Drink Champs - #Throwback Episode - w/ Tech N9ne | (Ep.96)

Episode Date: June 24, 2026

N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN are the Drink Champs and we're taking it back to some of the most legendary moments in Drink Champs history. Classic interviews, unforgettable stories, and iconic guests who shaped the culture.In this classic throwback episode of Drink Champs, N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN chop it up with the legendary Tech N9ne!Widely recognized as one of hip-hop’s most successful independent artists, Tech N9ne breaks down his incredible journey from Kansas City underground legend to building the powerhouse empire known as Strange Music.Throughout the episode, Tech reflects on his early days navigating major label deals, the decision to go independent, and the blueprint that helped him create one of the most loyal fanbases in music. He shares insights on entrepreneurship, touring, and maintaining longevity in a constantly evolving industry. The discussion also dives into his collaborations with artists across genres, including his connection to Kendrick Lamar, as well as his experiences crossing over into rock and alternative music.As always, the drinks are flowing and the stories get deeper as Tech opens up about family, Kansas City culture, his relentless work ethic, and the sacrifices required to sustain a decades-long career. Packed with wisdom, humor, and classic Drink Champs energy, this episode is a masterclass in independence and perseverance from one of hip-hop’s most unique voices.Make some noise for Tech N9ne !!! 💐💐💐🏆🏆🏆-Originally published on September 11th, 2017*Listen and subscribe at https://www.drinkchamps.comFollow:Drink Champshttps://www.drinkchamps.comhttps://www.instagram.com/drinkchampshttps://www.twitter.com/drinkchampshttps://www.facebook.com/drinkchampsDJ EFNhttps://www.crazyhood.comhttps://www.instagram.com/whoscrazyhttps://www.twitter.com/djefnhttps://www.facebook.com/crazyhoodproductionsN.O.R.E.https://www.instagram.com/therealnoreagahttps://www.twitter.com/noreagaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The king of consistency. The king of longevity. Yeah. the head front of strange music has so many artists the guy tours like a wrestler as well he's on tour like Hulk Hogan

and rocking them yeah sir, yes sir he's out there been doing it for years and he's out there in the motherfucking happy hour with the drink champ

let's make some noise Tech 9! How you doing, brother? How you doing, brother? How you doing, brother? Now pop that bottle We feel like you're a Rose ain't got I fuck with the Roseanne man.

Now what do you want to do you do you want to let's finish the Moet first and then we go on to the other rosés? Or do you want to mix it up in between? I just mix it up, man. I just do it's come as natural, you know what I'm saying? It doesn't matter to me. So let's take it from the beginning.

How did you get started? Because I heard you were signing Quincy Jones and all the type of shit. Yeah, before that I was a dancer, though. You know what I was a dancer? Yeah, take it all the way back. Yeah, I was a break dancer. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You did you just come out with the cardboard? Oh, yeah, yeah. The cardboard, then the linole in, you know what I'm sizzling? I'm busted my head on concrete. He's still dancing on his shows. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So from rhythm came rhyme, you know what I'm saying? And that's why when you see you come in my shows,

you see me like, wow, wow, wow, you know what I'm saying? I can't, I can't, it's in my bones, blah, you know what I'm saying? So I started that, and from there, I wrote my first rhyme in 85. That's how long I've been in it. 85, I was born in 77. Yeah, I was born in 71. I was born in 71. Oh, 71, that's what I was.

So go ahead, continue. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I started doing it professionally like 90. You know what I mean? And I knew I had some special, man. I was already a different type of motherfucker. You know what I mean? My niggas in the hood.

Like, what's wrong with this nigga? I love them, but it's crazy and shit. You know what I'm saying? And we made that shit work, you know what I'm saying? So what's your first professional record that came out to hip-hop? Saloo. You got to drink, EF? I got it.

My first professional record. Saloo, man. I think it might have been. I think it might have been gang-related soundtrack questions on Tupac's last screen performance. You know what I'm saying? Gang-related was his last one? Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's just the order that he was filming on the day they came out. That was his last screen performance, 98. You know what I'm sizzling? And everybody thought I was on death row because I was the only dude on the soundtrack. that wasn't. You're moving to LA at that point, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was living in LA, 97 with Quincy Jones

and shit like they were doing music with QD3, you know what I'm saying, just trying to build. How did you even, like, how did that, that, that, that. So crazy to me, man, because I didn't think Quincy would like that ghetto shit, you know what I'm saying? And the song that caught his attention was a song I did in Kansas City 96 called Mitch Bade, you know what I said, bitch made,

backwards, you know what I'm saying? Oh, Mitch made. Mitch Bade. Mitch Bade. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's all, that's all. Let's make some noise with that, got there. Goddust.

That's hard. Continue, continue. So that got to Quincy somehow through some chick out in L.A. You know, that used to do music, do business with QD3. And had you been to L.A. at this time? Yeah, my first deal in,

8, was in, like, 93 with Jimmy, Jem, and T. Louis. That's great. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. God, that's a good thing. Good thing. Yeah, we'll go back to Jimmy Jim. Yeah, we'll go back to that.

Because, you know, they did Janet Jackson's music. Of course. And then I signed with Quincy. He deals with Michael Jackson's music. I've been, like, in the little Jackson circle. Wow. They saw something special, you know what I'm saying? So, but with a lot of these record deals I had, you know what I mean?

When I was with Quincy in 97, Quest and Warner, nobody knew what to do. Would a dude with red spiked hair and painted face and come out with a bishop's robe, you know what you're going to put that nigga at? Right, right, right. So a lot of that shit didn't work. And they didn't know where to put my music. Was it rock? You know what I'm saying?

It's hip-hop. It's jazz. It's everything. You know what I mean? But they didn't know where to put me. So after 99, signing with Interscope and J-Corps, you know, they fucked us over royally. So after that, man, it was like time to show them motherfuckers how to market this

type of dude. So that's what the independent grind came from. So a lot of people don't know Being with the majors first. Like in the industry, when your name comes up, everybody always associate you with independent immediately. So let's talk about the beginning part of when you was on these record labels. Yeah, being with major. My first major deal was in 1993 with Jimmy Jim and Terry Lewis,

and that didn't work, you know what I mean? You know, it wasn't then. Did you get to meet Janet Jackson? Yes, I went to the Velvet Rose. Okay, I'm sorry. Let's skip something. Let's get straight to Jackie Jackson story. What happened when you met Penny, my nigga?

Oh, man, it was cool. She invited us to, uh, her velvet rope release party in L.A. man, on the Sony lot. And Michael, Mike Tyson was there. You know what I'm saying? Seal was there. Everybody, you know what I'm saying?

Brownstone was still popping, you know what I mean? She didn't... She smelled like cocoa butter and Hennessy. She smelled like incense like Erica Badoon. And potpourri. Yes. And potpourri. Yes.

But how was it meeting her? Like, was you a fan of her like me? Oh, yes. Oh, yes, man. Who are a fan of her? I'm a penny. God. Like, from good times?

Yeah. God damn it. So she gave me a handshake hug. You know what I'm saying? Oh, it was like that. Handshake first and pull it in. Like, boom, how you doing? You know, like, holy shit.

That's dead and Jackson. Yeah, I never got to meet Jackson. Yeah. I never got to meet Michael, though. You know, I never got to meet Michael. Yeah, you know, in face it. I never met Pop. Yeah, I met Park on a few occasions.

How about Big? You met Big? I met Big in Kansas City backstage. Not Kansas City, Kansas City. Kansas City, he played at Memorial Hall or something like that. You know what I'm saying?

I forgot the name of the place over there in KCK. When Juicy first came out, you know what I'm saying? Just in the past... Just talking about the first record. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But let's take it back, right?

All right. Because, see, like I said, everybody always refers to you as the King of Independent. Like, I want to talk to you to why you became independent. So, like, let's speak about those... We were in the midst of it.

When we were talking about my major deals, my first one with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and 93. That didn't work. 97 with Quincy Jones. That didn't work, 98, with Interscope and J. Corey, you know what I'm saying? After that, is when I came back to Kansas City. But was there something specific that wasn't working with the majors,

like something that they were doing wrong or the singles are being picked? I needed complete autonomy. I couldn't have nobody telling me what the fuck I couldn't say or do, you know what I'm saying? They wanted me to copy shit. Now, when you was on these labels, were you throwing out projects or these projects never came out? No, no, no. I was recording like a motherfucker. You know what I'm saying?

We were recording songs, and they wanted to, like, for instance, the people that Quincy Jones had working for them, I had this song called, Tadan, T'an, Tach9, Planet Rock 2K, you know what I'm saying? Right. And they wanted me to do something for, I think it was a Shack movie called Steel, you know what I'm saying?

They wanted me to do some poppy kind of music, and I'm like, no, I want to use Planet Rock, so we would fight back and forth. They wanted me to do the poppy shit, and I didn't want to do poppy shit, you know what I'm saying? And I wasn't going to do the poppy shit, you know what I'm saying? sending me beats that were not me, you know what I mean? From producers, I didn't know, you know what I'm sizzling?

So when they signed you, they thought they were going to completely change you after? Oh, totally, totally, totally. I mean, that's what I felt like. Right. You know what I mean? Because they, seeing you already when they acquired you got you on the label, they already knew what you was. The big head heard me and signed me.

Just like Jimmy, Jim and Terry Lewis, just like Quincy Jones. The big has heard me. But it's they people that didn't really know what to do with Tech Nine. You know what I'm saying? They're staff. Wow. So we had to fight a lot. You know what I mean?

And I couldn't do that no more, man. You know what I mean? They didn't know where to put me, and I knew I had something special. So I had to show them when I met my partner, Travis, what strange music is. And since we've been doing that for 18 years now, we've acquired the title as the number one independent label. That makes a noise to that. Music, motherfucker. Let's continue.

And we're still going. You know what I'm going. You know, they got a show tonight. Oh, man. Yeah. A new album? Years ago, when I was doing a show in Orlando, I saw these guys on stage who were opening.

Right. And I remember one of my colleagues telling me you have to check out the opening act, because May Day, you know what I'm saying? So I watched their show, and, you know, they had this dude named Noms that came out popping. You know, I'm a B-boy, you know what I'm saying?

He's killing shit. He's way better than I am. You know what I'm saying? Like, this motherfucker is hardcore. So I got to listen to the music like, damn you know what I'm saying it was so good that I asked for one of their records and they signed it for me I still have it you know what I mean they were so good so I called Travis like we have to get these dudes and I'd heard through the grapevine that Wayne was looking at him and you know they did some kind of thing on the roof of Wayne T-Pain I said they're gonna go we had to hurry and get these guys and we were lucky enough to no I'm cool okay shout to Dave man it looks like he was almost about to take it yeah yeah I had to try yeah yeah yeah but we're We were lucky enough to have May Day on Strange Music, man,

and when other people were trying to snatch them, you know what I mean? And rightly so, because it's fucking hardcore. Oh, yeah, Big Up Madee once again. So now, listen, now, you being independent, what was the moment? Because being independent, I've been independent, and it's hard as shit. Oh, yes, oh, yes. He hates being independent. Oh, I hate it.

