DJ Paul: Three 6 Mafia Lore

The legendary and luminous DJ Paul is in the house this week! He talks with Bunnie about his Memphis roots, the early days of Three 6 Mafia, and how his love of creating beats and pushing musical boundaries shaped a sound that still influences hip-hop today. From selling mixtapes in high school to winning an Oscar, Paul opens up about the rollercoaster of fame and why building wealth beyond music has been key, from real estate to his new Beverly Hills restaurant, The Hideaway. He also clears the air on the Bone Thugs-N-Harmony beef and gives the scoop on what’s next, including new solo music and a collab with Krayzie Bone. DJ Paul: IG https://www.instagram.com/djpaulkom/?hl=en | Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/2ledyuziz6YjLK5Dw483Oc Watch Full Episodes & More: www.dumbblondeunrated.com

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• 0:00Bunnie XO?

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• 1:01Bunnie XO?

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• 1:38Speaker 02

  Bunny XO Talk to me about Bunny XO Bunny XO Bunny

• 1:53Bunnie XO?

  Is this thing on? What's up, you sexy motherfuckers? Welcome to another episode of Dumb Blonde. Today, it's been a long time coming. I got my bubba in the house, Mr. DJ Paul, baby.

• 2:05Speaker 03

  Man, what's happening, man? It's been forever.

• 2:07Bunnie XO?

  Dude, I'm so happy you're here.

• 2:09Speaker 03

  Man, I've been trying to get on here for a long time, but we always missing each other. You gotta, you gotta take this on the road when we on tour, like, just do it on the bus.

• 2:17Bunnie XO?

  I'm ready, I'm ready to do the tour, man. We're gonna, we're talking about it. But every time I try to go do a frickin' on-the-road tour, somebody's like, "No, you gotta do this before." And I'm like... But we're gonna do it soon.

• 2:27Speaker 03

  And one thing I noticed about touring and studios is it never happens.

• 2:34Speaker 03

  We bring all kind of shit on the bus and we be like, oh man, we're gonna record an album on the off days and shit. Man, off days, you be like in some fucking hotel, swimming pool with a barbecue grill and.

• 2:49Bunnie XO?

  Like you just, you wanna enjoy your days off. That's what we did when I was on tour, just this last tour, we brought all the podcast stuff. And I was like, I'm gonna interview everybody on the tour. Never fucking happened. Cause I was just like, I didn't wanna do hair and makeup. I didn't wanna fucking, like, I was just like, no, please. So I, trust me, I totally feel that.

• 3:06Speaker 03

  It don't happen.

• 3:06Bunnie XO?

  I tell everybody that I meet about you. They're just like, he's such a G, he's so gangster. And I'm like, yes, he's all of that. I said, but I always say, Paul is the sweetest human you will ever meet. Like, it is so crazy to me, which we're gonna get into all the 36 Mafia sounds and stuff like that, that you guys do such dark music. But you are such a light of a human.

• 3:27Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I've, I've come to find that out with a lot of people. I'm sure you have too, that you meet. You know, your journey, like some people you'll be like, hmm, I don't know if he's approachable. Cause they used to say the same thing about me till they meet me. And I've, I've seen some guys and I'll be like, I don't know about this. And then, uh, then you come to find out they, they're super, super nice.

• 3:49Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. And that's how it was with you. Cause I remember when you guys, we were all touring together during that time. I think it was what, two years ago? And I was like, oh my God, I'm so nervous. I'm so nervous. Cause I've got to meet you, but I never got to hang out with you. And then we got to film those TikToks and stuff. And I was like, dude, Paul is so funny and so sweet. Yeah, no, it was so fun.

• 4:08Speaker 03

  Now, I did meet one celebrity once.

• 4:11Bunnie XO?

  Who was it?

• 4:12Speaker 03

  And he was kinda like he was in the movies. And I was like, I said, can I take a picture with you, man? He's like, you wanna take a picture with me, man? I said, uh, yeah, I just asked that. And he like, alright, man, come on, we'll take a picture.

• 4:27Speaker 03

  I'm a huge fan of this dude, so no disrespect to him. But he, you know, I, I, you know, I don't think that he did not wanna take the picture. I think he was kinda surprised. That I wanted to take a picture with him.

• 4:38Bunnie XO?

  Who was it? We're gonna bleep the name.

• 4:39Speaker 03

  It was Alpha Karate Kid, the bad guy.

• 4:42Bunnie XO?

  What?

• 4:44Speaker 03

  But this was before they brought the new season back. This was like, you know, when he hadn't did nothing in a while. So this was like, this is in two thousand and ten, two thousand, yeah, two thousand and ten.

• 4:54Bunnie XO?

  Even more reason for him to be nice.

• 4:57Speaker 03

  He was nice. I think he just, I think he, I think he probably thought that I was like joking with him or something. Cause maybe some people probably like, you know, you know, you never know with people these days with the pranks and all this stuff. He's like, you don't take a picture of me, man? I'm like, yeah, I actually do, motherfucker, like.

• 5:15Bunnie XO?

  I wouldn't have asked.

• 5:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, I wouldn't have asked. Like, I'm a huge fan, like, dude. Don't make me crank kick you around this much. But yeah, so, yeah, he was, he, I think he kind of tripped off, tripped out at first, but we took the picture. It was cool. And then, uh, I had my necklace on, my Oscar necklace on. I was like, yeah, by the way, man, uh, three, six mafia, we don't, we won an Oscar back then. He's like, really? Like, oh, man, he's like, man. And that's when the conversation got a little cool.

• 5:41Bunnie XO?

  So he probably didn't know who you were at first. Is that what it was? Okay, gotcha.

• 5:45Speaker 03

  For sure, he didn't know who I was. But sometimes I don't know who I am. But I know for a, for a fact, he didn't know.

• 5:52Bunnie XO?

  Do you ever get, do you ever get imposter syndrome? Like after you've, after everything you've accomplished in this life, all the lore that you have behind you, all the fricking awards and just all the accolades that you have behind you? Do you ever just get imposter syndrome?

• 6:08Speaker 03

  What is that?

• 6:09Bunnie XO?

  So what is like a definition of imposter syndrome? It's like, you feel like, like you feel like you don't belong here or like you're not supposed to be here, like you're not deserving of everything.

• 6:17Speaker 03

  All the time, all the time. I just had this a couple of days ago.

• 6:21Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 6:22Speaker 03

  So like, um, I just had this a couple of days ago where I was like, you know, so like I own a lot of properties. That was like, at one point in my career, I got a little nervous where, where, where I had this was probably like in. Two thousand thirteen, fourteen or somewhere, you know, like Three Six might have been gone for a while. Our last album was in two thousand nine. We never made an album after that. But you know, but I was still making a lot of money. But I, I invested so much cash money into real estate that I got a little nervous.

• 6:57Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 6:57Speaker 03

  I got a little nervous, but it, it worked. It worked like a motherfucker. I bought a house in Vegas for five hundred and fifty thousand dollars in the late two thousands. It's so weird because we're still in the two thousands, but then it's kind of like broke down.

• 7:12Bunnie XO?

  It's so different.

• 7:13Speaker 03

  So around two thousand tenish, I bought a house for Vegas, in, in Vegas for five hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Now their house is worth three million dollars.

• 7:24Bunnie XO?

  Crazy, right?

• 7:25Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 7:25Bunnie XO?

  I tell them all the time because I'm a Vegas girl, which I heard you talking about how you lived in Vegas. I don't know how we never, we were all in the same circles. I heard you say that you loved, uh, Robin Leach.

• 7:36Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 7:36Bunnie XO?

  Lifestyles of Rich Champagne, Wishes and Caviar Dreams, baby. Are you kidding me? When I heard that, I was like, yes, because nobody knows that, you know? Unless you were in Vegas and experienced it and actually got to watch it on TV growing up.

• 7:48Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 7:48Bunnie XO?

  Like, not a lot of people know about that. So I don't know how we didn't run into each other in Vegas because we were always around the same circles.

• 7:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, I don't know how either.

• 7:56Bunnie XO?

  It was crazy. And Robin Leach, if you ever partied with him, he was-

• 8:00Speaker 03

  Twice.

• 8:00Bunnie XO?

  Bro, he partied.

• 8:02Speaker 03

  Yeah, he partied. And I told him the same story every time I saw him. About how I was twelve years old and I, my whole life is because of him.

• 8:11Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 8:12Speaker 03

  So back to the imposter syndrome or whatever you call it.

• 8:15Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 8:16Speaker 03

  I, I, I spent all this money into real estate and I got a little nervous, you know, this and that. And it got to the point where, where I started feeling that like

• 8:28Speaker 03

  all of this, these investment properties that I bought, that if I went and bought myself a big house, and I was living in a big house in Vegas, I still own this house. Uh, if I was, if I went to buy another big house for myself somewhere outside of Vegas, because I was kind of getting sick of being there all the time. I was thinking that I really did. I was like, do I really deserve this? I'm like, yeah, I work hard, I do, but then I kind of don't. But then I was like, you know, you just started thinking about like- Like, you know, yeah, do you, do you, do you really deserve it?

• 9:02Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, no, I get, I do it all the time. Like, my husband tells me all the time, Jay, because he, he deals with it better than I do. Like, I swear Jay's built for fricking to be a politician. He remembers everybody's name. Yeah, he remembers, please don't speak that in our life, but he literally can like shake hands and kiss babies all day long. And I just feel like, I don't know, sometimes I feel like I don't belong there, you know? And he's like, baby, you have to realize, like, you've worked this hard and you have worked so hard and like created such a fricking legacy that if anybody deserves to buy as many houses as they want, it's you. Of course, you can never go wrong with land or real estate, dude.

• 9:38Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, you can't. Yeah, you can't. It's, it's, it's the thing, like, I, I just wish more, more, uh, young celebrities, rappers, actors, you know, podcasts, whatever you're doing, whatever you're doing in life, just like, put more money into real estate. I've preached it enough. Every interview I've ever did from this person to that person, I always said like, this, the jewelry, this and that. Like, I got a couple of pieces of jewelry, you know, I got, uh, the jewelry is just for show with me. It's just for show. When I put this on for this podcast, I had to dig and find shit. We came over here with this shit in a Ziploc bag.

• 10:16Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 10:17Speaker 03

  I don't even have the cool stuff to put it in, like, the little watch things on the countertop that turn the Rolexes to keep, man, my Rolex is in a, a Crown Royal bag. Like, I had to find the shit.

• 10:30Bunnie XO?

  I have traveled, every time we go on tour, my jewelry's in a, in a Ziploc bag or a Crown Royal bag. We had a Crown Royal bag, too.

• 10:36Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 10:37Bunnie XO?

  Swear to God.

• 10:38Speaker 03

  Crown Royal. I did a YouTube, uh, uh, maybe three months ago about a Crown Royal bag. And it, it, it basically went viral. People were like, oh, this shit, have you ever seen the orange one? And they're special edition. I'm like, man, all I know is the purple one.

• 10:53Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, me too.

• 10:53Speaker 03

  But everybody started talking about all these limited edition ones. I never even knew, but yeah.

• 10:58Bunnie XO?

  Never.

• 10:58Speaker 03

  I, I, I got a, I got a little jewelry just for, just for show. You know, I was, I was touring in Houston. You're from Houston, right?

• 11:07Bunnie XO?

  Yes, yes.

• 11:08Speaker 03

  Touring in Houston, went by TV Johnny. You know, and I was like, eh, you know, the tour been good. I've been touring for three months. I guess I gave myself a little necklace and bought this little, you know, Cuban link or whatever. But I don't wear this shit around, this and that. I, I put all of my money into, to, you know, real estate and, and investment. I'm, on the inside, everybody, I tell you, I'm a gangster rapper on the outside. But on the inside, I think I'm like a sixty-five-year-old white woman. I watch HG, I watch HGTV and the Food Network all the time. When I'm in my studio, my whole YouTube is just home decorations. Three hours of the best-looking mansions and this and that. I'm just taking pictures like that. That's why when I walked in here, I'm like, hey, man, what's the name of this wallpaper?

• 11:52Speaker 03

  I wanna get, I wanna get some of this, man. I like those ficus trees you got outside, you know? I'm that dude.

• 11:59Bunnie XO?

  I love that. But, okay, so what was your first piece of property that you ever bought?

• 12:03Speaker 03

  It was in a, a area outside of Memphis called Cardova, Tennessee. Uh, and it, you know, now it's, I heard it's all crazy as hell now, but

• 12:13Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 12:13Speaker 03

  Back then, we're talking about nineteen ninety-seven, man, it's usually about two houses right next door to each other.

• 12:18Bunnie XO?

  Aww.

• 12:19Speaker 03

  And, uh, it was no, it was nobody out there. It was nobody out there. And that was, that was the first one.

• 12:25Bunnie XO?

  That's amazing, though. And did you end up flipping it and just selling it?

• 12:28Speaker 03

  Yeah, so.

• 12:29Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, I love that.

• 12:30Speaker 03

  But I don't flip houses no more.

• 12:32Bunnie XO?

  No.

• 12:32Speaker 03

  I keep them and I rent them.

• 12:34Bunnie XO?

  Aww, that's good, though.

• 12:35Speaker 03

  Yeah, 'cause when you flip them, you got a

• 12:37Bunnie XO?

  Passive income, right?

• 12:37Speaker 03

  Capital gain and all that if it's less than two years or whatever, this and that. But, and that's, you know, that's, that's, uh, money out of your pocket right there. So, um, I was watching this infomercial one night and this infomercial said, uh, uh, when you, when you, when you pass away, you can't always leave your talents to your kids. Cause you know, I don't want my kids to be rappers any fucking way. But you can't always leave your talents to your kids, but you can leave property to your kids. When I saw him say that, that stuck in me. I was like, man, that's the truth. Like.

• 13:15Bunnie XO?

  It's real.

• 13:16Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 13:16Bunnie XO?

  No, that is real.

• 13:17Speaker 03

  And now I, I, I read, I don't know if you've seen this, I read that they trying to, they trying to turn America kinda like what it is in China, where they call it forever rentals.

• 13:29Bunnie XO?

  No, educate me, please. I've never heard of this.

• 13:32Speaker 03

  Forever rentals. So like, some, uh, some, some, uh, Wall Street guys just went bought like fifteen hundred homes in, in Vegas, that they turned into just rentals. You can't buy them. You can only rent them.

• 13:46Bunnie XO?

  Forever?

• 13:47Speaker 03

  Forever.

• 13:48Bunnie XO?

  How, how, like, so they just don't sell them? Like?

• 13:51Speaker 03

  They won't sell them.

• 13:52Bunnie XO?

  Okay, gotcha.

• 13:52Speaker 03

  So if you wanna live in them, you gotta rent it for the rest of your life. You'll never have equity in, in that house. You know, it's like that, that, that dude, some dude said this, uh, at one point, he said, "In the future, you will own nothing and be happy." You know, and that's, that's what's really going on.

• 14:09Bunnie XO?

  Wow.

• 14:10Speaker 03

  This is what's really going on. Like, I look at some condo buildings, and some of these condo buildings, you'll go to, you'll be like, "Oh man, it's a nice condo. Like, how much are these?" And they'll be like, "Uh, they're not for sale. They're only for rent." And I'm like, "Really?" I'm like, "This don't look like an apartment. This look like a condo." And they're like, "Well, it, it started out to be a condo, but then the owners changed, the investors changed their mind and said they wanted to be, uh, apartments."

• 14:33Bunnie XO?

  So the investors are from other countries, though? Or is it American investors also?

• 14:38Speaker 03

  Who, who, who knows?

• 14:39Bunnie XO?

  Oh, okay, gotcha.

• 14:39Speaker 03

  Yeah, I don't know. I'm just, I'm just saying, it's, a lot of these are popping up. Like, they got a real popular building in, uh, basically Beverly Hills in LA.

• 14:47Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 14:48Speaker 03

  I'm sure you've passed it a million times. It's on Santa Monica Boulevard. Soon as you turn it, soon as Santa Monica split with Big Santa Monica and Little Santa Monica, going into Beverly Hills, there's a big building right there called the Ten Thousand Building.

• 15:02Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 15:03Speaker 03

  I've seen tons of celebrities in this building. And a one-bedroom start at ten thousand dollars a month, all the way up to the top one with its own pool, that's sixty-five thousand dollars a month. Rent. You can't buy these.

• 15:17Bunnie XO?

  Wow. I would, I could never. I would feel sick to my stomach if I was just paying somebody else's rent.

• 15:23Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's cool for six months. If you relocate and you're like, "Oh, I wanna live in Beverly Hills and I wanna see how it is. I wanna go to the mall and this and that." Ten thousand dollars a month. But you can afford that if you, uh, if you moving over there. I hope you can.

