Jason Martin (Problem) Interview | Effective Immediately ❗️

[00:00:04] Speaker A: Welcome to. Effective immediately, I'm DJ Hebb. [00:00:06] Speaker B: What up, world? It's your favorite homegirl, gene of youth. [00:00:08] Speaker A: We got a special guest in the studio, formerly known as the artist problem now, Jason Martin, ladies and gentlemen. [00:00:17] Speaker C: How you guys doing? [00:00:19] Speaker A: Welcome. Welcome to our little show. [00:00:22] Speaker C: Ain't nothing little about this. [00:00:25] Speaker A: I know you was in an apartment with me and Chuck did. Yeah. [00:00:27] Speaker C: That's all I'm saying. Ain't shit little about this, baby. It's cracking in here. Congratulations to both of y'all. For real. [00:00:32] Speaker A: Thank you. [00:00:32] Speaker B: Thank you. [00:00:33] Speaker A: We got central ac, got a couple of lights. [00:00:35] Speaker C: You got security. [00:00:36] Speaker B: You got white people in the building. [00:00:38] Speaker C: Yeah. You can't just get to you niggas. You gotta have appointments here right now. You understand? [00:00:43] Speaker A: Well, thank you for coming to the show. [00:00:44] Speaker C: Thanks. I have gifts. [00:00:46] Speaker A: You have gifts. [00:00:46] Speaker C: I have gifts. [00:00:47] Speaker B: Oh, shoot. [00:00:48] Speaker C: Here you go. You guys were part of that moment. I've been giving them to people. [00:00:52] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Yeah. [00:00:53] Speaker C: This is fire and yes, and God. [00:00:55] Speaker A: Of course, my stupid ass. I'm never. [00:00:57] Speaker C: You looking to the side. [00:00:58] Speaker A: I'm never looking at the camera. So look, this is me fixing them damn glasses. Fixing my glasses be falling down. You don't have that straight. You will keep living. [00:01:06] Speaker C: But I think everybody's character is represented well in there. You know what I'm saying? I think it was a great candid moment. Even with the rags next to each, the flags next to each other, you got. [00:01:15] Speaker B: That's the best part about it. [00:01:16] Speaker C: There's a lot of shit, man. I'm gonna tell you something. I'm gonna show you all something else that we're working on to give to the homie. Y'all don't have to say what it is, okay? But these will be awesome. [00:01:28] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, that's fire. [00:01:31] Speaker C: So don't say nothing, y'all. He'll see us. [00:01:33] Speaker B: Well, let's get straight to the house show. [00:01:36] Speaker C: Come on. [00:01:36] Speaker B: It was an amazing moment for everybody. That's from the west coast. For me, it was a win for the entire. [00:01:44] Speaker C: You've been talking. You and y'all two and Nip have been waiting for that moment. [00:01:49] Speaker B: You know, we just talked about it when I had you on whole festions, and that was one thing that I said, is that I want everybody on one stage together, see what happens. Got it. [00:01:58] Speaker C: Manifestation. You gotta speak it out. [00:02:00] Speaker A: I mean, listen, it wasn't everybody. If it was up to me, the show would be three days long. [00:02:04] Speaker C: Right. [00:02:04] Speaker A: You know what I mean? [00:02:05] Speaker B: But it was a great starting point. [00:02:07] Speaker A: Yeah, a great starting point. And, I mean, obviously, Gina kicked it off with that. We might as well start there. Like, I'm gonna tell you from my perspective, what I saw from Jason Martin. [00:02:16] Speaker C: Okay. [00:02:17] Speaker A: Okay. So from my perspective, what I saw from Jason Martin was veteran. But it's not lost on you what that moment was. [00:02:26] Speaker C: Oh, no, no, no. Not at all. From the rehearsals to even after the show being over, it was like I knew, like, nah, this ain't regular. I done been around this town a long time. I've never seen somebody extend, extend that light in all of west coast history, ever. [00:02:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:45] Speaker B: And that's what we've been needing this whole time, ever. [00:02:48] Speaker C: And there's no slight to anybody before or after. It's just, we gotta say what's what. [00:02:54] Speaker A: And then what I like, too, is to be. I'm gonna be honest with you. I really appreciate where you are in life now, because even when we did the rehearsal, like, you know, we talked about it already. It's already out there. But we only had one day to rehearse. [00:03:07] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:03:08] Speaker A: And getting everybody on one accord, and there was alterations, and I was just doing the best that I could to. [00:03:14] Speaker C: You kicked it off, though, with the coach. You got the coaching moment. I don't know if I got it on video. That boy head gathered everybody around, say, hey, hey, hey, hey. I know you from there. You from there, but this week, we from the same hood. You got a problem? [00:03:26] Speaker A: Leave. [00:03:27] Speaker C: I said. That's right, nigga. Come on, let's get it going. [00:03:31] Speaker B: That's the coast guard. [00:03:32] Speaker C: But it set a tone. [00:03:33] Speaker A: It was just. You know what it was? It was just like, I don't have time to baby anybody, and I don't have. We don't have enough time. [00:03:39] Speaker C: Nah. [00:03:40] Speaker A: And to be honest with you, it was more like I felt a duty that, like, dot and Dave and aunt and Tim didn't have to share that with us at all. With you, me at all. They didn't have to share that at all. The world would have been satisfied if Kendrick Lamar would have got on that stage and did an hour by himself. [00:03:57] Speaker C: It was sold out before it said and friends. [00:03:59] Speaker A: Right. [00:03:59] Speaker C: So it didn't need us. [00:04:01] Speaker A: It didn't even say Kendrick. It said Ken. [00:04:03] Speaker C: Right. It was sold out when it said Ken. [00:04:05] Speaker B: We didn't know if Barbie was coming. [00:04:06] Speaker C: Right. [00:04:06] Speaker A: And so I took that very serious. Like, they don't have to do this. And coming up where, you know, I mean, you had a access to the legends and stuff like that, but coming up the way we did, like, people don't have to fuck with you right. It's a choice and a privilege. And so I was just like. When everybody was talking, I'm just like, hey, this is the thing. This is the moment. I don't give. If you don't want to get on what we own right now, you more than welcome to go right now. But if you come in this building and we do this rehearsal, this is what we own. And so I just wanted to set that tone. I think PG Lang was filming that, but hopefully I get to see that. I don't know what I look like. [00:04:43] Speaker C: It was a moment. [00:04:44] Speaker A: I wasn't trying to be disrespectful, though. [00:04:46] Speaker C: No, no, no. You did it right. I saw you revving up for the moment. It was like you was in the backset and stuff up. You kind of walked out there like. [00:04:53] Speaker B: All right, hey, let me talk to my. [00:04:56] Speaker C: Damn. It really was like, before that moment, I mean, you know, nobody has been into the county jail. I have. And I was like, this is like the county jail. It wasn't that it was sectioned off. You just had everybody in one area, and everybody had they. Everybody's. [00:05:11] Speaker A: Everybody had they. Everybody, right. [00:05:13] Speaker C: Cause nobody knew what they were coming to. So, you know, I'm only with. I'm with Ev. So I'm watching everything. I'm just watching the energy, you know what I'm saying? And it wasn't that nothing bad was happening. It was just. You could tell everybody was like, oh, shit. Who else pulling up? Who else pulling up? Yeah. [00:05:27] Speaker A: Cause nobody knew who else was gonna be there. [00:05:28] Speaker C: Just watching the parking lot and people pull up just from LA. [00:05:31] Speaker B: And you understand those hood politics. That's an awareness that you just have automatically, just from being from out here. [00:05:36] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. So, you know, as one of the elder guys out there, me, wacko. We were just like, this bout to be good. Let's see what go down. You know what I'm saying? So he set that tone, and then once we started rehearsals, you can just see. I loved watching the nervous. The nervous energy take place. I'm into all that kind of stuff. I'm like, bro, if you're nervous, are you anxious? That's a great thing. That means you happy to be here. [00:05:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:58] Speaker C: And they just wanted to do good. And you could tell even from the first roll to the second rehearsal, they just was better. The second rehearsal. And he was doing a great job of just curating, knowing where to put people and stuff. That was the fun part to me, the leading up, all the stuff like getting there at 1130 camaraderie with all the artists, everybody hugging each other, cameras in each other's trailers. It was no negativity, none. [00:06:24] Speaker A: And I just also wanted to appreciate you, too, because you've taken more of a big brother role in a sense. I mean, not even just to me, but to everybody. Like, hey, I think, you know, it's your show, but this what I think. You know what I mean? Maybe this move this around. Hey, Du Bois, probably. We