August 25, 2022 • 43 mins
Vampires suck. Luckily, Jamie Foxx and Snoop Dogg are hunting them down in their new Netflix film, Day Shift. But this isn't the first time the superstars united. Since 2005, the duo have collaborated on their solo albums, Unpredictable and Tha Blue Carpet Treatment. Here, the tandem discuss working on the silver screen, hip-hop origins, Death Row Records, comedy, and more!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Rap right Off Podcast. My name is beat
Ellie Wilson Elliott. You have an interview with the Vampire
and two superstars. Man, Yes, Damie Fox podcast in the
house like furniture down, like gravity. That's a fact. You
guys collaborated before, but never on the movie The day Shift.
While was now the right time to do this? Man,
(00:22):
I'm gonna be honest with you, like I'm knowing this
brother man since v I p Regor is time long Beach,
California and more than a couple of decades. Uh. And
I remember being like the comedian just trying to get
on orter. But I'll just be hanging out watching these guys.
In the back room of v IP reg had an
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SP twelve hundred making beats and I was just watched
them wrapping. I said, I don't know about I don't
know what that nick is right there, but that one
right there about to be the future. And then we
got a chance to sort of watch it all play out.
I watched him, Uh murder was the case? Uh this
the soundtrack And I remember un into him at a
at a party. I said, man, you did he said?
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He said, like J J said, what can I say?
And so we just we we've had a real relationship.
And I'll be honest with you, like being in Hollywood,
you know, it's funky and and two face and and
plastic and goofy your ship. So I stayed way out
for and it's only a couple of people that I
actually call for more than just doing this and that's
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and Snoop is one of them. So when this movie
came about day Shift, which is blowing the funk up,
like everybody's waiting on this, the director was like, we
were trying to find the cat. He said, Man, hey, man,
I really love Snooped, offer said, say less, I said,
right on the phone, boom bo. And the next thing
you know, man, he jumps into this role man, and
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it's a different Snoop. Like that's what people are really
responded to. Like I got the chance to watch it
with the crowd watching this movie, and so when they
see Snoop whooping ass and being a real legitimate action hero,
he was going crazy on screen for this role. It
was challenging because I had to do a lot of
like preparation, a lot of like working out and going
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to eight seven eleven eighty seven eleven shout out to
them because they really worked with me to get me right,
because I was kind of like, I'm an athlete, but
at the same time, I've never done this. I always
had stunt doubles, and I wanted to like really like
do my own ship. I didn't really want to have
a stunt up. I wanted him to do like minimum work.
So I had to put in all of that work
and showing up and carrying this big ass fucking gun
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that pounds that ship damned the heavy than me, and
I had to like hold it to where it didn't
look like my posture was Often then, even when it
was time to act, I was on Scream with Jamie,
so my dog and I get to play a character
where it's not snoop Dog, it's Big John. It's a
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real character. So I got a chance to get with
the director and he gave me a lot of intel
on who Big John was. To me, Big John was
JJ the director, it was it was him. It was
me playing him because he was a vet. He had
been overseas and foughting award came back and some of
the elements of my character was him. So it was
for him being able to be directed by somebody like
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JJ and the work with my buddy Jamie. You've played
a football player, a super villain, now a cowboy. Come on,
now you're a vampire hunter. Do you always wanted to
do this? Like action horror? I'm gonna be honest with you,
piggyback on what he's saying. J. J. Perry for those
of you who don't know. J. J. Perry is the
director who directed all of the second unit on Fast
and Furious on John Wick Django, So he directed all
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of those like high octam you know scenes that you
that you see. So this was his debut, so it
wasn't necessarily about just the vehicle of hunting vampires. It
was the action that he showed me. He showed me
these prevays where and if you see it like like
like even on the trailer, I'm fighting this uh this
grandmother and like on the trailer, like you see me
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blow this white grandmother to mother mother bath nigga. Didn't
even watch the whole trailer. They call me, y, you
shooting grandmother. You've seen this wife just go through. I said,
watch the whole trailer. But what was great about it
was it was practical. So these are like sixty guys
at the parkour guys and girls, and you know, they
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were amazing, So that's why we jumped into it. And
then the Space of Vampires. Man, everybody loves that. You
gotta understand, like when the zombie of the Vampire World
and this guy says, when we go into this world,
we're gonna make it practical, like we're gonna be union
guys things for money. That's something that we understand, you
know what I'm saying. And at the same time, you
know you got Big John, is your is your guys.
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So all of those elements put together, man, turned out
something really really special for Netflix because you you didn't
want to talk about you Jamie, you make a call
like you see it, like you'll talk about movies that
did well, you're talking about movies that didn't do How
do you like, how do you know that he was
that moment shooting this where you felt like, oh this
is this feels like something. I think it might be
one of those ones. I think the very a getting
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before we even get get into it. And I always
have to be careful sometimes when I'm talking about, you know,
the movies that I've done I think was good because
those are directors and writers that you know, but they
you know, they blood, sweat and tears to do it.
But sometimes I got to just be honest. I said,
I put it on me. It's my bad, my bad choice.
But this is a great choice because you've got those
great elements. Man. And when we started shooting this and
I see Snoop like handling his ship and then handling
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that gun and then looking at the prevaise of what
we just shot, I said, oh, we get out of here,
especially for us here for a platform like Netflix, which
is gore horror a little off center and things like that,
and the way it absolutely launches at the beginning. It
was a good minute speaking about in the beginning. One
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thing that stood out to me is the music. When
you're opening scene, you have California Love remixing. You got
check yourself on ice Cube. You do know Nipsey Hustle
grinding all my life. So it's like if the same
as l A calibastas you know l A, you gotta
have l A music which you listened to in this
environment and vampires like aster Ship. That's the T shirt
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right there. How challenges was the action for you? Jamie
like slips that he had to get in shape, Like
do you do a lot of your stuff or do
you how do you stunt doubles? Like how's it works
for you? Initial? Man? Like we were all all all in,
you know, like myself, Snoop Dave Franco. And what was
great is that do the so great of what he
does is when we jumped in and did what we
needed to do. It wasn't It wasn't as taxing and
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say someone who doesn't shoot action, like you have a
director that that knows the movie, but you don't shoot action,
so it's laborious. You like, sometimes ain't gonna get in there, man,
because you don't know you know what's going on. We
felt really safe doing it. We weren't gonna get injured
and nothing like that. And then being involved in and
when you see the see the stunts, it's seamless. You
can't tell who the stunt person is and who ain't.
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So you know those and those are some big you
know we have One day, Jamie, when we was in Atlanta,
I got to the set and um, normally I get
to the set this before we're shooting. I do a
little workout training with the guns and stunts and all
this ship with the boxes and the carpet so when
they don't get hurt. So we're doing this ship for
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like three days and all of a sudden, j J
said something to me. I wasn't even listening to him.
So I finished the workout something they could come. That's
buffers and motherfucker with a bunch of dumbbells and ropes
and ship. I'm like, I'm done. He's like, no, you're not.
This the second part of the workout. You gotta lift
to do this and yoga and hand me and dogward
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downward dogs. This got to do with the role. But
then once we start shooting, all that ship matter. It
really fucking matters. It's like an athlete that trains to
be an athlete. You don't understand why you lifting, squatting
and running and training, but when the bust and get
him a touchdown, you're like all that training in preparation.
I see that when when this smoothe is complete as
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far as like how I put in that work on
that extra work. And I want to thank j J
again for putting through that ship, because as an actor,
we don't understand how deep it is. We just think
as a celebrity, I can just jump on screen, not
to roll out because I'm the ship. No, it takes
a lot of preparation and skill and training, and if
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you want to be great, that's if you want to
be great. So thank you j J for pushing me
to Grange and Jamie. You work well with rappers man
in the past, Llo Coo Jice Cube. Of course it's
like the Fame fight man. But yeah, man, you know
what it's. But it's that's all organic. And what's great
is I'm fansy these guys. Man, He'll tell you I'll
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be on I'll be on cloud nine minute. I think
coming in with a big gas bone. Box Man always
been my boom box. I played in music even when
it was l L or any of these guys. Man,
It's just it's a it's the cross pollination of Jamie.
Your house was like the center to the West Coast
and to everybody who loved music and love what we
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stood for. So I remember one time when the NBA
shut down and there was no season or something that happened.
This nigger had all the players at this house playing basketball.
