Dedan Skillz Talks 2 Pac Friendship, A&R work w/ DJ Bobcat

The Gangster Chronicles

The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Music, True Crime

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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tonight we chopped it up with the homie Dedan Skillz that normally, well, never does interviews. We talk about his 20 years as a music exec, forming a lifelong friendship with the late Tupac Shakur, his work as an A&R with legendary DJ Bobcat, who happens to be his big cousin and much more. Now I'm go tell you in advance EIht's mic had a crazy a** delay and it sounds like he was talking over us, but that wasn't the case lol Press play.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.7	What's happening? What's happening? What's happening?
0:08.9	It's another episode against the Chronicles podcast. It's your boy, Big Steeler.
0:13.0	Man, before we get started, man, I'll let you kick this off eight, man.
0:19.0	I want to give a condolacy.
0:20.0	Yeah, man, we got a...
0:22.0	My boy, Mike T.
0:23.2	My boy, Mike T. passed away today.
0:24.9	So anybody who's a loyal CMW fan, know Mike T's been around.
0:31.6	You know, he was a significant DJ, you know,
0:34.8	uh, lended a hand on production on some of significant CMW songs.
0:40.0	Was in every video.
0:41.5	We toured together, you know, I started my, you know, I started my CMW shit with Mike T.
0:48.4	When we first started the group, everybody know it was another DJ involved dude named Ant, but Aunt, you know,
0:57.8	had other shit doing on. So we brought in Mike T, not as a member at first, but just somebody
1:04.1	to handle back then niggas was, uh, uh, DJs were very strong on projects and what have you, whatever.
1:13.2	So, Mike T. was very intricate when it came to a lot of CMW music.
1:18.4	We didn't do hooks and shit.
1:20.4	We used Mike T as a DJ to do our hooks with his skills.
1:25.8	Shout out to, you know, his moms and his brother, all the homies that I knew, you know,
1:31.8	through my team.
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