Mixtape Addict #78

00:00:21: You have now entered the mixed tape.

00:00:03: addicts show Broadcasting every day with the French connect DJ King flow.

00:00:21: I took sabbatical to write more radical gun in the.

00:00:24: add a killer nigga such a natural um quite a fanatical animal when it comes to pinning them syllables of theatrical the Oscars Hannibal sandwich, this is the cannibal artistry.

00:00:33: and if you're wack catalog damage and arteries burn like Doc Miley Molotov, Molotov, I'm pushing keys in a way like Rachmaninoff Not saying a word unless the camera's off.

00:00:44: homie Entering the dragon, I'm the man in here homie.

00:00:47: Make you run like Han when his hand was off.

00:00:49: homie.

00:00:50: Better pay attention, take an Adderall.

00:00:54: Got your goddamn dress, I'm not until your ass is feeling fired up.

00:01:00: Got you doing mad drugs, now you wide up, eyes up.

00:02:15: I shot it down, what's wrong with you?

00:02:51: The crown is off, put him six feet in the ground.

00:03:12: Y'all ain't hold him, gonna bounce back eastward.

00:03:20: if you couldn't he could Distribute that math, it went to shock.

00:03:28: If Charlotte Colm's getting called in, they got to hurt you.

00:03:35: I ain't trying to murk you, they get you to vote.

00:03:40: And same dude looking at me like the hood Feeling that you get when dad's on with you Till you vote for him, on with you.

00:04:01: I ain't doing nothing but it by myself.

00:04:05: I ain't paying the kidnappers a penny of this wealth.

00:04:08: I'm moving stuff, check the promo in slow-mo Like a blood sport, fightin' Tom Poe and a lot of coca-marabona Dental, Sentinel, addicted.

00:04:52: You can't preach resilience to a true survivor.

00:05:33: Had brushes with death, you were groomed in violence.

00:05:35: Truthful liars thought they could rule the tribe Cause they knew the bible, either you stand for good or evil.

00:05:40: Neutralized, neutralized, I'm in my laws of power.

00:05:43: I can choose to cherish truth and shine and y'all wanna be the reason it moves its vibrance.

00:05:47: Follow these American idols.

00:05:49: I'm like a cruel assignment.

00:05:50: Trust testing me ain't a cruel assignment.

00:05:53: I scout your played nigga, you can count your days like a group of Mayans.

00:05:56: Now who's the giant?

00:05:58: If I sling a shot, no, my sword sharp Though it was only a stone, that's Goliaths.

00:06:02: Built this from nothing, I'm a true MacGyver.

00:06:04: I'm proving why you try to stand on business and I can suit entire.

00:06:09: All I need is my brothers, y'all need them new subscribers.

00:06:11: The reason I stopped trying to bridge the gap and just grew wider.

00:06:14: We championed skill, y'all checking for who was flyin'.

00:06:17: What's the rash?

00:06:18: There's still no traction.

00:06:19: Dressed in your smooth attire Crucify, you'll feel like Professor X in a mutant cypher Can't have winning

00:06:24: habits, we'll lose the timing.

00:06:26: What's the

00:06:26: use of crying?

00:06:27: You should be happy, I'll let my students fry ya.

00:06:29: At least we can say you're dilated, check it.

00:06:31: I'm looped in mind that you needed a light preserve and shallow waters.

00:06:36: Why would you try jumping ship with a scuba diver?

00:06:38: Mixed your circus, probably perished from computer virus Suicidal if I stopped the post in your Google Fiber Turns out brutal war makes a soldier calm.

00:06:47: You see them snakes in the grass.

00:06:49: it's time that you mow the lawn.

00:06:50: Who told you wrong?

00:06:51: I mixed you up Michael Jordan with Colvin Braun.

00:06:53: But you can't say that you king if you can't control upon.

00:06:56: Feel the next moves in my chest, no

00:06:58: rest when your soul is gone.

00:06:59: Take apart my weapon and still agreed.

00:07:01: you went open arms.

00:07:02: That be the stream of me.

00:07:04: They money ain't talking, they speakin' secretly.

00:07:06: Don't care what you did when I did that recently.

00:07:08: We can see your mind in the days and just too weak for me.

00:07:11: Frequently, I let off the gas and I show some decency.

00:07:14: It's clear how an alpha moves.

00:07:16: King of the jungle, I've been without them.

00:07:18: screws Mount Rushmore, I show you how mountains do Leave when the room is brisk, they scream it, we forgive you King.

00:07:23: You tried to take the bow by the horns and I had to give them wings.

00:07:26: Mind of a sick disciple, my shit.

00:07:29: like Michael.

00:07:29: My back pedaling on my bike avoiding that vicious cycle Consumed doom and just death.

00:07:34: and I spit.

00:07:35: survival Not from the surf I was giving birth on my ship's arrival.

00:07:39: I'm equivalent to a heated spoon.

00:07:41: They don't know what a beast consumes.

00:07:45: Release the fuel.

00:07:47: I will never meet my match until I meet a tune.

00:07:49: These weebafoons respect how I speak to goons.

00:07:52: We could at least assume the right time.

00:07:54: We're still in struggles of freedom.

00:07:59: DJ King Flow

00:08:15: you garbage rapping.

00:08:16: dumb trucks never start a war if you ain't ready for the gun bust.

00:08:26: start a war if you ain't ready for the gun bust.

00:08:31: dumb trucks came to give the

00:08:33: Lord's blessings.

00:08:34: my rider is the version of a learned lesson.

00:08:37: I also came to stab a heart in forced aggression.

00:08:41: I bust a sword swiping boards fighting war titans.

00:08:43: my pen powers off the storm lightin'.

