Mixtape Addict #67

00:00:02: You have now entered the mixed tape.

00:00:02: addicts show broadcasting every day with the French connect DJ King Discussing and pain crushes, speaking on a game that can't touch us Chipping on wine for great clusters, I'ma do it justice.

00:00:15: Chipped tooth, arid, a truth-bearer.

00:00:17: Half moves, these are like a justice, destructive.

00:00:19: My pen is the extension of a lust, I'm not living seductive women And plush linen crowns written on my diadem Ain't nobody seeing them, blindfolded with the scales Measuring

00:00:29: the king

00:00:29: and the king Cobra, lyrical emperor, call them gangers.

00:00:33: It's like an informer with the stainless, back of the dome.

00:00:38: Yeah niggas know

00:00:38: the process and diagnostics.

00:00:40: Honesty to Ellis out the projects.

00:00:42: Rock the nonsense,

00:00:43: my catalog is the

00:00:44: analog to my progress.

00:00:46: Mass appeal, I mastered the skill to still have the world shot.

00:00:49: I'm in class with the ill, physical specimen.

00:00:52: We at

00:00:53: the precipice,

00:00:54: better near.

00:00:54: when you addressing us, nigga J. King Float These waves is getting you niggas high.

00:01:23: Realize if I let you sip slide I'ma die broken.

00:01:26: If hip hop is my bitch nigga then I'm strokin'.

00:01:29: I run up ahead in the store with five tokens.

00:01:31: They comin' up with a bonus like I'm not jokin'.

00:01:34: My eyes open to the madness.

00:01:36: Magnum opens for bragging.

00:01:37: Get your dough off of this rap shit, huh?

00:01:39: Pipe dreams are hundred and nineteen countries Might mean I gotta recite things.

00:01:44: Get a tight team, get over the

00:01:46: Z's cause they

00:01:46: might want- Better have that bread right.

00:01:49: if it's right front me.

00:01:50: You can't love money but it helps To keep your head above the water, Michael Phelps I'd like to see my brothers is dumping on top shelf Wishing they could get along but I'm all swell, all well Elevating from the pit to hell And that support impacts the torches to the welts Felt.

00:02:06: that knowledge itself has gotta be wealth With health, back, poverty, stricken, that's real facts.

00:02:12: Watching the fiends lean where they sell smack The money train, the enemy won't derail.

00:02:17: I'm chefing up a plate

00:02:18: with a keelak, food for dark breath, a fresh air, so we're heel-lack.

00:06:03: Early off the porch, calling the shots, giving out Frank H. Park orders.

00:06:08: What you hearing is what they taught us.

00:06:10: They even fought us before this wave was even thought of.

00:06:13: Mixed state, that is.

00:06:13: For the crosshairs, the warfare was spiritual.

00:06:16: This is the cloth, yeah, my frontiers from never rule.

00:06:19: DJ King Flow.

00:06:20: Yeah, I'm allergic to jigger bulls.

00:06:23: I pray that they get the ones that you lose.

00:06:27: Tombs match the visuals.

00:06:29: One nation under PA, indivisible.

00:06:31: With no interruptions, just some sick production.

00:06:35: The man cook here.

00:06:36: No introduction, shut your mouth up and do the knowledge.

00:06:40: Tools to scholars getting dreamed like basket and robbers without robbin.

00:06:44: DJ King Flow.

00:07:02: I grew up around pips and max and hoes on crack.

00:07:07: And the projects on welfare just flipping on food stamps.

00:07:10: For the weekend, but I grew up Living with blacks, cutting the floor, McDonald's cheeseburgers, we made it from scratch.

00:07:17: We was pulled fucked up, yo niggas was doing bad.

00:07:21: We had good times in the hood.

00:07:22: A nigga could feel glad, not getting shot.

00:07:25: A stab snitched on the bag, locked up going hand to hand.

00:07:30: Fuckin' with them gramps.

00:07:31: My mans stay on barbershops and grocery stores.

00:07:34: They don't floss at all.

00:07:36: You would think the niggas is poor.

00:07:38: Vented machines would fly without opening your pores.

00:07:41: Niggas lined up for the work like fiends out Had to sneak the snakes on the pedestal.

00:07:46: Dudes ain't even credible Your street cred.

00:07:49: not eligible.

00:07:50: Like bro, who the hell are you?

00:07:52: I don't see the eyebrows raised When they mention you.

00:07:55: I'm a day one browns full of niggas.

00:07:57: That's what I'm telling you, dude.

00:08:28: No check the scope.

00:08:29: my whole approach

00:08:37: is go.

00:08:53: these niggas know.

00:09:07: nothing new is facts.

00:09:50: it may be just words to you.

00:09:51: perhaps this shit for the birds.

00:09:53: it may be just birds to you but then on the sack I don't even ask.

00:10:09: the back sets it off while I ready.

00:10:28: somebody think you the shit cuz.

00:10:35: that's surgery body.

00:10:39: let me cut earth to pussy like moot.

00:10:41: yes I'm a regular party party.

