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How did No Limit Records get its start?

We start out the trunk of the car.

Greatest team ever assembled.

Master P, Silkk the Shocker,

C-Murder.

Kept on adding ingredients.

Mia X, Mr. Serv-On, stirring it up.

Beans, Mac, Soulja Slim.

How that taste?

This is real gumbo right here.

When they get Mystikal,

one of the greatest free agent moves in hip-hop.

And then, here comes Snoop. That was so big.

Problem is, he was signed with Suge.

Well, he's got guns, we've got guns, who cares?

He used to be a CEO, now he's just an inmate.

No Limit for life, baby.

Our machine was rolling.

23 albums, 16 gold or platinum.

Starting to make hundreds of millions.

We were building this southern Motown.

We got a shopping center, real estate business.

What's up, y'all?

This is Master P, and welcome to my crib.

Sports business.

They're gonna do some really big things here, and I wanna be a part of that.

I wanted a tank.

Film.

Uhh. Uhh!

The Charlotte Hornets suited up

with Master P in the lineup.

What do you wanna play basketball for,

all this money we making?

You gotta realize, everything has its climax.

Shit got weird.

There was clashing of egos.

Man, he lost peeps by the pound, man.

Everybody left. The love was gone.

I don't wanna hear that shit!

A dark cloud came over.

Kane and Abel indicted for cocaine...

Mac indicted for second-degree murder.

C-Murder wanted for attempted murder.

Nothing could stop us but us.

All self destruction.

But wait till the smoke clear.

I'ma be good.

Master P is the mastermind

of one of the most successful labels in hip-hop history.

Oh my God! Master P in his Hummer!

Master P, he was a game changer for hip-hop, period.

Master P, number-one song in the country.

Being this force to be reckoned with,

changing the outlook of music.

Master P's deal with Priority Records

was one of the best deals in rap history, period.

This man is the reason rappers are able to make millions.

If there wasn't Master P, a lot of the rappers

you see now wouldn't be here.

Y'all know who it is. Master P.

At one point, Russell Simmons,

Suge Knight, Jermaine Dupri, Jay-Z,

they all looking up at P like, "What the..."

Yeah, I don't give a... who you were.

Sorry.

My life was damn near lost,

and then that's when Master P stepped in.

Master P taught us the right way.

It wasn't just about me, it's about we.

Without y'all, there wouldn't even be No Limit.

One of the great dynasties in hip-hop.

No Limit Records.

That's Master P's legacy.

To understand me,

I think you have to understand where I came from.

This is New Orleans. This is where my story started.

There's no other place like this.

The greatest music.

The greatest food.

All these nice houses, nothing but riches and wealth.

But you walk over those steps,

you back in the Calliope Projects.

You see nothing but poverty.

I grew up in the Calliope Projects.

This is where my character was built.

When I was here as a kid,

this was the murder capital of the world.

Calliope Projects, they're at war.

One of the most violent places

in one of the most violent cities in the country.

You see a bunch of mansions around here?

No. But I bet you one thing.

Every person back here probably own a gun.

Calliope is the worst place this side of hell.

That's all you need to know.

You might not be doing nothing but going to the store... bop!

And that's how it go, man, in our hood.

The reasons most often cited

for the increase... Kids, guns, and drugs.

My first time seeing a dead body,

this guy was laid out in the street,

there was just flies around him and nobody was like...

It wasn't even like nobody was even acknowledging he was dead.

I had a best friend, and I'm sorry,

but she was murdered at the age of seven years old.

It just was bad.

People know, you come from here, you definitely seen hell.

You made it out of here, that says a lot about you.

If you gonna survive back here,

it's for real.

Like, a life ain't worth nothing.

I'm like five years old,

I hear these guys arguing over a beer.

I hear the shots.

Seen the guy on the ground dead.

For a five-year-old, man, that puts you in a cold place.

The fact that P is alive today,

the fact that he built an empire is a miracle.

