Mixtape Addict #81

00:00:03: You have an hour.

00:00:02: The mixed tape addicts show.

00:00:04: Broadcasting every day with the French Connect.

00:00:06: DJ King Flow.

00:00:08: I'm immaculate with the pen.

00:00:09: I'm so accurate it's a sin.

00:00:11: Come have a threesome with this Mac.

00:00:13: She just ratched you to hit your friends.

00:00:14: I'm back in the club.

00:00:15: I've been trapping from six to ten.

00:00:17: I'm in the kitchen whipping up cooking crack.

00:00:21: Now watch as I float away at my boat sail.

00:00:24: Don't hate this choker from deep throat and riding my coattail I smoke L's and beat up rappers.

00:00:29: Then watch me post fail and won't tell shit.

00:00:31: See, this how a brick of that dope smells Holding this.

00:00:33: fuck, set up shop, open shit up.

00:00:35: It ain't a bearish when I say we was putting coke in the truck.

00:00:39: Look, I hope you can duck cause I put the scope in the tuck And I'm shooting from every angles till you get multiple cuts.

00:00:46: Tell these rappers I'm in my bag, I know they shook.

00:00:48: I wrote the book so this chapter is getting bad.

00:00:51: Shit is autobiographic, I crafted it to get the cash One-to-one, I guess I'm cut from a cut back.

00:00:56: I check Cleo, not Patrick, but Miss Latif.

00:01:02: That's the reason my stature is like a thief A queen's everywhere.

00:01:09: I wanna be, actin' like a beat.

00:01:13: Some love for ammonia, B.I.G.

00:01:15: Repetitively playin' this hot pants on that Bible If I root the worst, more than weed my breeze if I fuck around.

00:01:35: But been born into a brand of a newbie and slow me down.

00:01:38: Now I'm out here goin' slow Stupid cuz cupid them.

00:01:40: fuck the ramp And me fall in love with music, curated from the sound What I been in love with, yo, it ain't been a massive abundance.

00:01:52: I'm watchin' yo MTV raps, yeah, I want this.

00:01:59: Fuck man, I just wanna told the brothers tape Young and with lyrics, I'm bitein' from Coogee Rap Roll to the riches with my vocal movie, you could say that Before I knew cocaine crack, a heroin addicts.

00:02:15: I scribbled in no past, my verse all beats from himatic Fanatic and understatement, tired debatement Playin' Nas, big L&H when your pen had to spill, Pathfinder.

00:02:29: I wonder where this culture be if it didn't exist The finals, the

00:02:34: cassettes, and the

00:02:35: digital diss.

00:02:36: A special shout out to the legends, I'm still in the ones I grew up up in.

00:02:40: like twisted tips I even still tussin' for E.C.E.

00:02:47: Bob Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle, Beattle White rock with some dillas, Jane-Elek with some doom.

00:03:41: Then I go to some tech, nine bones, thugs in them twos.

00:03:53: I'm just speaking my truth.

00:03:56: From the streets to the blues, yes Now I can't say it right or right, but I know it, I know it.

00:04:35: DJ King Claw She swear.

00:04:44: she saw the light, it saw life.

00:04:46: Hard type of strife that we sifting through In the machine, punk, the menacle The visible, eye in the pinnacle.

00:05:02: He met Seraul, the war.

00:05:05: I'm raw, it's still drawn Died with a missile.

00:05:09: saw, listen on lessons Lead through the speakers, speak through the.

00:05:24: I'm going back in time again.

00:06:05: This is like the fifth attempt.

00:06:06: mission is to stop myself from something that I will invent.

00:06:09: people that I work for built themselves a time machine.

00:06:11: the Living sucks.

00:06:13: solutions is what I can bring Trains for purposes like this.

00:06:16: Time travel fascinates.

00:06:17: Father time just masturbates While all you guys procrastinate.

00:06:20: First version of me went back in time When my mom and dad had not met.

00:06:23: The second worked the hospital While I was born but not kept Adoptions what my folks did.

00:06:27: I ended up a cunt.

00:06:29: My grades in school were hopeless But biology was dopest.

00:06:31: Number three would try to step in For all the loud and high is zeblin.

00:06:35: Number four would hire me for burns.

00:06:37: Number five is useless luck.

00:06:43: Damn, I've got the future up.

00:06:45: Most my luck I'll find him.

00:06:46: Cause.

00:06:47: him I can trust is like I've lost my faculties Cyborgs after me, am I going insane?

00:06:51: Cause my reflexes talking back at me.

00:06:53: I know what happened, my prodigal Cause when I prove the sky could fall, it happened right when night would fall.

00:06:57: Only trust what I could call a friend See the asterisk from the future,

00:07:00: I destroy the second chance.

00:07:02: It's very rare.

00:07:02: if God exists, I'll ask Him for it, keep a close and hit.

00:07:05: Double cross exposed and lit, I'm not the type that won't commit.

00:07:08: Sniper scope is so legit, I took the shot but chose to miss.

00:07:10: Think it's cause.

00:07:11: I saw myself, the laws of time are so specific.

00:07:13: Cause I'm not supposed to miss, never get as close as this.

00:07:16: to end myself I chose to tell myself to help myself for help.

00:07:19: It sells itself like science fiction off the shelf.

00:07:22: I'll buy the rope myself to find wisdom over self.

00:07:25: listen, man.

00:07:26: I know the well These people promised you could help.

00:07:28: You achieved the dream yourself.

00:07:29: Evil genius, be yourself.

00:07:30: You built this meme machine yourself.

00:07:32: Listen closely, kill yourself.

