Mixtape Addict #82

00:00:02: You have now entered the Mixed Tapetics Show, broadcasting every day with the French Connect, DJ King Flow.

00:00:18: Stand on stage, get fresh as low.

00:00:23: Mixed tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap.

00:00:34: I'm like herpes, known to never show them like mercy.

00:00:38: I gave them content, they wanted controversy.

00:00:42: Well here you have it, gladly causing the static Equipped with a big dick, clipped for my automatic.

00:00:47: Since back when, gangsters still call guns rashes I personify, I figure you idolize Women in all flavors.

00:00:57: like Hagen dies Biggin' to get me top, never been on a diet.

00:01:02: I left them right on the dock.

00:01:04: Fuck this elf, who are the flesh like?

00:01:07: I'm the reason that Jaguar made the F-Type, the Sean A different wave on the same boat, did not invent the storm.

00:01:14: I just wore the biggest raincoat, known to let pain go Known for never saying flow, solving problems.

00:01:20: I send the goons and goblins, never involving novice.

00:01:23: Only time will tell, only time will watch.

00:01:26: Time will clock.

00:01:27: when confiding to this writer's block Full out the carpet red, arrived like they knew of us.

00:01:32: I'm solo in the diamond.

00:01:33: I'm in driving like there's two of us Cause we ain't peace, don't mean it's war Cause we underground don't mean we poor.

00:01:41: If I pose a threat to any beat I'm taking serious.

00:01:44: The words pass the margins Delivered with the period.

00:01:48: Maybe paranoid Maybe Paris in the staircase Floating on the high and foreign airspace.

00:01:55: I lift my mind to a rare place

00:01:57: A rare pace between the tortoise

00:01:59: and the hare race D.J.

00:03:03: King Claw.

00:03:05: He asked before I dashed out the Sawyer It's local, how fast get the poise?

00:03:17: Bro, no, never.

00:03:20: parkin' to get towed.

00:03:30: Trapped in your

00:03:31: own castle

00:03:32: Mean why I feel you tryna get at.

00:03:34: you Can't even go back to the hood, you got tattooed.

00:03:37: Love the postman, but when you was bashful.

00:03:39: Now you need a statue, that's what cash do?

00:03:42: I wasn't fatuated with the flash too Heard.

00:03:44: you put gold cylinders in your bathroom.

00:03:47: I don't watch you get a mouth, where's the outing?

00:04:02: See you shine, got yours, I got mine.

00:04:11: Tell me, will it matter if somebody murk you?

00:05:01: citizenship card interplanetary mission.

00:05:03: I've been discharged the I'm about to show you what that writers list be.

00:05:10: See, I'm a writer in rap form.

00:05:12: But these are writers that bomb trains and subway platforms.

00:05:15: Courageous, brave as street creators.

00:05:17: They synonymous with DJ's

00:05:18: rappers and breakers.

00:05:20: Arms folded, jail poses, ill portraits.

00:05:22: Forced to kids mixed in with the ill fortune.

00:05:25: Fat laces, back in the day, shit calligraphers.

00:05:27: Tagging their names, putting their signatures in places.

00:05:30: Courtyards, sports balls, landmarks, tan clocks, jams in the park.

00:05:34: They doing on- Big bubble letters all

00:05:36: over the city.

00:05:37: I

00:05:37: see it up in high places.

00:05:38: Wonder how they did it, emit

00:05:40: it.

00:05:40: Always wish that

00:05:41: I could do the

00:05:41: same.

00:05:42: But now the mic is a marker.

00:05:43: I'm taggin' up names.

00:05:45: Sometimes at night I would

00:05:46: walk with a pen

00:05:47: With a marker or even some chalk.

00:05:55: Sometimes at night I would

00:05:56: walk with a pen

00:05:57: With a marker or even some chalk.

00:06:08: The sample now we're ripping is like You're the fuckin' brother's grip.

00:06:42: We're dark on fucks so I can bust Fucks.

00:07:49: so if he's dressed up Waffle him, then fuck they

00:08:12: baby mother

00:08:13: in the bathroom.

00:08:14: No grating insultions.

00:08:40: I'm in the ground with a Jesus piece and a duffel Ducked down.

00:09:22: alumni, I got signed.

00:09:23: cause a ruckus With a bow and apple jacks in my living room Sites on a car to set it itself Follow suit like an interview, the neighbors throwin' handfuls.

00:09:34: My crib was ATF, by the incinerator.

00:09:37: My Brenda had it, my crush wanted an imitator.

00:09:40: Same when we saw preacher kids turn in the gator Same way that I could put your fave on a ventilator.

00:09:45: I purify all of this and still reroute to where the break's at Heaven in a Ferrero, chocolate-tied shrink wrap In front of the school blowing beaties out the pink pack Out through the bracelet, had the extra link there Devoted from for me and mine until the sofa.

00:10:02: Run back from me and mine shoulder to shoulder.

00:10:05: Run back, keep that in mind.

00:10:06: You chalk it up to the floor where you know it.

00:10:10: Run back from me and mine until the sofa.

00:10:13: Run back for me and my shoulder to shoulder.

00:10:16: Run back for me and my shoulder to shoulder.

00:10:21: DJ King Flow.

00:10:26: There's no tomorrow.

00:10:29: Take me back to when I conjured up the virus.

00:10:31: I'll need the necronomic and some candles and papyrus.

00:10:34: I'm going back in time again.

00:10:36: This is like the fifth attempt.

00:10:37: Mission is to stop myself from something that I will invent.

00:10:40: People that I work for.

00:10:41: Built themselves a time machine.

00:10:42: The present life they live in.

00:10:44: Suck Solutions is what I can bring Trained for purposes like this.

