Up next in 10
Why Shaq & The Game Are Co-Signing This West Coast Duo: Coyote | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Apr 20, 2026
Los Angeles hip hop is in a league of its own, and the duo Coyote is here to prove why they are the next big thing from the West Coast. In this deep dive with Sway, Ricky Blanco and Ladies Love Guapo break down their journey from Hawthorne to the global stage. These brothers represent the true spirit of Southern California, blending raw storytelling with a universal message that resonates with listeners everywhere.
The conversation covers everything from their childhood moving between Mexico and LA to the deep musical influence of their father. You will hear about their unique relationship with legends like Tash from the Alkaholiks and a surprise drop-in from B Real of Cypress Hill, who shares why he respects their craft. They also get real about the social issues facing the Mexican-American community, the significance of their name, and how they use energy and frequencies to manifest their success in the industry.
Of course, it would not be a Sway in the Morning appearance without some bars. Stick around for the end of the video to see Ricky Blanco and Ladies Love Guapo deliver a masterclass in lyricism with two back-to-back freestyles that leave the room speechless. From talking about their new album, Machetes and Micheladas, to their thoughts on the hypocrisy of the system, this is an interview you do not want to miss.
Chapters
0:00 Intro and Welcoming Coyote to the Show
2:15 Connecting with Tash and West Coast Legends
5:00 Growing Up in Hawthorne and Lennox
8:30 Musical Upbringing and Family History
11:15 Navigating the Environment and Avoiding Gangs
13:45 B Real of Cypress Hill Joins the Conversation
17:00 Tapping into Energy and Frequencies
20:00 The Concept of Machetes and Micheladas
23:15 Addressing Social Injustice and the Border
26:30 Ricky Blanco Freestyle Session
29:15 Ladies Love Guapo Freestyle Session
31:45 Final Words and Album Promotion
Show More Show Less View Video Transcript
0:00
Yeah, right there, man. Bars, son.
0:02
Bars, son.
0:04
>> Yes, sir.
0:04
>> Yes, sir.
0:05
>> I think we got some Coyotes in the house
0:07
today.
0:08
>> Yes, sir.
0:11
>> Ladies love Guapo.
0:13
>> What's up, man?
0:14
>> Ricky Blanco.
0:16
>> Pretty Ricky's what they call him.
0:17
>> Man, we got Coyote in the building right
0:20
now, man. Los Angeles based these
0:22
brothers right here, man. Um to me, they
0:25
personify
0:26
just LA, Southern California. Um Um what
0:30
it means to grow up in Southern
0:32
California. Um the vision that they
0:35
illustrate in their music and in their
0:37
rhymes. Um it really gives you an
0:39
insight to what's going on on the West
0:41
Coast. But they have a universal appeal
0:44
that if you think about all the
0:46
Americas, whether it's North America,
0:48
South America,
0:49
>> Mhm.
0:49
>> uh the West Indies, you know, Spain,
0:52
wherever you go, Europe, uh they have a
0:55
message that resonates with a lot of
0:57
different demographics across the world.
0:59
Some of the things they speak on, when
1:01
they speak on social injustices,
1:03
>> Yeah.
1:04
>> um and then when they speak on just
1:05
being a father, um when they speak on
1:08
growing up in the community, uh they do
1:11
it in such a skillful way. Like Murs,
1:13
it's like listening to one of their
1:14
albums is like reading a a good book.
1:17
>> Mhm.
1:17
>> You know what I mean? And they tell a
1:18
lot of great stories and we've been
1:20
>> Chapters.
1:20
>> Chapters after chapters, man. Layers.
1:23
And it's a trip because a lot of people
1:26
you have gravitated towards you, you
1:28
know, um and it whether it's Shaquille
1:31
O'Neal, give him a round of applause.
1:33
>> Yes, sir.
1:34
>> Come on, uh The Game. Shout out to The
1:37
Game. It's been a minute since I seen
1:38
The Game.
1:39
>> Yeah.
1:40
>> I'm about to sit down with him. I was on
1:41
Documentary 2 after he got that
1:43
Interlude, I ain't talked to him.
1:44
>> Oh, yeah.
1:46
He's in the lab cooking too, right now,
1:47
man.
1:48
>> Yeah, that's my brother, man. West West
1:50
Side Boogie, B Real, um who's the legend
1:53
out here. He's a B Real is my brother.
1:56
I'm watching and he's the same thing in
1:58
many ways, you know, and so I want to
2:00
welcome y'all to the show. Coyote is
2:02
here. Give him a round of applause.
2:04
887423345.
2:07
When I was thinking about y'all name
2:10
cuz Tash from Tha Alkaholiks will always
2:12
tell you
2:13
cornered me one day
2:14
and he was
2:16
Tash has never I've known Tash y'all
2:17
since the early 90s, bro.
2:19
>> Yeah.
2:19
>> When Tha Alkaholiks first came out
2:21
running they was running around with
2:22
King T.
2:23
>> Mhm.
2:24
>> Tash has never ever
2:26
called me about an artist or a group
2:28
like that.
2:29
>> Word. Man, shout out to Tash, man. Love
2:31
that fool.
2:32
>> What is y'all relationship with him?
2:34
>> Shh. I
2:35
I forgot how we met, but
2:37
>> Instagram, probably.
2:38
>> Maybe. I think it like he followed us,
2:40
we followed each other. And then I just
2:42
remembered just knowing him. I don't
2:44
even remember the exact moment when we
2:46
met, but we just kind of clicked. We
2:48
talked about doing a song. We sent him a
2:50
song and then ever since then we just
2:52
been tapped in. We just text each other
2:53
random [ __ ] Um we we've brought him out
2:56
some of the shows. We rocked some stages
2:58
with him and [ __ ] like that, but that
2:59
was one of the people that I I don't
3:01
recall the exact moment.
3:02
>> Yeah, but when we linked up we just
3:04
clicked. Him and X. It was the same
3:06
vibe.
3:06
>> Exhibit.
