Chris The Glove Taylor Part 4 interview

[D-Nice]

http://illuminati2g.com/site/2012/04/10/chris-the-glove-taylor-interview-part-4/

I2G is back with part 4 of our interview with Chris The Glove Taylor. In this part of the interview he talks about the unreleased music at Death Row and Aftermath, his thoughts on producing and rapping, Detox and much more check out part 3 of our interview below:

 

http://illuminati2g.com/site/2012/04/08/chris-the-glove-taylor-part-3-interview/

If you could give just a round ball park figure, with Aftermath and Death Row, how many albums are sitting in the vaults that are completed or done that will never see the light of day, that you know of?

Ok, see that is back to that question you asked me earlier. The thing is, let’s say you have a song like Lil Ghetto Boy, that song started off as 3 other tracks with different verses and then they were combined into the retail version that everyone knows from The Chronic.

If you consider those 3 tracks and the other verses unreleased, even though Lil Ghetto Boy is a end result of those 3 things, that’s not a fair representation. What we have over there is alot of unfinished work, records that we would never release. You gotta remember bro, the cream rises to the top, let’s use the analogy the tip of the iceberg.

All that ice underneath, have you ever seen a iceberg?

Yeah

So you know that 97.2% percent of it is underwater. Even though it looks like a mountain above water. Well all of that you don’t see, it’s important but that does not mean that it needs to be above the water.

Right

So all of that music that we got over there, I’d say we got about 1,000 tracks over there and that is not even including Aftermath that should never see the light of day. But if they do, out of those 1,000 tracks you could probably get 3 or 4 hit albums out of it.

Now Aftermath is a little bit different. We have tons of tracks that do not even have anything on them. People have forgot they are even there and if someone were to actually sit down and listen to those tapes, I mean have 45 to 90 tapes myself with 3 songs a piece on them.

So if someone would go down there and listen to that shit, there are some hot albums in there that no one had heard. Wideawake bought Death Row and all their masters and a buddy of mine, JP, is running that now, he is the president of the Death Row section.

That music that they bought, I truly believe if you have 10 records, only 1 1/2 of them should be released and the others are not good enough.

I agree. Even some of the stuff they already released is not even mixed and mastered properly. I mean the Snoop project they put out was terrible, the sound quality was horrible.

It wasn’t with us just about making beats, we PRODUCE. Dre plays instruments and cats don’t even know that and not just the drum machine. I play multiple instruments and I mix, we master. Dre mixes and masters and it is about the ear, it’s more than just about the MPC and making a beat because half these cats sample.

You gotta remember that we did not do that much sampling and if we did, you would never know that it was a sample. I am not hating on the type of music that it is, I love all the different incarnations and developments that are coming through, but you have to understand that producing ain’t just about making a beat and paying 4 other people coming in a doing their thing.

One guy coming in to mix, another guy doing that, man go in there and do that shit yourself if you want to be a real producer. Now there are other producers that do not touch anything. That is a dope producer too, because that person is like a Phil Jackson, Quincy Jones is like that. He gets everyone on the beat to make it tight and he has all the best players.

Phil Jackson had Michael Jordan and before he retired he had Kobe Bryant, Shaq, he had the best people. He then gets the best out of them, Quincy does, and he does not mix or master and you ain’t gonna see him do a beat but he is a van glorious producer.

What I am trying to say is that it’s alot of cats that do beats that claim to be producers and all they are is songwriters. I feel like 5% of the music that Death Row has could really be hot. Now if they go in there and get their hands on that music and work it the way we built records, you could build something out of there.

Same way we did, let’s take this verse and add it to this, etc. For instance the Zoom record, you heard that rap on something else. The way you get good at rap is to know it and the better you know it, the better you flow it and you flow it over different things and see what it gets the best bounce off of.

You rarely just get a beat rap over it once and that’s it. You have to be a prolific writer and there are not too many of those. That is why you have Jay-Z who can rap to anything, he is prolific and a amazing writer and people just think he is just a dope rapper, but dude can write. All that talk about all he does is go in the booth and freestyle, whatever. You might just see that part, but like I said earlier you just seeing the tip of the iceberg.

You might be seeing memorization instead of freestyling, song just being worked over and over again. I mean doesn’t Jay-Z seem like a calculating cat to you?

Yeah he does

Jay does not seem like the cat to just make a move, he seems more like the type to calculate his move many times. He always wanted to be the greatest rapper so he calculated and made it into that. Now he is, just like Kobe Bryant. Practicing and practicing and they be showing it on the news. After the Lakers lost to the Heat, Kobe was in the arena shooting 1,000 jumpshots.

You know how many times he has done that when there are no cameras around?

Exactly

It’s the same thing with Dre, why don’t you think that Detox is out? Everybody talking about Detox needs to come out, they need to do this, the first time Dre said he was gonna do that album I was 30 and now I am 37. I’m like man yall are a damn fool because his first album came out in 1992, his 2nd album came out in 2001, what does that tell you? He takes his time and inbetween he gets rich.

The nigga only had 2 albums, people acting like he is Eminem or something with 10 albums. Nah man this dude, when his records come out, they be game changers. You can’t just do that in a year, 2 years, please man. Unless you got.., see back in the 60′s and 70′s you had The Beatles they had teams of writers.

Check this out, the same way we put together records at Death Row and Aftermath of piecing songs together, do you know that Barry Gordy re recording all of his hit songs from his label? For example you have Poppa Was A Rolling Stone by the Temptations, then The Supremes would do the song, then another group would do the song as well.

How many times have you heard I Heard It Through The Grapevine performed by different artists?

True

BEFORE that song became old, they recorded that song with many artists trying to make it stick. It’s the same concept bro, and people think that it’s easy, it ain’t easy.

That’s true. Well definitely I appreciate your time and the stories and we will have to do another one to come full circle to talk about what you are doing presently now with TV and other artists. Is there any last words you want to get out there?

I want to send a shout out to Iggy, that is a white girl that can rap. That girl is off the charts tight, and she reminds me of…, hell she don’t remind me of anybody, but as always got to send a shoutout to my manager K-Mac and business partner, Young Pistol, Alpha Red and anybody that has the love of this hip hop in their blood like me and can’t get rid of it. Shout outs also to Aftermath and Dre and hurry up with that shit while ya bullshittin (laughs)

[Will_B]

Great read!!!!

Something for the Dre haters to digest

Interesting that he thinks Wideawake should be getting the producers to finish those records! That kinda blows my mind. Purests will say the music should be released untouched at all costs. Very dope idea to me new tracks out of the old ones!

[dameons]

That was an A +  interview from beginning to end...Thank u for it !

[bouli77]

excellent interview, much props. i love PBL's 2 albums, it's a shame RC never completed let alone released the album he was doing with Aftermath.

[jaytee]

Great series of interviews.  I ended up reading them backwards (4-1), but it was all good.  Thanks.

[Okka]

Dope read. Thanks for postin' this.

[dubsmith_nz]

Props again D-Nice, great read!

[HighEyeCue]

Props again D-Nice, great read!

[Fonky Fresh]

excellent interview i appreciate the work done here

[The Predator]

Glove dropped quite a bit of interesting info' in the interview.

This was the song that got me into hip-hop, Chris Glove on the decks:



''Combat!''

[Dre-Day]

nice parts. looks like he doesn't throw dre under the bus.

interesting that he says that dre plays instruments. i can only think of the piano

[Giesuz]

thanks, enjoyed it like the first three parts