Mixtape Addict #98

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

00:00:02: Addicts Show Broadcasting every day with The French Connect DJ King Flow.

00:00:08: Yo, this your boy Big Daddy Kane.

00:00:10: With a message

00:00:11: to all my mixed tape

00:00:12: addicts This is if they didn't get you fixed on DJ

00:00:15: King flow Yo yo what's up world?

00:00:18: It's your boi D.A To the Z-Dance Dillinger from the legendary Darpan And ya in the mix right now with DJ King Flo.

00:00:25: Mr.

00:00:26: Mixtape Attic from France.

00:00:27: Hey yo, it's Tyler Farley you checking out the mixtape attic?

00:00:31: What is Bond Rockin' with DJ King Flo?

00:00:33: Yo what up this your homeboy A's hood rockin', with DJ king flo.

00:00:37: You know we got that crazy flow to hear.

00:00:39: ya heard King Flo.

00:00:41: Let's make a move Yo check this out.

00:00:42: man This shit boy Crazy Bone.

00:00:45: Whenever I'm over in France kickin' it You know I'm sayin' doin my thug thing With the homie DJ King Flow Man keeping it real

00:00:52: baby Down in France or Lien, y'all know how we do.

00:01:15: Another pass for the stash on a ladder climb.

00:01:18: Too many last seen with a gas from this bullet fire.

00:01:21: They turn it reds and the mullets, for the pocket size.

00:01:24: I'm leavin' lead in the dead, like they live to ride.

00:01:27: I'm leaving light into the darkness cause we live to die!

00:01:30: I see a truth and the heartless when it tell them lies.

00:01:33: Snakes littering skin quivers from genocide.

00:01:36: Skin to figures by any means any qualifies.

00:01:39: And watches snitchin', they itching that have you crucified The fares watchin' their kids stalkin' on homicide But thats price.

00:01:46: so reach em blind to other side.

00:01:49: They get primed for the bang, for the cash Street fame and MF-A-T, full county!

00:01:59: DJ King Flow!

00:02:00: It's cold outside when there is nowhere to rely on.

00:02:09: Still the southern night echoes.

00:02:11: when you are alone My mind wanders through the depths of reality.

00:02:14: In the darkest memories conjure out the words.

00:02:17: in me Thoughts fragment and spiral down.

00:02:19: playing our scenarios I expound to justify the bleak closure.

00:02:24: i just think Cold outside when theres no where to rely.

00:02:31: Stillness of the night echoes.

00:02:32: when you all alone My mind wanders to the depths.

00:02:35: sub-reality And the darkest memories conjure out the worst of me.

00:02:44: It's cold outside, when there is nowhere to rely on.

00:02:55: Stillness other night echoes.

00:02:59: When you're all alone Fragment and spiral down Placing out scenarios I expound to justify the bleep closure, i just think All for the best cause.

00:03:12: im living on edge An isolationist famiguing inside my head.

00:03:16: Im shadowboxing with demons.

00:03:17: My eyes flash red Realizing that im home alone With bloody hands.

00:03:21: The hourglass passes like grains of sand When time elapses.

00:03:25: I remembered where I am Counteractive to the plan.

00:03:28: but this is what happens when you fall on no one to depend on From in the alleys and rainin' valleys like a vagabond.

00:03:37: Who'd ever thought that it would come down to this?

00:03:40: Rummaging through the dirty bags, you get a fix.

00:03:42: And spirits fly high when we take our hit.

00:03:45: Try to replicate their feeling but they just subside.

00:03:48: I'm livin' at repetition just to get there high.

00:03:58: Chasem Collabo and I'ma lyrical miracle that provides him no shadow.

00:04:03: But its us an weed.

00:04:05: The common people united community.

00:04:07: Me guess what i wanna see?

00:04:08: Minus the suck.

00:04:09: emcees.

00:04:10: Take away all the fuzzs and bustle

00:04:11: identities.

00:04:13: An ass of emcee's too.

00:04:14: ascension Rack and ping in precision Focus, focus, focus Where the poorest are you?

00:04:18: The richest Paranoid are suspicious.

00:04:19: Meditate in no wishing.

00:04:21: Keep your mind on your target Whether hunting or fishing.

00:04:23: God body Or nobody's business.

00:04:25: So wear a witness Even if You're suffering Curses of Your forgiving.

00:04:28: Never give up or give fed Up.

00:04:30: always

00:04:30: make good decisions.

00:04:31: Metamorphic.

00:04:31: Your core supports

00:04:32: your own decision.

00:04:34: Have No Fear.

00:04:34: We Hear The Smash Microphones.

00:04:36: We Metaphysical Titans.

00:04:37: Titan In Natural Dance.

00:04:41: My Minds On A Finish Line Facing A Record.

