June 25, 2025 • 40 mins
Tech N9ne made is log awaited return to the Cruz Show and talked about his upcoming origin story LP + he talked about reuniting with ICP and the Juggalos, Touring with J Rock & Kendrick, how he's never met Dr Dre and so much more. It's a very personal and fun interview.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh my god, is that Nico Blitter to see them
want to raised If you ain't get the memo sipping
in the city and send you know we put them
at them, then go stuff in them hoos in the
limo because they said they come from the jaw. They say,
you know, I ain't gotta work last night show, so
well watch watch what you make you feeling that you're
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gonna give me a billion and shall run the back
of willing. I'm gonna be up on the island shilling.
I came away from the wheeling and still run with
the five six feeling. We live live like I ain't
no deal list. It's gonna to be killing fifty one.
Hey Juice and my leave boo kera boll What now
they they got mat of the shell and raise ol
we go buy toys. Oh no, no, oh, no Cruise
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show until nine is on the cruise man. That was
a really nice mix. Bro Nico Blitz on the intro
right that new node and you know I told Cruise
before we got up here. I was like I had
to throw them the jelly sickle. Yes, that was my
introductions exactly six Yeah, crazy crazy Rick Rock did those
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beats a lot of beats on the ever Ready album Man.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
From the pay area, so it's very close forty.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
It was like, okay, that was obviously that was my
first That's how I met mugs. That's that's forty security. Yeah,
shared him with me place no no Diddy. I'm sorry
it worked out. Yeah, yeah, right, good people working with
(01:48):
good people. Man sir, Yes, welcome back, Man. How you
feeling Man, Real good Man, real good Man? About to
drop a new album Man on Friday, Man, June twenty seventh,
Man Ready at the age sixteen for us, I'm so
happy to be talking about the album cover. Well, I
wanted to take it back to where a time where
I couldn't afford to wear what I got on. You
know what I'm saying, This is up with everything you
couldn't afford exactly exactly exactly. I couldn't afford the J's
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back then, you know what I'm sayzling, I couldn't afford
the red and white troop like LLKJ. I really wanted that,
you know, from the bigger and defferent kind of like era,
you know, and the J three's Man, you know what
I'm saying, And I just wanted to be way Kansas
City out with my hat flipped up, you know what
I mean. That's how the d Boys look back then,
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and I couldn't afford it. So I wanted to bring
that back because I was taking it all the way
back as the origin story. So here we go. You
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Back then, inspiration was in the street. It wasn't on
our televisions. It wasn't on the screen. Inspirations were on
the corner.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Totally, totally, you know what I'm saying, wearing the Dope
Boy redbox and the J's and yes, sir, driving the
mini trucks and yes, sir. You see, I had all
three of my strange chains on too, flex and I
was flexing, and I look good for my age too.
So I'm like, yeah, go.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Ahead, tech, you don't age, man?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
What what what is it? Bro? Talk to me?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Man?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
You're taking TikTok vitamins.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
What do we do?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Puerto Rican lady? Yeah? Man, she got me doing parasite cleanses, man,
like she got me you know, doing different facial think
of a jigs, you know what I mean. For instance,
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I had like what you call a sabasis assist right here,
you know, and My doctor told me I was gonna
have to get it cut out. And my lady is like, na,
because you're gonna leave a mark on your beautiful face. Nope, nope, nope,
I said. She said, you gotta change your cocoa butter
and your shade butter to tallow. I'm like, what the
hell is beef? Yeah? Okay, yeah, but this one is
scented kind of, you know what I mean. Her friend
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makes it for me, and now it's a basic assist
is no more, you know, just giving me remedies, many
to keep me here for a while. You know, we
got a two year old little girl now.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Man.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Oh yeah, we need to stick around longer.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah right, I'm gonna need that, man, because I got
assists right here.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah. Man, you know what I'm saying you need it's
just built up oil. Yeah, that's what the doctor told me.
They'll tell you got to get it cut out, and
it's natural things you can do. You know. Before you
walked in, I had that lump on my face. You
see it? No, No, it's gone.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I had the face yeah man. The link Yeah, that
lady's phone number. She Puerto Rican, My my wife, the
other the lady that's making the beef towel.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
No, no, no, I think she's black.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Okay, Before you walked in, we were talking about breath
control and breath control, different different breathing techniques.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Right, who's that guy you were talking about?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Whim Hoff?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Wim Hoff? I know that I know that name, but
I know that name from.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
White dude like beard and everything. I think he's from
a constantine. Where's he from?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Breathing techniques? Well, you know how to get diseases out
of your body through breathing?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I've heard that. I've heard that.
I thought you're talking about like like like singing like
in rapp and you're on stage. You also have to
have somewhat of a technique, right, total technique.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Man.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
This thing we posted a while back, it's like a commercial.
It was a commercial for this record. It was pre
order commercial and I did a whole live verse and
I told people to watch my chest like I'm like
middle school Uppere's no one for sure the man whatever
that be hre, Papa, Y ain't know. The jam school
slife is a load of fans go to cram in
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the bathroom. This baftoons come against me, get krysaling soda
can till one day. They told me, if I'm somebody
that can hold me, wrap it a dance in one
of their homies, a new Trent for eighth grade en rolling.
I can say it all in one breath because of
my breathing techniques. I do three big breaths in between rhyming,
and it allows me to do a whole four bars
like that. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So you know, yeah, man, Yeah, you're inhaling every time. Yeah,
so you're yes, you're giving yourself breath versus giving it up.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yes, sir, Yes, sir. I'm holding it so it's in reverse,
but I'm holding my breath, but I'm still projecting, you
know what I'm saying. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I taught myself that a long time ago, man, you
know what I mean, because I wanted to. I wanted
to kind of be different from a lot of people,
you know, when it comes to skill and being able
to say things. Even if I have to cram a
lot of words in a four bar segment, I can
really get it out, you know what I mean? Live, Yeah, Yes,
And that's why a lot of people still come to
my shows because it sounds just like the records. Thank you,
yes sir, and be disappointed like, man, that's a studio, man,
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he can't do that, right right right? We do this
for real artists, man, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I always
say real yeah yeah man. Live shows. I got one
coming up, like a short one though, at the Grammy
Museum on Thursday. I do like a thirty minute show
real quick for everybody to let's get it. Let's get it,
yeah man.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
A lot of artists will show up, the beat drops
and the audience does the show right right, right right.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
That's the new generation they you know, they don't care,
you know, they just get You're just there and you
got the track plan and they're singing it. You know
what I mean. Must feel good. But we from Generation X,
We're gonna make sure you hear everything. You know what
I mean. I'm the main vocal, The main vocal is
out of there. I'm the main vocal on the mic.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Just like you understand that they're paying to see you
and you are going to give them everything you.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Have, Yes, sir, I think that's that's that's why they
keep coming back. Let's come. You know what I'm saying.
People keep saying they say, Hey, you got to come
see this Tech nine show. You know what I'm saying.
I used to have like three dudes up there with
me helping me back in the day reinforcement, and then
when they all went on their own, I'm like, oh,
what am I going to do? I've never been on
stage by myself. But I realized that all those breathing
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techniques I've been doing for all those decades work for me.
I can get my Kendrick and DMX and jay Z
on finally, you know what I'm saying, and still have
a dope show, you know what I mean. And that's
what a lot of people see now. They're like, Man,
it's different up there with you without Chris, Without Chris Calico,
I'm like, but have you seen me with my band lately?
You know what I mean? You know, so we still
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got that energy.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Were getting it done, yes, sir, gatherings, the gathering of
the it's coming up.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
How did that all start for you? And and that
fan base. It's a vicious fan base. It started alone
time ago in two thousand and three, when I was
asked to be on one of their tours, the Wicked
Wanker Tour, wow. And on that tour, I gained a
lot of Juggalos and juggallettes. Those are ICP ICP fans,
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you know what I'm saying. A lot of them. I'm
talking about around the world in Canada, and that's a
world own. Yeah man, yeah, man. It's like a subculture.
It's crazy. I've never seen anything like it before in
my life. And over the years, I just became family.
Now it got rocky in the middle where they thought
that I was on a radio station and I said
something that they didn't agree with, and you know, I
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was just talking out the gathering and how crazy it was,
and they felt like I didn't say enough about the Juggalos,
and you know, the clowns said something. And now I
started getting death threats and this, that and the other.
And I remember I did a show with them, a
gathering around that time. When I was getting death threats.
It was like like four gatherings ago or so, you
know what I mean. And I felt like I was
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being attacked. So I said, I'm not doing it no more.
So I've been away doing my own stuff without doing
the gathering. But when I heard last year that they
were doing the gathering of the Juggalos, the Legends. I
called my book an agent, and I said, listen, if
they call me for this show, because I told them,
I don't never want to do it again. You know
what I'm saying. I said to be I want to
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feel like I'm not being targeted when I'm on stage,
you know what I'm saying. And I want to feel
comfortable not be thinking about anything else, you know. But
I told them if they call me, if Psychopathic called
me for the Legends, say yes, I'll do it. So
I'm doing the new one coming up. Hey, let's go. Yeah, man, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
totally totally yes, sir man, all the comments, everybody's happy
(10:06):
that I'm coming, you know, that's right, That's right. How
did that get squashed? We had to talk about it, man,
Me and the clowns. Man, they kind of felt like that,
you know, on that tour that I didn't have face paint.
