Mixtape Addict #73

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00:00:03: addicts show Broadcasting every day with the French connect DJ King flow.

00:00:20: I'm trying to add commas and multiply figures.

00:01:08: Save them games.

00:01:10: I'm playing for them.

00:01:15: little niggas It's crunch time.

00:01:49: when I get to it I'll show you how I play.

00:02:20: My cloth is different than my talk too.

00:02:27: So if's just fuck me then it's fuck you Militant minded.

00:02:32: Raise a shark like a barber line Cause I grind that bullshit off or I decline.

00:02:40: That's insulting to a nigga.

00:02:42: that's important.

00:02:43: You must be vain.

00:02:46: You fucking with a general that got strikes.

00:02:49: A short nigga with a long pipe A decade in the field with rhymes full Wrapping on a Dodger blues.

00:02:56: I shall rap, break, and win this, this, so y'all can share the same skin.

00:03:57: While I'm pow, I'll back my

00:04:14: turnt carpet

00:04:15: in a diamond version.

00:04:17: After the sun quits, your universe expires.

00:04:37: DJ King Flow Must be canned to the sun, without granting, oh fuck me, it's something.

00:05:12: Cause I can't see the sun, it's be worse than wings, sometimes when you lose.

00:05:33: Too much in the history, don't mean nothing.

00:05:35: You laugh about me, scheme about me, dream about me, suffering.

00:05:38: Nothing else but still massaging, you're evil, way too much buffering.

00:05:42: I ain't know any obstacles from a lack of inclusion.

00:05:46: Of course, the game is getting five, the clout chase is labeled the coolest.

00:05:55: Slices from a love when shocks the body like a stunga When there's a bumpsome, miracles don't happen for us.

00:06:02: You know where the fuck I'm from, son I pass you leaps and bounds, hoppin' the hurdles that you run from.

00:06:06: It's easy when you comb, soon it just smokin', it gets blurry.

00:06:09: It's crucial to avoid fatalities, you need a buddy.

00:06:12: The worker talk for himself, don't need no one speakin' for us.

00:06:15: Weathers bring in my flowers, needs to hear us to love.

00:06:18: Gonna come, we can't sue the sun Without grants, ain't no fun.

00:06:21: The trust that you stand, you is all I owe.

00:06:53: Let me talk to you so real quick, hold on, hold on.

00:07:03: Apparently I'm not that rapper that y'all thought I was.

00:07:06: Nah, I was brought up in envy, I wasn't taught the love.

00:07:09: If

00:07:09: said n***a had what I wanted, then said n***a would take it off or he caught a slug.

00:07:13: Give me that Your honor was expendable when you said it before, judge I'm a debt to the Lord above I am With his health spying that I was blessed with a portion of.

00:07:21: I possess like the broadened grudge.

00:07:22: Yes But the true horror is The gift is in the present, you never know what tomorrow gives.

00:07:27: When life was like contra forever

00:07:28: blowing them cartridges Black, black Never hung.

00:07:31: with the sports players and awkward kids Nah I gravitated to hallways and abandoned houses.

00:07:36: One man who couldn't stand Took the stand.

00:07:38: ironically, now I stand for thousands.

00:07:41: Mama, please forgive me.

00:07:43: I know you think I rap, but I still squeeze the millies and ten keys to Billy.

00:07:47: The label sent

00:07:48: A&Rs, but the corner put ARs in

00:07:50: the hands of thieves to kill me.

00:07:52: Mama, please forgive us.

00:07:53: Just take this money, please consider.

00:07:56: You are where you at, the streets is with us.

00:07:58: Remember back when they were called police to get us.

00:08:01: Now we trick champagne on the beach in Venice.

00:08:04: I see you, Lewis.

00:08:05: It's hard to teach beginners.

00:08:07: But how you reach up is who hardly eat for dinner.

00:08:09: How you reach them?

00:08:11: They gotta leech the sinner Sinner streets, but homie the streets is loose.

00:08:15: I'm not that rapper that y'all thought I was.

00:08:18: I was robbing and shooting before I caught a buzz Had one foot in the corner office The other on the corner cautious to offer drugs Puck deals or drug dealers Was never taught.

00:08:27: the buzz Contracts on how an ex con acts Convacked you.

00:08:30: This can't be a war with no contact.

00:08:32: This beyond rap Business ain't personal.

00:08:35: I heard a few people utter the words But utter my personal business.

00:08:38: I'm hurting you And that's just me

00:08:41: Cause I

00:08:41: don't make my threats public.

00:08:42: Now don't forget much, think history was my best

00:08:45: subject.

00:08:45: I don't regret much, that mystery

00:08:47: is the best.

00:08:48: What if,

00:08:48: hmm, let me think about that.

00:08:49: Either you press a

00:08:50: key or bounce a ball Running up in Def Jam, they had no reason to doubt them all In front of LA Reed, still smelling of weed and alcohol.

00:08:57: I came from the ignorance, belligerent But knowing where I came from makes what I'm doing now more significant.

00:09:03: Mama please forgive us.

00:09:04: Just take this money please, consider Please, you are with you at the streets, it's with us back when they were called police to get us.

00:09:12: Now we trick champagne on the beach in Venice.

00:09:15: I see you Lewis.

00:09:16: It's hard to teach beginners, but how you reach, too hardly eat for dinner.

00:09:21: How you reach them then, then God unleashed the sinner.

00:09:24: You in the streets, but homie the streets is in us.

00:09:27: DJ King Flow.

00:09:35: I'm immaculate with the pen, I'm so accurate in.

00:09:47: Come have a threesome with this Mac,

00:09:49: she this ratchet to hit your friend.

00:09:50: I'm back in this bitch again, I've been trapping from six

00:09:53: through ten.

00:09:53: I'm in the kitchen, whipping up, cooking crack.

