Mixtape Addict #80

00:00:03: You have now entered the mixed tape.

00:00:03: addicts show Broadcasting every day with the French connect DJ King flow just like been

00:02:46: shit been.

00:02:56: my

00:03:26: son son son you a hill shit black.

00:04:40: get forth black shades black stacks black jacket.

00:04:44: that cb sank the rocks curtain off in black porches for my ten thousand hours in.

00:04:48: it took them crash courses.

00:04:49: some niggas got road rage late in my lane.

00:04:51: i never forced it and made black magic pot of hat trick.

00:04:56: niggas be capping that shit.

00:04:58: stand to package ain't the packaging that i'm wrapped up with?

00:05:01: the pack that you call gas ain't ever gonna hit my lips.

00:05:04: slow down black Black magic.

00:05:06: Black summer dresses on black asses.

00:05:08: It's crazy how you got the dress fitting like it's elastic, baby.

00:05:11: Beat your back out till you black out and we pass out, baby.

00:05:14: Black magic.

00:05:36: Yeah.

00:05:37: I gave my life to the tree.

00:05:38: If she don't want me smokin', leave my wife.

00:05:40: bout the tree.

00:05:41: Gotta wipe off my teeth, it's leaves and ashes Used to smoke.

00:05:44: on campus, I was ditching classes from the police.

00:05:47: They used to be on our asses, give the tree a bad name.

00:05:50: Try to confuse the masses, loud tree, round me.

00:05:53: Take a hit then pass it, quick flip No zips, make a grip, then stash it, new it Hop in, turn up the volume, blast it, so lit No shit, I'm gon' probably crash it.

00:06:03: Big sticks, backwood, round my tree,

00:06:05: I'll wrap it.

00:06:07: And I've been doing this straight thing for a long, long time.

00:06:12: I really love this, man.

00:06:14: Now I knew this, I'm true

00:06:15: to

00:06:15: this, I love the plant, everything about him, that city, city, state to state, stay in your lane if you ain't passionate, babe.

00:06:21: And the trees, what I need, show love with the trees, some only show greed, that's a show with the green, I'm about to wrap my ass off, I'm about to blow with the trees, council memes and blasts off.

00:06:31: It's just tree, but it's dope like crack rock.

00:06:34: I took off in the drop with hard top, twenty bands, that was just some soft rock.

00:06:39: I'd walk miles just to smoke the right crap, so how?

00:06:43: I almost missed my flight ride.

00:06:45: A low high.

00:06:46: I pulled out the cookie jar.

00:06:48: I loved treat cause it took me very far.

00:06:50: I pulled up with the best he ever saw.

00:06:53: She hit the tree.

00:06:54: next thing I was in a jar.

00:06:56: I hit the tree.

00:06:57: next thing was to choke and cough.

00:06:59: I bounced back any time that I took a loss With the trees.

00:07:08: they know, crystal ball.

00:07:09: DJ King Flow.

00:07:12: There's no tomorrow.

00:07:15: Take me back to when I conjured up the virus.

00:07:17: I'll need the necronomic and some candles and papyrus.

00:07:20: I'm going back in time again.

00:07:21: This is like the fifth attempt.

00:07:23: Mission is to stop myself from something that I will invent.

00:07:25: People that I work for Built themselves a time machine.

00:07:28: The present life they live in.

00:07:29: Suck solutions is what I can bring.

00:07:31: Trained for purposes like this.

00:07:32: Time travel fascinates.

00:07:34: Father time just masturbates While all you guys procrastinate.

00:07:36: First version of me went back in time when my mom and dad had not met.

00:07:40: The second worked the hospital where I was born but not kept Adoptions.

00:07:43: what my folks did, I ended up a cold kid.

00:07:45: My grades in school were hopeless, but biology was dopest.

00:07:48: Number three would try to step in For all the lives I've threatened, higher zeppelin.

00:07:51: Number four would hire me for buyin' weapons.

00:07:53: Number five is either last As time machines, hot cash, man it's useless luck.

00:08:00: Damn, I fucked the future up.

00:08:01: Number zero knows my luck, I'll find him Cause him I can trust is like I've lost my faculties.

00:08:06: Saavoks after me, am I going insane?

00:08:08: Cause my reflexes talking back at me I know what happened, my prodigal cause when I prove the sky could fall.

00:08:12: it happened Right when night would fall, only trust what I could call a friend See the asteroids from the future, I destroy the second chance.

00:08:18: It's very rare.

00:08:19: if God exists, I'll ask Him for a key.

00:08:21: I'm not the type that won't commit.

00:08:24: Sniper scope is so legit.

00:08:26: I took the shot but chose to miss.

00:08:27: Think it's cause.

00:08:28: I saw myself the laws of time.

00:08:29: I'm so specific Cause I'm not supposed to miss.

00:08:31: Never get as close as this.

00:08:32: to end myself I chose to tell myself to help myself or help itself.

00:08:36: I hope it sells itself like science fiction off the shelf.

00:08:39: I'll buy the rope myself to find wisdom over self.

00:08:42: Listen man I know the way to go.

00:08:43: These people promised you could help.

00:08:44: You achieved the dream yourself.

00:08:46: Evil genius be yourself.

00:08:47: You built the steam machine yourself.

00:08:49: Listen close to kill yourself.

00:08:50: Something deep inside prevents me Guys that set me once you dead.

00:08:53: Trust me you won't die as gently if you don't heed the warning sun Driven by the force in you You're forced to do some awful things Except what you was born to do.

00:08:59: So kill the world, ask to kill.

00:09:01: Change the future's odds of real.

00:09:02: The future's clearly hard to kill.

00:09:03: The truth is still the hardest pill for me to swallow Growing up in the ghetto with the streets full of greed.

00:09:19: If you're slippin' and you trippin' and you guaranteed to bleed, can't believe that the government just legalized weed True and deep, never fuckin' with the people who deceive people.

00:09:27: Speed make the best of this life before I'm dead.

00:09:30: Hard state, heavy eyes, bloodshot, red, no the legend Still bumpin' every beer, rock him, know a lot of good brothers who got caught by the feds.

00:09:38: We live and we learn, others drink and they burn.

00:09:41: Women are essential, but without a man's sperm Life can't exist, that's the way to win.

00:09:45: world turns sick flow like a virus.

