Mixtape Addict #83

00:00:02: You have now entered the Mix Tape

00:00:02: Addicts.

00:00:03: Show, Broadcasting every day with the French Connect, DJ King Flow.

00:00:08: Yo, this your boy Big Daddy Kane with a message

00:00:11: to all my

00:00:11: Mix Tape Addicts.

00:00:13: This is it, baby.

00:00:14: Get your fix of DJ

00:00:15: King Flow.

00:00:16: Yo, yo,

00:00:17: yo, what's up, world?

00:00:17: This your boy B.A.

00:00:18: to the Z-Dance

00:00:19: Dillinger from the legendary

00:00:21: Dog Band.

00:00:22: And you're in the mix right now with DJ King Flow, AKA Mr.

00:00:26: Mix Tape Addicts from France.

00:00:28: Ay yo, it's Talon Farley, you checkin' out the mixtape attic.

00:00:31: Where this Bond rockin' with DJ King Flo.

00:00:33: Yo, what up?

00:00:34: It's your homeboy, Ace Hood Rockin' with DJ

00:00:36: King Flo.

00:00:37: You know we got that crazy flow, the hell you heard?

00:00:40: King Flo, let's make a move.

00:00:41: Yo, check this out, man It's your boy, Crazy Bone.

00:00:45: Whenever I'm over in

00:00:46: France, kickin' it You know what I'm sayin', doin' my thug thing I'm with the

00:00:49: homie, DJ King

00:00:50: Flo, man Keepin' it real, baby Down in France or

00:00:53: Lienz, y'all know how we do.

00:00:55: Now

00:00:56: listen to cops.

00:00:56: Yeah.

00:00:57: Addicts you heard, you know.

00:01:08: Nick St.

00:01:08: Addicts.

00:01:12: Team Hami, you know.

00:01:13: You know the pop.

00:01:14: Yeah.

00:01:15: Three gun five, trade one, fire one up.

00:01:20: Care about the streets, four, I love me more.

00:01:22: Me and more self, free to go to see what's yours.

00:01:26: Believe the will, relieve the devil from the will.

00:01:28: Take control of your soul so you can know what's real.

00:01:31: Navigating Satan's path with a devil's mask and a guard body.

00:01:34: A rebel's laugh behind the lines with a long shot.

00:01:37: A quiet storm on the Queens Bridge where the kings flee.

00:01:40: GIF was prodigy.

00:01:41: on a happy beat.

00:01:42: Half of me tragically fell victim to the savage I did.

00:01:45: Luckily my mom was too divine to let it shatter me.

00:01:48: I learned every smile Ain't a friendly one.

00:01:51: behind the grain Could be the grim reaper with a heavy gun.

00:01:54: You better steady your thoughts and quiet them voices.

00:01:57: Your worst enemy could be your own choices.

00:01:59: He came was where the heart is.

00:02:01: Listen clear I can never be brought home If my family don't live there.

00:02:05: But back to these bars like a crime lord My prey like I'm

00:02:19: testing the

00:02:19: will of a real MC.

00:02:20: really ain't nothing to die for?

00:02:23: Rhyme broad times four, the strike was silent.

00:02:26: You was forewarned by this lion's roar, a giant on the floor.

00:02:29: Your defiance is the cause of your mama crying and you lying, dying on the floor.

00:02:33: You were lying on your score.

00:02:35: when their reliance is flawed They don't wanna get struck with a slug when

00:02:38: the iron is firing off.

00:02:40: I used violence in my

00:02:41: metaphor, you digging me?

00:02:42: Cause that's how I get my point across like a Christmas tree.

00:02:45: But ain't that the point of the cross?

00:02:48: To remind you of the violent nature, Jesus life was lost.

00:02:51: This just thought I could be wrong with even the clocks Right twice a

00:02:55: day with two broken arms, just, yeah.

00:03:22: Fuck y'all

00:03:35: talking about this.

00:03:40: All we gotta

00:03:48: do is just keep

00:04:27: your faith in the Lord.

00:05:08: Go on, bless us.

00:05:16: Go on,

00:05:24: bless us.

00:05:32: You ask me, purchase the Grammy so that award is baby bottomed sheets.

00:05:51: It only feeds the ego of the weak.

00:05:53: While my scriptures moving to streaks and people change their life from a beat.

00:05:56: See, doing God's work ain't easy.

00:05:58: They blackball you from the junk, got him wondering like Stevie How I'm still breed, I'll character breed On the sunny side of the sheets, and Jesus Christ will speak through me.

00:06:12: If he's the shepherd, it's okay to be sheep Through him, we'll live again, and never see eternal sleep.

00:06:17: And when I read the word, applied it to my life.

00:06:20: Hurdles jumpin' tax brackets, man, it's only right.

00:06:24: I just gave my life back to Jesus Christ.

00:06:27: Now the Lord gone blessin'.

00:06:29: I was in these streets, I wasn't livin' right Now the Lord gone blessin'.

00:06:34: I was in these streets, I wasn't livin' right.

00:06:41: Now the Lord gone blessin'.

00:06:53: There's no tomorrow, mixtape at it.

00:06:56: Take me back to when I conjured up the virus.

00:06:58: I'll need the necronomic and some candles and papyrus.

00:07:01: I'm going back in time again.

00:07:02: This is like the fifth attempt.

00:07:04: Mission is to stop myself from something that I will invent.

00:07:06: People that I work for built themselves

00:07:08: a time machine.