00:09:56: Then I hit the gym, I do my gym both well.

00:09:58: Now watch as I float away at my boat sail.

00:10:00: Don't hate this.

00:10:00: choking from eat, throat, and riding my coattail.

00:10:03: I smoke L's and beat up rappers, then watch me post bail.

00:10:06: Then won't tell shit, see this how a brick of that dope smells Holding this fuck, set up shop, open shit up.

00:10:12: It ain't a bearish when I say we was putting coke in the truck.

00:10:15: Look, I hope you can duck, cause I put the scope in the tuck And I'm shooting from every angles till you get multiple cuts.

00:10:22: Tell these rappers I'm in my bag, I know they shook.

00:10:25: I wrote them books, so this chapter is getting bad.

00:10:27: Shit is autobiographic, I crafted to get the cash, you wanna-.

00:10:50: Sometimes you gotta go crossin' markets.

00:11:01: Sometimes you gotta do XO kickback.

00:11:22: Get irrational curses, curses.

00:11:28: Feel all these songs.

00:11:34: G-Niggas ain't cold, ain't cold.

00:11:46: Some of these niggas ain't Tento Really.

00:12:17: they ain't like ho, like ho I'ma keep it G, yeah I'ma keep it G. Yeah, I'ma keep it G. Some of these niggas ain't real.

00:13:36: Some of these niggas ain't cold.

00:14:33: Some of these niggas ain't tento.

00:14:51: I'ma keep it G. I'ma keep

00:15:09: it

00:15:12: G. You try to get to know me.

00:15:14: You see that I'm the best of homies For ever, keep it real, I was never phony And I'm always on time like a metronome With a work ethic that resembles Kobe, a liar, myself or never.

00:15:22: I get lonely, I'm the boss and I will get respect like Tony.

00:15:25: Hold up, exactly who this is.

00:15:27: Six-two, making big moves, I'm a big dog.

00:15:31: Who this is, got sick from the legacy, the locks of luck.

00:15:39: You know exactly who this is.

00:15:41: Hey, I've been getting everything, what more can I say?

00:15:45: What more can I say?

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00:16:41: Must ain't got the cash flow, this hoes gone from out bro lab Big toys like Hasbro, Forty on me like Has, Ignorance like Ashove.

00:16:50: That last ball was obnoxious, thinkin' deep in my subconscious Couple racks in the front too, but it's three grams in my sub pocket.

00:16:57: Hittin' licks while the fuzz watchin', tour dates.

00:16:59: we was drug shopping.

00:17:00: You ain't never been hands on, you ain't like that low bus stoppin' Next ball like I'm club hoppin', I'm a nigga that love profit And give me power like plug sockets, you less value like flood watches.

00:17:10: The bank is a dub.

00:17:12: stop it.

00:17:12: My wine shooting like Clay Thompson Side line of the game with it But I'm still ballin' like I'm James Johnson.

00:17:17: What more can I say?

00:17:18: bout it?

00:17:19: Listen closer nigga that's death, twenty-twenty-five Let's fact rap Yo shit dull like Matt Black.

00:17:24: Every time that I rap rap You know the voice.

00:17:27: like Jack Black.

00:17:27: I'ma

00:17:28: keep countin'

00:17:28: these rap raps.

00:17:29: No stove god.

00:17:30: but I'm back back It's Ricky with more than I say.

00:17:32: I put the numbers up.

00:17:33: I'ma run it up.

00:17:34: I'ma keep gettin' to the peak.

00:17:36: If you ain't one of us I'ma make life funny Cause you only gettin' in the way I show the traits, love, they reciprocate, I swear, I be getting everything, damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it.

00:18:18: Shout at my bitch.

00:18:25: The official bestie,

00:18:32: I let her wrestle, bring her plumb, I'm solving the end.

00:19:20: Nigga, some issue, be careful who you seen in this street.

00:19:25: Just marksman, my daughter's a sharp as a blade, the guard is amazed.

00:19:30: The way this dude far from they grays, far from full gaze, to make me set you carcass ablaze.

00:19:34: Jump on the plate, cap, a tape, whack, I'm seized, with the illest degrees.

00:19:40: I'll see.

00:19:41: your bitch agrees, cause she feelin' the streets, to get us a beast.

00:19:44: You never find a king on his knees.

00:19:46: I got the mirror when the freeze.

00:19:48: I will drop him with an Estee My drug record.

00:19:51: longer work than S-Rom.

00:19:57: A good at multitasking, come on!

00:20:39: Never had a duty.

00:20:39: course, where you be soft of my activision I bet your watches never pack the pistol.

00:20:44: I bet your watch that you the type that niggas laugh at like they laughing with you.

00:20:48: Suburban, turban, earhors, worthy of a purpose, knocking power out of niggas' urges.

00:20:52: The rock perform beginning hook before they close the curtains.

00:20:55: He's not your person stemming while I'm doing body damaging and all my verses Now that I exposed my controller, hyper hose, stereo, type of flow of a lightning bolt Blast and getters.

00:21:05: when I'm high in boats, choppin' in the night to lift a slice in poke.

00:21:09: Any Trump supporter with the right to vote Fitting all bitches, getting fixes for the highest those You hate trying to smoke, and it gets you where the price is low.

00:21:17: Gunshots and throwing darts, only aiming hearts To those comparing slavery to Auschwitz.

00:21:22: First person shooter throwing shots, but you're optimist Only known for crashing out, depending on what car I'm in.

00:21:28: Seven M and gold chain in the house, until the market flips.

00:21:31: Never gave a four after the hardship, my type is so anonymous Watchin' Oxygen when mothers when blowin' They back out, they sickin' cartridges.

00:21:40: No Narcissist, none of that Dog don't know what you pissing on a barkin' at, forty mils Crackin' Jacks to have a passage to start to rap.