00:09:47: every verse spread germs.

00:09:49: pay attention to the lessons that I'm preaching and my words.

00:09:52: confessions claiming everything I deserve from the adjectives announced to the clobbers and the verbs waiting on the government clowns until they purge from the wolves and until my time is coming soon.

00:10:02: I grew up in a city with goons.

00:10:04: no self-exposed litty.

00:10:06: life's a natural stream and fly me to the moon shortly lying to my face.

00:10:10: what's the point of

00:10:26: not knowing this bitch knock a big chief of big houses?

00:10:42: all

00:10:50: day It goes, yeah, past

00:11:04: that, that's all knows you got that.

00:11:50: Stars bright, stars stripes, just this blind still she's where she saw the light, it's all life, hard type of strife that we sifting through.

00:12:01: On digital, the heart, the criminal, on the scene, the machine pump, the miserable, cynical, one world indivisible, eye in the pinnacle, the minotaur, giant emits a roar, born amidst the war, I'm robbing a crystal form, through with a pistol drawn, died with a missile saw, Listen on, lessons, lead through the speakers Speak through the ill-dawnest.

00:12:24: teach Adding on so Babylon can't defeat us.

00:12:28: Stay close to heat, the starch police Heat seekers, streets need us.

00:12:32: The fast days, poachers in the air The song from the shit rise from the tomb.

00:12:59: Impression, police is in your section If you're asking any questions.

00:13:03: The pics on interventions.

00:13:04: If you're gathering together They're kicking down the door to settle scores.

00:13:11: A thin blue

00:13:12: black

00:13:13: devil's haunts.

00:13:14: It's only fair to warn us.

00:13:17: People's champ throw the beast through the car When a blast rhymes, focus Free to mind, release the shackles of a broken spell Smoking out, and if you're up through them holes, you're failed.

00:13:28: Redemption up off the floors, it is hopeless.

00:13:31: We roll together like blunt raps in homeroom Dubbed sacks in old chrome, hubcaps in street level Hustleman promo, yeah, and this here's for dope Late nineties oversized, fiddling shots with no ID On the beat, has to chill.

00:14:07: You ain't fuckin' with me.

00:14:09: I can smash any beat.

00:14:10: You

00:14:10: ain't fuckin' with me.

00:14:12: You can rhyme, you can flow.

00:14:13: You ain't fuckin'

00:14:13: with me On a mic at a show.

00:14:15: Y'all ain't fuckin'

00:14:16: with me.

00:14:17: Mexican mixed half black la bomba,

00:14:20: black mamba, pasta.

00:14:21: chronic, super stetsosonic, electronic, and your head is bobbin', never be let poppin' up, why

00:14:26: not?

00:14:26: I dare cause I'm droppin', black as ever, stay feet underground, brother fat as ever, weigh three hundred pounds,

00:14:33: and why these people tellin' me I need to eat my veggies,

00:14:35: blown trees with many,

00:14:37: pro speaks it heavy, when most seek the envy, they pity on and pretend, really

00:14:41: they fool the bio-brother, they actin' like a phony friend, a pen fryer, wanna commit to the beat, break through my x-ray, a

00:14:46: gentle jo- I am gonna become

00:14:47: my T-two when my

00:14:48: pen spray The flow sound better been great Cause flow rhymes make Mount Everest

00:14:53: shape.

00:14:54: So I'ma go and do my thing.

00:14:56: No question, no

00:14:57: second

00:14:57: guessing.

00:14:58: So extra fresh and crap.

00:15:05: You can't

00:15:06: see me

00:15:07: on.

00:15:07: I- Fuckin' with me, I can smash any TV Rock shit, really flip the sample.

00:15:13: now we're rippin' rough.

00:15:15: Straight flight, yoga, authentic while we flip projects.

00:15:19: Trickters, watch your dad quit the straightest memories Sunday.

00:15:48: It's too shit different, don't sweat, there's dark hole.

00:16:42: Now who

00:17:06: on

00:17:11: the fuck so I

00:17:16: can put?

00:17:19: And we gon' buy everything, brand new.

00:17:48: We gon' get this money, baby.

00:17:50: We gon' spend this money.

00:18:06: If I want that drive, I spin it.

00:19:49: If you want

00:20:07: that

00:20:17: block, I spin it.

00:20:40: If you want that watch, I'm spinning.

00:20:43: I promise God, I'mma change, man.

00:20:44: If you fuck around and I'm spinning.

00:20:46: You a real nigga on the internet and I'm a real nigga.

00:21:02: Always keep the heat close.

00:21:04: Niggas in the streets, no.

00:21:05: I ride like Deebo.

00:21:07: LAX to JFK.

00:21:08: JFK to Heathrow.

00:21:10: Dogs can't smell it on me.

00:21:11: I go where the beef go.

00:21:13: Touchdown, T-zone, Dolo, no Rico.

00:21:15: Into the clip, Reload.

00:21:17: Die fast, breathe slow.

00:21:18: First shot's the one and second shot for your ego.

00:21:21: Do it right the first time.

00:21:23: There will be no sequel.

00:21:24: America's Nightmare.

00:21:25: I just laughed.

00:21:26: Deep flip.

00:21:30: Quick as Nightmare.

00:21:31: I just laughed.

00:21:32: Think very deeply.

00:21:33: It's a quick and incorrect.

00:21:37: This like my first day outflow, twenty behind these bars, pussy nigga.

00:21:41: keep your mouth closed, say he a cold killer, I don't give a fuck how cold, I wait thirty years then kill you, make you alpo, niggas know it ain't.

00:21:48: no muzzle with me, and I keep the puzzles with me, I don't run trains so, you niggas ain't fucking with me, Dodger blue diamond painted, everything custom with me, and I brought my cousin with me, it feel like nifty hustle with me, I'm out here looking for revenge, chrome bends, chrome rims, riding around with this Drake, no friends, no spins, fuck the rapids, And fuck the club, fuck your fashion, overfit.

00:22:09: Fuck all that cap and fake love, fuck the dap and fake hugs.

00:22:12: Fuck these apps and fake thugs, fake ass followers, fake ass streams and fake buzz.

00:22:17: Fake beats on podcast, fake crips and fake bloods, fake changes.