• 15:36Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 15:36Speaker 03

  You hustling backwards if you're not. So $10,000 a month to live in that area and get a feel of it before you go spend $5 million or something, that makes sense.

• 15:46Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 15:47Speaker 03

  That makes sense, but you know, like doing that forever.

• 15:51Bunnie XO?

  No.

• 15:51Speaker 03

  Only way that makes sense is if you got the rest of that money in the best investments in the world.

• 15:58Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, but I mean, even that seems just so frivolous, though, to like, want to just, I mean, if you're blowing 65 grand a month on rent, you obviously have it.

• 16:05Speaker 03

  Now, that don't make sense in no ways.

• 16:07Bunnie XO?

  But I mean, but I mean, if you can afford it, then obviously you can, you can make it work somehow, but not forever. No. Like, there's no way.

• 16:14Speaker 03

  Yeah, that's crazy.

• 16:15Bunnie XO?

  No, that would, that would, I couldn't do that. So I wanted to kind of bring my listeners on a journey with you because you have so much lore to you. Um, and I wanted to kind of, you know, take it back to your childhood in Memphis, growing up, you know, tell me what that was like. I know you've told this story a million times, but I know there's a bunch of listeners that probably are just getting to know you from my podcast. So I really just want to paint that picture of where you came from to where you are now. Um, growing up in Memphis, take me on that ride because it was in the 80s and 90s, right?

• 16:48Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah. I grew up in Memphis in the, yeah, 80s and 90s and, um.

• 16:51Bunnie XO?

  The 80s and 90s were elite.

• 16:54Speaker 03

  Yeah, it was the best.

• 16:55Bunnie XO?

  I was born in 80s, so I mean, there's nothing that compares from 80 to the 2000s, dude.

• 17:00Speaker 03

  Yeah, it was the best, man, you know, like, it was the best time, like, um, I was just talking about this to my friend a couple of days ago, like, I like watching these, watching these movies or looking at these pictures of all of the, you know, not to, and some people look at this and be like, oh, why is he glamorizing, you know, uh, drug dealers and this and that, but it's not about.

• 17:22Bunnie XO?

  That's your, that's how you grew up.

• 17:24Speaker 03

  It's not about the drug dealers, it's just about the whole swag of that.

• 17:29Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 17:30Speaker 03

  In the 80s, like when you watched the Paid in Full movie.

• 17:33Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 17:33Speaker 03

  You see the troop jackets and the eight ball jacket, you remember the eight ball jacket?

• 17:38Bunnie XO?

  Dude, all of it.

• 17:39Speaker 03

  Eight ball jackets, the, you know, the kangos.

• 17:42Bunnie XO?

  The ambiance of, of that generation was just insane.

• 17:45Speaker 03

  Yeah, and, uh, and, uh, the old 500, uh, Mercedes with the skirts on it.

• 17:52Bunnie XO?

  Yes, yes.

• 17:52Speaker 03

  AMG wheels. I mean, a lot of that stuff is still around and happening today.

• 17:56Bunnie XO?

  But it's modernized. It's modernized.

• 17:59Speaker 03

  Modernized, so like, you know, like these Louis Vuitton and Gucci bag, it was the same designs back then.

• 18:04Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 18:05Speaker 03

  So you know, like, I grew up in that, you know, my brother was a big drug dealer. He went to federal prison.

• 18:10Bunnie XO?

  How many brothers and sisters do you have?

• 18:12Speaker 03

  I've done.

• 18:13Bunnie XO?

  I couldn't find a, a, of, an answer on that when I Googled that.

• 18:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, I'm still looking for that answer myself, actually.

• 18:18Bunnie XO?

  Okay, gotcha.

• 18:21Bunnie XO?

  I love it, though.

• 18:22Speaker 03

  Yeah, a lot. I got, uh, six-ish, six-ish brothers. Cause my, my mom and my dad, they had, you know, kids.

• 18:30Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 18:31Speaker 03

  You know, separately, but I got around six, six, seven brothers and, you know, four sisters-ish.

• 18:36Bunnie XO?

  Wow.

• 18:37Speaker 03

  Ish, but, um.

• 18:40Bunnie XO?

  So you're gonna have a bunch of people reaching out to you after this interview. Hey, I'm your brother, I'm your sister.

• 18:44Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, ones that I noticed my brother's sister, be like, no, motherfucker, you got this many brothers and this many. So, you know, I grew up in that world. I grew up in that world. My brother was, you know, in that world and, you know, all his friends. So I was a kid, you know, looking at all that. I'm looking at new Mercedes pull up, new Corvettes pull up to the house and this and that. And I'm just like, man. And then I went to school down the street from this house of these big drug dealers in Memphis, like the most popular drug dealers in Memphis history.

• 19:16Bunnie XO?

  Wow.

• 19:17Speaker 03

  Had a house on, on the exact street that my, uh, junior high school was at.

• 19:22Bunnie XO?

  So you grew up around hustling?

• 19:24Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 19:24Bunnie XO?

  Like, you just saw it from the day?

• 19:26Speaker 03

  Yeah, every, every day, every day I saw just a driveway full of Corvettes and Mercedes and this and that, you know? Not at my parents' house, but like my brother's house and the houses in the neighborhood. All these guys was in my neighborhood.

• 19:41Bunnie XO?

  What's some, what's one of the wildest things you saw growing up in Memphis during that time?

• 19:47Bunnie XO?

  As a child?

• 19:49Speaker 03

  That I saw or heard about?

• 19:51Bunnie XO?

  That like left an imprint on you, something that left an imprint on you.

• 19:54Speaker 03

  Oh, well, this guy, this guy got killed for thirty-four dollars in a, in a, in a, in a dice game.

• 20:00Bunnie XO?

  Oh.

• 20:00Speaker 03

  Up street from my auntie's house.

• 20:02Bunnie XO?

  No, thirty-four?

• 20:03Speaker 03

  That, that right there let me know that people would do anything for anything.

• 20:08Bunnie XO?

  Wow, what a life lesson to take with you at, a young, as a young child.

• 20:13Speaker 03

  Yeah, I didn't physically see it, I was there. It happened up the street, you know, my family members started running this and that and people was running all that and I was like, what happened there like, you know, got this guy. But that happened a lot in the eighties, you know, people getting killed over dice games, man. There's a lot of people dead over dice games.

• 20:28Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, no, all the boys.

• 20:29Speaker 03

  Cause you walk around, you could walk around these two little fucking cubes in your pocket and that would be your meal for the day if you knew how to play.

• 20:36Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, absolutely. I grew up in Vegas, so everybody had dice in their hands, all the boys.

• 20:40Speaker 03

  Always had dice, man. If you ain't got nothing, you could make you a few dollars off dice.

• 20:45Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 20:46Speaker 03

  So that dude that killed that dude over thirty four dollars, he probably looking, man, back then, shit, a fucking, a combo meal was like four dollars.

• 20:56Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 20:56Speaker 03

  So he had, man, he had about a week's worth of food he lost right there.

• 21:00Bunnie XO?

  Oh, man.

• 21:01Speaker 03

  Sad.

• 21:02Bunnie XO?

  That is sad. I hate that.

• 21:03Speaker 03

  Yeah, that was, that right there set it from, that set the tone for me.

• 21:07Bunnie XO?

  How close were you with your brothers and sisters growing up?

• 21:10Speaker 03

  Super close.

• 21:11Bunnie XO?

  All of them or?

• 21:11Speaker 03

  Yeah, I was living, well, I was, I was the youngest. When I, when I was born, it was only two brothers still living in the house. But my sister lived next door. All of us kind of lived in the same neighborhood.

• 21:23Bunnie XO?

  So you're the baby?

• 21:24Speaker 03

  Yeah, I'm the youngest.

• 21:25Bunnie XO?

  I never knew that about you.

• 21:26Speaker 03

  Yeah, I'm the baby.

• 21:27Bunnie XO?

  I love that.

• 21:28Speaker 03

  The youngest in charge.

• 21:29Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 21:29Speaker 03

  Especially that.

• 21:31Bunnie XO?

  What was your relationship with your mom? Cause I know you've touched base on that a couple of times.

• 21:36Speaker 03

  Yeah, it was real good. It was real good. You know, I live with my mom almost, you know, I was, I was, uh, I lived with my mom all the way up to the point, we recorded our old Three Sisters Mafia albums in my mom's house.

• 21:50Bunnie XO?

  Wow.

• 21:51Speaker 03

  Yeah, not all of them, but like,

• 21:53Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 21:53Speaker 03

  all of the underground, all of the underground stuff was recorded in my mom's house. So everybody met my mom, even some guys who I'm not cool with, who was never even a part of our group.

• 22:05Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 22:06Speaker 03

  Been in my house at least probably one time, recorded and met my mom. Everybody met my mom. My mom was super cool. Man, my mom had a super close relationship. And my daddy passed, when my daddy passed away, I bought my mom a house.

• 22:18Bunnie XO?

  How old were you when your father passed?

• 22:21Speaker 03

  Uh, hmm, probably thirty something.

• 22:24Bunnie XO?

  Oh, okay. So it was when you were older?

• 22:27Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 22:27Bunnie XO?

  It wasn't when you were a child? Okay.

• 22:29Speaker 03

  Yeah, both of them passed when I was in my. Thirties, now my dad in my twenties, my mom in my thirties.

• 22:36Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 22:37Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 22:37Bunnie XO?

  Was mom always supportive of your choice in doing music?

• 22:42Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 22:42Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, she loved it.

• 22:43Speaker 03

  My mom used to take me to the organ lessons. I played, I took organ lessons.

• 22:47Bunnie XO?

  Aww, I love that. Can you still play?

• 22:49Speaker 03

  Yeah, of course. I still play on all of my music.

• 22:52Bunnie XO?

  Where did your inspiration and your drive to want to do music come from?

• 22:58Speaker 03

  Um, I, I, so we was the only, my daddy owned a company, so we, even though we lived in a bad neighborhood, we was one of the people who had the better house in the bad neighborhood.

• 23:12Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 23:12Speaker 03

  So like, we was the ones, when you riding through the bad neighborhood and you see, you see where they built on the back of the house, that happened all the time in the hood.

• 23:20Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 23:20Speaker 03

  Like, instead of buying a big house, they just built on the back of the house.

• 23:23Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 23:24Speaker 03

  Shit didn't even match, it would be a different color, different material, front of the house would be brick, the back of it would be wood, whatever. I lived in one of those houses. And, um, my daddy built on like a extra few bedrooms and a whole nother den in the back for my, uh, brothers. So, um, we had cable when cable first came out. You know, we had cable, so I would be sitting on, on the, on the floor, like this close to the TV watching MTV when it first came out. I remember when MTV first came out.

• 23:57Bunnie XO?

  I wish they would bring MTV back. It, just the nostalgia alone, like...

• 24:01Speaker 03

  Yeah, but if they bring it back, they should just play old shit, not new shit.

• 24:04Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. I feel like there's no, we'll get to that later, but yeah, for sure. The music nowadays is just, it's not like it used to be.

• 24:11Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's some good music out, but you know, it's just, it's different. Yeah, we'll get into that.

• 24:16Bunnie XO?

  Never gonna compare.

• 24:16Speaker 03

  But, um, I, I was planted in front of the TV watching MTV.

• 24:22Bunnie XO?

  Hmm.

• 24:23Speaker 03

  You know, watching all these guys. I grew up on rock music, and I think that's what contribute to making the Three Six Mafia sound and, uh... Excuse me, the rowdiness and the wildness, like tear the club up, hit a motherfucker and stuff like that is, it came from me growing up on rock music.

• 24:42Bunnie XO?

  What was like your favorite rock band growing up? What were some of those?

• 24:44Speaker 03

  Like Van Halen.

• 24:45Bunnie XO?

  Yes, that's the first CD I ever stole was a Van Halen and got caught was stealing a Van Halen CD.

• 24:51Speaker 03

  Yeah, I just bought a Eddie Van Halen EVH guitar.

• 24:54Bunnie XO?

  Oh, dope.

• 24:55Speaker 03

  I got it at the house now. I gotta hang up. I got a huge guitar collection, but that was, you know, Jump was one of my favorite songs. Still, it's one of my favorite songs of all time.

• 25:04Bunnie XO?

  The guitars in that is insane.

• 25:05Speaker 03

  Yeah, and the synths.

• 25:06Bunnie XO?

  And the synthesizers, yep.

• 25:08Speaker 03

  The synthesizers, because a lot of these rockers back in the day, they didn't have keyboard players. They just relied on guitars and drums, but I liked when they added, you know, some keys in there.

• 25:21Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 25:21Speaker 03

  Cause I'm a keyboard player.

• 25:23Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 25:23Speaker 03

  So that was, that was dope on the end.

• 25:27Bunnie XO?

  So just watching MTV, your mom, you know.

• 25:30Speaker 03

  Oh, and I had, I'm sorry, I'm gonna cut you out.

• 25:32Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, you're good.

• 25:33Speaker 03

  My uncle's had a, a, a, a gospel group.

• 25:37Bunnie XO?

  Yes, I was just about to get to that. Did you ever get to sing with them? And what were they called? They were called?

• 25:42Speaker 03

  The Bogart Brothers.

• 25:43Bunnie XO?

  The Bogart Brothers.

• 25:44Speaker 03

  And I, I never, no, I, I never even seen them perform. I was too young.

• 25:49Bunnie XO?

  Oh, okay.

• 25:50Speaker 03

  But, but my uncle taught me about, uh, publishing.

• 25:54Bunnie XO?

  At a young age?

• 25:56Speaker 03

  Yeah, at a young age.

• 25:56Bunnie XO?

  That's amazing.

• 25:57Speaker 03

  Yeah, he taught me about publishing. That's, that's, that was saved my life.

• 26:01Bunnie XO?

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• 27:31Bunnie XO?

  but how well you live them. Listen and follow UnPaused with me, Dr. Mary Claire Haver, wherever you get your podcasts. I feel like that's like knowledge that you're gonna take with you forever. I always say like in high school, they should treat, they should teach like a credit in business class, because literally you'll, and like learn how to balance your checkbooks and stuff like that. Because little gems like that of what he taught you, you've, you've carried through life.

• 27:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, but it don't work like that because they don't want you to, they don't want you to win, win.

• 27:59Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 28:00Speaker 03

  They make more money off you losing.

• 28:01Bunnie XO?

  Right, well, yeah, it's just like the health system. They keep you sick, you know, so yeah, totally.

• 28:06Speaker 03

  They, they make more money off of that, so.

• 28:09Bunnie XO?

  So you never got to see the Bogart brothers perform?

• 28:12Speaker 03

  No.

• 28:12Bunnie XO?

  Okay, but did you grow up listening to their music?

• 28:15Speaker 03

  Yeah, hell yeah, they was jamming.

• 28:16Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, love that. So you decided to start DJing when you were in 10th grade?

• 28:22Speaker 03

  Yeah, 10th grade, so basically at 10th grade, I brought out our first, our first EP, me and Lola, it was called A Serial Killers.

• 28:31Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 28:31Speaker 03

  And then I started DJing as a way just to promote our music.

• 28:37Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 28:37Speaker 03

  So I would make mixtapes where I would be playing like the hottest artists, like NWA, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, whatever, whatever. And then I would ease in one of our songs.

• 28:48Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 28:49Speaker 03

  And then I would come to school the next day and they'd be like, hey man, what was that fourth song on there? I'm like, hmm, I gotta think, I don't know. Uh, that was me, motherfucker. You like it? Huh? You like it? Huh? Huh? It works? It works? Oh, we got something? Yeah, so that was my way of promoting and it eventually turned into just our songs.

• 29:07Bunnie XO?

  Yes, I love that. Can we dive into you and Lord Infamous a little bit because that's your half brother, correct?

• 29:13Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 29:14Bunnie XO?

  You guys were extremely close growing up.

• 29:17Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 29:17Bunnie XO?

  And was it you or was it him that brought the horror core? Because who was the, who was?

• 29:23Speaker 03

  Really, both of us.

• 29:24Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 29:25Speaker 03

  Because both of us loved to watch horror movies.

• 29:27Bunnie XO?

  What's your favorite one?

• 29:29Speaker 03

  Uh, Texas Chainsaw Massacre original.

• 29:31Bunnie XO?

  Okay, gotcha. That's Mimi's over there.

• 29:35Speaker 03

  Not to be bringing up Texas because you're here, but even if he wasn't here, that's one of my favorites.

• 29:39Bunnie XO?

  No, listen, I didn't even think about it like that. I love it, for sure.

• 29:42Speaker 03

  It's a great movie.

• 29:43Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 29:43Speaker 03

  And it was loosely based off a true story, which I like true crime.

• 29:47Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 29:47Speaker 03

  I watch true crime all, all day.

• 29:49Bunnie XO?

  Oh, literally, Jay and I fall asleep watching it. I'm obsessed with it.

• 29:52Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 29:52Bunnie XO?

