03 Greedo: I'm from somewhere treacherous, bro.
Rob: Right.
03 Greedo: And people be tellin' me about oh, he shot at cops or his people's black panther.
It's like, so my daddy was a Crip, nigga.
If you don't know the history of what's going on with the Crips and Tupac
just look it up, 'cause I ain't gonna say none of that.
Rob: You seeing things and went through things, what you're saying there are certain things you can't respect.
People from California know things about 'Pac that people in the music world don't. Period.
Rob: What's up geniuses.
Welcome to 'For The Record.'
I'm your host Rob Markman.
Alright, today's guest is quickly rising out of the West Coast and becoming one of the
most new and exciting rappers in the game, okay?
He just recently dropped a project, 'The Wolf of Grape Street,' and it's dope, but
it's not without controversy, okay.
He's been in the news a lot, for some comments that me made about the great, late Tupac Shakur
to Billboard magazine.
We gonna get in to all of that, but we gonna get into some other stuff too.
I wanna welcome to the set of 'For the Record' 03 Greedo, what's going on my brother?
03 Greedo: What's going on with my good peoples, man?
Rob: Oh man. I'm good, man.
'The Wolf of Grape Street,' man.
03 Greedo: Yeah.
Rob: What has the response been like?
You just dropped it on March 9th.
03 Greedo: Everybody really just went outrageously crazy about it 'cause it's so fresh, but then
it's crazy though because that's not even the full project.
The deluxe edition is gonna have like what the full project really was, because, certain
things happen where I didn't know how to clear samples or whatever or some things people
were putting in false claims on me on some hatin'.
And some of my music had got dropped down off of the sites so we kinda put some of my
big hits in the streets on there just so that people that was getting familiar with me for
the first time knew, damn, this why they call him the Wolf.
Rob: But hold on, 'cause what is like 32 songs on the project?
03 Greedo: I don't know, I don't be countin' the numbers.
Rob: You up there.
03 Greedo: I don't count the number.
I just need to make sure that the point is being made.
Because this is the day of streaming so, like numbering your shit, it doesn't even matter.
I don't think people understand, even though I'm signed this is a 100% what I know supposed
to go on because I'm in touch.
A lot of people who wear suits and ties they not in touch, but they get in touch with people
who in touch and they still might try to direct traffic the way they want to but I honestly
know more is what's necessary from people who are as good as me.
People who aren't as good as me they have to hold on to their songs and they have to drop like
8-track albums and do somethin' crazy like post they face on some wall, they gotta do
all type of antics and my thing ain't that.
Rob: Right, you said that you wanna make sure , it doesn't how many tracks are on the project,
but you wanna make sure you get your point across.
What's the point that you are looking to make with 'The Wolf of Grape Street?'
03 Greedo: That I'm diverse.
A lot of people get their versatility only through music, but if you check all my articles,
I'm from all type of areas, just bouncin' around bein' homeless, but I was exposed to
different swags as far as music, dressin', and just culture all the way around.
So, it's hard for me to make a project and feel like I satisfied each one of the neighborhoods
I grew up in, without looking like I sold out or switched up on them.
Rob: What's the neighborhoods that you representin'?
We know Watts, we know Jordan Downs.
03 Greedo: I'm from Grape Street, Watts, but I also grew up in the 40 Crip area in L.A.
where my grandparents live, where both my grandmothers live, my dad's mom and my mom's
mom.
Then my dad's dad lives in Sacramento with his second wife who's still alive.
My other grandparents are dead.
So, I grew up out there in the summertime.
I grew up in St. Louis, I grew up in Kansas, I spent a lot of my early adult life in Atlanta.
So, music-wise I got a taste of so much stuff, because a lot of people think that because
I'm from California that I listen to West Coast music, but I'm just a person who's from
California, I don't like West Coast music, I don't like G-Funk.
I never grew up listening to that.
I've never sat inside a low-rider.
There's people I know that have low riders though, from the hood, but so it's rare.
So, we grew up off of Louisiana sound and then other than that, I was super beat head,
being a producer, so I always was pretty heavy on Virginia's scene, which was Pharrell and
some other folks and stuff like that.
