I'm so glad to see you. I'm glad you're here. Rob Lowe, man. Come on, man. You're legend.

Hey, it's Rob Lowe, everybody. It's literally. Do I sound serious? Cause I am.

We've done 100 plus episodes of this show. This interview might be, and I know I've set it before, but I've been lucky.

We've done a lot of really great interviews. We have this one though, bro, sis, sit the fuck down. By the way, I said that word because you're going to hear a lot of it.

If that's an issue for you, and I know it is for some people, I don't know what to say, but you don't tell iced tea how to talk. He is the man.

And without further ado, let the iconic legendary iced tea.

I totally respect all the work you done in your life, man. I'm a real fan. So I'm happy. I was like, I'm on my vacation and they like, yo, we're going to do a podcast.

I'm like, it's a roblo. I'm like, what?

Let's go. I love that. And I love your well and we're in a red LA Dodger hat. I'm a big Dodger fan. I represent. I love the red though. That's very cool. I got to get one of those.

Well, you know what hip hop hip hop was the where the reason they started making different color hip hop different color baseball cats because they realized that we didn't care what team it was. We're matching colors.

We don't care. So if we have to be color coordinated, you understand what I'm saying? So I'm a yes, I'm yellow one. I might need a yellow Yankee sat or a yellow LA hat. So, you know, the sports companies got on top of that. Now you can get them in every color.

You know, I'm saying all black all white to go with your fashion. And you and you were always you were like the talk about OG. You were the OG of matching the colors.

Well, I had to because you know, in LA, the gang situation is dead serious. Right. People that aren't from LA and don't have any understanding about it.

I don't understand it, but yeah, it was when I was growing up, you can really get hurt, you know, and instead of just being it, I never wasn't a gang, but I come from Crenshaw High School, which is rolling 60s hood.

And to join that gang, you immediately turn the whole rest of the city into your enemy. So I was smart enough to say, you know what, I'm going to put the whole west coast on my back. I'm going to represent the west coast.

No, no particular gang. So in some of my photos shoots, I would wear red, some of them, I would wear black, some of them, I wear blue, but I could do that because I wasn't in a gang.

So it was a smart move, a career decisions career and life decision. Absolutely.

How did you pull that off, particularly you were slightly a head, you were there at the very, very beginning, but you know, we all know the stories of what was going on with some of the other artists and the pressure was serious.

So how do you think you navigated when other guys didn't?

Well, no one really wore colors prior to 92 and 92. There was a gang truce in Los Angeles between Imperial courts, what they call PJ Watts and the bounty hunters and that kind of spread across Los Angeles.

And then after that, you saw Snoop wearing blue, you saw different people wearing blue. But up to that point, it wasn't safe.

And nobody was really doing it. If you go pre 92, you won't see colors. So everybody was kind of neutral. We wore black a lot.

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