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CITY XF GAWD · Hip-Hop Now Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Jipop Now Podcast as.
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  Speaker 2: If from the future, you know what to do show
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  Speaker 1: Leg hip hop is say this today.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get right into the business whatever, y'all, welcome to
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  Speaker 2: another episode of Hip Hop Now podcast, a bonus episode.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, Vegas of Hip Hop Now Podcast
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  Speaker 2: and in twenty twenty five, we're doing new things here
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  Speaker 1: Present to you. So without further ado, Boss right here
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  Speaker 1: with me.
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  Speaker 2: Man is a dude who I met through the Homie
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  Speaker 2: Kill right on shout out to the Apartment five B podcast.
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  Speaker 1: And you know we've met me and Kill. We've been
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  Speaker 1: doing radios. You we've met a.
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  Speaker 2: Million rappers irap like it's it's not a big deal
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  Speaker 2: to us. But then when I went and pressed play
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  Speaker 2: and I was in the gym listening to your album.
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  Speaker 2: This was a couple of years ago, I was like, God, damn, Like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm questioning in my opinion because I'm like, because I
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  Speaker 2: know what it takes to come up with some of
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  Speaker 2: the things, the schemes, the wordplay, all that good stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So when a fan who knows hip hop or fellow
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  Speaker 2: MC see somebody doing it on a high level, you
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  Speaker 2: have to give them respect. So whatdout further ado? Straight
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  Speaker 2: out of Chicago? I Am God? What's good?
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  Speaker 1: Bro? Hey man, I'm good. I can't complain. Bro.
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  Speaker 3: First and foremost, I appreciate you having me on the
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  Speaker 3: platform and shout out the Homi kill two was he
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  Speaker 3: is the main reason a lot of people, you know
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  Speaker 3: what I'm saying, I'm familiar with I Am God.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, love, that's dope, man. So let's get right
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  Speaker 2: into it. What part of Chicago are you from? And
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  Speaker 2: what's the science behind the name I Am God? Was
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  Speaker 2: that your original rat name came up? How you came
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  Speaker 2: up with it?
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  Speaker 3: And so I'm originally from the Southwest side of Chicago,
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  Speaker 3: the Clet Court, shout out the hood. They took the buildings,
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  Speaker 3: but they can't take the memories. It's a now defunct
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  Speaker 3: housing development in Chicago. They tore it down, and I
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  Speaker 3: believe it was two thousand and nine. So I'm from
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  Speaker 3: forty fifth of Lacrosse and then forty fourth and Siscoo.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, man, southwest side of Chicago to Claire Courts.
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  Speaker 1: Fifteen minutes this way you be on the west side.
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  Speaker 3: Fifteen minutes that way you on the south side, So
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  Speaker 3: literally southwest.
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  Speaker 1: The name I Am God.
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  Speaker 3: I went by many names previous to that name, and
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  Speaker 3: that name was kind of like, you know, I ain't
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  Speaker 3: too much of a believer in coincidence. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: most things that happened they happened for a reason. So
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  Speaker 3: at the time when I came back to Rap twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 3: when I dropped my first project, I Am God, shout
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  Speaker 3: out to Homie Max Julian.
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  Speaker 1: He produced that.
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  Speaker 3: In this entirety, my name was actually te to God
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  Speaker 3: T th H E G A W D and God
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  Speaker 3: always still forgetting their head without evolving. But when I
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  Speaker 3: went to go trade mark the name, all you independent
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  Speaker 3: artists out there, my fellow independence, get on that business man,
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  Speaker 3: the publishing trademarks, the copyrights, all that, make sure you
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  Speaker 3: get all that taken care of. But yeah, I went
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  Speaker 3: to go trade mark the name and I can't. I
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  Speaker 3: stumbled upon another dude named Tit to God. It was
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  Speaker 3: spelled different though it was tdag D, and I forget
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  Speaker 3: where he was from. But you know, the trademark attorney
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  Speaker 3: was like, she basically advised me, like, I will stay
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  Speaker 3: away from that name.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm even though it's spelled different.
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  Speaker 3: You want to avoid any future, any potential future litigation,
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  Speaker 3: So just stay away from the name and come with
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  Speaker 3: something else.
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  Speaker 1: And here I am.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just coming back to rap, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 3: late twenty nineteen, just drop my first project. And here
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  Speaker 3: it is, I'm having to basically rebrand again. And I'm like, damn,
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  Speaker 3: like I just came back out, like it's that gonna
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  Speaker 3: kill the little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Of momentum that I got.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, I listened to the attorney and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I was already using the hashtag I am God, and
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  Speaker 3: that always translated to I am getting ahead without devolving.
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  Speaker 3: The GAWD always had that meaning to it, so I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, it's controversial. I stand on it. I
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  Speaker 3: believe in it. It's a lifestyle thing for me. It's
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  Speaker 3: not just the name something that sound cool. So I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: fuck it, like I am God. That's what it is.
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  Speaker 3: And I never heard nobody with that name, you know,
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  Speaker 3: So she did what she had to do on her end.
