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You, um,

you mentioned you like Austin, but obviously Memphis is barbecue, Kansas City barbecue.

You have North Carolina.

If you had to say what city, would you, you say Austin, Memphis,

well, North Carolina is not a city, it's a state, but

what places you think if I said, okay, give me your Mount Rushmore

barbecue places?

Off Austin, Memphis,

and

I think it was, what was that?

South Carolina.

South Carolina got some good barbecue?

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They got some good barbecue.

Mm-hmm.

Met a lot of good pit masters from out there as well.

Do they share secrets?

Some.

Some, just a little.

They tell you, you know,

some to give you some secrets and stuff.

I just,

I,

whatever people want to know, I tell them.

Right.

You know, what you want to know, I'll tell you.

Is a situation like when you taste barbecue, you try to figure out what they done to it?

Like, you know, how long, you know, man, I think they probably probably let this cook like 10, 12 hours.

They probably did this.

They probably brined it.

They probably had this.

You know, such and such.

I just like to taste it to see if it's better than mine.

But

I didn't have some good barbecue, I'm not going to lie.

Really good barbecue.

And

I'm like, I got to step my game up here.

But

I'm right there with them.

I actually did the national barbecue contest for the first time in July and June.

And

I won fifth in brisket and sixth in chicken.

Wow.

First time.

That was a win for me.

Yeah.

So now you hook.

Now you hook.

Yeah, and I went up against

like popular guys.

Like, it was real pit.

Like,

I'm a pit master, but it was like some of the guys I look up to in the contest, and I beat some of them, and I was like, oh, my God, I can't believe I beat this person.

Mm-hmm.

And they showed me a lot of love, too.

When you entered this contest,

you probably didn't have a whole lot of expectations.

You're like, man, I'm going against some of the greatest pit masters in the world.

I've only been doing this for a small amount of time, you know, to the level that you're doing it.

Now, obviously,

you both feed in it.

Now, you hooked.

You really, really hooked.

Did that make you like, man, you know what?

You're going to open a restaurant?

What are you going to do with this?

That's where I'm headed.

The open, open.

Right now, I'm online

working on getting in the stores.

Once I'm in the stores, then working on the

brick and mortar.

Yep, get the brick and mortar, establish one

here, California

and Vegas.

Let people get it get the taste of some good food.

Did your mama like you?

Because that's a, see, like, I can remember growing up, that's got to be

a Midwest or something.

Because southern grandmas ain't letting everybody in the kitchen all kind of high.

I mean, hey, you come in here and get a glass, get some water or something, but mainly most time or not, hey,

go to that spigot outside and get you some water.

Get out of this kitchen.

So you say your dad was allowed, you know, you watching him.

Did he allow you to participate?

Not really.

If I had to go get that for me or go get this.

Right.

Other than that, nah, but I just used to.

you just watch yeah yeah i used to watch and just you know everybody that used to just you know be like having fun i'm like oh this is great

because everybody's coming over all the family coming over you got your cousins your aunt uh-huh all the kids get an opportunity to play together and do all that other stuff yeah

yeah

and uh

it stuck with me man do you do do you cook anything other than barbecue

yeah yeah i cook all I mean, I

do crab boils,

salmon.

I do salmon.

I do crab boils.

I do

anything.

You know,

anything.

I should have made you some of my black-eyed peas, man.

Oh, you got black-eyed peas?

What?

My black-eyed, I should have made some.

I'm going to make some black-eyed peas.

I'm going to do some where you get a vent or something where you can taste the black-eyed peas.

When you put bacon, you you put a half-heart, what you put in your black-eyed peas?

I ain't tell nobody, Shannon.

You can't cook no black-eyed peas if you ain't got no meat in them now.

It's some meat in them, but

it's a twist that I have to it that

nobody is doing.

Turkey necks or something in them.

I do have turkey necks in them.

That's definitely.

That's definitely there.

Yeah, I know it.

Yeah.

I got it.

It's a nice.

You like breakfast?

You cook breakfast food?

You like breakfast?

Are you a breakfast guy?

I cook breakfast.

Just the basic breakfast, you know, look, bacon, eggs.

Bacon, egg, grits.

You grits.

I see.

I mean, you're in the south.

You're an ATL now.

You got to have grits.

No cream of wheat.

I mean, we do oatmeal, but

mainly grits.

I've been eating grits like crazy.

It's grits everywhere.

Every menu is grits everywhere.

Yeah, you get no cream of wheat.

So if you come to the south, you you ain't getting no cream of wheat, you get grits.

Yeah, and I've had a lot of shrimp and grits.

Shrimp and grits, catfish and grits.

Yep, yep, yep, yes, indeed.

And everywhere I've been,

it's been some good, some good,

some really good food, man.

So this is called Sniffin' Griffins, Warren G Productions, original poultry and seafood barbecue rub.

Yes indeed.

And this is the, that you like goes with some of everything.

Yeah, the all-purpose.

All-purpose.

Oh, yeah.

But none of them.

I mean, some got it, some, which one got a little kick?

We bring heat, which is this right here, this sauce.

It's not a major kick.

It's just, it's a creep up.

Yeah.

It's not too overwhelming where you like, oh,

it's just a little bit of a

spiciness.

And it don't even, it ain't like one of them last longs either.

Right.

It's just in and out, but it's people like that extra little lightweight kick.

And it ain't, it's not a super kick, but it's a great,

it's even, it's right there to where it's not too much of this or too less of that.

How often do you, how often would you say you cook?

You cook daily, you cook, you know, special occasion, once a week, a couple times a week.

I barbecue three to four times a week.

Damn.

Yeah.

Year-round?

Yeah, when I'm at home, you know,

I tell my wife, she'll be like, well, I want to do this.

I said, let me cook it on the grill.

Whatever that, let me cook it on the grill.

I love doing it.

I love doing it.

Yeah.

So your house is normally busy because you cook it like that because people always over there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I just cooked for a couple of my buddies.

Just for the fight.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That was a good fight.

Yes, indeed.

That fight wasn't that close.

Bud beat the brakes off Canelo.

Yeah, that was,

yeah, he did.

I don't know how they get.

115, 113.

I don't know what fight they were watching.

Crazy.

Did you see the fight?

The first fight between the dude Adams and

I think Martinez.

The black dude and the

Mexican dude Martinez.

Oh, yeah, and Billy.

Oh, they would throw the draw, the split draw, yeah.

Oh, they would throw a a leather.

Wow.

Yeah.

Now, that was that was that right there.

When they mentioned them going again.

Yeah.

I'm for that.

That's going to be it.

That's going to be a good thing.

I'm for that dude.

Yeah, because Bomack, Buzz Trainer, Trained Martinez.

Yes, yes, yes.

They were slanging him.

I was like, wow.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That damn near was the fight of the year.

Yeah, they definitely throw a leather.

I was surprised.

I was like, man.

I mean, both got hit with some shots.

The boy, and Billy sat down on his boy.

He was throwing, I mean, bow, bow.

I like, ooh.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Yeah, he was throwing some leather.

I was like, damn, they both going to have brain damage.

Shit, them motherfuckers hitting hard.

But damn, Warren,

you cooking three, four times a week year-round?

Yeah.

When I ain't, when I'm not.

When you're not traveling, when you're not doing, you know, your music and stuff.

I come straight home and cook.

I just like to do it.

Damn.

Yeah.

I mean, I take breaks.

I do love it.

But I'm saying, let me ask you a question.

When you were, let's just say you were in your mid-20s, 30s, were you cooking like when you were.

No, no, I wasn't doing it like that.

I just would cook wherever we was, because we was moving so much, moving around.

Right.

And whenever we had time, I know we were there for a little bit, boom.

Right.

Instead of going out there, spending all that money, you just buy the stuff and just go.

All the tours that we've been on,

I didn't cook at all of them.

Really?

All the tours we've done been on, me, Snoop, and Wiz just did a tour

about a year and a half, two years ago.

I cooked every day on that till Snoop wanted me to be his cook on the

cook pit master on the tour.

I said, Snoop, I can't do that.

I'm already performing here and I'm performing with you.

I can't cook all this goddamn food.

But he really wanted me to cook.

And I was like, I will, but I can't do it like you want me to do it, but I do it here.

Here and there.

Here, here, here, here.

Well,

not every day for you.

And we, we, we, every day, five,

all during the week.

