WorldWideConnected.com: What was your childhood like?
Man, I grew up at the project and struggling on welfare. You know section A living with my mom and my little sister. We got kicked out the project and ended up living homeless for a while. Grandma, auntie and everything, man. I did it all. I ended up with my big sister so I seen the better side of life… and with my father, my father was a hustler and moms was like a wino so when my pops came got me he’d take me over to Frisco where he had his condo and shit. He had a lot of money so I got the bad side and the good side. But at the end of the day I ended up living with my sister since my father was going to jail so much and couldn’t take care of me cause he was being locked up. So I ended up living with my older sister and from there on is how I learned to hustle. My big sister was hustling, ya feel me? So I learned to cook… chop it, rock it, bag it, ya know? It was hustle 101 at the crib. So I learned how to hustle and took that to do my own hustle, yadaddamean? It got me clothes, tennis shoes and all the shit that I wanted, you know for highschool, but after a while I started wanting shit all the time for myself and when they didn’t get it for me I was mad so I was like “Fuck this I’m gonna get on my hustle and get my own shit”. So I started hustling and started doubling up. I started working for my cousin… I met Numbskull in junior high and I got him on to it. He started hustling for me. It was basically all my lil n*ggas out of junior high. I ended up going to juvenile hall, jail, in 8th grade. I got out after 3 days and shit… back out there hustling again. Then I got caught about 3 years later in 11th grade. They made me do a year in a youth camp That’s when I started rapping – when I was in that youth camp.
WorldWideConnected.com: How old were you?
I was 17 when I got in and 18 when I got out a year later.
WorldWideConnected.com: So you knew Numbskull from before you were rapping in Junior High then?
Yeah. Me and Numbskull met and rapped together in Junior High while I was living with my sister. At the same time we were rapping, I turned him on to the hustle aswell, ya know?
WorldWideConnected.com: So was it a natural thing when you started the group then?
I mean we basically started from junior highschool. I met Numb and he was already in a group called B.W.P., Brothers With Potential. They was doing all the little talent shows and at lunch time they’d be rapping in front of the whole school and shit like that. I was just a cartoonist. I was the artist at the school but I was playing with rap and rhyming and shit at the crib. I drew their logo and shit… I drew them rapping and shit in cartoon form. I became cool with them like that and they wanted me in the clique. In B.W.P. So after that I just stared writing my raps. I was seeing them n*ggas doing it so I wanted to see what I could do. When I came I wasn’t that raw. I mean I was okay, but Numbskull was the rawest mothaf*cka in the group. After junior high everybody end up going to different high schools and the other members of B.W.P did so we ended up not f*cking with them. Me and Numb were the only ones that stayed in contact when we got to high school. So eventually… Me and Numb were just hustling in high school. We were like “fuck rap, we hustlin’”. But when I went to jail and did a year is when I got back and tried to rhyme. I was like “fuck this hustlin’ shit” and I started taking this rap shit seriously. I drew the Looney condom and logo and came with the name. I wrote “Ice cream man” and all that shit in jail. Rigged it up. I got out and I called the best mothaf*cka I knew from high school – Numb. So I called him and was like “Yo I got this idea for a group called the Looney Toons, here goes the logo. I’mm be Yukmouth and you be Numbskull” and everything. And he said “Yo I’m with it. Let’s do it”. So we started rapping and it started off slow so we went back to hustling because we had to pay bills, ya feel me? So we’re back on the grind and shit. And a drought had happened. You know a drought is when there ain’t no coke, you can’t buy no coke or the coke is hot. So during the drought we couldn’t find no coke. I called my sister because she was a hustler and asked for a connection. We went over there and it happened to be a n*gga that we’d seen in a Too $hort video. So we were like “Ok we wanna buy this coke but on an other side of things we rap man. Can you introduce us to Too $hort man?” He was like “Ok man, let me hear what you got.” So I buzzed “Ice Cream Man” and as soon as I buzz that he was like “Oh fuck $hort, man, I’mma put ya’ll out. I got my artist Dru Down and he’s about to come out. He just need a couple more songs so I’ll throw ya’ll on that and then we’ll put ya’ll shit out.” We got a deal at the round table. A lot of people get deals through demos and talent shows but we got a deal trying to buy some coke. It’s real when you look at our G-file. Especially at my G-file. So that’s how we got signed.
WorldWideConnected.com: Did you havfe plans back then to go solo or was it all about the group?
Nah I wasn’t thinking about going solo. I was solo in jail but when I got out I was always thinking about the group. I was just now starting to write and writing three verses was just too much for me at that time. So I was like “Let’s just get a group and this and that dude can write their verses and I can just write my verse and the song is done”, yaddadamean. That’s what I was doing. I was just a beginner still. Even though I had hot lyrics and shit I was still a beginner. It was becoming a headache to write that fucking long. That’s why I needed a group.
WorldWideConnected.com: Allright, man. I’m gonna say an album title and you say whatever comes to your mind. What happened at the time or whatever you wanna say.
