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Get ready for an unprecedented journey into the heart of West Coast hip-hop as Sway sits down with the legendary Rodney O! In this electrifying episode, "Rodney O: The Truth Behind West Coast Legends Revealed! 🎤🔥," we delve deep into Rodney O's iconic career, his groundbreaking influence on hip-hop, and untold stories that will blow your mind. From his unique sound that inspired generations to his surprising connections with legendary acts like DJ Quik and Two Live Crew, Rodney O drops bombshells that redefine hip-hop history.
Discover how Rodney O's track "Everlasting Bass" became an anthem, influencing artists like Lil Wayne and Metro Boomin, and how he carved his path in an industry that often overlooked the West Coast's diverse sounds. Plus, hear Rodney O's candid thoughts on the music business, his independent hustle, and the generational divide in hip-hop.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
2:10 - Rodney O on Kendrick Lamar's "Like That"
5:50 - The Making of "Everlasting Bass"
8:35 - Rodney O’s Influence on 2 Live Crew
11:38 - Regional Divide in Hip-Hop
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I love it I love it uh when I hear this
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man's voice it it puts me in a place of
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a great time in music and Hip Hop
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especially on the west coast personal
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growth at the time that this man first
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came out I was still a teenager and um a
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lot of the music that he made really
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motivated my partner King Tech and I uh
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to continue to do what it was we were
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doing and I I always found him in
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interesting because he was from La he
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was from Compton to be exact and and um
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at that time when you thought of Compton
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uh you thought of NWA right and you
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thought of Dr Dre and some of the
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history that had came out of Compton at
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that point I don't know why I never
0:43
Associated him with Compton other than
0:47
the music sounded so different okay
0:49
right and the story as you heard in his
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clip that he told through his music was
0:54
different but it was relatable because
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we weren't monolithic people so
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everything that you e may have talked
1:02
about being in the streets doesn't mean
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he wasn't in the streets it just meant
1:06
when he went in the booth he chose to
1:09
talk about something else and the way he
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did it was so unique and distinct in his
1:13
sound when you hear that song
1:15
Everlasting
1:17
B that song to me I'm not sure how far
1:20
it went but anywhere I went I heard the
1:23
song played it created it was a part of
1:26
its own genre of a different kind of
1:28
bass music car show music right car show
1:32
music what would have been what we call
1:34
festivals today back then type of music
1:37
his songs played in every region that
1:41
had car culture this may have been the
1:44
most played song ever because of the
1:47
low-end frequency of that 808 base right
1:51
and the T inent I mean appropriately
1:54
titled Everlasting bass I want to
1:57
welcome him to the show it's been a
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minute I've been wanting to do this the
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legendary Rodney is
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here
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Rod very happy to have you here wow