  Um, you guys were the original people who, who started that because I remember back in the day, whenever I first heard about you guys, it was like you, Brother Lynch, Bone came along and started their like dark occultic stuff too, and then maybe Spice One a little bit.

• 30:10Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 30:11Bunnie XO?

  You know, like, so I mean, there wasn't too many people who were dabbling in that. Were you guys practicing behind the scenes or was it just something that you guys were into? Like, you know, the, the occultic themes and stuff like that?

• 30:23Speaker 03

  Yeah, we was just into, we was just into horror movies and, you know, growing up in Memphis, you know, you kind of live in a horror movie.

• 30:31Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 30:32Speaker 03

  It rains a lot and it's just a dark city and I think that's the reason why the music is so great.

• 30:37Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 30:38Speaker 03

  It has always been great out of that city, you know, so, um, we grew up, you know, watching horror movies and then I had a, a guy a long time ago give me a, a serial killer's book. The old Time Life magazines, you remember them, Time Life?

• 30:54Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 30:54Speaker 03

  And they would be running the commercials at night like, oh, you can get this, World War II.

• 30:59Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 31:00Speaker 03

  Oh, they say you need to send you all these books in the mail. Where, where they had a collection of serial killers, serial killer books. And this, uh, this guy I know, he, he came across one some kind of way. I was like, hey, man, ain't the collection like 12 books? And I ain't got 12, I got this one. You want it or not? I'm like, yeah, I want it. Give it to me. And, uh, uh, I, I had that one little serial killer book and I studied it. I studied it and like right now I got a collection of all of the serial killers. Frame black and white photos, black frames, black and white photos of all of the serial killers in my house and um I started studying serial killers.

• 31:39Bunnie XO?

  It's kind of like it just a li- not, I don't want to say obsession, but a fixation possibly.

• 31:44Speaker 03

  Yeah, you know what, I just got into how uh, you know, obviously they did terrible, terrible things.

• 31:49Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 31:50Speaker 03

  But what I more got into was the organization of it.

• 31:54Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 31:55Speaker 03

  The organization of it, you know, like you had guys that, you know, like, I'm only going, you know, like the Zodiac Killer, like.

• 32:03Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 32:04Speaker 03

  Only this person with this birthday, like, if I go up and this person got a different birthday, then I'm gonna let this person live or whatever. This is all fucked up people, don't get me wrong, but it was just, it was just something about the organization of it, they, they got in, they got into my head.

• 32:20Bunnie XO?

  No, I, I understand it because I actually, I don't know if you saw, but I got in trouble for wanting to bring a murderer on the podcast and that was a whole debacle that I had to learn from in this generation now, but you know, back in the day, I, I loved to figure out what made them tick. You know, like what makes you want to take somebody's life? How can you eat somebody? You know, like what, I, if I had a chance to sit down with Jeffrey Dahmer, I would do it, you know? And like get inside his head and try to figure it out. I think it's just, it's so morbid and so taboo that people are drawn to it because we're just like, how did this happen? You know, like we want to figure it out.

• 32:59Speaker 03

  Do this.

• 33:00Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 33:00Speaker 03

  What made you do this? And like, you, what more, what I'm, what, what I'm more curious about is a lot of these dudes had full families at home.

• 33:12Bunnie XO?

  Crazy, right?

• 33:13Speaker 03

  And I'm like, what did your wife, what did, like, I'm not trying to cheat.

• 33:18Bunnie XO?

  Wife not know?

• 33:19Speaker 03

  Yeah, like I'm not trying to cheat on my girl or not, but what excuse was you using to be gone all night? Like, we kind of, like, yeah, imagine that, the, the Ted Bundy book of excuses for your wife.

• 33:31Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 33:33Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 33:33Speaker 03

  Like, like dude, what was you telling your wife when you was gone all night? You was sleeping with three dead bodies next to a lake? Like, when you came home, like, I'm sure you smelled like hell.

• 33:42Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, yeah. Like, and just your energy, like, how do you even, how do you go from murdering somebody in the most heinous way to going home and being a doting father and husband?

• 33:53Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 33:53Bunnie XO?

  It's insane to me. Like, how do you make that switch?

• 33:56Speaker 03

  Well, one thing about it is, most serial killers, you know, not to get into racism or nothing, but most serial killers was white.

• 34:02Bunnie XO?

  Hmm.

• 34:03Speaker 03

  Cause black serial killers couldn't have did that because when you come home to a black woman, she'd be like, let me smell your dick.

• 34:08Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, absolutely.

• 34:10Speaker 03

  Ted Bundy ass would have been busted just off a dick smell. That would've saved so many lives, man, god damn.

• 34:19Bunnie XO?

  No, you're so real, you're so real. Who did that skit, Let Me Smell Ya Dick? I forget. There was a comedian who did the Let Me Smell Ya Dick, and I fucking lost it. Oh my god.

• 34:26Speaker 03

  Yeah, I didn't see that, but that just, that just happens in real life with, with black women.

• 34:30Bunnie XO?

  I'll have to send it to you. No, I believe it, 100%. So, taking it back to you and Lord Infamous, um, in 89, you guys dropped The Serial Killers together. He would rap and you would make the beats?

• 34:41Speaker 03

  Yeah, I rapped on like, one or two songs.

• 34:44Bunnie XO?

  Did you not wanna rap?

• 34:46Speaker 03

  Hmm?

• 34:46Bunnie XO?

  Did you not wanna rap?

• 34:47Speaker 03

  No, I didn't. I still don't wanna rap.

• 34:49Bunnie XO?

  Really?

• 34:50Speaker 03

  I hate rapping.

• 34:51Bunnie XO?

  Stop it!

• 34:52Speaker 03

  I can make beats all day. I can make a beat right here during this interview. I love making beats. I could be, if it was up to me, you know, like, I would, I would sit up and make beats 24 hours a day, if I could. I just have other businesses and stuff, but, but I hate writing raps. To sit down and write a rap, you gotta think about like, oh, what kinda shoes are these little niggas wearing? What's the new sands and like, I don't even know.

• 35:19Bunnie XO?

  I would think that making a beat would be way more intricate than making a rap.

• 35:24Speaker 03

  Well, it just depends on the person.

• 35:26Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 35:27Speaker 03

  You know, like, you got, you got some people that can make a rap so easy, just cause the, cause the wordplay is just in them or whatever, then, then you got some people that just, music is in them, and it's easier to make.

• 35:39Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 35:40Speaker 03

  To make music, cause when it comes to music. Excuse me.

• 35:43Bunnie XO?

  You're okay.

• 35:44Speaker 03

  When it comes to music, what makes music more easier is because music just really, nothing against a lyricist, but music just kinda comes from the heart and from the rhythm. And then you give it to the lyricist and you let him write about what he think the people wanna hear.

• 36:03Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 36:03Speaker 03

  Like a musician don't, don't really go in and make a beat because people want to hear this. And if they do, they probably making a mistake. You just go in and you just make what feels right. And then that's why a lot of musicians end up with a lot of beats that never see the face of the earth because they be like, ah, this sounds good, but I think I'm the only person in the world who actually liked this. You can't dance to this and you can't do this and do that, blah, blah, blah. But they just never know, sometimes just a simple instrumental will be something for people to clean the house too, or do homework too, or whatever. I think that's why the lo-fi is so popular now.

• 36:39Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 36:39Speaker 03

  Uh, all that, but with, with songs, writing the lyrics and coming over hooks and coming over choruses, this gotta be something that's gonna drive people in a way. You know, like, you gotta drive them, like, you know, like, if you're a good lyricist, you can take just a simple drum beat with a kick snare and a hi-hat and, and spit the right, the right vocals over the top of it and people gonna go crazy.

• 37:05Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 37:06Speaker 03

  But if you walk in here with just a drum beat with, with nothing over the top of it, people be like, they gonna be like, okay, uh, is it gonna do something else or is this it?

• 37:16Bunnie XO?

  So it's like the beat is the vibe and the lyrics are the energy?

• 37:21Speaker 03

  The, the, the, the beat is the energy.

• 37:23Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 37:23Speaker 03

  And the lyrics is what keep them, uh, keep their attention.

• 37:29Bunnie XO?

  Gotcha.

• 37:30Speaker 03

  And, and, and, uh, and find the, the spot, find the sweet spot.

• 37:35Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 37:35Speaker 03

  Whether it's an emotional record or it's an energetic record.

• 37:38Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 37:39Speaker 03

  This and that, it's only so much, uh, uh, music and, music can give you feeling, obviously.

• 37:44Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 37:45Speaker 03

  But then, you know, after a while, you kinda, kinda wanna know what's, what else is going on.

• 37:50Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, absolutely.

• 37:51Speaker 03

  Sometimes, sometimes not.

• 37:52Bunnie XO?

  When you explain it that way, it makes perfect sense. Um, bringing it back to you and Lord Infamous, can you give me a memory with him that you've never told anyone, but you still think about?

• 38:03Speaker 03

  Uh...

• 38:06Speaker 03

  Hmm, I'll have to think.

• 38:18Bunnie XO?

  We can always circle back.

• 38:19Speaker 03

  I'll probably wait to tell that one.

• 38:21Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 38:21Speaker 03

  I say them for the Paul movie.

• 38:24Bunnie XO?

  I got you, I got you, I got you. So around this time, when you're dropping these mixtapes and you and Lord Infamous are doing these um songs together, when does Juicy J come on the scene? When do you meet Juicy J?

• 38:37Speaker 03

  About two years later, like 92, maybe late 91. I just said 92 to be on the safe side. Another guy who I was producing was friends with Juicy.

• 38:51Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 38:51Speaker 03

  And he told me about Juicy and he was like, hey, this dude, I had heard of Juicy doing his mixtapes, but I didn't know him personally. And I would just see his tapes when I would go drop off my tapes at the stereo stores. And he was like, this dude named Juicy J wants you to help him make some, want to make some beats with you. Cause Juicy didn't really play the keyboard. I played the keyboard.

• 39:14Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 39:14Speaker 03

  So he was like, he wants you to, you know, help him make some beats, this and that. So, you know, he started coming over to my house and I would help him make some beats. And then we started finding that we had a groove, that we vibed together really good on making beats, you know, um, and then it just went from there.

• 39:33Bunnie XO?

  So you guys pretty much just had a love of music together and then that developed the friendship between you guys?

• 39:38Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 39:39Bunnie XO?

  How was you guys' friendship when you guys were younger? Was it always like best friends or did you guys actually like, you know, kind of like butt heads because it was creative direction?

• 39:49Speaker 03

  No, we never butt heads.

• 39:50Bunnie XO?

  Oh, good.

• 39:51Speaker 03

  We never butt heads, you know, like, I would always listen to what he had to say and he would always listen to what I had to say. And we just like, we just kind of went with the flow because we saw that it, that it, that it worked.

• 40:05Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 40:05Speaker 03

  You know, so if I'd be like, no, I don't think we should do it like this, we should do it like that. And he'd be like, that's cool. And then, you know, vice versa and we just, and it just like that. Because if you start putting, you know, too much disagreeing with it, then it's just, it was, it's probably not meant to be anyway.

• 40:24Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 40:25Speaker 03

  You know, so we never, we never had that, we never had that issue.

• 40:29Bunnie XO?

  I love that it was always fluid for you guys.

• 40:31Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 40:32Bunnie XO?

  You guys have, you know, Publicly said that you guys were speaking about drugs before like anybody else was speaking about drugs in the industry. You guys were very vocal about it. When did your drug use start?

• 40:45Speaker 03

  Oh, God. Uh, what like weed or the hard stuff?

• 40:49Bunnie XO?

  I mean, just your journey.

• 40:50Speaker 03

  We started in, uh, we started in seventh grade.

• 40:57Bunnie XO?

  Wow.

• 40:58Speaker 03

  I sold weed in the seventh grade.

• 40:59Bunnie XO?

  Because you were just a product of your environment of what you saw growing up.

• 41:04Speaker 03

  Yeah, because back in the day, weed was like, it was like scraps.

• 41:07Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 41:08Speaker 03

  You know, so like my, my brothers and everybody that was in the, that was in the game, like keys and all that was, was where the money at. Like they would throw away weed. Like we would just like, like here, we would just be laying around the house. It's like, like, oh damn, we go a pound of weed. They don't even see us. Nobody cared about weed back then.

• 41:28Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 41:28Speaker 03

  Like that.

• 41:29Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 41:29Speaker 03

  You know, like now people are making millions of dollars off weed, but back in those days, like weed, get out of here. Nobody want no weed.

• 41:38Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 41:38Speaker 03

  Cause the, the, the, the, the rich man's drug was cocaine.

• 41:41Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 41:42Speaker 03

  Yeah. Well, nobody trying to go to sleep.

• 41:44Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 41:44Speaker 03

  He was trying to stay up and, and party.

• 41:47Bunnie XO?

  The eighties for sure and the nineties.

• 41:49Speaker 03

  Like, like, come on, man. You mean to tell me you want me to pay you to go to sleep? I don't need to pay to go to sleep. I can do that on my own.

• 41:54Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. Nope. I agree. So you started smoking weed in seventh grade and then when, when did it start progressing?

• 42:01Speaker 03

  Uh, it started progressing when our first album came out.

• 42:05Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 42:06Speaker 03

  The album right there, Mystic Styles on that football behind your head.

• 42:09Bunnie XO?

  Okay. So it started progressing after three, six mafia?

• 42:12Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 42:13Bunnie XO?

  Was, okay. So let's, let's circle back then. So you meet Juicy J, you guys are vibing, Lord Infamous is in on this. You guys decide. Uh, what did Gangsta Boo step up on the scene?

• 42:24Speaker 03

  Oh, like.

• 42:27Speaker 03

  Ninety three ish.

• 42:29Bunnie XO?

  Okay, so she was like right behind.

• 42:31Speaker 03

  Nine four.

• 42:32Bunnie XO?

  Right behind Juicy.

• 42:33Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 42:34Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, I, I, rest in peace, Boo. We, I got to meet her the one time that she came and did my podcast and she almost beat me up.

• 42:41Speaker 03

  Really? Why?

• 42:43Bunnie XO?

  On the podcast. I was so nervous because I was still new to the podcast thing. That's why I'm glad you're here now because, you know, if I'd interviewed you a couple of years ago, I was just so nervous. And um, I just wanted to do some perfect with her and I forgot her first album name and I had to look down at my notes and she's, and she flipped out.

• 43:01Speaker 03

  Oh, I can imagine. I can imagine. I can imagine. I know, but it don't take much.

• 43:06Bunnie XO?

  She flipped out. Country was there. Country got scared and thought he was gonna have to break up a fight. Like, it was crazy. But then by the end of the interview, she was my best friend.

• 43:14Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, she flipped like that.

• 43:16Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it was crazy.

• 43:17Speaker 03

  Yeah, she would flip like that.

• 43:18Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. So how did Boo become a part of Three Six?

• 43:21Speaker 03

  We went to school together.

• 43:22Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 43:23Speaker 03

  All of us went to school together, except Juicy. Juicy was from the North Side. All the rest of us was from the South Side.

• 43:29Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 43:30Speaker 03

  Yeah, so uh, we went, we went to school together.

• 43:34Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, yeah, I love that. So we got all these members now and then you guys decide to form Three Six Mafia.

• 43:40Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 43:41Bunnie XO?

  How did you guys come up with the name Three Six Mafia? Because there's been so much speculation to you guys' name because it does have six, six, six in it.

• 43:49Speaker 03

  Yeah, it came from that.

• 43:50Bunnie XO?

  Okay, tell me.

• 43:52Speaker 03

  Basically, Lord Ethmus had said Triple Six Mafia in a song. That wasn't even our group name. He just said it. He was just like, "A triple six mafia falling down, down, down in the silencer." You know, he said something like that. And I liked it and I was like, whoa, that's dope. And I just started sampling, "Triple six mafia, mafia." And that became really popular with us. And that still wasn't our name.

• 44:16Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 44:16Speaker 03

  I would just sample that and then, you know, when it was time to form a group, I was like, hey, we should call ourselves Triple Six Mafia. And everybody liked it. And then next day I know white fans came like that.

• 44:29Speaker 03

  They flock to us. Next day I know we got a call to do a show in Bartlett, Tennessee. I'm like Bartlett, Tennessee? I'm like, I don't even know if black folks can go out there.

• 44:40Speaker 03

  And then next day I know we just started doing shows in number white clubs.

• 44:45Bunnie XO?

  Really? After you named the group Three Six Mafia?

• 44:49Speaker 03

  Triple Six Mafia.

• 44:49Bunnie XO?

  Triple Six Mafia?

• 44:50Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 44:51Bunnie XO?

  That's crazy. I know Lord Infamous has gone on record to say that he dabbled in like Satanism and all that stuff.

• 44:58Speaker 03

  Yeah, he didn't do that for real.

• 44:59Bunnie XO?

  He didn't?

