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August 26, 2022 43 mins

Best Known for his Illustrious career in Battle Rap & as a Hip Hop recording artist, Gorilla NEMS has reinvented himself once again! The Self-Proclaimed Mayor of CONEY ISLAND is a multi talented entertainer, entrepreneur, & overall Leader in his Community that has recently been making waves with his clothing brand as well as his Music & comedic endeavors. Others may also recognize him as the originator of the phrases “BING BONG” & “FUCK YA LIFE” , Made popular by his appearence on the viral 1-minute street show, SIDETALK NYC! GORILLA NEMS has collaborated with many Hip Hop Legends such as Kool G Rap, Ghostface Killah, Busta Rhymes, & many more which have further made him a staple in the East Coast Hip Hop Scene. You Can Catch Him doing his thing LIVE & DIRECT at Burning Treez Festival in Adelanto,CA on August 27th!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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it's not too often that you get giddy that I do.
I don't get giddy, and I don't even like to

(01:05):
use that word because I don't get giddy. Right this
motherfucker names You make me giddy. You straight up make
me giddy. Knowing you're coming in from New York area,
got me giddy. Know Wing you're coming to burning trees.
Got you're giddy about to read this intro? Gets me giddy.

(01:26):
Just your presence. I feel giddy around you. I want
you to attack me so bad. I want you to
just do what you do. Because Names a k A
Guerrilla Names. Not only is he a fucking dope ass
hip hop artist, battle rapper and CEO of Fly Bramp,
but this dude best known for his illustrated, illustrious career

(01:49):
in battle rap and as a hip hop recording artist
with over forty five albums released. I mean, the dude's
not okay. It's not like you just started this yesterday, folks.
And I love when we always talk about that blue
and I always talked to hats and look at it.
We didn't start doing this yesterday. Neither did this Grilla
Grill and him has reinvented himself time and time again.
The self proclaimed Mayor of Coney Island, representing out there

(02:11):
as he should and always will. Is a multitalented entertainer, entrepreneur,
and overall leader in the waste band connected community out
there that he's doing it and leading it for the community.
And he has recently been making waves with his clothing
brand as well as his music and comedic endeavors. And
that's the part, folks, that I love the most because

(02:33):
everything that's about business is about business. But he's doing
his business and making motherfucker smile and laugh about doing
his business. So that's why I sit here and get
giddy because he's going being back by. He's doing so
much fun ship. Others may recognize him for that stuff
that I'm just taking that. He's the originator of these phrases, right,
Like I said that, You're like, You're right. That's the

(02:56):
bing bong dude. That's the fun your life dude. That's
the cat that made popular with his appearance on that
viral one minute street show side Talk n y C.
Guerrilla Names You Guys is collaborative many hip hop legends
such as g rap ghost Face, Killer Buster Rhymes, and
many many more, which is further him as a staple

(03:18):
of the East Coast hip hop scene that he's done,
and not only that, is taking him around the world.
He's sitting here in Cali, right here at the campus
right now, and that's facts. You can watch him doing
his thing live and directed at the Burning Trees Festival
in Atalanta, California. From the East Coast to the West
Coast on August. Let's give it up, you guys for
Guerrilla Man's and give him a warm welcome to the

(03:38):
Cannabis Talk one on one campus as this motherfucker is
gracing the building and feel free to start going crazy
with it. Yeah, I mean, first off, welcome. I don't
know if you've been here before many times. I love
l A, I love Cali as a whole. So what's
the story, dog? I mean in the game for so long? Wrappings,

(04:00):
I know where you got the forty five albums, but
I don't have forty five album songs or something. You know.
It says that on Google, but I definitely don't have
forty five albums people, I don't know what. It also
says I'm forty five on Google and I'm not forty five.
I don't know what. No, I'm not I'm not in
my forties. But whoever wrote that don't like me. One
time somebody sent me an article and said, fucking that

(04:22):
I'm worth fucking two hundred and twenty billion dollars. I
got helicopters on. My whole family asked me for money.
I'm like, y'all, I don't got none of that ship
talking about. So then I'm the mayor Coney exactly like
stant in fact, be cause you get a cat like
that on your staple, that's a good one to have
because that means you're a man of the town and

(04:43):
and you're keeping the peace and you're all about the community.
Because the mayor is about doing what's right for everybody.
You know, everyone, everyone, everyone. How do you come down
like that? What's that come from? Where's that street? It
started by me. My family has been in Coney Islands
since I was born, right, and they was doing anything
on the street side of things. And then um, I
started doing the rap ship and um and and I started,

(05:06):
you know, I just grew up knowing everybody, and Coney
Island it's a it's a it's a neighborhood like at
the bottom of Brooklyn, and um, you know, people would
be for each other's certain blocks would be for the
other blocks. I just would stay by myself and just
you know, moving it out and funk with everybody. And
uh and I just you know, uh out yeah. Yeah.

