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Posted by Sarah
Rap News Network
6/11/2003 2:29:11 AM
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dubcnn.com : Sup Bad.. To hit it off, where were you born and raised?
Long Beach California.
dubcnn.com : And how was it growing up there?
I was born in uhm, it's a suburb, it's like right after Long Beach, it's considered Long Beach on the big map, but it's called Hawaiian Gardens, so I was born right there. It's a little drama, my parents was livin' in Long Beach when I was born, but that is the hospital I was born at, I always like to be specific cause alotta people, alotta my homies that I mess with was born in hospitals in Long Beach, and when I say I was born and raised in the beach I don't wanna get it confused, cause I was born in Hawaiian Gardens hospital, and I was raised in Long Beach California, you know what I mean? It's all really real though, but it's all good for me, I don't feel like a outsider, or a non local cause we used to walk from Hawaian Gardens to Long Beach, it's like one of them kinda spots, it's like the next lil city, it's like closer to Compton than Long Beach, you know?
dubcnn.com : How did you decide to start rapping?
How did I decide to start rapping.. Well first you know black people love music, and I grew up around my family and alotta music, and I always liked to sing and dance, but I kinda started taking it more serious during the middle of high school.. 15, 16, Snoop was rapping we had heard about him in the neighborhood, he was coming out with some stuff with Dre, he was popular on the streets and the neighborhood before he got out, we used to listen to alotta lil mixtapes that Snoop rapped on, and some other lil cats, so it kinda started being like less of a fad and more of a real thing, back then around that time, late 80's early 90's, 89, 90, 91, it was starting to become more of a serious thing! People that rapped wasn't just rapping for fun no more, we would rap at school and bag on each other, clown on each other whatever, make little freestyles up, tryna destroy each other, you know, humiliating each other at the lunch table and stuff and that's where we got our skills, that's where the initial skills came, just practicin,
battling with the homies, rapping against other little local rappers who was
from other blocks, you know the northside rappers, the westside rappers, I
was from the eastside, so we would rap with them other eastside rappers.. I
had a little homie, he was a real dope rapper, he died in the early '90's,
he was a nigga that would have been real heavy on the rap scene, I remember
me and him had rocked a party right before he died, he died as a teenager
too, like 15, 16.. But the catch was, guys like him strengthened my skills, that I would hear about them like "Yo bad azz is tight!" And I had my little homies Lil J, and Shorty K, and all these other little local cats that was around that was making noise rapping, and we all had ran into Snoop, or seen him, or knew him! Cause he was a little local rapper, he was a lil older than us and there were rumours that he was hooked up with Dre, and him and Warren G... Everybody out here knew Warren G was Dre's step brother in the neighborhood, so it was like him and Warren G and Nate is puttin out some stuff, and we heard stuff that he had done with Dre before it came out, we had heard other little stuff that Snoop had done in big studios on the streets, and like I said that was just a big inspiration for us. So what really really set me off is, 1991, as a matter of fac '92, I had met Snoop,
I had seen him before, but hadn't really talked to him. So '92 he had put the Chronic out, it was just out, it had probably been out 2 weeks, it was doing real good, and it was popular as fuck! And I saw Snoop at V.I.P.! I was catchin' the bus, or I don't know, I can't remember right right now, it always slips my mind what I was doin' then, cause it's like the story of my life! Whatever I was doi
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