00:07:09: The present life they live

00:07:10: in sucks.

00:07:10: solutions is what I can bring.

00:07:12: Trained for purposes like this.

00:07:13: Time travel fascinates.

00:07:15: Father time just masturbates while all you guys procrastinate.

00:07:17: The first version of me went back in time when my mom

00:07:20: and dad had not met.

00:07:21: The second worked the hospital where I was born but not kept Adoptions.

00:07:24: what my folks did,

00:07:25: I ended up a co-cat.

00:07:26: My grades in school were hopeless but biology was dopest.

00:07:29: Number three would try to step in For all the lives I've threatened High as zeppelin.

00:07:32: Number four would hire me for biofivors are the last.

00:07:38: It's time machines, I could crash.

00:07:40: Man it's useless luck, damn I fucked the future up.

00:07:42: Number zero knows my luck, I'll find him.

00:07:44: Cause him I can trust is like I've lost my faculties.

00:07:47: Cyborgs after me, am I going insane?

00:07:49: Cause my reflexes talking back at me.

00:07:51: I know what happened, my pro-duckers When I prove the sky could fall, it happened Right when night would fall.

00:07:55: Only trust what I could call a friend From the future, I destroy the second chance.

00:07:59: It's very rare.

00:08:01: I'll ask him for it, keep it close.

00:08:02: I'm hit, double cross exposed and lit.

00:08:04: I'm not the type that won't commit, type a scope of soul.

00:08:06: legit.

00:08:07: I took the shot but chose to miss, think it's cause I sold myself to laws of time.

00:08:10: I'm so specific cause I'm not supposed to miss.

00:08:12: Never get as close as this.

00:08:13: to end myself I chose to tell myself to help myself or help itself.

00:08:17: I hope it sells itself like science fiction off the shelf.

00:08:20: I'll buy the rope myself to find wisdom over self.

00:08:23: Listen man, I know the well These people promised you could help.

00:08:25: You achieved the dream yourself.

00:08:27: Evil genius, be yourself.

00:08:28: You've got the speed machine yourself.

00:08:30: Listen closely, kill yourself.

00:08:31: Something deep inside prevents me Guys that set me.

00:08:33: once you dead Trust me, you won't die as gently if you don't heed the warning sun Driven by the force in you You're forced to do some awful things Except what you was born to do.

00:08:40: So kill the world, ask to kill.

00:08:42: Change the future's odds to build the future's Clearly hard to kill the truth.

00:08:45: It's still the hardest pill for me to swallow.

00:08:49: Fuck what Apollo?

00:09:27: made him flip like trampoline, talkin' to my youngest son, he prints hockey, teach him how to do his push-up, keep his Jordans clean, to the Steve Rifkin, Michigan, Malaysia, Black and Ninja, brilliant, a chess player, Bobby Fisher, one hell of a mixture, no one begged to differ, a hundred thousand on my twenty-twenty-six Fisker, real like Ghostface, fuckin' Riz's sister, blow like Chicago, dude, since I came in the game, I only got richer, possessed the ability, silences, all you hear.

00:11:12: I'm tryna.

00:11:17: tell the n***a calm I'm tryna get it for its crown.

00:11:41: Drammed about the shit when I was back on lock.

00:12:14: Damn it, my shit inside

00:12:18: the pound I'ma-.

00:12:29: How they cry?

00:12:32: Till we see them die, we'll not be satisfied.

00:12:34: If they try to take a life, then we gots to take a life.

00:12:38: If it ain't life, then every sentence like Make a n***a take flight, if we try to take ice Stacking up the cash, making money off device Fuck our double bad n****s, coming back thrice Times four, times

00:12:51: five, n****s Guarantee to leave them dead.

00:12:55: I wish I could change how my niggas like to live.

00:12:58: The problem is the change, ain't enough to pay the bills.

00:13:01: So for what the ice worth, they gon' to your body.

00:13:03: chill

00:13:04: Bumpin' jazz while my

00:13:05: bitch clean the house, she keep it fresh She don't know.

00:13:08: my niggas en route to leave a mess Wish that I could change how they think.

00:13:12: Ain't got me stressed, cause they live inside of hell.

00:13:15: While my life is hella blessed My rep still said they respect the knowledge.

00:13:46: Never switch stuff with this prolet.

00:13:49: Real jeez, but we just talkin' prolet.

00:13:53: So I learned how to move.

00:14:14: like a boss.

00:14:18: I'm the type that would struggle when the storm got violent.

00:14:40: Will G's move calm nigga, we just talking crap.

00:14:43: Let me put my shit

00:14:56: on that.

00:14:56: My brain cells, I just put my soul in it.

00:15:01: Ration to be dope is in my blood.

00:15:03: I don't take vacations, now

00:15:04: I can hear as I slay this To observe my cadence in the world.

00:15:08: I'm greatness, you ain't heard, I'm dangerous, superb.

00:15:11: They'll play this when I'm dead and gone, I'm still here, I live on.

00:15:14: I'm so strong, you cannot

00:15:15: kill my vibe.

00:15:16: I never go through writings, block, I don't even know what that is.

00:15:19: I don't do no fuck shit, no fuck with who it is.

00:15:24: Bitches as bad as fuck, my

00:15:25: life is so awesome, I gotta stand

00:15:27: back like what the fuck Got it.

00:15:29: so much, infamous, I'm so up My life, they don't make niggas like us, no As ministers,

00:15:37: sixteen

00:15:38: balls of fresh,

00:15:39: we wanna get up.