Ok. Allright.
Man, I grew up at the project and struggling on welfare. You know section A living with my mom and my little sister. We got kicked out the project and ended up living homeless for a while. Grandma, auntie and everything, man. I did it all. I ended up with my big sister so I seen the better side of life… and with my father, my father was a hustler and moms was like a wino so when my pops came got me he’d take me over to Frisco where he had his condo and shit. He had a lot of money so I got the bad side and the good side. But at the end of the day I ended up living with my sister since my father was going to jail so much and couldn’t take care of me cause he was being locked up. So I ended up living with my older sister and from there on is how I learned to hustle. My big sister was hustling, ya feel me? So I learned to cook… chop it, rock it, bag it, ya know? It was hustle 101 at the crib. So I learned how to hustle and took that to do my own hustle, yadaddamean? It got me clothes, tennis shoes and all the shit that I wanted, you know for highschool, but after a while I started wanting shit all the time for myself and when they didn’t get it for me I was mad so I was like “Fuck this I’m gonna get on my hustle and get my own shit”. So I started hustling and started doubling up. I started working for my cousin… I met Numbskull in junior high and I got him on to it. He started hustling for me. It was basically all my lil n*ggas out of junior high. I ended up going to juvenile hall, jail, in 8th grade. I got out after 3 days and shit… back out there hustling again. Then I got caught about 3 years later in 11th grade. They made me do a year in a youth camp That’s when I started rapping – when I was in that youth camp.
WorldWideConnected.com: How old were you?
I was 17 when I got in and 18 when I got out a year later.
WorldWideConnected.com: So you knew Numbskull from before you were rapping in Junior High then?
Yeah. Me and Numbskull met and rapped together in Junior High while I was living with my sister. At the same time we were rapping, I turned him on to the hustle aswell, ya know?
WorldWideConnected.com: So was it a natural thing when you started the group then?
I mean we basically started from junior highschool. I met Numb and he was already in a group called B.W.P., Brothers With Potential. They was doing all the little talent shows and at lunch time they’d be rapping in front of the whole school and shit like that. I was just a cartoonist. I was the artist at the school but I was playing with rap and rhyming and shit at the crib. I drew their logo and shit… I drew them rapping and shit in cartoon form. I became cool with them like that and they wanted me in the clique. In B.W.P. So after that I just stared writing my raps. I was seeing them n*ggas doing it so I wanted to see what I could do. When I came I wasn’t that raw. I mean I was okay, but Numbskull was the rawest mothaf*cka in the group. After junior high everybody end up going to different high schools and the other members of B.W.P did so we ended up not f*cking with them. Me and Numb were the only ones that stayed in contact when we got to high school. So eventually… Me and Numb were just hustling in high school. We were like “fuck rap, we hustlin’”. But when I went to jail and did a year is when I got back and tried to rhyme. I was like “fuck this hustlin’ shit” and I started taking this rap shit seriously. I drew the Looney condom and logo and came with the name. I wrote “Ice cream man” and all that shit in jail. Rigged it up. I got out and I called the best mothaf*cka I knew from high school – Numb. So I called him and was like “Yo I got this idea for a group called the Looney Toons, here goes the logo. I’mm be Yukmouth and you be Numbskull” and everything. And he said “Yo I’m with it. Let’s do it”. So we started rapping and it started off slow so we went back to hustling because we had to pay bills, ya feel me? So we’re back on the grind and shit. And a drought had happened. You know a drought is when there ain’t no coke, you can’t buy no coke or the coke is hot. So during the drought we couldn’t find no coke. I called my sister because she was a hustler and asked for a connection. We went over there and it happened to be a n*gga that we’d seen in a Too $hort video. So we were like “Ok we wanna buy this coke but on an other side of things we rap man. Can you introduce us to Too $hort man?” He was like “Ok man, let me hear what you got.” So I buzzed “Ice Cream Man” and as soon as I buzz that he was like “Oh fuck $hort, man, I’mma put ya’ll out. I got my artist Dru Down and he’s about to come out. He just need a couple more songs so I’ll throw ya’ll on that and then we’ll put ya’ll shit out.” We got a deal at the round table. A lot of people get deals through demos and talent shows but we got a deal trying to buy some coke. It’s real when you look at our G-file. Especially at my G-file. So that’s how we got signed.
WorldWideConnected.com: Did you havfe plans back then to go solo or was it all about the group?
Nah I wasn’t thinking about going solo. I was solo in jail but when I got out I was always thinking about the group. I was just now starting to write and writing three verses was just too much for me at that time. So I was like “Let’s just get a group and this and that dude can write their verses and I can just write my verse and the song is done”, yaddadamean. That’s what I was doing. I was just a beginner still. Even though I had hot lyrics and shit I was still a beginner. It was becoming a headache to write that fucking long. That’s why I needed a group.
WorldWideConnected.com: Allright, man. I’m gonna say an album title and you say whatever comes to your mind. What happened at the time or whatever you wanna say.
Ok. Allright.
