WEBVTT - #549 - Lord Sko 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:01.320 Apiece, Yo, it's loss. 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:05.240 Go to Newport Lord Jeff Hardy uptown Bootleg keV on 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:06.600 the way, Man, you know what it is. 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:07.360 Peace. 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:09.920 Hey, Before we start the episode, we're gonna remind everybody, Man, 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:12.280 we got one of the biggest radio shows in the country, 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:16.200 syndicated in almost one hundred cities all over. Shout out 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:19.239 to iHeartRadio. All right, some of the latest cities that 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:21.120 we've been able to add. Man, We want to give 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:23.120 a shout out to ninety three point nine to Beat 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:26.560 in Honolulu. That's right, Hawaii, We over there going crazy. 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:28.720 I also want to give a shout out Hot ninety 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:31.479 eight three and Tucson. Shout out to Tucson going crazy. 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:33.280 Also want to give a shout out to Wild ninety 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:35.760 four one in Tampa going crazy. 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:37.279 We just got Richmond. 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.559 We also just got the good folks in Bakersfield at 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:42.960 Hot one O four seven. So we're going crazy on 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:45.879 the radio with my partner James Andre Jefferson Junior for 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:48.360 the Bootleg keV Show. So make sure you tune in 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:51.760 and you can listen anywhere on that iHeart Radio app. 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:58.279 That's right, let's get into the interview Bootleg CAV podcast. Man, 0:00:58.280 --> 0:00:59.920 we got a special guest here. 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:01.800 Lord Scow. Welcome to La. 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:02.120 Man. 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.440 How we doing headline in your show? This is? Is 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:09.119 this your first headline show in LA. You've been here before? 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:10.840 Yeah, I've been here plenty of times. 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.880 I did my first show in Orange County yesterday saying 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:14.680 it and which. 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.280 Was cool but observatory. Yeah, I wasn't. 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:19.760 It was cool, man, it was you know, I felt 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:21.280 like Levin then, you know what I'm saying, sold a 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:21.959 bunch of merch. 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:22.479 You know what I'm saying. 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:24.000 I had a bunch of fans who pulled up with 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:27.000 like my old vinyls and stuff, and it was a 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:27.440 good time. 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:28.000 You know what I mean? 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:30.320 How long have you been rapping? 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:30.560 Brother? 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:32.480 Because like I think I first kind of came up 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:36.600 on you. I would say, right around like early twenty twenty. 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:38.240 I think I reached out to you sometime in twenty 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:40.160 twenty three. It was before it dropped your out in. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.720 Twenty I think last time I was out here, like 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:43.640 you reached out to me. 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.199 We missed each other that last time you were here. 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.120 Last time I was here. But it was like, yeah, 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:51.040 that's how it goes. But I'm glad to be here now. 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.360 But yeah, I just turned twenty one about a week ago. Oh, 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.880 you're a fucking child, I am, Yeah, unfortunately, but you 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.280 know that's what it is. But you know, I play 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.240 like kind of fucking around, like I'd say, when I 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.200 was probably twelve thirteen, it's just scribbling, like writing like rhymes, 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.880 not really even like making songs, but just kind of 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:11.560 like thinking of clever rhyms and shit. And then I 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.040 started like recording by the time I was probably like 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:17.560 fifteen fourteen, and then I started really really like taking 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:19.959 it seriously, like this is my only path in life. 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.520 For us, life is not worth living. When I was 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.960 like sixteen, Oh that's dope. Yeah, and then it's kind 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:27.919 of like I feel like every two years, like it's 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:30.560 like a gradual like level up of like what's going on? 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:30.840 You know. 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:32.400 Yeah, I mean I feel like too the type of 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:36.040 music you make is like it's obviously I feel like 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.240 being you know, out of New York Man is refreshing 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:40.880 because I feel like New York's gotten to the point 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:44.800 where we hear so much like the big shit that's 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:46.440 popped out of New York obviously in the last five 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:48.080 six years been the drill shit, you know. 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:49.920 Which is good. You know, I like a lot of 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:50.480 that shit, you know what. 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.160 I'm saying, But I feel like you're I feel like, 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:55.760 you know, you're you're doing a good job of representing 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:58.560 like the you know what, we what we grew up 0:02:58.880 --> 0:02:59.799 loving New York for. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.200 Right, right, But you know, at the same time, like 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.400 I feel like with that being said, which I definitely 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.000 take pride in, I also like want to make that 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:08.720 approachable for kids who's my age. 