00:08:46: put some glasses on if you're born sightin'

00:08:50: double crossed at all for my horrors vices.

00:08:53: and lyrically they say

00:08:56: I'm mulling into old fat wipes.

00:09:01: They say I'm spoiled and I'm back misfit.

00:09:03: But I'll

00:09:04: never mention how the wallet's flyin' Self's takin' with the whack business Niggaz bad, cause

00:09:09: I lack interest.

00:09:10: Shut them down, truckin' these in a fast instant.

00:09:13: I know you heard me, now are you wishin' that you're stupid?

00:09:16: as listen For way from me before I have your ass missin' You garbage-wrappin' dumb trucks,

00:09:28: never stutterin' stutterin'.

00:09:30: Rinnin, Rinnin, Rinnin, Rinnin, Rinnin, Rinnin, Rinnin, Rinnin, Rinnin, Rinnin, Rinnin,

00:09:48: Rinnin, Rinnin, Rinnin, Rinnin, Rinnin, Rinnin, Rinnin, Rinnin, Rinnin, Rinnin, Rinnin, Rinnin, Rinnin, Rinnin,

00:10:20: Rinnin, Rinnin, Rinnin,

00:10:27: Rinnin, Rinnin, R. Welcome

00:10:46: to the pterodome,

00:10:47: you might see me parking a lot But I ain't never home, so they

00:10:50: tried to blow up the spot.

00:10:51: I had to send her home, she like it.

00:10:53: when the nigga get hot Said it, turn her on, talk to her, just bought all the process Out to get this paper, ain't nobody that

00:10:59: can stop this.

00:11:00: Locked in,

00:11:01: get the parties up and like that nigga John Stockton I did that

00:11:04: on purpose,

00:11:05: now watch me make the music go And jump back in

00:11:10: Moose.

00:11:10: make the money, the

00:11:11: vinyls we get it crackin'.

00:11:12: You know the vibes.

00:11:13: make the

00:11:14: honeys gon' wiggle.

00:11:14: They back in, paper, I'm stackin' You niggas is lackin'

00:11:18: and this levels to the shit.

00:11:20: The hell.

00:11:20: another hit.

00:11:22: I'm high as hell up in this bitch.

00:11:24: and yo Moose Come and hit this blunt and tell

00:11:27: them hoes that the dolder leave their phones at the front.

00:11:29: I got the code.

00:11:31: She callin' on stop, had a block on top.

00:11:34: Got the spotlight, playin' club, the committee, loyalty.

00:11:38: Got it tatted on the teddy, but she

00:11:40: still

00:11:40: ain't shit.

00:11:41: Another day in the city.

00:11:43: Move some crisis, infiltrate like ISIS.

00:11:46: Go and do your taxes, you bum ass niggas.

00:11:48: We ain't in the same bracket, these hoes ain't shit.

00:11:51: Got them jumping off the mattress, my bitch paying bread Fresh out the kitchen, gotta keep the pain in Ever.

00:11:58: try my hand, I'ma clap you on demand.

00:12:00: I don't know your name, son I never been a fan.

00:12:03: Hiding rally with the jam, cooking up another jam.

00:12:05: Play my shit up in France.

00:12:07: Move spendin' me and French toast off the Eiffel, get paid off the shows, gross off the finals, part two coming soon, shit I throw like the Bible, script after scripture, this game gettin' richer, huh, purism of religion.

00:13:03: Straight from the lower east, what up scam?

00:13:07: He said, what up trope?

00:13:08: He said, what up?

00:13:09: I said, I'm trying to get some fucking dough.

00:13:11: He said, I know what li-.

00:13:12: I said, you need to switch.

00:13:13: He said, yeah, but you gotta call stick.

00:13:16: I call stick, stick was

00:13:17: like, what's up?

00:13:18: He was just waking up, and I ain't waking up.

00:13:22: Get up, there's some money to get.

00:13:23: He said,

00:13:24: where you at?

00:13:26: You jumped in the road to Alston, to Avenue B, the liquor store.

00:13:36: That's right.

00:13:45: Anything can happen in the lower east side.

00:14:44: Been in the lower east side.

00:15:33: Been in the lower east side.

00:15:50: That's right.

00:15:55: That's right.

00:16:02: It happened in the Lower East Side.

00:16:42: It's all pimping, I've seen it all through my laser vision.

00:17:32: My mission, to keep it real with no condition.

00:17:34: My addition, the escalator was on my feet.

00:17:43: Pipping has saved my life and I'm no bitter.

00:17:46: A bitch is swallowing, no spitter I don't follow.

00:17:51: no nigga, the sort of thrill You see it, baby come on in.

00:18:02: I brought the gangsters, the hustlers,

00:18:04: the players and pimps And acts like a lumberjack, keep it under wraps.

00:18:14: Pancakes with occasion from mumble.

00:18:23: enough for

00:18:27: that.

00:18:28: Your parade, it's all charade.

00:18:33: I see curry, it ain't snowfall.

00:18:35: The flow fall just like a flowy Me and the Q turn up the heat just like the stove And spice up these hip hop tracks just like some clothes.

00:18:42: Ever since I MC it's your excellency.

00:18:45: Place verbs in nouns so effortlessly We puttin' in that work like it's after five And sound too polished for the streets.

00:18:51: but demolish these beats.

00:18:53: Here's a clue, we know how to get to it.

00:18:55: We don't talk about a joke, we just do it.

00:18:58: And this hip, here's a hundred proof.

00:19:00: Bomb in or out the booth.

00:19:07: We don't talk about the God Rock acid to the world raw, behind the scenes.

00:19:17: We've been fighting through a world war, told ya classes at the very top Fighting over sponsors, every day I wake up to rappers still in my concept.