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  Speaker 4: Check the trademarks against it. Nobody really had it.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot of God, you know in rap in general,
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  Speaker 3: G A W D, all types of various spellings G
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  Speaker 3: O D, but nobody had I am God. So I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think this was meant to be like
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  Speaker 3: it definitely. It speaks volumes, whether you make you turn
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  Speaker 3: an eyebrow up when you first hear it, or whether
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  Speaker 3: it just hits you as something powerful like I think it.
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  Speaker 3: I definitely. I know that that worked out for the
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  Speaker 3: best and it was supposed to be that. So here
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  Speaker 3: we are today. I am God.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's dope because, like you said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when you hear it, like if I go and tell somebody, yo,
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  Speaker 2: you should check out this dude.
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  Speaker 1: What's his name? I am God.
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  Speaker 2: That's already gonna evoke. You know, whether you're like, what
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  Speaker 2: that's his name or or interest or whatever. And like
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  Speaker 2: I said in the beginning, he backs it up. It
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  Speaker 2: ain't just some lame cat who you know can kind
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  Speaker 2: of wrap in blah blah blood nah, like basically press
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  Speaker 2: playing your understand. But I'm glad you said that because
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of one of the things that sticks out
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  Speaker 2: to people when you know, they hear your name and
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of the journeying to them, you know, discovering
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  Speaker 2: you and who you are and what you represent. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: what was your first experience with hip hop and what
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  Speaker 2: what were your origins as far as MC right, because
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  Speaker 2: we have our first experience as a fan, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: a song or a moment or whatever, but also what
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  Speaker 2: was that moment for you where you decided to start rhyming?
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  Speaker 3: So my first experience with hip hop I always tell
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  Speaker 3: a story that's the earliest I can remember. It was
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  Speaker 3: the video for Tupac Britain's Got a Baby Tupocalypse Now
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  Speaker 3: I believe that's twopocalypts now right, Like yeah, one, Like
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  Speaker 3: so yeah, it's like ninety one. I'm like five years old,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, at the time, my five year old
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  Speaker 3: mind I've never heard of a first of all, a
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  Speaker 3: young girl being sexually abused.
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  Speaker 1: That's a foreign concept to me.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what sexual abuse is at five years old.
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  Speaker 3: The concept of it being a family member who doing
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  Speaker 3: the sexual abuse. Then after that, like having the child
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  Speaker 3: on the floor and then proceeding to place the child
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  Speaker 3: and a dumpster.
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  Speaker 4: You know, that was crazy to me. All that was
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  Speaker 4: foreign to me. And you know, I consider pocket lyricists.
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  Speaker 4: I know it's debates about that. I personally considered pocing lyricists.
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  Speaker 4: He was just more of a simplistic lyricist in the sense.
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  Speaker 3: That he didn't feel like he needed to be overly
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  Speaker 3: technical to get his point across. So at five years old,
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  Speaker 3: my brain can compute a good eighty five or ninety
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  Speaker 3: percent of what he's saying. And I'm catching the sexual abuse.
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  Speaker 3: I'm catching. And plus it's a video, so it's giving
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  Speaker 3: you a visual to go along with it. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: terrified as a shorty, but it's like I can't look
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  Speaker 3: away because it's so intriguing. Like these concepts I never
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  Speaker 3: heard of before. So twopoc Brendan's got a baby. It's
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  Speaker 3: the first, it's my first experience with hip hop that
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  Speaker 3: I could remember and recall my origins as an MC star.
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  Speaker 3: My big cousin Shout out to my big cousin, Fluid
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  Speaker 3: Joe Cotta Akaa Fluid akae O Flow. He was actually
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  Speaker 3: in a rap group with him and his guys called
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  Speaker 3: the Faction, and you know me going out to Indiana
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  Speaker 3: to kick it with him for summers. You know, he
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  Speaker 3: they was hip hop heads, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: So remember the little the CD binders, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying. That motherfuckers had the car laand around the
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  Speaker 3: crib bro he probably had to have at least I
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  Speaker 3: want to say, at least three four of them, like
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  Speaker 3: two three in the crib, one or two in a car,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. And his his library of
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  Speaker 3: music like CDs. It was just like a kid in
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  Speaker 3: a in a candy store. Like I'm talking about everybody
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  Speaker 3: from the Roots to Dice Raw to Bust the Rhymes
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  Speaker 3: to Biggie to nas Bahamadia, I mean, n W a
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  Speaker 3: ice Cube, Like the list goes on, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying. Like so much music, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: So my household was a musical household with my o G.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm the oldest of three single mother. You know,
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  Speaker 3: her thing wasn't rap though, you know.
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  Speaker 4: It was all R and B soul gospel on Sundays
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  Speaker 4: when it's time to get up and clean up, you know.
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  Speaker 4: So she introduced me to music first and foremost.