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:10.360 You know what I'm saying, No, for sure, because you 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.160 don't want to be the dude who only old heads 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:12.560 listen to. 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:13.920 Right, you know what I'm saying. 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.120 And sometimes I almost fear that I like embordering on 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:19.040 being that you know what I'm saying, But I also 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:22.880 know ultimately you know, obviously love to own my older fans, 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:24.400 but when I think Joey did a good job of 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.440 that going on this tour though, I will say like 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.200 there was definitely a couple of older cats in there 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:30.960 every night, but it was mainly like younger kids, like 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.120 I'd say, in the twenty some of them not even 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.680 twenty years old. You know how a fucking little twelve 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.040 year old kid came with a koojie sweater and like 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:41.160 George and Timberland's on like got the whole ghet. 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.120 Up at the whole fucking what is whole family? 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:44.520 Yeah? That shit was awesome, man. 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:45.960 You know what I'm saying, What do you how do 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:47.600 you feel like like you're able to kind of like 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:49.360 because I feel like, at the end of the day, man, 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:53.880 there's always like a appetite for like real shit, for 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.840 dope dope bars, for dope beats and shit. It's just 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.080 a little harder to cut through, especially when you're talking 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.520 like to a TikTok generation. Have you what has been 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:03.520 like the trick for you, like in terms of making 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:09.520 sure you're not you know, I guess only rapping to 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:10.160 old people? 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:11.560 Can I tell you? Can I tell you? 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.000 The truth is just not being a hater, you know 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.960 what I'm saying, Like like fucking with all types of music, 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.120 Like I'm not shying of them dudes, who's like yo, 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:20.159 turn off that ship? 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:21.960 Like I fucked with all types of music. 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:24.800 You know what I'm saying, Like I like doing shit 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.440 that's gonna catch people off guard, and like, you know, 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.880 having different influences within my shit, you know what I'm saying. 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.359 So I think it's honestly, just keeping options open because 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:36.880 I think for me and my place in New York especially, 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.279 like everybody knows me on all different sides of the shit. 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.200 I know the cats making jerk, I know a lot 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.360 of the drill cats. I know a lot of the 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.359 fashion cats. I know all the motherfuckers doing everything in 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.760 New York. I know the hardcore cast. Everything you know, 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.240 but everything I think we all have like a mutual 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:55.799 respect for each other because I'm not trying to invade 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:56.760 on what they're doing. 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.240 I'm not trying to like be like yo, I'm. 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.320 Gonna do this, but it's always it's a mutual respect 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.560 just because like we've been seeing each other, we've done 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:05.320 shows with each other, like all of that, you know 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.880 what I'm saying. So for sure, I think being open 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:09.280 minded in short, you know. 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.240 Yeah, I think being a hater too is a thing 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:13.200 that a lot of a lot of folks can that 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.000 we're being an elitist, like you know what I'm saying, Like. 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.480 Everybody is a hater truthfully, but like you know, and 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:21.960 it's and you know, you're allowed to not like things 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.000 to your own, but like you know, but don't go 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:25.960 out of your way to suck with it. 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.599 Fact like somebody's out here winning and people enjoy it 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:29.600 for what it is, Like. 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:31.880 There's so much music out there. If you don't like. 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:33.520 Something like that, you'll find something to do. 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:35.000 There's something out there for you. 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:36.240 What was it like? 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.159 Because for people who aren't too familiar with the New 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.960 York area, so Washington Heights is essentially uptown kind of 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:42.400 like near Harlem, right. 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:45.480 Like kind of in between like Harlem and the Bronx, 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:48.200 Like Dykeman is up there. That's a big part of like, 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:49.960 you know, it's kind of its own neighborhood, but it's. 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:54.040 What's that area like, it's a lot of Dominicans. 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.400 Are definitely very Dominican, but it's also very i'd say 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.280 community based, you know what I'm saying. Like I kind 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:02.640 of realized that it's almost like Chinatown but Dominican, you 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:06.120 know what I'm saying, Like, and people don't really think 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.320 about it that way in New York, I think just 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:09.760 because like. 