Less Than A Quarter of the Boy Nate Was

2 Feb 2012
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“Lyrically, Big’s a faster writer than Dre. When Big goes in to do his verses, he takes off all his jewelry. He takes everything off before he goes into the booth, and that’s his little ritual before he lays his verses. My assumption was, he did that before making music because it’s, ‘as you were when you started.’ You know? To have that feeling of pureness. You standing there in a booth with all your jewelry on, you kind of lose touch. Dre and Big both write everything. Matter of fact, Dre don’t even believe in freestyling, and I don’t even think Big believe in freestyling. Cause I think the explanation was, it’s a little bit better to think about what you gon’ say before you say it rather than just blabbing off anything. It makes more sense to think about what you saying. Cause I remember when we used to be on the road and people used to always want them to freestlye, especially over in the Bay area. They were on the Sway & Tech Wake Up Show show once in California, and everybody would have to freestyle on their show, and Dre and Big explained that they wasn’t gon’ freestyle cause that’s just not what they do. Overall, they both understood the power of words. And The Dungeon is just now starting to understand what our music meant to people. Because we were just having fun making music, I don’t think we realized how it touched people until later. Now we get to really hear how much people appreciate the songs.”
Mr. DJ, interviewed for Complex
#as you were when you started

“Lyrically, Big’s a faster writer than Dre. When Big goes in to do his verses, he takes off all his jewelry. He takes everything off before he goes into the booth, and that’s his little ritual before he lays his verses. My assumption was, he did that before making music because it’s, ‘as you were when you started.’ You know? To have that feeling of pureness. You standing there in a booth with all your jewelry on, you kind of lose touch. Dre and Big both write everything. Matter of fact, Dre don’t even believe in freestyling, and I don’t even think Big believe in freestyling. Cause I think the explanation was, it’s a little bit better to think about what you gon’ say before you say it rather than just blabbing off anything. It makes more sense to think about what you saying. Cause I remember when we used to be on the road and people used to always want them to freestlye, especially over in the Bay area. They were on the Sway & Tech Wake Up Show show once in California, and everybody would have to freestyle on their show, and Dre and Big explained that they wasn’t gon’ freestyle cause that’s just not what they do. Overall, they both understood the power of words. And The Dungeon is just now starting to understand what our music meant to people. Because we were just having fun making music, I don’t think we realized how it touched people until later. Now we get to really hear how much people appreciate the songs.”

Mr. DJ, interviewed for Complex

#as you were when you started