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GODS PLAN: K-CHILL · Tha Smoking Section Podcast

• Smokey Da Bandit: Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back. What's good, everybody? Welcome back to the Smoky Section Podcast. I'm your host, Smokey the Band, the haters can't stand it. And today, we've got a very special guest in the building. My guest today is a Cleveland hip hop pioneer who was there before the world knew the name Bone Thugs and Harmony. Long before the Platinum Records, Grammy Awards, and worldwide success, he was running alongside some of Cleveland's finest as a member of the legendary Band-Aid Boys. Alongside his childhood friends, Lazy, Crazy, and Fleshing Bone. He's witnessed the history, lived the stories, and now he's stepping back into the spotlight with his highly anticipated comeback single, God's Plan, featuring none other than his longtime friend Lazy Bone, which is dropping June 19th. Today we're talking about the early days in Cleveland, the Band-Aid Boys era, life before Bone Thugs and Harmony, and his journey through music. And what inspired these this return after all these years. So sit back, roll up, you know, stimulate your mind. But before before we get into the interview, make sure you hit that like button, subscribe if you haven't already, share, make sure you engage, comment with your boy, and let's have a good time. Because now we're about to have a conversation filled with history, memories, and real talk. So, ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to my new guest. Okay, see you. Eee, what's good? We got Kate chill in the motherfucking building. How you feeling? K-Chill: Well good. Feeling good, man. I'm feeling great right now. Getting ready for this release. And ⁓ yeah, I'm feeling good. Smokey Da Bandit: Okay. You was ⁓ w you said you was ⁓ I talked to you a little bit earlier, you was doing another interview, man. You was on on on ⁓ East Ninety Nine already or St. Clair. K-Chill: Yeah, we we was gonna stay out there for you, but I was on that Kentucky Boys podcast so long and like I was saying it like them niggas got me emotional, had me crying out there shit. I had to get my shit together and now we in scratch paper production. Plus it was getting late, it's like sixty six degrees in Cleveland. It wasn't really the best night, so we we moved from off ninety ninth and now we in the lab. Smokey Da Bandit: Okay. Was it bright out there? ⁓ it's dark now, right? It wouldn't even have work. K-Chill: No, it's dark now. It was it was bright. Like we got out there at eight o'clock and I was shocked it was still bright and it it stayed bright for a minute. Then it got dark and it was it was cold and everything. It just it just got a little chilly, you know what I'm saying? Smokey Da Bandit: Alright, well shit, let's kick this shit off, man. ⁓ for the fans who may not know your story, who is K Chill and what role did you play in Cleveland's early hip hop scene? K-Chill: All right, so for those who don't know, in the 90's I had a couple albums out. ⁓ I sold like three hundred thousand C Ds. I ⁓ open Pac I open for Pac Smokey Da Bandit: You whoa whoa You open for Pac K-Chill: Yeah, open for Pac in Cleveland. Like he was only here like twice. I opened for him the first time. ⁓ like I was saying on the earlier podcast, he swung on me and shit. And Yeah, hell yeah. ⁓ I mean we got you got I wasn't I wasn't about to fight Pac. Pac was a little nigga and I Smokey Da Bandit: And Pop you was finna fight Pac Swung on you. What Pac is this? What era is this Pac? K-Chill: This ⁓ fresh off a digital underground pop. This ⁓ this ⁓ fresh off ⁓ I get around and all that shit. ⁓ first first first solo album pop, whatever that first solo album. Yeah, but I ⁓ I did a lot. ⁓ I sold a bunch of breakfast. I ⁓ you know eventually went on to ⁓ Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah, looking for my niggas pie. Yeah, strictly for my nigga. Okay. K-Chill: I was an original member of the Band A-Boys. I ⁓ executive produced Baum first album, which was Faces of Death. first time you ever heard Avant on anything from Avant used to be on Magic Johnson label. That w ⁓ he was on one of my singles, ⁓ called A Thing for My Hometown. Like I got like extensive roots in the city, but ⁓ I did all that shit and then bam. You know, I took some time off and ⁓ built you know, built a business and raised a family and all that shit, you know what I mean? And now through the grace of God we back. Smokey Da Bandit: That's what's up, man. That's dope. Matter of fact, we're gonna try something new for you for that one. K-Chill: ⁓ yeah, ⁓ yeah. That's a that's a real classic crowd you got right there. That's a classic crowd. Smokey Da Bandit: Gotta clap it up for you. ⁓ yeah, man, I ain't even man, I ain't even asked you, man. You know why? I ain't even gonna lie. I'm skeptical. I just had some teeth pulled. I ain't even supposed to be smoking. I ain't even gonna lie. But it's been seventy two hours, so do you smoke it, right? K-Chill: Bro, I be smoking day as soon as I get some shit done in my mouth I be smoking a hour later, ladies. You gotta get you gotta I well you know, don't listen to me. I got a grill coming for my shit in about eight days. 'Cause yeah. Smokey Da Bandit: Well, ⁓ I hit the wrong button. But anyway, yeah, man. I just got these back teeth pulled. They said I ain't supposed to smoke, but you know, it say seventy two hours. So it been seventy. K-Chill: But this this is the smoking section, so we got the smoke. And I just had a long day on nine night. The Kentucky boys had me out there crying and shit. Like they asked me they they asked me they asked me some question and I don't know what it was, but I got emotional out that motherfucker. So now you botta get the chill chill tonight. This the re this the good smoking section chill right here. I got a burner. Smokey Da Bandit: This this dog is starting. Yeah, bad influence but I'm falling for it. 'Cause this is the K-Chill: I'm sitting up here with my nigga E. Wilson up in scratch paper productions and Smokey Da Bandit: Scratch paper productions the studio you in. That's where at. K-Chill: ⁓ that's in East Cleveland, Ohio, man. ⁓ E. Wilson, Eric Wilson. You can catch him on on all the, you know, all the socials at ⁓ Eric Wilson or Scratch Paper. But ⁓ he you know, he's been doing it a long a long time. Like it's weird that we never link because he was in the middle of all the Mo Thug shit and all that error and and he always worked at like the top studios and shit and I would be Smokey Da Bandit: Okay. K-Chill: Honestly I told him before, like nigga, you was in the A room, I'd be in the B or the C room. Like I'd be like in the little like he I might see him in passing and they be like, ⁓ yeah, that's Eric Wilson. But ⁓ should be guys should be guys playing for real, 'cause it all it all came full circle. This is my nigga now, like we you know what I'm saying, we make hits. Smokey Da Bandit: So where did the name K Chill come from? K-Chill: Name K Chill came from all this shit in the book too. ⁓ book and the album dropping August 1st. ⁓ the name K Chill came came from ⁓ my nigga John Lear. He's a he's a pastor, he's a preacher now, but his name was Hi C, his rap name. And ⁓ at the time he was in a group with my god brother Normie D. And they and ⁓ and I was the DJ. Smokey Da Bandit: What's the book? K-Chill: I had I had two turntables and a mixing board in sixth grade. And ⁓ my my DJ name was Supreme Swipe. And used to be this show called Big Chuck and Lil John in Cleveland with ⁓ Big Chuck, like a Polish dull, two white dulls, a Polish dull, big big ⁓ Big Chuck. And ⁓ a little dude, little John, he you know I'm saying he's a ⁓ like what they call it, like a dwarf. I don't know what's the politically correct, but he w he's short, you know what I'm saying? And ⁓ he's still alive too. John Ronaldi, he's a good dude, man. But make a long story short, they they had they had like a ⁓ what was it Sunday or Saturday? Saturday. It was like Saturday ⁓ movie show where they they'll show a movie and they'll be Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah, I do. K-Chill: Talking shit in between the movie and shit and showing little skits and laughing and shit. And ⁓ this Polish dude and this little short ⁓ Italian dude, I think he's Italian, believe it or not, they loved hip hop. So they would, when breakdancing and all that shit came in, they would throw breakdancers on there, throw rappers on there, all that shit. And ⁓ I was lucky enough to be on there a couple times. And there was one time ⁓ that our group was in there, I I can't even remember the fucking name of the group. It's in the book, I swear, but ⁓ we was on there and I was supposed to be just a DJ like normal, but one of the rappers had couldn't make it some kind of way. So we knew about it like the whole day. So I was supposed to come behind the turn tables and do his part. But I fucked everybody's head up by coming behind the turntables and doing my own shit. And my whole rap, you remember rap back then, we talking about like late eighties. Like, shit was simple, you know what I'm saying? So my whole shit my whole shit was I'm chilling here, I'm chilling there, I'm everything was chillin', you know what I'm saying? I was chilling at the mall, chilling on the bus, chilling everywhere. So Smokey Da Bandit: Worse. K-Chill: Later on after I did that shit, everybody was like giving me my props, like, man, that shit's crazy. I shocked the group. The group, the crowd was, well, it really wasn't like a crowd, it's a studio. It's in a in a in a local TV station studio. But everybody that knew I wasn't really supposed to do my own rap, they were shocked. So later on, later on, John Laird High C called me and said, ⁓ Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. Right, 'cause Yeah. K-Chill: Bro, you should really consider rapping and he said, you know, since you was since you was ⁓ saying you was chillin' everywhere in your rap and your name Chris with a K, why don't you just call yourself K Chill? And when that nigga said that shit, it was like the stock market went up or the fucking church bell the church bell started ringing, the the blue angels flew over here, the blimp The blimp had that shit on there. When that shit said K Chill, when he said K Chill, I just was like, man, that was the coldest shit I ever heard. And then even though, not cut you off, but just real quick, even though it's a great artist in the city named MC Chill, who was literally the one of the first, he was not one of the first. I I believe he was the first rapper to be signed out of Cleveland. He had the name. Smokey Da Bandit: MC Cheer. K-Chill: MC Chill, shout out MC Chill. He had the name first, but well he had he had Chill first and I knew it, but I was just still like, ⁓ that shit sounded so cold to me, I had to roll with it. K Chill, so yeah. Smokey Da Bandit: MCG Yeah. So how old were you when when this was a when when this was happening? K-Chill: I