It was a party and it was like it was
just like Jamie's House was the spot. Like the NBA
and shut down. They had the lockout a charity for
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this boys James Harden. Everybody was in him him and
they didn't have a battle in the in the had
a little smoke put him on. He got put on
that and to be honest with you, the piggyback on
that the party we did the first verses. I don't
know if you recognize we was it. It was the
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b et pot right, Yeah. So nobody scheduled to perform
or nothing like that, but we just had a stage
with and so the DJ just started playing you know
Snoops music that no Snoop hit it and then Timberland
played Timberland Boom and played in and everybody was sort
of trading off. Remember that, I had to be honest
with you, like three thousand in the backyard. Three thousand
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people in the backyard. Remember when you came in Kanye
walking that she was weird. It was weird because everybody
like gravitated that because you don't never see that. Yeah,
it was like yeahs Unicorn, Yeah, man, motherfucker walked there
and I was like, you're good. Yeah, they still playing it.
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So to your question. Yeah, it's imperative that we all
worked together. When you're sitting you talked to Quincy Jones
and Quinciment mound Ship right working with Lake Charles Man.
You know Frank Sinatra, Baby, you know when I worked
with us Sure you know Usure, don't you? Jemmy? Yeah? Man,
Michael Jackson May with the fifty four million records right
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there on the wallman, So fifty four million records? Do
you know Usure? Always always asking them because you know
Ushul right? Yes, I love Snoop Dale double man. He's amazing. Man.
You know I smoked with him one time and got lost.
I couldn't get home. But it's crazy but so but
with Quincy he would break down how they all kicked
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it together. So we want to do that same thing. Man. Now, Jamie,
you're from Texas right, talking about what are some of
your early hip hop origins? Like what do you grow up?
What do you grow up listening to? Man? It was
n W Wade. The reason it was n W A
because I was in Texas. We weren't quite East Coast yet,
because you know, Texas kind of country thing like that,
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and so l A looked to us different like, you
know the lifestyle the my cousins was from Inglewood. They
was light skinned. Different. Yeah, but you're what I'm saying.
So we so the South was really like but all
my cousins, like my light skin cousins that talk different.
Remember they would say the word p o o L.
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We say pool, but they wore say pool. I said, damn,
that's two different. So we was enamored with l A.
So when in w A hit, I was like, what
is you know, here's a little story about the nigga
like me never should have been led out the penitentiary.
Ice Cube would like to say that I'm a crazy
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motherfucker from around the way since it was the youth
I smoked weed out. Now I'm the mother fun that
you read about taking the life. But two, that's what
the hell I do? You don't like? What fuck you?
I said? Who is this? Run in the hill? And
then the girl laid and of course you know, then
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getting to to l A and then and and Snoop.
I had more than just hearing the music. I was
actually there watching these guys make these moments happen. So
that's why I was like, more like, uh, whist coast
you know, but even you're you're transition to making music right,
you know, being a great comic comedian like put out,
Pete This and not even four didn't get the great
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result of Wanted. Eleven years later, you're like officially in
this music business and really kicking ask me, Unpredictable was amazing.
Body worked. That was my boy, Brian Brian Prescott shout
out to Briann Brian Broad Brian would always come to
me and say, yo boy, you gotta do music. You
gotta stop being funny. That's what you mean, he said,
you gotta find like real songs and stop joking your
ship away, he said, because people see you as a
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as a comment. So we're working on the music. The
next thing, you know, he brought a dude over with
a backpack on jawbustet. It was Kanye to and Kanye
didn't have a deal. It was another party, has to
be a party. It was a party, but the party
was souf missy ellie dude standing on the wall that
nobody knew with a little tracks with Jack's jay z
I said, it was a nice party. It's crazy thet
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times it's crazy. Stored off of my projects. Dame had
an idea that at that time, at that time, tall dude,
smaller dude, it was for real. And when they brought
Yea over people, they showed um, they showed the documentary
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but they don't, but they don't show the beginning death.
When they came in, it was people to come to
my house. Man, everybody had to perform. It was all
like you know, sharpening our you know, that was that
little studio, had a little lass studio. So I said
when I see yeah, yeah, I said, hey man, you
gotta rap. Man. They told me you rapped Snicker. Snicker
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did a freestyle. It was so incredible running, you know.
That's when he said, I got a record for you
and it was slow jamm and at that time he
was you know, he was still trying to get a
deal or whatever. And then that's how I got into
music because it was a long enough time that the
people that were watching me on the living color before
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I removed that got grown. So the younger kids only
saw me as the music dude. And I wasn't sort
of not joking, touching on a living color. I felt
like you correct me in for more. It was like
a watershed moment. There was like a Christmas episode where
you sung. Did that moment give you the confidence to
like put your music out there to the Yeah? Man,
because I was like, cause, because at that time, you know,
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you couldn't do music and comedy on but the Winds.
I don't know if they was with it or not
at that time, but I was like, man, let me
just little sing a little something, you know, because they
were kind of like, we want to protect the comedy.
But you know that gave me a little you know,
no living color. Do you remember this sketch were you
impersonated Snoop? It was the gangster group sketch. Do you
remember where was Bushwood Bill was? And it was like,
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you know, we're just talking about the state of hip
hop at the time. That show. That show was one
of the greatest shows that ever hit TV. Sketch comedy,
they're even transition into more music, Like I feel like
a lot of people give you credit for slow jams,
you know what suthing like that. But you worked with
Guru and comment on the Giving Sunday soundtrack, right, was
that like your first time getting like a big look, Yeah,
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here's the history. Every time I do a movie, I
do a song whether the song come out or not.
I did Spider Man, I didn't. I did a song
for Electroc called Chase and Spiders. I did a song
on a given Sunday. I came up with the chap
my name is Willie with lubin right. But then I'm
sitting in my little apartment in Miami and came up
with the theme song for any given Sunday. I said
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the own. I said this, this feels like Common and Guru.
But they didn't know each other. They had never met
each other. So I just went out on living. I
think about how long to go this. It's twenty three
years ago, it's ninety nine. So I called Guru. I said, Man,
I'm just reaching out to you. I'm gonna send you
the song. You know, I had to say. It wasn't
like I had to send the CD. You know what
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I'm saying. Nick had to listen to the CD. You
know what I'm saying. It wasn't no, you know what.
I had a lock this in and hermitically see that
so he could get it right. So then we in Toronto.
I flew to them in to Toronto and comment while
saying and come, oh god. I didn't even know that
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you like, like was arm and like that. It's like special,
you know, like I said, nigg So they ended up
laying it out and that's how the soundtrack for any
Give a Son they got done. And then on this
we got some music coming for this. Got this one
called mowing down Vamps with my best friend Bug, which
is what he says at the end of the movie.
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So we shot a little video of that and then
some other musical things that have happened throughout the month
because we want to keep people excited about the movie
for the next thirty days. But even the earl of
the oh five earl like Snoop, he was kicking out
with for all making music. What was it like seeing
Jamie kind of step out and Billy being taken seriously
as a musician. I mean I already knew it, Nigga concerned,
Like like Brian said, he should have been started keeping
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it one fire and separating the comedy from the singing,
because sometimes when he would do his comedy and sing
Motherfucker's would get mad and he wouldn't sing the whole song.
So that was like signs of it, And didn't see
him actually have great records that were dope. And then
I remember I was on my last song on my album.
This nigga called me and said, nigga, you can't put
your album out. Put up putting one of my songs.
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O that And I pulled up on you gave me
that blue cap. He forced his sm like I'm hot down.
What was that ever? Like like that mid two thousands
you were like to go to guys for a lot
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of artists. I don't really, I mean, it was just
happening so fast. That song that we did. We we
literally he didn't tell your whole story. He showed up.
It was a Christmas it was it was decent twenty four.
My buzz read, I look at my monitor and it's
a uh Santa Blue. Santa Claus had something like going.
I said, I said, what's what's having? Guy? So that
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so it's Christmas Eve when remember you had to do
was just rolling blunts. He was just he didn't even
he didn't even talk. He just rolling and rolling ship
like love. So you know, I can't smoke like this much.
So we're trying to smile. We're in the studio going.
Then we hooped. We hooped that night and then we
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did a song, and then we forgot about them because
I was high as ship. And so a few weeks
later I went back, went through my up, went through
my ship. I said, I think we did a song,
and then that's how I also did a record called
of You and I'm predictable on your project too. Did
that come first or did the I'm not for sure, man,
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it was all the haze, but it was just a
good time. It was a really, really, really great time man.
And let's ni a little dinge the waters nigger a little,
but everybody wanted a piece of you, Jamie. You had
fifty build you up. You want the Massacre That was
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like his big, biggest selling debut at the time, and
then like Blue to Chris Georgia wasn't in the video
call Grill check out. All of this is is because
I championed their talents, like I just I just want
him to women when I see Snoop, just just staying
focused on Snoop, Like like when I see Snoop, I
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see everything. You'll talk about. How y'all see Snoop everywhere
is because Snoop is a quintessential everything, Like for him
to be able to cross pollinate markets all over the
world and an incredible figure coming from where he came
from and looking at his his struggle. There used to
be days when me and Snoop was like, NI good,
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some bad ship could really happen right now, so we
need to walk precisely because you know, at that time
it was fun, but that ship was dangerous. Is the mother,
And I think that's why the music what he did
was so amazing because sometimes we was really really running
for his life. So now you see you see him
blooming because that came from some real dirt. That makes
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how proud of you are you of you excuse me,
how proud of you are you of your album's curate
him up book too. I forgot what I was talking about.