00:21:48: What happens when I bought my fish and I give up my fish?

00:21:56: That's a fly bow tie, sharp as a tack, tabernacle rappers back, like cooking crack.

00:22:01: Look at that, look at that.

00:22:03: Do the knowledge while the gods rally, New York to Cali, classic nights to sway valleys.

00:22:08: Welcome to slang alley, do rag, dynasty gang, audience game, outage.

00:22:12: Most of these rappers confide in stylish, because they hold stylish, stylish.

00:22:16: Make medallions, respond violent, and I'ma spread your body parts like thousand dollars.

00:22:21: This is more where that came from.

00:22:23: Stay in your lane son.

00:22:24: Don't make me have to flame something All because you came frontin'.

00:22:28: This is Hunchback.

00:22:29: Hold the Gat Hip Hop Where we got the Gat from.

00:23:23: I said I'ma hit him with the same Valentine's Massacre.

00:24:52: I don't care who.

00:24:53: they CC like sabbatheum, bloodbathemium, big biscuit blow in the back of ya, silencer on the mat, now that's spectacular.

00:25:00: Flash, I'm right back at ya, baby, boom back at ya, loaded pitotag and a smack of ya, either way, y'all, I'm coming for blood, count Dracula, how

00:25:09: the fuck all these rappers

00:25:10: act as black characters, huh?

00:25:14: Y'all sh- no judge when I lay laws, when I lay bars.

00:25:18: Flash, nigga, everything I lay's hard, and I don't think about it, when I speak up, it gets you on your soul.

00:25:32: On the search for hit treasures and lost gold Every level got a crossroad.

00:25:38: Keep your

00:25:38: head on the swift on your back Front-tex and you

00:25:41: boss mode The package wholesale like Costco Devil on the search for lost souls For a lil liquor take a shot to the level Nick.

00:25:50: take fair chances Tryna make the watch glow.

00:25:53: Remember everything that glitter.

00:25:54: come with a call.

00:25:55: I ain't finished the rhyme yet.

00:25:58: Drop a verse and take a walk.

00:25:59: Gotta make sure it.

00:26:00: digest Make a beat, it's a bomb threat.

00:26:04: Pollate me on your bed and slip.

00:26:05: I green check the contest.

00:26:07: I still keep the heat and the

00:26:09: arm rest.

00:26:09: He's on fire.

00:26:10: The release was all net.

00:26:12: Shoot the shepherd, take control of the flock.

00:26:14: Shake the game up, I'm trying to get the soul to the pop.

00:26:17: Fred said, we the people, not the pig.

00:26:20: Revolutionary leader, like he's on the bridge.

00:26:23: I'm all in, like I know it's a win.

00:26:25: Wayne King, Four Queens, I ain't throwing it in.

00:26:29: Fresh as owl toys, you know what it is.

00:26:31: The

00:26:31: wild cowboy, I be rollin' my

00:26:33: six Beep-pop parked the horse right in front of his crib Saw it off-masked on like you don't want it with G On the search for hidden treasures that lost gold.

00:26:42: Every level got a crossroad, keep your head on the swivel.

00:26:44: If I'm texting you boss mode, it mean I'm here to deliver the package wholesale like Costco The devil on the search for lost souls.

00:27:10: Yo, yo, can you hear

00:27:11: me, bro?

00:27:12: I can.

00:27:13: What's up, man?

00:27:14: It's been

00:27:14: a while.

00:27:15: Oh, yeah, it's been a while, man.

00:27:16: Nice to connect with you again.

00:27:19: Absolutely.

00:27:19: What you at nowadays?

00:27:20: I'm still in France, man.

00:27:22: I'm on the West Coast.

00:27:23: I moved, though.

00:27:23: I was not too far from Paris, and now I'm on the West Coast, not too far from the Oceans, so everything good.

00:27:29: Nice.

00:27:30: Yep.

00:27:31: Nice.

00:27:33: Well, for those that don't know, we're here on the Mixtapatic radio show, syndicated show.

00:27:38: You know we broadcasting worldwide.

00:27:40: We have over thirty countries broadcasting the show, so we here.

00:27:44: And today I'm with the legendary Rats cast.

00:27:46: Man, how you doing?

00:27:48: I'm good, brother.

00:27:49: You know.

00:27:50: Trying to grow up and be like you.

00:27:53: Well I can say the same man.

00:27:57: How's your day going so far bro?

00:27:59: Oh it's good man.

00:28:00: Busy.

00:28:01: Staying on top of everything man.

00:28:02: Just uh you know living life.

00:28:05: Yes sir.

00:28:05: Always gotta be busy man.

00:28:07: One of the hardest working MCs out there.

00:28:09: Real talk.

00:28:10: Gratitude.

00:28:11: Gratitude.

00:28:12: Yeah

00:28:12: my G. You know we have a Tradition in a mixed apathetic show.

00:28:16: The last time we did an interview together, I think it was like four years ago, something like that.

00:28:21: I asked, who were your favorite DJ?

00:28:24: And you told me DJ Kid Capri.

00:28:26: So is it still the case or you want to mention somebody else?

00:28:30: Let's see, who's my favorite DJ right now?

00:28:34: You know what?

00:28:34: I'm going to be honest with you, man.

00:28:37: I've watched him step his game up.

00:28:39: He helps me.

00:28:40: I throw a party once a month.

00:28:42: Me and my man Swoops is called Five Mikes here in LA and we hope to bring it around the world.

00:28:46: But man, I really watched Fat Lip from the far side step his DJ game up.

00:28:52: So he's just been very impressive, you know, honing his craft as a really incredible MC, you know, to really finding his passion with DJing.

00:29:07: I'm gonna give it to Fat Lip, man.