00:04:44: Come back, get back.

00:04:45: That's the part of success.

00:04:46: Dumb, dumb, hot!

00:04:47: I'll wreck you and your young fly!

00:04:49: Fly!

00:04:50: Binds on a finish line facing the wreck.

00:04:54: Come back Get Back.

00:04:55: that's the point of success.

00:04:57: If ya know th'ive, fuck!

00:04:58: E M T to The A. We master energy without no TA Electric tenant sees it attract Microphone.

00:05:12: we're fishing in ready-to attack For folks.

00:05:14: just like Dee See the game runs deep from the bricks To the six.

00:05:17: You know he never sleep.

00:05:19: Got body under beat From there head to the feet.

00:05:22: Roll with King Float.

00:05:22: so you know we bout to freak.

00:05:24: Keep sampling the scratchin' and mixin' a master in.

00:05:27: Time travelin', piercing like a javelin'.

00:05:29: Rhyme pattern advanced, do ya abdomen?

00:05:32: My evolution too.

00:05:33: obfixiate!

00:05:34: And mass occur every time of night late.

00:05:36: Never hesitate.

00:05:37: put a sucker.

00:05:38: MCs in their place before you.

00:05:41: come steppin'.

00:05:42: Master MC's total ascension.

00:07:02: Mind's on the finish line, face in your record.

00:08:51: Come back get back.

00:09:15: that's the point of success.

00:10:09: Playin' watch it backfire.

00:10:19: Make a million cash for you.

00:10:31: flash But playin', watchin', make a million Cash For You Playin', Watch It Back Fire Respect your past Tell what you wouldn't be.

00:11:37: Victim to the block Where yo move now, Yo mind state is I'ma do What i gotta do.

00:11:43: Its really quite logical.

00:11:45: If u was me U wouldn't shoot at them if they just shot at you.

00:11:48: No trust funds but my daughter do.

00:11:51: First generation out of store with look My first record deal probably saved my life.

00:11:56: So shoutout to my n**** draws and Johnny Sykes My road dog doin' twelfth.

00:12:01: now Tryna turn this shit to heaven, cause we hell-bam Make a million cash for you flatline Make a master plan watchin backfire Burn it all down and collect the ashes.

00:12:13: Build it back.

00:12:14: Respect your passion.

00:12:16: Be all the fathom that we came from that Sittin in his spot.

00:12:19: We was shavin crack Lady blue chucks.

00:12:22: Mama said he's black.

00:12:24: Gave him what I got.

00:12:25: then they gave her back Mixed shit and Thirty grundant on the same street.

00:12:29: Thousand Dead from the same beef.

00:12:32: Money to be made, but it get risky Inside job.

00:12:36: if it look fish Playin' foul, tryna play down.

00:12:41: Say that they gon kill him if he stay around.

00:12:43: Say dat they gon book and they just need a witness.

00:12:46: Me I'm tryna make an exit.

00:12:47: All this pollen tickin' Got my mind driftin' Time ticking.

00:12:51: death is in there

00:12:52: air.

00:12:52: I'm tryinna bound over my visit.

00:12:55: Ruff still ride with it.

00:12:57: We're all different.

00:12:57: That's how i did it.

00:12:59: You should Make a million cash for you.

00:13:01: flatline.

00:13:03: Make a master plan, watch it backfire.

00:13:05: Burnin' on down and collect the ashes.

00:13:08: Build it back, build it back.

00:13:18: DJ King Float!

00:13:21: And this I witnessed The business in ask-for forgiveness Real life things that give ya cause to pause In applause On the reason.

00:13:31: your wrapped in gauze Sweetened tombs, sealed roof.

00:13:34: I flipped a few, washed a few stacks Jacked some knickknacks.

00:13:39: Then i had to redirect and try hover my tracks Just to bleep fat.

00:13:46: Let the beating take its course like a broke divan rack On two steak dinners, you're an NFT, Aggie Palace beatin' up The King Float, Lick and Stein.

00:14:25: Mix it!

00:14:26: Ice discreet.

00:14:26: There's this stripped-up under thick sheet Electrofine Slipman.

00:14:49: This

00:14:51: inn

00:15:27: is shredding the bows and poles And trippin' in square circles.

00:15:55: Young blood snitching from cribbin',

00:15:57: they scared purple

00:16:00: Do the machine pair lights and lucid In his cyphers are hundred deep non-compete Raw life has to run on beats for war.

00:16:13: Rock you to sleep Time.

00:16:16: my actions speak.

00:16:19: My region sees power to sour Racing clocks like jacked out with black flowers.

00:16:27: A stone with your name engraved, a legacy is what you leave.

00:16:31: not take away.

