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THE OVERVIEW OF GREEDY GREG & WEST COAST HIP HOP | PART 1| EPISODE 7 | "THE SIC SHOW "
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The Overview of GREEDY GREG one of the biggest Record Industry Executives and Manager of some of the top selling Songs and Artist of Hip Hop. We dive into his humble start and his Magical ear for hits and Artist. Part one of this Overview we talk | TON LOC | AMG | DJ QUICK| DEATH ROW | 2nd II NONE | PENTHOUSE PLAYERS CLIQUE |RUTHLESS RECOREDS | and much more.
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Manny Up
Good
The Chillcmw
morning
Montage One
folks. Later we are
Manny Up
headed D
Montage One
Yeah.
Manny Up
Joe goes in that's right we got my boy montage one yo legendary to see
The Chillcmw
what it is what it is.
Manny Up
Hey man. Yup. And asked me
Unknown Speaker
many
Manny Up
right and Big D the producer in the energy for the six show
Big Dee
D motherfucker g
The Chillcmw
oh I don't make no sense loading but
Manny Up
I know you're just like yeah yeah just gotta say alright we got a special show tonight we got a great guest boy do we we got a legendary business music exact man manager to the stars
Montage One
responsible for a lot of crip music
exactly what a lot
of crip music
Manny Up
a lot of a lot of historic West Coast music let's put it like that. And the historic West Coast music I always say there's two trees in California is the Eazy E tree and there's a lot of branches that come off that tree and spread across a lot of parts of Los Angeles in California. And then we got the greedy Greg tree. Oh, it's like manga branches that spread.
Unknown Speaker
Let me get around.
Manny Up
That's the greedy guy. And probably everybody not even probably everybody at this table has touched a branch.
Montage One
Oh man, I want to thank you for letting me fuck with that PV remember that ball? That ball rolling you know saying like, shout out to this dude. Welcome, man. Welcome to the show.
The Chillcmw
Welcome greedy Greg. Gray.
Manny Up
Really great West Coast lead.
Unknown Speaker
Miss Oh, good.
Manny Up
Good. Oh, good. So we're gonna get right into it right into it. All right, greedy. All right, just give us a brief history how you started I know he was a DJ. Take us from there.
Greedy Greg
Yeah, started as a DJ then a fresh group. Fuck with was
The Chillcmw
I was weak weakest. Oh, yeah.
Manny Up
Yeah, we talk shit. So the first group to fuck with was what Tony?
Greedy Greg
got nice. All along delicious vinyl. Okay, next step. Actually.
Manny Up
Give yourself some more mic bringing forward a little bit just a little bit. There we go. You
Greedy Greg
got the tone. I started futzing around with AMG nice and came on money. Yeah, but it wouldn't have been 40 it was a big vicious day.
Montage One
Shout out to amga
was that when Stan was his height man for a hot second?
Manny Up
I have no idea. I've never heard that. Dan.
Montage One
Andre. Andre was this hype man for a second right. And DJ Oh,
Greedy Greg
that was it was he had another DJ?
The Chillcmw
So look, let me go back to Tom Lowe. For sure. He was DJing for him. No,
Greedy Greg
I told my cousin.
The Chillcmw
He was he still is you know, that might
Manny Up
not in my mind.
The Chillcmw
Shout out. Shout out to Tom but at the same time, you know, I'm saying that's your cousin. I was rocking together. Basically he
Greedy Greg
was in a group called the triple A crew. Okay, so they were all Anthony Anthony. Mm hmm. And then I had at the time I was DJing. I had a sound and lighting company. And the guys from delicious vinyl Matt, Matt Ross. He called me looking for an artist. And so I took him to town. I took town over there to them. And they started working on songs. They released about four records three records before Chiba Chiba on fire that was much cheaper, cheaper, and then a wild thing when he did wow thing he didn't like wow thing I told us that this is gonna change your
The Chillcmw
life. It's always the songs we don't like. Yeah, it's always the songs we don't like he hated that song.
Manny Up
Man. That's crap. I believe I don't care. Give me some round of applause for wildcard
Unknown Speaker
nationales as the white girl turn up,
Manny Up
turn up the bridesmaid turn up in Uber. Yeah,
Greedy Greg
so I'm still fresh in the business trying to learn the business. And I started hanging out. Total trackstudio right. Well, Courtney and Tracy Courtney and Tracy Kendrick Yeah. Then we They were working on the LA Dream Team at the time. I was just trying to get my chops together right? We did a record we did. Dream Team in the house. I was just learning by
The Chillcmw
Nance legendary that
Manny Up
is legend.