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that's Tracy G Heather be is on vacation
2:12
that's right uh she sent love though she
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sent that love Rodney o man I I gotta I
2:17
got to shoot off a series of questions
2:19
at you right now man because as big and
2:22
popular as you became it was strictly
2:25
because of the music I didn't know a
2:27
whole lot about who the man was who the
2:29
person was and and and and how did you
2:32
get into the business but I want to
2:33
start with Everlasting
2:35
Bas Everlasting base was the song that
2:38
was the the inspiration um the premise
2:41
to the song like that yes produced by
2:44
Metro booming uh future and future and
2:46
Kendrick Lamar that just set off a
2:48
movement right now that got the West
2:51
Coast just really reignited the music
2:53
business as a whole is reignited right
2:56
uh when you first heard like that what
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did you think uh I had heard it like a
3:03
year before he was playing it at a club
3:05
just a little snippet yeah a year before
3:08
a year before I heard in June that's
3:13
even earlier June of 20123 yeah yeah and
3:18
I was like ah that might do a little
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something cuz a lot of people have used
3:24
it but they totally messed it up you
3:27
know what I mean so the elements that he
3:29
use I was like okay and I could just
3:31
hear it from like iPhone audio from the
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clip I was like H they got a little sh
3:38
they got a chance to do something so
3:40
they wind up sending it to me before you
3:42
know cuz I had to approve it so they
3:45
wind up sending it to me like two weeks
3:47
before it came out but when they sent it
3:49
to me Kendrick wasn't on there okay you
3:51
didn't hear that verse no they they
3:53
didn't want me to hear it okay why cuz
3:55
they thought you you could easily hit
3:58
probably hit him upside the head for
3:59
some more money or
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something yeah yeah yeah yeah that's
4:04
what I think it was yeah you could still
4:06
do that if you wanted to but yeah I
4:09
mean okay so you heard it a year ago
4:12
without the Kendrick verse and then you
4:15
heard it again two weeks before they
4:17
released it without the Kendrick verse
4:18
right right what did you think when you
4:20
heard the Kendrick verse I said this one
4:22
going to go you said it's going to go
4:24
yeah yeah I knew it was going to go wow
4:26
all right for one from the popularity of
4:29
them alone you know what I'm saying and
4:32
then just the way they did it you know
4:34
Metro really he put his foot in it yeah
4:37
yeah did that open any doors of possibly
4:40
working with him on future stuff not not
4:42
future the artist but things in the
4:44
future yeah um I got confused he's used
4:46
my songs before like with 21 Savage
4:49
nobody disses me he he it was just an
4:51
album cut it wasn't a single uh but the
4:54
album went gold so that was cool for me
4:56
you know what I mean so I don't I don't
4:58
really care about working with new and
5:01
upcoming AR that cuz I come from a place
5:05
man where either you get it on your own
5:07
you don't need no help if you got to
5:09
have help you're probably not going to
5:10
do nothing I just come from you got to
5:12
do it if you don't do it then ain't
5:15
going to happen okay but what but what
5:17
about the opportunity for generational
5:20
you know people from different
5:21
generations to come together and and
5:23
plant that seed into this new generation
5:25
who right Ian I mean that's cool but
5:27
it's like with with with being a old old
5:30
older rap guy yeah yeah Mann you're good
5:33
they look at me like I'm a Doo [ __ ]
5:35
artist or
5:36
something artist you know that's to me
5:39
that's how I feel you know what I
5:42
mean yeah yeah the young cats they look
5:45
at the older cats like whatever that's
5:48
you know that's how I feel Rodney o is
5:51
here man uh we talking about like that
5:53
but the original Everlasting bass now
5:56
this is interesting this song came out
5:57
in ' 8788 right um right at that time
6:02
you got Eric B Ro Kim you know um You
6:05
Got Run DMC you got a lot of groups with
6:08
DJs and it was the General consensus is