00:10:44: suck a sip and suck the soul.

00:10:49: a whole van shit.

00:11:00: they say they live it like a fucking big diamonds on it to do what y'all want to.

00:11:19: hey I just do what y'all want to.

00:11:33: hey I just do what y'all want.

00:11:38: I just do what y'all want to.

00:11:45: They said they rapping for a living Trying to get a feature.

00:11:51: when I tell them pay me why they think I'm wrong I just do what y'all want to.

00:11:55: I just do what y'all want to.

00:12:01: I just do what people don't do.

00:12:02: I give them music they can bump to.

00:12:04: As a kid I wanted fun to Run to the forum.

00:12:07: when I come through Look like a car show when I pull up Party.

00:12:10: when I walk through They saying they love me.

00:12:14: if she counts too Might be the game I get lost to.

00:12:17: I heard grinds moves.

00:12:19: Had to get up and go.

00:12:20: get it, stomachs thought it hurt.

00:12:21: now This shit I'm speaking probably cow shoo, brought a Rick and Janet cow through.

00:12:29: They said they living like a Bob Rock and Big Diamonds on it.

00:12:38: I want to do what y'all want to, do what y'all want to, I just do what y'all want to.

00:15:06: Remains hidden on concepts somehow.

00:15:14: when I'm spit, origin still real concepts somehow forbidden.

00:15:21: Something like the last of a dying breed, out of feet.

00:15:28: My plight is a humble mixture, trying to make the scene pop.

00:15:31: Life is a motion picture.

00:15:32: This is just a screenshot, so I fade in and out.

00:15:35: A reality like Neo With rhymes like pressure points and Cognito When I say that it wouldn't have dark matter Have kinetic vision Simple incisions and grab my slice From when dead or in prison Was my childhood's flight's flight's flight A day to first, it digitized and compressed.

00:15:59: It's also included in the ways of doing that Symmetry.

00:16:08: while it was written in stone Switched to blackout mode.

00:16:12: when I'm spitting The point of origin still remains hidden.

00:16:16: I touch on concepts somehow forbidden.

00:16:42: My ink bin stamped, I done.

00:16:44: ran through From basements torn to applause and storms.

00:16:47: no flash Spit flames in the grooves to warm cut gems.

00:16:51: Twenty carats where the loops perform.

00:16:53: I've been slept on floors.

00:16:54: Money grip on debt.

00:16:56: If the pain pay the red checks Come in wet still stitch.

00:16:59: Hold tapes where the clothes cassette.

00:17:01: Then I drive blue gold.

00:17:03: No regrets in the text.

00:17:04: lace tone Pissing dirty on the sheets laid on.

00:17:07: Hurricane Through the droughts never chased the rain, name ring odd In the mouth of fame, but the echo hit clean When the clap went lame, from a shoebox vault To a twelve-bar chapel, Ernella gets an element Where the gravel rattles, let the hush hum.

00:17:23: hymns Where the shackles shatter, the auction wrappers.

00:17:26: But it's not a raffle, they talk.

00:17:28: I move, critique and approve.

00:17:29: New city, new crowd, same dudes to prove Type Mike, no flinch, no Phil O'Fee, pay me.

00:17:36: You should know being nice ain't free, they talk.

00:17:38: I move, critique and approve.

00:17:41: New city, new crowd, same dudes to prove Type Mike, no flinch, no Phil O'Fee, pay me Cause you know being nice ain't free.

00:17:50: No coast sign, no crowd, just to floor that creek Off the bars when they drumming and I ain't skip a beat.

00:17:56: Turn cracks in the grout to a red motif.

00:17:58: Stressed jeans with the seams of the tree in deep Stashed known in the fold of the sleeves I rolled While the room took shape.

00:18:06: off the tails I told Every wall worked dust from the loops I broke And the booth grew roots from the bars.

00:18:12: I wrote Had lint in my wallet, but the plate was real.

00:18:15: So I ate

00:18:16: while they

00:18:16: watched, trying to gauge my mill.

00:18:18: Game fitness in the leg, work reps and will Stage nerves, late trains in the self-taught skill Won't touch screen before iPad, right alone.

00:18:26: Just me and I in the lab Experimenting with this ill scientific mixture.

00:18:31: Think potassium nitrate, know those three Then you stray,

00:18:35: they talk.

00:18:35: I

00:18:35: move, critique and approve New city, new crowd, same dudes to prove Type Mike, no flinch, no Phil O'Fee, pay me.

00:18:44: You should know being nice ain't free, they talk.

00:18:46: I move, critique

00:18:48: and approve New city, new crowd, same dudes to prove Type Mike, no flinch, no Phil O'Fee, pay me.

00:18:55: Cuz no means I never losing the love for her, I love her.

00:19:13: I never losing the love for her.

00:19:15: I love her, I

00:19:18: never losing the love for her.

00:19:21: I love her, I never losing the love for her That mother love, yeah, I'm trying to get love, shit that made me so sassy.

