I would say from the west coast because they really don’t know the beginning of how it all started. That’s what is wrong with the records today. That’s the way you’re supposed to put out records and have them released. I never thought it would be as big as it is today, but it was really a lot of fun.ĭubcnn: So while your doing the whole NWA, Eazy E, D.O.C things at that time, for what you all were putting together, you had no idea it would become as big as it eventually became? That wasn’t even a thought to you guys like, ‘man, we’re really doing something’? If the song sounded or felt good that’s what they went with. It was sort of off the cuff, nothing really planned, it’s just going by instinct. That was one of my favorite songs, and still is. Dre decided to put it on the DOC on album. That was a track that was just a song I was playing in the studio one day and Dr. I played on pretty much everything they had going on because I was the only bass guitar player at the time.ĭubcnn: Off the DOC album, most people really began to take note of who you were with the “Beautiful But Deadly” track. The first NWA record was \more political than gangster, but the media put the gangster on it, but it was really political.ĭubcnn: On the First NWA record, what songs were you specifically a part of? That’s how it started, saying things that people wanted to say, but were too scared to say, for example, about the police and things like that. They weren’t looking to sell millions of records, they were looking at putting out some street records. Dre asked me to replay some of those parts and that’s how I got involved with NWA, JJ Fad and that type of stuff. If you wanted to turn the bass up or the guitar up, you couldn’t handle the controls because it was all in samples.
I started out by just using samples so how I got involved was, as they were using the sample records they couldn’t control the samples. It was kind of a response of having a west coast style music that wasn’t just all dance. It was a response to the east coast pretty much because at the time everybody was listening to Public Enemy, KRS-1 and all the east coast artists. So that’s kind of how the whole thing started.ĭubcnn: What were some of those early NWA sessions you were a part of like?
Dre put him in the group when they were in the need of a rapper and nobody was there. Eazy wasn’t a rapper, he was just a hustler. They didn’t really have any need for bass guitar so I just kind of kicked back and it turned out to be pretty good. Dre, Ice Cube, the whole crew was there so it kind of started from there and when they were doing their Wrecking Crew stuff they didn’t have bass guitar on none of their music. I just kind of met all of them at Alonzo’s house. Dre was just DJ’ing, then they formed their little rap group. He had the club running pretty good, so they started their group, the World Class Wrecking Crew and he introduced me to Dr. Alonzo used to come over every Saturday and talk about how he was going to start this club, and have some parties and dances. I knew Alonzo who was the leader of the World Class Wrecking Crew he started the club down there when he had Dr. How did you first get involved with the JJ Fad Supersonic album? You go all the way back to Ruthless Records with Eazy-E and JJ Fad and all of that. Maybe DJ Quik or Ice Cube.ĭubcnn: Let me take you back a little bit being that you are one of the pioneers of this west coast music.
I’m looking to get a mixture of some of west coast artists and some stuff from the south. Compton Rock and I’m in contact with a few more people for features.ĭubcnn: What features besides Devin are you looking at and hoping to get on there? I already got Devin the Dude, he’s looking to do one of his songs. Yeah, I was reaching out to some features, but it was taking a little while so I decided to just release the instrumental and do a revision of the edition with the features on it. It’s a mixture of different types of music.ĭubcnn: With Concrete Soul you said it was an instrumental album and it was supposed to have some features on it? It’s a mix of some R&B, some Rock, a little Hip-Hop and a little Pop. This first edition is instrumental only, the next edition I’ll have some features, but on this one it’s just instrumental just some music I had and wanted to get off my chest. I have it out on iTunes, Amazon, pretty much all the digital sites that sell music. Dre/DOC/NWA) by Chad Kiserĭubcnn: Stan, what’s up? Let everybody know what you’ve been up to most recently.