should probably put him over here. And I had already had these ideas, but you know, what you're doing musically, I tell that to people all the time. Like, when it comes to, like, this, this here, what we do here, like, it's for show. You, like, you one of them people who know what you doing musically. So I appreciate that too. But from your perspective, do you still get, like. I don't wanna say nervous. Cause that's a cliche question. But you don't. You seem. When I saw you, obviously, we was all in the moment on stage, but when I saw you walk on the stage, when I watched the replay, the stream, it looked like. It looked like it didn't even. You didn't look nervous. You didn't look none of that. Like, the excitement you talked about. You couldn't see none of that. You were just walking out there, your chin was up and you just looking at everything and just absorbing it. [00:07:27] Speaker C: Well, I mean, the glasses help. Cause I'm definitely looking down for them damn fireworks things. I cannot fall. That's all I kept thinking. I cannot fall. So walk as slow as possible, or viral, you know? But I get anxious. I don't know if the word is nervous. It's anxious. I get that same feeling, like, oh, we getting ready to go up? This is about to be fun. I mean, I'm doing a song I've performed for, damn, what, twelve years? So the song part of it is not the part. It's just like, damn, it's getting ready to start. We've been working for this moment, and it's about to go down. So, yeah, there's definitely those butterflies. The minute before I'm about to get up there, like, why? Went Ogz and was finishing, that's when that thing started rambling. I'm like, all right, let's go. And then I gotta turn into it. Execute, don't fall. Nail my cues. And then when I get off, I can go, oh, that shit was crap. I can have it, like, once it's done, you know what I mean? Just making sure that it looked good, because I just saw how much work was getting put into it, you know what I'm saying? It's not like a typical. Ain't nothing's typical about performing at the forum. Not minimizing that. But I'm aware that this is on twitch. It's on Amazon. I'm watching the show before I walk out. [00:08:36] Speaker B: Highest stream Amazon live event ever. [00:08:39] Speaker C: So I'm watching. I'm showing RJ. I'm like, look. Look at the angles. Like, we're literally back there. [00:08:43] Speaker A: Oh. [00:08:43] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. We doing game tag. We watching, like, look, check it out. Like, I would go left. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. [00:08:49] Speaker A: Oh, that's cool. I didn't know y'all was doing. [00:08:50] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, we were. Yes. Cause they had us, like, the last five. They had us, like, away. Like, we couldn't be in that middle part, right? So that's why we sitting. I'm like, look, check out the show me Ogz RJ. [00:09:02] Speaker A: Y'all was like, okay, yeah, she not worked the stage. [00:09:04] Speaker C: I'm like, just look at it. See these? How the camera's gonna work? So everybody kind of dialed in. [00:09:08] Speaker A: That's fire. [00:09:09] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, this. Aye, man, we at work. No matter how fun it is, like, the job is to execute. You know what I'm saying? [00:09:15] Speaker A: I love you. Was doing that. [00:09:16] Speaker C: Nah, man. Cause I never knew to do it before. And I just remember somebody. I wish somebody would have showed me a few things when I was just out there just faking. Like, I knew what I was doing with confidence, but just getting lucky. [00:09:26] Speaker B: Mm hmm. [00:09:27] Speaker A: I was fired, bro. Go ahead, go ahead. [00:09:31] Speaker B: No, I just wanted to say. Cause you've rocked us. Problem. You've rocked many arenas. [00:09:35] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:09:35] Speaker B: When you hit that stage and the song dropped and the crowd went crazy, did Jason Martin feel any sense of reassurance? [00:09:44] Speaker C: I will say, man, humbly speaking, that ain't even me. That song just works. You know what I'm saying? There's something about that song. And when they hear that, I'm confident when that. Cause it just for out here, man. I'm nothing without it. Like, y'all made it special, so it does the work for me. I just can't fuck up. Like, that's my job, is to just remember the words. But, yeah, you love that. You love that. For me, though, personally, was to see, like, Jason Martin, my dad, my mom, and my children, to actually see my actual name while that song was performing was, like, a real big deal. My pops, my mom, they got to have that moment. They got to see, like, it didn't you know, their son ain't a problem to them. They're like, you know, that name's cool, but, you know, we're martins. And so for me to rebrand in front of the world, and not with a new song, but with a song that people know, like, wait. [00:10:36] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:10:37] Speaker C: It was like, I've been working on this for three, four years, this rebrand. [00:10:40] Speaker B: So I think also seeing, like, you and RJ, it was almost like. Cause I was with y'all at the. The soundcheck. But I think just from a fan's perspective, it's like, oh, shit, who's next? What's next? What's next? Oh, who? This person. Oh, then yg comes out RJ, like you said. Oh, jeezy. Even when I look at this photo, there's a lot of artists on here who you might have, like, mentored, who've come up after you. How does that feel for you to see their success? [00:11:14] Speaker C: It's beautiful, man. Like, meet the whoops. I have a special relationship with Meet the whoops because the majority of the group derives out of the neighborhood I grew up in, me and Doc grew up in. So I've known hitter J three since he was eleven. I've known, like, those I've known. Ys is like, one of my best friends little nephews. It's like I've been seeing them as, like, young dudes. Then I watched them go through the growing pains of the street culture. And for them to be so excited, they were like, shook soda cans up, getting ready to get on their stage, like, blood. Should I put my thing like this? It was like that, for me, was so special, man. It was so special. And even afterwards, the camaraderie that's grew with a few people that I didn't know, a few people I hadn't, didn't have relationships. I ran into blue bucks. We was at the highlight room. And our interactions is different now. Cause we shared a moment. Me, I had him hook me up with Kaylin the other day. I had some ideas for some stuff here. You know what I mean? It made it a bridge to where. Okay, we now have a reason to talk to each other if we didn't have one before. Cause of the west coast. So now everybody's a little more receptive in that. And then on some other things with some of the other guys that I hadn't been on stage with in 15, 12, 14 years, for whatever reason, to reconnect with them, like me and mustard, exchanging hugs and talking. [00:12:35] Speaker B: Oh, my God. [00:12:36] Speaker C: You know, what I'm saying, it was a lot of those moments that happened that. I'm so proud it happened. Terrence, he was damn near crying. Like, look at y'all. It's great. You know what I'm saying? It was amazing. It was amazing. [00:12:48] Speaker B: Do you see this being the future of west coast music in terms of unity? [00:12:54] Speaker C: Yeah, I think. And to add on to that, I was telling somebody recently, this is probably the first time in history that all levels of the west coast have products out from the dog pound to rimble. It's like we've never had all been outside me. Quick tirade, like. [00:13:12] Speaker A: And then if you go up top. [00:13:13] Speaker C: P lo, p lo, p 40, even narrating. I'm talking to him about that. [00:13:18] Speaker B: They even threw the nigga that do the skits. [00:13:20] Speaker C: Yep. [00:13:21] Speaker A: The nigga that do the skits do the skits. [00:13:24] Speaker C: Come on, Gina. [00:13:25] Speaker B: That's a real west coast supply. You got storm up there dancing Tommy the clown. [00:13:31] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. Sham out there. It was a lot. [00:13:33] Speaker B: Best Juneteenth since the slaves was free. [00:13:35] Speaker C: That was fire. [00:13:35] Speaker A: They was killing her about that comment. They killing her online. [00:13:39] Speaker C: Why are they killing her about that? [00:13:40] Speaker A: Because they, like, read a book, bitch. [00:13:45] Speaker B: They so serious. [00:13:46] Speaker A: It was a joke. That's why she doubled down on it. [00:13:49] Speaker C: I mean, wasn't nobody here when that happened. So it's like, how would they not be able to compare it, right? It's crazy, bro. [00:13:56] Speaker A: I think it was dope, too, to see just. I know. Okay. Everybody who was backstage and at the rehearsal and in the trailers and everywhere scattered out throughout the forum were not on the stage, right? It was dope to see those dudes smiling, because those dudes ain't the dudes that be smiling, right? And just seeing those dudes smile was like, oh, this is some shit. That's when I knew. Cause it was like, we at work. Like, we used to doing this, okay? We done did some shit together. We done did some big shit, small shit, whatever. We at work. But