The Chillcmw
Man in the house and that was the classic job greedy. Yummy man recipes to snake broody party. Yummy and then snake puppy de la drink tea. That's West Coast right there lane. Oh, 1980 8585 maybe
Greedy Greg
around that time. Yeah. Nice.
The Chillcmw
Yeah. See, you know what I noticed, fellas. It's always a guy behind the guy. That's really making the guy every time I'm saying Really? Greg is one of those guys. Oh, yeah. Yo, you know, when you thinking about groups, like, you know, the groups he's speaking on or a BG knockout and tryst right? Or what was the singing chicks you had? What was they saying is bigger than hip hop with this guy? Or we could go to the big guys you know, I'm saying DJ quick and yeah, your main Domino You know, I'm saying it's always the guy behind the guy that's making the guy to guy right he's the guy.
Montage One
He is definitely the Russell Simmons of 76.
The Chillcmw
Totally straight up hospital alone. Yeah, a
Manny Up
lot of branches a lot of brands I
Greedy Greg
was trying to make it about my groups and stuff about me so
Manny Up
that's a good behind the scenes guy there's you know,
The Chillcmw
I had a show somewhere. I think it was at the Microsoft theater somewhere and I'm walking on stage in the back trying to duck everybody because everybody's trying to follow me to get where I get kicked off. So I'm by myself like looking like I don't see nobody and who do I run into? greedy gray. Why DJ quaking on him rockin eight throwing bottles and all type of shit going crazy greedy is back there on the phone like yeah, that's
the guy behind the
Manny Up
guy making a god. So the bring it back. So la dream team
Greedy Greg
started working on. I tried to be a producer, but I realized I can't produce
Manny Up
I can fix your record. That's right,
Greedy Greg
but I can't get Dr. Dre. I could Dr. Dre, but I cannot
The Chillcmw
be so hard. That she was working on with Scooby was oh
Greedy Greg
yeah, that was good. That was just never happened. Yeah. I bought a mirage keyboard. That was the first step
Nah, yeah. He Sonic a Sonic?
Yeah. Working on a bobcat, Bobcat,
The Chillcmw
Bobcat cat crew
Greedy Greg
Yeah, shout out worked on that record. And then after I worked on that record, I was in the studio with court and tracing you're working with closet? If you know closet closet was the girl in Bobby Brown's video Wow, she was in hammers video. Wow. And she had a reputation of if you get her in your video is gonna go play
The Chillcmw
while
Manny Up
she was at night dog dance and sing
Montage One
she cried video vixen. That's what he's saying. She cracked at all
Greedy Greg
right, exactly. But then quick was producing her Hmm So that's a quick producer and quick camera. Hey, I got some I got a blog group planners players I was like okay, let me check it out.
Manny Up
Wow, that's how you met him. That's how we met I was gonna ask you that how did you how did you meet DJ quick
Greedy Greg
we formed a relationship and I moved to Milan the studio
The Chillcmw
so how was those sessions Were you drinking 40 ounces bagni cuz that's what quick said on the bottle supply distributor so how what was the difference we're working with like DJ quick was basically on the wrist. I could this is la culture. Yo man on the wrist. Group like BG knockout and him and myself and battle cat and all him coming today.
Greedy Greg
It was crazy. I didn't gangbang I didn't you know I knew I hung out with Crips I grew up in the crip neighborhood and most of my folks was Crips but it seemed like once I start working I got the jacket I was a blood
I was like hey man
The Chillcmw
Yeah, I mean I say that because you know you have you're not a gangbanger you're saying but you know we part of the culture on this coast and you produced and been a part of great gangbang records and gangbang artists Yes. You know to remain neutral and stay sucker free out all that shit. You know, I'm saying that that's big in itself for show me
Unknown Speaker
a shout out to that right there.
