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Speaker 2: with Kid Capri. In part one, Kids spoke about growing
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Speaker 2: the seventies and eighties and the early inroads to his
Speaker 2: legendary career. If you haven't check out that episode. All
Speaker 2: month long, we're celebrating fifty years of hip hop at
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Speaker 3: What year was your first mixtape? The first?
Speaker 4: Well, keep it Bob being a star child, Chief about
Speaker 4: a star child.
Speaker 5: Me and him start making tapes together when I started
Speaker 5: playing the S and s with him, and then after
Speaker 5: I left after that year a year year and a half,
Speaker 5: I left. You know, I was doing my little party
Speaker 5: Studio fifty four and stuff like that, and I just
Speaker 5: said what I'm gonna doing. I went outside.
Speaker 1: You played the studio fifty four? Absolutely, Oh WHOA tell
Speaker 1: me what that shit's like?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Man, yeah, Red Alert, what happened? Was Louis Vega.
Speaker 5: Larry Levan was playing Fridays and Saturday. But they had
Speaker 5: this Wednesday that Red Alert was doing. Red Alert was
Speaker 5: going on the road with BDP. So he told the
Speaker 5: people at Studio fifty four, I want KICKI Prix to
Speaker 5: be to take my spot. It was like KICKI Pree,
Speaker 5: who's that?
Speaker 4: We don't know him?
Speaker 5: Like nah, He was like, yo, trust me, He's gonna
Speaker 5: do what he do. When I got there, you know,
Speaker 5: I turned it into pandemonium. But I was going on
Speaker 5: the regular and I was going on the club nights too.
Speaker 5: I would go hang out just to be there. You
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying that I couldn't believe I was
Speaker 5: playing Studio fifty four and shit, But I went there
Speaker 5: and did my thing. This was eighty seven, eighty eight,
Speaker 5: eighty seven, eighty eight, eighty.
Speaker 3: Nine around that time. Okay, I brought biz there.
Speaker 4: I bought all these different groups to Studio fifty four before. Man,
Speaker 4: it was dope.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 5: It was crazy, and then it got so crazy that
Speaker 5: the crowd it was just the crowds was too much.
Speaker 5: They were messing up the fruit stands and I'm watching
Speaker 5: the security open the door with people's heads and I
Speaker 5: just say, you know what, it would just end this.
Speaker 5: But now after that, I said what I'm gonna do?
Speaker 5: And I said, you know what, I'm just gonna sell
Speaker 5: my old mixtapes. And you know, so I went to
Speaker 5: Trailer Horn and I brought a hundred mixtapes. I copied
Speaker 5: tapes that I had, and I made a new tape.
Speaker 3: And I was.
Speaker 5: Copying on these six tape decks all night, standing up tired,
Speaker 5: sitting in the hall.
Speaker 4: My equipment was in a horse so you walk in
Speaker 4: the door.
Speaker 5: My equipment was right there at a one bedroom apartment
Speaker 5: and I would sit there and make these tapes. And
Speaker 5: the next day I would go outside and sit there
Speaker 5: on the street corner and people will say, you know,
Speaker 5: twenty hours to kick the Pretell who are you? Why
Speaker 5: would I give you twenty hours for a tape? I said,
Speaker 5: you listen to the intro of it in your car
Speaker 5: and you'll come back and buy it. Then I got gaviteed,
Speaker 5: they'll put it in the car and listen to it,
Speaker 5: come back and we get that, get that, get that,
Speaker 5: and next thing you know, my my tapes is in
Speaker 5: every car passing by, in the cop cars in the
Speaker 5: misty softy truck, people coming off the golf wall, or
Speaker 5: your tapes and cigarettes is the biggest day. It became,
Speaker 5: and then my parties became infectious. They seen how I performed.
Speaker 5: And I remember I was doing LL's party one time
Speaker 5: after he did the Guard and Russell Simmons walked up
Speaker 5: and was like, Yo, what do you think about being on.
Speaker 4: A comedy show? It's like comedy show? What we're talking about?
Speaker 5: I was like, it was Russell Simmers shut up, go
Speaker 5: do it, and we ended up doing it next to
Speaker 5: you know, I'm a superstar. I didn't even see it.
Speaker 5: I didn't even I was when we were doing the show.
Speaker 5: I wasn't even seeing that far. I'm not seeing that
Speaker 5: this is going to be I'm thinking we're just doing
Speaker 5: something to have fun, you know, DJ with comedy show.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 6: Studio fifty four in eighty seven, I didn't even know
Speaker 6: Studio fifty four was still around eighty seven. What records
Speaker 6: were going off back then? In Studio fifty four? What
Speaker 6: were you playing?
Speaker 5: I was playing Public Enemy, playing all the Cane records,
Speaker 5: everything of that ever.
Speaker 6: Right, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Hip Mop was allowed. Wow, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: See, it was Levan and Louis Vega. It was all house.
Speaker 4: But Red Alert was so respected that they gave him
Speaker 4: that Wednesday was going on a tour.
Speaker 5: He needed somebody to cover. He knew, you know, and
Speaker 5: that's when he got me in. When I came in,
Speaker 5: they seen a whole new different ship. They seen the
Speaker 5: line going around the building down the street like it
Speaker 5: was every time I came out. It was just panemodium
Speaker 5: and I had to leave it. I didn't want to leave.
Speaker 5: I had to leave it because it got too dangerous.
Speaker 5: So you know, I ended up, and you know, and
Speaker 5: then for God, thank God, the day I said, I remember,
Speaker 5: I got Bismarck got me.
Speaker 4: My first album deal, right, so I'm up. I'm up
Speaker 4: in the.
Speaker 5: Office, and lady start like open these four magazines and
Speaker 5: say and said Kickie Pree the only DJ in the
Speaker 5: world to make millions of dollars off a street mixtape.
Speaker 5: I was like, wow, So I did it. I made
Speaker 5: that's you know what. I didn't want no problems right right,
Speaker 5: let me just let me just end it. And then
Speaker 5: I made the last due o this tape and that
Speaker 5: was it. And then fortunately in my career, you know,
Speaker 5: went Deaf comedy jam came out and came, tours came,
Speaker 5: and I was on my way. But the mixtape had
Speaker 5: I not sat on that corner because I got girls
Speaker 5: driving by, laughing at bequests like I'm doing bad, I'm pedaling,
Speaker 5: I'm in.
Speaker 4: Harlem, you know what I'm saying, girls driving by.
Speaker 5: So I had to put fourteen gold chains on my
Speaker 5: neck to look like I'm doing good because I was
Speaker 5: doing something, but me not having that pride, you know,
Speaker 5: willing to sit there and take that it was the
Speaker 5: right decision.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you went there, and I truly wanted to
Speaker 1: know how competitive is that marketplace? Again from the outside
Speaker 1: looking in? You know, when you when you're on road
Speaker 1: trips and on tour, like you make your stop to
Speaker 1: your your local mom and pop spot and you just
Speaker 1: buy all the mixed taps and you know he's buying
Speaker 1: you and do wopping.