Well, this is the thing. This is the thing. My partner Travis was already a millionaire, you know what I'm saying? And when I had a meeting with him after I did this fashion show that he was funding, you know what I'm saying, this clothing line called Paradise Originals. And I had that song, Ta-Tan-Tan. I had to blow up in Kansas City, you know what I'm saying? I had a few songs blowing up, you know what I'm saying?

Let's Get Fucked Up. And Mitch Bade, all that shit was popping on the radio at home. So when I had my meeting with Travis, he's like, hey, man, I've been following your music for a long time, you know. And I just wonder why you're not bigger than you are, you better than a lot of people I see on. TV and radio. I'll say, hey, man, it takes a lot. He said, well, check, I have a lot. Right, right.

He said, what do you think about doing a joint venture, man? Me and you, 50-50, like, he didn't say strange music because I had it in my head. He was like a record label, you know what I'm saying? So I was like, I know exactly what I want to call it. I want to call it strange music because I'm a Dors fan, you know what I'm saying? Strange days. People are strange, you know what I mean? And I said, I wanted to be a snake.

I want the snake to be the S and the wings. Oh, that's an S-M, man. I never know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It ain't stalled on masochism, no. I don't, I don't, I don't, be b-bitched up or nothing with them. You know what I'm saying?

The snake is the S and the bat wings are the M, strange music, you know what I'm saying? And what happened was he got some artists together to get that out of my head onto everything you can imagine, like panties and belts and. and car decals, you know what I'm saying, everything, hats, shirts. Now it's on people's skin for life, you know what I mean, that really believe in the movement, strange, you know what I mean? How long before y'all got together did it take for that to really start to pick up? Did you have to go through, I'm sure, I'm sure, trials and tribulations before you found,

you know, the mechanisms that were working for you guys? In order to get me free of everything I was binded to from... Free of the deals. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Quincy Jones. You know, that's Questin Warner. You know what I mean? Swain King Tech. You know what I'm saying? Did they manage you? Yeah, they were managing me. You know what I'm saying? So hold on sway, for the young ins. Yeah, yeah. Because sway in the morning.

We used to be, we used to be, the wake-up show. The wake-up show. Yeah, yeah. That's my brother. That's still doing the morning show on Shade 45. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Let's big up. Swake out of way. Yeah. Swain King Tech saw a lot in Tech 9 way back. You know what I mean? He was on the anthem in 99. You know what I'm saying? With Eminem.

It was like Brisbane. You know, Koogee rap was on it. Faro Munch. You know what I'm saying? Sino Exxel. J.O. Felony. K.R.S. 1 was on it, my name. You know what I'm saying?

Like, they did a lot for me, man. So they wanted me to push Q aside and let them take over. You know what I'm saying? Quincy. you know what I'm saying QD3 you know saying he's my boy you know he was doing this I can't do it Who wanted you to put a Quincy aside?

Well it's good You know Sway was like Manit man Oh yeah You know this is a long time ago I'm sure it's cool now You know what I'm saying with them

But they wanted me to get everybody out the way And I brought Travis in And they was like What's up, heck, what are you doing? I'm like this dude Came in's like Hey He want to start a label

And I'm like I got to do something man You know what I'm saying And they was like They told Travis You know, it's going to take a lot of money, and Travis was like, shit, I'm about to clean all this shit up. So he cleaned all that shit up. Travis did.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Meaning, get you out the contract. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And see, I wouldn't sign to Swa and King Tech, but we were just a partnership, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, so it was nothing, you know what I'm saying? They wanted to help, you know what I mean? So it wasn't nothing like I had to get off of what they had me on, you know what I'm saying? It was just a, we were partners, so that was easy.

That wasn't nothing, you know what I mean? And Sway remained cool and tech. King Tech whenever he wanted anything. I'm on the most recent Wake Up Show Anthem as well. The last one they did, you know what I'm saying? So we're all still connected. But Travis had to do a lot of cleaning

to get me free because everybody was connected to me. You know what I mean? I had a lot of people connected to Tech Nine. So was that running through your mind? Was that any worries? Because at the end of the day, you got a guy, you know, big up to Travis who's coming there, taking it out for you.

And then, you know, maybe these, the projects didn't work over there. Did you ever at one point doubt yourself and think it was you? No, I didn't know. I didn't think it was me. I just think it was me saying yes too much to too many people.

Prior to you going to independent. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just me saying, yes, let's do it, let's do it, let's do it, let's get it, let's get it, let's get it, you know? Right. But I knew that we'd get through all that shit, you know what I'm saying? For a minute there, you know what I'm saying like in the late 90s, Jay Prince, rap a lot was trying to get me out of Warner, you know what I'm saying? Out of Warner.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He said, he's like, tech, we're going to take him. That's going to be taking care of. We're going to make sure you off that and there ain't going to be no problems. I don't know what ended up happening, but it didn't happen, you know. But, you know, there's a lot

of people trying to help me, you know what I'm saying? A lot of people believed in me, you know what I'm saying? Now, you're coming from Kansas City, correct? Kansas City, like, how did you like even, yeah, like, how did you right, because, you know, us. Yeah, because the opportunity is

none when it comes to the record business there, you know what I'm saying? Why do you think we have to start our own label? You know what I'm saying? We don't have Sony Midwest. We don't have Def Jam Midwest. And back then, like, I don't even think they were calling it at Midwest. Like, back then, I think they were just saying, over there.

Like, for real. Kansas and St. Louis. They were saying there's like, there's no place like home. They'll make Wizard of Oz jokes and shit to me. I'm like, yeah, yeah, we kick up dust. But this is what I'm trying to ask you is, like, you know, being from Kansas City, Like this is not known for being hip hop. You know what I'm talking about from,

you look at it at a Miami perspective or New York perspective, by L.A. perspective. It wasn't televised. It wasn't televised. What made you say I'm going to stick with this and I'm not going to give up? Because I'm hearing a story right now. There's plenty of people that would say.

I'm done. Yeah. I was with Chrissy Jones. I was with these other guys. The time and the age. Some people just give up because of age or whatever. So what made you stick with it? No, man.

I had obligations, my nigga. I had kids, you know what I'm saying? I couldn't quit. You know what I'm saying? I didn't want to quit. I still don't want to quit. You know what I'm still getting better and better. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The people, they still want tech nine. You know what I mean? I give it to them as hard as I can, dude. You know what I mean? It's like being from Kansas City, like I said, the opportunity was like, no, when it came to music.

So it's like, we had to build it. You know what I mean? But don't get it fucked up. A lot of artists in Kansas City, been working for a long time. I've been a lot of rappers, a lot of singers, you know what I'm saying? Just a lot of talent. Right.

And we got a lot of them with us as well. You know what I mean? And there's a lot more new ones that we're trying to work with too, man. It's like it's a hub for music. Right. It just hasn't been televised. People don't know about it. You know what I'm saying?

Right. We saw, we saw Nas grow. You know what I'm saying? We saw Will Smith grow from rapping to a mega star. Same thing. We watched J-Lo rides from being a dancer. Yeah. Being a Color.

Being the master of our own universe, you know what I mean? But see, the Tech Nine story is still being written. All that shit, they're going to have to go back to it. You know what I mean? And that's what the fans do. When they find the new song, like the new fans, they find, like, fragile or, and word up for maybe for giving me that big ass song. Kendrick Lamar and Kendall Morgan.

When they hear fragile or they hear... Wasn't you one of Kendraimaw's first speeches? And the first tours was strange. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The first time Kendraim Rammar ever Tate was with strange music. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Him and J-Rock, man.

How did that happen? We signed J-Rock. We got J-Rock off of Warner. Wow. They had them sitting. They had them sitting for a long time. And that was T.D.E.'s first artist? Yes, yes, yes.

That's what I heard. I heard that. J-Rock was T. Yeah, yeah. And I heard you got a bag. Yeah. That's how you come to a podcast. It's called Happy Hour, God, damn.

You know what I mean? I might have to hit one of these. Yeah, you got your own. You got your own, too. Yeah. You can put it out or, you know, you can have a couple if you want. You know what I mean? Looks like you kind of come to the joint because I got a flight later to New York.

So, whoa, I thought I didn't pop it. I was like, oh, this is the perjual, um, perjure. Okay. Perseigneur. Let me see. This is the Perrejuet. Now, hold just this niggas for drinking that. But Mike E.

But Mike E. Fresh from Vibe was my witness. Perrier. Perrier. Perre? I'm dyslexic. He just said, Who dudes drinking Pereira Juet? Y'all ain't listening to Hove yet? What do he say? Come on, who's a 4-4-4-Fa?

Come on. What he said, Drane? Jueh, Juet. Jueh. Jueh. Jueh. Y'an. Piri Jueh. Y'i ain't learned from me or listen to yet. Because he's saying we shouldn't be drinking that because it's white companies. Oh, we should be here. I want to taste it. We got to taste it. We got to taste it.

We said, because we should drink this? Well, how does he know about it if he don't drink it? Because this is the shit. He probably drank the board. He said we shouldn't drink it? He said, yeah, because we're supposed to be drinking his shit, the Aces shit. Oh. Yeah, the A's of Spade shit.

We gonna get into that. I drink Ais of Spade. Yeah, we got to do. I just made my muscles. Oh, shit, I don't know what that is. What's that white shit? Come on. It's like, it's like a little sperm.

What? What? I went too far. I don't know where I went with that one. I'm sorry. Pre-Hu-A. I ain't fucking with the Mouette. This is Perreijua.

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What's your most, like, bugged out place you ever performed at? You was like, wow. Denmark. Copenhagen, I loved it. At Roskildefest, 60,000 people came to the show, my nigga. Never seen that many people. Just you? Or does you on a tour?

It was not just me. It was another artist there by the name of LOC that's pretty big. Wow. We were going on on his stage. And when we came back after that, it was 20,000 people to come see us the next time. Wow. One of the big-ass tents they'd be having over here. And I just never saw such love, you know what I'm saying, back then.

You know what I mean? It was just so many people with tech nine banners and flags and shit. And I'm like, I didn't think it was going to. to be 200 people out there. You know what I'm saying? I walked out on the stage. Like, Jesus Christ. And then after the show, they took us to this place called Christiania.

Pusha Street. It's like the cops can't come in. They're selling dope. All kind of crack. They selling everything. Motherfuckers are smoking in the park. And it's like, we stay there. You can just go in there inside this place and walk in people's houses.

And everybody's like, come on in. You know what I'm saying? So crazy. Everybody's smoking. It was beautiful. You know what I'm saying? We was there in the nighttime, too, and they saying it was dangerous. Wait, wait, wait, I've been to this place.

