Q: Okay, the popular concep- KLC: And he got a lot of shit
tion has been that P organ- Mo B: At that point we were out of us that he wouldn't get
ized beats by the Pound, is already in-house producers. P out of anybody else. Shit that
that true? had already called me and we did then that he'll never get
Serve-On Up there, and Serv out of anybody else again. And
KLC: Fuck naw ! Beats by the and I beckoned for KL to come that's sacrifice.
Pound came up when we knew out there to take part in what
that we were both going to pro- we were doing, because P real- Mo B: Yeah that was one of his
duce for this dude. It was a ly had a movement. He was on words.
Sunday evening and we didn't a mission. It was like an army
know anywhere to go in that he was recruiting so we KLC: But he didn't have to
Oakland because we didn't were like the draftees. preach that to us. The minute
have no transportation to even we had conversations and
go anywhere to even find out Q: Who was next? talked with him about the situa-
how to get to places. We were tion, I left my family for a year
just up there making beats, and Mo B: Next came Craig B. to go to Oakland from New
I was like... man we need a Orleans to help build No Limit. I
muthafucking name for our pro- Craig: I had given Serv-On seen my family on holidays.
duction group. We live by the beat tapes to rap to when he When I left my kid she was like
808; that’s where the pound was going from Richmond to going on a year old. Shit like
comes from. So I said you New Orleans. Plus, I had done that you can't buy that.
know what, we gone call our- some stuff for Mia X back when
selves the Pound. And Moby she was doing her thang on Mo B: Money can't bring that
was like... fuck it, we gonna be another Independent label. back. It's not even a money
Beats by the Pound. Serv gave the tape to P and he issue. The thing is, we had an
had me do some songs and it understanding that there would
Q: What was the first record got to a point to where P asked always be a better day. We had
that you all produced under Mo B. and KL if they could deal faith. We lived off that.
that name? with me. They said yeah.
Mo B. : Bout It. Q: I heard that you all did the Q: What was the last record
first few albums for No Limit that you all did for No Limit
KLC: Yeah, that was the first without getting paid? before you all left?
song we ever recorded with
him. That was on the very first KLC: We did about 10. They KLC: The last album we did
TRU album. That's the one were: "Good Girl Gone Bad," was in 98 and that was
when King George was with "Ice Cream Man," TRU's Mystikal's "Ghetto Fabulous,"
him. It just so happens that the "True", Skull Duggery, Tre-8, which went platinum off one
two songs that Moby and I did Kane and Abel's first No Limit single. After that stage, it had
was the two songs that carried LP, Sillkk The Shocker’s album. gotten to the point where
that album. Mo B did a song We also did the "I'm Bout It" everybody had to branch out
called "Fuck Dem Hoes" and I soundtrack and a track for the and do their own shit. That's
did "Bout It." "Substitute" soundtrack. when C-Murder went with his
own producers, and Silkk start-
Q: And that's when the hits Q: How were you all surviv- ed working with a lotta other
really started to roll in for No ing doing all of this free producers. By them reaching
Limit, right ? work? out to other people, that kinda
fucked up the chemistry. It's not
Mo B.: Right. P always had a Mo B: Oh, P was furnishing a the regular plan that we went
following, but he was never little something for us to live off to. Everybody wanted to get
really big down South prior to of. We had already agreed at they own shit. Silkk had his
"Bout It" He had Mid-West and one point that we were helping producers that he had from
Bay Area/Cali audience basi- to build a company. We were a California. C had his producers
cally. With "Bout It", P found his part of the mechanics of build- that he was still working with
identity. ing a company. That’s what you out here; that's Keno and some
have to understand. We were a other people out in California.
Q: Were you all officially part of a vision. (Continued on Page 23)
signed with No Limit then?
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