In April of 1967,

Master P was born Percy Robert Miller.

Percy was the oldest,

he had three other brothers and a sister.

My mom worked at the Hyatt Regency,

she worked in the hotel business.

You know, my dad was out there

trying to keep a job in the French Quarter.

He was like the security guard for them.

When he was young, his parents broke up.

My mom and my dad separated.

My brother Corey, which is C-Murder,

my brother Vyshonn, Silkk the Shocker,

and my sister, Germaine,

they went to stay with my mom in the Magnolia Projects.

Me and my brother, Kevin, we lived in the Calliope

with my dad and my grandparents.

But we see each other every day.

My mom would bring us over there and pick us up later.

So, there used to be a lot of kids in the house.

So, even going back and forth,

all my brothers and my sister G,

one thing we were was together.

But my grandparents had 12 kids.

And me and my brother together,

and then there's big momma and big daddy.

So, that's 16 people in a three-bedroom project.

I'm sleeping on the floor.

Everybody ate before me.

I remember, sometime all I got to eat

was corn flakes and water.

We couldn't afford milk.

And my grandparents would tell me,

"Even though we live in poverty,

be happy and make the best out of what you have."

Despite the circumstances,

he had a really tight-knit family.

My grandparents used to have suppers,

and I was the DJ.

So me and my brothers,

all of us together, it was like the Jackson 5.

We was poor, but still happy.

AB, common mark.

We all sacrificed,

but we just came together like one big family.

We had our problems, but we all stuck together.

Everything that he had to fight through

and struggle through, that's what No Limit is.

It's breaking barriers.

And the whole military theme, it runs really deep.

It came from his family members who were in the Army.

Everything starts with my grandfather.

He was a real G.

My grandmother was a G too, man.

Like, drug dealers would be on the porch.

My grandmother come pour hot water on 'em.

His grandparents, Claude and Maxine,

gave him a sense of self.

My daddy was the man of the family.

He worked two and three jobs.

And my mama was a hard worker, too.

My grandfather, Big Daddy,

he worked at McKenzie's Bakery.

And Big Mama, my grandmother,

she was a nurse at the hospital.

My grandfather, my grandmother,

just work, work, work.

They found a way to provide for us.

That's where I got my work ethic from.

This is how it is. If you want something,

you got to work for it, you got to strive for it.

He went around cutting grass.

Recycling cans.

Popcorn boy at the Superdome.

He was doing stuff like that at ten years old.

Our family inspired us

to be better than what other people around us were.

My grandmother told me that

having a dream is the most important thing.

If you don't have no dream, then... why wake up?

I have a dream.

She made me keep reciting that "I Have a Dream" speech.

My grandmother said, "There's gonna be no limit

to your success when you dream big."

That just stuck in my head.

Kept saying, I'ma get us out of here.

I don't know how, but one day I'm gonna be rich.

One day, I'm gonna make millions of dollars.

One day, I'm gonna buy my grandmother a house,

my mom a house, my dad a house.

I just thought big like that.

Somebody had to make it in the family.

He was the first born, so he had to take leadership.

The main thing, my goal was, my parents' goal was making sure

they got an education.

Big Daddy's like, "I'm gonna take

"my Social Security check,

send you to this Catholic school, St. Monica."

The only private school, across the street

from the projects.

My grandfather, he was close to us.

He took time out to teach Percy how to do the right things,

and it changed his life.

When I walked through the Calliope Projects

with my Catholic school uniform on,

sometime I had to fight my way back home.

I had to do what I had to do.

He was an altar boy.

My grandfather said,

"If I can get you those golden values,

I can save you."

St. Monica, we got to go there,

and then we met during that time.

His grandmother and his father, and all that,

you know, he had a lot of people on his neck.

We couldn't come home with Ds and Fs and all that shit.

He also went to Booker T. High School.

That's when Percy matured.

Booker T. is the father of black nationalism.

His philosophy was do for self.