Greedy Greg
I'm gonna give you this little nugget
of music i passed up on the black eyed peas wow just before the head fergie
Montage One
came here
Unknown Speaker
and i was like
Montage One
you know what i actually know that in the end it's in the time zone i think i remember hearing that actually bro
Greedy Greg
he came over to the studio and
Montage One
tim was tim around there at the time yeah yep tim told me this story actually
Manny Up
told me that day that's pretty dope but great always pass well it seems like on something that blows up
Montage One
i've never i mean that's a dope opportunity in itself
yeah
Greedy Greg
things i missed that just looked at it wasn't wasn't for me at that time
Unknown Speaker
that's the best way to look at it like
Greedy Greg
yeah you know i wouldn't have passed up on the live stuff you know
Montage One
when we passed up on the sig block but i understand why
Manny Up
hello story about greedy and the sig block to try to come down the street and be like greedy greedy be ready ready like we go back do some more beats come back greedy for real look listen listen like we were just happy to be able to come down here listen when he said yes or no at least we had a real ear seriously man
Montage One
listen you really molded like are beginning you know by being able to soak up all the things over there bro like it was so appreciated you don't even know bro like from upstairs we're bringing in helping battle cat bring in fucking you know fucking ship loads of fucking gears man you know on down to being in the regular studio man so much so much game soaked up bro like on that let's give a shout out to that nigga for that please
Manny Up
that's good that's what i learn in my first professional thing was with lani simmons that he got banned and i worked with ronnie simmons and he would give me game and it was old school game and then the second person after lonnie was greedy i didn't have to ask i was just look like
The Chillcmw
yeah well he's definitely he's definitely been instrumental in my career and i want to thank you for that so y'all mean greedy you know he i basically lived in a studio in the back right you know when the water was tripping me i was back there amg cars and rage and bulky yo saying and then we had a white guy with us sub flow he knew how to work a computer right he agreed he didn't we analog guys right you i'm saying greedy at the big ass jamaican speakers in the wall and we up all night drinking and just bump into his arm he was like just hitting the kick drum yo man but that's why i learned how to you know perfect my shit as a producer yo i'm sam remember the deal we had with snoop and y'all mean different shit like that i didn't even know how to separate my outs and all that it showed me all that shit
Manny Up
right i mean very very instrumental like i said those branches go very very long and they grow tall and man other acorn trees have been made greedy greg's tree yeah lee that so you pass on the black ips you meet quick with the penthouse players you formed a relationship the rest was history did he actually record his first album at your house
Greedy Greg
yeah we had a most of the stuff was already done but we refined
The Chillcmw
six ada because he had that mixtape for
Greedy Greg
that mixtape it was all it was a player ham and penalize players then he had his own cuts that he played for him and i was like oh shit though oh nice and what i did was i got with him and we formed the relationship i gave this free show we did in santa maria
Unknown Speaker
north
Greedy Greg
yeah pam amg this will be for michael jackson
Montage One
okay
The Chillcmw
wow
Greedy Greg
hmm they didn't have a deal and nothing but two people in santa maria you thought they were rational
The Chillcmw
i mean that mixed type that floated around itself that's true you know i mean you know it's sort of like you know tidy tnm back in the day they mixed type and then by tiny got a deal i forgot who he was signed to uh when i did the battering ram and whatnot and the record was like
Montage One
some weird les brown it's gonna be a hard labor bucket d do you know do you know do you know we start with d got stumped
Manny Up
the wikipedia guy
Big Dee
i guess not today
Unknown Speaker
we had no idea for batman was 8485 time
Manny Up
around that time
The Chillcmw
i felt like he was there and then they went to capitol yeah they'll meet with the calculators sold a shitload of records right around yomi right you know so i think i use that same situation with the dj quick situation like you know okay yeah this mixtape flying around a lot of people was on a real mixtape y'all mean garbage they got a real mixtape i'm saying a tape that you bought a tdk and put records on and sold it to the right right
Manny Up
quick quick quick quick note totti t warning compton music group brian syndicate record labels grew city dump record and quality
The Chillcmw
okay i'm sorry my groove city there we go it's the white label with the rainbow looking at the group
Manny Up
city i said
Unknown Speaker
yeah no way i wouldn't remember that but
Manny Up
i did
The Chillcmw
he got to that level he had already sold a shitload about the robot
Manny Up
exactly yeah exactly yeah okay so tell me this greedy was it hard for him to break away from penthouse players and he thought it could he do his own solo stuff at that time i was just naturally progressed
