HOW SUGE KNIGHT, J PRINCE, CHRIS AND IRV GOTTI ALMOST CHANGED MUSIC FOREVER-MP3

Rashad Bilal (0:00)

We gotta talk about J Prince. He put this in his book, so this is public knowledge. He put this in his book. So, shout out to Houston, my man Don Key, if you're listening, that's my guy. We connected on Instagram, dripped up and draped down. We gotta go to Houston, we gotta go.

Chris (0:11)

I'm gonna get J Prince on this thing.

Rashad Bilal (0:13)

Yeah, that's a fact, that's a fact. We gotta go to Houston.

Chris (0:15)

Prince, we need you, man.

Rashad Bilal (0:16)

You heard it, that's a fact, that's a fact. Shout out to H-Town, man. So, J Prince told the story about how he met you in his book, right?

Yeah.

Chris (0:27)

He loved me to tell that story, too. He always said, whenever we around new people, Chris, come on, tell them how we met. But it wasn't on good terms.

His legend and his name and reputation precedes him. So, when I had found out, Irv calls me and says, Seven was signed to J Prince.

Troy Millings (0:48)

That's one of your producers at the time.

Chris (0:50)

Yeah, he was one of our main producers.

And made a lot of hit records, made a lot of money. And J Prince was basically claiming all the money he made and generated. Cause Seven said that's his money. So, if he signed to J Prince, he's like, collect that money and then we'll do whatever my deal says I get, I'll take from there. So, J reaches out and Irv tells me, you know, you gotta go to Houston to deal with J Prince.

I'm like, great, you know, great, thanks, thanks brother, thanks Irv. Good looking, good looking. But you know, I'm a doler, so at the end of the day, no problem. At the time, Supreme was home.

Rashad Bilal (1:36)

Supreme, the Supreme.

Chris (1:36)

Yeah, shout out to Supreme, hold your head brother. At the end of the day, Supreme is home and he was at Beaumont, Texas going to see his nephew, Prince.

And he was coming from there.

Rashad Bilal (1:47)

That's the federal penitentiary, right? Federal penitentiary out there.

Chris (1:50)

And he calls me and tells, I mean, I call him and tell him I'm going to Houston, meet me in Houston. He says, no problem. Then I call one of my other brothers out there in Houston, Black. We call him B1.

So I call B1. B1 is about that life. So I was like, yo, I'm coming to Houston. I got a problem out there. He said, whatever you need, I got you. So I get out there. He's like, what's happened? He comes, picks me and Supreme up and he's like, what's happening? I say, man, who's this J Prince guy? I got a problem. He said, oh man, I can't do nothing. He's like, that's the big homie.

Rashad Bilal (2:20)

Sorry, I can't help you.

Chris (2:22)

So, you know, keep it moving. Everyone told me, don't go to his ranch.

Jay says, he calls me up while I'm in Houston. He says, hey, come meet me at my ranch.

Rashad Bilal (2:33)

And I'm like, he has a ranch.

Chris (2:35)

He has a ranch. He's a real cowboy. Like he's, he's a country boy, man. You know, he's the biggest provider of hay.

Rashad Bilal (2:42)

Yeah, he said that. Black Angus Beef. Or in his book.

Chris (2:45)

Nah, people don't know. He's a mogul. He's a real mogul, but he's the biggest real estate owner in Houston. Yeah, he's someone you should talk to. He bought his whole hood. Fifth ward is his. J Prince, you know what I'm saying? So at the end of the day, they tell me I gotta go to this ranch to meet him. That's all right. So he sends two cars, two SUVs. For Jay, it was all presentation. See, I know this in hindsight now that I'm with, my brothers, but in the beginning, I'm thinking this is some bullshit. Like, he sends two cars, two people in one, four in another, and me and Prem and Black. Black's like, I'm gonna come with you in case something goes. I'll try and defuse it and stop it. So I was like, all right, bet. So we drive, again, I just want to give the listeners and the viewers the vision. When you get to this part, we drove for about an hour from where we was at. Then we get to this one part and it says, James Prince Estates.

It's like a billboard and we say, okay, make the right turn. We drove another 20 minutes from that corner to get to the middle of the gate. That's how far, how much land he has.