It's a second like listening to your catalog, like unpredictable intuition,
like those joints have some bangers on that man, Like
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how proudly you are those projects. It was great because
we had, like I said, Brian was at the Him.
We had people like Rico Love, We had all these
people like Tank. We had some really great like R
and B guys that were uh floortry. Yeah, you know
everyone loves slow jams or twisted but I feel like
DJ play a love song doesn't get enough on it.
Do though, when I'll be out there on the live
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played But that was a Sean Garrett, did you do that?
Another song? And I like I had one too, like
a pre cursor and this pretty little thing to see
it was one night against Yeah, that was baby next
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to me. That's my ship right there on top of this.
Have a blame it on the alcohol. How do they drinks?
Did you have to turn down the club? Well, I mean,
blame it on alcohol. Was was was? It was a
crazy hit, but it was like, um, the way we
the way we got that record was to Briann. He
called me like four in the morning, wake your ass up,
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wake your ass up. Missle down here, gotta Missle down here.
You gotta come here right now. So I go to
Sunset Marquis and so they listened to the music. But
the dudes don't know that that's a hit. So Brian like, yo,
let me get that one very kind of whack. Let
me get that. And then he goes he said, you
gotta cut the record right now. We cut the record
and then when it came out, we literally took it
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from this is where the jokes came in handy. We
went from Toronto, New York, and every time we go
on the club, shout out to my man Peckers. He
took us to sit. He took us Sin City Bronx. Okay, yo, Jamie,
you gotta come to Sin see baby, that good ship.
We gotta see if you play in here. If they
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don't play here, don't play nowhere, don't get it. Get
this back, yo, your mommy, mummy, move let some Yeah. Yeah,
still we have since City. I don't know if I'm
being you know, I don't know something, but we aren't
since it was going to right, yeah, well it was.
It was. It was since City. And basically what he
was explaining to me that the way he break the
record is if they danced to it, and here that dance.
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So I jumped on the mic and said, fellers, you
ever meet a girl and you think she hally Berry,
but you get through drinking and you're wake up in
the morning, she hardly scared blaming on. So he was.
He launched the record, and since we launched that regular
since City, New York d C inauguration Kathy Kathy Hughes
God Bless says sing that record, and then by the
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time we got to Miami it was and you also
launched this god named Drake Man, like you gave him
his first big TV parents. When you are on the
code of the Brian show Digital Girl, what was that
experience like, because it's so surreal watching you talk about
the greatness of Drake, you know, twelve years ago. Well,
I mean it was. It was great because I was
on Conan and Brian. I said, Connor, I'm about to
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bring this young kid out. His name is Drake. One
girl clap, And I said, and I said, I said,
that girl knows the future. And he came out and
did this thing, and the rest on the internet right now,
you know, But but that that was the real deal.
But I said, his name is Jake. And I think
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what they did with the footage was that we had
ran out of time when I was explaining it. But
it's like you're one girl clap. I said, yeah, it's
about to be crazy because you always talked about how
I remember Jake always talked about how your your county
specials that might be scared such an influence to him
as as a young Yeah, I mean, and then that's
the thing sometimes I had to my daughter, don't think
I'm always cool, I said, so she's like, so I
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just let her. I let her read text from Drake. Look,
Drake says he whatever you screen shot? And how did
that involved? From like you guys recording for for your
type that's like a classic. It was just I mean
the record that he wrote and said, you know, I'm
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gonna do some R and B stuff for you, and
you know, he was generous enough to let me cut
the record because he had already you know, had had
the record out. And then once we did it, man,
you know, he was just you know, support. Like I said,
it's always you know, just right snip. You're showing love
to the newer generation too on your latest project. I
was surprised to hear you say that you let cor
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Day right for you on one of your songs, Like yeah,
like you you know, it was so so tabooed to
talk about people writing for others. But no, but I
started off right. I started off right for Dr Drey.
So what would I be if I didn't a low
some matter write for me. You know, sometimes you gotta
put yourself in the frame, uh, letting somebody else depict
a better picture for you, because you can't see everything.
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I used this as an example all the time. I
feel like Whitney he used his best record was The Bodyguard.
When other people came in and gave her records that
weren't her what she just could just sit back and
just saying, and they embodied what they thought she should be.
And that's to the point of my career. One mat
now that I've written so many hit records, a where
it's not about what I can write, sometimes about what
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I can't see that somebody else can write for me.
Mentioned man, we've seen a lot of you guys in
the studio math. Do we have our figures crossed that
could maybe having one there? Cross them? I'm cross them
across your fingers. Dr J. Yeah, but I can't say much,
but it's happening. I got the whole record right. What
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about the reunion with you in the death row? Uh?
Founder HARRYO, Like you guys reconnected? Like, how is that experience?
It's been beautiful? Actually, um Trump pardoned him. We were
speaking people. I know Harry. He's a great person. He
couldn't vote for me at the time. Now they can
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vote for me once he gets out. I love Snoop
deal check great path. I love death Excuse me, excuse me,
excuse me, fake news. I loved that. What's your favorite
Death Row record? What's the trump? I love them that record?
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Still try to pin me down, but he just excuse me,
excuse me, fakeness. You try to give me the virus.
They try to who was they? I beat the he
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looked out though he got tohme me out when he
got him out. I didn't have death Through at the time,
so what I was doing was trying to figure out
how to give my masters back, which was the key um.
And then the label became available. First it was more feasible,
so I snatched the label up, and then I went
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after my masters, and then I went after the publishing.
And then I went to him and said, I want
to make you to see all the death Row so
we can handle this unfinished business. Put you in a
position of where you can make moves and make this
label grow like it should have grow, and tie you
back into something that you created. And then at the
same time go back take care of all of the
old artists like rage R b X, Dash Corrupt, all
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the people who didn't get their published and didn't get
things that was supposed to be given to them, making
sure that were lined it up now and making sure
those numbers are accurate as opposed to what they were.
HOWE is that just making like making things right right
like this, just getting it back to what it should
have been. It started about It started off about me.
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I wanted to get me right. I want to get
my masters because I'm like, I need to have Doggy
style funk that that's my record. And then it went
to stop being selfish? What about everybody else? So then
they went into let me get this first, then I'll
get that, but I'm not gonna worry about minds. Get this,
make sure everybody else is straight, restore order to make
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death Row presentable again, respectable, lovable people want to be
around it, the music, the atmosphere, the whole energy of
it all. And then again my mission with Doggy Staff
was the thirty anniversaries next year, and also saw a
recent veteran running around. Somebody was taking a meeting with
you was ma, man, what's going on Mason's back? He
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said he might be the first artist to be bad boy.
Then death Row mass my family. You know one thing
about Snoop Dog. I've always been the epicenter of peace
and love. And when the bad Boy death row was
having issues, me and makes never had issues. Me and
Puffy never had issues. Man Biggy never had issues. So
it was like I was always the fine line. And
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we're in a new world, a new era now. We
gotta put it from spin on what death on bad
Boy was as opposed to what it is. Puffy kids
and my kids are best of friends. They came up together.
Like I didn't make it happen. I didn't force them to.
Ain't Kim put them together one day and when they
were seven eight years old and they became best of friends.
So it's like they don't see the bad Boy death
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for all beef. They see bad Boy death fall love.
So why shouldn't we project that and continue that energy
moving forward? As opposed to keeping that negative ship there? Boom,
what does that mean? Like based Like though he's not capting,
he's speaking some real ship. You gotta put it in
the air. You gotta speak in existence like manifestation is key,
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Like he's speaking to something that's real, Like I'm here
to entertain it, you know what I'm saying. So I'm
here to entertain it. Well. Yet on the door, Jim,
you also insertain a lot of rappers. On the Jimmie
Foxx Show, you had Westside Connection. What's so crazy about that?
When we had West Coast Connect, Iq, Dub and Mac
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ten the writers at that time, they weren't quite getting
it right. So I would never go to my my
my office. I always slept on the set because I
would rewrite through. I would rewrite the show in the morning. Wow,
I said, Nah, I said, when they walked in, and
you know, you gotta understand, Cubeque was a nice person,
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but it don't always it don't always translate with his
facially express you know that what's okute? Sou oh ship?
So you know some of some of the people that
worked as are they okay? Should be? But I think
the energy that they came in, this's how it should be.