Hold on. Christiania. It's a park. Like, you go in and it's like painting and all this. I'm listening to you and saying this. I've been in the daytime. I wasn't as tough as you. We went in the daytime.

Stay till night. Stay till night. Okay, yeah. It definitely looks creepy at night. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, as I was walking out, because we were like, you said it's Denmark. Yeah, Denmark, Copenhagen.

Yeah, but it's like you could smoke all over. It's like everybody they got, they got different stands and she walk in. You're right. I'm saying what he's saying, he's like, you know, I know you had to be a... Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's crazy. I've been there. That was the craziest back then, but...

What's back then? Like, how long was this? Um, shit, I don't know, my niggas. Like, uh... 10 years ago? Uh, no, I didn't. Maybe, like, eight years ago, something like that, I don't know. I don't know.

I'm gonna ask you a crazy place in America, but, um, did you, did you ever think that your music would, would reach that far, like in Europe and all these places? I always knew. I keep on saying this. I always knew I had something. something special. And I knew I was writing my music to

travel. You know what I'm saying? I remember I said on the wake-up show, Swantec heard me flow and it's sealed. Now I got Swedish woman yelling tech. Ninesvilde, you know what I'm saying? Vild is like wild over there, you know what I'm saying? And I ended up going to Sweden, you know what I'm saying? It ended up having a lot of fans in Sweden.

So I always knew that I wanted to travel. You know what I'm saying? So it's like when they asked Jim Carrey, was he like super surprised when he got that $25 million to be the Joker or whatever, you know, son of the Ridler. And he said, no, I've been planning this my whole life. And that's what I've been doing. I've been planning this my whole life.

My motherfucking right. Let's make some noise with that. God, God, yeah. And let me ask you a question. Me as a person that, for my own career, when things got little south for me, like in America, I would spend so much time in Europe. Oh, yeah, they appreciate music. That's my exact question. A lot more.

I know they do. that Europe actually, that Posa Hip Hop might be beating a little bit harder in Europe For years. Yeah, for years. It took the torch from him. Describe that to the people. I don't understand why that would be because, you know,

well, this is my theory on it. You know, once something happens so much, like Tech Nine, for instance, or Eminem. Motherfucking swear Eminem ain't the same or he ain't rapping the same when he's still rapping niggas heads off. You know what I'm saying? People get used to it like, oh, I expect that of Tech Nine. I expect him to kill shit.

And it's not a wow anymore because they've had it for so long. That's what I think it is with hip hop over here. You know what I'm saying? Right, yeah, everybody's used to it. Yeah, they used to it. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's dope as well, whatever.

Yeah, yeah. But over there, it's like, holy shit. Yeah, I see when I go out there, I do shows, people will be out there break dancing. Oh, man. Right in graffiti right outside, they'll do a piece for you right there as you walking in. I don't seen MOP do Annie Up in Zurich, Switzerland, dude. And the shit is wild as a motherfucker.

It's a Dominican restaurant in Switzerland, by the way. I love it. It's one of my favorite Dominican restaurants in the world. I'm sorry. Hip-hop is alive. Tell them M-O-P is there a reggae. Yeah, and, you know what I'm saying? But tell them, tell them the M-O-P story.

What happened when you saw it? Oh, man. It's like we were standing at the same hotel, man. And they just had a, I don't know. I shouldn't say this, but they had like a trail of fucking women following them everywhere they went. And I was like, damn, we're sitting over at the bar. Like, look at these dick, you know? MOP is a little motherfucker over here.

I got bitches coming out everywhere, you know. And you've seen them same bitches backstage when we were about to go on. Like, oh, that's the same ten bitches, you know what I'm saying? Let's make some love with some ten bitches, god damn it. This is just for my eyes, you know what I'm saying? There ain't nobody else looking. It's like, hell yeah, they got bitches, you know what I'm saying?

And, you know, they didn't give a fuck. The bitches didn't give a fuck about us. They just wanted to hang with MOP, you know what I'm saying? Well, big up MOP, man. We need y'all on here. Yeah. So now, I want to get into your Gigolo. Did I say it right?

Juggalo? Juggalo. Juggalo. Juggalo. I was like, damn. I'm dyslexic. I was like, I'm just thinking about the ass and be about the business. No, no, no, no.

Jock's ICP. And your technicians is tech nines. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But we've all been connected. Right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because what I heard is that, is that, some way I heard that that's how you got your love for the road, like, you know, going on a role with them.

Is that correct, or I'm, I'm, um, Early on, no, no, no, you correct. Early on, 2003, I think I went on a tour with them. They called me to do a tour called the Wicked Wonka Tour. Wow. I had some tours before that, you know what I'm saying? I had the Angelic tour and the Absolute Power Tour. And that was it on my own?

Yeah, yeah, strange music, you know what I'm saying? We had a couple of tours. I don't know if it was called Angelic. I'm thinking it was called Strictly Strange, or maybe it was strictly strange. Or maybe it was strictly strange. I forgot what the fuck it was. It's been so long ago. But then I did the Sprite Liquid Mix Tour with Jay-Z and 3-11.

Just make some noise for you. I've never been on a Sprite tour in my life. You know what I'm saying? I just counted all that money out right now. I'm sorry, continue. Yeah, yeah, N-R-D was on that. That's how Met Farrell, you know what I'm saying? On that tour, you know what I'm saying?

The Sprite Liquid Mix Tour. And I think that was like 2002, maybe. Wow. I think. You know what I mean? Napi Roots was on it. Talib Kali, Kanye was with Talib Kuali, you know what I'm saying?

It was a beautiful tour. After that, we were called to do the Wicked Wonka tour and it opened the juggalo's up to me that ICP started. Insane Club for anything. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now I got something white in my motherfucking club, dude.

What the fuck is that, dude? It looked like donut, like glaze or something. Yeah, that's what it is. Is it? Oh, it's or it's Eiff's beer, either of all. What the fuck is that, dude? I had to wash two of these now. What the fuck y'all was in these cups with, my nigga?

Let's big up Blackbird right now. Shout out. Jerry, what up? Jerry, what? But it's at the bottom of all of the film is at the bottom of all this shit. You know, this is a real club, that. This is a real club, this is where we started from. This is what we drinking how to fuck it.

Look, look, do remember that roof out there is $2 million. Let's make some noise for that. Oh, yeah. That wasn't any of that. hear the last time I was here. It's the first night. They might not wash glass as good, but the roof is on fire.

Let's make too noise from Blackburn. But so, so now that's crazy because insane clown posse. Oh, yeah, yeah. Just mashing those two up. Like, did you... When I went on that first tour, man.

You know what I'm saying? Wicked Munker tour. Did you have a relationship with them before? Uh-uh. So, I think... And where they're from? They're from Detroit. Yeah.

You know what they had to be for Eminem. Yeah, they had to beat with my own. I don't know. I ain't know that. Yeah, me to open his tour with. Blow-up dolls and shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah. But, uh, when I went on that tour, the first day, man, we were in Columbia. No, no, no, no, we was in Cleveland, Ohio. I had never seen their show. And me and Travis said on the side of the stage, like, what the fuck? The niggas were throwing pop, and it was hitting bitches in the eye, and they didn't, they was loving it.

When you say, Fago? Soda? Fago, yeah. Fago, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

It's crazy. Yeah. Oh, yeah. They throw soda? Oh, yeah. Yeah, they throw everything. We get soup but they're going to work. They're going to work.

Oh, dude. I'm talking about, but they always had a hard time getting shows in certain places because of it. The venues used to have to put up, like, plastic bags over all their shit when they came. You know, it was that serious. You know what I was? I thought that was amazing, man. You know what I mean? So we learned a lot on that tour, you know what I'm saying?

And that's when the bond happened with the juggalo's. Now, since then. Uh-huh. shits went on to where the guys thought when I was doing Ebro and Peter Rosenberg

said something they asked me about something about you know you and ICP are like the same I'm like no we're not the same we're different but we're connected you know and Sizzling and the leaders of the ICP movement is a rappers? Yeah yeah yeah yeah

they felt like I didn't say enough about the juggalo's. Like I just said, like, fuck y'all, and I never would, you know what I'm saying? Because tech nine belongs to everybody. You know what I'm saying? It started with the gangsters. And then the school kids, then the college kids, then the metalheads and all that kind of shit,

and then the juggalo's, you know what I'm sizzling? Right. In Kansas City. So I never counted them out. Right. Because they helped build tech nine with all the other people that helped build all the technicians at the beginning. You know what I'm sizzling?

They helped build Tech Nine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're part of the story. But they were claiming me whole, you know what I'm saying? Tech Nine is ours. Right. And they mad at me because they love me. You know what I'm saying? Like, they felt like that when they, if, if your leader says tech's not showing enough love,

everybody's going to say fuck Tech Nine and it turned against me. Oh, wow. And, you know, I got like a few death threats lately, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. From Juggelow? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. When I was on the last tour, you know what I'm saying? So we didn't do the, you know what I'm saying?

So we didn't do the. the recent gathering of the juggerows. And we usually do it year after year. You know what I'm saying? I even cut my price down to do it because I love doing that for them motherfuckers, you know. So because of the death threats and all that kind of shit, I didn't do it.

And they're mad. They're like, oh, he can do these fucking festivals but won't fucking come to the gathering. You're supposed to be a blood and you're scared of juggalo. No. It's not about being scared. It's about being aware.

I know what happened to dying back Darrow and why. You know what I'm saying in Columbus, Ohio You know what I'm saying At that bullshit-ass venue Alarosa Villa, you know what I'm saying?

But you cannot discount Fanatic motherfuckers Yeah, like you're not talking about them We're talking about their fans Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah They don't understand business You know what I'm saying?

The motherfuckers will say that about people They think are punks Like fuck that, I ain't tripping on it He's a bitch And he didn't get him Get them smoke by that bitch Right

You can't discount nobody So we didn't. We didn't do it. You know what I'm saying? And there's kind of been a wedge because of it and because of my fame, my new fans. When you're doing this shit for so long, like I do, you being it long enough to become the enemy.

You know what I'm saying? The hero somehow becomes the enemy somehow, you know what I'm saying? You keep winning. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Because in all horror flicks, the hero has a downfall. So if you don't have a downfall, they want to create your downfall. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So a lot of them, like, fuck it, we ain't buying no more records. And I was like, well, if you feel like that, then you do that. You know what I'm sizzling? But never have I done anything wrong or said anything wrong, even on the song when I had to address it. You know what I mean? I just told the truth. And you said it started from what? Like, what was the miscommunication with the ICP?

What you mean? You said it was the miscommunity. On an interview. Oh, and Ibrahim. Yeah. Because the thing about it is, and this is what I got to say about that, you know what I'm saying? I don't think Ebro,

Ebro got love for me, but I don't think he's really up on my music like that. Right. You know what I'm saying? Or your movement, or just the music? The music, you know what I'm saying? I think he's, because once before he say, your style is like Dubs C, and I'm like, no,

it's not like D. You know what I'm saying? Dobs C is my nigger, but no. We might have to. You know what I'm saying? We might have the same chin hair, but that's about it. And I had to take that from Ebro, and I'm like, because I got love for him. I'm like, this nigga compared to me to one more motherfucker.