I just had it across my face, but I mean
my forehead. But the artist that I had out there
was not my friend Brian Bezel Dennis because he got killed.
(10:26):
He started painting my face in ninety four and I
was the killer clown since then. In Kansas City Missouri,
you know, saying with a full skull face. But on
that tour, I just had I think it was Craig
Davis rest is soul. He was painting my foreheads, like
words on my forehead and stuff like that, and he
could he didn't have the skill to paint my whole
face like Brian, you know. So the clowns were under
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the impression when I started. When I got a better one,
a better artist to do my face, they were under
impressing that I took it from them. They didn't know
that I was to kill a clown back in the
night twenty four before I even heard about So I
had to give them the history of Tech nine and
the history of the killer Clown in Kansas City. It
was a myth that clown was driving a yellow van
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and he was kidnapped kids, but it was just a myth.
We never saw it, but we were scared to death
as kids. But I became the killer Clown lyrically, you know,
And I gave them the whole background of Tech nine,
and then they understood. And then my next tour they
came out. I came to their town, Detroit, and they
came out and introduced me for the crowd. It sold
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out crowd at the Star. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so that's
how it was squashed. Okay, it was just a conversation.
That's all it takes sometimes, right, Let's just sit down
and talk it. Yes, sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
You know a lot could be fixed with the conversation, totally, man,
So sure you know on fifty eight sixteen Forest, what
does Yoda sound like?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yoda? What does it sound like? Man? It sounds like
a hit to me, I'm saying. Okay, and not just
because Wayne is on the hook, because on this record
is just all me on the verse. I've never did
a in my whole discography. I've never had an LP
where I'm on all the verses because I you know,
I pride myself on collaborating with elite artists, you know,
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but this one's all me, you know, on all the verses.
And when I got to Yoda, I tried to do
a whack and hook you know what I'm saying on
my own, and it wasn't working. So as I started
working through that really hard to write song because I'm
actually I had the idea to rap like Yoda talks
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and George Lucas made him talk backwards, like what do
you say something like a Jedi? Skywalker is you know,
like I said, Skywalker is a Jedi? You know? Yeah.
So I'm starting off like broke I am. I'm talking
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about myself back when I was young. Broke I am.
And I'm like, what do I say next? Equivalent to
a whopping twenty tons of pure don't my gams? I'm like, oh,
what's happening? Have your rhyming ticket revoked? I can right
next to it really starving kill a goat wife dand
you know what I'm saying, I'm rapping like Yoda. So
after I got through it the first verse, I'm like,
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I got it. Oh, I got to do two more verses.
It was the hardest song, Yes, and have to rhyme
and then do it with style three verses, three verse
right back and forth with me, Damon and Mario you
know what perform Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So after I
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wrote it and my hook was whack, I said, I
said I need another alien on this. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
So I hit Wayne up and he said it right back, man,
And it's like the song is like in hit for him.
It starts off with a hook and then after the
first verse is another hook and then another verse and
it's a hook and it's four hooks. Man. So I
didn't even have to tell Wayne because he's such an
elite artist, you know, I didn't even have to tell him, Hey, man,
can you make the hooks not fly the hooks? You
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know what I'm saying, So it won't be repetitious, you
know what I mean? And just do variations of four hooks.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I sent it to him. Variations came back to me.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I'm like, boom, yeah, is that response or that like
that email back from Wayne with all those verses.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Soon as I sent it to him, I got it
back in like a few days. Wow. Yeah, you know
what I'm saying. And he understood because when we shot
the video, you know, we got the video shot finally,
because we've been working together for years. We could have
like an EP with all our songs, and I never
could lock down a video because we're always busy. He
is touring, I'm touring, he's doing this thing. He's Wayne, man,
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you know what I'm saying. So this time we finally
locked him down with video and he understood. When we
were talking in between shots, I was like, man, this
song was so hard to write, he said, I heard
it talking like Yoda. I'm like, he gets it, and people,
because of the style, they're probably not going to get
that I'm talking like that, even though the first thing
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I say is broke I am. But we did it. Yeah,
got it done, man, got the video done.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Man.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
So Yoda. That's the story of Yoda man, and the
reason why I got the name Yoda because x Rayded
calls me Yoda because I'm a Jedi lyrically and I
feel the same thing about him. People call him Yoda
as well, so you know what I mean, he calls
me Yoda.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
So along with the title, right, the concept and Yoda
sounds like it every song or a lot of the
content of of of each song or you know, of
what's on the project.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Excuse me?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Is it from that standpoint where you were just starting
out what you were?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yes, it was my It's my origin story what Lola
talks about when I broke up my first rhyme. You
know what I'm saying as a dare on the school bus,
you know. Yeah, So you know, like you got the
starts off with the birth I'm being born, you know,
then Friday to Sunday. I'm talking about my mom married
a Muslim when I was twelve, and we moved on
fifty eight sixteen for us, and here come out all
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the stories from age twelve to age seventeen. When I
ran away from home on the quest to become Tech nine,
my mom married a Muslim. We coming from a Christian house.
I felt like he was being hard on me and
being mean to me. So once I got to seventeen,
you think, you know, we think we know everything. So
I'm like, I'm getting out of here, you know. And
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I had something planned. So I was going to tell
my mom that I'm going to Azida's for Thanksgiving holiday,
you know, secause school is out, you know. But I
came downstairs with the big trash bags. She said, you
need all those clothesing trash backs go for a couple
of days. I'm like yeah, and she kind of had
a turn around eye and gave her a kiss, walked
down the street, said bout all my friends. Have my
cousin come pick me up. Pun never came back when
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the quest to become Tech nine. Now what I learned
is as I matured, I realized he wasn't trying to
be mean to me. He was trying to make me
a better man, you know, a self sufficient man, an entrepreneur.
That's why he was taking me to seminars, business seminars
when I was twelve and thirteen. I didn't understand, you know,
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what I was doing.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
He felt he was being dragged.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah man, and unconsciously picking this thing
up over the years and ended up owning my own business,
Strange Music, and being the number one end upend a
rapper in the world. So I say that had to
carry on it, yeah man, you know. And I wrote
a song called The Punishment and I talked about him
put me on punishment for weeks, I mean not weeks,
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for summers. And it was a blood neighborhood where we stayed,
you know what I'm saying, because the Bloods moved thirty
seventh Street, Foodtown, Brim moved from out here to our neighborhood,
you know what I'm saying, and turned it all ready,
you know what I'm so. He knew that it was
problems out there in the streets, so whenever I was
messing up in school, he would put me on punishment
for the whole summer. And I'm like, who's on punishment
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for the whole summer, the whole summer. Two summers I
was on. You know, one summer I was messing up.
I was I can't go outside, just go to work
and take out the trash. That's it. Another summer, Come
I do something else crazy, get busted with a girl
in the locker room or something, you know what I'm saying.
Then I got to be u punishment for the whole summer. So,
you know, as I got older and more mature, I
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understood that he was trying to make me a good
man and you know, and wasn't being mean to me,
and was just trying to make sure I was protected.
So in the in the third verse of the punishment song,
I tell him that he's the reason why I'm the
multi millionaire I am today. You know what I'm saying,
dendicated to him in a way he has dedicated to him.
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And I have my brother Hakim played for him, and
he said, man, you know my name, my name, my
middle name is Dantees. So he calls me Donnie. He said,
tell Donnie that. I said, thank you, cause he probably
we never really talked about it. You know, I left
his house with my mom and never came back. That
was it. That's it. You never came back. I know,
like I would go visit mom ytff like that. But
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again no, no, no, no, I never lived there again.
And uh, you know him him hearing me, fine, resolve
in our situation through the punishment. He said, tell Donnie,
I said thank you. Don't forget to tell Donnie. I
said thank you. I wish I could have saw his face.
Parent Now, yeah, you know you.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Want to instill all these values, yes, but we know
it doesn't come right away.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Right. It's almost like, you know, a long shot bet
in a way you know no doubt, put your money
down and you hope that off exactly exactly the same
thing you're trying to get them to understand. They think,
we don't know nothing exactly. You just hope it works out. Yeah,
and we and we've done what they're doing, all the
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slick things that they do. Yeah, and I invented that ship. Yeah,
trus seventeen. We know your boyfriend's downstairs, Keep that door open,
keep that door off. For stepfather's has got to be
tough too. That was your stepfather, of course, because you're
trying to be cool, because you know her dad, her
actual dad, and you don't want to say or do
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the wrong thing and be having to fight him, you
know what I'm saying. So you got to kind of
like take it easy. So you know, my wife's kid,
her name is Isabella, and I'm real soft on Isabella,
you know what I mean. And I try to work
with her and try to be a friend to her
and a parent to her. If she needs something or
need some advice, I'll try to give it. She knows
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everything at seventeen though, yeah yeah, yeah, but she's she's
equipped mentally to know right from wrong though. Yeah yeah.
