went limp. Nigga's gonna grab me off the floor. They're throwing water and shot on Nigga. So I regroup and Nigga wore a flight. We're sitting side by side the whole flight, Nigga, my heart beating like ninetygo West, and she just chopping up with me, just being so real. She makes me comfortable, like this is one of the only motherfucker's ever been. Like, are struck around because I'm like, I got scenes whatever, I gotta catch her and I gotta so I'm getting nervous and ship like. But then she like break me all the way down and she like call your wife for me when we land, and then she hid at my wife when I land. I'm like, this is a real fucking queen devil right here, you hear me? And it just put me in his own where I was like, all right, cool, And I went to set and then Ricky Harris was there resting peace and he made my job real easy because he had already been on many movies sets and he was just like, Nigga killed this ship, Nigga like we used to do. Nigga, fuck that nigga, you know, give me that confidence like nig you the league, nigg you start nig And it was like I needed that, not in the cocky way, but I needed that enough confident way. Talk about Ricky Man because I didn't really know much about him, but I know he was. I mean, we knew him from their comedy jam and like he was like on all the skits he and the voice from w Ball. Yeah man working with funny real serious. Uh. Like My whole childhood was put him in church. His father was the preacher of our church, Reverie Richard George has the fund Um. Ricky was always athletic. He taught me how to play quarterback nineteen seventy nine behind Reverend Varne his house. He was funny in church. He was he could sing, He was like all the all the things that you see me doing, it had to be somebody you've seen doing it first. He was probably the first person I've seen doing the due you know, multitasking, being funny, being a real, being an athlete, being this being that, you know what I'm saying. So it was like when he made it, we made it. Then he got on ice Cube album first, and he was that was y. I did not know that. So when I hear that, I'm like, Nick, I need you on my ship, nigga far radio station balls. He just handled it from there. But like even from just being kids to us making it, it was a comfort zone working with him, like whenever I would have him around, like he would be a lot of the writing, Like when I had my show Doggy Fits All that ship, he was one of the writers, and like I would always bring him to the job, like to be one of the niggas behind the scenes with that pain because he knew me, like a lot of them writers in Hollywood didn't know me. They just was writing bullshit. We think this would be funny if you say this, and I need a nigg in the room, But like that nig ain't gonna say that. You know what I'm saying, Like you need that kind of my fucking rule. Did you improvise the line fuck your fort little nigga in Baby Boy? You know that ship wasn't yo. That is like me and my boys we played mad and Ship Whoever got Lost? And like, so thank you for coding that. It's so much you've given to the game. Every roots argument started with them. You know what I was talking to Max Julian, Right, and that's my nigga right here. I love him to death. Mack. So we're talking about The MAC, right, He's like, yeah, man, you know what, So Richard Man, we get to the set of director, because the director was a white dude named Michael Campus, You're like, yeah, so the white boy, you know, trying to tell Richard what to do. Richard like, white boy, you can't tell me a motherfucking thing. You mother, I write my own motherfucking line, he said. So Richard did all his lines. You know, he wrote his own ship. You know, I couldn't tell him nothing. So when you watched The Mac, know that that nigga, every line he did in there was his. He wasn't having it. But what was it likely with John Singleton? Man, how how did it all go? Man? John is a dear friend, even with us for a long time. He was like always supportive of the two on three movement. He was one of the people I really wanted to do a two one three movie back in the days. Like he was really into what we was doing. Remember he gave one g that shot with you know, with the first thing. Yeah, put him on. You know what, I'm saying, so working with him is like it's so easy, but he's so professional. So it's like you're getting you're getting your comfort zone. But at the same time, this motherfucker's professional. You know when he finished with you're gonna look amazing. You know it's gonna be a part of something that's a story. So you really want to follow his direction. A lot of the things that we would would do. He would give me direction and he would say, all right, I want I want to shoot it my way, and then I'm gonna shooting Joe way, Like what would Rotney do? What would Rodney say? And then like he said, well do it this way, say it like this, and then I do it that way and be like all right, I got that. Now what would Rodney say? Shit? Fuck your fourth little nick? Any plans for your biopic of you? Because everyone's doing their biopics. Now, that's what I wouldn't do. I wouldn't do what everyone else do. Yeah, man, what happened? Okay? The TUPOPO just the tupop Why did they have you doing your own voice as the in the characters? You think that's what is that? It sounds just like you. I think it was printed somewhere about you post that SEEO do can I asked a quick John single toon question. I