It doesn’t matter who you are, or where you come from; because at every point in our lives, we all wish that we could contact Doc Brown, jump in the DeLorean, and go back in time to fix at least one thing about ourselves.
As for artists, they probably wish they can do it more times than not, (especially when they get caught up in bogus contracts).
In this edition of “Logikally Speaking”, you’ll hear from Hot 97’s Drama King, DJ Kay Slay, veteran lyricists Edo G and Masta Ace, West Coast pioneer Warren G, comedian/actor Mike Epps, and the Boot Camp Clik’s Sean Price all discussing that particular topic alone.
Hopefully hearing from them will serve as a time machine of sorts for you…
Sean Price: I wouldn’t change anything… Actually, I wish I didn’t punch the security guard at Hot 97 back when Nocturnal came out, cause they banned my music… Most people didn’t hear about it, but then you didn’t hear me on Hot 97 anymore either [Laughing]… I do regret that, and I regret getting arrested at the ‘Therapy’ video shoot, because that messed us up on making another video… But those are the only regrets I have…
Mike Epps: There are a few things I would change, like a couple of decisions that I made… I would DEFINITELY not come into the business like I did… Excited like I was… I didn’t get a chance to position myself the way that I wanted to… I feel like people took advantage of me being “happy-go-lucky.”
When people catch you being happy, they want something, and then they give you a piece of what you’re supposed to have, because they caught you being happy… You could’ve got the big bag of grapes if you came in a lot more serious about your business. But I was so happy, so I only got two grapes, and I’ve been working with these two grapes man… [click for interview]
Kay Slay: I regret not learning the business before I got into it… I came in like a firecracker; smacking people, and flipping on n*ggas… I brought in the street element, and I should’ve known better than to do that… It made money, but it f*cked up a lot of money too… But other than that, the boy that I was, made me the man that I am… [click for interview]
Warren G: I’m happy with how everything panned out… I still have an incredible name, and I can still do an album whenever I want to, and people are going to buy it and like it… I wouldn’t change it for nothing…
I may not be on the ‘Dr. Dre’ status YET, as well as Lyor Cohen or Russell [Simmons], but hopefully I’ll get there by staying a humble dude and keeping relationships with people… So If I do that, I’m pretty sure I’ll get one of those seats to where I can sit in the office some where, and call some shots…
Masta Ace: I think my career took the direction that it did for a reason… Not getting that platinum album right out the gate kind of put me in the right place mentally, of where I needed to be… So I was on the right path as for what was supposed to happen for me…
Edo G: As for me, the only thing I think I would go back and change; I think it was around ’91-’92… Mark Wahlberg was on me hard… We were at the Boston Music Awards, and we were competing for album of the year, and stuff…
He won some and I won some… But I was a real a**hole to him, going on with the whole, “You’re not really a rapper” thing when I could’ve been going on tour with him, and he was doing stadiums at the time… So that’s the only regret, not being nicer…