Quite naturally, that's where P learned

what it meant to be independent.

He just was different, like, always focused.

Like, he had plans to go further in life.

I never met a guy like him.

Oh, when I first met Percy, it was like 1983.

We met at a club.

It was called Nexus.

And I was dancing on the dance floor.

I knew of Sonya before.

Everybody was trying to get at her.

When I seen her, man, I knew, like, this was gonna be my girl.

He came over.

I'm like, look, shorty,

you're gonna be for me.

She was like, "Boy, you crazy."

I'm like, look, I'm telling you,

this is how this is gonna happen.

We started dancing, and there it was.

It was like love at first sight.

Percy and I, we was high school lovers.

I had my family, Sonya, and school.

That was the first time I see a bright future.

But one day, my whole life changed.

Yo, what's up? We down here in New Orleans.

It was 1983 New Year.

Three, two, one!

Yay!

My grandfather, his blood pressure was up.

I remember me and my brother Kevin was arguing that night

about who gonna walk my grandfather to the hospital.

So, I end up saying, I'ma walk with you.

There's no way I could have known

what was about to happen.

Happy New Year!

New Year 1983,

I'm walking with my grandfather to the hospital

'cause his blood pressure was up.

So we get to the VA hospital, stayed out there overnight.

The next day, they checked him out.

They say he was good.

"But before you go, we gonna get some medicine

for your blood pressure."

So he had a guy sitting in another bed

next to my grandfather.

They gave my grandfather the guy's medicine.

It killed my grandfather.

I had to come back to the project

and tell all my grandfather kids

and my grandmother that my grandfather was gone.

When we found out what really happened to him

when they gave him the wrong medicine,

it was very hurtful.

That was probably the toughest time of my life.

I just couldn't believe it.

My grandfather's really gone.

Without my grandfather, I don't know what I'm gonna do.

I don't think we'll survive this environment without him.

Big Daddy passing away made him more motivated

to be the man of the house.

He used to tell Percy, "If I'm not here,

you gotta take care of this family."

So Percy said, "I promise you, G,

I'm gonna get us out of here."

Basketball was my way

to take my family up out of this.

I just kept working on my game, man.

All day, every day.

Kids used to hustle back there.

And the police could see you,

so they would shoot the lights out.

I'm out there in the dark just putting up shots.

I'm like, how you know it go in?

You just hear the nets.

Like, "shing."

For me, as his coach, every time we played him,

he would... he would put on a show.

He was averaging like 25, 30 points a game,

like 10, 12 assists a game.

Back then, it was definitely not uncommon

for brothers in the hood to make money

off high school basketball.

So they were betting on him.

Somebody was gonna get hurt, namely him.

I was a junior in high school.

I'm playing on the varsity team.

I'm at the free throw line for us to go to the playoffs.

Tie game, it's up to me.

A guy flashed his gun.

He said, "You make that shot,

you might not make it out of here."

I had to think quick, man.

Man, I'm ready to die for this.

Because if basketball don't work,

the circle is gonna close in on me anyway.

We won, we going to the championship.

We broke out running.

Coach said, "You got to duck,

you might get the window shot out."

That's just how bad it was.

Growing up, basketball brought me and my brother Kevin together.

So, me and my brother at Warren Easton.

It was happy times. It was us against the world.

He was an all-city athlete, well known.

He had the girls like, "Oh, that's your brother?

That's P? Um, he's good."

And I'm like, okay.

He did it all.

He had bloomed into a very, very good player.

Top colleges coming to the projects.

Denny Crum from Louisville,

Guy Lewis from Houston, John Thompson from Georgetown.

I think I might make it out of here after all.

In 1985, he graduates from high school,

going to the University of Houston to play basketball.

He wanted to go to college and become this pro player,

and to move his family out the projects.

The University of Houston at this point

were major entertainment in terms of national TV.

This is just one year after Hakeem Olajuwon

and Clyde Drexler.

