Kurupt Interview--thoughts of deathrow/daz

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Going back to Philly, when did you first start getting into rhyming?

Kurupt: Man, I was 7,8 years old. Servin em. I was a kid, and as I got older I developed. My cousin Skippy G, which is Jerome, basically groomed me for the mic. Rakim was the main person who I looked at, who I balanced my raps behind until I got my own style.

So when did you come out to LA from Philly?

Kurupt: I was 15 years old, going on 16. I moved out here, I think I had just turned 16 when I moved out here. I moved to Hawthorne, my pop used to live in Compton, I used to visit him. I went to school there to Serra first, then Lousinger. We used to serve the Hawthrone High niggas, huh LT? No disrespect to the Hawthorne High niggas, we love yall to death, we used to serve em back in my day. I graduated back in 89. It was crackin! I made my name in LA by just cuttin peoples heads off..I used to own malls. Huh Mayhem? Mayhem was there. I used to own malls. Come to the Hawthorne mall, Hawthorne six, and you could rap. Everybody in the mall would tell you, oh you can rap? You gotta see Kurupt. He's vicious. Then off with his head! Just that fast.

How'd you get from that point to hookin up with Snoop, and Doggpound and all of them?

Kurupt: I met Snoop in the Roxy. We was up at the Roxy, Domino, Swoop was all up there. We was up there, we won contest at the Roxy, cause we was the winners so we went to next week, they invited us. That's first time I was feeling like a star, cause I was in the game. I won the last contest, so we was up in the little VIP section doing it big. Nahmean? I think I cut Snoop head off. That's how we met, I cut his head off. [makes a cutting noise] Then again, you know what. You couldn't say anybody wasn't a battler. I wasn't gonna lie to you. We was both going back and forth. He actually shocked me, cause he's one of the ones who actually lasted with me. The nigga was tight! He had his own little way. He was freestyling that's what was tight about it. By the end of the rap we said we cool, and whoever makes it first. I'll tell you, Snoop when he was young, used to stay tremendously down. He really did. He was different.

So from there you guys just hooked up?

Kurupt: Snoop got it first, cause Warren G, his family, Dr. Dre was his brother so... Snoop stayed down with all of us, he brought all of us in. He really did.

When did Daz come into the picture?

Kurupt: Daz was his little cousin. He came back out here from Oklahoma. Came out to Longbeach. He came up to fuck with Snoop, he was more or less DJing. Snoop was writing his raps, that's how he got to rapping. Snoop wrote his raps for The Chronic, put his cousin all in. But he was coming up with all kinds of shit like Rat-tat-tat. He was tight! Before he turned into a BITCH!

So, just give us some of your memories from working on The Chronic. Such classic albums...

Kurupt: Man it was crackin. Convicts was up at Death Row. 3-2 and Big Mike. They was up at Death Row from Texas. It was the bomb time. I was a kid, I was havin a ball. All we knew was gang bangin. I was into the rhymes. A bangin time. That's when we met Suge and everybody, everybody was new, fresh. It was kind of edgy, but everybody had love for each other. It was like a machine. We were vicious.

Roscoe: Thats before we found out Snoop and Daz was fuckin. Gang Raping Soopafly

Kurupt: [laughs]

So take us to, Dogg Food real quick. Tell us about that.

Kurupt: They didn't want Dogg Food to come out. Rage had the hottest single at the time, with Afro Puffs. Rage was in there working on her album and like four weeks went by, Rage didn't have her record done. Me and Daz was like, we got a record and we played it for Suge. Snoop and Dr. Dre was like, nah, we not going to Dogg Pound right now. We played it for Suge and Suge was like, man we rollin with the Dogg Pound, this is what we gonna do. Then that's how it came about. Everybody was hungry, everybody was trying to make it. Rage was cuttin peoples heads off so frequently. Man, it was crackin! It was a good time. That's before I found out Daz was a BITCH!

Let's take it to the time, after Dogg Food, you leave Death Row, go with Antra. So why did you break off...