00:07:33: Something deep inside prevents me.

00:07:35: Guys, that set me once you dead.

00:07:36: Trust me, you won't die As gently futile and heat the warning sun Driven by the force in you.

00:07:40: You're forced to do some awful things.

00:07:41: It's thanks to what you was born to do.

00:07:43: So kill the world, hearts to kill.

00:07:44: Change the futures, odds to build the futures.

00:07:46: Clearly hard to kill the truth It's still the heart of Amida.

00:07:49: Swallow Break is no time for the haters.

00:08:30: Be grinding in the streets like a goddamn skater The Russians beating J.K King, King, King, King, King, King, King.

00:09:02: Get a toe to head from bottom to tops.

00:09:31: Prada.

00:09:40: The window shoppers ain't

00:10:16: really gon' cop.

00:10:27: nada My tome.

00:10:28: give em the word and shot Spala.

00:10:43: I'll let em off the leash like Nino's Rockwalla.

00:11:00: You know I got power, ya sure they got hot shower.

00:12:06: Catch a tryna.

00:12:38: leave like Tasha.

00:13:03: shot Lala The bitch not Mala and nigga.

00:14:01: you not Allah.

00:14:02: Y'all both meet the creators, first name not Tala.

00:14:05: The blick like a magic stick, yo top Wala.

00:14:08: I'm drinkin', snoopin', a drop palla Screamin', let me ride, them youngins got diabolic.

00:14:12: They will leave your whip leanin' like they pop hydraulics.

00:14:15: None of my ops valid, they singin' the cops' ballads.

00:14:17: None of them.

00:14:18: one beef, they ordered a chop salad Cause.

00:14:20: how the fuck you niggas got brolic but not salad And me tryin' to pull cars like we don't got wallets Like.

00:14:25: how do niggas not in the jungle, talk the wallets?

00:14:27: How is these grown ass men, actin' childish?

00:14:30: How is these bum ass niggas speakin' with stylists?

00:14:32: When I was so fly, it made my bitch a stylist.

00:14:35: They can't stop us from scornin', they got a phallus.

00:14:37: Can't stop us from scorn, ayy We met at a pop gala, I call her the top scholar.

00:14:42: She come and drop knowledge like she from a top college.

00:14:50: DJ King Flow.

00:14:52: Everything, I know everything Everything, everything.

00:15:05: Brad Brad the Lord.

00:15:07: Everything, brand new Everything, cuz it's money I got and it's money I get.

00:15:12: I'ma catch the hour.

00:15:13: click and we can take round trips.

00:15:15: Lights back and forth East West South and North.

00:15:19: Mommy be a goon that count for me to make sure I rock, don't come up short when we transport You know what, from bus stations, dots and airports.

00:15:30: Everything, boo, everything, bruh, boo, everything, boo, everything, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh,

00:17:06: bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh,

00:17:40: bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh, bruh.

00:18:40: Stomp in the yard, or rip them in the party.

00:18:43: Span a y'all like a gorilla n***a And zombie face for a G. Keep that scratch off the cereal DJ King Floor.

00:19:12: I got a trunk full of material.

00:19:27: I hit the kitchen and perform miracles.

00:19:29: Mixate that.

00:19:31: Fuck who you bore head with you.

00:19:33: Your family gon' be planning for your burial.

00:19:37: Let's see, get the venereal.

00:19:38: Play around with us, I'm double daring This shit with me and Cass, it started yesterday.

00:19:44: You know the resume, this shit could flip a Chevrolet Cause.

00:19:47: everybody know death is one step away If I pull a can out on you, it's not pepper spray Copy, but a nigga got me upset today.

00:19:55: Heckless spray, I'm on this bitch ass like a negligee.

00:19:58: I'm on point, so don't cross me like the letter A. Play your cards right or get cut like a deck.

00:20:04: today I put over a hundred grand on my neck.

00:20:06: today I'm trying to get a check, this chest not check or play.

00:20:10: It's not a game, so my name you should never say.

00:20:13: Bullets ain't got no name, so don't get led astray.

00:20:15: Aw, man Even though a nigga lyrical, I keep gas, scratch off the cereal.

00:20:20: Oh, man.

00:20:22: I got a trunk full of material.

00:20:24: I hit the kitchen and put in the mirror.

00:20:26: DJ King floating.

00:20:34: Falling, yo, I think it's for you.

00:20:35: False idols still ain't doing nothing for you.

00:20:38: Mixed tape addict.

00:20:39: Still you vote for him.

00:20:41: What is wrong with you?

00:20:42: Still you vote for him.

00:20:44: What is wrong with you?

00:20:46: Take his head off and then repeat after me that now.

00:20:50: Where I'll be at I'm spaghetti.

00:20:52: You're the weight of a king's crown.

00:20:54: It's awful heavy.

00:20:57: Got distracted.

00:20:58: The killer brought the wrong machete Moving in these gritty streets.

00:21:01: Yo, I'm calm and ready.

00:21:02: Y'all can't clone him.

00:21:04: Y'all can't stone him.

00:21:05: Y'all can't put him six feet in the ground.

00:21:08: Y'all can't hold him.

00:21:09: Go and bounce back Lives in that castle.

00:21:14: Cause he's count, drag, what Eastwood?

00:21:17: if you couldn't he could Distribute that mad product out in each hood On a movie set.

00:21:22: Alec Bar I ain't trying to hurt you, I ain't trying to murder you, I ain't trying to work you, I'm just trying to get you to vote for the right guy, the same dude who lied to you, the wrench dude, you looking at me like the landlord, nothing for you, I want you, what is wrong with doing nothing bad about myself?

