West Coast Rydaz: Talk about the whole KC and Bay thing that the media blew up. Being from Kansas City what do you have to say about that issue?
Tech N9ne: It's horrible! You cannot come to Kansas City and not hear Mac Dre playing in the club. I don't know if people know this but Kansas City is the bay. If you ever been here, you would understand. Everybody gets hyphy. Kansas City ain't LA, it ain't New York, it ain't down south, Kansas City is the bay man! Everybody, Thizz Ent, I'm in the club and everybody's putting up the T's. That's why Luni Coleone can come here and stay. That's why C-Bo was down here all the time. That's why Killa Tay was down here, that's why E-40 used to come down here all the time! It's because it's so much love for the bay and Kansas City now, the fans are what fucked it up. It was a deal gone bad. Not no drug deal gone bad, from what I understand somebody wanted Dre to do a show for Halloween. One show with Sideways. He was like okay I'll pay you this to do my place tomorrow. Something went wrong after he took the money I guess, they came after him, casualties of war. It's crazy and right at the height of his [career]. And it hurt because I had to get the backlash. I met him for the first time! At Satin Dolls before this happened. He was like I been looking for you man! He taller than me so I'm looking up to him. He's like I was looking for you through Yuk, I'm trying to do something. I'm like whatever you need brother! He was a pleasant cat and everything.
On Halloween I was doing a show in Salt Lake City, Utah. Shock G showed out the back door. Shock, we kicked it years ago. I'm like let that nigga in! Shock, after my show came on stage while I was on there and started staying rhymes and everybody was going crazy on Halloween. The next morning we had to hear that shit about Dre. I'm like damn! It hurt because it made the bay area think that Kansas City was hating. Yall killed one of our greats we gonna kill one of your greats. It's like damn man. I had to go out there and talk to 40 and 40 was like man if you hear anybody trippin' you get with me. I talked to Yuk, Doobie and all them know who did it? He like yeah man they know it aint no beef or nothing like that, they know exactly who it is. The real niggas knew! That was just the fans who tried to make it into something. I even had Tech N9ne vans out there and on Cinco De Mayo San Jose they said that my dude Dave had to get out and rough some mothafuckas up because they was trying to tip over the van like "Tech N9ne killed Mac Dre!" That was the fans just saying that! They don't know that this is my family! My Regime family. Thizz Ent family. It hurt me. So I talked to Big Von out there on the radio. He's like Tech man, we gonna play Jellysickle, Kansas City King and the Ambassador of the Bay, to let people know it ain't no beef, it's just the fans trying to blow it into something. They love Mac Dre here and they love him everywhere else. I just hate that the nigga had to go right now when it was about to be a mega star! I hate taking about it cause it hurts. Ignorant ass people try to turn it into something and say Fat Tone did it, he had to die behind it. All these people is my family dude. Mac Minister is my family through the Regime. Fat Tone is my family, nigga I been knowing him since I was 14! He was the opposite side, blue and everything, but I woulda died for that died, killed for him, whatever. These are my family members, both sides! That collided. It was crazy bro. I loved both of em. Still do. And miss the hell outta Mac Dre, wish I could've did something with him bro. He was a talented dude. Anybody that can have that affect on so many people so quick.
Around that time they tried to cancel all my shows in Sac, I'm like wow! When I was in Santa Cruz they said man some Vallejo niggas talking about coming down and lighting you up. I'm like man, whatever! I did they show, my Federation niggas was there, kicking it like donkeys. Had bitches all in the hotel kickin it partying for Dre. The real niggas knew that it wasn't nobody, had nothing to do with Tech N9ne, had nothing to do with Rich The Factor, had nothing to do with Fat Tone. It's just the way it happened. I say on my first song on my album Everready. "Back on cause this is for Fat Tone, and Mac Dre, all of the soldiers who got gone on that day." Casualties of rap music and the streets, rap music is from the streets so we gonna have stuff like that happen. The fans blew it up into something it wasn't. It wasn't no Kansas City Bay Area rivalry. Never man. That was something else. If that was the case I would've been gone by now baby. Kansas City is rough but them Bay Area niggas ain't playing either. I spent time out there, I know killas out there.
We told Yuk whenever they come to Kansas City come through us. They got them niggas in KCK! You can't do that man. Them niggas ain't got nothing they waiting for niggas to come over there. They don't even like us! [laughs] We city slickers, across the water. Back in the day we used to say Kansas City, Kansas niggas don't like Missouri niggas cause we go over there and take they bitches! Whenever I'm doing shows with ICP and Kottonmouth Kings we be over there in Kansas City, KCK, we come out every window is broken. Niggas stealing shit, going crazy. My girl got her Louis Voitton purse that I bought her stolen. Plus the 800 that was in it.
But I told Yuk when yall on the road get with us. I guarantee if Mac Dre was with us, he'd still be here. Cause we do our business right, we ain't on no sideways nigga shit. I just wish we could turn back the hands of time, do the show, get paid, fuck bitches, go back home. That's the cycle.