00:16:32: Break up the dreams to escape the pain Most days in trees all day just to ease the brain.

00:16:38: Seasons change stoking flames through the freeze Embracing fame lighted darkness upon the sand.

00:16:45: I can't live yet.

00:17:02: I-I Can't Live.

00:17:04: Yet It's Like I've Seen Formin' some Prosecco.

00:17:11: Give it lights a little more.

00:17:18: You feel like some Bobby Womack.

00:17:22: shit.

00:17:22: Say show up and show out.

00:17:29: Hittin' sonics on my froze albums, speakin' in volumes.

00:17:32: Peep how they wildin', fashion trends keep me from stalling.

00:17:34: Handsome then super slim Tryna.

00:17:36: sleep with the stallions.

00:17:37: Henny Gallant No demies.

00:17:39: My penis was pallid Far from friendly.

00:17:41: When you bent, let's get your scent to that island.

00:17:43: Drill sound and trynna leave alone wings & bones Pocked Allen.

00:17:47: With these thrones I'm king of the tones.

00:17:49: Bring me my throne.

00:17:50: The lover E&Y God from Sutter In junior high used to lie when i stutter Fly with the butters you sweaters.

00:17:56: cop them in colors.

00:17:57: I'm not like the others, not bossa cat boxes or rubbers.

00:18:00: is over your boy's sober sitting back thirty years older.

00:18:04: stare closer see the tears of my shoulders distilling.

00:18:07: lost feelings.

00:18:08: need therapy for their healing.

00:18:09: from what i see i could never be a civilian.

00:18:35: we're touching the millions who to trust fooling Just a drink full of shi-asset Whatcha call it, Christchak?

00:19:08: From Brooklyn to nowhere.

00:19:11: Humber I remember And It took some patience.

00:19:47: Status of a boss could make things complicated.

00:19:50: I wake up early mornings cause im obligated Hustle every day even though we grammymanated Got her favorite whip in my garage Filling papers getting them massage.

00:20:02: There's worth a thousand words.

00:20:04: this a collage.

00:20:05: The Jack got room.

00:20:06: don't gotta pick who sit across.

00:20:08: I fall asleep before it's lippin' off.

00:20:10: Had a dream, woke up and realized that was living one Thought.

00:20:15: you thought Vapors was caught, tucked

00:20:18: away Hard to stop

00:20:53: Fetty servin' Tryna.

00:20:54: give em dope, but they want the synthetic deli version.

00:20:58: Heavy burdens

00:20:59: was carried lightly.

00:21:00: Seem funny.

00:21:01: I ain't had it

00:21:02: ring money when I married wifey.

00:21:04: Now i buy things that's very pricey.

00:21:07: All my side bitches Aries and Pisces treat me very nicely Ain't no tellin where I might be.

00:21:13: Hit the road in February slightly.

00:21:15: It's very icy.

00:21:16: I see niggas get buried nightly.

00:21:19: They're very shiesty.

00:21:21: It's really likely they fairly fight me.

00:21:23: I fuck that shit.

00:21:24: to get the room high, my room drop Pumpin' bass like a boom box, low in my suit spines Disrespecting father quick.

00:21:31: I don't give a fuck.

00:21:31: whoop-a Fucker little nigga.

00:21:33: couple dollars on me.

00:21:34: i'm like whoop hop hop.

00:21:36: I remember poppin' my taping whenever crew droppin' Cuzzle went to war over yellow tops.

00:21:41: he had blue tops.

00:21:41: Sixty thousand cash and his shoebox?

00:21:44: I made a smooth drive.

00:21:45: true shot Tiger up bucket, park at the cool pipe Two.

00:21:48: besides stashing my nicks down to my dubs I played the rooftop On top of my projects climbed out the slums My balloon pop-pop.

00:21:55: these hoses not my type.

00:21:56: I'm not gon' budge.

00:21:57: Im thinkin' Juma On Friday but my bro keep talkin' plugs.

00:22:00: This shit i got is pure Boy

00:22:02: George and Bob Lemon powder.

00:22:04: That obsession though, I brought some extra rope.

00:22:06: I'm in a lobby.

00:22:07: They'll print surround them arms To their users.

00:22:09: Hummed

00:22:09: and abused it.

00:22:10: Rooka Park when booby had your white seat.

00:22:12: A sharpest and newest.

00:22:13: that was Wednesday.

00:22:22: I started off with an ugly duckling now.

00:22:25: Got a swan.

00:22:26: pretty white birds balling on the magic Mike bird to me.

00:22:30: any block and be The right turn.

00:22:32: it's average on a savage home.

00:22:45: I was with my native Nova even though My sisters were some soldiers.

00:23:08: we will get it rolling three for ten.

