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Don’t miss this exclusive interview with the legendary Warren G on "Sway In The Morning," celebrating 30 incredible years of "Regulate" and the iconic G-Funk era that changed hip-hop forever. From working alongside Nate Dogg, Snoop Dogg, and Dr. Dre to his groundbreaking production techniques, Warren G opens up about his journey, the legacy of his classic sound, and what it takes to stay relevant in the ever-changing music industry. 🎶
Warren G shares untold stories about his early days in Long Beach, freestyling with Snoop and the Twins, and the inspiration behind the timeless hit "Regulate." He also drops gems on producing hits, collaborating with rap legends, and teaching hip-hop’s next generation. Plus, hear how Michael McDonald and the Doobie Brothers inspired one of the most iconic samples of all time!
This is more than an interview—it’s a masterclass in hip-hop history. 🚨 Tune in for Warren G’s thoughts on the evolution of music, his dream collaborations, and exclusive updates on his upcoming EP, "Sir Cool." If you're a fan of G-Funk, Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, or Dr. Dre, this is a must-watch!
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Warren G’s Impact on Music
01:40 - Warren G’s Early Days of Freestyling & Football
09:50 - Warren G’s Production Process
10:35 - Teaching Nate Dogg & Daz
12:09 - How Technology Affects Music
15:31 - The Science of Making a Hit
18:45 - Snoop Dogg: Then & Now
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wow man that story right there is indicative of how important um this
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man's presence has been to our culture when I think back have it be three decades ago is when he really first
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really first impacted the world even though he had been in it prior to this album dropping this is the one that
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really made him a household name for a couple of reasons uh this particular
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project introduced really and carried on the G funk era uh that whole movement
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that was taking place right there um it happened at a time when Snoop was
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running the world you know Snoop became the premier artist um in hip hop at that
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time which was um unique in itself considering the way the the the the
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culture was running at least the business of the culture was running and also Michael McDonald you know what I
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mean um his star resurrected mike was once with the Doobie Brothers right yeah
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once with the Doobie Brothers and Michael McDonald along with Kenny Loggins are some of the people who are
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at the base of what you call the yacht rock movement but when Warren G took
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that sample and put made it into a hip-hop classic I'm sure Michael
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McDonald's career took a whole another resurgence here to celebrate 30 years be
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when this album first came out regulate we got the legendary I call him iconic
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now the one and only Warren G is back get that man a standing ovation come on
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listen it's easy to get up for Warren we got to get that man a standing ovation
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man much love yo man how you doing Warren what's up man i'm good i'm good just chilling uh just working always
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working as usual just still still heavy in the music uh doing new music doing
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things outside of music and just just having a good time man yeah man i saw that you know Warren u last time I saw
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Warren Heather is when we were we had these billboards sway in the morning with Heather being Tracy G billboards
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here in LA one was right down the street here on Labraa and we went live and we
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were acting a nut on the corner yep and and then and then Warren G chimed in on the live and I was I was like "Yo Warren
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what up baby come by the show." You remember that oh yeah i mean it it was
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it was that was you know hey I I do I like to do that type of stuff just to tap in with people it no matter who it
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is I I just like to tap in if it's people I know you know good people like that I I definitely tap in whenever I
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can that's never changed about you you were that way 30 years ago oh it's just
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I don't know what it is i just just just you know just like to be just a cool
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cool person you know just and enjoy joy good being around good vibes good being
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around good vibes warren we've been having and and welcome back welcome back for sure family we've been having a lot
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of conversation lately about 30 years we're we're around these circles now all of us have had these at least three
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decades in it but what has it felt like for you personally because um I always
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remind Sway me being on the east coast I had a total different experience you know um y'all being out here coming from
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the West Coast but on a whole three decades you just said you working on new music you said where what is this
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process been like for you and did you ever think that you from the time you picked up a pen and got behind a mic you
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would do three decades of this i just wanted people to hear my music
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and just I mean it it uh as far as just how how I feel from then to now like you
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like you said ain't ain't nothing change like I was telling Su ain't nothing change I still feel the same like I did
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back then excited and everything yeah excited uh just loving to do music all I
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all I wanted to do is for people to hear my music i just fell in love with you
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know the way the way it um as a producer I fell in love with with with uh how how
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it make me feel and how I make people feel when I'm when I'm doing production can I ask was it the production first or
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as a MC that that got you driven it was it was it was all of it um just like the
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song This DJ that was a u a record with with uh me and a bunch of my my buddies
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the twin Snoop um let me see uh it was a bunch of us we we was the Voltron crew
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right and that's the name I mentioned in in uh in this DJ and what we used to do
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was we just would would uh we would be working we were selling candy for this dude named Steve so you know how you a
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kid and they is that code for something else or it was really candy nowad
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[Music] okay my bad united team tell your story
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Warren don't listen to it United team it's your responsibility to help teams like myself stay off the street you know
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so we was so real yeah we was walking up different blocks by UCLA all the way to
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Santa Ana selling candy wow walking to people's doors and stuff like that and um this was in Long Beach no this was
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everywhere i mean we got picked up in Long Beach but we went came by UCLA and
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and you know all the rich neighborhoods and then Santa Ana and we would just walk they he drop us off on each block