(05:28):
And as I grow up as a man, I just
want to see the best for my community man, and
and I try to do that and and show my
community both sides, the good, the bad, the ugly. It
is what it is. That's every neighborhood got that. You
know what I'm saying. And where do you come? Like,
where when did you start, like with your rap career,
because I mean, you know, uh, was it something you
started real young or did you start that? I always

(05:48):
wrap as long as I can remember, I always wrapped.
Um it started. I would just freestyle, would be outside,
I'm just fucking around freestyle and and then uh, when
I was fifteen, I went to uh, Pennsylvania. I had
to go to school in Pennsylvania because I got I
couldn't go to know New York high school because yeah, exactly,
so I can't go to any of them whatever. When

(06:12):
I went to Pennsylvania, I didn't have nothing to do,
so I just started writing my actual wraps down and uh,
it just took off from them nice And so about
what age that you really remember it? I freestyle probably
ever since I was ten, but writing my rap since
I was about fifteen. First song you ever recording, you
remember it? No, it was like a freestyle. As you

(06:36):
think you're still freestyle, I'm not as good as I
was back then. I'm not. Yeah, yeah, now I'm I'm more.
I don't have time. I don't you know when I
used to. When I started, it was like I didn't
have nothing to do all day except wrap. That was
my world. Now I'm blessed to have a lot of
you know, a busy schedule in the hectic life, so

(06:58):
I don't get to it as much as I would
like to, like actual freestyle and like right now, yo,
give me words Yoe, water of the Daughter and that
I can't really it doesn't. I don't really do it
a lot anymore. So I'm not as sharp as I
once was. So, but when it comes to writing, I'll
kill any motherfucker. So you know, when when you think
of names, I mean, we we see you as a
social media influencer rapper. What's what's names at home? Like,

(07:20):
I mean, you've got family, You've got kids, I mean
or just just you know you and your boys. Right now,
I don't have any kids, Um, own my own home,
you know, I'm Yeah, and the helicoptera exactly in a
couple of years. You know, I want to I want
to live. I want to give myself a chance to

(07:42):
live my dreams and do what I want to do
without having to worry about anything else and and and
nothing hindered. Because I know myself, once I have a family,
have a kid, that's gonna be about them. That's the
type of person I am. So I want to give
myself a chance to do what the funk I wanna
do and and then have to worry about other people.
So maybe a couple of is I'm still having a
family and settled down before. Right now I'm living the

(08:03):
motherfucking dream now right now. You have a business right
back home? What is it? F y L Brand. It's
a merchandise company. We do hat shot, I mean everything
it's it's it does very well. Lifestyle brand. Yeah, yeah,
it does, it does very well. Um. I bought myself
house through that, but my mother a house through that? Yeah,

(08:24):
like can you buy us? Can I get a poodle?
Did give me a little poodle like a shirt, not
a payment in our house. But thanks for bringing some ship.
What is the gear that you have on? What? What
is it? I don't even know what the merchant had

(08:45):
right there? Everything that's the main logo to g with
gorilla head. You know what I'm saying. That's that's gorilla
and where does that come from? Um? I used to
be mad skinny. I used to be skinny when I
was really running the streets. Hell Yeah, and then uh,
I stopped drinking a stopped smoking weed. I stopped, I
stopped doing everything, you know what I'm saying, and I
got fat and I became a fucking gorilla. Yeah, I'm saying,

(09:07):
how funny. I was a gorilla and then I stopped partying.
Twenty I've been so over twenty four years. Stop drinkingoking,
Everything got heavier, the heaviest I've gotten as well. And
then now I'm the lighterst I've ever been at fucking
twenty four years sober, let's talk. Are you doing anything?

(09:31):
Feel like? What's going on? Looking for fucking residuuce? I
just know that the paint pots go worked better when
I stored him. Joe, why do you have this fucking
Razor Blake. I don't know what you're talking about. So
what town is your story? And where exactly your stories?
My actual the bing Bong store is in Manhattan, next

(09:53):
to Time Square. I'm not gonna open another one in
Coney Island. We're working on that soon, um, and then
we're gonna build it out. Now, there was some graffiti
art that you did for the neighborhood. Yeah, can you
tell us about that? My neighborhood is. If you're not
familiar with Coney Island, it's it's the hood. You know,
It's it's a ghetto old community, you know what I'm saying,
it's the ghetto. Um. And growing up you you just

(10:17):
see fucking bullshit gates and walls and they're like painted
dreary colors. It doesn't make you happy when you leave
your building or you leave your house and see these
fucking just just gray and dark colors. So I was like,
you know what, once the viral video blew up, I
would see a lot of tourists come from fucking Holland, France, Florida,