00:23:12: watch us turn crumbs in the past On the G. not get your lick back like sometimes you got it back.

00:25:49: Get your lip back from the sun.

00:25:52: don't shine.

00:25:56: so sometime You gotta make it show.

00:26:42: look back like a rock.

00:26:48: Here

00:27:11: we go, man.

00:27:12: We are in the mixtapatic radio show of your host King Flow and today my special guest is none other than one of my good friends you know...we made him real life king Kazam!

00:27:24: In a building!

00:27:25: Peace!

00:27:28: How are you my bro?

00:27:29: Let's

00:27:29: get brother!

00:27:30: We're

00:27:32: here man, enjoying that life like we talked about And still finding time to of course, you know run a mixtape addict show.

00:27:43: make those beats do that promo.

00:27:44: You know we hear man.

00:27:49: Yeah.

00:27:49: so how's life treating you bro?

00:27:51: What have you been up too?

00:27:52: Good good man just spend uh You know excited We got our new project and pushing that.

00:28:00: you know the Northwest flow.

00:28:03: I've Been doing work with with Jesse last late last year when he dropped it the last mid-century modern project.

00:28:11: We've been touring quite a bit with that, we just got done on tour and performed at South by Southwest in Austin Texas which was really amazing!

00:28:25: And yeah it's making the rounds!

00:28:27: It's getting gear enough for summer you know?

00:28:30: Summer is always festival time stuff like that.

00:28:33: so... Yeah its kind of spring before Before they eat and uh, yeah Pretty much that's it.

00:28:41: You know go back-and forth between LA in Seattle And just doing gigs along the way.

00:28:48: Yeah you're always working man Always busy traveling Doing shows.

00:28:53: It is dope to see guys work together Especially for people who don't know.

00:28:57: JC as your girl.

00:28:58: You do music together.

00:29:00: It's a wonderful thing Man Super dope To be able to do that.

00:29:08: You know, she brings some of the best together with our different influences.

00:29:16: She's more up to jazz background and I'm more into hip hop The True School Boom Bap style.

00:29:24: We have a really interesting sound together And we also have a band that we work with.

00:29:33: So we have a turntable list Sax player and drummer at the background vocalist stuff like that.

00:29:40: So it's been really cool having that live live dynamic, you know.

00:29:45: Still still on kind of the gritty production but greedy production also mixed with You know life elements live music

00:29:55: Yep gives people a whole new experience When they listen to live music, when you have a rapper or singers and live musicians all together on stage it's different.

00:30:07: What made you want to start doing that?

00:30:12: I've always wanted... To do is just hasn't been the right time And i think working with Jessie She comes from the jazz world It was really important.

00:30:26: those elements didn't try push the boundaries of experimentation and like, you know, improvisation.

00:30:35: And really just kind of explore alternative jazz and try to explore new different areas.

00:30:45: so yeah I'm enjoying it!

00:30:48: Really loving it and exploring new areas but still very much a sound that Expect from you know kink

00:31:03: has them reductions.

00:31:03: Yes, sir yourself for those that no they're real boom back from the Northwest man.

00:31:09: And you know I have to ask him and it's mixtape attic.

00:31:12: You know we talked a little bit already but i have To ask you the tradition of this show me man?

00:31:17: I cannot forget about there who is your all-time favorite DJ

00:31:21: bro.

00:31:21: Wow in terms of dj

00:31:32: We can't give me a top three if you

00:31:33: prefer.

00:31:34: Yeah, okay?

00:31:35: I mean uh I love I love flash I Love um, I love DJ Premier.

00:31:44: You know it's in terms of what that's more than production side.

00:31:47: but and then is the DJ?

00:31:50: yeah, I'd say I'll take care about the flash Mm-hmm

00:31:57: And tell them people why especially those

00:31:59: two.

00:32:02: well, I mean Flash is just doesn't get any more.

00:32:05: Oh gee, I was gonna say Somebody else that's of the era.

00:32:12: but um flashed i think it Was really one of the originals and he's nasty too?

00:32:18: I definitely get an honorable mention to DJ Genji Jeff.

00:32:24: Yes He's real nasty with a two-but yeah, grandma has to flash this Innovator.

00:32:30: you know what are the architects up hip hop co creator really innovated a fast-paced style, you know that expanded off of the breaks Expanded it out for the merry-go-round and just like brought the diversity in the music and the genres Really brought together with the hype You know then in the MC'ing part to it.

00:32:57: Just made it dynamic And I would enjoy said.

00:33:02: but like you know in the tradition so there's a lot of artists are definitely DJs like you know so many djs.

00:33:09: but um, you know shout out to uh jazzy Jeff shoutout to a man uh scene Shout-out the supreme la rock.

00:33:19: Yes sir

00:33:20: You know Um Like going and on yeah, yeah deejays of deejay is a foundation.