00:10:47: Time travel fascinates.

00:10:48: Father time just masturbates While all you guys procrastinate.

00:10:51: First version of me went back in time When my mom and dad had not met.

00:10:54: The second worked the hospital Where I was born but not kept Adoptions.

00:10:57: what my folks did.

00:10:58: I ended up a co-kid.

00:11:00: My grades in school were hopeless But biology was dopest.

00:11:02: Number three would try to step in For all the lives I've threatened Higher zeppelin'.

00:11:06: Number four would hire me For buyin' weapons.

00:11:08: Bivers are the last.

00:11:14: Damn, I fucked the future up.

00:11:16: Number zero knows my luck, I'll find him.

00:11:17: Cause him I can trust, it's like I've lost my faculties Cyborgs after me.

00:11:21: Am I going insane?

00:11:22: Cause my reflexes talking back at me.

00:11:24: I know what happened, my pro-duckers When I prove the sky could fall, it happened Right when night would fall.

00:11:28: Only trust what I could call a friend From the future, I destroy the second chance, it's very rare.

00:11:37: I'm not the type that won't commit.

00:11:39: Sniper scope is so legit.

00:11:40: I took the shot but chose to miss.

00:11:41: Think it's cause.

00:11:42: I saw myself the laws of time.

00:11:43: I'm so specific cause I'm not supposed to miss.

00:11:46: Never get as close as this.

00:11:47: to end myself I chose to tell myself to help myself or help itself.

00:11:51: I hope it sells itself like science fiction off the shelf.

00:11:53: I'll buy the rope myself to find wisdom over self.

00:11:56: Listen man, I know the wealth these people promise you could help You achieve the dream yourself.

00:12:00: Evil genius, be yourself.

00:12:01: You built this meme machine yourself.

00:12:03: Listen close to kill yourself.

00:12:04: Something deep inside prevents me Guys, that set me once you dead.

00:12:07: Trust me, you won't die as gently.

00:12:08: feud

00:12:09: on heat The warning sun Driven by the force in you You're forced to do some awful things Except what

00:12:13: you was born to do.

00:12:14: So kill the world, has to kill.

00:12:15: Change the future's odds of real.

00:12:16: The future's clearly hard to kill.

00:12:18: The truth is still the hardest pill for me to swallow.

00:12:22: Fuck what Apollo DJ King's Flow.

00:12:33: Yeah

00:12:34: Always keep the

00:12:36: fire in hands With the unit, keep it G. How we track through the blood and the sand.

00:12:40: A rapping fool, but not a fool rapping as you.

00:12:43: Good feet, smoking, peppy, lapieu.

00:12:45: I'm always sitgy in my city.

00:12:46: T-up, get with me, it's my time.

00:12:48: These niggas owe the bummy asking for pity.

00:12:51: This ain't no fool, fuck your Eddie Bowie and your sour For the twenty-six, we commanding the power Every day.

00:12:57: I'm clocking math like I joined the five percent.

00:12:59: Respect to the gods, but I'm a rogue Connecting shit like toes.

00:13:02: Took the lessons.

00:13:03: I was told, boo boo Tryna.

00:13:05: cop the ring in the road, it's time to go.

00:13:08: Opportunity knock, seen it from people Had eyes of the ego, said hud, damn merino.

00:13:13: Niggas think it's shit.

00:13:14: sweet, like a repo Doin' my dirt, replay

00:13:17: the action of walkin' Chico.

00:13:18: The price of the brick

00:13:20: don't win up.

00:13:21: So get in where you fit it and keep your source tough.

00:13:24: Even those that love you leave you dolly in the hud.

00:13:26: Only.

00:13:26: show your money funnel and keep your business

00:13:29: tunnel.

00:13:30: The price of the brick

00:13:31: don't win up.

00:13:32: So get in where you fit it and keep your source tough.

00:13:45: Keep the source top.

00:13:46: Even those that love to leave you dolly in a huddle.

00:13:47: Make sure you're more your mother than he is.

00:13:49: I sing the song from the soul.

00:13:50: Let it rise from the tone.

00:13:52: DJ King Flow!

00:13:52: Lights under stars bright Stars stripes.

00:13:55: just as blind Still she's where she saw the light.

00:13:57: It's all life Hard type of strife that we sifting through The devil bring it live to digital.

00:14:05: The criminal On the scene the machine punked the miserable cynical One.

00:14:10: world is In the visible, eye in the pinnacle, the minotaur, giant, he met Sera, born met Sera, I'm raw in a crystal form, beast with a pistol drawn, died with a missile

00:14:21: saw, listen on lessons,

00:14:23: lead through speakers, speak through the illness, teach, add an ounce of Babylon, can't defeat us, stay close to heaters, dodge police, heat seekers, streets need us, fast days.

00:14:40: I'm talking about the city.

00:15:36: She got rotten milk in her titties But her nipples look good.

00:15:40: If I really could have me to stab like King Midas Everything I touch is gold.

00:15:48: I got a gun But I ain't.

00:15:51: I just shoot the gift And convince the princess to ditch the toad.

00:16:27: Voices and bad memories.

00:16:33: Boys and fiends, jack boys and thieves.

00:16:42: One foot in the industry, one in the streets.

00:17:02: I live the life they ain't.

00:17:12: never leave Trap spots, house raids and enemies.

00:18:28: Turn my turmoil to a ton of cheese.

00:18:51: One foot in the industry, one in the streets.

00:19:33: They made me rich but I'm sick from them digi queens for that wrong.

00:19:43: We went to war like the miskeems like Mitch and I'm placey when th- You went to a thousand pieces, best believe it.