(10:40):
all just to come see the block. When that video
went crazy, and I was like, you know what, man,
if this is gonna become, uh, you know, like a
tourist trail, and I need to beautify this this I'm
gonna start with my block, but we're gonna do it
the whole Coney Island and then, you know, because of
my notoriety and I used to do graffiti and be
heavy in the graffiti game, I have a lot of
friends that are dope artists, and uh, I just started

(11:02):
painting my home, you know, little by little, gate by
gate by, wall by wall and just made it kind
of like it's become like a little art district, you
know what I'm saying. And also like for the kids,
when you come out at your house and you see that,
that might inspire your kid to be like, you know,
maybe I could draw maybe you know, who knows what
the fucking inspire whatever they want to, you know, And

(11:25):
we don't have to wait for people to come in
and gentrify the community to make the ship fired, you
know what I'm saying. I could beautify my own community
without gentrifying it. I don't ask for donations. I pay
for everything out of my own pocket because when I
want something done, I'm not gonna ask I'm gonna do it.
Let's man. I mean, that's real dude, really good to me,

(11:50):
and they's just a real good man. And everything we've
been hearing about you has been so strong because your
fan base is off the hook. And we come back.
We're gonna talk about what people buy from this guerrilla
himself Guerrilla names. It's Cannabis Talk one oh one. We'll
be right back after Keep it right here, y'all, we'll
be right back with Cannabis Talk one oh one. Welcome

(12:19):
back to Cannabis Talk one oh one. What time is it, folks?
That's right? I think? How are we? Diamon Industries find
them in California, Arizona, and Oklahoma. Check out the website
Diamon Industries dot com or go on Instagram Dime dot Industries.
We got our guy here, names a k A Guerrilla Nams.
I mentioned before we went to the break the products

(12:41):
you got. Blue said something and brought up I didn't
realize it was such a beautiful thing with this art district.
That's your beauty building out there. That's just such a
pitches and I was just like, and yeah, I did too.
But it was so funny because our buddy Mark Karnes,
who's online as your underscore pal underscore ow, I bought
a banana clip from you. And when Mark does things

(13:05):
like this, I'm always impressed because Mark's the guy that
really supports I like to call random things that I
don't know about. Right, he keeps his ears to the
street exactly, And I love Mark for that reason. I
didn't know about you till Mark. Let's put me up
on your game. Right then I've seen you like, oh
my god, this dude, Oh my god, this guy's grand
love this dude, right, I love But what the fund

(13:27):
is a banana clip that made this guy want to
buy from you? And how did you come up with
to convince guys like this that are in his thirties
there's a grown man to buy a products from you
that I still don't understand what this product is? This
is what it is. So my my whole thing is
I don't I don't want to continuously take take take

(13:47):
I want to add dope ship into the atmosphere, into
the fucking world. So when I used to go to
the studio, there was one studio I used to go
to where artist his name was Mike C. Dope artists
like you know, Uh, there was a picture of a banana,
but instead of you know, it had the ship opened,
but instead of the banana coming, it was a clip
of a gun, a banana clip. I was like, Yo,

(14:09):
that ship is fire. I always would look at it
while I was recording. And then the merch started taking
off and I was dropping new merchandise every week, and
I was like, you know what, I want to make
my own version of that. Put it on hats and
t shirts. I told you the artist, he was like, yeah,
let's do it. I did that, and then through that
we created these toys, action figures, like figurines about this

(14:30):
this high um of the actual artwork that he made
and the and the ship that I put on the hats,
and it's a dope ass sculpture figure um of a
banana with the with the gun clip and it and
it just looks pray, it looks. It's a great thing.
So we we dropped the original one um It sold
out in two minutes. The first one was seven hundred,

(14:52):
sold on two minutes. Everything. We dropped another one sold
out boom. And now we just dropped one that's cheaper,
more affordable to people, three hundred and it's uh and
and it's a banana ca and it's doing great. And uh,
it's something that people, you know, artists don't do. They
always just focus on T shirts hat Now I want
to do everything. Man, it's your own it's your own

(15:13):
art form to you know that you're producing. I mean
I love it. Yeah, you start making you want to
see it? Mark, you gotta bring it in please. Yeah
he's got a picture. No, he's got a picture of it. Order.
Oh wait here right, thank you? So so okay, So,

(15:34):
so how how do people take it? You know what
I mean? Because is this you know, and I'm just
I don't know, right, is it staged or is it
just straight up? Everybody you see you just started hitting
when they walk down the boat. Don't have a disrespect me. Yeah,
I don't ever just that's nothing is staged about. It's
just I don't know. I'm just I don't know. I
think from years of drug use, my mind is just fun,