00:29:09: My man Lip been doing this stuff.

00:29:11: Yeah, shout out to him man, shout out to Falsight too, man.

00:29:14: Legendary in the building.

00:29:15: And you just mentioned the Five Mike's Lounge in LA.

00:29:19: You know, I was gonna ask you about that.

00:29:21: Like, can you tell the people, you know, the concept around that and what you guys are doing out there?

00:29:26: Yeah, man.

00:29:26: So, I think one thing that's kind of missing, especially in LA, you know, I feel like hip hop, like quality hip hop.

00:29:38: It doesn't matter if it's old school, new school, you know, you know, there's people like, you know, who had a rap soul or Kendrick Lamar, you know, there's always dope MCs, right?

00:29:49: But as far as like the mainstream of it, I feel like we kind of lost that community, especially in LA and really more specifically, just in America, I feel like in Germany and France, there's still these pockets where, you know, there's still some hip hop supporters, whether it's festivals that primarily support hip-hop, with Poland, you know, whatever.

00:30:08: And so what we wanted to do instead of complaining about it is, you know, bring that back.

00:30:12: There used to be some really dope parties when I was younger.

00:30:18: Like, I mean, younger, younger.

00:30:20: Like, I wasn't even supposed to get into them.

00:30:22: I was younger.

00:30:22: I was like sixteen and they were twenty-one-year-old.

00:30:24: gloves and like iced tea and, and, and, and, like, after being bought, whatever, like they had clubs out in that lake.

00:30:32: It was like water in the bush and funk jungle and all these dope parties and then later on battle cat and then with DJ all these dope clubs.

00:30:39: So we just wanted to bring that back.

00:30:41: man have a have a club um a lounge a party really a party that focused on uh bringing the community the hip hop community back together because LA's big and and so it's kind of spread out like the DJs will have their parties In one part and it's almost like it's strictly about DJs and then like the B boys are have some community over here and even the you know, like Mexicans have their hip-hop shit and it's in this one place and like not everybody knows.

00:31:14: so we are just trying to not take away from all those places but have a place where we all come together like even a Crenshaw area is a lot of a lot of like black female talent like dope ass MCs and it's like we're all split apart instead of I think we're stronger together.

00:31:32: So Five Mikes to answer your question, Five Mikes is really just a lounge where the whole point is to.

00:31:38: usually, you know, we'll try to have like a guest DJ.

00:31:42: We have our house DJs, Fat Lip is one of our house DJs, my man, Pratt Rush.

00:31:47: We usually have a celebrity, like, you know, a guest DJ.

00:31:49: We've had a lot of different people.

00:31:51: We have Will.

00:31:51: I Am, we've had RZA, you know what I mean?

00:31:55: We've had Bone thugs, you know, whatever corrupt like a guest DJ and maybe a guest host.

00:32:04: And sometimes that turns it to these impromptu shows where you know mad lion pulls up and mad lion and Onyx are performing and the crowd goes crazy.

00:32:16: So we it's been really really amazing and we got our next one coming up this A couple of days Thursday, so yeah Yeah, I think it's still Tuesday over there in France.

00:32:31: So yeah, yeah.

00:32:32: In two days, we have our next five banks and it's gonna be dope.

00:32:36: We got Kwame, the legendary Kwame, only you, the rhythm.

00:32:42: So he's got a new album out.

00:32:44: So we're doing our first actual album release party for Kwame.

00:32:49: We got Mellow Man Ace, who's a legend.

00:32:54: especially on the West and he's guest hosting and DJ Charisma who's a legendary DJ out here.

00:33:00: so and making sure the ladies have a get supported too.

00:33:03: So that's another part about Five Minds.

00:33:05: We really want our women to remember that you can come to hip-hop shows too because nowadays it's like they either go to like Chris Brown or they go to like Super Ratchet or they go to like You know what I mean?

00:33:20: Like some gang bang gang bang or some super R&B, but like the hip hop stuff, especially in America.

00:33:27: It's like, you know, we got to remind the ladies like it's cool.

00:33:30: You can, you know, it's cool.

00:33:31: Go support, you know, whoever that is.

00:33:35: But, you know, also you can support, you know.

00:33:40: Nas or, you know what I'm saying, or RazzKaz.

00:33:44: You know, everybody's not gonna be Kendrick Lamar and Snoop Dogg, but you can come support dope lyricism and still have a good time and have a party.

00:33:51: So it's been good.

00:33:52: Yeah, for sure, man.

00:33:53: And we gotta show love to the ladies, man.

00:33:55: There's so many female DJs, MCs, graffiti writers, you know, big bankers too, man.

00:34:01: They put in the work, so, you know, we gotta show love, man.

00:34:06: Yeah, yeah, that's really one of the big... That's why I call it... Five Mike's Hip Hop Ladies Lounge.

00:34:12: I want the ladies to know that.

00:34:14: Cause it, you know, ain't gonna lie, a party full of, you know, hard legs, a whole bunch of sausage fest.

00:34:19: I don't want to be around a whole bunch of dudes, not even that, you know, you trying to touch on them.

00:34:23: You just, it's good to have beautiful women with talent and skill sets and have the ladies having a good time.

00:34:29: Cause if the ladies having a good time, then everybody else has a good time.

00:34:32: Of course man, you know, we got respect, you know, you show respect.

00:34:35: so you get respect back and show them that it's possible, you know, to get in the club, perform and not every have like a hundred dudes on the highlight, you know.

00:34:44: Exactly, exactly.

00:34:46: Yeah, man, talk about female MCs.

00:34:48: I heard, you know, some new fire shit from Shen War and rap, SOTY, I heard the stuff she did with Mad Live.

00:34:55: Man, everything

00:34:56: is good to hear that, you know what I'm saying?

00:34:58: Yeah, man.

