Rob: You recently were quoted, in a Billboard interview saying that Tupac sucks.
You were quoted as saying he was a bitch-ass.
Can you give us the context under if those comments were made? How were those comments made?
03 Greedo: Well first, I don't want people to think I'm mad at the people that did that interview.
If you look at that interview, it's only about other rappers.
So I really was frustrated at the point where I'm like, "Why y'all keep bringing up all these
other bitch-ass niggas like I ain't the one, like ain't the nigga?"
I was born in Los Angeles, California. Kaiser Permanente hospital.
Don't compare me to anyone, period, who's not from my city.
Don't compare me to anyone, period, who ain't living how I'm living and ain't got the credibility
I got in these streets.
Don't compare me to anyone, period, who does things that seem delusional in my book,
if you're from way over here, and then you come over here and say, "Fuck over there. Ride with me."
I wanna be the person to stop my people from riding with somebody that don't even...
Why would you be riding for them?
Why y'all ain't riding for me?
Rob: 'Pac musically...
03 Greedo: It's tight, it's tight, but it still sucks because it's not authentic,
it's not coming from somewhere real.
When I say I've been shot by who I love and told on by my family, that's real shit.
"If I get this time and don't run, is you finna write me or somethin'?
That's real shit.
All that shit is what's really goin' on.
These are really the things I'm stressed out about in the mornin', I'm shedding tears about
when I'm not around people.
You know what I mean?
So, you want me to pay homage... I don't have to.
Rob: Hmm
I don't have to.
Yeah, I like “I Ain't Mad at Cha,” I like “Changes,” I like certain songs, shit.
But like I said, I like Frank Ocean music.
I like a song by Charles Hamilton.
I might like some Raphael Saadiq.
It don't matter, bro.
It don't mean I rack with them bro.
I'm from somewhere treacherous, bro.
Rob: Right.
03 Greedo: And people be telling me about, "Oh, he shot at cops." Or, "His people's Black Panthers."
Like, so. My daddy was a Crip, nigga.
If you don't know the history of what's going on with the Crips and Tupac, just look it up,
'cause I ain't gonna say none of that.
Rob: Right
03 Greedo: I'm a Crip.
C'mon, man.I don't care.
Rob: Look, the fact of the matter is I think a lot of music fans, even of street music,
the vast majority aren't in the streets, so they don't face the same circumstances.
03 Greedo: Yeah, 90% of these rappers ain't in the streets.
They be calling me to get them a gun when they come to the city. They be spooked.
They don't want their chain took.
Rob: 'Cause here's the thing, and I'm real with this, 'Pac is one of my top five rappers
of all time, me, personally.
My circumstances is way different from yours, so I'm judging it on a musical level.
You seen things and went through things, and what you're saying is there's certain things
you can't respect.
03 Greedo: People from California know things about 'Pac that people in the music world don't.
Period.
I don't remember him making his own beats.
Rob: Right.
03 Greedo: I don't remember him singing.
I'm doing 14 songs a night, you wanna come to a session?
I'll fly you to Atlanta to see this shit.
And every song is a banger.
And no song that I make sounds like another song.
The only songs that sound similar is "Never Been" and "Touchdown" and that's on purpose.
"I touched down and caused hell," which is a phrase that I took from my favorite rapper,
Lil Boosie.
Rob: I think a lot of people love Boosie for the same reasons they love 'Pac.
The music gives them a feeling.
03 Greedo: Boosie loves 'Pac, too.
I think Boosie loves 'Pac.
I think T.I. loves 'Pac.
I think all them people love 'Pac, but I don't care.
Rob: It's not for you.
03 Greedo: Bro, I'm too young.
'Pac died when I was in 3rd or 4th grade, bro, I don't care, and I had an older brother
so this is how it goes.
If my brother wanna sit on the right side of the car, I'm gonna sit on the left.
It's sibling rivalry.
So, I was listening to Biggie.
Just to piss him off.
Just to piss my brother off, I was, "Time, time for you to die. Oh, you hear this shit?!"
Just pissin' him off.
Rob: Not necessarily a generational thing wit' you two.
'Cause I think what's going on in Hip Hop now is this generational divide with older generation
and younger generation are fighting to hold on to something,
but this doesn't seem to be that.
03 Greedo: Man, that's not what's going on. Bitch ass niggas talk too much.
That's all it be.