00:19:24: From song title flows, album covers and bars.

00:19:27: My journalists and casual

00:19:28: fans

00:19:28: say nothing at all.

00:19:29: Why you paying for these write-ups, but you never perform You on the bowling

00:19:33: stone, nigga,

00:19:34: use as dumb as the call Plus.

00:19:35: you signed a hoop, and you're managing makin' what?

00:19:37: You see our fan base real, then you're hatin' on us?

00:19:40: Y'all the gull of these dudes, talkin' to all of these dudes.

00:19:43: Never in a million years would we pay for these views Differences, when the hype's gone, your mic turn off DJ, stop playin' this shit, then the candle burn off.

00:19:51: I'ma still be rockin' it, pumpin' out tapes at my leisure Till I feel like pumpin' the brakes, it's comin'

00:20:09: But you know what's.

00:20:12: so do VJJFLAW!

00:20:13: VJJFLAW!

00:20:13: As I say, I love you, but the promise is not a simple thing.

00:20:21: Happiness is in simple things, the big ones, the

00:20:29: beautiful ones.

00:20:30: We have genes to legalize the street, do we know that?

00:20:47: Bro, people have no idea how you are at the taff.

00:20:53: It reminds me when I hear you say that you are compact.

00:20:58: I knew you through some freestyles, you are fighting.

00:21:02: Si tu te rappelles, c'était avant qu'on reprenne contact Je t'ai qu'un petit jeune de test Santal, Santat, Santas Avec un talent certain pour la syntax.

00:21:10: Focke baissez son

00:21:11: frock focke impact.

00:21:12: J'ai toujours su qu'une manière ou d'une autre Un jour j'aurai de l'impact.

00:21:15: Hattre le guère et le mal y'a qu'un pas.

00:21:17: Donc j'ai dû faire un soir Tant j'avais vu Scarface et l'impasse.

00:21:20: Putain c'est dingue comment le temps passe.

00:21:22: Qu'époque on se matche et c'est négros comme pizza en prasse.

00:21:25: Où je crache le feu au main et qu'il se casque le pizza en bras.

00:21:28: Et là je suis à l'hôtel aimé de bitch sans bras.

00:21:30: I see myself always in the face of a fish or not far away.

00:21:34: I'm the African family, you're a parent again.

00:21:36: If you have one, you have one, it remains full.

00:21:38: I say that like that.

00:21:40: We share everything, even when we're broke and we don't have one.

00:21:42: Help me, I don't have a single arm.

00:21:43: They say I'm proud to be the son who doesn't want to form the gang.

00:21:46: Check out Spline, we rarely do it, because we do it because it's the rocks.

00:21:49: But it's to be free like Philippe from the front.

00:21:51: Me, I have to find a beautiful and frank woman.

00:21:55: But I give her the sale instead of looking for

00:21:57: her in the head of the sales.

00:21:58: I'm afraid of God, of being maxed out and engaged.

00:22:00: I don't even count the hearts that I broke, without really looking for it.

00:22:04: Shit, you're going to kill me, huh?

00:22:06: Yeah, I'm not really going to make fun of it.

00:22:10: In the end, on the twenty-sixth, I come to circle them, to encircle them.

00:22:24: I think nothing is worse than being a good rapper without losing.

00:22:31: If there may be a man without dignity, without pride, I have to regret it.

00:22:43: I'm always

00:22:44: in the vapors.

00:22:46: I'm always in the vapors.

00:22:51: I'm always in the vapors Be

00:22:55: it the surface, I'm ill, like Benny.

00:22:58: I get rid of the pure bars.

00:23:00: I kill that, where it's not the crack I tell you, I scream The languages ​​dead and face the denial.

00:23:06: I pass the measure, I kill that, I master it.

00:23:09: I avoid the misdeed And it's no longer false If you cross me, smoke that and meditate And I bet on the police, when I'm paid I don't return to the old delirium cap.

00:23:19: It's terrible, don't kill me.

00:23:21: I'm a rapist of luxe with bullshit,

00:23:23: he's a

00:23:23: genius.

00:23:25: I kick I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm

00:23:37: a genius, I'm a genius,

00:23:41: I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius,

00:24:04: I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm

00:24:11: a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a

00:24:24: genius,

00:24:24: I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius, I'm a genius.

00:24:41: I'm always in the vapors.

00:24:44: I'm always in the vapors, the micro is broken.

00:24:46: I'm always in the vapors, I arrive like a drop of blood.

00:24:50: I'm always in the vapors.

00:24:52: I'm always in the vapors, the micro is broken.

00:24:54: I'm still in the vapors, I'm coming, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come

00:25:06: on, come on, come on, come on, come

00:25:09: on, Nine, seven,

00:25:10: six, I save the flow without pressing enter.

00:25:13: This style

00:25:13: is a real head bang, brusse rations.

00:25:16: In this game of death, we bring life, light, night of justice.

00:25:20: Impossible to be just peace, I got out the big spoon Just kiss the ring of the king, reincarnated as a rapper, referent father.

00:25:27: With what?

00:25:27: FG, concrete of pure pain, fine blessings.

00:25:30: But it's metaphysics, no more returns to the QG, it's extra legit All three Gs.

00:25:36: and it goes back to the table, waiting to break the plates For the liquid, we let go.

00:25:41: My flagship is... You can't hide anymore!

00:25:45: We're coming for the quips.

00:25:46: You can't hide anymore.

00:25:48: Total in the clips.

00:25:49: You don't want to clash.

00:25:50: We're

00:25:50: making intercepts.

00:25:51: We're walking like dogs

00:25:51: without a leash.