00:15:40: They don't make them like us, dates in the grass, so you know I'm cutting my love up.

00:15:46: Know what type of time I'm.

00:15:48: fake ones in your circle,

00:15:50: compromising y'all The infamous

00:15:54: Snakes in the grass, so you know I'm cutting my lawn.

00:16:07: Don't get no one's type of time.

00:16:20: Scripted news, like circulation, but they say you're lazy.

00:17:13: If you know that you crazy, then they dread faith When the crystal

00:18:17: forms with a pistol drawn

00:18:19: Die when the missiles soar.

00:18:21: Listen on lessons, lead through speakers.

00:18:23: Speak through honesty.

00:18:26: We adding on so Babylon can't defeat us.

00:18:29: Stay close to heaters, dodge police, heat seekers.

00:18:32: Streets need us, tame the whiz to the fast stays Boaches in the ash tray.

00:18:45: They rise from the to the mask of the oppression Polices in your section

00:19:02: if you're asking any questions

00:19:04: CJ King!

00:19:05: If you're gathering together

00:19:07: They're kicking down to

00:19:11: settle scores.

00:19:12: A thin blue line upholding the devil's haunts.

00:19:15: It's only fair to one.

00:19:28: I got a dig Knocked out on the couch, fallin'

00:20:10: for clams Office

00:20:12: studio hit, third time in two years, twice at the old spot.

00:20:15: Now they bring that shit over here, ten niggas crowbars Kick the frame off the dough, flip

00:20:20: that stooge

00:20:21: couches all over the floor Walk right past three, Grammy sittin' on the wall Racks in the middle with Nick Hady, one and ball so hard Didn't touch legends, didn't touch nothin' to work.

00:20:31: God put blind balls on them in that search.

00:20:34: They wanted ice, cash, something they could pawn quick Left with some gloves and trash bags.

00:20:39: and that's it.

00:20:40: My small room was locked and that's where all my jewels at Door never moved, they was lookin' foolish.

00:20:45: They broke my little laptop, I used for visuals Pissed cause the real bags stayed invisible.

00:20:51: Mama Jin came through, grandma and the squad Mama and my sister sentin' prayers up to God.

00:20:56: DJ came through, I'm still breathin' slow through the shot.

00:20:59: My heart rate low, why they tapin' up all the locks?

00:21:02: Cause I been through the storms.

00:21:04: This is just more rain.

00:21:05: I didn't watch close friends die And I felt worse pain.

00:21:08: So I don't break, I just breathe And then plant, calm in it.

00:21:11: Paper tastes are always in some major Neglation Fakers, only moves and shakers Big puzzles for days, I'm talkin' all kinds.

00:21:50: I'm tryna make a couple dollars with all of my soul But all these demons keep on takin' the toll.

00:21:55: You gotta be bold and ambitious Cause the game is vicious.

00:21:59: Big P. Dub grindin' and ridin' on the deep dishes And the passenger I'm with is look so delicious.

00:22:04: I be swimmin' with the fishes before I'm finna.

00:22:06: Just I

00:22:07: gotta get it.

00:22:07: I

00:22:07: don't love it, not just some.

00:22:09: I need enough for the whole team It's not just one.

00:22:12: I want the cake and the crumbs, man You know me I'm on the grind

00:22:15: like the whole me.

00:22:17: Same old

00:22:27: bitch.

00:22:27: I'm in the vapors I'm in

00:22:40: the vapors I'm in the vapors I'm in the vapors I'm in the vapors I'm in the vapors I'm in the vapors I'm in the vapors I'm in the vapors I'm in the vapors I'm in the vapors I'm in the vapors I'm in the vapors I'm in the vapors.

00:23:06: I can't stand this deli and face the denny.

00:23:12: I surpass myself, measure that, I kill that, I master that.

00:23:15: I avoid my price and it's no more than a fake.

00:23:18: If you cross me, smoke that and meditate I pee on the baby, when I'm paid I don't regret old delirium.

00:23:25: It's terrible, don't kill me, I'm a luxury rapper with pull crates, he's a genius.

00:23:31: I kick, you got me, I'm a genius Tick me, and tick me by the beat of my genius One face of pure crass, you're a genius, your earring Tu me casses les burgues, j'te mets la tête dans mon oreiller.

00:23:43: ou péter mes combots t'es frais j'te brusque l'anabuse, pas.

00:23:46: excuse toi si tu m'as freiné j'suis un freiné,

00:23:50: tic du rap.

00:23:51: J'te ensemble une phase en une du rap.

00:23:54: mes aînés m'ont aidé, jeune, coupable j'y plaidé car on confond mon produit avec du cra-ra.

00:24:01: y était devenu à mot avec une traquant une taffes, innie des cd et des gizem drogue dure qu'on pressait dans un cd Made it, I have a voice, a dirty feather Played in more than one room, you wait for the next Like the payday, yes, ISM Next level, Visor Expert My express, please, please, never cross me again.

00:24:22: Ism Always in the vapors, I'm always in the vapors.

00:24:31: I arrive like a drop of ISM.

00:24:34: I'm always in the vapors Always in the vapors, the microphone is broken.

00:24:44: I'm always in the vapors, I arrive like...

00:25:06: Candle lit on the curb Homies going liquor Your pictures in the frame, painted on the wall My soul drawn on the block From a dice

00:25:16: game chasing that bread.

00:25:17: You can be corner store on the sound of your laugh.