So it's you know, we make it easy even though
it's kind of hard being a stepfather. I'd never been
a stepfather till now because I just married her mom
last year. Last year, you know, we've been together. This
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is to be our eleventh year together. We got married
in our tenth year, you know what I mean, And
we took time to learn each other. Man. We went
through a lot of people. They say wise man say
only foods Rushian, you know what I'm saying. And I
knew that from my first marriage. You know, because we've
got married because she got pregnant, you know, and I
was twenty two, you know, and uh I felt like
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that this time. I wanted to take time to learn everything,
ups and downs, happiness, misunderstandings, you know, finding respect and
trust and everything. You know. Yeah, man, And now she's
a part of my trust because there's trust, you know
what I'm saying. And you have a big responsibility with her. Man, Yes, sir,
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man really do yes, got some scary shit, Man, it's
all good. Man. I married my best friend.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Ma.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Man, that's right. And then you take ten years to
learn each other, you become those that best friend. Yeah,
that's why I'm still engaged for ten years. We're still
trying to figure this out. Exactly. Take the time, thank you,
you know, because you know, with a lot of people,
they care about what other people think, especially their people
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that they see every day, their girlfriends, Like y'all been
together for seven years and he gave you a ring
makes him feel inferior, Like am I good enough? Because
a lot of people live the fairy tale like I've
been knowing you for two years. We should get married
and have a baby, dude. You know, the baby can
make y'all break apart. You know what I'm saying. You
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don't know this. A baby is a beautiful thing, but
if you've got going to work and she's at home
and you ain't home as much as she is, Like
Michelle Obama said, I'm like, I was looking at my husband,
like how many diapers you changed? You know what I mean?
She said that about Obama. Yeah, yeah, with him, you
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know what's gonna happen with us. But people lived at
fairy Tale, like you know, they trying to Hey, I
just met him a year ago and he asked to
marry me. Oh my god, Cinderella man. And then the
next year they're divorced. I've seen it so many times too, man,
me too. And it happens with black and brown a
lot too. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Man, Yeah, it's break up a relationship for.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yes, sir, Yes, so many reasons. Yeah, congratulations. How long
you'll been together?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
We are?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
It will be five years this year.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
It's coming that seventh years. She's gonna be oh still
already game? Okay, Oh there you go. Wow.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
It's funny that you said that because when we first
started day and she was like, yeah, you know, if
ain't nothing popping by like year seven, I don't really know.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
That's another number. That's the magic number.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Early yet no kids here you are stepfather, right, I
have two young boys has teenagers and they're just starting out.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Man, have fun, man, yeah, fun, we have fun. You
have a lot of stuff like that already.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Well, actually, you know a lot of our universals, a
lot of are like relationship.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
We're not Disney adults, Oh but we are. I am.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Our second day was at Disneyland, and when I proposed,
we were at like this Bahamas Disney.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yes, he has just been a part of it. And
then our wedding. I've done. I've done Disney Magic, Disney
Dream Yeah yeah, yeah, I done a Disney are different. Yeah,
because they're the only cruise line that can have fireworks
at sea. Yeah bro yeah yeah, so fun on you bro, Yeah,
I'm talking about me and my partner. We we bought
the Roy and Walt Disney sweets like I had one
(24:33):
side of the ship and he had the other side
like that. Yeah, we gotta go with you yeah ye
crazy yeah, yeah, we did it. We did it all
the way the two story sweet Yeah. Yeah, bro, you
got the free bunks. I had, the Roy had the walk.
Yeah that's dope, man. We got those Yeah, yeah, that's
(24:56):
all we get to do. Those got some pictures and
left Yeah, they're just left there. A lot of different
Tech nine was up in there. That's crazy, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Man, but yeah, you know they're they're they're starting out, man,
and you know, Jeff and I tell them about our
lives and try to scare them as much as possible.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah. I love respecting, understanding, energy, your way, thank you
feel I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, they work together on this show.
It's a won't let people get in your head man.
You know, family can get in your head. You know
what I'm saying. They just insert little stuff that can
work on you and work on your you know, self esteem, everything, man,
(25:37):
jealous friendship and social media makes comparisons happen like they're
doing this, Why we ain't doing that? Like right, they
ain't really doing that. It's just on TV. Yeah right, right.
You know what I'm saying, some people are really doing it.
Like if I post one, I'm really doing it.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
And the gender reveal doesn't need to be you know,
twenty thousand dollars, right doesn't.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
You don't need to special general. We did We did
our gender reveal in our backyard, man, that's right. Yeah, yeah, man,
your backyard, those a few acres. Take it easy, check
it's not like that. Yeah, take your time, man, you
know what I'm saying, And just have fun with each other. Man.
(26:17):
It's it's a lot of in the in this hell
of a world, we can find heaven with each other,
you know, like the wars happening and people are sending
missiles and everything. We can still it doesn't make you,
you know, blissful or anything like you don't know what's
going on around you, but you know you have to
try to find some heaven in this hell. You know
(26:37):
what I'm saying, that we we make heaven of our
own lives. You know, I love ones and you know
after this week, I leave on the twenty seventh, I
get home on the twenty eighth, and we leave for
our Hawaiian vacation with my family on the twenty ninth.
You know what I'm saying, Like we have to take
time to try to find what we feel is heaven
in our minds.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, yeah, man, and it keeps the love in the realm.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, money don't buy you happiness, but I think money
buys you time to plan for happiness. It is Heaven
should be at home. Yeah, man, go home right here.
Heaven is not does not go beyond your head. Have
in head or hell from your heels. You know what
I'm saying. You can make either one of them with people.
(27:22):
I see it on the highways out here all the time. Man.
People just not practicing emotional intelligence. Now that's hard to do,
it is, you know what I'm saying. That's hard to do.
I've been seven years trying to practice emotional intelligence, trying
not to get off my square. And I was listening
to a brother talk. I was at Russell Peter's house
last night, kicking it. You know what I'm saying. His
(27:43):
bodyguard was telling us that dude pull a gun on him.
You know what I'm saying. And you know, things happen
out here, man, And I'm like, he's not the guy
who pulled the gun. Ain't practicing emotional intelligence, No, he's not,
you know what I'm saying. And you can do something
in five minutes to give you fifty years or kill you.
And now with with social media, it's it intensified everything
(28:05):
because everybody has a channel. Yeah, you make me look
stupid on your channel. I'm coming to your channel and
pulling up like that. I just saw this YouTuber killing
a dude's wife and him his wife. Man, I'm like,
for real, you're just gonna throw your life away like
that in the middle of a divorce. Yeah, man, emotional intelligence, man, people,
(28:27):
we need to try to find some control, emotional control,
because emotions make you die sometimes. You know, a lot
of people want to conquer the world. You have to
conquer your mind first, Yes, sir, man, it's all about that.
It's all about that. You can de escalate with this.
You know, you don't have to fight fire with fire
(28:49):
all the time because you burn everything down. Come on, man,
let's talk about some of Gandhi or something. Man.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Yeah, everybody to hear from the album like this is
the one that everybody's eyes are going to light up.
And man, when you're really excited about.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
They're all my babies, and nobody want to call their
baby ugly. Who's your favorite baby? If you say who's
your favorite baby? And I got more than one, You're
gonna be in trouble right now. Do you have the
most fun making? I was? I was really proud that
(29:28):
I got three verses out of Yoda and made it exciting.
It sounds it sounds like it was tough because it
was hard.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, I'm saying challenging.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
But the story about my first rhyme being written, Lola
got the beat boxing in it. Man, I just want
people to hear it. Man, I want people to hear it.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Yeah, that's taking it back.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
But it's a movie on there. Like, keep in mind,
it's all cinematic, you know, because it's my life story,
you know, my origin story, so the stories from twelve
years old to seven seventeen. So, but I want it's
this one song on there called the Nice One. It's
so cinematic. It was so cinematic that my guy who's
(30:07):
doing the an R you know, Black Wall, and he's like, man,
I don't think that fit on the album, man, that
fits on a Tech nine album. Man, right there, he said,
this one is supposed.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
To be hood.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
This is where you started in the hood. That ain't
really hood, man, you know, so we're trying to keep
the hood to understand that you got this, you know,
because you know you're doing all the rock and roll stuff,
you know, and people love it. You know, you're following
in reverse. We love it, you know what I'm saying,
but they don't know where you came from. No, and
the nice one. I said, that's me though, That's what
happened to me and my story. So it's it's like
(30:40):
a it's it's like a movie. I can't wait to
see what people think because it has everything and its sexuality,
it has racial stuff in it and everything you had
to walk through. Yeah, man, it's dope. It's dope. I
can't wait for people to hear it. And it's a
big one on there, that's right.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Like I felt like maybe because you've been doing this
for a long time, yes, sir, And I felt like
you could have done this at any point in your
life before now, Like, what made you want to do
this album now?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Not me?