00:19:26: I'm on that mission now, I'm driving like an old man Strong queen on the team and I'm so glad She said, boy, you look too young to be a grand.

00:19:35: Overstand my ways and never get structure, so we grandstand But put this shit together, man, with the plan And the trap kicking like it's Van Damme Gas mask, but they Sit

00:19:53: thanos,

00:19:53: cause it's ain't a scam.

00:19:55: So you can get more intellectual.

00:19:58: And while you there, go ahead, go search Sit back, while this nigga count these decibels I conduct myself while around professionals You don't got no class, you dropped out with no principles.

00:20:09: You should sell it physical now, I sell digital.

00:20:12: You should be a shithead now, I can get biblical.

00:20:14: Too many odd questions, now I don't get sick of you.

00:20:17: With friends and tail connect, we gettin' hella views.

00:20:20: Google makes tape addicts, we got interviews.

00:20:23: Been lit, give a fuck if you pick a choose.

00:20:30: I lost my momma.

00:20:33: love, shit that made me so sad.

00:20:35: I'm on a mission now, I'm traveling like a strong queen on the twist And my ways ain't never getting mad, grandstand.

00:20:50: Put this shit together, man, with the plan I never losing the love for her.

00:21:26: I love her, I never losing the love for her.

00:21:33: I love her, I never losing the love for her.

00:21:38: I love her, I never losing

00:21:41: the love for her.

00:21:43: We're in the booth.

00:21:45: Evolutionary, you're a douche in

00:21:49: every sense.

00:21:52: Evolutionary, for two and you'll be kirkins.

00:22:02: You put that in, put your platforms on, ma'am.

00:22:23: Stuffin' in the spotter's

00:22:37: been

00:22:44: shown when the form

00:23:10: of

00:23:16: scaven herbs.

00:23:20: It's a bully countin' cash, eatin' dying curses, and it's lookin' boom, I grow.

00:23:34: Stuff.

00:23:35: DJ King's flow.

00:23:46: It destined to be.

00:23:52: ma'am, I want the whole app, but also part of you.

00:24:15: I get inside your mind and paint a picture like an artist do.

00:24:17: If you're feelin' anxious, I'll give you a bar to.

00:24:20: The music flowin' through me, swear to BPM in Hardings, and the heart is true.

00:24:23: Here's what you don't.

00:24:25: This I'ma waitin' for your spot to rip.

00:24:28: So I'll have these up on the Juno kit To take this wavy on the planet on some Pluto shit.

00:24:33: See, I got Mopoc Team Strix in my Pops.

00:24:37: He taught me how to dream.

00:24:39: Now I got the ring fit to take what people owe me.

00:24:43: I know karma is a means to chill out, man What goes around is comin' back to you.

00:24:47: Everything is spinning, you don't think that this flag goes around?

00:24:50: DJ King Float!

00:24:51: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Just a tone on my voice made you lady moist.

00:25:31: Baby.

00:25:32: we some playboys, no need to play coy.

00:25:34: We some players, some real gamers, they was saying we was shaving points.

00:25:38: UCLA lost them

00:25:38: and Lloyd

00:25:40: Rumor has it.

00:25:40: we fixed the wheelchair classics.

00:25:42: It jumped in the window with the coupe Like Boduce and the Deuce of Hazards.

00:25:46: I'm like magic, I can shoot her to pass it.

00:25:48: Became a legend, cause everything I'm doing is rooted in passion.

00:25:51: All my music classic Glocks only, everything I shoot is plastic.

00:25:56: Put up numbers, get baskets.

00:25:59: Hit sacks, fit for real pimps, don't wear rabbits.

00:26:02: That shit is beneath me.

00:26:04: Nicks can't even reach my knee, be easy.

00:26:07: Paveebies on the pinky, speak freely.

00:26:10: Sofa.

00:26:10: don't make me spill my drink like pink Toe, you don't make me spill my drink, motherfucker Pray your hands, pray your hands.

00:26:20: We been ridin' the days of shit.

00:26:47: Lil' money on the side, round round cleanin' that seat, they'll fuck it.

00:26:52: Two pumps, shawty's in the pistol and a rap Playin' for Lil Johnny on the slide, catch him in the whip When he wee up around, ooh, mommy be back Take a shower, keep your head toward the strip.

00:27:08: He bout to go re-up on Jefferson and Vip Pulled up on the block, then he stopped at the red light.

00:27:13: Ooh, niggas hop, shot him in the head twice.

00:27:16: So let's do your vibe, left him switchin' in the dead light.

00:27:19: Niggas try to stunt, nah, he ain't have his head right.

00:27:21: So watch the ones close till you grill them like a hop.

00:27:24: Don't slip up, fall in the sauce to get.

00:27:26: Come, come, don't slip up, fuck That lil'.

00:27:38: Tim's a steamer, a lap dance he's Make a nigga drop ten stacks when they see a young pretty lil' red big homer.

00:27:52: When droppin' that ass, she complete wild thang.