Hakeem is there, 14 rebounds for him,

and for the game.

Another lob. Drexler, look out.

They were known as Phi Slama Jama,

were bringing a lot of notoriety to the school.

This was a really big deal.

Houston was the best thing that happened for me.

I worked so hard that summer, man,

'cause I really wanted to start as a freshman.

It was time for me to be a big star.

He had the weight of his whole family.

It wasn't just his immediate family,

it was like the whole hood.

And he knew that basketball could help everybody.

Unfortunately, P ends up getting injured.

So I'm in practice going so hard, and I fell.

Then I heard a pop.

The doctors told me it was an ACL injury.

It sidelined his dreams for playing basketball.

Just this quick, I thought my life was over.

I left Houston and took this long bus ride

back to the projects.

And I feel like a failure, man.

Definitely was a big blow,

'cause you feel like that was your ticket out.

It made it tough, and a lot of people

don't bounce back from that.

Everything crashed.

I start questioning God in my mind.

I keep seeing my grandfather around me

telling me, "Man, you know what,

you gonna have to figure something out."

Me and Master P,

we lived in the same neighborhood in the Calliope.

You either sell drugs or you work.

I remember Percy working at BellSouth.

I was selling phones.

The only bad thing, I'm working on commission.

Never got a check.

Drugs here are a profitable business.

Even a small-time crack dealer can pull in 50,000 a year.

So, for P, like a lot of kids,

especially in the ghetto,

selling drugs was your only option.

I have always tried to play it straight.

My grandfather told me, "I don't want you

hustling with them boys out there on the block."

But you will risk it all just for the people you love.

It wasn't too long before hustling the street

put me in a life-or-death situation.

So by late 1987,

P felt like the weight was on him

in terms of what he was gonna do

to lift up his family.

I can't play basketball because I got hurt.

And back then, music wasn't a reality,

wasn't a dream for me.

I never knew of anybody making money rapping.

Percy had to survive like everyone else, selling drugs.

Master P cousin Jimmy... Hotboy... he the man you go to

to get your product.

So I'm hustling,

trying to be like my cousin.

First time I went out there, I don't know what I'm doing.

Had a crackhead rock up something for me.

I get it back, I'm like, what is this, this is nothing.

Lafeen stole his money

and stole his drugs.

He was getting bamboozled.

I remember one guy,

he was a dean at a college.

I asked him, I said, man, why are you doing this?

He said, "Look, man, you gonna sell me some crack,

or you a dope dealer with a conscience?"

I didn't feel happy riding around

trying to be a drug dealer,

but I wanted to help my people have a little money.

I built so many customers,

thousands of dollars coming in.

I was getting real money back here.

So I kept pushing, telling my family

that I'm making money off the phones,

but I'm really hustling.

He end up making enough money to buy him a car.

It was a red Audi.

That's a nice little car you got.

Smooth and slippery to the wind,

it is the world's most aerodynamic luxury sedan.

I was trying to be slick,

park the Audi like three, four block from the project.

Next thing you know, I see all the windows broke out.

Big Mama took a bat and busted all the window out of the car.

You didn't wanna fool with Big Mama.

She told him, "If I catch you doing such and such,

'cause I heard about drugs, I'm gonna call the police."

P's grandmother didn't go for that,

because she wanted him to be somebody.

She was just tough, but Percy, you know...

he wouldn't listen.

One day me and my cousin Hotboy, we shooting dice.

And these guys drive up, all of 'em got guns.

So they tell me, "You know what it is."

I throw my money up in the air, then run.

I hear shots.

They leave, I hear the car squeak off.

I ain't hit at all, no bullet wounds, no nothing.

Hotboy, he laying on the ground, they shot him eight times.

I jump in the car, take him to Charity Hospital.

Hotboy ended up surviving.

You have to understand the law in our hood,

retaliation is a must.

Me and my homeboy, we found the house

where the guys was at.

We waited for 'em.