Speaker 3: That's and that's all these cats. But I mean, how.
Speaker 1: Heavy was the territorial competition, especially with other mixtape DJs,
Speaker 1: Like are you listening to blah blah blah mixtapes to
Speaker 1: see if he's biting your mix? Or like the embities
Speaker 1: with that, like, is anyone else taking Stephanie Mills and
Speaker 1: putting Overpeach the president or once in a lifetime grew
Speaker 1: by new addition and you gotta go there. I know
Speaker 1: it's in sort of retrospect, but how how tense, like
Speaker 1: who is who is your main competition?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 5: I had no competition when I landed. When I landed,
Speaker 5: everybody wanted to be kid Capri. Everybody wanted to do
Speaker 5: it to this day. You see all these DJs don't
Speaker 5: disrespect as the truth. All these DJs do the kid Capri.
Speaker 5: A lot of them party DJs. They do the kid
Speaker 5: Capri the way they talk, the way they play the music,
Speaker 5: the way they look. You know, I made the DJ
Speaker 5: be an artist. I wanted to be looked at as
Speaker 5: an artist and not somebody just playing records. I wanted
Speaker 5: to be where I get on that stage next to
Speaker 5: that dude that has a platinum marble, like Kelly, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna make it hard for him to be on stage
Speaker 5: like That's what that was my focus, not just being
Speaker 5: a DJ playing records that people just looking at me
Speaker 5: like that. So that's why I took it that way.
Speaker 5: And my whole thing was I'm gonna be better than everybody.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna give a show that they never seen. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna made people feel like they never seen. So it
Speaker 5: called on and it made DJs around the country that
Speaker 5: never spoke on the mic, never dj they never played
Speaker 5: records quick or played those type of records. See me
Speaker 5: when I come in the city and they're seeing this
Speaker 5: panemonium going on, and made them do it. So this
Speaker 5: is the way you got to do it. And the
Speaker 5: promoters will tell them you got to do it the
Speaker 5: way the pre do it. And those DJs say, yo,
Speaker 5: I'm the top DJ. Why do you get kicked pre
Speaker 5: to come to town?
Speaker 3: Shut up?
Speaker 4: Shut up and sit there and watch and look and
Speaker 4: pay attention.
Speaker 3: Where's that come from?
Speaker 1: Because for me, I just started talking maybe in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty and even down twenty twenty three, I think I've
Speaker 1: waned off forty Like all right, the pandemic's over.
Speaker 3: I don't have to talk as much.
Speaker 1: I'll tak my ass off on zoom like you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like when I'm djaying online. But you
Speaker 1: have this like bull and a China shop energy. Where
Speaker 1: does that come from? Because I feel like one of
Speaker 1: the one of the hardest battles, even without the music,
Speaker 1: is maintaining getting the respect that of a school bully,
Speaker 1: Like you're grabbing people by the collar when you're dressing them,
Speaker 1: not like, hey, guys, how are you doing today? So
Speaker 1: I'm Kickapria. No, I'm gonna play some records and I
Speaker 1: hope you enjoy it, like you're not that kind of like,
Speaker 1: So where does that come from? Where do you learn
Speaker 1: that from?
Speaker 4: Like I told you, I'm a fan of it.
Speaker 5: So it's a certain amount of keep in mind, we're
Speaker 5: looked at as DJ's that just played. DJ's looked at
Speaker 5: somebody just play records. What's gonna make me any more
Speaker 5: special than anybody else? Right, So I gotta add something
Speaker 5: that means, something that's gonna make people say, oh wait
Speaker 5: a minute, it's different. Not only that, it's just a
Speaker 5: feeling in me. Look, I had to surgery recently. Right
Speaker 5: after that the BT Awards, I had surgery. They took
Speaker 5: my thigh words out all right, right. I had shows
Speaker 5: books that I couldn't canceled. I didn't cancel the show,
Speaker 5: and I told the promoters, y'all, I'm not gonna really
Speaker 5: speak on a mac like that while I'm on stage.
Speaker 5: You know. But then I get on there and it's
Speaker 5: a different thing. It's a feeling that I get that
Speaker 5: I want people to feel. So it comes with me
Speaker 5: screaming it.
Speaker 3: It's like.
Speaker 5: I can't really explain it. It's like I gotta scream
Speaker 5: it out. I gotta, especially when it's at that point
Speaker 5: where I know these people are gonna go so crazy?
Speaker 5: How can I make me even go that much more
Speaker 5: crazy in that instant? And it's my voice?
Speaker 3: Yo?
Speaker 6: A question about your voice? Is that your voice on
Speaker 6: Party Groove show vis Yeah? What are you saying?
Speaker 3: Yeah? What are you saying? Stretching? Ben? I bet you
Speaker 3: give me yoga instructions.
Speaker 5: That was a live show that I did in the
Speaker 5: Powerhouse where they made.
Speaker 4: The Juice movie at Okay.
Speaker 5: That's the reason why they made the Juice movie there
Speaker 5: because I made the Powerhouse Hot Downtown and on the
Speaker 5: tape I would do I would make the peak like
Speaker 5: I would saying, do the bind and stretch, keeping going
Speaker 5: through the bin and go Ben. I'm making people dance,
Speaker 5: Ben and stretch in the party in the club.
Speaker 6: Oh wow, Okay, So I know You're.
Speaker 5: Show being sampled the mixtape the record and it became
Speaker 5: the first party group record, Ben and Stretch, keeping going
Speaker 5: through the bin and stretching that you're Ben and Stretch.
Speaker 4: That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 5: But everybody around the world says, yo kid, what are
Speaker 5: you saying? But it called it the way it sound
Speaker 5: made it, you know, with something sounds good, it is good,
Speaker 5: as James Brod, So they didn't know what I was saying,
Speaker 5: but it sounded good. But my record Uptown with my
Speaker 5: daughter that saw my on my album The Love that Sound,
Speaker 5: Now I did it again. I did the bending stretch
Speaker 5: on the end of that record, so it's it's it's
Speaker 5: ah And now the Zooma uses that record in there Zoomba.
Speaker 4: Uh excuse it's crazy except me.
Speaker 5: Your video the whole super class big super class dances
Speaker 5: the Uptown so that many stretch definitely worked.
Speaker 6: Out James and made Booker's is the big biggest thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why is that record? When we when we interviewed him.
Speaker 6: Got me rest in peace, got rest and so yeah.
Speaker 3: What was it?
Speaker 1: First of all, did you produce that on Grandpoop's record? Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course you did. Like I'm trying to do the
Speaker 1: math in my head because even when I got the record,
Speaker 1: I'm like what I listened to this soundtrack to even
Speaker 1: know that, and it's so unusual.
Speaker 3: It's a very unusual break that it's not.