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each two two on each block and uh they hit the one hit this side one hit this
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side we hit each door and selling candy like caramel clusters and all peanuts
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you know chocolate covered peanuts mhm so after work we would um he scoop us up
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and we you know we car we give him the money that that we made some of was
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stashing a little bit okay yeah but so we would we would uh we would uh
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go to McDonald's that's when they had Big Mac Value Packs when it first came out and we would be in the van
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freestyling just everybody in there just rapping and and freestyling and and so I
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was a part of that you know i was cheating a little bit though i ain't going to lie uh that's cuz that's when
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uh uh Dre was with uh World Class Record and they had a song called The Cabbage
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Patch and I I heard it before everybody uhhuh so I I started spitting a couple bars from Oh man lauren G started off as
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a biter no no no i I didn't No I was freestyling i was I was a little Yeah
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but I mean I just I just tried I I went I went a little different on them they was like "Damn that's hard." Mhm and uh
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but it was cool but we used to just freestyle man just saying all kind of stuff the twins Snoop uh Steve uh Taniti
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uh Red uh Priscilla uh it was a gang of
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us probably like 10 15 of us and we was all stuffed in this van uhhuh and uh
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that's that's where it started out as far as like uh you know freestyling it
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and really you know love it yeah the love for it and and uh N uh not MW MWA
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but World Class Wrecking Crew and and uh um let me see easy uh
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yeah yes all of those all of those um all of those groups and stuff like that
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all of the all of the the the hip-hop groups back in that era just inspired us so I was just doing my thing just just
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loving falling in love with hip-hop and then uh um I'm going go into it again but uh uh
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another another way I fell in love with uh the hip hop is DJing too you know
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that was that was that was another thing so I was I was freestyling with Snoop and the Twins and everybody then I was
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trying to DJ at the same time because I I wanted to be on the DJ tip i was trying to be like Dre like Dre your half
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brother yeah and he he he showed me how to DJ and uh so I fell in love with that
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i was an athlete too but at the same time I was doing all this stuff yeah what sport football nothing but football
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what position i played [ __ ] i played every position on the field i've started
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out because I was a big kid on the line went from the line to Dline a linebacker
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outside linebacker a safety corner running back i played everything what about you Sway no I was going to say why
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you believe Warren stories and you don't believe mine on the football field cuz he Warren G no only because like you
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didn't see why you don't ask him for receipts cuz when did you stop playing football
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what do you mean organized what age organized organized like nine right n I
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was uh I was Oakland Dynamites um I played up until about 11 okay
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12 no I made it 12 when did you start playing high school yeah it was high school i rest my case and I uh you know
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I didn't know that you had to have a 2.0 coming in so I was I was messing up
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at first but then I got it together but then I backslid again because in high
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school it changed it was a lot of Yeah a lot of them you know and I got caught up
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in the mix yeah you went to jail right not in high school not in high school no not in high school no I was I was going
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to school i wasn't I wasn't that Not in high school okay yeah sweet or because you
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didn't get to play football you going to throw that You going to put a jacket on he going to throw him a record well
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since I couldn't get a jersey I'm going to give you a record you went to jail right i just want to I want people to
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know how far this man has come to be celebrating 30 years at a decade of his
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first album because I want people to know no matter how you start is how you finish look how this man finished dre
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taught you how to make beats right yeah he taught me how to him Dre and uh 18 Cole 187 from above the law gosh Co 187
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yep him and Dre both showed me how to how to uh start sampling it and what I
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try to teach when I try to show like I show dads how to produce the first thing
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uh within that is is the metronome okay so that's what I was taught yes so
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that's what I I that's the way I taught dad that's the way I talk what did you tell Daz cuz Daz became one of the most
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undercknowledged dope ass producers hip hop has ever seen yeah what how did you teach him what did you say just showing
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him everything you know just you know showing him the the the like I said the metronome so you got to hit this and hit
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that at the same time and getting the the metronome going and once you get that going and then then you start
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adding your drums on top if you got a sample first you got a sample you get
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you sample your record in um that's when we was sampling from RCA to quarter inch
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like I would you know I go into the VCR anything I wanted I would go into the VCR and the quarter inch into the NPC60
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so I was showing him how to how to just take the the part that he liked and and
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and uh while you you know listening to it just like whatever it
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is then that's all and if that's all he wanted or you wanted you just take that
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part truncate it and then when you when you get the uh when you start the the the metronome you get a count in a four
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a four four bar count in Some people do two bar counters but I do four and once that fourth bar counting come in that's
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when you bam hit the pad right on on the uh right right on that that one and then
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once it lock and you you got to tw you got to do a little bit of tweaking with it you got to turn truncate you got to
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different numbers and stuff you got to turn in order for the metronome to lock in with right in with the uh the sample
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that you used and uh but they didn't made it super easy yeah I was just about
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to say cuz you're breaking down too it's beyond an art it's also a science and