00:27:59: Fuck's on

00:28:02: the Zomzo,

00:28:04: a fine chain, told him hoppin' a whip Gonna give you some fine brains, a new turd of whip As he started to slurk, then his bitch pull out the nine Right up out of his skirt, blue tinted

00:28:16: brains out,

00:28:17: all over the curb Out of his fur, he had somebody in his mind Screamin' blue on the streets, once it was upon this shit, quickly turn the beat.

00:28:50: If he can stone money and he fuck it his freak.

00:28:53: I'm Reggie the in-trip.

00:28:54: He kept this composure Said it's all good and everything is kosher.

00:28:59: Reggie had this shit with twenty bricks Said them.

00:29:01: white girls told them we can buy cars, clothes and them nice pearls.

00:29:04: Victor said I got it with to the spot to pick it up.

00:29:07: He followed by your midnight black on black.

00:29:09: Reggie hopped out.

00:29:10: Victor said, what's the reason?

00:29:12: And put the semi in his mouth and said, bitch I speak of ferocity, peace and selectivation.

00:29:18: Yet in tenacity my order.

00:29:20: calm as hiya, nation's day Necessary by nature, gavel on the quarter Skeptics, justice, make private examples of investors Decepticons, investors, transgressors.

00:29:32: We call them psalms, skin up they palm Make them clutch Himalayan salt, then give them balm.

00:29:37: Uniformed, I am God, and God is so in their realm Laying elevated canopies, ascending sleep.

00:29:43: The opposition fears my acknowledgement.

00:29:45: They fear the contagious nature of this power plant's embodiment.

00:29:48: Poisonous jazz,

00:29:49: garden of divine protection, ammo in healing oils, recall it into great flesh, likeness.

00:29:54: They try to say it's

00:29:55: divisive, dark threats to my energy, light weight in my brain.

00:29:58: I am more than a queen or a king, hand raised in the center of the ring.

00:30:04: My determination meets my destiny, that shifts you.

00:30:10: I am more than enough, I'm a star.

00:30:12: In everything I do, I raise the bar.

00:30:15: It's no comparein' my rise of repertoire.

00:30:17: I had chef's suit.

00:30:18: I'm not even in the same weight class.

00:30:20: I led an army of hundreds, solid hearts and heads Spirited characters, integrity and discipline.

00:30:26: They bring

00:30:26: me fabric spreads, weaponry and prayer candles Incense, blacksmiths, will, jade and graver, tablets.

00:30:31: My goals is acrobatics, masons, building fanatics Intelligent mechanics, childlike Good manners, the wildest ones is trained to contain and channel the savage.

00:30:39: We gather and do magic, lay out maps to the planet.

00:30:42: They seek revenge for all the negatives.

00:30:44: we have to banish Those

00:30:45: who erase my name, be little,

00:30:46: took advantage.

00:30:47: My Cowboys is very musical, very impassioned.

00:30:50: Get over Olympia's crossfit and catered salads.

00:30:53: We charge up our bodies like crystals, balance the damage.

00:30:55: We go on campaigns, new success in every challenge.

00:30:58: We battle train, play

00:30:59: chess, talk of sensual talents.

00:31:01: A hidden body of work, they impress me in eyes.

00:31:04: I am more than

00:32:07: a

00:32:14: queen.

00:32:54: Let's go, it's King Flo, mixtapatic radio show once again.

00:32:58: You know we connecting the dots from France to the US.

00:33:01: And today I have my special guest, super producer J.L.

00:33:05: Swift.

00:33:05: How you doing bro?

00:33:06: No keys,

00:33:08: bro, keys.

00:33:09: I'm good.

00:33:09: I'm alive and well, healthy.

00:33:13: How you doing, man?

00:33:14: You good?

00:33:15: I'm doing great, man.

00:33:16: I'm doing great, you know?

00:33:17: Knocking down those interviews, you know what I'm saying?

00:33:20: Trying to provide the best interviews that I can, you know what I mean?

00:33:24: So working, man.

00:33:25: Understood.

00:33:26: Understood.

00:33:28: And now, I think you know the tradition of the mixed-apathic show, man.

00:33:32: I have to ask you, who is your all-time favorite DJ?

00:33:37: My all-time favorite, man.

00:33:43: Rock Raider.

00:33:44: I'm just a huge man, Rock Raider.

00:33:46: I was the mayor, of course, but you know, I was definitely Rock Raider.

00:33:52: Somebody that I learned about late, but super, super ill on the pucks, man.

00:33:59: And then of course, he came around with the mayor.

00:34:03: But definitely don't choose.

00:34:05: If I was the DJ, those would be the two.

00:34:08: I would definitely be inspired

00:34:10: by.

00:34:11: And two different types of DJs.

00:34:13: That show you like the variety of DJs that can influence people.

00:34:17: One side rock right up with the crazy skills, behind the back with the hellbows and shit.

00:34:23: And you got people, of course, legendary producer, man, one of the best.

00:34:27: And tell the people, you know, what do you remember the most?

00:34:30: Like about rock writer and primo, like what made you boo your mind?