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  Speaker 3: She even taught me my alphabet by you know, notable
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  Speaker 3: artists at the time. It is for alb sure, B
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  Speaker 3: is for Bobby Brown, See is for Camio, shit like that,
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  Speaker 3: you know. But my cousin, he is the one that
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  Speaker 3: really expanded my mind because I was already aware of rap,
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  Speaker 3: hip hop, you know what I'm saying that rappers, But
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  Speaker 3: I think going out there to Indiana and spending summers
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  Speaker 3: with him, and I was probably already I was already
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  Speaker 3: writing at the time too. I've probably been writing since ten.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't start spending summers with him, so I was
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  Speaker 3: like thirteen fourteen, you know what I'm saying, maybe twelve
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  Speaker 3: for around thirteen fourteen, so I'm already you know, I'm
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  Speaker 3: in school, so you know, the brain is active A
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  Speaker 3: and B student, you know what I'm saying. So the
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  Speaker 3: brain is already active. But now you know, I grew
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  Speaker 3: up on Chicago rap. Those was my first instances of
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  Speaker 3: rappers to where I'm like learning the words. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: talk about twist, the crucial conflict, do a Die, Psychodrama,
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  Speaker 3: the legendary Traxa, Shauna Teeth of Infamous Syndicate, you know,
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  Speaker 3: artists like that, Snipers, Triple Darkness. So you know, these
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  Speaker 3: is my first Chicago at that time, we had our
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  Speaker 3: own sound and it's the rapid, the rapid fire, some
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  Speaker 3: people call it chopping, twisting whatever. You know, it's the
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  Speaker 3: double time shit, you know, or that bounce, you know
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  Speaker 3: what I'm saying. So this is mainly what I'm I'm
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  Speaker 3: exposed to, you know. So being over there with my
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  Speaker 3: cousin exposed me to all different types of styles and
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  Speaker 3: that's what really swalked my interests that want to further
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  Speaker 3: and really take being an MC seriously, and they probably
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  Speaker 3: clicked to why I wanted to do it for real,
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  Speaker 3: for real, probably around like.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve, thirteen, fourteen, in between those years. So yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: So when when you were ten, what made you like
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  Speaker 2: I want to just right the rhymes? Like you know,
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  Speaker 2: you obviously was into hip hop, but what made you
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  Speaker 2: say I'm gonna write something.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: Manu ten would have been ninety six, so just at
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  Speaker 3: teen years old, I would have been teen in the
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  Speaker 3: year ninety six. So you know that's the end of part. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: that's right before the end with Biggie. That's an early
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  Speaker 3: jay Z. That's a still young but a little season.
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  Speaker 3: Nas Twister is out. He that's right before he dropped
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  Speaker 3: Adrenaline Rush. So probably Pope him that classic verse he
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  Speaker 3: got on. Pope Him was probably already out, would do
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  Speaker 3: a die Cube already doing this thing.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's a lot of Drey and Snoop they
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  Speaker 3: already out, were already out, solo members are already out.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot going on at that time. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: seeing bustin rhymes. He was a big influence back then.
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  Speaker 3: His debut album came out ninety six, solo debut album.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a lot of I'm soaking in a lot
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  Speaker 3: of music rap mainly. You know what I'm saying as
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  Speaker 3: a as a ten year old, and I don't know
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  Speaker 3: half of what they're talking about, but I just know
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  Speaker 3: that I'm slowly falling in love with this art form,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and it just made me want to try
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  Speaker 3: my hand. They trying to put something together, and of
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  Speaker 3: course that shit was weak. I probably got laughed out
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  Speaker 3: of the classroom several times trying to recite my little
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  Speaker 3: raps at ten years old. But I didn't start getting
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  Speaker 3: nice until like twelve, and that's when I started going
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  Speaker 3: to kick it with my cousin.
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  Speaker 1: That's dope, man, because ninety six is crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like if you go back and look at Hack alone,
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  Speaker 2: like a run that year, the way he ran from
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  Speaker 2: beginning and end of that year, it was crazy.
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  Speaker 1: But there was also, like like you said, there was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of albums.
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  Speaker 2: The Score was out, Redman's Muddy Waters was out, that
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  Speaker 2: it was written reasonable doubt, like it's almost I could
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  Speaker 2: see you being inspired by just all of this hip hop,
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  Speaker 2: and I think also mainstream wise, it was rising, so
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't what it was back in the day where
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  Speaker 2: you had to go, you know, at midnight and listen
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  Speaker 2: to a certain type of hip hop show to hear
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  Speaker 2: the stuff. It was like the videos, the music, it
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  Speaker 2: was up front. So that's dope to see you know
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  Speaker 2: that happened for you in ninety six. When you said
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  Speaker 2: ninety six, I was like damn, I was in college,
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Hold man, just getting better brother, just getting better man.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah right, right right, you're right, and now correct me
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  Speaker 2: if I'm wrong. But at some point you stop rapping?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, what if you want to share, if you want
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  Speaker 2: to be transparent, that's cool. So what was the catalyst
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  Speaker 2: to bring you back after you stopped?
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  Speaker 1: Like what?
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  Speaker 2: You know, what was it that made you stop? You know,
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  Speaker 2: considering how much you admire this art form and the
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  Speaker 2: music and you were doing it, like you said a
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  Speaker 2: fourteen you felt like I mean twelve, you felt like
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  Speaker 2: you were already nice with it. What made you stop?
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  Speaker 2: And then what made you come back? So initially what
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  Speaker 2: made me stop?