00:34:59: You know, Mad Lib is fire.

00:35:01: So I just did something to a Mad Lib beat for a friend of mine.

00:35:08: I can't remember what it was.

00:35:11: Maybe it's Planet Asia.

00:35:12: Oh, no, I planted Asians on the song, I think, but I did a song for my man, Trice, Trice State, who's down gold chain.

00:35:20: But yeah, we just shot that video.

00:35:22: So shout out to Man.

00:35:23: Live, always.

00:35:24: Now, yeah, man, shout out to him.

00:35:25: He influenced a whole generation of beat makers, you know,

00:35:29: including myself.

00:35:32: Yes, sir.

00:35:33: So the five mics.

00:35:34: now, is this something that you do every week?

00:35:37: No, it's monthly, once a month.

00:35:39: OK.

00:35:40: So we usually do every Thursday of the month.

00:35:45: Okay, dope man.

00:35:47: And do you think that the European hip-hop scene and the European audience kind of influenced you into doing that type of events, you know, like bringing people together and, you know, bringing back the real hip-hop spirit of peace, love, unity and having fun, man?

00:36:05: I think so.

00:36:06: You know, hip-hop... is universal in everybody's inspiration.

00:36:10: And I would say, you know, it definitely would be, you know, being in France or being in Poland or being, you know, at a hip hop camp or, you know, going to Australia, Adelaide and watching these communities, you know, and really embracing and loving the culture, not always about what's popular, but really more about what's dope.

00:36:36: You know, some things can get very popular, but it's not good.

00:36:39: And so, you know, aesthetically, just supporting the culture and not trying to, you know, in America, they've almost tried to, they tried to make it where it was like, oh, if you're not a teen, then you're not, you can't be important in the music anymore.

00:36:53: You're old, but I, you know, you know, the argument always was like, nobody tells that to, you know, Bruce Springsteen or Cher or, you know, Duran Duran or whoever, like, you know, Like, they only made that age thing in rap.

00:37:09: They don't even do that with pop singers.

00:37:10: Like, they let people, you know, they let people become, be artists and keep growing.

00:37:15: And so I really, you know, I appreciate worldwide what hip hop is and everybody has something to say.

00:37:22: Every, you know, I want to shout out my man, OSTR from Poland, because OSTR came out here and, uh, He worked on a whole album with evidence that's coming out soon.

00:37:34: But aside from that, he gave me an ill record for my project, you know, OSTRs, you know, a dope producer and a dope, you know, dope MC and a legend.

00:37:42: And, you know, it's this community.

00:37:44: And so, yeah, definitely, you know, I salute, I salute, you know, Europe, collectively, I salute Africa, I salute Asia, anywhere where any hip hop is universal.

00:37:58: So whoever's, pushing the culture forward, I salute

00:38:01: you.

00:38:02: It is good that you're doing those cyber things in America because you know I talked to Master Ace and Marco Polo like like two years ago I think in Paris and they told me something that I kind of blew my mind.

00:38:13: like they say when it comes to Europe they do sold out shows.

00:38:17: and when they go back to the country in the U.S.

00:38:20: sometimes they can rack in front of thirty people which you know kind of make me sad man.

00:38:25: and it's good that you're bringing back those type of parties those type of evidence to show people in America that you don't need to be super poppin you know saying and just be talented put out good music.

00:38:38: so you know

00:38:38: it's dope that you do it.

00:38:39: Yep bringing it.

00:38:40: you know the tribe is there's many of us all over the planet is just, I think a lot of times there hasn't been a communication where we all know that we exist.

00:38:51: There might be a hip hop head that lives in your building, you know, and that there's people to fellowship with, enjoy the same music, love all of, you know, all of different aspects of the culture.

00:39:01: And they may be a doctor or a lawyer or a police officer or the trash man or the hot, you know, girl in college that you never know who who enjoys the same, you know, culture as you.

00:39:13: And so it's good to, you know, start bringing that community together.

00:39:16: And that's the goal.

00:39:17: Yeah, man, hip hop is for everybody.

00:39:18: It's funny that you mentioned the police officers too, because I didn't answer you with the DJ Ace from New York.

00:39:24: You know, he's a New York NYPD police officer, but can't get down on the turntables like crazy.

00:39:29: Yeah.

00:39:31: It's for everybody.

00:39:33: Yes, it is.

00:39:34: I think in, well, it's the end of twenty twenty five now, but we live the wonderful year for hip hop.

00:39:40: And what do you think about that?

00:39:41: Like it was since like Nas and Mass Appeal decided to shut things down, you know, and drive albums from the legends back to back to back.

00:39:50: It was crazy.

00:39:51: I think for me, I think it's one of the oldest years in hip hop since a long time, man.

00:39:57: I definitely agree, man.

00:39:59: I think I think Mass Appeal has done a phenomenal job.

00:40:03: it's just been a lot and it's not even over with.

00:40:05: they got more stuff dropping and they just dropped them off deep album shouts out to you know to to Havoc and Bob.

00:40:13: you know my man Storm who manages Havoc and myself and Alchemist did a great job now as mass appeal.

00:40:19: so uh salute to them.

00:40:21: um I just think a lot of people did a lot of good work.

00:40:24: There's way too many people to mention it this year.

00:40:27: Like it just was a lot of great music.

00:40:29: It just never stopped.

00:40:31: I'm waiting for the Renta and Feeble album to come out this month.

00:40:37: So many folks are going out man.

00:40:39: You know, we kind of talked about like

00:40:41: the past.

00:40:43: We kind of broke that thing.

00:40:45: You know, ever since we've seen the new Mob Deep album or the new Clips album, You know, people are not thinking the same way now because they see people that's over fifty years old, they can kick ass, you know what I'm saying, in terms of pure MC skills and show the young ones how it's supposed to be done, you know?