And just like Atlanta's had just like shaped my whole life.
Rob: Mm-hmm.
You have this style that's very melodic, you know your way around the melody, but it's
hard in the street, and it's undeniable, it's in your face in a lot of ways.
And I read somewhere that the first album that you had, the first rap album was Nelly - 'Country Grammar.'
03 Greedo: No, that was the first one I bought.
Rob: Okay.
03 Greedo: The first album I had was that blue one by B.G. which is either 'Checkmate'
or 'Chopper City in the Ghetto,' but that was back when they was CD's and then Cash
Money had the little ghetto ass covers where you open it and unfold it so I know it was
black and sky blue.
I don't remember if it was 'Chopper City.'
I believe it was 'Chopper City.'
And that was like 6th or 7th grade and then right after that "Bling Bling" hit and then
people discovered Lil Wayne off his little bridge.
Rob: Right.
03 Greedo: Then all us kids, especially me with this nasally voice always kind of related
to Wayne or Boosie or Snoop because their voice was softer than the typical male and
my voice never changed when I grew.
I never had a point where my voice was crackin' and changin' or nothin'.
Rob: You know, the Nelly thing was interestin' to me because...
03 Greedo: Oh, yeah, Nelly too, same thing.
Rob: 'Cause "Country Grammar," the single...very sing-songy, right?
03 Greedo: I never even liked that song, though, that's not why I bought that CD.
I bought that CD 'cause of "E.I."
Rob: For "E.I.?"
03 Greedo: What, when that come on, just how the beat come on and then how the video come
on with that black and then that mother fuckin' Rams car.
03 Greedo: Then he just...
I never heard nobody use those deliveries.
I don't know how he thought of that, but that was so hard, and then, right after that he
made Free City' the St. Lunatic CD and he was gassin' every verse.
Rob: I don't think Nelly got enough credit, really for what he did.
He was wildly successful.
03 Greedo: Because it just died down as far as that side of him died down, like you just
said I have melody but it's still in your face and street, that side of him where it
was in your face was over because he just started to get...
Rob: Crossover.
03 Greedo: ...a bigger corporate check.
Crossover.
But, shit, I wanna do that shit too.
I'm actually working on a pop album right now.
Well, it's not gonna be your traditional pop, but if you've never heard my R&B album
'First Night Out.'
Rob: Yep, 'First Night Out.''
03 Greedo: ...it was like street R&B, so we're just gonna push that to the next level and
it's called 'Never Ends,' because every summer I would make 'Purple Summer.'
03 Greedo: But "Purple Summer never ends" was always the promotional little slogan.
Rob: Uh, huh.
03 Greedo: So, this called 'Never Ends' because when I get to 'Purple Summer 03' that
added up to 103 songs.
03 Greedo: So, I don't wanna mess up that number.
Rob: 'Cause you make things in trilogies also, right.
03 Greedo: Everything has to be in trilogy.
Rob: Yeah.
03 Greedo: Because just so they remember on three, damn, he did everything in trilogy,
everything just gonna be, when they really break down my shit when I'm done, they gonna
be like that was like a complete science.
Rob: I read that you grew up listening to Stevie
Wonder...
Rob: ...from around the house as well...
Rob: ...we got 'Songs in the Key of Life.'
I got this right here on cassette...
Rob: Yeah.
03 Greedo: I can't even listen to it.
Rob: No?
No 'cause who has a cassette player?
I also read that you grew up and you had trouble with your ear.
You had a fake eardrum.
03 Greedo: Uh huh.
Rob: ...when you were a kid.
03 Greedo: Right.
Rob: I imagine those melodies might have struck you different maybe than they struck the rest
of us.
It's like you're doing this.
It sounds like that all day to me.
Where some people if they have a certain tone of voice, I can't hear 'em at all, it's just
muffly, like what the fuck.
My girl got a soft ass voice so sometimes I don't know what she's saying at all but
I keep saying huh? and she won't repeat it, Man, you... but she don't realize I'm deaf.