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Because when Black came to me last last year, he's like,
we want to hear an album with just all verses
by you. I'm like, Nope, that's boring, Tech nine just
rapping all No, it's boring. He's like, no. Man, as fans,
we love that you do collaborations, but sometimes we fast
(31:33):
forward to your verse. You know what I'm saying, no
matter who's on the song, you know. So I talked
to my partner Travis the next day in his office,
I said, Black Walt said he think I should do
a whole album, you know, just me through all the verses,
and he's like, he's right, man, we want to hear that.
I'm like, okay, So I said, okay, if I'm gonna
do this, i'm gonna take it back to the origin
fifty eight sixteen for us. I'm gonna name it that.
(31:53):
And Black Wall's like, yeah, you know what I'm saying.
So I never was planning on doing this. So that's
why it's happening now because Black Whld brought it to
me and like what you think, and I'm like, we
started building on it. Yeah, we started building on it.
And when I started, when I got to the third song,
I'm like, wow, this is beautiful because I chose beats
(32:14):
from one producer that Black Wall hook me up with.
His name is Japaz, and he did all seventeen tracks
and when I got to like, check track three, it
wasn't redundant. All the beats are different. So my stories
are different and my pitches are different, and my cadences
are different through the whole album, man, And it's a
(32:36):
wonderful thing. Man. It's like it wouldn't have happened if
he didn't bring it to me. So that's why it's
happening right now out of twenty five years with Strange Music,
forty years with me in the game from eighty five,
you know what I'm saying. So it's like, now I'm
giving you my origin story. And it's not like I
don't have anything else to talk about because I just
(32:58):
left everybody with Cosm collaboration, got killing Mic on there
with me and hops In on one, and then I
got Snow the product and Kevin Gates on one. You know,
we up here with it, you know, right here, And
I'm like, hold on, I'll be back. I'm gonna go
do this origin story. Then I'm gonna come back up here,
and my next album is gonna be called Decorated. I'm
(33:20):
gonna Decorated MC. I'm not my MoMA flex, you know
what I'm saying. So I know where I'm going. I'm
not just telling my origin stories because I'm getting to
the end of us, Like, well, I ain't got nothing
to talk about. I got I'm so energized. Man, here,
I still got planned, I got plans. I'm up, we
got we got plans. In Beef Tallow. Yeah, we can't
be you see you see yeah, you see me signing man,
(33:43):
I see man yo. So very early on, you guys
signed Jay Rock. Right, we did Jay Rock.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Uh you guys go on tour, Jay Rock brings his
hype man.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
His hype man is Kendrick Lamar. His hype man was
m J. First, his cousin, his relative, and uh MJ
got killed on our tour. First time anything happened like that.
It messed up the whole tour. Man Kendrick came out
to fill in for uh MJ as Jay Rock's hype man.
(34:14):
And that's when I heard he gave me section eighty
And I'm like, whoa, he gave it to you on CD.
Yeah that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Whoa.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Yeah, you see people give you CDs. You don't really
get to man, because Jay Rock had already played me.
He'd be on the bus playing black Hippie and I'm like,
who is that. He's like, that's ka Dot man, He's Katot.
Before he came on the tour, I'm like, Kato's dope.
So when he came out, I was already I'm like, Katt,
you're the one they called Katot, right, and he's like yeah, yeah, yeah,
(34:42):
He's like, hey, check this out. I'm like, holy moly,
doing up shot? You know what I'm saying. It's like, uh,
I listened and I had an album I was doing.
Maybe it was all sixes and sevens. I don't know,
but I did a song called I Love Music and
I put him on it before people knew who he was.
I put him on it with my relative Marcus Yates.
We did a song I Love Music, you know what
(35:04):
I'm saying, and he did the last verse. Fragile happened
right when Good Kid, Mad City was taking off, so
that one blew the hell up. Nobody knows about I
Love Music because it was section eighty. That's what I
was like, we gotta do something, bro.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
I remember when Fragile came out.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
And it was crazy Man may Day sent us that
song with the beat with Kendall Morgan singing the hook
and them singing the intro and singing with her on
the hook, and it was their song. They're in the
studio with me playing me the song and they say, hey,
this is our song, but if you want it, you
can have it.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
O G.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
I'm like, are you sure? You sure? Are? You crazy?
Yeah right? You sure you are to give me this hit? Yeah? Man,
you can have it. I'm like, I'll take it. So
I sent it to Kendrick. He was on tour for
Good Kid Mass City. You know what I'm saying, Uh
and uh. I remember Yellowolf. I was on tour and
(36:07):
Yellow Wolf got on my bus and he said, he's
expressing how he was disgruntled, not disgruntled, but like unhappy
because the thing how they put out his record wasn't
really for him. You know what I'm saying. It was
just like insert MC. You know what I mean. We
have all the beats done for you, you just insert yourself.
And he said, I'm not I'm not motivated tech And
(36:27):
I played him fragile with my verse. Some of the
people appointed to give it the Pindican never to get it.
I want you to come on and got legimmy and
you know what, I'm here, you know, And he's like, whoa,
Now that's what I'm talking about. Send me that, I said,
I already sent it to Kendrick Man. He's like, Kendrick
ain't gonna be able to do this one, trust me.
He was just trying to get it. He knew yeah,
(36:48):
trying to get it. Gonna be to do this one.
Trust me, I can I know what to do with this,
I said, so on my mind, I'm like, I'll get
both of them on it. You know what I'm saying. Okay,
I sent it to you two months Kendrick did it.
Before he did it, I ain't never hear nothing back
from Yo. So it turns out that Yeller could do it.
(37:11):
But yeah, man, you know, isn't the story.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
The story is that Kendrick met doctor Dre on your tour.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Yes he did. But people think I had a hand
in it. No, y'all know that black hippie was doing
it big out here. They already had make you feel
all right, you know what I'm saying. It was already
bubbling from what I understand before my tour. So doctor
Dre is probably here in patrol make you feel all
(37:39):
right and everything that he had doing on that black hippie.
So this was when House of Blues was still on sunset. Wow, legendary.
It was the day we was gonna play that. That's
the day he met him. And I don't know if
he put up the House of Blues. I didn't see him.
I never met Dre in my life, and I got
songs with Snoop, I got song with Cube, I got
(38:01):
songs with M c Wren. You know what I'm saying,
DC come to my shows in Dallas, you know, like,
but never met Dre. Dre sent me something to do
on a Rafiki or somebody was with him rafiki. I
forgot the name of the guy Rafiki or fiki or something.
He said, well, Raciti, okay, Resiti he sent He said, hey,
(38:27):
Dre wants he's doing this beats New Year's Eve kind
of mixed and he wants to do mashups. And he
sent me the Beautiful People. I wrapped on it. That
that that that that that that that, and I sent
it back and he played it on the that's the
closest s. Yeah, but I never met him face to fake.
(38:47):
I'm sure I will. Yeah. I got song with Eminem
I got you know, yeah, you know, but you've met
Pak a couple of times, yeah, yeah, a couple of times.
I got does Get Lonely Too with Park Before they
remixed it, EMINEMM remixed it without me. You know what
I'm saying, Because the one with me and Pak did
uh two D three produced it. If I'm not mistaken
(39:07):
it had if I was your girlfriend?
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Is that.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
We wrap into that Tech nine and T two teching
too podcas see you.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Went to.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Throw what thought you knew?
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Does get Lonely too? Yeah too to Prince, but that
wasn't about to get cleared. Yeah, so you know, you know,
so I got you know, I got a lot of
songs with people that Dre worked with. No, I don't happen,
you know, I'm saying, I'm sure I will. You going
on tour? Yeah, man, I'm about to go on tour
(39:44):
with Falling in Reverse again. We went last year and
it went so well that Ronnie Racky called me back
and like, hey man, you want to go on another
tour with me. I'm like yeah, yeah, yeah, And uh
so I'm gonna do thirteen dates on their tour starting
early August, and then right after that, I'm gonna get
right on Bone Thugs and Harmonies tour with three six
Mafia and DJ quick Man called the Thuggets Ruggs Mafia Tour.
(40:07):
And I hear that they're trying to add Yellowolf to it.
I think you know what I'm saying, Let's get it.
So it's great, Yeah, man, and we're doing the gathering,
and we're doing Louder than Life, you know what I'm saying. Festival,
you know, coming up so and I'm doing the Grammy
Museum on Thursday. That's right. You know, we still they
still want to hear Tech nine. That man. Enjoy that
Hawaiian vacation. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
On tour with families important, sir, Yes, sir, it's all
about that tech noine.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Congratulations, thank you. It's always a family feeling in here.