00:25:52: From

00:25:52: east to west.

00:25:53: North to south, we're well at

00:25:55: ease.

00:25:55: There's no false temperature, only real adversity.

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00:26:57: peace everyone it's king flow you know the mixtape addict and welcome to the mixtape addict radio show today's the special episode usually we connect the dots from friends to the us and this time we connect the dots from friends to south africa with my special guest perfecto in the building.

00:27:16: how are you bro

00:27:17: i'm all good my dude i'm all good.

00:27:19: thanks for having

00:27:21: me you already know man you know we represent the culture man we represent hip-hop all over the globe.

00:27:27: so you know we had to have you on.

00:27:28: i know you got some balls you got some good shit going on and uh you know the tradition of the mixtape addict show man.

00:27:35: i have to ask you before we start talking about your career who is your old-time favorite dj bro

00:27:42: tony touch

00:27:49: And tell the people why especially Tony Touch?

00:27:52: Because he introduced me to the mixtape culture.

00:27:58: I had this one homie who collected every single album at one point, right?

00:28:06: And the thing is he didn't care if it was dope or wack.

00:28:08: His whole thing was he was trying to build up a collection because where he was from, which is where I'm from, like born, the Soto.

00:28:16: You have to drive all the way up to Johannesburg to go to the music shop to get that stuff.

00:28:21: So he just liked the idea that he had all the good stuff, right?

00:28:24: So I saw the piece maker, right?

00:28:27: And I remember I liked the title because of the action movie with George Clooney.

00:28:33: And it was like the Tony Touch, Power Ciphers.

00:28:37: And like, I just loved that whole thing because I knew some of the beats.

00:28:41: I knew all the MCs.

00:28:43: And it was the first time I'd heard that all-star lineup on like other people's other people's shit man.

00:28:51: so that was that was the thing don't know me.

00:28:55: yeah

00:28:56: legendary mixtape man peacemaker and tell the people man about the mixtape culture in South Africa like you know when did you discover the mixtape?

00:29:06: and you just told me you had to drive to Joe in iceberg.

00:29:09: so tell me tell me about what was going on back then bro

00:29:13: yo man um I started rhyming in high school and we didn't know a lot about mix tapes at the time because our only source of what's going on was rap city, BET.

00:29:33: There wasn't even MTV or MTV bass or nothing like that.

00:29:37: So what you used to get was just cats freestyling on those rap shows.

00:29:44: everybody was checking for albums, right?

00:29:46: So mixtapes are huge now.

00:29:50: Like mixtapes are huge now, you know?

00:29:54: And now is like maybe the last fifteen years, right?

00:29:58: So from like oh eight, twenty-ten to about now, mixtape culture here dog is like the way it used to be in the States when I was there in like oh seven and shit in Times Square, like where like you'd stand in the freezing cold trying to bind the states or trying to like sell some.

00:30:21: You know what I mean?

00:30:23: But like the states are huge like now.

00:30:28: I think we were like five years behind the curve in terms of the states.

00:30:33: You know what I'm saying?

00:30:34: So like when it was popping for them, we were still catching up with how that goes.

00:30:40: You know what I'm saying?

00:30:42: okay that's dope.

00:30:42: that's interesting that you're saying that man because you tell me like it right now.

00:30:46: it's just like back in two thousand and ten with the mixtape like.

00:30:50: it's still big like that in south africa.

00:30:53: yeah yeah yeah like um.

00:30:55: i'll give an example like uh there's a there's a hip hop festival called back to the city.

00:31:00: it's the biggest it's the biggest um hip hop festival in africa.

00:31:04: uh lupa fiasco is just here.

00:31:06: last year was benny the culture so i didn't go this year but i went last year And I gave Benny the butcher a mixtape.

00:31:14: You know what I'm saying?

00:31:15: Because there was this kid who was popping, right?

00:31:19: Like, and he had romped over alchemist's feet that he made for Benny the butcher, the rubber bands and weight, right?

00:31:26: And I remember he was like young, skinny looking kid, and he was blowing up, very commercial sounding.

00:31:32: So I was like, I think Niggas forgot about like some of us, the less known, in the shadows type dudes.

00:31:40: So I ripped it off the internet, right?

00:31:44: But it was hard to rip it because it wasn't like the way.

00:31:47: you could just do it off YouTube, you know?

00:31:50: Where like you copy the link.

00:31:52: Like it took me like an hour to rip his freestyle, right?

00:31:57: Which was kind of cool because that was the mixtape thing about it.

00:32:00: It was hard to get even as a digital thing.

00:32:03: But I finally got to do it.

00:32:04: I don't know how I did it.

00:32:06: I think I took it off the Facebook video.

00:32:08: Okay, you know, and and then I went straight to the lab and I rhymed right after him, you know, I'm saying like flexing So that.

00:32:17: and then I uploaded that.

00:32:19: in fact, no, my bad.

00:32:20: I didn't upload that.

00:32:22: I put it on a playlist of other shit, which I pressed like forty copies and I went to the festival Just giving them sticks out because Benny the butcher was coming through and I'd rhymed over rubber bands and wait with this new kid and I just thought it was a nice atmosphere to do that.

00:32:39: so you know fast forward six months later dudes see me in the streets and out there at the parties and they're like and I hear it playing and I'm like man.

00:32:50: I love mix tapes because it's like it feels illegal.

00:32:53: you know what I mean.

00:32:55: so real cats still keep it real like that.

00:32:58: you know what I'm saying like.

00:33:00: uh it's only on cd and it's not digital like whenever I do mix tape stuff I don't put it up It's gotta be physical.

00:33:09: Yeah.

00:33:09: It's gotta be hard to get.