You sittin' on the right side, I don't what the fuck you sayin'.
I never could do nothing about what my losses were.
If your dad dies when you're one, what could you do?
And if your mom and you don't get along, what could you do?
If your brother and you don't get along and then you get older and y'all actually don't
get along completely, he done told on you and snitched on you, whatever, you can't do
anything so you just gotta work around it.
I was always big on traveling because I just had to get away from people that wasn't right.
03 Greedo: Even if it was temporarily or forever, it's just what's going on.
03 Greedo: I never really could do nothing about the things that went wrong for me.
I worked around it.
Rob: Most people would've gave up.
I can't do music.
I'm deaf in one ear.
I'm partially deaf, I don't hear things the way you hear it.
I can't do music.
I think a lot of people talk themselves out of it considering what's stacked up against
them.
You fought through all of them.
03 Greedo: They ain't really went through nothing where they have to be gangsters.
I don't really give a fuck about being no gangster.
I'm a full gangster, though.
I don't care about this.
I don't care about this.
I was forced into this life.
My daddy died when I was one.
I had to get outside and figure it out.
I ain't learn how to play basketball 'til I was 12 years old.
03 Greedo: I don't know, they just the P-word.
Rob: You can express yourself however you want.
03 Greedo: They just pussy.
They gotta ride for they selves.
You ain't goin' hard for yourself.
You don't care about your kids.
A lot of people I know don't even go see they kids or take care of they kids.
But that's weird, how you don't love part of you?
It's not even on some spiritual or emotional shit, like literally they came out your balls,
what are you doin, what are you doin?
I got a kid so I can't give up.
Ultimately I think people are still trying to figure you out...
03 Greedo: That's the worst thing they should try to do.
Rob: ...I feel like we're scratching the surface.
Ultimately where do you see yourself?
Where do you want to be when you kinda look back on your career maybe 10, 15, 20 years
from now?
03 Greedo: I don't care what it has to be 'cause I don't know what it will be.
But I just want people to understand that I was a pioneer for this shit and I changed
the game.
And that I changed music, I didn't change rap.
Rappers kinda probably already did.
I won't even act like I don't know better lyricsism or better song structure than them.
But it's just at the end of the day that's what's goin' on.
You gotta keep up with the Joneses or you could be that old Nigga up the street.
Rob: Mm-hmm
03 Greedo: I just wanna be known as...I don't wanna say anybody's name, because this is
bigger than that.
I don't know a lot of people that write their own music, make their own beats, direct they
own videos and sing and knock out their interview easily every time, even if they gonna switch
up your words.
I'm really campaigning right now so hopefully I can be here to do this shit forever.
Rob: Mm-hmm.
Let's get in to that, interviews, you know you recently were quoted, in a Billboard interview.
03 Greedo: Uh huh.
Rob: ...saying that Tupac sucks.
You were quoted as saying he was a bitch-ass and we read that, everybody read that, sites
picked up on it and reported it.
Can you give us the context if those comments were made, how were those comments were made...
03 Greedo: ...well, first I don't wanna...
Rob: ...And why?
03 Greedo: I don't want people to think I'm mad at the people that did that interview.
I don't give a damn...thank you.
Success.
Go on get my buzz up.
Maybe they didn't twist up my words but they took other parts of my conversation that made
shit seem more malicious.
But really I was just responding, if you look at that interview, it's only about other rappers.
03 Greedo: I really was frustrated at the point where I'm like, why y'all keep bringing
up all these other bitch-ass niggas like I ain't the one, like ain't the nigga?
I'm only gonna say this because people keep puttin' it in my articles, but I'm fightin'
a big 'ole case.
I might not be here to make this music forever.
Don't compare me to people who ain't lived this life.
I was born in Los Angeles, California, Kaiser Permanente hospital.
Don't compare me to anyone, period, who's not from my city.
Don't compare me to anyone, period, who ain't living how I'm living and ain't got the credibility
I got in these streets.
Don't compare me to anyone, period, who does things that seem delusional in my book if
you're from way over here and then you come over here and say fuck over there, ride wit'
me.