6:10
that the DJs were not only the DJs they
6:12
were the producers so they were
6:13
producing we all believe ER B was
6:16
producing for ra Kim and you know what I
6:18
mean and and we believe that Joe [ __ ]
6:20
was producing for you right what was the
6:23
what what how did that work um he Joe
6:27
was actually DJing for Kid Frost at a
6:30
car show okay and and um my manager at
6:34
the time was at sound check and seen him
6:36
cutting up he's like man if you ever
6:38
need some
6:39
scratching call this dude so I'd already
6:42
had the track for Everlasting Bas done
6:44
that he I brought him in and he tow it
6:47
up so cold that I was like oh man I got
6:49
to put his name in here I got to make
6:51
that a main part of the song and that's
6:53
how that came about so you and Joe
6:56
[ __ ] weren't a group prior no I didn't
6:58
even know him
7:02
I even know first of all Kid Frost this
7:05
is for larasa salute to Kid Frost you
7:07
got to give him a big round of applause
7:10
pillar in this hip-hop scene here in La
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y Joe [ __ ] who was uh an exceptional
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Elite DJ um for the West Coast performed
7:19
in the new music seminar the DMC battle
7:22
I feel like he went up against cash
7:24
money yeah back then and was just
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tremendous just like one of the most
7:28
celebrated DJs and then it was General
7:31
Jeff yeah rest in power to him right how
7:34
did Jeff come to be a part of the group
7:37
Jeff was just always around Jeff was
7:40
always around the record company
7:42
Maka um and just a hype hype man you
7:46
know back then that's that's what it was
7:48
about your hype man and stuff like that
7:50
then he would come in and you know uh
7:52
put his two cents in on the record you
7:54
should do this you should do that so
7:56
back then I was like if you was cool
7:58
with me you had any any type of talent
8:01
you come on in uhhuh where did you start
8:03
music like how did you get in man I a
8:07
lot of people don't know I started
8:09
actually cuz I'm from Riverside okay
8:12
California and me and Maris you not from
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Compton I always thought you was from
8:16
Compton that's Joe that's from comp
8:18
Joe's from Compton Joe Co from okay yeah
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so when the comp so you moved to
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Riverside n not like that
8:27
okay oh man unification what happened
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yeah no I came to South Central in uh in
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'
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86 okay and uh started doing music but I
8:38
started with uh brother Mar EES from two
8:41
Live Crew like I actually put two live
8:43
crew
8:45
together stop hold up man
8:48
whoa and you will see my questions cuz I
8:51
was going to ask you about the
8:52
relationship between you and two Live
8:54
Crew because the music the sonically
8:57
sounded so much alike yeah why is that
9:00
just we was both around each other and
9:02
was on that 808 you know that's like I
9:05
hung around Mr mix who was in the Air
9:08
Force and he had all this equipment he
9:10
had 808s turntables and you know that
9:14
was that was it that was a heartbeat so
9:17
if I what would Uncle Luke say to you
9:20
saying that Rodney yo put two live crew
9:22
together I don't give a damn what Luke
9:24
would say Luke Luke was just a record
9:26
company they two Live Crew didn't
9:28
perform well on stage cuz they was new
9:31
so Luke knew what to do cuz he had a
9:33
club okay so he knew how to get the
9:35
crowd hype so when two Live Crew was up
9:38
there bombing on stage he said oh I got
9:40
to get up there and help that's how he
9:42
came in the group he didn't start the
9:43
group the group two Live Crew from the
9:46
West Coast they moved to Florida because
9:48
they records started doing good no in
9:51
Florida so wherever your records doing
9:53
good that's where you going to get that
9:55
money M two Live Crew is from where on
9:58
the west coast Riverside
10:01
wow my hood wow and a few of the
10:04
brothers passed on yeah Maris just yeah
10:06
we went to high school together you know
10:09
