Northside Long Beach, Jordon Park, Skate Park (Houghton), if you pass the
bridge over there, you on the Boulevards, the North, Uptown Mafia, Uptown, this the Uptown.
- Brick Boys
My name ring bells, from the motherfucking north
to the East, to the west, if y’all do another interview a nigga on the east is going to
know who I am and all that, straight like that, they gonna know me, and it if they don't,
they ain’t from Long Beach. -I guess that North Carolina tattoo say it all?
Yeah, it’s that North Crip, with the mafia man to the side with the machine gun,
for a real mafias out here and all that, got the bear over here, you feel me?
The Memphis Bear, know what color that is, blue and gold, straight like that, that’s
all I'm rocking.
-Tell me what happened back here and when did it happen? -It was December
29th like two years ago, we was all turning up
back here. My brother was always the typed that always
thought he knew what he was doing with the pistol, you feel me. And anybody watching
this would know, he always thought he was the shit with the pistol. He thought he was that
man and that. You feel me? He was Fuc*$ng around that night, thought he knew
what he was doing. You feel me? And was playing, he was real confident with
himself and all that, and it happen to happen like that and all
that. I not going to get into what detail of my boy and laying down or nothing. You feel me? That ain’t even
a good sight. On Crip. I still have dreams about that shit to this day. But it just happened
like that. You know how it is. -So basically it was an accident?
-Hell yeah it was an accident,
Hell to the yeah, my nigga love himself
We don’t play with no guns, we pull them things out when it’s time to, you already know.
Yeah, do our thing. -My guess is that a lot of rumors
probably start to circulate about what happened, like suicide? -Hell yeah.
-All type of bullshit. When a nigga die it’s like a million muthafuckas shit that pop up
and all that,you already know, a nigga know the real over here,anybody that aspect on the real and all
that can get their ass whopped. Straight like that, you feel me, because that was my boy at the end of the day.
That’s who I have on the back of this muthafucka right here. -D-murder
-That’s who I Crip for.
My mama always used to tell me like, man that nigga that you be running with me, he too damn bad and all
that, he too bad, don’t run with him, but you know, as me a kid, a bad ass kid and all that, I'm still sneaking
over there, fuckin with him and all that, that’s the nigga that taught me everything, how to do everything with
guns, all that. You feel me? How to get my Cripping up. You feel me?
So when he passed it was like, that's like a slap to a face just to me.
Damn, it aint really nobody I can really go really get on like, because
he did it to himself. It really ain't nobody that I can go jump on and be taking
my anger on, so I had to really sit down and see what I was going to do
with life. Damn, if I am gonna go over here and really throw my life away or am I gonna jump
on this music? And really get shit done, how it’s supposed to be done and all that.
to be done and all that. -A lot of people are trying to get
into music I guess when people see the success of Kendrick Lamar or Nipsey Hussle
people really think, hey man, if they could do it, I probably can reach that type of success too.
-Yeah -What inspires you? -I know you heard Mozzi right now.
But I be listening to the dude who put on Mozzi and that’s Philty Rich. I be looking at them Bay niggas
they move how I want to move, straight like that.
Put on for their city. Philty Rich be having all type of jewelry. He be letting all his
homies wear it. And as a nigga like that, I respect that, that’s something like Jooba
do with us. When he got it with Snoop Dogg, he go-get it,
if he got some fresh ass trues, he’ll throw it to the homies and all that. That’s that good shit
I love, so when I see that and related to homie, and how the be moving, that’s just how a nigga wanna be.
-It seems like you got a little bit more interested in the Bay Area
cats than some of these local LA guys. -That's because these LA niggas are still
out here on this
gang-banging and trying to kill each other and all this other shit when that ain’t gonna mean
nothing in some years. That's just gonna, what is getting rep in your hood? What is that?
What are you trying to show your homies that you can do something? Your homies
shouldn't want you to go do not nothing. They should just already know you would do it. That's all
it is. To know your boy a go. He ain’t gotta, oh how many bodies you got? None of that! Fuck all that.
I’m about my mutha fucken paper and that’s it. You feel me? Just like that.
-Recently Snoop did a video about people trying to say that he can't come
to the hood, basically saying that all this street shit ain’t nothing no more
like he's evolved to some thing else. -I'm the king of Long
Beach nigga. I made it fashionable for niggers to bang the dub (20s). I made a universal
mutha fucker. I’m the nigga that took the set around the whole globe. Yeah, that's me. That's who. But now
I'm doing positive things now. I’m enlighten homies and showing them how to get it a different way. That’s what
real big homies do. I refuse to put a pistol or a sack in my little homies’ hand. I’ll put
a mic in his hand or an M-Box or a drum machine, or maybe a video camera. That's what I do. I enlighten my
young home boys because I know the truth. Nigga, aint none of you niggas put me on the set, and ain’t none of
you motherfuckers gonna kick me off the set muthafucka.
-Even though you guys are younger, how do you look at that type of message where you know, this street shit is
done for me it's time to move on and elevate?
-I’ll say like this, Snoop he real for that because he grown himself, and had to work for what he
got right now and all that.
So for another man to say they ain’t give him shit, its not no handouts out
here. We grown out here too, at least break an effort so Snoop could see, he’s braking
an effort now, now let me put my hand out there. -He put the whole city on, he put Long Beach out there.
If it wasn't for him [Snoop], he wouldn't have no Long Beach.
-Any nigga that say that Snoop can’t come back to the hood, they’re a fucken lie.
becasue Snoop got money, and Snoop really give back to the community and all that like the Beach City,
he didn’t have to do that, he could have took it and ran with it.
Shit, at least he did something. Shit, he really love his community and love,
the mutha fuckas he fuck with. I can say he a real nigga, I done met him hand-on-hand-on
-Smoked with him and all that. -Yeah, smoked with him big blunts, all that. Funny nigga, all that, he know.
-I think that one of the things that music does here in LA for the streets, it does kind
of bring people together from different hoods, you might see a guy like a Blood
from Inglewood rapping with a Crip from LA. -Hell yeah, that just like the homie, the homie
did a song with YG, the homie Jooba its gonna come out, y’all gonna hear it, its pretty
tight and shit. That’s just like that. Hell yeah, over some money, and all that, getting money. Muthafuckas
will come together for some money. I’ll come together with a nigga for some money. Hell yeah. Just as I told
you. Money rules it all, money talks, but if niggas is out here broke and hungry and all that, I'm not about to fuck
with no body, no other broke nigga, for damn sure. Hell naw. It’s certain stuff that goes on that can't be…
-you cant get over some shit. -Yeah, cant get over that shit.
-Too much blood been shed. -Yeah, too much blood been shed, he said the right thing
I understand the pursuit for your money trying to get money but what do you think of
alternative means of trying to achieve financial success outside of just rap, like
starting businesses or going to school or trying to be entrepreneurial and
other areas? Seems like everyone is looking to music as that opportunity
when there are the opportunities out there. Right? -I don’t know, it is a lot of
opportunities out here,
if it ain't a good enough 9 to 5 and it ain’t making twenty an hour, you will never see
Fifty Blue entertaining none of that bullshit. None of that. That's just not
me. I’ll have a bitch out here walking ten toes for me before I ever go get a 9 to 5
that ain’t paying less than a mother fucking 20 an hour. Straight like that.
I got to be up and old. My daughter still not put through college for me to go do that.
But I gonna put my daughter through college through this trap shit. You heard me?
That real shit, that shit you gotta get out here slumming dirty for.
I done been out here dirty Chucks on, all that, I’m out here clean, big earing, fade,
but this all come from hard work right here, yeah.