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:14.080 It's just it's i'd say less populated. 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.320 Like people go through Chinatown to get to the Lower 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:18.160 to get to Soho, to do this or to do that, 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.400 and there's a new motherfucker going there to make a 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:24.599 TikTok about the five dollars dumplings every every every day, 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:26.400 you know. But in the Heights, it's more of a 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:29.520 like community that kind of stays within itself, you know 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:31.880 what I'm saying. I know people who just don't even 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:34.400 go downtown, like their whole life exists uptown, you know 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.640 what I'm saying, And like that's dope. But it's also 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:41.359 like it shows the community within that neighborhood, and I 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.760 feel like it's lacking that that type of backbone within 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:48.520 a lot of neighborhoods in New York, you know. And 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.839 I think to me, I'm getting old enough to start 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.400 to kind of become conscious and be like, oh, this 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:56.520 is different when from when I was younger, Like I 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:57.320 don't remember this. 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:00.160 Looking like that, Like she's changing, just changing, you know 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:00.680 what I'm saying. 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:02.400 Like, and I'm old enough to be like, wow, like 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:06.159 I actually have a memory from ten maybe twelve years ago. 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:08.080 I wasn't here this looked different or this. 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.800 Yeah, but I still feel like the Height still has 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:12.040 a level of familiarity. 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:13.440 Obviously it's coming up, but. 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:15.440 It has the gentrification hit up there. 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:17.240 It's like slowly creeping it. 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:22.720 It's creeping them in inwood indictment definitely where I'm from, 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.400 like kind of you know what I'm saying, Like there's 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:27.800 that like more towards Amsterdam. 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:29.640 They put up a hotel a few years ago, but 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:31.720 like I don't, like, I don't. I don't think anybody 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:33.600 goes to that hotel, bro, you know what I mean. 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:36.920 But for the most part, I was saying no though, 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:39.760 like you still got all the poppy shops everything that 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.920 you you know, it's like a it's very I'm trying 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.160 to think of a word, but it's like self servicing. 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:48.040 You know what I'm saying, r RIGHTLF, you really got 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:51.080 to leave exactly exactly like if you didn't want to leave, 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:51.880 you wouldn't. 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:52.720 Have to, were you? 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:56.480 So you when you flipped the big out Lifestyles of 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.240 the Poor and Dangerous cover for United Palace, you got 0:07:59.240 --> 0:07:59.800 to know when you. 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:04.520 Do that absolutely now now for sure, And and you know, 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:08.880 I think doing that was definitely a very big statement, 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:12.040 especially for someone so stament for you know what I'm saying. 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:12.200 And. 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:17.160 I think it still was something that I don't look 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:19.440 back on and regret though, you know what I'm saying. 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:20.880 No, no, because I think I think the album's dope, and 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:22.880 I think, like, I think you just got to kind 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.520 of know, like, all right, yeah, we got. 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:27.520 Some responsibilitility shoes and shoes. 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:29.160 But I also wasn't even trying to be like, yo, 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:30.760 I'm big l Like that wasn't what I. 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.280 Was, but it was just mys you know. 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.680 But ultimately I also have had kids be like, I 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.000 didn't know who big il was until I scroll through 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:39.920 your comments and saw people being like, isn't this the 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.200 big Ol cover? And they went and checked it out, 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.040 which to me is kind of the point of it, 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.559 you know what I'm saying. And ultimately I just kind 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:48.480 of wanted to take some of the themes that he 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.439 was speaking through on that album and kind of translate 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.160 them through a modern day lens, through my lens, and 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:58.320 through a lens that took place like maybe two miles 0:08:58.360 --> 0:08:59.199 more uptown. You know. 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.160 I want to hear somebody to do devil Son in 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:05.160 twenty twenty five. It'll be crazy, even though that wasn't 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:05.720 on that album. 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:07.960 What are you A? Do you like? Big picture of Lifestyles? 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:08.680 Are the poorn dangerous? 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:08.839 More? 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:13.760 I would say lifestyles just because to me, like, you know, 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:15.560 it's more concise, but it's it's like kind of like 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:15.839 it was. 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:19.640 It was also like a he made that album. Yes, yes, 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:21.839 the Big Picture was a bunch of stuff put together. 