Thank you. Love always doing ninety two three. Hey Jack
get Rich with the Cruise Show.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Thanks for listening to The Cruise Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Make sure to subscribe and hey auto download so you
don't miss an episode.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
So
Oh my god, is that Nico Blitter to see them
want to raised If you ain't get the memo sipping
in the city and send you know we put them
at them, then go stuff in them hoos in the
limo because they said they come from the jaw. They say,
you know, I ain't gotta work last night show, so
well watch watch what you make you feeling that you're
(00:29):
gonna give me a billion and shall run the back
of willing. I'm gonna be up on the island shilling.
I came away from the wheeling and still run with
the five six feeling. We live live like I ain't
no deal list. It's gonna to be killing fifty one.
Hey Juice and my leave boo kera boll What now
they they got mat of the shell and raise ol
we go buy toys. Oh no, no, oh, no Cruise
(00:55):
show until nine is on the cruise man. That was
a really nice mix. Bro Nico Blitz on the intro
right that new node and you know I told Cruise
before we got up here. I was like I had
to throw them the jelly sickle. Yes, that was my
introductions exactly six Yeah, crazy crazy Rick Rock did those
(01:21):
beats a lot of beats on the ever Ready album Man.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
From the pay area, so it's very close forty.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
It was like, okay, that was obviously that was my
first That's how I met mugs. That's that's forty security. Yeah,
shared him with me place no no Diddy. I'm sorry
it worked out. Yeah, yeah, right, good people working with
(01:48):
good people. Man sir, Yes, welcome back, Man. How you
feeling Man, Real good Man, real good Man? About to
drop a new album Man on Friday, Man, June twenty seventh,
Man Ready at the age sixteen for us, I'm so
happy to be talking about the album cover. Well, I
wanted to take it back to where a time where
I couldn't afford to wear what I got on. You
know what I'm saying, This is up with everything you
couldn't afford exactly exactly exactly. I couldn't afford the J's
(02:12):
back then, you know what I'm sayzling, I couldn't afford
the red and white troop like LLKJ. I really wanted that,
you know, from the bigger and defferent kind of like era,
you know, and the J three's Man, you know what
I'm saying, And I just wanted to be way Kansas
City out with my hat flipped up, you know what
I mean. That's how the d Boys look back then,
(02:35):
and I couldn't afford it. So I wanted to bring
that back because I was taking it all the way
back as the origin story. So here we go. You
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Back then, inspiration was in the street. It wasn't on
our televisions. It wasn't on the screen. Inspirations were on
the corner.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Totally, totally, you know what I'm saying, wearing the Dope
Boy redbox and the J's and yes, sir, driving the
mini trucks and yes, sir. You see, I had all
three of my strange chains on too, flex and I
was flexing, and I look good for my age too.
So I'm like, yeah, go.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Ahead, tech, you don't age, man?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
What what what is it? Bro? Talk to me?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Man?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
You're taking TikTok vitamins.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
What do we do?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Puerto Rican lady? Yeah? Man, she got me doing parasite cleanses, man,
like she got me you know, doing different facial think
of a jigs, you know what I mean. For instance,
(03:35):
I had like what you call a sabasis assist right here,
you know, and My doctor told me I was gonna
have to get it cut out. And my lady is like, na,
because you're gonna leave a mark on your beautiful face. Nope, nope, nope,
I said. She said, you gotta change your cocoa butter
and your shade butter to tallow. I'm like, what the
hell is beef? Yeah? Okay, yeah, but this one is
scented kind of, you know what I mean. Her friend
(03:57):
makes it for me, and now it's a basic assist
is no more, you know, just giving me remedies, many
to keep me here for a while. You know, we
got a two year old little girl now.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Man.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Oh yeah, we need to stick around longer.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah right, I'm gonna need that, man, because I got
assists right here.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah. Man, you know what I'm saying you need it's
just built up oil. Yeah, that's what the doctor told me.
They'll tell you got to get it cut out, and
it's natural things you can do. You know. Before you
walked in, I had that lump on my face. You
see it? No, No, it's gone.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I had the face yeah man. The link Yeah, that
lady's phone number. She Puerto Rican, My my wife, the
other the lady that's making the beef towel.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
No, no, no, I think she's black.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Okay, Before you walked in, we were talking about breath
control and breath control, different different breathing techniques.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Right, who's that guy you were talking about?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Whim Hoff?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Wim Hoff? I know that I know that name, but
I know that name from.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
White dude like beard and everything. I think he's from
a constantine. Where's he from?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Breathing techniques? Well, you know how to get diseases out
of your body through breathing?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I've heard that. I've heard that.
I thought you're talking about like like like singing like
in rapp and you're on stage. You also have to
have somewhat of a technique, right, total technique.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Man.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
This thing we posted a while back, it's like a commercial.
It was a commercial for this record. It was pre
order commercial and I did a whole live verse and
I told people to watch my chest like I'm like
middle school Uppere's no one for sure the man whatever
that be hre, Papa, Y ain't know. The jam school
slife is a load of fans go to cram in
(05:40):
the bathroom. This baftoons come against me, get krysaling soda
can till one day. They told me, if I'm somebody
that can hold me, wrap it a dance in one
of their homies, a new Trent for eighth grade en rolling.
I can say it all in one breath because of
my breathing techniques. I do three big breaths in between rhyming,
and it allows me to do a whole four bars
like that. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So you know, yeah, man, Yeah, you're inhaling every time. Yeah,
so you're yes, you're giving yourself breath versus giving it up.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yes, sir, Yes, sir. I'm holding it so it's in reverse,
but I'm holding my breath, but I'm still projecting, you
know what I'm saying. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I taught myself that a long time ago, man, you
know what I mean, because I wanted to. I wanted
to kind of be different from a lot of people,
you know, when it comes to skill and being able
to say things. Even if I have to cram a
lot of words in a four bar segment, I can
really get it out, you know what I mean? Live, Yeah, Yes,
And that's why a lot of people still come to
my shows because it sounds just like the records. Thank you,
yes sir, and be disappointed like, man, that's a studio, man,
(06:38):
he can't do that, right right right? We do this
for real artists, man, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I always
say real yeah yeah man. Live shows. I got one
coming up, like a short one though, at the Grammy
Museum on Thursday. I do like a thirty minute show
real quick for everybody to let's get it. Let's get it,
yeah man.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
A lot of artists will show up, the beat drops
and the audience does the show right right, right right.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
That's the new generation they you know, they don't care,
you know, they just get You're just there and you
got the track plan and they're singing it. You know
what I mean. Must feel good. But we from Generation X,
We're gonna make sure you hear everything. You know what
I mean. I'm the main vocal, The main vocal is
out of there. I'm the main vocal on the mic.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Just like you understand that they're paying to see you
and you are going to give them everything you.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Have, Yes, sir, I think that's that's that's why they
keep coming back. Let's come. You know what I'm saying.
People keep saying they say, Hey, you got to come
see this Tech nine show. You know what I'm saying.
I used to have like three dudes up there with
me helping me back in the day reinforcement, and then
when they all went on their own, I'm like, oh,
what am I going to do? I've never been on
stage by myself. But I realized that all those breathing
(07:47):
techniques I've been doing for all those decades work for me.
I can get my Kendrick and DMX and jay Z
on finally, you know what I'm saying, and still have
a dope show, you know what I mean. And that's
what a lot of people see now. They're like, Man,
it's different up there with you without Chris, Without Chris Calico,
I'm like, but have you seen me with my band lately?
You know what I mean? You know, so we still
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got that energy.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Were getting it done, yes, sir, gatherings, the gathering of
the it's coming up.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
How did that all start for you? And and that
fan base. It's a vicious fan base. It started alone
time ago in two thousand and three, when I was
asked to be on one of their tours, the Wicked
Wanker Tour, wow. And on that tour, I gained a
lot of Juggalos and juggallettes. Those are ICP ICP fans,
(08:37):
you know what I'm saying. A lot of them. I'm
talking about around the world in Canada, and that's a
world own. Yeah man, yeah, man. It's like a subculture.
It's crazy. I've never seen anything like it before in
my life. And over the years, I just became family.
Now it got rocky in the middle where they thought
that I was on a radio station and I said
something that they didn't agree with, and you know, I
(08:59):
was just talking out the gathering and how crazy it was,
and they felt like I didn't say enough about the Juggalos,
and you know, the clowns said something. And now I
started getting death threats and this, that and the other.
And I remember I did a show with them, a
gathering around that time. When I was getting death threats.
It was like like four gatherings ago or so, you
know what I mean. And I felt like I was
(09:21):
being attacked. So I said, I'm not doing it no more.
So I've been away doing my own stuff without doing
the gathering. But when I heard last year that they
were doing the gathering of the Juggalos, the Legends. I
called my book an agent, and I said, listen, if
they call me for this show, because I told them,
I don't never want to do it again. You know
what I'm saying. I said to be I want to
(09:42):
feel like I'm not being targeted when I'm on stage,
you know what I'm saying. And I want to feel
comfortable not be thinking about anything else, you know. But
I told them if they call me, if Psychopathic called
me for the Legends, say yes, I'll do it. So
I'm doing the new one coming up. Hey, let's go. Yeah, man, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
totally totally yes, sir man, all the comments, everybody's happy
(10:06):
that I'm coming, you know, that's right, That's right. How
did that get squashed? We had to talk about it, man,
Me and the clowns. Man, they kind of felt like that,
you know, on that tour that I didn't have face paint.
