C-Bo

So, like I said, my dad is from LA, family based in Pasadena, so a lot of the music that I heard growing up was a lot of West Coast, Bay Area.

So let's just start with Mac Dre, Mac Mall, C-Bo, E-40, Drew Down.

I mean, everybody from the Bay, I heard.

I, we, we heard, I heard that.

But he also was in tune with all the other top people from Dr. Dre to Warren G, Snoop, the D.O.C. Like, I'm, I'm just observing and seeing all his CDs and how much of a, a real hip hop collector and student that he was, you know what I mean? And I'm, I'm understanding it now that I look back on it, but when I was young, yeah, I was taking it in the same way.

Like, at my, I got, still got videos of my birthday parties, and in the background you hear C-Bo, you hear Ice Cube, you know what I mean? And, and it wasn't no filter.

It was that, it was that real parental advisory explicit lyric, but that's-

For sure

You know? Yeah.

Yeah, because it's funny, message C-Bo once about the bars for his Bald Head Nut song, and he goes, "I don't, I don't know.

I, we were just..." Oh, no, it was the, uh, the Gas Chamber song because he ca-

Yeah

The, the, the term was coined by me.

We brought C-Bo and AWOL Records into our organization where he developed that sound too.

Shout out to C-Bo and my cousin Freddie T. Smith.

You know, AWOL Records.

He started AWOL Records.

Yeah.

Right, right, right.

C-Bo used to...

Niggas don't talk about a lot outside of it.

You know what I'm saying? Killatay, C-Bo.

Oh, the, the West Coast has a prolific underground presence.

Killatay, C-Bo, you know.

You know, of course, 40 is big now.

But you know, these people, you know, don't get talked about in the same light as other people.

They were like, dang, I know his voice is soothing, but not like that.

The daughter said, "You killed my mama." C-Bo was like, "Oh." [laughs] You really don't know this man.

[laughs]

Oh.

... white nig.

[laughs] He said, he said, "You Americans are funny.

Who white nigga?" [laughs] C-Bo outta line.

C-Bo is comedy.

But now don't get me wrong.

Shit, when I was a young kid, we slapped C-Bo and Marvelous and all that-

Yeah

... too, so.

I was C-Bo and like I'm close with, um, T-Nutty.

Oh, yeah, for sure.

You know, so.

Yeah.

I like Three Stacks.

I like Sugar Free, I like C-Bo, and then I tried to mix all the people I grew up on into people I was actually listening to currently, because that's the sound that we was all listening to.

Right before I started rapping, who was popping was SOBRB.

Yotta, Frisco, Yase and all them.

Only God Could Judge Me with Rappin' Forte.

Trading war stories with CBO, CPO, the outlaws and the storm.

California love remix, Dr. Dre, Roger Trotman.

I ain't mad at you featuring Danny boy.