00:20:00: Even Jesus was killed by the polices.

00:20:02: Went to the stripes on the dealers, that's how they live.

00:20:05: Like the Santeria, like a Thea Took.

00:20:08: my first rap back in the streets Bees and the peas and the undis, is the kid is a legend.

00:20:16: now The streets held me down, I won't let them Never leave, filled with bad voices and bad memories.

00:20:26: Boys and fiends, Jack boys and thieves.

00:20:29: One, one in the innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis,

00:20:35: innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis, innis.

00:20:42: Doin' nothin' for you, mixtape.

00:20:44: Vote for

00:20:46: him, on with you.

00:20:47: Still you vote for him, what is wrong with you?

00:20:50: Take his head off, and then repeat after me that You're the weight of a king's crown, it's awful heavy Brown machete, movin' in these gritty streets.

00:21:06: Yo, I'm calm and ready, y'all can't clone him Y'all can't

00:21:09: stone him, y'all can't put him six feet in the ground Y'all can't hold him, gon' bounce, lives in that castle,

00:21:18: cause he's count Eastwood, if you couldn't, he could Distribute that mad problem.

00:21:29: I ain't tryin' to murk you, I work you.

00:21:38: I'm just tryin' to get you to vote for the right guy The same dude who lied to you, the rents?

00:21:45: do You lookin' at me like the landlord Awkward feeling that you get when dad calls.

00:22:01: I'm on with you, some vote for.

00:22:44: I'm on with you, doin' nothin' bout it by myself.

00:23:38: I'm for

00:23:55: this us and we, the community Me, just what I want to mind is to suck emcees

00:24:01: Take away all the fuzz and bust our identities

00:24:04: And as the emcees to ascension Racking, pinging, precision Focus, focus, focus, where the poorest are you the richest Paranoid are suspicious, meditating,

00:24:11: no wishing.

00:24:12: Keep your mind on your target, whether hunting or fishing Godbody or nobody's business or whether witness Keep it suffering, curses

00:24:19: or you're forgiven.

00:24:19: But give up or give fix, make good decisions.

00:24:22: Metamorph, your cause, support

00:24:24: your own decisions.

00:24:25: Have no fear, we

00:24:26: here to smash microphones.

00:24:27: We matter physicals, titan and natural.

00:24:32: Spines on the finish line, face in the wreck.

00:24:35: Come back, get back,

00:24:36: that's the part of success.

00:24:37: Ducked on the finish line, face in the wreck.

00:24:45: Come back, get back, that's the part of success.

00:24:47: And if you know the album, J-KING FLOW.

00:24:59: Everything, brand new.

00:25:02: Hey, brand, brand new.

00:25:06: Everything, this money.

00:25:09: now, this money I got.

00:25:11: And the only I get, eight round trips.

00:25:17: I can forth, east, west, south, or north.

00:25:21: Maybe a groom to count for me.

00:25:23: I'm always in the vapors.

00:25:25: I'm always in the vapors.

00:25:29: I'm always in the vapors.

00:25:42: I'm always in the vapors.

00:25:47: I'm always in the vapors.

00:25:57: I'm always in the vapors.

00:26:12: I'm always in the vapors

00:26:18: Be it

00:26:20: the surface, I'm ill, like Benny

00:26:27: I get rid of the pureb, I kill that, where

00:26:33: it's not the crack I tell you, and face the denial I pass the measure, I kill that, I master it I avoid the misdeed, and it's no more a fault If you cross me, smoke that and meditate.

00:26:51: And I pee on the country, I pee when I'm paid.

00:26:54: I don't take back the old cap, the delirium.

00:26:56: It's terrible, don't

00:26:58: kill me, I'm a rapist

00:26:59: of luxe with bullshit, they like genius.

00:27:02: I kick, I put it on, I'm genius Tickly and tickly by the beat.

00:27:06: I'm tired of my busy life.

00:27:07: A pure phase of your busy life.

00:27:13: Your earring.

00:27:14: If you break me, I'll

00:27:21: put your

00:27:23: head in my earring.

00:27:25: Your nipples are broken, my elbows are cold.

00:27:32: Your bruise, your anabus, don't excuse yourself.

00:27:38: If you stop me, I'm a painkiller.

00:27:41: You rap.

00:27:42: I'm like a phase in an A. You

00:27:46: rap, my nipples.

00:27:47: My help, young,

00:27:49: guilty, I

00:27:49: pleaded.

00:27:49: Because

00:27:50: we make my product with crack.

00:27:53: You've become an A with a crack in a cup.

00:27:57: I'm always in the vapors, I arrive like a new knife.

00:28:06: I'm always in the vapors, always in the vapors, the microwave.

00:28:22: Let's do it, man.

00:28:23: It's King Flow, you know.

00:28:25: Mixed Tape Attic show in the building.

00:28:27: Once again, we're connecting the dots from France to the US.

00:28:31: And I have my special guest, you know, one of the, you know, great livers from the West Coast fashion in the building.

00:28:37: How you doing, man?

00:28:39: I'm blessed, man.

00:28:39: I can't complain.

00:28:40: One second.

00:28:41: OK,

00:28:45: I can hear you.

00:28:50: Say something say something

00:28:59: now.

00:29:02: Yo,

00:29:03: yo, I hear you now shit I hear you now.

00:29:07: Yep.

00:29:10: I bet

00:29:11: bet bet bet.

00:29:12: let's start over to start over.

00:29:13: Let's do it, man.

00:29:14: Yeah, I'm fucking getting blown up on my phone.

00:29:16: I gotta I gotta put my shit on airplane mode or something.

00:29:20: I'll

00:29:20: put it on silence because if you put it on airplane, I think it's gonna cut off the connection.

