Dubcnn: How did you feel when Nas said your name in that "Where Are They Now" track?
Sh1t, I didn't know what to think! I'm from Hayward, and this fool is all the way from Queens, NY, and he's saying my name in his music. I never met him before in my life, and it being Nas, I was overwhelmed about it. You never know who's listening to your music. It could be anybody! I didn't know that Shaq O'Neal listened to my music, I didn't know that Damian Marley listened to my music and sh1t! My music was strong enough for Wyclef to see me in a club and actually get on his knees and bow down, like "Spice 1!!" My music was strong enough for Jamie Foxx to pull over his limo in the rain and him to hop out the limo and take pictures with me, in the rain! In the middle of him doing that "Ray" movie!
That let me know how strong my music was, and that was probably all from the first album. R. Kelly knows me from that album, Mary J Blige, a lot of big artists respect that album. I was talking to Halle Berry, and she liked that one song on the first album, all that sh1t is overwhelming to hear people talk about your music like that when you never met them before. And they're more famous than you are but they're starstruck! 'Pac knew all of the songs on the first album, he knew the words to it and sh1t. Everybody was on that album!
Dubcnn: Do you think the game would be different is Pac was still around?
I do, but I don't know if he by himself could've stopped all of this bull**** that's going on in the industry. It woud've taken a few more cats, like me, Scarface, Ice Cube, we would've had to have a team like that, with Dr. Dre on the tracks, to actually stop all the bull****. To actually put a sock in the mouth of these wack ass MC's and these wack ass muthafukas out here just making money off the music and never giving a fukk about what it's really about. We wasn't around at the times of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King and all of that, we were youngsters, we didn't know what all that meant. We had no idea what they did for us, we just knew that they was famous people and black leaders. That's all we knew.
Nowadays, it's hard for these little n1ggas to actually respect what we've done for them. Us taking the blows from the major labels, fukkin' us out of our money, so that them in turn would know what deal to sign and what not to do, like "don't sign an artist deal, get a publishing deal" and all of that. It's because of us that they have this knowledge to even think about a publishing deal. We took them blows for them, and they don't respect that sh1t! That's the whole thing. It would be a different game if 'Pac was still around and we actually did something about it. But it's too much involved in the industry now, and the very core of the music is being framed, because it's tainted by too much money and sh1t.
So n1ggas like me, I just sit up here, keep it real and rap my gangsta sh1t, because it ain't really nothing you could do but put out good music against that phony ass sh1t that's out there. It's like you got one muthafuka showing you some crack with additives and preservatives in it and bullsh1t up in it, but everybody's buying that sh1t. Then you got the other cat over here who got the pure and uncut ****, but don't nobody wanna pay for it! That's what it is with me, we got the pure and uncut, the real rap music, the real gangsta sh1t. All of this jumping up and down, hyphy happy sh1t... I'm the type of n1gga that used to go the club, put my back on the wall and look around for enemies. I wasn't jumping around with no big ass glasses on trying to flash my gold fronts and sh1t! *laughs* I'm a hood cat for real.
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Sh1t, I didn't know what to think! I'm from Hayward, and this fool is all the way from Queens, NY, and he's saying my name in his music. I never met him before in my life, and it being Nas, I was overwhelmed about it. You never know who's listening to your music. It could be anybody! I didn't know that Shaq O'Neal listened to my music, I didn't know that Damian Marley listened to my music and sh1t! My music was strong enough for Wyclef to see me in a club and actually get on his knees and bow down, like "Spice 1!!" My music was strong enough for Jamie Foxx to pull over his limo in the rain and him to hop out the limo and take pictures with me, in the rain! In the middle of him doing that "Ray" movie!
That let me know how strong my music was, and that was probably all from the first album. R. Kelly knows me from that album, Mary J Blige, a lot of big artists respect that album. I was talking to Halle Berry, and she liked that one song on the first album, all that sh1t is overwhelming to hear people talk about your music like that when you never met them before. And they're more famous than you are but they're starstruck! 'Pac knew all of the songs on the first album, he knew the words to it and sh1t. Everybody was on that album!
Dubcnn: Do you think the game would be different is Pac was still around?
I do, but I don't know if he by himself could've stopped all of this bull**** that's going on in the industry. It woud've taken a few more cats, like me, Scarface, Ice Cube, we would've had to have a team like that, with Dr. Dre on the tracks, to actually stop all the bull****. To actually put a sock in the mouth of these wack ass MC's and these wack ass muthafukas out here just making money off the music and never giving a fukk about what it's really about. We wasn't around at the times of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King and all of that, we were youngsters, we didn't know what all that meant. We had no idea what they did for us, we just knew that they was famous people and black leaders. That's all we knew.
Nowadays, it's hard for these little n1ggas to actually respect what we've done for them. Us taking the blows from the major labels, fukkin' us out of our money, so that them in turn would know what deal to sign and what not to do, like "don't sign an artist deal, get a publishing deal" and all of that. It's because of us that they have this knowledge to even think about a publishing deal. We took them blows for them, and they don't respect that sh1t! That's the whole thing. It would be a different game if 'Pac was still around and we actually did something about it. But it's too much involved in the industry now, and the very core of the music is being framed, because it's tainted by too much money and sh1t.
So n1ggas like me, I just sit up here, keep it real and rap my gangsta sh1t, because it ain't really nothing you could do but put out good music against that phony ass sh1t that's out there. It's like you got one muthafuka showing you some crack with additives and preservatives in it and bullsh1t up in it, but everybody's buying that sh1t. Then you got the other cat over here who got the pure and uncut ****, but don't nobody wanna pay for it! That's what it is with me, we got the pure and uncut, the real rap music, the real gangsta sh1t. All of this jumping up and down, hyphy happy sh1t... I'm the type of n1gga that used to go the club, put my back on the wall and look around for enemies. I wasn't jumping around with no big ass glasses on trying to flash my gold fronts and sh1t! *laughs* I'm a hood cat for real.
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