Dub I said, when y'all when we asked for payment,
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you say you got cash, you know, caring on credit
card and just reaching your ship like that, and that's
gonna start the whole episode. So when he did that,
he was like, oh God. And so to be able
to have moments like this, I'll go back to my
childhood when it was Sammy Davis Junior, Flip Wilson, Richard
Pryor Uh, you know what I'm saying, rich Little all
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of them would be doing each other's shows and things
like that. So I just wanted to be able to
have That's in my legacy of working with all the rappers.
Read Man, methew Man. We used to have a um
a karaoke night every Tuesday when we shot, so I
had read Man and methem Man afterwards come to the
karaoke night. And then it ended up in my crib
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and they've running through the house throwing because one of
those birthday they throwing birthday cakes. And so it was
those moments to where you go like, man, it's so
surreal and so fun. You soak it up and then
and then you reflect. You had Ron Osley and Mary J.
Bliger there to do the Yeah, man, it was great.
(32:56):
I mean I had the Queen of R and B
soul uh and then the Prince of R and B.
And you got to think the history of Ron Holly's
is amazing twisting shout, you know what I mean, before
the fifties, like early early on. So it's like that's
when it's real cool. You get a chance to sort
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of rub up against like some of your heroes. And
and Mary J. Blige, man, I mean just you know,
what can what can you say about her? And I
know one thing too, don't don't perform behind Mary J.
Blish if she goes up first. I saw I saw
her and jay Z that tour when they was at
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a Boy She was boy. It went to overtime. Jay
Z had to hit the free through because all the
women showed up and see what lady I was like ship,
you know, but you know, so to see her on
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show was amazing. The show is also influenced the young
producer by the name of Pierre Born with him. Yeah,
you know, he uses your line produce a tag. What
do you think about that? I thought that was great, man,
And then let my kids that another. You know, I'm
always trying to impress my daughter years on her friends.
I said, I said, listen, that's the peer. That's me
saying that. Damn that ain't you because you know she's
(34:23):
too young to have seen the show when it was
out because and she was a lord. Bless my my
kids was Martin fans. They watched Martin back to back,
I said, Man, watch Martin back to back. So I
had to show where the line came from. And that
gave me some cool points. You know what I'm saying,
And I appreciate it. You tried to me, young man.
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That's just man, that's all. That's he said. He hadn't
met you at the time when I asked him, you
have you guys, Matt. I still haven't met him, but
we reached out on on on Instagram. Man. But yeah, man,
it'd be great to you know, get up awesome. It's
to get a record one together, are making music. They're
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always doing something. But we don't know if we're gonna drop.
Just let everybody. You know, man, we had not Like
I said, we had that time, and I'm like, oh,
we had our time. But you know, sometimes you just
sit back and let it come over. Do you miss
stand up? I still do stand up. You just haven't
seen me doing stand up like officially, but I was
(35:25):
in Capri and Italy doing this charity. So I do
the music and the stand up together and everywhere I go,
I'm always doing stand up, but I'm officially without this
this fall, and I'm gonna do like some small like
that's why you hear the Donald Trump and all those
I've been working on my impersonation. So yes, so we
see my new set and it's it's intimate. Somebody going
(35:47):
somebody might like literally like not make it that night.
They're gonna be laughing that hard. How you do last
night fast? I kill literally because I got some funny
motherfucking you know what I'm saying, comedy to say, somebody
trying to run up on you. You know what I mean?
That's out there too, you know, I just you know,
(36:10):
no matter. But but I think comedy was getting a
bad rap. I think comedy and what we do should
be should be left alone. I think they should let
us entertain, no matter what it is, no matter what
we're doing. This is the arts. And I also think
with us inside the arts, we shouldn't be policing ourselves.
I came out here to to hang out and smoke
weed and kick it and have a good time and
(36:31):
be you know, open with our art. And so that's
why I went on. Even when I saw Dave Chappelle,
I was at the Chapel Shop when the dude ran
on the joint and I ran on stage. I'm not
gonna say how it all went down, but I just
it was just surreal, like this is crazy leg and
I am careless thinking I am right, I am, I
am Trump staring trumble James Fox has a sheriff. I
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do like th real, like what and what happened was
the Javier Monkeys. This is what through. You know, the
Javier Walkers had performed in front of Day, which I
thought was weird but it was cool. Yeah, And I'm like, okay,
and I'm in the I'm in the audience. The bottle
of bottle of beas began and Ship I'm having oh yeah, yeah,
(37:21):
I got the b s being you know what I'm saying.
So I'm in there dancing pop like having a good
time with them and Ship. But I'm in bad seats
because I got I'm in the garden ship you know
how they had a ship in the front. I'm in
the garden seats and people are looking like why are
you back here? But have a good time. You man
form the garden to the stage. Bro listen to me.
So Chappelle offences, thank you right, and I see your
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nigga run. I said that must be one of the
Jabber monkeys and they're about to do an interpretive dance
trying to say got being I'm gone done, And this
is like what gone I'm gonna dn't see. I didn't
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see that, but I went up there to protect my my,
my friend, my homie, and to protect comedy. Man. This
is these are jokes man like, Like when I go out,
I'm gonna say some ship man. That is that has
to be said because it's funny, you know, as comedians man,
and as as entertaining, we just talk about life like
I don't care what political side you on. I'm gonna
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talk about Joe Biden, I'm gonna talk about Trump, I'm
gonna talking about everybody. You know what I'm saying. And
so that's why when I go out, man, I hope
people really are recepted to it. And all the running
on stage and all that leaves leave that ship alone. Man.
Let let us, let us, let us perform for you,
because there is a there was an unspoken contract between
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artists and fans. That contract has been along since Shakespeare.
There's been that contract where you sit and you are entertained.
So we don't want to break anymore those contracts, and
and and because the world needs are entertainment needs, Snoop
song needs of my jokes and needs they shift on
speaking of killing stages, Snoop Man, we saw what you
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did at the super Bowl. How you want straight to
the set? Right? Shoot the movie? Wow? How did you
like you narrow down with Stone? You was gonna pick
because there's so many to pick from. I didn't have
no control over what songs I performed. Dr Drake put
that whole show together as forwards, the look of it,
the sound of who comes out for a second third,
(39:34):
everything that's the Dr dre production. I read that after
you performed. Jay Z was the first one that met you. Yeah,
we was in the locker room downstairs, having a social agenda.
The best half times ever, best halftime show. I was
in the stand again, I don't have a great seat.
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I don't know, I gotta It was amazing to see
those guys do that. Man, you know what I'm saying.
It was amazing to see hip hop in that way,
be um and not that they were ever jockeying for
a position to be mainstream. It's just amazing to see
how hip hop is just no matter what color, no
matter what creed, people enjoy snip is giving out death
(40:17):
Row chains man. Eli Manning got one, Yeah, Steph Curry
got one. Who's next. I don't know. We're not already.
We're good. We're good. We're good, We're good. I'm just
trying to make like I said, it's the brand right now.
See when you see that chain on Eli Manning, Steph Curry,
what do we make you think? It makes you think
that death Row is beautiful, It is fun, is happy
(40:39):
to be around. It represents life and represents love. Not
the old stigma of you could get beat up, you
can get shot, you get anything negative, you don't even
have nothing to do with no more. I'm trying to
put it in a different around my life. There's nothing
negative to say about that day shift man. Congratulations again,
Thank you so much. Man. We're so excited about that. Uh.
Netflix is super We're duper duper excited because it works
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for their platform and in a way that's amazing. Even
though they go by these Numerit systems and feel like
box office from back in the day to well, box
office is different. It's like when you do box office,
you have the ability in a in a movie that's
in the theater to allow things to play out on
the system of us watching something. When we hit it,
(41:22):
you know how we are in the first two minutes,
first two minutes, it ain't popping. What do you you
turn on? So with those movies, we with that system,
we have touched all of those points. Like the first
two or three minutes of this movie Boom, we were
cooking with gas and then we keep we keep the
pedal on the metal. And that's why if you think
about it like this, no matter where you are in
(41:44):
the movie, if you turn the movie on mid movie,
it's something, you know, really great happening. So that's what
they're excited about. It works with the system. And at
the same time, you can't miss with Snoop, you can't
miss with Dave Franco, you can't miss with Megan Good.
You can't miss what I'm saying man way way great.
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And if you guys is out here in l A
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You know why Sunset Boulevard is is a staple of Hollywood.
It's the place where everybody comes to see and for
a young man from Long Beach, California and young man
from Tarrell Texas uh to have billboards littered down the
street boulevard, and although we've done this for quite some time,
(42:30):
it still feels good to see to see those billboards up.
It feels good to see you guys back at it man.
Definitely legendary. Thank you, thank you, Yeah yeah yeah. Rap
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It's the Rap right Off Podcast. My name is beat
Ellie Wilson Elliott. You have an interview with the Vampire
and two superstars. Man, Yes, Damie Fox podcast in the
house like furniture down, like gravity. That's a fact. You
guys collaborated before, but never on the movie The day Shift.