00:29:29: Yeah, let me know when we can begin again.

00:29:31: My apologies, man.

00:29:32: It's all good, man.

00:29:33: Let's do it.

00:29:33: Let's do it.

00:29:34: We here, man.

00:29:35: I'm your host, King Flo.

00:29:36: You know, mixed apatic show in the building.

00:29:39: Once again, we connecting the dots from France to the U.S.

00:29:43: And today I have a very special guest, one of West Coast's best lyricists.

00:29:47: You heard Fashion in the building.

00:29:49: How you doing, man?

00:29:51: Peace, y'all.

00:29:51: Bless, man.

00:29:52: Just happy to be here, man.

00:29:54: Well, up to all my people in France was good, man.

00:29:57: We here, man.

00:29:57: You know, happy to have you on the show.

00:29:59: You know, talk some hip hop shit.

00:30:01: Yeah, sir.

00:30:02: Before we start talking about your career and all that, we have a tradition in the mixtape addict, so I have to ask you, bro, who is your all-time favorite DJ?

00:30:11: Oh, my all-time favorite DJ?

00:30:13: Exile.

00:30:15: Exile, yeah, no question.

00:30:18: Tell the people why especially him.

00:30:21: Well, not only because he's my brother, you know what I mean?

00:30:25: And he helped my career down since day one, since Boy Meets World, but he's honestly one of the... Far scratching and like and producing and just just.

00:30:36: I think he's like the epitome of what the DJ should be.

00:30:39: You know what I mean?

00:30:40: Like most MCs aren't shit without a good DJ.

00:30:43: So I I give a lot of credit to to exile just for Yeah, for putting me in the position where I'm at.

00:30:52: Just you know without his beats My shit would just be like deaf poetry jam.

00:30:57: You know what I mean?

00:30:57: So, you know what I mean?

00:30:59: Without him like on the boards I know I can trust him.

00:31:02: Even if we show up to a show and we don't have a set list, I know I got an amazing DJ.

00:31:09: So I know that I can trust him behind me.

00:31:14: You know what I mean?

00:31:14: So he's the greatest.

00:31:16: It's the real chemistry between the artists and the DJs that you can actually improvise sometimes and do some amazing things, man.

00:31:25: Even like you said, without having a set list, a special order in the tracks, you just drop the beat, you know what to do with it.

00:31:32: Absolutely.

00:31:33: Absolutely, yeah.

00:31:34: Hell yeah, man.

00:31:36: And how long have you been working with him?

00:31:38: I know he's your bro, but when did you guys really start to do things together?

00:31:43: I have to say, two thousand and... eight, uh, two thousand and eight.

00:31:49: I think we first linked up and yeah, uh, my manager was, uh, my manager Hectic at the time, he was, uh, very familiar with, uh, Blue and X Island and that whole scene.

00:32:02: And I was just a kid in Fresno, just writing to any beat that I thought was dope, you know, any, any beat that that, that I didn't have to like strip off a line wire or like, uh, the internet.

00:32:12: Like I'd write to anything that, Like I write to old Dilla Instrumentals, old Primo Beats and stuff like that until I had to find my own Primo, find my own Dilla, you know what I mean?

00:32:27: In California.

00:32:28: So yeah, and then XL arrived, you know, in oh wait.

00:32:32: And that's when I finally decided like, you know what, now I could segue from doing mixtapes and into doing albums, you know?

00:32:40: Okay.

00:32:40: Yeah.

00:32:41: So shout out to my man X for

00:32:43: that.

00:32:43: You know everything happens for a reason man and it's hard sometimes you know when you are.

00:32:47: heart is to really find that.

00:32:49: just like you say you know found your primo found your alchemist, you know Yeah, the guy that's gonna make your sound evolve throughout the years.

00:32:57: So it's super dope to have that man.

00:33:00: much props to you guys.

00:33:01: No, but the crazier thing is like I had alchemist at the same at the exact same time like simultaneously.

00:33:08: I was a Working with Exile and Alchemist.

00:33:11: You know what I mean?

00:33:13: I called them my white owls.

00:33:16: Literally because they're both white and they're both named Al.

00:33:22: That's the crazy part.

00:33:24: Both of their names are Al.

00:33:26: Exile's real.

00:33:26: I'll let him tell you that.

00:33:28: But you know, Alan, that's my guy too, the chemist man.

00:33:32: Yeah, I wouldn't be shit without those those two like key figures in my career, man.

00:33:37: So shout out to both of them.

00:33:38: And yeah, I was blessed to have both at the same time.

00:33:41: I thought I would I thought I hit the jackpot with ex out.

00:33:45: But man, fucking Al kidnapped me too.

00:33:49: He kidnapped me too.

00:33:50: He was like, yo, we ended up doing two projects together.

00:33:54: Fashionably late and the antidote.

00:33:56: So shout out to Alchemist,

00:33:57: man.

00:33:58: Yeah, that guy Alchemist, he knows how to recognize talents and he knows how to push the artist to a higher level, man.

00:34:04: Oh,

00:34:05: yeah.

00:34:05: That's the job as a producer, too.

00:34:07: It's not only about making beats, it's about making the artist evolve around the music and making him step up to the next level.

00:34:18: Absolutely.

00:34:20: And you just talked about the mixtape that you did.

00:34:22: I was about to ask you that because you know how I think I first urge you when you did the I Your Learning mixtapes.

00:34:29: Oh wow.

00:34:30: In the early two thousand ten something like that.

00:34:33: So yeah, your first mixtape was Grizzly City if I'm not mistaken.

00:34:37: I was like around two thousand eight, two thousand nine something like that.

