Joe Rogan Experience #1285 — B-Real Transcript

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0:00 three two one boom what's up brother always thanks for a while man yeah we've both been It's one or the other. there and protests and rallies and all that stuff you know we we really weren't advocates like we his life around yeah the emperor wears no clothes is a fucking great book man yeah it holds it holds Not quite ready to run, but any minute now it's going to get legal.

2:40 before we got legalization here, that, you know, there's only like it was like two companies that were out jamie's from ohio i think like four but because you got to pay for your shit to go there and then you know who knows if it well you know But it's been demonized longer. a connoisseur as a consumer you know they can they can read about shit they can learn about

6:45 and for the retail shop as 40% taxes. You get high for a month on what it takes to get a few drinks in a night. That shit is not gonna work you can't have like the most interesting man in the world selling weed That's what we call him. There it is. yeah imagine he's going to a party trying to have a good time some kids there with his phone i'm looking it's i i'm seeing different stuff so i saw a picture of it on youtube from 2009

10:11 Oh, yeah. The thing is that they have those guys bent over a box because they're all just trying Yeah. I mean, you had weed songs. you would hear about new hip-hop bands from like friends yeah like you didn't like yeah it was Like either, you know, and you know things like that like either And people thought we were from Cypress Hill, New York, metal album so we didn't we were like we're not going to put ourselves on the covers we're just

13:53 what you say 28 years 28 years later from your first album man and again you guys never dropped it was like a six-year period where we just kind of took off. competing in paintball tournaments. At the time, I was training martial arts, as I've done throughout my life, and I was also playing competitive paintball. And one of my partners who I grew up with, who was one of my partners in our Dr. Green Thumb brand and whatever,

16:39 jujitsu and shotokan and and all this, you know, get their degrees, you know, we were like yeah someone representing the style that you know we were training under anyway yeah If you could do You could live You know Wonderboy Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's a good way to start off. definitely hard but it was more suited for someone that's a hard style shotokan's a hard style it is

19:21 So, like, if I got hit while i'm walking out i would get 10 20 extra Yeah, yeah. into uh these other guns fuck i can't remember the name of them but they were light i mean the See, it's like a football field, right? Where you're pulling Our team right here The furthest we went That's what they would replicate, goal, to take everybody out? So you would get 100% if all seven of your guys were alive,

23:04 There's the pros, there's the semi-pros, there's let's just say there's six tiers, right? There's the pros. And these guys, back in that time, I don't know how it is now because I haven't competed in a long time, I was doing them for like four or five years. myself he he owned a store he had a team i think it was based out of uh florida out of miami and

24:31 Wow, you guys are armored the fuck up, huh? meaning that okay here's the castle i'm gonna be in the castle right here you guys gotta siege the This is crazy Sometimes he would go out there, but. Oh, that's so crazy. We played with him and his team. On a competition team But you know they constantly call me back I'm like, when I get a tournament. Like I'd get off the plane,

27:37 You know what? All that shit. and his uh nephew is now now boxing keenan carboho oh okay cool so yeah you know we're him a couple things and we're at the rainbow one night where we were holding court um just smoking planet is downtown right near where your place is yeah yeah so your studio or your setup that's Yeah. they have there that that extends past the edge of a canyon They put in a little bridgeway so that you can go and look down.

31:24 and falling the fuck off taking a selfie, man? Another person has died from falling off the edge of the earth. Fucking turn the oven box on and stick your head in it. The dome theory. I wonder how much of them Cause Kind of good for you You just have these ideas. Yeah. It has to use GPS to get around. of the earth that's the dumbest part about it you want to know what i think is is um before um

34:55 They'll throw all that together. mentioned certain key words as we were saying earlier they would you know they would get And right after that post, each time I came back into the United States, they send me into secondary for a search. and i already knew what it was because i had put like you know a post with like four, five, six pounds in it. Oh, for sure.

37:42 a lot of us are i used to go to him waiting room oh yeah just people that were just like barely holding on to reality oh yeah he had cigarettes did you ever get your lungs checked out from all those years of weed smoking yeah i mean i But every time that I've had my lungs checked or whatever, you smoke no i don't really smoke because i didn't smoke cigarettes i smoked weed but i wasn't gonna

41:11 Knock on wood. The doctors, or come out you know gimped out or something so you know i wasn't gonna allow them to try and And it has two lines. lines and you know the it's the the first line you're trying to they're telling you every day for So, you know, I got a piece up here and one off to the side in the back. banging and and uh i got out of it probably i didn't necessarily get out but i changed up what