(15:56):
you know what I'm saying. And so yeah, the way
my mind thinks is just different than a lot of
other people. And I don't know. I've always been good
with just coming up with ship on the spot, whether
it be freestaling, and I think that's why you know that.
I think that's another form of freestyling, except without rhymen.
For what I'm saying. I can see somebody walking to
the room right now, But you know that motherfucker looks

(16:18):
like fucking Rambo. You know what I'm saying. You don't
ever disrespect me looking like a fucking broke Rambow and something.
You know what I'm saying. And it's just easy. I
don't know why it comes to me, but it does.
But none of that is stated. Please do it to
both of us right now. I mean, you're walking down
you just got to Orange County, and now you don't
have a disrespect me looking like a fucking updated version

(16:38):
of Cheach and Chong. You both with one shot. I
just think he was like, yeah, he's oh man, he
just shot from love it. But you see the way

(17:03):
that I'm doing is like I'm not I'm just being
a dickhead and I'm not like like you know, but
when a lot of people be like yo, I don't
know how this motherfucker didn't get punched in the face
because I'm not doing it with bad intent, man, And
I feel like it's sick. You know. Listen to New York.
But when I when when I was growing up, there
wasn't social media. How we would We'll meet up on

(17:24):
the corner and fucking hang out, smoke Blunt's, drink hornies,
and just joke on each other, all right, That's how
we would have fun. And if you didn't come up
with a thick skin and and and be quick witted,
you would be getting joked on the whole night and
you would have a bad night and night. So I
wasn't gonna be that guy, and I just became quick
with it. And that's just, uh, you know how it

(17:44):
came about. But it's never with bad intent. It's never
um like, if I see somebody walking with one arm,
I'm not gonna be like, you don't disrespect me. I'm
not a dick like that. And then when I say that,
I'm like, you don't see me behind the cam. I'm
like this, But most of the time I'm smiling, I'm laughing,
And you also see sometimes people joke on me back.
I just don't put that in there. I just yeah,

(18:06):
I cut off the life. I used to do morning
radio right from the doghouse to fucking big boys there,
and I used to do stupid show that Elvis used
to We used to do Man on the Street ship
and I just sucking see the quick wit and I
just love it. It just makes me go it's the
type of ship that's missing, and it's the same thing.
But some people can take it so wrong and yeah, yeah,
you know what I mean. And we had to stop

(18:27):
doing it because people don't have a sense of humor.
Those are the work people. People that don't have a
sense of humor. Fucking weird bro like, and I attacked
myself and like and we attack each other like, okay,
if you can't take it, we sucked up. I just
have a good time. Sometimes Joe goes overboard me and
you know, I'll tell you this, man, I think that

(18:49):
what really works. I mean just from from me watching
and and and you know, running through your your your feed,
you know, I think your your your New York accents
so strong and out there it's everywhere. Yeah you know,
but but he's I don't hear it. But but for
for the rest of us, were like, damn, he's going
so hard on that food because it's like but but

(19:10):
over there, it's more like, you know, it's everybody has
that so It's like if we were just talking to
each other, because you're like, you know, you climbing around
on the block, whereas as I think for us, we're
watching it going damn, it sounds hard. He went so
hard on that, you know, and it sounds great, you
know what I mean. So that that entertainment value. I
think that that your fans, you know, get to admire that,

(19:30):
get to to really you know, get to know who
you are. It's important, you know, because the guys that
are from your town there's probably nothing but love there.
They know you as the mayor you're putting you know
what I'm saying. So that is so when they see it,
they are and you know, they look up like fucking
got me, because you know, that's how it is now. Yeah,
comes so popular now that people actually come by and

(19:51):
won't buy me on purpose waiting for me to get there. Yeah,
they were six times. It's crazy because Mark flew out
there three times. And you didn't know this, And he
walked by Mark coming to the stage and get it,
Mark come up, Come up, Mark, come up. He walked
by three get him without walking on stage. He bought
the pet clip you gotta pass. He's got it. But

(20:14):
that's the one that really wants it, you know that, right,
You know he really wants He paid for for three
flights and went out there to walk back and forth
and with it though he wants it bad. And not
only that, you're getting into the cannabis game. You got bonds,
you're working with companies at a Colorado. We're gonna take
a break real quick and we're gonna come back and
hear how NIMS guerrilla NAMS is not only work in

(20:37):
the world and work in New York, He's on the
West coast right now. You're gonna see him at the
Burning Trees Festival hanging out with US and Atalanto, California.
I mean, he's gonna be killing it in there, and
I hope you rip every motherfucker and I'm not king.
Don't hold back because I can't wait to see everyone
get attacked in the name of Jesus. Right back after

(20:59):
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(21:20):
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(21:41):
Jessica Cash, Cam, Kimberly, Isaiah Salara, Nadia, Ali Pitt, Devin,
Chris Frankino, Jennifer and Elvis and of course Mark Karnes
don't forget. And of course actually it's in the video too,
And I gotta give Mark Karnes this, not only am
I gonna get this right at your Underscore Power Underscore Owl.