Speaker 6: It's not a substitution.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's such a weird it works.
Speaker 1: But even then I was just like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: why would he sample it?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 3: What is your relationship to to biggest theme?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 5: It was just a dope joke that I think I
Speaker 5: heard Blousy had played it one time.
Speaker 3: Blucy b Yeah, I think I heard.
Speaker 4: Blucy played it with rock Kim Dad. What did I
Speaker 4: hear to that? I heard I think Boosey played it.
Speaker 5: And you know, we would take like all right, perfect example,
Speaker 5: like mister me Forster Silver that record made in nineteen
Speaker 5: seventy two, The record was over there with made It Hot,
Speaker 5: made the Top, you know all these records that was
Speaker 5: over As a matter of fact, Take six I put.
Speaker 5: I put Spread Love on that tape and Take six
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty reached out to me kid.
Speaker 4: He said, Yo, we made that record for the gospel people.
Speaker 5: You put that record on your tape and put us
Speaker 5: on the worldwide tour, so we want you to remix
Speaker 5: the song. I did a remix of spread love with
Speaker 5: takes six in twenty twenty. It's called Spread Love twenty twenty.
Speaker 5: This shit is crazy, the beats, the drumk is crazy.
Speaker 3: Everything.
Speaker 5: So they they they were so they had so much
Speaker 5: gratitude would be putting it on them that they came
Speaker 5: back and asked me to produce that.
Speaker 4: I was so happy for that.
Speaker 1: But you're the one that's responsible for that. Spread Love
Speaker 1: mixed with I Contina Turn a Break Under.
Speaker 4: That's forty five K. I did a real.
Speaker 3: Remix for Thrill John. Okay, okay, okay, keep in mind
Speaker 3: that record.
Speaker 5: It really had nothing to do with what else was
Speaker 5: on the tape.
Speaker 4: It was like.
Speaker 5: Everything else on the different so far away from everything else.
Speaker 5: But that's what I'm trying to say. I go by
Speaker 5: what is hot, what is good, and it doesn't have
Speaker 5: to make sense. It'll makes sense after I make it
Speaker 5: make sense. I think like that, Like it don't happen.
Speaker 5: If you listen to my show on Serious Sex, Some
Speaker 5: Fly the Block Party, you hear Young and Me and
Speaker 5: here Al Green. After you hear, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: Like you never know what you're gonna hear, and that's
Speaker 5: what makes it so so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: You know, you're you're like the king of the mashup
Speaker 1: to me marrying you know, worlds of stuff. So what
Speaker 1: do you consider like your signature mix that that is exclusively,
Speaker 1: exclusively yours, And what do you consider the mix that
Speaker 1: like the first time he did it, the entire crowd
Speaker 1: with ape shit, like what the.
Speaker 3: Fuck is that we could go?
Speaker 5: We go up to something the way you make me
Speaker 5: feel with the piece of President that changed the whole
Speaker 5: Army be game. Now you had to make BONDB records
Speaker 5: with Breakbeast. That's how Mary and all these things came
Speaker 5: about because nobody heard it that way before, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, and it just changed the whole game.
Speaker 4: So that was one of the things. But there's so
Speaker 4: many things.
Speaker 1: Let me just let our listeners know that, yes, both
Speaker 1: and Mary credit you when they heard that Stephanie Mills
Speaker 1: something the way you make me feel a cappella, which
Speaker 1: is unusual to be on a twelve inch like you know,
Speaker 1: the idea of an R and B a cappella.
Speaker 3: At that time, right, very unusual.
Speaker 1: So instantly, I you know, we're sparks going on in your head,
Speaker 1: like yo, what the hell?
Speaker 3: Like I can do anything with this or.
Speaker 5: The full circle was when me and Stephanie did it live.
Speaker 5: I remember you came with the me ucl kid.
Speaker 4: I was hip hop.
Speaker 3: Tell that story of how you got something to do
Speaker 3: it with you.
Speaker 5: What happened was I've been doing Indiana Black Explode with
Speaker 5: Ann Paris, the promoter for twenty something years every year.
Speaker 5: An Paris now manages Stephanie Mills. So I was doing
Speaker 5: a show for him out there in Indiana. He told
Speaker 5: Stephanie Mills the story about what I did with the record,
Speaker 5: and he had her coming to Indiana without me knowing.
Speaker 5: So I was on stage, she was right there and he' said, yo,
Speaker 5: little Steph, I bought Stephi out here for you. I
Speaker 5: was like talking about she came out.
Speaker 4: I never met her.
Speaker 5: She didn't know nothing about what was going on until
Speaker 5: we told her she had this big shit reck. She
Speaker 5: knew what her record was to her, but in the
Speaker 5: street she had no idea what was going on. So
Speaker 5: when we did it then, it wasn't rehearsed. Like I said,
Speaker 5: I never met her. It was my first time meeting
Speaker 5: up and we did that shit on the spot. And
Speaker 5: if you remember, she was going to keep going and
Speaker 5: I stopped. I said, that's it, that's all I need.
Speaker 4: I'm good.
Speaker 5: I felt like be stopping up and it being short
Speaker 5: would make more of an impact than me having to
Speaker 5: do the whole thing. That's just the way I thought
Speaker 5: at the time. But just her being there with me
Speaker 5: and seeing a visuated. When I touched your heart, I
Speaker 5: know I did something when you when you rolled up
Speaker 5: on me a jazzy Jeff's cuip. He was like, okay,
Speaker 5: that right there. When you said that, I was like, yeah,
Speaker 5: I did something.
Speaker 4: Questions reserve. You don't say too much, you know, So
Speaker 4: if you say something like.
Speaker 1: I'm excited about stuff, I'm excited about stuff, what would
Speaker 1: you consider you're.
Speaker 3: What's a hard market?
Speaker 1: Have you ever met a marketplace in which they're like.
Speaker 3: Like down South for instance?
Speaker 4: Really every crowd I get into, I whip it down.
Speaker 5: That's what I do, no matter where it's at, no
Speaker 5: matter what what the situation is. Because my whole attitude
Speaker 5: was know what's going on in that city that city.
Speaker 5: Don't care about what's going on in New York. They
Speaker 5: care about what's going on in that city. So find
Speaker 5: a DJ that's there, find out what's going on. And
Speaker 5: when he when he tells you what's going on, you
Speaker 5: know what's going on. Bringing that DJ out, show the
Speaker 5: respect to that DJ and put him on stage and
Speaker 5: let everybody know, this is just this city's DJ. You
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. You were a guess in their house.
Speaker 5: And with that, all the information from different places were
Speaker 5: coming to me. I would stay on top of what's
Speaker 5: going on over here, what's going on with this side
Speaker 5: of the country.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 4: It was just the way I did things.
Speaker 5: And with me doing that, with me going to experience
Speaker 5: it and do it, it made me learn how to
Speaker 5: stay do it everywhere else.