00:33:26: so I could i'm just amusing II dabble But I don't really call myself a dj Just because like I got too much respect for what it means To have that life of dedication.

00:33:39: Oh yeah, it's a lifestyle man You know?

00:33:42: It is about learning the skills but also Learning to perfect your music knowledge and not only knowing about hip-hop But knowing every genre of music.

00:33:55: so you how do use samples How they used break beats And all those things Man!

00:34:00: Its the work of a lifetime.

00:34:04: Yeah its a borderline obsession.

00:34:06: Yeah,

00:34:07: it

00:34:08: is.

00:34:08: I

00:34:08: mean its staying out late in the dark room listening to dusty samples and obscure records trying to find that perfect beat you know?

00:34:20: And digging...the art of digging.

00:34:23: i think thats something we kinda losing a little bit with.

00:34:26: y'know The instantaneous aspect of streaming and stuff like that.

00:34:32: but um You Know It's important to dig Its important Have a hunger for exploration.

00:34:43: Keep looking, you know keep digging.

00:34:47: Yep always man gotta stay passionate about that You know.

00:34:52: and I have another mixtape question For you bro.

00:34:55: i think i know the answer to this.

00:34:58: I'm still gonna ask it To you anyway.

00:35:00: Do you miss The Mixtape format?

00:35:04: Oh yeah Absolutely Yeah.

00:35:11: you know.

00:35:11: just the continuing off the spirit of exploring and Just learning, like when you listen to a mixtape You don't really know what you're gonna get except for The credit of the DJ if it's a DJ that she loves.

00:35:32: Okay?

00:35:32: It's going to be good.

00:35:33: They don't know who is going to beat but um And they can learn new music remixing it, juggling and scratching.

00:35:46: It's just a format that we...it is the lost art really.

00:35:52: The cassette tape you know?

00:35:54: And different ways of mixing the record.

00:35:58: Yeah!

00:35:59: Mix tapes I think are part of our culture like they should be another element to behind us

00:36:05: with you.

00:36:07: Absolutely but big ups for keeping them alive.

00:36:13: You know the few and true that keep it going, you know?

00:36:19: Yeah man.

00:36:20: I try to Keep it alive using the radio platforms.

00:36:25: That's the only way not gonna get strike by copyright issues.

00:36:30: So we hear men spreading the word sharing the culture of knowledge.

00:36:37: And you as a hip-hop fan and as an MC, what do want to hear when you press play on the mixtape?

00:36:44: What makes you happy while listening with tape.

00:36:48: Oh man!

00:36:49: When I listen to mixtapes... I wanna hear something fresh or new.. Something that i didn't expect You know?

00:37:01: I wanna here.

00:37:02: blends, remixes, cuttings You know just pushing new music.

00:37:08: Mm-hmm, you know I Like a like funky remixes to like something real.

00:37:15: Upskier liked what?

00:37:17: I didn't even think about that song like that.

00:37:19: but you Know mashups and stuff like dad.

00:37:23: so yep Yeah, this online Just you know, I don't think too deep into it.

00:37:28: That's either good or it's not.

00:37:37: You know listen from beginning to

00:37:38: end and you're in a Seattle area Northwest of the United States, you know for those that don't know And can you tell people about the hip-hop scene out there?

00:37:49: The mixtape game in Seattle.

00:37:52: Yeah northwest man.

00:37:53: So we got um We've got.

00:37:56: you know seattle Tacoma Portland Oregon, you Know Even Vancouver Canada's kind of represented.

00:38:04: as far as the Northwest You know, it's a beautiful place man.

00:38:09: A lot of a lot of DJs a lot hip-hop culture you Know going back for her decades mad and uh?

00:38:18: You know It's been rich with with hip hop.

00:38:21: so you know giving shout outs to one of the originators dj nasty nests.

00:38:28: You know who really is kind of like one of them true godfathers of Seattle Hip Hop With starting off with one of the first if not the very first Rap station on the radio, you know in the West Coast playing rap music shoutouts to Nastyness.

00:38:49: shout outs to Sheila E supreme la rock Of course.

00:38:55: You got a top spin aka blendiana jones Topspin.

00:39:01: DJ topspin is uh as an og when it comes.

00:39:04: and mixtapes for sure.

00:39:05: I mean He basically invented a radio station, you know off of his mixtapes.

00:39:11: people thought His mixtaps were so authentic.

00:39:17: You know just when they hear it here.

00:39:19: They thought it was an actual Radio show K-Top.

00:39:23: but uh It was the mixtape.

00:39:26: But there where very classic Very legendary Can't forget The Tape Master.

00:39:32: You Know DJ B mellow who I'm using notorious for mix types.