Kurupt: It was alot going on. I wanted to be a business man. I wanted to experience the game for myself. I just moved back to Philly to take care of my mama, so I moved everything back and wanted to relocate and experience the game for myself. That's basically all it was.

So there was no beef with Death Row?

Kurupt: Well you know, me and Simon never threw any blows at each other through all the venture. I couldn't get mad at him. He changed my life to tell you the truth. I'm just a firm believer of being a man of your own. He really didn't do nothing wrong to me. I just told the homies, let's go over there,make this money. Fuck all the punk shit. But you can only get through to the homies so much, know what I mean?

You make a couple of albums, then you have Space Oddyssey, then come back to Death Row. What was that like?

Kurupt: It was nothing. The man approached me with a great business proposition. I rolled with it. I felt like if my homeboys was really my friends, it don't matter what business move I make they gonna roll with me regardless. I'm not gonna be forced into doing anything I don't want to do anyway. So I did it with Daz, I expected the same at the time.

Did you expect going into it that hey they might not be cool with it?

Kurupt: I did it to Daz I expected the same at the time.

We're gonna cut away from this for a moment, to hear from these boys. You gotta get to what you guys got going on.

Roscoe: Look for that album, DPGK, All Doggs Go to Hell. [laughs]

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Kurupt: All the bullshit been going on boy, we just been marinating man, concentrating. Stackin up catalog, doing what we supposed to do. Man we vicious, leave us alone. C4 in the rarest form. This is our specialty man, assassinating these rappers. Alot of these niggas out here is false, alot of these niggas is funny bunny. Before all this rap shit, you a man. That's the first thing I teach my killas. You a man first. All of em do they own different things but they always keep it right, keep it hood. They always stay in touch with the house. That's the main thing to the game. Never disrespect the person who put you there, that's why I always rolled with Snoop. When I was at war with the Ruff Ryders, Snoop was like man you need to chill cause you fighting over a bitch. And I'm like aight, that's the big homie, I gotta roll with it. He calls the shots. Ok, thats what we gonna do. You need to get up there, you need to apologize to these cats, tell em you ain't trippin, it's done. Till I found out, what they call it, alterior motive in the mothafucka, he was doing business with the fucks. All he had to do is tell me, ay you know Kurupt, chill out. I'm doing business with them. You know? That's all he had to say, and it would have been respectable. But it wasn't. I'm rollin with the big homie thinkin its the best interest, and it's really only his interest. That's the funny shit about the game. I always been straight with Jada, I always been straight with Styles. Real only problem was me and D's misunderstanding which really wasn't one. Because he wasn't pushing the line which I was trippin off of. I was more or less trippin off of, everybody that was affiliated with him that kept acting funny. It was more or less a mind thing I was going through.

But if Snoop was real about it, I would've learned somethin up out of it. Instead I just got bitter. That's what he supposed to do, being the big homie and being the one that's supposed to lead us to the promised land in this bitch. That's what it is in this game. It's somebody you follow, and you follow them until the wheels fall off. That's the bottom line. But once the wheels fall off, it's a rap. Especially if they not writing with you. If they writing with you, you gonna still be there when the wheels fall of, but if they ain't writing with you, you gonna smash them. If I'm wrong, my boys gonna let me know and they words are respected in this camp. That was the problem with the Dogg Pound. Only words we respected in the Dogg Pound was Snoop's. Everybody following Snoop. My boys are leaders on they own. Talk to them by yourself, they vicious.

Scoe why don't you tell us what you got planned for YA, what's going on?

Roscoe: Nothing that got to do with wife beaters, with nipples tucked behind your rib cage. [everybody laughs] Nah YA is the future of California, we the future of the West Coast. We the future of the rap game in general. Cause we gonna make it so can't nobody rap unless you for real with it. It's a dirty man's game this rap game is street. This rap game is not commercial. Nowadays they coming more commercial, we gotta make sure that it stays street. Till people respect the street side of it. Yall wanna make a commercial and everything, don't. One thing about me, that's why I'm not on Capitol, Priority right now. Cause a million dollars ain't shit if you can't be who you are. Ask Chingy. Flamboyant, flaming hot cheeto. [everybody laughs] Soopafly aint't from 19th street.