I just had it across my face, but I mean
my forehead. But the artist that I had out there
was not my friend Brian Bezel Dennis because he got killed.
(10:26):
He started painting my face in ninety four and I
was the killer clown since then. In Kansas City Missouri,
you know, saying with a full skull face. But on
that tour, I just had I think it was Craig
Davis rest is soul. He was painting my foreheads, like
words on my forehead and stuff like that, and he
could he didn't have the skill to paint my whole
face like Brian, you know. So the clowns were under
(10:47):
the impression when I started. When I got a better one,
a better artist to do my face, they were under
impressing that I took it from them. They didn't know
that I was to kill a clown back in the
night twenty four before I even heard about So I
had to give them the history of Tech nine and
the history of the killer Clown in Kansas City. It
was a myth that clown was driving a yellow van
(11:10):
and he was kidnapped kids, but it was just a myth.
We never saw it, but we were scared to death
as kids. But I became the killer Clown lyrically, you know,
And I gave them the whole background of Tech nine,
and then they understood. And then my next tour they
came out. I came to their town, Detroit, and they
came out and introduced me for the crowd. It sold
(11:32):
out crowd at the Star. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so that's
how it was squashed. Okay, it was just a conversation.
That's all it takes sometimes, right, Let's just sit down
and talk it. Yes, sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
You know a lot could be fixed with the conversation, totally, man,
So sure you know on fifty eight sixteen Forest, what
does Yoda sound like?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Yoda? What does it sound like? Man? It sounds like
a hit to me, I'm saying. Okay, and not just
because Wayne is on the hook, because on this record
is just all me on the verse. I've never did
a in my whole discography. I've never had an LP
where I'm on all the verses because I you know,
I pride myself on collaborating with elite artists, you know,
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but this one's all me, you know, on all the verses.
And when I got to Yoda, I tried to do
a whack and hook you know what I'm saying on
my own, and it wasn't working. So as I started
working through that really hard to write song because I'm
actually I had the idea to rap like Yoda talks
(12:31):
and George Lucas made him talk backwards, like what do
you say something like a Jedi? Skywalker is you know,
like I said, Skywalker is a Jedi? You know? Yeah.
So I'm starting off like broke I am. I'm talking
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about myself back when I was young. Broke I am.
And I'm like, what do I say next? Equivalent to
a whopping twenty tons of pure don't my gams? I'm like, oh,
what's happening? Have your rhyming ticket revoked? I can right
next to it really starving kill a goat wife dand
you know what I'm saying, I'm rapping like Yoda. So
after I got through it the first verse, I'm like,
(13:14):
I got it. Oh, I got to do two more verses.
It was the hardest song, Yes, and have to rhyme
and then do it with style three verses, three verse
right back and forth with me, Damon and Mario you
know what perform Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So after I
(13:37):
wrote it and my hook was whack, I said, I
said I need another alien on this. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
So I hit Wayne up and he said it right back, man,
And it's like the song is like in hit for him.
It starts off with a hook and then after the
first verse is another hook and then another verse and
it's a hook and it's four hooks. Man. So I
didn't even have to tell Wayne because he's such an
elite artist, you know, I didn't even have to tell him, Hey, man,
can you make the hooks not fly the hooks? You
(14:08):
know what I'm saying, So it won't be repetitious, you
know what I mean? And just do variations of four hooks.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I sent it to him. Variations came back to me.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I'm like, boom, yeah, is that response or that like
that email back from Wayne with all those verses.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Soon as I sent it to him, I got it
back in like a few days. Wow. Yeah, you know
what I'm saying. And he understood because when we shot
the video, you know, we got the video shot finally,
because we've been working together for years. We could have
like an EP with all our songs, and I never
could lock down a video because we're always busy. He
is touring, I'm touring, he's doing this thing. He's Wayne, man,
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you know what I'm saying. So this time we finally
locked him down with video and he understood. When we
were talking in between shots, I was like, man, this
song was so hard to write, he said, I heard
it talking like Yoda. I'm like, he gets it, and people,
because of the style, they're probably not going to get
that I'm talking like that, even though the first thing
(15:09):
I say is broke I am. But we did it. Yeah,
got it done, man, got the video done.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Man.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
So Yoda. That's the story of Yoda man, and the
reason why I got the name Yoda because x Rayded
calls me Yoda because I'm a Jedi lyrically and I
feel the same thing about him. People call him Yoda
as well, so you know what I mean, he calls
me Yoda.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
So along with the title, right, the concept and Yoda
sounds like it every song or a lot of the
content of of of each song or you know, of
what's on the project.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Excuse me?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Is it from that standpoint where you were just starting
out what you were?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yes, it was my It's my origin story what Lola
talks about when I broke up my first rhyme. You
know what I'm saying as a dare on the school bus,
you know. Yeah, So you know, like you got the
starts off with the birth I'm being born, you know,
then Friday to Sunday. I'm talking about my mom married
a Muslim when I was twelve, and we moved on
fifty eight sixteen for us, and here come out all
(16:09):
the stories from age twelve to age seventeen. When I
ran away from home on the quest to become Tech nine,
my mom married a Muslim. We coming from a Christian house.
I felt like he was being hard on me and
being mean to me. So once I got to seventeen,
you think, you know, we think we know everything. So
I'm like, I'm getting out of here, you know. And
(16:31):
I had something planned. So I was going to tell
my mom that I'm going to Azida's for Thanksgiving holiday,
you know, secause school is out, you know. But I
came downstairs with the big trash bags. She said, you
need all those clothesing trash backs go for a couple
of days. I'm like yeah, and she kind of had
a turn around eye and gave her a kiss, walked
down the street, said bout all my friends. Have my
cousin come pick me up. Pun never came back when
(16:53):
the quest to become Tech nine. Now what I learned
is as I matured, I realized he wasn't trying to
be mean to me. He was trying to make me
a better man, you know, a self sufficient man, an entrepreneur.
That's why he was taking me to seminars, business seminars
when I was twelve and thirteen. I didn't understand, you know,
(17:15):
what I was doing.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
He felt he was being dragged.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah man, and unconsciously picking this thing
up over the years and ended up owning my own business,
Strange Music, and being the number one end upend a
rapper in the world. So I say that had to
carry on it, yeah man, you know. And I wrote
a song called The Punishment and I talked about him
put me on punishment for weeks, I mean not weeks,
(17:38):
for summers. And it was a blood neighborhood where we stayed,
you know what I'm saying, because the Bloods moved thirty
seventh Street, Foodtown, Brim moved from out here to our neighborhood,
you know what I'm saying, and turned it all ready,
you know what I'm so. He knew that it was
problems out there in the streets, so whenever I was
messing up in school, he would put me on punishment
for the whole summer. And I'm like, who's on punishment
(18:01):
for the whole summer, the whole summer. Two summers I
was on. You know, one summer I was messing up.
I was I can't go outside, just go to work
and take out the trash. That's it. Another summer, Come
I do something else crazy, get busted with a girl
in the locker room or something, you know what I'm saying.
Then I got to be u punishment for the whole summer. So,
you know, as I got older and more mature, I
(18:25):
understood that he was trying to make me a good
man and you know, and wasn't being mean to me,
and was just trying to make sure I was protected.
So in the in the third verse of the punishment song,
I tell him that he's the reason why I'm the
multi millionaire I am today. You know what I'm saying,
dendicated to him in a way he has dedicated to him.
(18:45):
And I have my brother Hakim played for him, and
he said, man, you know my name, my name, my
middle name is Dantees. So he calls me Donnie. He said,
tell Donnie that. I said, thank you, cause he probably
we never really talked about it. You know, I left
his house with my mom and never came back. That
was it. That's it. You never came back. I know,
like I would go visit mom ytff like that. But
(19:06):
again no, no, no, no, I never lived there again.
And uh, you know him him hearing me, fine, resolve
in our situation through the punishment. He said, tell Donnie,
I said thank you. Don't forget to tell Donnie. I
said thank you. I wish I could have saw his face.
Parent Now, yeah, you know you.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Want to instill all these values, yes, but we know
it doesn't come right away.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Right. It's almost like, you know, a long shot bet
in a way you know no doubt, put your money
down and you hope that off exactly exactly the same
thing you're trying to get them to understand. They think,
we don't know nothing exactly. You just hope it works out. Yeah,
and we and we've done what they're doing, all the
(19:51):
slick things that they do. Yeah, and I invented that ship. Yeah,
trus seventeen. We know your boyfriend's downstairs, Keep that door open,
keep that door off. For stepfather's has got to be
tough too. That was your stepfather, of course, because you're
trying to be cool, because you know her dad, her
actual dad, and you don't want to say or do
(20:12):
the wrong thing and be having to fight him, you
know what I'm saying. So you got to kind of
like take it easy. So you know, my wife's kid,
her name is Isabella, and I'm real soft on Isabella,
you know what I mean. And I try to work
with her and try to be a friend to her
and a parent to her. If she needs something or
need some advice, I'll try to give it. She knows
(20:32):
everything at seventeen though, yeah yeah, yeah, but she's she's
equipped mentally to know right from wrong though. Yeah yeah.