While was now the right time to do this? Man,
(00:22):
I'm gonna be honest with you, like I'm knowing this
brother man since v I p Regor is time long Beach,
California and more than a couple of decades. Uh. And
I remember being like the comedian just trying to get
on orter. But I'll just be hanging out watching these guys.
In the back room of v IP reg had an
(00:43):
SP twelve hundred making beats and I was just watched
them wrapping. I said, I don't know about I don't
know what that nick is right there, but that one
right there about to be the future. And then we
got a chance to sort of watch it all play out.
I watched him, Uh murder was the case? Uh this
the soundtrack And I remember un into him at a
at a party. I said, man, you did he said?
(01:03):
He said, like J J said, what can I say?
And so we just we we've had a real relationship.
And I'll be honest with you, like being in Hollywood,
you know, it's funky and and two face and and
plastic and goofy your ship. So I stayed way out
for and it's only a couple of people that I
actually call for more than just doing this and that's
(01:25):
and Snoop is one of them. So when this movie
came about day Shift, which is blowing the funk up,
like everybody's waiting on this, the director was like, we
were trying to find the cat. He said, Man, hey, man,
I really love Snooped, offer said, say less, I said,
right on the phone, boom bo. And the next thing
you know, man, he jumps into this role man, and
(01:46):
it's a different Snoop. Like that's what people are really
responded to. Like I got the chance to watch it
with the crowd watching this movie, and so when they
see Snoop whooping ass and being a real legitimate action hero,
he was going crazy on screen for this role. It
was challenging because I had to do a lot of
like preparation, a lot of like working out and going
(02:08):
to eight seven eleven eighty seven eleven shout out to
them because they really worked with me to get me right,
because I was kind of like, I'm an athlete, but
at the same time, I've never done this. I always
had stunt doubles, and I wanted to like really like
do my own ship. I didn't really want to have
a stunt up. I wanted him to do like minimum work.
So I had to put in all of that work
and showing up and carrying this big ass fucking gun
(02:29):
that pounds that ship damned the heavy than me, and
I had to like hold it to where it didn't
look like my posture was Often then, even when it
was time to act, I was on Scream with Jamie,
so my dog and I get to play a character
where it's not snoop Dog, it's Big John. It's a
(02:51):
real character. So I got a chance to get with
the director and he gave me a lot of intel
on who Big John was. To me, Big John was
JJ the director, it was it was him. It was
me playing him because he was a vet. He had
been overseas and foughting award came back and some of
the elements of my character was him. So it was
for him being able to be directed by somebody like
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JJ and the work with my buddy Jamie. You've played
a football player, a super villain, now a cowboy. Come on,
now you're a vampire hunter. Do you always wanted to
do this? Like action horror? I'm gonna be honest with you,
piggyback on what he's saying. J. J. Perry for those
of you who don't know. J. J. Perry is the
director who directed all of the second unit on Fast
and Furious on John Wick Django, So he directed all
(03:33):
of those like high octam you know scenes that you
that you see. So this was his debut, so it
wasn't necessarily about just the vehicle of hunting vampires. It
was the action that he showed me. He showed me
these prevays where and if you see it like like
like even on the trailer, I'm fighting this uh this
grandmother and like on the trailer, like you see me
(03:55):
blow this white grandmother to mother mother bath nigga. Didn't
even watch the whole trailer. They call me, y, you
shooting grandmother. You've seen this wife just go through. I said,
watch the whole trailer. But what was great about it
was it was practical. So these are like sixty guys
at the parkour guys and girls, and you know, they
(04:18):
were amazing, So that's why we jumped into it. And
then the Space of Vampires. Man, everybody loves that. You
gotta understand, like when the zombie of the Vampire World
and this guy says, when we go into this world,
we're gonna make it practical, like we're gonna be union
guys things for money. That's something that we understand, you
know what I'm saying. And at the same time, you
know you got Big John, is your is your guys.
(04:40):
So all of those elements put together, man, turned out
something really really special for Netflix because you you didn't
want to talk about you Jamie, you make a call
like you see it, like you'll talk about movies that
did well, you're talking about movies that didn't do How
do you like, how do you know that he was
that moment shooting this where you felt like, oh this
is this feels like something. I think it might be
one of those ones. I think the very a getting
(05:00):
before we even get get into it. And I always
have to be careful sometimes when I'm talking about, you know,
the movies that I've done I think was good because
those are directors and writers that you know, but they
you know, they blood, sweat and tears to do it.
But sometimes I got to just be honest. I said,
I put it on me. It's my bad, my bad choice.
But this is a great choice because you've got those
great elements. Man. And when we started shooting this and
I see Snoop like handling his ship and then handling
(05:23):
that gun and then looking at the prevaise of what
we just shot, I said, oh, we get out of here,
especially for us here for a platform like Netflix, which
is gore horror a little off center and things like that,
and the way it absolutely launches at the beginning. It
was a good minute speaking about in the beginning. One
(05:43):
thing that stood out to me is the music. When
you're opening scene, you have California Love remixing. You got
check yourself on ice Cube. You do know Nipsey Hustle
grinding all my life. So it's like if the same
as l A calibastas you know l A, you gotta
have l A music which you listened to in this
environment and vampires like aster Ship. That's the T shirt
(06:06):
right there. How challenges was the action for you? Jamie
like slips that he had to get in shape, Like
do you do a lot of your stuff or do
you how do you stunt doubles? Like how's it works
for you? Initial? Man? Like we were all all all in,
you know, like myself, Snoop Dave Franco. And what was
great is that do the so great of what he
does is when we jumped in and did what we
needed to do. It wasn't It wasn't as taxing and
(06:28):
say someone who doesn't shoot action, like you have a
director that that knows the movie, but you don't shoot action,
so it's laborious. You like, sometimes ain't gonna get in there, man,
because you don't know you know what's going on. We
felt really safe doing it. We weren't gonna get injured
and nothing like that. And then being involved in and
when you see the see the stunts, it's seamless. You
can't tell who the stunt person is and who ain't.
(06:50):
So you know those and those are some big you
know we have One day, Jamie, when we was in Atlanta,
I got to the set and um, normally I get
to the set this before we're shooting. I do a
little workout training with the guns and stunts and all
this ship with the boxes and the carpet so when
they don't get hurt. So we're doing this ship for
(07:11):
like three days and all of a sudden, j J
said something to me. I wasn't even listening to him.
So I finished the workout something they could come. That's
buffers and motherfucker with a bunch of dumbbells and ropes
and ship. I'm like, I'm done. He's like, no, you're not.
This the second part of the workout. You gotta lift
to do this and yoga and hand me and dogward
(07:31):
downward dogs. This got to do with the role. But
then once we start shooting, all that ship matter. It
really fucking matters. It's like an athlete that trains to
be an athlete. You don't understand why you lifting, squatting
and running and training, but when the bust and get
him a touchdown, you're like all that training in preparation.
I see that when when this smoothe is complete as
(07:53):
far as like how I put in that work on
that extra work. And I want to thank j J
again for putting through that ship, because as an actor,
we don't understand how deep it is. We just think
as a celebrity, I can just jump on screen, not
to roll out because I'm the ship. No, it takes
a lot of preparation and skill and training, and if
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you want to be great, that's if you want to
be great. So thank you j J for pushing me
to Grange and Jamie. You work well with rappers man
in the past, Llo Coo Jice Cube. Of course it's
like the Fame fight man. But yeah, man, you know
what it's. But it's that's all organic. And what's great
is I'm fansy these guys. Man, He'll tell you I'll
(08:36):
be on I'll be on cloud nine minute. I think
coming in with a big gas bone. Box Man always
been my boom box. I played in music even when
it was l L or any of these guys. Man,
It's just it's a it's the cross pollination of Jamie.
Your house was like the center to the West Coast
and to everybody who loved music and love what we
(08:57):
stood for. So I remember one time when the NBA
shut down and there was no season or something that happened.
This nigger had all the players at this house playing basketball.
It was a party and it was like it was
just like Jamie's House was the spot. Like the NBA
and shut down. They had the lockout a charity for
(09:18):
this boys James Harden. Everybody was in him him and
they didn't have a battle in the in the had
a little smoke put him on. He got put on
that and to be honest with you, the piggyback on
that the party we did the first verses. I don't
know if you recognize we was it. It was the
(09:39):
b et pot right, Yeah. So nobody scheduled to perform
or nothing like that, but we just had a stage
with and so the DJ just started playing you know
Snoops music that no Snoop hit it and then Timberland
played Timberland Boom and played in and everybody was sort
of trading off. Remember that, I had to be honest
with you, like three thousand in the backyard. Three thousand
(10:01):
people in the backyard. Remember when you came in Kanye
walking that she was weird. It was weird because everybody
like gravitated that because you don't never see that. Yeah,
it was like yeahs Unicorn, Yeah, man, motherfucker walked there
and I was like, you're good. Yeah, they still playing it.