• 44:59Speaker 03

  Hell no.

• 45:00Bunnie XO?

  I just watched an interview with him last night where he was talking about how he went to hell and demons were torturing him and like it was crazy and I was just like.

• 45:06Speaker 03

  Yeah, he was just high.

• 45:08Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 45:08Speaker 03

  I grew up singing Amazing Grace in the church and I was playing the organ. Everybody know that.

• 45:16Speaker 03

  I was in the church every Sunday in Mississippi. It don't get no more churcher than a Mississippi church.

• 45:22Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, for sure. I love that you call him out like that though. You're like, no, that's my brother. Nope, he grew up singing Amazing Grace. So there was no real satanic reasoning behind the name.

• 45:32Speaker 03

  No.

• 45:33Bunnie XO?

  The lore has always just kind of like your reputation precedes you.

• 45:37Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah. It was just a, it was just an image. It was just, it was just something that was cool.

• 45:41Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 45:41Speaker 03

  Like, like I said, we did, you know, study like killers and stuff like that, but we never studied Satan or any of that. I don't, I don't know nothing about all that.

• 45:50Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. So from 90 to 94, you guys ended up dropping 16 mixtapes. You by yourself and then also with Three Six or Triple Six, correct? Okay. So take me on this journey. What's like an insane, an insane story from the early days of Three Six Mafia that's never been told? Like a fight, a robbery, a wild tour moment?

• 46:13Speaker 03

  We got into, we got into, oh my God, we had a, we had a crazy one at a skating rink in Arkansas. Man, that one right there was wild.

• 46:23Bunnie XO?

  Really?

• 46:24Speaker 03

  Uh, yeah. It was a skating rink in Arkansas, West Memphis, like West Memphis, Arkansas. They used to always have rap concerts there and, uh, man, we went there one day and, um, Behind the scenes, we was, we had a little situation going on with some guys from Arkansas. But they'd end up getting, you know, squashed. We was all just young, whatever. But, you know, we end up getting super, super love from that part. It was just that little one part of Arkansas. But for whatever, whatever reason, back in the day, Arkansas and Memphis people, back in the nineties, not no more, they always got into it.

• 47:01Bunnie XO?

  Hmm.

• 47:01Speaker 03

  I don't know what it was. But, uh, so we went to, uh, we went to West Memphis, Arkansas to do this concert and, um, next day, I know it's like nine hundred people there. Next day I know the, uh, somebody in the crowd had threw a skate at us. It was a skating rink. Threw a skate. And I was like, okay, here we go. I knew this was gonna come. And I was like, all right, I'm, I'm, I'm not gonna pay attention to this one. Kept on rapping. Somebody threw another skate. I said, hey, y'all keep throwing these skates, man, we gonna leave. So rapping, three more songs came on, somebody threw another skate. I was like, all right, I'm out of here. We start leaving about it. The next day I know these nine hundred people start surrounding us, following behind us.

• 47:42Speaker 03

  Crunchy turned around and pulled out a gun, like this, like, get back motherfuckers, this and that. So they sat back. We went up in the dressing room, we went up in the, the office.

• 47:51Bunnie XO?

  Hmm.

• 47:51Speaker 03

  We went up in the office of the promoter. They start beating on the door. Boom, boom, come out of there, motherfucker, come out of there, motherfucker. Crunch open the door, put a gun in, bang back like that. And, uh, we was looking at the cameras. They was surrounded outside the door. I'm like, bro, I was like, you know, I told the dude, I was like, look, you can call the police or we can shoot our way up out of this motherfucker. It's whichever way you wanna do it, cause we got, it's four of us and all of us got, now it's, now it's probably like eight of us. I said, it's eight of us and everybody in here got a gun on.

• 48:20Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 48:20Speaker 03

  So you just let me know how you want us to get up out of here.

• 48:23Bunnie XO?

  Bunch of Memphis gangsters, too.

• 48:24Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah. Like everybody in three six mile was in some, in a, in a gang or some crazy shit, so. I'm like, look dude, is, you know, you call the police and get us up out of here or we get ourselves up out of here? This and that. This man picked up the phone. He looked at me and he said, the phones are dead.

• 48:42Bunnie XO?

  No.

• 48:43Speaker 03

  I said, what? I'm like, what kind of preset thirteen movie shit is that? I'm like, how's the phones dead? I'm like, there's no way they climbed up on the roof and cut the phone. I'm like, you know, all right, we'll get ourselves up out of here. This and that. We opened the door and we just, you know, we just like didn't pull them out, but we just kinda like just showing them with our hands up on there. We made our way to the comment and punched that motherfucker.

• 49:06Bunnie XO?

  Were you guys like inside, were you guys like trembling? Like it's one thing to have to portray something to the outside world.

• 49:13Speaker 03

  Was we scared? Yeah, I was a little scared. I was a little scared. I wasn't scared to the point like I thought I was gonna get killed.

• 49:19Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 49:20Speaker 03

  I just was scared to the point, I was like, man, this probably gonna be a massacre up in this motherfucker right now. Cause I'm like, you know, we gotta shoot our way to the car.

• 49:27Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 49:28Speaker 03

  And then by the time then, I mean, we can't, you know, like we can't and don't wanna hurt nine hundred people.

• 49:34Bunnie XO?

  No.

• 49:34Speaker 03

  Like somebody's gonna make it to their car. Well, and we gotta get all the way to the Mississippi Bridge. Then we gotta get over this bridge. It was like, you know, I'm just gonna thank God that nobody get hurt.

• 49:45Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 49:46Speaker 03

  Well, you know, like, they didn't have no security there.

• 49:50Bunnie XO?

  What the hell, the venue didn't have security or anything?

• 49:53Speaker 03

  We didn't have security, no, you know, you're talking about the.

• 49:55Bunnie XO?

  This is the early days.

• 49:56Speaker 03

  Early nineties.

• 49:57Bunnie XO?

  Were the crowds that you guys played for pretty rowdy? Cause I would think like, yeah, I would think like with some of your guys' music.

• 50:03Speaker 03

  Super rowdy.

• 50:04Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 50:05Speaker 03

  Super rowdy, this was back when there was no phones in the club.

• 50:09Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, so people were just all focused on you guys.

• 50:11Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 50:12Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, so if somebody was in a bad mood or having a bad mood that day, they were fucking taking it out on everybody. That's crazy. So take me on this journey with you guys. Um, when you dropped your album, um, I had heard in an interview, you said, I think it was the one in two thousand and five that you guys dropped and you, you paid forty five hundred dollars for it.

• 50:31Speaker 03

  That was ninety five.

• 50:32Bunnie XO?

  Ninety five, sorry, ninety five, and you guys paid forty five hundred dollars for it and turned it into like forty five million?

• 50:37Speaker 03

  Yeah, over forty five million now.

• 50:39Bunnie XO?

  That's insane.

• 50:40Speaker 03

  Obviously over these, yeah, it turned into forty five million fast. You know, and, uh, it was the same album, Mystic Styles, our first album, but.

• 50:48Bunnie XO?

  Sorry, my, my notes, my notes froze, that's why I didn't have the right ear.

• 50:51Speaker 03

  Yeah, ninety five, yeah, we didn't make forty five million dollars off that album alone, obviously, but.

• 50:56Bunnie XO?

  Just in general.

• 50:57Speaker 03

  That movie is what started our career and, you know, it went on to. You know, well, not 36 Mafia and the Mafia and all that is worth, you know, hundreds of memes now, but it, that's what started it all. Forty-five hundred dollars. Me and Juicy put, you know, uh, twenty-two, five together each. No, split it and made that album.

• 51:17Bunnie XO?

  Is it crazy for you guys to ever just like, do you guys ever, you and Juicy, just ever have a moment alone where you guys look at each other and just laugh because of where you guys came from and how the odds were stacked against you and how you guys scraped up twenty-two hundred dollars each to put towards this goal and it's turned into this huge, just amazing, amazing legacy?

• 51:39Speaker 03

  Yeah. Me and him never really did that, but I've done that, you know, with, with some other people, this and that. And just, you know, just thought about it. Like, I, I have this conversation a lot of times with like my, my best, best friends from my neighborhood that I grew up with.

• 51:55Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 51:55Speaker 03

  And they'd be like, especially my friend, Lil Larry, he can't stop talking about it. Man, I remember when you, that's how he talk. Man, I remember when you, man, man, when you used to ride around, that man, that man. Paul, Paul, you remember when you used, he, he reminds me of stuff that, that, that. Paul, you remember when you used to be trying to sell them tapes? You just had that little brown bag, that little brown, your mama makeup bag, that little brown bag with them tapes in it and trying to sell them tapes at school. You remember that? You remember that? I'd be like, yes, Larry, I remember that. He drunk, it's two in the morning. He can't stop talking about all this shit. I'd be like, yes, Larry, I remember when I had my mama's brown makeup bag and all that.

• 52:32Bunnie XO?

  I feel like friends like that are so essential, though, to kind of humble us.

• 52:36Speaker 03

  Yeah, well, to remind us of shit that we did.

• 52:38Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 52:39Speaker 03

  Cause he also remind, be like, man, you remember you got drunk that time? And I'd be like, shut up, Larry, I gotta go, I gotta go to sleep.

• 52:48Bunnie XO?

  I love that. So 2000, you guys dropped Sippin' on Some Scizorpe. And that's when I, I, I think Late Night Tip, Sippin' on Some Scizorpe and, uh, what, there was, then your album after that, 2005, is kind of like when I became a huge 36 fan, cause I was on the West Coast. So the southern rappers that I listened to were Outkast, 8 Ball, MJG, and you guys. And I mean, you guys took the world by storm. And this was before anything was viral. How did you guys manage to do that? How did you guys manage to take this from Memphis and spread it all the way across the world?

• 53:26Speaker 03

  Well, how it happened was. It was about the timing. It was about the timing of, um, like I was just talking about the cassette tapes that I sold at high school.

• 53:38Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 53:39Speaker 03

  Cause what happened was, you know, if I wouldn't have been in school, this, this, none of this would have happened.

• 53:46Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 53:46Speaker 03

  If I would have been graduated and I was out, none of this wouldn't have happened.

• 53:50Bunnie XO?

  Hmm.

• 53:51Speaker 03

  The school was my distribution.

• 53:53Bunnie XO?

  Wow.

• 53:54Speaker 03

  And the timing of it. See, remember what you said earlier. I was in the 10th grade when I started. So 10th, 11th grade, 12th grade, you graduate and you go to college.

• 54:04Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 54:04Speaker 03

  So the school was my distribution.

• 54:06Bunnie XO?

  Did you go to college?

• 54:08Speaker 03

  Hell, no.

• 54:09Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 54:11Speaker 03

  I wish I would have, cause I, I perform at colleges a lot and man, it look like they have a lot of fun.

• 54:15Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 54:16Speaker 03

  But no, I didn't go to college, but my music went to college.

• 54:19Bunnie XO?

  Gotcha.

• 54:19Speaker 03

  They took those old cassette tapes with them to college and I would get, I would get calls or running. I still today, I run into people and be like, man, I took your cassette tape to college and my roommate stole it. I was so mad, that motherfucker, I couldn't get it back until I go back to Memphis, go to the stereo store. I'll get my, my cousin to mail me one to the college. But they would take those old tapes to college with them. Roommates would steal them and then they would go back to where they was from.

• 54:47Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 54:47Speaker 03

  And then they would let those people hear it and then it would get duplicated and duplicated and it just spread all, all over the world.

• 54:53Bunnie XO?

  That's amazing. Take me to 2005, when you guys dropped The Most Known Unknown.

• 55:00Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 55:00Bunnie XO?

  What were you guys doing during that era? Because you guys just didn't miss at all. Yeah. That was like, I don't know, that was like where it just fucking exploded for you guys.

• 55:11Speaker 03

  Yeah, well, that was, that was when we really started to, that was when, you know how we talked about earlier about not being deserving of something, feeling that way?

• 55:23Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 55:24Speaker 03

  Well, that was at the point where I, I had just bought my first Rolls Royce.

• 55:29Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 55:30Speaker 03

  And I was like, I'm like, okay, alright, now I see what life's about. I had just built my first big house. Had an 8,000 square foot house that I built, designed like a castle. And, and I was like, man, okay, now I'm living life. Cause that was my first big house.

• 55:47Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 55:47Speaker 03

  I started building that in 2002 and I finished it in 2004. We recorded that album in 2004.

• 55:55Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 55:55Speaker 03

  I was making a lot of beats, you know? In that process and I even record, I even made the beat rather to Stay Fly's remix that featured uh um uh uh Slim Doug Houston.

• 56:11Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 56:12Speaker 03

  A Trick Daddy and a few guys on it. I made that beat at that house in the theater room. That was the only thing I ever did in that theater room.

• 56:20Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 56:21Speaker 03

  Don't ever put a theater room in your house. They never get used.

• 56:25Bunnie XO?

  Ever.

• 56:26Speaker 03

  They're just for kids.

• 56:26Bunnie XO?

  We've had a couple and they've never gotten used.

• 56:29Speaker 03

  Never get used. They look cool, but you never use them. I just, I always went to sleep in it. The only thing that ever came out of that room was making that beat.

• 56:36Bunnie XO?

  Aww.

• 56:36Speaker 03

  So the Stay Fly remix beat. So that's when I started really seeing what, what life's about. I had a house in Florida. I bought a house in Destin, Florida. Did MTV Cribs, if y'all wanna watch that MTV Cribs episode.

• 56:51Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 56:51Speaker 03

  And uh, man, we was living life, man. Juicy had got a Maybach, this and that. And you know, everybody was had nice cars. Everybody in the group crunching had like four cars, two houses on the same street. Everybody was, they even bought us baby mama a house on the same street as him. We was living life.

• 57:07Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 57:08Speaker 03

  And man, we just went in and I was like, man, we can't stop this. And we just went in and just made a, you know, super dope album.

• 57:16Bunnie XO?

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• 58:00Bunnie XO?

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• 58:39Speaker 03

  Yeah, my brother was an actual pimp.

• 58:41Bunnie XO?

  Okay, gotcha.

• 58:41Speaker 03

  I had a brother that was an actual pimp.

• 58:43Bunnie XO?

  Gotcha.

• 58:43Speaker 03

  Yeah, he got, he got killed being a pimp.

• 58:47Bunnie XO?

  Oh, rest in peace.

• 58:48Speaker 03

  Yeah, so, uh, yeah, I grew up, I grew up in that too.

• 58:53Bunnie XO?

  Okay, gotcha.

• 58:54Speaker 03

  When I say I grew up around organized crime, I basically did.

• 58:59Bunnie XO?

  All of it. Well, I mean, you can't have drug dealing without hookers and blow either, you know? So it's like, it all goes hand in hand.

• 59:05Speaker 03

  Yeah, it do.

• 59:06Bunnie XO?

  But yeah, that was my shit. I was popping my collar, popping, popping my collar everywhere, everywhere I'd go. I'd drive to like, you know, to my appointments and shit and be bumping three, six. It was my shit.

• 59:16Speaker 03

  And it, yeah, and if you, yeah, if you, if you was in that, in that life, then you knew that a lot of Memphis people was into pimping.

• 59:22Bunnie XO?

  Yes, absolutely.

• 59:24Speaker 03

  Memphis has so many pimps, man. That was, that was the thing back then. So many gold teeth.

• 59:30Bunnie XO?

  It was a different lifestyle too, you know, like it's not like it was, it's not like it is now. Like people always say that I glamorized that life, but it's not that I glamorized it. It's the life that I lived and it made me a lot of fucking money. And like, yeah, there are downsides to every fucking sort of street thing that you could possibly do. But there was also some good that came out of it for, for me. And I always, I don't try to glamorize it, but I do try to tell the truth about it, you know, and it was a different time in life.

• 59:57Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 59:57Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, it was, it was completely different.

• 59:59Speaker 03

  Yeah, it was, you know, like I grew up doing a lot of crazy shit too that, you know, I wouldn't, I wouldn't glamorize to talk about. I guess I, I guess I do with the raps.

• 1:00:07Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:08Speaker 03

  But you know, like in a, in a way, but you know, I just, I just noticed that a lot of people that I know that came from bad things in their past, I know a lot of people that's doing, the ones that survived, they're doing really, really good now.

• 1:00:21Bunnie XO?

  Absolutely. We're all in our dealing.

• 1:00:22Speaker 03

  Master P, Master P came from, you know, crazy shit, crazy shit, you know, like, you know, now they're doing worth hundreds of millions. You know, hundreds of millions because what I think it is, is. You get a different knowledge going through shit in the streets that a school could never teach you.

• 1:00:40Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 1:00:40Speaker 03

  I know people that went to, when you asked me to go to college, I said, hell no, because I know some people that went to college that ain't doing nothing right now.

• 1:00:47Bunnie XO?