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hearing you share like the fundamentals and how it's like okay I'm sitting down with guys and I'm really teaching them
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and to your point now in 2025 it's accessible to all yeah it's so easy and
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quick to just create something and in some cases create with quotation marks really because the blueprint is already
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there um how do you feel like that affects the music when it's so much
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easier you don't need an actual other person sitting down and teaching you the mechanics of it yeah it it don't affect
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it don't affect the music at all um it's the it's all on the person if you
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got a ear and you you know you got a good ear you know you you know you know what
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to to do but you could know how to do all that but not have a good ear and then it's like that's true you know what
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I mean so and then the uh that AI stuff is like wow that that's crazy you
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embracing it though are you embracing it i'm trying to all this I mean I'm like how much more technology can we get how
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how further can we go it's like damn i'm like this is crazy does the does it get
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to the point where it to maybe to build on what Tracy was saying does the technology affect the quality or the
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outcome of the music now where we're so away from its original form like is it
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is it minus soul exactly u man
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uh it it depend on how you how you how you work it you know what I mean like I
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still I still um I still go analog you know i'll go analog still but then I use
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uh a mastering tool like Lander to do a quick uh mix from you know a master like
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just something to hear to make the mix sound great for those who don't know yeah but you can tweak the Lander to
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still get have that feeling that warm feeling mhm um but using analog
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um using analog is is uh it's it's still it's still warmth to it you know and um
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I I still go analog i go NPC analog and then I go in Pro Tools and you know some
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guys they what they do is they they uh they still record on the on the 2 in on
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the 2 in re and what they'll do is they'll go they'll connect the two inch tape yeah yeah that Well actually
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they'll record Uhhuh uh through the Pro Tools and everything then go back to tape and then mix on tape and then push
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it back yeah bounce yeah bounce it back um which is that that's where you get that that really really good warm
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feeling but [ __ ] I'm I'm I mean hey AI ain't that bad yeah man man because we
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if we be so so technical with with uh with everything you know the the fans
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out there they don't really they don't know you know what I mean but if it if
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it sound good and you could could put that good warmth on it then it is what
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it is warren G is here man i'mma open up these phone lines you getting the science of how to make a hit right now
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he have the beat no Warren G a nice guy cuz I was I wouldn't have said that there's a lot of doodle beats out here
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it be garbage you know and but he said it in a nice way cuz he's he understands
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it like so you don't have many teachers anymore so he learned from a master he
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now and you learned you you learned and you were able to teach so you come from a whole different world but a lot of
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people have the the access but they don't really have the history or the knowhow so they just like you said
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depending on their ear they just trying to figure it out and they just put [ __ ] out there because you have access to put
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it out but it's so much of it that's not good we got Yeah man i I agree um with Heather's assessment right he just said
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it in a nice way the G stands for the G the G and Warren stands for a lot of
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things like in this case it's the gift of gap the gift of gap right good guy good
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guy good guy no it's all good doo ass beats go go go learn some history before you put that out a good a good teacher
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uh a good teacher of of how to create um really good music as well is by
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listening to a lot of jazz which my father used to um just drill jazz on me
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like when when I was young and I would come to his house on the weekend we just sit there we just sit there and he play
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Chuck Man Gion and to this day I still love all that stuff and um that's what
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kind of gave me that that that that feel good of uh when I produce you know I
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because I I mean I still could do some serious you know gangster [ __ ] you know but I'm
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more that that feeling that good feeling of what from being with my dad is what put that in me to when I So when I'm
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producing for like um like like with regulate like um everybody was looking
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at us like oh they getting ready to do some hard gangster [ __ ] so I wanted to
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be different and not be like everybody else or what was out at the time so I I
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dug in in a crate that I bought from Rosco's and right out in front of Chicken and Was Ro Chicken Rosco Chicken
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and Waffles it was a dude selling crates i went down there you know bought the whole crate you know for couple hundred
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bucks started digging through it and then I ran across the uh Michael McDonald and the Doobie Brothers and
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when I listened to it I was like damn my parents used to play this this would be dope to to sample so I
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sampled it and was like [ __ ] yeah this is this is this is uh You knew it as
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soon as you heard the before you laid vocals it yeah it was a And it was a record that I all as a kid I was grew up
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to yeah grew up to so it it uh uh flipping it just was was uh was
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different and and and it gave that that uh feel good but still had that edge of
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you know like the story we was telling in there um as far as what was you know
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some things that that was going on on and from where we from in Long Beach California mhm yeah that was incredible
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i was on a mission trying to get women yeah man it was definitely young king
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just trying to be a lady because Doggy Style had came out I want to say earlier
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and and Snoop really was the premier artist of that time yes indeed he went
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from freestyling in the van Yeah to becoming who he became yeah in fact you
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fast forward 2025 he's the premier artist of this