everything Maris from Riverside yeah I
10:13
put him in two Live
10:15
Crew mine is getting yo you have no idea
10:18
where I'm at right now go ahead go ahead
10:20
you put him in two Live Crew yeah um cuz
10:22
it was Mr mix Chris was China man and
10:26
this other guy I think his name was V or
10:28
something like that and you know he
10:30
didn't believe in it so he left he was
10:32
in the Air Force and I said you need to
10:34
put my boy Maris in your group cuz I was
10:36
already doing my own thing MH and um
10:40
called him up got him together and yeah
10:43
that's how that happened that's how it
10:44
happened wow okay Rodney yo is here I'm
10:47
getting gamed up right now um so base
10:52
the Basse genre of music you know what
10:54
we call Bass music is you know T Li crua
10:57
trim yourself you know
10:59
yeah
11:01
remember you know he probably shy D MC
11:04
shy D got to be tough you know all of
11:06
these uh songs where did it begin did it
11:08
start in Atlanta did it start where did
11:11
it begin as far as you could
11:16
tell I really don't know man I it I mean
11:19
all that stuff was playing but I wasn't
11:23
looking at it like it's from here it's
11:25
from there I just looked at the the 808
11:28
machine okay you know what I'm saying I
11:30
didn't I didn't put it into oh this is
11:32
down south or this is Florida or this
11:35
uhhuh just never came to my mind you you
11:38
came out at a time too when there was a
11:41
lot of uh I call it Regional divide and
11:44
I say it's a divide because you could be
11:46
from Riverside and have a hit record but
11:48
because you're from California that hit
11:50
record won't get love in other places at
11:53
least on the radio M right yeah and I'm
11:56
just curious to what was thatour Journey
11:59
like for you as you start traveling
12:01
around the country and almost having to
12:04
show and prove who you are and that you
12:06
belong there did you get a lot of
12:08
resistance at the further east you went
12:10
or what was it like yeah yeah but you
12:13
know I never tripped on I'm like
12:14
whoever's going to like it's going to
12:16
like it you know I I I was never on oh
12:19
we got to blow up in Cleveland we got to
12:21
blow up on the East Co I was never on it
12:24
I'm like my record is going to do what
12:26
they do and if it don't it's all right
12:28
because was independent so the m i was I
12:32
felt like I was on a major cuz we was
12:34
getting all the money yeah y'all was
12:36
selling how many um albums would y'all
12:38
sell independently would you say on
12:40
average about 100,000 100,000 but
12:43
independently you getting more back
12:46
right oh yeah we was killing it yeah we
12:50
killing cuz all that money was coming
12:51
back to you oh yeah oh [ __ ] and
12:53
independent from jump yeah yeah cuz you
12:56
did Everlasting base when you were 16
12:59
right
13:00
God damn so youve been making money
13:01
since ' 88 JayZ said it in the lyrics
13:03
but you doing it for real right yeah
13:06
yeah oh wow and I think that's why the
13:08
song resonates now because I was a kid
13:11
when I made it okay and so it resonates
13:14
with kids now you say you didn't care
13:17
who accepted your music but you you did
13:20
have a project called [ __ ] New York
13:22
right yeah I did okay so something ain't
13:24
adding up right there I did I did that
13:26
was that was later on you know with the
13:28
first first I wasn't tripping then then
13:30
as it went on it's like man we're not
13:32
getting no love though yeah you know
13:34
what I'm saying so I'm like if somebody
13:35
ain't going to like me I'm going to give
13:36
them a reason don't just not like me
13:39
okay so let me give him a reason plus I
13:41
was independent I'm like well [ __ ] the
13:44
press all get off of this and people
13:46
talking about it I might sell 50 60,000
13:49
more records independently that's a lot
13:51
of money yeah yeah we sell them $8.99 a
13:54
pop so you was getting $8.99 per your
13:57
wholesale cost was $8.99 yeah jeez my
14:00
God West what we doing man come on got
14:03
Brian Samson been making people Rich his
14:05
whole career ain't got there himself
14:07
what are we doing Brian what what are we
14:11
doing that's to do the math on that
14:13
Tracy it's a lot 100,000 times $8.99
14:17
yeah that's a lot of money that's a lot
14:18
of money how did you manage it uh didn't
14:22