Even though I like doing it, but I couldn't do it doing it, performing, performing, cooking, performer.

Mm-mm.

Because

barbecue take a long time, man.

You got to watch it.

Yeah.

First of all, you got to prepare it.

Hell, it takes a couple of hours just to get it prepared.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Do all that brining.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I brine my turkeys, too.

I love them.

I let them sit for like

almost three, two, two, about two and a half days.

Damn.

Mm-hmm.

You cook turkey wings, turkey legs, what you

the whole turkey.

The whole turkey watch.

Turkey legs, turkey wings, all of them.

Damn.

I should have brought some turkey wings.

Boom, you'd have did that.

Everything would have just said.

You cook collard green too?

Greens, too.

Mm-hmm.

Green beans?

Yeah.

What you put in your collard green?

You put...

I use turkey necks.

Turkey necks.

Turkey leg.

Yeah.

I have the butcher cut the turkey leg in half.

Uh-huh.

And I put it in there.

I do like a

damn near one to say a kind of, not a rule, but like a nice base.

Yeah.

Then

build it up and build all my stuff off from my base all the way up.

You don't put pigtails.

When I grew up, we put pigtails in Collard Greens.

I think everybody's going to kind of graduate.

I ain't done the turkey album.

That doesn't pigtail, man.

I ain't did that.

No, I ain't did that one, but

no, yeah.

You mentioned your parents got divorced when you were younger.

Did that impact you in any way?

No, it didn't impact me because I...

She made, my mother made sure that I was still around my dad.

He would come pick me up on the weekends

and I would spend time with him.

So she never.

She never tried to keep you away from him?

Never.

Never said anything bad about him?

No, she didn't talk bad about him or nothing.

But she did send me to him, like, go move with your daddy.

I'm like, shit.

All right.

But it was all good.

I still was back down right around.

Yeah, because

you mentioned you were the only boy.

You had three sisters.

Yeah.

You the oldest?

So where did you fall into Pecado?

I'm the third

oldest.

Okay.

Yeah.

I'm the third oldest.

I got a sister

under me.

It's my sister Missy, mead and Tracy and Felicia.

Okay, so you the knee baby.

Yeah.

Yes, indeed.

Oh, yeah.

So how was it, I mean, with your sisters?

Were they protected?

They was gangsters.

I ain't gonna lie.

Yeah,

they was

hardcore.

Like my sister Felicia, my older sister, she had hands.

Right.

So she was fighting

geez, like real.

She was fighting dudes.

She put paws on dude.

Putting paws.

Wow.

Yeah,

she was a gangster, you know.

I read you said your mom said that she sent you with your dad because she said you needed a man in your life.

Uh or you think that was the reason why she did it?

Or you just or you were bad, Warren?

I wasn't a bad, I wasn't bad.

Uh, I wasn't, you know, I mean, I was just doing the the the the things that, you know,

that 13, 14 year old rocks and ding-dong ditching

Fighting a little bit.

But

she just, you know, and then, but the one thing I used to do,

I would,

I wouldn't, I didn't like,

like anybody she was with.

Oh.

So.

But it was your dad.

Yeah.

He was dad.

Yeah, so she used to tell me,

like, around them, she's like, you the man of the house.

She would tell me that stuff.

Like, you the man of the house.

Don't even though I got a boyfriend or whatever, you the man of this house.

She used to always tell me that.

You're like, okay.

Yeah.

Well, since I'm the man of the house, you get out.

I don't like you.

You heard what she said.

I'm the man of the house.

Get this.

I didn't know.

I was like, ah.

Yeah, but.

Did you ever think it was a situation that you your mom and dad would get back together?

Did you hope they would get back together?

Uh, I hoped, but it it never happened.

My dad had moved on.

My mother moved on.

And actually my mother, she

had a

guy that

they was going to get married.

His name was Tommy Cotton.

Tommy was cool.

Yeah, he was a cool cat.

He probably was the only guy that I.

That you rock with?

Yeah, he was cool.

I ain't going to lie.

He was cool.

Yeah.

And then my dad married Verna.

And

yeah, Verna was really good to me and actually she showed me a lot,

raised me as well.

You know, she raised me as well.

Very,

you know, her and my mother both was they both made me,

you know,

would raise me as a young man and uh along with my dad.

And uh

it was it was

When you met Andre.

Government name goes by Dr.

Dre, everybody knows him ass, what were your first thoughts?

How old were you when you guys met?

I think I was about maybe

about 11, 12, somewhere around there.

So that means he was, what, about 15?

Probably so.

Yeah, but

if I was 11, he'd be, yeah.

Yeah, and uh

I mean, we automatically.

y'all hit it.

Y'all hit it off.

Did y'all hit it off?

Was there like any car?

Nothing.

No, no.

They took me in, just took me right in.

And

actually,

they had me

fighting and had me fighting.

Boxing because I used to box like a lot of the neighborhood kids right there

in our neighborhood.

And

So they had me fighting like the guys my age.

We would have Battle of the Blocks.

Right.

And then that's what we would, you know, get in the gloves.

I used to win a lot of them.

You know, my competition was

one of my buddies, his name was Stank.

He had hands.

They called me Kibbles and Vis back then.

You know, Kibbles and Vist.

Kibbles, get him.

And

we went from Kibbles to Sir Cool.

which actually is the name that, actually that's the name

that's going to be the title of

the new project that I have coming.

It's called Sir Cool.

And

that name was given to me

between my sisters and Andre.

I don't know which one of them came up with, but they started calling me Sir Cool.

Yeah, and

that name, I'm like bringing it.

Bring it back.

Yeah, bringing it back for that project.

So how were the sleeping arrangements?

So was it like, okay,

the boys had a room?

Because did Andre have sisters?

Yeah, Shamika.

Okay.

So obviously, so obviously she had her own room.

Your mom and father had their room.

And then all the boys slept in one room.

Yeah.

We slept in one room.

It was two beds.

So I had to sleep in the bed.

Either I sleep in the bed with Andre or I sleep in the bed with Tyree.

I was young.

Or I'll sleep on the floor.

Or one of some, you know, it'd be

you know,

but Dre was on the move a lot, so he wouldn't he would be coming in super late, you know, because he would be on the move, right, bouncing back and forth.

Uh-huh.

Hey, we, we was, we all made it work, yeah, yeah.

How was it having a famous brother?

Because fairly early on, in his late teenage, early 20s, he became Dr.

Dre.

Yeah,

uh,

I mean, it was cool, it was cool.

I was in junior high school

and

I was just, you know, like I looked up to him so much.

I asked him, could I wear his

jacket, his world-class record crew jacket one time.

He let me wear it and a swatch watch.

And he let me wear that shit.

I was the man.

In school, because I had

the NW, the purple, not NWA, but the World Class Wrecking Crew, the purple jacket with the little record thing on it.

he had swatch watches.

He let me wear a swatch watch.

And

I was the man.

Everybody was like, damn, he got on an NW, I mean, a world-class record crew jacket.

It was amazing, you know, really cool.

And everybody was just like, damn,

they thought I was famous.

And then, obviously, he joins NWA.

It's Easy, it's Dre, it's Q, Ren,

with DOC,

Above the Law as well.

Yeah.

Lay Law Co.

187, KMT and GOMAC, Total Chaos.

When they formed NWA,

they told you what the NWA stood for.

Did you have any idea?

They transformed.

They're the original gangster rap.

They're the OGs.

Did you know they were going to become what they became?

I knew it because they was already bubbling in the neighborhood off of just mixtapes.

They was bubbling at the Rodium Swap Meet off of mixtapes,

doing mixtapes around the neighborhood.

Boys in the hood was pretty much like

a just a mixtape song.

Right.

That just...

went circulating and then it blew up from the roadium swap meet to the neighborhoods to it turning into a

first a single

um

they always they they bubbled

before

you know before the nwa

um

they was always just you making noise right you know yeah yeah so i knew they was gonna be be something

you got an opportunity to see them see it grow from the very beginning.

You saw the infancy.

You saw the seed stage and then you see the plant and you see the finished product.

Yeah, what was it?

What was it like being around Easy?

What was it like being around Q?

What was it like being around Ren and those other guys?

Crazy.

A lot of fun,

a lot of shit talking, a lot of

beautiful women, a lot of just everything.

Just fun, just, you know, they would, they, and I used to just be the young pup just around everybody, right?

And

and just

just like them talking shit.