  Absolutely. I always say street smarts over book smarts.

• 1:00:50Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:00:50Bunnie XO?

  Like, book smarts are a necessity for if you're gonna work a regular job and if you're gonna like, you know, be a CEO of like a financial place. But like, if you, in life, the school of hard knocks is gonna teach you the most lessons.

• 1:01:04Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:01:05Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:05Speaker 03

  Even in the music business, some people that I know that taught theyself music or this or that versus some people I know that went to school for music, they're in two different worlds.

• 1:01:18Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, absolutely.

• 1:01:19Speaker 03

  Two, two different worlds.

• 1:01:20Bunnie XO?

  It's just because hustle can't be taught, or hu- hustle can't be bought, you know, and it's like, school, you're, that's, you, you're essentially learning from somebody else, but like, in the streets, it's hands-on. You are, it's sink or fuckin' swim. Nobody's out there to save you, so you're gonna have to, it's kill or be killed. You have to figure it out yourself.

• 1:01:38Speaker 03

  Yeah, and you learn from, from, you learn more from pain. School don't teach pain.

• 1:01:43Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:44Speaker 03

  Pain is the quickest way to learn anything.

• 1:01:47Bunnie XO?

  That is a beautiful.

• 1:01:47Speaker 03

  Like, yeah, you get hit in the mouth and you be like, god damn, I should have blocked. Next time I would've blocked because that shit was not cool.

• 1:01:55Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, absolutely, but that's a beautiful.

• 1:01:58Speaker 03

  That shit probably add that to school, just walk around and.

• 1:02:02Speaker 03

  But you know, it wasn't school back in the day. I got a lot of weapons.

• 1:02:05Bunnie XO?

  Yes, I've gotten spanked by the principal before. Have you guys ever gotten spanked?

• 1:02:08Speaker 03

  Hell no.

• 1:02:09Bunnie XO?

  Aw, fuckin'.

• 1:02:10Speaker 03

  Man, they gonna call the police.

• 1:02:12Bunnie XO?

  No, yeah, I've gotten spanked. I had a principal who was able to spank kids.

• 1:02:16Speaker 03

  Me too.

• 1:02:17Bunnie XO?

  I couldn't imagine that.

• 1:02:19Speaker 03

  Yeah. Mr. Chambers, man, that motherfucker, man, he was the coolest dude in the world. He was tall, handsome, he looked like, he looked exactly like, uh, Laurence Fishburne.

• 1:02:30Bunnie XO?

  Oh, wow.

• 1:02:30Speaker 03

  And he would walk in there. He always had a mean face. And like, you had to really do something really fucked up for him to come. And this and that, so like, they, they pressed that button. Like, Mr. Chambers, uh, Paul is acting up again, I need you to come over here. He show up to that door. Come here, bar guy. He said, you know it's gonna be trouble and I gotta make house calls. That's what he said. You know it's trouble, I gotta make house calls. He was a comedian. Boy, and he was, he would whoop you in front of everybody.

• 1:03:01Bunnie XO?

  Oh, not in front of everybody, that's embarrassing.

• 1:03:03Speaker 03

  Right there, pull them pants up in the back. So it's tight. Pull them pants up. Man, he'll ask you which one you want, like the strap for the hand or the paddle with the butt.

• 1:03:15Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 1:03:16Speaker 03

  And this nigga, this nigga constructed a paddle that was worse, he put holes in it.

• 1:03:22Bunnie XO?

  Oh, he wanted it to catch the wind.

• 1:03:23Speaker 03

  Yeah, so, man, and then it like, it sucked in a little bit more, I think, because of the holes. Man, he like, which one, bar guy? Hand up, butt. I'm like, oh, god. So, man, he would be right there in front of everybody, but this the funniest story. My daddy owned a, a pest control company. And one day, my daddy got called to go to this dude's house. Man, we showed up to this house, I like mid-century modern houses. We showed up to this house, nice one-level mid-century modern house, in the hood, though.

• 1:03:56Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:56Speaker 03

  But it was the nicest house on the street.

• 1:03:58Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:58Speaker 03

  I'm like, yeah, that's a nice house. This and that, that was the only reason I went with my daddy, because I like to see houses. Like I told you, it's the sixty-five-year-old white woman inside of me. I'm walking out, like, man, it's some nice landscaping he got right here, it's a nice house. Man, next thing I know, the door swing opened and it was his ass. I said, what, I said, I said, daddy, I said, this is the nigga I was telling you about. This is my principal, this is who be whooping me. Man, we walk in there, his house is nice.

• 1:04:31Bunnie XO?

  Oh.

• 1:04:32Speaker 03

  Pimped out. He got the big screen TV where you pull a drawer out in the head, the green, white and now the green, red and blue lights that shined up on it, the old projector screen.

• 1:04:44Bunnie XO?

  Paid that good.

• 1:04:45Speaker 03

  Yeah, I'm like, man, this nigga probably a drug though.

• 1:04:49Speaker 03

  Man, house was nice. Big screen TV. I'd never seen a big screen TV in person.

• 1:04:54Bunnie XO?

  That's crazy.

• 1:04:56Speaker 03

  And man, and you know, and that, well, that was just funny story.

• 1:04:59Bunnie XO?

  Did your dad go in there and say anything to him or just acted like it was business as usual?

• 1:05:03Speaker 03

  I don't, not that I remember. I don't think he said that.

• 1:05:05Bunnie XO?

  I couldn't imagine sending my kids to school now and letting somebody spank them though, because you can't trust motherfuckers. Back in the day, it was a different trust.

• 1:05:13Speaker 03

  Crazy these days, but I swear it helped.

• 1:05:14Bunnie XO?

  No, no, for sure. And all of the bus stop fights, the ditching, the fucking, yeah, all of it.

• 1:05:19Speaker 03

  Always.

• 1:05:19Bunnie XO?

  Bring it back. Can we go back? I swear, I live in nostalgia, dude. Like, I just love the eighties, nineties and two thousands. I think it was just perfect.

• 1:05:27Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:05:27Bunnie XO?

  So, after you guys dropped the album in two thousand five, um, it went gold in six months, correct?

• 1:05:35Speaker 03

  That was the one in, uh, in nineteen ninety seven.

• 1:05:38Bunnie XO?

  Oh, that one was nineteen ninety seven? Okay.

• 1:05:39Speaker 03

  Nineteen ninety seven, our first major album.

• 1:05:42Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 1:05:43Speaker 03

  So, our first major album, we got our first record deal, our first major, uh, in the, our major distribution deal.

• 1:05:50Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:05:51Speaker 03

  Ninety seven, that album went to the club up on it. Went gold in six months. And that was the album that, that, uh, I made the bet and it was like, man, I think y'all gonna go gold. And I was like, no, I don't think so. And I made a bet with one of my friends and, and in six months it ended up.

• 1:06:07Bunnie XO?

  It wasn't Larry, was it? You didn't make the bet with Larry.

• 1:06:12Speaker 03

  I can't remember who it was.

• 1:06:13Bunnie XO?

  I'm just kidding.

• 1:06:14Speaker 03

  It probably was him though, to be honest. And, um, it went gold and I couldn't even believe it. I'm like, what? And we got that gold plaque and, man, I got one for everybody I knew.

• 1:06:24Bunnie XO?

  Did you feel like some sort of accomplishment when you finally did that? Like you were getting recognized?

• 1:06:29Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:06:30Bunnie XO?

  What did the two thousand five album do? If that one went gold?

• 1:06:33Speaker 03

  Oh, the two thousand five album, that album sold like six million.

• 1:06:36Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 1:06:37Speaker 03

  Yeah, that album was sold, sold.

• 1:06:39Bunnie XO?

  Was that platinum? Does that equal platinum?

• 1:06:41Speaker 03

  Platinum is one million.

• 1:06:42Bunnie XO?

  One million? Okay.

• 1:06:43Speaker 03

  Yeah, it went one million immediately, fast. I mean, even the singles, Stay Fly and all the singles and Side to Side, all them went platinum. That was, that was easy.

• 1:06:51Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:52Speaker 03

  Yeah, it was. That album, yeah, it sold like five or six million. It was.

• 1:06:57Bunnie XO?

  During this time was whenever you guys were doing the soundtrack for Hustle and Flow too, correct?

• 1:07:03Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, we did that too. So, all of this came back to back, you know, we had the most known. And see, it was funny how it worked because we had made all those other albums. By this point, 2005, we made our first gold album in 97. So by the time, we had another album that came out and went, uh, the Sivino Sisup album was in 2000, it went platinum.

• 1:07:30Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 1:07:30Speaker 03

  You know, and it ended up selling, you know, probably two or three million copies. So, and then we had another album that went gold, Unbreakables. So by the time 2005 happened, you know, I already got, you know, five or six plaques on the wall.

• 1:07:44Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:45Speaker 03

  And, but we, I was like, nobody still knew who we was. I should have kept it that way, but I was fucking dreaming and that's why I had to watch what I wished for.

• 1:07:55Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 1:07:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, I had to watch what I think about because I would really bring shit into, into existence.

• 1:08:00Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, you manifest.

• 1:08:01Speaker 03

  Yeah, you manifested and, and I named that album The Most Known Unknowns. And I was like, we known, but we not known. I said it at the beginning of the album. And I started playing all of the hits we had, like, "Chifresla Bonanotte", like, I started scratching, "Tender Club", but the whole intro was me scratching all of our songs, like beating it in people's heads of all the hits we had. And then, next thing I know, that fucking album come out and every song on that album was a hit.

• 1:08:31Bunnie XO?

  Literally.

• 1:08:31Speaker 03

  And then, after that album, the next year, we win an Oscar. And now we the most Sony, like, y'all the most Google thing in the world. And I'm like, uh-oh, what did I do?

• 1:08:43Speaker 03

  What did I do?

• 1:08:44Bunnie XO?

  You say that you wish that you guys would have stayed unknown. Why do you wish that?

• 1:08:50Speaker 03

  Well, you know, popu- being popular, man, is not, is not cool.

• 1:08:56Bunnie XO?

  It's not for the weak, that's for sure.

• 1:08:58Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's not cool, like, you know, back on our very first album, that album, not to keep bringing up that football, that's right behind your head, that's for sale on 36mobyemerged.com.

• 1:09:08Bunnie XO?

  This football right here?

• 1:09:10Speaker 03

  Not to keep bringing that up.

• 1:09:12Bunnie XO?

  This one right here?

• 1:09:13Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, but that album right there, we wore masks on the cover. And that's what I wish we would have kept doing.

• 1:09:20Bunnie XO?

  Oh, okay, so people hadn't seen your faces, though?

• 1:09:23Speaker 03

  They hadn't seen our faces after that album.

• 1:09:25Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 1:09:25Speaker 03

  But as far as that album, they hadn't seen our faces.

• 1:09:29Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 1:09:29Speaker 03

  You know, and that's something I wish we would have kept doing, like, I used to look at groups like Kiss, and Insane, Clown Posse.

• 1:09:36Bunnie XO?

  Slipknot, yeah.

• 1:09:36Speaker 03

  I used to be like, man, I can't imagine how nice it would be to be rich, but nobody recognized you.

• 1:09:44Bunnie XO?

  I didn't recognize Gene Simmons. He came in the club one night and got a dance for me and my best friend Tasha, and I didn't recognize him. He kept telling me he was Gene, and I didn't believe him until he licked my back with his long ass tongue. Yeah, Gene Simmons licked my back, me and Tasha, and I was like, you are. Like, I didn't recognize him until he stuck that fucking long ass tongue out, dude. Because they had their faces covered all the time.

• 1:10:07Speaker 03

  Yeah, man, and that's, that's, that's, I used to live down the street from Gene Simmons in LA. I passed his house every day, used to see his wife and the kids up at the Italian restaurant that we all used to eat at.

• 1:10:21Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:10:21Speaker 03

  It's gotta be the tallest family in the world.

• 1:10:23Bunnie XO?

  Tall.

• 1:10:24Speaker 03

  The wife is tall, the kids are tall.

• 1:10:27Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:10:27Speaker 03

  I'd be sitting down there eating my sweet getup, like, damn, who the big ol'...

• 1:10:32Bunnie XO?

  I love it.

• 1:10:33Speaker 03

  Well, um, yeah, I, I, I wish we would have kept wearing the mask, because, you know, like I said, to, to have money, but nobody recognized you, I can't imagine how, it would be the equivalent of being an invisible person.

• 1:10:50Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 1:10:50Speaker 03

  Like, an invisible person walk in this room right now, which I'm sure there's probably a couple in here.

• 1:10:55Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:10:55Speaker 03

  A visible person, it would be like that.

• 1:10:58Bunnie XO?

  It's like Clark Kent. And Superman. You know, like you get to have two personas.

• 1:11:04Speaker 03

  Which I don't know how nobody never, I just watched Superman the other day and I'm like, how did I know that? He just put on glasses, that was his disguise?

• 1:11:12Bunnie XO?

  It was the bulge, it distracted all the girls. They just didn't know.

• 1:11:17Speaker 03

  Have you, have you watched the story of him?

• 1:11:19Bunnie XO?

  No, of Superman or of like Christopher Reeves?

• 1:11:22Speaker 03

  Christopher Reeves.

• 1:11:23Bunnie XO?

  A little bit.

• 1:11:24Speaker 03

  The new one that's out?

• 1:11:25Bunnie XO?

  No, I have not seen.

• 1:11:26Speaker 03

  It's a new one that just came out, man, it's so good.

• 1:11:28Bunnie XO?

  Is it good? I'll watch it.

• 1:11:29Speaker 03

  It's really good, it tells his whole story, his whole life and it's really good.

• 1:11:33Bunnie XO?

  I just hate how it ended for him.

• 1:11:36Speaker 03

  But he was, you know, he was really, he really was like a Superman. Flew planes. He did everything in real life, he was real active.

• 1:11:48Bunnie XO?

  Nobody has anything bad to say about him, like he was just a really good human and I hate when bad things happen to good humans. So has 36 Mafia ever really officially broken up?

• 1:12:01Bunnie XO?

  There's never been like an announcement of you guys like breaking up, it's just always you guys doing your own projects or like.

• 1:12:07Speaker 03

  Yeah, we just split up and just started doing solo stuff.

• 1:12:10Bunnie XO?

  Members leaving and stuff like that. What's your relationship with Juicy now? Are you guys still close?

• 1:12:15Speaker 03

  Yeah, we're still touring. We started back touring for the first time in September of 2019. It was the first show we had did together since 2012. Yeah, so we've been touring ever since then back together. We got a tour coming up. This, this summer. And we got, for the first time in April, we got Coachella.

• 1:12:38Bunnie XO?

  Oh, that's gonna be, that's gonna be iconic because now the newer generation of kids are gonna get to see you and they're gonna latch on to you dude.

• 1:12:47Speaker 03

  Oh yeah, they've been doing it.

• 1:12:49Bunnie XO?

  TikTok, you guys are insane on TikTok dude.

• 1:12:53Speaker 03

  It be going crazy, those songs, it be going viral. I'm sitting, I'm looking at TikTok and I see like a 19 year old white girl like we gonna fuck her in the back of the bus and fill her nose up full of that dust. I'm like,

• 1:13:07Bunnie XO?

  It's crazy. How does it feel to influence just generations of kids? I mean, even like kids that are, are kids now. You're like, it's just generation, generation, generation and then all of these young artists too.

• 1:13:21Speaker 03

  Yeah, well, you know what it is? I read something the other day that said, well, it wasn't the other day, it was last year, but um. I think I'm still living in 2024.

• 1:13:30Bunnie XO?

  That's how you know we're getting old, when we say the other day and it was last year.

• 1:13:34Speaker 03

  Yeah, the other day was like 10 years ago.

• 1:13:37Speaker 03

  But I was, last year I saw something that said that um I, the kids that like um, I don't know what generation they are, but the, the age that our kids are will listen to like the music that we liked.

• 1:13:55Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:13:56Speaker 03

  And blah, just like we like, we listen to music that our parents like.

• 1:14:00Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:14:01Speaker 03

  So you know, like, I'm a huge fan of, you know, the Stax musicians, because I grew up in Memphis, my momma listened to a lot of Stax music. So I like that. And you know, kids these days like, you know, like my music because their parents was listening to, you know, my music or whatever.

• 1:14:16Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:14:16Speaker 03

  When I saw, uh, when, when Cardi B and, and Offset first started dating, I saw them at um, I saw them at The Breakfast Club in New York. I was going on after Cardi B. Cardi B was in there doing, this was when she first came out. Cardi B was doing her interview and I was sitting in the lobby talking to Offset. And Offset was like, he was like, man, how y'all come up with that triplet flow? The triplet flow. And I was like, man, that was, that was Lord Uffens. Like, man, he like, man, my mommy used to listen to 36 Mafia all the time. And I was like, damn, I was like, you're making me feel old, nah nigga, you're making me feel old. But uh, but it was, it was so funny to hear that.