00:25:22: And if the journey was found, you taught us how to hustle Store as you was telling, you know it's so cheap status Codes that you wrote, yeah

00:25:42: And from

00:25:43: the pen to the

00:25:44: street, it was always legit.

00:25:46: Now the hood stand strong, we gon' carry

00:25:47: the torch.

00:25:48: Rest in peace, homie, give full support.

00:25:50: We play ball when you jumped off the porch.

00:25:55: I'm gonna wish you when they whisper your name Make it forever and for life And it'll never be the same.

00:26:03: I'm gone but not forgotten cuz you know the streets don't miss you.

00:26:23: Everything, brand brands

00:26:34: is money I got and it's me I get, it's me I flip, you don't catch me I'm big, we can take round trips Back and forth, east west south and north, mommy be a groom.

00:26:46: that count for me to make sure

00:26:48: Our route don't come up

00:26:49: short, we'll be transported You know what, from bus stations, dots and airports.

00:27:03: Everything,

00:27:10: boo, everything

00:27:39: no

00:27:42: matter if they love

00:27:53: me or not at

00:28:24: the money machine count it pull the shit off the lot.

00:28:38: fuck friends seen it all before.

00:28:40: they won't quit you for no paper but they quit you when it's.

00:28:42: uh, broken dreams started from the bottom on my way up.

00:28:46: now I guess I'm somewhere in between streets different.

00:28:49: now I miss a thing niggas switch up to a dirty and they beef with dudes they never seen.

00:28:53: come to shine.

00:28:53: stack the extra cream.

00:28:55: take my shorty to the meta ain't toast fuck.

00:28:57: settle things if you're progressing chasing better dreams ain't?

00:29:00: no letting up chop a ring would you say you better me?

00:29:03: Hell matter if they love me or not Let the money machine count it.

00:29:06: Pull it straight off the lot.

00:29:08: Fuck friends seen it all before.

00:29:10: They won't call you for no paper But they call you in this wall, she a real one.

00:29:13: But she let a clown hit it.

00:29:15: New whip, all tense, blow a pound in it And give a fuck if they love me or not.

00:29:20: Give a fuck if they love me or not.

00:29:22: You know that young and lifted block up.

00:29:23: Once the niggas declare war, gang change.

00:29:26: Hold my shooters, make the appeal board new eyes.

00:29:28: We asking why the fuck I'm so chill for a new Glock.

00:29:30: You know we see the killer be killed.

00:29:32: I'm still reppin' for the Joe side.

00:29:34: You know the reason.

00:29:34: the streets don't ever mention your side Niggas just playin' both sides.

00:29:38: Keep it brief, this shit is all business

00:29:39: This nigga runnin' with his shot in his

00:29:41: chest as he was long winded.

00:29:43: Hell matter if they love me or not Let the money machine count and pull it straight off the lot.

00:29:48: Fuck friends seen it all before.

00:29:49: They won't call you for no paper but they call you when

00:29:52: you

00:30:01: win this shit.

00:30:03: But it's us and we, the common community.

00:30:06: It's just what I want, minus the suck emcees.

00:30:09: Take away all the fuzz and bust the

00:30:11: identity

00:30:12: And ask the emcees to ascension, rack and pinion precision.

00:30:15: Focus, focus, focus, where the poorest are you the richest?

00:30:17: Paranoid are suspicious, meditatin'

00:30:19: the wishin'.

00:30:20: Keep your mind on your target, with a huntin' a fishin'

00:30:22: Godbody or nobody's business witness Even offering curses

00:30:26: are your forgiving Never giving fed up always makin' the same Metamorph, your core supports your own decisions.

00:30:33: Have no fear, we here to smash microphones.

00:30:35: We metaphysicums, titan, and natural.

00:30:39: Hell, spines on the finish line, face success.

00:30:45: Dumb, dumb, success.

00:30:56: If you know the I- Energy without no TAA.

00:31:09: Electric tenancies that attract microphone, efficient and ready to attack

00:31:13: pro-roaches like D. See the

00:31:14: game runs deep from the bricks to the sticks.

00:31:16: You know we never sleep.

00:31:18: Got body on the beat from the head to the feet.

00:31:21: Roll with king flow.

00:31:22: so you know we bout to freak.

00:31:23: From Sam from the Scratchin' to

00:31:24: Mixin' to Masterin'

00:31:26: Time travelin', piercing like a javelin' Pattern, Advent and Massacre Every time a Nile, it never hesitate to put a sucka.

00:31:37: MCs in their place.

00:31:39: Before you come steppin', Master MCs, total ascension.

00:32:16: M-V-E-C-E Minds on the

00:32:52: finish

00:33:18: line, face in the wreck Come back, get back, that's the part of success.

00:34:56: Duh-duh-duh, MCs on the finish line, face in the wreck Come

00:35:34: back, get back, that's the

00:36:05: part of success.

00:36:23: If you know the

00:36:33: odds, things I

00:36:44: can't

00:36:46: breathe.

00:36:50: Yo, yo, what's up?

00:36:55: Yo, yo, yo.

00:37:31: Yeah, I can hear you make it hear me good?

00:37:34: Yeah, I hear you.

00:37:35: My good shit man, welcome to the mixtape addict radio show man.

00:37:40: We're connecting the dots from France to the US as we usually do and today I have a mixtape legend in the building, superstar Jay.

00:37:49: How you doing man?

00:37:51: Man, I'm blessed man.