00:34:33: Like, damn, y'all, this guy's crazy.

00:34:36: Man, with rock writer, like I said, I learned about him a league.

00:34:44: I was just on social media.

00:34:48: And part of me, I did use part of a group called Executioners, right?

00:34:52: I'm not mistaken.

00:34:55: But seeing the clip of him, and I'm like, oh, he's ill.

00:35:00: You know, and I don't see people that kind of like juggle church tables and all that before, but it's something about him that was just so ill.

00:35:09: You know, his artistry was just pretty dumb, and I wish I would learn to buy him an early yarn.

00:35:14: And I told some of my pops about him, because he used to DJ before he started producing, and he used to like, you know, back in the day in New York.

00:35:23: Like, you know, he was one of the ones.

00:35:26: For me, it's just, you know, he's just ill in the cuts.

00:35:30: He has it out here.

00:35:31: That's why, you know, that's why he was able to transition well or greatly back and forth with DJing and producing.

00:35:39: So, you know, just when you have skills like that, you just got to own in and just see why they do what they do and how they do it.

00:35:51: So one thing about me, I'm always going to be a student, no matter it isn't my profession or somewhere outside of my profession.

00:35:59: You're right, man.

00:36:00: That's the right mentality.

00:36:02: Because people forget nowadays that you have to do your research.

00:36:06: You have to study hip hop and study music as a whole, you know?

00:36:11: Got you.

00:36:13: Got you.

00:36:14: Got you.

00:36:16: If there's something that you want to do, why not study?

00:36:20: Study is study the best.

00:36:22: That's only how you're gonna become better at your crowd versus just, you know, I'm a fan of it.

00:36:29: And, you know, some people are better at being a fan versus trying to do this.

00:36:35: Like, I mean, it's funny that you're talking about this, because I literally just finished talking to the only cartoon, cartoon beast.

00:36:44: And I did a lot of stuff for Boy Dinks.

00:36:48: a couple other people as well, and I was talking to him about, yo bro, I've been producing, I'll be thirty-four next month, in a few weeks.

00:36:58: Two weeks from the ninth of October, I'll be thirty-four, and I've been making beats since two thousand and three.

00:37:05: That ain't my first placement until two thousand and eighteen.

00:37:09: So, you know, all that time just grinding and learning how to Be nice or even yeah, just learn some stuff.

00:37:18: So we're going to be jumping into something you gotta learn and that would be one of the best.

00:37:23: Yep, yep, you're right man.

00:37:25: You got to put the the years of work in you know and a lot of people are not you know really really ready to sacrifice all day because you got to believe in yourself and a lot of times you know you you think somebody is going to happen but it's not happening.

00:37:40: so you keep on working keep on working.

00:37:42: but now you know we in uh twenty twenty five and man you accomplish greatness.

00:37:47: you know i'm saying like i was just listening to uh a joint you did for Napoleon the legend and these styles on the cut You know, raining sledgehammers.

00:37:58: When I hear shit like that, man, you know, it makes me feel good.

00:38:01: It makes me happy about hip hop, man.

00:38:03: And I know you're producing it for a lot of guys.

00:38:06: And who is the artist that you like to work with now?

00:38:10: You know, somebody that really catches your hair.

00:38:20: Young dude, you gonna do rap?

00:38:24: You agree you're only been rapping for a couple years, only three years in there?

00:38:32: Then today, maybe three years, three or four years?

00:38:36: Young dude, very poised, very, you know, just confident in his art to only be doing it for four years.

00:38:44: I would say definitely in hell.

00:38:47: We actually been working.

00:38:48: We got a few, we got records out now.

00:38:51: All these ones we got one record, another one on the way.

00:38:56: But... Somebody that I did the album with that's out now memoirs.

00:39:01: Um, to be honest he put me on to.

00:39:05: We are from an album he did with Produce it.

00:39:10: That's also from North Carolina.

00:39:13: Um His name is left my mind, but Sean links if I'm not mistaken They did the album together and I've been missing him.

00:39:23: Oh, he's he's dope.

00:39:25: So he's definitely on the rise.

00:39:28: Um, just for a young man, you know, I mean, he's grown as many, something six, but young, young and unique.

00:39:37: So I'm almost, I'm almost ten years older than him.

00:39:40: But for him to be young and poised like that and have that confidence in wanting to get better, that's something ill, that's something that a lot of people just don't have, you know.

00:39:52: Um, and he really caught my attention.

00:39:56: And we just love it.

00:39:59: He's gonna be a force to be reckoned with.

00:40:01: I tell anybody, create our noise.

00:40:04: That's dope, man.

00:40:05: I like the fact that you're looking out for, you know, young game season, that's trying to build a name.

00:40:12: Because, you know, when I ask questions of, you know, who you like to work with, you know, a lot of guys say the easy names, you know what I'm saying?

00:40:18: Like the big name artists and you, you know what I'm saying?

00:40:21: You focus on the underground, you know, kind of like a mixed state DJ, man.

00:40:24: And I appreciate

00:40:26: it.