00:34:42: I'm going to ask you a mixtape padded question.

00:34:43: I think I know the answer, but I'm still going to ask you, man.

00:34:47: Do

00:34:47: you miss the mixtape format?

00:34:50: No, not really.

00:34:51: Not really, man.

00:34:55: Now, as a producer, now as a person who makes beats and can write to my own stuff, it's like, now it's more limitless.

00:35:05: It's more limitless than it's ever been.

00:35:06: Because back in the day, I could Download the instrumental and get my get my mixtape on.

00:35:12: you know I'm saying get and get in like my mixtape fast mode, but now I don't.

00:35:18: Now I can just create anything out of thin air, you know what I mean?

00:35:21: so and uh like I literally got my NPC right here and my like I could just cook up for Whatever I was in my brain, you know from the production to the to the pen.

00:35:34: and so yeah, I don't I don't miss the mixtape error at all.

00:35:37: like Now I'm more immersed.

00:35:39: I'm more immersed in making albums and projects and just creating certain sounds with certain producers.

00:35:46: Yup,

00:35:46: yup, yup.

00:35:48: Now I'm more so focused on how do I make this project sound different from the last one so I can have a more colorful catalog.

00:35:59: And

00:35:59: to you, what's the key to making a no skip album?

00:36:05: No skip album.

00:36:06: Um, damn.

00:36:07: That's a that's a good question.

00:36:09: That's a great question.

00:36:10: Uh It's you you really never know man.

00:36:14: I guess um, I guess I use classic albums as a reference.

00:36:18: You know what I mean?

00:36:19: Like I'll listen to a ill manic or doggy style or like a To pimple butterfly to like fast forward.

00:36:25: Um, I'll listen to something that I feel like is classic and As I'm creating I'll you know, I keep going back to the drum board and seeing if it matches up.

00:36:37: But yeah, you never know.

00:36:40: It's literally rolling dice every time.

00:36:43: Things that sound dope to you might not be palatable for the masses.

00:36:51: It might just be dope to you in your headphones.

00:36:53: And once you put it out, people might call it trash.

00:36:57: But you have to always be able to take that risk.

00:37:00: And I take that risk.

00:37:01: I've been doing that for Almost sixteen.

00:37:03: Yeah, but

00:37:04: you know, you've been doing your thing for a while and you always put out quality music and that means that means you have good taste in music.

00:37:11: So if you think it's dope for you, it's probably gonna be dope to a lot of people.

00:37:18: Work work not cuz.

00:37:19: I'm still a fan too.

00:37:21: I'm still a fan of the art of the art form and the culture.

00:37:25: so Yeah, like Yeah, it's just it's my intuition man.

00:37:30: Like if it's dope to me, hopefully it's dope to y'all.

00:37:32: But I think we're on the same frequency.

00:37:35: me and my listeners in my audience.

00:37:36: I think we're pretty much on the same frequency

00:37:39: And I know you have a lot of fans out there overseas man not only in France, but all over Europe Russia Asia and all that man

00:37:48: Shout out to all my people.

00:37:49: Yeah,

00:37:49: what you think about like the European hip-hop scene and the audience out there?

00:37:53: What's your opinion on that?

00:37:56: I love it, man.

00:37:57: I love touring Europe.

00:37:59: I love touring overseas because they have a different level of connection with the performer.

00:38:10: Yeah, one thing I do know, no one's watching my show through their phone over there and they're super engaged in it.

00:38:21: The crowds are like, you know how the energy is reciprocal.

00:38:26: Once I hop on stage and and I know everyone's engaged that makes me even more engaged into the show and makes me want to give more to the people.

00:38:36: and Yeah, I find that in Europe and overseas like It's so much more intense and it's so much more concentrated like and so much more focused on on the art form people really respected out there in America, you know in comparison, it's like we're so Man, we're so caught up in consumerism, you know what I mean?

00:39:00: And like, yeah, we don't even really look at it like an art anymore.

00:39:05: It's more like, yeah, it's just product and content over here.

00:39:09: But over there, it's like, you guys still respect the art form and its purest forms.

00:39:16: Shout out to Europe and everybody.

00:39:17: Yeah,

00:39:18: man.

00:39:18: You see, like, I've been seeing some... videos on Instagram recently, we still have guys like like El Desensay, you know, I'm saying, oh geez, you know, and they still do shows out there in Europe and people show mad love, you know,

00:39:33: they respect

00:39:34: authenticity in their music, I think.

00:39:38: Yeah.

00:39:39: Now, I got to, I got to, I think my favorite tour arguably my fit, not even arguably, like my favorite tour was getting to be able to tour Europe or rock him.

00:39:50: It was me and Rock Kim and my man, Rozelle from the Woods Crew.

00:39:54: And, what's his name?

00:39:57: DJ Technique or Technician?

00:40:00: But yeah, man, that was probably my favorite tour of my entire career.

00:40:07: Getting it, getting it rocked with, you know, the God, the God MC, you know what I mean?

00:40:14: And in Europe, where the audience was just super engaged and Yeah, I got to study the master, you know.

00:40:21: To me,

00:40:22: to me is the ultimate master when it comes to hip-hop.

00:40:27: Oh, yeah, he's a fucking, he's a scholar.

00:40:30: Yeah, yeah, you know, it's hard to, it's hard to say who's the best between Rock Him, Kane and KRS-One, but those three guys right there, it's Mount Rushmore, bro.

00:40:41: Yeah, I mean, that's a tough one, but uh, yeah, respect to all those guys.

00:40:46: Those All those guys are on my Mount Rushman.

00:40:48: And what have you learned from touring with Rock Kim, watching him perform and stuff like that?

00:40:53: What have you learned from the guy?