00:24:02: things went left but I made it out to let you thought right and march if I got off white.

00:24:14: things went left but I'm beef that's old.

00:24:23: separate the crowd when I cook.

00:24:26: separate my soul for his body from the soul.

00:24:29: got the chicken from moving and sticking.

00:24:31: that's a skewer.

00:24:32: I apologize shorty.

00:24:34: I text faster for a user I never knew.

00:24:41: inside your circles and you find more circles.

00:24:48: lay sun down if the price.

00:24:55: if you jump and sing over land with no parachute Celebrate when he land with me.

00:25:03: Not dressed like the Klan with me Hustler, you thug.

00:26:04: I blend the grammar bars, I mix your slick like ice and liquor, poking how it's spoken with the mics to mix us.

00:26:12: I integrate my imitate, embrace the time to coach on dinner plates.

00:26:19: I leave the scene as cautious, flawed as the process.

00:26:22: Oftentimes these artists nauseous, garbage, leaving in the coffin.

00:26:47: Nice, big, sound, sippy, refractive, dispersed, simply

00:27:04: put out, but I need to

00:27:07: crack this surface then isolate your deficiency.

00:27:10: So hold still as consciousness is deeper than a typical surface response.

00:27:47: Everything good man, welcome to the mixtape addict radio show man.

00:27:51: We here connecting the dots from friends to the US man.

00:27:55: You know we do it.

00:27:56: I'm your host King

00:27:57: Flo.

00:27:58: Today my special guest is producer Kid called Quest in the building.

00:28:02: How's your day going to the park?

00:28:03: What's up, how's everybody doing

00:28:05: man?

00:28:05: That's going good, I can't complain man.

00:28:08: Good shit man,

00:28:09: good shit.

00:28:10: Always working man, I've been receiving those emails you know, always good music.

00:28:15: so I had to play it on the show and I had to have you on there man.

00:28:20: Yeah, yeah man, appreciate it man.

00:28:23: You already

00:28:23: know.

00:28:23: Thanks

00:28:24: for the love man.

00:28:26: Yeah man, you know.

00:28:26: gotta gotta represent man gotta you know.

00:28:29: show love to to the one who deserve it.

00:28:31: You know I'm saying like they keep putting the work in like you.

00:28:34: so It's only right man, you know, it's the.

00:28:38: it's the mixtape addict show.

00:28:39: I have a tradition in the show.

00:28:41: I have to ask you who is your all-time favorite DJ, bro

00:28:46: All-time favorite DJ I'm gonna have to go with actually cutting everything.

00:29:01: Oh

00:29:02: damn Yeah you can give me top three you know if you if you prefer.

00:29:06: Top three yeah definitely I go with DJ Scratch, DJ Baboo

00:29:13: and I definitely

00:29:16: probably got to give it to DJ Spinner.

00:29:20: No, no, no, no, no.

00:29:24: Damn it's on me.

00:29:25: Yeah, yeah, DJ Spinner.

00:29:27: I could go off for days man.

00:29:27: DJ Spinner it's nice that you mention him because not a lot of people tell me DJ Spinner.

00:29:32: I used to have some like jazz remixes that he did like back in end of the nineties, early two thousand, he's always been killing stuff, man.

00:29:40: Yeah,

00:29:41: yo, DJ Spinner man, I remember when I was first put on him, I was like in ninth grade with the group, the jigmasters, that album that they put out, that joint, that flows me a lot.

00:29:59: Especially the

00:29:59: joint that they had with Eminem back in the day, how did that joint go?

00:30:05: You probably know what.

00:30:06: you know what I'm talking about though.

00:30:07: Yeah, I don't remember the title, but yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that man.

00:30:13: What I liked about DJ Spinner is that he was unique, you know, like he had his very, very own style, you know, compared to some other DJs, you know, like you could recognize a Spinner remix when you hear it.

00:30:25: Yeah, and another DJ too, I can't believe I left him out, DJ Spinback.

00:30:32: He definitely

00:30:35: was another one that I

00:30:36: loved.

00:30:37: Yeah,

00:30:38: man Yeah, I go for days.

00:30:41: Yeah, it's a lot man, especially, you know, you have different categories, you know what I say DJ I like to have like the the instinctive answer, you know Like the first names that comes to your mind when you hear the word DJ, but it's so many DJs.

00:30:54: man like DJs.

00:30:55: producer tone table is Mixed state DJs, but you know, it's so many to name man.

00:31:01: So many

00:31:02: not as a fact.

00:31:03: It's a lot.

00:31:04: Yeah, man, and I have another mixtape question for you.

00:31:08: I think I know the answer already, but I'm still gonna ask it.

00:31:12: Do you miss the mixtape format?

00:31:16: Yes, I do, man.

00:31:17: Like, that's funny.

00:31:18: We was just talking about that here the other day.

00:31:21: I was talking with my man, Muk the Truth.

00:31:24: Shout out to Muk.

00:31:25: We were just talking about, we were just building on a lot of stuff and we were just talking about that, like, how the mixtapes... That was a good way of promoting the music and getting artists discovered and everything like.

00:31:38: I think that's something that the game is really missing right now.

00:31:40: That's why a lot of stuff is the way it is now because People don't because a lot of people don't realize like people keep like y'all everybody sounds the same like yeah, you got This side of people.

00:31:52: that's following current trends Just like back in the day, but then when you had the mixtapes some underground mixtapes.

00:31:58: This is a whole different world of artists producers That was trying.

00:32:04: that was on the come of that.