And

and uh, I actually

on the for life album, I did uh 1900 the Compton skit

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well in the county jail.

And that was really one of the, that was a really popular skit on that album.

I think I was like

I think I was about maybe like 16 about 17 years old when I did that skit.

Yeah, that was Niggas for Life.

17 or 18, it was Niggas for Life.

1-900 to Compton.

People will probably listen to that now like, that was you?

Like, yeah, that was me.

You know, and

so it was that type of stuff going on, a lot of fun.

Just a lot of shit talking,

a lot of gangster shit.

It was exciting.

You mentioned earlier, and we touched on this briefly about Dre and your music.

Do you think one of the things that he wasn't as supportive as you thought he should have been, maybe he didn't think you was taking it serious enough or he didn't think you

was as serious as you needed to be or it wasn't going to go...

What do you think the reasons were?

Or he felt that, you know what, people are going to say he just got on because of me let him go figure it out on his own let him do blow up and if he blows up over there they can't say Dre gave him a handout

I wanted to be different

you know he taught me a lot of stuff but I just wanted to do my music different I wanted to do more of because like it was the music they was doing is like super hardcore.

Yeah.

I wanted to do, I still could do that, but I wanted to do this to where it's a good feel to it, like a feel-good, like a, like,

like with some of the records that's on, that was on the chronic, like some of those ideas,

I brought some of those ideas.

You brought some of those, yeah.

And

the ones that I was involved in,

it was more like a feel-good or it had a message to it, you know, like the skit, like the D's Nuts.

That was a whole, I told Dre turn the mic on,

went in there, jumped on the phone and called one of my homegirls, just having a normal conversation.

And then I ended it with, you know, did what's your name get at you?

And she was like, whoo, these nuts.

So

I told him we did that right there, just even like

the skit from the Mac.

You know, that was a record, I bought a whole black exploitation,

well I went to a company, a

record store, and brought a whole

like maybe two or three crates of a black exploitation

movie and brought all of those back.

And we dug through those albums and we would find skits like Dolomite.

We used a lot of dolomite.

We have pulled that out of there.

A lot of the records that was used was pulled out of these crates.

Like Let Me Ride was

a dub record that I bought from

a store.

It used to sell like

dub records.

They used to sell like sample,

different samples and stuff like that.

So I got that record, and that's where

the Let Me Ride idea came from.

The

Dre, listen to this shit.

And he listened to it.

He was like, that shit is dope.

And Dre is such a genius and dope producer.

He took that shit and put it together outside of the idea that I brought.

It was like he put it together and made it come to life.

You know, and that's a lot of records, you know, I used to push a bunch of ideas to him and he would take them and do it.

You know, Little Ghetto Boy, you know, that was

one of the records that,

another record that

I did, that

he took it and changed it over.

I had the different, my drums was a little different, but I was like, shit, go ahead.

Just like, you know, because

my whole mentality is if you win, we all gonna win.

Right.

So we invested everything we had in us to make Dre a superstar.

Right.

Period.

And

that was along with

him as the producer, we just,

that's what our mindset was.

That's what our goals was, to make him a superstar.

So we took everything that we had

and invested in him.

You learned a valuable lesson.

about working on the chronic because like you said you brought some ideas yeah and probably say man I wish I could have have gotten me a couple of those credits, a couple of little publishing on that thing.

That'd been that'd have been real nice.

I wish I was pretty good.

I had a business mind, but I didn't know about the publishing.

I didn't know about it, like off top.

But yeah, I did.

I wish I would have got, you know, I wish, you know, it would have been more

of like, okay, let's give this dude some credit because he did put in a lot of work.

None of that was was there, none of that was done.

But, you know,

like I said, our goal was to

put all we got into helping Dre

become a monster.

Yeah.

Huge, to blow him up, you know, because that's what we looked up to.

So we like, and he was away from NWA, he was away from Easy Nim.

He was like,

you know.

And that was the time that he had, no, he hadn't, because he didn't leave Sugar until the late 90s.

Yeah.

This was

still at death.

He was at death row.

Well, no, it was, he wasn't with nobody.

Well, it was death row wasn't even formed yet.

Right.

It was Future Shock.

Okay.

It was called Future Shock first.

That, you know, then it turned into Death Row.

Death Row.

Yeah.

Because basically when Tupac got out, what, 96?

95?

That was like 95, like 95, like the summer of 95, somewhere around there.

And then he ended up like, hey, giving the entire death row

to Shuk.

And then started aftermath.

Was that how Aftermath started?

Yeah, that was Aftermath.

Charged it to the game.

Like, he just didn't want to be involved with the way it was.

The way they were doing businesses.

Yeah, and the way it was moving.

He didn't want to be involved because, you know, it was just...

Couldn't move around, you couldn't go nowhere because it's like, oh, that's one of them death rows.

Yeah.

You know, they probably whooped somebody ass or done something.

You know, you know, I don't know.

Something might have happened.

And then, okay,

you out there.

They got you isolated.

You don't even know you blind.

Right.

And

I mean, it's taken.

He just got tired of and just wanted to

get away from all of that.

So he bounced.

You got to be forward thinking.

He didn't tell me he bounced.

But that's the thing, though.

Think about it.

I mean, he really, he really created that.

And to say, man, you know what?

Y'all can have that.

I'm out.

Because he knew what he could do.

He knew

he was that talented.

He knew what he could do.

And he had the machine behind him that followed.

Jimmy went with him.

That was the machine.

So

he can redo this all.

He could do this all over again.

You still got all of us.

If you need us to help with anything.

The second chronic came.

You know, boom, he still, but that was all him on his whole, a new, new breed, new company.

And that album was now, I didn't have nothing to do with that one.

Dope.

Yes, indeed.

What is it like seeing someone that you actually grew up with, that you actually know, that you could actually touch,

be a billionaire?

I mean, it's, it's, if, if, if, uh,

I be bragging my ass.

I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, I mean, my brother was good at football, but let him have a bit of a billionaire.

Yeah.

I mean,

it was just, I wasn't even,

I don't be tripping.

I was just like.

He just your brother.

Yeah.

You know, I ain't never really just like.

Because

it's hard to real.

I give you a prime example, Warren.

Well, now, let me, now,

I say this.

Took me on a vacation with him.

Now, I ain't going to lie.

We had our own private jet, everything.

We went out to the islands and like some shit way out in the deep out there and uh like the maldives bali not that far

uh uh uh uh what was it mystique okay it was a spot called

it's a cold spot uh

we went out there and and and

He had that shit laid out.

We had our own mansion.

I was like, this is rich.

We on our own private jet.

We flew

to the, when we got to the airport, we jumped on another little bitty plane where the windows was open.

And we flew here.

And when we got there,

golf carts picked us up.

And they said, Mr.

Griffin, and I jumped on the cart.

We're taking you to your quarters.

I'm like, my quarters?

Shit,

we went to our own mansion.

I'm like, this is balling.

And then had a

he had like, it was a call thing where everybody got, we all got called, okay, everybody meet up at the main mansion

at this time.

So we're like, all right, boom.

So the cart's out there,

pick us up, they drive us over there.

And we drove in that motherfucking, and that shit was like...

coming to America with like the curtains and shit swinging like the it was a beautiful matching big ass matching and the entry And like I said, that shit was waving.

And then we walked through the house.

The house was huge.

Went out to the back, a

big ass

thing with

lights and shit around, and a big old, beautiful table with just food everywhere.

And just

beautiful music.

Even Guapole was banging.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, ah, boom.

At boom, boom, ah, boom.

I was like, oh, this nigga is, he doing it big.

Damn.

We smoking cigars.

I ain't even a cigar smoker.

I'm out there like.

But that's when I was like,

this dude is,

he got it going on.

Yeah.

Man, that's

for me.

When people would tell me man, your brother is good as Jerry Rice.

Your brother good as Michael Irving.

Your brother is good as this.

I couldn't see anything but my brother.

So I couldn't see him outside of that.

And I think you, you're like, man, I grew up with him.

Yeah, he, yeah, I understand he Dr.

Dre.

I understand he the super producer.

He's my brother.

Yeah.

Slept in the same bed.

I mean, we ate the same food at the same dinner table.

We did all that.

It's hard to see somebody that you grew up with outside of what you saw from that very point.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But then you're like,

yeah, he different.

Yeah, He's not my brother, but he's different.

He's definitely different because this year.

This year

is what you read about when you see these movies.