(22:03):
I don't know why he's got to disrespect us. I
don't know how to say, yeah, that's my lectica, but
the owl. I bought him a wooden owl out of
left field one day too, and he didn't go on
a date with me after which I'm still mad at.
I mean, how much more do I gotta do? You know,
A bought him a gift that being said, if you

(22:26):
did disrespect him like that. I do think he looks
like Shaggy's cousin on Yo yo Ma. Don't ever disrespect me,
looking like Jack's teller from Sons of Anarchy after they
stole his bike. You know what I mean. I mean,
if that's what you're gonna do in the building, come
in here, Mark so we can get you on camera.
Turns out we gotta show him on YouTube. We gotta
show who Mark. That's the If you watch the YouTube,

(22:51):
you gotta see how he got because he doesn't look
like Shaggy's cousin on steroids too the Sons of Anarchy
after he got his bikes. So Gilla name's names in
the building. The cannabis talk one on one with Blue
and Joe. Granted there was everything cannabis. You were in
the cannabis game. Now names ye, and you got a bong,
You got the cherries. You're working with a company out

(23:13):
of Colorado breaking down. So when the bing bong ship
first like really got viral, I worked on my own
strain and we dropped like I did a collab of
a bing bong weed. But I don't smoke anymore, so
I went back and forth and just picked out the
I would have my friends smoking here childer as traild As.

(23:35):
They were loving it. Every day I would come to
them with new ship and then you know, this was
I this was then I brought him some weed one
day and they were like, yo, I almost fucking threw
up off. I said, that's what we're gonna use. Right.
So the people I were dealing with, they weren't consistent
and reliable, so you know, I had a couple of batches,
but then it didn't take off. Then I linked up

(23:56):
with these guys in Colorado called Cherry Um. They have
a lab with Nori uh super thug strain UM and
we're working on my own strain bonds merchandise UM. Their
license in New Jersey UM and and they're working on Florida.
So you know, I went to their grow house and
and the whole facility in Colorado. They have a great

(24:17):
you know facility and and and they're just uh into
doing dope stuff, good product and uh only if my
name is involved with it. I'm not in it to
make a quick buck. I want I don't want you
to be a customer want I want you to be
an everyday customer for the rest of your life. So
I want to. I want to. I only want to

(24:37):
put out stuff that is quality, that is so it
might take a little longer, but at the end, for me,
it's worked it because I don't want to put my
name on anything. The same goes with my merchandise and
everything else I do my music. I'm not trying to
just put out anything just for the sake of putting
it out. When I put out something and my name
is attached, it gotta be high quality. So shout out
to Cherry in Colorado. Um strain will be out soon.

(25:01):
And the merchandise bong bing bongs, you know what I'm saying.
So we're working on all of that. What what what
is that? What is your vision for that? I mean, uh,
do you already have a prototype made or is it
just something that you're you're still putting together. Well, I
went out there a couple of months ago and we
picked out certain things that you know that I liked,
the specific type of bong and yeah, yeah, yeah like that.

(25:24):
I don't know what yeah yeah, Now there was some
some fire ship that I picked out. So we're in
the process of it being made and all of that. Um,
I'm not good off the top of like the exact
type is, but when it comes out, it's gonna be
some fire ship. My website f y L dot nyc. Uh. Basically,
it's impossible for you to go on that website and
not see something you like this over a hundred different

(25:47):
T shirt designs, hat designs, sweatpass sweatshirts, everything at www
dot f y L dot nyc. What does that mean?
Talk to you later teaching. I'm like I had as
something stupid like that was the time I started looking
at them up and yeah, concept, I own your life

(26:10):
and I own bing bong. And how did you come
up with bing bong? Where did that come from? Just one?
Like everything, every every um everything, it kind of is
every Saturday, I would drop new merchandise and I would
lay out on my living room couches and be like, yo,
this is what we got new this week. Bong, check

(26:30):
this new ship. Bong. You know, bonding is like a
hip hop thing, Riza says, you know, bong so And
then one day I was just sucking around. I felt
like funny and I was like, bing Bong, check this
new ship. And then people started laughing and kept saying
it back to me. Then my whole neighborhood started saying it.
And then that's the side talk guys there, you know,
pretty popular. They have a funny Instagram pay over a
million followers. They came and did an episode at Coney Island,

(26:54):
and uh, I took over their mic. That you know,
I took their mic and took over the show and
I started to saying it, and then it just took
off from there, and then the old fucking world starters
actually rapped that Coney Island. There's a few people from
Coney Iron that get a lot of love you being
one of them, a coach, the major actor that was
dating old girl from the West Coast that of course
we all know about name you know Kardashians that night.