(10:22):
So to your question. Yeah, it's imperative that we all
worked together. When you're sitting you talked to Quincy Jones
and Quinciment mound Ship right working with Lake Charles Man.
You know Frank Sinatra, Baby, you know when I worked
with us Sure you know Usure, don't you? Jemmy? Yeah? Man,
Michael Jackson May with the fifty four million records right
(10:42):
there on the wallman, So fifty four million records? Do
you know Usure? Always always asking them because you know
Ushul right? Yes, I love Snoop Dale double man. He's amazing. Man.
You know I smoked with him one time and got lost.
I couldn't get home. But it's crazy but so but
with Quincy he would break down how they all kicked
(11:04):
it together. So we want to do that same thing. Man. Now, Jamie,
you're from Texas right, talking about what are some of
your early hip hop origins? Like what do you grow up?
What do you grow up listening to? Man? It was
n W Wade. The reason it was n W A
because I was in Texas. We weren't quite East Coast yet,
because you know, Texas kind of country thing like that,
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and so l A looked to us different like, you
know the lifestyle the my cousins was from Inglewood. They
was light skinned. Different. Yeah, but you're what I'm saying.
So we so the South was really like but all
my cousins, like my light skin cousins that talk different.
Remember they would say the word p o o L.
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We say pool, but they wore say pool. I said, damn,
that's two different. So we was enamored with l A.
So when in w A hit, I was like, what
is you know, here's a little story about the nigga
like me never should have been led out the penitentiary.
Ice Cube would like to say that I'm a crazy
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motherfucker from around the way since it was the youth
I smoked weed out. Now I'm the mother fun that
you read about taking the life. But two, that's what
the hell I do? You don't like? What fuck you?
I said? Who is this? Run in the hill? And
then the girl laid and of course you know, then
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getting to to l A and then and and Snoop.
I had more than just hearing the music. I was
actually there watching these guys make these moments happen. So
that's why I was like, more like, uh, whist coast
you know, but even you're you're transition to making music right,
you know, being a great comic comedian like put out,
Pete This and not even four didn't get the great
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result of Wanted. Eleven years later, you're like officially in
this music business and really kicking ask me, Unpredictable was amazing.
Body worked. That was my boy, Brian Brian Prescott shout
out to Briann Brian Broad Brian would always come to
me and say, yo boy, you gotta do music. You
gotta stop being funny. That's what you mean, he said,
you gotta find like real songs and stop joking your
ship away, he said, because people see you as a
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as a comment. So we're working on the music. The
next thing, you know, he brought a dude over with
a backpack on jawbustet. It was Kanye to and Kanye
didn't have a deal. It was another party, has to
be a party. It was a party, but the party
was souf missy ellie dude standing on the wall that
nobody knew with a little tracks with Jack's jay z
I said, it was a nice party. It's crazy thet
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times it's crazy. Stored off of my projects. Dame had
an idea that at that time, at that time, tall dude,
smaller dude, it was for real. And when they brought
Yea over people, they showed um, they showed the documentary
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but they don't, but they don't show the beginning death.
When they came in, it was people to come to
my house. Man, everybody had to perform. It was all
like you know, sharpening our you know, that was that
little studio, had a little lass studio. So I said
when I see yeah, yeah, I said, hey man, you
gotta rap. Man. They told me you rapped Snicker. Snicker
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did a freestyle. It was so incredible running, you know.
That's when he said, I got a record for you
and it was slow jamm and at that time he
was you know, he was still trying to get a
deal or whatever. And then that's how I got into
music because it was a long enough time that the
people that were watching me on the living color before
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I removed that got grown. So the younger kids only
saw me as the music dude. And I wasn't sort
of not joking, touching on a living color. I felt
like you correct me in for more. It was like
a watershed moment. There was like a Christmas episode where
you sung. Did that moment give you the confidence to
like put your music out there to the Yeah? Man,
because I was like, cause, because at that time, you know,
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you couldn't do music and comedy on but the Winds.
I don't know if they was with it or not
at that time, but I was like, man, let me
just little sing a little something, you know, because they
were kind of like, we want to protect the comedy.
But you know that gave me a little you know,
no living color. Do you remember this sketch were you
impersonated Snoop? It was the gangster group sketch. Do you
remember where was Bushwood Bill was? And it was like,
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you know, we're just talking about the state of hip
hop at the time. That show. That show was one
of the greatest shows that ever hit TV. Sketch comedy,
they're even transition into more music, Like I feel like
a lot of people give you credit for slow jams,
you know what suthing like that. But you worked with
Guru and comment on the Giving Sunday soundtrack, right, was
that like your first time getting like a big look, Yeah,
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here's the history. Every time I do a movie, I
do a song whether the song come out or not.
I did Spider Man, I didn't. I did a song
for Electroc called Chase and Spiders. I did a song
on a given Sunday. I came up with the chap
my name is Willie with lubin right. But then I'm
sitting in my little apartment in Miami and came up
with the theme song for any given Sunday. I said
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the own. I said this, this feels like Common and Guru.
But they didn't know each other. They had never met
each other. So I just went out on living. I
think about how long to go this. It's twenty three
years ago, it's ninety nine. So I called Guru. I said, Man,
I'm just reaching out to you. I'm gonna send you
the song. You know, I had to say. It wasn't
like I had to send the CD. You know what
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I'm saying. Nick had to listen to the CD. You
know what I'm saying. It wasn't no, you know what.
I had a lock this in and hermitically see that
so he could get it right. So then we in Toronto.
I flew to them in to Toronto and comment while
saying and come, oh god. I didn't even know that
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you like, like was arm and like that. It's like special,
you know, like I said, nigg So they ended up
laying it out and that's how the soundtrack for any
Give a Son they got done. And then on this
we got some music coming for this. Got this one
called mowing down Vamps with my best friend Bug, which
is what he says at the end of the movie.
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So we shot a little video of that and then
some other musical things that have happened throughout the month
because we want to keep people excited about the movie
for the next thirty days. But even the earl of
the oh five earl like Snoop, he was kicking out
with for all making music. What was it like seeing
Jamie kind of step out and Billy being taken seriously
as a musician. I mean I already knew it, Nigga concerned,
Like like Brian said, he should have been started keeping
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it one fire and separating the comedy from the singing,
because sometimes when he would do his comedy and sing
Motherfucker's would get mad and he wouldn't sing the whole song.
So that was like signs of it, And didn't see
him actually have great records that were dope. And then
I remember I was on my last song on my album.
This nigga called me and said, nigga, you can't put
your album out. Put up putting one of my songs.
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O that And I pulled up on you gave me
that blue cap. He forced his sm like I'm hot down.
What was that ever? Like like that mid two thousands
you were like to go to guys for a lot
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of artists. I don't really, I mean, it was just
happening so fast. That song that we did. We we
literally he didn't tell your whole story. He showed up.
It was a Christmas it was it was decent twenty four.
My buzz read, I look at my monitor and it's
a uh Santa Blue. Santa Claus had something like going.
I said, I said, what's what's having? Guy? So that
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so it's Christmas Eve when remember you had to do
was just rolling blunts. He was just he didn't even
he didn't even talk. He just rolling and rolling ship
like love. So you know, I can't smoke like this much.
So we're trying to smile. We're in the studio going.
Then we hooped. We hooped that night and then we
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did a song, and then we forgot about them because
I was high as ship. And so a few weeks
later I went back, went through my up, went through
my ship. I said, I think we did a song,
and then that's how I also did a record called
of You and I'm predictable on your project too. Did
that come first or did the I'm not for sure, man,
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it was all the haze, but it was just a
good time. It was a really, really, really great time man.
And let's ni a little dinge the waters nigger a little,
but everybody wanted a piece of you, Jamie. You had
fifty build you up. You want the Massacre That was
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like his big, biggest selling debut at the time, and
then like Blue to Chris Georgia wasn't in the video
call Grill check out. All of this is is because
I championed their talents, like I just I just want
him to women when I see Snoop, just just staying
focused on Snoop, Like like when I see Snoop, I
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see everything. You'll talk about. How y'all see Snoop everywhere
is because Snoop is a quintessential everything, Like for him
to be able to cross pollinate markets all over the
world and an incredible figure coming from where he came
from and looking at his his struggle. There used to
be days when me and Snoop was like, NI good,
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some bad ship could really happen right now, so we
need to walk precisely because you know, at that time
it was fun, but that ship was dangerous. Is the mother,
And I think that's why the music what he did
was so amazing because sometimes we was really really running
for his life. So now you see you see him
blooming because that came from some real dirt. That makes
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how proud of you are you of you excuse me,
how proud of you are you of your album's curate
him up book too. I forgot what I was talking about.