Speaker 4: So I never had a.
Speaker 5: Got booed, never a crowd walked out on me, never
Speaker 5: been a thing where people wasn't happy or somebody says
Speaker 5: some crazy shit in the crowd or through something that.
Speaker 5: Never been under that. It always been people happy. And
Speaker 5: I'm blessed. I'm very happy for that, very blessed in
Speaker 5: that way for that to happen, because, like I said,
Speaker 5: I'm a fan of it, and I know how I
Speaker 5: want to feel. If I paid my money, I gotta
Speaker 5: drive to get there. If I have a car, I
Speaker 5: gotta buy clothes to wear to be there. I gotta
Speaker 5: pay to get in. I gotta buy drinks. If somebody's
Speaker 5: gonna buy them a drinking I'm mor.
Speaker 6: I might have had to hire a babysit or something too,
Speaker 6: Like you.
Speaker 5: Know, all these things I got to do because kicking
Speaker 5: freeze in the building. How do I not get the
Speaker 5: best I can get it? You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 5: Like I think like that. And then there's a reverse
Speaker 5: two way. People don't think about what you had to
Speaker 5: do to get to the event, if you had traffic,
Speaker 5: lost your bags, you know, did you eat? Are you sick?
Speaker 5: Do you feel? All they do is the end RESULTE
Speaker 5: I wanted, I want my show. I went what I
Speaker 5: paid for. I paid for that. They don't know nothing,
Speaker 5: So it works both ways.
Speaker 3: There is a moment in two thousand.
Speaker 1: There was a moment in two thousand and five in which,
Speaker 1: for the very first time, I played the horn intro
Speaker 1: to Troy and I didn't get that scream yeah, like
Speaker 1: you know what happens when you play that intro when
Speaker 1: you used to play the intro, Like the choice is
Speaker 1: yours and you know for the longest, Like one of
Speaker 1: my signature things would be like play Troy right after
Speaker 1: like scenario, who's that ramp in a place like start
Speaker 1: high fiving and crying and hugging, And there was a
Speaker 1: moment where that didn't happen and I was like, oh shit,
Speaker 1: I gotta adjust it and adjust fact like I never
Speaker 1: had a Quiet Troy moment in my life. How long
Speaker 1: did it take you to really truly adjust to be
Speaker 1: in an open format DJ and like embrace things because
Speaker 1: you know, as open minded as I would like our
Speaker 1: listeners to think I am. You know, and I've explained
Speaker 1: this before on the show that as an individual course,
Speaker 1: we know that we have our opinions of what good
Speaker 1: music is and what bad music is. But then as
Speaker 1: a DJ, I have opinion on what is effective for
Speaker 1: my DJ set and not effective for my DJ set,
Speaker 1: And oftentimes with those four things good, bad, effective, non effective,
Speaker 1: Like what's effective for my DJ sets now is stuff
Speaker 1: that I personally wouldn't listen to, but I know works
Speaker 1: for my set. Right, So you know, there's like maybe
Speaker 1: a year or two where I just wrestled with damn,
Speaker 1: do I just or do I just like fight and
Speaker 1: only play to my audience? Like?
Speaker 3: How long did it take you.
Speaker 1: To just start adjusting? To a new atmosphere and new generations.
Speaker 5: There's plenty of records I hate that I play that
Speaker 5: only but it's not about me, you're saying, it's about
Speaker 5: that boom and you know, so that right there automatically
Speaker 5: makes you know that you have to step out of
Speaker 5: your own personal feeling and adjust to what they want,
Speaker 5: because that's the end result. A lot of DJ sometimes
Speaker 5: they missed the mark because they feel like they don't
Speaker 5: like this record, so it shouldn't be played at the
Speaker 5: end of the day, you know, Like I said that
Speaker 5: stuff that I might play that I don't. I don't
Speaker 5: really care for much to but I see, but I'll
Speaker 5: see a crowd go crazy to it, and it'll make
Speaker 5: me like it. I might not even like the song
Speaker 5: at first, but once I see a crowd lose it,
Speaker 5: lose it to it, it'll make me say, all right, well,
Speaker 5: I could adjust to it all you know, it will
Speaker 5: make me lacking in some kind of way.
Speaker 1: But let me ask you, and I'll let's use an
Speaker 1: example from twenty five years ago, so you don't have
Speaker 1: to be like now, like man fuck Ice, Spice or whatever.
Speaker 1: I don't know, is there an album that is there
Speaker 1: a song that you acknowledge as a classic now that
Speaker 1: maybe twenty five years ago you were like, I'm not
Speaker 1: feeling this like it took you long to like adjust
Speaker 1: to it.
Speaker 3: Biggie Biggie Biggie. You don't like half the times loved it.
Speaker 4: I hated the hook.
Speaker 3: You known mean it was a smart hook.
Speaker 5: I hated the hook at first. At first, I couldn't
Speaker 5: stand the hook. Biggie Biggie Biggie. I just couldn't stay.
Speaker 5: I just didn't like it. But the record was dope.
Speaker 5: The loop, you know.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. The record was dope.
Speaker 5: So and then after I guess you hear it a
Speaker 5: certain way, I didn't you start like Then after a
Speaker 5: while I was like, ah yeah. But at first it
Speaker 5: was like, damn all, should have did a different hook.
Speaker 5: But I was wrong.
Speaker 3: It was effective. It was effective. You know.
Speaker 5: It was sometimes a lot of times I guess what's
Speaker 5: going to be a hit.
Speaker 4: But you know, I'm not a robot.
Speaker 5: Sometime I missed you know what I'm saying, or you know,
Speaker 5: I like listen, but sometimes I missed it. You see
Speaker 5: what it is, you know, But me and you would
Speaker 5: have never made a laughy Taffy beat. We would have
Speaker 5: never wrote that, not that it's bad for them, we
Speaker 5: would have never did that.
Speaker 4: We would have probably passed it on it.
Speaker 3: But look front of it on Laughy Taffy for its
Speaker 3: initial run.
Speaker 6: Right, and it's a classic.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: When I I was gonna say I played Laughing Taffy
Speaker 1: the first time I did the goal party for the Carters,
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, let me reach into my
Speaker 1: second generation Southern bag that I would have otherwise ignored
Speaker 1: on my own gigs, right, and just the way that
Speaker 1: they were going to ape shit about it, I was like, yo,
Speaker 1: I was wrong.
Speaker 5: Like if I played Laughy Taffy the snock records, they lose,
Speaker 5: they got theirn mind. It don't matter what age it is,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, because it was just that
Speaker 5: time and moment.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: And most dance records like that, boarded down records for
Speaker 5: some reason, it just works.
Speaker 3: Or you went there briefly.
Speaker 1: But of course your tenure with I mean, would you
Speaker 1: consider yourself a Juice Cup member or no?
Speaker 3: Okay, I just saw cold Chilling Bear's got me.