So it's you know, we make it easy even though
it's kind of hard being a stepfather. I'd never been
a stepfather till now because I just married her mom
last year. Last year, you know, we've been together. This
(20:54):
is to be our eleventh year together. We got married
in our tenth year, you know what I mean, And
we took time to learn each other. Man. We went
through a lot of people. They say wise man say
only foods Rushian, you know what I'm saying. And I
knew that from my first marriage. You know, because we've
got married because she got pregnant, you know, and I
was twenty two, you know, and uh I felt like
(21:15):
that this time. I wanted to take time to learn everything,
ups and downs, happiness, misunderstandings, you know, finding respect and
trust and everything. You know. Yeah, man, And now she's
a part of my trust because there's trust, you know
what I'm saying. And you have a big responsibility with her. Man, Yes, sir,
(21:36):
man really do yes, got some scary shit, Man, it's
all good. Man. I married my best friend.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Ma.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Man, that's right. And then you take ten years to
learn each other, you become those that best friend. Yeah,
that's why I'm still engaged for ten years. We're still
trying to figure this out. Exactly. Take the time, thank you,
you know, because you know, with a lot of people,
they care about what other people think, especially their people
(22:04):
that they see every day, their girlfriends, Like y'all been
together for seven years and he gave you a ring
makes him feel inferior, Like am I good enough? Because
a lot of people live the fairy tale like I've
been knowing you for two years. We should get married
and have a baby, dude. You know, the baby can
make y'all break apart. You know what I'm saying. You
(22:26):
don't know this. A baby is a beautiful thing, but
if you've got going to work and she's at home
and you ain't home as much as she is, Like
Michelle Obama said, I'm like, I was looking at my husband,
like how many diapers you changed? You know what I mean?
She said that about Obama. Yeah, yeah, with him, you
(22:50):
know what's gonna happen with us. But people lived at
fairy Tale, like you know, they trying to Hey, I
just met him a year ago and he asked to
marry me. Oh my god, Cinderella man. And then the
next year they're divorced. I've seen it so many times too, man,
me too. And it happens with black and brown a
lot too. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Man, Yeah, it's break up a relationship for.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yes, sir, Yes, so many reasons. Yeah, congratulations. How long
you'll been together?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
We are?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
It will be five years this year.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
It's coming that seventh years. She's gonna be oh still
already game? Okay, Oh there you go. Wow.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
It's funny that you said that because when we first
started day and she was like, yeah, you know, if
ain't nothing popping by like year seven, I don't really know.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
That's another number. That's the magic number.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Early yet no kids here you are stepfather, right, I
have two young boys has teenagers and they're just starting out.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Man, have fun, man, yeah, fun, we have fun. You
have a lot of stuff like that already.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Well, actually, you know a lot of our universals, a
lot of are like relationship.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
We're not Disney adults, Oh but we are. I am.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Our second day was at Disneyland, and when I proposed,
we were at like this Bahamas Disney.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yes, he has just been a part of it. And
then our wedding. I've done. I've done Disney Magic, Disney
Dream Yeah yeah, yeah, I done a Disney are different. Yeah,
because they're the only cruise line that can have fireworks
at sea. Yeah bro yeah yeah, so fun on you bro, Yeah,
I'm talking about me and my partner. We we bought
the Roy and Walt Disney sweets like I had one
(24:33):
side of the ship and he had the other side
like that. Yeah, we gotta go with you yeah ye
crazy yeah, yeah, we did it. We did it all
the way the two story sweet Yeah. Yeah, bro, you
got the free bunks. I had, the Roy had the walk.
Yeah that's dope, man. We got those Yeah, yeah, that's
(24:56):
all we get to do. Those got some pictures and
left Yeah, they're just left there. A lot of different
Tech nine was up in there. That's crazy, yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Man, but yeah, you know they're they're they're starting out, man,
and you know, Jeff and I tell them about our
lives and try to scare them as much as possible.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah. I love respecting, understanding, energy, your way, thank you
feel I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, they work together on this show.
It's a won't let people get in your head man.
You know, family can get in your head. You know
what I'm saying. They just insert little stuff that can
work on you and work on your you know, self esteem, everything, man,
(25:37):
jealous friendship and social media makes comparisons happen like they're
doing this, Why we ain't doing that? Like right, they
ain't really doing that. It's just on TV. Yeah right, right.
You know what I'm saying, some people are really doing it.
Like if I post one, I'm really doing it.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
And the gender reveal doesn't need to be you know,
twenty thousand dollars, right doesn't.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
You don't need to special general. We did We did
our gender reveal in our backyard, man, that's right. Yeah, yeah, man,
your backyard, those a few acres. Take it easy, check
it's not like that. Yeah, take your time, man, you
know what I'm saying, And just have fun with each other. Man.
(26:17):
It's it's a lot of in the in this hell
of a world, we can find heaven with each other,
you know, like the wars happening and people are sending
missiles and everything. We can still it doesn't make you,
you know, blissful or anything like you don't know what's
going on around you, but you know you have to
try to find some heaven in this hell. You know
(26:37):
what I'm saying, that we we make heaven of our
own lives. You know, I love ones and you know
after this week, I leave on the twenty seventh, I
get home on the twenty eighth, and we leave for
our Hawaiian vacation with my family on the twenty ninth.
You know what I'm saying, Like we have to take
time to try to find what we feel is heaven
in our minds.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, yeah, man, and it keeps the love in the realm.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, money don't buy you happiness, but I think money
buys you time to plan for happiness. It is Heaven
should be at home. Yeah, man, go home right here.
Heaven is not does not go beyond your head. Have
in head or hell from your heels. You know what
I'm saying. You can make either one of them with people.
(27:22):
I see it on the highways out here all the time. Man.
People just not practicing emotional intelligence. Now that's hard to do,
it is, you know what I'm saying. That's hard to do.
I've been seven years trying to practice emotional intelligence, trying
not to get off my square. And I was listening
to a brother talk. I was at Russell Peter's house
last night, kicking it. You know what I'm saying. His
(27:43):
bodyguard was telling us that dude pull a gun on him.
You know what I'm saying. And you know, things happen
out here, man, And I'm like, he's not the guy
who pulled the gun. Ain't practicing emotional intelligence, No, he's not,
you know what I'm saying. And you can do something
in five minutes to give you fifty years or kill you.
And now with with social media, it's it intensified everything
(28:05):
because everybody has a channel. Yeah, you make me look
stupid on your channel. I'm coming to your channel and
pulling up like that. I just saw this YouTuber killing
a dude's wife and him his wife. Man, I'm like,
for real, you're just gonna throw your life away like
that in the middle of a divorce. Yeah, man, emotional intelligence, man, people,
(28:27):
we need to try to find some control, emotional control,
because emotions make you die sometimes. You know, a lot
of people want to conquer the world. You have to
conquer your mind first, Yes, sir, man, it's all about that.
It's all about that. You can de escalate with this.
You know, you don't have to fight fire with fire
(28:49):
all the time because you burn everything down. Come on, man,
let's talk about some of Gandhi or something. Man.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Yeah, everybody to hear from the album like this is
the one that everybody's eyes are going to light up.
And man, when you're really excited about.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
They're all my babies, and nobody want to call their
baby ugly. Who's your favorite baby? If you say who's
your favorite baby? And I got more than one, You're
gonna be in trouble right now. Do you have the
most fun making? I was? I was really proud that
(29:28):
I got three verses out of Yoda and made it exciting.
It sounds it sounds like it was tough because it
was hard.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, I'm saying challenging.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
But the story about my first rhyme being written, Lola
got the beat boxing in it. Man, I just want
people to hear it. Man, I want people to hear it.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Yeah, that's taking it back.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
But it's a movie on there. Like, keep in mind,
it's all cinematic, you know, because it's my life story,
you know, my origin story, so the stories from twelve
years old to seven seventeen. So, but I want it's
this one song on there called the Nice One. It's
so cinematic. It was so cinematic that my guy who's
(30:07):
doing the an R you know, Black Wall, and he's like, man,
I don't think that fit on the album, man, that
fits on a Tech nine album. Man, right there, he said,
this one is supposed.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
To be hood.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
This is where you started in the hood. That ain't
really hood, man, you know, so we're trying to keep
the hood to understand that you got this, you know,
because you know you're doing all the rock and roll stuff,
you know, and people love it. You know, you're following
in reverse. We love it, you know what I'm saying,
but they don't know where you came from. No, and
the nice one. I said, that's me though, That's what
happened to me and my story. So it's it's like
(30:40):
a it's it's like a movie. I can't wait to
see what people think because it has everything and its sexuality,
it has racial stuff in it and everything you had
to walk through. Yeah, man, it's dope. It's dope. I
can't wait for people to hear it. And it's a
big one on there, that's right.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Like I felt like maybe because you've been doing this
for a long time, yes, sir, And I felt like
you could have done this at any point in your
life before now, Like, what made you want to do
this album now?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Not me?