3:07
>> Yeah, Exhibit. We just kind of I don't
3:09
know, we're on the same frequency we
3:10
frequency and we just [ __ ] clicked
3:12
when we when we met up and we've been
3:14
rocking ever since.
3:15
>> And we told him like, man, we we we
3:17
don't got in a lot of trouble cuz y'all
3:18
[ __ ] drinking and driving.
3:19
>> For sure. That's my twin.
3:21
>> That's straight bad
3:22
bad influence on you, huh, right?
3:25
>> Yeah, for sure.
3:26
>> Bad it was cool it was like surreal like
3:27
just seeing them and meeting them and
3:29
getting along is just like a trip. Even
3:31
even this right here, you know, watching
3:33
you growing up on MTV and all that [ __ ]
3:35
>> Back when you had the dreads.
3:36
>> You remember that?
3:37
Yeah, you brought that up in a certain
3:39
way though. What do you mean by that?
3:41
>> Let's not go there.
3:43
>> You know what I got though?
3:44
>> What's up under there, man?
3:47
>> A lot of knowledge.
3:48
>> Yeah, yeah.
3:48
>> A lot of knowledge. All right. Yeah.
3:51
>> So just to you know, to to see people
3:52
that we're fans of and we studied and
3:55
again, we used to ride to, smoke to,
3:57
drink to, whatever. And these people
3:59
like they reciprocate the the the
4:01
respect for our craft is kind of crazy,
4:03
man. It's
4:04
>> Where where did y'all grow up?
4:06
>> Uh Hawthorne and Lennox, yeah.
4:08
>> Inglewood area.
4:09
>> Uh-huh.
4:10
>> Mostly Hawthorne, though.
4:11
>> What was that like for you, too? You
4:12
guys By By the way, they're brothers.
4:14
>> Right. Real bro.
4:15
>> So, y'all grew up same household?
4:17
>> Yep. Yep.
4:17
>> How many siblings?
4:18
>> Me, him, and my sister.
4:20
>> Oh, wow.
4:20
>> My dad has another kid somewhere out
4:22
there in the world.
4:22
>> You know what?
4:24
>> You're not a liar.
4:25
>> We haven't met her yet, but we heard
4:27
>> Is it real?
4:27
>> That's real. Yeah, that's good.
4:29
>> She's somewhere out there, but
4:30
>> Shout out to her, man.
4:31
>> You know her name?
4:32
>> Nah.
4:33
>> We just heard a story that we have a
4:34
sister.
4:35
>> My dad got somebody pregnant when he was
4:36
like 13 years old and they wanted
4:38
nothing to do with him and he was like,
4:39
"All right, late. [ __ ] it." He was just
4:41
a kid, you know what I'm saying? And I
4:43
guess the mother of his girlfriend at
4:46
the time
4:47
didn't like him at all cuz he was from
4:49
the streets and [ __ ] So, she was like,
4:51
"Nah, I don't want you around my
4:52
daughter." And him being a child, he was
4:54
like, "All right, well, peace." Left.
4:56
>> Yeah, and I think they told him like it
4:57
wasn't true or something. He found out
4:59
later when she was already like a
5:00
teenager that it was ended up being
5:02
true.
5:02
>> Yeah.
5:03
>> But, that's all I know about it. We I
5:04
think I heard about that story once or
5:06
twice.
5:06
>> Yeah.
5:06
>> I didn't dig too deep.
5:08
>> Well, he didn't leave y'all, though.
5:09
>> Nah, yeah.
5:11
We were uh we were the golden children
5:13
and
5:13
>> But, it don't sound like he tried to
5:15
leave the his
5:16
>> Nah, he didn't know. Nah, he didn't try
5:17
to.
5:17
>> The mother The mother of the mother.
5:19
>> He didn't know till after. He was like,
5:21
"Oh, I found out I had a kid after the
5:23
fact."
5:23
>> Wow. Was your family musically inclined?
5:26
>> My father Definitely my father. He plays
5:28
the guitar, he sings.
5:29
>> Yeah. Mostly Spanish stuff, but
5:31
>> Yeah.
5:31
>> He's a hobbyist, though. He doesn't like
5:33
pursue it. Like it was our alarm every
5:35
morning, him just playing the guitar,
5:37
singing.
5:37
>> Really?
5:38
>> Waking up to that [ __ ]
5:38
>> Yeah. He still does it to this day.
5:41
>> Aw.
5:41
>> He used to make me sing like he would
5:43
play the guitar and he would make me
5:44
sing a a called La Puerta Negra when I
5:46
was a kid like in front of his friends
5:48
and [ __ ]
5:48
>> What does that mean?
5:49
>> You know what you got to do now? It's
5:50
like the black door.
5:51
>> Black door. How does the How does the
5:52
song go?
5:53
>> Uh I don't remember the complete
5:55
>> I don't remember the You don't remember
5:57
the song?
5:57
>> Ya está cerrada con tres candados. It's
5:59
like
6:00
uh uh the story's kind of like
6:02
>> a forbidden love.
6:03
>> Yeah, parents trying to keep a girl from
6:05
loving this guy, but he wants to open
6:06
the door. I don't know, some [ __ ] like
6:08
that. But I was young, young. So, that
6:10
probably planted the seed for us to be
6:12
able to do it.
6:13
>> Mhm.
6:13
>> But um we never in a million years
6:15
thought we were going to be rappers. It
6:16
kind of just happened.
6:17
>> Yeah.
6:18
>> Um but growing up, going back to answer
6:19
your question, like we grew up moving a
6:21
lot. So, we were born in Lennox and we
6:24
moved in a few houses in Lennox and then
6:26
we moved to Mexico
6:28
uh to Sinaloa, Mazatlán.
6:30
>> Mhm.
6:31
>> And then [ __ ] went bad over there and
6:32
then we they shipped us back and then we
6:34
lived with my grandma for a little, then
6:35
my mom's twin in HP I mean uh yeah, 100
6:38
Park. And then we landed in Hawthorne.