It's a second like listening to your catalog, like unpredictable intuition,
like those joints have some bangers on that man, Like
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how proudly you are those projects. It was great because
we had, like I said, Brian was at the Him.
We had people like Rico Love, We had all these
people like Tank. We had some really great like R
and B guys that were uh floortry. Yeah, you know
everyone loves slow jams or twisted but I feel like
DJ play a love song doesn't get enough on it.
Do though, when I'll be out there on the live
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played But that was a Sean Garrett, did you do that?
Another song? And I like I had one too, like
a pre cursor and this pretty little thing to see
it was one night against Yeah, that was baby next
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to me. That's my ship right there on top of this.
Have a blame it on the alcohol. How do they drinks?
Did you have to turn down the club? Well, I mean,
blame it on alcohol. Was was was? It was a
crazy hit, but it was like, um, the way we
the way we got that record was to Briann. He
called me like four in the morning, wake your ass up,
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wake your ass up. Missle down here, gotta Missle down here.
You gotta come here right now. So I go to
Sunset Marquis and so they listened to the music. But
the dudes don't know that that's a hit. So Brian like, yo,
let me get that one very kind of whack. Let
me get that. And then he goes he said, you
gotta cut the record right now. We cut the record
and then when it came out, we literally took it
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from this is where the jokes came in handy. We
went from Toronto, New York, and every time we go
on the club, shout out to my man Peckers. He
took us to sit. He took us Sin City Bronx. Okay, yo, Jamie,
you gotta come to Sin see baby, that good ship.
We gotta see if you play in here. If they
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don't play here, don't play nowhere, don't get it. Get
this back, yo, your mommy, mummy, move let some Yeah. Yeah,
still we have since City. I don't know if I'm
being you know, I don't know something, but we aren't
since it was going to right, yeah, well it was.
It was. It was since City. And basically what he
was explaining to me that the way he break the
record is if they danced to it, and here that dance.
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So I jumped on the mic and said, fellers, you
ever meet a girl and you think she hally Berry,
but you get through drinking and you're wake up in
the morning, she hardly scared blaming on. So he was.
He launched the record, and since we launched that regular
since City, New York d C inauguration Kathy Kathy Hughes
God Bless says sing that record, and then by the
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time we got to Miami it was and you also
launched this god named Drake Man, like you gave him
his first big TV parents. When you are on the
code of the Brian show Digital Girl, what was that
experience like, because it's so surreal watching you talk about
the greatness of Drake, you know, twelve years ago. Well,
I mean it was. It was great because I was
on Conan and Brian. I said, Connor, I'm about to
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bring this young kid out. His name is Drake. One
girl clap, And I said, and I said, I said,
that girl knows the future. And he came out and
did this thing, and the rest on the internet right now,
you know, But but that that was the real deal.
But I said, his name is Jake. And I think
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what they did with the footage was that we had
ran out of time when I was explaining it. But
it's like you're one girl clap. I said, yeah, it's
about to be crazy because you always talked about how
I remember Jake always talked about how your your county
specials that might be scared such an influence to him
as as a young Yeah, I mean, and then that's
the thing sometimes I had to my daughter, don't think
I'm always cool, I said, so she's like, so I
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just let her. I let her read text from Drake. Look,
Drake says he whatever you screen shot? And how did
that involved? From like you guys recording for for your
type that's like a classic. It was just I mean
the record that he wrote and said, you know, I'm
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gonna do some R and B stuff for you, and
you know, he was generous enough to let me cut
the record because he had already you know, had had
the record out. And then once we did it, man,
you know, he was just you know, support. Like I said,
it's always you know, just right snip. You're showing love
to the newer generation too on your latest project. I
was surprised to hear you say that you let cor
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Day right for you on one of your songs, Like yeah,
like you you know, it was so so tabooed to
talk about people writing for others. But no, but I
started off right. I started off right for Dr Drey.
So what would I be if I didn't a low
some matter write for me. You know, sometimes you gotta
put yourself in the frame, uh, letting somebody else depict
a better picture for you, because you can't see everything.
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I used this as an example all the time. I
feel like Whitney he used his best record was The Bodyguard.
When other people came in and gave her records that
weren't her what she just could just sit back and
just saying, and they embodied what they thought she should be.
And that's to the point of my career. One mat
now that I've written so many hit records, a where
it's not about what I can write, sometimes about what
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I can't see that somebody else can write for me.
Mentioned man, we've seen a lot of you guys in
the studio math. Do we have our figures crossed that
could maybe having one there? Cross them? I'm cross them
across your fingers. Dr J. Yeah, but I can't say much,
but it's happening. I got the whole record right. What
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about the reunion with you in the death row? Uh?
Founder HARRYO, Like you guys reconnected? Like, how is that experience?
It's been beautiful? Actually, um Trump pardoned him. We were
speaking people. I know Harry. He's a great person. He
couldn't vote for me at the time. Now they can
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vote for me once he gets out. I love Snoop
deal check great path. I love death Excuse me, excuse me,
excuse me, fake news. I loved that. What's your favorite
Death Row record? What's the trump? I love them that record?
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Still try to pin me down, but he just excuse me,
excuse me, fakeness. You try to give me the virus.
They try to who was they? I beat the he
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looked out though he got tohme me out when he
got him out. I didn't have death Through at the time,
so what I was doing was trying to figure out
how to give my masters back, which was the key um.
And then the label became available. First it was more feasible,
so I snatched the label up, and then I went
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after my masters, and then I went after the publishing.
And then I went to him and said, I want
to make you to see all the death Row so
we can handle this unfinished business. Put you in a
position of where you can make moves and make this
label grow like it should have grow, and tie you
back into something that you created. And then at the
same time go back take care of all of the
old artists like rage R b X, Dash Corrupt, all
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the people who didn't get their published and didn't get
things that was supposed to be given to them, making
sure that were lined it up now and making sure
those numbers are accurate as opposed to what they were.
HOWE is that just making like making things right right
like this, just getting it back to what it should
have been. It started about It started off about me.
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I wanted to get me right. I want to get
my masters because I'm like, I need to have Doggy
style funk that that's my record. And then it went
to stop being selfish? What about everybody else? So then
they went into let me get this first, then I'll
get that, but I'm not gonna worry about minds. Get this,
make sure everybody else is straight, restore order to make
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death Row presentable again, respectable, lovable people want to be
around it, the music, the atmosphere, the whole energy of
it all. And then again my mission with Doggy Staff
was the thirty anniversaries next year, and also saw a
recent veteran running around. Somebody was taking a meeting with
you was ma, man, what's going on Mason's back? He
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said he might be the first artist to be bad boy.
Then death Row mass my family. You know one thing
about Snoop Dog. I've always been the epicenter of peace
and love. And when the bad Boy death row was
having issues, me and makes never had issues. Me and
Puffy never had issues. Man Biggy never had issues. So
it was like I was always the fine line. And
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we're in a new world, a new era now. We
gotta put it from spin on what death on bad
Boy was as opposed to what it is. Puffy kids
and my kids are best of friends. They came up together.
Like I didn't make it happen. I didn't force them to.
Ain't Kim put them together one day and when they
were seven eight years old and they became best of friends.
So it's like they don't see the bad Boy death
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for all beef. They see bad Boy death fall love.
So why shouldn't we project that and continue that energy
moving forward? As opposed to keeping that negative ship there? Boom,
what does that mean? Like based Like though he's not capting,
he's speaking some real ship. You gotta put it in
the air. You gotta speak in existence like manifestation is key,
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Like he's speaking to something that's real, Like I'm here
to entertain it, you know what I'm saying. So I'm
here to entertain it. Well. Yet on the door, Jim,
you also insertain a lot of rappers. On the Jimmie
Foxx Show, you had Westside Connection. What's so crazy about that?
When we had West Coast Connect, Iq, Dub and Mac
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ten the writers at that time, they weren't quite getting
it right. So I would never go to my my
my office. I always slept on the set because I
would rewrite through. I would rewrite the show in the morning. Wow,
I said, Nah, I said, when they walked in, and
you know, you gotta understand, Cubeque was a nice person,
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but it don't always it don't always translate with his
facially express you know that what's okute? Sou oh ship?
So you know some of some of the people that
worked as are they okay? Should be? But I think
the energy that they came in, this's how it should be.
Dub I said, when y'all when we asked for payment,
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you say you got cash, you know, caring on credit
card and just reaching your ship like that, and that's
gonna start the whole episode. So when he did that,
he was like, oh God. And so to be able
to have moments like this, I'll go back to my
childhood when it was Sammy Davis Junior, Flip Wilson, Richard
Pryor Uh, you know what I'm saying, rich Little all
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of them would be doing each other's shows and things
like that. So I just wanted to be able to
have That's in my legacy of working with all the rappers.