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Because when Black came to me last last year, he's like,
we want to hear an album with just all verses
by you. I'm like, Nope, that's boring, Tech nine just
rapping all No, it's boring. He's like, no. Man, as fans,
we love that you do collaborations, but sometimes we fast
(31:33):
forward to your verse. You know what I'm saying, no
matter who's on the song, you know. So I talked
to my partner Travis the next day in his office,
I said, Black Walt said he think I should do
a whole album, you know, just me through all the verses,
and he's like, he's right, man, we want to hear that.
I'm like, okay, So I said, okay, if I'm gonna
do this, i'm gonna take it back to the origin
fifty eight sixteen for us. I'm gonna name it that.
(31:53):
And Black Wall's like, yeah, you know what I'm saying.
So I never was planning on doing this. So that's
why it's happening now because Black Whld brought it to
me and like what you think, and I'm like, we
started building on it. Yeah, we started building on it.
And when I started, when I got to the third song,
I'm like, wow, this is beautiful because I chose beats
(32:14):
from one producer that Black Wall hook me up with.
His name is Japaz, and he did all seventeen tracks
and when I got to like, check track three, it
wasn't redundant. All the beats are different. So my stories
are different and my pitches are different, and my cadences
are different through the whole album, man, And it's a
(32:36):
wonderful thing. Man. It's like it wouldn't have happened if
he didn't bring it to me. So that's why it's
happening right now out of twenty five years with Strange Music,
forty years with me in the game from eighty five,
you know what I'm saying. So it's like, now I'm
giving you my origin story. And it's not like I
don't have anything else to talk about because I just
(32:58):
left everybody with Cosm collaboration, got killing Mic on there
with me and hops In on one, and then I
got Snow the product and Kevin Gates on one. You know,
we up here with it, you know, right here, And
I'm like, hold on, I'll be back. I'm gonna go
do this origin story. Then I'm gonna come back up here,
and my next album is gonna be called Decorated. I'm
(33:20):
gonna Decorated MC. I'm not my MoMA flex, you know
what I'm saying. So I know where I'm going. I'm
not just telling my origin stories because I'm getting to
the end of us, Like, well, I ain't got nothing
to talk about. I got I'm so energized. Man, here,
I still got planned, I got plans. I'm up, we
got we got plans. In Beef Tallow. Yeah, we can't
be you see you see yeah, you see me signing man,
(33:43):
I see man yo. So very early on, you guys
signed Jay Rock. Right, we did Jay Rock.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Uh you guys go on tour, Jay Rock brings his
hype man.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
His hype man is Kendrick Lamar. His hype man was
m J. First, his cousin, his relative, and uh MJ
got killed on our tour. First time anything happened like that.
It messed up the whole tour. Man Kendrick came out
to fill in for uh MJ as Jay Rock's hype man.
(34:14):
And that's when I heard he gave me section eighty
And I'm like, whoa, he gave it to you on CD.
Yeah that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Whoa.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Yeah, you see people give you CDs. You don't really
get to man, because Jay Rock had already played me.
He'd be on the bus playing black Hippie and I'm like,
who is that. He's like, that's ka Dot man, He's Katot.
Before he came on the tour, I'm like, Kato's dope.
So when he came out, I was already I'm like, Katt,
you're the one they called Katot, right, and he's like yeah, yeah, yeah,
(34:42):
He's like, hey, check this out. I'm like, holy moly,
doing up shot? You know what I'm saying. It's like, uh,
I listened and I had an album I was doing.
Maybe it was all sixes and sevens. I don't know,
but I did a song called I Love Music and
I put him on it before people knew who he was.
I put him on it with my relative Marcus Yates.
We did a song I Love Music, you know what
(35:04):
I'm saying, and he did the last verse. Fragile happened
right when Good Kid, Mad City was taking off, so
that one blew the hell up. Nobody knows about I
Love Music because it was section eighty. That's what I
was like, we gotta do something, bro.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
I remember when Fragile came out.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
And it was crazy Man may Day sent us that
song with the beat with Kendall Morgan singing the hook
and them singing the intro and singing with her on
the hook, and it was their song. They're in the
studio with me playing me the song and they say, hey,
this is our song, but if you want it, you
can have it.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
O G.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
I'm like, are you sure? You sure? Are? You crazy?
Yeah right? You sure you are to give me this hit? Yeah? Man,
you can have it. I'm like, I'll take it. So
I sent it to Kendrick. He was on tour for
Good Kid Mass City. You know what I'm saying, Uh
and uh. I remember Yellowolf. I was on tour and
(36:07):
Yellow Wolf got on my bus and he said, he's
expressing how he was disgruntled, not disgruntled, but like unhappy
because the thing how they put out his record wasn't
really for him. You know what I'm saying. It was
just like insert MC. You know what I mean. We
have all the beats done for you, you just insert yourself.
And he said, I'm not I'm not motivated tech And
(36:27):
I played him fragile with my verse. Some of the
people appointed to give it the Pindican never to get it.
I want you to come on and got legimmy and
you know what, I'm here, you know, And he's like, whoa,
Now that's what I'm talking about. Send me that, I said,
I already sent it to Kendrick Man. He's like, Kendrick
ain't gonna be able to do this one, trust me.
He was just trying to get it. He knew yeah,
(36:48):
trying to get it. Gonna be to do this one.
Trust me, I can I know what to do with this,
I said, so on my mind, I'm like, I'll get
both of them on it. You know what I'm saying. Okay,
I sent it to you two months Kendrick did it.
Before he did it, I ain't never hear nothing back
from Yo. So it turns out that Yeller could do it.
(37:11):
But yeah, man, you know, isn't the story.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
The story is that Kendrick met doctor Dre on your tour.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Yes he did. But people think I had a hand
in it. No, y'all know that black hippie was doing
it big out here. They already had make you feel
all right, you know what I'm saying. It was already
bubbling from what I understand before my tour. So doctor
Dre is probably here in patrol make you feel all
(37:39):
right and everything that he had doing on that black hippie.
So this was when House of Blues was still on sunset. Wow, legendary.
It was the day we was gonna play that. That's
the day he met him. And I don't know if
he put up the House of Blues. I didn't see him.
I never met Dre in my life, and I got
songs with Snoop, I got song with Cube, I got
(38:01):
songs with M c Wren. You know what I'm saying,
DC come to my shows in Dallas, you know, like,
but never met Dre. Dre sent me something to do
on a Rafiki or somebody was with him rafiki. I
forgot the name of the guy Rafiki or fiki or something.
He said, well, Raciti, okay, Resiti he sent He said, hey,
(38:27):
Dre wants he's doing this beats New Year's Eve kind
of mixed and he wants to do mashups. And he
sent me the Beautiful People. I wrapped on it. That
that that that that that that that, and I sent
it back and he played it on the that's the
closest s. Yeah, but I never met him face to fake.
(38:47):
I'm sure I will. Yeah. I got song with Eminem
I got you know, yeah, you know, but you've met
Pak a couple of times, yeah, yeah, a couple of times.
I got does Get Lonely Too with Park Before they
remixed it, EMINEMM remixed it without me. You know what
I'm saying, Because the one with me and Pak did
uh two D three produced it. If I'm not mistaken
(39:07):
it had if I was your girlfriend?
Speaker 3 (39:12):
Is that.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
We wrap into that Tech nine and T two teching
too podcas see you.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Went to.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Throw what thought you knew?
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Does get Lonely too? Yeah too to Prince, but that
wasn't about to get cleared. Yeah, so you know, you know,
so I got you know, I got a lot of
songs with people that Dre worked with. No, I don't happen,
you know, I'm saying, I'm sure I will. You going
on tour? Yeah, man, I'm about to go on tour
(39:44):
with Falling in Reverse again. We went last year and
it went so well that Ronnie Racky called me back
and like, hey man, you want to go on another
tour with me. I'm like yeah, yeah, yeah, And uh
so I'm gonna do thirteen dates on their tour starting
early August, and then right after that, I'm gonna get
right on Bone Thugs and Harmonies tour with three six
Mafia and DJ quick Man called the Thuggets Ruggs Mafia Tour.
(40:07):
And I hear that they're trying to add Yellowolf to it.
I think you know what I'm saying, Let's get it.
So it's great, Yeah, man, and we're doing the gathering,
and we're doing Louder than Life, you know what I'm saying. Festival,
you know, coming up so and I'm doing the Grammy
Museum on Thursday. That's right. You know, we still they
still want to hear Tech nine. That man. Enjoy that
Hawaiian vacation. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
On tour with families important, sir, Yes, sir, it's all
about that tech noine.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Congratulations, thank you. It's always a family feeling in here.
Thank you. Love always doing ninety two three. Hey Jack
get Rich with the Cruise Show.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Thanks for listening to The Cruise Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
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