00:39:42: Yeah, DV-One another influential turntableist that's been consistent throughout the generation still around and rocking all of their big break battles in Red Bull... keeping it active.

00:40:03: so Yeah, we're real blessed up in the Northwest and you know Of course she got on there DJ moving into the production side like Jake one.

00:40:15: Yes, sir prolific Prolific DJ but also he had a dj's rest in peace cut father You Know who?

00:40:25: Who?

00:40:25: uh, you know all so cost also cause Seattle home originally from California San Diego and Southern California, but you know moved up to Seattle India in the nineties and just Made a huge impression.

00:40:45: You know

00:40:46: And so many dope producers coming from that Northwest area.

00:40:49: like you mentioned Jake one there's also K fresh music Which is super dope on the beats?

00:40:57: A few days ago I did an interview with Johnny Slash Don't know if he heard about him Super nice producer.

00:41:03: He's in Houston Texas right now, but he was born and raised in the Northwest And you just told me that I was like why?

00:41:08: That's crazy man so many talented producers coming from the northwest.

00:41:13: So shout out to everybody out there.

00:41:15: You know we had a chance to share some life experiences together or came all the way To Seattle.

00:41:22: We made some magic and I had the chance to see the culture out there.

00:41:27: so a lot of heartiest music is... Music is alive in this area.

00:41:32: So shoutout everybody, Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, Tacoma.

00:41:37: You know?

00:41:38: The art is living out here!

00:41:40: And i love that man!

00:41:43: And we did that project together on Northwest Flow.

00:41:51: Tell the people about that man.

00:41:55: Yeah, that was just raw raw Pure pure energy.

00:42:01: You know when you get to creative minds Like, you know like you and I together it Was this magic?

00:42:10: You know We did at like one or two the couple days And we just cranked out a whole record

00:42:18: and uh,

00:42:18: you Know invited a few guests who went down to the Emerald Street Studios Down at a historic Washington Hall, which is uh big hub in the community space and Seattle.

00:42:32: There's a recording studio there called Emma Street Studios.

00:42:35: And yeah we just We just pretty much stayed up in there for couple days since it's Knocked out of whole record.

00:42:44: Yep

00:42:44: now we have silver shadow D.

00:42:47: sir

00:42:48: Shoutouts to him shout outs the equation on their.

00:42:53: Yeah, it was amazing.

00:42:55: Man your production has just really spoke to me.

00:43:00: you know It's not a... Not every day that I do that I tend to take my time and re-write.

00:43:07: i get too deep into my mind.

00:43:09: And uh You don't do a few different versions.

00:43:13: Yep

00:43:14: Just overthink it maybe Get a little too deep.

00:43:16: This one is like Next next next See ya now.

00:43:21: Yep,

00:43:21: I remember you told me usually work on a certain type of beat and had to come up with new ideas.

00:43:28: New way or working your raps.

00:43:30: when you heard my stuff so... You know it's dope man if i can elevate the level again push boundaries music again bro Superdope.

00:43:42: Oh yeah it was definitely inspiring To hear something a little different than how you usually do it because I'm also a producer.

00:43:54: so i You know, I produce.

00:43:56: I produced some But I have a certain...I think by the time like I finish my production It's just like..I can't really rhyme to it Like when I am hearing from your hands and its fresh And that is just something That Is an interpretation or way that wouldn't necessarily think about And it just kind of sparked something in my mind like Like conceptually, you know what I mean?

00:44:24: There's a lot ideas came from that.

00:44:26: We had Kind of nice collection of concepts.

00:44:31: You know each song has different direction Very different songs.

00:44:36: It was kinda interesting how they all come together.

00:44:40: Yeah if only people could see How we worked on and get to live the experience They'd be amazed.

00:44:49: And let's go back in time, you know because your MC also produced like what made you want to start your career and take things seriously?

00:45:01: Well I never really thought about it as a career originally You know.

00:45:07: I was just always very passionate about hip-hop from a very young age growing up with Run DMC Fat Boys and LL Cool J and EPMD Stuff like that.

00:45:22: Like Everybody there was coming out had a totally different sound out.

00:45:27: You know, it wasn't no fake in the funk or biting or nothing like that.

00:45:32: you have to really come with your own originality and That's something about that really spoke to me I think.

00:45:38: so It took awhile for me to say why you interested music?

00:45:43: I was originally a graffiti artist Very blessed from very young age.

00:45:49: I was doing comic books and doing actually commercial works like as an artist, getting paid in high school to do art.

00:46:00: So i was on the track to be a full-time visual artists illustrator painter you know?

00:46:08: It kind of segwayed into events and promotions And started doing flyers Started doing my own event You know with our crew mad crew Originally and then you know like a lot of people in the crew They were there.