You see this James Bond stuff, and they're on this island, and the lady come up out of the water.

And James Bond, is he standing on the stand on the thing with a tip?

Yeah, this is different.

This different.

He's different.

We

different now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We different now.

Oh, yeah.

Yes, indeed.

You also, during that time, you were around Tupac.

Uh-huh.

Tupac was, Tupac was there.

A lot of people were like, man, Tupac was living a lot, too.

He might have been the first

rapper that became a movie star.

Now, we've seen other guys.

We've seen, who is that, Meth do it.

We've seen

Buster Rhymes do it.

Ice Cube has done it.

Snoop.

Yes.

Has gone into that.

So we see a lot of other guys.

But Tupac was, you know,

Juice and Proetic Justice and all that.

Excuse me, Jason Lyric.

What was Tupac like?

Cool.

Like, just a cool dude.

He,

hyper.

He was hyper.

Actually, Tupac is one of the first dudes.

Him and MC Breed was the first couple of guys that gave me my first shot at

production outside of...

outside of the death row

company.

But

he was a good dude, man.

Just,

you know, didn't, you know, he'd tell you

whatever he felt.

He'd tell you.

He wasn't holding nothing back.

And just a cool dude, you know.

I got a story

that, you know, I've done some music for him.

And I was hitting him like, Pac, I need to get my money, man.

I done done all the,

you know, done this music for you and da da da da da.

He was like, I'm going to get you your money.

But I'm like, all right.

So it was still cool.

So

seeing him up at the comedy store,

I walked up to him.

I was like, Pac, I need to get my bread.

He came right out the pocket, like, came out, broke me off my money.

I was only charging $1,500 a beat back then.

So he he came right off the park

and broke me off my bread right then and there.

And

I felt kind of bad like,'cause we cool.

Right.

You know, so I felt kind of bad like

yeah, I felt kind of bad having to ask him like, man, I need my motherfucking money.

And

but we we we still was cool after that.

Um but right after that, him and him and Tretch had got into a fight with some cats right at the comments.

Trech, Tretch, uh, he could he was there.

They got into a squabble right after that.

But

you know,

that was like a moment where I was like, damn, that's my guy, but I gotta,

you know.

You gotta do business.

You gotta stay.

Yeah,

I gotta get paid.

Shit, I gotta get paid.

But we were still, we was cool after that.

Everything.

He always been a solid guy.

And I actually

tried tried to get him out, you know, when he

had that bell going.

Me and another one of my good friends, Richie Rich,

he was from the bay up there where Pac was at.

We used to talk all the time.

So he knew that me and Pac was cool.

Him and Pac was tight.

And so I told him, like, look,

let me put up the money.

I'll put some money up to get him out.

And

Sug beat me to the punch.

Right.

Wow.

You know, but

you put a cash.

But you put him a million dollars of cash, though, right?

Yeah, I was going to put, actually, I don't think

he might have, he probably put a million up, but it wasn't a million dollars.

It wasn't a million dollars.

It was less than that.

But,

you know, he wrote the letters.

Him and Rich was going back and forth, and I told him, just let me know what I could do.

And I was like, I don't want nothing,

you know, want nothing back.

But if I ask you to do a song or something, let's do a song.

But other than that, I just don't want to see you in that position.

So I was willing to put up some bread to get him out of there.

And my guy, Rich,

he witnessed that.

It was a few people

out there saying that

that wasn't real.

But, you know,

well, Sug even said it wasn't real, but it's real.

You know, Rich was his.

That was his dog.

So, you know, but it is what it is.

This was before,

look, he's a digital underground.

He had a little part bag.

He was more of a dancer.

Did you know when he got out

and he did all eyes on me, the two disc,

did you hear it before it came out?

No.

I wasn't nowhere around it.

Did you?

Did you know he was going to do this?

No.

I didn't know nothing that was going on, but

I ran into him at the House of Blues, and

we hugged and everything.

And this was around when he got out.

We hugged everything.

He was like, I'm on the work.

Why don't let's work?

So I was like, all right, it's all good.

And

what had happened?

It was an incident that happened,

a studio incident that happened.

That's what led to me saying,

because he was like, let me come to this, up the Canan.

And I was like, nah, I'm not coming up there.

You know, f that.

Because it was a little incident that happened up there where, you know, they had called me in.

It was like, Warren,

you know, Sugna want to holler at you

in the back.

So I'm like,

the f?

What do you want?

Like, what do you want with me?

So I'm like, let me, so I said, I'm coming, man.

So somebody else was like, man, she want to holler at you.

So I was like, all right.

So I'm like, man, let me go back here and see what's going on, man.

He probably want to do some business or something or something like that.

And shit, I walked back in that motherfucker and them motherfuckers came out of the side doors and shit tripping.

Tripping.

Like,

all ran up on me, grabbed me and shit, and I'm like, what the f ⁇ ?

And it was all.

You didn't know what it was about?

I know what it was about, but I didn't know that

it was because Dre left.

Right.

And

he didn't tell me

that.

I was like, Warren, don't go around that shit.

Yeah, because if he'd have told you, you would have never went over there.

Never.

I wouldn't have never went.

But

it was just like, you know, I'm just like, damn, you know, like, why are y'all tripping on me?

You know what I mean?

But

so it was kind of, it was like

another guy, I know one of my homeboys, he kind of caused like a diversion.

He came in like, why y'all tripping with Warren?

What's going on?

What's happening?

So when he was doing that, I went just like that.

I got on the door and I hit that knob and boop, slid right out the door.

And when I walked through the door, I seen people I knew in the kitchen.

I'm looking at them like, these

tripping.

And so I walked through

and I got to the middle of the hallway and they came running out that motherfucker.

Get that nigga blood.

I took off

again.

I took off.

But this time I got out the door.

But they,

I swear to God, the whole

whoever, all the people that came running after, they just fell.

It was like a domino.

Like, they fell in the hallway, which.

That's the reason why I was able to get away.

So I got away and I jumped in my truck, backed it up, and I was like, fuck y'all.

And took off.

Took off.

Look at you.

What do you think?

And my chain got snatched.

They snatched it?

Snatched my chain.

So, what chain did you have?

I had a G-Funk chain.

Oh.

And so is that where they started doing that foolishness, start snatching chains?

So you might have been the first guy.

No, chain snatching that been going on for a long time.

And I'm going to admit it,

it was nothing I could do.

Right.

I was in a position like where

I can't do shit.

If I pull out a gun and start the pup pull this, start blasting,

I'm going to get killed by these other motherfuckers with all these guns here.

It was a no-win situation.

So when my chain got snatched, I was kind of like, but it's like...

That little see another day.

Yeah, what am I going to do?

Right.

These.

Three times my size.

Had you not snuck out of the door,

you think

it would have been worse?

Yeah.

yeah it would have it would have been ugly yeah because they was mad at you because you the closest thing to Dre pretty much and so to get back at Dre they gonna get you that's the way I that's the way I looked at it cuz I and I didn't know I'm like

I wish he would have told me that he was leaving shit you know but um

I charged it to the game, you know, and

even even even you know, even today you know every now and then shug will say some shit

just talk some shit why he mad at you I have no idea he'll say some shit like Warren them has set up Tupac or some crazy shit yeah

stop it

you know but I ain't you know like at the end of the day it's I I didn't grown so much to where it's just like you know what I don't have you don't even listen to I don't have I don't listen to it I ain't got no hate towards towards him,

none of that stuff.

Any of those situations, I charged all that to the game.

And it's just like, don't keep poking at me.

You know,

I don't say nothing about him.

He'll say something here and there.

And I'm just like, every now, I responded a couple times because it pissed me off.

But it's just like, I'm not going to keep entertaining that.

I ain't got nothing against you.

I done moved on.

I do my thing.

I'm grown now.

Whatever happened back in the day, whatever, whatever, okay, cool.

It is what it is.

So now I'm moving on, but don't come, don't keep poking on me because I ain't f ⁇ ing with you.

Right.

You know, so leave me alone.

Everything I speak on is facts.

And I never threw no dirt on his name.

Nobody.

Nobody.

None of these guys.

Never been a whistleblower.

Never threw no dirt on nobody.

None of that.

I just always, you know, just me and me and I carry myself in a different way and out the way.

Yeah, yeah.

Is it true that you told Snoop not to go to that

Tyson Seldom fight?

Yeah.

