Mm.

And then we probably came up with the concept of doing it together.

Plus, you know, we all coming from the same place, so we was like, "You know what? All right, fuck it.

Let's give it a shot.

Let's go." We all hot anyway, so we was good.

You know, he was big.

Hov was big.

How about you, D? What you think?

And you started just locking in, basically.

I started, you know what? Because what happened was I started just doing the music, but I really don't know the music like that.

Right.

Technically, because I'm in, but I'm out.

You know, I'm still moving around a little bit.

Still playing.

Yeah, yeah, I'm still moving because, you know, I had to say, all right, I got to learn the business.

him.

Mm-hmm.

So I would go over there, buy a couple of things from him, give him some money, hang out with him.

And then he told me he rap.

I heard him rap, and I was like, "All right." I heard him a couple of times, then I, um, I went to, I went to go and go get him one time from the east side.

Okay

So she got a deal with Epic.

So, you know, I, I just oversee her and make sure she's good.

So she kind of running around periodically doing what she do, but I oversee to make sure she's good.

Mm

... with it, with, with what he was fighting against.

And so I regret that I wasn't able to do... 'Cause he's uncontrollable, but I was n- not able to weed him in like I would have wanted to, 'cause, you know, I talked to him most of the time, all the way to the day he passed.

But I regret that he couldn't change his, you know, change his habit or things that he was fighting against, his demons.

Regret I couldn't save him from that.

Yeah.

Just say, "Da, da, da.

Da, da, da.

The

bike shit came from, you know what? We was in Harlem, and I knew, you know Wink 1100, right? You ever heard of Wink 1100? So Wink was the first one I seen on a bike do what he doing.

I was like, damn, that nigga so, ain't nobody doing that.

It was like, nigga be raining outside.

He used to pull up and be flying down the block.

I'd be like, nigga, you gonna, you need to slide a whole half a block on the brakes and pull up and stop.

And I'd be like, oh yeah, he serious on that bike.

What was the feeling like? Was it like, was y'all looking like all us street niggas made it? Like, what was y'all thinking about? Did y'all ever have conversations like, yeah, y'all niggas was doing what I was doing, and we all made it with this music and shit like that?