So when I went in, because I'm tech nine, my nigga, you know what I'm saying? Like, if you hear, if you hear, like, maybe he hears some kind of connection, like, connect gang, connect gang, Bing, Bing Bang or something, I don't know. You know what I don't do that? That's D. I don't do that. I don't do D.C. I wouldn't take that from Dubs C, you know what I'm saying? There's only one Dubs C is only one TECN.

Yes, sir. You know what I'm saying? When he said that to me, I was kind of like, you know, you can't say that to a rapper. You know what I'm saying? You sound like a dub C. You know what I'm saying? You got your staff from Dov C, right? I'm like, yeah, I love Dobsie in the Mad Circle, yes.

You know what I'm saying? But, you know, I'm tech nine, you know what I'm saying? So that was the first time he said something. Next time I came back, he compared me to ICP. Now, when I was going in there, I told my people, I said, I love E, bro. But if this nigga compare me to one more motherfucker, I'm going to let him have it. Right, right, right. So when he said, when Peter first kicked it off, Peter said,

your shit is like icy pee meets on. I thought he would know better, you know. I think. No, I think Peter knows. Peter, Peter, but he knows more about Ritz. He's more of a Ritz fan. You know what I'm saying? So when Peter said it, I did like this.

And then Ebro continued with it. So the icy P shit, you know what I'm saying? Tell us about that. I'm like, I was pissed like a mother. I was like, oh, you're going to compare me to another motherfucker, bro. I am tech nine, nigga. Nobody, nigga.

Nobody. But I don't think they know that. I don't think they listen to fragile. They listen to fragile? Some of the people appointed to give an opinion never do get it. I want you to come up like God, but you know what? That sound like Dobsie, my name? Right, right, right, right.

What the fuck are you talking about? What the fuck are you talking about? E, bro? And I'm going to have to see them after this. And I'm going to give a fuck, you know what I'm saying? Because it's real. I was, I was really beside myself. myself when they because of the dub C shit right the time before in New York and then when I

came back then he compared me to another motherfucker so I was like I know exactly so the so the judge those took that as fuck y'all yeah when it was really I was tripping with these niggins right you know what I'm a nice guy man I'm a nice guy but all you're saying it's just something different like yeah ain't nobody like you know I'm on the incline my nigga you can't just say that I'm other motherfuckers you You know what I'm saying? Like, the niggas don't rap like me. You know what I'm saying?

Like, twist the reps fast, fucking bone thugs rap fast, and the crucial conflict and ludicrous and them and em and all them, but none of them sound like me, my nigga, you know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? Like, niggas all we have in common. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? That's all we have in common.

Nobody has a face painted, but ICPE, you know what I'm saying? That's a comparison, but I've been to kill a clown since fucking 94. Before I knew who they were, you know what I'm saying? Explain that to the boss, to the boss, to the, Juggalo boss like my nigga I've got to give you a Tech 9 lesson Don't go on fucking Oh wow he tried to check you up

He tried to check 9 7th Like check 9 that's what started the whole shit No way no You think it's just the face paint that they're putting you in that same boat Just because of that That's what I think Peter and Evo are doing They responded to that

Your interview on there So they came on Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah my brother Chris Calicoe showing me on the last tour and I'm looking

at like they're saying all the wrong things like what? Yeah like we took shit from them and all that kind of shit and I'm like a nigga that tries his best to do his own thing and motherfuckers are pointing the finger like you bit something are you fucking crazy my nigga right are you fucking crazy

yeah we've seen your fucking merch on your tour and we're like damn we gotta step our game up okay yeah okay they said I wouldn't paint my face until I got on their tour. I'm like, no, my nigga. I was painting it in 94. Wow. I met you motherfuckers in 2003. Fuck that. I was mad, but I kept my cool. Because motherfuckers always want to point the finger at you like you did something.

You be the hero, all this. And after all that time, if I wasn't in the game this long, motherfuckers would not be able to say, I don't like the new shit. The old shit is the best. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? We play the only act of doing fucking records from the 90s for our fans. You know what I'm saying? I go to a Drake show. I don't hear, I just want to be like, says, bro. They got me only, nigga.

I don't hear that shit. Yes, real. They're doing these new shit. You know what I'm saying? We go back, nigga, for the new fans and the old fans, my nigga. You know what I'm saying? We've been in this motherfucker, nigga, nigga, my nigga. So when somebody points the finger at you and you be like, uh-uh.

So I wasn't tripping with the jugglers. They was just mad that I didn't say more because I was already tripping that these niggas compared me to somebody else. Understandable. as an artist I understand that. But I had never knew none of this. This is crazy. This is crazy. This is crazy.

Can you explain for people who listening to us or watching us why you started to paint your face? It was a myth in Kansas City when we were kids that it was a thing called the killer clown that drove a yellow van

that kidnapped kids and they would disappear. Scared the fuck out of us in grade school. It lasted all the way. way through high school, my nigga. The legend of the killer clown, nigga. When I started getting into rap,

I wanted that mystique because bitch's like, oh, Aaron is so cute, and he's trying to rap. I'm gonna cover my face up with these bitches to let you hear what I'm saying. I fuck my hair up in there. I had curly hair.

I had the box with the Kwamey, motherfucking streak, everything. All that shit is just fucked up and like, okay, y'all looking at how I look, bitch, listen to what I'm saying. I'm busted, you know? So that was my whole thing, you know, saying become the killer clown. You know, I'm, you know, Michael Myers lyrically, you know what I'm saying?

And all that shit came together in 94. I'm my best friend Brian Dennis, rest of his soul. He got killed back in 2007. He painted my face in 94. Oh, it was his idea? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was like, because he knew about my killer clown. I had a song called Killer Clown and all that kind of shit.

And I became the Killer Clown, you know what I'm saying? So you were rapping before you were painting your face? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, and then he started, he started. Yeah, my first round was in 85, you know, so he painted my face in 94, you know what saying? Take 9 was starting. Right, right, right.

I was up and running, you know what I'm saying? I had my first deal of 93, all that kind of shit. So you're like dedicating it to him now by still doing it? Oh, yes, yes, yes. It was always a dedication to Brian Beasel Dennis, man, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, um, and, um, it's like, motherfuckers saying that you took it from somebody else. I mean, you took it, like, you got your idea from somebody else.

That's fucked up, you know what I'm saying? And that's what, that's what, Peter Rosenberg and Ebro's started. And it started a lot of shit with me and ICP. Wow, they probably don't even know. They probably just getting, you know. Talking about ICP or Ebro. No, I'm talking about Ebro and, yeah. Yeah, not.

I'm talking about they probably didn't even know. But it's probably why they're going to find out. Yeah? Mm-hmm. So you think you'll be able to mend it with ICP at some point? We did bid it. Oh, you already did? Yeah, we did bid it.

You know what I said? It's like we've been about it. You know what I called, niggas? When the niggins say something? But still the juggler was still mad. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. They want to meet the gathering.

You know what I'm saying? They don't understand. Like, oh, but he'll do these fucking EDM fess, but he didn't do the gathering. Fuck checked. I'm like, I'm like, a nigger. So it's because I didn't do this one because of death threats don't mean I won't do it again, my name. Now, what's your relationship with E40?

A family, my day. Yeah, yeah. That's my family, you know what I'm saying? And when I just say it's my family, I didn't find out that was my family to recent. Blood family? Neda. All these years.

Wait, wait, wait, right, right. All these years. Wait, what happened? You got to describe it. All these years. Okay. I've been doing work with E40, doing music, he's a cool cat. Right.

Whenever I'm up there, he's your love, whenever he comes to Kansas City, you know what I'm saying? I'm going to ask him this one to get on the white shit. But we always been connected. We've been on tour together, everything. Like two tours ago, this motherfucker called me like, hey, how you doing, Ted? I'm like, what's up, man? He said, I'm going to put somebody on the phone.

He put my cousin Christopher on the phone, who we used to live in the same house in Casey. And when my mom was in a battered relationship, we live out in Kansas City, Kansas with them. You know what I'm running from her boyfriend. You know what I'm saying? Shit like that. Little Christopher, you know. I said, what's you doing with E 40? He said, Dantes, that's our family.

You didn't know that all these years. I'm like, no, nigga, you ain't tell me either. And he put in. Yeah, he was at their house, my nigga. Wait, wait, okay. So he knew for years that y'all was... No, he did not. Oh, okay.

He did not. I described back. Okay. So when he found out, because he went to a family's house in the Midwest, you know what I'm saying? And it happened to be my family. Right. He got back on the phone. I said, no wonder.

You're not like your punk-ass, motherfucker-fucking. You're crazy. He's not no punk-ass. It's just how we're talking. You know what, that's crazy? So what are y'all? You have, like, third cousins? Something like that.

Yeah, but that's cousins. That's crazy. Yeah, that's crazy. Same thing with Nelly, man. You know what I'm saying? My great grandmother's name is Maud Haynes. So you're all related to? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So when niggas was talking bad about him, I'm like, don't talk to me about it. Don't talk to me about it. You know, him and Keras 1 had some words. Stop, man. Oh, man. Okay, hold on. I didn't know how you and Nellie is related.

I'm sorry. You can't just skip over that. Big up the Nelly, too, by the way. Yeah. I'm saying, this is the Midwest, though, right? That's true. You know, when I went to St. ain't far away?

No, three years away. So, I went to a family of Eulian years ago, and all the Haynes family was there. You know what I'm saying? That's how I found out that we were connected. You know what I'm saying? Through my auntie, Auntie, Aunt Margaret and Red and Lamont and all the motherfuckie.

Like all my cousins, just like, that's the Haynes side of family. You know what I'm saying? I'm like, damn, Cornell Haynes and E-40, you know what I'm saying? You know what the funny shit is? I don't got an awesome story like that. Like, both of those stories is awesome. I got a, I got a, like, a local story. Like, it was like a dude I got along with the hood for years.

In Left Rack. In Left Rack. My man, Bobby, we go to the family reunion. I'm like, oh, what are you doing here? He's like, what are you doing here? They were like, oh shit. And the whole time, I knew him for 20 years, the nigger was my cousin.

Yeah. And I did not know. Yeah. It happens like that. But your story's way more awesome. Yeah. You know what? E 40 and Ellie.

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And then one is the Moe. What did you think? The Perils. The Perianianianwales. The Perea-Asuaia. Yeah. I put mine over there. I'm too old.

I'm going to hit some of that perjewa-jure-Ju-A. That's all good. I was about the ashen-mine. Yeah, so I don't know if you know. I don't know if you know. Yeah, my part of it's to go to Hull. Hove is preaching right now that black should support black. And when he says black, he doesn't mean, you know.