00:40:26: You know?

00:40:27: I mean, yeah, I mean, because it's, it's always easy.

00:40:32: Somebody recently just asked, like, yo, how, how do I get on?

00:40:37: How do I get joints to West Side Dunn or whatever?

00:40:41: And it's like, like, wow.

00:40:46: You know what I'm saying?

00:40:47: And it's not just credit either or, but it's like, wow, it's like the world of artists that's in your city.

00:40:57: That's on the line.

00:40:59: That doesn't have the following.

00:41:01: That's just as nice or especially maybe better.

00:41:05: I mean, what I mean better could be different lanes.

00:41:07: They may not be in the same lane as him, but they have something to offer.

00:41:14: They may not have almost a million followers or two hundred thousand followers or whatever.

00:41:19: They may have five hundred.

00:41:20: They may only have a thousand.

00:41:22: They have a lot to offer.

00:41:24: But you want the placement.

00:41:25: and we realized like for me getting placements in twenty eighteen to now we realized our placement in twenty eighteen don't have to seem like a placement in two thousand and five or ninety four or ninety six.

00:41:41: you know within that time frame because the industry has changed so much financially and musically and business business wise everything's changed.

00:41:52: so a placement.

00:41:56: Um, right now it's like, okay, you know, it's like a trophy.

00:42:01: Unless you got the big dogs, unless you have a kindred or cold or a drink, somebody on a commercial level, like that, then it's more than a trophy.

00:42:12: Now we just getting, um, you like, you building up your accolades because I don't, I'm not saying this at all to diminish my accolades, anything.

00:42:20: Like I'm done in doing great things, but you realize The real true power is building with the artist.

00:42:27: And that's how I started out.

00:42:29: It's just the group that I'm still a part of, but also turned the name, the group name into Libu.

00:42:39: It was science.

00:42:40: I started out doing that because I saw a name from the slunk world before I got into Slunk Village.

00:42:47: It was a little rather before I got into, you know, the placements.

00:42:51: I was looking at them like, one producer, one artist on our group.

00:42:56: So it was one producer of me, and then my homie, Cordova, or now Devon, aka, or whoever known as Cordova.

00:43:07: For the people that surround the Pernous, St.

00:43:09: Thoreau's area in Virginia.

00:43:11: That's what we were doing.

00:43:16: One person on the boards, on the pressure MC, and then life happens, and then boom.

00:43:23: I had this, so I thought this is, you know, cause I was eight, I'm eight years younger than him.

00:43:29: So he was almost thirty.

00:43:31: I'm fresh early in my twenties and I had a lot of, a little more time to indulge and doing a lot of fucking compared to him.

00:43:41: He went and had kids, so on and so forth.

00:43:43: He's like story.

00:43:45: So yeah.

00:43:46: So be a found your artist and build from there versus Doing that versus being in places.

00:43:58: Yup, yup.

00:43:59: I agree with you, man.

00:44:01: I think it's better to actually be able to build with a person, you know, be in a studio with that guy, spend time, develop in projects, ideas, brainstorming, you know.

00:44:12: It's different than getting a placement from a major artist because the major artist is not going to have the time to brainstorm and think about new stuff.

00:44:20: You just want to get to be, do his thing and that's it.

00:44:23: But with the young artists, you can take your time and, like I said, develop.

00:44:27: And it's real dope, actually.

00:44:29: That's how you create new sounds, I think.

00:44:31: That's how you create new lanes for people,

00:44:33: you know?

00:44:35: Right, right.

00:44:35: I mean, what's wrong with creating your own lane?

00:44:39: And that's all I wanted to do.

00:44:41: You know, I want to create my own lane.

00:44:45: When you hear my stuff on these records, on these places, you know, that's who you love, yeah.

00:44:49: That's their goal.

00:44:51: But I don't want to give somebody a whole album of that and I've done that in the course of the past couple years.

00:44:57: Now I'm just being more consistent with linking up with artists and doing albums or singles but doing albums.

00:45:06: I did it with Napoleon.

00:45:10: I did it with Napoleon and then did it with Jamila.

00:45:13: And it's two different sound, two different sonics of the album.

00:45:19: One is more grungy.

00:45:22: He wanted punchy drums.

00:45:23: I'm talking about the pulling punchier drums.

00:45:25: He want something different.

00:45:26: that is normal.

00:45:28: And I think that could be, I know it was early in the year, but that could be in the album of the year contender.

00:45:38: You know, if you revisit it.

00:45:40: And also this album, what you know, this is more of a album, sonically.

00:45:47: And yeah, I mean, you could be album of the year,

00:45:52: you could tend to the world.

00:45:53: Yeah, the project is dope, man.

00:45:55: And when did you know, like the day that you found your sound?

00:45:59: Like when did you realize that?

00:46:01: Like you say, damn, that's it.

00:46:02: I found my sounds, you

00:46:04: know?

00:46:05: I think diving deep a little bit more of phonics.

00:46:10: and what I would want because I was going through and listening to a lot of albums, some of my favorite albums that I'm inspired by.