I wanna be the person to stop my people from ridin' with somebody that don't even...why
would you be ridin' for them?
Why y'all ain't ridin' for me?
Them same lame rap niggas that be fakin' like they wanna be my friend or wanna do a song
wit' me that was just so scared of this comment, that they jumped on that.
Why aren't you defending a home-grown hero?
You heard from other rappers, or there was a backlash or reaction from other rappers?
03 Greedo: They just scared, they just wanna show that they ain't in it.
Rob: Right.
03 Greedo: Any rapper who's taking about Tupac right now is because of me.
Rob: Right.
03 Greedo: Lil Xan opened the convo, but it's because of me why they sayin' shit.
They don't wanna say nothing to me, you see they chasin' Lil Xan.
Rob: Right.
03 Greedo: They don't wanna play with me.
03 Greedo: No, I'm serious, bro.
Like seriously, I'm dead serious.
They don't wanna play with me by myself, bro.
03 Greedo: I be going to these other states by myself.
They pay homage.
They told I was banned from Oakland, I went to Oakland, and got a hundred shooters and
went to the club.
They don't even know I been to Oakland a million times.
I'm somebody really from the streets, bro.
03 Greedo: Don't compare to nobody who couldn't handle things that way.
Rob: Let's talk about...'cause there might be two things that are going on...'Pac musically?
03 Greedo: It's tight, it's tight, but it still sucks because it's not authentic, it's
not coming from somewhere real.
When I say I've been shot by who I love and told on by my family, that's real shit.
03 Greedo: "If I get this time and don't run, is you finna write me or some?" That's real shit.
All that shit is what's really goin' on.
These are really the things I'm stressed out about in the mornin', I'm shedding tears about
when I'm not around people.
03 Greedo: You want me to pay homage, I don't have to.
03 Greedo: I don't have to.
Yeah, I like "I Ain't Mad at Cha," I like "Changes," I like certain songs, shit.
But like I said, I like Frank Ocean music.
I like a song by Charles Hamilton.
I might like some Raphael Saadiq.
It don't matter, bro.
It don't mean I rock with them bro.
I got rappers I don't get along with in the city.
It don't mean that just 'cause their song come on I'm going to say "cut this off."
Naw, man, I'm a player, I'm a real player, but shit, the thing is with that interview,
someone over there, whether it was the staff or the person that was interviewing me, whoever
it was, they were looking for shock value, or what my creative director calls clickbait.
03 Greedo: You got two seconds to think about this, like, damn, what you gonna do?
I'm the type of person that if someone pull up on me and I wasn't expectin' him to fight
me I'm finna steal on this nigga.
03 Greedo: Shit that's all I did was stole on that nigga.
That shit needs to stop.
When these conversations have happened, years before this anytime somebody asked me about
that I always told them, my favorite rapper Boosie.
I like music...I'm from somewhere treacherous, bro.
03 Greedo: And people be tellin' me about oh, he shot at cops or his people's black
panther.
I'm like, so my daddy was a Crip, nigga.
Rob: Mm-hmm
03 Greedo: If you don't know the history of what's going on with the Crips and Tupac,
just look it up, 'cause I ain't gonna say none of that.
Rob: Right.
03 Greedo: I'm a Crip.
Rob: Right.
03 Greedo: Come on, man.
I don't care.
Rob: The fact of the matter is, I think a lot of music fans, even of street music, the
vast majority aren't in the streets, so they don't face the same circumstances.
03 Greedo: Yeah, 90% of these rappers ain't in the streets.
03 Greedo: They be calling me to get them a gun, when they come to the city, they be
spooked, they don't want their chain took.
Rob: 'Cause here's the thing, and I'm real with this, 'Pac is one of my top five rappers
of all time, me, personally.
My circumstances is way different from yours, so I'm judging it from a musical level.
Rob: You seeing things and went through things, what you're saying there're certain things
you can't respect.
03 Greedo: People from California know things about 'Pac that people in the music world.
Period.
Don't care.
I don't give a fuck.
Let one of them 'Pac folks try to pull up on me, I don't care.
Tell them people don't ask me about your boy.