He means Latino. He means white people, too. He means people of the culture. Like, hip-pop should support hip-hip. People need each other to help each other up. Right. And that's what... By the culture of the culture. That's what idiotic supremacists

and all the motherfuckers don't understand that we need each other, nigga. Right. You know what I'm sizzling? Shit, you see that shit going on right now? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, Virginia, isn't it? It's Virginia.

Charles. Charleston, Virginia. Oh, that's the thing, Charles. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, dude, ran over somebody, right? I just seen the motherfuckers clashing in the streets. Yeah, racial shit.

Yeah, it looking crazy. Like, all the white supremac groups got together. Yeah. It's crazy. That's crazy. Somebody sparked that shit, you know what I'm saying? When they said, let's make America great again. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah. And David Duke was out there. And he said, and that's his home. He said, we're living up Trump's shit. That's what he said. He said what? He said some shit like that. Like, you know, we live in, this is Trump's wishes.

Trump's dream? Yeah, like to, you know. Make America white again? Was that? Yeah. Right. That's, that's, that's, that's. I, G, H.T.

I mean. I'm trying to say that. Yeah, that's what it's called. What is it? The rally is called Put Together the Right or something like that I know one of the groups

is the all right movement or something Come on It's called right It's called Hold on Something like It's for the right

Yeah Yeah because one of the groups Is the all right Right to you The what Right to unite Right to unite Yeah

The right So it's like Ar but they really mean You know They don't know The right Unite the right

And they're chanting White Lides right That's what they're chanting. White Lives Matter. That's crazy. It's just to counter Black Lives Matter. Everybody wants to be the chosen one. Everybody wants to be God's chosen. Right. You know what I mean?

And it's like, we're all human beings and shit. You know what I'm saying? But it's man-created barriers. Man-created, you know what I'm saying? Like things that, oh, black people should listen to this kind of music and white people should listen to metal and, you know what I'm saying?

Latino people should listen to this kind of music. But, you know, when everything's integrated. It's beautiful. A lot of people don't want that. That's why I loved growing up in New York. Yeah. I had a white person on my floor. I had a Haitian person on my floor.

Yeah. And a Puerto Rican person on my floor. Yeah. We had another white couple downstairs. Like, we grew up in every... If you're like from real New York, you can't be racist. Exactly. It's like...

You grew up around too many people of every race, and you realize early on that you can't blame that person for that race. It's just that person's a dick. You can't blame his whole race from that. Exactly. You can't just meet a person to say, oh, he's Colombian. He loves a sniff Coke. You blame another Colombian.

He's black, he likes chicken and watermelon. Cocaine. You can't say, oh, Colombians, black he sells crap, you know what I'm doing? I just blame his ass. You think it's more divided in the middle? I feel like, because if you're looking at it, It's divided everywhere.

The coast, but seem more integrated in terms of, like, different cultures. Yeah. But in the Midwest, it seems, you know, I don't know, you get to Middle America, that's the, maybe it's just ignorance of mine, but it seems like Middle America is just more separated in terms of racial divide. Well, less diversity. Well, it's diverse as hell. I know, some states were bringing in, like literally there's some state that brought in it.

I'll be honest. When I listen to Kansas City, when I hear Kansas City, it does sound racist in my mind. Like in my mind it sounds like Somebody gonna call me a nigga I know where I'm at Somewhere I know where I'm at When Garth Brooks can come to Kansas City

And do 10 sold out shows At the Sprint Center Sprint Center Sprint Center holds like Sprint Center holds like 20,000 Maybe I don't know maybe more Golf Brooks out there kicking ass What the hat on

10 shows sold out It lets you know where you at You know what I'm saying Two chains them come You know what I'm saying It don't sell out You know what I mean Wayne coming

Don't sell out It'll be a lot of people You know what I'm saying? It just lets you know where you at. Wow. You know what I'm saying? But it's all types of people there, but Garb Brooks can come there

and sell out 10 shows. There's a lot of fucking Gar-Roox, but there's a lot more other people there. I do like Gar-Brucks, want to throw that out there. Yeah, yeah. But I understand what the point you're trying to do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know where I'm at, you know what I'm saying?

So what was the best year for? This is the thing. Okay, yeah. I did my biggest show. Ever. You remember I said the biggest one was like 60,000 people in Denmark. I did my biggest show in my city when I did Rockfest year after, year before last. 70,000 people in my town, man. And the radio station was behind me, like, Tech, this is for you, man.

You know what I'm saying? Because I was getting a lot of pushback. Like, we don't want you go on YouTube and see where they have all the comments for all the artists that are coming. You know, it was me. It was Papa Roe. She was Rob Zombie You know, it was Rock Fest You know what I'm sizzling

So it's like A lot of people were on them comments I read them too And they hurt You know what I'm saying Like we don't This ain't hip hop fest This is rock fest

You know You know Tech9 is gonna bring all the fucking Black people there No no no No I know My people at Strange

Been telling me that for years I'm happy You gotta see when you said You was dead Seriously Oh man It gives me fuel It gives me fuel

It gives me fuel You really meant that. It gives me fuel. Especially YouTube comments are the worst. I know, dude. I know. Oh, man. It ain't nothing worse than World Star.

World Star hip hop for me. World Star hip hop for me? It's worse than YouTube. Oh, my God. World Star be like, fuck that nigga. He's corny. You know what I'm? Yeah, you definitely got to stop.

You know what I'm? Like, I'm corny. You know what I'm, I don't think it's the Facebook. I don't even read my own Instagram comments. I do. I just, I just, I just, I just, I just, I just. So, when I was reading the comments. Rock Fest

Before I did it Motherfuckus didn't want me there Like what is he doing At Rock Fest This is a rapper They didn't understand that I did Knott Fest with fucking Slipknot before

And I did other shit With Rob Zambi before And I don't work with Search Talking of System of a Down They don't know I did A song with the Doors Before Raymond Zerick died They don't know all this

They just think Nigger Rig gangbangers You know what I'm saying That's how they saw And that's like All the gangbangers It's gonna be

We're not going to be We're not going this year Fuck that. Don't have Tech Knight. He does not belong. And where's this at? Kansas City. Oh, okay.

In my hometown. Wow. So 98th of Rock, they knew about all this. They knew that people were saying this. And Johnny Dare, the motherfucker that made it happen, one of the big radio guys there, he was like, he almost had tears in his eyes when I was about to go on. He knew. He's like, tech, this was for you, man. I was like, don't do this to me right now, man.

I'm going to go out and kill this bitch. And them motherfuckers lit up. All 70,000. I have my band with me. We tore down everything, nigga. Tored down everything. Papa Roach was right there. Nigger Rob Zombie was over there.

Seven Dust was up there. You know what I'm saying? Everybody was watching. This can't see. This is your town. Yes. Let's make some noise for him killing his own town. Because I never like barriers, my nigga.

We can't do this because we black. We can't go here. We used to couldn't drink out of a fountain because it was a all-white fountain. Fuck that, nigga. You know what I'm saying? We need each other. to help each other up. So, we do rock fest.

We do summer jam with Kanye and motherfucking L.A. You know what I'm saying? We do EDM Fest with excision and all the motherfuckers. One of your yon guys invite me to an edium shit. Oh, man, it's the new raid.

I'm trying to join with you. I haven't took Molly a long time. I'm trying to go, but I want to be in an EDM. I can't take Molly no more. I can't take Molly. I got that. I got that little relaxed. Back back to Molly. They call me Mr. Molly.

They call me Mr. Molly. Oh, yes. We don't get into those letters. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, let's run it back in since. After I performed in a rock fest, all the comments changed. Like, wow, Tech Nye made us see why he belonged there. And you still went back and looked at the comments.

Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Part of the pretty game. Oh, yeah. 50 cents is part of the Betty game. Definitely. It was a lot of people who admit it they were part of the party. Almost everyone's been on a great change.

I stay tuned. I stay tuned because it's like my fuel for what I rap about. You know what I'm saying? And I need to see what motherfuckers are saying because I'm still trying to stay afloat, my nigga. You know what I'm saying? But I do what I do. I'm not doing it for nobody else.

I just know what motherfucker's saying and sometimes I say something about it in the rhyme. And motherfuckers sometimes just say shit just to get a rise out of you so you'll respond to them. You go to their page and they post it, oh my God, take nine, said something to me even though it was fuck you, leave me alone. Right, yeah, yeah.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah. When people waste my time like that, I said, did you just... And when I do look at you by mistake, oh, you said something fucked up? Blah. I mean, what's that shit? Timway and my tumbo, nigga. No, no, no.

Who taught us how to block on Twitter? Was it Swiss? Not my mouth. Who taught us how to block on Twitter? Oh, no, it was iced tea. Oh, yeah? He said you can block without them even knowing you could, like that you blocked them. That's all.

Ice tea talked you there? Yeah, he told us that. Yeah, he told us that. So, yeah. I made my presence felt at Rock Fest in Kansas City. So that's been the biggest show I've ever done, period, 70,000 people in my hometown, Kansas City. God damn it, man. Let's make some noise for that, God damn it.

Your affiliation with the bloods. Yes. Coming from Kansas City. Yes. It always takes people back. Like, it's like, wow. Because, you know, for real, like, when we heard NWA speak about Compton, that was the first time. I was speaking from an East Coast perspective, obviously.

That's the first time we heard about content. That's the first time we heard about gangbanging. So then it comes 360 around, and then we hear Little Rock, Arkansas, right? How far is that from Kansas City? That's some hours, a couple hours, a couple hours. And then we hear about St. Louis. We hear about Kansas. And then we hear about all.

On DJ Quick's record. Yeah, it's not just like company. Yeah, it's just like company. Can you describe that from your perspective? Because from our perspective, we were just like, oh, shit. But we would like to hear from New York. In the early 80s, some guys from 37th Street, Fruit Town, Brim, California, moved into the 50s. I stayed on 58.

Now, I explain for it because, you know, our viewers is done. 50s in Kansas City, the 50s, the street, the street number. I stayed on 58. Okay. My brother's Scoob, Doc. Scoob that's on the label? Yes. That's my big homie.

School, Doc, Texas Will, short nitty, all of them were in the area of 56. And it was this group on the next block

from 58 called the 57 Street Road Dogs. We all went to school together. These are all my niggas I went to school with Duke. Are you still cool with the 57 Street Road Dogs? Yes, man. Yes, we know what I went to make sure

before I picked up. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, 57. Yeah, 5, 7. So that's my family. These are the niggas that I grew up with. You know what I'm saying? And the blood shit hit our neighborhood, early 80s, like 84, 85.

