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Project Pat: The Hypnotized Minds thing was all Juicy’s dream. He brought me in to be a part of it, and I saw the money, so I came along, but I remember Juicy was always pushing me. Telling me, “Do something so that when you come on, they’ll know it’s you.” I used to have this little CD with all these nursery rhymes on it, actually there was two of these nursery rhyme CDs. So, I would listen to the melody of the nursery rhymes and replace the words in it with street words. That’s really how I started to rap. I’d swap the little kids' words out and put street words in there with the same melody. I used to do that a lot.How did the second verse of “Chickenhead” get written?
I wrote it. I wrote Chat’s part, but Paul was the one who told me, “Why don’t you write something where you and her are going back and forth?” So I wrote it. Let me tell you something. I was just walking up behind this girl going over to my cousin's house. And she just… I don’t know man. Her hair was just fucked up, and she was just all fucked up. And I was like, “You’re just a chicken.” I was messing with her saying “Bawk Bawk,” and that’s how I made the song up. Went to the studio a day or two later and Juicy made the beat and we recorded the song. I knew it was a good song, but I didn’t know it was gonna sell a million copies. You could have never told me that.And when did it go platinum?
It went platinum in like seven months. I was locked up, actually, when it went platinum.For…
I was locked up for the gun. I had been on parole, and then I got sent back for like five months, and by the time I got out, it had already gone platinum.Read the rest over at Noisey.