was like fourteen, man. I was I was like fourteen on the scene with a lot of Cleveland legendary artists like Save, like Johnny Yo in the psycho unit. ⁓ like a lot of legendary artists. And I was like, huh? Straight out of Cleveland, bango. Smokey Da Bandit: Out of Cleveland. Straight out of Cleveland. K-Chill: Cash 22. So like I was the youngest. I was like 14. They was all, you know, like in their young 20s and shit. And they was the same. You know what I'm saying? So around that time, you know, shout out Casper C. He's he passed away a couple years ago. And ⁓ or like last year was it last year? Yeah, like last year, like he was part of the psycho unit. ⁓ Smokey Da Bandit: So so I know K-Chill: A lot of them took me under their wing and kinda it was a still like the battle era. So it was like funny, I guess, and cool to them to see like a 14 year old kid battle like grown niggas and kill ⁓ You know? And ⁓ so it was like it was kinda like that, you know what I mean? So I grew up in that era, and then by the time you get to Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. K-Chill: ⁓ the little legendary stories about the time when me and Busy was ⁓ destroying all them niggas at the ⁓ impact or whatever rap shit when Jay Z and ⁓ was there and you know, supposedly I mean, I remember I remember seeing Jay face to be a buck. But I just I don't like all them to be honest with you with that whole story, all them niggas was When it was like I always tell I told he always tell people it like it was like a karate movie, like it was I remember Teddy Riley was there, I remember it was like about forty, about ⁓ maybe thirty, forty rappers in a cipher. And Jay-Z, I could see his face, it was a few other niggas. And me and Bizzy went in that shit and it was like a karate movie, like niggas we rapped and nobody else rapped Smokey Da Bandit: This is that infamous story when Busy ⁓ beat Jay-Z in the battle rap. ⁓ K-Chill: Yeah, but busy don't ever but but Mr McCain you never really be saying how you know you did say like it was a nigga that ⁓ you know we was fucking with or whatever, but yeah, we it was me but we really like ⁓ I'm gonna tell the story because one thing one thing I know is niggas hate when you blow your own horn but niggas So sometimes you gotta say you gotta say for what it what it really was. But yeah. I when I tell that story, I always say me and Busy got in the middle of that shit and it was like a karate movie, and we was just taking everybody's head off and niggas ain't wanna say shit no more because we was on that new wave shit, that fast shit, that the shit we was on, and we had bars and everything else with it, and them niggas was They w niggas weren't niggas was looking like it was the alien attacking that bitch. Like niggas was not ready for that shit. Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. K-Chill: But yeah, we beat we beat Jay. We beat Jay in the battle. Like I stand behind that shit forever 'cause it really took busy to tell the story before I remembered that Jay was there. You know what I'm saying? I had to really just look in my you know, my mom's eye and say, Yeah, I did see that nigga face 'cause to be a buck when I told always told the story it was just a bunch of niggas we just destroyed. Smokey Da Bandit: What do you But tell the story. What happened? What happened? You're gonna run me through it because I'm not familiar. All I all I ever hear is one piece of busy, busy ⁓ B Jay Z in the battle. That's all I I don't know, I don't know what happened. K-Chill: Okay, so the whole story was this. Kermit took us to Atlantic City to whatever convention, impact. It wasn't Jack the Rapper, because that's always in Florida, right? So or I don't know what it was. It was one of the conventions. It was in Atlantic City. And everybody didn't go for whatever reason. I can't remember why. I just remember it was me and Busy. We get there in a hotel. I chop it up with Teddy Riley. I chop it up with a bunch of people. So we get out to the hotel lobby, and it's it gotta be 25, 35, 40 people in there in a circle rapping. And it's like who was who were people? Because like I I can't even remember who else was really there to be a fuck with you, but it was like niggas that got on and as you know, you know I'm saying? It was it was some nice it was some nice talent in that room. And everybody Smokey Da Bandit: Especially if I was there, it had to be. K-Chill: No, for sure. And then people that people that ⁓ hollered at me, you know, that heard heard us rapping earlier was like, Y'all gotta get in that cipher. Like it was like more a cipher than like a battle. But the only the only reason it kinda get battled in my in my memory is because I swear if you grew up on karate movies and you see it'd be Smokey Da Bandit: Right, right. Yes. K-Chill: They getting attacked from like 50 niggas. And there's one nigga just Bruce Lee and that bitch whooping everybody ass. Me and Busy got in the middle of the cyber and we we was whooping everybody ass. So man, niggas ain't even niggas ain't even want to rap no more. Like for real. Smokey Da Bandit: ⁓ and it's So y'all was back to back like Yah was back to back like ⁓ Chris Tucker and and Jackie Chan, y'all back to back, manby. K-Chill: Man, we was back to back fucking shit up. And then by the time we left, I remember niggas saying Cleveland in this bitch. Like I remember hearing niggas saying like Cleveland and then I and I also remember we got a gang of business cards and then Kirby came and took all of them bitches. Smokey Da Bandit: That's sorry. That's what's the K-Chill: True story. Smokey Da Bandit: Hey, I ain't never heard that story, so thank you, man. Shit. That was dope. That's epic. K-Chill: No, but like I say, like I say, I had I had been telling that story for a long time amongst just people, you know, like I'm I'm encountering talking to and they asking or whatever. But I never I never thought about that it was Jay Z until I heard Busy tell the story and then I'm like, ⁓ yeah, that was Jay Z like I could see it all in my mind, like, yeah, I did see Jay face. Like that was Jay, I never even really thought about it. So yeah, yeah. Smokey Da Bandit: Hey. That's crazy. That's crazy. That's dope. That's dope. ⁓ yeah, but see, the people that don't know, this is my first convers real conversation with you. Like we've been chopping it up. Shout out to Beyond the Harmony, man. Beyond the Harmony was like, man, you gotta highlight K Shield. He got a a project coming out right now. And you know, he family. I knew who he was, but I ain't, you know, I ain't never we ain't never had a chance to to actually so I appreciate you. Yeah, shout out to Beyond the Harmony, man. K-Chill: So I appreciate it man. John and Cecil help helping out a lot with everything, so Smokey Da Bandit: Shout out to Cecil, man. He plugged us. He he linked us up. We should have been linked up, but you but I'm finding out you was, you know, on the hiatus, you know, and now now you coming back to, you know, take what's yours type shit. You know what I'm saying? K-Chill: Yeah, I mean I mean, yeah, I said we about to make Saint Clair great again, man. Smokey Da Bandit: Yes, ⁓ shout out to Saint Clair. So speaking of St. Clair, ⁓ what was Cleveland like when you were coming up as a teenager? K-Chill: Man, it was ⁓ I talk to my son about this shit all the time. ⁓ Cleveland was it's a tale of many Clevelands for me, 'cause because in the very begins when it transplants from West Virginia and the Virginias and Florida and everything in the South, and everybody moved up here because of the jobs and the opportunity and the steel industry. When I grew up as a kid, it was a beautiful place to grow up. It was ⁓ parks and recreation and we had played any boss and dodgeball and Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. K-Chill: You know, the wasteland was not the wasteland. You know, all the all the neighbors took care of all the kids and you might catch a whooping from anybody, you know what I mean? And and it was ⁓ it was a it was a beautiful little neighborhood to grow up in and everybody, you know, knew each other and all that shit. And by the time you got to the crack era, then It became the wasteland, you know what I'm saying? And it was you know what I mean? Smokey Da Bandit: And for those that Ms. You what what part of Cleveland are you from and what is the wasteland? For those that ain't from no Cleveland. K-Chill: So I'm personally from ninety-fourth and Saint Clair. And ⁓ the wasteland Saint Clair, correct. ⁓ the wasteland I guess will be considered everything from like eighty eighth to like a hundred and five. And to you know, ten five and Saint Clair. But I mean, like don't get it twisted, like Saint Clair is dangerous. Smokey Da Bandit: Nigga this way. K-Chill: From top to bottom, you know what I'm saying? Like St. Clair had shit popping, especially in that area from top to bottom. And St. Clair ride together, you know what I mean? So it ain't really matter what blocks you was from in St. Clair in them days. It was like if you was St. Clair, we you was riding, you know what I'm saying? So I'ma say, ⁓ it in them days though, but when the crack era hit, it just became like Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. K-Chill: First of all, it was like a hustler's dream in that motherfucker because it was so much money on the clerk, you know what I'm saying? And ⁓ but at the same time it it got it got like destroyed, you know what I'm saying? And and all that. And then fast forward to now where it's like in a rebuilding process almost gentrification or the beginning or whatever you wanna say it. You know what I mean? Like is is a if St Clair's in a in a rebirth like a you know a a like like a like a f Who said what bro? Smokey Da Bandit: Going back to the way you remember type shit. Going back to like the way you remembered it, like you was mentioning it when K-Chill: I mean, I ain't gonna say that, the whole world had to go back to that shit, you know what I'm saying? The world need a reset when it comes to that type shit, but it it's just becoming more ⁓ I see white folks jogging up and down Saint Clair a little bit sometimes, you know what I'm saying? So yeah, right then and there that's just a big ass difference then, you know what I mean. But I love it because I would love for it to go back to what it was. You know what I mean? For sure. We was on ninety ninth and and St. Clair all night tonight. We had no issues. It was all up. Smokey Da Bandit: Man, I've been out there. Y'all got some long ass blocks full of hundreds and shit. K-Chill: ⁓ yeah, for sure. Smokey Da Bandit: I've been out there a couple of times. I was on ⁓ nine K-Chill: You gotta come out here for this listening party. When when I tell you about this listening party, you you gotta come out here. Smokey Da Bandit: ⁓ y'all ain't that far. We can make some. ⁓ what ⁓ what first got you interested in rapping? K-Chill: No, for sure. I started rapping from ball I mean from ranking niggas. Like we'd be ⁓ in the lunchroom and shit and everybody ⁓ be ranking on each other and I just be ranking niggas with rhymes. And it took people around me to tell me like, man, you call with that shit. Like I always have like a knack for being able to just look at a situation and just freestyle instantly about it. Smokey Da Bandit: Who influenced you? Who was you listening to back then? K-Chill: Man, I fuck with LL, Ice CUBE ⁓ man, ⁓ I mean I guess all I you know, I I fuck with a lot of different shit too though, because honestly, like Stevie Wonder. Like like Stevie Wonder for not for someone who can't see the world could describe it better than niggas who can see it. ⁓ I fuck with Stevie. Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. K-Chill: You know, I FUCK with ⁓ Pink Floyd, you know what I'm saying? BREATHE breathe in the air. You know what I'm saying? What my nigga say, ⁓ what he say, all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be. You know what I'm saying? Shit like that. Like I like I like bars from different genres of music. If you got if you if a nigga making sense, I'm probably listening to that shit. Smokey Da Bandit: And so that's what's up. Tell us about how the Band Band Aid boys ⁓ came together. And how long how long ⁓ yeah, just tell me how the band-aid boys came together. K-Chill: We was ⁓ we had a so this from my angle because you're gonna ask every member and everybody gonna describe it how they saw that shit. That's one thing that you got like I had to get used, I had to get understanding with like okay, everybody don't see the same story how you saw the shit. You know what I'm saying? We we all see shit firsthand. So from my exactly. So my perspective was this. Smokey Da Bandit: Right. Right. Right on eye. Perspective. K-Chill: We we was all, you know, boys. We would ⁓ rap at the lunch tables all that, like you always got the athletes over here and you got the hustlers over there and then you got the rappers over there. We was the rappers. So either who it was me right, okay, you you right. Me, Crazy Bomb, Lazy Bomb, I'm gonna use the names y'all know, ⁓ Smokey Da Bandit: Who? Who was we? I have viewers that don't know about you. Who is we? K-Chill: Flesh Flesh and Bomb. And we got my nigga Mike. ⁓ I cannot remember n my nigga last name. I hope he's still alive. He had like a burnt. He had like the burnt half of his lip because he bit a cord when he was a baby. Like when he was super young, he bit like a cord and that shit. Like Mike. ⁓ my nigga Joey Zaza used to be there. Smokey Da Bandit: Hey, shout out to Mike. Mike, he telling you he remember you, nigga. K-Chill: ⁓ make a long story short, you know, Mike would be on the tables and make the beats or a stack or a stack of fl ⁓ beatbox and we would ⁓ you know we would ⁓ we would re we would fuck around rapping, but like at the time, for real, only me and aunt was kind of like really rapping. ⁓ Steve would be fucking with it, and he but he'd be beatboxing too a lot of the time. Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. Right, right. K-Chill: Yeah. And ⁓ so it's a talent show coming up, the FDR talent show that's like really popular event in junior high. If your if your junior junior high got a talent show, you know what I'm talking about, or had one, you know what I'm talking about. ⁓ so the talent show coming up and it's like it's a couple different little rap crews in the school that's like, hey man, come you know, that everybody knew I could rap, so they'd be like, Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. Yeah. K-Chill: Get in my crew, the other one get in my crew. I'm and I'm like, shit, I could be in this shit with my niggas and we'll win this shit. Like so well, however it came up, because I heard ⁓ Cray say he had a scooter and fell off the scooter and shit and had the band-aid. And ⁓ but but I can remember I remember I used to I put the band-aid on, bottom line, we We all eventually put the one band aid on. Next thing you know. Huh? Yeah, well, yeah, they say Nelly might have been influenced by us. I don't know. You know what I'm saying? I I know I I will I will state factually before Nelly. We put the one band aid and then Damn man, you about to make a nigga feel ⁓ Smokey Da Bandit: On the ch like Nelly? Yeah. And what year was this? Let's put the year out there. K-Chill: I gra I graduated in ninety two, so shit. What is ⁓ junior high? Eighty-eight or some shit? Eighty six. Steve stay on God. Lay Say on God's plan. We met in eighty six, but we met before a little bit before Junior High. But whatever the case, this back then. It's before Nelly. That's all you need to know. It's before it's before my it's before my guy Nelly. So look, we we we throw the band aids on. Smokey Da Bandit: We go We're gonna say in that added 'cause now the act can walk to the right. That's what I'm about to say now. ⁓ yeah. K-Chill: And then next thing you know, the whole school got the band aids on. You know what I'm saying? Like, I can remember ⁓ and it's all in the book, ⁓ Mr. Frullino. Shout out Mr. Frlino, the principal at FDR. He was like, imagine, imagine any Italian ⁓ mafia gangster movie. That's your principal. He had he drove a Corvette. Smokey Da Bandit: Mm. K-Chill: He was the coolest motherfucker on earth. Mr. Frlino. Shout out Mr. Frellino. He called me in the office. He called me in the office. He said, He said, Chris, ⁓ we getting a lot of reports about all these people wearing band-aids on their face and shit. Like, is y'all a gang or something? I said, No. I said, No, Frellino, we j we just doing this shit for the talent show. We the band-aid boys. We we trying to heal the world. I told that nigga we was trying to heal the world, man. And he was like he was like, All right, all right, Chris, come on back to class. He was like, he just had much to do about nothing, you know what I'm saying? He was cool as fuck. Like and he knew we would you know, I was a good student and shit. So, you know what I'm saying? Like I had I had good grades. He was like, Yeah, these niggas ain't trying no trouble. Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. Yeah. Principal had a good repertoire. He's like, ⁓ you healing the world? For sure. I'll fuck with it. K-Chill: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, he fucked with it. He fucked with me. He knew we w we really wasn't no th no no ⁓ problem problem causes or none of that shit yet. You know what I'm saying? So he let that shit ride. Smokey Da Bandit: All right. ⁓ what do you remember most about Lazy, Crazy or Flesh from back then? What do you remember the most? What's your best memory? K-Chill: Yeah. Man, I remember ⁓ inc incidents and just I remember like we was all just kids with dreams, but I remember like certain shit ain't got nothing to do with rap. Like I remember ⁓ cutting Smokey Da Bandit: Back then. We in here talking real shit, nigga. You ain't gotta K-Chill: Yeah, I I remember I remember simple shit like cutting ⁓ cutting Anthony cutting crazy hair with ⁓ some scissors one time for school pictures. Like literally faded the fuck I faded the fuck out this nigga with some scissors. I used to cut hair I when I grew up I had a bunch of hustles. I faded that nigga with scissors, bro. For yes, for some I mean, you know, as as low as possible for scissors, but yeah, I got it I got him together with scissors. Smokey Da Bandit: Faded him up with some scissors. Hey ⁓ nigga. K-Chill: I can remember one night me, Crazy, Flossy Rossi, ⁓ a couple other niggas from the school probably probably had to be sta probably had to be Stack or ⁓ or Steve there too, but ⁓ I remember one time being in in at my house and we sitting in the living room talking about how we was about to fuck these niggas up. And how them niggas better not roll up on us and shit. We was like thirteen, fourteen talking hella shit. And I remember my mother I remember my mother taking a p Man, we was the original white ends. My mother took a penny or some little piece of metal, or she said it was like a quarter of a penny, I can't remember. She tied she like taped it to a string and hung that shit out the Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. Rich the original Y is. K-Chill: second floor window and kept tapping the first floor window and we'll jump all like them niggas outside them niggas outside we'll run outside trying to fuck some niggas up like w where them niggas go like niggas like ⁓ them niggas playing games. The window kept tapping and shit. My mother upstairs cracking up and shit. Shit like that. You know, I remember like the little fun shit kids did and everything, whatever. And ⁓ yeah, shit like that for real. Smokey Da Bandit: That's dope. K-Chill: House party. The house parties ⁓ lay and ⁓ lay the family used to throw over there by DuPont. Like yeah. Smokey Da Bandit: Hello. Whoever imagine. No, bone blowing up like that. Taking off like they did. K-Chill: Yeah. I made ⁓ gold records and platinum records for us when we was when we was just fucking with Kermit and shit. Like I knew I knew all that shit was gonna happen. You know what I'm saying? Like we was we was different when I I speak about this shit in the book when ⁓ some of the best like rappers in Cleveland, like like I say, we came from the battle era, so not only could you have to ⁓ make a good song you had to like wait be that nigga. So I remember like Getting to the point where we was battling like the who's who of Cleveland or and then and then shit'd be like so ⁓ after it was done, it was like no joy in the shit for real, cause we had just destroyed niggas so instantly. Like you gotta remember these niggas was fresh off of ⁓ huh huh huh huh. You know what I'm saying? And and run DMC's no disrespect, 'cause run DMC Pioneers, but like That type flow and shit. And then we came in tongue twisting and like I say, it was just like so far superior to what niggas was doing. So I knew that we was gonna all blow up. Like I already knew this shit. Smokey Da Bandit: So after the b who came f like, 'cause you said you was doing your thing, you was doing shows with Pac and shit like that. When you was doing your shows and shit with Pac and all of that, what was was Bone doing s was they was they Bone or was the or like w was you doing like after the band A boys, who came next? Like who who did they thing? K-Chill: It was So so the ho the way the way all that shit ⁓ went down was we did the talent show. We didn't win. I think El Avita won that bitch. ⁓ we rocked that bitch though. We rocked that bitch, but we ain't win. ⁓ then so here come high school. So business started in Cleveland, so they all went to Lincoln West, and I went. Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. K-Chill: I used my cousin's address and went to Glenville because my whole family was Tar Blutters. And it was no way I wasn't gonna go to Glenville and p and play for legendary coaches like Coach Hubbard, the Hubbard brothers and Ted Ginn. And it was no way, you know what I'm saying? I was gonna be a Tar Blutter. So I used my cousin address. I went to Glenville. And ⁓ that's and then Lay got in trouble. And all that shit went down, so it was just like, you know, all that shit kinda no so yeah, I did not even know they was rapping again or nothing for a hot second. Like all her all of our interactions from that point on was in the streets. You know what I'm saying? Like it was all street business. And ⁓ a nigga did not know, you know what I'm saying? 'Cause even though like I had ⁓ eventually in Glenville put out my records and with the help of some of my guys from Glenville and even Ted again, you know, invested in me early on and, you know, I had like the the I had the plug with the Jamaicans. So literally all the interactions was about something some ⁓ you know, some weed or something in the streets. And and like niggas ⁓ we a link on some go eat or eat something at one of our par at Mama P house or my house or my mama house or shit like that. But it really wasn't like like I say, Steve was in Texas. It was a lot going on. So I think every I think everybody was still working on shit, but yeah, at that time I was doing my one two pretty much. And ⁓ linked up with Kermit, sold a bunch of records, bam. And then bam, then go ahead. Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. So what was Kermic the first label you was on? K-Chill: Is there what Smokey Da Bandit: Was Kermit that was like the first label you was with? K-Chill: Yeah, that was like the first and only label I ever been with. It was called ⁓ fucking Jam It and Stony Burke. So he have ⁓ he had he had a two labels because he was had Jamit for his ⁓ like mainstream artists and he had Stony Burke was like his gangster label. Like gangster rap shit. So he had me on Jamit cause he was trying to force Smokey Da Bandit: What's that label called? K-Chill: me on some like not even force me on it but like he wanted me to go down like the L You know what I'm saying? Ladies, the Drake L L type. Yeah. Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. Yeah, I seen I seen some of your covers. I seen some of your art K-Chill: ⁓ no, don't you seen them covers when I'm suited and booted, nigga? You see me? Hey, but you know, Big Daddy Kane, that type shit and ⁓ no, hey, no, I fuck I fuck with him like I you know I you know, it's it's it is what it is. So like Smokey Da Bandit: There it is. Yeah, yeah, the chill vibe. K-Chill: Yeah, yeah, for sure. And ⁓ we had little provocative covers and shit. I used to watch I used to look at them Ohio players covers and I I used to want my shit to be provocative like that 'cause as a kid when you picked up Ohio players you wanna know what this shit about. You see the little bad bitch with the fire hole or all that shit. You wanna see what this shit about. So ⁓ yeah. And then it wasn't until the tele show when the one Kirby was doing when Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. K-Chill: That's when I found out Steve was back, and I guess they was working on that shit for like some a year or so by then. And then bam, like it was about to audition for the talent show. And I'm like, man, y'all niggas ain't got no audition. Fuck that shit. Like, come on. We, you know what I'm saying? It's it's about to go. And then Kermit basically ⁓ at first just had Lazy as like my hype man. But what's so raw is Lazy was my hype man on some of the biggest shows like I ever did like fifteen and twenty thousand people, the fresh fest, ghetto boys, ⁓ like all kind of shit. So yeah, yeah. So so it started like that. And then, you know, ⁓ I started working on my second album. And then we got Bond locked in and started working on b on the Bond album, which ⁓ I'm out that you asked the question, but I was just gonna say real quick, you know, we got, you know, we linked up with Archie Blind Smokey Da Bandit: Hey. K-Chill: And we ⁓ you know, got them a set of producers and all that shit and started working on their album. Smokey Da Bandit: So this was when Bone Enterprise started. ⁓ and this is with Hermie. K-Chill: Correct. Yeah. Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah, I I heard a lot I heard a lot about Kermit. I don't wanna I heard I heard Kermit ain't a good dude. K-Chill: I may Kermit is a different animal. Kermit is a probably ⁓ the epitome of a capitalist. So, like, one could look at Kermit like not a good dude, and then I'm sure others will look at Kermit just like an excellent businessman. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's always a double-edged sword to that shit. So, like. Smokey Da Bandit: Everybody got their own perspective. Like we were saying. So I don't know the man, so K-Chill: Exactly. So like, you know I c I can sit here and say Kermit is Blasey Skip, but then I can also say I wouldn't be sitting here if it wasn't for Kermit. So it's weird. You know what I'm saying? ⁓ at this point in my life, I try not to say nothing about nobody unless it's positive. Period. You know what I'm saying? So that's where I'm at with. Smokey Da Bandit: Mm. Yeah, that's what's up. I feel that. I feel that. Yeah, okay. So, ⁓ You were connected to the crew during the faces of death era. What do people not know about that time period? K-Chill: That ⁓ It was really serious, you know what I mean? Like it was every day. Is it gonna happen or not type shit like it was arrest and court and and ⁓ just you know, you be trying to you when you s when you chasing your goals, the devil gonna always put up a gang of hurdles. So like it was it was a constant supply of hurdles, like you know, they they ⁓ Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. Yeah. K-Chill: Kirby always kept somebody ⁓ down, basically ⁓ coexecutive producing with for each group. So like everybody had their dude, you know what I'm saying? That was kinda like background finance and shit. They do got locked up right before the shit was about to go down. ⁓ that's how that's how I even ended up executive producing part of the album. And ⁓ you know, it was just like a lot of shit going on. Niggas trying to eat every day. It was it was like you you want you trying to keep er including myself, you know, Kermit and Diego Black and niggas trying to keep us, you know, just good enough where we ain't had to do nothing thirsty type shit. And at the same time we hustlin', you know, they could get pop any day type shit and it w Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. K-Chill: It was just like a lot of shit going on. So everything you hear in them albums is like definitely r you know, really real. You know what I'm saying? Like even niggas even niggas playing with the Ouija board and all that shit. Like niggas was doing that shit. No, I didn't never they was niggas would be at my cu niggas would be at my cousin, she passed away, now her v her name was Tiny her name was Vitania. We called her Tiny. Them I can remember them niggas playing with that fucking Ouija board over there and shit and like Smokey Da Bandit: Real life ex It was there for that. K-Chill: I'll be like, ⁓ I'm good on that shit. Like, I ain't never wanna play with done none of that shit, but like it's like shit was really shit was really like all the shit that came like that shit is real. Like niggas ain't ⁓ what I go ahead. Smokey Da Bandit: Let me ask you something. You you you knew about that part, right? What was your how did you feel when you heard that Ouija, are you with me for the first time, knowing that them niggas really was playing with that shit? How did you feel? K-Chill: Shot. I just I just smile like smile like now. I mean I you can't do nothing else but smile 'cause you be like, yeah, I mean, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like the whole shit, you know what I'm saying? Niggas used to try to get me the right rhymes in the graveyard, you know what I'm saying? Like, I can remember all that shit, like and I wasn't on it, you know what I'm saying? But like the street the street shit, everything we was going through, like Hopefully this book get turned to a series or a movie or something, and like y'all gonna see like the whole story because like me and my family watch BMF or power or something, and I'll be like, damn shit, we didn't do it all that shit. Like, no disrespect, but like our story is it's a it's a hard ass story, especially up to now, you know what I'm saying? Cause it's like it's it's a many facets of this story. It's gonna show the people a lot of shit how you c How you might have a situation, you might you know, you can still come back together and do great things and how you know I'm saying perseverance and believing in God gonna make everything bubble for you. Smokey Da Bandit: ⁓ what was the biggest challenge for Cleveland artists in the early nineties? And did and did Bone's success open doors for other Cleveland artists? K-Chill: No, I said this earlier on the Kentucky boys, man. Like the biggest challenge for my city is That since the since the since the first nigga dropped, since MC Chill and Bango and the Pink Gangster, my nigga Save and Man, my nigga Save is still with destroying niggas right now. Like Man, I I got a nigga listen. Smokey Da Bandit: I got a nigga named Swave A. I don't know man. Suave that nigga, hey, his name Suave the Lyricist. I don't know, man. That nigga, hey. We're gonna have to go Swave, Swave. K-Chill: These niggas still got bars. But from the inception of this shit, like all the way up to I was saying this shit earlier from from them niggas, Johnny O and them and Brothers for then it was like me, Brothers for the Struggle and the beginning of bomb time to fast forward to MGK and Chip the Ripper and Ray Junior and Ray Cash and ⁓ The whole thing is, ⁓ Cleveland be having one offs. You know what I'm saying? Even Bone, like so to answer your question, no, Bone ain't ain't make what I thought should have happened happen. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's always a one off. You know what I'm saying? Kate I mean, I speak for myself. I'm a one off. You know what I'm saying? I had a d I had a two, three year run. Like everybody get a two, three year run and it's like boom, you know what I'm saying? Cleveland has yet to have that moment where it's really that Houston, Atlanta, you know, New York, that moment where it's a collective, look at all this shit coming out of Cleveland. You know what I'm saying? Smokey Da Bandit: They come like it sporadically. K-Chill: Yeah, we get moments, you know what I'm saying? We get one-offs. You know what I'm saying? We get we get we get called we get cold ass one-offs, you know what I'm saying? Even go back to some R and B shit with my nigga Gerald LeVert and the Rule Boys and Men at Large and like we get one-offs, you know what I'm saying? Like I'm looking for I'm I'm hoping I'm looking for it and I'm hoping that me and Lazy gonna be a part of it. I mean the whole Bone family and everything, I hope that we just be a big part of it. Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah, I believe I can't K-Chill: Where it become Cleveland's big moment of listen to this whole city type shit. You know what I'm saying? A bunch of cities done had that shit, and you would have thought we would have had it, but it ain't never too late. So that's why I if the city get behind the Dash Project, get behind the new K Chill shit, get behind me and Lazy Collab album, the new Bong album, busy new shit. They say busy dropping on his B Day. Get behind all this shit and let's make Saint Clair great again. Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. So, and with that being said, what I was gonna ask you next is ⁓ who are some Cleveland artists that you feel deserve more recognition? K-Chill: ⁓ I'ma say ⁓ right now ⁓ shit, my little cousin Pete stay swiping. Pete stay swiping, Pete Stay Swiping. Y'all y'all can find y'all find that shit on ⁓ Instagram, everything. I'ma say ⁓ my little nigga, I don't even know how you say his name, X you perp Zoopurp or Zoo. Smokey Da Bandit: Sorry. K-Chill: Something perp. ⁓ It's X U Perp. You know what I'm saying? P P P-E-R-P, look for him. You know what I'm saying? ⁓ Brothers for the Struggle, still, I know these niggas about to drop something. Like, I already know how my niggas think. I know they about to drop. And then I'm gonna say on the horizon, though, what I could ⁓ tangibly got something to do with is. Smokey Da Bandit: Shout out to X Burk. K-Chill: You got my son. ⁓ his his he go by Taboo. You got ⁓ Lazy Bone son, Steve Vaughn, Tay Jordan. He goes by Tay Jore, you got ⁓ Busy Kids, The Bloodline Harmony, you know what I mean? ⁓ I'ma just say, like, I know all that shit in the works is fire. The new Bone album, fire. I done heard shit off that. I done heard a lot of them of they shit, but our kids about to be droppin' shit. Smokey Da Bandit: ⁓ you heard some of the album, huh? You wanna lay lay over? K-Chill: Fire, bro. ⁓ yeah, ⁓ yeah. While my nigga while my nigga in the studio knocked the fuck out right now, ⁓ you gotta look at my nigga Eric Wilson. He got some shit out called the Confluence. And it's on all platforms right now. And ⁓ me, him and Rock P four, who is the little brother of Pratt and the Brothers for the Struggle. They got a single on that Confluence album dropping on the nineteenth two. So it's called Play and it features us. So like look out for all that shit, like for sure. Smokey Da Bandit: Brothers for the struggle? K-Chill: Brothers for the struggle, bro. Brothers for the struggle was really Smokey Da Bandit: Okay, for sure, gotta go. 'Cause if I'm surprised that a struggle, you feel me? K-Chill: I mean niggas say it both ways though, for real, 'cause I always say brothers of the struggle. Like I I don't know if Pratt said that on a song or something, but but niggas call them both of them, but I think it's really brothers for the struggle. But ⁓ like ⁓ yeah, really right now it's a resurgence. I mean you see T what T I doing, you see it's a resurgence all over America right now, I think. ⁓ jeez is Like way coming back to ⁓ you know, I ain't gonna call it reclaiming 'cause I love I love what the kids doing with it too though. Smokey Da Bandit: of them could do the thing. I mean everybody could do what they want to do, do how they want to do it, but you know, some shit just ain't respected. But ⁓ everybody's supposed to be creative. Everybody should be allowed to be creative and create some type of art, however the art is. K-Chill: No, for sure. No, for sure. Smokey Da Bandit: ⁓ you got a new single dropping ⁓ called Guys Plan. ⁓ you took a hiatus for a while before you ⁓ dropped this album. What got you ready to get back in the game like this? And you wanna tell us ⁓ how you came about with making guys playing your first single? K-Chill: Okay. ⁓ so real quick, I was ⁓ I was already like in the pro I had I I just tell you how it broke down. I I spoke to somebody about a movie. They was like, man, you need a book first. So bam, the next day I get on the book. So I ⁓ ended up my cousin ended up writing a book who ⁓ he wrote for Time Magazine and he had Some ⁓ books published before, so he helped me co-write the book. So I'm only on this bookshit for it to be a movie though. So I'm like, I'm like, bam, I need some songs for a soundtrack. So then my home girl, my homegirl Adrian, linked me up with E. Wilson, Eric Wilson. We got to working on shit for a soundtrack. All of a sudden, Lazy hit me with some tickets to the show in December. Smokey Da Bandit: Okay. Okay. K-Chill: And I go down there to the show. Then he hit me like a month later, like, boom, I'm in the city and we go in the studio. And then we get to work and all shit. And ⁓ next thing you know, he like, Bam, you know, let's do a album. I had an epiphany, let's do this album, man. So I'm like, all right, shit, say let you know what what I'm gonna say. You know what I'm saying? So I'm like, let's get it. So all of sudden, make a long story short though, all of a sudden Smokey Da Bandit: Okay. Yeah. K-Chill: Like God's plan. My album done, lazy album done, book done, everything's ready to smack for this summer as it needed to be. So it's all God's plan. So that shit just all came together and we did that shit. Smokey Da Bandit: What's the name of the book? K-Chill: The book is called Finding Harmony, the K Chill Story. And the book is ⁓ the book is the book will be dropping on August first August 1st too. It'll be a package that you could get on whatever websites and probably on definitely on a Dash website too. It'll be a package with like the book, the album, and probably like a doing too much hoodie or T shirt which Smokey Da Bandit: Mm. Okay. K-Chill: That's my son's brand and that's the name of the second single. It's called Doing Too Much. So like we'll have like something with like an autograph or something in there for you and that'll be all in a bundle. And ⁓ you know, like I say, the nineteenth is a single. Smokey Da Bandit: So perfect album. K-Chill: God's Plan is the first single and that song came about because it's just like I had it for my album and I was just really just talking about like I guess like how it was all coming together and then I sent this shit to Lei and Leigh sent this verse back and he was just on some new lazy bone shit like introspective more like I don't even know. Like I honestly like man I gave Lay a lot of credit. I always tell him he put the key back in the engine and then he tell me, No, you know, you just don't know. You put the key back in this engine, but you getting you getting like a different lay on that bitch. He telling the story, he's storytelling. And ⁓ yeah, so it's all about really kinda a lot of the shit people asking me in interviews and shit, kinda all about, you know, our story and how it went down and shit and You know, it don't even really have a hook. Just in between we just kinda like monologues and like, you know, it was God's plan, but you know, it really was like the whole shit, like I say, with everything being ready for this summer and everything going from like you know, I I d when I started writing the book and me and Eric started doing the album and different shit, I didn't do that shit knowing that shit was about to come out, you know what I'm saying? Or none of that shit. I didn't do At the same time I didn't do it for it not to come out, but you d you don't know that you about to end up, you know what I'm saying, doing an album with Lazy or this or that or they about to, you know, block off the part of the street and all that. Smokey Da Bandit: Everything is falling in line 'cause this is what God planned. K-Chill: Man, what? Exactly. The the podcast, you, Kentucky Boys, the Outlaw Show, Beyond the Harmony, you know, Beyond the Harmony get a lot of credit because shit. In the very beginning, when everybody was ⁓ interviewing me for that fifty year anniversary of hip hop and shit, like Beyond the Harmony had already, I think, interviewed me and was already like pumping the shit up, like so Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. K-Chill: ⁓ they even told me like Beyond Harmony in part was like created to find out who the fuck I was. You know what I'm saying? And that shit is crazy. You know what I mean? Like Smokey Da Bandit: I agree. They do they motherfucking homework. They they some journalists for real. Like they gon' tell K-Chill: No, and and they and they really helping right now with all the promotions linking us together and everything. So shout out John and Cecil, like I appreciate them so much because ⁓ you know, a lot of people man the the one thing about this whole whole process is that, you know, I did some things in life or whatever, and I didn't want to really be a footnote. I ain't want my kids to always just hear stories and shit. Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. ⁓ K-Chill: You know what I'm saying? Like so it's a blessing, man. I just thank God for the whole you know, the whole opportunity and everything. Smokey Da Bandit: Man. Hell yeah. So ⁓ what has K-Chill learned about life during these years away from the music? K-Chill: Man, I learned that if ⁓ you work hard, you can make anything bubble. If you think positive, you can make anything bubble. If you look at hurdles and obstacles and haters and whatever else you might perceive to have, if you just like b just like wish the best upon them and just keep it moving. Like laugh at every hurdle, jump that bitch quick. You know what I'm saying? ⁓ Just try to just get yourself in a ⁓ just a bubble of like ⁓ shit a bubble of goodness and fucking in good energy and kindness and like positive, right. You gotta just you gotta just that shit gonna happen for you, no matter what you're trying to do. So I learned that shit. I learned like Smokey Da Bandit: Positive vibes only. K-Chill: ⁓ time is the most important commodity that any of us got. ⁓ availabil availability is your best ability. ⁓ Smokey Da Bandit: Say that. E say that again. Say that again. K-Chill: Ну, все. ⁓ I say availability is your best ability. Smokey Da Bandit: Whoa. K-Chill: I put bro, I put ⁓ I uploaded I've been just doing kitchens and bathrooms and restaurants. Me and my cousin Dre right here, like we like my son, we we've been working hard as fuck. I uploaded that song ⁓ late, late, late last Friday night. And ⁓ You know, I just up it wasn't available, but I just uploaded it and set it up for availability for fr for the nineteenth. And the very next morning I had five VIP passes and twelve tickets to Disney Award celebrity softball game. You know what I'm saying? I got my yeah, I got my kids walking on the field and shit with all the Cleveland Brown players and they favorite and they favorite influencers. ⁓ a few days later. Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah, but I don't play. K-Chill: You know, I'm booked up for the week for radio shows and radio s and I'm doing a podcast right now with you. And this is the second one of the night. Like, all this shit, man, if you just prayer without work is dead. So if you just work for what you trying to make shake, like God is gonna give you that hand you need. Like we was we was in the middle, we was a we was in the middle of the Apple ⁓ the Apple music. advertisement where when you clicked on Apple Music, I'm gonna tell you how happened. My my 11 year old daughter Mackenzie said, Dad, is you on Apple Music? I said, I don't know. She got on her iPhone and clicked on Apple Music, and there I go, me and Lazy in the middle of Tim McGraw. I posted this shit on my Facebook and Instagram if y'all want to see it. It's in the middle where everybody got some shit out right now. Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's about ⁓ it. K-Chill: And I ain't paid for that shit. Lay ain't paid for that shit. Like, this shit is all God's plan, bro. So if you just if you work, but the key is that you gotta do some work though. You can't just sit there and pray, God make this shit happen for me. You gotta actually get out there and maneuver and get some motion. And then when God see that shit, he gonna give you the turbo boost. Smokey Da Bandit: They're gonna bless you for real. The turbo boost straight up. Straight up. You ain't never lie. I'm I'm going through it too. I'm going through it too right now. So yeah, congratulations to you and and and man, I'm happy. I'm happy for you, man. It sounds like you K-Chill: Man, I'm happy for us, bro. I'm happy for I'm happy for the city. I'm happy for everybody right now. Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. So When is your album supposed to be dropping? K-Chill: August first. Smokey Da Bandit: Hey, we got a date for that already. K-Chill: Yeah, August first, the album and the book. And right now, ⁓ I don't know what I don't know because my son gave me a nice hard name for the album and somebody else gave me a good name for the album, and I'm still like way stuck. So I'm not sure. Like I say, the book is finding harmony. First single for the album is God's Plan. Smokey Da Bandit: Album name. K-Chill: I know the single that we got for the summer and you know about this. ⁓ we waiting on one special queen to come jump on this track. Smokey Da Bandit: Ooh yeah, yeah. K-Chill: And if you out there, Queen, you know, I don't I ain't wanna be in the DMs looking all like, you know what I mean? Well, I just really need you. So when she jump on this song, we got a song for the summer that's gonna be the first single when the album dropped. Like I say, Doing too much it'll be out next month on the nineteenth, That bitch hard. But the single that we got for the summer, it Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. I know about it but I ain't gonna I ain't gonna disclose the you know K-Chill: No, we we gotta get the Queen on there first. We gotta get the most beautiful woman in the game in there right now. Once once we get her in there, it's a wrap, bro. Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah, yeah. Some sc They finna have something cis on there. Yeah. K-Chill: Yeah, five ⁓ Smokey Da Bandit: Alright, that's what's up. K-Chill: Hey if you see hey niggas is it niggas in the studio sleep right now, it's it's all kind of shit. We we've been at this shit all day, but I'm with you though, bro. Smokey Da Bandit: My bad. ⁓ When people hear K chill, what do you hope they think of? K-Chill: Man, ⁓ Double edge question. I always tell people, like the OK chill shit, if I'd have known that shit was gonna be in Europe and Germany and Japan and all over the fucking world, I would have been on some lightweight different shit. I ain't even gonna cap. Like that I was making shit for like a six, ten year old. Like a nigga just shit we rap about our cars, girls, just boom, but I ain't gonna lie, like I like I really If I'd no, I mean it's all good. I'm just saying, like I if I'd have known that shit, when you making that shit, you don't know that shit. So fast forward to now, fast forward to now though, I just hope that people hear a father, a husband, you know what I'm saying, ⁓ businessman, ⁓ OG, ⁓ a teacher in some in some ways, you know what I'm saying? Smokey Da Bandit: But now you think it Yeah. K-Chill: I want motherfuckers that know, like, I what I hope they get from this shit is, man, that nigga is the realest. You know what I'm saying? Because the songs that we making, I'm not on that bitch capping. I'm not, I'm telling you about the past, the present, the thoughts, the, you know what I'm saying? I'm telling you, like, it's like it's a real it's it's probably, it's definitely the I ain't gonna say it's the realest shit I ever made, because all the shit I made was real for the time that I made it in. But I'm just gonna say, I love I love this album, man. I really just hope people take away that. I hope people take the thought of perseverance and longevity and never backing down. That's what I hope they take away from that shit. Like like you, if you got a dream and you feel like, look, man, if you could do that shit, you know, LeBron out here dunking on niggas. You know what I'm saying? For 20 years. You know what I'm saying? So I just I just hope that people Smokey Da Bandit: Got his son now. He's playing with his son. Might play with his son. K-Chill: He played with his son. I'm in a studio with my son right now. So I just hope that niggas just take that. Don't never let nobody tell you what you can or can't do. And always believe in God. Always believe in your own abilities. And like really just see that shit through. Because it's as easy as conceiving it, believing it, achieving it, and speaking it. I feel like I feel like we spoke all this shit into existence. Smokey Da Bandit: Amen. Yeah, power of the tongue. Power of the time. K-Chill: Like for real. Man, for real, the power of the tongue all day. Smokey Da Bandit: Right up. All right, well look, I ain't gonna hold you too much longer, but this is the smoker section. So I wanna ask questions. I'm g spark up with this one. This is just my little fun segment, man. You know, you feeling good, feeling great. K-Chill: So Yeah, I'm I'm feeling good, bro. I've been out I've been ⁓ I done had me some a little tequila since we was on the on ninety ninth. Yeah, I I'm feeling good. Smokey Da Bandit: Blunts, papers, bowls, or bone. K-Chill: ⁓ I have been on my straight up raps. My my yeah, my little zigzag straight up raps. But Smokey Da Bandit: Reps. K-Chill: Just number one preferred method. Man, if if I could not have to be riding around with so much paraphernalia type shit, if I could just, if they could just make it way easier some kind of way, I ain't gonna lie. I hit that high temp rig in Detroit one time with my brother, my brother Nick. That high temperature rig, they dropped a little dab on that bitch. And that and that bit and I and they told me don't hit it so hard. But I but I didn't know that they meant not. Smokey Da Bandit: There's no Yeah. Yeah. That's deaf. Yeah, nigga, that's death. K-Chill: Even that much, I think I choked for like three minutes, but I was gone. So some kind of way bring bring that high temperature rig to just like a little pin or something, and I and I will say that. No, but that's that bitch still ain't not like that plate that you plug up. That when he dropped that little ass pin here, work yes, yes, exactly. Yeah, it ain't nothing like that shit. Smokey Da Bandit: They got that. They got that? Hit that hit. It burned up like Dray Smoke. All right. What's what's your favorite stone in the movie? K-Chill: No, for that. ⁓ shit, how hot? Fucking Dave Chappelle, alleged. Like that shit is the you know, I could I g I I will say I'm gonna I'm gonna say Smokey Da Bandit: And then say Dave Sappelle. K-Chill: Hold on, I said it I said it wrong. ⁓ what is Daddy Chappelle shit? Smokey Da Bandit: Damn, you you finna go along with all my other g K-Chill: What is the movie, Chris? What is Dangel? Hal bank, man. I'm tripping on my nigga. This is my favorite. This is my favorite comedian. I can't believe I said I can't believe I say how high. I meant I meant half bake for short. Have bake. When them niggas is talking about calling the horse butternuts and butter stuff and like I mean every part and then and then for real as a kid though. Smokey Da Bandit: Half bake. Half baked. Everybody been sitting asked. I'm gonna start. Who Yeah. Yeah. K-Chill: Half Baked is my favorite Stoner movie, but just honorable mention is Chee Chin Chong. You kinda start with the legends. Smokey Da Bandit: Alright, alright. That's what's up. I'm gonna start keeping tally now. I got after you, I'm gonna keep tally 'cause niggas everybody it seemed like almost everybody said half baked as their favorite Stoner movie. And that's K-Chill: Man, that's my favorite, bro, because half bake is just like the dog floating off the couch dead. ⁓ them nigga that nigga that nigga that nigga Dave that nigga Dave giving them the pounds of weed and throwing some shit in his pocket. Like I mean, have bake is is my favorite all time for sure. Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah, back of it. Alright. Do you prefer grinders or fingertips? K-Chill: Fingertips. I don't fuck with the grinder. I got I got some nice ass grinders. I never use them bitches. Like I grew up I grew up you know who the first person I smoked the blood with? Smokey Da Bandit: ⁓ K-Chill: Fucking guru from ⁓ Gangstar. Smokey Da Bandit: R I P K-Chill: Yeah, R.I.P. Guru Keith. Nigga, that nigga showed me how to roll blunts. Like me and me and Mike Love, my DJ at the time, doing an interview at Cleveland State with ⁓ the rebel and ⁓ they was doing an interview with him. We was in the in the little green room and it was like, Smokey Da Bandit: The legendary guru is who you first smoked the blow with? Yeah. K-Chill: Y'all wanna smoke some weed, we like, yeah, we went down to their lil Astro van they drove from New York. When we seen that nigga break down a dime bag and put it in one shell, we thought we was gonna die. Like that's real. Shout out Gangstar. Smokey Da Bandit: Shout out gangsta man. dispensary or truth? K-Chill: You said what? Smokey Da Bandit: Dispensaries or the streets? Shout out to the street. K-Chill: The motherfucking streets. Because no, real talk, because these niggas in Ohio can't keep they law straight. They don't know if they wanna let niggas sell it or not. So it look, it went legal, then they came with some new laws about a month ago. Now Smokey Da Bandit: Is it legal there? Mm. Okay. K-Chill: They all the little smoke shops that inv invested all that money. They fucked their money up. And now it's just like they little big dispensaries that don't understand math and know what a eighth is. And not only that, you regulating me to this ⁓ you know, these ones when I could call my little nigga, my little nigga money, shout out money. I can call Smokey Da Bandit: Sarah Money. K-Chill: I could call my little nigga and he got 40 flavors. As well as the fact that I don't like that they have so many niggas locked up and all that shit and then they wanna legalize and like we ain't got no control of the shit, whatever. But like ultimately I am a capitalist too, so I'm gonna say if they could get they shit together at least when I go to Detroit or Michigan or something, ⁓ it's all so beautiful. Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah, I everybody got the greener on the other side. K-Chill: It's beautiful. Nigga, I just came back from Cincinnati and Kentucky last week. Or like the week week this last weekend. And they got their shit even like nigga. Get your shit together. They got their shit together like way. So like, yeah, right now I'm going my niggas on the streets, fuck them dispensary. Smokey Da Bandit: All right. Shout out to the streets. ⁓ if you could smoke with anybody, who would it be? K-Chill: If I could smoke with anybody? Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah, if you can smoke with anybody in the world. Dead or alive. Matter of fact, let's do alive first and then dead. K-Chill: Alive and dead. So Fuck it. ⁓ did I'll probably go like fucking Michael Jackson. I'll go with MJ. I'll go with MJ cause man, like MJ was such a kind a kind soul ass type of nigga. Like I bet you like you would just had a fun day with MJ, especially if y'all high. Smokey Da Bandit: Right. Yeah. K-Chill: Fucking with fucking with bubbles and shit. ⁓ riding shit on the in Neverland and shit. High as fuck. You know what I'm saying? You know, MJ probably had bitches, so he probably gonna call he probably gonna he probably gonna call above law to action. And then I'm gonna say all that shit. Alive though, I say, man. Smokey Da Bandit: Right. Raspberry. ⁓ dear. Bitches, animals. K-Chill: 'Cause I can't be disrespectful and say Jesus but I will say the aliens. I'll smoke with the aliens just to get on their good side and let ⁓ know we got some good shit on earth. Smokey Da Bandit: So, what's up? ⁓ who your top five or top ten? K-Chill: Top five with rappers. Okay, so my my list always be piss and peep. It pissed people off. Smokey Da Bandit: Matter of fact. Let me let me let me be K-Chill: The Mount Rushmore of Cleveland rappers? Alright, so Bone can't be all of them. So we're gonna go ⁓ okay. Then shit. Literally Damn, that's fucked up. So I'ma just have to put bone on there as one collective head. Right. And then I'm gonna put MC Chill on there 'cause he started that shit and you know, like it is what it is. He started he gave a nigga hope that we could do this shit. So I gotta put Chill up there. Де Smokey Da Bandit: Okay. Two. Boom. Boom, we're gonna put the skull and then we got MC chill. Boom. K-Chill: Then we got MC Chill. This Cleveland. ⁓ my God, man. Like honestly God, without being like just a an arrogant bastard myself. Cause I'ma blow my own horn. Cause I'm going to blow my own horn because cause nobody gonna blow it for me. And then and then ⁓ Smokey Da Bandit: I boom, K you know if you know who will. That's three. K-Chill: So it's only four motherfuckers up there, right? Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. K-Chill: Alright, so then finally, because he used to be front row at every black money concert and I like that he stayed active and I like that he got perseverance and I know he got hustle about itself, I gotta go MGK. Smokey Da Bandit: Ew K-Chill: I gotta go MGK because I got I literally cause close my eyes and see MGK at Black Money Concerts front row. He he always showed love. He always was at every event. Like I can see how he made it cause he had a work ethic on him, you know what saying? And he got bars. You know what I'm saying? Motherfucker can say what they want. ⁓ G K got bars. And then he and then he gave back to the city a lot. So yeah. That they're gonna mar my Runchmore right there. And then And then honestly, damn, 'cause I gotta I gotta you know what, I'd take myself off that bitch and put brothers for the struggle on that bitch. Smokey Da Bandit: Damn, that was a selfless act. Y'all heard that right there. Matter of fact, let me hold on. But we just know for the record though, I was on that bitch. I was myself, I took myself off the off the mountain, and I put my brothers from the struggle on that bitch. K-Chill: Yeah. All right. Yeah, because because Brother for the Struggle, ⁓ in many ways Pratt Pratt from Brother for the Struggle, he taught me how to be a star. You know what I'm saying? Like when we did shit, I would either open for them or they'll open for me. It was it was our time. Like my my like three, four year run was they same three, four year run, and we just always looked up and only saw each other. So I can't never take nothing away from what they did, so I'd be selfless and take myself off that bitch and put them on it. Must sound good. Smokey Da Bandit: ⁓ it kinda glitzed, but hopefully it'll be straight. We'll figure it out. ⁓ K-Chill: So we said my top five nationally or just right now rappers. Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. Top five or top ten. Any t it don't it don't matter what area they from. Your fi it it and ain't gotta be straight Cleveland. Your favorite, your favorite top five, top ten. K-Chill: ⁓ but mm. All right, my favorite K Chill favorites. So Ty is it's gonna I'm a cheat call, I think, 'cause I might have six 'cause only because Ty for one A and one B is Drake and Wayne. And Drake and Wayne because because you can't take shit away from Drake run. Like if you is, you just you could not like Drake, and I get it, but Drake Drake career reminds me a lot Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. Drake and Wayne. K-Chill: My career. Like, I was a 50-50 artist. You either love me or you hated me. And so I see a lot of that in Drake. But Wayne brought you Drake, and Wayne is besides the fact he brought you Drake, Nikki, the whole young money, all that shit. Wayne is a motherfucking monster forever. Smokey Da Bandit: Guess I'm Yeah. Hell yeah. K-Chill: So I'ma go so both of them tied for one. Two. All right, then fuck it. Okay, then we ain't gonna tie we ain't gonna alright. You don't you don't want to tie it up? I'm gonna say, I'm gonna go Wayne. I'm gonna go Wayne. I'm gonna go. All right, so here go my top. Wayne, Drake, Biggie. Smokey Da Bandit: Well yeah, but why they gotta die, though. You what you just what you broke them down Yeah it ain't gotta be an open it's just go top K-Chill: Kanye West Smokey Da Bandit: Hey that's ⁓ K-Chill: my nigga who could float anywhere around this list 2 Chainz Smokey Da Bandit: I fuck with 2 Chainz man. You get you got five. You want it, you got five more. Said if you want it, you got five more. K-Chill: Two Chinese murder everything. Everything he owned. You say what? Man, ⁓ five more my cousin over here talking about Eminem. Like this ain't no shit, Dre. Hey, 'cause let me be a buck with you though. Man, I probably this ain't politically correct, man. Smokey Da Bandit: You get if you want. No, d this ain't this ain't cuz list. This your list. This ain't your list, cuz. Ain't supposed to K-Chill: I can acknowledge. I can acknowledge ⁓ Marshall Mathers' talent. He is extraordinary. He is an extraordinary fucking poet, lyricist, all that shit. I personally don't be looking for the song stuff. You know what I'm saying? I like, you better lose yourself. I like that motivational shit, but like I can't really recall looking for an Eminem album type shit. So that's why. Smokey Da Bandit: Right. That's your no K-Chill: No disrespect, cause as a rapper, I could tell you that nigga is the rap God That nigga be on some shit. Okay, but but the rest of my list gonna go niggas like Yasin, Ya Yasin Bay, most deaf, of course. Yasin Bay. That nigga's an animal, black thought animal. ⁓ Smokey Da Bandit: But that Niggas say that. Yeah. Okay. K-Chill: You know, I love what my little niggas did to the game. We talking about, you know, tops, so we're talking about I like I think of them as more like a group, but you we we know how Bond influenced the rap game, you know what I'm saying? Like Cray at any time could take your head off, Busy at any time take your head off. Of course, Leia at any time will turn L burner and take your head off. You know what I'm saying? ⁓ But two chais is like like one of my tops. And you know, Biggie was Biggie was Biggie was like I love Biggie, man. ⁓ I met Biggie before, so I love Biggie. Yeah, yes, sir. I love Biggie. ⁓ Biggie Biggie and and and ⁓ Puffy one time at ⁓ Jack the Rapper pranked us. We was coming across the mezzaline, whatever across from the Smokey Da Bandit: What? K-Chill: From the hotel to the ⁓ bungalows where it was just like isolated bungalows and really only niggas was in there, ironically, was Death Row, Bad Boy, and and K my lil K Chill camp with my niggas Kirk and Kev at the time. And ⁓ we walking across at night and all of a sudden we all got red dots on us and niggas get the ducking, like, what the fuck, like And then we hear niggas up on the balcony laughing and it was Puffy and Biggie with laser pointers and shit. Just fucking with us. And you know, yeah, we w they invited us up, we kicked it, had a drink or something, kicked it for a minute, kept it moving. But like it ain't it ain't even just that. Biggie just, you know, Biggie just was Biggie was a different breed. Smokey Da Bandit: That's crazy. I got a Biggie story, man. Shot R.I.P. Biggie, man. That's your only time you kicked with him? K-Chill: Right, P Biggie, man. Only time. Smokey Da Bandit: That's dope. K-Chill: ⁓ yeah, I mean them some of my favorite MCs, man. I love I love Slick Rick though. I love I love Slick Rick storytelling. ⁓ new new niggas though. I love little Dirk. I love ⁓ you know I fuck with what a little nigga you be playing? YB, I be fucking you know shit, but yeah, Drake, Drake done had a long ass. Smokey Da Bandit: Pointing. K-Chill: You know what I'm saying? So I fuck with Drake heavy. I respect I respect Kendrick lyricism, but he not really one of my favorites, but I respect his lyricism. When you ask me, I think about niggas who like I would buy they shit. Smokey Da Bandit: And he back. Right, that's why ⁓ this is your list. Who who you K-Chill: Right. Yeah, so yeah, we you know, that's a good list right there. We'll leave it there. Smokey Da Bandit: I like that. I like that list. I fuck with that. Eee. What's your favorite bone album? K-Chill: Mah I mean, the first one, of course, but I'm gonna say art of war was hard too though, but like, yeah, I mean like you gotta remember, in that moment I'm like we on. So the first one, it was just like and then what that did for the city and what and I could just tell how everybody emotions and everybody vibe was up because we knew it was gonna be the light on us. So yeah. Smokey Da Bandit: All right. Where was you at during the mother time? K-Chill: Me ⁓ I was doing my one two. I was on Saint Clair, you know what I'm saying? ⁓ Smokey Da Bandit: You were stugging. K-Chill: Yeah, for sure. I mean I was I was more plugging, but yeah. You know what I'm saying? I I wasn't never though ⁓ hand to hand in the street type nigga. But ⁓ Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. Mm. K-Chill: You know, things