Latest / Building 341 / Growing Up Mixed: Never Enough?
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- B Mitch: But coming up, we were like rebellious little kids who were lost in this white neighborhood, man. And we were just dealing with a lot of shit, real close circle, and dealing with what comes with going to schools with ignorant white kids DJ Rubbaban: Yeah. Yeah, mm-hmm. Now did the bay have a battle scene? B Mitch: Yeah, nah, I don't feel, at least not in my era, the kids, yeah, we dopertynam, we dopertynam, and we'll do shows and this and that, but nobody was throwing no battle raps. people were challenging people to, we were real, got to a point where we were real like, couldn't nobody fuck with us anyway. So battle for what? Like we were ahead of our time. The fact that nobody else, our age group was recording music at the time when we were already recording music on the tapes. DJ Rubbaban: So you had a edge. So you did have a edge. B Mitch: But yeah, I mean, was always, like I said, we moved from Richmond, so I knew where I was supposed to be and was very unhappy with where I was at. So, know, the little edge came from that real, just, know, I'm not supposed to be here. But at the same time, you you kind of end up running situations like that. Everybody looks at you because you're the only fucking black kid around. So people are drawn to you in that sense. DJ Rubbaban: Do you feel like people did do you feel like people tested you more so because of the mixed thing? Cause Caddy, like Caddy, you got a you got a quiet demeanor, but a killer, but you got a quiet demeanor and you being in the business, so to speak, did you encounter that too? And then you was even a bouncer. B Mitch: Like there's. for sore. Caddey B: I've always got it from both sides, being that I'm mixed. So, you know, on one side you're not black enough, one side you're too black. You know, like I've always said, I always told my kids you wanna know what color you are, ask the police. 'Cause they're gonna let you know. No matter what. So you get tested all the time. That's part of being mixed, I think, you know, you constantly get tested, you're always not enough. B Mitch: All right. Thank you. DJ Rubbaban: You fe