6:41
And then that's kind of where yeah, we
6:43
spent most of our life. Um so, that
6:45
probably helped prevented us from like,
6:47
you know, joining gangs and so, it kind
6:48
of saved us in a way.
6:50
>> Thought about it?
6:51
>> People look at you and go
6:53
Yeah, they get they're in the game.
6:55
>> Right, cuz y'all got so many tattoos.
6:57
>> Exactly.
6:57
>> How did you avoid it? Cuz folks feel
6:59
like if you're in the environment, you
7:01
can't avoid it. How did you
7:03
>> I think having my brother by my side,
7:05
also having cousins and big family,
7:07
always felt like I had a family unit and
7:10
a and a brotherhood, so I never really
7:13
had to search outside of that.
7:15
Definitely had homies affiliated,
7:17
definitely, you know what I'm saying,
7:18
was around that [ __ ] but I never we
7:20
never [ __ ] crossed the line to
7:22
>> Why not though?
7:23
>> draw the line.
7:24
>> Because it seem like it's so appealing
7:26
to a young to a youngster.
7:27
>> I think going back what he said, we had
7:29
our like my my friends to this day is my
7:32
brother, my cousins and and some like
7:34
homies that became family that, you
7:36
know, we met like the homie here still
7:38
lives in Lennox and [ __ ] but
7:40
um again, maybe the the the we had a
7:42
solid foundation at home, so we weren't
7:44
seeking out like love in the streets or
7:47
and we moved a lot. So, from from kinder
7:50
to fifth grade, I went to five different
7:51
schools. I went to Muffit, Felton, York,
7:55
then the school in Mexico. And you know
7:57
Mexicans roll deep as [ __ ] so if we
7:59
were damn near already like a gang, you
8:01
know what I'm saying?
8:03
So, like if somebody [ __ ] with him, we
8:05
already know we're pulling up deep.
8:07
>> Speaking of pulling up, here's the
8:08
leader of the
8:10
We got B-Real just walked in from
8:12
Cypress Hill.
8:15
Hey, what up, B? B been doing work here,
8:18
man. B B B-Real been doing an excellent
8:20
job on the radio here at Save 4 Five,
8:22
man. Dude is a radio broadcaster.
8:25
>> That's a fact.
8:26
>> Look at B-Real got his notes. Look, he
8:28
got You got notes, dog?
8:31
>> I learned from the best.
8:34
>> You see all my notes. Hey, B, before you
8:36
go like uh this is my first time um
8:38
talking with Ricky and Guap, man. I love
8:40
their music and I and I think it's very
8:42
powerful uh what they've been able to do
8:45
and they got skill, man. What What do
8:47
you think about Coyote? What What is the
8:49
What is their presence felt like here?
8:51
>> When I heard about them, uh
8:53
I reached out and you know, we just
8:56
started linking up and they hit me up
8:58
for the first song and and you know,
9:00
when Shaq got down with them
9:01
>> With three locals, yeah.
9:02
>> Shaq's a connoisseur of hip-hop.
9:05
So, that that sort of put me on to them
9:07
a little bit and a couple other cats
9:09
that that had been telling me about
9:11
them. Then I heard their bars and I was
9:13
like,
9:14
I got to get with these guys right here,
9:15
you know what I mean? Cuz um
9:17
in that in the in the realm of real
9:19
hip-hop, you hear a lot of watered down
9:21
[ __ ] out there and
9:22
as you know more than anyone, right?
9:25
These guys are the real deal, so you
9:27
know, I like working with real ones.
9:29
These are my little brothers right here.
9:30
>> Yeah, man. All right, that's what's up,
9:32
man.
9:33
>> And a teacher, man.
9:34
>> Yeah, he's a good dude, man. Get that
9:36
>> having a mentor like B-Real, you know.
9:38
>> What is that like, man? This dude is a
9:40
icon. He's like
9:42
look at him.
9:43
>> I I sometimes like we're living in a in
9:45
a dream, man. Cuz again, we we watch, we
9:47
study everything about hip-hop, all the
9:49
documentaries, the beef documentaries
9:51
and [ __ ] I remember the scene where
9:53
this fool had a whole [ __ ] jar of
9:54
weed talking about the Ice Cube beef
9:56
back in the day.
9:58
Never in a million years I'd be like,
10:00
"Oh, that's going to be like the [ __ ] a
10:01
homie, a mentor that's going to take us
10:03
under the wing." Never thought about it.
10:05
>> Yeah. So, even you know, like I said,
10:07
being here with y'all is crazy, bro.
10:09
>> Yeah, it's a blessing.
10:09
>> That's a blessing, man. Thank B. Happy
10:11
to be here. B, I'm going to be a little
10:13
late today. Is that all right?
10:16
>> Totally okay. These guys got the bars
10:18
and concepts and the flexes to warrant
10:21
all that. I I'll be just in in wait, you
10:24
know?
10:24
>> Okay. All right, thank you, B, man.
10:25
>> And when you need B, you know I'm here.
10:27
>> I already know, man. And I told Tech, we
10:29
talked yesterday. So, we're going to
10:31
we're going to see that Cypress Hill
10:33
documentary. I can see it on KT Network.
10:35
I can see that happening.
10:37
>> Yeah.
10:37
>> Yeah, man. It's on YouTube too, man.
10:39
It's a great documentary. I just watched
10:41
that [ __ ]
10:41
>> watched it?
10:42
>> Yeah, it's [ __ ] great.
10:43
>> Um
10:44
>> Only on Sway in the Morning, bro. Like,
10:45
how can we like have this conversation
10:47
and B Real just come strolling by? Like,
10:50
life is wild.
10:51
>> Yes, man.
10:52
>> Wild.
10:53
>> It's a it's a simulation, man.
10:55
It's all energy frequencies, man. Once
10:56
you start vibrating
10:57
>> Talk about it.
10:58
>> at a certain level, it comes into
10:59
existence.