Like now and the future, I'm going to be like, don't bring up no rappers, but since this
is the conversation they have.
I don't give a fuck.
Rob: Mm-hmm (affirmative)
03 Greedo: I beef with my own brother, did you hear me?
What the hell's wrong with these niggas?
These niggas little kids.
I'm really outchea.
That shit public records.
Google my name.
Like no, nigga, this nigga ain't me.
Like don't bring him up.
Period.
03 Greedo: I don't remember him making his own beats.
Rob: Right.
03 Greedo: I don't remember him singin'.
I'm doing 14 songs a night, you wanna come to a session?
I'll fly you to Atlanta to see this shit.
And every song is a banger.
And no song that I make sounds like another song.
03 Greedo: The only songs that sound similar is "Never Been" and "Touchdown" and that's on
purpose.
So, that they can understand this is "Never Been" part two.
I actually shot that video in New York. "Never Been" I did that from the hospital bed.
"Touchdown" is when I bailed out for the situation I'm in.
"I'll touchdown and cause hell," which is a phrase that I took from my favorite rapper
Lil Boosie.
Rob: Right.
You know it's funny though, again, going back to 'Pac I think a lot of people love Boosie
for the same reasons they love 'Pac.
03 Greedo: Man, I think Boosie loves 'Pac, too.
Rob: The music gives them a feeling.
03 Greedo: I think Boosie loves 'Pac.
I think T.I. loves 'Pac.
I think all them people love 'Pac, but I don't care.
Rob: It's not for you.
03 Greedo: Bro, I'm too young.
'Pac died when I was in 3rd or 4th grade, bro, I don't care, and I had an older brother
so this is how it goes.
If my brother wanna sit on the right side of the car, I'm gonna sit on the left.
03 Greedo: It's sibling rivalry.
So, I was listening to Biggie.
03 Greedo: Just to piss him off.
Just to piss my brother off. You hear this shit?
Just pissin' him off.
Not necessarily a generational thing wit' you two.
'Cause I think what's going on in Hip Hop now is this generational divide with older
the generation, the younger generation are fighting to hold on to something, but this
doesn't seem to be that.
03 Greedo: Man, that's not what's going on, bitch ass niggas talk too much.
That's all it be.
It's old niggas that don't give a fuck about that shit.
03 Greedo: I'm on the block, I don't give a fuck about no nigga, what's up little nigga.
03 Greedo: You think I ain't ran in to no old niggas that listen to 'Pac, still to this
day.
03 Greedo: Then they be talking about this nigga wanna talk, this nigga wanna talk, call
out.
Shut your weird ass up, I don't check in nigga. What the fuck.
Rob: Who reached out?
Who was trying to talk to you?
03 Greedo: It's not happenin', no matter, it's not happenin', they better pull up.
Fuck you mean?
Nigga.
I'm from Grape Street, man, if y'all don't know what is, go check out 'Menace to Society' man.
Yeah, that's the hood.
Rob: Right.
Rob: You spoke about the majority of the people not making it out.
03 Greedo: Right.
Rob: And you wanted to be someone to make it out.
03 Greedo: And also where I'm from, our culture is to be aggressive or mean.
Like this is how we greet our homegirl Bitch, bitch!
Or if we talking to the homie, aw, bitch you ain't got no money.
Bitch get in the car.
We're from where there is no filter.
03 Greedo: The kids is cussin'.
I don't care.
03 Greedo: I don't care.
When people be telling me to care, like these people be choosing telling me to care like
these people with suits and ties I be like Shut up, like, no, I don't care bro.
I wish somebody would try to touch me about some rap.
03 Greedo: When I gang bang.
I wish somebody would try and touch me about some rap when I'm fighting life, for real.
I just wish they would so I could make an example out them.
So I can show these niggas.
You know when a rapper tried to blow me, I made an example out of him, and made 17,500.
Rob: Mm-hmm (affirmative)-
03 Greedo: And showed them and got somebody offering me a movie deal.
Rob: Right.
Talking about the show you...