00:40:56: Man, no mistakes allowed.

00:40:58: No mistakes allowed, man.

00:41:00: And the word MC means to move the crowd, you know what I mean?

00:41:04: And yeah, he's just the epitome of what an MC is and should be, you know what I mean?

00:41:11: And not only that, I got my name from a Rock Kim song, you know what I mean?

00:41:17: He's literally like the father of my style.

00:41:20: So, yeah, my whole approach is literally inspired by the God rock him.

00:41:28: So, yeah, he taught me a lot and I'm still learning.

00:41:31: I haven't seen him in a while, but yeah, he just, as far as I know, I think the main thing I learned from him is how to make it look effortless.

00:41:43: Even though you put a lot of work and focus into it, it's like, yo, How do you make it seem effortless, right?

00:41:49: Because the stuff he does is so scientific and surgical, but he makes it look so cool and so effortless, you know what I mean?

00:41:59: But it's so intricate.

00:42:01: And yeah, that's the main thing I've learned from him is to take all these techniques that I know and all these ways of rhyming that I'm equipped with and just spit it out, make it look like make it look easy.

00:42:17: It's one of those guys that hip hop is in his blood man.

00:42:20: he embodies hip hop you know.

00:42:22: so like you say it's effortless.

00:42:24: you don't need to do a lot just be himself and that's it.

00:42:28: you know it's greatness man.

00:42:30: that part that part.

00:42:33: can we expect maybe a collaboration with you and rock him in the future?

00:42:36: man that'd be dope

00:42:38: man.

00:42:39: inshallah inshallah.

00:42:41: man.

00:42:41: lord willing lord willing man.

00:42:43: uh But yeah, I don't really see him dropping features like that.

00:42:47: You know what I mean?

00:42:48: And doing collapse like that.

00:42:49: But I did see he did the one with my man Planet Asia.

00:42:52: So, yeah.

00:42:54: So I guess hopefully I'm next in

00:42:56: line, man.

00:42:56: Yeah, you heard the new joint he did with us Kingpin.

00:43:02: Nah, he did.

00:43:03: Nah,

00:43:03: I hear that.

00:43:04: He's one of those fucking crazy back.

00:43:06: I got to check.

00:43:06: I have to.

00:43:07: Shout out to us Kingpin.

00:43:09: That boy right there is a monster.

00:43:13: That boy's a monster.

00:43:14: I love I love working with that dude.

00:43:15: He always anytime I want a song with him.

00:43:18: I have to You know Push the pin a little tighter.

00:43:22: You know I'm saying cuz he's

00:43:24: one of those guys.

00:43:25: man You know you you work with all the greats, you know like rock him and to you what's the secret tool on Jeviti?

00:43:33: You know after being in the game for a while to you.

00:43:35: What's the secret man?

00:43:39: He said what's the secret to my longevity?

00:43:42: I'd have to say my curiosity.

00:43:47: I'm still leaning into different sounds and different ways of rhyming and I'm still trying to find out.

00:43:56: I still feel like I haven't made my best album yet, you know what I mean?

00:44:01: And that keeps my, hey, relax, kid.

00:44:05: That keeps my appetite strong, you know what I mean?

00:44:09: And yeah, I wake up inspired every day, man.

00:44:13: And most of it is like, Man, it really just, it's all in the stars, really.

00:44:20: It's like, yeah, I guess you can blame the universe for that.

00:44:24: I'm just fulfilling my prophecy, man, every day, you know?

00:44:30: Far as the longevity, it might be sixteen years to y'all, but for like six seconds to me, and I still have so much more to do, still got so much ground to cover, you know?

00:44:41: As a creative, as a creator.

00:44:44: And as an artist, I look at catalogs like Miles Davis' catalog and I'm like, man, I'm barely scratching the surface.

00:44:52: I still got so much ground to cover.

00:44:54: I look at Planet Asia's catalog and it's like, man, I'm only maybe nine albums in.

00:45:00: I still got thirty more to go before I catch up with the goats.

00:45:03: Yeah, man.

00:45:04: You stay passionate.

00:45:06: But I think I'm on the right track.

00:45:07: It's because you have the passion in you.

00:45:09: It's dope.

00:45:10: You have that drive in.

00:45:12: That's what being a real MC is, man.

00:45:14: When you're a real fan of that, when the shit is in your blood, you can never stop.

00:45:18: That's why I think all the age limit bullshit that I hear sometimes on the internet, it don't make no sense.

00:45:25: Like I told you, I just heard some rock him and us kingpin, two generations, rapping together.

00:45:31: Man,

00:45:32: ain't no age limits.

00:45:33: It's only in hip hop that we see that.

00:45:35: Yo, you know what really fucked my head up?

00:45:38: This really fucked my head up, man.

00:45:42: I was having um I had dinner with Nas the other night right in Vegas at his restaurant.

00:45:48: and we're just talking about hip-hop.

00:45:53: you know like we always do and this is right.

00:45:56: after that he dropped his verse on that big album.

00:45:59: I'm like yo.

00:46:00: I'm like first of all in my mind.

00:46:03: I'm like how could two thousand and twenty five Nas hang with Big L in his prime, right?

00:46:08: I'm like, yo, what's going to happen?

00:46:11: I press play on it.

00:46:11: I'm like, oh my God, what's going to happen?

00:46:14: And Nas went crazy.

00:46:15: He went Super Saiyan.

00:46:17: And so I asked him, I'm like, when did you write that?

00:46:20: Like, was that a verse from ninety five?

00:46:21: I'm like, well, like, what is that?

00:46:23: Right?

00:46:24: He's like, y'all wrote that a month ago, right?