happen and ⁓ you know, me and Lay then had a conversation about all this shit and like I wasn't part of the Mo Thug situation and Like, it's all God's plan. Like, you can look at it like, man, you wanna be there, this, this, and that, but for whatever reasons, things things happen in God's time, not ours. So, yeah, during that whole situation, I was in the streets for real, and I was just like everybody else, like watching my niggas on TV and just like, you know what I mean, that's where I was. Smokey Da Bandit: I wanna get back to this real quick. You said this nigga Pac swung on you. K-Chill: ⁓ yeah. So I told on Kentucky on Kentucky Boys I told everybody to go to ⁓ my nigga DJ Thoroughbred Facebook page and he got the whole story on there. But then since we here I do I'll tell the story real quick. Smokey Da Bandit: Did was this your first time meeting Pac? K-Chill: First time, like instantaneous heat. ⁓ I opened for Pac. Pac was late. They they gave me the sign to ⁓ do like another couple songs. But thing was I really only had like boom booms in the trunk. I really only had like two or three songs everybody knew. So I get to freestyle and over shit, everything, boom. When it was over, I go The way this club was the metropolis, it was the DJ booth was up in the air about 15, 20 feet, and you had to go up a fire escape to get to it. And it was like super dark back there. So I go I go up the fire escape to see DJ Darryl D and get my bread. I get the money from Darryl, and I'm coming back down the fire escape, and I see these two girls. Smokey Da Bandit: Okay. ⁓ K-Chill: And I know ⁓ because they from Glenville. So I hear them talking, and I just start trying to like weigh ⁓ ear hustle. Cause they like, yeah, girl, I'm about to I'm about to holler at K chill when I see them, boo boo, boo. And I'm like, ⁓ shit, you know what I mean? Like, so I'm like way ear hustling. So I'm I'm literally like basketball hoop height over them, and they on the ground. So like if you look up you can't see shit cause it's black. So I'm ear hustling they conversation and then I see the doors just pop open the the the side door and hit come Pac with like I don't know about ten niggas. He got the half a Hennessy bottle in his hand. He lit. He say he say some shit like, ⁓ shit, which one of you house coming to the hotel with me? Now this ain't like today's ⁓ You know, hoes will be hoes type shit. It was like these these girls like, nigga, what? Like we ain't no hoes. Like nigga, fuck you, nigga. We came to see K Chill anyway. Park, park like park like ⁓ K Chill, nigga. Who the fuck like boo boo boo? So then I'm from St. Clair. So I'm like, nigga, I'm right the fuck here. Keep my name out your mouth, type shit, nigga. Like don't let the light skin fool you. Well, you'll get your ass whooping here, nigga. I'm from St. Clair. Like like thorough Thoroughbred was right there. So he got the whole story. Like I paraphrased it, some shit like that. And ⁓ so it was like a little it was it was like a little not a yellow fest, but it was a little boom boom boom, but nothing happened right then. So security ushered him in, boom. Me, I come down, I s I I start talking to the two girls, we step outside. Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. K-Chill: the D they had these curtains from the ⁓ backstage to where the crowd was. So we step right out the curtains. No mo like not a not a not ten seconds before we step out them curtains. The curtains fly back open and I see Pac with the fist coming. And it's like the Matrix, 'cause it's no, it's like Spider Man when Spider Man got the senses and he could see the punches. And I'm like, He really w he really almost hit the girl. But before anything could make contact, one of his security yanked his little ass in the air and then the fist just went and then it just went away. And I'm like, Damn, did this nigga just swing on me? Like And ⁓ yeah, and then they took you know, he took him backstage, he went on and performed and then ⁓ Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. K-Chill: I guess I guess I guess the big moral is he got he g he got into it with somebody else that night. Then the security was like, hey, ⁓ Pac said Pac apologized. He invites y'all to the after party, boo, boo, boo. So that nigga, whoever that nigga was, he went to the after party. I didn't. They said they whooped his ass and he still got a lawsuit against Pac right now to against Pac and State type shit. Smokey Da Bandit: What? K-Chill: Like he never got paid for that shit. Like they beat his ass. But you know, I kick I kicked it I kicked it in LA. ⁓ Kermit sent me out to LA to record with like DJ E. Nuff who did Snoop first demo that they got to Dre and ⁓ I was all like around the death row camp and all that shit. So I know how them niggas operate, so I wasn't on that shit. Smokey Da Bandit: Damn You got some history, nigga. K-Chill: Yeah, at one time, bro, I used to go around the country and just like that like that shit with ⁓ busy that time. We just destroy niggas. Like literally, but you know, I think I you know all that shit is is history, but I just think, you know, I thank God that I had the longevity to have something relevant popping in like three different decades. Like not too many artists did that shit. It's like me Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. K-Chill: Buster rhymes, bone, you know what I'm saying? It's a it's a limited edition. Smokey Da Bandit: Man, that's what's up, man. ⁓ damn, you blow my mind, nigga. You You been doing some shit, nigga. K-Chill: It ain't over though. This bout to be the biggest run this about to be the biggest year and the biggest run of all this shit. Smokey Da Bandit: ⁓ K-Chill: Okay. Smokey Da Bandit: You can sit down with the young self, what advice would you give him? K-Chill: Advice to who? Smokey Da Bandit: You, your younger self. K-Chill: my younger self, man, it'd have been, and this could go to any rapper. You don't need all these albums. And get the fuck out of your city. Not on some not on permanent, you know what I'm saying? This go to any city. This ain't a knock on Cleveland. It's just that you need more than your own city you grew up in to hear you. And you don't need a thousand fucking songs. And when when niggas in this in your city Smokey Da Bandit: Mm. K-Chill: Was tired of your album. How many other cities heard that shit? You know what I'm saying? So, like, fuck all them making a million albums, fuck all that. being a local hero shit. Believe in yourself. Get on a tour, get out the city, and push one or two singles and put your all into it. What up, y'all about to rock? ⁓ no, hold on. We we where we at, Smoke. Smokey Da Bandit: Yeah. We ⁓ we we finna fin we finna wrap it up. We finna wrap it up. K-Chill: He finna wrap it up, bro. They about to try to lead the kid, bro. Yeah, my son and my cousin trying to tryna lead me and shit. Smokey Da Bandit: They finna leave. I I was you got some stories, nigga. We gonna have to do a part two. K-Chill: No, we can do this shit whenever, bro, for sure. You know, I'ma fuck with you. Smokey Da Bandit: ⁓ we're gonna close it out with this. Twenty years from now, when people look back at K Chill's career, what do you hope they'll say about you? K-Chill: I hope they say he made sense. He ⁓ he was a real one. He was a good dad, you know what I mean? A good provider, a good businessman. He brought something to the world love. He brought, you know, he helped part in bringing something to the world that the world loved. And I hope that me, my nigga E Eric Wilson and Layzie and Everybody in the in our camp and fucking with the Dash Pro project and everything, I hope that we be the ones that really give the city that moment. Like the biggest thing I could do, like the the most, the most most thing that made me proud and everything I already did is like raise my son and be there for my family and shit like that. So beyond that, if I could get this city to have its moment like Houston, like Atlanta, like New York. Where it ain't just a one off. If I could be part of that shit, that's gonna be, I think, my biggest musical legacy. I'm trying to be the Quincy Jones of this shit. We we about to make St. Clair great again. Smokey Da Bandit: What? Where can people find you? ⁓ on social media. K-Chill: The real K Chill with underscores, but you really don't gotta put the underscores. ⁓ that's for all my music shit is. Christopher K Chill Ford on Facebook, and then ⁓ in the short foreseeable future, ⁓ K Ford renovations. If you looking to get some work done or something, I might be doing a couple more jobs. I might not, I don't know, cause shit is changing for me on a day to day basis right now. Smokey Da Bandit: Well, ⁓ I appreciate you. You got any any shout outs you wanna give, ⁓ anything you wanna promote aside from guys playing which is dropping soon? K-Chill: June nineteenth, God's plan. June nineteenth, God's plan. Please pre-order that shit. Go to Lazy99 site right now. The Dash Project. ⁓ everything you see us associated with. We got Taboo coming. We got Tajor coming. We want ⁓ You know, look out for some new brothers for the struggle. Look out for Cleveland hip hop. Look out for my nigga Rock Phoe. Look out for ⁓ my nigga Klee. Like maybe look out for we probably gonna upload all the black money shit. You know what I'm saying? ⁓ but mainly look out for each other, man. Love each other, man. Be more Jesus like, you know what I'm saying? Treat each other with some treat each other with some kindness and look out for my collab with the Queen of Chicago. Smokey Da Bandit: Everybody Yeah. K-Chill: I know you out there, Queen. We're gonna make this shit happen, man. Don't stop playing with my emotions, Smoky. Let's get this shit, man. Let's get this shit, man. Look out for everything we doing, man, and look out for yourself, man. Be safe on them streets. Smokey Da Bandit: What? So I appreciate you, man. Thanks for being on my show, man. We're gonna chop it up. We're gonna bring you back, man. Cause I know shit finna pop off. Shit finna pop off. So yeah, congratulations on everything. I appreciate you coming on and we're gonna top it up some more. So K-Chill: Well so Thank you, man. Thanks for having me, man. We're gonna do it in person, man. I'm gonna you gotta get down. I'm gonna get you down here for that listening party, bro. Smokey Da Bandit: Let's make it happen. They tell them niggas they gotta hey man, you can't interrupt the interview, nigga. We hey, I'm about to come right now. I'm coming. K-Chill: Like that. It's going down. Makes we making St. Clair great again. Pre-order everything, man. I love y'all. Thank y'all. Thank y'all for ⁓ even making me relevant again, man. I fuck with everybody. The Bomb fans, K Chill fans, friends, family, Glenville, Ted again, the champions, you know what I'm saying? Everybody, man. The whole city, man. Let's let's do it again. We about to make St. Clair great again. Smokey Da Bandit: For sure. All right, man. Have a good night, bro. K-Chill: Good night.