Speaker 5: Granddaddy, I you and business brother domondchelle A production.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: He had a production deal. And it was crazy.
Speaker 5: Because when Ben's got me that day, I wasn't even
Speaker 5: looking for our deal. I wasn't even thinking about our deal.
Speaker 5: And remember I was leaving studio fifty four. Bez pulled
Speaker 5: up on me with the car right on the corner
Speaker 5: and he said, OK, we'll get you out and there
Speaker 5: I said, shut up, shut up. So then one day
Speaker 5: he came in. They seen me on a rutker. Matter
Speaker 5: of fact, the day that he pulled up on me
Speaker 5: a rutcker, he said, kid, come in cook here, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna show you something and he played you, god, what
Speaker 5: our seal beers?
Speaker 3: You bucket?
Speaker 4: You really gonna put this out? That's what I said,
Speaker 4: You really gonna put this out?
Speaker 3: He was like what what?
Speaker 5: And he put the record out. We on tour, we
Speaker 5: go crowd mosing their bodies. I was playing, yo, pull
Speaker 5: it off, and it worked and he got me by deal.
Speaker 4: Like I said, even worked the deal. You gotta be
Speaker 4: the deal because I was hot.
Speaker 5: He could have gave that deal to anybody else that
Speaker 5: was a real rapper, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I was robbing on the record of the tape.
Speaker 5: So I was trying to be a rapper, like even
Speaker 5: with bib about right now, I'm not trying to be
Speaker 5: a rap on stage.
Speaker 3: I just want music in the world.
Speaker 5: But at the time, you know, he could have gave
Speaker 5: that to somebody that really really was good, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. But he he you know, he really
Speaker 5: gave it to be And I've always gonna be a
Speaker 5: dead or to day. I really appreciated that.
Speaker 1: You know, have you dj' for I don't want to
Speaker 1: say a pedestrian rapper, but I mean, I know you
Speaker 1: are kick Capri like you DJ your own, but have
Speaker 1: you done any any tenures with like at NMC that
Speaker 1: needs like I know a few times like Biggie. We'll
Speaker 1: go back and forth on DJ's and whatnot.
Speaker 4: Pinny me Joy was me and rock Kim did this tour.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, this was a crazy tour.
Speaker 5: Me and rock Kim did Uh when I went on
Speaker 5: tours Salt Pepper, That's right, you were DJ DJ for
Speaker 5: Salt Pepper, DJ for KIPT played the very first tour,
Speaker 5: the Public Get to Be Greatest Hip Hop Show tour.
Speaker 4: It was thirteen groups on that tour. I was helping
Speaker 4: him on that, but.
Speaker 5: I never really played behind a lot of people KRS
Speaker 5: one of course, but not really a whole lot of
Speaker 5: people because people always looked at me as a one
Speaker 5: man band. I guess, I guess that's what it is.
Speaker 5: I guess the perception is that he didn't he don't
Speaker 5: want to play for nobody behind you know, behind nobody.
Speaker 3: So but yeah, but.
Speaker 5: When I went on tour with them, I didn't play
Speaker 5: behind him. I went on tour with them as a
Speaker 5: matter of fact. But Jennifer Lopez, she wanted to be
Speaker 5: behind it. Like there's a lot of people that reached out.
Speaker 5: It just didn't work out because of the time. I felt
Speaker 5: like if me and Kendrick Lamar would have went on
Speaker 5: tour together, you know the Political Ward album you put
Speaker 5: me on ask the only hip hop album want the
Speaker 5: Polical Water. Deeply Gready put me in voice. He put
Speaker 5: my voices in place around the country I've never been to.
Speaker 5: So I'm deeply and grady for that, grateful for that
Speaker 5: and loved the fact that he did that.
Speaker 3: And when I was in the.
Speaker 5: Studio with my ass, I said, Yo, you could have
Speaker 5: got DJ Battlecat or you know, DJ Pooh, these dudes
Speaker 5: a legends. You could have got them on the album
Speaker 5: The West Coast, you know. He was like, yo, I
Speaker 5: love the dudes and everything. He was like, but I
Speaker 5: know what you did for the music business. I know
Speaker 5: what you did for DJs.
Speaker 3: I know what you did.
Speaker 5: I wanted that authenticity on this album. I was like, Wow,
Speaker 5: he really knew who he was, so i't have to
Speaker 5: really explain that he would have got it. And he
Speaker 5: put me on that album.
Speaker 3: And how crazy was the effect afterwards?
Speaker 4: Amazing? Man, I couldn't believe it. It was like it
Speaker 4: was crazy, you know.
Speaker 5: And keep in mind he brought me to There might
Speaker 5: be kids that don't know about kicking Pree never had
Speaker 5: any kicking pre spad. I don't know nothing about me.
Speaker 5: He brought me to those people, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Like I said, he put my voices in countries I
Speaker 5: never been to. It's a Poliza album like it never
Speaker 5: no ever, no other hip hop album ever in history.
Speaker 5: This is a milestone. So she could have did so
Speaker 5: much more, like going on toward with each other. And
Speaker 5: he didn't need me, of course, because you know he
Speaker 5: is what he did, been me and him together just
Speaker 5: doing certain things, it would have been it'd have been special.
Speaker 4: So but like I said, he's already special, so it
Speaker 4: was all good.
Speaker 5: Cake.
Speaker 3: You talking about your transition into the production game.
Speaker 5: I was always making beats. My first album that Biz
Speaker 5: got me. It says biz production. Biz produced it. But
Speaker 5: I produced the album Being Coolie, and then I produced
Speaker 5: the soundtrack the Streets album with Jay and did that
Speaker 5: whole album. And then I just did this album that
Speaker 5: the Love Album, The Love Album in the pandemic. I'm
Speaker 5: seeing a lot of ship to stuff that I was
Speaker 5: a lot of agree with it. I said, you know what,
Speaker 5: let me just do something different and I won't slack
Speaker 5: key and came out good. I recorded it, goveled my
Speaker 5: hair on my shoulders and said keep going. So I
Speaker 5: just said him doing the album, I put slack key
Speaker 5: out of it. How did I get the response? I
Speaker 5: want to dabble with a never see the out light
Speaker 5: a day. But it was good response and I put
Speaker 5: down the mouth. Great response and have a guy work
Speaker 5: complained about it. A lot of different artists snoopid. Different
Speaker 5: people will call congratulated. Nobody seen this coming because of
Speaker 5: robbing on it. My last album is twenty four years ago.
Speaker 5: You know, music business is different. I had everything against
Speaker 5: me with this album, but I didn't I didn't care
Speaker 5: about that. I just wanted to put it out, and
Speaker 5: you know it worked out. But yeah, it's gotta keep
Speaker 5: going with it.
Speaker 6: I wanted to ask you particularly about Nothing Belove Heavy,
Speaker 6: du do you remember what do you remember about that
Speaker 6: session working with him?