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  Speaker 3: I stopped in twenty sixteen, and I could feel the
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  Speaker 3: frustration come into a head, you know, my own inabilities
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  Speaker 3: to get anywhere I thought was significant, make any significant moves,
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  Speaker 3: and just feeling stuck in the mud as far as
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  Speaker 3: like trying to, you know, obtain some level of success
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  Speaker 3: within rap in the music industry period, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: just the overall state of music, you know, by twenty sixteen,
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  Speaker 3: like I was just overly disgusted with that thing.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying because it was so different from.
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  Speaker 3: What I grew up on, and I feel like I
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  Speaker 3: didn't really have, you know, when you were young. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think nobody that young really understands of cherishing what
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  Speaker 3: you have while you have had, you know, because those probably
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  Speaker 3: gonna be some of the best years of your life
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  Speaker 3: as a child.
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  Speaker 4: You you're so impressionable, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: And it's like I felt like I didn't really have
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  Speaker 3: enough time to even get comfortable with like the nineties
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  Speaker 3: and early two thousands music that I love. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm just coming into my own it's my own coming
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  Speaker 3: of age. I'm just starting to understand what wul Tang
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  Speaker 3: is talking about. I'm just starting to understand some of
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  Speaker 3: these references and things that other dudes is talking about.
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  Speaker 3: And it's kind of like I feel like the game switched,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and the South took it and ran with it.
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  Speaker 3: And no disrespect to them, because I love it's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of Southern rapping and rapping hip hop that I
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  Speaker 3: love that come from the South. So but at that time,
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  Speaker 3: like I was very biased if it wasn't Chicago or
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  Speaker 3: New York, a low West coast, but mainly if it
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  Speaker 3: went Chicago and New York, get it the fuck out
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  Speaker 3: of there.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to hear it, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: So eventually I learned to like, you know, mess with
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  Speaker 3: the South, and Juvenile is responsible for making me really
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  Speaker 3: tap in with Southern hip hop, and then from there,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I started liking Gez. I couldn't stand Jeez
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  Speaker 3: when he first came out, and that was one of
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  Speaker 3: the turning points to where it's like this nigga not
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  Speaker 3: saying shit, like he basically all ad libs and like,
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  Speaker 3: my guys that we was just reciting biggie lyrics overnight
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  Speaker 3: was like Jeez fans and I'm like, what the fuck
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  Speaker 3: y'all listening to?
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  Speaker 4: Bro?
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  Speaker 1: Like what did I miss?
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  Speaker 3: But like, at that point in time, I was so
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  Speaker 3: locked in and narrow minded with tunnel vision for the
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  Speaker 3: technicality of the art form. I didn't really honor any
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  Speaker 3: lyricists that wasn't like super technical or super lyrical. A few,
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, but not many. So when
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: Jeez first came out, I was like, I didn't get it,
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: but I definitely by the time that first album came out,
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, okay, so this shit is different. You
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: don't have to lyrical, spiritual miracle everything like this shit
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: is different. And you know, I've never been to the
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: South at that point. You know, I didn't have that
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: going to somewhere in the South of you know, family
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: get togethers or shit like that, Like I didn't have that.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: I'm super unfamiliar with Southern coach at this time.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: So my own failures, what I perceive to be at
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: the time, and the overall state of rap at the
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: time is what led me to quit what maybe come back.
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: I think I probably already had the itch.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: I was still doing little freestyles or versus to other people, BEATTNL,
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: but not really making music. But when I saw that
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Conway freestyle on show Off Radio a statics selected when
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: he was calling out all the battle rappers, I'm like,
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: this shit is popular again, Like y'all like this like
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: talking about this type of rap again. Because I'm unfamiliar
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: with Griselda at this point, and I don't know when
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: he originally did that Show Off Radio freestyle, but I
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: know I didn't see it probably until like.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: Twenty nineteen, maybe twenty eighteen.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: I think it was twenty nineteen because twenty nineteen is
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: the year I actually made up my mind that I
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: was going to get back into rap, but it was
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: like late twenty nineteen, so I think, shout out my doctor,
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: mine been to my engineer.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Shout out GQ for introducing me to him.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: I think our first time in the studio was sometime
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: in like late November, like right around Thanksgiving twenty twenty nineteen.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's that's dope.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Now, how do you feel now that you've been back
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: with a couple of projects under your belt.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: I'm ecstatic because specifically for what my city doing, Chicago Like.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: I never thought that when I came back that Chicago
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: looked like what it does now. And I ain't saying
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: that I'm new to the crib and I don't know
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: that we always had talent, Like Chicago is historic for
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: many things, music being one of them.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: But looking at where Chicago at.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: Now, like I'm biased, but it's not a biased opinion.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: I literally honestly feel like Chicago got the best some
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: seeds right now, male or female, hands down, because I
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: know what I hear and I see just Saturday night,
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. I went to two listening
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: parties for some of my bros that I rock with
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: within the rap community in Chicago, Rufus Siam's and the
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: bro Andreas Haley, and I'm talking about it's crazy like
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Rufus Sims he kicked it off of his listening party
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: like shout out bro him in Ill City, Ill Dirty
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: ruf is coming soon streaming everybody think it's March twenty
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: second of the be on streaming platforms and then going
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: to andre Andrea's Haley. Shit, this project is nasty outside.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: They got CDs available right now, but I don't know
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: if it's on streaming yet. And I'm just like man bro,
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: like we got some of the raws motherfuckers out, you know.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: So I feel great about coming back when I did
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: because it gave me the opportunity to build a brotherhood,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: you know, with my brothers in this rap shit, and
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: it's deeper than just you know what I'm saying the music,
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, like we actually tap in
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: and rock with each other. So Chicago we a whole
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: conglomerate right now. It's just that we not on that
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: level yet to where the whole of the underground or
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: whoever is seeing it. You know what I'm saying we
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: still learn on the way up.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: That's dope, man, Chicago never forgot how to rap, Absolutely not, Bro,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: That's kind of your thing. That's what you say, that's
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: what you live. You know what I'm saying, That's what
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: you demonstrate when I you know, when I see you on.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Ig or whatever. Where did where did that come from? That?