00:37:53: Thank you for having me on your platform.

00:37:55: You know, it feels good to have everyone out in France knowing my legacy and what I did for the game.

00:38:03: Yeah man.

00:38:03: That's dope.

00:38:05: Yeah, it's a pleasure to have you on man.

00:38:07: Like you seen with my post where I tagged you with that mixtape cover that I found.

00:38:13: You know that was in the rap US magazine.

00:38:16: Man, I had to have you on there so you can let the people know.

00:38:19: But before that, I have a tradition in the show.

00:38:23: I have to ask you man, who is your all time favorite DJ?

00:38:31: Your mixtape DJ?

00:38:32: Like when you hear the word DJ, who first comes to your mind?

00:38:37: Because you know, it's kind of like different verific, how would I say it?

00:38:46: It's different type of formats of DJing.

00:38:49: You got party DJs, you got mixtape DJs that really excel to mixtapes.

00:38:57: So

00:38:59: far as my all-time favorite mixtape DJ would be DJ Clue.

00:39:05: My all-around

00:39:07: party All-time favorite party DJ would be Kit Capri.

00:39:11: Yeah,

00:39:13: two legendary DJs, man.

00:39:14: And tell the people, you know, for those who don't know, tell the people why especially those two.

00:39:22: Because I grew up listening to Clue.

00:39:28: You know, I know him personally.

00:39:31: But I grew up listening to him as a kid.

00:39:33: I seen how he changed the game for the mixtape game.

00:39:37: far

00:39:38: as

00:39:39: Putting mixtapes out and um making mixtape DJs become millionaires and become bigger.

00:39:46: um that was like incredible.

00:39:49: and him

00:39:50: um

00:39:52: Not just sitting as being a mixtape DJ and becoming a one of the one of the best I could say radio personalities For New York City.

00:40:03: He's been doing it like over twenty years.

00:40:05: So he's been doing something right.

00:40:07: um putting out a mixtape album Putting out an album as a DJ of shit man.

00:40:15: There's so many putting out doing everything that a DJ's dream being rich off a DJ and being a millionaire.

00:40:23: You know creating an artist, you know making a legendary artist and putting them on fabulous and You know just legendary albums is first.

00:40:32: I think he was one of the first DJs to go platinum for a mixtape

00:40:36: album.

00:40:37: So, you know, he's very legendary.

00:40:39: Yup, yup man he changed the game you know when it comes to doing that because people knew him as a mixtape DJ.

00:40:46: then they're starting seeing the the clue albums where people like what the fuck is going on like.

00:40:51: he's a mixtape DJ and he's putting out album.

00:40:54: you can see his stuff in Walmart.

00:40:56: all that he definitely changed the game and so I guess that was a big inspiration for you when you started doing tapes and especially for your mixtape series.

00:41:06: I am mixtapes.

00:41:08: Yeah, definitely.

00:41:09: Um, it was, um, it was an inspiration because, you know, I came up listening to him.

00:41:15: So when I, when I became, um, in that bracket, as you know, I kind of came at the same, like the ending of him really dropping mixtapes like that.

00:41:27: And, um, but I'm proud to say I was like one of the guys that they had to clue mixtape to superstar J mixtape.

00:41:33: And, um, you know, I'm proud to, you know, but, you know, be a part of that mixtape game.

00:41:39: Yeah, man, you left a mark in hip-hop history, you know?

00:41:43: I'm the proof of that, you know?

00:41:45: See, I'm thirty-one years old, man, and like fifteen years ago, twenty years ago, something like that, you know, we were bumping the superstar Jay Mixtapes already, you know?

00:41:55: And

00:41:56: how did you link up with that French magazine?

00:41:59: It was called Rap US Magazine, and they told you to do a mixtape for them.

00:42:03: That was, you know, a big thing for you to get your name out there in Europe.

00:42:09: I kind of feel like I was ahead of my time for marketing myself.

00:42:12: I think a lot of DJs didn't understand the marketing strategy of becoming a big DJ.

00:42:22: So a lot of times, you know, any opportunity I would get that I feel that would push my brand nationwide or all around the U.S.

00:42:34: I've never had a problem with that.

00:42:35: I've never had a problem with people bootlegging my, um, mixtapes.

00:42:38: I've kind of felt like if you got bootleg, you was hot.

00:42:43: And I actually transferred it to me getting all across the U.S.

00:42:48: and countries that people know.

00:42:50: So I think the bootleg actually made my brand bigger.

00:42:53: I accepted it.

00:42:54: I got my piece and they got this.

00:42:56: But they actually paid me.

00:42:58: You know, people are like, oh, you don't get paid at a bootleg.

00:43:01: Nah, that was like the best marketing.

00:43:04: Of situation for you because they actually would get you to places that you was not getting to.

00:43:10: So I will see my mixtapes everywhere.

00:43:13: Yeah, you know people went crazy back then with uh, you know because people gotta understand.

00:43:18: I don't I don't know if it's something that was really popular in America But out there in Europe we had the physical magazines and they gave mixtapes like CDs, you know in the magazines as a gift when you buy it.

00:43:30: So the Superstar J mixtapes were distributed nationwide because of that.

00:43:37: Oh, man, that's dope, man.

00:43:38: I never knew that, too.

00:43:39: I didn't know how big it was out in, you know, out where you at.

00:43:43: But I'm glad, like, what is it, fifteen years later, we talking and talking about it.

00:43:48: Yup, yup.

