… sing and I said, ‘Well, let me put something together for you.’ So, I put, ‘Daydreaming’ together and it did quite well for him. But, when them checks came back, you know, I ain’t get my end. My end wasn’t straight. You know what I’m saying? My money was funny. You know what I’m saying? So, I’m like I might as well do this myself. So Russell was like, “My man, if you’re that upset about it, why don’t you just make your own record?” So I said, “Okay. That’s cool. We could do that too.” You know, so thenI went in and I got with my cat, Benny Bell and we did a couple of albums and one of the songs was, “The Rain,” that took off real big and it did well. And then I did Europe and stayed over there for a couple years, you know. And I came back and you know, it’s kind of cool. It went up and down. So one day chicken,’ one day pheasant. But, you know, that’s pimpin’.”
“LL [Cool J] was the first to Def Jam and I was the first R&B artist. So, it was a cool mixture, man. It was a very good marriage. We made a lot of money. Back then, it was a lot different than it is now, man. It was more of a machine type thing, you know. It was kinda…it wasn’t really cliquish. It wasn’t really anything to build upon. That’s why Russell will also be a great individual as far as Hip Hop is concerned, because he saw the impossible. He saw the invisible and did the impossible. You know what I’m saying? So Hip Hop was in its infant stages. It was kind of cool. It was a wild ride, man. Everybody was going for theirs so Keith Wood, Kane, Nice and Smooth, and Dougie Fresh. Everybody was trying to get on and cats were doing their thing. I’m still glad to see cats still doing their thing still today.”