to see those dudes, like, having. They smiling. I'm seeing this dude having a drink with this dude who. [00:14:33] Speaker C: They would have never had drinks. [00:14:35] Speaker A: They would have never had a drink. And I'm like, oh, this is some shit. Yeah. And then I seen niggas holding the door for each other. [00:14:41] Speaker B: Yes. [00:14:42] Speaker C: I just told somebody. I heard n tell somebody, man. Excuse me, bro. I said, check this out. Oh, my bad, bro. My bad. [00:14:50] Speaker A: Excuse me, my name. [00:14:51] Speaker B: I saw people hugging that I never thought would hug before. [00:14:54] Speaker C: This shit was beautiful. [00:14:55] Speaker B: Literally, for the people who was not backstage that didn't get to feel what we felt at the trailers. It felt like the quad at lunchtime. Yeah, all the cool people is all on the quad all together. [00:15:09] Speaker C: It was so fun. It's like, I had fun being a fan. Like, I literally was like, okay, the minute I get off this stage, I'm about to go put on my fan clothes. Cause I'm about to be all over this mother. I wear shorts, everything. And I was just in the pit, like, yo, this is crazy. This is crazy. Mustard set. Crazy. The tide thing that just happened, there was a lot of surprises, even for us that been there. Like, Tyler, the creator. Yeah, he always comes to people's shows on the low. [00:15:39] Speaker A: On the low. [00:15:39] Speaker C: He'll be in the cut just watching. You'll just see him just going up. He won't touch a stage. For him to get on that stage and say, oh, y'all know this. This is fire. [00:15:47] Speaker B: It was amazing. I think that might have been. Although all of y'all are homies and I know everybody personally, that was my biggest fangirl, momentous. I was so loud for y'all that people were tweeting me, saying they can hear me on the live stream. [00:16:01] Speaker C: That's right, Gina. [00:16:02] Speaker B: Like, come on. It was just amazing to not only be there, like I said, as a fan, but to know y'all, to see everybody's journey and things like that. [00:16:10] Speaker C: Yeah, man, we was having fun. [00:16:11] Speaker B: Congratulations. [00:16:12] Speaker C: Thank you. Congratulations to you guys. You know what I'm saying? I think this was a collective effort without you doing what you've been doing, making sure that that is seen, like, rap is exposed and doing it at a high level. And he's been coast guarding for the whole damn run since zero six. So you know what I'm saying to everybody for dot to say, you know what? All right, go. It's time. And they about to look at me. Y'all go crazy before I get outside. That was fire. [00:16:39] Speaker A: And also, too, like, I also want to give daddish flowers because of the simple fact he just let us do it. Like, it wasn't like, it wasn't like. I mean, obviously they hand picked who they wanted on that stage. That's respect. But it wasn't like, hey, Jason Martin, you gotta do the song. Like, you could have did whatever song you wanted to do. I mean, I wouldn't have let you. [00:17:00] Speaker C: You definitely wouldn't have let me. [00:17:01] Speaker A: I wouldn't have let you. [00:17:02] Speaker C: You right, as you shouldn't have. As you should have. That's like getting to the championship with the fade away. Then, like, aren't. I'm gonna shoot threes. No, no, that makes no sense. [00:17:11] Speaker B: I wanted them Amazon execs to hear d two, b. Girl, what's wrong? [00:17:16] Speaker C: Let me tell you. Hey, I bet the Amazon execs, when we all ran on that stage probably was like, yeah. Oh, whoa, wait, wait a minute. What's going on? [00:17:25] Speaker A: Hey, you know what's funny? The craziest part of that whole thing when everybody was getting on stage was I seen white people just taking their headsets off. [00:17:38] Speaker C: We got this far, guys, listen, hey, the numbers are numbering. Let em rock. [00:17:42] Speaker A: Fuck it. [00:17:42] Speaker C: You got em. [00:17:43] Speaker A: You know what? [00:17:44] Speaker B: I see? Everybody enjoying it. The staff, the ushers. It was literally just a kickback. Niggas was not working like that. [00:17:51] Speaker A: And that was like, let's do it again. He was like, oh, shit. You know what I'm saying? [00:17:59] Speaker C: That was so imprompt, bro. I'm literally, I'm sitting there, I'm watching this nigga show. Like, yo, this nigga's going crazy. I got damn ghetto tears going. When black hippie get up there, ebony comes tapping like, hey, get ready. When you hear like that. I'm like, get ready for what? They like, we gotta go back to the stage. I'm like, fool, what? [00:18:16] Speaker A: You what? And people didn't know that? People thought that was playing? No, we didn't know nothing about that. [00:18:21] Speaker B: He hit the group chat, saying, we about to leave. [00:18:23] Speaker A: I was literally, bro, okay, she can put me out there. So look what? [00:18:29] Speaker B: So look, he said, hit the group chat, saying, when doctor dre get on stage, we leaving. [00:18:34] Speaker C: Like, I get out of here. [00:18:35] Speaker A: Because, no, it wasn't. It wasn't that. I was ready to go, bro. It was no food. I was hungry, bro. I'm like, I gotta go eat. [00:18:45] Speaker C: We had been there since early, bro. [00:18:46] Speaker A: We've been there since. I've been there since 11:00 a.m. no food. And so people, I mean, y'all know me, but when I get hungry, nothing matters. Hangry, I done got. I done got up and walked out of whole meetings because I'm hungry. Like, hey, she meets the white man. Talk to Sally's. I gotta go eat, champ. You know what I mean? Like, so I hadn't eaten. So I. So I was like, yo, he finna get on stage. I seen doctor dre backstage. So I'm like, oh, when dre get on stage, we out. So I'm think I had that in my mind. So I'm like, okay, if we get backstage, we get all of our stuff, and we able to get out of here before the whole crowd. I can get some food before everybody get to the food, right? That's what I'm doing in my mind. So then I hit the group chat. Like, yo, we out. Be on deck, or something like that. I said, so I had. Gina was looking, and everybody was like, okay, we on deck. [00:19:32] Speaker B: I wasn't leaving. [00:19:34] Speaker A: I wasn't leaving. I hit the group chat like, nigga, if you with me, we out, right? Anyway, then Silas was like, hey, stick around right here. I'm like, what you mean is like, dot want everybody on stage. I said, everybody, everybody. What you mean? So now I go back into, like, rehearsal. Rehearsal. I'm like, you want everybody on stage in front of the world? So I'm like, oh, shit, we didn't. We didn't pull this, all right? We got all these niggas on stage and the pyro and, like, why we gotta do all of that? That's what I was thinking in my brain. But then it was just like, everybody just kind of, like, swarmed the whole area, and they just was like, yo, nigga, we home. Let's get y'all. Oh, this is okay. [00:20:21] Speaker C: When they say, yeah, so you gonna go on after the third one? I said, the third one. Oh, he about to run it up. This is crazy. What's about to happen? [00:20:29] Speaker A: And then the second part to that was, I wasn't even trying to get on stage. Cause I'm like, it just became too much. And then big hit came out of nowhere, right? [00:20:38] Speaker B: He fell. [00:20:39] Speaker A: Big hit came out of nowhere. He was like, yeah, let me through. He a real nigga. I'm like, straight up big hit. And the people that was controlling stage didn't know big hit. Cause he wasn't performing. So I was like, no, don't. Don't stop him. [00:20:50] Speaker C: Don't do it. Him and his grandbaby is getting up. [00:20:54] Speaker A: They get let big hit on stay. So now I'm helping the girls. And that is standing there looking over at in the pita, like, head. Come on. I'm like, fuck. Okay, so now I gotta figure out how to squeeze through this. Cause it was tight. And it was just like, all right, now, once we were in the moment, I'm like, okay, this is cool. [00:21:13] Speaker C: It was up. [00:21:13] Speaker A: And then he was like, we took the photo and he's like, all right, one more time, Tony. I'm like, again? [00:21:18] Speaker C: Yeah, I think it was like, like. [00:21:21] Speaker B: Five or six times. [00:21:21] Speaker C: It was about five, six on the walkout. [00:21:24] Speaker B: Six on the walkout, when he kept stopping that minority and he started going to slow motion. [00:21:30] Speaker C: I've been practicing on that leg. I keep falling. I can't do it. That man got balance. That was crazy, man. Yeah. I'm getting goose webs thinking about it right now, man. Just back in that moment, man, that was dope. I'm so happy. [00:21:44] Speaker A: I'm glad, bro, that we got to share that together. [00:21:46] Speaker C: Yeah, man, I think everybody is, too, man. Like, that night, everybody was hitting you in the morning, like, you went to sleep. I'm like, nah. He was like, nah, me neither. Like, everybody I'm talking about, from dot to damar to Dom Kennedy, he, two days later, hit me. Like, man, I think it's finally hitting me. And it was just like, you know, for him, it was real sentimental. He said the last time he was in a forum was with his father. His father recently passed was to see Kareem play. So he was standing in that spot. Cause I tried to grab him, like, man, come on, let's