Let's put it like this, NWA was for real. It was real street, it was hardcore hip hop. Then it got commercial, when it got commercial, that's when everything got mainstream. Oh Ice Cube you wanna go and do your own thing? Ice Cube don't wanna sign, he want money this and that. This is what we about. We gonna get it right from the jump, we gonna take it so it don't get put out a place. Ain't nobody out of pocket, everybody in pocket. We all know our rank, we all know our position. We about to smash the game. The Dogg Pound was the next generation out of NWA, and then after that comes YA. AKA NBA, Niggas Beatin Asses. No bustas allowed. No bitches allowed. Nice guys is over. You come to California, you might as well take your chain off when you get off the plane my nigga. Just leave it at the front, so we don't confiscate it. We not playing no games. We represent the streets. The streets is behind us, the streets is backin us. Real talk. That's what YA is about, the streets. Free YG, the album.

Kurupt: That's our boy man, he from the south. You know, we so extended, YA, the Pentagon is so extended. We got the East Coast YA, we got the South, the West Coast YA. It's a whole entire unit.

Roscoe: It's a whole organization, it's worldwide.

Kurupt: It's supported by each community and each of those towns that YA is presented in, where YA is. With multiples.

Just going back to Scoe real quick, you had Philafornia, hottest album of the year that year, as far as commercially and streetwise. And it didn't really get the due that it deserved. What happened?

Rosoce: It was a party album. You know, it wasn't really wanted at the time. People wasn't expecting that from me. People who didn't wanna see my lifestyle and how I'm living at that time. People wanted to hear my skill, my fire. I didn't get a chance to do that. I had a record label of people that was more or less trying to package me in a Lil Zane type of manner. That's my nigga too, what up Zane. You know, Zane is more like mainstream, more with the ladies. And ain't nothing wrong with the ladies, I love yall ladies. My mission ain't the ladies, my mission ain't the TV, it ain't the radio, my mission is the MC's in the streets. I can't emphasize that enough, I don't care about nothin that's glitter. All I care about is grimey street shit. If yall don't see me nowhere on TV, its cause I don't like TV. I'm somewhere playing in the dirt. That's how I get down, I'm a grimey ass nigga. I'll smack you in your mouth.

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So now that your free with your constrictions. You got the YA album, when can people expect that album?

Rosoce: Yeah I took my cuffs off. Look for the YA album, it's coming. But get on that internet man, we always doing something on the internet. We got our own website, it's down now, YARidaz.com. We gonna do it with Styles. You can also click on my personal website, you got anything you wanna know you hit me up and I'll let you know. Cause I don't tell anybody. Hit me up, do you like me? No!

What's the name of the album?

Tristar: Free YG. The name of the album is Free YG, it's the mothafuckin homeboy nigga. The YA album coming soon. Period!

Rosoce: We don't give a fuck about that shit, diamonds, we get all that shit before the rap game. So all that shit that these niggas fall in love with...

Tristar: I'm taking diamonds to the pawn shop.

Roscoe: Skipping around with tight ass shirts on, with Pharrell and shit...

Tristar: You can't go to war without guns nigga.

Rosoce: This nigga don't love bitches, now he dancing with the bitches, what's going on man. Slow jaming ass nigga, you and Tyrese do a record, you a baby boy huh? Yall some fucking baby boys. These are niggas that won't see us face to face. Tyrese is my nigga. He know I ain't talking to him. YA, Kustapo, we don't care, we love to fight. We love that street shit. These niggas be talking shit on records on the internet, talking all that shit and won't come see a nigga face to face. I'm not trying to take the interview too much, all I gotta say is Snoop, Daz, Soopafly, Bad Azz, all them niggas is bitches man! DPGC, them niggas is Dogg Pound Gangsta Cowards man, and that's why they stay in the cut and they never come outside. I wanna see Daz, yall might see Daz somewhere in Atlanta in the strip clubs, and this nigga down there sniffing coke. We don't give a fuck about glitter, all we wanna do is get the homie out, and get the fakes out the game.