00:32:05: people really ain't know about that.

00:32:06: these mixtapes introduced people to So like.

00:32:09: I think that's definitely an important element that we're missing right now.

00:32:12: Yeah cutting up Cutting up the saws on the mixtapes out in the streets from like the street grind.

00:32:19: Yep.

00:32:19: Yep.

00:32:20: Yeah Yeah, I know I know some dudes that went like almost platinum in the streets man without no major deal just selling out the trunk or selling in the mom's and pop stores, you know all that dudes that almost sold a fucking million copies, crazy.

00:32:36: Yeah, like, yo, that was a whole, like, a lot of these younger, uh, a lot of the younger generation, that's something that they did not get a chance to experience.

00:32:48: The probably closest to that they probably got to experiencing that probably would have been that piff.

00:32:54: Probably would have been the closest for them discovering the mixtape, um, hustle and everything, but... other than that like actually being out on the street physically and interacting with people and you know you're chilling and people getting to know you personally and everything and you're building that connection like it's not like that no more.

00:33:12: Yeah I agree man it's something that's missing you know.

00:33:15: like building

00:33:16: human

00:33:16: relationships you know I'm saying like grinding talking to people networking shaking hands.

00:33:22: all that you know.

00:33:24: Yeah like I missed them days.

00:33:27: The thing that got me put under that was my older brother.

00:33:30: He was a DJ.

00:33:32: He used to DJ for the college radio show, the hip hop shows at, on the Rochester U of R, the WRU, or, ADA.Five, WRUR, and he used to always, even himself, he'd get all this music, he'd put his mixtapes together, and he'd press up his CDs, and I remember he'd give me a bunch of CDs.

00:33:51: I'd be all up at school selling them joints.

00:33:54: And people, I'm putting kids, people, my age at the time on to like fifty when he was first coming up like a lot of people ain't know about fifty something like that around where I was on growing up as so I was passing these mixtapes out.

00:34:06: people getting put onto them.

00:34:08: they can't hit the artists like um Saigon um Jake Dilla is like.

00:34:13: I remember the like the Jake Dilla um when I was trying to introduce people to Jake.

00:34:16: they're like.

00:34:17: it's like it's crazy how things go because like I remember when I first was doing that a lot of people like they didn't get into it.

00:34:24: but years later down the road For some reason, people started falling in love with J. Dillon's stuff, but I remember, I introduced some people to a lot of that.

00:34:34: A lot of the ruckus stuff, the loud, when they had their little mixtape things going on, lyricist's lounge, soundbombs and all, I remember all that stuff.

00:34:43: Yeah, yeah, man.

00:34:45: Classics, man, that you had to know.

00:34:47: You had to do your research and know about those things.

00:34:50: Like you mentioned Saigon, for example.

00:34:53: That's a great example.

00:34:54: You know him, guys like Papu's too.

00:34:57: You

00:34:58: know, I'm also thinking about True Life, Aguila,

00:35:03: you

00:35:04: know, those MC's

00:35:05: man.

00:35:05: There's so many of them.

00:35:10: Yo, that was just that time.

00:35:12: That was just a great time.

00:35:14: So much dope artists and all that.

00:35:16: Even if the artists are already established, they still like, you know, like ghost fakes and all that.

00:35:20: they had they they stuff that was on the mainstream radio and all that.

00:35:23: but they also had a bunch of underground stuff people didn't know about and people's getting hip to that stuff.

00:35:30: yep yep yep yeah that was a way to discover new music and I think you know back then even in the dead piff days you had to be a hustler.

00:35:39: you know have that hustle in you.

00:35:41: it's not just gonna come by a miracle you know you gotta.

00:35:45: you know like kick doors you know.

00:35:47: so like we say network shake hands.

00:35:49: it was a different type of mentality that nowadays I think it's missing a little bit.

00:35:54: you know nothing wrong with technology and everything that's happening now but you know it's important to have that in.

00:36:00: you have that also that passion that vision you know.

00:36:05: yeah I believe like that's how it should be carried out because like the thing with a lot of people nowadays I noticed too a lot of people like to try to take shortcuts.

00:36:16: you can take all the shortcuts you want.

00:36:18: Okay, you can take all the shortcuts for those who just been trying to do it for the money.

00:36:24: All right, you can take all those shortcuts that you want.

00:36:26: That money at that time though, if you're not smart with it, that's just temporary for that moment.

00:36:30: And

00:36:30: a lot of people don't got their drive to try to build history from the ground up.

00:36:35: Cause like I said, money come when it comes, but the fun and important part is building that history.

00:36:40: So then when your time do come and then your time to step away and let the next person come do that thing.

00:36:46: And then years later, people go back down from that road and they can always be like, yo, I remember when that dude was doing this, that and the third, which got him to this point, which led him to that point.

00:36:58: And he even mingle with these people over here.

00:37:00: Got them on.

00:37:01: Like people don't like trying to do the groundwork no more.

00:37:03: They've tried to find somebody who's already put it down themselves and try to leech off of it and then try to bum off of that grind off of the next person and take that shortcut thinking that they're going to establish themselves.

00:37:13: But.

00:37:14: it don't work like that because it's like you know if you ain't building the history and you ain't putting the grind down and you ain't you ain't going at it hard and going full force with it and leaving a mark and an impact.

00:37:25: it's like what did you

00:37:26: do?

00:37:27: Yeah I agree with that.

00:37:29: even if a guy like gets like a hot single and it ends up being a super worldwide hit it's cool.

00:37:36: but what are you gonna do after that?