Speaker 5: Nothing Beloved was a different beat, and when we were
Speaker 5: in the studio, I just said it didn't match what
Speaker 5: I was trying to do with him, So I changed it,
Speaker 5: and I went in my bag and pulled out the
Speaker 5: Eight Games and put the eight Games on the band,
Speaker 5: put the drums, and then he caught writer his block
Speaker 5: and he couldn't write. He couldn't write. So did so
Speaker 5: I wrote the half. I wrote half of the second verse,
Speaker 5: and I wrote I wrote half of the second version.
Speaker 5: I wrote the last verse, and then we end up
Speaker 5: doing the record, and then the c CNY tragedy happened.
Speaker 4: But the nine people died. One of my friends, Jule,
Speaker 4: he was one of the people that passed away.
Speaker 3: You were there at TCN one.
Speaker 5: No, my daughter's mother, she was there. She was putting
Speaker 5: bodies out. She pulled father MC's daughter's mother, father MC's
Speaker 5: girl who was pregnant at the time.
Speaker 4: And she passed away. She pulled her out. Oh no, wow, yeah,
Speaker 4: you my friend.
Speaker 5: He was the only dude there was only there's only
Speaker 5: two castles in New York, one of Yonder's, one on
Speaker 5: my block and my block kings with Terraces, where they
Speaker 5: made the movie The Wanderer was at.
Speaker 3: So you look.
Speaker 5: If you wish to watch the movie The Waders, you'll
Speaker 5: see my block. The wrong king was Terrice. This capsule
Speaker 5: he lived in. He was twenty five years old. Ever
Speaker 5: had sex. It was waiting until you had the a
Speaker 5: wife before he had sex. And he was killed in
Speaker 5: this CCN wide thing. And I remember Heavy d had
Speaker 5: to show with the Garden and he was because he
Speaker 5: had something to do with the event. He just wasn't there,
Speaker 5: but he was one of the promoters and he had
Speaker 5: explained it and he was like, yo, I'm not going
Speaker 5: to take responsibility, but I feel bad of what happened.
Speaker 3: Tell everybody back.
Speaker 5: I beloved for the crowd, and he dropped up beloved
Speaker 5: and the crowd lost their goddamn.
Speaker 4: I was standing right that or the stage. The crowd
Speaker 4: lost it.
Speaker 3: That's what I do.
Speaker 5: I gave it his last hit is a big hit.
Speaker 5: That was his biggest That was his last hit record
Speaker 5: before he passed away.
Speaker 3: Damn, I know you did that. Damn, that's crazy. Yep.
Speaker 1: The first time I saw you spend, you would come
Speaker 1: to the event with like at least eight crates, fifteen
Speaker 1: The level yep that I've never seen, the dizzying level
Speaker 1: of how you would organize records or whatever.
Speaker 3: That's why with.
Speaker 4: Jeff Jazzy, Jeff would try to convince me to be
Speaker 4: on Serato and.
Speaker 3: That was hard to make that transition. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I like the fact that I had fifteen crates and
Speaker 5: I would wanted to crate catch the record at the
Speaker 5: last second it dropped the needle way and it just
Speaker 5: looked crazy to the crowd. So I thought if I
Speaker 5: got rid of that and went to the computer, it
Speaker 5: wouldn't be that same excitement. And Jeff will always say, Okay, got.
Speaker 3: It, go on the computer. You got to do. You
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, Savado shit, So you relate to
Speaker 3: the Serado game.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Okay, I ain't started Surroado game this whole
Speaker 5: six So Death Comedy Jam came back and Mike EPs
Speaker 5: was host and they asked me if I will produce
Speaker 5: the beats on Deaf Comedy Jam because they didn't want
Speaker 5: to clear the death Jam records, right, So I produced
Speaker 5: all the beats that how do I play? Put it
Speaker 5: in Soroader. I put the beats of Sovado and I
Speaker 5: did the show. Then I started putting the break piece
Speaker 5: of Soroader. Now I put the reggae records. Now I
Speaker 5: put the old for reggae. Next thing, you know, every
Speaker 5: day was a Soroado. Got read the records and now
Speaker 5: I was good. And then I see the crowds and
Speaker 5: in my show still reacting the same way when I
Speaker 5: had the records, So I was good.
Speaker 1: How irksome is it for you to watch any of
Speaker 1: the retro Deaf Comedy Jam shows? And like, for me,
Speaker 1: the best part of the show is when you start
Speaker 1: doing the ll breakdown thing. And you know, of course
Speaker 1: when it came on DVD and now that it's streaming
Speaker 1: and even on YouTube, you know, they put like interstitial
Speaker 1: music over it, like so you're trying to imagine what
Speaker 1: they're dancing to you.
Speaker 3: I can't stand it. I hate it.
Speaker 5: I hate it's it's it's the claims is it's the money.
Speaker 5: It's you know, it's a lot of money. You would
Speaker 5: think that they death jam records. It would be all
Speaker 5: right for deaf comedy jam to playing.
Speaker 3: But I thought that way.
Speaker 4: They don't go that way.
Speaker 5: It's whoever was a publisher. You know, you got to
Speaker 5: go through all that ship. And some people are just beaty.
Speaker 5: Some people want what they want and they don't see
Speaker 5: the bigger picture, so they eliminated I was making the
Speaker 5: beats and you got gut around it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, there's there's one comedian that I,
Speaker 1: if I recall correctly, like he made you part of
Speaker 1: the act.
Speaker 3: This brother named Talent. It's just come. That's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: But Talent would do this thing where he would have
Speaker 1: a scenario and needed a soundtrack to it, and he
Speaker 1: would have you play the record and then he would
Speaker 1: do the scenario. All right, we wand we want to
Speaker 1: kick it all right now, this scenario is blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: and I can never find and it's one of the
Speaker 1: funniest things ever. And I wish I could find that original.
Speaker 1: But because of music clearance issues, you know, people don't.
Speaker 5: Get so much footage from us on the road me
Speaker 5: and Bernie. Bernie was like my uncle. Bernie mack was
Speaker 5: like my uncle like like like this, like so I
Speaker 5: got so much footage of me and him and Bill
Speaker 5: Bellamy and Chris Tucker and Eddie Griffith, all of us.
Speaker 4: Man just on the road and just different funny things.
Speaker 5: Man. This dude, Bernie mack Man was funny all day long. Man,
Speaker 5: just all who would be on the tour bus. He'll
Speaker 5: wake up and put us scotty cap on and he'll
Speaker 5: have you laughing, just laughing all the way into the
Speaker 5: time to do the show. Then he'll go and host
Speaker 5: the show, tear that down, get back on the tour.
Speaker 5: Was put the scotty cap on with the hind again
Speaker 5: and have him laugh.
Speaker 3: Until you fall asleep.
Speaker 5: And then he messes with the bus driver just where
Speaker 5: the bus driver got pulled over because.