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Because it feels like it fuels you as an MC,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: but everything else you're doing, like you said, with the
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: homies and stuff like that, So what's.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: The origins of that? Where did that start? That come from?
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Feeling like the realm seeds was being pushed to the
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: side in Chicago, you know, because when Drill came out,
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: it just took over. And it's almost like anything before
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Drill kind of was like washed the weight those that know, no,
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: but I just mean as far as like in a
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: general sense, you know, Drill was so polarizing. It was
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: so different yet familiar. It was so brash and in
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: your face violent, and you know, Americans we romanticized the
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: most violent shit, whether it's Italian gangster shit, whether it's
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: black street organizations, whether it's cartels Mexico and Colombia, like
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: whatever the case it is, if it's violent, if it
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: got some crime element to it, we're gonna romanticize the
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: shit out of it. So it just felt like that,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: like I actually had a chip on my shoulder with
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: that shit, you know what I'm saying, because it just
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: felt like because I'm a little.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: Older than I'm a different generation than the drill generation.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: So I don't want to sound like the angry old
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: man like all these young punks like nah, Like Chicago
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: always been a gangstass city, like always has street organizations, gangs,
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: whatever you want to call them, nations, mobs, like we
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: always had that, So I'm familiar with that element. I
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: grew up in it, you know what I'm saying, for
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: better or for worse, you know, even partooking it at
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: certain times when I was a shorty. But it's kind
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: of like that shit was different because we were seeing
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: the death of so many shorties like play out like
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: literally like on TV, and I didn't rock with that shit,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Like I don't.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: Care how cool it sound, how popular it is.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: I got a conscience at the end of the day,
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, And that shit, it's not
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: like me me listening to styles p shoot them in
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: the head as a shorty.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: I'm not from Yonkers.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Now, I understand that the crime element is affecting us
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: as black people everywhere, but I'm not from Yonker.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: I don't know nobody from Yonker. So I don't look
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: at that and go, damn, that's fucked up.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: You're talking about shoot him in the head, Like nah,
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Like I'm wrapping that shit word for word. But when
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: it's in my own backyard, it's kind of like and
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: at that time, I'm a grown man, so I could
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: see this shit and it's like, this shit ain't cool, bro,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: this shit is all wrong.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: That's how it felt, you know, so the Chicago never
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: forgot how to rap pass tag saying whatever. It came
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: from that feeling like that, you know, specifically in Chicago
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: and generally in the game too, that you know what
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: I'm saying, That Chicago mcs like had.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Been pushed to the background.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying for the drill shit, you know,
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: because a lot of dudes, it's only a handful of
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: dudes that really.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: That really came up off drill. Shout out, Keith. You
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: I seen a few interviews of his lady, he seemed
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: to have grown up and matured a lot, So I'm
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: happy for him and where he had in life. Right now,
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: I'm first fortunately dirt locked up. Don't know what that's
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: gonna end up being fine, got killed, rest in peace.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: You know what.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: It seemed like it was much more harm than good done.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Not that many motherfuckers came up out of Drill and
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: actually thrive and shout out, Polo G. You want to
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: still out there doing this thing. But other than that,
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: like I ain't really I never really fucked with Drill
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: bro never really fucked with me.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I'm glad you said that because that
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: was the takeaway I got from it the first time
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: you said it. Right, Chicago never forgot how to rap,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: And I agree with it right because I could never,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: even as a hip hop I could never condone, you know,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: records about actually killing somebody, especially black people. You know
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying, actually killing somebody, and it's just a
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: back and forth. But lives are being lost. It's not
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: just a back and forth with records. You know, Mothers
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: are losing sons and daughters and stuff like that. It
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: just seemed like a terrible trend, and I feel like
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: what you're representing and the people like you is a
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: healing process of we're not just saying oh, okay, yeah,
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: don't listen to drill, but we're saying hip hop is this,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, and y'all coming together as
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: opposed to, you know, being at odjac with each other.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: So I commend you and everybody who does that because
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: I think that's dope gratitude, No problem, all right. Lastly,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: tell me the inspiration behind your new album City of
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: God with Ill City. I know it's a play on words,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: but I'm pretty sure knowing you is a deeper level
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: to that.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: So you tell people what's the science behind that album.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: So that's just you know, the insatiable hunger I have,
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: as far as just like taking what I believe is mine,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: claiming my spot. You know what I'm saying, whether we're
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: talking about the city or whether we're talking about outside
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: the city and even further beyond.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: So City of God is kind of.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Like saying, yeah, the city is mine type shit, but
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: you know I can't make that claim. So because it's
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: many more you know what I'm saying, artists than just
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: me that's putting out incredible work, you know what I'm saying.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: So it is a play on words, but you know
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: it's also you know again God is getting there without
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: the vaultment. So it's trying to flip the narrative on
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: what Chicago is known for, just like it's it's a
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: perfect example. Like you know how Chicago is called the
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: city of win. I kind of took that and you know,
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: I use it as like city of win, but it's