go on stage. Like, I didn't know why he didn't want to go, but he was just stuck. And he was like, man, you know what? [00:22:26] Speaker A: It's crazy. Dom didn't tell me why, but now that's clarity on why. Because he said I was just stuck. And I'm like, what the fuck you mean you was stuck? [00:22:32] Speaker C: Yeah, it was his pops. You know what I'm saying? He was in a moment, and I'm, like, argued that. I said, I definitely wish you would have been in this pic, though. He was like, yeah. He said, I couldn't move, bro. He said, I saw it. I was just watching, like, yo, this is crazy. Like, a lot of us just couldn't believe it because we had never seen it. We had never seen Los Angeles feel safe. [00:22:52] Speaker B: We've never seen nothing like this. Nah, nah, I'm framing this. [00:22:56] Speaker C: Yeah, out of towners don't really get it. Cause they're like. You know, they sometimes can look at that and see it in a comical sense. Like, look at them fighting over colors and. But, nah, it's a little deeper than that. When you got especially. A lot of those people are, like, direct enemies, right? And I know some of those people, once they got off that stage, got some pretty interesting phone calls about why they were there, for sure, and they're still standing. [00:23:20] Speaker B: Everybody not gonna understand it. [00:23:21] Speaker C: And the thing is, it ain't for everybody. They not like us. And then we gotta understand that, man. [00:23:28] Speaker A: Chupacabra. [00:23:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:23:30] Speaker A: Why? [00:23:32] Speaker B: What does that even mean? [00:23:33] Speaker C: Chupacabra is like, I will paraphrase. Like, the mexican bigfoot and goats are afraid of chupacabras. So that's the meaning of it. A lot of us know what me and quick do in these studios. We've assisted a lot of people, and we've been a part of a lot of big things on the low. And it was just like, you know, beware the chupacabras. When we walk around, man, we can shake shit up. So. [00:24:01] Speaker B: So you comin to kill the niggas? That's the greatest to ever do it. [00:24:04] Speaker C: Nah, I'm just saying the ghosts know what's up. [00:24:05] Speaker A: Woo woo. [00:24:07] Speaker C: That's all I'm saying, bar. They just know what's up. They know what's up with Q Mandez. Quick. Quick is quick. And break this whole studio down and put it back together in front of us. That's a talent, man. And I know what I can do. So that was the meaning. And it was, we can, like, brand it a certain way. But the actual album was an accident. [00:24:24] Speaker A: What you mean? [00:24:25] Speaker C: He was retired? He was done. He had just bought a new house with some horse ranch shit in the back. He literally called me like, man, come check out the new house. It's by yours. I'm like, all right, well, let me pack up my studio. He's like, you got. I got it with me. He's like, bring it. So when I pulled over, he had all these plaques just kind of like, he just moving in. So they just kind of there. So he's like, man, set up right there if you want. If you want to kick it. He's making chicken. I'm just. I started doing records, and then he's like, come back tomorrow. Then he's talking shit, like, why the fuck are you still doing music, man? There's so much stuff we could be doing, man, let's go here. Let's go on vacation. I'm like, ah, we're doing music. Next day, I come back. Now, he got a new mic out. I'm like, all right. Next day, I come back, he got equipment attached to my equipment. He's like, if you gonna do it, do it right. I'm like, all right. So then that next day, I come back, and now he got verses on shit. He said, I woke up out of my sleep, I was hearing something he was doing. I said, uh. Oh, God. [00:25:21] Speaker B: Do you think you re inspired him? [00:25:23] Speaker C: I let him tell it. Yeah, he said he was done. He said it was over. He didn't feel like doing it. No, more. It was other things he wanted to do. Jay Worthy was a big, big, big influence, though. It was the day he came over and kind of added a different energy to it. This album doesn't happen without him. The way he was just getting features, branding ideas, the motivation, making sure it just kind of kept going. And we looked up 45 days later, we had this project and a whole lot of music. [00:25:51] Speaker A: Now, when you came back to his house and it was verses on shit. On your shit, right? His verses on your shit, what was the first conversation about it? [00:26:01] Speaker C: Like, what was, you know, me. That's right, nigga, go up. Come on. Hop on. [00:26:06] Speaker A: All this shit. [00:26:08] Speaker C: I'm a fan. I'm still a fan of everybody. Of everybody. Like everybody. I like, I love when people are killing it. I love it. So for him to wake up out of his bed and be like, I heard a verse. It's like, oh, that's still dj quick facts. At the end of the day, that's not like, you know, Steve just sitting in there like, that's dj quick. That's allowing me to hook up in his house with all our eyes on me. Plaques right there and fucking Janet Jackson. Plaques right there. And murder was the clay. I'm like, yo, I'm like a kid in the caddy store. [00:26:42] Speaker B: How'd you feel when he told you he wanted to retire? [00:26:45] Speaker C: I knew it was cap. Me personally, I knew it was cap, but it was a necessary cap. He wanted. He needed somebody to be like, ah, nah, we not doing that. And I think, you know, people around him probably just, was just like, probably just settling in like, okay, he's done everything. It's not like he needs to do anything to accomplish anything else. So he didn't really need to put out another album. But shit, we got this opportunity and it's going good. It's going real good. [00:27:15] Speaker A: What's the response been like for you? I mean, both of you all are veterans. He's a legende. Like, what's been the response from the, like, I guess from the community because it's a lot of features on the project. [00:27:26] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:27:27] Speaker A: What's been like when you first reach out or Jay worthy first reach out? Like, hey, you know Jason Martin quick, they got something going on. Is like, is it like, oh, shit, for real? Or is it like, man, I thought this nigga was done or I knew. [00:27:39] Speaker C: He wasn't, man, them verses was coming back so fast, man. I would just be in there working on something, and then Jay Wesley be like, check your email. It'll be a bumby. Verse, check your email. Larry June. Verse, check your email, cee lo. Verse. I'm like, bro, what are you doing? He's like, they want to get down. Peas. Everybody want to get down. You know what I'm saying? They like, what y'all doing? It was some people trying to take the actual songs for their albums. Oh, I had a couple of them incidents. [00:28:03] Speaker A: Let me get that. [00:28:04] Speaker C: Yo, who tried to take a song aside? Rocky won a ditto. [00:28:08] Speaker A: Are you serious? Yeah, like, let me get that. [00:28:11] Speaker C: He wanted it for his album. Chuck. Game wanted ditto. [00:28:16] Speaker A: I can see game. He probably low key. Took one or. [00:28:19] Speaker C: Nah, he not over here. [00:28:21] Speaker A: Oh, God. [00:28:21] Speaker C: I'm not playing with big old Chuck. He fucked up. Like, no, he definitely tried it, though. [00:28:26] Speaker A: He tried it. [00:28:27] Speaker C: He's like, you playing me records I can't even have. What is this about? I said you came and hopped on forties. I tend to get on this, so. Nah, nah. [00:28:35] Speaker B: It's a lot of features on here. I'm sorry. [00:28:38] Speaker A: Go ahead, go ahead. [00:28:39] Speaker B: Game. Big hit, sugar free, meet the woof, Larry June, Jay Worthy, Lil John. So many people on here. Dj drama, absol currency, bumby, Dom Kennedy. Why so many features? [00:28:52] Speaker C: They like the music, the energy. Just start coming in. [00:28:56] Speaker B: I like that you guys aren't exclusive. Are making it exclusive. And this is open for the people that we're also fans of. [00:29:03] Speaker C: Yeah, like, thundercat was like, whoa. They wanted to submit something. I'm like, okay, this is getting. Wow. We're producers first, right? At the end of the day, me and quick, like, we lean into song crafting more than, like, the MC and part of it. So for me, it's like, why can't Dom have a solo project? A solo song? Why can't game have a solo? Who said we couldn't? You know what I mean? I think that's the real. The real musicianship is like, we're here to break every rule. They sent it in because they wanted to be involved with it. And, you know, I like to leave stuff as is. If it's rocking, ain't no point in, like, where I'm a rap. No, it sounds fire selfless. Let's leave it right where it is. The music is great. It's popping. [00:29:42] Speaker A: What's the conversation like? I mean, what's the, first of all, what's the relationship like with ASAP Rocky? Was that a you thing? A J worthy thing? [00:29:47] Speaker C: That was Jay Worthy. Jay Worthy used to be signed to yams. Gotcha, yams. So I do know through chase, infinite shout out to him. They're working on his project now. So it was a few different conversation ways about it. [00:30:00] Speaker A: Got you. And then also the Lil Jon connection, bro. Yeah, I'm a huge. I became