11:01
>> it, man. So,
11:02
>> Now, you say that, like I say that all
11:04
the time.
11:05
>> Yes.
11:06
>> All the time. And I think it just take
11:08
it's taken years for people to grab that
11:10
concept. And you say it so nonchalantly.
11:12
>> Mhm.
11:13
>> Because you know it to be true.
11:15
>> 100%.
11:16
>> Energy frequencies, vibrations, right?
11:19
>> That's all we are. On a scientific
11:21
level, that's all it is. Like,
11:23
whatever this table's made out of, you
11:24
and me is all atoms and it's all
11:26
interconnected, you know what I'm
11:28
saying? And and we're just energy
11:30
vibrations. So, once you start tapping
11:31
into that, you are connected to who
11:34
whoever, whatever you want to be. You
11:35
know what I'm saying? You just got to
11:36
really like alter your your frame of
11:39
thinking. It all starts in here. And
11:41
then everything else around you starts
11:42
to mold to what you think. So, be
11:44
careful with the [ __ ] you think and how
11:46
you talk about yourself, man.
11:48
>> Yeah, how you talk about yourself, too.
11:50
>> So, as brothers and and partners and
11:52
businessmen, then how do you come to
11:54
agreement to remove the bad energy that
11:57
that you come across on your circle?
12:00
>> That's a good question. That's a good
12:01
question.
12:02
Roll up a joint, play some music. Well,
12:05
music, really. That'll be the answer for
12:07
me to release all the bad energy because
12:09
once you get in the booth and you start
12:10
rapping, you it's kind of like an
12:11
outlet. So, yeah, it's like therapy to
12:14
me. That's That's a way to just release
12:15
all that [ __ ] Or the gym. Something
12:17
like something like that.
12:18
>> Even in terms of like managers, lawyers,
12:20
maybe you just had some some funky
12:22
energy in your circle. You know, like
12:24
creatively. How do
12:25
>> Just do some voodoo on that
12:26
[ __ ]
12:29
Hey, hey, but look.
12:30
Check it out. Even those things are
12:32
blessings. You know what I'm saying? The
12:33
negative things are Everything I heard
12:36
Jay say some [ __ ] that doesn't happen to
12:38
you that happens for you. Like I really
12:40
believe that cuz there's a lot of stuff
12:41
in our story that seemed like the end of
12:43
the world when [ __ ] was moving good and
12:45
then, you know, a lot of things happen
12:46
that you would just think that a lot of
12:48
people would fold. But, if you if you
12:50
change your perspective, it's like, all
12:51
right, why is this happening? Maybe it's
12:53
not the right situation for me. So, you
12:55
got to feel the negative vibes or see
12:58
what's going on and it ain't working for
12:59
you to alter something.
13:00
>> Yeah, turn the lesson into a blessing.
13:03
>> In hindsight, then, are you able to see
13:06
what the blessing, what the the lesson
13:09
or the advantage was with having moved
13:11
so many times?
13:13
>> Yeah.
13:14
>> What did you gain?
13:15
>> One, culturally, like we we
13:18
we I think we unintentionally like uh
13:22
were surrounded and got to experience a
13:25
lot of cultures, like skateboarding
13:27
culture in one part of town, gangbanging
13:29
culture, Mexican culture, hip-hop
13:32
culture, R&B with my sister. So, it's
13:35
like we just we moved to so many
13:37
different areas and stuff that we were
13:39
around
13:40
all Mexican hood, then
13:42
white neighborhood, then literally in
13:44
Mexico where now we're outsiders over
13:46
there. Like you're
13:47
we we think we're Mexican, but over
13:49
there you're American. You know what I'm
13:51
saying? So, now we're super outsiders
13:53
over there and then moving to area where
13:54
it was black and Mexican, and you know
13:56
what I'm saying? And then starting to
13:58
get more into the hip-hop [ __ ] So, I
14:00
think unintentionally we just started
14:02
like absorbing a lot of cultures, and
14:04
then it molded whatever the [ __ ] we are
14:06
now, you know what
14:07
>> Did you find a commonality
14:09
between
14:10
all of those different cultures?
14:12
>> Uh I found out we're all [ __ ] human
14:14
and we all want the same [ __ ]
14:17
Like all these all these things that we
14:18
put on each other is all [ __ ]
14:20
[ __ ] If you hang out with enough
14:21
people of any background, you will see
14:24
you have a lot of similarities.
14:25
Everybody wants to, you know, be have
14:28
have people you love, whether it be
14:29
family, friends, you know. You want a
14:32
comfortable life and [ __ ] like that. So,
14:34
um yeah, we're all human beings, man.
14:36
That's what I learned.
14:36
>> human beings. Coyote is here. Mike, you
14:38
want to jump in?
14:40
>> Yeah, it's great to meet you, fellas.
14:42
I find this conversation really, really
14:43
fascinating. I'm just curious to a dad
14:46
you wake up to a dad playing music as
14:48
your alarm clock to understanding voodoo
14:51
and different spiritual dynamics.
14:54
What do you
14:55
>> Also, the smell of burnt tortillas in
14:57
the morning.
14:59
>> Burnt though, huh?
15:00
>> My mom likes them burnt.
15:02
>> Okay.
15:03
>> There's so much heart in your
15:04
constitution and who you guys are. Like
15:05
what what type of music are you guys
15:07
looking to create or do you create? And
15:10
and what stories do you want to tell?
15:12
>> Man, we just want to tell the the
15:13
Mexican-American experience from our
15:16
eyes through hip-hop music, through rap.
15:20
So, that's what hip-hop music is really
15:22
is just is just somebody uh speaking
15:24
from the streets or wherever they came
15:26
from and giving their perspective. And
15:28
that's pretty much what we're doing.
15:30
We're giving our perspective, the way we
15:32
came up, and the way we saw the world
15:33
coming up.
15:34
>> You You said the homie behind you.
15:35
What's his name, man?
15:36
>> Who? Who you talking about?