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: like W I N with the D in parentheses. You
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, So city will win, but also
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: city of win, like we we win it. We're trying
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: to develop a winning culture. You know what I'm saying,
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Like instead of all is lost, you know what I'm saying,
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: lives is being lost like crazy, like and you know,
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: our last few artists that really didn't blew up, they
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: didn't blew up because of drill, Like, let's let's do
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: that for overhead though. You know what I'm saying, like,
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: let's take it back to the essence and A and
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: A and a real skill of this ship. You know
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: what I'm saying, the culture of this ship, like not
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: the cliche culture, like the real culture, you know what
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: I'm saying, and let's come up off that, you know.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: So yeah, City of God me trying to state my
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: claim city is mine and all that type of shit,
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: But it's also City of you know, getting the here
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: without the voult and trying to basically rebrand the city.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: It's gonna always be gangster, it's gonna always be tough,
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: it's going to always be in your face and direct.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: But me and the guys and.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: The fellow sisters out here will put on because it
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: ain't just the guys, you know, we're really trying to,
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: you know, shine a different light on the city.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: M that's dope.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: And I kind of get that from the album, right
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: because I've listened to all your work, to be honest,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: and I could tell when the direction just by listening
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: to your lyrics, right, Like what was the direction for
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: this album versus that album? With this one, you know,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: it's like City of God and I forget the name
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: of the record, but one of the records I was like, Oh,
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: he's playing his flag like seriously, And I get that
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: whole vibe throughout the album, even with.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Your guest features, which is dope.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, because again, I think in
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: today's hip hop there's a there's a lane now for
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: people to pay attention to lyrics. And I think a
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: lot of it also as far as casuals, has to
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: do with this whole battle with Drake and Kendrick, because
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: the heads were breaking down the lyrics, and people who
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: wanted to know what was being said and what that
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: meant was starting to go to the YouTube and the
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: social media is and here, you know, people break down
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: what was happening. So it kind of rebuilt the appetite
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: for lyrics, you know what I'm saying, and that mattered.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: So I think it's like right on time with your
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: movement of saying Chicago never forgot how to rap and
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: this is how we rap.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: So I think I think that's dope.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Man. Let's get into some fun questions before we end, right,
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: because as hip hop heags, we could talk about this
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: ship all day, all time.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Favorite MC for you, who is that? Nos? Nos? Why? Nos?
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: At first it was Biggie.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: You know, Biggie was more flashy, He was understandable, more
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: understandable than Nads.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: For me at the time, you gotta remember, like I
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: got on my.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: First I knew who NAS was, but I didn't really
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: get it own NAS until I am and that's ninety nine,
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: so I had to go backwards.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: You know, I can remember seeing the video for Uh.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: It ain't hard to tell because I remember the army
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: jacket and shit, I remember the Street Dreams remix with
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: R Kelly and did you ever ship that he featured
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: nads on?
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: So I remember all that.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: That was probably too you know, But like I said,
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Biggie was my favorite m see at first. But you know,
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: as I matured and got older, and plus with Biggie's
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: untimely demise, he didn't really get a chance to like really.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: Flesh out his discography.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: But the older I got, the more mature I became,
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: and the more myself I became. I just identify with
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Nas like always compare like him and jay z is,
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: like I use like a high school theory.
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: It's kind of like Jazz, like the star athlete of
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: the school.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: You know, he played varsity for basketball team, varsity on
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: the football team. He walking through the always with the
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: letterman jacket. You know, all the chicks want him, all
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: the dudes want to be like him. You know, he
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: got the fresh clothes you know what I'm saying all that,
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: and Nas is kind of like similar but different. You know,
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: he fresh too, he quiet, chicks did him. Dudes want
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: to be like him too, you know what I'm saying,
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: Because Nas are setting a lot of fashion trends like
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: doing his heyday, you know, so I remember that too,
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. So it's just like the
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: more quiet version, and I feel like I can identify
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: with that more like I wasn't really popular like that
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: in grammar school or high school, Like I kind of
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: did what I did but flew under the radar.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: So and just hearing an an artist who could.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: Who can intelligently articulate the street side of things as
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: well as the inner conscious side of things, like, Hey, yeah,
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: I'm out here in this environment and it's just certain
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: shit I'm subjected to in certain things I find myself
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: involved in. But I do have a conscious about this shit,
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Like I'm not just out here destroying for the sake
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: of destroying, like you know, like I have a conscious
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: about this. I'm aware, Like I think about these things.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: I don't want it to be this way forever for
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: me all my guys, you know. And I always like really,
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: you know, I'm aligned with that, Like that's me to
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: a certain extent, you know, like I did. What I
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: did is a shorty like I understand the environments and
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: shit like that, but I also understand what it could be.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: You know, people say it could always be worse.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: My comeback is it could always be better too, you know,
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: but why do we expect it to be worse?