00:37:38: you know if you don't put your groundwork You gotta keep working, you gotta feed the people something, because if you just happen for a miracle and you get lucky, the miracle happens, you still gotta work after that.

00:37:50: Oh, you gonna go bad, you know what I'm saying?

00:37:53: And that's perfect, because that's perfect what you just said, because a lot of people don't ask theyself, like, you know, you get a situation going on right now for the moment, then when that situation, that moment dries up, it's like, okay, yeah, you made it to this point, what's next?

00:38:07: That's what I'm gonna tell you, I always carry like no matter what I, whatever I achieved or whatever, I don't get, I never got comfortable and get big headed off it.

00:38:17: I made it like nah man, like all right for that moment, I conquer that moment.

00:38:21: What's next

00:38:21: for the next moment?

00:38:22: Yep, yep, yep.

00:38:23: I agree with you, man.

00:38:25: I agree with you.

00:38:25: And talking about what's next, I know you're always working, you know, you're always producing bangers.

00:38:30: And you just dropped some tracks.

00:38:32: I played the one with RJ Payne and PrettyBully.

00:38:35: But what's coming next after that, man?

00:38:37: I know you got a lot in your bag.

00:38:38: Oh, man, we got, I got, you know, like this whole summer, me and my man, as a riot, we completed, we knocked out two Young Black and Gifted projects.

00:38:48: We got one that's, it's pretty much done.

00:38:51: Just waiting for one more song to get mixed down.

00:38:53: And then I'm going to start putting that together.

00:38:55: But that project is going to have to be called Seize the Moment.

00:38:58: And then we've got another one that we're going to probably drop later on down the road next year called Stages of Reality.

00:39:06: So we've got those two projects.

00:39:08: So outside of the group, I got projects with Bodie James, nephew, twenty one hundred bags.

00:39:17: His project, ghetto poetry.

00:39:19: That's done.

00:39:21: Me and Tito Lopez.

00:39:23: We got a project, the eight-oh-eight theory, that's almost done.

00:39:27: It's in the final stages, putting final touches on that.

00:39:30: Shout out to Twenty One Hundred Bags, Tito Lopez, My Man Moved to Truth, from our Rhode Island, from Pawtown.

00:39:38: We literally just knocked out a whole project Saturday.

00:39:45: Okay.

00:39:46: We drove over here.

00:39:48: We're using the booth wall.

00:39:51: probably damn near almost sixteen hours just recorded songs and stuff building everything.

00:39:55: and then I also got, I was going to do another compilation project but I kind of scrapped that.

00:40:02: so now I got a bunch of singles that I'm going to be dropping here and there too.

00:40:08: So people could be on the lookout for them songs.

00:40:11: Right now I just dropped the ferocious, you just talked about earlier, Pretty Bullying RJ Payne, but actually I'm going to release that visual today for that.

00:40:21: Me and pretty bully we've been talking about.

00:40:22: get another project started.

00:40:26: Me and my brother site because he can do beats to speak about it yet to move to true project That's gonna be fully produced by both me.

00:40:32: and then there's another artist from here named v secrets the Hediva.

00:40:38: We got a project that we started where her I actually gotta reach out to her see how she's doing with the on the writing process and all damn what else man and so much stuff I've been working on.

00:40:50: yeah that's dope man.

00:40:52: and where do you get like the the inspiration and the motivation to go so hard you know because it's not everybody that can actually you know be so active and at the same time still do quality music.

00:41:05: you know you're very active you drop a lot of music and it's always called quality work.

00:41:10: how do you make that happen bro?

00:41:12: the inspiration really man like the inspiration comes from one of the sacrifices I made.

00:41:17: like You know, I started I graduated I graduated school back in oh five But I always had this music in me, you know wanting to do this music stuff.

00:41:27: And every opportunity that I got I mean when I was younger like you know opportunities to save up money get equipment and Do whatever I got to do to make this come true and get this going like I actually skipped my school graduation For a job that I had landed that was paying like back in that time like twenty three an hour.

00:41:44: So I could save up getting new equipment, you know have money to cut new records to get samples and all that.

00:41:49: so you know the sacrifices.

00:41:51: um

00:41:52: you know a lot of a lot of

00:41:54: sleepless nights being up all night making music uh skipping out on a lot of stuff that i should have been that i was supposed to be doing at that age partying and all that going to club like a lot of that stuff.

00:42:04: like i sacrificed for this music and you know there's a lot of other things i did too that i i did um sacrifice to keep the music going.

00:42:12: so like that's my drive to keep going because i always said to myself If I stop, I pretty much wasted my life doing nothing.

00:42:19: So I gotta keep that going.

00:42:21: That's my

00:42:23: biggest inspiration right

00:42:26: there.

00:42:26: It's a work of a lifetime when you have goals like that as a producer.

00:42:30: It's not something that you can stop.

00:42:32: Just like you said, if you stop, it's like you did nothing in your life.

00:42:35: You just cannot afford that.

00:42:38: So you gotta keep going strong and keep opening doors, paving the way.

00:42:43: So much respect to you, man.

00:42:45: Thanks, man.

00:42:46: And what have been like the biggest challenges in your career?

00:42:53: Biggest challenges, man.

00:42:56: Not getting discouraged.

00:42:58: That's when I always tell a lot of up-and-comers, like, yo, especially with the producers.

00:43:03: Because a lot of people think, like, you know, you come in, yo, let me try to get on with the person that's already established and the big name.

00:43:11: And that's where the discouragement and the disappointments come in when you try to go for those high caliber people because It's the turnarounds and the BS games that people play that try to get you into the rooms with them people and it's like yo On a producer side.