um you know when you making money man
14:23
you just think it's never going to in
14:26
right at least that's how I thought and
14:28
then you know you got a warrant you need
14:30
your rent paid your car payment do I
14:34
was dishing it out yeah didn't yeah and
14:37
then that's right when everything
14:39
started to Turning so the distributor
14:42
filed bankruptcy on me own me over a
14:44
million dollars and that just crushed me
14:46
you know what I mean wow who was the
14:48
distributor at that time crd California
14:51
record distribution see I used to use
14:53
crd and City Hall yeah all them man and
14:57
then so they file bankruptcy on me and
15:00
then it's like I'm I'm like okay let me
15:03
see what I can get but they got Tower
15:06
Records they all they got all so I was
15:08
low man on the totem post so what year
15:11
was this about 92 so what happened what
15:15
happened that make them go bankrupt was
15:17
it CDs or yeah just the the the yeah
15:22
internet techology teolog just killed it
15:25
off killed the the the analog
15:28
distribution yeah Tower Records
15:30
Warehouse uhuh uh licorice pizza gone
15:34
that was all gone yeah shout out to
15:36
George's Music Room out of Chicago they
15:38
you know he was he was one that they
15:40
stayed the test the time you know George
15:42
let me ask you this then because you you
15:45
did everything independently you made a
15:47
slew of hit records um more recently you
15:50
start hearing about people like the
15:52
dream or different folks selling their
15:54
publishing catalog right are you able to
15:57
do that and and is that something you
15:58
would done or would
16:01
do yeah for the right money I mean I I
16:04
have publishing deals now and
16:07
uh yeah I would it depends how much
16:10
money but yeah I would do it you would
16:12
do it okay he got bangers Ry yo is here
16:15
man I want to play Coy High real quick
16:18
and I'mma open up these phone lines and
16:21
uh just really process some of this [ __ ]
16:22
you just said to me I'm just blown away
16:25
right now a moment yo Rodney o put
16:28
together two Live Crew 888 742
16:33
3345 sh45 SW morning you you are in this
16:36
is such a treat yeah we have a uh A A
16:41
hip-hop
16:42
Juggernaut first on so many levels this
16:44
man that been independent in his career
16:47
um from day one and I remember when all
16:50
me and Joe all these different projects
16:51
came out on three to Hardway um [ __ ] New
16:55
York all these different projects that
16:57
came out but this man was staple
16:59
especially in a what what would be
17:01
considered a festival industry of now he
17:04
would be a staple um car shows were
17:07
humongous yeah car shows were like
17:09
another way you can break without radio
17:12
without all the the general like the
17:15
components you needed to break in the
17:17
past wow we learned that Rodney o also
17:20
put two live crew together um brought in
17:22
Joe coie General Jeff um rest in power
17:27
and we also know that that Metro boomman
17:30
has produced a couple of songs using
17:32
Rodney O's original music with 21 Savage
17:35
as well as future and Kendrick Lamar
17:37
we'll find out what other songs he's
17:38
been a part of but what we haven't heard
17:41
is um his Genesis it wasn't as a MC he
17:45
didn't just jump in as an MC and start
17:47
programming the 808 I beg to differ I
17:50
think there was something prior to that
17:53
there are a lot of famous groups and
17:55
movements La posi that are from here
17:58
Egyptian lover all of these different
18:00
names you know and yeah I'm wondering
18:03
what relations did you have with the
18:04
early first generation La artist that
18:06
came from hip-hop let's start with
18:08
Egyptian
18:09
lover uh yeah Egypt was the one uh I put
18:13
Everlasting base record out on okay uh
18:16
Egyptian Empire Records um he used to
18:19
come to Riverside San ber Andino and
18:22
Uncle Jam's Army and I used to go watch
18:25
some DJ him and uh uh Bobcat mhm and uh
18:29
just check him out man and yeah Egypt
18:31
Egypt was a king back then you know go
18:34
boom Egypt Egypt yeah so he was a guy
18:37
what was the LA scene like at that time
18:39
man did you know CU it was so different
18:42
from New York and other places it's just
18:45
party man it's just just a part it was
18:47
just all it it was really Up Tempo you
18:49