Because I had, actually,

I had went to the Tyson-Frank Bruno fight.

I think that was April.

And as a matter of fact, that was my first time being in Vegas and I was walking on the strip.

Tupac.

and Snoop was in a Rolls-Royce together, drop top.

Wow.

And I remember walking, I was walking down the thing, and I looked over there, and they both kind of like looked over there.

They're like, man, what's up, Sharp?

I was like, what's up, guy?

You know, because it was like, it was like, we love you, man.

Man, because

I didn't expect to see you.

No, we love you.

And so I was like, damn.

And I remember getting on the phone.

I called my sister.

I called, called my homeboy.

I said, man, you're never going to guess who I just saw rolling down the strip.

They're like, who?

I said, man, I saw Tupac and Snoop.

And so that was the

Frank Bruno and Tyson fight.

And then I think that September

was when Tyson fought Bruce Seldon.

And that's when all that

went down.

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Like you told Snoop, say, Snoop, don't go.

It wasn't,

the reason why I called Snoop is because I didn't like,

it wasn't like, don't go, Snoop, because I knew like I knew something was going to happen.

I called Snoop to come kick it with me down here.

I'm a barbecue.

You don't never come hang with me no more come on come on over here I'm single I was well I was I was in a beginning relationship with my wife kind of in a very very early stages but I was still like by myself I was still living by myself and all that stuff so I had a gang of people come over it was a couple girls came through guys came through barbecued but

He was he you know, he would never come when I went would invite him right so I invited him He was like no nigga I'm going to Vegas

So he pretty much surprised me and came over.

He came, dunn, dun, dun.

So I look outside and he ended up in the Rolls-Royce, a white with the peanut butter, all that.

I was like, damn.

I said, let me drive that motherfucker.

So he let me drive it.

I drove it around

the neighborhood a little bit where I lived at.

It was inside gates, but I was driving it around and stuff.

But he was just like,

I'm going to hang with you.

And I was like, all right, shit.

So it was all good.

We barbecued, had a good time.

And then

that's when all the stuff started happening.

There's all kind of shit.

All kind of, his phone ringing, all kind of shit beeping.

And

he had got the news, like what happened down there.

He just immediately took off.

Boom, he he shot straight out of there.

He's like, I gotta go.

I'm gone.

Pume.

And he shot, jumped in his his car and went shot straight to Vegas.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

And

when you had heard what happened, Tupac had gotten shot.

Did you know it was a drive-by?

Did you think he had gotten in a confrontation?

Somebody had gotten the drop on him?

What did you think had happened when you had heard Tupac had gotten shot?

Or did they give you any details?

I didn't get no details or nothing.

I just heard he had got shot and was hoping that he was okay.

Right.

You know what I mean?

Because it's like, damn, okay, Pac got shot.

He going to be all right.

Right.

Yeah.

And

because he, you know, from what they were saying, you know, he was in the hospital.

He was getting some operations or whatever.

But they wasn't saying like,

you know, that he was going to die or anything.

Right.

That shit was hard.

That shit was rough.

You know, like, that was some serious shit.

Like,

that f ⁇ ed everybody up.

For sure.

Yeah.

Because if I'm not mistaken, Tupac was only 25.

Yeah, he was young.

Young.

Young.

He hadn't even been out maybe a year.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And was gone.

And that's what people don't realize.

He didn't have

the longevity that a lot of these rappers have.

I mean, he didn't have a five-year, 10-year, 15, 20-year career.

Yeah.

As a solo artist, it might have been, what, a year, maybe two years, tops.

Well, he had albums before.

He had records before before that.

He had

Soda Story.

He had a bunch of he had albums like right before the Death Row thing and Death Row picked him up, took him in.

Yeah, but he asked him, he was popping, you know,

then as well.

But what was what's the trip is that

That me against the world album.

Yeah, he pretty much like

that was like 30 like 20 something years worth of work in one album.

Like

The things, the direction he was steering the guys our age in and the things about the kids.

And what he talked about, Dear Mama, and all that.

Yeah.

Brenda's Got a Baby.

Yeah.

I mean,

the story that, I mean, he was telling a story.

Yeah, yeah.

And

it was like he was...

He told the future because now a lot of this stuff happened and some of it is still happening.

Like he said, epidemic and diseases.

What is the future?

And look, we be having all these epidemics and diseases and shit like that.

So, you're looking at somebody, okay?

He left Digital Underground probably in the early 90s.

So, he probably, you know, jumped on the scene probably what, 92, 93,

went away for what, 16, 17, 18 months.

He was still putting out records.

He was putting out, it was still endoscopes then.

People don't, I mean,

so, so, so young.

Yeah,

I mean, he wasn't even in his prime.

No, no.

And then All Eyes on Me just came, and it was just like the two desk and it just like Dre was on it.

It was just,

it was crazy.

Yeah.

It was crazy.

I produced How Long Will They More Me,

Definition of a Thug, and then I produced Lotta Kick It for him.

The Definition of a Thug was was his first like thug life

song that I did with me and him at Echo Sound.

And then how long will they warm me I done that the same night at Echo Sound when we did definition of a thug

I Was that's when I that's once again, I was I was solo I was out on my own and

Just wasn't I was still working and doing things, but I wasn't like around at that time around anybody.

I was just at home Well, at my sister apartment sleeping on the floor.

And

I I got that call.

You know, I didn't know it was Pac, but

because

he called, but I didn't think it was him.

It was like, Pac ain't getting ready to be called.

But I'm like, man, who was this playing game?

This ain't Pac.

And he was like, this Pac.

And then I saw this.

I said, oh, shit, this is Tupac.

And he was like, you got some music?

I was like, yeah.

It's like, I'm going to echo sound.

So I...

grab my drum machine, grab my crater records,

grab my

bladder dadao, and jumped in my Regal and shot straight up to Echo Sound.

Walked in there and it was him.

And I went straight to work, started popping this in the drum machine, playing it.

And we came up with a hit fast, too.

He wrote that record in like about 35, 40 minutes, definition of a thug.

After we talked, we sat right there and talked with each other for,

we talked for

maybe like

maybe an hour because he was asking me questions.

He was like he was interviewing me.

And

so

it's like he took some of the things that I told him, he put that in that song

that he went in there and laid.

He laid it in like 35, 40 minutes and knocked it down.

Damn.

Fast.

And then he got a call that one of his buddies that got shot.

So he came in, he said, Warren, you got something for me?

I want to do a song for my buddy that just got killed.

So I dropped,

I actually did

a record that I had flipped already on

another record

and

gave it to him.

And then he did a song on it, and it worked on that, on his record.

Wow.

So that's how long were they more me?

How long were they more me?

I had a song

called Super Soul, Sis,

which used the same sample.

And How Long Will They More Me was that same sample.

I used the same sample on two different albums.

Wow.

And it worked on both albums.

Yeah.

Tupac,

he worked with Mike.

No, not Tupac.

You did.

Yeah.

So,

I mean,

every once in a while, while, you hear Mike singing a cappella, and then you could hear his voice.

You could understand.

I could only imagine what Michael would be in the internet era because people were fainting.

Yeah.

People would go and berserk.

He sold 100 million albums.

Ain't nobody selling 100 million, nothing now.

Nowhere near it.

So he was doing, he was, he was doing that.

But to be in the studio with Mike and to hear his natural voice,

what was that like?

Shit, I almost fainted.

So you were one of the people that almost passed out seeing Mike.

Yeah,

Bruce and Renee were two guys he was working with.

They were his producers and they were fans of my music.

So they called me and they was like, we want you to produce some records for Michael.

And

I was like,

hell no, y'all.

Y'all, y'all, Michael Jackson?

They was like, yeah, Michael Jackson.

I was like, oh my God, I couldn't believe it.

And

they were like, he wants to meet you.

And I was like,

are you serious?

They like, he wants to meet you.

So

went up there.

He was actually at record one studio up in the valley.

Got there.

Went inside and walked in the room and it was just like

like hey, what's up, man?

Michael, da da da da.

Like, he wasn't, it wasn't none of that.

Some people said, like, it's just Michael and I.

It wasn't none of that.

That's what I heard.

People say his normal voice was not like

none of that.

He was like, what's up, man?

Like, you know, what's up, man?

Like, you know, da da da da.

Like, I'm like,

oh my god, I'm about to lose it right now.

I'm about to paint.

I'm about to do everything.