(27:18):
That's a different But Coney has a couple other recognizable
now not really only basketball players Stephan Malbury Land Stevenson
uh Sebastian Telfair and Isaiah Whiteheads who was playing on
the nets. But it's only known. There's no my neighborhood
never had any actors, never had any rappers come out
of it. Has a couple of ball players the ones

(27:39):
I mentioned, but that's about it. So that that's why
I always represented so hard with the music because growing up,
there wasn't like somebody I could go to to help
me out do the music thing. There was no artists
coming out of there. Um it was strictly only basketball players.
So it literally was like, Yo, either you could play
basketball or you could sell crack. Yeah, that's the only

(28:00):
way you're getting the funk out this neighborhood. And what
happened just like Yeah, I was like, yo, listen, man,
Like I want to change that narrative. Man. I want
to show people that you don't have to do it
one of the two. There's many more options to get

(28:21):
the funk out of here. Yeah. And you know, it's
interesting because you know when when you say that, you know,
I think of I'm from Los Angeles, right, So I
really couldn't understand that, probably because we've seen like all
kinds of artists come up from here and and so
and then it almost feels like it's almost so hard
to come up because there's so many fucking artists here,
you know what I mean. And it's like there's bloodlines

(28:42):
and and I say that because I wrapped. I was
at death Row in the nineties, you know, and I
was one of the only Latin artists there. I'm I'm
boutiquial myself. Yeah, And and so you know, I was
one of the only ones at death Row and and
and a lot of a lot of people, um, you know,
would would look at me and be like, you know,
I'm walking rooms like I'm deaf row and be like
like why you know? And and it was just and
and even now, like you know, I've got a total

(29:04):
different pariods. I've I've grown up, you know, and I'm
doing you know, the same things, right. I want to
help communities out. I want to help young you know,
interns and people were helping people all the time, and
we have culture and we also you know, really care
and communicate. Like one of the two things that we
always focus on is is carrying to communicate but giving
back to the community. But long story short, what I

(29:25):
was trying to say is is it's very difficult for
people in Los Angeles to rise and so now you're
almost in that same category over there where you're from.
There's just knowing to look up to that's like ever
done it before? Absolutely, I mean that that it is
so important to have somebody in your community that you
could go to on some positive ship because where where

(29:47):
I'm from, everybody it's cool to be negative. It's cool
to be a thug, it's cool to be a killer.
And most of these motherfucker's ain't none of that, man,
they just perpetrate. Um. I'm I'm I'm A took years
to get to the way I'm at today because you know,
I wasn't always comfortable in my own skin, you know
what I'm saying. Um, But I want to just let

(30:08):
people know, like it's okay to be you. You know
what I'm saying. It's okay to to to fucking feel
and you don't have to be toughest guy on the block.
You don't have to be that. You know, you could
be who the fuck you all? You know what I'm saying,
And that's okay, and that's cool enough, you know what
I'm saying. And if people don't like you, fuck your life.
You know, b how's the East Coast big heads take you?

(30:34):
Let's just go there. You know what I'm saying. We
all know what I'm talking about. House from not the
political side, but let's just go a rap side. You
know that. How are you catching vibes? Who's hitting at
you like oh my god, that mother well, the bing bong,
the remix of the Fat Joe Bust, the rhymes and
staus p from the locks. I just didn't show the locks.

(30:56):
Every time they see me, they show me love Je
against chics um Fat Joe show like yo. Uh. Since
in the last six months, I probably got three or
four new souls with Fat Joe. He's one of my Absolutely.
I've been on stage with them in Texas, Florida. So

(31:17):
it was when I was big too, So yeah, that's great.
I wish I would have met punt Buster. Great energy.
Every time he sees me is just like uncle, can
you give me? That's him right, Let me join your uncle, nephew,
let me join you come here. Even though recently I

(31:39):
got cool with Exhibit came he was in New York,
came by, Yeah, exhibits the man man. Yeah, he's the best, absolutely,
and that does more for me. I enjoyed meeting the
people I came. I came up listening to to get
their respect means way more than me than meeting any

(31:59):
new artists like and then when I meet people that
inspired me and I came up listening to, that means
the world to me, Like that they know who I am,
and they uh, some know who I am, some don't.
But just just the love that I get from like
the legends, because hip hop is one of the only
genres that doesn't pay the proper respect I feel to

(32:20):
the legends. Look, we got rolling Stones, all of that.
They tore their whole life in the hip hop thing.
Once you hit thirty forty old, people don't want to
hear from you no more. It's changing little by little
as hip hop is growing. We had Two Short Arms
two or three days ago, and and you know, we're like,
you know, the hip Hop Hall of Fame. You know
that where where where is the the big gratitude for