00:43:29: like do you really want to sit here?

00:43:31: They make beats all night and out of all them beats and all this time you putting in trying to get into a person that's like a Jay-Z or whatnot and You put

00:43:42: all this time

00:43:42: and effort into it to send this This demo of beats or whatever out just for somebody to be like yo.

00:43:48: They never heard it, or they didn't get to them, or your objective ain't been completed, and you're just like, damn, man, I wasted all this time.

00:43:54: It's like, nah,

00:43:56: don't

00:43:56: aim at those big name dudes.

00:44:00: Focus on the up-and-coming dudes that's building it from the ground up and coming up.

00:44:04: Because those are the ones, eventually, sooner than later, that's going to eventually be

00:44:10: in that place

00:44:11: that you're trying to get to and building with them while they are at the struggle period.

00:44:17: trying to establish everything.

00:44:19: that's the best time to work with them because now not only are you building a relationship what you develop in the chemistry with them and you got that strong bond.

00:44:28: so I always tell dudes like you know don't try to go after these these big name artists.

00:44:32: I mean like I said don't get me wrong.

00:44:34: if you happen to get that opportunity and it is an open door and that target is right right there go for it but don't make that your main goal.

00:44:42: build up from the ground up and establish yourself with the next up-and-coming dudes.

00:44:47: So that way, you know, effort placement, you got music, y'all making music together, it's getting out together.

00:44:53: And as you continue to drop and continue to do things, everything is going to always level up and you're going to get all the followers and those new fans and people are going to get hip to you.

00:45:03: And then eventually you might get into a position where that person that you was trying to reach to get at that's in that position.

00:45:09: that's way out, reach out to you because now you're doing something and they're like, oh, shit, this person right here now can help me stay afloat.

00:45:17: So I always tell them that, that goes for the artist too.

00:45:21: Like, you know, build with the other up and coming artists, up and coming producers, just keep building and don't just try to, you know, run directly to the one that you already seen on TV or in the magazines and all that, that's established.

00:45:33: Cause nine times out of ten, you know, they worked and grind out and did what they had to do to get to that level.

00:45:38: So they not looking back unless you really got something that interests them and they want to invest that time.

00:45:44: to try to help you and help you get put on, but nine times that's it.

00:45:48: They stay in the circle with the people that they are at the same level with and keep their business going.

00:45:55: So that's pretty much it.

00:45:57: That's what I always tell dudes, like that placement stuff, that dude, that a lot of people had quit making music because of that discouragement.

00:46:05: Yeah, I understand that.

00:46:06: But like you said, I think it's better for the creative process to work with a non-signing artist, you know, somebody that's that's still struggling in somebody that you can share knowledge with you can share a vision and you can create something instead of working with a big name artist which is cool but like you say he already has his own lane.

00:46:28: he got his own business going on.

00:46:30: it's not going to be the same process of creating music and if you really want to create something unique something magic that's gonna like you know stand the test of times.

00:46:44: It's gotta be with all with the underground hardest

00:46:47: man.

00:46:48: Yeah, cuz like, um Example always used for that too is on Rocky five with on what's his name by a very few people.

00:46:56: get those opportunities to work with a legend like, you know, some as a legendary status.

00:47:00: how?

00:47:01: What was the dude name?

00:47:03: I can't remember that boxer name with that random rocky rocky health amount.

00:47:07: But once again like that, that's the perfect example.

00:47:09: You know that he officially got to a position where he could have helped, you know, Iraqi, and that's what I was telling people, like, you know, focus on the up-and-coming more and keep that going and establish that.

00:47:21: Mm-hmm.

00:47:22: Yep, yep, we'll talk, man.

00:47:24: And talking about, you know, building and, you know, like the test of times and all that, like, what do you think is the secret to longevity?

00:47:33: The secret to longevity is pretty much being you, doing what you believe, not trying to follow any trend.

00:47:42: Because you know trends are a moment for the moment.

00:47:45: something to be hot right now Tomorrow we could talk is old.

00:47:50: So now you got to go back and try to rebrand yourself

00:47:52: and

00:47:53: try to reinvent yourself.

00:47:55: now you stay.

00:47:56: stay original you stay true to what you do and Don't try to do what everybody else is doing and Staying your own lane.

00:48:05: That's gonna carry you on my knife wonder.

00:48:07: Here's a perfect example of that by the producer sides.

00:48:11: because He never switched up his sound.

00:48:15: He never tried to do what everybody else was doing.

00:48:18: He was making what he liked making and think about.

00:48:21: now, we about what?

00:48:22: Almost twenty five, thirty years later, he's still established in making stuff.

00:48:26: So, you know, he never switched up.

00:48:29: Yeah, you know, people get to him for a certain style of beats, you know, like you're not gonna hit up Nightwonder looking for... You know, like some grimy, alchemist, or rock-mossy type shit.

00:48:42: You want that soulful, you want that special energy.

00:48:46: So, you know, he found his own lane.

00:48:48: And I think having your own lane is maybe the most difficult thing to have as an artist, as a beatmaker, as a rapper, as even as a painter.

00:48:58: Any type of art.

00:49:00: finding your own lane is the hardest thing.

00:49:02: What you think about that?

00:49:04: No, no, no, that's a fact.

00:49:05: That's a fact, cause like, you know... Going back to knife wonder even alchemist we can put alchemist in there too.

00:49:10: he always stayed doing what he did because he was always doing you know the hard hitting grimy gritty stuff and then he did the other stuff on the side here right there.

00:49:19: so he had his.

00:49:20: well he was balanced.