I'm about to just go crazy right now.

I couldn't believe it.

And he said he loved my music, and that blew me away.

Just for him to say that.

Even right now,

I can't even explain

how happy I was and how I had anxiety so bad.

Just

like, wow,

this is f ⁇ ing Michael Jackson right here, right now.

And

did the work.

You know, I did some music for him.

He loved the music.

He recorded the songs.

And I also had told him, you know, because he was kind of like, at that time, he had a little bit of,

it was a little bit of backlash, like some bad press.

And I told him that what you do is don't don't

don't sit up there and be sad about it.

Do a song back at them, you know, for putting that that bullshit out, the fake shit on you.

You do a song back at them.

You know, and that's what he did.

It wasn't one of my tracks.

I can't remember the song, but it was a,

what song was that?

It was where he was talking, he was talking shit back to the press and back to everybody.

What is the song?

I can't get it off top

having a brain for it.

Because because you uh you you saying that and a lot of people believe that the industry, because he had become so big, he had become so popular, he had become so powerful, you hear about him wanting to buy this record label and this

uh um television company,

and

they just couldn't have that.

He had purchased the Beatles catalog, plus he had his own catalog,

so he had the two most popular catalogs that were created.

Yeah.

Um

I mean

I can't see nobody like stopping somebody.

Well stopping you know stopping somebody from getting involved and

buying this or buying that.

If he got the money to get it, then it is what it is.

But

I don't know.

I mean, I just I just you know, I think that,

you know, he was just exhausted with all that was going on as far as like that

case he had that he was going through.

I think a lot of that stuff was wearing tear on him.

You know, and he just was just wore out, you know.

And he had been Michael Jackson for so long.

Yeah.

I mean, from the time he's probably six or seven years old, he couldn't go anywhere.

Yeah.

He couldn't do anything.

He had a very lonely life.

He had a life of isolation.

Yeah.

Because just think,

he could never do anything that a six or seven year old, he couldn't do what a 13, 14 year old do.

He couldn't do what a 25, 26 year old do.

He couldn't do what a 30, 40 year old do.

He could never do any of that.

None of it.

And

I think it was a lot of that wear and tear, just like

with all of that, along with people trying to blame him for different things.

It's like,

you know, at the end of the day, it's just war and torn.

Yeah.

Is it true you turned down an opportunity to meet the Prince?

Yeah.

Yeah, I did.

Damn, you don't believe nobody.

No, no, what it, what, what, what, I, I just, uh,

it was just, I just thought Prince, I mean, I loved him as an artist.

Like,

I really love him as an artist, loved him and loved him as an artist.

But

he

was just, I just wasn't, you know, just like,

why do he want me to come sit down with him?

But I was young, so I'm like,

you know, I'm like, shit, this motherfucker might be trying to hit on me or something.

I don't know what.

So I'm young,

not thinking about he wants his business.

Come sit down with, go sit down with this dude.

After I, you know, when I thought about it later on, I'm like, I should have went and sat my ass down with Prince and

really got game from him, learned, got a lot of knowledge from him.

Right.

You know, instead of thinking a different way, like,

what do he want with me?

Like,

what do he want?

Like, what's up?

Are you, what, what, what?

You know, but

I still was a die-hard Prince fan,

still a fan of him.

But you did finally get a chance to meet him.

Got a chance to meet him.

Really cool dude.

Just had a lot of knowledge, like a lot of knowledge and just would

give give me a lot of game on shit like the industry.

But he was a cool dude, but that was another one of those things, just being young, that I regret not doing.

You know, I should have went, you know, and all my folks was like, Warren, you better go, Warren, you better go shit with him.

What is wrong with you?

Like, no, man, I just don't, you know, and

never could didn't get the record cleared that I wanted to clear for because I redid one of his records.

That was, me and Nate, again, it was a bona fide.

Right, see?

Now, if you went inside with him, you probably could have got it clear.

Man, I was just like, man.

I just, you know, I just, I was young, just like, you know what?

I ain't getting ready to go out there.

Shit, I don't know.

I don't know what he wants.

What do you want me out there for?

Shit.

You know, but

it was just to

have a conversation and

meet the guy who wants to use some of my music.

Right.

You know what I mean?

But I wasn't thinking like that.

I was all over the place.

Like, just.

Is it

other than Prince and Michael?

And Michael, have you ever been starstruck?

Who has got you starstruck?

Anita Baker.

Like all of the

OGs before me, all of them.

Like Anita Baker was like,

I was like,

I was in love with her music from

tiny kid.

So

let me see.

Just like all I was

anybody I would meet, just

I was I was like, I can't believe I'm here.

Oh yes.

Chaka Khan,

which I've been around her.

I've been around all of them: Tina Marie, and just everybody.

Like,

Eddie Murphy, Charlie Murphy's, and just everybody.

Like, I've been around everybody, and them

me being like

star-struck towards them, and they, like, fans of me, like,

man, that's forny.

And I'm like, y'all know my name?

This is crazy.

Yeah.

It's uh.

You did

Chloe's birthday party.

Uh-huh.

What was that like?

It was dope.

It was dope.

A lot of beautiful women up in there.

It was like,

it was like pink everywhere.

And

Chloe and

Kim came up to me and they was just like regulated as

our favorite song ever

and i was like what is she was like that is our

so when i did it they was just like they was right there in the front

dancing and uh

that was just that was that was like a dope moment like damn like the the kardashians love my shit they like this is their favorite shit so that was that was a

That was a moment, man, a really, really

special moment just to get that love from him.

And then I seen a clip of her and Kanye in the car, and they was banging regularly, singing it together, banging.

I was like, wow.

What's the wildest party of event you've done?

Shit.

I must say this,

the wildest party I'd have never been to was

Wet and Wild,

NWA, Easy and NWA Wet n Wild.

That was the wildest party I ever been to.

Well, I didn't, I didn't,

my parties wasn't that wild, but that NWA party,

Easy and NWA Wet n Wild, that was party,

that party was

wild.

But it was a lot of,

I was a young kid, though, but

I was a young teen, I think I was about 14, 15, somewhere around there, around that time when I went to that.

And

it was...

Good old time, huh?

Good old times.

It was cracking.

And

they treated me like one of the fellas.

I got the

grown man treatment in there.

Ain't nothing wrong with that.

Yeah.

You produced Jeezy, Leave You Alone.

If there are a lot of songs that people wouldn't guess that you've actually produced, yeah.

Well, it's a lot of them out there that people don't, they don't, you know, I did Leave You Alone

for Young Jeezy.

I've done

even

You Gotta Get Yours, I Gotta Get Mine.

with MC Breed and Tupac.

You gotta get yours, I gotta get mine.

People like, boy, you did that.

I was like, yeah.

Once again, that was one of the first records that I had a shot at producing, and it ended up being one of their biggest records together.

But I've done a lot of, I've done produced for

New Edition,

a lot of groups.

Ron Isley, I done produced for a lot of artists.

Even younger, even today, artists of today,

I've been working with a lot of the younger artists.

you know, because my mindset is you're never too old to make a hit record.

And, And, you know, I don't try to, just because these guys are young and they doing this and doing that, I give them knowledge and I direct them

in a different path.

And they call me like, Warren, what about such and such and this, that and this?

And then I give them, tell them, okay, you should do this.

You know, so I'm kind of like a big brother.

And as well as

us working.

a business relationship, work, business, work relationship with different artists.

Have you ever gotten an opportunity to work with M or 50?

No.

No.

Haven't got a chance to work with them.

I would love to do a record with M or 50, produce a track for for either one of them.

Just gotta get around them and play some tracks, you know.

When you heard about M

Man, this is white, there's a white, there's a white dude out of Michigan, Detroit.

Man, he liked that.

Because the last white dude, you probably think, you probably think of vanilla ice.

You don't eat you.

You're like, come on, come on now.

Come on now.

They said, nah, nah, nah.

Hey,

he up there.

Yeah.

When you first heard it, they said, that's him.

That's the one I was telling you about.

That's him.

That's a white dude?

Yeah.

We was like, who was this white motherfucker up in here in the studio?

Because

this was our shit.

When Dray had first brought him around,

we was like, who was this motherfucker up in here?

All of us.

Like, who the fuck is this?

Motherfucker, he got up in here and shit.

This our shit.

And

that motherfucker was bussing.

We was like, God damn.

He

hard as f ⁇ .