• 1:14:57Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:14:58Speaker 03

  He liked us because his momma listened to us.

• 1:15:01Bunnie XO?

  No, it's wild. It's just, it's the, the lore with you guys, like I've said a couple of times during this podcast, just runs so deep. So you guys both won, you guys all won an, an Oscar and an Academy Award? Is that the same thing?

• 1:15:14Speaker 03

  The same thing, yeah.

• 1:15:15Bunnie XO?

  It is the same thing, okay.

• 1:15:16Speaker 03

  The Academy Award is like, the, let's just say the, the event. The Oscar is the actual award.

• 1:15:22Bunnie XO?

  Gotcha. I've always got that confused. I've never understood what that was.

• 1:15:25Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:15:26Bunnie XO?

  And then, so you guys ended up winning the Oscar for the Hustle and Flow song, Hard Out Here For A Pimp, before winning the Grammys.

• 1:15:34Speaker 03

  Yeah, we won an Oscar way before we won a Grammy.

• 1:15:37Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:15:37Speaker 03

  Still today, 36 Mafia never won a Grammy. I'm the only person in 36 Mafia that won a Grammy.

• 1:15:43Bunnie XO?

  Wow, okay, I didn't know that. Because you've won four Grammys though, right?

• 1:15:47Speaker 03

  Yes. If you include songs that re, re, that re, that's remakes of ours, five.

• 1:15:54Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 1:15:54Speaker 03

  Because we just won again with Chris Brown's album.

• 1:16:01Bunnie XO?

  Yes, I just saw you post about that.

• 1:16:03Speaker 03

  A week ago, whatever.

• 1:16:04Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:16:05Speaker 03

  But in 2020 with Cardi B. But to get the actual, actual trophy. Yeah, I was, I'm the only person in 36 Mafia that got one. I won it with Killer Mike.

• 1:16:20Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 1:16:21Speaker 03

  With Killer Mike.

• 1:16:23Bunnie XO?

  The year that we were there, right?

• 1:16:25Speaker 03

  Yeah, y'all was there.

• 1:16:26Bunnie XO?

  Yes, I remember that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:16:28Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:16:29Bunnie XO?

  That's amazing. So tell me, when you finally win that Grammy? Because I know for every artist, my husband's the same way. It's like you guys all want that Grammy. Like, it just means so much to you guys. When you finally get that in your grasp and now you have five?

• 1:16:43Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:16:43Bunnie XO?

  How does that feel?

• 1:16:45Speaker 03

  Man, it feels amazing, man. You know, like, because it's something. When I won the Oscar, I didn't even know what an Oscar was.

• 1:16:52Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, I still don't.

• 1:16:53Speaker 03

  Yeah, so, but I was, you know, I was, you know, it was a blessing, you know? So happy to have that. But when I won a Grammy, I was like, oh my God. You know, because, you know, as musicians, we look forward to the Grammy.

• 1:17:09Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:17:09Speaker 03

  You know, so it was, it was great. It was great getting that.

• 1:17:12Bunnie XO?

  And it's hard. People don't realize how hard it is to win a Grammy.

• 1:17:16Speaker 03

  It's really hard.

• 1:17:17Bunnie XO?

  There's some people who go their entire careers and never get a Grammy. They'll get nominations if they're lucky, but never get Grammys. And you have five. Like, that speaks volumes for your talent.

• 1:17:28Speaker 03

  Thank God it happened.

• 1:17:29Bunnie XO?

  What's one thing that you've learned about the longevity in this game? Let's talk about like your sobriety and stuff like that, too.

• 1:17:37Speaker 03

  So you want me to mix the two together? You want me to talk about it separately?

• 1:17:40Bunnie XO?

  Separately, I'm sorry.

• 1:17:42Speaker 03

  Oh, right now I am a year and three months sober.

• 1:17:47Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 1:17:48Speaker 03

  You know, no weed, no drugs, no, not even vitamins. Like, you know, I'm the cleanest I've ever been in my, my whole life. I was never into vitamins and pills and all of that, thank God. I think if I would have got into the whole pill world, I'd probably be dead.

• 1:18:04Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 1:18:05Speaker 03

  You know, but thank God, the hardest drug I ever did was cocaine. And not saying that's not a hard one, it's a pretty hard one, but that's, that's, that's, that's as big as it ever got for me.

• 1:18:16Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:18:17Speaker 03

  You know, um, I stopped that long, long, long ago.

• 1:18:20Bunnie XO?

  Hmm.

• 1:18:21Speaker 03

  Uh, but alcohol, uh, year, year and three months. But now I did take my breaks. You know, I've, I've been off alcohol for, I was, for like four years at one point, almost four years at one point, like two thousand nineteen, twenty, you know, this and that, all that. I think I started back drinking in like twenty twenty one, some part of twenty twenty one, but like about four years up to that, three and a half years up to that, I was sober too.

• 1:18:48Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:18:48Speaker 03

  And, uh, I gotta say, man, it's, it's the best thing I ever did in my life.

• 1:18:52Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, sobriety is hard. I tell everybody it's the hardest but most rewarding journey that you'll be on. Like sobriety does suck when you're first coming off of everything, cause I got sober on the Yellow Wolf Tour in twenty seventeen off pills and cocaine. Alcohol in two, in twenty eighteen, been sober ever since. Um, it's a really hard journey because you have to get to know yourself and you have to learn to cope with things that you've always numbed, you know, and it's not easy, but once you get past that hump, it is like thinking about even snorting a line makes me wanna fucking crawl in a hole. Like I could never anymore. Like, once you get that far away from it, you're just like, how was I this person before?

• 1:19:33Speaker 03

  Yeah, well, I don't think like that when I think about cocaine. I kinda miss cocaine, to be honest, but.

• 1:19:40Speaker 03

  I would never do.

• 1:19:41Bunnie XO?

  You sound like my husband.

• 1:19:43Speaker 03

  I would never do cocaine again in my life. I mean, you can't with Fennel.

• 1:19:46Bunnie XO?

  No, you can't.

• 1:19:47Speaker 03

  I just read today on the way over here that, uh, um, Corey Feldman's, uh, uh, drummer just died from Fennel.

• 1:19:54Bunnie XO?

  Oh, no.

• 1:19:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, they just announced it today.

• 1:19:57Bunnie XO?

  Oh, shit.

• 1:19:58Speaker 03

  Yeah, so you can't do cocaine no more. Thank God we got off of it when we did because.

• 1:20:03Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:20:04Speaker 03

  You know, that's what killed Boo.

• 1:20:06Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:20:06Speaker 03

  Yeah, so.

• 1:20:07Bunnie XO?

  What was the pivotal moment for you wanting to get sober?

• 1:20:11Speaker 03

  Man, I just, uh, of cocaine or of, of, of, uh.

• 1:20:14Bunnie XO?

  In general, both, both.

• 1:20:16Speaker 03

  Cocaine, I just got sick of waking up with headaches and stopped up noses. I hate a stopped up nose more than anything in the world.

• 1:20:22Bunnie XO?

  The bloody nose, the bloody boogers that come out too.

• 1:20:24Speaker 03

  Yeah, I hate that shit, man. Blowing your nose, fucking comment come out.

• 1:20:29Bunnie XO?

  Ugh.

• 1:20:29Speaker 03

  Yeah, I hate that.

• 1:20:31Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, it's gross.

• 1:20:32Speaker 03

  That alone. If I never got stopped up nose, I'd probably still be getting high.

• 1:20:36Bunnie XO?

  No.

• 1:20:36Speaker 03

  But I didn't like that, I didn't like the headaches. I didn't like feeling like shit because the thing about cocaine, you feel so good when you're doing it and you party. Then the next day you wake up, you're like, ah, God, man, what the fuck happened? So.

• 1:20:51Bunnie XO?

  When I think about cocaine, I just think about people pooping in their pants, okay? Because you cannot do a line of cocaine and not have to take a shit.

• 1:20:58Speaker 03

  Yeah, you gotta take shit.

• 1:20:59Bunnie XO?

  Have to, always.

• 1:21:00Speaker 03

  You just gotta be, you just gotta be close to a bathroom.

• 1:21:02Bunnie XO?

  And baby wipes.

• 1:21:04Speaker 03

  Yeah, close to a bathroom.

• 1:21:05Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:21:06Speaker 03

  That's probably why people do so much cocaine in bathrooms.

• 1:21:08Bunnie XO?

  Literally, so they can take a dump right after, as soon as that drain hits.

• 1:21:12Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:21:12Bunnie XO?

  Ugh.

• 1:21:13Speaker 03

  So, well, the reason why I got just all the way, all the way clean is just because with, with, with alcohol, man, you just make so many bad decisions.

• 1:21:27Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:21:27Speaker 03

  So many bad decisions, you know, like, there's nothing wrong with drinking alcohol, you know? I don't want people to think that, you know, just getting fucked up is when the bad shit come in. You only have a couple of drinks, this and that, that's fine, but I never got to that point. I tried it, we've all tried it, like, I'm gonna go have a couple, you know, dinner, and then, man, next thing you know, because what, what happened is, somebody will be like, oh, man, you want to go over here? Let's go over here, we'll just, after dinner, we'll just have like one drink, watch the game, one drink. Then next thing you know, it's three in the morning, and that one drink, then turn to the 100 drinks.

• 1:22:03Bunnie XO?

  Well, our generation is binge drinkers.

• 1:22:05Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:22:06Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, we did, there was no, we were just trained to go, TGG, always, you know?

• 1:22:10Speaker 03

  Yeah, so, that's when the problem kick in, so, you know, like. Next thing you know, somebody's calling you the next day like, "Hey, man, we gonna be over at that same bar tonight. If you wanna come back." Like, "Who is this? I got your number last night. You remember me, man? We was hanging out and this and that." Everybody's your friend when you're drunk.

• 1:22:29Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, especially my husband. Yes, I know.

• 1:22:31Speaker 03

  And see, I'm the type of person that I don't like making new friends.

• 1:22:35Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:22:35Speaker 03

  I'm in the process of my life of getting rid of friends. So like, making new ones is the last thing that I possibly want and like,

• 1:22:44Bunnie XO?

  I feel that.

• 1:22:45Speaker 03

  Drinking, you're just like, you know, made, you know, gave this person your number now he's calling you. He wanna hang out some more and this and that and you just, just so many wrong, bad decisions and

• 1:22:57Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:22:58Speaker 03

  You miss stuff. You miss stuff. Like, I had a, I was talking to a big, a big producer who was gonna put me on the phone with an even bigger producer one day. This wasn't that long ago. This is like two years ago.

• 1:23:13Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:23:13Speaker 03

  About, um, about, um, uh, making a TV show based on my life. This guy actually got big TV shows on Netflix as we speak. And I missed the call because I was drunk. I said, "God damn it." And you know how Hollywood is?

• 1:23:32Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:23:33Speaker 03

  It's like, "I apologize. There's no problem. We just set up another call." Shit, never got that other call set up. And I was like, "Man, you know what? You know what? That just cost me." But you know, at the same time, I don't regret it because it's a million people out here wanna do that with me. So I, and they just, it just wasn't, God didn't want me to do it with, with them maybe, or whatever the case was.

• 1:23:55Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, the universe always intervenes.

• 1:23:57Speaker 03

  Yeah, nothing wrong with them. I wish I would've did it with them, but at the same time, it's like, you know, he didn't want me to do it with them.

• 1:24:02Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:24:03Speaker 03

  You know, so I'mma have to do it with, you know, just do it with somebody else or do it another time with them. Maybe he just didn't want me to do it with them at that time because I wasn't clean and I probably would've just got on set and fucked it up.

• 1:24:15Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:24:15Speaker 03

  Or something, so.

• 1:24:16Bunnie XO?

  Maybe he'll listen to this podcast and circle back.

• 1:24:18Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:24:19Bunnie XO?

  Put it in the air.

• 1:24:20Speaker 03

  Yeah, so, uh, I missed that call and I was like, "Man, this..." And I only missed it by like thirty minutes, but that's, that's too long for a big, a big producer, you know? So, uh, I was like, "Man, you know, you just, alcohol just have you, you just, you just miss too much stuff."

• 1:24:39Bunnie XO?

  My thing is, is I can't deal with the fucking three day hangovers, dude.

• 1:24:43Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:24:43Bunnie XO?

  Um, and the older you get too, your like, mental health gets affected by it. And I'm just like, I can't afford to not feel like myself for three days.

• 1:24:51Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:24:52Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, I'm good.

• 1:24:53Speaker 03

  Yeah, that's how it happened because somebody told me, they're like, man, you know, when you, when you, you, when you hit forty, hangovers are three days. And boy, I wouldn't be damned if the day on my birthday. I saw that shit. It's like three days.

• 1:25:06Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:25:06Speaker 03

  If you're lucky.

• 1:25:07Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:25:08Speaker 03

  You're lucky.

• 1:25:09Bunnie XO?

  No, for sure. So I want to circle back to the question that I, I lumped in with your sobriety. Um, what's the one thing you've learned about longevity in the, in this game, in this whole genre of life?

• 1:25:21Speaker 03

  Uh, man, it's about just, it's, it's about just teaching yourself something new. Always educating yourself on something new about life. Excuse me, about life. Like I read this book that changed my life in a lot called Atomic Habits. Atomic Habits is a great book and it teaches you about just, um, preparing yourself. You know, like, it'd be like, if you're, if you're the type of person that's, that's, uh, late for work because you want to eat breakfast in the morning, start preparing your stuff the night before.

• 1:26:01Speaker 03

  You know, like maybe cut up your vegetables, put them in a little, in, in a Tupperware container or whatever, and have all it ready to go. So the next morning, you just crack your eggs, throw them in there, scramble them up, make your taco, burrito, whatever you want to make and, and, uh, keep it moving. You, you've eliminated the, the most, the most time consuming part, cutting up vegetables. Everybody hate cutting up vegetables.

• 1:26:25Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 1:26:26Speaker 03

  Wolfgang Puck don't even cut vegetables. You got a sushi chef for that.

• 1:26:29Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:26:30Speaker 03

  So, you know, like, and then it says, like, if you want to make a habit of going to the gym every day or three or four times a week or whatever, like even if you're late and you're not gonna, you're only gonna be able to spend ten minutes in the gym. That's not gonna, you know, you're not gonna gain no muscle or nothing in ten minutes, but just go do it anyway because you're building the habit.

• 1:26:54Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 1:26:54Speaker 03

  Of going.

• 1:26:55Bunnie XO?

  Retraining your brain.

• 1:26:56Speaker 03

  The consistency, so. That book right there changed my life a lot, you know, just gotta stay consistent in whatever you do, you know, to the point it hurts me sometimes, so consistent with shit.

• 1:27:08Bunnie XO?

  I feel like we're always learning, though, and you can never stop learning. When you think you know everything, that's when you're not living.

• 1:27:14Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:27:15Bunnie XO?

  I feel like there's always a lesson to be learned in something. I know I learn shit every fucking day still.

• 1:27:20Speaker 03

  I went to look at, um, one day I was in Beverly Hills, I was looking for this, I was looking at this condo that I wanted to buy, and it was for sale by a doctor. And when I went in this condo, I couldn't believe my eyes. I thought, I thought it was photoshopped. This main condo was so clean. Now, everybody's gonna clean their house when somebody's come to look at it, but I got a feeling that this dude lives like this.

• 1:27:50Bunnie XO?

  Oh.

• 1:27:51Speaker 03

  I'm sitting up there like, man, this dude is this clean. I want him to do my, my checkups because shit, this dude right here is a perfectionist.

• 1:27:58Bunnie XO?

  He's thorough.

• 1:28:00Speaker 03

  Man, when I went in his closet, he only had four suits, exactly the same, four pair of shoes, exactly the same, five, five, four or five shirts, exactly the same, just hung up, organized to the T, no extra shit nowhere. But this one really tripped me out. When I went in his bedroom, he didn't have a TV on the wall. The whole floor to ceiling, wall to wall, was bookshelves.

• 1:28:28Bunnie XO?

  Aww.

• 1:28:28Speaker 03

  Nothing but books. And I was like, at night, this dude read books when he goes to sleep. He don't watch TV.

• 1:28:35Bunnie XO?

  That's amazing.

• 1:28:36Speaker 03

  He's sitting up watching a, a Jeffrey Dahmer documentary like I am. He's reading a book. It might be about Jeffrey Dahmer, who knows? But, but he's reading a book.

• 1:28:46Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 1:28:47Speaker 03

  And I was like, man, yeah, I saw something that it said that, that billionaire, all billionaires read a certain amount of books a year. Books is where it's at, man, like. I was never into books and I still don't read books. But you know, I got the audible, I listen to books, you know, riding down the street. Whatever you're doing, cleaning up, I need to get back into it. A few, a couple of years ago, I was into it like, like a motherfucker, but I fell off. But I'm just starting to get back into it.