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:25.080 The Picture is dope thought like the Big Daddy. It's 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:26.040 crazy part of me. 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:27.240 But I'm fucking sick with it. 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:30.760 No, I mean big Picture. I actually prefer Big Picture, 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:32.400 but I know why to take. 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.040 A little more polished. But like that's the. 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:37.160 Thing is though it was it was also like they 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.160 put that album together after he died, with a bunch 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:41.760 of stuff that was out there. Like think about it, 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:43.240 there's like freestyles on there, you know what I. 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:46.600 Mean, And like it something I'm starting to understand as 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:48.760 an artist and kind of as I got further. And 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.520 obviously like this both does and doesn't really apply to 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:55.960 that because it was a posthumous album. But like I 0:09:56.000 --> 0:10:01.800 think people fail to recognize the aught of like different 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.280 kind of flavors within an album, you know, or from 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.440 album to albums, Like you can't just make the same 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.000 album over and over again, like you know, ultimately, like 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:11.960 there will be a section of your fans that will 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.280 want to just hear you make that same album over 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.760 and over again. I think like more and more artists 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.440 are realizing, like that's not the right thing to do. 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:21.040 Yeah, you would. 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:23.680 I think Tyler recently has done a good job on 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:24.720 a commercial scale. 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:26.599 He's always been good at like reinvented. 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:30.440 Every album has its own aesthetic, a vibe, its own sound. 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.440 It's like, but like it doesn't even need to be 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:35.400 within every album, like ideally it would be like every 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.120 album and that's that's a luxury that not every artist has, 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.480 like you know what I'm saying, But you know, I 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:44.120 think that's something to also be respected and just like 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.839 seeing like all right, like this album, like you like, 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:48.640 I don't know if you close your eyes and think 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:51.160 about like the color of an album, right, you know 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:51.720 what I'm saying. 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:53.120 Like how vibrant is that color? 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:54.640 Like, like you know what I'm saying, Like you don't 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:55.920 got to think about it, like you know what I mean, 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.520 Like if it's supposed to be blue, like how blue 0:10:58.600 --> 0:10:59.360 does it look? You know? 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:01.800 I feel like you know what I mean, Like maybe 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:02.920 I'm just high as fucking. 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:04.240 Some real shit though, you know what I mean. 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.880 I feel like it's interesting too, because I feel like 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.360 more artists should think that, like before we put this 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:12.840 album out or before we figure out the artwork. Listen, 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.400 listen to all the songs that we got and what 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:16.520 color does it sound like? 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.559 Yo? It's like mad cool to think about the color, bro. 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:23.600 Like I love thinking about the color bro. Like it's cool, bro. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.240 And like I'm not even like, yo, I got synesthesia, 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.080 because like that is not the case. I'm not like 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.680 fucking for real out here where I'm like, you know, 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.040 but like you can fucking think of the color. 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:34.800 You know, it's like a it's like a move board, 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:35.440 you know what I'm saying. 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:37.480 Like you just gotta kind of understand what you're trying 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:39.960 to come across with in your music and your brand, 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:44.320 within that album cycle or within just your career cycle. 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:44.840 Whatever. 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.800 This new album that you have that's out, you have 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:50.640 some legendary features. 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:52.439 I definitely do man, definitely. 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.240 From the last song of this one, the features are 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.240 crazy currency. 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:00.320 Obviously Spin is a legend to that. 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.080 But how the fuck do you end up blinking with 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:05.120 Dell the funky Homo Sapien And by the way, as 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:06.840 a kid who's twenty one years old, that's. 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:10.160 Just uh, that's awesome. Absolutely, Dale was the guy high 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.439 Row especially, but that's some that's some barious ship. 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:13.680 Absolutely yeah. 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:15.200 I mean, long story short, I mean I got my 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:17.760 man Curdie Pandy over here. You know, he's been killing 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:19.960 it as my DJ. He's also a super time to 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:23.120 produce out of Richmond, Virginia. But we was out in 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:26.120 La last time I was here. I was stuck around 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:30.280 for like probably three weeks or something, and Dante, my manager, 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:34.679 who obviously has a long relationship with Dell, was like, Yo, 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:36.160 we'll take a trip up to the Bay and go 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:37.800 like fuck with Dell. Like, you know, I've never been 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.480 out to the base. So we went up there. Crazy trip, 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.920 long story short, but yeah, you know what I'm saying. 