00:46:30: I think when I started to see how warm the sound was, what kind of equipment that they were using, a couple other things, several other things as well.

00:46:42: I just started just listening.

00:46:45: And then when I started acting a couple of the homies, what you thinking about this?

00:46:50: Like I bought an SP-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z and stuff like that and start implementing some of those things.

00:47:13: That's when I was like, yeah, okay, this is the J.O.

00:47:17: Swift sound.

00:47:18: So the little techniques I might do with my drum programming, the sonics, the type of cymbals I'm picking, how hard I'm hitting the drums or how I wanna post this sample, that's what I knew.

00:47:31: And that was probably within the past year.

00:47:36: Sometimes, making me late last year as well.

00:47:42: Um, cause I fell with a lot of beats I was making.

00:47:47: Some of it would still sound like some of my influences.

00:47:52: And it was like, it's me, but you can still hear the inspiration.

00:47:59: Even the last beat that I post, um, sound like one of my influences, I think to me, but I love the same books like that.

00:48:08: And it was like, okay, I gotta make this me though.

00:48:14: So now, how can I make this me?

00:48:17: Changing the bass lines, changing the bass notes, changing the drum programming a little bit, stuff like that.

00:48:24: So that's what I know.

00:48:26: Like, yeah, this is so hard to do

00:48:29: JR.

00:48:30: Now, I know it's hard to, you know, get to your own sound and... have something that only sound like you, you know, recently I've been rethinking the whole shit, you know, I've been making beats too since I was nine years old, bro.

00:48:44: And I used to love the beats, but it sounded too much like the Archimedes, Eatmakers, A-Rap music.

00:48:52: It was dope, but it sounded too much like that.

00:48:54: So I decided to rethink everything and try and, you know, get back to the original sound.

00:49:01: That started it, you know, and it's hard, you know, to, you know, be able to do that.

00:49:06: Like, rethink everything and say, no, man, I'm not going to do beats that are sounding like somebody else.

00:49:11: And it's super hard, man, you know, because we're all influenced by his music.

00:49:16: We all grew up with hip-hop, you know, and those legendary producers.

00:49:22: Yeah, I mean, absolutely.

00:49:27: But I also look at this to your copycat.

00:49:30: in order to learn.

00:49:31: I mean, that's how I've learned.

00:49:33: I've, you know, grown up in Virginia too.

00:49:38: I had the best of both worlds, like I've heard them both.

00:49:41: And that's like the first home base in Virginia.

00:49:44: It's my second home base.

00:49:48: And I'm listening to Pharrell, Timbo, Swiss Beats, you know, cover beat, Polo the Dawn.

00:49:59: A lot of people that I was fans of growing up, when I was here in Virginia, just growing up and listening to, being fair enough, listening and writing and, you know, writing at that time.

00:50:12: But learning what makes them great, what is it about them that makes them great?

00:50:19: I don't want they brain going back.

00:50:22: I just want to know, okay, how and why you picked this sound, this sample, these drums.

00:50:28: So on and so forth, Kanye got the Kanye, early Kanye, and then to what is it about that, you know, the chipmunk sound, all of these things, man, that makes the brain tick.

00:50:40: And then once you started, once you start progressing, if you put into ten thousand hours, they say, as they say, you put in that ten thousand hours, you start to get better.

00:50:52: And I always put into ten thousand hours until And I started to see me mature

00:51:05: as a producer more and more and more and more.

00:51:06: Yeah.

00:51:06: I've seen some, I think it was an article about Pharrell.

00:51:09: And

00:51:10: he was saying that he created his own sound by limiting himself, like just using one or two keyboards and a few drum kits.

00:51:20: And that's it, because I think it is right, because if you have too many plugins, too many machines, too many keyboards, you're gonna be lost, you know, it's too much stuff to handle.

00:51:31: So if you limit yourself out of a few things and learn how to master those few things, this might be the way to, you know, find your own sound, I think.

00:51:41: Yeah, I mean, that's the old way.

00:51:43: I mean, I know hardly believe in that.

00:51:47: I mean, I look at people, maybe they do it for content creation, but I look at a lot of my fellow producers or whatnot.

00:51:56: I mean, they have my NPCX, they have an NPC live, they may have another machine from another company, they may have records, different type of keyboards, everything hot in.

00:52:16: And here, little old me, I got my NPC live that I had for twenty seventeen, now this added.

00:52:25: within this year.

00:52:26: So you figure, from twenty seventeen to two thousand and twenty four, the only new piece of equipment that I have got.

00:52:35: I mean, I got mine, but far as same as when I was in SP three or three.

00:52:40: So from twenty seventeen to two thousand and twenty four, I only got one piece of new equipment.

00:52:47: So that's in front of me, my MP, that's on the right of me, in the middle.

00:52:52: It's my aspect, three or three, and life is my keyboard.

00:52:56: My MPC mini, and I've made a great amount of money using the keyboard and the MP for it.

00:53:06: then the three or three.