Ended up,

he ended up being

incredible, you know, incredible.

And really, really

geled right into what we already have moving musically.

Where would you rank M?

Because people seem to like, because, you know, hip-hop, where it originated, how, and so many of us and that, there are not very many M's.

He's very unique.

We understand that.

And I don't think people give him the credit that he deserves because he's a white and that's our genre.

You know, hip-hop is us.

Rap is us.

Gangster rap is us.

And so sometimes I don't think people give him the credit that he deserves.

He definitely in the top, the top,

and he in the top 15.

I don't want to make it too small like the top 10 because there's some dope motherfuckers.

Yeah, some heavy hitters on them.

Heavy hitters.

He definitely in that top 15.

He dope.

He dope.

See, he, Eminem is an MC.

He a straight hip-hop, straight hip-hop.

It's not, he wasn't on like what we was on.

We was more storytelling.

It was hip-hop, but we was more storytelling and

telling a story about our life and making it like a movie on wax.

And he was more of the straight hip-hop, straight-at-you battle MC,

but could tell a story at the same time.

but it's still in in his way and his element the way he do it in a hip in a MC way.

Right.

but

when he wrote the shit like the stuff that he writes for Dre and the way that I was like this motherfucker right here he can write this and then turn it down

it's amazing because when

you file found out that it was Ho that wrote Dre Day for Dre and you hear M write.

Like, how do they write that for him?

And it sounds like he actually wrote it for himself.

How?

How do they do that?

I tripped off of that.

The thing just ain't the same for gangsters.

Eminem wrote that.

That shit was, that's one of my favorite songs on that album.

I was like,

this motherfucker is

dope.

Yeah, I was like, wow.

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Yeah, that's still one of my favorite songs

to this day.

Is Kendrick the new king of LA?

You're gonna have me drunk up here.

Hey, that thing.

It busts.

It's his day to go.

Yes, indeed.

This is so good.

I keep downing it.

We're gonna see you home with a bottle.

We're gonna see you home with a bottle.

Yes, indeed.

I mean, we were gonna see you home with, but

we were gonna see you home with two bottles.

But as y'all can see,

we've been getting it in.

Yes, indeed.

Kendrick, how surprised are you?

Because I've always thought he's been a great storyteller,

but

this last year and a half with the five Bram is in a halftime show,

and

he's just going to a different level.

Yeah, Kendrick, Kendrick definitely has

solidified his position on the West Coast.

I can't say king.

He's the king right now, though.

He might not be the king.

He might not be the king.

Yeah.

But he made a name for himself because it's going to be hard to break.

When you look at the West, you look at Snoop and you look at Cube and you look at Dre and you look at

Farty and you look at some of the guys that came out of the West Coast pop, you like,

but now you're like, okay,

you done carved out a little space for yourself.

Yeah,

he definitely

made his mark and solidified himself as one of the best to do it from the West.

You know, I can't just say he's the biggest out of everybody there or like ever and stuff like that.

I can't say that.

But in his generation

right now in his era, yes, he's the king.

But as him being the king of that younger generation that he's a part of now.

He's the king of that, but as a whole, he solidified himself to be one of the greatest with the greatest, with the Snoop Doggs, the Ice Cubes, the Warren G's, the Dr.

Dre's, the Easy Ease,

Ice T, King T.

You know, it's

a lot of guys, the DJ Quick,

it's a lot of guys

that don't get mentioned like all those names I mentioned.

And he's one of them that's in there.

He's in that now.

When you got the news that

when you started this thing, it was you, him, and Snoop.

Snoop was doing his thing, but

you and Nate,

thick and thin,

cold or hot,

up or down,

you got the news that

he was gone.

First thought, what was the emotions?

When Nate passed passed away,

we actually was on tour

and

we heard about it right, this was like right before we was about to go on the stage.

We was in

Corpus Christie and

we just

cried.

You know, all of us just, we all was in

Snoop's room.

We all, everybody on the tour, we was all in Snoop room, and all of us was just

pouring out, just crying.

We cried and cried and cried, did the show

and came back and cried more, more and just cried, just

couldn't believe it.

You know, and

we went straight home after that.

We took off, went straight home from off the road, and

went back home,

yeah, and and to bury him, yeah.

And uh,

yeah, that was that was

like,

it was really bad for us, like

super bad, man.

Well, like I said, we cried, we cried, we cried, cried, cried.

Because he was so young, he's only 40.

40 weeks up here crying, Shannon.

I know you.

Yeah, but we was hurt, man.

It still hurt, you know, still hurt.

What do you want his legacy?

What do you want people to know about Nate that they don't know or they haven't heard?

Are there any story that you want to tell so people get a better understanding just who Nate Dog was?

He was a good father.

He was a good father to his kids.

He took care of all his kids.

And he was a man of God.

You know, even though he,

you know, wrote like he wrote, he was a man of God.

He was raised in a church.

His mother is

a super church.

She don't listen to hip-hop.

She

don't want to have nothing to do with it.

None of that.

His whole family, him and Sam and his sister,

they all was raised in the church.

So he was a very godly person, even though he went through the things, some of the things he went through,

all of the stuff he went through.

He was a

godly person, and he was a great dad to his kids.

You been married almost 30 years.

What's the secret?

I hear a lot of secrets.

I mean, I've heard a lot of people that's been married 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, 50 years.

And

it's going to be interesting to hear what you have to say.

And I'm going to see how it jives with what some people that's been married for 30 years, 40 years, 50 years, what they say.

What's the trick to being married for an extended period of time?

Just

that's like,

well, she my best friend.

You know what I mean?

We best friends.

And,

you know, if we argue, like when we argue or if we argue, whatever, we go at it or whatever, you know,

I'll go back myself and I say, like, was I wrong or was I right?

Was I wrong?

Was I right?

Or if she wrong or right,

one of us will come and say, you know what, I'm sorry, I was wrong.

You know what I mean?

Or I'll be like, you was right.

You know, I was wrong about what I said or what I did or this, that, and this.

And then,

you know, but at the end of the day, that's my friend.

We be friends, and that's,

we not only husband and wife, but we friends, and we joke around, we talk shit, have a good time, we argue.

We don't let none of that stuff.

Yeah, we clear it up.

You know, sometimes we get hot at each other for maybe a day, two days or something, you know, where we still, you know,

like,

you know, it ain't like

you, you, you be mad, like,

you want to go out to eat?

That's how it starts back up.

Like, let's go get a button.

You want to go get something to eat?

I swear to God, you hit it right on the nose.

And we'd take off and go eat.

And then when we go eat, we back laughing and talking and having a good time.

You realize the thing that we got upset about, it really wasn't that big of a deal to begin with.

It wasn't a big deal, you know.

Have you guys always been great?

Because I hear LeBron was talking about his wife, Savannah, and I've heard a lot of people say, the number number one thing

communication yes indeed you got to be able to communicate yeah and I think the thing is the biggest thing is that the therapist told me she said she she told me one time she said Shannon

she said you're speaking two different languages yeah she said she's speaking in Mandarin and you're speaking in Spanish yeah now either you learn her language And she learns yours, so you know how to communicate,

or it's not going to work.

Yeah.

It's really that simple.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We communicate and

you know

be honest, you have to be transparent if something bothering you got to say what's bothering you and not be big, but you had that, but you've been together for 30 years.

Probably, you've been mad 30 years, so you've probably known her for 35 years.

Yeah.

And so you kind of know what makes her tick.

She knows what makes you tick.

And you're kind of.

able to navigate and stay out of those those those landfills those where those landmines are and you kind of navigate that, but there are obviously there are going to be times where

nobody has ever been married, and every day is a better road.

Yeah, like, I mean, even the other day,

we're driving, you know, and

she'll be like, well, you need to dirty.

And I'm like, wait a minute, hold up.

Why are you going to try to tell me how to drive?

Wait a minute.

You've had a fender bender.

I ain't never had a fender bender.

Like, somebody has hit me,

but But I ain't never like, boom, like,

but, you know, and that, you know, that sometimes, you know, it gets me hot, you know, so we'll argue a little bit.

And, you know,

we'll be mad for

10, 15 minutes, and then we start back talking again.

How difficult is it to stay married?

being in the music business?

You travel a lot.

You're around a lot of beautiful women.

You're gone sometimes a week, two weeks, three weeks at at a time.

And

she has to run the house while you're out there doing that.

But obviously I say you got to communicate.