00:22:20: All you niggas do is rap and take drugs, rap and take drugs, rap and take drugs, rap and take drugs, rap and take drugs, rap and take drugs, rap and take drugs, rap and take drugs, rap and take drugs, rap and take drugs, rap and take drugs, rap and take drugs, rap and take drugs, rap and take drugs, What is wrong with you?

00:22:38: Still you vote for him.

00:22:40: What is wrong with you?

00:22:42: Take his head off and then repeat after me that out.

00:22:45: Your house is where I'll be at.

00:22:47: I'm spaghetti.

00:22:48: You're the weight of a king's crown.

00:22:50: It's awful heavy.

00:22:51: Yo, I'm calm and ready.

00:22:53: Got distracted.

00:22:54: The killer brought the wrong machete.

00:22:56: Moving

00:22:56: in these greedy streets.

00:22:57: Yo, I'm calm and ready.

00:22:58: Y'all can't clone him.

00:23:00: Y'all can't stone

00:23:01: him.

00:23:01: Y'all can't put him six feet in the ground.

00:23:04: Y'all can't hold him.

00:23:05: Go and bounce

00:23:06: back.

00:23:07: He's gon' count, lives in that castle.

00:23:10: Cause he's count, drag Eastwood.

00:23:13: If

00:23:13: you couldn't, he could Distribute that mad product out in each hood.

00:23:17: On a movie set, Alec Bunk went to shot you.

00:23:20: Damn If Sherlock Holmes gettin' called in, they got you.

00:23:24: Open the door, don't be afraid I ain't tryin' to hurt you.

00:23:27: I ain't tryin' to murk you, tryin' to work you.

00:23:30: I'm just tryin' to get you to vote for the right guy The same dude who the rents do.

00:23:36: You lookin' at me like the law quit Feelin' that you get.

00:23:41: when do you vote for him?

00:23:49: What is wrong with you?

00:23:51: Vote for him!

00:23:52: What is wrong with you?

00:23:54: I'm doing nothing bad about myself!

00:24:01: He was just a rap star, had a tough squad, so he felt the need to act hard.

00:24:05: Because of all the streets, he's taking slow.

00:24:09: They let it clear, though, he didn't get to see his kids grow.

00:24:12: Because of all the streets, he could have lived the hopes and dreams and the limousine.

00:24:16: Now the chickens just don't feed.

00:24:18: Because of all the streets, you wonder why I picked them?

00:24:22: Well, they all victims, see victim number one.

00:24:26: Who comes from a good family?

00:24:27: The moms was cool, cool, and everybody knew his granny to kick and dance.

00:24:32: Knew how to write anything capable of anything.

00:24:36: Then came street lights.

00:24:38: Dope had first into the drama, bought into the road.

00:24:41: So be more than just a drama.

00:24:43: The trauma was self-inflicted, fell victim to the peer pressure.

00:24:47: Started playing dumb spraying guns like air fresco.

00:24:50: The rap magazine photos looking all stoic.

00:24:53: When deep down, he was just a poet.

00:24:56: I knew it on the

00:25:15: street.

00:25:16: You know we here connecting the dots from friends to the US.

00:25:20: once again I'm your host King flow and today my special guest is none other than Chicago MC, you know Rufus Simpson in the building.

00:25:30: How are you, bro?

00:25:31: Yes, sir.

00:25:32: I'm pretty good, brother.

00:25:33: How you doing?

00:25:34: I'm doing good, man.

00:25:35: Nice to connect with you.

00:25:37: You know, we've been playing your music in the show for a while, so it's only right to have you on there.

00:25:42: Talk some hip-hop shit, man.

00:25:45: Man, I really appreciate you, too, for the love and support of yourselves, man.

00:25:50: Salute to you.

00:25:50: I'm sorry.

00:25:52: You already know, man, that the music is fire, so we know I had to have you on there.

00:25:57: And you know it's the... It's the mixtape addict show, bro.

00:26:01: So I have a tradition in the show that I always ask, you know, to all my guests.

00:26:08: Who's your all-time favorite DJ, man?

00:26:13: My all-time favorite DJ.

00:26:17: I'm gonna have to go with this guy from Chicago.

00:26:22: Nah, ain't DJ Timbuktu.

00:26:24: He was like really keeping the culture alive with hip-hop.

00:26:27: He passed away, unfortunately, some years back.

00:26:29: He had an illness.

00:26:31: I think he would only be like probably forty-two now, but he was almost like, he was one of the top two biggest DJs in Chicago, but the only difference is he was, even though he would play, you know, the top forty stuff, he would force hip-hop and underground hip-hop into everything he did.

00:26:51: He had a hip-hop night.

00:26:53: He's one of the first guys to play my music on the radio.

00:26:57: So just off the personal relationship, I might have to go with DJ Timbuktu,

00:27:03: man.

00:27:03: Yes, sir, that's dope.

00:27:04: He always shows love to the underground artists from your area.

00:27:09: Yes, sir, especially primarily the hip hop artist.

00:27:13: That's dope.

00:27:14: Well, you know, it's one of the roles of the DJ.

00:27:17: You know, we play music and all that, but one of our main roles is to... you know, like bring light on the artist that actually deserve it, you know, saying like play their music, the more that we can, and you know, hopefully he can touch more people, you know, by bringing, you know, more people, more rich and make the music grow at the same time,

00:27:40: man.

00:27:42: Yeah, man, for sure, man.

00:27:43: You gotta appreciate a lot of DJs.

00:27:46: While we at it, man, shout out DJ Mustafa Rocks.

00:27:48: He's another hip-hop DJ from Chicago that's pushing the issue of hip-hop.

00:27:53: You know what I'm saying?

00:27:53: When I was young and just being a fan of hip hop coming up, I heard a lot of Ed Capri and DJ Clue and, you know, I used to get them DJ Clue tapes,

00:28:05: man.

00:28:05: Yeah, legendary shit, man.

00:28:10: And talking about that, you know, talking about Clue and all that, I have another mixtape added question for you.

00:28:17: I think I know the answer already.

00:28:19: But I'm going to ask you anyway, do you miss the mixtape format?

00:28:26: I do.

00:28:27: You know, it was almost like a direct channel straight to the streets.

00:28:32: And just, you know what I'm saying?

00:28:34: It was just like a channel to forget all the popular stuff.

