Or Corporate

Cripper.

So whack was trying to make a guy that he get money with comfortable.

I got you.

But he was expressing him.

He had to express himself.

Glasses is serious.

Wow, you're in the Gaza.

Yeah

... that nigga's, he's a fucking animal, bro.

Like, a- and it's funny, 'cause I was telling Lex when we was working on it, I was like, "Man, I don't know.

It's, it seems like such a journey from the idea." And I'm like, "Nah, when you see it..." I, I explained it to Spellman.

Like, Snowfall was, um, Snowfall was, uh, Menace II Society.

I, I say that to say it's like the whole family dynamic plays the background.

It is pretty much street urban culture on full display, the relationship between this guy and everybody in street life.

It doesn't help, especially when somebody's not trained as a actor, it's really not helpful.

Because this is business is business,

right? Business is like, hey, here's this guy, Dr.

Dre.

Warren G is trying to give.

Here's Snoop Dogg.

Warren G is like, hey, man, big bro, you need to deal with this guy.

This guy is going to be the one.

I thought I was going to have to catch a couple episodes before I see Gigi in the first episode.

Okay, got you.

Yes, no, but I'm just, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, this feels like something, because again, you have two artists of this magnitude on a stadium tour.

Sometimes things happen.

Sometimes things, you know, it's, it, it's a lotta egos, a lotta energy.

It's a lotta people on both sides, 'cause these are two major artists.

I'm just saying, a lot of this and the timing of this, while him being on tour with an artist the likes of Usher, with an artist the likes of Usher, I'm just saying, some of this feels like, or I hope none of this, let me say this, I hope none of this is directed, none of this energy is directed towards Usher or anybody from Usher's camp.

Oh.

That's when you buy in.

Who else did Short break, G?

There was a few people, but I mean...

I don't think it's enough credit to people trying.

It's one thing being a Hall of Fame emcee.

It's another thing being a Hall of Fame exec.

They don't go hand in hand and shit.

It's a completely different mind state.

I don't

Right.

Being a Crip, you know what I'm saying? But, uh, they, they did that project together, and it was...

I think I, my contributions was really dope.

And moving to this one, it was like, um, Prohm had already got chosen to write all the raps.

Rance was already doing all the music.

Um, and they were filling out consulting spots, and they had, uh, Skip, Skip Townsend, you know, one of the better, uh, historians when it comes to LA street urban culture that we have.

You know, him, Kev, Mack, different guys.

Right.

Mm-hmm.

And I'm like, "Bro, do I seem like the kind of person..." You know, "What's the song?" And I'm like, "The song is called Tupac Must Die." "What the fuck kind of title is that?" I'm like, "Nigga, it's like a play.

Like John Tucker Must Die, Romeo Must Die.

It's not like..." He's like, I'm like, "That ain't how a Crip would say it in the first place." Nigga like, "The hell you mean?" So he was talking to me.

He's like, I said, "You never saw it?" He's like, "Hell no, I ain't looking at that bullshit." I was like, "Bro, why would you think it's bullshit if I made it?" He like, "I don't get why would you make it?" I s- he said, "What's the song about?" I said, "Man, the song is telling the story from the perspective of a person that got jumped, and somebody that they liked in the music industry jumping them with other niggas, and them feeling the pressures from the street to actually have to stand up for they self and protect they reputation." He was like, "Yeah, but, you know, you coulda did something different." I said, "No." He's like, "Man, you should just apologize." "I'm not apologizing, 'cause I'm not gonna apologize to nobody 'cause I ain't disrespect nobody." He said, "G, man, that's just some bullshit." I said, "Look, here's the deal." I said, "Who in that studio?" He said, "Dwaign, and, um, Dem Jointz." I said, "Look, if you call any of them dudes out that studio and they tell me that this song is disrespectful and it's wack, I apologize." He was like, "All right, bet." So we end up walking in there.

"Hey, hey, nigga.

Hey, hey." You know Dre.

Mm-hmm.

Right.

Where we live at, accountability is a must.

If you go around saying something about a motherfucker, it's expected for you to say that motherfucker and say it to they face.

In the real world, it's not like that.

Like, you watch people be online all the time, calling each others out they name.

Motherfucker be like, "Oh, you punk ass bitch," and they be talking crazy, and then the motherfucker hit him, and they'll be surprised.

Like, "Why'd you hit me?" It's like, because people really think they should be able to say what they wanna say, and that is what makes it different than any street urban lifestyle.

100%?

Endanger a child, yeah

... their kid.

So every day after that day, my conscience became different.

Like, even if I didn't understand addiction personally, right, I knew at that point these motherfuckers might be sick.

Something is wrong.

So everything bad that could happen in my life went bad.

Like cases that never would stick s- started dragging on, right? I'm in jail.

Yeah.

And even when he dissed Rick Ross, he still had some innuendos that could be taken as he was... talking about that let's just be honest about that song so that was my place because for me and i'm close to his his catalog as dj is too as dj and artist first album and you know we love him so i'm watching him just get torn apart dog he's one of he's one of our icons out here on the west coast but dog talk about him crazy because of the antics outside of the vocal booth You get what I'm saying? So as me having a

microphone...

I always tell y'all hip-hop is not about the microphone.

Everybody gets mad when I...

This is the conversation we had about Drake when I'm saying he's not hip-hop.

It's not about the microphone.

That's the thing.

You know what

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So I was listening to this yesterday when I was working on the set.

We were shooting in the V&Gs and the Van Ness Gangsta Brimps.

That's a Joe Moses gang in L.A.

I don't know if you ever heard of Van Ness Gangsta Brimps.

But we were shooting over there and I realized just as a storyteller how fantastic this journey has been.

You know what I'm saying? It's been a hell of a journey.

And you have the fact that Furious Styles, Furious Styles being in Trey's life, made him get out of that car.

What do you mean?

Like, um, if people, if...

It don't matter if it's Game, it don't matter if it's Snoop, it don't matter whoever, they gon...

It's a way they gonna allow you to handle each other's name and reputation.

So if, like, if you, if you point out an injustice, like, if you tell Snoop, like, "Man, you did this to Glasses," you know what I mean, he's gon', "Like, what? I didn't do..." Like, he gon' automatically, it's gon' be a network of calls made.

Yeah.

That like you have conflict with your homies, but it, that's a lot.

It still was a lot, and you could tell even through the situation it was too much.