• 1:29:15Bunnie XO?

  It's hard reading books, like I, I can listen to a book all day long, I love audibles. But when I sit down and actually try to like look and read a book, I, it's like. I go back to that little girl in sixth grade who just couldn't focus and like, it's like, I can read something, but my mind won't attain it.

• 1:29:33Speaker 03

  Me too.

• 1:29:33Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, so it's like, I have to listen to it.

• 1:29:35Speaker 03

  I'm the same way. Some people just like that. Like, like, uh, uh, growing up, if I got a new keyboard and it came with, you know, an instruction manual. I, I didn't read that. I just had to have somebody come over my house who already had their keyboard and show me what to do. Because I, I can read, I know how to read, I can read really good, but.

• 1:29:55Bunnie XO?

  Just can't obtain it.

• 1:29:56Speaker 03

  I, I'll forget in a second.

• 1:29:58Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, same.

• 1:29:58Speaker 03

  I'll forget in a second. So like, these days, you know, all night, I'm watching. Tutorials on YouTube, you know, about this drum machine and this turntable and this and that, we call it YouTube University. I'm always, anything I can't figure out how to do, I just pull it up. Like, how do you work this? And there's a YouTube video on that, I'm gonna watch every one of them. And one thing I noticed. One thing I noticed is you'll see some, somebody that'll have like. A hundred thousand views on this, on this keyboard or drum machine or whatever you're trying to make, uh, uh, you know, a grilled cheese sandwich. A hundred thousand views and it'll be somebody that got one thousand views.

• 1:30:42Speaker 03

  That person with the one thousand views, I have the most. Here, here, here, have the sweet spot of what I was really looking for.

• 1:30:49Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, no, I love that too. Yeah, I do that too. I've noticed people's numbers and then you go to like, watch their, you know, video or whatever it is. And they, they always have the better information as opposed to the bigger one.

• 1:31:00Speaker 03

  Yeah, cuz sometimes the guys with the, with the most information, I mean, with the most views, right? Other have the less information because they trying to sell it to you.

• 1:31:08Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 1:31:09Speaker 03

  They're like, hey, and if you want to learn more, I got a link right here, go right here. They pointing and it ain't even popped up yet. I'm like, where are you pointing at? And then after a while, those picture, a smaller picture of him, a point at. I got a one that you can go here and watch if you want to see how to do this. I'm like, that's the reason why I watched this one. Because I want to see. So then you click on that one. They're like, if you really want to learn more, you go right here. Then you click on that one. If you really want to learn more, you go to the link down below. For thirty dollars a month, I'm like, okay, here we go. I just watched ten videos to figure this out. You should have just told me you wanted thirty dollars. I didn't give you thirty dollars thirty minutes ago.

• 1:31:44Bunnie XO?

  No, I feel that. And now they do that on TikTok too. It drives me fucking crazy. You have worked with so many artists. You've worked with pretty much, I, I mean, the list could go on. Everybody. Is there anybody that you haven't worked with that you want to work with?

• 1:31:59Speaker 03

  It would have to be somebody outside of rap because I've worked with everybody in rap. So it would have to be.

• 1:32:10Speaker 03

  Man, I would just have to think because it would be somebody in like a totally different space, like.

• 1:32:18Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:32:18Speaker 03

  It would be somebody like Tears for Fears or some shit.

• 1:32:20Bunnie XO?

  Or like EDM. Have you done EDM?

• 1:32:22Speaker 03

  Yeah, done a ton of EDM. EDM was kind of, kind of made off my sound.

• 1:32:26Bunnie XO?

  Wow.

• 1:32:26Speaker 03

  In a way. I did the first EDM rap record before it was even a such thing as the word EDM.

• 1:32:31Bunnie XO?

  Really?

• 1:32:32Speaker 03

  Yeah, it was called Feel It and I filmed a video in two thousand nine in Vegas. Where were you at?

• 1:32:38Bunnie XO?

  Two thousand nine, I was in Vegas.

• 1:32:39Speaker 03

  Yeah, you should have came and gotten the video.

• 1:32:41Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:32:42Speaker 03

  It was a.

• 1:32:43Bunnie XO?

  I'll go back in time and show up.

• 1:32:44Speaker 03

  Yeah, it was with DJ Tiesto when nobody in America really knew who he was.

• 1:32:50Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:32:50Speaker 03

  DJ Tiesto and Sean Kingston. Sean Kingston wasn't even old enough to get in the club to shoot the video. So I had to rent a penthouse suite upstairs and bring some girls and we shot his scene in there.

• 1:33:04Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:33:04Speaker 03

  Because he was a kid. And we brought out this song called Feel It. And the song went gold in Canada first, my first out of, out of country plaque.

• 1:33:16Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:33:16Speaker 03

  And.

• 1:33:18Speaker 03

  The song didn't get no video play uh on nowhere but YouTube because MTV was like, uh, we don't have nowhere to put this. We don't even know what genre this is, you know? It wasn't a such thing as the word EDM did.

• 1:33:32Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:33:33Speaker 03

  It was um, and then um BET wasn't gonna play it. One on Six in Park wasn't gonna play it. And I was sitting up here like, you know, if it's not a box for something, you should just create the box. And um, and they didn't. So the song never got no play. But it end up starting something.

• 1:33:54Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:33:55Speaker 03

  Because, you know, uh, Lil Jon and, and um, and uh, uh, what's my boy's name? Lil Jon and Party Rock.

• 1:34:07Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:34:08Speaker 03

  What's my boy's name? Party Rockers in the House Tonight.

• 1:34:12Bunnie XO?

  Oh, LMFAO. Yeah.

• 1:34:14Speaker 03

  They fucking had the vision.

• 1:34:15Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 1:34:16Speaker 03

  They was like, oh, I see what they trying to do here. Okay, let's just do, let's do this.

• 1:34:19Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:34:20Speaker 03

  And man, they, they came out with all them songs and man, blew up. And I was like, see Sony, this what I was trying to tell you, motherfucker. This was it.

• 1:34:28Bunnie XO?

  So you're pretty much the father of EDM.

• 1:34:30Speaker 03

  Yeah, with, with hip-hop on it, I am.

• 1:34:33Bunnie XO?

  I love that.

• 1:34:33Speaker 03

  I am. I was in Vegas one day over to Maloof's house uh for a Halloween party.

• 1:34:39Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:34:39Speaker 03

  I still got the pictures in my phone. And it was, I, I met with uh Afrojack. Me and Afrojack had, did a song together, but it never came out. Now the beat came out and it blew up.

• 1:34:50Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:34:50Speaker 03

  I heard it in the club one night. I was waiting for my verse to come on. I'm like, oh, I'm telling everybody. I'm like, hey, I'm on this. I'm on this. I'm on this. Like, next thing I know, you know EDM songs, they last for twenty minutes.

• 1:35:00Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:35:01Speaker 03

  Fifteen minutes done came, I ain't heard myself yet. I'm like, uh-oh.

• 1:35:05Bunnie XO?

  Uh.

• 1:35:05Speaker 03

  I'm like, where is my verse?

• 1:35:10Speaker 03

  And then I saw Avril Jack one day at the Maloos house. I'm like, hey, man, what am I having? I was like, you never used that verse we did. And he was like, I didn't understand the hip hop on pop music at that time. But now I understand it. We should go back. I said, yeah, let's go to studio now, motherfucker. Let's do this. Like, we had some going. We had some going.

• 1:35:30Bunnie XO?

  I love it.

• 1:35:31Speaker 03

  Me and you, man, we had some going here.

• 1:35:33Bunnie XO?

  In so many words, he said, let's run it back.

• 1:35:35Speaker 03

  Yeah, and, um, and next thing I know, you know, EDM came out and it was mixed with loops and chants, just like my stuff was back in the day. And, you know, it became huge.

• 1:35:46Bunnie XO?

  They have mastered the art of being rich, rich, and going under the fucking radar. Like, they're never in fucking any trouble. They're never like in any bullshit.

• 1:35:55Speaker 03

  Well, you know why? It's because they never get married.

• 1:35:57Bunnie XO?

  Right, yeah, literally.

• 1:35:59Speaker 03

  They refuse to get married.

• 1:36:00Bunnie XO?

  Literally.

• 1:36:01Speaker 03

  They refuse to get married.

• 1:36:02Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, no, for sure.

• 1:36:04Speaker 03

  I see them every Christmas because every Christmas I'm over Adrian's house.

• 1:36:07Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. Oh, I love that. Yeah, I didn't, I never got to meet Adrian, but the brothers, I definitely knew the brothers.

• 1:36:12Speaker 03

  Yeah, Adrian, I love Adrian, man. She's so cool. I've spent my, we spend our holidays over Adrian's house.

• 1:36:17Bunnie XO?

  I love that. That's really cool. Yeah, the Maloos are great people. Um, so let's talk about your restaurant, The Hideaway.

• 1:36:24Speaker 03

  Yeah. The Hideaway is the only restaurant on road, basically the only restaurant on Road Deo Drive, 421 Road Deo Drive, The Hideaway. Go check it out. It took us forever to make that restaurant. We started working on that restaurant in, in 2015, and we didn't open up to two years ago.

• 1:36:43Bunnie XO?

  Wow. What took so long?

• 1:36:46Speaker 03

  Uh, well.

• 1:36:47Bunnie XO?

  Licensing and permits?

• 1:36:48Speaker 03

  Permits. Beverly Hills was like, you know, we would show them stuff and they'd be like, that doesn't fit the aesthetics of Beverly Hills.

• 1:36:57Bunnie XO?

  What kind, what kind of cuisine is it?

• 1:37:00Speaker 03

  It's like upscale Latin.

• 1:37:03Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 1:37:03Speaker 03

  Like, we got like, you know, you can go there and get a wagyu taco.

• 1:37:06Bunnie XO?

  Oh. We'll have to go check it out next time.

• 1:37:09Speaker 03

  Yeah, you gotta check it out, man. It's really good. The food is amazing. Everybody go there. I love it. All kind of celebrities be there because we got, we're in a courtyard, so paparazzi can't come in that courtyard.

• 1:37:19Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:37:20Speaker 03

  And, um, we got private, private VIP. You can go down underground and come up the elevator straight to our restaurant. So like, nobody see you coming to the restaurant if you don't want them to. You can go through the front off of Rodeo if you want to, or you could come around the back from underground and, you know, and it's hid away. That's why we call it the hideaway and,

• 1:37:42Speaker 03

  you know, but the, the permits and all, it was a blessing in disguise because we were supposed to open up like February of 2020, before anybody heard of COVID.

• 1:37:52Bunnie XO?

  During COVID.

• 1:37:52Speaker 03

  Or the pandemic. And, you know, we didn't get, we didn't get our clearances and all of that in time, so, we didn't open and that was a blessing because we wouldn't be open now. We end up opening after all of that.

• 1:38:06Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, the universe always provides, always. Would you say that the restaurant business is probably one of the hardest businesses to be in?

• 1:38:13Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 1:38:14Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:38:15Speaker 03

  It's super hard.

• 1:38:16Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:38:16Speaker 03

  It's super hard. You know, it's a lot of work, a lot of money coming to it. You know, because I had a restaurant with, with these same guys and some other guys in 2010. You know, we was open for like six months and, and they closed down, you know, like, the guys called me one day. They was like, Paul, you know, we gotta close down the restaurant. And they was like, unless you want to keep it going, because they knew I, I always wanted a restaurant. Like, do you want to keep it going? I'm like, how much, how much is it? And they was like, well, you know, without staff, just the rent on Sunset Boulevard at that time, uh, it's $20,000 a month. I'm like, uh, who do I get these keys to? Because we've been to close this mother. Damn.

• 1:38:56Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:38:57Speaker 03

  Yeah, like, nah, that was, that was it. And then 15, five years later. Uh, we went back at it and it worked.

• 1:39:05Bunnie XO?

  I love that for you. That's awesome. I love that you always have your hands in stuff that you're not, that you're always doing something different musically, but you're also doing stuff outside of music.

• 1:39:15Speaker 03

  Yeah, I do everything, man.

• 1:39:17Bunnie XO?

  Love that.

• 1:39:18Speaker 03

  I spread myself too thin sometimes, a lot of times because of that.

• 1:39:21Bunnie XO?

  Uh, I think that that stems from just, my husband does it too. And I think it's just you guys are just so excited to be where you're at. And I mean, now you've been in it for a long time, but he does it too because he's just so excited and just wants to do it all and see it all and say he's done it. So.

• 1:39:35Speaker 03

  Yeah. And not just that, when you come from the hood like me and him do, you know, man, man jelly got a lot in, in common and people don't even know about it. Like, you know, our organizations and this and that, all our street shit and all this shit, but, but, uh, when you come from where we came from, you just want to take as many, you know, steps as you can not to go back to that.

• 1:40:00Bunnie XO?

  Yes.

• 1:40:00Speaker 03

  You don't want to put all your eggs in one basket. I would never put all my eggs in a music business basket. Like, no, like, uh-uh. Like, if music, I don't even live off music, to be honest with you. Like, I have so many other forms of income. I actually learned that from a, a lady in Nashville one day. I was out here recording, uh, Yellow Wolf, producing Yellow Wolf. And, um, I was a pescatarian at the time. This is like 2019. I was a pescatarian and I went to, I was still eating seafood, but no meat. And I went to a seafood restaurant in Nashville on the way to the studio. And I, and a black lady, uh, came in there, older black lady came in there and

• 1:40:43Speaker 03

  me and my brother Phil were sitting at the bar and she was like, um, can you guys help me out with something? I'm buying my husband a laptop from Best Buy down the street and I want to know what's the, what kind I should get. And I told her, I was like, I only use Apple, but you know, you can get whatever you want, but that's what I use, blah, blah. And we, uh, my brother started talking to her because my brother got the bail bond business. He gave her the card and he was like, you know, like, what are you doing? She was like, You know, me and my husband, we own a bunch of different companies. She said, I read a long time ago that at all times you should have seven forms of income. It's like a rule. And I was like, oh, wow. And she was like, you know, we started out supplying drink machines for a big, a big business.

• 1:41:27Speaker 03

  And then I asked them, I was like, uh, you know, who do your, uh, your, your clean, who do your cleaning in the business? So we end up picking up that account. And I was like, oh, who do the landscaping? So we end up picking up that account. So just in that one building, she picked up three forms of income right there. And she told me about the other four she had or whatever. And I was like, man, that's a good idea. So I just started, you know, like seven forms of income. Now I think I got seven hundred. But, um, I just.

• 1:41:54Bunnie XO?

  It's not a bad thing though. It's not a bad thing though. So do you have new music coming out?

• 1:41:59Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:42:00Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 1:42:00Speaker 03

  Next Friday, well, I don't know when this will be, when y'all.

• 1:42:04Bunnie XO?

  We're dropping, we'll drop this on Monday.

• 1:42:06Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:42:06Bunnie XO?

  We'll drop it Sunday.

• 1:42:07Speaker 03

  Yeah, so this Friday, which would be like the twenty first or something.

• 1:42:11Bunnie XO?

  Okay.

• 1:42:11Speaker 03

  Whatever this Friday is, I got a new single with Crazy Bone coming out from Bone Thugs.

• 1:42:16Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:42:17Speaker 03

  Talked about that.

• 1:42:17Bunnie XO?

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:42:18Speaker 03

  For the longest, Three Six Mafia and Bone Thugs was rivals. Long time rivals.

• 1:42:22Bunnie XO?

  Actually, when Jay and I first got together, I'm a Bone Thugs girl. He's three six guy. And he was like, don't ever talk about Bone Thugs in the house.

• 1:42:32Speaker 03

  Thank you for that, Jelly, thank you for that.

• 1:42:33Bunnie XO?

  His loyalty with you guys.

• 1:42:35Speaker 03

  Thank you very much, thank you very much.

• 1:42:36Bunnie XO?

  Like, we for real got in an argument one time. Cause I was like, are you fucking kidding me? I was like, it's Bone Thugs. And he's like, no bitch, you're in my house now. This is fucking, it's three six all day long.

• 1:42:47Speaker 03

  So we was, we was into it back in the day. And I don't know if you seen our versus, we did versus like.

• 1:42:52Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:42:53Speaker 03

  Two, three years ago.

• 1:42:54Bunnie XO?

  Yes, I did. I watched it.

• 1:42:55Speaker 03

  A physical fight on stage.

• 1:42:57Bunnie XO?

  That's when him and I got into that argument.

• 1:42:59Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:43:00Bunnie XO?

  Was during the versus.

• 1:43:01Speaker 03

  Yeah, well, like, you know, like, and we, and us and Bone have been friends for years. We did our first song together with Crazy Bone on the Project Pet album back in nineteen ninety seven. The beat started in like ninety three. Um, you know, so we've been, you know, cool ever since then. Bone is like my brother brothers. Like I'm, I'm closer with, with some members of Bone than I am with actual family members.