00:33:10: Yeah, you like to have physical copies.

00:33:12: You know, you can get your autograph on it, give it to people.

00:33:15: So it's more exclusive, you know, and it creates a, you know, a link between people like a different type of relationship with the artist.

00:33:23: That's super dope.

00:33:24: Yeah.

00:33:25: Yeah, man.

00:33:26: Yeah, and can we can we expect maybe like a like a best stuff mixtape or you know type of compilation from you?

00:33:34: There's?

00:33:34: no I know you you change your name, you know over the years you've been doing your thing for a while, you know like with some unreleased stuff or Freestyle stuff like that to let the people know about the work that you've done over the years.

00:33:46: Yeah, bro.

00:33:47: Um, I'm planning to do that.

00:33:49: Um throughout the mixtape metaverse, you know I'm saying like I'm gonna be banging you with a bunch of different joints and the really hip thing that I should just say out now.

00:34:03: Yo man, I can cuss on here, right?

00:34:05: Yeah, yeah,

00:34:07: yeah.

00:34:07: Yeah man, like, personally, I'm like fuck streaming.

00:34:10: So I'm gonna give you an A-body who still represents the mixtapes, the kind of shit you only get on these tapes.

00:34:20: So the joints I'm giving you, You can only get them through you or through my website, which is called The Covenant Vault.

00:34:29: And that's like the contraband, the verbal contraband shit.

00:34:34: Because my journey with this shit was like the dopest stuff, I always struggled to get it.

00:34:42: Like, if you didn't steal a tape from somebody, like, I was just telling you with this shit where I rammed over the rubber bands away.

00:34:51: I needed to rhyme over the version that that kid had done because I think they'd done some extra EQ on that beat, right?

00:35:00: So I couldn't just pull the instrumental from the net because it wasn't going to merge beautifully.

00:35:06: You know what I'm saying, right?

00:35:07: So because I had to go through that process, it made writing to it all the more special and like putting it out with only like forty copies more of an experience.

00:35:19: And I realized that That's the kind of shit that I want people to have.

00:35:24: Like my best work should be the stuff where if you like it, you know, ask my mega DJ King Flo and he'll tell you, I've got that.

00:35:34: And some of my, you know what I mean?

00:35:36: Some of them might say, I couldn't find it online.

00:35:38: And he's like, yeah, that's because I've got it.

00:35:40: It's going to be exclusive to the Mixed Aepatic show.

00:35:43: Everybody that's listening, you know, you probably heard the first three tracks of the show.

00:35:48: You know, that's the home here.

00:35:49: We're going to keep spinning the music out there to let the people know.

00:35:52: Not only in South Africa, not only in France, but worldwide, man.

00:35:56: We broadcasting in thirty-two countries, so we got to spread the word about what's going on, you know, because people sometimes you know they forget about Africa man but you cannot forget about Africa bro like you know the amazing music that comes out of the the continent.

00:36:11: we gotta let the people know my G so it's gonna be on rotation for sure.

00:36:18: yeah yeah

00:36:20: yeah man and tell the people there like you told me like you started in high school if i'm not mistaken what made you want to like take your career seriously you know like do things different than others and really you know do it as a professional way.

00:36:38: um so i was in i was in high school and like uh there was a lot of pressure.

00:36:45: um because like it was that period where they're bringing in a bunch of professors from different universities who are recruiting trying to tell you what you need to do to get into which chorus, et cetera, et cetera, right?

00:37:01: And I remember feeling like, you know, I saw some music videos on TV and I remember thinking, yeah, this is what I want to do.

00:37:12: And I just got back from West Africa, Ghana.

00:37:16: I was living in Ghana, Krah, for about three years with my family.

00:37:21: And I always had this like crew.

00:37:25: One of them was my cousin.

00:37:27: And the other one was like, he was like a cousin, but he was just like, he lived next door.

00:37:32: So we used to talk on the phone and when I told him I was coming back to Johannesburg, he was like, yeah man, your younger cousin is killing this shit, bro.

00:37:42: He's rhyming and he's doing all kinds of shit.

00:37:45: And I was like, word.

00:37:46: So when I got back, the first thing I did was go check him out.

00:37:51: And like, those are the days of cassette tapes, right?

00:37:55: So, what would happen is his neighbor was the beat maker.

00:38:02: He'd make like ten beats a week, which was fast in those days because he was still learning, you know?

00:38:09: And this dude, this cousin of mine, you know, he was one of those dudes with the voice and like the pen game because his grandfather was a famous author.

00:38:20: So it came naturally to him and I kind of wanted him to show me the ropes.

00:38:25: So I stuck with him for like three weeks, and I learned a lot about the craft from him.

00:38:32: And then when I got back this side, you know, the rest is history.

00:38:38: Like, I started just doing it, and doing it, and doing it, and doing it, and doing it.

00:38:42: And, you know, yeah.

00:38:44: You just never stopped after that.

00:38:46: You kept doing the passion, motivation, and you kept going hard.

00:38:51: Yeah, man, like, you know, like... I don't know how to put it.

00:38:55: Some people that have heard my music ask me, how did you know you could do it?

00:39:03: And I was like, it's weird because there are some things, I think in everybody's life, where if you're impressed, you leave it at being impressed with respect.

00:39:14: And you're like, that's some shit.

00:39:15: I'm never going to be able to do the way that guy just did it.

00:39:19: So let me leave that to him.

00:39:21: And then there's other things that are even harder and like cooler to see or hear where you're like, I think I could do that.

00:39:31: Like, I don't know why I think I could do that, but I think I could do that.

00:39:35: And I always tell people the same thing like with being a writer.