(32:43):
all these major artists. Artists are gonna gether because run
DMC was the first one to go into the rock
and roll Hall of Fame. Right, So you look at
hip hop and you gotta say, well, yeah, so they're
gonna they've done it. They just need to loosen that
fucking door and do a little bit more because the
two Short is gonna be in there. Notorious need to
be in there. Think Biggie and Tupac all in the

(33:04):
hip hop all the fame. I know, jay Z, that's
what I'm talking about. There's the hip hop one, but
that that's the big one. They need to be in
the big one. Yeah. Who is you know an artist
that you know? Actually, who's the favorite artists you recorded with? Um?
Or do you have one? I mean every time I

(33:25):
got a couple of songs with ghost Face, yeah, they
always come out dope. Um, but Fat Joe kind of
like and a lot of these artists I don't get
up with in the studio like they'll send me. Yeahah,
that's the age we living nowadays. Um, ghost Face, I
enjoy every song I do with him. Uh. Fat Joe
definitely as well. And uh yeah those those two. I

(33:47):
like Fat Joe MANI rap as well. I was in
the studio actually with Colgi Rap, but I only have
Fat Joe is one of those guys. If you ever
been to a Fat Joe show, like you don't know,
Fat Joe brings fucking heat and energy to a show
so where you're you don't like realize, damn, but I
didn't realize gonna be knocking like this, Like every time
I've been to a Fat Joe show I go out

(34:08):
with I didn't realize. Let me talking at that, why
am I really like, that's my attitude right after Fat
Joe shows just what happened, and you don't realize that's
what happens right like that. That's some real talk I've
I've seen that many Fat Joe shows that that's my
attitude at the end of it, and you didn't no
idea that that's where you're gonna go. And so I

(34:30):
think that's so great that you do that. What are
the artists so that you're sitting there going, Okay, now
that I'm making some noise, I'm really doing this. I
got these East Coast, I'm going a couple of West Coast,
who do I need to really slap hands with them?
Slapping in the face and look like you look like
a retired blah blah blah. You know the wife for me, motherfucker.
So who do you want to work with? Was attacking
him as good because that's respect. You're doing it out

(34:52):
of love. Everything is is so of happening organically. I'm
not somebody like I'm okay with just doing songs by myself.
I'm very um big on meeting the people first and
then doing it organically like DJ like mugs, yeah, mugs,
de men what I'm saying. That's one of my favorite producers.
The old time. He came out to Coney Island as well,
sat with me, hung out with me for a whole
day and Coney. I just want to know if the

(35:17):
mus he grew up with Mugs we know as well, Muggs.
He grew up with him. I knew him after, but
he's known him forever. Yeah, we we were. I mean
we grew up in one city apart, so all the
cyber Sale family and ship like that, I mean those
are my boys. I've known him for years. Yeah, this
is the kid kids. Yeah, that's that's the other part
about us being from out here too. We've known so

(35:38):
many people for so long. Random because being in the
game like this it makes it good. But being from
where you're at and still doing it and sticking into it,
who did you look at when you were a kid
and go yes, yes, yeah, because I'm not head thinking,
but I want to hear from you, like you're out
over there and Coney Island going, I would say like
Big Pun was my favorite? Really, yeah, that was my favorite. Yeah,

(36:00):
should because coming up there wasn't um a lot of
Puerto Ricans in the game. That we're really holding it down.
And Pun was like one of the Ellis personal story
about Punch. When you guys me Pun, Fat Joe and
big Boy and Fuzzy, I'm the smallest one at three
fifty and we're talking about fact guy problems. How hard

(36:22):
is it to travel on planes? And we came up
with Pun gave us the solution on my should be
hitting the side from time your phone back talking to Monna,
Do you're gonna give a bat ball cap? You get
the water ball cape in your pocket and you put
the water ball cap over that button and you never
hit it. Put the water cart water bottle. You keep

(36:47):
a water bottle cap in your pocket when you travel,
and you put it over that button that hits the seat.
Oh so don't roll back, fat guys, we just groove
up a get it. We're pushed them against it. It
won't fall back. Mean when you don't, you know, I
got exactly the fat boy problem is. That's where great

(37:08):
fun time me to keep him fucking thing in my pocket. Dog,
That's what Pun gave me. On some fat board ship
waistline connected r I p my brother. I mean, so
as you say he's your favorite, I have a random
story that I would never remember unless you said his name. Do. Yeah,
He's a good dude. He's a great great he was.
Like I mean, if you if you don't listen to

(37:28):
Pon and haven't listened to him, you really need to
sit back and and and listen to his lyrics and
just how he put together his rhymes. I mean, demand
was just a fucking legend though, I mean just a legend,
and you could anthems. He was a fucking legend him.