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.320 It was definitely a fun experience. Took shrooms with Dell 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:49.600 and and uh we actually made like two or three 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.839 records that day that weren't actually the record that ended 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.200 up that it ended up being on the album. 0:12:55.880 --> 0:13:00.920 And you know, we just ended up kind of like him. Yeah. Wow, 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:02.080 it was cool, man. 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:06.040 I bet the Empire Studios and Ghazi Yeah yeah, shouts 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:07.920 out to too. 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.240 But you're you're shrewming with Dell making just making records. 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:13.360 Yeah yeah, but none of them are coming out like 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.319 they're all like they're all for the archives. 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:16.960 You know, but like it's kind of cool. 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:18.560 It's like you take a picture with your front and 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.679 you look disgusting and you're not gonna post it, you know. 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:26.280 But you still gotta like appreciate it, you know. But yeah, 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:27.199 that was mad cool. 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.400 And how much how much did you guys eat? 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:32.960 Not like a crazy amount, like like definitely it was gummies, 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:34.800 but we definitely I think me and him killed the 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:35.920 pack of gummies together. 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:40.040 I mean we was good, We was nice. Everyone's good. 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:41.959 Yeah, yeah, it was definitely nice. 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:45.080 Everything sounds good when you're that high on true absolutely 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.280 whatever the fuck's coming through the speakers, you just. 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.960 Are like, oh yeah, definitely. 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:51.520 And then you listen back and like what the fuck 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:51.960 was going? 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:52.680 Yeah? 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:57.199 Yeah, but you know, we ended up ended up making 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.280 it work man. You know. 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.640 Yeah, I gotta some credit to CURTI because we ended 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.880 up like getting another verse from Dell a few months later, 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.679 just because like we were like, yo, like these are 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.199 kind of like like both of us were like off it, 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:13.640 and he was like, yeah, I got you. He sent 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.199 us a new verse, and then like me and CURTI 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:19.000 were kind of like, let's fucking change the whole beat 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:20.920 because the verse he sentence was good, and we were 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:22.600 just like, we don't really want it on this beat, 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.200 and Curti had some dope shit in the pack, so 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:27.880 he cooked that up and ended up being dope. And 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:29.960 that's kind of why it also ended up being an interlude, 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.160 just because it was like a strenuous process and also 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.200 I kind of wanted to continue on the theme of 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:38.280 having like a older rapper kind of like uh, Chris 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:40.400 and the album to towards the end of it, you 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.200 know what I'm saying. I had Curious George do it 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.760 on the United Palace, and I just think that's like 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:46.560 a cool thing to do to kind of just cavit 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.800 on tradition and uh, you know, just give a give 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:50.520 a little moment. 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:52.680 What about Grant Exact? 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:54.360 Uh? 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.640 Brand newbian News obviously one of the most legendary hip 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.560 hop groups ever and also the most I mean one 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:01.680 of the most left on groups of all. Absolutely, Yeah, 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:05.160 All for One is a classic. But yeah, again, it's 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.120 just like you're out kicking your coverage here on your age. 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.200 What are you listening to fucking brand Nubian back in 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:10.520 the day? 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:12.040 Like no, I mean, like. 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.080 I listened to a lot of Pooba's solo stuff, Like 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.480 I really liked the two thousand album man, Like you know, 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:18.760 obviously like Dante when I when. 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:22.320 I first like hip hop historian, yeah o g. 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:25.680 Dante Ross, you know, and like when I started working 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:27.720 with him, I definitely like went through the catalog of 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:31.960 albums that he had worked on, and you know, most 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:32.800 a lot of them I. 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:33.720 Was already familiar with. 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:37.120 But yeah, yeah, yeah, so I kind of like re 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.120 explored it through that, and like, you know, there's definitely 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:43.560 some dope joints on on the Poopa record. Amazing is 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:47.680 one of my favorites, and fucking at the Bar, I 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:49.080 don't know, I love it. 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.480 Were you guys in the studio like in like together 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:53.200 for this record? 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:54.840