a dj listening to Lil Jon in real life. And, like, when I heard him on the project, it's like. Cause it's like, it ain't. I don't like to look at track lists and shit. I like to just listen. So I like to put it on and just listen. And now if I catch it, I catch it. And then after the. Then that's when the journalistic shit kicks in. I'm like, okay, who produced this shit? That's when I nerd out. But when I heard little John, it was more like. It's like, oh, shit, that's John, right? Cause he's like. He just is. [00:30:35] Speaker C: Sprinkle, blam. [00:30:36] Speaker A: It's just blam. [00:30:36] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:30:38] Speaker A: Like, how did that, how did, how did, how do you go about you talking about being a producer? How do you go about deciding what gets that? [00:30:44] Speaker C: Okay. Now, me and Lil Jon, we have a relationship, like, over twelve years. We did some records prior. I'm on a few of his projects. We had a single before, but we met. His son was a super fan of me. So I popped up at his birthday party just out of nowhere for, for his son and John. So we were like, cool for a long time. So certain records is like, all right, I'm here. We gonna flip roddy. Oh. Like, it's Super West coast. It's gonna be dope. We crafted this joint. Like, what can we do to, like, take it that way? So I'm like, I hit John. I'm like, yo, I got something, man. I just need you to just, like, just yell through it. Give me something. Give me something on it. He heard. He's like, oh, this is crazy. I got you. So, you know, I'm working on the album. And then, like, I think it was like a Saturday morning. He's like, yo, I'm about to be at the studio. I'm about to send you what you need. I'm gonna knock it out. Hopefully it'll be enough. I'm like, all right. He's like, yeah, man. Usher rushing me right now, so I'm gonna knock it out. So he sent me the vocals. I don't know what the fuck you talking about. Usher rushing me? [00:31:41] Speaker A: What happened? That ain't none of my business. [00:31:42] Speaker C: So it comes back and I'm like, all right, we get it done. Then a week later, the n pop up on the Super bowl. So he did that shit right before the Super bowl. [00:31:49] Speaker A: That's crazy. [00:31:50] Speaker C: Yeah. Like, that's just the kind of guy he is. For him to be in one of his biggest moments ever, he like, oh, I got you. Let me knock this out real quick. And shit. [00:31:59] Speaker A: Usher rushing me is crazy. [00:32:00] Speaker C: It's crazy. [00:32:02] Speaker A: Hey, I got you. But usher rushing me right now. [00:32:06] Speaker C: Rushing me for the super bowl, though. He couldn't say that part, right? Cause I'd have been like, what, nigga? [00:32:11] Speaker A: Put my shit on the back, nigga. [00:32:12] Speaker C: If you don't, wait till you done. But, I mean, the humility in that guy, man. Shout out to John, bro, for sure. [00:32:18] Speaker A: That's crazy. Sonically, when I'm listening to the project, it doesn't sound. It sound okay. It sounds like. It sounds like hip hop, but like us. [00:32:32] Speaker C: Right? [00:32:33] Speaker A: And I don't know how to describe. I don't know how to articulate that better. [00:32:37] Speaker C: I want to go with elevated nostalgia. [00:32:39] Speaker A: Okay. I like that. [00:32:40] Speaker C: It's like. [00:32:41] Speaker A: Cause it sound like. I don't know who produced the meet the whoops song. The welcome to the. Was it welcome to the west side? [00:32:47] Speaker C: It's called Meet the whoops. The song. [00:32:49] Speaker A: It's called Meet the whoops. [00:32:50] Speaker C: So that was quiks groove one, but remixed. [00:32:54] Speaker A: Okay. And a lot of that. I could hear that on this. [00:32:58] Speaker C: Yeah, we definitely went through records that we loved from, like, the nineties, and then, like, put a twist on them and brought them to here. And then, like, I would say the second half is, like, more modern, but, like, still bringing. Adding the sounds from the past into the moderns stuff. [00:33:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:14] Speaker C: Like, we wanted to do, like, this sound class situation. Shout out to my boy Dominique Sanders. Man, he did a lot of heavy lifting production wise. G one was in there. You know what I'm saying? He was bringing in his crew, and I was bringing in mine, and we were just jumping all the records. But once quick, mix it and do that thing. His sound is a brand, so he can take anybody's beat, and now it becomes quick. [00:33:35] Speaker A: Is it hard working with somebody who's that meticulous? Cause I've heard the same things about Dre. I've heard things about quick. I've heard the things about. Even when I was talking to dog, he was like, no. I get in there and tell. Corrupt. No, say it like this, and then. But quick is a maniac. Like, I've been on stage literally djing, and he'll go. He'll be mic checking, and he'll be like, turn me up. Three Db. I'm like, bro, what the fuck does that mean? [00:33:56] Speaker C: Right, right, right. I mean, with him, we have. We've been working so long that this now is like. It's like running a pick and roll. We got that. But, yeah, I expect it going in, so it doesn't bother me. He's a master. So when the master say, change it, change it. It's not that deep. Now, if it's something that I'm like, I think we gotta stay here with it. And he respects me enough. Cause he know I wouldn't say it if I. You know what I mean? If I didn't think it. He respects my craft enough. We have a great working relationship for me and him. We just like that. It was two people that knew how to engineer and mix instead of one that could record everybody. It's tough, man, doing these four albums alone, you know, so he was able to go get the champagne and the chicken going. While I may be engineering for the rapper that's right there. And then I can say, all right, man, I do not know how to make that sound like that. We can get up and swap, then I can roll up the weed and entertain the crew or whatever. So that's why it was done so fast. I've never done an album this fast. How fast we did it, everything was probably done in about 40 days. [00:34:59] Speaker B: Wow. [00:34:59] Speaker A: Damn. [00:35:00] Speaker C: I'm talking about all those features are new. It was nothing. Sitting around in a hard drive. Everything is brand spanking new. [00:35:07] Speaker A: Damn. [00:35:08] Speaker C: Yeah. These are no lingering songs that we had sitting around. [00:35:11] Speaker B: When you put on your producer hat or like you said, mixing and engineering, you just crafting songs for another artist, how are you able to remove your ego and not say, I'm gonna keep this for myself? It's almost like when I go Christmas shopping, I'll be buying shit for people, and I'll be like, I can use this. How do you remove your ego in those situations? [00:35:32] Speaker C: I just. I believe in my ability that God is gonna keep. Keep lighting me so I can keep making music. So it's not. I don't look at it like that. It's like, if I came here and we're working on Gina's project and I make some amazing songs, like, well, God put me here for this to happen for her. It'd be selfish for me to be like, all right, let me. I mean, let's try something else. Like, that's not. The energies of the room was for you. When the energies in the room are for me, then it's for me. I kind of. I can compartmentalize things like that. I don't. I've never, like, saved a record. Like, I did something if I got to do something for somebody or are we working on somebody and they come out crazy. I'm like, ooh, they about to go off. [00:36:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:12] Speaker C: Like, I think I was talking to nima earlier about I don't want her to. It was like, yeah, when we wrote that. [00:36:17] Speaker A: You and Eric Bellinger. [00:36:18] Speaker C: Yeah, when we wrote that, it was like, I could easily be like, especially at that time. And that's mine. [00:36:25] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:36:25] Speaker C: But it was like, we trying to break a new guy out of the city. [00:36:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:28] Speaker C: I take it. Get cracking. [00:36:29] Speaker B: Yeah. Now without name dropping, has anybody ever disappointed you on the song and you kept it for yourself? [00:36:36] Speaker C: I mean, disappointed like what? Like, didn't deliver. [00:36:37] Speaker B: They didn't deliver. Well. [00:36:41] Speaker C: I haven't had that happen yet because we're not leaving until it's right. We're not. What else we got to do? This is what we do. Like, nah, let's dial it in. Let's recut again. Maybe I need to recut again. Maybe I need to change the drum. I need to do something so that we're all satisfied when we leave. I haven't had yet to have that happen. [00:37:00] Speaker B: You're. And I guess this all just speaks to your expertise, but. Cause when you played, I forget the name of the song, but it's the one with you, Ken the man and Diddy, when you played it for me, I believe it was slowed down. [00:37:11] Speaker C: Yeah, it was slowed down. [00:37:12] Speaker B: And we was in the studio and then you was. I forgot what the conversation was. But you said something like, let me speed this up or let me do something on it. And it made the song. It was