15:38
>> Right here. This guy right here.
15:38
>> Imaginary friend? You can't see him? You
15:40
can see him?
15:41
>> I've got it.
15:42
>> I can see him, man.
15:43
>> Oh, you You one of the chosen ones then.
15:46
Hey, you one of the chosen ones because
15:49
That's our imaginary homeboy right
15:51
there, Juice.
15:52
>> Damn. Does he have Does he have an
15:53
imaginary voice? Or does he
15:54
>> Man, say something.
15:55
>> Say something.
15:56
>> What up? What up? What up? It's Juice.
15:58
>> I didn't hear
15:59
I didn't hear nothing.
16:00
>> Yeah.
16:01
>> Where the machetes at? We had the
16:03
machetes.
16:03
>> Man, they almost kicked us out cuz of
16:04
that. Yeah. They're like, "We don't know
16:06
what y'all going to do to Sway. Put
16:07
those shits back in the car." They
16:09
thought we was really going to chop
16:10
somebody's limbs off.
16:11
>> Yeah, they're like, "It's a weapon. We
16:12
can't allow it in here."
16:13
>> Yeah. I get it. We were surprised that
16:15
we got this far with them.
16:16
>> No, they had them in the conference room
16:19
like real I touched the machete and got
16:21
cut.
16:21
>> Yeah.
16:22
>> Well, that's what you tried to prevent.
16:24
>> your fault then. That's why I was
16:25
>> No, I'm joking. I didn't get cut.
16:27
>> They told us they're like, "Sway told us
16:28
that you got to get them out of here."
16:32
Sway Sway fears for his life. Get them
16:34
out of here.
16:35
>> I'm a Yodie, too. We going to explain
16:36
what Coyote means coming back after
16:38
this. On the album, there's a statement
16:40
you making in the first interlude when
16:42
it says, "Welcome to America" right
16:44
before
16:45
the song was Peace comes on, right? Um
16:48
which I want to play that next with
16:50
Peace. But, talk to that interlude. Talk
16:52
about that interlude.
16:53
>> Yeah, so that was a skit
16:55
a scene in the movie Machete. And it's
16:58
pretty much border patrol and like some
17:00
government official going by the border
17:03
and they see this pregnant woman
17:05
crossing the border. And uh there's one
17:08
guy that has somewhat of a heart, I
17:10
guess, cuz they want to kill her. And
17:11
then there's a guy like, "Bro, you want
17:13
to kill her? She got a baby." And then
17:14
the govern The guy that's running for
17:16
office is like, "Yeah, like the
17:17
supporters going to love this [ __ ]
17:18
Like, if if the baby's born here, it
17:20
becomes one of us. We can't have that.
17:22
Cuz then Texas will become Mexico again.
17:25
Cuz you know, if you know the history,
17:26
you know, a big chunk of this country
17:28
was already, you know, Mexico. So,
17:30
there's a narrative right now, like,
17:31
when the [ __ ] all these Mexicans get
17:33
here? It's like, that shows you how
17:34
stupid people are.
17:35
>> Yeah.
17:36
>> It's like, cuz we've been here. We never
17:37
went anywhere. It's just Uh that's why
17:40
our our our our big goal is to put our
17:42
story up there, because I feel like
17:44
we've always played the tuck. Like,
17:45
we've never been like loud about our
17:48
highlight reel, you know what I'm
17:49
saying, in this country and what we've
17:50
contributed. So, um we just like to add
17:53
those elements, you know what I'm
17:54
saying, of of of ignorance and like the
17:56
the the struggle, I guess, some some
17:59
people being Mexican-Americans have to
18:01
face with like being viewed as other,
18:03
you know, where
18:05
a big part of this [ __ ]
18:06
>> indigenous to this land. Uh and I want
18:08
to talk about that highlight reel, too,
18:10
when we come back. This is What's Peace.
18:12
Coyotes are here. 888-742-3345.
18:17
What's Peace.
18:19
Powerful album.
18:20
>> Yeah, thank you, brother.
18:21
>> Machetes and micheladas.
18:24
>> There you go.
18:25
>> Machetes and micheladas.
18:27
>> Got it.
18:27
>> We know what a machete is.
18:29
>> Yeah.
18:29
>> Y'all almost got kicked out the building
18:31
from bringing a machete up here, man. I
18:33
was like, yo, what are you doing? Man, I
18:34
told you leave the weapons at home.
18:36
>> They're like, Sway, why you got these
18:37
cartel guys in the
18:39
>> Nah, we just we just had to make sure
18:41
that we was going to get this interview.
18:43
And if you said otherwise,
18:45
you know, we had to have the the the
18:47
machetes right there.
18:48
>> come out.
18:48
>> Yeah, I I appreciated that. Now, what's
18:50
a a michelada?
18:51
>> Oh, man, the best drink in the world.
18:53
>> Yeah, the best drink in the [ __ ]
18:55
world. It's pretty much like tomato
18:56
juice or some sort of concoction.
18:58
>> It's a very acquired taste, though.
19:00
>> Yeah, with the beer. And you put spices,
19:03
you know what I'm saying, lime, mango
19:05
sometimes. You can sauce it up. There's
19:06
different ways to do it, but it's like a
19:08
hangover cure. Yeah, right there. It
19:10
looks like that, okay? You never had
19:11
one?
19:12
>> It's it's some very Mexican
19:13
>> Wait, I had a hangover?
19:13
>> No, me too, lie.
19:14
>> Oh, no, I don't think I don't know, man.
19:16
>> If we ever if we ever pull up pull up on
19:18
you, Sway, and be like, "Hop in, Sway,
19:20
we going do some Mexican [ __ ] We going
19:22
drink some micheladas."
19:23
>> Yo, yo, honestly,
19:25
you know, uh G Perico told me to jump in
19:28
the car. He's just going to take me to
19:29
you know, just give me an LA experience,
19:31
but I want to do some Mexican [ __ ] too,
19:33
bro. I would have Hey, bro, hey.