Kurupt: Baby Style knows, he from Longbeach.

Baby C Style: Yeah this Longbeach crip, 19th street, Big C Style wassup cuz, I love you crip. Lil C Style, please believe it. Tray Dee, free Tray Dee!

Roscoe: Yeah, free Tray Dee mothafucka! Free Tracy. Why Snoop got Tray Deee locked up!?

Baby C Style: Flippin and floppin on mothafuckas. If you flip on a killa, yeah imagine that. You bitch! That's some punk ass shit.

Roscoe: I'm more Longbeach then all them niggas, and I'm from Philly. Ask Big Style.

Baby C Style: Too much Dope! Drugs is bad for ya. Like Rick James said, cocaine is a hell of a drug! Yeah but I gotta throw it up to my Eastside Longbeach ridaz. 20 Crip, insanes, 19's, everybody. I love yall. Bones Loco, welcome home, my homie just got out the pen. Lil Clint, yeah real ferocious.

Tone: Ay the phonies gotta go period.

Roscoe: You won't get too much nice shit out of us today, we not nice right now, we at war. We got fatigues on.

Tristar: Fuck talking, we at war. And niggas is playing games. Niggas claiming they real ones and they fake as a mothafucka. And this YA nigga, Tristar said it, I cross that star out, everbody out here a real one. This YA, Anterazh, and Free YG is the name of the album. Fuck em if they ain't with us! Period.

We got some rumor killers here. Are you signed to Death Row?

Roscoe: No. But I love Death Row.

Tristar: Shouts out to the homie Eastwood too, mayne. Keep ya head up and do ya thug thang. Another original YA member, period.

So now we got questions from people on the forum. Crazy ass people askin these crazy ass questions.

Roscoe: Shout out to the forum.

Kurupt: This is for the fans at West Coast Rydaz. I did that for yall.

Roscoe: We gotta make sure we show yall our address too, at the end of this. So yall know we ain't internet bangin. Punks!

This from SlapAhoeRecords. He says, if your the vice president, why can't Death Row ever get an album released?

Kurupt: My boss runs Death Row, and he calls the shows. You know, and basically nothing moves without his ideas, his views, and what he wants to do with it. Our job is to make sure we're apart of what he wants to do and make it the best. So whatever he wants to do is what we ride with, and that's what we're going to ride with. That's just the bottom line. It's called protocol. Death Row is my boss' situation. What he needs Kurupt for, Kurupt will be there for it. We ain't released Against The Grain yet cause we are still piecing them together so superbly, more things happen everyday. Everytime it happens it makes us stop. We have to stop. We wanna give the best album possible. Basically what we doing to Death Row is, we following the bosses lead, and he brings me things to the table all the time. So until he feels we're ready to roll, we're going postal. We're gonna be patient and keep making these records we making. We just got Lil Jon, please believe it. So I'm gonna drop a record with Lil Jon. [laughs]

Another question, who's on the roster of Death Row these days, cause theres alot of changing, switching up.

Kurupt: We got Eastwood, Kurupt, basically we got Michel'le, we got Danny Boy. Simon right now is overseeing Petey Pablo's career. So he's basically Death Row all the way out. Basically signed we have Eastwood, Michel'le, Danny Boy, and Gotti. Really pushing the barracades right now. We also have Crooked I.

That's another thing that's going around that people are asking. Is he signed, is he not signed?

Kurupt: Well they working out they differences. They getting their things together. Crooked really wants to do another thing. Him and Simon is working it out.

Did you used to write for Daz back in the early Death Row days?

Kurupt: Fa sho.