already a dope song, but it made it ten times better. [00:37:24] Speaker C: Yeah, them BPM switches, like DJ's know, like, when they get a record, they got about one. They got about two to four bpms. They can go up when they playing without the pitch shifting. So now with the technology, like, I can take a song from like a 98 bpm to 110 without the shit, without chipmunking. No different. So I play like, I'll play like, even the song on troopers, it's a. [00:37:48] Speaker A: Couple of them that's moving on that motherfucker. [00:37:50] Speaker C: Yeah, I had to get it up. Like money, cars and guns. He recorded that maybe 15 bpm slower, 20 bpm slower. It was hella slow. And then with Domenna, dom gon tell you, when he don't like something, slow it down. So I had to do some shit in my headphones. I'm like, hold on, I got an idea. But you go over there and go fuck with quick. Real quick. So then when I sped it up and he heard it back, he was like, yo, who? What made you do that? You know how he good. He's like, but erase it, though. I gotta recut it to this speed. Cause I gotta find my bop, bro. [00:38:19] Speaker A: I'll do it. I wanna butt in. But. So I heard that, like, later on in the album, he was like, you know, we gotta go back to this. And then Don was like, yeah, slow that down. [00:38:29] Speaker C: That really happened. [00:38:30] Speaker A: That really happened. [00:38:31] Speaker C: I'm playing him the album. He come over like him and Absol was the last ones. Cause I needed my homies on there. I need to get my niggas that I know really, this culture thing that we cultivate here. So I play him the album. He like, man, everything sound fire. I don't know. So playing the instrumental, like the troopers groove, and it breaks down and slow down. He like, man, loop that part. I'm like, what? That part? Looped that and just repeated on some hip hop shit. And I'm gonna go off the slow down part when it go boom, boom. He rapped to that. So I took it, looped it, and then I said, all right. He's like, I will speed it up some. I'm like, okay, you gonna have to really. We have to recreate this moment. Cause this is even insane that you did that. We sampling a record that's already on the record. Right, right. That really happened. [00:39:22] Speaker A: You reappear the song that's on the song. [00:39:24] Speaker C: Yeah. He was like, that's the one I gotta get on. I'm like, but that's the instrumental. You know, every quick. I'm not instrumental. He's like, fuck all that. We gotta bring it back, though. It's art. Let's rock. Do it. [00:39:36] Speaker A: Fuck it. [00:39:37] Speaker C: Yeah, man. You caught that? [00:39:38] Speaker A: I caught it. [00:39:39] Speaker C: That's fire. [00:39:39] Speaker A: I caught it. I caught it. I'm like, I'm like, that one from the earlier, though, to slow it down, though. And then I'm like, okay, so Dom got to get in his little. [00:39:49] Speaker C: He's really a producer on the law. He know what? He got a different ear. A lot of people don't give credit for it. [00:39:54] Speaker A: That's true. [00:39:54] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:39:55] Speaker A: Even I don't like. Not, like. Not in a negative way. I'm just saying, like, I never think about Dom and. But he always does that. Like, every feature I've ever seen him do where I witnessed it. He'll like, no, no, slow it down. Always speed it up. And then, like, it's a coproduction. [00:40:10] Speaker C: Definitely, definitely. [00:40:11] Speaker A: The album kicks off. Okay, I want to read you this lyric. It says, too much down south dick licking. Jason Martin. [00:40:18] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:40:18] Speaker A: Now, there's more to it. There's nuance. Yeah, there's context, but it's a whole bar. But that part stood out to me. Where did that come from? [00:40:26] Speaker C: Well, that's paying homage to Jay Z's 22s on reasonable doubt. At the time, the west coast was the hottest in the game. So he said, too much west coast dick licking. [00:40:35] Speaker A: I knew it. [00:40:35] Speaker C: At this time, the south is the hottest in the game. [00:40:38] Speaker A: I knew it. [00:40:38] Speaker C: So it was like, well, we gotta swap that out. So it's more so, like, how on fire they are. Y'all gotta chill out with this shit. [00:40:47] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying? [00:40:48] Speaker C: Like, we out here trying to sound like them niggas. We out here trying to do what they do. It's no slight to them, but out here in my city is too much down south dick licking. When we in the studio. Yeah, same thing Jay Z did when he was telling the east coast, like, man, get off the niggas dick. We us. So that's where it came from. [00:41:05] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. [00:41:05] Speaker C: 22 two from reasonable. [00:41:07] Speaker A: I caught that, too. I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what? Every now and then, you do some shit. I'm like, stick something in there. [00:41:14] Speaker C: Some hip hop. Yeah, yeah. [00:41:17] Speaker A: Like, okay, this nigga, this. This nigga's really a hip hop head. [00:41:19] Speaker C: Niggas hit me like, oh, you dissing the south? Okay. No, we got southern people all over the damn album, right? [00:41:25] Speaker B: Do you think we're getting taken the spotlight back? [00:41:28] Speaker C: It's took. [00:41:31] Speaker A: It's up to us. [00:41:33] Speaker C: We have to do what we have to do. At this point, we got thrown the easiest lobs. Like, the west coast doesn't get these type of lobs, bro. We got to watch this. Mandez dismantled everybody else's superman for two weeks straight. Was one of the most exciting times in hip hop history, where we're, like, on our seat waiting. Like the Internet had never seen anything like that. Radio had never had a moment like that. Hip hop had never had a moment like that. And for him to end it with a mustard beat was the perfect lobbing layup for dj's radios. Now tell us our tempo don't fit. Now, that's a lie. Tell us we can't go 98 plus up. Now. Go ahead. I dare you to. It's not true. The number one record and still bouncing through the number one to number five is still that song. [00:42:18] Speaker B: A diss track. [00:42:20] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:42:20] Speaker B: That's crazy. [00:42:21] Speaker C: I love it that the children are rapping about the atlantic slave trade. And I seen a ten year old rap that verse. I'm like, he don't even know he's being educated. And to say that, yeah, stop messing with these little ass girls. It's some real messaging going on over that mustard beat. I think it even changed the way people are going to attack his beats. You don't have to just. You don't have to just be at the party or talk about your bag over it. We just saw a real masterclass. So now niggas mind should be like, boom. And then that was before that dropped. This show just made it. Well, all right. Now he can. Everybody can be seen now what y'all gonna do? Are y'all gonna, like, start beefing again? You're gonna like. We're gonna do that thing. We're gonna talk about who wasn't there all day. We gotta talk about why I. And just, are we just gonna get to work? Cause right now, the city on fire. [00:43:11] Speaker A: And I think, too, like, to your point, what's dope is I see some people, like, having their discrepancies, but it's like, no, bro, this is the moment. I don't give a fuck if you was on the stage. If you from California, the bay, central, Cal, you from Fresno, Bakersfield, Oxnow, I don't give fuck. Where are you from? [00:43:32] Speaker B: It's for all of us. [00:43:33] Speaker A: Vegas, Reno, everybody. Phoenix. Get cracking. [00:43:36] Speaker C: Get cracking right now. Listen, man, and I want to speak on that, too, man. Like, again, man, we got this really bad. It wasn't even 24 hours, and we started talking about who wasn't there. Yeah, we gotta chill. As somebody who. I've never done rolling loud, have you ever heard me complain about it? [00:43:57] Speaker A: No. [00:43:57] Speaker C: I only clap and repost when nigga go up. [00:43:59] Speaker B: Mm hmm. [00:44:00] Speaker C: So that's crazy to me, that y'all would take all of our moment and turn it into this entitlement thing. I think it's kind of selfish, and I think people should check their egos right now. I think if anything, just pull up and be involved. I done pull up to plenty of shit that I didn't touch the stage on. [00:44:16] Speaker A: Me, too. [00:44:17] Speaker C: I done pulled up to a lot of things. I didn't applaud it, sent DM's texts, reposted. A lot of moments that the pride wasn't invited to. But the thing is, why would I make somebody else's moment about me? We gotta chill out. We got to chill. That type of stuff gets momentum because people like clickbait. People like to entertain a type of negativity. You don't know why, what and what. Higher powers said, no. So don't be coming at the homie. Cause we not playing that. Don't be coming at him. Cause we not playing that. Don't be coming at muscle niggas mad at me. Yeah, we not playing none of that. But being mad don't do nothing. Being mad. You can be mad all day, but the fact of the matter is, history got done. And who the fuck said we won't get another moment like that? [00:44:59] Speaker B: That's been my point. [00:45:00] Speaker