Greedy Greg
i wanted to sign the whole group player how to never come to terms yeah we had two different visions i had one vision okay let's let me take what let me do what i do exactly but at the time he wanted all this crap at the grocery store yeah i was working graveyard ton of money to be given that's why we never could come to terms
Manny Up
and then so did y'all end up or did they end up the quick end up doing a full penthouse players album
Greedy Greg
yeah eventually roof the side
Manny Up
okay arthur remember that
The Chillcmw
quick got to produce over quick easy yeah easy was on the road i remember that
Greedy Greg
after quick blew up easy start hanging hey thank you now let the house
Manny Up
real video i got footage of that from your neighbor no i got all that
Unknown Speaker
working on that easy
Unknown Speaker
i got
Greedy Greg
what happened was at the time dre had left reflux so jerry can sick easy oh snake wake up
Montage One
exactly
Greedy Greg
they like quick spartan quick birthday came up they throw him a party at gladstone
Manny Up
oh yeah flat flat flat flat come on over here man we just lost our anchor we need another anchor anchor so you convinced them or you didn't convince him he's doing the solo stuff you guys blow up you thought he was blowing up and you knew he was gonna blow up because of the santa maria concert and he had fans anyway but then y'all dropped that album
Greedy Greg
oh we dropped that album it's crazy drop that out drop the album and a week later who is up in the san francisco paul daly city that was born and raised jam city city called daily
Montage One
yeah daily city was sitting i swear pro tools came out of i remember that
Greedy Greg
yeah and hadn't set this club in the state was two inches off the
The Chillcmw
chitlin circuit
Greedy Greg
so at the time i had a you know before he got his deal we had we had we are recorded an amg album a second album and my plan was to have them perform an opening act right so to set up for the show was second come out and do a song and amg come on the song will sound and quick we'll come on angie i mean second comes out do this song girl applause second come out i mean angie comes out in quick came out and he said two words man it's like 300 girls just rush to stay yeah
The Chillcmw
it was the power man
Montage One
she was bouncy nigga
Unknown Speaker
he was slam
Unknown Speaker
king's coat
Unknown Speaker
yeah
Montage One
i didn't even need it was a kitaro kitaro what i'm saying i
Greedy Greg
know those are some fun days you know
The Chillcmw
yeah had to be mad so from from working on that y'all mean and then transport transfer into something like a milk and stuff you'll mean you'll mean it really just shows your ability as a producer you produced on record as well or just engineer engineer i was the man
Greedy Greg
behind the man i call myself a fixer i mean
The Chillcmw
he was making shit happen
Unknown Speaker
no greedy i like to fix records right
Manny Up
that's right that's right my right to fix quicks blowing up amts blowing up now i was one of the first to understand like i got these cats in my camp it don't matter who i signed with because we all want camp
Greedy Greg
well i didn't want to put all the eggs in one basket so i had multiple multiple i wanted multiple deals
Manny Up
okay okay and that was dope i think he did that too with his groups and he did the same thing with your groups did you ever wanted to do your label then or you was just okay with putting out groups and seeing where land
Greedy Greg
i always wanted to do my own label i'll tell you something else when i first got quick and i tried to give them a deal i took them to priority ryan turner's like i got the original i don't want to fake
The Chillcmw
shout him down
Greedy Greg
yeah yep sat him down and did a
The Chillcmw
profile signing profile got on which was an independent as well
Montage One
yeah shout out the profile seeing what was good
Unknown Speaker
dmc
Unknown Speaker
yeah exactly so who was the distributor d
Unknown Speaker
living hanging
Greedy Greg
out distributor whatever distributor distributor all
The Chillcmw
the stuff i was pushing around here like a major
Montage One
shout outs to profile dammit give it to me
Greedy Greg
man some other distributor in europe with distributors
Montage One
all right let me tell you though profile was i just had to throw this out there because i had like a little flashback as a kid you know niggas talking about the long beach vip but i'm here to tell you nigga i know nothing about that one i knew everything about the one in englewood nigga on imperial and crenshaw
The Chillcmw
are you saying that to say what am i
Montage One
saying that to say that's where i learned
The Chillcmw
that you erase my
Montage One
right no no no i didn't know about it though i'm gonna be nick is from inglewood didn't
Unknown Speaker
you know i'm saying
The Chillcmw
los angeles that began with the world on wheels we went to skate depot right but all i'm saying
Montage One
is that that that store helped me recognize shit by labels i used to be able to walk into a store and be like anything from profile the guy didn't even know what was on it i just grabbed it anything from tommy boy
The Chillcmw
oh profile
Montage One
bro yeah i can't he probably was but i can't think of everything i just know that i bought shit by fucking late
Manny Up
oh that's a tough