Roscoe: Nigga never wrote for his self!

Kurupt: Snoop used to write the majority of Daz' raps, till I taught him how to kill that mic. After I taught him how to kill the mic, he was writing on his own, but on Dogg Food, on the "Dogg Pound Gangsta, DPG" I wrote that. It's alot of records I wrote for Delmar. Like "Let's Play House." I seen someone on [Westcoastrydaz.com] posted "Why was Warren G taken off Let's Play House?" [laughs] Warren G was never on Let's Play House man!

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Here's one from ThaYoungGun. If Daz crawled on his hands and knees and begged you to fuck with him again, would you take him back?

Kurupt: I loved Delmar, I ain't gonna lie. I guess that's why it's so personal. But I really don't wanna be around that little boy again in my life. That's just the way it is.

Here's one from Squadchef. What did you do when you heard Suge fucked Bad Azz up?

Kurupt: I was there. Suge ain't touch Bad Azz. Suge ain't put a hand on that little boy. Suge wasn't even thinking of that little boy.

Roscoe: He got beat up. I seen him after that.

Tristar: He was running his mothafuckin mouth!

Kurupt: Me and my little brother Baby Hump the ones that tried to put anything positively towards Bad Azz, like go on man, move, beat it! We could've gotten our asses broken in half.

Tristar: That's why it's on now, niggas looked out for that nigga.

Roscoe: I seen that nigga at Defari's show after that too. Nigga didn't wanna do shit! You little punk! You didn't wanna do shit did ya.

Kurupt: We ain't puttin our life on the line..when it's not respected people wanna react very non positively.

Tristar: You a 30 year old baby gangsta. And that nigga came back to California lying. Period. Niggas looked out for that little nigga, I was there too.

Kurupt: We were at the Puff Puff Pass tour and Scoldie choked him. [laughs]

Roscoe: I choked Bad Azz like a bitch that owed me money!

Kurupt: Bad Azz had tried to get him after that, but Scoldie had already choked him. [laughs] Bad Azz was playing them games.

After the end of that song Ride On, you said you saved his life.

Kurupt: Yeah I saved his mothafuckin life! He was getting his ass whooped. I stepped in, grabbed him "go Bad Azz!" And told the homies hold on, they like Kurupt move out the god damn way! Yeah, it wasn't Suge, it wasn't nobody. He got into it with people, and niggas got they mothafuckin situation put together. But like I told Bad Azz, beat it! Roll man. All that tough shit don't matter right now. Bad Azz know what the fuck it is. Play games if you want to.

Roscoe: That's why the homie T socked yo ass out.

Kurupt: Knocked you in your mouth. This nigga ain't trying to give Lil Kurupt no fade.

Roscoe: And you a blood!

Kurupt: We wanna give a good interview to our West Coast Rydaz folks, who's been supporting, I been watching yall for months! I know everything, I know everyone who's disrespectfull, I know the ones that's right, but really opinions are never disrespectful, they opinions so I could never get mad at them. I respect each piece of it, even the ones thats ridin for Daz, talkin all this shit. Ain't nothing wrong with it, you faced with things in life, you roll with it, and that's what it is.

We have another question that says would you ever work with Dre, Eastsidaz, Xzibit, or Warren G again?

Kurupt: I don't know because I don't think I'm gonna leave Suges side. Suge is my big homie, and he rolls with me, and he supports me. I don't think I'm gonna be moving. I'm posted. As long as I'm posted there I don't think you're every gonna see those things. Cause people don't wanna say, Ok, that's over there and I'll fuck with you no matter what. Cause even if I was, Simon wouldn't get mad at me. He rolls with me regardless. Like I'm rolling with him. Like go, go get your money. Go get what you gotta do. That's what I respect about him, that's why I'm here. That's what I am here at Death Row.

Here's another funny one. This one's from Double A. He says, how can you hang with Suge after he killed Pac and ripped off all his homies?