We end up seeing, like, their mama and their sister.

My homeboy was like, "Man, we about to let them have it."

I'm like, nah, man. We didn't shoot.

That night, my grandmother put a black dress

over the nightstand.

Said, "Yeah, I'ma wear that to your funeral.

"'Cause the way you living right now,

you ain't gonna last."

I didn't understand until I had my own family.

Percy and I got married in 1989

after we had Romeo.

When he had Romeo, it was like,

this my son, this my baby.

And it was joy.

Now you got people depending on you for real.

At the time, he and his wife Sonya,

and Romeo were all living in the Calliope projects.

Me having Romeo was just a blessing, man.

But you gotta wanna change.

I was in the car passing through the projects

hustling on the streets.

I used to like Ice T, "Colors."

I used to go everywhere with two guns.

I got Romeo in his little baby carriage,

got the music turned up.

All of a sudden, hear my grandmother saying,

"Turn that music down,

and take that boy out this car."

I start looking at Romeo.

I just start crying, dawg.

I'm not gonna see this kid go to college

if I don't get out of this environment.

In that moment, I decided I gotta get out of Louisiana.

Percy was like, "Come on, let's pack up.

And we packed Romeo up and left all our things

in our apartment and took off.

Sonya end up having some relatives

living in Richmond, California.

But soon I started realize, Richmond was a tough place, too.

Richmond is as hood as hood can get.

So it was like out of the frying pan, into the fire.

And to be able to be in Richmond and survive Richmond,

I gotta be legit.

One day, man, I was just driving around,

and I see this place

with just hundreds of people standing outside.

I'm like, what is that? Oh, that's a record store.

It was called Jones & Harris.

It just clicked, I'm like, man,

I'm about to get in the music business.

I start thinking about what my grandmother told me as a kid.

If I dream big, it's gonna be no limit to my success.

So I open up No Limit Records.

The seed money for the record store

was $10,000.

It actually came from an interesting place...

A malpractice suit that his family won

from his grandfather's passing.

Me and Percy started that record store

as like a "raggly" building.

You know, we had to reconstruct it.

I took $10,000,

put it into the business, finally made a profit,

like two to three grand.

Maybe three to four months, it was all washed away.

So me, Romeo, and his mom lived in the back of the store.

Sharing clothes, trying to figure out food every day.

The most horrible, mold-infested building

you ever wanted to see.

I gotta figure something out.

Like, I could be right back on the streets.

In 1989, Master P and his wife Sonya,

and their son Romeo were all living

in the back of the record store.

It was rough, it was a struggle.

And it was hard on me 'cause I had Romeo.

But you have to do what you have to do

if you wanna get to the top.

I realized if I make this business work,

my whole life was gonna change.

He looked around the area where he was living

and noticed nobody was selling gangster rap.

And like a good entrepreneur, he filled that void.

1990 was a pretty landmark year for hip-hop.

Turned out with NWA in Compton.

What's up, y'all?

After NWA came out,

you had all these gangster rappers

coming out of the woodwork.

P used to sell local rap on consignment.

The local independent rappers would come by,

put the product in the window.

He was constantly interacting with these rap entrepreneurs,

and he was seeing what worked, what didn't work.

All this is happening on the streets, you know.

So we just letting 'em know what's happening,

'cause it happens all over the world.

So P started to realize,

"You know what, I can do this, too."

I wanna be rapping about my life,

my gangster life I lived in New Orleans.

I really lived this, I done seen this.

I could do this.

So now, I'm a rapper, dawg,

I'm from New Orleans, I'm from the streets.

But I start realizing that I needed a team.

The year was 1989.

I was in Richmond at a Jack in the Box.

And I turn around and I see Percy Miller.

With nothing but black and gold Saints stuff on.

I say, what?! What you doing out here?

He said, "Man, I'm rapping."

I say, hey, P, I'm rapping, too.

I say I wanted to start a record company.