know and uh Everlasting base was the
18:51
first one with the 808 that was slowed
18:54
down everybody else's Records Was was
18:56
you know 120 beats per minute where
18:59
Everlasting base was 89 what made you
19:01
slow it
19:02
down I I I just wanted to do something
19:05
just a Groove man you know what I mean
19:07
and uh I I wanted to slow it down and do
19:11
something
19:12
different okay I like that uh man we got
19:15
Rodney o here yeah all right Tracy G go
19:18
ahead yeah I mean sway you mentioned
19:19
this is a tree and that couldn't be more
19:21
accurate a word because like that isn't
19:24
the only Apple to fall from the
19:26
Everlasting base tree and for my myself
19:29
first time that I heard that from Metro
19:32
boomman I brought it back to 2007 with
19:35
one of my favorite mixtapes the Dr the
19:38
drought three from Little Wayne if I
19:41
can't feel my face yeah so instead of
19:43
saying Everlasting B he says I can't
19:46
feel my face yeah and then so now to the
19:51
father of it all yes Father right
19:55
because wherever you feel like the
19:57
origin story lies citizens most of the
20:00
time there's a deeper origin story you
20:03
know so it's beautiful um how did you
20:05
feel when you heard that what was your
20:06
reaction to that the little Wayne yes uh
20:10
yeah I thought it was killer but um they
20:12
just put it out on a mixtape so I'm like
20:14
I can't make no money from that that's
20:16
that's what I thought that's the first
20:18
thing I thought I said damn I can't make
20:20
no money from it um E4 used it too
20:22
though right yeah you couldn't make no
20:25
money off that one either I mean like I
20:27
said that's a hard record to redo okay
20:30
you can't play with it too much so if
20:32
you you know I used a like it was like a
20:35
7 $8,000 keyboard okay that I all those
20:39
patches and then you try and do it and
20:41
you use a $1,500 keyboard it ain't going
20:44
to sound the
20:45
same okay and so people was replaying
20:48
and the sounds was thin and it just
20:50
wasn't right it wasn't right have you
20:52
did you see have you ever met Wayne
20:55
never damn man he killed your track bro
20:57
no he did smash that and then 36 mafia
21:00
also use it for uh who the Kus okay we
21:03
got some callers right here but more
21:05
more currently um some of the things
21:07
you're doing DJ Quick is um a good
21:10
friend our brother we've been wanting to
21:12
have him up on the show as well and I I
21:15
found out that you also managed DJ Quick
21:18
is this true yeah yeah yeah
21:21
wow just more fun facts yo Rodney o says
21:25
it like you know hey man I heard you won
21:26
the $10 million lottery uh yeah that
21:30
happen cuz this been his reality you
21:33
getting surprised man been famous for
21:35
since he was 15 what's it like being
21:37
famous since you was 15
21:40
16 uh is life real to you I mean this G
21:45
I mean that's why I just don't trip off
21:47
of nothing man because it's it's been a
21:49
part of my DNA for so long now it's like
21:52
I don't really get phased by anything
21:54
it's like that huh all right um why why
21:57
are you managing quick what has that
21:59
experience been like um he you know he
22:01
needed a big brother at the time you
22:03
know what I'm saying and somebody that
22:05
could look out for him and just handled
22:07
you know he's so such a big artist to me
22:11
that there was just a lot of strings
22:12
that I seen that just wasn't right yeah
22:15
so I said man let me come in well I
22:18
didn't say let I just started doing it
22:20
it didn't even like hey you're going to
22:21
start man I'm going to start managing
22:23
you and it wasn't nothing like that it
22:25
was just a work relationship and seeing
22:27
where some he was falling short on
22:30
getting done me just to come in and make
22:32
sure it was right because you know from
22:35
being an artist and having a record
22:37
label and knowing about the publishing
22:39
and Masters and all a lot of artists
22:41
they don't know that just because you
22:43
know people think that artist know the
22:45
record business cuz they've had a big
22:47
record or something that ain't the case
22:49
they don't go together bro n don't yeah
22:51
a matter of fact most of them don't know
22:53
the record business and that's why you
22:55
hear a lot of gripes years later you
22:57
hear people screaming about the record