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying more time than that.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I say, Noah, all time favorite album, all
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: time favorite album.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: That's tough.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to go with the crib and say
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: Twisted the Rush when I first heard that, bro, like
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Twister is is an anomaly to me because I don't know.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: If a lot of people know.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: But in ninety four, before a Drenaline Rush came out,
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: Drenaline Rush was ninety seven. So in ninety four, Twister
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: put out a project called Resurrection, and I think Commas
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Resurrection came out the same year, and it was super
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: slept on but he rocking the slow flow through the
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: whole thing. It's only one song where he did a
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: double time and it's called scat like that and he
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: basically kind of low key talking about the origins of
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: like how Chicago rapping star rapping fast, and I guess
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: it developed from scatting.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: You know, I used to scatting jazz shit.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: He do about it all that, you know, so but
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: he rocking.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: This is where he was into it with Tretch, you
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, because he did and Tretch on
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: a lot of joints on that project. But if anybody
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: could find it, like I got it on a hard
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: drive somewhere, But if you haven't heard it, I think
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: it's probably on YouTube. It's not on streaming, but go
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: to YouTube and just search for a Twister Resurrection nineteen
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: ninety four slow flow.
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: I'm talking about.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Twister was probably the best rapper in Chicago back then,
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: you know, but then when he was able to like
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: transform that into the double time and still stay clear,
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  Speaker 3: still stay articulate, not just put a bunch of syllables
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: to try to take up space. So I could say
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: a lot, like you could break those lyrics down and
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: like spit them slow and it's just as row Like
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: it's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I'll have.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: To say twist and shout out the legendary tracts the
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: two because he produced that in this entirety, but I
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: would definitely have to say, twist the adrenaline rush.
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  Speaker 2: I think I remember that too. I'm I might have
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: to look that up because I remember. I remember when
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Twister was rhyming like that, and I was like, damn,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: he not doing the fast joint no more, like you
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying back then, until you know he
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: returned to it. Yeah, all right? For you your catalog,
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: do you have a favorite verse of your own or
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: a favorite song? Yeah, I can't say I do. I'm
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: not in love with my catalog like that.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Like I'm proud of my catalog, but I'm always looking
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: to get better.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: It's really me versus me type shit, you know.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: So once I did it, I done it, you know,
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: and it's time to move on to the next. I
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: go back and listen to certain things in my catalog
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: from here every now and then. But I still feel like,
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: even right now, I feel like I can get exceptionally better,
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: you know, even right now, So going back and listening
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: to the older stuff, love to all the producers, all
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: the guys. You know what I'm saying, What we did,
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: what we did. I'm not shitting on my own catalog,
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: but it's like at this point in time, like I'm
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: a tunnel vision, Like I can't see nothing but what's
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: in front of me.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: I don't really look back too much, but if I
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: had to just give one something I can remember off
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: the top, I'm gonna try to go back.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: I say.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: One of my favorite songs is definitely it's from my
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: second project that I released, the Internal Reflection, that's produced
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: entirely by the Homelye Custom Made. That was my first
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: project of two projects that I released in twenty twenty one.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: It's a song on.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: That called good Die Young, and I got my oldest
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: son on that at the time. He was like twelve,
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: I believe, and I basically wrote a verse for him,
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: and it's a storytelling track.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: So my verse is depicting.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: A shooter who just like somebody just killed one of
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: his guys so he won't retribution. And the verse that
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: I wrote for my son, he's playing like a shorty,
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: like on a bus stop with his mother, you know,
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: and he talking about in his mind like they finna
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: go grocery shopping and she's finna get him a little
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: snacks and he finna go home and watch Dragon ball Z.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: Good kid am b Stuton and just so happens, like, dude,
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, he looking to kill his
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: opple whatever is on a bus stop with the lady
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: and her son. He waiting for the bus too, so
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: motherfucker's ride down on him. But he ended up killing
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: the little boy, you know. So that was like special
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: to to do that. I had second thoughts about doing
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: it with my son, but I'm like, you know, that's
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: just my mind going into somewhere don't need to go.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: But that was I really cherished that song because that's
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: not the first time I put him on the track.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: I just had him say something on like a song
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: like years and years ago, but that's the first time
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: that like, you know, you can hear him on the track.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: And even though I wrote the verse like he rapping
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: and that's like that's kind of like Nas and his pops,
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: the bridge and the gap joint, you know what I'm saying,
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: that's my version of that with him. So it's a
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: it's for the fact, it's just a raw ass story.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like it was told well.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: I even have my Homegirl as Shandy do some voice
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: acting as like the mother you know, on the phone.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: So it's a dope song. And I just got to
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: share that experience.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: Knowing that one of my raw songs, one of my
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: most hip I would say that's very hip hop, that's storytelling.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: You know, it's raw, it's uncut, and it's honest, it's sincere,
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: you know. And the fact that I got to share
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: that moment with one of my sons, my oldest, my
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: first born, that means a lot to me.