00:28:40: It was a channel right to the people and just having a big name DJ, deliver it right to the people.

00:28:47: they would take that and accept that.

00:28:49: Okay, if so and so is coming with this, this gotta be what's hot in the streets.

00:28:54: So yeah, I've definitely missed that, man.

00:28:56: The gang and God just, you know, with the, with the, with the girlfriend of the internet, everything is so accessible.

00:29:03: So sometimes I think it's harder, even though it's easier to reach fans, I feel like it's harder for fans to find what's really dope when you got to shift through so much.

00:29:13: You know what I'm saying?

00:29:14: There's so much.

00:29:15: B.S.

00:29:16: in a way.

00:29:16: You know what I'm saying?

00:29:19: You're absolutely right, man.

00:29:21: You know, I have some friends of mine that they say the same thing.

00:29:24: You know, they got the Spotify, they got the Apple Music, all that stuff.

00:29:29: But they are barely aware of what's coming out, you know what I'm saying?

00:29:33: Because they have this shit playing on random.

00:29:36: So we're not playing some old stuff or stuff that they heard

00:29:38: already.

00:29:39: But they don't know about the new stuff that's coming out every day.

00:29:43: And I think, you know, the DJs know with the mix shows nowadays because we cannot really do mix tapes no more because of copyright issues you know.

00:29:53: but the radio DJs are still here to bring that new music to their ears and you know hopefully you know the people can become fans of new artists and not necessarily just hear music that they heard a thousand times already you

00:30:10: know.

00:30:10: But I knew, because I'm always looking for new stuff and just that new dope, that new dope sound that motivates me, you know what I'm saying, to keep elevating things with that nation.

00:30:21: So big shout out to our mix shows out here.

00:30:24: that's keeping that, keeping that culture alive somewhere.

00:30:27: Yup, yup,

00:30:28: yup.

00:30:28: Because you know, the, the, the streaming platforms, man, they kind of stole our mixtape format, you know, to behind us.

00:30:35: Like before we had the Spotify, we had the that piff, live mix tape, that crack, all that, you know?

00:30:44: We are the freedom, you know, like a freedom of speech in terms of music, you know, we could do anything we want.

00:30:49: and now it's harder to get hardest to do like freestyles on industry beats and release them on streaming platforms or you won't get flagged, you know?

00:31:00: Absolutely.

00:31:02: I think that, man, yeah, it is hard just the way they the new sanctions that's involved.

00:31:08: I think you could get away with it if you listed as a cover, maybe.

00:31:13: Maybe, maybe.

00:31:14: But that's, that's, that's a maybe.

00:31:16: That's a big, I've seen a couple people do it, but then again, you still gotta try to slide through the cracks.

00:31:21: But yeah, I feel like that's a, I just told somebody the other day, like, man, I think I'm gonna do a mixtape, you know what I'm saying?

00:31:29: One time for mix and just wrap off.

00:31:32: classic hip-hop joints and even some of the current stuff where they'd be like a clip speed, you know what I'm saying?

00:31:42: Or something that maybe Freddie and Alchemist did, like stuff like that.

00:31:47: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:31:48: I wasn't about to ask you that, man.

00:31:50: Like

00:31:51: when can we expect maybe like a mixtape of you with some unreleased stuff or maybe some original material that you never told about releasing?

00:32:01: And you got to let your people know, you know what I'm saying?

00:32:03: So are you thinking about doing that?

00:32:05: And if you do that, do you have a DJ in mind that you like to work with to, you know, drop to the collab tape?

00:32:12: Man, I got a friggin... This is one DJ name, young Amsterdam will put together.

00:32:20: He put it together like a mixtape, but it's kind of just like records from some of the projects that I put out in the last two years.

00:32:28: But I would love to connect with another DJ and just do like a straight mixtape where it's all from, you know what I'm saying, popular hip-hop beats, like I said, classic hip-hop beats and current stuff that's going on.

00:32:42: Man, maybe we could do that or something, man, you know?

00:32:45: Now, yeah, shout out to the homie Yo Gams to them.

00:32:47: That's the big world right there.

00:32:49: You know, I grew up working with him.

00:32:52: He's part of the mixtape addict team.

00:32:54: It's good to see you guys, you know, dropping some... It's a material together, man.

00:32:59: That's a real one.

00:33:01: Man, that's my brother.

00:33:02: He's definitely a real one.

00:33:03: We got, it's called, um... Cold is rapper, you never heard.

00:33:07: So he basically hosted it.

00:33:10: And it got that old school Mixtape feel, you know, he, um... It got the sound effects and him talking in between tracks.

00:33:20: And it just got that feel.

00:33:22: So we probably dropped that like top of the year.

00:33:25: Hell, yeah.

00:33:26: It's done.

00:33:26: It's been done for a minute now.

00:33:28: Okay, dope, man.

00:33:29: Dope.

00:33:29: And I'm talking about that.

00:33:30: Now, are you thinking about maybe releasing a physical format for those releases?

00:33:40: I think that would be dope, man.

00:33:41: I think the easiest thing for me to do would get, like, fifty CDs pressed up.

00:33:47: And just, you know what I'm saying?

00:33:48: Because I definitely want to do that.

00:33:50: I just want to bet.

00:33:51: And sometimes... when you build in a fan base, I think that rapping off stuff they're already familiar with.

00:33:58: You know what I'm saying?

00:33:59: Goes over well.

00:34:01: If you snap, then they're like, hold on, let me go check this guy out.

00:34:04: So, you know what I'm saying?

00:34:06: You're really making me want to do it even more.

00:34:08: It was an idea, but that we talked about, but I'm kind of getting amped up just thinking about it right now.

00:34:16: Yeah, that actually be dope, you know?

00:34:18: Like.

00:34:18: not too long ago, I've seen Lloyd Banks on Instagram, he dropped freestyles on, you know, industry beats that we all know, you know, it's like Wreckings and Jay-Z shit or something, but, you know, classic trap stuff from like, like, twenty-fifteen, stuff like that.

00:34:35: And he killed those beats.

00:34:36: And, you know, you made people want to go back to that mixtape spirit, you know, like, wreck some joints, do remixes, maybe rock a joint better than the original artist, you know?

00:34:47: Competition stuff, man.

00:34:49: I'm

00:34:50: petitioning stuff, man.