00:49:21: but here another one because they both came around at the same time.

00:49:24: but going back to knife wonder.

00:49:27: well knife wonder and alchemist they both kind of mastered that.

00:49:29: because now all right at one point because they have those symptom periods knife wonder would be producing for this these big names established people.

00:49:37: then it might be a time where they are the sound switching up, you know, in the retreat backing, all right, now I'm gonna focus back on these up and coming guys, this underground,

00:49:45: keep that

00:49:46: going, just like Alchemist do.

00:49:48: So they're perfect examples

00:49:52: for that.

00:49:53: Yup, yup, and it's about staying true to the culture too.

00:49:56: It's not about just chasing the big names, you know, like we say before, if we can build something with people that actually believe, in your story, believe in the vision that you have, you gotta go for it.

00:50:09: And that's what you're doing with the many artists that you work with.

00:50:14: And I can't wait to hear something or maybe a European artist, man.

00:50:19: What you think about the whole European hip-hop scene out there?

00:50:22: Yo,

00:50:23: they got some dope dudes.

00:50:25: Actually, I got a joint.

00:50:27: I do got a joint with Juggernaut from the UK.

00:50:30: We not got a joint.

00:50:32: about a year ago.

00:50:33: I might be releasing that pretty soon actually too.

00:50:36: So that's definitely going to be coming out pretty soon.

00:50:37: The name of that song is called Taking

00:50:39: the Stairs.

00:50:40: Big shout out to Juggernaut.

00:50:41: He definitely killed that joint.

00:50:44: But get on.

00:50:45: There's a lot of dope artists over in Europe.

00:50:48: Yes, sir.

00:50:48: Yes, sir.

00:50:48: And now you're planning on coming out there any day anytime soon, you know, like to get some different inspiration or get to work with those people in real life, you know, and maybe create some magic for you out there.

00:51:01: Yeah, now, that's one of my goals, man, to try to knock out pretty soon is take over overseas trip and, you know, experience different territories and stuff.

00:51:09: I've always been that kind of person.

00:51:11: I like to see different scenery.

00:51:13: I get inspired by scenery.

00:51:15: Like, you know, I don't know.

00:51:16: I've always been like that.

00:51:18: I like seeing different things, different environments and seeing how, you know, how things go over here, how they do things on this side.

00:51:25: Oh, things on this side are different.

00:51:27: It just inspires you.

00:51:29: It opens your mind up more.

00:51:30: Yep.

00:51:31: Sure.

00:51:31: It opens your mind and you become another man.

00:51:34: You come back to the U.S.

00:51:36: with a different mindset, different pictures in your head, different inspiration to make your baby do some different type of beats.

00:51:44: You never know,

00:51:45: man.

00:51:45: Yeah.

00:51:47: Well, now that's definitely something I love to do pretty soon.

00:51:51: Me and that's right.

00:51:51: We talk about that all the time and even pretty bully.

00:51:54: She talks about going overseas all the time and because you know, A lot of people overseas respect to see like a lot

00:52:00: of people overseas

00:52:01: respect hip-hop a lot more like the underground

00:52:04: and stuff

00:52:05: Respecting a lot more than you know people over here in the States.

00:52:08: Yeah, it's it's definitely be a good thing that the good thing to experience and see

00:52:13: yep, yep You're right man, you know, I always tell the story about the that.

00:52:18: one time I was talking to master ace and he told me he was doing sold out shows in Europe and sometimes in his own country he was rocking in front of maybe thirty fifty people which is sad you know.

00:52:30: yeah it's sad not like you said.

00:52:36: it's sad because these are a lot.

00:52:39: there's a lot of talented dudes here that make incredible.

00:52:43: like master ace is probably one of my top favorites now when it comes to putting albums together.

00:52:48: like he really perfects those albums like he put some albums together so good that When you listen to, oh yeah, when you zone out on Master A's album, you just chill especially taking the long train ride from Rochester to the New York City, out there on disposable arts.

00:53:03: And as I'm just dozing off and zoning out, it's like a movie.

00:53:07: It's like, it's like doing a movie, listening to it.

00:53:09: I was like, you can picture everything in the songs and the scripts, the descriptions and everything.

00:53:13: And it's just well put together.

00:53:16: I

00:53:16: don't think you ever put out an album that I didn't like.

00:53:19: Yeah, he knows how to make albums for show, but he never misses and he always surrounded himself with the best beat makers, you know, shout out to the OG Master Ace, man.

00:53:30: I

00:53:31: think personally, you know, sometimes people, they say that the Wu Tang might be the best hip hop group of all time, but let's not forget about the Jews, the Jews crew, man.

00:53:42: Master Ace, Kane.

00:53:45: B is moral,

00:53:45: KG,

00:53:46: Craig G, Cool G, Rob.

00:53:48: Well, you know, the list is long, my bro.

00:53:50: Yeah.

00:53:52: I actually got a couple, you know, another thing too with singles.

00:53:55: I got so many, like I'm about to start putting some of my older stuff back in rotation too.

00:54:00: I got a joint called New York.

00:54:01: Reptile Heart is actually featuring Craig G, Pumpkin Hat, PH from the Brooklyn Academy.

00:54:09: We did these joints a while, while, while back on Shondan that was down with a little brother and all of them.

00:54:14: Like I'm gonna take all them songs and like they put those back in rotation.

00:54:17: because another thing I be telling people too a lot of artists they think like you know you're dropping all this music like you're playing out tons of music song after song after song after song dropping something every week or probably every other day.