Speaker 3: He laughed in his ass long. This dude was just all.
Speaker 5: Day you just look at him and just laugh. He
Speaker 5: just it was amazing in that way. It was, you know,
Speaker 5: he was one of them dudes. It was sad to
Speaker 5: see him go too, you know. But all them all
Speaker 5: those everybody got tour with everybody that was on that show,
Speaker 5: they all my extended family. Man, we all did something.
Speaker 5: We did something great together, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: and it really touched people. Like every time we sold
Speaker 5: out somewhere, you just see the people just smiling and happy,
Speaker 5: and you know that was that was the most thing
Speaker 5: for me.
Speaker 4: How many, how much good times.
Speaker 5: It was never a threat where you had to worry
Speaker 5: about crime going on, to somebody getting hurt or shot
Speaker 5: of a fight breaking out.
Speaker 4: It was always fun, laughing and it was dope.
Speaker 3: Was dope.
Speaker 6: I was going to ask you about just the Master
Speaker 6: of the Mix. Man. It was a while back, but
Speaker 6: I really enjoyed that show, and uh, I want to
Speaker 6: just ask you about just kind of what that experience
Speaker 6: was like, getting acting, I guess as a as a
Speaker 6: judge and judging other DJs. Man, how was that experience?
Speaker 3: It was dope.
Speaker 4: I was always like the cyb of Cow. I was
Speaker 4: very serious.
Speaker 3: I was really.
Speaker 5: Straight because I had to worry about the reason why
Speaker 5: I was so serious was because they had to worry
Speaker 5: about our credentials. I had to worry about, you know,
Speaker 5: because they had to worry about I wanted to be truthful,
Speaker 5: you know, sound show, no favoritism. I didn't want to
Speaker 5: show like I didn't know what I was talking about
Speaker 5: or you know, any of that. I wanted to be
Speaker 5: what it was and it worked out. We was on
Speaker 5: for two seasons on BT and then we was on
Speaker 5: one season of VH one. My me, personally, I think
Speaker 5: they should have kept that show going. You know, I
Speaker 5: know what issues they had, but they should have kept
Speaker 5: that show going because what it did you have? It
Speaker 5: was like Mel Startings you see right now? Have Mel
Speaker 5: starting not been on that show, We don't know if
Speaker 5: we've seen him as quick as we did. But because
Speaker 5: he was on that show and he's super talented, so
Speaker 5: that show got a chance to to, you know, show
Speaker 5: the world who these dudes are. The same way in
Speaker 5: Death Comedy Jam. Remember before Death Comedy Jam was Richard Pryor,
Speaker 5: Red Fox Andeddie Murphy. You know, a couple of other
Speaker 5: dudes sprinkle here for comedy. You if you didn't, it
Speaker 5: wasn't them dudes, you you know. So when we got
Speaker 5: Deaf Comedy Jam, we displayed all this plethors of all
Speaker 5: these different people. Now it became bigger. And that's the
Speaker 5: same thing with Master the Mix. It was all these
Speaker 5: different DJs. Chris Carr and you know Jco. All these
Speaker 5: dudes do are readers. Now, you know what I'm saying
Speaker 5: because of that show. Being on that show, so it
Speaker 5: was definitely a dope show. They definitely should have capten
Speaker 5: some things I would have changed around. I'd have changed
Speaker 5: some things around. I ain't think that I didn't really
Speaker 5: agree with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know, it is what it is.
Speaker 4: And then I was on another show.
Speaker 3: Did you know?
Speaker 4: I was on a Growing Up pip Hop?
Speaker 6: I missed that one now about doing it?
Speaker 4: And I did that because yeah, I only did one season,
Speaker 4: only did one season.
Speaker 3: I was out.
Speaker 1: I'm not speaking of which talk about u Ena. First
Speaker 1: of all, I'm surprised we got through this whole episode
Speaker 1: without any jokes of me taking your last name.
Speaker 3: Love is actually your last name, correct.
Speaker 4: The real last name is by the name of album
Speaker 4: is called The Love.
Speaker 3: Of Course Love.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, talk about what it's like like collaborating with
Speaker 1: your daughter and now that she has has, you know,
Speaker 1: planted her seeds and and is starting her story right now,
Speaker 1: Like what what is that?
Speaker 3: What is that like for you to see her? Karen
Speaker 3: on the legacy.
Speaker 5: At first, you know, I know the music business. I
Speaker 5: know what's in the music business. I know everything. And
Speaker 5: normally you don't want your kid in that. You know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. You don't want them to go through
Speaker 5: certain d But the way she grew up, how was
Speaker 5: she showed me how she handled herself, how she do things.
Speaker 4: She has a skin for it. Now did she have
Speaker 4: the talent for it? Didn't know.
Speaker 5: And I wasn't gonna push her off on people just
Speaker 5: because she's my daughter. She had to prove to me
Speaker 5: that she really could do a thing. And she came
Speaker 5: to me with this record where she did mind his
Speaker 5: best to be over with her little boyfriend at the time,
Speaker 5: and the record was dope. But that she did a
Speaker 5: record that she wrote for Rihanna called Air that never
Speaker 5: got to Riana, and she end up recording to herself.
Speaker 5: And that's when the one I was like, Okay, she's ready,
Speaker 5: and from there on she'd been moving there. But how
Speaker 5: she carry herself, how she treats people, the smiles she
Speaker 5: keep on her face, how she talk, the way she
Speaker 5: look at stuff.
Speaker 4: She's just like me. She is she she respects what
Speaker 4: it is. And then she see how her father moved
Speaker 4: that's another day.
Speaker 5: She see how father moved how different people treat me,
Speaker 5: you know, and it makes it automatically molds your child
Speaker 5: when they see it when they around the experience said,
Speaker 5: they always home with it, now around to see things
Speaker 5: that they don't go with it. They go with but
Speaker 5: when they get a chance to really see everything, it
Speaker 5: kind of mows them. And that's what happens. She really
Speaker 5: know what she's doing, and she's talented. She really works hard.
Speaker 5: It's more of the talent. She really really works hard,
Speaker 5: you know. And I just wanted her to really just
Speaker 5: be happy and and all she's happy.
Speaker 3: That's it, you know.
Speaker 5: This music business, like I said, you let it get
Speaker 5: to you, it will, you know. And sometimes things don't
Speaker 5: work out the way you want when you wanted to
Speaker 5: work out, you know. And that's a part of growing,
Speaker 5: that's a part of that's the part of appreciating the journey,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 6: Matt. I always wanted to ask you one of my
Speaker 6: favorite intros of all time to an album is off
Speaker 6: Sex and Violence BDP. Do you remember like where y'all
Speaker 6: was y'all recorded that when you recorded.
Speaker 3: Man whoops, right? I always thought y'all did that on
Speaker 3: purpose to make it like that's how parties are like,
Speaker 3: what was it to.
Speaker 4: Get another album?