03 Greedo: Naw, I don't know nothing about it.
03 Greedo: I'm the type of nigga, I'm a rewardin person so if you do good, I'm a reward ya
with good.
And if you did bad and I feel like I really have to reward you, there's a cake being baked
for you.
03 Greedo: I'm the person that does that.
I don't give a fuck about what other people give a fuck about.
03 Greedo: Like growing up without a dad, I just used to really be raised off music
and movies.
Rob: Right.
03 Greedo: I'm even working on a album with this dude named Kenny Beach called 'Netflix and Deal.'
And every song is inspired by a movie, like we got a song by Blow, but it's telling the
story of the movies, it was hard, you watch, you gonna see.
But I was always obsessed with being a mafia boss and a villain.
So, that's why I wear long coats, this big 'ole Armani thing with the big 'ole Louis
boots.
Damn, he's on his designer shit, but the man look like a fucking evil villain.
Rob: Right.
03 Greedo: It's just like, bro, I'm here to troll people, bro.
I love it.
Rob: And you can admit that.
03 Greedo: Yeah, I'm a troll.
I was the class clown my whole life, bro.
I'm leaving school with guns in my hands.
I'm doing whatever you shouldn't do.
Rob: To be able to get a reaction, to be able to get...
03 Greedo: Me, I'm an attention whore.
Rob: To get somebody to either love you or hate you but one way or they're gonna feel
an extreme way about you.
03 Greedo: Yeah.
Rob: We had this conversation off camera, we was back here, and a lot of people wouldn't
expect, but we talked about Mos Def and Talib Kweli records and Roots records just because
the melody catches you and makes you a fan of, if not that artist, that record for sure.
03 Greedo: Right.
That's what people think, they can put rules on my ears.
Get your dumb ass up outta here.
If I like it, I like it, I listen to Nelly Furtado's Loose album.
Just the other day, I was just off Justin Bieber Purpose all the way through.
Hot, Hot!
For real!
But then I'll go listen to shit, Hustler [inaudible 00:25:49]
Rob: Rest in Peace.
Mm-hmm (affirmative)-
03 Greedo: Shit, I just been around the world, in a sense, somebody where I'm from ain't
never been to New York.
Somebody where I'm from ain't never been to Atlanta and checking in the Blue Flame and
ass and titty all over them.
Somebody where I'm from ain't been to no interview where cameras looking like that are even seen
a fucking record of the Master P shit.
Rob: Right.
03 Greedo: It's just what it is.
Nigga, I don't give a damn.
Somebody from nowhere would look like, sound like, and how they would react to shit.
I'm gonna be 100% me till they lock me up with that fuckin'...til I'm gone.
if I die, if I go to jail, if I'm here forever.
That's just what going on.
Rob: How often does that weigh on you?
Obviously you're facing some real life shit, that has to always be in the back of your
mind.
03 Greedo: Yeah.
I kina worked hard for this shit growing up homeless and getting shot at, shooting at
shit, going in and out of jail being homeless, living couch to couch, sleeping with women
just to live there, knowing I don't really like them like that.
Dealing with people I knew were snakes just to survive and happen to work around that
and be paranoid.
I just be wondering sometimes, shit, would a 12 year old daughter at 30 years old and
finally getting a deal a couple of months ago.
I know the money bag is secure but is it gonna be my bag or their bag.
My daughter bag...
Rob: What's your daughter make of all this?
Is she a fan of your music?
Well, my daughter is 12 and I'm 30 so that means I had her at 18, my daughter grew up
with me still growing up, we like brother and sister they we joke with each other and
shit.
As well as my mama too 'cause I never really lived with my mama 'cause we didn't really
get along and then once she realized I'm a whole gangster outchea, we is what we is,
I'm a still love you cause you my mama, then we just get along well.
If people understand that I'm crazy then well get along.
If they don't we're never gonna get along.
Rob: What's the one thing you've been able to do for your daughter since this success,
has it changed much, something that you're proud of...
03 Greedo: Let me tell you this story, it's so tight.
Ever since I was 18 I was in jail every year.
My daughter's birthday is in October in California they have to reach a quota by the end of the
year at least by September or October cause I'm homeless and I'm strapped.