00:34:52: Absolutely, man.

00:34:55: I think I'm gonna get right on top of that, brother.

00:34:59: Mm-hmm.

00:35:00: Yeah, man.

00:35:01: But I can't ingest further.

00:35:05: Yeah, and of course, I'll get it to you, you know, first, early, you know what I'm saying?

00:35:08: If you got any suggestions, beat wise, or any, you know, let me know for real.

00:35:13: Mm-hmm.

00:35:13: Well, you know, you gotta, you know, use the tracks that,

00:35:17: like,

00:35:17: fans of hip hop love, you know, for like just right now from out the blue, I can think of like the MOP, Annie Yubb, maybe the, the Jay-Z's feeling it, the Goldsmiths Killer dates on a five hundred.

00:35:31: You know what I'm saying?

00:35:31: Like,

00:35:32: she's like that.

00:35:34: I gotta put it in the notes.

00:35:35: I gotta put it in the notes.

00:35:37: You know, like some joints that

00:35:43: people can actually.

00:35:44: And you just said it, things that people can.

00:35:47: Oh, my phone fell down.

00:35:48: We ain't gonna make it.

00:35:52: We ain't gonna battle like that.

00:35:53: I don't change,

00:35:56: though.

00:35:56: It's gotta

00:35:57: be, it's gotta be.

00:35:58: Hold

00:35:58: on, hold on.

00:35:59: Okay, we made it.

00:35:59: Hold on.

00:36:02: We made it, man.

00:36:02: I was on one percent in E and P. That

00:36:04: was shit.

00:36:06: I can still hear you.

00:36:07: We good, we good.

00:36:07: We still here, man.

00:36:08: We in the show.

00:36:09: You said, M-O-P, Annie Up.

00:36:12: That's crazy.

00:36:13: I love that beat.

00:36:15: Jay-Z Filling is one of my favorite Jay-Z songs ever.

00:36:18: Yeah, man, you

00:36:19: know, some T-Rap,

00:36:21: you know, ill street blues, you know, the classic joints, you know what I'm saying?

00:36:25: Like the joints, people can relate when they hear the beat, they're like, oh, shit, it's gonna bring back memories, you know?

00:36:34: Bro, you said Ghost Fist, which one?

00:36:36: They taught up five hundred.

00:36:40: Yeah.

00:36:40: And I want to keep it like, I want to do it like older and newer, you know what I'm saying?

00:36:46: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure,

00:36:48: for sure, for sure.

00:36:50: It don't need

00:36:50: to be old school stuff.

00:36:51: You know, it can be some joints that just dropped, you know?

00:36:55: Whatever's good, man.

00:36:56: Yeah.

00:37:01: Some stuff off that Alfredo too.

00:37:04: Yeah.

00:37:04: Some stuff off the New Cliffs joint.

00:37:06: Yeah.

00:37:08: Shit like that, bro.

00:37:09: Yeah,

00:37:09: yeah, yeah.

00:37:11: And

00:37:11: I have a question for you.

00:37:12: You know, talking about like throwbacks and classics like that.

00:37:16: Like, let's go back in time.

00:37:18: You know, what made you want to take your career seriously?

00:37:22: You know what I'm saying?

00:37:23: Like, do things seriously, follow a plan, and become a true professional.

00:37:28: Like, what made you want to do that?

00:37:30: Uh, man, just, um, I had a friend.

00:37:33: Well, we still best friends to this day.

00:37:36: His name's Marvin Gheedry.

00:37:38: Uh, uh, the streets know him as Bread.

00:37:42: He called himself Bread, or White Bread.

00:37:44: But, um... And we used to hustle together.

00:37:47: We did everything together.

00:37:48: And when he moved, we stayed.

00:37:52: We grew up in Balewood.

00:37:54: That's like right outside, like ten minutes away from the West Side of Chicago.

00:37:57: But we both was from the West Side.

00:37:59: And our parents migrated that way, you know what I'm saying?

00:38:02: So we met up maybe in like fifth grade.

00:38:05: And when I met him, he was just a CD collector.

00:38:09: OK.

00:38:11: And he had just all the classic stuff like and that was like something he would always do.

00:38:15: He would like go You know, like his dad was a big music fan.

00:38:20: So he would like bump music in the crib real loud on Sundays.

00:38:24: So I guess it transferred to him in that way.

00:38:27: So he was he was buying the CDs and I should go visit crib and he would have.

00:38:32: he had.

00:38:32: we were young and he had a CD deck like a CD tower, and it was full of CDs.

00:38:36: So it made me start wanting to collect my CDs and then it got to the Puma.

00:38:41: We would go, you know, we would go walk up to the tape shops or the CD stores.

00:38:46: They used to have a mom and pop shops around the neighborhood.

00:38:50: And we would go back here by something, I'd buy something.

00:38:53: So I particularly remember going to get, and this was years after they came out, but once I discovered hair pop, like we like dove all the way in it.

00:39:04: And I remember going about that first Noriega.

00:39:07: I remember just going to get some tapes and we would go back to his crib and listen to everything.

00:39:14: And it was just, man, it was just, we would bust open the CD.

00:39:17: We would open them to a point where, so keep the plastic on top to try not to, you know, we're like slightly cracked the seal.

00:39:24: And then it was a whole nostalgic thing.

00:39:26: We're going through the whole buck, you know, the pictures and everything that came with that.

00:39:30: So I think then the CD was planted.

00:39:33: Then the same friend used to, we used to like, used to be tape recorders.

00:39:38: He'd plug his mic into it and we'd style freestyling, you know what I'm saying?

00:39:43: And then it went from there to, we got to high school and we had, he had an uncle that was our age and he often made beats.

00:39:54: So he, first of all, he bought a keyboard because his uncle was producing.

00:39:59: And I remember me telling them I'm up and it's been three hundred fifty dollars on this keyboard.

00:40:02: I'm like on the keyboard.

00:40:05: And we were bad at CDs and we were in some video games in Jordan's.

00:40:10: But I'm like, man, I wouldn't do that.

00:40:12: But he did it.

00:40:13: The next thing I know, he was making original beats.

00:40:16: And he would remake classic beats.

00:40:19: You know what I'm saying?

00:40:21: Like that nori that dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-d.

00:40:42: And they thought we was too young to be in it.