00:39:39: The minute you feel like you could write something better than somebody else or fix it a little bit, that's the inner writer with you.

00:39:48: You know what I mean?

00:39:49: Yep, yep.

00:39:50: Yeah, so.

00:39:52: That's kind of like how I got to it, man.

00:39:55: I had all kinds of ideas.

00:39:57: I looked at it from all angles.

00:39:59: Because what I picked up was a lot of people didn't look at it holistically.

00:40:06: For me, because I'm a bit of a biochemist.

00:40:10: I would say I'm dopamine sensitive.

00:40:16: When I get heightened, it creates this pressure.

00:40:21: So when I hear somebody deryme, I'm like, oh cool, he's got a sixteen.

00:40:26: But I put myself under pressure to say, I need three sixteens and a hook.

00:40:32: Because with my dopamine sensitivity, I get undistimulated if I only rhyme for sixteen bars and there's nothing left.

00:40:43: Because you treat it like a sport, you know, you treat it like a competition sport, which is the way everybody should treat it, you know?

00:40:51: Word word.

00:40:54: So what I'd noticed was a lot of different people needed crews because if you only write sixteen It's not enough, right?

00:41:00: But if you can get a crew together, then you guys can you know how it is you can arrange the stuff.

00:41:06: So I just kind of wanted to write up my own pace.

00:41:10: So that's what I would do.

00:41:11: I would just write and write and write and write and Yeah, man It's been.

00:41:17: it's been a very interesting journey.

00:41:18: Yeah

00:41:18: Yeah, it's been a long race man, a marathon and you've been doing your time, bro.

00:41:23: And you know, I heard a couple of your tracks, I think it was maybe last year or something like that.

00:41:28: What are you working on right now?

00:41:29: Like, do you have an album coming out?

00:41:32: Tell the people what you got going on,

00:41:33: bro.

00:41:34: Yo, dawg, I got so much music, man.

00:41:39: I got so much music.

00:41:40: Like, I've got an album I'm dropping pretty soon, right?

00:41:48: It's called Old Cassette.

00:41:50: Old Cassette?

00:41:51: Yeah.

00:41:51: Nice.

00:41:53: Yeah.

00:41:55: It's only gonna be mixtape like shit on here.

00:41:59: It's all my own production and shit, but you're only gonna hear it through the mixtape platforms, you know what I'm saying?

00:42:07: But it exists on my Covenant Vault website, right?

00:42:11: If you want to cop that shit.

00:42:13: Physicals?

00:42:15: I think I'm only doing cassettes, just because I pulled an old cassette.

00:42:18: It's like an EP, man.

00:42:20: It's like five records, right?

00:42:23: And then I have something else coming after that.

00:42:26: So that's what it looks like.

00:42:31: Okay, dope, man, dope.

00:42:32: You know it is nowadays, man.

00:42:34: You always gotta have some other stuff going on.

00:42:37: You drop an EP then a few months after that.

00:42:40: You gotta drop another one, you know, drop a single, drop something, you know?

00:42:44: Because the attention span in the twenty-twenty-five is crazy, man.

00:42:48: People tends to forget easily, so you always gotta, you know, put some pressure on it and, you know, deliver the best music that you can, man.

00:42:58: Word, man.

00:42:59: Word.

00:42:59: And like, you know, I can't wait to put the shit out because, like, for a lot of people, It's gonna be the first time they really pay attention to what I'm doing, you know what I'm saying?

00:43:15: And like, I got different voices, right?

00:43:20: I'm probably one of the few artists I've encountered that has... Yo man, I could say I got like five voices, dog.

00:43:32: It's crazy.

00:43:33: Like, only a super fan would be able to probably identify me every time.

00:43:44: So you can maybe like do collaboration, make people think it's a collaboration but in fact it's just you on the same track.

00:43:50: The

00:43:53: thing is I'm not sure because sometimes I operate in a vacuum, you know what I mean?

00:43:59: So like I might get in my own way because to answer that question I would probably say no, because my dad, because my pops heard one of my records, and the voices were very different.

00:44:20: And then he heard a different record, which was very chilled out.

00:44:24: And he was like, isn't that you?

00:44:27: And then I thought, that's weird, because he doesn't even like rap, but he could tell the different cadences and shit.

00:44:36: And it just made me wonder, like, whether I'm too pedantic about it.

00:44:42: You know what I mean?

00:44:43: So, the shit I'm putting out, it's just gonna be really different voices so that people get used to that.

00:44:50: And then, and then boom bye, man.

00:44:53: Like, it's just gonna keep coming.

00:44:55: Dope, dope.

00:44:56: That's what's up.

00:44:57: Mine is dope, but you can actually do that.

00:44:59: And you just mentioned... a few minutes ago that you also do your own production, which is

00:45:04: super

00:45:04: dope.

00:45:05: When did you start to make beats?

00:45:09: Around about the same time I started rapping.

00:45:11: Because what happened was, I didn't live in a very cool neighborhood where I could walk to a producer's

00:45:20: crib.

00:45:21: Like producers were far, man.

00:45:23: And, you know, in Johannesburg, it's not like America.

00:45:27: I'm not sure how France is, but, you know, here, Public transport doesn't get you everywhere, like you either need to have a ride.

00:45:37: It's not like in the States where you can take the subway.

00:45:40: So producers, V-Boys and tag artists man, graffiti dudes, they were like spread out man, they were far.

00:45:48: So unless there was an event, it was hard to network, you know.

00:45:54: So I found like I had a lot of time and I figured I'm gonna have to learn how to make beats, because I can't be rhyming out the pillow all the time, you know what I'm saying?

00:46:04: Which is how I also got into it.