Read Man, methew Man. We used to have a um
a karaoke night every Tuesday when we shot, so I
had read Man and methem Man afterwards come to the
karaoke night. And then it ended up in my crib
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and they've running through the house throwing because one of
those birthday they throwing birthday cakes. And so it was
those moments to where you go like, man, it's so
surreal and so fun. You soak it up and then
and then you reflect. You had Ron Osley and Mary J.
Bliger there to do the Yeah, man, it was great.
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I mean I had the Queen of R and B
soul uh and then the Prince of R and B.
And you got to think the history of Ron Holly's
is amazing twisting shout, you know what I mean, before
the fifties, like early early on. So it's like that's
when it's real cool. You get a chance to sort
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of rub up against like some of your heroes. And
and Mary J. Blige, man, I mean just you know,
what can what can you say about her? And I
know one thing too, don't don't perform behind Mary J.
Blish if she goes up first. I saw I saw
her and jay Z that tour when they was at
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a Boy She was boy. It went to overtime. Jay
Z had to hit the free through because all the
women showed up and see what lady I was like ship,
you know, but you know, so to see her on
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show was amazing. The show is also influenced the young
producer by the name of Pierre Born with him. Yeah,
you know, he uses your line produce a tag. What
do you think about that? I thought that was great, man,
And then let my kids that another. You know, I'm
always trying to impress my daughter years on her friends.
I said, I said, listen, that's the peer. That's me
saying that. Damn that ain't you because you know she's
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too young to have seen the show when it was
out because and she was a lord. Bless my my
kids was Martin fans. They watched Martin back to back,
I said, Man, watch Martin back to back. So I
had to show where the line came from. And that
gave me some cool points. You know what I'm saying,
And I appreciate it. You tried to me, young man.
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That's just man, that's all. That's he said. He hadn't
met you at the time when I asked him, you
have you guys, Matt. I still haven't met him, but
we reached out on on on Instagram. Man. But yeah, man,
it'd be great to you know, get up awesome. It's
to get a record one together, are making music. They're
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always doing something. But we don't know if we're gonna drop.
Just let everybody. You know, man, we had not Like
I said, we had that time, and I'm like, oh,
we had our time. But you know, sometimes you just
sit back and let it come over. Do you miss
stand up? I still do stand up. You just haven't
seen me doing stand up like officially, but I was
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in Capri and Italy doing this charity. So I do
the music and the stand up together and everywhere I go,
I'm always doing stand up, but I'm officially without this
this fall, and I'm gonna do like some small like
that's why you hear the Donald Trump and all those
I've been working on my impersonation. So yes, so we
see my new set and it's it's intimate. Somebody going
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somebody might like literally like not make it that night.
They're gonna be laughing that hard. How you do last
night fast? I kill literally because I got some funny
motherfucking you know what I'm saying, comedy to say, somebody
trying to run up on you. You know what I mean?
That's out there too, you know, I just you know,
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no matter. But but I think comedy was getting a
bad rap. I think comedy and what we do should
be should be left alone. I think they should let
us entertain, no matter what it is, no matter what
we're doing. This is the arts. And I also think
with us inside the arts, we shouldn't be policing ourselves.
I came out here to to hang out and smoke
weed and kick it and have a good time and
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be you know, open with our art. And so that's
why I went on. Even when I saw Dave Chappelle,
I was at the Chapel Shop when the dude ran
on the joint and I ran on stage. I'm not
gonna say how it all went down, but I just
it was just surreal, like this is crazy leg and
I am careless thinking I am right, I am, I
am Trump staring trumble James Fox has a sheriff. I
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do like th real, like what and what happened was
the Javier Monkeys. This is what through. You know, the
Javier Walkers had performed in front of Day, which I
thought was weird but it was cool. Yeah, And I'm like, okay,
and I'm in the I'm in the audience. The bottle
of bottle of beas began and Ship I'm having oh yeah, yeah,
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I got the b s being you know what I'm saying.
So I'm in there dancing pop like having a good
time with them and Ship. But I'm in bad seats
because I got I'm in the garden ship you know
how they had a ship in the front. I'm in
the garden seats and people are looking like why are
you back here? But have a good time. You man
form the garden to the stage. Bro listen to me.
So Chappelle offences, thank you right, and I see your
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nigga run. I said that must be one of the
Jabber monkeys and they're about to do an interpretive dance
trying to say got being I'm gone done, And this
is like what gone I'm gonna dn't see. I didn't
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see that, but I went up there to protect my my,
my friend, my homie, and to protect comedy. Man. This
is these are jokes man like, Like when I go out,
I'm gonna say some ship man. That is that has
to be said because it's funny, you know, as comedians man,
and as as entertaining, we just talk about life like
I don't care what political side you on. I'm gonna
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talk about Joe Biden, I'm gonna talk about Trump, I'm
gonna talking about everybody. You know what I'm saying. And
so that's why when I go out, man, I hope
people really are recepted to it. And all the running
on stage and all that leaves leave that ship alone. Man.
Let let us, let us, let us perform for you,
because there is a there was an unspoken contract between
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artists and fans. That contract has been along since Shakespeare.
There's been that contract where you sit and you are entertained.
So we don't want to break anymore those contracts, and
and and because the world needs are entertainment needs, Snoop
song needs of my jokes and needs they shift on
speaking of killing stages, Snoop Man, we saw what you
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did at the super Bowl. How you want straight to
the set? Right? Shoot the movie? Wow? How did you
like you narrow down with Stone? You was gonna pick
because there's so many to pick from. I didn't have
no control over what songs I performed. Dr Drake put
that whole show together as forwards, the look of it,
the sound of who comes out for a second third,
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everything that's the Dr dre production. I read that after
you performed. Jay Z was the first one that met you. Yeah,
we was in the locker room downstairs, having a social agenda.
The best half times ever, best halftime show. I was
in the stand again, I don't have a great seat.
(39:56):
I don't know, I gotta It was amazing to see
those guys do that. Man, you know what I'm saying.
It was amazing to see hip hop in that way,
be um and not that they were ever jockeying for
a position to be mainstream. It's just amazing to see
how hip hop is just no matter what color, no
matter what creed, people enjoy snip is giving out death
(40:17):
Row chains man. Eli Manning got one, Yeah, Steph Curry
got one. Who's next. I don't know. We're not already.
We're good. We're good. We're good, We're good. I'm just
trying to make like I said, it's the brand right now.
See when you see that chain on Eli Manning, Steph Curry,
what do we make you think? It makes you think
that death Row is beautiful, It is fun, is happy
(40:39):
to be around. It represents life and represents love. Not
the old stigma of you could get beat up, you
can get shot, you get anything negative, you don't even
have nothing to do with no more. I'm trying to
put it in a different around my life. There's nothing
negative to say about that day shift man. Congratulations again,
Thank you so much. Man. We're so excited about that. Uh.
Netflix is super We're duper duper excited because it works
(41:02):
for their platform and in a way that's amazing. Even
though they go by these Numerit systems and feel like
box office from back in the day to well, box
office is different. It's like when you do box office,
you have the ability in a in a movie that's
in the theater to allow things to play out on
the system of us watching something. When we hit it,
(41:22):
you know how we are in the first two minutes,
first two minutes, it ain't popping. What do you you
turn on? So with those movies, we with that system,
we have touched all of those points. Like the first
two or three minutes of this movie Boom, we were
cooking with gas and then we keep we keep the
pedal on the metal. And that's why if you think
about it like this, no matter where you are in
(41:44):
the movie, if you turn the movie on mid movie,
it's something, you know, really great happening. So that's what
they're excited about. It works with the system. And at
the same time, you can't miss with Snoop, you can't
miss with Dave Franco, you can't miss with Megan Good.
You can't miss what I'm saying man way way great.
(42:05):
And if you guys is out here in l A
and y'all checking, I want you to head down Sunset Boulevard.
You know why Sunset Boulevard is is a staple of Hollywood.
It's the place where everybody comes to see and for
a young man from Long Beach, California and young man
from Tarrell Texas uh to have billboards littered down the
street boulevard, and although we've done this for quite some time,
(42:30):
it still feels good to see to see those billboards up.
It feels good to see you guys back at it man.
Definitely legendary. Thank you, thank you, Yeah yeah yeah. Rap
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(42:52):
produced by Laura Wasser, Hosts and producers Elliott Wilson and
Brian B. Dot Miller for Mentval Presents executive producers Alan
Coy and Jake Kleinberg, Executive producer Paul Rosenberg, editing his
sound designed by Dylan Alexander Freeman, Recording engineer Jeremy Ogletree.
Special thanks to Charlie Jenkins, Tammy Kim, and Jasmine Sanchez,
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