00:40:51: They said we weren't ready.

00:40:52: And then ever since that moment, it's been on.

00:40:55: Nice.

00:40:56: Ever since we, you know what I'm saying?

00:40:58: Never really stopped rapping ever since.

00:41:01: Yes, sir.

00:41:01: You know, you've been in there for a while since you were a kid.

00:41:04: So you've navigated through the music, man.

00:41:07: So you know how to do your thing already.

00:41:11: That's super dope.

00:41:11: Yes, son.

00:41:12: That's super dope, bro.

00:41:14: Hell yeah, man.

00:41:16: We all started like that, you know, same thing for me.

00:41:18: Man, when you start as a kid and you have that shit in your butt, it's never going to leave you.

00:41:23: This shit is for life, man.

00:41:25: It's for life, bro.

00:41:26: It's like, it's never going to leave you.

00:41:29: And see, you know what's crazy?

00:41:31: I have a lot of friends, like a lot of my friends that are still my best friends to this day.

00:41:36: We all used to rap.

00:41:40: But throughout, you know, life, kids, having a wife, different little things.

00:41:45: Everyone wasn't able to put as much effort or time or keep it going but everybody still got like everybody that ever rapped like what else.

00:41:54: they still got that same music bug in them so whether they make beats on the side or they're just super big fans of music and they all support me at this point it's like I'm like I last one and they all like support come out to the shows.

00:42:09: so And it's just love having that type of foundation of people that, you know, they critique my music, tell me what's the best, what's high, you know.

00:42:18: So I really appreciate that's having that circle of friends, brothers almost that do it with me.

00:42:24: Yeah,

00:42:25: man.

00:42:25: And it helps you to evolve in your career to accept criticisms from your friends.

00:42:31: I grew up with you.

00:42:32: So, you know, maybe you see music differently.

00:42:36: You talk about, you know, different subjects, maybe.

00:42:39: You know, it's helpful to have some real ones on the side, man.

00:42:43: And I respect their ears, like, a hundred percent.

00:42:46: For sure, because they know you.

00:42:48: They know me, they know music.

00:42:50: And then we have debates about everything, like, everything.

00:42:55: What you think of that new clip, Saver, man?

00:42:56: Who do you want?

00:42:58: Just even stupid stuff, like, we do, but everything concerning music.

00:43:02: We have these conversations about it, you know what I'm saying?

00:43:05: So I really appreciate all of them.

00:43:07: Big shake.

00:43:12: I just really appreciate having friends like that.

00:43:15: And I can lend my ear.

00:43:17: They can lend me their ear and give me their perspective.

00:43:19: Because like you said, we all hear it differently.

00:43:22: How did they react when you heard the news about the Pimp Fire situation?

00:43:32: They were all very happy about it.

00:43:35: Now they're like, ah, so what's going on?

00:43:36: What's the next move?

00:43:37: You know what I'm saying?

00:43:39: I'm like, man, it's just, I'm like, the grind continues.

00:43:42: But you know, I'm like, it ain't, I'm like, as of yet, it won't be just one big move.

00:43:49: that where it'll just be like, oh, you know, it's hip hop.

00:43:54: So I don't know if it'll be one big move.

00:43:56: where he was like, oh, he's arrived.

00:43:59: But I'm like, it'll just be a series of moves.

00:44:01: And I'm like, before you know it, we'll just be able to look back at the grind and be like, okay.

00:44:07: It's like when you inching forward little by little sometimes, you don't see how far you came.

00:44:12: So everyone's excited.

00:44:14: You know, I got like, fourteen albums in a cut.

00:44:17: So they've heard most of the stuff that I got.

00:44:21: So they be like, man, when you dropping that?

00:44:24: What's up?

00:44:24: You doing something rocking?

00:44:25: You gonna produce something?

00:44:26: I'm like, man, that's what I hear.

00:44:28: So we just, you know, I try not to talk about stuff at some time.

00:44:31: I feel like when you speak too much on stuff, it kinda,

00:44:35: you know?

00:44:35: Oh yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure.

00:44:37: Yeah, it actually happened a few times, so I'm like you now.

00:44:40: I don't really talk too much about stuff unless it's happening, you know, because you never know,

00:44:44: man.

00:44:44: You never

00:44:46: know.

00:44:47: Yeah, man.

00:44:48: So how do you feel now?

00:44:49: You know now that Rock Marciano is taking interest into your music, ready to take it to the next level.

00:44:56: You know, what's coming next

00:44:57: for you, bro?

00:44:57: Well, it just makes me more hungry.

00:45:02: Bro, about to find me, you know.

00:45:05: It's this guy named John Monopoly from the city, and he's actually his Kanye West manager.

00:45:10: He's like one of the biggest people in the music business world in Chicago, probably the biggest.

00:45:16: And he just made a, you know, he was just on the news, he started Distribution Company.

00:45:21: And they asked him who was, you know, who did he feel like was some of the best artists on the scene.

00:45:27: I'm the first name, he said.

00:45:30: So, we posed to have something going on.

00:45:32: And for me, I'm just trying to like, all right, cool.

00:45:36: Well, not to say I'm waiting on either one of them, but in the process between whatever the next big thing is, I'm just trying to just turn it up so many notches just to even reassure them that they're making a good decision and dealing with Rufus him.

00:45:56: Well, we can't wait, man.

00:45:57: She has a new stuff.

00:45:58: And we'll be here to spin that in the show for show, man.

00:46:02: You know the e-mails, so keep sending them back, bro.

00:46:06: For sure.

00:46:07: Have you ever heard of Machacha?

00:46:10: I think so.

00:46:12: Say that again.

00:46:13: How you say

00:46:14: it?

00:46:14: Machacha, he's from Copenhagen, Denmark.

00:46:17: Underground, hip hop producer.

00:46:19: Oh, he's a producer.

00:46:19: Yeah, I think I heard that name.

00:46:21: Yeah, that sounds familiar.

00:46:22: Yeah,

00:46:23: he's producer.

00:46:24: He produced a project for me, and I'm dropping that.

00:46:27: I think I'm going to drop it like December fifth.

00:46:36: OK.

00:46:36: Or I might even drop it on December four because I have a close friend of mine that passed away that day.

00:46:41: So I think I might even drop it on that day.