I said, hey, man, whatever you trying to do,

I wanna do it too, we out here.

In early 1990, he forms a group called TRU...

The Real Untouchables.

TRU was my brother,

King George,

and then there was a bunch of guys from the neighborhood.

I had to name myself.

I could have been Killer P, Dopeman P, whatever.

I'm like, no, I gotta think bigger.

Whatever I do, I'ma master it.

So I just said, man, it's gonna be Master P.

A couple weeks later, he said, "Look what I got made."

It was a MasterCard with "Master P" in there.

So now I need to create a logo.

So I start thinking about my grandfather.

He always told me, he'd say, "Man, you know,

you start your own army."

So that's where the No Limit tank come from.

I was ready to go to work after that.

I started looking for a studio to go to.

P hooked up with a guy named K-Lou.

K-Lou's like a super producer in the Bay.

Known for making some platinum records.

E-40 was recording with him, and a number of others.

I started my studio in my mom's garage.

First day I met P, he came in there,

and soon as he opened his mouth, I said, wait a minute.

He had this country accent, and he wanted to use the studio.

He didn't have any money, so he said,

"Yeah, I'll do whatever, man."

So my mom needed her house painted, right?

So P said, "I could do it."

You paint my mom's house, I'll give you some studio time.

So we came out, looked at his work.

Hold it, hold it.

Put that paintbrush down, boy.

I mean, he had that house tore up.

You know, I appreciate the hustle at the time,

so I just said, come on, man.

Come on in, let's do this.

Coming from the projects in New Orleans,

when I got in the studio with K-Lou,

that was like new to me.

The first song I did was "The Mind of a Psychopath."

The lyrics to that was inspired by my life and my story,

the people murdered and the people on the streets.

A couple days later, we do a couple more songs.

We got four tracks now.

Man, I was so hyped, I thought we was going platinum.

Everything about the record is very raw, unpolished.

Most people would consider it to be a demo,

but Master P put that out as an actual project.

You know, you have Public Enemy out,

Ice Cube is out, and then, you have Master P.

With a very rough project by comparison,

it didn't hold up in that regard.

This shit bringing in no money.

P said, "Be cool, King. We're gonna make it, man.

We're gonna go back in the studio and do it again."

Meanwhile, back in New Orleans,

Master P's little brother Kevin was fully in the streets.

We knew he was moving it.

That's why we was trying to get him out of that life.

We was trying to get him out there with us.

P actually wants to get all of his siblings

to come to Richmond with him.

I left to move to Richmond, C went to the Army,

Vyshonn came, and Kevin stayed behind.

My brother Kevin, I think he just didn't know

that it was time to leave.

I was in the Bay working on music,

and I get a phone call, and my world was crushed.

September 26, 1990,

authorities found Kevin Miller's body

right off the Interstate I-10.

They said that he had been driving with two other men

who were in the car.

They got into some sort of argument.

Ultimately, he was shot several times

in the back and in the head.

They dumped his body on the side of the road.

Like, how do you do that to someone?

I couldn't believe that my brother was dead.

Everything stopped, man, my world was crushed.

It just ripped something out my heart, man.

He was hurt, and he cried.

I had to hold him still, like you know,

I had to keep him near,

because I can't feel what he was feeling,

but I could see that it was nothing nice.

I drove all the way back home nonstop.

That was the fastest I ever got back to New Orleans.

Corey was in the Army,

and he couldn't get released to come,

so he went AWOL, he left.

And I don't know how he got there, but he came.

When I got home, I go in the funeral.

I see my brother Kevin.

Like, how could I get through that?

When my son got killed, that really tore us up.

P and Kevin were real tight.

That was another sad day for us.

We was devastated.

He was supposed to be on his way to California with P

so he could be part of the No Limit family.

And it's not fair.

My dad and his brothers talked about Uncle Kevin every day.

They all tatted him on their arm.

And they never let his name die.

He's here with us in spirit.