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time yeah the king of the coast the king of the co well [ __ ] the king i mean who's a
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bigger name than Snoop you know what I mean um that has to be surreal for you to
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experience it then and experience it now i'm like I said it's still everything
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still i mean it sometime I do like be like damn [ __ ] uh we this is this is a trip
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like like uh like seeing him do the Olympics and stuff like that and just you know all the things that he doing
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i'm like damn you know I was that's my dog you know what I mean so it it it
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it's it's a trip sometime um but like I said I'm just I I don't I
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I try not to get caught up in it like you know like all of the the uh
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cuz people come to me all the time like "Man you a legend." But I still I'm still like looking at like Run DMC and
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and Retha Franklin's and all those is like legends nwa those are legends but
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I'm not trying to take anything away from myself but it's just like I look at them i'm I feel like I'm still like the
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the uh be in the beginning like we was when we started out with the chronic
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like looking at everybody as all these all the big homies still and it's like
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damn now people calling me a big big big homie which is a legend and uh it's a
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lot to process i don't know i'm all over the place i get it now i get it but we cuz we that's why I started my question
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with that Warren we've been talking about what that three decades mean because people us all made music around
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that time and to have these three decades behind you i I don't think any of us thought 30 years like you know
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like you didn't know nobody at that age who had worked 30 years when we first started you know like it's a lot and
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it's still to be here at this level and to grow with the technology to grow with the different um platforms that we could
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do things now and and and people walking up to you and saying that absolutely it does seem weird at first but you're
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there and you've been able to sustain so flowers do to you a celebration for real
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I ain't I'm I'm I still got got more to do more to do man yeah but you know we
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got to get used to getting our flowers and doing more much love because because we when somebody start calling you a
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legend we go "Oh no man hold up i'm not done." Yeah but you can be a legend and
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still not be done indeed okay and that's where we are and just to put this in perspective when the Regulate album came
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out 94 I wrote this down heavy D had his album out Nothing Belove ugk had Super
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Tight nas had Ilmatic biggie had Ready to Die outcast had Southern and
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Playlistic the Brat was the first female solo to go artist to go platinum with Funkifi i could go on and on and you
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dropped this album and it became one of the biggest albums of the year with all of that going on
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sheesh come on i That was my class right there um I I tell people all of those
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names that you just mentioned that was like that that was my class um I mean it
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just felt good just to just to be a part of part of that class and uh and and
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create history um actually me and Nas used to to uh we used to fly cuz we was
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both on it was Sony Death Jam and he was Sony I forgot what it was Sony something
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else but they used to have us working together yeah so we'd be on the plane Colia I think columbia I think yes
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Columbia so we would be going back from New York to LA on the plane sometime
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like on the same flights and stuff and uh I still got a he had a uh a navy blue
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Nas uh with the orange Nas on like the Mets color i still got that in in the
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storage what was with all my stuff what that he gave what was y'all like cuz he was new you were new and then y'all were
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from different places and you remember the East Coast really didn't have a grip on who we were on the West Coast you
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know we knew more about East Coasters because then you know it was in magazines and everything that was the
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[ __ ] you know what I mean but what kind of conversations did y'all have do you recall uh that was a long time ago we
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didn't we we just would be like "What's up man hey what's happening?" You know "Let's link up." You know that that's
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what it would be we didn't never hang out like hang out hang out but we would
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always just they would have us in the same same places like same uh doing
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radio stuff here or award show stuff we'd all be in the same same uh
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vicinities and doing the same thing okay hey so when I look at this album he
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he'll say "Let's hook up." But what are this songs or artists you work that didn't make this album the Regulate
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album no I I just uh I didn't I didn't I
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didn't like go after no special artists i just went after you know went with the
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people that I was rolling with at that time and and my my mentality was like if
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if if Drake could do that with the Chronic where he take some artists and then do a bunch of dope beats and build
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those artists up then I why can't I do it as well and turn them into superstars
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you know so I I took the twins um let me see the twins the Dove Shack uh Josh
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Skills which is the super solstice from the five footers yes indeed shout out to the fivefooters they crazy but they
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they're my girls uh they were dope we used to have them on the wake up show super dope yeah um
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and just I just want I just took everybody and just put everything that I
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had in me be you know behind them you know and and to create a great album it
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was my album but I just wanted to give them that shine on there like like we did with on the Chronic with Dre was
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give the artist shine as well u and here we are 30 years later mandeed
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warren G man i want to play something this DJ and then we going to come back and play something new all right but
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congratulations man congratulations Warren G 30 years in the game come on
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regulate man 8887423345 come on warren G is here
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absolutely this man is an iconic figure he He He won't say it but I'mma tell you like Michael Jordan told me i was there
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heather was there michael Jordan came to me and gave me a lot of