00:46:27: And we're sitting in this nigga's restaurant.

00:46:29: I'm like, yo, I'm like, you're you're still the eldest person I know.

00:46:32: Like you're still the LSMC, like still active, you know what I mean?

00:46:37: Sometimes I'll be thinking about retirement, but then I'll go have dinner with Nas, and he's in his fifties, and he's still whipping niggas asses on the mic, you know what I mean?

00:46:45: I'm like, man, I can never stop.

00:46:48: That'd be disrespectful to my past, you know what I mean?

00:46:52: And

00:46:52: you did so much already, you cannot really stop, man, you know?

00:46:58: Shit, man, I'm just happy to be

00:47:00: here.

00:47:01: Do you realize sometimes, like, all the works that you've done when you first started with your mixtape, Grizzly City,

00:47:07: Do you

00:47:07: realize sometimes the impact that you had on the culture and the young emcees that grew up listening to your music in the the twenty-tens or twenty-fifties and all that?

00:47:18: Sir, yeah, absolutely man.

00:47:20: I absolutely do.

00:47:22: And they shout me out too.

00:47:25: They don't drop my name on the song and let you know that I inspired them too.

00:47:29: So I'm proud of that man.

00:47:31: I think the first time I actually had to experience that moment When people was giving me my flowers was when Kendrick Lamar did the heart part one.

00:47:46: He did the heart part one and he shouted me out.

00:47:50: He said I inspired him, you know what I mean?

00:47:52: And that means a lot to me just because he's a leader of the new generation or this generation.

00:47:59: So it's like just to know that I inspired him a little bit.

00:48:03: It's like, yeah, I get to see my impact.

00:48:07: And you guys were.

00:48:09: through artists like him and through other younger artists.

00:48:14: To me, I feel like anyone who came after my introduction to the game and was inspired by me, those are the guys keeping hip hop alive.

00:48:28: And I know it sounds cliche, but the whole reason I came in the game was just to make sure the art form, just rap and hip hop is still alive.

00:48:43: And I wanted to live on.

00:48:45: I don't want it to get drowned in some new phase or some new fad that's going to disappear.

00:48:53: I want to keep the rudiments and the elements straight to the point.

00:49:01: Any artist that you see now that's doing that, hopefully I inspire them.

00:49:07: Yeah, man, because you did your thing at a time where a hip-hop was going to take a turn, you know, like the twenty-thans.

00:49:13: You know, yeah.

00:49:15: Hip-hop, it was like... You

00:49:17: know, fashion, you know, J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar, The Big Crit, Rest in Peace, Mac Miller, you know.

00:49:24: This type of music at that time, you kept the culture alive without trying to be like super commercial or whatever.

00:49:31: You stayed true to yourself.

00:49:33: I mean, look at what you're doing now, you know, still putting out albums.

00:49:36: I just heard some new big crit too.

00:49:38: You know, like it was important for you guys to stay true to yourself, especially at this time, because that's where everything, you know, took a turn and we've seen it

00:49:49: before.

00:49:50: Yeah, that was the segue into what we had now.

00:49:52: Yeah, man.

00:49:54: So it's so dope.

00:49:55: But yeah, I was lucky enough to come in at a time where, man, we're who's at a crossroads in the culture.

00:50:04: I mean, I came at a perfect time and yeah, I just brought.

00:50:08: I just try to bring clarity.

00:50:11: And recently you just dropped a new album.

00:50:14: We're gonna talk about that with producer sir Vitorano.

00:50:17: It's called all hail the king man.

00:50:19: Can you tell us about that?

00:50:21: The whole concept.

00:50:22: How did you link up with the guy?

00:50:26: Yeah, man, my man Vitorano.

00:50:28: What can I say about my guy man a brilliant producer brilliant mind?

00:50:34: Happens to be from central california just like myself.

00:50:37: and uh, yeah, so Yeah, it already it felt like home already.

00:50:42: Just just his production.

00:50:43: It's like Just listening to his music.

00:50:46: I can tell we had a lot of similar experiences growing up You know, you can feel it in the music and um And I'm sure you can hear it in the pen when I write to his music.

00:50:56: and yeah It was just a chemistry.

00:50:58: that was undeniable man and it started with one song started with a song called All Hail the King and that was on Sir Veterano's album called The Gathering that he put out with Fresh Yard Records.

00:51:11: and yeah so that song existed on that and then Fresh Yard Records put it out as a single and they put like a whole new different artwork to it and they started promoting it as a single.

00:51:25: and that happened on January first of like two thousand and something.

00:51:30: And I saw it.

00:51:30: I woke up that morning, like the day after New Year's, and I saw I had a new single out, right, with this artwork, with this Grizzly with the fucking crown and gold tooth.

00:51:41: And I'm like, yo, I'm like, this artwork is too good to not have an album around it.

00:51:47: You know what I mean?

00:51:49: I looked at the picture.

00:51:50: I'm like, you know what?

00:51:52: Let me write a whole album around this idea.

00:51:57: And let's use this as the title track.

00:52:00: And, um, yeah, so that the rest was really history, man.

00:52:05: Um, I call veterano hit up fresh art.

00:52:08: Like, you know what?

00:52:10: We can't just put this song out as, as a singular piece.

00:52:13: We have to build around this whole, this whole piece of art right here.

00:52:17: Right.

00:52:18: And, um, yeah.

00:52:19: So by the time part two happened, man, it might have been a five year gap between the two.

00:52:28: But by the time this one came, it was like, and mind you, I recorded this album maybe two years ago, right?

00:52:37: So it's like, you guys still don't even know where my pen is at right now.

00:52:41: You know what I mean?

00:52:42: Like, this is me two years ago, but I'm glad you guys get to hear it now.