00:43:50: And to be very honest with you, man, you were one of my biggest inspirations when it came to doing mixtapes.

00:43:55: Oh, wow.

00:43:55: When I was a kid, like I told you, I discovered you with that magazine, and then I started, you know, looking up the I Am Mixtape series.

00:44:04: And, you know, I was listening to that, like, every time you dropped one.

00:44:07: So

00:44:08: you left

00:44:08: a mark in mixtape history for sure, man.

00:44:11: Man, I appreciate that, man.

00:44:13: Thank you.

00:44:14: Yeah, bro, you're welcome.

00:44:15: You're welcome, man.

00:44:17: And do you see a future for mixtapes?

00:44:20: So like the way maybe vinyl came back, we've seen the return of boom back, you know, that came back.

00:44:25: Some dudes never stopped doing it.

00:44:27: And it's a great thing.

00:44:28: But we've seen a return of that, the authentic music.

00:44:31: And do you see a future for mixtapes?

00:44:33: Like maybe a new way to distribute them or something like that?

00:44:38: Yes, of course.

00:44:38: You see it now.

00:44:40: Mixtapes are playlist now, you know?

00:44:42: The mixtapes are a playlist mixtapes like when you do the r&b mixtape.

00:44:46: that was a. That was a. you know, that's a r&b playlist on apple music or title or amazon Whatever you do they put they just putting up the best music and it's a playlist.

00:44:56: It's just streaming.

00:44:57: now.

00:44:57: then also you got artists that respect the coaching and are actually doing like you know mixtapes with DJs and putting that putting it out as albums.

00:45:08: You see a couple of artists did that right now.

00:45:11: You see game.

00:45:11: Just put out one with DJ drama.

00:45:13: drama's been doing a lot of gangster grills that been put out as an album as a project.

00:45:20: Tyler created that one with drama.

00:45:23: So yeah, you see what's going on.

00:45:25: Yep.

00:45:25: And we heard DJ Clue in the Clips album.

00:45:29: Yep.

00:45:30: Clue Clue was on the Clips album.

00:45:33: I just seen Conway.

00:45:35: He just did something with Who Kid.

00:45:37: with Tony Ayo and who kid was introducing it.

00:45:40: So I don't think Mixtape's ever left.

00:45:42: It was just in another format.

00:45:45: Do you think streaming platforms kind of stole the Mixtape format to the DJs?

00:45:51: Of course they did, but I mean, you gotta go with the technology the way life is.

00:45:59: Nothing's gonna stay the same and you gotta be a person to always adapt to what's new.

00:46:03: And that's what I always felt.

00:46:06: Was against anything that became new because if you stay in the past Your career can actually just stand still.

00:46:12: So I've always Related with the past.

00:46:15: if you see how my career is, um, I went from mixtapes.

00:46:18: I've seen how mixtapes was going.

00:46:20: I've seen how mixtapes started to get on websites and you had to accept that because then it became for you.

00:46:28: then you actually had to You know be have a relationship with these websites to get your mixtapes.

00:46:33: So I I had the golden relationship to have.

00:46:36: you know our friendship was all a mixtape website.

00:46:39: so that became big for me because if you go to their website still I mean if you go to their website now they still got my mixtapes up.

00:46:47: so like I probably don't even have all those mixtapes.

00:46:50: and when I created the iron mixtape series I wanted people to know you know know know my mixtapes.

00:46:57: when I was doing mixtapes before I always used to just

00:47:00: do

00:47:00: a bunch of titles so people would never know how I was branding myself.

00:47:05: so I figured out like I am legend let me do.

00:47:08: I am mix tapes and I did one two three four and I think I did.

00:47:13: I got to like

00:47:14: two hundred

00:47:15: mix tapes from there.

00:47:17: I did my research.

00:47:18: you you stopped by two hundred and eleven.

00:47:20: oh man wow two hundred and eleven man.

00:47:23: you gotta put this up.

00:47:24: I definitely gotta put this interview up man and um You know do it.

00:47:29: I'm sorry.

00:47:30: I was driving.

00:47:31: I couldn't get to my studio.

00:47:32: It would have been a little bit better me being on the computer.

00:47:35: But um, it's all good man.

00:47:36: It's authentic.

00:47:37: You know you and your car, you know, man, it's authentic man.

00:47:40: We like that.

00:47:41: Yes

00:47:42: Yeah, what can we do?

00:47:43: Two hundred and

00:47:43: eleven mixtapes.

00:47:44: That's dope

00:47:45: man.

00:47:45: Yeah, two hundred and and just for the I am mixtape series.

00:47:48: because I guess yeah,

00:47:49: that's just for the series They don't understand that.

00:47:51: like I had other mixtapes with that.

00:47:53: So, yeah, that's dope.

00:47:55: I also remember the one you did with the green... Oh,

00:48:02: yeah, yeah.

00:48:02: I used to do the green stuff at Superstar.

00:48:07: I was always creative, man.

00:48:09: I always did my thing with the creative process of mixtapes.

00:48:14: I think it was called how Superstar J stole the exclusive, I think.

00:48:19: Yeah,

00:48:19: yeah.

00:48:20: I stole the exclusive.

00:48:21: I think I did my last one.

00:48:24: um I was actually trying to do an album with that but I'm actually in the works of doing a uh actually a mixtape album with various artists.

00:48:32: so I'm that's exclusive.

00:48:34: I can't give you who I'm doing it with but you brought that up.

00:48:37: so I'm gonna let you know.