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how you tell a story so dry go ahead Heather go ahead man i It's
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hard man i'm like Warren we don't really talk about ourselves like that i understand that but then there's moments
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you know what I mean and we were invited to do Michael Jordan brand party and he
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invited Sway as guest sway asked me to come along and while we were there and and saying hello to people we watched
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Michael Jordan get up from his table to come over and greet Sway ask could he be seated next to him we like "Yo Mike it's
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your party that's big Warren." That's what I'm saying and he blowing the story and so we sitting there talking and and
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and watching him speak words to Sway and I heard him sway say to Sway "You don't
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ever have to say that you're great you do your work and you do what you're supposed to do and allow other people to
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say it." And that was such a humbling moment and of course we see Mike talking trash and we hear people that he's a
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competitor but it's always other people speaking about how great he is and that
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was just a lesson learned you know in all his greatness he still had that humility as well because he as he shook
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everybody's hand and it was a it was a beautiful moment and I tell Sway remember that you know like no you don't
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always necessarily have to toot your own horn but I think at times especially now with what's going on we sometimes have
27:27
to slightly remind people of our works as well even while your music was playing you was like there's so much it
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is so much you know and it's helpful to us that you take time out to remind so sway sometimes you got to tell your
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Michael Jordan story well I like what Heather tell it she tell it way better than me warren how could you tell a dry
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Michael Jordan story but I'm like what Warren was saying I got so much I wanted and I'm thinking about that moment and
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it's hard to let it come out right but what are some things you would like to say that you having a hard time getting
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off i mean it's you know uh and I mean I ain't having a hard time getting getting
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them off it was just like I want to explain like when like for instance when uh when when you asked me um how did I
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fall in love with hip-hop uh well rapping you know when I started
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doing the rapping stuff and I talked about the Voltron crew i be wanting to go back to like from here to step step
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step if I did all of that we'd be here for three hours that's true yeah you know so I I I um I just try to I just
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try to Yeah I try to Yeah try to condense it real quick and uh and get it out but I mean I mean it's it's just a
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lot of things uh that that you know I'll be wanting to talk about here and there um is there artists you wish you had
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produced that you have gotten opportunity to produce uh let me see
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[Music] i I would what I I wanted to uh really produce for Lauren Hill i really like
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her music you know back then we we we actually toured together overseas
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um me you know her and W Cleff and everybody that um the Fuji and Yeah yeah
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the Fuji the whole we was we was doing some soccer stadiums it was crazy um and
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I told her I said "I love you." And I don't mean that like I want to get at you i love you as far as your music you
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know and uh I said that Killing Me Softly is like my favorite song ever i
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said I would love to do some music with you and uh she dedicated that to me we was in
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Copenhagen Denmark uh I was in front of the stage like you know you had that
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little barrier right there i was in front of that bar that barrier right there me and the twins and uh she said
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it right before she was getting ready to do Killing Me Softly i want to dedicate this to my to my man Warren G i I melt
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it michael Jordan moment there you go and see it dry man turned
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into a groupy right there and there straight groupy i went grouped up that's what the
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Grooi Rightfully so that was a moment no but uh you know she she was a artist
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that I would have I would have liked to produce for um a lot of a lot of the
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artist um from back then um it's it's a lot i'm trying to think
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exactly who uh another another artist that I wanted to uh get down with um
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oh man it was DMX uh we supposed to get down we supposed to get down a few time
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cuz we we got home i got a couple homeboys one of my good friends brother was managing him at that time and um I
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always I always loved you know how how gritty his voice was and how how you
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know how he was send a message at the same time and I felt like that would match up great with the way I produce
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yeah mhm cuz I I put my feelings into you know real deep feelings into when
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I'm producing you and and u like I could just I could tell that if
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we we'd have connected it would have been some it would have been special um
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I mean all of the all of the artists like shoot uh you know all my guys here like Cube
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uh Ren like um alcoholics i would have loved to see
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you with like exhibit and t Yeah that's all right man get that man some water no
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I'm I'm good okay my bad uh um all of those I I love to
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get down with everybody um and I see how like right now like a lot of people is
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getting uh music from Alchemist dope producer you know and I I really
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like that so it's it's charged me up to start hitting everybody the younger
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generation the the older generation everybody just whoever do music cuz it ain't no age limit in in music you you
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ain't none of that you just if it's a great record it's a great record
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so I just I I I want to I'm gonna get back into that where I'm just steadily
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just doing music for everybody like in the in the 2025 that's the game right
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yes indeed the people cuz the Alchemist let's say Alchemist Larry Larry June
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project you know you see Static Select and Two Chains Beat Rock and Common come
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together and they doing the full project who now who are some current artists you've sent music to most recently that
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you waiting to get a track back from or hear if they going to use your track can you speak to it
