Taken from JRE #2004 w/Ice Cube:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1IWzs6El6E3pnF3n4Bysab?si=6cc0f12c2c114d0b

When I found out that you wrote Friday, I was like, that's insane.

I mean, DJ Poo, he's 1 of those, He's like 1 of those undercover geniuses that been involved in a lot of hip hop.

I mean, he helped LL do Going Back to Cali.

He's the 1 who got Rockstar to do the Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, that whole take it from Miami and put it in LA, you know what I mean?

Take it from the Miami dope culture to the LA gang culture.

So He's the 1 who's behind the scenes with stuff like that and he helped me write Friday.

He produced It was a good day the song so whenever we together, it's just magic and we wrote Friday because we were watching In Living Color and we loved Hollywood Shuffle by Robert Townsend and we was like let's write a let's write a movie about the neighborhood like because everything that was coming out was depressing, you know,

it was colors, boys in the hood, menace to society, South Central, it was like, yo, this is a hell zone.

And so that's how Friday kind of germinated and became like, yo, we gonna show our version of how we have fun in South Central.

it's a movie that I get commented on more than any other.

you got a line like, you got knocked the fuck out, that gets repeated for decades.

I mean, I knew it was 1 of those lines because I had never heard it in a movie before when somebody got knocked out.

And I'm like, yeah, this is what he gonna say when you jump over him and look down on him.

How many times have you seen that on a World Star Hip Hop now, though?

Yeah, you know all you know that's as as an artist that's all you want is to have a couple classics that people remember you for, you know, when you 80 in a cafe, you know, drinking coffee, somebody run up


Speaker 0: The Joe Rogan Experience.

Speaker 1: When I found out that you wrote Friday, I was like, that's insane. That's incredible.

Speaker 2: Yeah, me and DJ Poo.

Speaker 1: That's a funny fucking movie.

Speaker 2: Yeah, it is, you know. I mean, DJ Poo, he's 1 of those, He's like 1 of those undercover geniuses that been involved in a lot of hip hop. I mean, he helped LL do Going Back to Cali. You know what I mean? Like, he been around forever.

And we're all fans of Pooh. You know what I'm saying? And Pooh is funny, he technical. He's the 1 who got Rockstar to do the Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, that whole take it from Miami and put it in LA, you know what I mean? Take it from the Miami dope culture to the LA gang culture.

So He's the 1 who's behind the scenes with stuff like that and he helped me write Friday. He produced It was a good day the song so whenever we together, it's just magic and we wrote Friday because we were watching In Living Color and we loved Hollywood Shuffle by Robert Townsend and we was like let's write a let's write a movie about the neighborhood like because everything that was coming out was depressing, you know,

Speaker 0: it was colors, boys in the hood, menace to society, South Central, it was like, yo, this is a hell zone. And we was like,

Speaker 2: I didn't, did you remember it like that? Or don't we laugh around

Speaker 0: here all the time? Like,

Speaker 2: let's show how it really

Speaker 0: is for us around here.

Speaker 2: And so that's how Friday kind of germinated and became like, yo, we gonna show our version of how we have fun in South Central.

Speaker 0: That is an all-time classic. Yeah,

Speaker 2: it's a movie that I get commented on more than any other. Like, people quote it, love it.

Speaker 0: Yeah. The characters are iconic. People dress up. When you know

Speaker 1: you got a line like, you got knocked the fuck out, that gets repeated for decades.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I knew it was 1 of those lines because I had never heard it in a movie before when somebody got knocked out. And I'm like, yeah, this is what he gonna say when you jump over him and look down on him. Like, you got knocked the fuck out.

Speaker 1: How many times have you seen

Speaker 0: that on a World... Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1: How many times have you seen that on a World Star Hip Hop now, though?

Speaker 2: All the time?

Speaker 1: It's just like everybody yells. Yeah, so it goes down It's automatic.

Speaker 2: It's automatic. Yeah, you know all you know that's as as an artist that's all you want is to have a couple classics that people remember you for, you know, when you 80 in a cafe, you know, drinking coffee, somebody run up

Speaker 0: and be like, yo Craig, what's up?

Speaker 2: You know what I mean? That's all you want.

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