00:48:39: I wasn't gonna ask you anyway bro you know you know I had to.

00:48:42: yeah definitely so look out look out for that.

00:48:46: I need to come out there man we need to um do a show or something you know I need.

00:48:50: I've never been out in France.

00:48:52: so

00:48:53: well shit people know you out there man like when I posted that cover.

00:48:56: dude you're like oh shit man that's old school right there.

00:48:59: yeah yeah yeah

00:49:01: yeah definitely mm-hmm.

00:49:02: what do you think about all the European hip-hop whether it's the artists or the audience out there?

00:49:08: what do you think?

00:49:09: I mean it's worldwide.

00:49:11: now man you know like you got these sites the streaming sites where You can get your music now.

00:49:19: It's universal.

00:49:20: It ain't like you got to go through everything with mix tapes, do a CD and try to get it somewhere.

00:49:26: Now on a drop of a button, anybody can listen to your music.

00:49:30: And you see how the streaming platforms are very supportive of international music.

00:49:37: So that's a good thing.

00:49:39: Yeah.

00:49:39: Can we expect maybe Overseas artists on one of your future mixtape slash albums?

00:49:47: Man, let me know man.

00:49:49: You you the plug man.

00:49:50: Let me know who's hot man.

00:49:51: You know what?

00:49:51: I'm here.

00:49:52: That's

00:49:53: not I've never.

00:49:54: I would love to have one on there

00:49:56: For sure for sure.

00:49:56: I'll send you some stuff man so you can you know get

00:49:59: you.

00:49:59: Yeah, who's

00:50:00: who's

00:50:00: who's who's who out there, you know

00:50:03: Yeah, man, and let's go back in time man.

00:50:06: Like do you remember the day?

00:50:08: when you decided to take your career as a DJ seriously and start flooding the streets with mixtape?

00:50:18: Definitely when I got out of college.

00:50:21: I was DJing in college and I came home and I was just trying to figure out the game, but I already had the game a little bit.

00:50:30: I knew the game already.

00:50:33: I just had to organize it because I already knew how to get it like exclusives from.

00:50:37: I think I was a little bit ahead of my time because I was in school.

00:50:40: So I had people that knew how to get music from the from the computer, you know I mean from the internet and I started getting new songs from there and a lot of DJs had to catch up because they didn't have that that access that I had.

00:50:55: So that's where I really started, you know when I came home I I didn't know what I wanted to do and I was like yo, I'm gonna just drop mix tapes and The first mixtape didn't work, and then the second one almost didn't work, but I kept on going.

00:51:08: And after that, I just started seeing more people vibing to my mixtapes.

00:51:14: And I kind of felt like I was going to be big anyway, because I was very ahead

00:51:19: of my time

00:51:19: with marketing.

00:51:20: I knew I could host good.

00:51:22: I knew how to host.

00:51:23: I knew about the mixtape game.

00:51:25: I didn't jump in there and not know about it.

00:51:27: So it worked for me.

00:51:30: Yeah, you definitely knew how to host it man.

00:51:32: I remember them.

00:51:34: Yeah, yeah, and that brought you a opportunity to work at shade forty-five.

00:51:39: after that, you know

00:51:41: Yeah, definitely um

00:51:44: My

00:51:44: bad my Yeah, they um, uh DJ stuff gave me the opportunity.

00:51:49: He's a D. He's a big DJ in New York And he asked me to rock out with him.

00:51:54: and then um actually I didn't know.

00:51:57: one of the bosses That work there was like, yeah, we asked about you, you know, because you was hiding the streets.

00:52:02: We were seeing the superstar, you know, be, you know, be a part of DJ Self Show.

00:52:07: So long story short, DJ Self went on Love and Hip Hop and he actually was on Power One on Five out here at Biggs Radio Station.

00:52:15: And he couldn't really do his show anymore.

00:52:18: And they see me grinding, see me working, and they actually just gave me the show.

00:52:23: And from there, I just worked.

00:52:25: No.

00:52:25: no that's super dope right there.

00:52:27: so you see you know it's giving a lot of motivation to other DJs.

00:52:31: you know showing that you can.

00:52:32: you know start from mixtape start in the streets keep flooding the streets and then you end up at a major radio station like that.

00:52:39: yeah yeah you know working for Eminem that's a dream you know I really work for Eminem for his station.

00:52:44: shout out to Paul Rosenberg Eminem's partner and they gave me a they gave me a chance and I'm actually a host for For the shade forty-fives ten point five countdown where we count that we count down the hottest records of the week.

00:53:01: I do that every week.

00:53:02: I also do a commercial voiceovers for flex To K for a series XM another channel there and I actually just signed it signed a contract with Kevin arts Station to do the voiceovers for his station too.

00:53:17: So So

00:53:20: yeah, super dope man You know, it's good to see you, you know, getting opportunities like that.

00:53:25: You know, especially like a person like me that show, I mean, they've seen your grind, you know, over the years.

00:53:31: Yeah.

00:53:32: It's a full-time grind, bro.

00:53:33: It's not, it's not, it's not no walk in the park.

00:53:35: I tell you that.

00:53:37: Like, so I appreciate you seeing my progress.

00:53:40: Yeah, man.

00:53:41: I've seen you, man.

00:53:42: You know, I'm out there in France, but I mean, I'm looking at the things, man.

00:53:46: That's dope, man.

00:53:48: Yeah, do you have any advice man for the upcoming DJs slash entrepreneurs out there?