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um I I did a few things like I I I um worked with a up and coming cat called
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Ice Swear VZO actually he redid regulate and I I I told him man send me send me a
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open open verse so I could bust on it just out the blue cuz when I all my family was hitting me like Warren you
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heard this and uh they in they in uh Chattanooga and you know everybody off
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everybody from down south and and and uh from the east coast all my family my real family like when you heard this so
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I looked at and I was like who was this he redid regulating it and it was hard
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so I was like I hit him in the DM i'm like man look send me a open verse i'mma bust on that you know just out the blue
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and he was like for real i said yeah send it to me i bust on it we dropped that and it's it's it's going crazy
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right now that's dope um I did a record um with Whezzy
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uh Wang Wheze it's it's it's a really dope record um um he asked me if he
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could use it on the Carter 6 so I was like "Yeah you could use it." So if he don't use it it's going to be on the Sir
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Cool EP but u you know if he use it that it's a really a really really really
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dope record uh um I hope you make it to the Carter six yeah that that would be
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dope and it it'll show it'll show you know we always wanted to work with each other though me and him we would see
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like like me and I we see each other like bumpheads like let's get together let's work but years have passed by we
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still same thing and uh I hit him out the blue just like man I got a song I
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want you to get on um I had the hook done everything was done sent it to him
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and it took him a while to hit me back but he did hit me back and he was like
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"All right send it." So I sent it I sent that and then I sent about 10 beats
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along with it and uh he went and knocked it down i I was like "All right." I was waiting like you know is he going to
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send it right back he sent that mother he sent it i can cuss on He sent that
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[ __ ] right back yep and uh I was like "Damn this [ __ ] is a hip
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right here." And uh they he his his guy hit me back like "We uh Wayne wants to
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use it for the the Carter 6 is that cool?" I said "Hell yeah it's all good i ain't I'm not tripping but if he don't
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use it I'mma use it on my EP cuz it was mine." So you know so but but then I you
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know my thing was for him doing that I'm just you know sending music i want I
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want to send him you know records that are just that's better than anything he
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didn't ever had i you know that's how I feel that's the gift I I try to give back to artists when we when we collab
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like that like Whiz he's a he's come on round of applause me and
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Whiz got a smash oh my god we got a smash i'm not going
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to even lie that's a smash it's not no club sm it's like an anthem uhhuh the
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project that you on where's his new project it's on my project yeah oh it's
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on your project the circle EP and for him doing that he's going I'm gonna give
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him a record every every time we we bump heads i'm like well he like Warren send
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me that pack and I'm like all right I got you but I I want to I want to get in
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I want to get in the lab i want you to come sit in the lab with me and let's let's do it like that right there
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and you gonna get a smash a a mega smash that's gonna you know go even further
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you know um but I like to I like to you know give these guys back hit records
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that's what I want to do with them i at least try um Whiz uh Weezy
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Snoop Corrupt uh let me see man snoop and Corrupt got one so hard wow
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um did they did y'all go in the studio for that one you Snoop up we What I did
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with that one I I uh I hear Snoop like I got a song I want you and you and
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Corrupt on um I'mma just give you I'mma just tell you guys what the whole idea
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is [ __ ] it let's go man it's called the Doberman Gang the Doberman Gang remember the Doberman Gang it's that's it was
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like that was the the idea of it i found the uh Wait the Doberman Gang break that
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down i thought I Doberman gang was a was a Doberman Pinterest that was robbing banks oh
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what what we didn't with the song ain't Rob we We ain't robbing banks okay but
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this it it was uh a gang of bank robbers yeah it was a TV show of these dogs this
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this was when I was a young kid that they would it was about maybe four or
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five of them they would run the dude to let them go they run and they run inside the bank all of them are just hit the
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bank and then one just jump up on the thing and he have the note in his mouth and the lady take the note and he it's
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like give up the bread like we need this that and that and this and then the security guard they got it was one that
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was sit by the security guard every time he tried to do anything look at look at that we got on screen we got on screen
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look look look at it okay so so I what I did is I took uh I
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took the beginning of how how that starts off cuz it's a like a they were
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the dog on it gang that all of them were animals just like
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you and me breed them to I can't remember uh s man is best
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friends public enemy number one then they just smashing bomb It's It's hard
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the way this way it's set up so Snoop he didn't even bust on that record he I mean he just the the the hook he
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did is like a verse uhuh so when they keep coming around it's like damn this
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is dope and then Corrupt just came in busting um like like he do he was
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tearing it up and then I came in like right after that after that hook and then I came in and I I I use a whole
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totally different style um when people hear they like damn where where's that
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melody that style he doing from uh I ain't no biter though swag no
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i mean for the upcept for the cabbage patch song you get that up he was young he was
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young let me go to the phone lines real quick man you got a lot of people want to uh say what's up to you we going to
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go to New York james what up what up Jay hey Jay jay you there