00:46:44: And it's called straight disrespect respectfully.

00:46:49: OK.

00:46:49: I love doing theme projects.

00:46:51: I love having a theme, sticking to a theme, giving you a different side of me or what I'm going through in life.

00:46:56: And with this particular project, There's a really big hip-hop scene in Chicago that's been brewing like.

00:47:03: Chicago is really one of the Top markets for hip-hop and even some of the people that are probably currently some of the leaders of only ground hip-hop.

00:47:12: at the moment some of their biggest fan bases are based out of Chicago.

00:47:16: But on the flip side of it even though that it's a lot of us that are building this wave here and It's like a big portion of the fan base don't even know we exist here.

00:47:30: And I feel like sometimes we give our power away by being, you know, too, too fanned out to, you know, certain people come, you know, let's just say Brazil, there's somebody coming town and everybody turns into fans and, you know, dick suckers, you know what I'm saying?

00:47:52: I'm just so far removed from that.

00:47:53: Like I'm a real street guy.

00:47:54: So I came.

00:47:55: You know what I'm

00:47:56: saying?

00:47:56: I got,

00:47:57: you know, I got rich cousins and brothers who are street rich and, you know, a little ten thousand or something for many of them could just take my career to the level.

00:48:05: But I just won't even ask anyone for anything.

00:48:07: I'm about to just, you know, get out the mud.

00:48:10: And the same thing with these guys is like, I'm not asking.

00:48:15: I think people think that someone's going to be their savior.

00:48:18: And I'm like, man, ain't nobody going to come save you.

00:48:21: You got to save yourself.

00:48:22: These people are essentially the competition.

00:48:26: And it's on us to kick these doors in.

00:48:28: So, on this particular project, for whatever I was pissed off about, you know what I'm saying?

00:48:34: I tried my best to just trying to, you know, slap in rappers and, you know what I'm saying, Jess?

00:48:40: I'm just trying to be the most disrespectful I can, because I'm not in this, per se, to make friends with artists.

00:48:47: I'd rather be friends with, you know, make relationships with DJs, but necessarily trying to Be friends with, you know, big name artists.

00:48:59: I don't care about that.

00:49:00: I'm not in for that.

00:49:01: And

00:49:01: be friends with people that share the same vision that you have because...

00:49:05: Exactly.

00:49:06: A lot of artists, man, you know, it's a problem with egos, you know, especially the hip hop, man.

00:49:12: A lot of dudes got big heads, so, you know, it's hard to be friends, especially at our heads, you know, you're past thirty years old.

00:49:19: It's hard to make friends like that, you know.

00:49:22: So you gotta... you know, link up with the people that share the vision that you have and understand the culture, understand the work that you put in and why you're doing that.

00:49:34: You know what I'm saying?

00:49:36: Absolutely.

00:49:38: Like you said, I'm all down with building relationships with those that see the vision and rock with me.

00:49:45: It's like, oh, you rock with me, I rock with you.

00:49:47: But like going out my way to be a man.

00:49:51: I can't go out my way to be a fan of somebody that don't even see me.

00:49:55: Now, respecting good art or great art, that's one thing.

00:49:59: Can't do nothing but respect great art, but I'm not going out my way to, you know what I'm saying?

00:50:06: Me out on another man.

00:50:07: dick is like immediately when we running the same race.

00:50:10: You know what I'm saying?

00:50:11: So it was like, and we all need certain things, whether someone was grinding longer than you or someone had.

00:50:20: more of an investment than you.

00:50:22: Like whatever the case, what it is, we all need help.

00:50:24: We all need certain things to go a certain way for us to come up.

00:50:29: So it's just like, I'm not finna... I just can't do it, bro.

00:50:32: I can't play myself like that.

00:50:34: I wouldn't dare do it, you know what I'm saying?

00:50:36: So

00:50:37: this whole project is about that.

00:50:39: It's about... I just got... It's just about, man, fuck these niggas.

00:50:46: Really?

00:50:47: That's what it's about?

00:50:49: Yeah, it's about this.

00:50:50: I understand how you feel, bro.

00:50:52: You know, I feel the same way sometimes about a lot of these hip-hop dudes, man.

00:50:57: It's only a few ones, you know, that you can actually, you know, hang out with and have some talk, you know, share some knowledge.

00:51:05: So I understand the message, man, a hundred percent.

00:51:08: Look, I ain't gonna say no names, but a very big name.

00:51:13: One of, if not the biggest name in hip-hop, it just came to the city.

00:51:18: And, um... You know, they in the back room.

00:51:22: There's seventy dudes in the back room, no girls.

00:51:26: You know, and niggas literally stand in line to talk to this guy.

00:51:30: Like niggas just waiting line just to say nothing.

00:51:32: Hey man, I'm a fan man or a man.

00:51:36: So, I'm a grown and same man.

00:51:39: So, Brazil they came in town.

00:51:43: West Side Gun comes in one of the biggest photographers in Chicago.

00:51:49: He takes great pictures.

00:51:50: I think he used to be like fab's personal photographer.

00:51:54: He's dope.

00:51:55: His name, his name is like DP.

00:51:58: And every time, every other time, he gets great pictures of him.

00:52:02: So West Side comes in, Stowe, God, I think Biddy was actually performing.

00:52:06: And he takes, he gets to take his pictures.

00:52:10: West Side told him, like, man, why you always trying to take pictures?

00:52:15: And it's like, I'm thinking like, because he's a photographer, you know what I'm saying?

00:52:19: That's what I'm saying.

00:52:19: Yeah, that's his job, man.

00:52:21: And for two, I couldn't, and this ain't a slight to nobody.

00:52:26: I don't speak my mind in any situation regardless, but I couldn't see myself going to somebody else's town and telling the photographer, like, nigga, why you taking pictures of me?

00:52:35: Yeah,

00:52:35: man.

00:52:35: I'm telling you, bro, they got big heads.

00:52:37: Big heads, bro.

00:52:40: He told that man, because you so fly, God.

00:52:43: And then he told him, I already know that.

00:52:45: And walked off on it.

00:52:48: That's one thing I learned, man, is that sometimes the people that you like, you know, like maybe the rappers that you grew up listening to, sometimes it's better not to meet them in person.

00:52:59: Yeah, because if you a real man, everything ain't gonna sit right with you.