That's why I have so many gun cases.
My daughter's 12 now and before this last Christmas I've never had a big Christmas with
her.
Since I was a kid I always wanted to have a big Christmas 'cause I ain't never had no
daddy.
When I was here last time and I saw snowfall for the first time, people don't understand
the significance but that's just from watching Home Alone 1 and 2 as kid, I was always like,
damn man, not to be racist, but them people got it easy, man, fuck, look how big this
house, they sending this nigga to the fucking attic and the attic is like a room.
Nigga the attic is a forbidden place in the ghetto, and if they even have one.
03 Greedo: But in the ghetto, shit ain't nothing but rats and cobwebs and shit.
It was Christmas night, you could see what I was wearing that day on the video from me
and Drakeo's "Out The Slums." That was Christmas night, free Drakeo.
I came over there with the PS 4 with the virtual reality, ten games, hella shoes.
She's thinking I'm in jail.
Damn, man, it's Christmas, my dad in jail again, man Get a knock at the door like at
9:39.
She seen but she don't see me.
I've got all these gifts she fittin' to go crazy about all these gifts.
She threw the gifts on the ground and just jumped in my arms.
Like...Finally, like, oh, my God, what?
It was a super hero moment for me, that was like the best day ever.
Rob: That's what's up.
You got like more Christmases to look forward to, man, you turn this thing around.
03 Greedo: Man, I hope so.
Rob: Man that was deep, bro.
Something we wanted to do with you before we get outta here, man.
We got this little segment we call record break, this is really rapid fire questions
so the audience gets to know a little more about you, a little bit about your taste,
because I like you a lot, I might not agree wit' you on everything, I ain't lived the
life that you lived but I mess with your music.
03 Greedo: I wish that the public would be like that.
Rob: Right.
03 Greedo: Take what you can get from me that you like and just accept me as a human being.
I'm not gonna like fucking diet soda.
I'm not gonna like fucking juice and what they puttin' vegetables and shit in there?
03 Greedo: Hello, no, give me some soda, fuck me up, I don't give a fuck.
That's nasty.
Just let me be human, let me be like this, and be like that.
Rob: I guess the 'Pac thing I guess people feel passionate about it...
03 Greedo: No, they don't.
Rob: He's one of my favorite rappers.
Rob: But I don't feel offended, I don't hate you because you don't like what I like.
03 Greedo: And then some people just riding your wave like a jet ski.
Rob: Right.
03 Greedo: Lil Xan was approached about Tupac shit by 16 year old kids, 20 of them.
Do you think they listen to Tupac?
Rob: That's the thing to do.
03 Greedo: No, they don't.
Rob: No, not that they listen to him but running up on him was the thing to do.
03 Greedo: Right, right.
People just people wanna talk about it.
Like I said, all these rappers that are doing interviews and what they're saying, what do
you think about these new rappers disrespecting Tupac?
They're only saying that because at first they was literally saying what do you think
about Lil Xan's comments.
And they was like, Ban Lil Xan.
But when a gangster get in there and you know it and you can smell it and you can feel it,
now you wanna talk about what do you think about these new rappers... who else did it
besides me and Lil Xan?
03 Greedo: Stop playing with me.
Rob: Right.
03 Greedo: They gotta stop playing with me.
Rob: Let's do this record break.
The hottest record on 'Wolf of Grape Street?'
03 Greedo: "Bacc to Bacc" with Young T.O.
Rob: Okay.
Damn, we know the answer to this, but the first record you ever bought?
03 Greedo: Nelly 'Country Grammar.'
Yep.
'Cause everything else I stole, that wasn't the first one I had, I for sure stole
'Tha Block is Hot' Lil Wayne.
I used to steal everything.
When you homeless you just good at that shit.
Rob: Wayne might come back for that?
You doing good now.
03 Greedo: That's 13.99, he gonna treat me like Bird man.
I need my money bitch.
Rob: He'll probably just be happy knowing that he inspired you, bro.
03 Greedo: Lil Wayne's one of my favorite rappers ever.
He's definitely the best rapper ever.