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man that sound that sound like ain't nobody yeah I'm here y
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my bad sorry i'm sorry my n these AirPods ain't the wave i got to get some new ones but how's everybody doing great
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great quick question though we about to rap go ahead quick question yeah you already know yeah i just want to just give your flowers orange you one of my
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favorite producers and artists and my favorite track is um Do You See i just want to know where you got the idea to
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produce that track that track has one of the best messages I've ever heard i know it has the Mama Used to Say by Junior i
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just love the way you flip that beat that's all I want that's all I wanted to say like that's all I really wanted to say a month of a question but I just
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question Mama used to say was was another one of those records that my parents used to play and
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uh I I just flipped it you know i flipped it and then what I did was I I
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threw uh I threw the the uh M2 M2 drums
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up under it up under the sample and after I did after I put the beat
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together uh me and Corrupt sat there and uh he was like "Warren I want to write a
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song for you." So I'm like "All right [ __ ] why not?" So he was asking me like "What what do you want to talk about
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what are some of the things that that you want to talk about?" So I was telling him how me and Snoop used to be
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on the spot you know hustling and things like that how uh we used to move around
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the neighborhood how we get caught up where he be in the county or I'm in the county and and you know just back and
41:35
forth stuff of how we was the the the little steps before we became who we we were are you know um and that's you know
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we we put it together I told him everything he put it just like I told him
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and we laid it and you know and it it was just story of of our come up pretty
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much and some of the things we had to go through to to get to where we are now and and you know make sacrifices as far
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as like you know [ __ ] trying to sell you know hustle or do any of that let's just
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get regular job and this was real i told him this really in real life like let's just get regular jobs and just try to
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live like regular instead of being over here cuz a lot of people was getting shot uh we was getting shot at uh it was
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just it was just chaos just you know just hood [ __ ] galore and uh that's that's
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what that that's what it was turn that up a little bit man come on
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[Music] ain't things changing got my mama wondering if I'm gang banging but I
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don't pay attention to that father figure i just handle mine and I'm rolling with the trigger off to the VIP
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you see Snoop Dogg and Warren G unbelievable how time just flies right
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before your eyes but you don't recognize now he's the real victim can you answer that the brother that's jacking on a
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fool getting jacked yeah
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there you go rg up in here the hook for that uh the way the way I did it the
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first time was you don't see what I see and the Bible bell went ham on me oh the
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way up in the sky why because it was from a gospel ham yeah they Christmas
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time class oh they went they went ham on me you call backlash off there they went
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ham i had to change it leor was like "Warren you have to change it you have to change it the Bible belt
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they're tripping they're tripping Warren." And I changed it and uh I just I just said "You don't see what I see."
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Wow just to You don't see what I just said you don't see what I see just to
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change it um I was I was upset mhm you know but
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I had to I had to come up with something quick yeah because we had to we had to redo that like while I was mixing and
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mastering the album i had to redo the hook i'm glad you got it done man i would have hated to see them protesting
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your concerts man oh yeah it would have been crazy man throwing Bibles at you on stage warren had to duck Bibles um this
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is great warren G is here 30 years of the album Regulate tonight tonight Tanisha
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is it Tanisha tanisha Tenacia you're very tenacious welcome to the show what
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would you like to say hey T hey i just want to give Warren so much love right
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now um as I was holding I was thinking about
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Dandy we made like a little song in my brother-in-law's home
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studio and it was Dwayne it was Snoop it
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was all of us we had notepads dwayne sang the hook for Dandy it was you guys
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have always been an amazing creative process to be around like just amazing
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you're an amazing person and a living legend let's say that out loud much love
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living legend man you remember that Warren i I can't remember it off top
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uh you said it was called Dandy dwayne sang the hook it was to um what
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do you call it it was George Benson and it was like Dandy oh my
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goodness and it was like I don't know i It's a long time ago
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i'm just calling to say much love to you you're an amazing human being and I'm so glad to to hear
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you here today you're amazing hey it's all good thank you wow man warren G man
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she was from Long Beach too right from Long Beach yeah man oh yeah much love you know Warren um uh man we could talk
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all day and I appreciate your stories and you could come back up here too you still DJ bro man i ain't never stopped
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okay i I knew that i just want to have you come up and do a guest set for us i'll come get down you come get down
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okay then we could continue this conversation uh we want to say congratulations man i was there homie
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yes indeed you know you know me and King Tech was playing your music in the bait then we when we came down to LA start
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working on the beat watching this process you've always been an amazing human being thank you man you never
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You've always had great energy bro and I want to say thank you likewise thank you brother you know you always been good to
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us and good to hip hop and you gave us a platform to really let people hear what
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we was doing you know what I mean and uh Sujit and Deza it was all they was in
46:53
the mix of that too you know what I mean yeah yeah the Miza and uh and uh and uh
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Rick Sackheim and all you know all those guys too as well but you guys really