00:53:03: I just left the grocery store jewels.

00:53:05: And I was, I was, I sent the man pushing the carts.

00:53:10: And I'm like, here, I walk my car to him.

00:53:12: Therefore, he wouldn't have to go.

00:53:14: He was already pushing the batch in.

00:53:16: I called myself.

00:53:17: I felt like making his job easier.

00:53:19: And I gave it to him and I said, thank you.

00:53:22: And he just walked off.

00:53:22: And I'm like, you're welcome, nigga.

00:53:24: You know what I'm saying?

00:53:25: So to me, it's the same type of thing.

00:53:27: It's just we man.

00:53:28: So we treat each other with respect.

00:53:31: And you know what I'm saying?

00:53:32: And we move accordingly.

00:53:33: And any one of us that happen to be blessed to be blessed do something we love and take it to another level, I think that shit hobble us even more.

00:53:45: You know what I'm saying?

00:53:46: When you look at them, it's like, I don't feel like saying like, oh man, I've made it to this level gives me a reason to be more arrogant.

00:53:54: I feel like if anything, I gotta be God bless.

00:53:57: It's hundreds of thousands of people trying to do this same thing.

00:54:01: And out of all of them, some type of way, I made it through the cracks.

00:54:04: So it's like, I'm humble like.

00:54:06: I'm humble like.

00:54:06: you know what I'm saying.

00:54:08: and I don't mean you got to be nice to everybody because some people don't deserve that.

00:54:11: but same time I'm not going on my way to be a jerk.

00:54:14: you know what

00:54:15: I'm saying.

00:54:16: That's one thing that people forget sometimes.

00:54:17: you know like when I ask people you know like what type of advice would they give to other artists?

00:54:23: man something that people say is that artists should be nicer to other artists or DJs or producers.

00:54:30: you know like they forget that They have to be nice because if you respect people, you're gonna get respect back.

00:54:37: You know, and people forget about that, bro.

00:54:40: Absolutely, bro.

00:54:41: If you respect people, they're gonna respect you back.

00:54:44: Yup, yup, yup, yup.

00:54:45: We only have a few minutes left and it's gonna go, man.

00:54:49: Do you have like any advice or any words, you know, for your fans and for all the people that's been listening to you, you know, for a few years?

00:55:00: You know, what could you say, man?

00:55:02: And I appreciate the people that tapped in to me.

00:55:06: My name used to be Weasel Sims, and I was doing a lot of street music.

00:55:10: I was doing almost even trap music.

00:55:12: But at the same time, I always tried to make it lyrical.

00:55:15: I was like a lyricist.

00:55:17: So I went through a certain situation when I was on house arrest for years.

00:55:21: And I'm like, you know what?

00:55:22: I'm finna start trying to get to the streets or cater to the people that surround me or even the popular scene.

00:55:31: I'm going to make what I really want to make, which was real hip hop.

00:55:35: And then ever since that moment, you know, the project started charting on Apple Music.

00:55:39: And you know, I changed my name to Rufus Sims.

00:55:42: And ever since then, in a short amount of time, I've been able to build a way bigger fan base.

00:55:49: And I just appreciate everybody that understands my vision, listens to my stories.

00:55:54: Man, just taking this ride with me, and I'm finna amp it up, man.

00:56:00: I'm probably gonna drop the most music I've ever dropped in a year, next year.

00:56:05: I'm already loaded, ready to go, and I'm just ready to just really show what I can do and what I'm capable of.

00:56:11: So I just appreciate everybody that's been rockin' with me thus far.

00:56:15: Yeah, yeah, man.

00:56:16: You've been working, man.

00:56:18: You know, I've been receiving good.

00:56:19: the music in my email for a while now and it's always quality.

00:56:23: you know it's never no no easy stuff or commercial music.

00:56:28: it's always raw.

00:56:29: you know it's grimy and it's honest music.

00:56:32: you know the lyrics are sharp and you're being yourself being unique original.

00:56:38: I think that's what people want to hear.

00:56:40: man authentic music.

00:56:42: so shout out to you for that my bro.

00:56:44: I appreciate that.

00:56:45: I just told somebody yesterday like man nothing can top originality, like, you know what I'm saying?

00:56:51: Hearing something that's actually skillful, but then you haven't heard anything like it.

00:56:56: There's nothing like that, you know what I'm saying?

00:57:00: Like when I hear like somebody like Bruiser Wolf or something, I'm like, man, you know what I'm saying?

00:57:04: I love how original it is.

00:57:06: I love how good it is.

00:57:07: And I just love the fact that, you know, people are comfortable in their own skin, you know what I'm saying?

00:57:13: And we, that's what hip hop, the essence of hip hop is.

00:57:15: Like, it used to have to be original.

00:57:19: Yup.

00:57:20: Yup.

00:57:20: We're coming back to that, you know, people are coming back to authentic music.

00:57:24: So everybody that's listening right now, make sure you go.

00:57:27: check out Rufus Sims, you know, YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, all that.

00:57:32: Check out the album, Else the Rest, you know, that came out on in twenty twenty-three, if I'm not mistaken.

00:57:38: Yes, sir.

00:57:39: Pipe the music and get ready for some new shit, man.

00:57:43: We appreciate you for being in the show, my man.

00:57:47: And I wish you for

00:57:47: having me.

00:57:48: I wish you nothing but success for twenty twenty six and the years after that, my bro.

00:57:53: And you too, man.

00:57:54: Let's look forward to getting that mixtape over to you.

00:57:58: Just respect respectfully out of December fifth.

00:58:01: Let's go.

00:58:03: Yes, sir, man.

00:58:04: We're going to link up in real life soon.

00:58:05: I'm going to let you know what else is in the States.

00:58:07: And me and young Amsterdam, we're going to check it out.

00:58:10: Check if we can come to you

00:58:12: and make some moves, man.

00:58:14: We got to come see you too.

00:58:15: For sure, for sure, man.

00:58:17: You're welcome anytime, bro.

00:58:18: Man,

00:58:20: I got to get around, man.

00:58:20: I got the passport ready to go.

00:58:23: Let's get it, bro.

00:58:23: Let's get it.

00:58:25: Take care of my man.

00:58:26: Takes for your time again.

00:58:27: Thank you, bro.

00:58:29: Peace.