Unknown Speaker
shout out to vip nigga please
Unknown Speaker
do the same thing when i was djing profile labor
Montage One
yeah i don't ever remember going man i fucked up today like
Manny Up
it was always good
Greedy Greg
quality profile was put out good quality right yeah also select
Montage One
selection like was there tommy boy was their profile it was a couple
The Chillcmw
of tommy boy planet rock
Montage One
yeah come on you know anything with them three dancing niggas
Manny Up
give me some days to get some disco steel back to get the three dance and man any kind of hip hop flavor what so ever pretty dope pretty
The Chillcmw
much the same like real quick on in la like you know i know on our side like i'm glad montage brought that up you basically in the south central side was you like well you had a guy from the compton side y'all man i was all over right y'all mean so you know skate man was cracking
Greedy Greg
you know what even though i was all over i never really caitlyn
Montage One
caitlyn was not for let me tell you bro let's be let's just section this shit out nick is westside wasn't going to skateland i get that that just didn't really happen you had
The Chillcmw
that's the west side of compton
Unknown Speaker
i'm just saying
Manny Up
like that's a good point you had to be invited
Montage One
you had to be invited yo cuz he's had to be like yo we go skate you know from over there and then you go like other than that pulling up the skate but it was like
The Chillcmw
it was kind of like laws on the head eve after dark and it was you fucking went on it i wasn't messing with all that none
Greedy Greg
of that it was a place on western and 91st
Montage One
day that's as far as niggas went back and western with workshop western was that divided i remember when western used to be considered like okay everything on the east side
The Chillcmw
is this is this back in the back like naming a game carolina wednesday okay yeah that's the same like y'all stay with it we're gonna go to the
Greedy Greg
name of the game and carolina west a very close let's go to the west
Montage One
on that note though Shout out to Mavericks flat I don't know what they doing but have you seen it lately? Like I'm pretty
Greedy Greg
I used to DJ there oh yeah a DJ when they had to play pin down okay me nice I look out into like a club
Unknown Speaker
so
The Chillcmw
really you saying how legend he is right we talking about Carolina West right yeah I'm saying the name of the game yeah and then of course we had my generation paradise and the Palladium and water to book your house Jamaica house you're saying she didn't even want to some other shit peanuts and all that
Unknown Speaker
less than zero yeah
Manny Up
but you know what though? peanuts was cracking
Unknown Speaker
yeah
Montage One
let's just get it all the way let's let's educate let's let's educate let's educate everybody on the Los Angeles scene that don't know because this is the really shit like I say early on probably before a lot of the states promoters for whatever reason started taking it I guess it was given the lower rates the mostly gay clubs but there was a lot of gay clubs that had straight nights that that promoters was using those clubs right? And that's how we ended up at pain. You know, start going Hey, nice
The Chillcmw
messed it up for a buck cuz
Montage One
they were blaming Dan sometimes. And mandals he
The Chillcmw
had his hand in his pocket. He had his hand in his pocket. I was like, what's going on? I'm like, it was you go up that hill. They walk up the hill. Like he pushed me on
Unknown Speaker
this Tuesday.
Montage One
I'm telling you, bro, that's how it is. That's why anybody from Cali that's in the industry. And ain't ain't on no kind of shit like that. We we just like used to seeing it technically. Because if you was in the industry, and you went to those parties, bro, they they force you to kind of somehow mix up in there. You had to just figure it out and stay clean
The Chillcmw
like me. Don't go
Montage One
Don't go you know I'm saying go to bed.
The Chillcmw
Because those girls hang with those guys. Yeah. Yummy. You just don't go
Montage One
got our nice take it all the way. 100 Nick, are you really winning winning win the gay dude. Thank you look nice, negative. I know. Yeah, you tell
The Chillcmw
them dude, tell me I'm cool. No, no, no,
Montage One
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Tell them my nigga just like they probably honestly the most non hating motherfuckers I see no kitchen like I won't.
The Chillcmw
That's them.
Montage One
A whole house full again. niggas
Manny Up
like long. She's straight. Mmm, cool. That's right. That's right. Yeah, so DJ n played all the great la Los Angeles clubs. Back to quick back to second and nine not do you get all three of them deals or I got
Greedy Greg
all three mg dl on select I got and then I went back to profile with second but second there was a good album but
Manny Up
later we talk a second to none.
Greedy Greg
Yeah, the profile we'll get into a turmoil with the owners. Really? Yeah. So they kind of split right
The Chillcmw
right. That was a big record back in the days and back then it wasn't too crowded with yummy
Manny Up
yummy snack a second to none.
The Chillcmw
So you Okay, Andy Young Captain we used to bump that yummy and it
Manny Up
was good. Yeah. That was a good but you could tell
The Chillcmw