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like and I I used to call up away from that too i used to call up to the show
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yep while you guys was on air even if when it wasn't nothing to do with like a a radio run or none of that stuff you
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know I would just call because that's how dope you know you guys were and and it and like I said it was a platform for
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us you know for people to really hear like what we what we talking about you
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know and it and it and it caught on and and you know you guys were a part of
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that process of me getting to where I am now so it's much love for me to to you guys thank you Warren yes indeed man
47:39
listen brother love you this is Warren G he got the name of the new EP is called what that you got coming up sir Cool
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it's coming sir cool is coming and he already explained to you with some cool but I'm saying it's coming it's coming
47:52
soon i just like I say I got I got some good records on there it's only going to be eight songs
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uh I'm uh I didn't I I'm I'm It's It's kind of like hard to explain but it's
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like uh I really put my heart into what I do
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musically and like like even today it's like uh you put something out there and
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and if it it you know it ain't like it was back in the day where I could I
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could send you to this here you go sway I could send this to this person and then next thing you know we here
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world world premiere they don't do it like that no more you know so it's and and then people don't listen to
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like whole albums like we used to they just listen to songs and clips yeah you
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know so it's hard for me to to do one where I got all my skits and everything
48:47
throughout the to make it a movie uh to make the the EP a movie because that's
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that's what that's what we did was try to create movies within our music and
48:58
try to make my theory was try to make to try to make every record that goes on a album or whatever it is each one of them
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to be a single and that's what we going to do with this circle what is it man you allergic to
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Tracy no excuse me no yeah it's fake i had uh chiefded a
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little bit before I came in oh oh West Coast that was very honest of you
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that G stands for greenery you know that hey man well Sir Cool um looking forward
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to the project come back up when the project come out let's talk about that get that mix and let's talk about
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iceware iceware Vzel right yes and uh you guys got a song we gonna play which
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one we want to play streets Ain't the Same oh yeah and this is that one huh yes indeed this this was a really good
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record i just I hit him said "Look man send me open verse i'mma lay it." Uhhuh we shot the video in the bluff down
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there in Georgia that was a It was pretty rough area and
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uh Yeah it it was rough and uh but but they they showed us a lot of love they came uh they came out the neighborhood
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came out uh embraced us you know and we just we had a good time we rolled all
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through the whole neighborhood and uh it it was it it was serious they was
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like "Where you in the bluff what you doing in there?" And I I didn't even know where I was at cuz I showed up to
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the video early so I'm I'm with the driver and uh I'm there early so I make
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a call i'm like "Look man." I said "I think y'all got me in somebody hood cuz they [ __ ] they all around this
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motherfucker." And uh they was walking and two dudes came and post up posted up
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right there by the side of the truck and they were just looking and so he asked
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the driver like "Can you can you can you let me charge my phone in the in the in the in the truck for a little bit?" And I'm like "What the [ __ ] are you doing?"
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And the driver did it and he went just like this when he was giving him the phone he looked in there
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right in the back uhhuh right here uh-huh i had it right there
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yeah you never know well we know what the G stands for oh watch snow in the
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but but they they ended up they ended up being cool dudes uh
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you know they showed us a lot of love and we we gave it up for the for the bluff and it's it's a they it's a cool
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they they cool out there you know everybody like you oh you they you I'm surprised they you know they was cool
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yeah man we didn't come there we didn't come there with that trying to like act like we trying to take over their
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neighborhood or trying to do something without exploit yeah you know so it was
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it was it was cool and and uh Iceear Vzel is is a dope artist man great artist right out of Detroit uhhuh and uh
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he he making some noise yeah you know sharp too he got a lot of He got a lot of good knowledge um good dude and he a
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Scorpio by the way that's my son hey that's our son hey hey my Scorpio you
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know what they say about y'all all right keep going Warren i'm sorry
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oh yeah and uh uh cool dude and um I did
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some music for him as well we recorded while we was in in Georgia right after we did the video later on that night we
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went over to the studio popped out of I went on my computer grab grabbed a track that I had put together for him and he
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he laced that [ __ ] well we going to play this um this one right here man and we going to end with that heather
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you wanted to say something yeah one last thing we going to be with Warren G in Napa Valley y'all make sure you get your tickets black Radio Experience
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August 29th through the 31st let's get it popping we see y'all there okay don't forget tonight we going to be doing
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karaoke karaoke tonight y'all let's go citizens we going to have a good time it's going to be a lot of fun shout out
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to Melanie Fiona and everybody coming through thank you J1 okay and shout out to Cedric the Entertainer anthony
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Anthony Anderson for the foods they're providing the AC barbecue and shout out to Lool Champagne they're providing the
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happy and we going to end with this song um first of all good to be back in LA thank you to our LA uh citizenship John
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Matthews uh thank you John um we want some torches here tracy's here pb
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Quacy's here ashley's here congratulations Lonnie Light he got his new the new merch dropped on
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benrighteous.com shout out to DB PB and then Warren I'mma let you introduce the
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song go ahead check this out this your boy Warren G with the homeboy Icewear Vzel streets ain't the same
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