00:46:26: We're, you know beat makers that we're emcees And I dabble with poetry and get into My rhymes little bit here-and-there.

00:46:36: Mostly Cypher's you know on the streets?

00:46:39: He spent a lot time out there just So you don't do as young Young crazy kids.

00:46:46: but um is something about.

00:46:50: You know the lyrics man.

00:46:52: I just you know, it really kept me in a positive direction going through a lot of turbulence and you know kept me kept me saying you don't get me positive and moving into good directions.

00:47:05: so I um Yeah Just kept.

00:47:10: you know finding myself being grounded Grounded in music And they kept me do some really tough times Really started taking.

00:47:22: I guess you could say seriously once You know our we had like a sub crew within mad crew called Cypher Alliance and um, you Know it was a crew of MCs And We also kicked with the lot of other crews Even though in the scene.

00:47:41: You know It Was very Competitious and we were always you know on Street ciphers and even starting to make our way into shows.

00:47:50: Back then, there wasn't really a lot of shows like that.

00:47:56: It was very few shows actually.

00:47:58: so we were earning our stripes in different ways.

00:48:02: You know parties and Folklife...actually you've been to the Folklifestival.

00:48:06: That's one of their very few all-agent spaces at that time.

00:48:14: We can go into folklife.

00:48:17: We battled, we did ender cyphers and stuff.

00:48:22: Anyways a lot of us came together in the crew And ended up renting an house.

00:48:28: It was across street from where I lived on Beacon Hill.

00:48:35: The whole house was recording studio.

00:48:39: it's crazy.

00:48:40: Everybody put our gear like Voltron Like.

00:48:46: I got the S you know, the SP to MPC The the Rawlands in there.

00:48:52: We had the eight tracks and then later we have the sixteen track recorder.

00:48:56: like that.

00:48:56: they're all in piece.

00:48:59: You know it was just like a dedicated studio?

00:49:03: We had like mad turntables in their life.

00:49:05: A lot of us were straight-up turntable list lights scratch maniacs.

00:49:11: No any time at the day or night we would be having sessions and a lot of records got recorded out there, you know?

00:49:18: So that's kind of like where fuel some of the early earliest.

00:49:23: Like okay this is for real!

00:49:27: We were there for number years And then eventually just kind of evolved into our own mad crew or Mad K evolved from graffiti crew to production crew you know record a record label basically.

00:49:46: and So yeah, it was there.

00:49:48: Was kind of the beginning.

00:49:49: lot of us aside for Alliance We started doing little tours You know originally?

00:49:55: It was you know Seattle Tacoma A lot of this.

00:49:59: we go to Canada because is three only at Three Hour Drive And you don't year in your in Canada whole whole different country, you know.

00:50:07: Yeah, and uh There was a connection called two oh six oh four because six oh four was an area code for For that part of Canada and two or six is a Seattle area code.

00:50:22: And so we combined like, you know Like a network Between the bunch different crews and stuff.

00:50:31: So we come up to go out there for shows.

00:50:33: then they would come down.

00:50:35: You know We kind of built this This little community basically in collective.

00:50:42: Yeah, you know it just kept going.

00:50:46: You always been traveling like.

00:50:47: you're not going to Seattle or Canada.

00:50:49: I Know your man that likes the travel because he went through two France a couple times.

00:50:53: So what's she think about that?

00:50:55: Man Like different hip-hop scenes all over the globe

00:50:58: man It's one of things that keeps me inspired for sure.

00:51:03: You know Traveling...you know for those who don't know i'm in a wheelchair And I was in a car accident when I was a kid and so, i've been In the wheelchair for over forty years You know?

00:51:19: I'm getting a little bit older now.

00:51:21: It's difficult you Know it's not easy but its something that Im very passionate about.

00:51:28: I love going to new places.

00:51:30: we started Going into New York and building with The Zulu Nation.

00:51:35: We Started performing in California Florida Just learning about hip-hop and hip hop history.

00:51:44: This is all like Before the internet was around, you know.

00:51:48: And so peace in piecing together of stories.

00:51:54: You know what I mean?

00:51:55: In The History Is Like We Didn't Really Have Books.

00:51:58: You Know Like That.

00:51:59: You Know What I Mean Like I Was just.

00:52:02: I met this OG by the name Of Frosty Freeze.

00:52:08: He's Part World-famous rock city crew, you know and he's introduced me to.

00:52:13: You Know alien nests in an alien nest sitting down with me.

00:52:17: You know sharing some of his early experiences New York City breakers.

00:52:20: And next thing I'm kicking it.

00:52:22: what can't swift and i'm kicking It was you know a zoo nation from California and Florida and everywhere?

00:52:32: You don't mean so is like the family tree and just learning Who's who and what?