You know what I'm saying? It migrated from the west? Like how some vacation ice cube like that? Yeah, yeah, 37 Street Food Town, Bram. Dr. Bop, a nigga named Troy, his brother Troy. You know what I mean? They were the niggas that had. the money and they was a nigga that had the drug clothes yeah yeah yeah yeah so

school any purposes are coming to Kansas City I don't know okay I don't know I don't know you have to ask my big homie big school I think they have family there you know saying I think doc I mean Bob had families their family there you know I'm saying and whatever it was they moved from 37 Street Fultown Bram you know I'm saying to Kansas City right and that's how the blood should happen in our neighborhood well you know I'm sizzling and Scooby Nim um there in the, like, the trenches in that shit. Okay.

You know what I'm saying? And then I moved away from the block when I was 17. I ran away from home. I lived over there from 12. My mom married a Muslim when I was 12. We moved on 58th and forced. So I lived there from 12 to 17 is when I witnessed Dr. Bobnim coming into our neighborhood.

You know, I used to have a Lecoq Sportive jacket. You know what I'm saying? You remember La Cacquette Portif? Swissah, Swisha. Yeah. man with a little kangaroo on it. Not kangaroo, but the cockado do, I don't fucking know it. But I let my homeboy Sean Gassaway wear it up the street.

And he came to my house one day after school. Like, man, them blood niggas took my, your jacket off me. Because they had red on it, you know. Oh, yeah, yeah. So I said, let's go find them, niggins. So I found, we went, he was scared. And you knew what lies was at this time? I know, yeah, no, no, no.

No, no. This is in the midst of that. Yeah, yeah. No, no, this is in the midst of that. Oh, because to me, I didn't. I didn't know what bloods Chris was to the iced tea records Yeah, we knew, we knew

It was, it was niggas Like when we were breakdancing It was dudes that was going back and forth To California Getting mixed tapes and shit And what year are you talking? Probably like... It's got to be the 80s, man

Somewhere in the 80s, early 80s, you know what I'm saying? Bringing iced tea tapes back And they was talking about Playboy versus the Crip and all that shit Before colors, before all that shit. And they had the Blessed Chris The tape

that they were making. Yeah. They had their crew. Well, that was later on. But we got bloods in the 80s, though. Yeah, yeah. I don't know if Paroo Love was in the 80s, though. I got to look that up.

I got the tape. Banging on Lack. Banging on Lack. I got that. They got to be the 90s, I think. I think it was a 90s. Maybe 91. You might be right. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. We're living in the public enemy in the 80s, you're absolutely right. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah. It was a peace treaty.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so long story short, they moved in our neighborhood, you know what I'm saying? And my niggas, when I ran away from home, they got deep into it. Wait, wait, no, the jacket story. Oh, they robbed this. Oh, oh, we got to. I got to. So we was going to go find Bob, the leader of the blood gang.

You know what I'm saying? We was all young. So I said, hey, man, that jacket you stole from him, Sean Gatsway was taller than me. You know what I'm saying? And Bob was shorter than him, you know what I'm saying? And Bob said, you got to buy it back little nigger. I'm like, I'm not buying my jacket back. You ain't getting it then.

I turned away and walked away, you know what I said? When I told my father, he's like, you should be fucking with them anyway, you know what I'm saying? So I never saw my La Cocksporte's jacket again. You know, I never saw the shit again. Let's make some noise. Hold on, hold on, let's make a lot of him. That's a type of rest of peace for his jacket.

Yeah, yeah. But the story gets better. Hold on, because I know that guy wished he would have gave you the jacket. Let's have the rest of the piece. Moment three seconds. One, two, three. The cock sportive. The cock sportie. Let's look ahead. Continue. So it gets better. So, I'm in. After I left, I ran away from home at 17. I went to go live with my auntie Zita. You know what I'm saying? My stepfather called. He's a Muslim. He's like, you better get your ass back home.

And I gave him the phone of my auntie. And at this time, I'm like 17. You know what I'm and she's like, he ain't going nowhere. My family never liked him because my mom had epilepsy. and, you know, and they never liked them because they didn't understand that Allah was just a different language for the word God and just that another, you know, arm, leg, leg, arm head, you know what I'm saying? We just turned into shit, you know. They didn't know. They felt like that Allah was another God. Right. And so they didn't like them.

My Christian mama married a Muslim. That's how. It was like blasphemists. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know how that is. So, you know, my Christian family didn't agree with him putting her in a psychiatric ward when she had seizures. You know what I'm saying?

And I used to go visit her there and shit like that. They hated him. So when I went, when I ran away, they kept me. Like, you're not getting Dante's back. That's my middle name, Dante. You're not getting Dante's back. And so I stayed with her all that time. I started really working on my rap.

You know what I'm saying? My raps and shit when I did that. And when I turned 19, I moved my auntie's. Ivy and I start selling dope for her. You know what I'm saying? She was selling little pieces for another nigga. You know, so I'd sell $30 rocks when she wasn't there, you know what I'm saying? For her and shit

like that, I wasn't selling no big shit, you know what I'm saying? And that wasn't for me and I left there. I was a nomad. I moved in a lot of people's houses doing music. You know what I'm saying? I moved with my homie icy rock, a DJ is how I got

how I got that deal with Jimmy, Jam and Terry Lewis. You know what I'm saying he knew a group called Low Key who was signed to Jimmy, Jim and Terry Lewis, and they got my music to Jimmy and Terry like, hell yeah, you know what I'm saying? But somewhere in like

95, we lost that deal. I came back, and my niggas that I went to school with, Scooby and all them, they got with me along with this producer named Don Juan. Like, hey, man, what's you doing these days? Man, you want to do a record? I'm like, yeah, man, we just got off a perspective. We ain't doing shit. So I went back to

my hood, back to my blood hood, and we started doing music. music, you know what I mean? No, but you ain't never tell us how, like, um, you said, you said the jacket. Yeah. How did, how did it, like, hit Kansas City? Because you said they came and all that.

How did you, like, initially join? Is it now what you're saying? Now when you went back, is that one? No, no, no. I'm saying in 85, that's how the shit got over here. Oh, that's how got over here? Yeah, yeah, yeah, in 85, and all those niggas, those are my niggas I grew up with.

So I'm a ride with my family. Wow. You know what I'm saying? I'll ride with my family. My family is blood. That's what we're doing, my nigga. You know what I'm saying? These are my, these are guys I love.

Right. Point blank, period. You know what I'm saying? To this day. Scooby and all them, whatever it is. It's like, I'm with them. And everybody knows it. Has it ever been like any type of, yeah, like.

Of course. Just because, like when you perform, like in Long Beach. Yeah, yeah. Because Long Beach is all crypt. Yeah, but they love us, though. Okay. They love us, though. That's the blessing of Tech Nine.

They know my past and the niggas I'm with. But. It ain't never been no shit where niggas like, nigga we're gonna kill you because of your color, no. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? It's like... The squad one time you felt uncomfortable, though,

just because of your affiliation. Uncomfortable with Crips. Or anybody. Or anybody who had beef of blood, yeah. Because of gang shit, somebody robbed my big homie schoolie at gunpoint in front of his kids and tied them up, tied them all up.

Oh, God bless. So we rode looking for niggas after that. And I had to sleep on his couch with the AK in case somebody came back. And I just got married and shit, so my wife was pissed at me and shit. Oh, wow. But that's my nigga. And it sounds ignorant to people, but that's my brother, though. Right, yeah.

And I didn't like that somebody would do that. and it happened to be some crips in the area, I guess. And thank the Lord we didn't find them. Right. You know what I'm saying? Right. So, but on the road and shit, you know what I'm saying? Niggas will bang on you and shit. Try to put seeds on your chest and you stop, man, you know what I'm saying?

What do you mean? What does that mean? It's like if you... He literally putting the crips on these chest. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, they're going like, dad? Yeah, that's wild.

Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Like, take a picture or something? No, that's just like, nigga, that's what they're like, no, no. I know you, where you're from, you know what I'm from? It's all of love, and you're like, let's keep going. Fuck that shit. You know what I'm saying? You got to defuse that shit because it could really go.

You know what I'm saying? Gang shit ain't no punk. You know what I'm saying? It's real. You know what I'm saying? Niggas just try to do it because they in music and shit, oh, I'm this, I'm that until they face with it. And then they were like, no, I'm not that. You know what I'm that?

Because that's where I grew up. And my mother, if she was still alive, she died from Lupus. in 2014 if she was alive she'd kill me if she knew that I chose the side because I was raised a Christian boy and then I had to study Islam from 12 to 17

so to choose something like that would piss them to fuck off and my stepfather knew that he would fucking kill me you know back then you know what I mean but I chose that because I love them dudes I respect that you know what I'm saying

um yeah I started Go back into music for a second. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wayne. Yeah. I know you got love for him. You actually went to go see him in jail, correct?

Rikers Island, man. You went to Rikers Island? Yeah. You're a real nigga. I'm not even going to see my niggas in Rikers Island. I live 12 minutes. Literally. It was a reason for it.

You got to write me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was a reason for it, y'all. Okay, I'm sorry. It was a reason for it, though. Okay. Because when he first went in there, I guess FonFlex was interviewing him And he said, what's you gonna do when you get out?

He said, I want to work with my man, Tech9 and Andre 3000. I'm like, boom, how does a nigga know me? I'm the weird nigga, you know what I'm saying? Music travels. No, music travels. So we would do things in New York like we would do things like we would do things. You got a big road. That's the biggest road ever left on drink champs.

Yeah. You know, the whole play. You don't worry about it. I'm trying to be stupid. All right, go, cool. I'm trying to be stupid. So you went to. So you heard that.

Yes. So we would go to New York to do, like, press week. So my blood homies. Englewood mugs. Bigg him up. Hooked up with a nigga down here name macho. Big him up. You know what I'm saying?

You know macho. You know what I'm saying? Macho and them and Fat Joe and them hooked it up for me to go see Wayne to tell me thank you. Wow. You know what I'm saying? So you went to the street. Right. Hook that up.

Right. You know what I'm saying? Really love, man. Streets, so much love, dude. So much should happen. Even the verse I just got from TI on my last record. God, damn. The streets got that.

You know what I'm saying? Big U and Mugs. You know what I'm saying? Bigged out. Yes. You know what I'm saying? Continue. So we got up there to Rikers.

What do you say? Shots. I'm trying to get drunk over here, man. Listen to me. You want to go out on story. Maybe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, so you go up there. So we went, we was up there for doing our press. So the first time we went up there, they blocked us. They said, nope, can't get in, sorry. Some shit happened on the inside, some kind of riot shit.

Can't go. I'm like, fuck. So the powers that be said you can go up tomorrow. Being my partner, Chavez went up there. And I was like, damn, man, I ain't ever met Wayne. I'm going to tell him thank you, man. You don't have to say my name. That's a big thing, my nigger.

I didn't expect nothing out of it. I just wanted to say thank you, my nigga, you know? Show him some love, you know? I'm some real niggas shit. So we got in there and I was like, what am I going to talk to this, nigga? They said, we got an hour. I said, what am I going to say to this nigga for an hour? I don't know him.