19:36
I love to You want to come?
19:37
>> of those now, honestly.
19:38
>> I'm one of those, too.
19:40
>> All right, man. Me, too.
19:40
>> You hung over?
19:41
>> Hey, 420, we got we got a release show,
19:43
if you guys want to come for the
19:44
Mercedes and micheladas. We we have some
19:46
custom micheladas we're going to be
19:48
giving out.
19:49
>> Yeah, y'all got to pull up.
19:50
>> We're going to bring out exhibit B-Real.
19:53
He's 50/50 right now.
19:54
>> Um
19:55
B-Real Well, he might be 75/25 now. He
19:58
did this. Um there's a line I I'm not
20:00
sure who said this in that song. Um but
20:03
you tell me, "Yo, what's peace? Is it
20:05
military roaming the streets?
20:07
>> Mhm. That was me.
20:08
>> That's you. Is it locking kids in jail
20:10
for stealing something to eat? Is it
20:12
pulling me over to try to see if I'm
20:14
sober?
20:15
Ask me for my registration, but shoot me
20:17
when I go reach. What's peace? Is it
20:20
locking up people like me for selling
20:22
weed, but then you go and let a
20:23
pedophile free?
20:24
>> Yeah.
20:25
>> Is it capitalism or privatizing the
20:27
prison and giving corporations freedom
20:30
to poison food that we eat? [ __ ] peace.
20:33
Only peace that I keeps my Glock 9. If
20:35
they take me, then I'm taking them with
20:36
me. We all dying.
20:42
>> Oh, [ __ ]
20:43
>> I love that, man. When you When I When I
20:45
When I hear that and I and I think about
20:48
you know, especially here, man, when you
20:49
think about the Mexican community and
20:51
all that it's had to endure, especially
20:54
when you have this presence, this
20:56
constant presence of ICE in LA. It's
20:58
just
20:59
It's bonkers, man. It makes me I I turn
21:01
other way, walk a different direction
21:03
when I see agents.
21:04
Um but I I It What I feel doesn't
21:07
compare to what being felt in the
21:09
community, whether you're documented or
21:11
undocumented, physically and
21:13
psychologically.
21:15
From your experiences, what can you
21:16
share with us? What what are you seeing
21:18
from people?
21:19
>> Man, it's a tough thing to watch, for
21:20
real, cuz like we we've experienced that
21:23
all our lives. You know what I'm saying?
21:24
Our pops has been taken away from us
21:26
several times. And um you know, that's
21:29
part of the reason why we came up with
21:30
this name, coyote, cuz you know,
21:32
symbolically, that's what we do. We
21:35
bring our people over the border to come
21:37
over here to seek for a better life. You
21:39
know what I'm saying? So, that's how we
21:40
came up with the name. And also, cuz the
21:42
coyote, everybody champions the wolf,
21:44
nobody talks about the yote, which is
21:46
the underdog. In all our lives, we felt
21:48
like underdogs, you know what I'm
21:49
saying? We've had to face plenty of
21:51
obstacles
21:52
like ICE, you know what I'm saying?
21:54
Hunting us down.
21:56
>> And we Yeah.
21:57
>> We got family members, you know what I'm
21:58
saying? Friends that when it's going
22:00
down, now they got to kind of go
22:01
quarantine for a little bit, like stay
22:03
in the house. Don't open the door, you
22:05
know what I'm saying? Say you're a
22:06
citizen.
22:07
>> Right.
22:08
>> Well, I've had to check in the people
22:09
with people like, "Hey, they're over
22:10
here on on this block, this block. Stay
22:12
away from there."
22:13
>> So, yeah, so what it's like is constant
22:15
worry, you know what I'm saying? For for
22:17
your family members. Got to always check
22:19
in on them. Y'all good? Oh, we heard ICE
22:21
is over here on Hawthorne and in Lennox
22:24
right now. Don't cross that area, you
22:26
know what I'm saying?
22:26
>> And and the [ __ ] up way, it's kind of
22:28
normal, like you said, like growing up,
22:30
it happening a lot. It was like you
22:32
could we could get the car right now,
22:33
like, "Yo, they got so-and-so." And then
22:35
we're like, "Ah, [ __ ] you know what I'm
22:36
saying?" And then we just take it from
22:37
there. Like, so it's a chance that we
22:39
know it's possible. Yeah, exactly. But,
22:42
they make it so difficult for certain
22:43
people to to do it the right way, you
22:46
know what I'm saying?
22:46
>> Yeah, for sure.
22:47
>> People like, "Do it the right way."
22:49
Like, "Do it the right way?" It's like,
22:49
"Yeah, if you come from certain places,
22:51
you can't, unless you're a [ __ ]
22:52
multimillionaire."
22:53
>> mean, do it the right way? Like
22:55
>> Like follow the wait in line to to to
22:57
come with either visa or get your green
22:59
card and [ __ ] like that. But,
23:02
um again, if you come from certain
23:03
regions if you don't got money like it's
23:05
impossible.
23:07
>> I just thought up I did some ad-libs
23:09
maybe they'll consider me for a song.
23:11
>> Oh like bring you on tour or something
23:12
an intro
23:14
something you're looking for extra job.
23:16
>> I feel like I mean on a coyote track.
23:18
Cuz I'm a designated yodie now.
23:20
>> Okay.
23:21
>> For sure man. I think that would be dope
23:23
if like I'm just like yeah.
23:24
>> Mhm.
23:25
>> We're going to use this interview for a
23:26
song.
23:27
>> Oh please do man.
23:28
>> Shout out to Static Selector. Shout out
23:31
to man this sounds good like the
23:33
influence of your father and the the
23:36
melodies the the tones everything this
23:38
is a good good music.
23:41
>> Appreciate it yeah hell yeah.
23:42
>> Cash shout out to
23:44
DJ Head and Gina Views too we played the
23:46
freestyle from effective immediately.
23:48
>> Yeah yeah.
23:49
>> That's the nuisance they killing it
23:50
right now.