C: You know how many promoters want to throw little baby pop outs now? You know how many people are like, whoa, oh, they know how to act. We could take this thing to you with four of the guys from the front. Like, bro, chill out. Yeah, like, chill out. [00:45:12] Speaker A: Now I have people calling me, too, from Atlanta, like, yo, we got this festival that we do. Like, can we do something? Can you, like, what are some guys that wasn't there? Like, can we bring them out? That way they get the shine. [00:45:24] Speaker C: Let's keep the party going. And I get it, man. I get. I've definitely felt that before. Like, damn, why couldn't come and turn it up? But I'm not gonna publicly. And the thing is, it was right at the forum. Niggas could have been in there. I mean, the weeknd didn't hit the stage neither. SZA didn't hit the stage right. Keem didn't either. Rick, Ross, they all was there like this. You should have been your ass in the spot. You should have been in the spot. [00:45:50] Speaker B: I don't think people are paying attention and aware of how much like this. I love this. [00:45:58] Speaker C: That's why I keep thinking, this is. [00:46:00] Speaker B: Bigger than everybody in this picture. [00:46:02] Speaker C: Yes. [00:46:03] Speaker B: This is about the generations that's gonna be come afterwards. I was able to see this and witness this. We've never seen this before. We didn't get this from rogs. There hasn't been anybody who said, let's bring all the artists together. Let's tell. Let me tell all of y'all. Like, hey, said, you from here. You from here. But today, we all from the same hood. That has not happened. And I feel like. Cause I've seen a lot of people, oh, this person wasn't there. That person wasn't there. You know, this, this and that. That's not the point. The point is that this happened. [00:46:32] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:46:33] Speaker B: We never thought that we would see no shit like this before. The last time that every hood was together was when Nip died. [00:46:38] Speaker C: Yeah. And, you know, and again, once you do it right the first time, the second ones are easy, the third ones are easy. [00:46:44] Speaker A: And I think it's just. I mean, you know me, I'm gonna come with the business, but a lot of these infrastructures and these platforms are seeing the value in our culture and our community. And so now it's on us to keep that going where we don't. If we don't fuck it up, they're going to continuously invest. It's like, oh, okay, let me do a show over here with these people. Let me take this on the road. I might have, you know, it's all these types of things and then these brands. Like, I always tell. Sorry, the homie a Tron. I'm always telling the homie a Tron, like, get off the Internet with your opinions because you might badmouth SiriusXM, but then one day Sirius XM might give you a radio show straight up. So it's just like, certain things like that that I'm always trying to. I sound preachy, but. [00:47:24] Speaker C: Nah, you sound right. We were in a rehearsal. I'm like, it was about three, four people. And I'm like, damn, I wish they were here. So we all. It wasn't. That thing was thrown by Amazon. Guys, you guys gotta chill the fuck out. This was not like. You know what I'm saying? We gotta dial it back a little bit with the negativity. 24 hours after it happened. [00:47:48] Speaker B: Nick, you ain't even enjoying them all. [00:47:50] Speaker C: That's crazy. Crazy, man. You know what I'm saying? I done tapped in with some folks and this, this and that, and I understand that feeling. I get it, bro. Like, I think let's switch the way you said, like, damn, that was fire. I wish I was. There is a way better tweet. Yeah, it's a way better post. Damn, the homie's up there killing it. [00:48:08] Speaker A: Ooh. [00:48:09] Speaker C: I want it to be up there. That makes it more joyous, more celebratory. [00:48:14] Speaker B: Celebrate your people. [00:48:15] Speaker C: Yeah, we are. You know what I mean? [00:48:16] Speaker A: I think it's important to note, but also want to give credit where credit is due. Like, there has been a lot of people who show support and love, and not even just from here, but even from the bay. Like, from the bay. It was a lot of. Man, we want to replicate that we want to do this. You know, the homie dame, he's got his show. He's from Oakland, but he has his. He has the boy dame, he has his moment that he has at cameo summer gym. And it's dame and friends. And it's like, man, I want to recreate that energy. And it's like, so fuck whoever is on stage and all of that, but it's just sparking that. And I want to see that from Memphis. Yeah, I really want to see that from Memphis. [00:48:56] Speaker C: Memphis. I want to see Chicago. [00:48:57] Speaker A: I want to see Chicago like, I want to see that. And now. Cause what's going to happen, this is the truth. And I probably shouldn't say this on air, but the truth is whoever they is, whoever you want to put as they. They don't want to see us like that. [00:49:11] Speaker C: Not at all. [00:49:11] Speaker A: Because there's power in that. Because when we start doing that, Chicago get they shit together. Memphis, get they shit together. Jacksonville, get they shit together. Like, when we start doing that. Oh, yeah, real infrastructure gets created, and now we take the economics and we start doubling up and rein up and all that. That's when you gonna see some real shifting of the culture. And I think that's the takeaway. [00:49:36] Speaker C: Yeah, man, let's. Again, you can have barbershop talk with your folks. I don't mind that, man. But we all are public figures at this point, man. Let's have a little more responsibility when we talking about something that's iconic and historic as this event, bro. [00:49:52] Speaker A: I think. Well, before we get into the bullshit, I wanna say. I wanna give you the opportunity to. [00:49:58] Speaker B: He thought it wasn't no bullshit. [00:50:00] Speaker A: Oh, no, it's for show some bull. [00:50:02] Speaker C: That's right. [00:50:04] Speaker A: It's for show some bullshit. But before we get into that, I do wanna say that you've done a great job at navigating musically as far as, like, I've seen the way you've been moving. And I want you. I'm gonna challenge you publicly to continue to mentor. And, like, you reached out to me, you was like, yo, I got records for Kalin. I've been producing. I got these ideas. Hook me up with Kaylin. I put you right on the phone with Kalin. For real? For real. And you like, yo, I'm gonna send it over and I'm seeing the bell. I'm like, boom. Like, that's what we need from you. We need that from you. I told the same thing to hitboy. I need. We need that because Hitboy got a huge platform. He's all in on big hit right now. But when big hit is gone on tour, I need you back in with these people. I need you in the same way I told Terrace the same thing. I challenged Mike and keys. I pulled up on my guy Mars. I told him, like, I need y'all to help me with the next wave because load of great Larry J. Like, all of these dudes can use what you know, and they don't have nobody that's doing that for them. Like that. [00:51:09] Speaker C: Say less, say less, man. And then I used to have, like, some rebuttal for that. Like, well, they gotta listen. They don't even gotta listen. I got you. [00:51:16] Speaker A: It don't matter if they listen. [00:51:17] Speaker C: I love them. I'm gonna hit you, like, so. You're not gonna be able to say it didn't come from Jay. [00:51:21] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:51:21] Speaker C: I'm gonna let it fly because I see it. I see where it can go. It's real small kinks. It ain't even really deep. It's like, really just some sonic things that can happen. And them boys is out of here. Cause they already looking like it. They looking like it. Everybody was fresh as fuck. Wasn't no dusties on stage at this joint. The west was looking like the west. You know what I mean? [00:51:43] Speaker A: All right, so a couple things. You have something else? [00:51:47] Speaker B: Okay, let's get into it. [00:51:49] Speaker A: All right, so this right here is. We're gonna do head scratcher. So what these are. Are. These are grade school questions. I'm actually gonna ask you three grade school questions, and we'll see, you know, how will you do on the radio? [00:52:07] Speaker C: Oh, wow. [00:52:08] Speaker A: All right, so name the five high schools that are part of Compton Unified School District. [00:52:14] Speaker C: Damn. It's five. That's crazy. Where that shit at? Centennial. Dominguez. Compton High doesn't count because they're rebuilding it. Does that count? [00:52:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:30] Speaker C: That'S about it. That's all I know. That's shit. They got some. [00:52:34] Speaker A: They got something going. [00:52:35] Speaker C: Talk to me. They must be, like, in a small. [00:52:37] Speaker A: They got something going. It's crazy. There's a school system. [00:52:41] Speaker C: Exactly. [00:52:41] Speaker A: But kids are getting educated. [00:52:42] Speaker C: There's two other high schools. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. But does Lynnwood count? [00:52:46] Speaker A: No. [00:52:46] Speaker C: Okay. [00:52:47] Speaker A: Is Compton Early College High? Compton High. [00:52:52] Speaker C: You want to hear something crazy? [00:52:53] Speaker A: At Compton Virtual Academy? [00:52:55] Speaker C: Now that. This is gonna be weak. [00:52:57] Speaker B: What? [00:52:58] Speaker C: My baby goes to CEC. I don't look at that as a. I don't look at that. [00:53:04] Speaker A: What school do. Yo, what school do your baby go to? [00:53:06] Speaker C: But her shit, is she just graduating from junior high. I'm like, I don't even look at it as that. But she is about to stay there to go. Does King Drew count, bro? [00:53:14] Speaker A: No, I just gave you him. [00:53:15] Speaker C: What's the other one? [00:53:16] Speaker A: It's Dominguez. Centennial. Compton. It's three versions of Compton. Compton Early College High, Compton High, and Compton Virtual Academy. [00:53:26] Speaker C: What's Compton Virtual Academy? Where's that? [00:53:27] Speaker A: It's a virtual academy, but it's in the school district. [00:53:30] Speaker C: How would I. So they at their house. [00:53:33] Speaker A: You're not saying I just. [00:53:34] Speaker C: By the. Damn. That's a trick question. Okay, that's crazy. [00:53:37] Speaker A: Okay, let's see. [00:53:39] Speaker C: See, I feel stupid. [00:53:40] Speaker A: What year was the city of Compton established? [00:53:46] Speaker C: 50. 219. 50. [00:53:48] Speaker A: 219. 52. That's your final answer? [00:53:50] Speaker C: 1946 or 52? It was one of those. [00:53:52] Speaker A: That's a what? That was a random, right? [00:53:55] Speaker B: Huge. [00:53:56] Speaker C: 1952, I would say. Okay, but I know I'm wrong, but that's my guess. [00:54:02] Speaker A: No, it was 1880. [00:54:03] Speaker C: God damn. [00:54:05] Speaker A: Yeah. 1888. [00:54:06] Speaker C: See, they didn't teach us shit at Centennial when I was there. [00:54:09] Speaker A: Okay, last one. Which mammal has the most powerful bite in the world? [00:54:19] Speaker B: This nigga sucked his teeth, right? [00:54:23] Speaker C: What's mammal? A bear. [00:54:25] Speaker A: That's your final answer? [00:54:30] Speaker C: A gorilla? I'm trying to think. [00:54:32] Speaker A: You have to make a final answer. [00:54:33] Speaker C: Bear. [00:54:34] Speaker A: A bear. [00:54:34] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:54:35] Speaker A: No, it's a hippo. Most powerful bite in the world. [00:54:40] Speaker C: Hip hop. [00:54:41] Speaker A: But I'm surprised about the first two questions. Cause Compton. For real, you ain't gotta ask, nigga. [00:54:45] Speaker C: Right. That was. You know, I'm a little older, but I ain't been. I'm a tad older than I, apparently. [00:54:50] Speaker A: We do gotta ask. [00:54:51] Speaker C: Yeah, we definitely gotta ask about the school system. When I was there, it was two and a half. [00:54:56] Speaker A: It was two and a half. [00:54:57] Speaker C: That's it. It wasn't me. Because Compton's been getting rebuilt for 15 years. I don't know what the hell is going on in Compton. Centennial and Dominguez, so I didn't. Virtual is kind of like the tricky one, though. [00:55:07] Speaker A: Last thing. Want to get your thoughts on having somebody culturally aware in the room. Obviously, we talking about things that's going on in the culture. The double XL freshman just came out. I know that's something that you've never really got to participate again, something that you never got to participate in, but you've always been supportive of people who did make it. That was us being represented on that. We didn't get no representation this time, but they called the COVID not like us, or they themed it not like us. [00:55:34] Speaker C: It's a troller. [00:55:35] Speaker A: Oh, you think it's a troll? [00:55:36] Speaker C: It's definitely a troll. [00:55:37] Speaker B: Damn. [00:55:38] Speaker C: They could have called it anything else. Like, what are we doing? [00:55:40] Speaker B: They subbed us. [00:55:40] Speaker C: Definitely trolled us. [00:55:41] Speaker A: Really? I didn't even look at it. I didn't even think about it like that. [00:55:44] Speaker B: They were subbed us. [00:55:45] Speaker A: You just fucked up. [00:55:47] Speaker C: That's the first thing I thought, like, oh, they trolling. That's crazy. [00:55:50] Speaker B: Like, you can't get in this part. [00:55:51] Speaker C: That's crazy. What meaning, like, ah, except me. I looked at. I fell out laughing. Like, oh, that's funny. [00:55:58] Speaker A: I never even thought about it. [00:56:00] Speaker B: Like, think about. I just thought just in the theme. [00:56:02] Speaker C: Of, you know, this trash, it was a perfect way to piss the west coast off while this shit going on. Like, watch this. You already know, everybody got to meet. It's so much for them shits to be named at and all that somebody's like, let's call it not like us. [00:56:17] Speaker B: Do you think that there any west coast representation of the culture in the double Xl rooms? Do we know that? [00:56:27] Speaker C: Obviously not. I don't think so. [00:56:30] Speaker A: If I was betting, I would say no. [00:56:31] Speaker C: Obviously not. I mean, again, I. That shit is like, hit or miss as far as, like, that covered the last four or five, six years. You know what I'm saying? I wouldn't say it's lost its luster. I don't think it just speaks to what's actually shaking. I think it's some slots that you can grab up and if you want to use your marketing budget on that, go ahead and get it. But if you already selling platinum records out of 310, baby, you can keep your change and go and perform with dot at the biggest show that ever happened in the world. [00:57:03] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:57:04] Speaker C: I don't think he needs to cover. I think he just got it covered real quick. Right? Shout out to the homie, man. And he got another blap out Mandev. I don't know, man. [00:57:13] Speaker B: But if it was anybody that they could have pulled from the west coast, it should have been three times. [00:57:17] Speaker C: It had to be him. [00:57:18] Speaker B: Especially right now. [00:57:19] Speaker C: His story is beautiful. [00:57:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:57:21] Speaker C: He graduated from college. [00:57:22] Speaker B: He's literally a freshman. [00:57:24] Speaker C: Platinum. [00:57:24] Speaker A: That's literally college. [00:57:25] Speaker C: He's literally a college freshman and just was a part of history and is about to do. I seen his name on some other things that's happening this weekend. That kid is about to be a monster out here. And he still records on his phone. That's insane. That's fire. But it's a lot of guys that I think that especially after watching the show like, niggas is like, yeah, they ready. I feel like everybody's ready right now. And they just needed something to kind of piss us off. We getting too many w's this year, so they had to do something like, well, y'all are not getting in this one. That's why I looked at that. [00:57:58] Speaker A: Well, listen, I'm, you know, thank you, you know, for being who you are. We had a conversation. I appreciate that. [00:58:06] Speaker C: I appreciate that, too. [00:58:08] Speaker A: And I look forward to, you know, many endeavors. I need you on these dudes. I need these younger dudes. Like, pause. [00:58:18] Speaker B: Yeah, I was gonna say I didn't. [00:58:19] Speaker C: Wanna fuck up the moment. I don't have to pause. [00:58:21] Speaker B: Yeah. I didn't wanna fuck that moment up. [00:58:23] Speaker A: I need you. [00:58:24] Speaker B: I do. [00:58:26] Speaker A: I'm not mature enough for this conversation. No, I need you for real in these trenches because they need it. They need a mentorship. They need the knowledge that we have. And, you know, they not gonna listen, just like you didn't. [00:58:38] Speaker C: Right. So that's why I know I didn't listen to shit. So I get it. It has to be force fed at some point. But, I mean, I can't wait. You know what I'm saying? I've been talking to a lot of other producers, talk to quick about just making sure we manicure. They saying, I don't really wanna change anybody's thing they're doing. It's just about adding that gloss so it can, like, translate outside of the city. I can't wait, man. My line is open. I gave everybody my number, so. And I'll be calling them, bugging the shit out of them, too. Like, what's up with y'all on, we need you. [00:59:07] Speaker B: We appreciate you. [00:59:08] Speaker C: We appreciate y'all, and we appreciate this. Like, we need this, you know what I'm saying? I feel like all forms of conversation need to be represented in California. From the hood gossip to the very manicured business area. I love this. This my speed right here. I ain't worried about nobody getting mad and shooting. I'm into this some n trying to go viral, sitting right there. And I got a fake go to the bathroom. Cause I was like. I did at the community the other day. Shout out to the homies. I'm like, y'all niggas wild? I'm like, oh, I strike. I fake. I fake pee at pun show all the time. If I see something about to go wild, I'd be like, let me go to the bathroom real quick. And he know it, too. Like, here go this nigga. I appreciate y'all we need every flavor we need every flavor. Yo, we need some west coast mediaev. [01:00:00] Speaker A: Jason Martin, ladies and gentlemen. This effective immediately. Thank you for listening.