When Kevin got killed,

P had enough sense to say, "You know what,

I have to come up with a game plan."

And so, he came up with a game plan to save everybody.

"I gotta save you, Vyshonn. I gotta save you, C.

I gotta save Romeo."

After losing Kevin,

he couldn't trust no one.

And that's why he wanted to turn Corey

and Vyshonn into rappers.

I wanted to give my brothers something positive to do,

something bigger than the streets.

I want them to be a part of TRU.

I wasn't looking to become a rapper, per se,

but I definitely didn't wanna be in the streets.

Percy got Corey and Vyshonn

to start brainstorming names.

My rap name come from...

they used to call P Big Silkk,

and then they used to call me Little Silkk.

Silkk name was like Silkk, Silkk the Shocker,

"I'm gonna shock the world."

Silkk was like 16 at the time,

but I started putting him on hooks

to kinda like ease him into the business.

Yeah, we out here chilling in K-Lou's studio.

C came up with C-Murder.

C-Murder actually got his name

from serving in the Gulf War.

He was a medic corpsman.

And a medical corpsman sees a lot of blood and guts,

and people die.

I was arguing with him, dawg, don't name yourself that.

He's like, "Man, I name myself what I want."

And from the first song that C made, he was just raw.

Master P, at this point, he realizes

he needs Bay Area artists to enhance his company's roster.

He hooked up with Big Ed, Cali G,

and another rapper by the name of Chilee Powdah.

Master P was putting out projects independently.

They were very rough around the edges sonically,

artwork-wise, packaging-wise.

But... he was relentless.

To keep it real, Master P, we thought that was like...

That was some garbage music, like, what is this bullshit?

It wasn't even a real buzz in the street.

You literally could find those albums on the ground.

You gonna kick it like a beer can.

He was new in that game, but...

there was a bigger plan,

a bigger picture to the whole thing.

No Limit was a work in progress,

and a lot of people didn't believe.

But we knew what the outcome was gonna be if we kept going.

At least, I knew.

One night, Master P and TRU,

they were to perform at a nightclub in Oakland.

If you're from Oakland, you can't go to Richmond.

If you're from Richmond, you shouldn't go to Oakland.

So they were in a situation.

Me, Big Ed, Cali G,

and Silkk, we get in the club.

And we from Richmond.

But we're not ever scared.

We was like, yo, we gotta get money.

We gotta start getting our name out there.

We was waiting to perform when, uh, a guy...

stepped on Silkk feet.

Yo, don't step on my foot.

It was me just being, like, young and dumb.

My brother was arguing with everybody.

And then, Big Ed just punched the guy.

Bam!

Then I heard, "East Oakland! East Oakland!"

This dude looked like the Incredible Hulk

come out of nowhere.

Hit Big Ed one time, knocked Big Ed out.

I looked for P outside,

Silkk hide in the bathroom somewhere.

I got a TEC-9 in the car.

Grab the TEC,

come back in the club...

See the dude.

Nothing come out the gun.

Everybody run, I get Big Ed, get him to the car.

I see the guy again jump out, start shooting.

Nothing come out.

Get by Emeryville Bridge, under the bridge.

Ta-ta-tat.

It shoot just as good as ever.

Guess everything happen for a reason.

Because if that gun went off in the club in Oakland,

that would have been the end of No Limit Records right there.

After that night in Oakland,

I realized God had a bigger plan for me.

No Limit definitely wasn't an overnight success.

He was like, "Some of us ain't gonna make it."

There ain't nothing but fire coming from the window.

I know y'all got this "Ice Cream Man" album,

made of 31 flavors.

The music was infectious.

This is my comeback, I can put out

how many records I wanna put out.

That's how a businessperson thinks.

Our next level will be multi-platinum.

Suge Knight was not happy to have Master P

in his territory.

You either with us or you against us,

but you not gonna stop us.

Subtitles Diego Moraes(oakislandtk) www.opensubtitles.org