23:50
>> Yeah they killing it for sure shout out
23:52
to Head man.
23:53
>> That's that's our family right there
23:55
man.
23:56
You know man fellas man it's been a
23:57
great conversation man and uh
24:00
>> been wonderful.
24:00
>> Man I'm glad we finally made this one
24:02
it's the first of many I see I see more
24:04
conversations
24:05
>> I got two.
24:06
>> Right right and you know you know where
24:08
you are.
24:09
>> Yeah man yeah you know right.
24:10
>> Yes sir where you
24:12
I don't know man what's happening.
24:13
>> You know where exactly where you are?
24:15
You know guap you know exactly where you
24:17
are like you came in the building where
24:19
is the building right?
24:20
>> Exactly man.
24:21
>> Yeah man.
24:22
>> Now we going to come with what we came
24:23
to do.
24:23
>> Yeah what's that?
24:24
>> Pull the machetes out we got them in the
24:25
cut.
24:26
>> You in the family of the hyena coyote
24:28
you in the family of the coyote.
24:32
Clean it up.
24:33
>> That's right yodie life.
24:34
>> Yes sir.
24:35
>> Beat on let's go.
24:36
>> Throw that [ __ ] on [ __ ] it.
24:37
>> Who's going first raise your hand.
24:39
>> I'll go first I don't got nothing
24:41
prepared but let's see what I come up
24:43
with.
24:43
>> Come from the heart.
24:45
>> Yeah.
24:48
Pretty Ricky's what they call him.
24:50
There's a blizzard outside. Yeah.
24:53
Yeah
24:55
[ __ ] all the boxes and labels they try
24:57
to put me in. Been watching from the
24:58
bench for a minute like coach let me in.
25:01
Never had a voice in this game cuz they
25:02
ain't hear my pen. I do this for the
25:04
vendors and the homies locked inside the
25:06
pen. The hustlers, blue collar workers
25:08
seeking a better life, the voiceless,
25:10
immigrants that got no other choice but
25:11
fight. Broken family still living in
25:13
these streets trying to raise them
25:14
right. Paint us as the villains but God
25:16
knows we move in the light. Don't see me
25:18
as a rapper, just a caption speaking
25:20
truth. Brown soul summoned from new
25:21
dimension inside the booth. You don't
25:23
think you could do it? Well, look, I'm
25:25
living proof. Go to sleep and make money
25:27
like I lost a baby tooth. All they say
25:29
is blah blah trying to deny this heat.
25:31
Miss me with that rah rah. I'd rather
25:33
lamp in a master suite. All you hear is
25:35
blah blah, your blancos clapping cheeks.
25:37
How you selling ya ya and still got
25:39
dirty feet? Sprained my wrist so I can
25:41
ice out the bezel when I school on a
25:43
short yellow bus cuz I'm special. My
25:45
standards too high. I'll let you pigs
25:47
mud wrestle. Spit the truth till my neck
25:50
pop a blood vessel. Till my lungs
25:52
collapse, I'll be outside running laps.
25:53
Post it on the throne if you search me
25:55
up on Google Maps. While I take naps,
25:58
set a couple booby traps. Rusty nails
26:00
that emanate inside your kneecaps. Nice
26:02
try. You get to know me, I'm a nice guy
26:04
but please don't get it misunderstood.
26:06
That's cause I live by. Everyone's a rat
26:08
and I got bullets for these wise guys.
26:11
And I laugh whenever mice die. Stunned
26:13
with his jewels, let me hold that [ __ ]
26:15
Like Vinny Swoll and oil man, I stole
26:17
that [ __ ] Some call it a problem but I
26:20
call it a gift. If you pass me the
26:22
bottle, I'm a down that fifth. Look, I
26:24
never cared about opinions of a square.
26:26
Smack their face to a Picasso if I catch
26:28
them trying to stare. I'm paranoid. I
26:31
can feel it in the air. The name is
26:33
Ricky so you know I got the flare.
26:35
[ __ ] I'm on one. Matter of fact,
26:37
[ __ ] I'm on five. The description of
26:39
my sounds a Cali drive by. I spin a
26:42
block and don't come back till they all
26:43
die. If my life was a movie, it'd be a
26:46
sci-fi alien. Who's the best out west? I
26:49
got the answers, wait. Yeah.
26:51
Yeah. Yeah.
26:53
Who's the best out west? I got the
26:55
answer. It's the way. It's the Yodie.
26:57
>> Yodie!
27:00
Yo. Wow. Wow. We got a coyote up in
27:03
here.
27:06
>> Yeah.
27:07
>> Oh, I like that. We got a coyote up in
27:09
here.
27:10
Yodies.
27:11
Hold up, man. Guap, what up? What's up,
27:13
man? I guess I'm next, right?
27:15
>> You next. John, drop a beat on them.
27:18
>> So, sometimes people hear this conscious
27:20
[ __ ] and they want to call us conscious,
27:22
but don't call me conscious, man. I just
27:24
got a conscious, but you know what I'm
27:25
saying? I'm human just like everybody
27:27
else.
27:28
You know what I'm saying? I [ __ ] up.
27:30
Kind of a psychopath if you let my girl
27:31
tell it, but yo.
27:35
Yo. This is what she says to me.
27:38
Yo. Yo. I'm a lost cause. I just got me
27:41
a sawed-off shotgun. It's riding
27:42
shotgun, ready to pop some. My Yodie got
27:45
the Tommy. We cruising like Top Gun.
27:47
Riding dirty, still smoking and
27:48
drinking. I'm not done. I was young,
27:50
still swimming in [ __ ] since day one.
27:52
But you ain't been in [ __ ] since you
27:54
came out one. You say you waiting for
27:56
marriage because you can't get some.
27:57
I'll [ __ ] around and slip my dick fall
27:59
in a fine [ __ ] tongue. I'm a magnet for
28:01
girls with daddy issues and drug habits.