Speaker 6: It's very the very first joint with him and Freddy Fox.
Speaker 6: Uh nice, this movie got.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: I was on it. I wasn't on that. Nah, you're
Speaker 3: on that.
Speaker 6: At the end, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Give it off with my motherfucking man whoops.
Speaker 6: And the records the record stops. It's like, oh, y'all
Speaker 6: know where they come from, blowing up on the parties
Speaker 6: and all that.
Speaker 3: Right, My people go back to it goes du down,
Speaker 3: go back and check that. No, that's I love that ship. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, so like for you, and I know it's
Speaker 3: a cliche to ask, but like.
Speaker 1: You know, being as though this is hip hop's fiftieth
Speaker 1: year and Jeff always jokes with me that no one's
Speaker 1: going to celebrate the fifty first, so we got to
Speaker 1: celebrate it now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for you, you know, is there anything that.
Speaker 1: You you've yet to check off in in your bucket
Speaker 1: list that you haven't achieved yet? Like, you know, what
Speaker 1: were you like to see the culture go or for
Speaker 1: you to do or or do you just you know
Speaker 1: want to stop and chill and you know.
Speaker 5: But I'll tell you this, Well, the one thing I
Speaker 5: haven't got a chance to do as many things as
Speaker 5: I did, was sell a platinum album or sell a
Speaker 5: gold album. You know, I only had three albums in
Speaker 5: my career. Making records never been my bread and butter.
Speaker 5: I do it because I want to do it, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. But I the Love album, it
Speaker 5: has so many layers to it. My mother's on the
Speaker 5: funck covered with the big as for my daughter's on
Speaker 5: the record. I produced every day, wrote everything. I didn't
Speaker 5: runner any artists it's hot, say you'll come get on
Speaker 5: my ship to sell it or none of that. I
Speaker 5: did everything myself. There's so many layers to it. And
Speaker 5: I didn't put it out for it to go platinum gold.
Speaker 5: I'll put it out to put something in the world,
Speaker 5: but I would like to see it really do good.
Speaker 5: I would like to see the world hit this album
Speaker 5: and really, I'm saying, and just absorb it because I
Speaker 5: haven't got a bad complain one time since I put
Speaker 5: it out. You know, the Internet, they're gonna say whatever
Speaker 5: they want. I haven't got one of those yet, not one,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. So with that being said,
Speaker 5: the frustraight part for me is that I know everybody
Speaker 5: hasn't heard it. I know everybody don't know what's dead.
Speaker 5: There's people that come to me right now. I remember
Speaker 5: when you had your two albums out, you didn't hear
Speaker 5: the third one, like you know.
Speaker 3: That's how I know. It's like, you know, that's the
Speaker 3: frustrate part. But only I follow you on I G
Speaker 3: and during the pandemic.
Speaker 1: You know, you didn't even know it was in the room,
Speaker 1: watching in the studio making your beats and as you
Speaker 1: were making the record and whatnot. So you know, it's
Speaker 1: finally good to see the fruition of it. Your mom
Speaker 1: actually has a hugemongous afro yo like, yes up.
Speaker 4: She was definitely definitely big on her.
Speaker 3: And her last name is Love. I might be a
Speaker 3: long lost cousin. I don't know, it might be exactly brother,
Speaker 3: Thank you man.
Speaker 1: You know, I got to see very briefly at the
Speaker 1: at LL's Rock the Bells Festival, which was really like
Speaker 1: a kind of amazing family reunion. Like to be backstage
Speaker 1: and literally there's an era of hip hop that I've
Speaker 1: yet to meet, So, you know, to be backstage and
Speaker 1: you're seeing like the Fearless four and and the Fantastic
Speaker 1: Romantic five and the Cold Crush Brothers, and.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're about the experience because I was about to
Speaker 5: the Yankee Stadium for the second time, or the level
Speaker 5: of the hip hop.
Speaker 4: Day the Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 3: Who's on that show me.
Speaker 5: Snoop Nas Whiskedly for one, DMC, Fat Joe, Ace Boogie,
Speaker 5: a whole bunch of other people.
Speaker 3: So hip hop's is coming to the Bronx.
Speaker 4: Coming to the hometown, coming to the hometown and smash
Speaker 4: it down.
Speaker 5: The first time I did Yankee standion was when I
Speaker 5: did it for Nelson Mandela when he came out of
Speaker 5: jail right a celeb for me, Yank saying me and
Speaker 5: car West went and did it, and that was that
Speaker 5: was a milestone. So we're back again and I'm gonna
Speaker 5: come in just do my thing. I'mna pull off something
Speaker 5: special too. When I pull out this thing that would
Speaker 5: pull out, it's going to shake the room. So I'm hoping, yeah,
Speaker 5: but it's gonna be dope. Thank you, stading home man,
Speaker 5: can't wait.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, kick Capri on quest left Supreme. Thank
Speaker 1: you man for everything.
Speaker 3: Thank you Thank you man. Straight you know you you
Speaker 3: your your.
Speaker 1: Tapes have entertainment. I've seen you many times like rock shows.
Speaker 1: I took notes and you know you've been nothing but
Speaker 1: but genuine and really really kind of and and dope
Speaker 1: to me. Any nerdy questions I had over the years,
Speaker 1: You've answered them. And I thank you for that, and
Speaker 1: thank you for doing our show man.
Speaker 4: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 6: I got a chance to see you.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 6: This was in Toronto some years back. We were opening.
Speaker 6: Me and Knife were opening for you and rock Kim.
Speaker 6: You were spending for rock Yim in Toronto and that
Speaker 6: was one of the best. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we opened up.
Speaker 6: It was It wasn't a little brother, It was just me.
Speaker 6: I was doing my solo record at the time, and
Speaker 6: Night for spending for me and so and but we
Speaker 6: opened up for rock him and Kid and masterclass Man.
Speaker 6: It was just I was just sitting backstage taking notes.
Speaker 6: So thank you for everything, brother, for.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that. Little brother.
Speaker 4: You gotta come out another joint, need another joint.
Speaker 6: Oh No, we're working. We're working, brother, We're.
Speaker 1: Working well on behalf of Sugar Steven. It was the
Speaker 1: quietest episode of Quest Love Supreme ever.
Speaker 3: I wonder why.
Speaker 2: I'm just enjoying the Quiet, man enjoying the quiet. Yeah kay, Capri,
Speaker 2: thank you for repping New York so well all these years.
Speaker 2: And New Jersey, Hey man, it's the box.
Speaker 1: Yeah so be Ava and Sugar Steven paid Bill And
Speaker 1: this is Quest Love and the great legendary kick a
Speaker 1: Pree of course, Love Supreme.
Speaker 3: Shout out to.
Speaker 1: Brittany and Jake holding us down and our good friends
Speaker 1: at iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3: And we'll see you on the next go round, all right,
Speaker 3: Peace West. Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio.
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