00:46:06: That's how I also, I started out with the mixtape shit, where, remember when they used to have the singles and the single would have the instrumental?

00:46:13: Yeah, yeah.

00:46:14: Yeah.

00:46:15: You know, I used to rely on that shit, but like, the way I learned to make beats was just wild, man.

00:46:20: I'm a bit embarrassed to mention, like, I had a Microsoft computer and I, I, took all the sounds that are in the sound bank, like the windows starting up sound, the era key message, all the sounds for when you like click the keyboard.

00:46:39: Okay.

00:46:41: And there was this program that had like a vinyl, like it looked like a DJ setup, right?

00:46:46: It had two vinyls on each side.

00:46:48: And it had these like lines extending out.

00:46:53: And it had these circles at the top of these lines, which were like letters, which correspond to the keyboard.

00:46:59: So you had to load the sound into the letters.

00:47:03: So I'd load a Windows era sound with a different sound and make drums with shit that isn't drum like, but I'd do it like that.

00:47:13: It's

00:47:13: actually super dope and it's super creative.

00:47:16: Not everybody will be able to do that nowadays, man.

00:47:19: So props to you for doing

00:47:20: that, man.

00:47:23: Thing is, man, them beats actually turned out to be quite nice, man.

00:47:26: I took them to school.

00:47:28: Nice.

00:47:28: And like, it was early training because there was no metronome and no looping, right?

00:47:35: So, if I made the beat, I had to track it out the drum groove way.

00:47:41: You know, like the way you make beats, man?

00:47:42: The way you be doing the beats?

00:47:45: Like, the MPC shit, except if the beats two minutes, you got a jam for two minutes, right?

00:47:51: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:47:53: So my beats, like, I could hear that damn.

00:47:55: I don't have a drummer's, um, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,

00:48:19: uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Yeah, yeah, that's creative right there, man.

00:48:23: I never heard a story like that.

00:48:25: That's interesting, yo.

00:48:26: Yeah, man.

00:48:28: That's why I call this new EP, Old Cassette, because I did find an old cassette in the garage, and it had a bunch of, like, it had a bunch of beats which I reworked and remade, and some of those bars were kind of cool, so I redid that shit, and that shit is old, though.

00:48:46: So, like, I really want I really wanted to share it with like, you know, you and shit because it's like, like dusty crate shit, you know what I mean?

00:48:56: Yeah.

00:48:56: And yeah, it's like this version of me polishing up shit from like years ago.

00:49:04: Making it, making it like bang, you know

00:49:06: what I mean?

00:49:07: Do you also, do you also record yourself like, you know how to engineer?

00:49:12: I wouldn't say engineer.

00:49:14: I would say I can record myself.

00:49:18: are really well.

00:49:20: But like, how I did it is my younger brother is a sound engineer, right?

00:49:26: He went and studied the whole thing, right?

00:49:27: So we copped the equipment and then I built the booth at the Cribo.

00:49:34: So what I told him was because he doesn't live with me, I was like, I want you to set this tree amp up in such a way that all I gotta do is come down here get into the door, produce, line the shit up and start rapping, right?

00:49:51: So he was like, cool.

00:49:52: This is how you would do it.

00:49:54: And then he would say, if you want to control your input in terms of your energy, like if you coming in hot or you chilled out, you know, fuck with this, but other than that, you're good to go.

00:50:06: And yeah, man.

00:50:09: Yeah, yeah.

00:50:10: That's super dope man, I appreciate you sharing the stories and I kind of show you what type of guy you are because we can hear that you're passionate and a hard worker man, you started with nothing and now you're able to take your music on the international level.

00:50:28: How does that make you feel like when you go back in time in your head and think about the places that you come from and now the things that you're able to do?

00:50:41: You know, bro, um I feel like I feel blessed that it happened now And not so much in the past just because I've been working on my craft and I kind of like the creative space I'm in now and I feel privileged to be able to share some of what I've been working with with my focus that that might vibe with that shit, you know what I'm saying?

00:51:11: And I was just thinking like the internet now, right?

00:51:16: Like what we're doing right now never used to be possible, dudes.

00:51:20: Like you either have to physically be there or they have to be somebody who was traveling in and out.

00:51:30: You know what I mean?

00:51:31: So I think it's like I look at like what you're doing, right?

00:51:35: And like Why I'm giving my dope shit to the mixtape culture.

00:51:39: because I've reverted back to the mixtape culture because like It's it's like for me man.

00:51:47: It's a bit like Shit, how do I put it?

00:51:52: It's like sports like when I used to play football when I used to play soccer like my thing was.

00:51:58: You know, I'm nice with it.

00:51:59: I'm not the best, but I'm nice.

00:52:01: but what I did was I I wanted to go to every single streetball competition in my entire country, right?

00:52:09: And play, and play, right?

00:52:10: Because, like, the level of the game at that level, streetball.

00:52:16: Remember the days of And One?

00:52:18: Oh, hell yeah.

00:52:19: Yeah.

00:52:21: For me, the mixtape metaverse is like And One.

00:52:25: Like, the mainstream and Spotify and all that, like other shit.

00:52:30: that could be like your NBA but when I saw and won I was like yo man like crowds don't even know what streetball is like.

00:52:39: yeah man and you know the streaming platforms kind of stole the the mixtape format.

00:52:44: you know we didn't think about it with the playlists with the fade-in fade-out type stuff that you can hear on Spotify.

00:52:49: they kind of stole that from the mixtape.

00:52:51: when they seen that they were losing money with the deadpiff live mixtapes all that they took that shit from us.

00:52:57: bro.

00:52:58: oh for real I see what you're saying, man.

00:53:01: I see what you're saying with that shit.