00:41:06: Yeah, well, you know, I would argue that, you know... Age never, you know, as long as you're legal, you know, once you pass eighteen, you're legal, you know, but aside from that, there's no age bracket.

00:41:19: You got to think about everything you do.

00:41:21: You become a master after ten thousand hours.

00:41:23: So you don't get odds are?

00:41:27: you don't get worse.

00:41:28: You get better with time, just like wine.

00:41:32: And so that was a stupid thing to think anyway.

00:41:35: That's what corporations try to say to try to get you to buy the new iPhone or get the other car or buy some other shoes.

00:41:44: But meanwhile, then everybody goes back and still wants the Jordans.

00:41:50: The Jordan ones, especially if you had the original Jordan ones, is way more than buying whatever these Jordans are now.

00:41:58: You understand what I'm saying?

00:41:59: So that's the trick.

00:42:00: to tell you not to value quality and skill set.

00:42:05: And so it doesn't matter about the age, it matters about putting in the work.

00:42:09: And if you hone in your craft to getting better and better at it.

00:42:12: And a smarter man than me, Lord Finesse said this to me one time, he said, which was a bar.

00:42:21: I think I'll put in a wrap, but I will give credit where it's due.

00:42:25: That's to you.

00:42:26: other rappers that steal my lines and you know who you are.

00:42:29: So quite a few of you, you bar stillers that don't give credit, give credit what the creditors do.

00:42:34: But anyway, Lord Finesse said one day he said, you know, rappers don't tear the Achilles.

00:42:43: And what he meant by that is we're not playing football or basketball or swimming.

00:42:48: So we don't, we don't, get these major injuries where we can't play no more.

00:42:54: Like Kobe, you know, his knee or LeBron or whatever.

00:42:57: Like we don't go through that.

00:42:59: We are using this and this.

00:43:02: So this just gets sharper and sharper if we, you know, work on it.

00:43:08: We're not, you know, having the box and then you keep getting hit and you get punch drunk.

00:43:12: So rappers on tear day killies, they tend to just get iller and iller and iller.

00:43:17: Yup, yup.

00:43:18: Yeah, yeah, man.

00:43:19: It keeps getting better, you know, like some fine wine, just like you say, bro.

00:43:24: And you know,

00:43:25: we still have some, you know, some classics from you that we still listen to now that you dropped like twenty, twenty-five years ago.

00:43:31: And you know, it's the music that's timeless to people,

00:43:34: you know.

00:43:35: And to you, what's the secret to making timeless music?

00:43:41: I don't have any particular recipe for that.

00:43:44: I'm just always trying to be pretty honest with myself and what I've realized is that sometimes I'm writing to myself, so it's really personal.

00:43:53: Sometimes I'm writing to people I love, sometimes I'm writing to my enemies.

00:44:00: But usually it's a time capsule of some sort.

00:44:02: So I'm usually like, this is how I think, this is how I feel, this is kind of what I want or what I don't want.

00:44:08: or, you know, or, you know, if I was in that cypher and I was battling somebody, this is what I wanted to say to them, you know, so it's bringing out that still sharpening still.

00:44:20: that competition, that competitive drive.

00:44:23: So that's really what it is.

00:44:25: I try to, the thing that I also try to do is a lot of people pick one thing.

00:44:32: I'm the trap rapper.

00:44:35: I'm the Crip rapper.

00:44:37: I'm the Blood rapper.

00:44:38: I'm the Lover rapper.

00:44:39: I'm the Positive rapper.

00:44:41: I've never been at.

00:44:42: what I've tried to be honest is about the human experience.

00:44:46: So sometimes I'm upset.

00:44:48: Sometimes I'm drunk having fun at the club.

00:44:52: Sometimes I'm understanding some social, political stuff.

00:44:56: Sometimes I'm talking about history and talking about racism and all this economic stuff.

00:45:03: Sometimes I'm just in a cypher and I'm trying to battle everybody else in a period.

00:45:13: That part is... So I think what it gives me is the ability to cover a whole bunch of different feelings, because that's where we are as human beings.

00:45:23: We're complicated.

00:45:24: We have lots of different feelings.

00:45:26: We be in different moods.

00:45:29: Depended.

00:45:30: Like even today, you can wake up happy, something happens, you get a bill, now you're stressed out, like, ah man, this bill, or my car broke down, or, you know what I'm saying, like, or, you know, your life is not just one constant.

00:45:43: Oh, I just saw dope.

00:45:44: Or, oh, I just, you know, I'm super positive.

00:45:47: Like, life is complicated.

00:45:49: I think that's something that helps me write in a way that ends up being relatable later on in life, because I'm still just dealing with my life.

00:45:59: You also take outside the box.

00:46:01: Like, you don't want to lock yourself into a box.

00:46:04: And just like you say, just follow

00:46:07: one lane,

00:46:07: but you're able to get many different sides of life and let those sides inspire you.

00:46:13: to write some dope content, you know?

00:46:16: Yes, sir.

00:46:18: And I've seen you hanging out on IG with the OG Ice Tea, man.

00:46:24: What's going on with Ice Tea, bro?

00:46:27: Oh, man, it was awesome, man.

00:46:29: I saw him two days in a row.

00:46:30: I went over to his house.

00:46:32: And he's a big brother to me.

00:46:34: He's always been.

00:46:36: One of the realest people especially as an artist as a somebody I looked up to and bought his albums and you know, and he from the West and you know,

00:46:47: I uh

00:46:48: He's just always been genuine real genuine dude, and uh It was really cool to go lock in go hang out with big bro.

00:46:55: We had a blast.

00:46:56: We knocked out.

00:46:58: he working on the album and me him and he's got.

00:47:01: there's a brother named Murkums from Arizona Murkums Geron.

