- I wanna be the first to thank you
for all of your contributions to hip-hop,
what you brought to the table, what you brought to the culture.
It would not be the same without everything
that each one of you and collectively brought--
Loud as a label and-- and individually
as an artist and artist and as a group.
Like, hip-hop would not be the same without you, so thank you.
Flowers given. Thank you for being here.
- Thank you, brother.
- Loud Records is responsible for some-- some classic hip-hop.
I mean, some-- some anthems, some albums.
I mean, "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx..."
- Yeah. - We've got "Warriorz."
- Yeah. - I mean, "The Infamous."
- Yeah.
- I mean, there's some big ones on that label.
- Yeah. - We had a team over there.
- We definitely had--
- Y'all absolutely had a team over there.
Do you feel as though Loud gets the--
the recognition it deserves?
- I mean, you know the roster, like, you know what I'm saying?
- The roster was crazy.
- It was, like, the heaviest thing in-- in New York
or all of music.
So, you know, we've gotta give it up to Steve Rifkind and...
- Straight up. - ...and the Loud family.
- Like, listen, like, y'all had one of--
gotta be top-ten hip-hop handles of all time.
[Remy] - First of all, let me--
let me just say this real quick.
These guys right here... allowed me to be on their record.
- Let's all get sentiment. - Nah, seriously.
[all laughing]
- We could've had a moment.
And in short, here's the truth.
Remy bullied her way on the record.
- That sounds like you.
- And, yo-- yo, yo, Tig, let me tell you,
I'm coming in the studio-- yo, I'm coming in the studio,
I'm hearing the beat and I'm hearing...
[beatboxing]
And I'm like, I feel the rhythm but it's the wrong words, right?
I'm like-- and it's the wrong voice.
It's supposed to be my voice, it's her voice.
But you slaughtered it, sis, you slaughtered it.
I'm-- I'm so glad that that record came out
the way that it did.
- I appreciate it. - Great record.
- Listen, something about y'all music--
like, y'all had so many iconic street anthems.
Do-- do you-- do you--
do you get that energy from anybody today?
Does anybody give you that energy?
- I-- I think today the artists...
as much as I hate to say it,
I think they all just kind of move--
not in the-- just in the same direction
but it's like they're all in the same car, in the same--
you know what I'm saying?
Not just the same lane but in the same car,
doing the same thing.
You know what I'm saying?
So-- but big shout-out to all-- all the young cats
that's out there now because we need that
because the music gotta keep going.
You know what I mean?
- When I was even working working and M.O.P. was a thing,
and I was like, "Who are they?"
Like, I was like-- wait-- I always--
I just wanna go to the show and I was like,
"Well, I need people with me, though...
[all laughing]
...before I go to an M.O.P. show."
Now, Hav, um, the business of-- of music
has changed along the way.
Do you think the record label is as important today
as it was back then?
- There's so many platforms for an artist,
independently, to create his own lane.
The labels need the artists. You understand what I'm saying?
So the roles have reversed.
I mean, you know, you've got all these E-S-Ps
where the artist could just, you know,
throw their music out on, become a star overnight,
get a million streams, a billion streams, and they own it.
So the labels are looking for the artists.
- And Loud had some of the grimiest,
hardest artists at the time.
- What was the office like? - Word.
- Well, when I wasn't banned from going to the office--
[all laughing]
Like, it was amazing, like--
- You got banned from going to the office?
- I absolutely was banned from--
[Big Tigger laughing]
Somebody got beat up one day.
Allegedly, it was me.
- Alleged-- allegedly.
- Yeah, it was-- it was crazy.
Lawsuits-- but that was nuts.
But, eventually, I got back in.
- You got banned and M.O.P. didn't get banned?
- Um...
- I remember, like, seeing them in the office.
You know, Wu-Tang, like, which was amazing, crazy.
The Davina, the Dead Prez, all of these--
Three 6 Mafia.
Like, it was-- Loud was totally, totally different.
But the artists that was on Loud
made it what it was, in my opinion.
And it also helped that, you know, Steve ran his label
a little bit different-- a lot different.
- I'm happy that he did because what we have here
is what was-- was happening then.
Hav, you're nominated for Best Duo Group this year.
- Yeah, Best Duo Group. You know what I mean?
Styles P made an album, "Wreckage Manner."
So, you know, I mean...
you know, this nomination is for all the old "G"s.
- I mean, you feel me? - Nice.
- This one's for the old "G"s, straight up.
- Was it hard creating new music with someone else,
you know, after we lost P?
- I mean, you know, nobody could fill those shoes.
You know what I mean?
But my hat goes off to Styles P, the whole lot.
Styles P is one of those once-in-a-lifetime artists.
You know what I'm saying?
A genuine artist, lyricist.
And it was a pleasure, you know what I mean?
He came in, he knew what he had to do,
I knew what I had to do, and we just dropped a classic album.