00:52:48: There was a point where I thought this album would never come out, you know?

00:52:52: That's why I've been going so crazy.

00:52:57: With feeding you guys the music like we drop capital violence in the media fucking you always with interest with Trent Taylor Cart Blanche with little Vic Just so much like in a span in that gap between all held a king one and all held a king, too.

00:53:18: But yeah, man Yeah, shout to fresh our records man.

00:53:22: They really they brought veterano to me man, um I almost feel embarrassed that we didn't work together for so long.

00:53:31: Because he's right around the corner.

00:53:33: He's right in Mantica, you know what I'm saying?

00:53:37: But yes, but everything happens when it's supposed

00:53:41: to happen.

00:53:43: Everything happens for a reason.

00:53:44: Sometimes you gotta catch the right timing, but at least you guys did it.

00:53:47: And which is crazy, you said you... You've seen the cover with the Grizzly.

00:53:53: You started with your first mixtape Grizzly City and that album right there started with you seeing the picture of the Grizzly, you

00:54:00: know?

00:54:02: No, it all connects.

00:54:04: It's all, it's all connected.

00:54:07: What can we expect from you like in the next months and all of the twenty twenty six?

00:54:11: What's coming, man?

00:54:13: Man, twenty twenty six.

00:54:15: Expect me to, man.

00:54:18: I think expect me to evolve more as a creative, as a producer.

00:54:25: I think I want to lean more into production and help ushering in the new regime, the new generation.

00:54:34: I feel like I just want to get better as an artist and as an entrepreneur, as a mogul, etc.

00:54:46: I think if I drop another album next year, that's fire.

00:54:51: I don't think anybody would be surprised.

00:54:53: You know what I'm saying?

00:54:55: Like, because I've been doing it for so long, like consistently, but yeah, next year, I want to, I actually want to surprise people.

00:55:03: I want to make people's eyebrows raised like, whoa, I didn't know fast enough to do that, you know?

00:55:09: But other than that, expect more fire, expect more bangers and classics and expect more raw.

00:55:17: Hip hop with no preservatives as additives.

00:55:19: Yeah, that's straight up.

00:55:20: Authentic music man.

00:55:23: And we'd be here to support.

00:55:24: tell quad to send me the records when they drop

00:55:28: Off top.

00:55:29: by matter of fact, I haven't seen you some some unreleased shit.

00:55:32: I've been having a rising fall and off to

00:55:35: sprawl and

00:55:36: on rotation in the mixtape addict show

00:55:39: My guy my guy.

00:55:40: Yeah, those are those are

00:55:41: uh.

00:55:42: Yeah, I think uh, yeah rise and fall.

00:55:46: That's one of my favorite songs, man.

00:55:48: Shout out to Mike Straw.

00:55:49: That's one of my favorite songs in my whole career.

00:55:52: Cause it really, it really just, yeah, that's dedicated to Nipsey.

00:55:56: That's dedicated to Mac Miller.

00:55:58: It's dedicated to all the Kings who passed on, man.

00:56:02: You know what I mean?

00:56:02: King's Rise and Fall is a real thing.

00:56:04: Even one day, even myself, like someone's gonna try to cut my head off, you know what I'm saying?

00:56:09: That's just the... the territory that comes with being in the camp.

00:56:13: And it's one of those records that has a great potential, not only for hip hop fans, but for everybody.

00:56:20: You know, the message is good, the production is dope, the tempo is helping to reach more people, like some people that like maybe funk R&B music, they can't get.

00:56:29: I know you with the music and the message is dope.

00:56:32: So keep doing your thing, man.

00:56:35: And before before before we leave this moment Do you have any any advice for the young emcees and entrepreneurs out there or listening to the show?

00:56:44: You said do I have any advice for them?

00:56:46: Yeah My only advice for you guys man is have the audacity to be yourself to be authentic and and Yeah, don't let nobody tell you what you should say, what you should wear, what you should do like, you know, follow your heart, follow your intuition and hustle hard, man, because talent is one thing, but work ethic is another.

00:57:17: And I think the work ethic, if you have a strong work ethic, it'll take you farther than the gift that you thought God gave you, you know what I'm saying?

00:57:26: Because everyone's got to Genius level talent inside them.

00:57:30: They just got to mine it and find it right.

00:57:32: but That alone won't get you Won't get you longevity in the game.

00:57:40: It won't get you classic albums.

00:57:42: You have to hustle you have to work hard.

00:57:44: You have to work hard and um, yeah a lot of sacrifice that has to be made but Just be mindful of what you're sacrificing.

00:57:53: Yep, you know what I mean, um, whether that be time with your family or bonding with your friends and your brothers like just know like yeah any creative just know that you have a purpose and don't let anyone deter you from that path of your greatness.

00:58:13: I've seen it too many times.

00:58:14: you know people with a lot of talent super talented people but with no hustle and you know Makes me go crazy every time, man.

00:58:22: Like I've been working with the hottest, you know, I'm a producer to a DJ, so I've been working with a lot of artists and sometimes I see dudes that talent like crazy, man, like amazing talent, but no hustle and it's never for anyone.

00:58:36: Wasted, wasted potential.

00:58:38: Wasted potential,

00:58:39: man.

00:58:39: Everybody that's listening, make sure you know, move your ass and hustle that shit, man.

00:58:43: Come on.

00:58:43: That

00:58:46: was a pleasure to have you on fashion, man.

00:58:48: Man.

00:58:48: Thank you very much.

00:58:52: Thank you

00:58:52: very

00:58:53: much.

00:58:55: Take care my G, we'll link up soon.

00:58:57: Peace.

00:58:58: Yes sir.