00:53:02: And that's why it's so important that, um, that's why it's so important that, like, you do it the way that you do it.

00:53:11: Like, I'll tell you, man, like, there's a lot of different mixtape platforms, but, like, I'm really digging your taste.

00:53:18: Like, like, no, for real, son.

00:53:21: Like, you sound like, you sound like... You hungry as a motherfucker dog.

00:53:29: You know what I mean?

00:53:29: And you've been doing it for a minute

00:53:34: Almost my whole life, bro.

00:53:36: Yeah, like just last night I was bumping.

00:53:40: I was bumping the tape we did with Vazquez, right?

00:53:44: And like I was I was taking like a walk at night just listening to that shit And I remember like just with all the songs and the ones that you had on there I was like this shit is ferocious like Like, the selections, the curation, and it was really beautiful because even with the dude like Rascals, you know, he's a go, as you know.

00:54:08: Like, I could even hear it in his voice, like when he talks about this shit, that he's glad to be a part of it, you know what I mean?

00:54:16: And that's the thing about the mixtape, man.

00:54:21: It's like verbal contraband, son.

00:54:23: It feels illegal.

00:54:25: Yup, it is man,

00:54:27: you know, we had to find a way to, you know, like beat the system.

00:54:32: When they shut down that piv, they shut down like mixtape, they send all the mixtape websites, so we had to find a way to go around there, do some contraband type shit in the radio format.

00:54:43: was the way to go.

00:54:44: so so there we go.

00:54:45: mixed apiatic show man broadcasting worldwide.

00:54:49: that's how the fuck we do it.

00:54:51: word up word up word up.

00:54:53: yeah man and we only have a few minutes left in this combo.

00:54:57: man do do you have any last words for your fans across the globe

00:55:01: man.

00:55:04: yeah boo boo boo boo is what's gonna be happening.

00:55:11: um i'm telling you son i'm trying to be like after this I'm trying to be like on every.

00:55:19: how often do you put it out?

00:55:20: is it every two weeks every month like?

00:55:22: what's the frequency?

00:55:24: every week bro

00:55:26: god damn.

00:55:29: every week huh.

00:55:31: every

00:55:31: Thursday I'm dropping you a new episode with the hand of you.

00:55:35: every Thursday.

00:55:37: yeah man I'm trying to like flood that shit like like for a while some because I got a lot of shit to drop.

00:55:43: And again, it's only gonna be on the mixtapes, you know what I'm saying?

00:55:49: Like even like my records and shit, like it's only gotta exist here.

00:55:54: So, you know, let's do the right thing.

00:55:58: Let's do the right thing.

00:55:59: So it's perfect though, right?

00:56:04: I wanna just say it now.

00:56:05: I'm coming to confuse everybody dog.

00:56:09: with my voice with everything until until they start to catch the pattern that I it's the same dude.

00:56:16: it's the same dude because because like real talk okay um i don't know if you know this but a lot of famous singers specifically even rappers right like before they blew up they had an a&r team that used to tell them you gotta pick one style or pick one voice because they were worried about the confusion.

00:56:40: I still remember somebody saying this, like a guy like Prince had matched shit in the vault.

00:56:46: Like he had this baritone shit, this false set of stuff, same thing with Venus in the moment.

00:56:52: And they were kind of told they need to take one style to go with it because people would get confused.

00:56:56: So I remember when I heard that, I remember thinking a lot of those types of archetypes.

00:57:04: have that problem because when you make shit you like all of it and to have to pick like one side if there's a lot of different sides to you it's kind of hard.

00:57:15: some people do it.

00:57:16: but i just decided fuck it bro like i'm coming with all those alter egos something.

00:57:22: yeah man just just do what you feel what you have in your heart in your blood.

00:57:26: man you know.

00:57:26: just do what you feel.

00:57:28: go with the instinct.

00:57:29: never trust what people say about your music.

00:57:33: it's your music man.

00:57:34: never forget that you know.

00:57:35: so if you feel like you should do that just do it man.

00:57:40: yeah.

00:57:40: so I would say lastly um the shit I got coming right it's like three projects.

00:57:47: um the first one will be the old cassette which is the EP.

00:57:51: um I'm gonna be sending you some records.

00:57:54: uh to that effect.

00:57:55: uh uh real soon that's gonna drop maybe before the end of the year.

00:57:59: um I'm just working out a few optics.

00:58:03: and then I worked on some mystic theater because when I mentioned my different alter egos like if I mentioned them by name so I'm perfect though right um my home is called Perth but the alter egos are Lucid Cross.

00:58:19: uh he's like a mystic character that I kind of like invented.

00:58:23: so there's a whole story album.

00:58:25: uh that I that I've I completed a few months ago.

00:58:29: But I just want to introduce the old cassette shit as a feeler for my different vibes and shit, and then I'll drop that mythic theater.

00:58:40: It's a whole concept album, maybe a first quarter of next year.

00:58:44: We'll see how it goes.

00:58:46: No doubt.

00:58:47: And then after that, it'll just be like songs every fucking week that shit.

00:58:52: Now yeah man, gotta feed the people some music man, but I appreciate the work that you're doing.

00:58:57: You're a passionate guy, you know, hard worker from South Africa.

00:59:01: It was a pleasure to have you on the show man.

00:59:03: We're gonna spin the records on the mixtape addict show and we're gonna keep building man.

00:59:08: Thanks for your time my G. Yeah

00:59:11: bro, thanks for having me man.

00:59:14: You already know bro.

00:59:15: I'm

00:59:15: gonna send you some shit though.

00:59:17: Thanks

00:59:17: bro.

00:59:18: Take care my man.

00:59:20: Peace bro.

00:59:21: Peace man.