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: So I would definitely say that song it's called Good Young.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Good Young. I remember that joint.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: It is hot, and it is impactful, and it is interesting.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Like you said, you liking it because of the connections
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: to hip hop and the reality and the storytelling. It
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: relates back to you being five years old seeing Tupac,
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: same emotions and feelings you got. Now you're able to
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: create something similar. So it's like it's full circle, you
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, a different story, but the same
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: impact it could have on your son being a part
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: of it on listeners young and old. So I think
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: that's dope to see that in this conversation come full
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: circle based off of you know, your history and where
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: you started. Lastly, what do you want listeners to walk
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: away with when they listen to your music, because obviously
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: we know, like everybody, don't know everybody, and there are
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: some people going to be introduced to you through this
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: interview or another interview. So when people go and press
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: play on your catalog or a song, what do you
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: want them to walk away with regarding I am God that.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: I'm really one of the best to ever do this, Like,
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: that's what I want more than any amount of money,
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: more than any The awards don't even matter these days,
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: like no disrespects like the Grammys and none of that,
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: but that for me personally, that era is overweight to
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: where Soul Train Awards and Grammys really mattered. But I
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: just want you to know that real and I know
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: the cliche real hip hop, but it's a thing. Real
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: hip hop is a thing, and I feel like it
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: needs to be the light needs to be shined on
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: that as much as possible, because we're constantly getting away
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: from what it really means.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: And I don't like that.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: I understand things evolve, but who gave these people the
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: okay to change something to fit what they wanted to
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: fit and mean for today? So I would won't listen
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: as to walk away knowing that I'm absolutely one of
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: the best to ever do this. I take pride in that.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: I believe that wholeheartedly. I don't just say it for
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: no reason, you know. I also want them to know that,
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: you know, real hip hop is still out here, realm seeds,
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: not just rappers. Realm seeds still exists. The storytelling still exists,
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: The attention of detail still exists, the role of mcs
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: over raw beats still exists, you know. The attention to
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: detail and taking pride in every line, you know, every bar,
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: no bars off, you know what I'm saying, That still exists.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: The ability to be able to rap well and craft
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: immaculate body of work that still exists, you know. And
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: I understand a lot of people claim they don't see
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: it or hear it, you know what sounds of the times,
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: it's just where we at. Sometimes you got to go
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: digging for gold, you know. So I just want them
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: to know that, like Chicago never forgot to rap, I'm
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: one of the greatest to ever do this, and real
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: hip hop is alive and will depending on who you're
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: listening to.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Amen.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: Amen, brother, So where can people go to support your music?
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: And where can they follow you on social media?
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: So social media really active on x formerly Twitter and Instagram,
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: those are two main platforms. And you can follow me
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: at goddam c G A w D E M c
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: e E. Uh I just recently got back after it.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: On Facebook, you could shoot me your friend request or whatever.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: I am God.
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: West what else?
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: What else?
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: On all streaming platforms, I am god I A M
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: G A w D favorite the artist page, stay tapped
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: in if you want to support me with anything I'm
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: doing merch wise or physical releases. My band camp that's
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: no mediocre and no mediocre spelt a little funny, but
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: you just replaced the od's with axes. So it's n
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: X M E d I x c r E dot
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: band camp dot com, no mediocre dot bandcamp dot com.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: We got CDs going crazy.
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: Matter of fact, cee the's going crazy for the latest project.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: City of God. Not on vinyl as of yet. We
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: may do a vinyl release, but right now we got
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: to compact this. Uh still got some vinyls left for
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: some old work. I believe got vinyls for blood Stain
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: Swayed too. I want to say Murder Castle, the first
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: release I am God. I think I still got Vinyl
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: for the Eternal Reflection. We sold out of Hell's Angels
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: and have his Demons, and I believe we sold out
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: of a blood stain swayed one as well.
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: So yeah, man, YouTube as well. I am God, just search,
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: I am God.
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: I am g A w D. Yeah, man, we're rocking
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: like that. That's dope, man, that's dope. I appreciate you
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: for taking the time out talk with me. Yeah, I
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: appreciate you having me bro.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I just I just wanted to make
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: sure you know, I share dope artists dope content with
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: people who watch this platform because I feel like, at
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: least for the fan base for this podcast, it's people
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: who truly care about the music and the culture, and
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: you know they the.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Surface hits in two steps.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: We like it, We like the dance, but absolutely care
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: more so about depth and everything you described as far
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: as like your mission as an MC and what you
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: want to get out of it. So this was easy
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: for me to do as a TECHND interview because I
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: know it would be beneficial to the viewers and the
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: people listening on all platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and
• 41:41
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• 41:48
  Speaker 2: ten thousand subscribers. I know it's a lot. It's months
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: I sing five hundred and now we have five ks,
• 41:55
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• 42:01
  Speaker 2: Am God's latest album, I Am God in El City,
• 42:05
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• 42:09
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, and make sure you just
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: trust me. You will be satisfied with the music to get.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: Trust me, I'm not lying. I'm not the cat. Look,
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: I don't let people in the house right he's the
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: second one in the house.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: I'm at to go ex kill, I'm at to do
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: all the time. Who's that.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: I won't let nobody again because we want we want
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: to make sure you know it's beneficial. We're not doing
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: what everybody else does. I want our community and content creators.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: We're doing our things. So go out to the channel
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: and remember we are not critics, We're fans.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Please