Period.
Don't care.
Boosie's my favorite.
Don't matter what nobody talkin' about when that nigga was on that mixed tape
he was saying shit people can't even think to do, he was making the type of
music people still can't make, just don't do that.
Don't be trying to take away from the King.
Rob: Okay.
Favorite record of all time.
03 Greedo: From anyone?
Rob: Yep, from anywhere, any genre, anybody.
03 Greedo: Probably...damn I listen to so much music.
It would have to be between Slick Rick "Children's Story" and my favorite song of all time...I
would have to say Boosie "Betrayed" or "Going Through Some Things."
Rob: Going Through Some Things is hard.
03 Greedo: I listen to Boosie when I'm stressed out about my situation one of those ones that
get me through it, I'm still Happy, all that type of shit.
Rob: What's your favorite karaoke?
03 Greedo: Maybe, I don't know.
I'm playful enough to do it if I was on a date but I don't know.
I ain't never did karaoke.
Rob: We need to have a 03 Karaoke party.
03 Greedo: Right.
It's going down.
Rob: The hottest record out right now besides your own?
03 Greedo: Trouble "Crazy."
Rob: Word.
I'm looking forward to what he's about to do with Mike Will.
03 Greedo: That nigga been droppin' videos back to back and his videos been way more
juiced up.
I think I saw four.
I like street music that's still all the way gutter but it's pop.
Rob: Right.
03 Greedo: For example when Waka Flocka came out it was straight gutter but it was pop.
When Chief Keef came out it was straight gutter but it was pop, which means it was universally
accepted and it painted culture for the youth.
Trouble seems like he's a pretty 100 person through his music.
I never met him before, but the things that he's talking about and trying to teach kids.
You'll see like in the song Crazy, he wanna show his little boy what is right and protect
him like his gun did, but he don't need to be in the streets.
03 Greedo: His father is a pistol, that's how he got through the streets, but for his
son, he wanna be the man that show him something.
That's kinda how I am.
03 Greedo: So with that, I agree with how 'Pac was on that type of tip, just changing,
just black people or the world, period, I'm all for that, but I want it to come from somewhere
genuine.
And I'm not here to say if he was coming from somewhere genuine or not, we already talked
about my opinion, I just want mines to be received a little differently, is all I'm
saying, where they feel me.
I think you rock with me because you can tell I'm telling you the truth.
Rob: Right.
03 Greedo: You know, I'm not here to disrespect nobody.
I'm just coming from a 100% me stand point.
And then at the same time I'm defending my gangster, if you think you can approach me
about anybody, I'm a slap you.
Don't disrespect me as a gangster like I gotta bow down.
Now, that's what really pisted me off.
Like I gotta bow down.
Like, what the fuck?
Rob: Like you felt like you had to pay homage, right?
'Cause in no other walk of life had you had to have done that.
03 Greedo: No, I think I would probably bow down to Snoop.
Rob: Right.
03 Greedo: Like that's the fucking West Coast King.
Even Nipesy, but Tupac, not for me, not me as a person.
No, maybe the next guy.
I think Kendrick loves Tupac.
Rob: Yeah, he's going on record he and I've spoke about it.
03 Greedo: Kendrick's probably the same age as me or a year over 'cause when I went to
Gardenia High, he went to Centennial High and we were the known rappers and his A&R,
who was, at the time, DJ Dave, he went to school with me.
Rob: Shout out Dave Free man.
He's still saved in my phone as DJ Dave.
03 Greedo: He's my dog, he's a pretty good guy.
Rob: He's a good guy.
03 Greedo: Actually that whole camp is cool.
I was around them a few times.
Ali his engineer, he went to Gardenia High, too.
Those are some fun facts, you don't even know, a lot of people went to Gardenia High.
Rob: We got 'em here first, but you a good dude and I appreciate you comin' down to Genius
to chop it up with us.
Like I said, we don't got to agree we respect each other's opinions.
At the end of the day you got some pretty dope perspective, man, so I'm glad we got
to chop it up with you.
03 Greedo: 'Preciate it man.
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