Kurupt: What makes him think he killed Pac? Suge got a bullet in his head fuckin with that situation. There's much easier ways to kill a man and not put yourself at risk as well. I heard all the rumors before, I just can't multiply it up. Ain't nobody that hard, to take a bullet to kill somebody else. Niggas is not playing with they lives like that, especially Simon! [laughs] He will not play, he is not putting his own life on the line on no goofball shit. I just can't float with it. Suge didn't kill anybody, as far as I know. Or any of these particular people. I really can't answer that properly, besides logically, I don't know anyone who would put they own lives in jeapordy, to prove a point or hurt anybody else. So I can't float with that one. DA. I'll roll with that, but I can't float with that one right there, just not logical! [laughs]

This one comes from Acgrundy. This is honest feedback. Kurupt, you were one of the rappers who originally got me hooked on rap music, you came amazingly dope on Doggystyle, Chronic, Dogg Food and all the other songs, particular "Ain't No Fun," "Puffin on Blunts," "Doggy Dogg World."

Kurupt: Puffin On Blunts, that's one of my favorites.

He says, for the past 5 years, I feel like you have absolutely no heart in your lyrics. The flow is still dope but your lyrics straight sucks. I am not the only one who thinks this, how do you feel about your shit in the future.

Kurupt: It doesn't sound like he's lying cause there is no heart in it. The heart has left. I went solo, none of my homeboys really was there for me like that, when I was solo. Without the homies it's nothing. That's why, yeah I didn't really bust for it. I'm an assassin, my job is to bust MC's, my job is to defend the crew and kill Mc's. No crew to defend, what the fuck is the whole purpose of any of this shit? At least thats how I grew up, coming from Philly. So, yeah, anybody touch the mic around me I'll break them into bits and pieces. But making a song, the industry and all that type of shit, that's not what it's about. I do the rap shit to make ends meet. But you wanna judge Gotti, put somebody in my face, I'll break they arms off, I'll cut them into bits and pieces just like I did at the Tunnel. Yeah! And yall remember me at the Tunnel. I was cutting people heads off, me, K-Solo, Rage, Daz, we was by ourselves. We was posted out there and I cut people's heads off. Drez know, he was there, and so was the Bushwackers, cause this was back in the day. Heads off, heads off, heads off! And I cut people to bits and pieces. Shreds. Other then that, what yall judging Gotti from? A record? Yall can have yall record. This is about skills, lets put somebody in front of me, let me show you the art of war. Other than that man, judge my records, I don't give a fuck. It don't make Gotti. Gotti is a warrior. Records is for selling. What I do you can't sell.

But your cuttin them on that Against the Grain though right?

Kurupt: Oh, I'm defenitely busting em. Cause they giving me something to fight for.

Here's some more questions. It says, All beef aside, what do you think of Daz' music as of late, do you think he's stepped up his game?

Kurupt: I ain't heard Daz' music nowadays. What he did?

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Roscoe: Daz' music has defenitely fell off. In my opinion.

Kurupt: I don't think it's his music, it's what he puts on it. Cause I'll take them same beats...me and Daz boy we'd screw up somethin so ferocious. Them same beats on that mothafucka, with a garbage ass record on the album right. You Know What I Blow Up, whatever it is. I'll take them same beats Delmar did, boy me and Daz get on there it would be a whole different record. So it ain't even his beats, I can't even judge that, I think the people on the beats STINK!

Roscoe: Records is real crackish man. Nigga moving on that crack adrenaline. Anything sound good to him. He on that techno shit. Daz like techno. Niggas down in Miami, thinkin he's Scarface.