00:54:32: and I be telling people like yo you gotta realize like yo just because you put that out a year or two ago you kept dropping that consistently.

00:54:37: all right yeah you dropping consistently but you're not keeping it in rotation And people tend to, especially the attention spans, I think people forget about it.

00:54:44: So I think it's our job to keep that music circulating.

00:54:49: Whether if I just dropped the ferocious today and I had dropped a joint, like say a joint with pretty bully last year, still keep those songs and rotations from last year.

00:54:59: Cause when I dropped last year, am I end up hitting harder than ferocious here?

00:55:04: You never know.

00:55:04: like it takes time for people to digest something and get put on the sun.

00:55:08: So I always tell people

00:55:09: keep

00:55:09: all that music you drop in circulation.

00:55:12: Yeah,

00:55:12: man.

00:55:12: You got to go hard You know still promote your stuff.

00:55:15: even if you drop that shit a year ago two years ago It don't matter because you know it might be old to you, but it's still gonna be new to a lot of people.

00:55:22: So we can't can't stop man.

00:55:25: You gotta keep going gotta keep it

00:55:27: going.

00:55:29: And I know you talked about the stuff that you're working on, man.

00:55:32: But what can we wish for you, man?

00:55:34: Like, twenty-twenty-six is right there, you know, around the corner.

00:55:37: So what can we wish for you in twenty-twenty-six, then, the years after

00:55:40: that?

00:55:42: Man, just a lot of good music coming.

00:55:44: Gonna keep a lot of good music coming.

00:55:47: Keep the grind going, man, and not stopping.

00:55:51: I always tell artists to do no matter how bumpy that road gets.

00:55:55: You know, sometimes you gotta take the, sometimes setbacks is be the best thing because when you get a little setback, that opening your mind up to think a little bit more harder than you were before that setback.

00:56:05: And then you come up with new, better ideas.

00:56:08: that's going to help you go even further.

00:56:09: So don't ever take a setback as a discouragement or a break or a feel like, you know, oh man, I ain't been inspired to make music.

00:56:16: Cause I had a dry spell for like a good couple of years.

00:56:19: Um, back when the, um, you know, back when the boom back stuff started re-insurging, It was starting to pick up again.

00:56:26: It was weird because the first three years of that beginning of them years, my run slowed down for a minute.

00:56:35: I was feeling discouraged and I was feeling like, damn, am I done?

00:56:38: Did I play out?

00:56:39: Did I fall off?

00:56:40: But necessarily it wasn't a fall off or nothing.

00:56:42: That was me rebranding, rebuilding myself and getting ready to strike when the time was right.

00:56:49: And I think I'm going even harder now than I was then.

00:56:52: And I'm keeping

00:56:53: it.

00:56:54: You learn a lot.

00:56:56: You're going to keep evolving and keep pushing the boundaries of music, man.

00:57:00: Yeah.

00:57:01: Yeah, man.

00:57:03: Just keep going.

00:57:05: Don't let the little setbacks have you feel discouraged, because sometimes you need some breaks.

00:57:10: Because there's music things, sometimes they do mentally become draining.

00:57:13: You need to fall back.

00:57:14: You got to experience life.

00:57:15: You got to do certain things again when the time is right.

00:57:20: It's selling and the drive and all that's gonna come right back to you.

00:57:24: Yep.

00:57:27: It's all a cycle man, you know, sometimes you might feeling like quitting but you can't never really do that because hip-hop isn't our blood man.

00:57:35: Yeah,

00:57:35: it ain't going nowhere.

00:57:41: We only have a few minutes left in this combo man.

00:57:44: Do you have any last words for your fans across the globe?

00:57:49: Oh, yeah, man.

00:57:49: Everybody is following kickball quests from day one to now.

00:57:53: I appreciate you all.

00:57:54: Please keep supporting.

00:57:56: As long as you keep supporting, I'll be able to still be able to put all this good music out for you to enjoy.

00:58:03: Big shout out to, I could do some shout outs too.

00:58:07: Big shout out to DJ King Flo, man.

00:58:09: I appreciate this.

00:58:10: Thank you, man.

00:58:11: I definitely appreciate this, man.

00:58:14: Big shout out to my man, DJ Chris G. Big shout out to my brother.

00:58:18: DJ site Curtis coke pretty bully.

00:58:20: twenty one hundred bags as a riot.

00:58:23: big shout out to um.

00:58:25: Big shout out to my man G Fisher D Dave.

00:58:29: I want to give a big shout out to um DJ ace my man DJ Joe.

00:58:33: cool um evil D. Big shout out to I'm trying to keep this to par with.

00:58:39: I was forgetting.

00:58:40: like this way I was glad.

00:58:42: Big shout out to everybody that's been tuning in with Kid Caught Quest, Young Black and Gifted.

00:58:49: Yeah man, we just gonna keep it going and keep all this music coming man.

00:58:52: Big shout out to Big Sugar, Gangstar Foundation.

00:58:56: Big

00:58:57: big shout out to Big Sugar and on Singapore Kane too.

00:59:02: Yeah, yeah, man.

00:59:03: Shout out to the OG.

00:59:04: Shout out to everybody supporting the movement, man.

00:59:06: That was a pleasure to have you on.

00:59:08: You know, you always put out some dope music.

00:59:10: Make sure you keep sending them bangers to my email.

00:59:13: We'll be there to play them in a mixtape addict show.

00:59:16: And thanks for your time, bro.

00:59:17: We hide here.

00:59:18: Peace.

00:59:18: Thanks, man.

00:59:19: Appreciate it.

00:59:20: Salute, bro.

00:59:21: Take care.