00:53:07: So I made a great amount of money with those tools.

00:53:11: Even before that, I had a machine, machine tool, MK tool.

00:53:18: They're like the workflow.

00:53:19: Still think it's probably the stupidest workflow.

00:53:22: You know, the man, just by not being able to add MP-III to, I mean, I don't understand why MP-III is for pressure, but to not add an MP-III to the software is stupid.

00:53:40: So that was eternal.

00:53:42: And then a couple other things, I was like, I don't want this anymore.

00:53:45: So the only thing I had was a keyboard.

00:53:48: No, I didn't have that.

00:53:50: Man, it's like, you know, it's like those pieces of equipment are like your sword, you know, like a sword master, you know

00:54:00: what I mean?

00:54:00: Over there in the UK, we're not the color we need songs.

00:54:20: But yeah, we need songs, y'all.

00:54:26: Do you

00:54:30: have any piece of advice for young, upcoming producers that are maybe listening to this kind of you right now?

00:54:38: Yeah.

00:54:40: I gave some of it earlier with finding your own sound, try different things, try different patterns, playing with different samples.

00:54:53: Also, finding you an artist is going to be a lot more valuable in today's department of music compared to getting a placement.

00:55:03: It's not the wrong placement.

00:55:09: Yeah, it's not the wrong with placements.

00:55:12: Just make sure you do things that are out of value.

00:55:18: It won't make sense to you.

00:55:18: That will be my... My life.

00:55:22: we all talk we all talk man.

00:55:24: And also, you know, everybody that's listening make sure you stay creative, you know and build a unique sound.

00:55:30: man We need that.

00:55:32: you know, I think I think that's what missing.

00:55:35: sometimes a lot of people want to copy.

00:55:37: you know I mean do the same thing and I understand I'm not judging you know, but we need something creative something game-changing.

00:55:44: we need

00:55:44: that

00:55:45: and like you say I think working with a Underground artists and spending time to work with them in the studio might be the best way.

00:55:53: I agree.

00:55:55: I agree.

00:55:56: Yeah, man.

00:55:57: And I know you work a lot, man.

00:55:59: You just dropped a project.

00:56:01: But what can you expect from you for the rest of twenty, twenty-five in the years after that?

00:56:07: Man, memoirs, man.

00:56:10: Just continue to push my album, memoirs.

00:56:14: Me and Jimmy, honesty.

00:56:15: It's a fantastic album.

00:56:19: I have, I'm doing a series of singles.

00:56:25: I'm gonna call it Jazz and Jams.

00:56:29: The first beat, their beats, so collectively it would be a beat take.

00:56:34: But every month it leaves and I'm gonna try to drop an instrument.

00:56:40: And then I have a single that's coming out in October with the homie Gry-Out-Noy.

00:56:48: And yeah, so I mean, it's filled up the things that's been growing and then whatever else new come come our way, you

00:56:58: know We'll be here man to spin the records in the mixtape addict show for show.

00:57:02: bro

00:57:04: Have you ever thought about working with a live musicians for your beats?

00:57:11: Yeah, absolutely.

00:57:13: Um, I had a beat tape idea around like twenty twelve.

00:57:17: I wanted to sound like super cinematic.

00:57:21: That's what I wanted to do.

00:57:25: But yeah, I want my own dinner with a live musician on a record or a beat.

00:57:34: Yeah, so I just have a sound.

00:57:37: I mean, yeah, I haven't found that live musician yet.

00:57:40: I had somebody play bass with me before, but that's as far as that goes.

00:57:47: Okay, so every shit.

00:57:49: if we have people listening man Anybody is good.

00:57:52: I'm playing an instrument.

00:57:53: I got the groove in it man.

00:57:55: Come on in contact.

00:57:56: They all switch man.

00:57:57: We need some fight.

00:58:01: Do you have any last words man for your fans who brought the blows?

00:58:06: Man this To the midst of it all the state positive.

00:58:11: Um, you might as well.

00:58:13: go on to the state positive.

00:58:16: Um The world is yours.

00:58:19: You know, continue to continue

00:58:22: to be

00:58:23: you and be great at the angle.

00:58:25: That's all.

00:58:25: I'm gonna leave with that.

00:58:27: Yes, sir.

00:58:27: Yes, sir.

00:58:28: Good words of advice, man.

00:58:29: Real shit.

00:58:30: Hey, make sure you send me those records, man.

00:58:32: Send me the hempy treats so I can play them in the show, man.

00:58:34: Yeah, absolutely.

00:58:35: Absolutely.

00:58:36: I'll definitely do that.

00:58:38: Yes, sir.

00:58:38: Yes, sir.

00:58:38: I'll know if you have my himia, but I'll send it to you.

00:58:40: Well, you have it.

00:58:41: Essentially, if I could have

00:58:43: it.

00:58:44: All right, my

00:58:45: bro, thanks for your time, man.

00:58:47: Enjoy the rest of your day, my man.

00:58:49: And

00:58:49: that's amazing, bro.

00:58:52: Peace.