Kokane shares some wild hip hop stories about Tupac, reacts to T-Pain's comment, Dre, Cube, Eazy-E, Aaliyah, Suge Knight, new music on the way, and more! ----- 00:00 Intro 0:25 - OG Kokane says he's the most featured artist in the world. Doing over 4,000 features over 30 years 5:02 - Growing up with famous Motown composer father Jerry Long 8:12 - Creating Above the Law’s first big song “M___ Rap” 9:10 - Pitching the 3-song demo to Eazy-E that landed Kokane his deal in 1989 10:09 - The controversy around Kokane’s name, says which Epic Records executives that pressured him to change his name 15:20 - Ghostwriting and producing for Eazy-E and NWA 16:00 - Kokane explains how some of the greatest artists have had ghostwriters 21:56 - Hutch remembers the breakup of NWA. First Ice Cube left, then thrown in the hot seat when Dre left 24:25 - Kokane watched Hutch put hands on Ice Cube 25:14 - Hutch breaks down what led to the beef between him and Ice Cube and gives a play-by-play of their fight 34:48 - Hutch says he can’t rule out foul play regarding Eazy’s death 35:45 - Addressing the conspiracy theory that Suge Knight injected Eazy with HIV. Eazy was worth $100M when he passed 38:05 - Eazy-E never got stomped out by Suge. How Eazy got 25% of The Chronic 41:20 - Kokane remembers running into Tupac on Sunset Blvd right before he passed 45:38 - When Tupac coined the term G-Funk 47:05 - Reacting to T-Pain saying “Tupac would’ve gotten ate up lyrically in 2022.” Hutch explains the genius and range of Tupac 49:38 - Remembering their last conversation with Tupac about attending the Mike Tyson fight 50:15 - Giving their side of Snoop’s story about when Tupac pressed Nas in NYC 51:40 - The real reason for the East Coast vs West Coast beef was because Biggie wouldn’t tell Tupac who shot him 55:28 - Reacting to Funk Flex calling Tupac a fake gangster 57:50 - Conway the Machine was right to call out Flex because he’s not respecting the younger generation 1:10:20 - Hutch explains why he was the real creator of G-Funk, not Dr.Dre. Breaking down the real definition of G-Funk 1:18:02 - How Hutch became the VP of Death Row Records 1:20:05 - Reacting to Suge’s legal troubles. Not understanding why he got so much time 1:21:15 - Hutch on leaving Death Row a year after Wack100 joined because there was too much emphasis on beef 1:23:33 - Reacting to Wack’s comments about Nipsey not being a legend. Working with Nipsey since his ‘Bullets Have No Names’ 1:29:15 - Remembering Lisa Left Eye, asked her why she burned Andre Rison’s house down 1:31:04 - Remembering how Aaliyah was into hardcore gangster rap 1:31:55 - Kokane and Hutch call out R Kelly 1:32:35 - Meeting Jada Pinkett through Tupac. Believed she was the first woman Tupac really loved 1:33:54 - Hutch feels like Jada was really in love with Pac but wanted to be married to Will Smith 1:43:15 - Creating the Architects of G-Funk Album, book, and biopic. Getting ready to drop the album in September. 1:44:50 - Kokane stills gets inquiries from young new artists. Happy to see young guys tapping in with the OGs 1:47:58 - Shoutout to Ceddy Nash for connecting Kokane and Hutch with Flakko Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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