You have an understanding.

You have to be transparent.

You have to be honest.

How difficult has it been for you to navigate three decades of marriage being in the industry that you're in?

It'd be a lot of temptation.

You know, you just got to say to yourself, do you want to risk losing all of this over here, your beautiful wife and all your your

kids and everything that i built over here just over

this yeah you know a one night

you know of this to lose all of that it ain't no such thing as one night yeah it's just it's

you know about yeah but

uh it's yeah it's just like

I just just I just you know, I just don't want to,

you know, I don't want to, I don't want to.

It's not even worth it anymore.

Yeah,

it ain't worth it.

You know,

when I was young, though, before our relationship, I was a monster.

I was everywhere.

I was.

She was outside, outside.

Outside.

Man, you know, but

yeah,

she a good woman, and that's that's another reason why

I'm good to her as well because she's a really good woman and

she really like got my back 110%.

I'll argue at her about some things

and then I'll come back because I see what we were just arguing about and then I see what she was saying that.

It makes sense now.

Yeah, and I'll be like, damn, this

she is, she amazing.

Would you have been as successful as you are had you not had the stability of having a wife for three decades?

I probably would have went

in a couple of different directions as far as like maybe getting into more trouble.

But

she didn't kept me out of

a lot of BS.

Yeah.

Oh yeah.

Oh yeah.

Children, how many kids you have?

Six.

Damn!

Six?

That ain't a lot.

That's what you mean that ain't a lot.

Four boys and two girls?

The oldest?

The oldest is 28.

Youngest?

That's one.

The youngest is Royal, he's 10.

And then my daughter Lola is 15.

My daughter Lauren, she's 20.

My My son Neil is 22.

My son Elijah is 26.

Yeah, 26.

You done now?

Did I get him all?

I'll be forgetting sometime.

You done?

Definitely.

Nowhere near it.

I'm done.

Over.

What type of father are you?

Cool.

I'm cool, but I

You know,

I still instill, you know, like some of the moral, I still instill morals like,

you know, like we used to have when I was coming up, like in there cleaning up that room every day, doing this, washing the dishes, all of that.

I still, even though I'm Warren G, I'd be like,

go wash them dishes or go take out the trash.

Go do the, you know, I'd be on them.

And they, they, they, they don't, they, they probably don't even look at me as Warren G, like

the artists or this, that, and this.

They like, you know, that's dad.

Dad, they mean, you know, they, because they,

I ain't mean, but

they, they think that the stuff I tell them, like, go take out the trash, that's being mean or that stuff.

No, that's not being mean.

That's the way it's supposed to go.

Yes.

You know, get up, you need to do this, you need to do that.

I be on their ass, you know,

and

they all good kids.

Ain't none of my boys been in no trouble, like gang shit or

any jail stuff.

They ain't never been to jail.

They ain't never been in no trouble, like nothing.

None of my girls, nobody have never been in trouble.

And what tripped me out is they ain't the type, they don't never ask me for like Jordans or

all the high-tech stuff.

Actually, wait, I take that back.

My daughters is

they they they hit me here.

They hit me.

But other than that, my boys don't, you know, they don't, you know, they was kids.

They never asked me for a bunch of stuff.

And I've never

been like, okay, you can have this.

Well, getting them anything they wanted.

I didn't do that.

I would have them, you got to work for it.

You know, you got to work for it.

No matter what it is, if even when you were in sports, like...

My boys, I used to tell them, okay, if you do this or you do that in your football and this, that, and this, okay, I'll give you $100.

When they was kids, like little bitty kids playing Pop Warner and stuff like that, you scored two or three touchdowns.

I got you, I'm gonna give you this.

Tearing it up,

and I give you this, you know.

Or I would make them work for stuff, but they would never be the type, like, I want this, I want that, I want that, or never.

And I was like, damn, I'm blessed for that.

You know,

and they, they, you know, they think I'm

pretty cool they think I'm cool they know I'm cool because I laugh and joke and talk mess

and you know I'll be messing with my daughters I'll be calling them the baddies

and they don't like it but they laugh at it a lot and

but they they think they they're they they good they good kids and they they

I just got to be a dad and I tell them that.

I got to be a dad.

I can't be your friend and let you do anything.

You know, I got to be a dad.

I told my kids, I said, the dynamic of our relationship will never change.

I'll always be dad.

You'll always be the child.

Yes, indeed.

Yes, indeed.

And so let's stay in our appropriate places.

Yes, indeed.

I said, your friend, hey, y'all hang out, y'all talk to each other in a certain way.

That's fine.

Yeah.

But as a parent, There needs to be always a healthy level of respect.

Yeah.

Yeah.

There.

And, you And as they got older,

hey, it was no more I didn't demand.

I was like, look, you understand, you know right from wrong.

I shouldn't have to yell and scream and do all the other stuff.

It should be, this is what I think you should do and the manner in which you should do it.

Yes, indeed.

But at the end of the day, you're grown now.

You make your own decisions.

Yeah.

But hopefully you've done a good enough job

from...

birth until 18, 19, that when they get 25, they get 30, it's like, okay.

Yeah.

This is what we should be doing.

This is how we should do it.

Yeah.

Let me get you out of here on this one.

When you see a situation like a Dane and he falling out with Rockefeller and a lot of the artists, how do we make sure we don't have another situation like that?

Because it's sad.

It is.

Just gotta

keep the business a little bit more tight.

This is the type of person I am, even though, like,

if I was in Jay-Z position,

even though me and this guy ain't getting along or whatever, we got history.

Like, we done a lot of big things together.

And

if I see him, just like, if I see him and I'm like, damn, he's struggling or this, that, and this, I'll try to...

like figure out some type of way we can mend

so I could say, look, let me get you involved in this so you can get this.

You know what I mean?

Or do this so you can get that.

Because I don't want to, we got too much history together for, I don't want to see you

that way or struggling, you know what I mean?

I don't want to see that, man, because we started together, okay?

We had our little falling outs, whatever, but at the end of the day, man,

you know, I grew with you.

We did build something special.

Yeah, we built some really special things together.

So, you know,

here you go here.

Here you go there.

You know, just so you can be back on your feet, you know.

And if I'm here a billionaire, shit, if I was a billionaire, I'd be like, look,

take this.

You know, now, if you lose that,

then something may write.

You on young.

You on young.

But take this.

You know, you should be good off that, period.

No more.

What's next for Warren G?

Just

a lot of good business, a lot of good music.

I just got involved in

baseball, just became an owner, part of the ownership group with

the

Long Beach.

It's a minor league baseball team, but it's the first team that's about to be coming from up out of Long Beach.

And

I became an owner, part of the ownership group with that.

And we're trying to make, we're making the name, not trying, we're going to make the name, the Long Beach Regulators.

And

I'm really happy to be involved

because it gives me a chance to give back to the community by doing different events and bringing like a snoop or bringing any artist there to

the stadium to perform for the neighborhood or the kids, wherever you from, whoever show up.

And it's a chance for the team to go

here or to King Park to build this new court they got or go to the rec and build the new rec thing or go to the homeless thing and help them.

And the mayor, you know, help out with some of the things with the mayor around the city.

And because I was born and raised there, so it's like, it's only right that I give back

in that way.

And then we got something to root for, you know, because they don't have a lot to root for.

We got the Dodgers and the Lakers and, you know, the Raiders

and, you know, the Chargers and stuff like that.

The Chargers, the Raiders.

The Raiders belong to Vegas now.

They

don't left y'all.

Yeah.

When is the new music coming out?

You're talking about you working on some new music.

Right now we looking, well, I'm looking at dropping,

I'm dropping the single by November.

Yeah, I'm working on that right now.

I'm pretty much there.

I just got a few touch-ups I got to do with mixing and mastering and it's a couple more artists that I want to work with

before I shut it all the way out.

A lot of good music, a lot of good businesses coming with the the baseball sports, a lot of business outside of the baseball, like real estate,

and then as well as still

helping newer artists in the game and getting them under a good distribution to get their records out there in a good way.

You know, still helping out artists, still doing everything.

And

ain't nothing changed.

I'm still

at it, you know, like I always been, but just a little bit more smarter.

You know.

But Jay got his barbecue rub and sauces sniffing griffins.

Oh, yeah.

Warren J production.

Warren J, ladies and gentlemen.

Much love.

Appreciate it.

Oh, yeah.

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That's why.

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