00:53:54: I mean

00:53:55: my advice is you know It's not it's very easy.

00:53:59: Just stay consistent.

00:54:00: Um

00:54:01: know what you want to do?

00:54:03: It's not like the the same culture we have now where it was like a handful of DJs now It's a little bit more harder to become a standout DJ because there's so many people that can be a DJ now.

00:54:15: so you know It's just, when you get an opportunity, you just recognize your opportunities, but you know, always have a backup

00:54:22: plan because

00:54:23: it's just so many people DJing now, so many people doing it.

00:54:26: So you want to have like three to four different things.

00:54:28: You see me, I'm, you know, in the mixtapes, I went to radio, you know, then I became a host, uh, personality, you know, trying to do certain things, uh, own clubs, you know, do certain things.

00:54:41: So that's the advice.

00:54:43: I'll be stay consistent

00:54:45: and You have

00:54:46: multiple things going on.

00:54:48: Just don't feel because you're a DJ that you're supposed to be the biggest DJ or get a million dollars off of DJing because it doesn't happen like that at all.

00:54:58: You got to have like different sources of income.

00:55:02: Yes.

00:55:02: Yes.

00:55:03: I say that to artists too.

00:55:04: You know, just because you rap doesn't mean that you're supposed to make money off of rap or DJs supposed to play your records.

00:55:11: Yeah, that's why artists need to you know, they need to rap of course, but then they need to have merchandise They need to do shows they need to create like innovative ways to create income, you know Definitely, but it's not everybody that has the that uslur mentality.

00:55:29: You know, not everybody has that drive.

00:55:33: Yeah Everybody don't have that drive.

00:55:34: I'm sorry man.

00:55:35: It's fucking on God damn fucking Spam calls and shit.

00:55:41: It's all good.

00:55:41: They

00:55:42: start calling crazy for no reason.

00:55:43: But yeah, that's what I give what my advice.

00:55:47: And you just told me about that album slash compilation that you're working on.

00:55:52: but what can we expect for you in the future in?

00:55:57: Man, just trying to be a better Wow, this is crazy.

00:56:01: I'll just try to be a better try to be a my bad.

00:56:05: trying to be a better radio personality, you know, um Just trying to be a level up in all the things I've done, you know, trying to be a better DJ party DJ, you know, these young these young dudes are extraordinary.

00:56:16: They they understand it.

00:56:18: You know, you got people that they don't even use headphones.

00:56:22: They don't do nothing.

00:56:22: They just organizing a music and listening, you know, and it's it's it's very I'm very competitive.

00:56:28: So I love the competition and I love to get better.

00:56:31: So, you know, I stick around the young DJs and talk to them and you know still have the air but you know I'm just trying to be the more behind the scenes but still working with.

00:56:41: you know still you know that person behind the scenes.

00:56:45: yes sir yes sir always here to support the young ones.

00:56:48: you know that's good shit bro.

00:56:50: yes

00:56:51: yeah and that was a pleasure to have you on the show and have one last question for you man.

00:56:56: yes do you have any last words for your fans?

00:56:58: you know across the globe the one that been following you since the mixtape days like what could you say to them?

00:57:05: I can tell them this, man.

00:57:06: And always, you know, this is one of my signature slogans.

00:57:09: The hype is real.

00:57:11: You know, like everything you've heard or everything you've seen, it's right here.

00:57:15: The hype is real.

00:57:16: I'm a grinder.

00:57:19: I have a competitive nature.

00:57:21: I don't stop.

00:57:22: I love music.

00:57:23: until I lose my, that's the, my fear is losing my ear for music.

00:57:28: So long as I got my ear for music and the love I'm always going to be here, man.

00:57:33: you know I got a DJ team on.

00:57:35: the president of the union DJs is over sixty five DJs nationwide and we definitely looking for like a a DJ out in France too.

00:57:43: so let me know who's hot and who would be part.

00:57:46: okay see I didn't know you was a DJ.

00:57:47: so

00:57:48: yeah man

00:57:49: we got a talk.

00:57:50: we got a talk.

00:57:51: for sure you know that's what.

00:57:52: that's what I do.

00:57:53: I'm a producer and DJ.

00:57:54: I did stuff for Red Scans, Trash, Zika Daffy, Goody Mub.

00:57:59: We're

00:58:00: going to talk behind the scenes, man.

00:58:02: I definitely would love that, man.

00:58:04: I've met so many DJs through the mix tapes in different countries and I'm saluting what I've done and I gave them the opportunity to rock out with a good DJ team.

00:58:14: Sure.

00:58:15: Sure.

00:58:16: Well, let's, you know, let's connect, man.

00:58:18: Let's do some things, you know, connecting the dots, bro.

00:58:20: Yeah, man.

00:58:21: You got my info, man.

00:58:22: Let's do it, man.

00:58:22: I appreciate you.

00:58:24: Yes, sir.

00:58:24: Well, thanks for your time, man.

00:58:26: I wish you nothing but success, man, for twenty-twenty-six in the years after that, bro.

00:58:29: Yes,

00:58:30: man.

00:58:30: I wish you nothing but health, blessing, and success, bro.

00:58:33: You already know.

00:58:34: Same here, man.

00:58:35: Take care, bro.

00:58:36: Peace.

00:58:36: Take

00:58:37: care, man.

00:58:37: Hit me, man.

00:58:37: You hurt?

00:58:38: Yes, sir.

00:58:39: I will.

00:58:39: Peace, bro.