Kurupt: Let me tell you something. Don't ever judge a person. Like Kurupt, I'm vicious period. Don't judge me from a record. A record is Hollywood. I'm from the warzones man, I'm from the mic for mic and no beat. So if it ain't that don't judge Gotti. You wanna judge me, bring me someone that can see me. Cause I still ain't found that person. Everybody judging everybody from they records. They say Jay-Z is the greatest. I think he's tight, extremely tight. I think he's vicous. Why they gonna call him the greatest, I ain't seen one battle yet. I ain't seen it yet. These records don't mean shit. Gotti ain't got what I got, from a record. That's just what yall say. What yall heard. What the industry thinks of Gotti. Yall say I'm a tight MC for it, but go away from the videos and that shit. Ask anyone on the streets who ever been around Kurupt when it was time. People was lappin. I cut peoples heads off. I ain't the greatest for what I sold or what you heard on a record. I'm the greatest for what you AIN'T heard. Because people actually been around me, ask them and they'll say man that nigga is vicious! That nigga cuts off mellon tops. I'm fuckin Dracula!

More questions here. In the 90's, Pac talked a gang of shit about Mobb Deep, what made you cross barriers and hook up with them for the Riflemen shit?

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Kurupt: Shit, Pac said somethin about Mobb Deep. [laughs] I was smashin with Pac, but Mobb Deep made "LA,LA" We been at war. That's why Pac smashed them. Pac smashed them because "LA,LA." Everybody think he smashed em for something different. Let me tell yall the real. Pac's beef was with Biggie and them. But when he smashed everybody else, it was damn near because of NY,NY. He smashed Mobb Deep and them because of LA,LA. He was defending Gotti, he was defending Dogg Pound. That's why he smashed on Mobb Deep. Not because of any other shit that may have happened. This or that. He said nigga I'mma smash em. Bam! But, you know, I met the gentlemen live and in person before. We didn't really click like that. And then I met them again but we actually got the chance to talk. And they some cool cats. I ain't really got a problem with them. That's just the bottom line to it. They ain't got a problem with me. So we decided, hey man lets make a business together man. Make some money, do what we gotta do to keep these families standing up strong. That's what it's all about and I love them for that mentality. Havoc threw in the classic music, bust the classic rhymes. Prodigy merked the earth. I've always dug Prodigy. So, Im grown, I'm 32. The games is over. Fueds is real. We was out in the clubs in New York. All bloods was in there, the New York Blood niggas was in there. Prodigy stood straight in there, nigga just posted. Ain't move, ain't hitch or nothing, grabbed em, and did what he did. Grabbed bitches and threw em at the homies, you go over there, you go over there. Cause he was straight, he wasn't really fuckin with the dirt rock. But he showed us love when we went to New York.

So let's talk about outside the Death Row and Kustapo camp. Outside of them, who else is gonna blow up.

Kurupt: YA. Anterazh, Self Made, SMA, we make entertainment. G-Hood nigga.

Nothing else, no Game, no Guerilla Black?

Kurupt: I like Guerilla Black.

Kind of a controversial situation, everybody is saying that..

Kurupt: Man, fuck em! I like Guerilla Black and I like YA. Those are the keys are the game.

Baby C Style: All the popcorns are gonna stop poppin on the mic!

One other thing, how did the Riflemen come about.

Kurupt: 40 Glocc and Jayo, which is the key to the game. That's how I got a chance to actually meet Mobb Deep for myself and really talk to them. Brought Mobb Deep to the table, they spoke up for them, I met them. Finally face to face and get to chop it up with them. Prodigy, he was the one man. Prodigy was the key to the game, we hooked up so proper. I'm like damn how could we have ever been enemies. But I know how, because we was both striving to make it in the game. I can't hold them accountable for that, I love a warrior. Which is why we're so tight right now, because we're warriors of a different kind. 40 Glocc and Jayo basically constructed the Riflemen. They brought Mobb Deep to the table, they brought they to Gotti. We got rid of the bullshit beef. Me, Jayo, 40 put it together from that point on with Prodigy and Havoc, and Storm. The rest is history. And the Four Horsemen is coming! Only reason we ain't doing nothing right now is because Rass is gone, and is coming home soon. The Four Horsemen is in full fuckin effect, and it's sick and it's stupid.

Going back to Death Row, the Superbrawl website says they have a soundtrack planned with Death Row. So did Wild Party Girls online. Will we be getting any soundtracks soon?