00:47:04: He's dope and Ice really took a liking to him, and there's a few other people, but it was dope.

00:47:11: So we knocked out, honestly, we knocked out like three records in one night, and they're crazy.

00:47:17: Like two of them for Ice, and then one for myself.

00:47:21: And it was like Charlemagne, the producer, not the radio person.

00:47:29: Charlemagne did, I think, two of them, and then my man Rubio, Louis Rubio, did.

00:47:34: did the other one.

00:47:35: But yeah man, we were in that cooking.

00:47:37: We cooked up.

00:47:38: No, no, I can't wait to hear that man.

00:47:40: Make sure you send me those records so I can spin them in the show.

00:47:43: Oh

00:47:44: man, that's gonna be on Ice.

00:47:46: His two is his two.

00:47:47: Yeah, but then mine, when it's ready man, I think we got some plans for my record with Ice.

00:47:54: We got some plans for it.

00:47:55: I think it's gonna be crazy.

00:47:57: dope dope man.

00:47:58: i like the the fact that you know a guy of this caliber.

00:48:01: you know even people out there in europe.

00:48:02: they see him on tv.

00:48:03: you know with the movies the tv shows that he does.

00:48:07: but when you look at him you know like on instagram and stuff he always show love to the mcs especially the real mcs.

00:48:15: yeah

00:48:16: man you know like he's.

00:48:17: you know doing work with you he didn't work with all japan you know showed mad love to him.

00:48:23: yeah It's

00:48:24: so dope, man.

00:48:25: You never forget about the culture.

00:48:27: He

00:48:28: never does.

00:48:29: He really loves the culture.

00:48:31: And think about it, man.

00:48:32: He did the documentary with BBC.

00:48:34: He did the art of rap.

00:48:35: And it wasn't about who had the most cars or who was the most popular, who gets the most likes on Instagram.

00:48:45: It was about the skill set, brining.

00:48:49: So he cares about the skill set, the art form.

00:48:53: Yeah, he cares about the culture.

00:48:54: And he always been doing that, you know, ever since the eighties.

00:48:58: And it's so dope to still see him do that, man.

00:49:01: So much love to the OG.

00:49:03: To the OG, man.

00:49:04: Yes, absolutely.

00:49:06: Yeah, man.

00:49:07: And let's talk about the new music that you recently dropped, man.

00:49:11: Like, what made you want to link up with Smith and Wesson to do that forty-two single?

00:49:16: Ah, man.

00:49:17: So, for one, you know, I'm a Black Moon fan, I'm a Duckdown fan, and, but most people don't really realize is that basically, probably through the process of the Shining Smith & Wesson's first album, they signed to party, their distribution, Duckdown went to party.

00:49:40: So, you know, everybody became my label mates.

00:49:48: So the next Black Moon album was, you know, Starranging them, OGC, Elder Skeleton, all of them, those are priority records.

00:49:57: And we toured together, so we would have to go on promo tours.

00:49:59: So we all been bros since at least, ninety-six-ish, seven-ish.

00:50:09: So we've always been, you know, good brothers.

00:50:12: It's funny because we just talked.

00:50:13: I just finished talking to Tekken still.

00:50:16: So what's it like before I talk to you?

00:50:18: And, you know, we've just always been good bros, man.

00:50:23: And what I realized is that, you know, time is not guaranteed.

00:50:32: You know, Pum was amazingly nice person to me and so was Big L and so all these people that I was a little shy.

00:50:40: And I didn't, you know, I pun more than once would just be like, yo, we should, you know, we should do a song.

00:50:45: And I was too shy.

00:50:46: Like, I was like, man, you pun, I didn't want to bother him.

00:50:48: And what I realized is that time is not guaranteed.

00:50:51: So part of my bucket list as a fan is to rock with my bro's.

00:50:54: Like, we've been on tours together.

00:50:56: We did shows together.

00:50:56: We've been in studio or, you know, all this stuff.

00:50:59: But like, let's make something that we care about at least one time.

00:51:03: I hope to just continue to do it forever.

00:51:04: But that was the whole thing to answer.

00:51:06: your question is, you know, I hit my bro's and was like, man, you know, we always say we got to do one, but I don't want to disappear off the planet.

00:51:16: And then we never get to do one.

00:51:17: So let's do one.

00:51:18: And, you know, it was a beautiful thing.

00:51:21: It was like, y'all, let's do it.

00:51:22: And then my man, Amadeus, cooked up a couple of options.

00:51:27: We settled on Sunday.

00:51:28: We got in and we got a rock and roll, man.

00:51:31: We were really great.

00:51:32: And forty two is really.

00:51:36: forty two is about not Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson.

00:51:43: So, Jackie Robinson was the doc.

00:51:46: He was the first black player in the major leagues, Jackie Robinson.

00:51:50: Jackie Robinson also played for the Dodgers, but at the time they were the Brooklyn Dodgers, which is, you know, hence, forty-two.

00:51:59: So, forty-two that the Dodgers went from Brooklyn to LA.

00:52:05: me and Smitha Wesson from Bucktown all the way to LA, so Bucktown came to see Arson.

00:52:10: So, Bucktown and see Arson, that's the forty-two.

00:52:13: We reppin' that Dodger Blue, we reppin' that, you know what I'm sayin'?

00:52:15: That Brooklyn, California, that, you know what I'm sayin'?

00:52:18: That Los Angeles, New York, you know?

00:52:21: We puttin' that smash together.

00:52:23: And yeah, man, the recipe was crazy, man.

00:52:25: And then I'd be remiss, he's from Brooklyn too.

00:52:28: My man, I Fresh, which is a really, really good friend of Fame.

00:52:31: Fame's in the video from MOP, and just all these brothers of mine, and so us coming together, doing something to salute our backstory, and that's even more historic, that Brooklyn LA connection was awesome.

