(Continued from part 1...)

Don’t get it twisted, I’m Bi-Coastal, but what I represent is this West Coast music. The way West Coast music is these days, is it’s not trend-setting like we’re normally known for doing so with that, if I didn’t do a record then I’d be part of the problem. Everyone tryna do the pop thing, the European thing, the dirty-south thing, that’s cool, we can re-vamp off of that but keep it W.S and that’s a major part of Hiphop that’s just wacked out. You know? West Coast made a lot of contributions to Hiphop, so it’s only right I get my fan-base what they want to hear.
 
Everybody I run in to all over the world be like ‘Man, ya’ll need to do another record we tired of this watered down shit we ain’t tryna hear all this and all that’ and I’m like, you know what? Let me just go and cater to my fanbase and mash with it for what it’s worth. If I drop a record, if Ren drop a record, if Eiht drop a record, Quik and them drop a record, 2nd II None drop a records, namean? In 2010, all of us drop records then the focus is back on this side, you feel me? 
 
No doubt. The Bay has been popping off and on with the Hyphy thing they had, back out there with the Mob shit, too as well as the real lyricist shit, too, but L.A has kinda been dead for a while….

Yeah, and that’s kinda like man, my brother Kokane he told me that like we watch 106 and Park and it’s like the South came in and ripped the West Coast hard – and I laughed, you know? It’s funny to me because of how he put it, I understand what he’s saying – and I’ll say it again, we’re trend setters out here. Myself, Big Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Eiht, and all these cats over here it’s still so much that’s going on that if we don’t continue to do music how we know to do music then we ain’t doing what we’re normally capable of doing – Set trends.  It’s like, everybody waiting on Dr. Dre to drop a record. Man, Dre ain’t gotta make no record, he’s got a computer coming out, he’s got headphones he got this, he got that; we can’t wait for him to set trends for us, we need to just keep doing what we do.  We don’t gotta wait for Cube to get back to making records, Cube is already rich making movies, we gotta continue doing what we doing.  As far as The Bay, you know? That’s a hustle city. My folks up north, they hustle hard. They roots up there is really supportive of what they doing. My man 40, or Too Short I’m really digging the fact that he’s still in the game, and you got other cats like Mistah F.A.B, doing it. But it seems like these other cats over here [in L.A] are just lazy and looking for a company to give us a whole bunch of money – it just ain’t crackin like that no more. We gotta take matters into our own hands.
 
It’s kinda like L.A lost that hustle they had in the 80’s, the swap meets, the selling from the trunk…..

We ain’t got the Mom & Pop spots out here no more, people don’t wanna come out [here] no more because we have this representation of, you know, gang-banging and taking chains and robbing folks – people over here are broke, they got nothing to do and that’s one of the reasons I’m coming with this ‘Chillafornia’ [album] so I can get involved in other groups and you know, do my own thing too.
I produced the whole new Above The Law record that’s coming out, I’m getting it in with King T, I did the Ren thing - you know back then we had Sony, Priority, Epic and all them, now these companies ain’t around and they ain’t spending all that money on us, people don’t know what to do. We was kids hustling like that, you know?