You know what I'm saying? Naga, we talked for three hours straight about everything. He talked about how Kanye came up there and did his whole album for me. He was sweating. He took off his jacket and was doing all this shit, a jackepella and shit, you know what I'm saying? He said, we were just watching the nigga like, damn, you know what I'm saying? There's a table like this. We're sitting over there, Wayne's over here.

We're just right here. We can touch him. He knows it we cool, b'a, b'a, bough. It wasn't no window or nothing, niggins. So he said Kanye came in and performed his whole record. You know what I forgot what record it was. You know, a big record, obviously. But he said he did every song for him.

Acapella, my niggins. Yo, you got to give him to that. Yeah. He said, he's got him. Come on, make some noise for Kanye. Yeah. Yeah. So we ended up talking for three hours in the warden and had to say,

okay, it's enough. Wow. So when we was walking away, he said, when I get out, my nigg got out, I said, okay. When he got out, He told us to come down here to Miami to Hit Factory That's how you know I'm high

I'm like word to New York, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Factory, that's how you know I'm high Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I'm thinking I'm in New York Because I got a flight to New York later So I'm like, yeah, we're in New York You already, you're already flew there.

I'm high, I'm high too, continue, continue I'm a relaxed high, you know what I'm a relaxed, yeah Relax, yeah, yeah Just make some noise for there, right? Continue, continue, continue. So, Wayne. The engineer was Mike Banger at the time. Mike Banger, big him up.

Yeah. So when I went there to do reverse, Wayne then was in there, you know what I'm saying? I was like, thank you, my nigga, you know what I'm saying? He gave me the beat. I said, what can I go right there? He said, baby studios over there. It's the all red one, you know what I'm saying?

Yeah, I like all red, let him. I'm going to go up there. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so I sat in there for a while. I was already tired, you know what I'm running there? I'm like, hot for the day. Watch what the kid drives with the proper, and not with the bed.

not only you're the reasons of the property, so hey, motherfuckers you better but I'm writing the shit you know what I'm writing the shit you know what I'm saying

like right there and I got tired and I was like you write it fast too no no no no it's just how I go a little bit now

you're sitting and write it down no no no you start like how you're going to stick the beat you're like dang dang

damn his membership is like hot's what it is hot's what it is watch what the kid drops I'm gonna get the props if you're not with the bed

if you're not with the bed not only other reasons I really popped at the career. So, Hayden, motherfugger, you better stop with the gybs. You know what I'm just? It comes like, you got to think about that. But it's mathematics, it's the hardest thing because you wanted to pop-a-pop-a-pop-a-da-la-a-ha-ha-a-ha.

You know what I'm saying? It's mathematics. So it took a minute. So it was 3 o'clock in the morning. And I was like, I walked in the studio. They were still in there. It was Wayne. It was MacMaine.

It was a niggas. They used to be in the arcade video. Boo or somebody. Boogadi. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They was all in there. Yeah, them guys started a session at 12 at night. They got relaxed.

Yeah. You know the time I start my sessions? What time? 10 a.m. Me too. Yeah, yeah. I'm early in the morning. Me too.

In the L.A. 6 in the morning. I go to like... In L.A. 6 in the morning. I get asked at 3 hours. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I walked in there. So I walked in there. I wouldn't finish with the rap.

And booing them was in there. And some light-skinned nigga that Wayne called his brother with Dres. I don't know who it was. And there was a chicken there. And I came in and they was all, I told the story before. You know, people heard the story. They were all looking up in the air like this. All of them was like looking up in the air.

It was like some alien shit, dude. Because I walked in, I just looked at them for a while. MacMaine was looking up like this. And Wayne was looking up like it. Everybody, Boo, Alden was looking up. And Wayne looks down to MacMaine and says, What if I said clear? Does that make sense?

and back man's head and I said all broke it I broke their shit whatever they was doing I say man is it okay

if I come back tomorrow man he's like oh yeah man come back tomorrow I said thank you that was the weirdest I ever seen the niggas

was getting words out of the sky I saw this with my own eyes here in Miami dude I'm like what the fuck were they looking at dude

that is so dope yeah no I'm so jealous I'm so jealous I'm never I walked in on it. Right.

I walked in on it. I was in the other studio. I did walk in on them one time and they just looked. I don't know what they were doing. They were getting words out the sky. Words out the sky. Yeah. Martian.

He says a Martian, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was in all the galaxies. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Speak up Little Wayne. That's my motherfucking brother. Me too. God damn.

I got a flight to check. I can perfectly do this podcast without a shot. I don't understand. Why are you? Why are you? Why are you? Why are you? You the guy who wants me sober.

Why don't you do a shot? Who's day? Who? The aliens? I mean, I took a piss. I did it. I'm in. All right.

I'll take a shot. I don't do shots, but I'll take shot. Yeah, yeah. I'm not going to lie. You gave me the hottest bottle on the market. Surrap? All right, listen. Can we get somebody that?

Who gave you this bottle? Illamini? It's always in Buminati, bro. The Aluminati. All right, so, look. I'm going to do my ice in my shot. I like my shot, cheer. I do a Columbia white.

shot. Right, cool. I don't do no training wheels. I just take it. Oh yeah, I need training wheels. I'm sorry. I got things to do today. But not really. I'm glad it's not tequila, though. All right, so you're going to do the honors, a pouring a shot? Come on, it's your motherfucking idea, Dominican.

Yeah. Come on, Mr. Lee. You're apparently trying to get you drunk. I don't mind. I don't mind. I don't mind. It's an honor being on here with y'all, man. Man, come on here all the time. This is your home. This is your home. Big of May Day and all your other artists. We bring them May Day over here, too.

Where the hell May Day is that? Come over here and sit down. And the nigga there ain't. I know. I remember when we were here. Where y'all at? I remember Kendrick was supposed to be on here and y'all was supposed to give him the plaque or something.

Yeah, it was supposed to happen. You see? Yeah. It's not supposed to happen. Kendra Mar, we love you. Yeah, yeah. We got to, now, I got to get back to the Kendry because I was supposed to have him. On drink champs because we're going to give him a plaque.

Yes. Grom. Look, come on. And Top was asking me for him. Give him shots. No, no, Rick is good, he's not taking a shot right. No, why? No, he's good, he's good, he's good.

That's not fit. That's not fit. No, it's good. You have to ask him to exit the camera. No, no, he's got two. He's got, no, he's going to, he's got a baby coming. You are?

Yeah, I got six babies. No, no, but he's in selling. There's like, it's the hardest thing I've ever done. I'm back in a wreck right now, man. Yo, get your shot! It's the hardest thing I've done right now. Why? You're alcohol?

What's your, no, it's just like, I feel like, you should take a shot. Whenever you have to stop for three months. Whenever you had to stop for three months. These motherfuckers are fucking is Jack Daniels. Shit. Let's do it.

Come on. Big bottles. You want me to get some Jack Names? I need some Jack Names. These niggins. You drink Jack Daniels like water. Tech Nog. I'm not respecting that water shot.

I'm throwing that out there. Right now I'm not sure you or none of that. I love you. You're my friend. I told him if I got his back on this one. Why? You got to be sober for a certain amount of time? Yeah, yeah.

Throughout the pregnancy, he's sticking to that. How many months is this? Three months in. You gotta relax. Hey, my honest. Today you're going to, listen, my ligger. I know. This is, man.

Jack Daniel's the honor, man. I'm about to go to the airport, y'all. Come on. Okay, this is to fragile. No, I'm not. Do not get the fuck out of there. This is, you're a blackface. This is the fragile going to go.

To fragile going to go. That's an airplane mode being an even better single. So, this is this going to get me. Ooh, I could drink dance now. Like, Nam, where's nom? That was smooth. Let's do another one, man.

Nams, where you at, brother? Let's do another one, man. Come on, let's do it. No, nobody can't take a shot. That's not what we know. You shouldn't even said that one. You are made that you're on the strange music. You want to come take his shot?

Now I got his back, please. No, leave him alone. I am sorry. You're leaving him alone. You've never texted me that. I got his back. Nams is taking his shot for him. Nah, we don't.

Okay. This is not the game show. What you got right there? You're gonna take a shot for you. Water. So, oh, okay, okay. Sit down, no. All right, come.

Or you can stand up and dance. No, I'm just playing. Let's do it. Let's do one more shot. Come on. For May Day. This is for May Day show tonight. You can't have somebody else take your shot for it.

We are Blackburn. Yeah, well, I need to get into this story. Yeah, what is your wife? What is your wife restricting you from... No, she doesn't. No. with his wife. What just thought that they already mean? I don't understand. Because she knows that

Jack Daniels is his water. Is that it? This is a minute. This is a dreamtenth is. I love Kiva wanted it. I wanted to do a detox. And right from around the time we found out she was pregnant, I was like, you know what? The most important thing I could tie a detox to? So you're doing nine months? Yeah, nine months. A detox?

I mean, I know. He needs a lot. I'm pretty sad about it. Considering we're going on tour on Monday, I'm losing my drinking partner for two of us. It's going to be the hard. The two months on tour is going to be the hardest thing I've How many more months are gonna go, man? That bottle in the green room is gonna. I'm proud of wreck.

I am. I went for a long time. I had to. You're the only one. I had to do it for. I have to do it. I don't have any noise. Don't need nobody to make noise.

Don't need nobody to make noise. I'm about reek. All this shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So. I'm like to stand on record. I'm gonna say I am not. I am proud of you, brother.

I'm saying you're gonna make up for the partner? Yes. You're gonna, come on, let's take a double shot. You gotta take a double shot. That's how I would do for Gammon. That's how I would do for Ghamombe. Hey, are we ready? Dope shot, dude, this is strange music.

Licker shot. Strange music, baby. Techno-dney. Look at Techno's clip. That he got a whole blood as a roach. That's a real nigga, right? Oh, shit. Let's do another one, nigga.

Relax, guy. Hey, hey, hey, hey, you got a drink for him. He wants to sleep on a plane. He does right, you got a drink for him. Got it? Wait, but you're cheating with the ice, man. Hey, man, listen, I ain't never said. I ain't never said I'm going to do it your way.

I'm going to do it my way because I'm a different type of person. I'm from 97-3057 Avenue. What is the cross streets? Between which street and what's from? New York, 11368. I like it. I like it. I like it.

I like it. Respect the technique. I'm going to make you. I'll be back. I'll be back. You're a little today. There you're a little... I'll take that.

I got respect. You're still my friend, but today, eh. I'll take that. This is drink champs. We got to salute it. That's strength right there, man. That's strength. That's strength.

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was touring. Yes. When he was, so he was the, the hype man for J-Rock, right? Yes, he was. It was a,

it was a hype man before Kendra came out, but the hype man that was with J-Rock first, his name was M-J, EMJ.