28:03
They popping Plan B's like M&M's. They
28:05
beat rabbit, [ __ ] with no magnum,
28:07
swallowing no gagging. She asked if I
28:09
was Mickey D. I said yes and I bagged
28:11
her. Yeah. Raw dog like a young bastard.
28:14
She told me not to finish, so [ __ ] it. I
28:15
came faster. To tell the truth, I don't
28:17
know her name cuz I ain't asked her. She
28:19
sent me a text the next day and got
28:21
blocked after. Yeah. Don't you know I'm
28:23
a schizophrenic? When I start drinking,
28:25
I turn to someone that's more pathetic.
28:27
The type to pick a fight just cuz I
28:28
don't like your aesthetic. Wake up and
28:30
don't remember till I read it all on
28:32
Reddit. Am I the only one that's praying
28:34
for the armageddon? Where if you find a
28:36
pedophile, you publicly behead them. And
28:38
if you defend them, we'll fill your body
28:40
up with venom. [ __ ] acting
28:41
fishy, so [ __ ] it, go swimming with
28:43
them. Heard the CIA watching me closely.
28:45
Just know they did it if I ever end up
28:47
MIA, renegade with God's blood inside my
28:50
DNA. Who would have thought the second
28:52
coming would have been LA? Jesus hung
28:54
with Mary Magdalene, I hang on Figueroa.
28:56
My dad came on a boat just like the ark
28:58
that carried Noah. He turned rock to
29:00
bread, I sold the rock to get my dough
29:01
up. He got his game from Egypt, I got
29:03
mine from Sinaloa. We're practically the
29:05
same person. I snatch purses, and he
29:07
gets all our moms to pay him tithes at
29:09
his churches. He makes you believe that
29:11
praising him is your sole purpose, but
29:12
when I do it, I'm a narcissistic ass
29:15
person, man. What the [ __ ] Yeah, it
29:17
don't make no sense, man. I'm talking
29:19
about the hypocrisy, man. What's up?
29:21
United States of hypocrisy.
29:24
>> Yo, give it up for Ladies Love Guapo,
29:26
Ricky Blanco. We got some coyotes in
29:29
here, Heather.
29:30
>> Fact, man. Bars, bars,
29:32
bars.
29:34
>> I'm calling listening right now.
29:36
>> Yeah, what's up?
29:36
>> Yeah, I'm going to tell him I'm going to
29:38
hit him up and tell him make sure M will
29:40
love y'all, bro.
29:41
>> Yeah, get M on it.
29:41
>> Yeah, what up, man?
29:43
>> Yeah, call up if you're listening right
29:44
now.
29:45
>> Yeah, I channeled in my inner [ __ ]
29:47
Slim Shady in there, man. I was like
29:49
>> Yo, man.
29:50
>> But my girl really do call me a
29:51
psychopath, though. Shout out to her.
29:53
>> What's the most wildest, the craziest
29:54
thing you did to make her call you that,
29:55
though?
29:56
>> Uh, [ __ ]
29:58
The [ __ ] I don't know. I can't even
29:59
say.
30:00
>> it real, keep it real. And then bury the
30:02
pet cat or nothing like that, alive or
30:05
nothing like that, right? All right. Yo,
30:07
you both you dudes are spitters, man.
30:09
And then when people hear this album,
30:11
man, I think they're going to be
30:13
uh pleasantly, pleasantly fulfilled from
30:15
this album. I won't say surprised cuz
30:17
you guys have been consistent. I could
30:19
tell y'all really work on your bars.
30:21
Like you take your writing seriously.
30:24
Yo, that's fun to watch, bro. I love,
30:26
man, for me like just watching y'all
30:28
just spit your bars. I know that y'all
30:30
practice. I know that you know your
30:32
[ __ ] You know, there ain't no you know,
30:34
you got confidence in it. And to me,
30:36
that makes you a true MC.
30:37
>> Thank you, man.
30:38
>> So, man, Coyote, man, give it up for
30:40
them, man. Get the new album, Machete
30:41
Season Machete Season.
30:42
>> Machete Season.
30:43
>> All right, April 20th.
30:45
>> at the Echo, man. We doing the show for
30:47
Machetes and Micheladas. It's sold out,
30:49
so we went to the bigger room. Uh make
30:51
sure you pull up. It's going to be a
30:52
movie. I hope I hope to see you guys
30:54
there.
30:55
>> Get your people on like get your people
30:57
to make sure you guys are part of the
30:58
BET Hip Hop Cypher. Like y'all y'all
31:01
need to. It's brothers out here. It's
31:03
the Clips.
31:04
>> Sway who the Sway know?
31:05
>> Like we got to bring y'all in there.
31:08
>> We got to chop up, man.
31:10
>> It would be dope to see that.
31:12
Absolutely. Man, imagine them with the
31:14
Clips.
31:15
>> With Jesse Collins, yeah.
31:16
>> Imagine them with the Clips like the
31:18
brothers all doing that. It'd be let's
31:19
go crazy.
31:20
>> Y'all high bar spitters.
31:21
>> For real.
31:22
>> Y'all need to be heard.
31:23
>> Yes, absolutely. And the representation
31:26
and the representation for sure.
31:27
>> Jesse Collins used to work on 92.3 The
31:30
Beat. He used to super like he used to
31:32
top
31:32
>> producer
31:33
>> producer of all these shows.
31:35
>> Jesse what's up?
31:37
>> What's up, man? We need some more brown
31:38
representation in there that I can
31:40
really spit the right way, man.
31:41
>> Yeah, let's go.
31:43
>> Fellas, thank you for coming through
31:45
tonight.
31:45
>> some tacos, man.
31:46
>> Man, thank you, man. Thank you for
31:47
leaving the machetes in the car. That
31:49
was crazy. [ __ ] are longer than
31:51
my body.
31:53
>> April 20th at the Echo.
31:54
>> The all right, man. Congratulations,
31:56
man. Get the album Machetes and
31:57
Micheladas. All right.
#Arts & Entertainment