22:58
yeah and then they'll be mad at
23:00
management and labels and all that but
23:02
they put the they put the contract in
23:04
front of you bro but you just gave it to
23:06
whoever maybe whoever you gave it to
23:09
wasn't on point or had an agenda exactly
23:12
uh Rodney yo is here you got a lot of
23:14
callers man I want to take some of these
23:16
callers man Chris in the Bay Area quick
23:17
questions all right go ahead Chris hey
23:20
Chris Chris what part of the bay you in
23:21
hey what's up um Richmond California
23:25
Richmond California man okay so that's
23:27
the thing um you were talking about um
23:31
re Regional and the 808 just brought
23:33
everything together when I was in grade
23:36
school in richond I my classmate gave me
23:39
two cassettes he gave me uh Rodney o Joe
23:42
[ __ ] me and
23:44
Joe and also man Tronics the first album
23:49
so I was like it sounded like the from
23:51
the same area so when you were talking
23:53
about just the the connection of the
23:55
eight or8 it it took me decades to
23:58
figure out that they were from New York
24:00
you know so when man Tronics MCT yeah is
24:04
mantronic from the UK I think and MCT
24:07
he's from New York New York and MCT
24:09
right okay go ahead what's your question
24:13
Chris well I I was just blown away by
24:16
the his story with two life crew and I
24:18
had to call in I was like oh man that
24:20
reminds me of you know mantronic and Jo
24:22
I just thought everyone was from the
24:24
same area so I was just commenting on
24:26
what he was saying back then it wasn't
24:29
um you know a regional thing so I did
24:32
you ever it was just more of an a way
24:34
did you and man Tronics and these guys
24:36
come across each other at that time no
24:37
not at all but I
24:39
love was they was high tech to me they
24:42
were high tech right yeah yeah they was
24:45
just like craft work and you know to me
24:48
that was like and and even uh uh Soul
24:51
Sonic force that was just the Pinnacle
24:53
to me as far as production and stuff
24:55
like that wow man man Tronics we got to
24:57
get man ronics up here Chris thanks for
24:59
bringing that up brother you're a super
25:01
citizen man anybody that mentions man
25:03
Tronics is a citizen of this show
25:05
Absolutely and I know a lot of y'all
25:07
saying man who look it up man Tronics
25:10
with a x at the end all right um let me
25:14
see we got uh Paul from San Bernardino
25:16
on the line Paul what's up hey yo yo yo
25:20
what's up what's up what's up SW what's
25:21
up Rodney o what's
25:23
happening hey man I just wanted to tell
25:25
you uh I appreciate your work man I
25:28
found I you're a big part of my
25:30
introduction to hip-hop I was 8 years
25:31
old when I found the Everlasting hits
25:34
cassette from my brother man I played
25:36
that back to back front AB uh I almost
25:41
played the tape out man to just listen
25:42
to all those songs are just a big part
25:44
of my you know my hip-hop journey and uh
25:48
I just want to say thanks bro for your
25:50
work I appreciate you bro I appreciate
25:52
you thanks his name Paul you got to say
25:55
his name man so he he he he'll he'll
25:56
remember this for the rest of his life
25:58
looking out Paul oh I already remember
26:01
it bro this [ __ ] is this [ __ ] is too
26:02
crazy it's like like I said man it's uh
26:06
all right you said it Paul
26:09
you going on Dem
26:11
man a live show Paul you know what this
26:14
is all right let's go to Alabama let's
26:16
get one more all right
26:19
um hold up let me go to Chicago okay
26:22
Devante what you want to say yo hey hey
26:26
good morning s and the family Grand
26:28
Rising I wanted to thank uh Joe [ __ ]
26:32
and Rio for everything man y'all Rock
26:35
Chicago my question is did you tap Magic
26:39
Mike on the shoulder because he was he
26:42
was snapping with that 80 808 right
26:44
along with you guys did you did you have
26:47
any uh influences on him no not at all I
26:51
I'm trying to remember some of the music
26:53
DJ Magic Mike they had the um the base C
26:55
I used to have those it was like DJ
26:57
Magic Mike make the car go boom and like
26:59
uh feel the Bas was song that's the
27:02
early Bass music that might be the
27:04
exception right yeah I mean I'm um I
27:06
remember I played something uh field of
27:08
Base one time when we when we were in
27:09