44:30 they're still kind of in this world over here and when it bleeds in one bleeds into the other Like what did you learn from it which is you know a whole different world in the gangbang shit, but Because falling into the gangs, it's easy. And then sometimes, you know, it just it's a matter of you know you growing up in and that's the thing. working on our cypress hill demos um mugs came to me and said hey man you gotta do something

48:54 graffiti artist but then also an artist artist you know but he was also a rapper and what he would do I didn't think anybody was going to like it. it live because you know i had a tendency we as as rappers you know that don't know because there's And I had to go to this opera singer coach. and more from the bottom. And she taught me that technique, and I never went hoarse again after

51:31 sort of right there and screaming my shit out play this on youtube we'll get kicked off youtube and she was and she was an opera singer at one Almost Like pronounce it, you know, like you're of like it's it's like what these mumble to get the line a little bit cleaner mean in the in the industry you meet you you become friends with other, your peers and stuff like that.

54:35 and just the tightening of the diaphragm. world has always been fascinating to me like how someone gets in like how do you get started are there open mics And then Sendog's brother, Mellow Man Ace, eventually would get in the door. roughhouse sony something like that and that's how we got put on you know and and again it had You know, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, EPMD.

58:17 to be in the room and what and you know Ice Cube when we met him for the first time you know um and uh they do they do stuff occasionally but I think they do more work you know individually now Bad motherfucker. that on and i gotta tell you you know like if if you hear songs that he does today he is still And if you're an underground force, you know, you had to make a conscious decision whether, okay, if I go mainstream, I'm going to lose these hardcore fans i might gain you know these mainstream fans but how long are they going to

1:01:30 You know, if we felt it was the right look for us, But Insane in the Brain didn't allow that. and if you stay on your game and if you keep working and, Holy shit. fuck yeah you know because they they helped us get better you know there was a lot of groups that we and i was wearing a dad hat before dad hats were cool i will not wear one right now ever i don't

1:04:35 the fuck he was thinking he must have been drunk he jumped in the mosh pit like years ago he's a That fucking mosh pit was like a whirlpool of chaos, bro. stuff like that and we do a combination of you know uh rage against the machine songs public And what was crazy is, you know, you're not going to stop playing. and they sat down and they sat down and were rowing that's so fucking crazy yeah have you ever seen the there was a they did a viking chant once at

1:07:48 This fucking boat's going to go sideways. I mean, you know, think about it. And those are big dudes. Yeah. Those motherfuckers, if somebody reignites them, they'll take over the world again. They would blaze up, mushroom their fucking heads into oblivion, They do it in their football games. Look, he's like, how you feel? like it was uh it was almost like writing raps but it just you know it's without saying it right

1:10:48 Just again, Like I, you know, they left it raw the way that, by hearing it that it was glorifying it and praising it but it wasn't it was basically people get it and i've i've come across people that have come to me how to be a bullhorn you know what i mean like tell you know like yeah tell the truth you know music got them through things that it means so much to them when that first started happening

1:14:48 That's so crazy For you to go from the guy who Oh okay Yeah of the chorus itself you know fuck what the song is about that you know we knew that the chorus was definitely the one that the record company wants you to push. traction behind that. and started climbing And with Black Sunday and Insane coming out, top 10 of the 200 songs you know on the chart which no one had ever done in hip-hop before

1:19:18 in montebello i can't remember what the name of the mall was but it was in montebello the only Really? quite uh uh an experience man like you know because you only ever hear about it till it happens Like him and I would trade joints off left and right. at that time from 89 to probably 97 or 98 we were holding pistols on our hip like cowboys and you

1:22:11 And that sort of prepared me so that when, you know, we got in our lane, experience i always embraced it even when it was a pain in the ass you know so when was your first I totally blew it, you know, and I told myself, OK, I got to get over the nervousness. No, I wasn't. I forgot what they used to call them. his balls right in front of the fucking female judge.

1:26:20 but we don't remember the name. started rapping his verses and people were rapping right along with him not giving a fuck that the if you got it you gotta do it yeah it's probably better sometimes because it's unique yeah because that and what i would do when i got up there you you know, and I applied all those, those, you know, lessons, man, you know, and, and it's made me who I am as my part of Cypress Hill. And when I do my solo stuff, and when I'm with Prophets of Rage that, you know, that got me prepped for everything that I do now in terms of music.

1:28:58 You got to learn, man. You know, when he started, he had to work to get to where he was at. Like, you get thrown on that big stage for the first time. How did you learn how to get over the anxiety? battling someone in front of a crowd. But either way, people are sitting there watching you, So, you know, I'd rehearse the songs in my head. And then our band prayer.