Kurupt: Oh fa sho, Simon put that together. We support them full scale. We got Against the Grain, we got that, we got the Petey Pablo album. Simon is overseeing that whole project with Petey. We also got Eastwoods album getting prepared, we got Danny Boy in the works. We're moving, Death Row itself is moving as an organization. We're putting it all together, Simon is in full support of all Kustapo and Pentagon actions. We just right. It's another company we down with called Repetitious Records. Which is with Baby CJ. We got Mastermind with my little brother Hump. We got Unique Records with my older brother, Neighborhood Records with my brother Kieta Rock. We all a family affair, we got Anterazh Records with Tri, Slo and Tone. Scoldie Mac Records with Scoldie, he got his own company. Rose of Sharon Records with my mama, me and Scoldie. Barbershop, Tiny Kurupt got his own company, with Mell. So we moving as a whole organization. Jayo got his company, 40 got his company, Mobb and them got the Infamous Records. Baby Style got his company. Man we got records to make

Baby C Style: And we got about 700 records choppin everybody's heads off.

Tristar: We all got kids in training nigga.

Kurupt: We about planning it and putting it out right. Like right now Kustapo has a catalog of over 8,000 records. Catalog. From Roscoes album, to the YA album, to Baby C Style's album. Who is also in control of the music. He puts all the music together, as far as the producers, puts everything in the Protools. We at the Cave right now. This is where we put together all our underground shit. Out West Coast Rydaz exclusive records that we making right now.

Baby C Style: Then we go to Vegas for the real shit. We got our own pressing plant, and mastering plant.

Kurupt: Pressing CD's, DVDs, making, packaging em up, and ship em on out. We got all that. Upstairs we got the studio called Odd's One. With records records, it presses, we distribute. We got a full studio up top with the mastering room. We just been putting this business together, it's about business. It takes away from the artform and becomes a business. My boys are still into the artform, that's why it's their time. Cause I'm into the business. My boys time right now. What's gonna bring the West Coast back, the new generation. The fire! Same thing that put the West Coast there.

So before we end off here, anything you wanna say to your former partners?

Kurupt: Man Fuck yall!

[klemson*msg*atx]

Kurupt is a little bitch. Daz is waay harder. (no homo) Daz stole all his masters from Death row. He has full albums of Pac and Biggie on his beats. Kurupt is Suge's little bitch. Check MVremix.com

[S...]

Originally posted by klemson*msg*atx
Kurupt is a little bitch. Daz is waay harder.

co-signal.

[seak]

shit is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy to long.

way.

[notknowin]

what do you guys mean Daz is "harder"? a harder (better) rhymer? a harder thug? thicker epidermis? less capable of love?

to me, Kurupt always seemed to bring more.
his quote about people shouldnt guess what a person is really like off a record because records are hollywood was great. the interview read like he was being honest,
his boys had some strong comedic one-liners "Baby C Style: All the popcorns are gonna stop poppin on the mic!"

[S...]

Not in regards to rapping:

Daz is a G.
Kurupt is a bitch.

http://www.accesshiphop.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4121&highlight=Suge

Pretty simple.

[notknowin]

Originally posted by S...
Not in regards to rapping:

Daz is a G.
Kurupt is a bitch.

http://www.accesshiphop.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4121&highlight=Suge

Pretty simple.

thank you, even a better interview.
Im still not calling kurupt a bitch though. i guess I dont know enough

[S...]

Originally posted by notknowin
i guess I dont know enough

I don't know shit about either, either. Based soley on those two interviews, Daz comes a little nuttier. That is all.

That Daz interview is hilarious tho.

[SubTerrorist]

yeah I heard that Against the Grain shortly after You Know What I am Throwin' Up came out, shit was like 11 songs, had a track with Snoop, it leaked but shit was tight, it should be released. This release drama with Tha Row is funk becausef I heard it was droppin' than I hear its not or hasn't yet.