(37:49):
In fact, Joe, I got stories of them running that
whole area, like they really run the area, like real real,
Like that's what I've heard. And then like from real
ship absolutely yeah, Like it ain't a joke. It ain't
a joke with those cats. Well, we like to do names.
It's called the High five, a k A. Guerrilla names
hip hop artist, battle rapper CEO, the fly brand. You

(38:10):
heard about it, You see it all over the place,
brand L brand. Excuse me, my dyslexia? What happens all
the time? F y fuck my life a matter of fact,
you because I didn't read it right, but my life
because I read it wrong, you know, I f y
L for sure. Question number one, how old are you
the first time you smoke cannabis and where did you

(38:31):
get it? From? Eleven years old? Uh? From one of
the older kids in neighbor was walking his dog and
was just like, yo, you want to hit this shy
when I went home and went to sleep. Question number
two of the high five, what's your favorite way to
use or smoke cannabis? I mean, I don't smoke anymore,
but when? But when I remember taking like a water

(38:54):
bottle like this, so it was at the time it
was a two lead to PEPSI bottle cut a little
hole right here, but the timfoil on there put a
little pen cap before I knew how to roll when
I first started smoking, and kind of like smoke my
weed like a good thing right there. Yeah. Names craziest
place you ever used or smoked Canadas? Um, I have

(39:20):
no idea. I'm probably sucking. I smoked weed on a
plane before in the bathroom. Yeah. I didn't really smoke
the whole blood. I took like a couple of hits.
He's just taking it on the planet. Yeah. Absolutely. What
was your go too muchy after you used to get
high rice crispy treats cereal? Yeah, not the rice Chrispie treats.

(39:45):
But they had a cereal. I need to get that.
Look the little ones, I don't know what, I've never heard. No,
they had them in stores by me at the time.
Then they stopped doing it, but you can still find
them on Amazon. That's some real fat boys. Ship by four.
I'm so I would do a late night sneak attack

(40:06):
on the heartbeat. I ain't higher nothing, but yeah, fatty facts.
Question number five or the high five with the man
sitting next to us known as name a k A
guerrilla names f y L Brand, get it fucking right?
Fu your life not mine? Right? Question number five or

(40:27):
the high five. If you can smoke cannabis with anyone
dead or alive, who would it be and why? Uh?
It would be two cousins. Man, we can't take over.
They didn't take I loved him and I missed him,
and I would love to just if that's the only
way I would have a smoke weed again. If they
came back to the earth, I would smoking blown with them. Man. Um,

(40:48):
they were brothers. They got uh killed in the same
day m hm, And uh you know we can represent
for them, m and I see the respect on your
I mean, that's how all the murals got started in
Coney Island. We started with them mules. We have one
of the dopest middles of them too. Started No, I
made them mules. Yeah, so that was the respect factor

(41:11):
where it started. How deep is that? You give me children?
And that's beautiful, man, who start spread Look at that?
That goes back to you for this. I always say this,
The worst tragedies sometimes come with the best things that
happened in those things, and those are become legends and
keeps queens and historical icons for us because we've all

(41:33):
lost people, folks. As I get chilled, we just lost
He usually sits right there. Yeah, he's one of our
dear friends. Twenty years in the game, and man, he
he just got gunned down himself. So and it just yeah,
recently we haven't even had enough time to really morning
because we were so on this show and and and
doing to fake it every day here. Yeah, we're faking

(41:58):
like we're still good. What I'm saying is that he says,
we feel you. Is there anything else, man, that that
we didn't bring up that you do want to get
out to any of our listeners are your fans? Man?
Now just follow me on you know, social media and
buy some fucking mergen dickheads fuck your life bing bong.
Well there it is. Just before we let them go,
I just gotta say, don't you ever come on this

(42:19):
show and disrespect us, coming from the East coast to
the West coast looking like the motherfucking bears and California
sitting down next to me, you're going, I'm shooting your
drigging a shoulda and I'm having you. Don't you ever
fucking disrespect me with a black shirt on. If you
took your shirt on, you look like this, okay, just
sitting up here. Don't you ever fucking disrespect me? He
was ready, and if you come up, you're disrespecting me.

(42:42):
If you think you're funny standing up, don't you ever
put this fucking mask on, looking like a fucking ninja turtle.
Think you're gonna strike me down, your little fucking buck.
This is what goes down here on the fucking cannabi
stop one on one campus is cannabis stock one on one,
and you know that's done out of respect. Well there
it is, guys. Do you want to hit a back
real quick exactly exactly looking life for your life, that

(43:05):
y'all love you for that, because that's what we do.
Playing the dozens. Well, there it is, guys, it is
Cannabis Talk one. Don't want to remember this. If no
one else loves you, we do. Thank you for listening
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