1:33:18 A lot of us sometimes forget to go and put the time in and rehearse. right and you suck as good as that song is you're never gonna sell tickets when they fucking say hey professional and official at the same time what is what is the meditation that you do We'll just do the prayer and that sort of sets it all in but yeah like some shows man i'll have to like go in a room and just sit

1:36:48 He knew jujitsu, taekwondo, shotokan. that big i mean that's got to be one of the biggest concerts ever that anybody's ever performed in Like some of us had to get in through Helicopter. The spotlight just stays on the car and it was super muddy and crazy and people were like butt naked with mud smeared all over their I'm sure there's a lot of people out there right now

1:39:25 I mean, not in terms of the whole concert. It was the type where like If you walked through it Hell Stage dive style some chick had it and had me sign it. I mean, what the fuck do they do Oh, they were pissed off. Okay, well shit, I was too short then. It's 200,000 short. the crowd estimated size Was 550,000 Okay well shit You know You know And it's a great part of their history because, I mean, you know, that one was a good one where no one got hurt.

1:41:57 And... No, they're doing it enough. This is the fires. People were pissed too Set up as well Look at the fucking this though they were cold-blooded um the the organizers because that is so crazy oh yeah it's So you had a helicopter out of there. Ah, yes. have we played for another 500,000, you know. Like when you leave there and then you go do a regular gig afterwards,

1:45:10 they were like, you know, in between 30,000, 70,000, 100,000. right a bunch of different artists and you're winning over people if anything you're you're were playing shows um co-headlining under metallica right metallica cypress hill um anyone and and uh that's that pretty much put us over the top with doing festivals. I would imagine you couldn't sleep for days after that show.

1:48:07 I mean, we were like totally in awe of the response that we got and the enormity of the fucking crowd, man. And there goes the first shoe. Yeah, there goes the other shoe. Look at it. But yeah, you know, throughout, I had chicks trying to grab my shit for sure. Yeah. I was like, I hope you enjoyed that. This is the real shit. Colorado and California and then the rest is kind of, Seattle's got real good weed.

1:50:53 Like, I mean, there's so much, you know, from north to south and in central Cal. this last trip I just had to Vancouver, burned sweet, they tasted good. you know you might have a little bit of black ash He had the Culture High, and then before that, there was another one. It was just tolerated. organized crime right in a certain way yeah which my point was you know when the corporations come in that shit comes down and

1:55:13 vancouver now is that now that it's legal yeah people are still making money and they're still yeah you know like us yeah right now here in cali we can't use banks yeah what do they do with it They'd be crazy to not. put your money in the fucking bank you know whereas before you had to fucking buy some sort Yeah And they just had were going to get you know yeah someone was going to try to take over the store and take all the

1:58:45 There's people that they post up on people's private land and they found like a fucking acre of wheat like what the fuck is this and there were some dudes People find them in state parks and forests and shit. Because it was Tahone Ranch, to this day, and shit. I mean, that shit is generational right there. In the south, we do hydro. as cold as it does up there so they can live here

2:02:33 He's just got it going. with all those other trees and shit is communicating with those trees. Jesus Christ. It was so stupid. that's going to change for sure. you ever see that hemp crete, This is the type of shit that Jack Herrera was trying to tell people in Emperor Wears No Clothes. a one and one it's 10 milligrams of cbd 10 milligrams of thc i take this that's that's

2:05:15 Is that a hemp laptop? It could just be a look alike I gotta agree For a long time Like, we just had Mike Tyson in there, you know. I was like, all right, fuck yeah, champ. or do the shit, right? so that he would always be calm in the fight He's a big weed head since he was like 10 years old apparently. I can't remember what he called it. andrew galata and he said he'd never had so much focus in a fight that it made him realize he

2:09:19 Andrew Gulotta left the ring. like martial arts based the way that he attacked and then he shifts on his attack in his custom He said that. Yeah, he goes, every now and then I get on the treadmill. In between rounds, he just got up and left. fairly normal but i'm sure it felt like shit you shit. It doesn't swell up real bad until later. his mouthpiece back it's so stupid once a guy doesn't want to fight you can't make him fight

2:12:25 Tony Tubbs Yup At one point in time of nature yeah and and i told him the other thing i told him real quick too was you know like that he fanboyed out, tasted that glove, thing this cultural phenomenon he was thought to be at that time everybody was thinking he's the Look how Jack Bruce Seldon was. He was the WBA heavyweight champion at the time. Yeah.

2:14:49 I mean, it was like there was nobody before him like that. in the podcast about being hypnotized yeah i mean from the time he was a little boy and you know He was something that like transcended sports. like evander holyfield who was a brawler he could box but he could brawl and take the fight 11 rounds influencing him and it just took him backwards man and all the people that actually helped got

2:17:27 he gave Mike the worst deals ever too. my man. Bye everybody.