• 1:43:27Bunnie XO?

  They're actually supposed to be coming on the podcast.

• 1:43:28Speaker 03

  Yeah, I love those guys, man. So like, even when that, when that happened, that day, like some, some of us looked at each other, like we charged at each other, like, like, man, I'm not gonna hit you. Like, I'm not gonna hit you. Like, no, we're not gonna hit you. And we hugged, you know, we hugged. So it's like.

• 1:43:45Bunnie XO?

  I feel like Busy is the one who pops it off all the time.

• 1:43:48Speaker 03

  He did do that. Busy, Busy is who did it. Cause everybody else, man, I, I, I see these dudes every day. We got the same merch factory.

• 1:43:55Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:43:55Speaker 03

  Like, we go to work together. We coworkers.

• 1:43:59Speaker 03

  But I hadn't, I hadn't never, I'd never really seen Busy in real life except like in nineteen ninety-six at Atlanta Airport.

• 1:44:07Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:44:08Speaker 03

  Uh, that was the only time I had ever seen him.

• 1:44:10Bunnie XO?

  They say he's really elusive. I met him one time and it was like meeting an alien. He just was like, like he doesn't talk. I don't know. He's just got a very different energy.

• 1:44:20Speaker 03

  Yeah, he don't, he don't really talk. He's real quiet. You know, he's, he's really deep, you know, he's really deep with his thoughts and all that.

• 1:44:26Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:44:27Speaker 03

  You know, I like him, you know, I'm a fan. He's really cool. And I like how he started it off. I like how he started the verses. He brought, cause I started it off, you know, we all friends with each other. So I started off like, oh man, yeah, man, we've been going here for history and for the culture, you know, three, six mafia and boom. We're gonna have a good time and they're gonna do some songs and we're gonna do some songs. Busy said, fuck that. He started posting shit of him beating us up and shooting us and killing us. And I'm like, oh, we're playing prison rules now. Okay, Busy, okay, we good. So I started posting stuff back. We, we would take each other heads and like put it on

• 1:45:08Speaker 03

  other little bodies from a movie where somebody get locked in a trunk or beat up or something. So he started it off. He, but it was good.

• 1:45:16Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:45:17Speaker 03

  Because he started really building it to be like a, a real, a real match, like a Mike Tyson.

• 1:45:25Bunnie XO?

  Like a real versus.

• 1:45:26Speaker 03

  You know, fight or something, you know, he, he, he built it up. He took it there. So when we walked out on stage, you know, we was walking, shaking, hugging hands and he was still in character. But he was looking at me like, I'm like, okay, I thought this was just a publicity stunt, but I think this nigga is serious. So he didn't even shake nobody's hand. He was looking at her like, I'm like, okay, this finna be a fun night. And you know, so I just, I got back into it. He was looking at me mad. So I'm like, okay, if that's where you wanna go, we can just go there, motherfucker. Like this, I can do the mean, mad shit all day.

• 1:45:59Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:46:00Speaker 03

  I was trying to be the nice dude, but if you wanna do that, then we can just do that. And this and that. So, you know, all night we was, you know, this and that, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad with him. You know, and then next thing I know, he just hauled off and threw the bottle of water at Gangsta Boob. No, he called us ugly first. He like, man, you ugly motherfuckers. This and that. And I was like, okay, a man called another man ugly, but okay, I get it. You pretty. You got long hair. I don't have long hair. I used to have long hair. I don't have long hair no more. But, you know, so he called us ugly and then he threw the water bottle at Gangsta Boob. So then I ran up to, you know, to block them and protect them, but I wasn't gonna go over there and hit him.

• 1:46:43Speaker 03

  You know, I wasn't gonna hit him. I wasn't gonna hit nobody in that group because I'm cool with everybody in that group. So I just really just ran up just to like, stop this dude. But then, you know, next thing I know, my boys behind me kept running. They didn't stop. Cause they don't hang out with them. So then they ran and next thing I know, you know, people stopped punching, this and that, and we, we broke it up.

• 1:47:04Bunnie XO?

  Was it still all for publicity or was it real on business end?

• 1:47:07Speaker 03

  No, that was real.

• 1:47:08Bunnie XO?

  Wow.

• 1:47:08Speaker 03

  Yeah, that was real.

• 1:47:10Bunnie XO?

  That was probably one of the most iconic verses though.

• 1:47:11Speaker 03

  There was people backstage with black eyes. Yeah, it was real.

• 1:47:15Bunnie XO?

  Holy shit.

• 1:47:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, it was real, real. There wasn't no, there wasn't, it was real. And then they sent him backstage. He stayed backstage for a while to calm down. And we, we continued it. And then he walked back on stage. He walked straight over to me, you know, he apologized and he like, man, you know, this, this. I was like, man, I'm not tripping, bro. You're like, we all family here. We all hugged out and then it's the first of them.

• 1:47:41Speaker 03

  You know, we sung the song together. The vibes was back good and backstage, everybody was hugging and taking pictures. It was back cool. Me and Lazy Bone posted a picture backstage of us hugging each other, smiling. It was everywhere.

• 1:47:56Bunnie XO?

  But if you, you know, it was one of the most iconic verses and it actually

• 1:48:00Speaker 03

  It was the best verse of all time.

• 1:48:01Bunnie XO?

  Probably go down in history. So it was like, you know, whether Busy was just playing a character, we'll never know. It was kind of worth it.

• 1:48:09Speaker 03

  Yeah, man, it was super worth it, man. Shout out to Busy, man. You gave us the best verses of all times and I love you, brother. Let's work.

• 1:48:16Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, let's do it.

• 1:48:18Speaker 03

  Yeah, it was great. You know, I was glad. I wouldn't take one minute of that back.

• 1:48:23Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:48:24Speaker 03

  But the only thing what was a little crazy about that moment is I'm looking in the audience and the audience kind of got divided. So like the Bone fans was on that side of the stage and the Three Sisters Mafia fans was on this side of the stage.

• 1:48:37Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 1:48:38Speaker 03

  So when the fight broke out, I saw little young dudes jumping on stage.

• 1:48:45Bunnie XO?

  Right.

• 1:48:45Speaker 03

  From they side and from our side, like ready to fight, fight.

• 1:48:48Bunnie XO?

  Oh.

• 1:48:49Speaker 03

  And I'm like, uh-oh. Like, somebody tell these young niggas that everybody on the stage is about 50 years old and it's not that serious. It's not that serious.

• 1:48:59Bunnie XO?

  But I also think what's cool about you guys reconnecting at the end and like squashing it and being able to perform together is it shows this generation who is so quick to pull a trigger. Like, hey, you guys can have beef. It can actually turn into a physical altercation and you guys can still hug it out and be cool. Cause that's how it used to be back in the day with us growing up. You would fight at the fucking bus stop, fight at school, fight wherever. And then you would hug and you guys would either be friends or you guys would just never fuck with each other again.

• 1:49:26Speaker 03

  Yeah, that's how it's supposed to be. And I loved the way it ended. It was such an iconic nightmare. It was so fun.

• 1:49:32Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, I love that. So you're doing a song with Crazy Bone.

• 1:49:36Speaker 03

  Yeah, well, we doing a whole album.

• 1:49:38Bunnie XO?

  Oh, okay.

• 1:49:39Speaker 03

  We got an album that'll come out the fall of this year, but we got a single that drops this Friday called I Go Dumb. And it's like on some, some nineties, you know, get crunk, get crunk Memphis, you know, old DJ Paul type shit and uh, we got a whole album that's coming out.

• 1:49:55Bunnie XO?

  I'm kind of excited for that.

• 1:49:57Speaker 03

  But I got a lot of albums coming out. So I got an album uh with me and Young Buck that's coming out. I've been knowing Young Buck.

• 1:50:03Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:50:04Speaker 03

  For forever. So we got an album coming out and then uh I got a solo album coming out. An album with me and Crazy Bone and then just, I've been producing a lot of people like every day I'm doing something with different people.

• 1:50:18Bunnie XO?

  For somebody who doesn't like rapping, you're certainly dropping a lot of projects.

• 1:50:22Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah. Well, cause I, I like to, like I said, I like to make the, the music, but when I gotta sit down and write to it.

• 1:50:29Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:50:30Speaker 03

  But, but the reason why I'm dropping so many projects this year is because like I said, you know, reading, reading, even if I'm not reading a book, I follow, oh, you know, listening to a book. I follow a lot of educational pages on Instagram. So like if I'm on Instagram.

• 1:50:47Bunnie XO?

  I love those.

• 1:50:48Speaker 03

  I'm not just on there looking at all of the crazy shit.

• 1:50:51Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, me either.

• 1:50:51Speaker 03

  I actually started unfollowing some of the page. I stopped, all the pages that was showing people fighting, I stopped following all of those.

• 1:50:58Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, you don't wanna bring that energy into your life.

• 1:51:01Speaker 03

  Followed all that. But you know, just, just watching, you know, news in Memphis and LA is, it'll bring it right back into you. But it's some, some of it you gotta know. Like when you told me about Jelly through his phone and um, in uh, in the river. Like, I get it, but sometimes some stuff you wanna hear, especially in Tennessee. Cause if they announce a tornado, Jelly, we probably wanna start getting away from here.

• 1:51:30Bunnie XO?

  Yeah. No, my hus- the way my husband is thinking about it, he's like, somebody on my team will tell me. Like, he really is like, I don't give a fuck what's going on online. He's like, I'm living my life and nobody's gonna bother me.

• 1:51:43Speaker 03

  Yeah, that's the best way. Like as long as he got a wife, like you or somebody on the team, you can do that. But like, if you don't have nobody, like that's kinda dangerous.

• 1:51:51Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, for sure.

• 1:51:52Speaker 03

  It's kinda dangerous. So. When I'm on social media, I'm looking at, I'm looking at, I follow a lot of pages on educational stuff, food, homes, whatever, whatever. And I saw, I saw someone there one day that talked about procrastinating and, you know, and just like, and I sent this to all of the artists who I knew. Where this guy was talking about, you know, just sitting on music, sitting on music. I'm like, man, I'm sitting on so much music. And I'm like, you know, I'm not gonna do that this year. So I set up, it took, it took about a week. I set up and I took all of my hard drives back all the way from 2008.

• 1:52:36Speaker 03

  And I just started putting, putting all these beats and songs and song ideas on one hard drive. And then I made copies of that hard drive. It came out to be thousands of files. I had to scale it down to the hundreds. Then I scaled it down to like my favorite, maybe 10 beats for Buck, 10 beats for Crazy Bone, and 10 beats for a Paul album, and like another 10 for a Paul solo, uh, just instrumental album. And, um, and that's, and now I'm just, I'm getting to it. And I told myself that starting this Friday, I will bring out a new song every two to three weeks for the rest of this year.

• 1:53:17Bunnie XO?

  Hell, yeah. I'm also excited though, because you said you're bringing beats from 2008. Like, that's gonna be like some OG.

• 1:53:23Speaker 03

  That stuff in there from the 90s.

• 1:53:25Bunnie XO?

  DJ Paul shit.

• 1:53:26Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:53:27Bunnie XO?

  That's exciting.

• 1:53:28Speaker 03

  Yeah, it is.

• 1:53:29Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, that's gonna be nostalgic. I can't wait to hear these projects.

• 1:53:32Speaker 03

  Yeah, so that's, that's what I'm trying to do this year, man. Just every two, y'all subscribe to my Spotify. Follow me on social media. Every two, three weeks, I'm gonna bring something out. I don't care if it's just, uh, uh, uh, like we talked about earlier, about, about the musician bringing out, uh, just some, just some music to ride to. With nothing on it, with no vocals on it, I might just bring out a few of those.

• 1:53:57Bunnie XO?

  Yeah.

• 1:53:57Speaker 03

  I'm just gonna bring out something.

• 1:53:59Bunnie XO?

  Do it.

• 1:54:00Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:54:00Bunnie XO?

  I do it. If anybody can do it, it's you.

• 1:54:02Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:54:03Bunnie XO?

  In closing, the last question I want to ask you is, in 50 years, when people talk about DJ Paul, what do you want your legacy to be? If you could see it through your eyes and paint the picture for anybody, what do you want them to remember about you?

• 1:54:18Speaker 03

  Man, just, just what I brought to the, the music industry. Like, the whole creating crunk music, obviously. Creating crunk music and, and putting that whole energy, uh, that whole tear the club up, fight music energy into, uh, into rap music. You know, that went on to go into, into other kinds of music. Like, when I listen to, when you listen to some of the drum patterns and those little dry snares that, that I started, like, you hear, you hear that in country music these days. You hear that in all kind of stuff, like, it's, it's all over the place. Like, you hear it in so much.

• 1:55:01Speaker 03

  You hear it in EDM, you hear it in funk music, you hear it in everything. So, like, this whole, like, little dirty, little distorted bass sound that I was playing around with as a kid is all over the place right now. And just, just that, just my, um, contribution to, to, uh, music, you know?

• 1:55:23Bunnie XO?

  Do you feel like you've gotten your flowers enough?

• 1:55:26Speaker 03

  Of course.

• 1:55:27Bunnie XO?

  Good.

• 1:55:27Speaker 03

  I used to then, until I made that Most Known Unknown album. That's a little too many flowers.

• 1:55:34Speaker 03

  So, yeah, yeah, I, I, I get it enough.

• 1:55:36Bunnie XO?

  Good.

• 1:55:36Speaker 03

  You know, some people always be like, "Oh, man, you never get mentioned and, uh, mentioned and this and that." But they just don't know, like, I really don't like getting mentioned.

• 1:55:45Bunnie XO?

  Hmm.

• 1:55:45Speaker 03

  Yeah, I'm, I'm like, cool, like, I like to fly under the radar.

• 1:55:48Bunnie XO?

  Hmm.

• 1:55:49Speaker 03

  Like, you know, give me my awards and, you know, and this and that. And, you know, and you can shop me out here and there, but I don't need a, I don't want a lot of attention. I never wanted a lot of attention. I'm still the dude that go around with no security and I'm fucking sitting up in Whole Foods reading the ingredients on the back of ketchup. Like, I don't, I don't wanna be, like, known, like, "Hey, man, that's you. You're the guy from Three Six Mafia." I'm like, "Oh, God." And I'm just trying to see, uh, okay, well, I'm, I'm telling him, like, "You know, if it's at the top of the ingredients, there's more of it in here than anything else." So, just so you know that. If it's at the bottom, then it's less of that. So like right here, it's that cane sugar.

• 1:56:32Speaker 03

  That means it's on the third row. That means it got a lot of cane sugar in it. So I'm all that dude.

• 1:56:38Bunnie XO?

  So Paul's in his peaceful era, just ready to watch HGTV, decorate houses, fucking just you're in your peaceful era and we dig it.

• 1:56:48Speaker 03

  Yeah, I've been like that.

• 1:56:49Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, I love that. Thank you so much for coming on today.

• 1:56:52Speaker 03

  Man, thanks for having me.

• 1:56:54Bunnie XO?

  I'm so glad we finally got to sit down.

• 1:56:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, it's been a long time, but it's just, it's all about timing.

• 1:56:59Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, absolutely. I truly believe in that. So you want to shout out your socia's or just Google DJ Paul? Or if you don't know?

• 1:57:07Speaker 03

  Yeah, social media, mostly all of them is at DJ Paul K O M, like in King of Memphis. That's my YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube. I'm always loading some stuff on there. Instagram, I do talk back to the fans, my Twitter, all of DJ Paul K O M, Facebook, whatever, whatever. Yeah, now I'm finna start getting active on my Twitch and my TikTok more. You told me to start on my TikTok.

• 1:57:35Bunnie XO?

  I told you.

• 1:57:36Speaker 03

  And they be always telling me to do Twitch. I never touched my Twitch. I went on, on T-Pain's Twitch one day and you know, automatically started getting a lot of followers just because they like, man, this dude is funny. And they were just watching. So I gotta start getting more active on this stuff, you know?

• 1:57:51Bunnie XO?

  You will. You'll do it. I, I feel like you've set a lot of goals for yourself this year and I think you're gonna crush it. It's only fucking February and you're already crushing it. So.

• 1:58:00Speaker 03

  It goes fast though. I don't even remember January.

• 1:58:03Bunnie XO?

  Yeah, no, well, I do. It was 84 days long. It fucking was never gonna end.

• 1:58:07Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, exactly.

• 1:58:09Bunnie XO?

  Thank you so much, Paul, and I can't wait to have you back.

• 1:58:11Speaker 03

  Yeah, for sure. Thank you.

• 1:58:12Bunnie XO?

  Yay. Thank you guys so much for tuning into another episode of Don Blonde. I'll see you guys next week. Bye.

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