just wanted to know since you mentioned it, John, I want to see what you thought about Snowfall. Franklin is the ship, yes, but can you reality just Snoop Dogg, just his train of thought? He's just the way he This motherfucker is so Snoop Dogg. When watch him, I wasn't watching in the beginning. I'm gonna be honest with you. I wasn't watching him like I don't want to see another fucking black chicken driving my eighties. I'm tired of that. And I started watching that ship. I'm like, oh, I had to go back and tape season one. Now I'm in season two and I'm like, this nigga Franklin is so motherfucking cold bloody. Would his spill his conversation like he's so snooped or smart? And what do you it's crazy because he's British, Like how you feel about that? Yes, right now, he's so in the all eves of me. That's not how did that happen? Because it sounds like it was you doing the post. You have to act the director and uh I found they like, hey, okay, but I was saying about my fan. Okay, y'all was asking about a Snoop dogg by Opick. I'm like, I would never do that for the simple fact that it's been done and I wouldn't want to do what everybody else is doing. But there could be a serious sort of kind of like knockos based on the life before there and after, you know, from father in Vietnam, spoiler your child hear me right, Like that makes more sense for me as opposed to try to squeeze two hours all of this ship that I'm doing and done and try to make it, you know, worthy of you, understanding and loving it and appreciating it and not offending anyone, because I believe I would leave some things out if I tried to buy right, you know how trying to tell other people stories and right. I think it's better that way. Solo. Can you give us some marriage STIPs? Who we roll out? Man oh man, happy wife, happy life, She's always right, You're always wrong. Compound name your company and your compound after make sure that there's constant sufficient funds in her account. True. Keep the girls to a minimum at work, and after work, can you talk about what you learned being a father to a daughter. M That this world we live in is fast. These girls are hot tailed and fast. Love showing the rumps and putting their leg out, taking pictures and when makeup and trying to be grown. Like you know, I remember when it was the time when you was a teenager. You wanted to be a teenager for a long time because you you enjoy the moment of being a teenager. Now it's like, I can't wait to not be a teenager so I can be grown. And that's from not aged nine, ten eleven to go to nineteen. You ain't going from nineteen eleven, twelve thirteen no more. It was like, and to have a girl so many influences and so many girls that's doing at her age, younger than her, older than her. So you just try to, you know, raise them the right way and teach them to you know, the ins and outs. But they have their own minds, they do their own thing. You just try to make sure that we did our part like me and boss like he did our parties for it. Like I was saying, it's only so much you can do when your kid leaves the house, just like you can't overparent. You just gotta do your job and pray that you did a great job, and you know the results will be seen in the near future. Who was some of the people that you like when you and your wife will have problems in your marriage or just you know, y'all have hard times. Who was some of the people that you could talk to to say like, Yo, I'm in this situation, how can you help me? Like? Who was some of the married couples or other couples of just old man and the industry or whatever that you could actually talk to about that kind of stuff. Uh? With me, it was probably Charlie Wilson was probably the only one that I can actually talk to for the simple fact that he, um, he loved my wife, my kids. Uh, he loves me, and my wife loved him and his wife and his family. So it's like it's a mutual understanding. When he gets involved and he ain't never gonna play to my side. If I'm wrong, He's gonna shoot me down and tell me, nigga, you're wrong with the motherfucker, get your ass home. I'm gonna call and try to smoothe it over nigga. Hear him get into the back door, nigga, hang up with him. You know he wanted them kind of niggas. You know what I'm saying, one of the uncles when you're like this is a good ass nigga. R anybody else in the game. Yeah, like that other than Charlie just catches you could really you know, look up to and that would like help you in that way or just anyway, like career Rise, anybody that gave you good career advice. I like ice cubes advice. Ice Cube is giving me a lot of great advice, a lot of ship. He told me to pass on. I was hard hitting in the beginning because I like, Nick, I'm hot, Nick I'm doing They want me to be in thirteen movies, King Nigga. They want you to being Who's the man? Nigg Who's the man for tun set your ass down there? You know what I'm saying. Like, it's a couple of things I did that I'm not, you know, too happy about that. I should have took his advice. But as I got older and started making better decisions, I could thank him and say, well, you know what, ain't about the money snoke. We got a whole bunch of money for you to be in this garbage ass movie. This ship sucks cock, but we're gonna pay you so much fucking money. It's fucking horrible. That's basically what the nigga should say, you know what I mean, That's what it boils down. I was wondering if he was like your own brain