00:52:47: Yeah

00:52:47: man, it completes the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the

00:53:05: year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of.

00:53:14: Yeah, man, we're pushing it.

00:53:16: That's the first release of the new album, and the album will drop next year.

00:53:20: But the album's called Leopardy Face.

00:53:25: Tell

00:53:25: me more about that, man.

00:53:26: I was about to ask you about that.

00:53:28: What's the concept behind the album?

00:53:31: Well, I was feeling some type of way, just period, about a lot of other things, even personally in my life, but even about the... the state of the politics of this country, you know, and I, you know, it's kind of where I felt like, it's kind of inspired by what I, with solo nights, solo nights is truer now than it was back then.

00:53:57: The things that I said were gonna happen, have a really taken shape.

00:54:01: And I was just a little frustrated, like it really is, I told you so, is what Liberty's face means.

00:54:07: I kind of like symbolizes, I told you what was gonna happen.

00:54:12: and you ignored me and you wanted all this stupid clown music.

00:54:16: And now you act like you're surprised that all this stuff happened.

00:54:20: So what I usually say is like fire is hot, water is wet, and leopards eat face.

00:54:28: They do.

00:54:29: You know, sharks bite off legs.

00:54:33: You know what I'm saying?

00:54:35: You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.

00:54:37: You knew, but you misunderstood the assignment.

00:54:40: You ignored what the facts were.

00:54:42: And now you're surprised.

00:54:44: So don't be surprised when the leopard eats your face.

00:54:46: So it was really that.

00:54:47: And this album is really a lot more aggressive.

00:54:51: I didn't want it to be extremely political.

00:54:54: I wanted it to be, you know, I took it more and made it more grounded, more street and more lyrical.

00:55:02: like MC shit.

00:55:03: I just wanted a little more battle rap-y, so the album was a little more grime-ier, then philosophical.

00:55:10: I mean, there's some records on there, but I wanted, you know, if it's called Leopardy's face, then it should feel like Leopardy in your face.

00:55:18: So the records are pretty much attacking you.

00:55:22: That's dope, man.

00:55:23: Are you going to do physical releases for that?

00:55:26: Like, draw vinyls, cassettes?

00:55:27: Yeah, we're gonna have vinyl.

00:55:30: I think we're gonna do a little bit of everything.

00:55:31: I think we're gonna go for cassettes and, you know, cassettes, maybe not CDs, but we plan on doing vinyl and some degree of cassettes.

00:55:41: Mm-hmm, dope.

00:55:42: I like the fact that cassettes are coming back, man.

00:55:45: I do too.

00:55:46: I like having

00:55:48: them.

00:55:48: Yeah, it's so dope, man.

00:55:49: There's a store in Paris that only sells cassette now.

00:55:52: That's sick.

00:55:52: That's awesome.

00:55:53: Yeah, that's so dope, man.

00:55:55: And we only have a few minutes left in this combo, man.

00:55:57: Do you have like any last words, you know, for your fans across the globe and advice that you can give to the young ones out there?

00:56:05: Oh, man, I would say my advice is try to be true to yourself.

00:56:10: Keep your head on swivel as we call it, you know what I'm saying?

00:56:14: Check your six.

00:56:15: You know what I'm saying?

00:56:16: I have a homie to check your six.

00:56:17: Your six is behind you.

00:56:18: That's like, you know, like on the clock.

00:56:21: So always check your six.

00:56:22: But, you know, make sure you look ahead.

00:56:25: I heard somebody say that tomorrow is a dream away.

00:56:31: I like that idea.

00:56:33: So, you know, I hope we can dream for a better world, better situations, more success for everybody.

00:56:41: And just, you know, Do what you can today and tomorrow's a dream away.

00:56:45: Yeah, yeah, we gotta stay optimistic, man.

00:56:47: In this crazy world that we live in, you know, spread the good vibes as much as we can.

00:56:52: You know, that's our mission in life, bro.

00:56:55: Yes, sir.

00:56:56: Yeah, yeah, man.

00:56:57: Well, I can't wait to hear the new project and make sure you send those records out.

00:57:00: You know, we're here to spin them all the time in a mixtape, a radio show.

00:57:05: We got you on every rotation all over Europe.

00:57:08: You know, we do it, man.

00:57:09: Thank you, King Flow.

00:57:10: Oh, I got to shout you out before we get off, because I just saw it on the gram.

00:57:14: I saw you got, what was it, volume fifty-eight or something?

00:57:17: Yup, fifty-eight, yup.

00:57:19: Yeah,

00:57:19: yeah, so congrats to you.

00:57:21: DJ King Flow, volume fifty-eight.

00:57:23: I saw my boy, Elle Gott was on there with his new, with his new joint.

00:57:27: So thank you for supporting us, man.

00:57:29: You always been like, you know, one hundred, man.

00:57:32: You always been ten toes, King Flow.

00:57:34: So I appreciate you, bro.

00:57:35: And send me some beats.

00:57:38: Come on, man.

00:57:38: Stop front.

00:57:39: I got you.

00:57:40: I got you.

00:57:40: I'm gonna send you a bunch of different shit.

00:57:42: I went into some jazz vibes, you know, those past few weeks.

00:57:45: So I'm gonna send you what I got, bro.

00:57:47: Hey, it's a beautiful thing.

00:57:48: Let's go.

00:57:49: Yeah, my man.

00:57:49: Well, thank you for your time again, Rascals.

00:57:52: And, you know, we'll be here to support, man.

00:57:55: That's how we do it for life, bro.

00:57:57: For life, bro.

00:57:57: Let's get it.

00:57:58: Yes,

00:57:58: sir.

00:57:59: Peace, man.

00:57:59: Take care.

00:58:00: Salute.

00:58:01: Salute, bro.