Miami and he hit me up he was just like
27:11
yo somebody finally like throwing my
27:13
songs on that's right yeah
27:17
wow hey but y'all live forever in
27:19
Chicago man we bang y'all man I'm
27:22
talking about y' done tore many trunks
27:24
with that 808 man I I really appreciate
27:27
you man
27:28
thank you I'm a long time listener I've
27:31
been listening to y'all for years uh swe
27:34
in the morning I'm a citizen thank y'all
27:35
for everything I love y'all man hey I
27:38
appreciate you man and have a beautiful
27:39
weekend all right my man yes sir all
27:42
right Devonte all right yo Rodney yo um
27:45
this might have to be the first of a
27:47
series of uh conversations because you
27:50
already just what did we learn today oh
27:53
my goodness man you know um Metro
27:55
boomman has worked with Roto before and
27:58
has been inspired by his music and has
28:00
sampled it rotne yo put together two
28:02
Live Crew rotne put a lot of people on
28:05
he manages DJ Quick even though DJ Qui
28:07
is DJ quick but Joe coie on the way they
28:10
became a tandem and then General Jeff
28:12
who are we missing that you worked with
28:14
that you helped put together put on uh
28:17
no I I would say that's probably about
28:19
it I can't think of nobody okay nobody
28:23
we learned you from Riverside and we
28:25
learned you from Riverside I want you
28:27
all to go back and me and Joe and three
28:29
the Hardway and all of these different
28:31
projects that he put out these songs
28:34
these hits represent a sound track of a
28:36
particular era and genre of music that
28:39
will never die that's still sampling his
28:41
music in his
28:43
2024 right so man congratulations bro
28:48
appreciate and um I got a chance to
28:50
introduce you at Cameo Summer Jams y'
28:53
y'all y'all were all up in Northern
28:55
California car shows I didn't really
28:57
approach cuz Rodney yo had the longest
28:59
waves in California at that time and and
29:02
and he used to walk around with a lot of
29:04
jewelry and [ __ ] in his ear and I didn't
29:06
I figured he was this dude must be I
29:09
thought you were hardcore bro I didn't
29:10
want to approach you because was
29:12
intimidated not intimidated just
29:14
respectful okay of the space and he was
29:17
from LA but threw me off you didn't rap
29:20
about the the G the gang affiliations
29:23
and stuff like that right you chose you
29:26
chose not to do that no it was you know
29:28
it was all cuz I came up with party
29:31
music so that's what I wanted to make
29:33
yeah and then you know when when NWA
29:35
came out our stuff was not frowned upon
29:38
but it's like okay put that to the side
29:42
you know the same thing I cuz I I used
29:44
to help uh yingyang twins that's another
29:47
group oh and what I was going to bypass
29:51
that yeah and uh I told him cuz at the
29:55
time it was when um the records weren't
29:58
doing as well I'm like man there's going
30:00
to be a resurgent and y'all going to
30:02
come back stronger than ever I said you
30:05
guys remind me of me and Joe is like
30:08
when the Trap music came out in the
30:10
South that's what everybody was on and
30:12
like not put yinyang twins to the side
30:14
but didn't pay him as much attention I
30:17
said but it's always going to come back
30:18
to some party music so and now you know
30:21
they they're probably the busiest rap
30:23
group there is right now right now and
30:26
this was preil John
30:28
coming on board and helping them out
30:30
this after this after after okay wow we
30:34
didn't know all of this man give it up
30:35
for Rodney yo man Rodney y what's coming
30:38
up uh working on some new stuff man and
30:41
just uh uh documentaries and stuff like
30:44
that so we'll we'll see what happens
30:46
with it sound like you might need some a
30:48
narrator for that documentary right hey
30:50
man why not in
30:53
1988 that's your audition I got you
30:56
ready come on come on man hey give it up
30:58
for rodo man I appreciate you brother um
31:01
and thank you for your contribution to
31:03
this culture continuously and don't go
31:05
anywhere nah n I'm trying not to man
31:08
trying not to you got it man I need to
31:09
eat what you eat you see what I got come
31:12
on you see me man my wind is up my
31:14
stamina is good right now baby man I'm
31:17
touching well never mind
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