00:52:39: What's wet how things evolve, you know.

00:52:42: so of course I had to You know start started making my way overseas.

00:52:47: And you know going to Central America South America starting getting invited to Asia and you knows this.

00:52:58: It's just connecting with community man.

00:53:00: that's why really Really is something special because hip-hop is unifying.

00:53:07: It brings us together, you know for a lot of us.

00:53:11: You know it's some positive in the world of darkness and a lot Of negativity but is something that That like just his personal.

00:53:21: You don't even with different people different communities to have Different languages or different circumstances?

00:53:28: I mean up into some places man.

00:53:31: Some are the roughest places in the World And

00:53:36: hip-hop is always there to connect people and spread positivity all the time.

00:53:43: Yeah, man.

00:53:44: It's something that it's like life or death To some people.

00:53:48: then you know in like what it means?

00:53:51: What if I mean seems to be a lot more especially In certain places, you know Where they're just holding on their barely hold?

00:54:02: not but they got that.

00:54:03: You know They've got their break.

00:54:05: The breaking has kept them flow.

00:54:08: you know stuff like that.

00:54:09: so it's a beautiful thing man.

00:54:11: You brought us together and had a beautiful opportunity to come out to France in different parts of Europe, connect with a lot of brilliant minds a lot amazing talent creative people.

00:54:30: man spend lifelong relationships life long friendships

00:54:36: all through

00:54:38: music.

00:54:39: Yeah, it's like us.

00:54:40: You know I think we first met each other in twenty nineteen or twenty-twenty.

00:54:46: A shit was six years.

00:54:48: seven years later man We still here making music you know sharing this passion that we have.

00:54:54: Oh yeah ma'am It has been a while And tell the people about what she got going on and just dropped the Northwest Flow project Your touring with your girl Jessie.

00:55:05: So tell her to people What else do u have on ur plate bro?

00:55:09: Yeah, all right now.

00:55:10: We own we're working on a new king chasm solo record You know which is uh the full-length project man crazy features on there can't really Can't really get into that right?

00:55:25: Now but it's It's not getting close to completion.

00:55:29: Of course mid-century modern were still.

00:55:33: we're still touring with that performing And of course a lot of lotta work would choose to do.

00:55:39: You know to us.

00:55:40: That's the organization and nonprofit that I'm a part of.

00:55:43: in Seattle, you Know we always have events going on throughout the year.

00:55:48: this year We have the fifteenth annual beat masters which is a beat battle.

00:55:55: In August we also had the sixteenth annual off-the-wall graffiti mural competition nice producing a lot of records local artists and also Working with some artists in Los Angeles.

00:56:14: So yeah, just you know keep Keep the same thing.

00:56:18: Just keep keeping it pushing excited about them.

00:56:22: You know a lot of different projects definitely looking forward to coming back your way

00:56:28: now.

00:56:28: Yeah for sure man I'm here.

00:56:29: don't think you have ever been on though The west coasts of the country where y'all welcome any time?

00:56:34: I gotta wake up at West Coast.

00:56:38: Yeah, the west coast comes to the West Coast ain't that beautiful?

00:56:45: We only have a few minutes left in this carnival like.

00:56:47: do you have any words of advice for young upcoming MCs and also any words from your fans

00:56:53: bro.

00:57:01: Do you?

00:57:05: You know find yourself, find your sound.

00:57:10: Find your original style and keep...you don't worry about the haters or all that stuff.

00:57:17: just focus on your creativity.

00:57:20: Focus on what feels good What sounds good.

00:57:24: Try to be genuine and true To yourself And your expression.

00:57:28: Everything else will come.

00:57:31: That's pretty much it Man.

00:57:32: Just Keep pushing Peace units he love and having fun.

00:57:38: You know, that's the original uh Original motto.

00:57:41: yep hip-hop Oh yeah bringing people together.

00:57:44: so you know, sir coast Continent to continent, you know it's hip hop all day.

00:57:51: Yeah planet two planets man

00:57:54: No doubt

00:57:56: about

00:57:56: ready to hop off this planet.

00:57:59: Make our way out of here.

00:58:00: It's getting a little little crazy over here on the other side

00:58:04: of the planet.

00:58:05: I agree with that man.

00:58:07: It's time.

00:58:09: Well, appreciate you for your time.

00:58:11: my bro was dope to connect with you again And we will work on some more stuff and we'll connect in France.

00:58:16: You know once again keep the legacy going Keep good music flowing.

00:58:22: Appreciate you bro.

00:58:24: Take care of ma'am.

00:58:26: Peace bro.

00:58:28: Tell JC i say what's up.

00:58:30: Sauer said What's Up And The Baby Say What's up.

00:58:36: Peace bro, take care.