trust in that way, because you make some pretty awesome decisions. That's that's what it's been for like the past ten years. And I got a lot of that from like one of the young nigga's fifty cent Like it was one point in time where fifty men he was rolling together and he was doing a lot of ship on his own. Like it was sucking me up that I would always have my people going there meeting this nigga would be in the meeting. How this nigg in there and I'm not in there? And and then certain ship he was doing, he put me up on certain things, and I was like, you know what, this nigga is smart, he brilliant, and he passing information on and you know when I got that information and I ran with it and don't mind sharing the fact that I got it from me. Yeah, what do you do um with your kids now? Because how old? How old are you your kids? Though? Motherfucker's is in the twenties. I am I just had a granddaughter. I know I'm gonna graduate. I think I saw in the bathroom. Her name's eleven, leven knock. You ain't even in the regular name no more. Her name is Isabella. It's eleven. But you know I'm grandpa level. Come in backy come your grandpa. What's the significance? I ain't he Max my son? You know? How do you ask the nick? What? So? What was y'all thinking? When you know equal what happened? Was? It was ten nine? What I was it? Uh? As a as a dad? Like? You know what I'm saying, being that you had so much success from your career and you know your upbringing or your kids upbringing was way different than yours. How did you, I guess how did you navigate that? Being that you know how you came up versus how your kids came up, but not wanting to spoil them or and still wanting to be able to, you know, find their only win in life. Thank God for the snoop you football league, because my football league was urban and it was them playing with kids that came from urban communities, then building relationships and then going to school with kids like that and learning how to live within but without, And then me and my wife would bring them to certain situations where they could see this is where we grew up back, this is where we lived at and walk around and look aside this one bare room and like nigga, y'all got a room that's yours, and we lived in the house that was the size of your room. Like to appreciate, to understand the fact that it's a struggle and it's a hustle. We want you how to live better, but don't take it for granted, because they can all be took it away in this is where we come from. We know how to adjust to it. If we have to go back to him, y'all don't. So the best thing you can do is prepare yourself and try to do some things that when you're not connected to my thing, but create your own thing, it's gonna be. They didn't understand it, but I think as as time goes on, they get it. And I'm gonna do what the real people do. I'm gonna make sure my family tied into my business. So I'm gonna make sure they're gonna learn this ship one way at other. Well, Uncle Snoop, we thank you for your y s age advice. We gotta wrap up even though we got more questions. Can I thank you for what for the Hall of the Sisters, for what you said on the view, because you know, we like forwarded that like fifty times, watched it again and again and again and again and again and put it on when he was asked about what he was asked about Kanye, and he basically said that he needed a good black women beside him, and that's what's wrong with him. You ain't never leaving Kanye. I was just saying I reposted a John, so thank you. It was true and it didn't mean like a lover, which just means somebody was stability that he needed. It was no one around We understood what you mean, whether it was a sister, whether it was whatever flowing flying in the days. She coming straight over here. Let me know when you get here, like scared when coming bring yours out here. Man, We thank you thank you for everything. Just thank you. Come on, man, so just watching your journey. It's just up for over these years, it's been it's been a great and seeing what you've built here at this compound, and it's like you don't want to go life goals and you're one of the people I tell my kids just the story of like innovation and like how long is my older son he likes rhyming. You want to wrap and stuff and I'm just like, man, but you look at a cat like snoop, it's like killing it now to know where he came from. And let your son know I was weak once upon a time. I wasn't It wasn't great. I was weak and I had to get better. I knew I was weak, you know what I'm saying. That's the thing when you're waking, you know you're weak. Are you gonna accept it or you're gonna get better? You know what I'm saying, Yeah, do something about it. So let him know. You know, he ain't He ain't great right now, but he can be great. And don't accept that ship keep going till he find greatness. Why is words live by well, ladies and gentlemen won't be half of Team Supreme. I'm leaving the proper of music in the background. So anyway, on behalf on the rough side. Granther's gone superfine on the piano. Everyone. Yeah, happy holidays, aren't you very much? Stupid? What's up, Supreme? It's the Supreme team, that's right. What Love Supreme? As a production of my Heart Radio. This classic episode was produced by the team and Pandora. For more podcasts for my heart Radio, visit the I heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

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