MC Eiht

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What's happening? What's happening? What's happening? It's another episode-

Yeah

You know what I'm saying? So we always been about culture.

My mom had a school.

My mom and dad had a school on 54th and 4th Ave, W.E.B. Du Bois Academic Institute.

Minister Farrakhan came through there.

... remember, you had others besides, um, Death Row, man.

You had MC Eiht, you had, um, uh, DJ Quik.

Yeah, he had tons of people.

Uh-

Ruthless Records and shit like that.

Wouldn't be no Death Row.

Don't forget, uh, don't forget MC Eiht.

We said M-

[laughs] Hmm.

Uh, and Prelude, Prelude to a Come Up, one of my favorite songs on this album, which is, uh, featuring MC Eiht.

That title's crazy.

Man.

And, uh, yeah, you know, I had some titles, man.

[laughs]

Uh, but MC Eiht mercs this song right here-

Dope

I, listen, hey-

MC Eight is a top 10, MC Eight is a top 10-

I don't give a fuck

... cool rapper of all time.

Yeah, like-

G unit

... any nigga that downplay, uh, uh, MC Eight, nah nigga.

Ooh.

Oh, I'm gonna get this name wrong.

I'm just gonna say MC Eiht.

I think it's MC Eiht.

It's E-I-H-T. It's eight without a G, and, you know, I'm just gonna draw a conclusion.

I think it's MC Eiht.

I didn't love it, but I think a- as part of, like, the trying to world build with the features, and this person being the voice of, you know, the savior, the people that kind of, like, marched in to come and get him out of that situation, and then once again as being the friends of bad influence, being like, "This is completely normal.

This is just a Compton thing.