And, um, he, we were in Reno. Yeah, no. Way after the show, you know,

what it was, you know, we were all connected, man, you know what I'm saying? And he went out to talk to his girl, you know what I'm saying,

late night, you know, saying after the show. It was like 3 o'clock in the morning, maybe. Yeah, it was late. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And some niggas that was across the street at the gas station, they must have had on a red shirt, but actually, MJ was a Crip. He was just wearing a J-Rock shirt. Oh, good to the, yeah.

Wow. Yeah, so they walked up to him while he's on the phone and they say, y'all ready? And he's like, what's up? And they tried to square up on them, all three of them. I think it was three of them. So Cuck Calhoun came from the back of the bus And like, oh, you're trying to jump on my nigga?

And then the dudes just start, one dude started shooting Hit him six times. He was still alive. I was talking to him like days after. Like, real niggas don't die. Muffling, you know what I'm saying? I just want to celebrate. Singing to him, he's like,

we got to do a song tech when I get out of this bitch. And a blood clock took him away. So that's why Kendrick had to come out to fill in for MJ, right? Yeah, yeah. He's MJ. First time we had any, lost anybody on tour, my nigga. Wow. We've been going to Reno for years, my nigga.

That's never happened, you know, so crazy. That was our first start with you, too. Yeah. I know you guys were devastated. I made it. Oh, man. How many, how many tourists have? Wait, wait, wait, but before we get it, I just, I had the Kendrick when I wanted to get to talk about.

So Kendra came out. Did you, did you see what was to come from Kendrick? Oh, yes. That's why people don't know that he was on a song before Fragile on All Sixes and Sevens called I Love Music, because after he gets. Because after he gave me that Section 80 disc or whatever, I went home and listened to him, I'm like, damn, this nigga hard. So I sent him a song.

I love music. Nobody didn't know who he was. Somebody from crazy. I guarantee you. I guarantee it's not crazy. I think it's someone from Thug Down Metalitate. It's fluent. 57.

Okay. So nobody didn't know who he was, but I knew he was talented. You know what I'm saying? And that's a little bit. Did you ever think about it? I want to sign him to strange? Well, when we signed J-Rock, we had everybody.

You know what I'm saying? Like hippie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We had everybody. You know what I'm saying? Like we have first right of refusal and all that shit, you know what I'm saying? Which is J-Rock? At schoolboy Q.

A school boy Q and Absol. And Absol. And Absol. And Absol. Hold on, Tom. What did you just say? What did I say? You just said you had first right of refusal.

Yeah, that's it. On. Gagsitok. On Black Kipp. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is. Kendrick, J. Rock, Absole, and School Boy Q. Yeah.

On strange music. They were on screen. Well, they didn't have an album on strange. There was TDE. We were connected to him, so it was like we could do whatever. But then when Dre came in and say, we want that, we was like, yeah, all yeah, do you know, give us the money back to do? They wasn't going to get in the way. Yeah, we wasn't going to get in the way.

So we were just helping Jay Rock out, you know what I'm saying, getting them off of Warner, you know what I mean? And that's how it happened. I guess he met Dre at the L.A. show on that same tour. Oh, he met on the tour? Yeah. When he was on the tour, yeah. We played the House of Blues. We played the House of Blues.

He met him that night. This fucking J-Rock sister helped me out. No, not that. Yeah. So after that, after he signed with Dre, I sent him fragile.

And Yellow Wolf was like, no, man, send it to me, man. I got this. He said, I haven't been feeling music lately, man, and this really pushed me. He said, I'm who fragg? Yellow Wolf. I sent, I sent, Kendrick. Kendrick, that's my mind. But he was on tour. So I'm produced by May Day.

Yes. Heard May Day. They sent it. They came to Kansas City to play me beats before we had our studio. We were still in fucking Chapman, dude. Now they have a city built. Yeah. A whole city.

The niggas got a city? We got strange land, we got strange world, we got it, we got strange works now. So, what the fuck was I saying? I'm fucked up. When they played fatterns. Oh, so they came to Kansas City.

and they played me all these beats. I'm listening. I'm like, damn. And Fraddle came on. I said, whose beat is that? They said, that's ours, but you can have it.

I said, are y'all sure? Are y'all sure? Y'all want to give this to me? Because I knew it when I heard it, dude. I was like, are y'all sure? Because it had Kendall Morgan on it and shit. Yeah, yeah. They're just playing any beats off their shit.

Like, if you want any of this, you can have it, but I'm like, what? That is so fucking love, dude. You know what I'm saying? That gave me fucking fragile. They ain't how to give me that shit? And we all of this record, right? You own this record, right?

What you're talking about? You own, I mean, because we can play it right now? Oh, yeah, we own the record. Can we get, like, DJ Isish? Yeah, we don't need to, like, clear it, clear. Fuck no. You can't go through me and Travis. It's not true.

Yeah, yeah. And they're going to say, fuck, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Let's play that joke. Hold on, hold on, let's play that record. And we all got our first plaque off of this record. Yeah, we did. That's mad.

Man, label, yeah. First of all, 100,000, so go. I'm not the first black. And second off, y'all, y'all, you. Y'all should have seen me a plaque for being friends. We're taking a break. But you play the record, though, right? Because you're all in the record.

Yeah, right now, hasn't been to play it. Oh, yeah. Like, we ain't got to have to be. No, no, no, no. Not like that, right? No, no. It's a shot. You didn't even touch it, but it's okay.

Here we go. Sonny will drink that, the whole thing. So, Tech, are you out here for the May Day show? Or you was out here just because you was out here. I'm out here. for this and the May Day show and we'll shoot a video as well you know what I'm saying god damn new out me day is that you got a chat right you have one I don't have one yeah yeah you go on come on take a shot we got a shot let me find out

let me find out oh oh oh don't know don't know look look look look at you do to sleep my point y'all he's gonna go to sleep for life he's gonna go to sleep I'm on like three hours of stuff That's what you mean. Cheers, yeah. To my three hours of sleep, I had some just... Shijanao, oh, Chi Jigna. Salo, brother.

Salo, brother. Yeah, I thought you came here to help people out. Look at you. I did. Come to help you. Look at him. Oh, God. I'm not going to lie.

Man, look at you about to fly plane right now. Been on the plane for a half hour. What you used for your clean cut, my name? Is it his name? Because I do it myself and sometimes I miss spots and shit. No, his name is Dejone. Oh, you have somebody do that? He's got a personal Dominican.

You look like you'll still have your hair line if you grew your hair back. I tried to. Yeah. It doesn't survive. Nah, my hair line. But you know, my shit, my shit will grow, though. I got a full set of hair. Oh yeah, yeah, me too.

But then we'll start back there. I got a full set of hair. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You want me growing my shit out? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. If you want, if you want them. You want me, you go like this, and the dreds, I just grow up.

Nah, I bet. That's what I do for a vote. Drink chaps. You're gonna grade? DJ, Miffin. Who's effing then? He's my friend. He's effing in there.

Where's you the nigga I know? He used to be me Molly. Damn. At ecstasy. He was still Eiffin back then, but I don't know what you're talking about. He was effem, Mim, no. You used to bring him Molly? I used to sell him all kinds of shit.

He is my cubicle in that. I was that guy for one time for second in my hair. I was that guy. I got stories like that but no more in the war report. In the war report. Don't throw me in the war report.

It's a joke. It's terrible. It's terrible that I'm so sorry. We would totally left right now. It's okay. Let's do that point, man. Yo, strange music. Now, May Day, this is a direct question

for you guys. This guy has set up this international, independent hustle. How does it feel being a part of that conglomerate? Wow, I mean, it feels amazing You got to talk to a mic

We're not that rich They feel like we need to reach even more fans It feels like we were given Like a blueprint Of like how to like make it In this shit You know what I'm saying? On your own

Yeah, like I feel like When I watch Tech and them We try and basically tour as much as he does and we try and put out records as much as he does. Because we see that, like, one of the main things that I think helped him was his consistency, you know, and fans could always depend on, like, a high-quality product from him. Yes.

Let's say continuity, because that's a new word I learned personally. And I love that word. Oh, we started yet? No, I'm not. I can't know how to smell what. But, yeah, no, so, I mean, I think that really, like, was. is like the learning curve for us is like it's huge you know what I'm saying

like when we got there you know and then obviously being amongst like the fucking best rapper in the world like I really think he's one of the illist MCs and not just because he's who I really truly think he's really not to mention by the time we saw as strange we had already been you know we go back we've been around the block a few times

and we run into a lot of people with you know amazing talent level but they're not genuine good people whereas that's strange from all the way from tech to the newest artist that signed you get nothing but like very humble down to earth want to work like good motherfuckers that don't give a shit about

like y'all let me get in front of you and get this shot like they all want everybody to win which is this beautiful thing now let me ask y'all because tech alluded to her earlier where he was saying that Wayne was interested in y'all and we all seen the video where you guys together or whatever all no no no with Wayne

walking the May Day no they were in the May Day they were in the Wayne videos he walked the May Day show you two videos this is just it just comes to testament to how cool Wayne is as a person that they invited us there to basically be his band for the video. And in between takes, like us not, first of all,

not being hella green, we like literally brought our equipment to the video shoot, which you're just supposed to bring your guitar and that's it, like, you know, not an amp and like really play. So we brought all our shit. So in between takes,

we would just play and he would rap with us. So he would just like have a really, he had a great time just vibing with us so he invited us to the other video. And then after that, when he saw us, the shirts there. He just put a video without even asking, grab the shirt and put it on for the video.

His stylist, everybody was like, okay, like, you know what I mean? They had to change everything. The people at the label were like, who are these May Day people? Why is he rapping them? Like, do we need to fuck with these people now? Because he's wrapping them. And he put on the May Day shirt. Yeah, yeah.

That was the old. I mean, and again, it's just because he's just cool-ass motherfucker and doesn't care and like, I feel like just goes off his rhyme. The end of that story is that we opened up, we played a show, Art Center. We opened up for Goody Maub and Nas. Amazing show. And then that was after the video shoot, and then that was a Saturday.

Then Sunday, it was Super Bowl Sunday the next day. We're at the crib, everybody's chilling. We're watching Super Bowl. We get a call. They're like, Wayne, he was about to go. He was about to go away. And he was like, Wayne wants you to play his going away party Sunday night on the beach. Like, it's in three hours. And we was like, you know, we was like, okay, we got some time.

Plegg's being the impulsive one that he is, ran out, like, Loki ran out the door. He was like, I'm out. Let's go. What do I need? What equipment do we need? And we ended up playing his going away party that night. It's crazy. He shows a lot of love in one weekend. And these guys are so professional. They rocking with instruments as well. They rhyme them. These are illis rappers you ever met in your life as well.

Don't get it twisted, but they rocking with equipment, and we're going to a rap show where they would not expect them equipment at that show. At a club, it was in a club, yeah. And that was insane that these guys' professionalism set up and we're able to do a show. It was definitely like us against the room. Drake was in there. Drake was just starting to get popular. Are we supposed to make noise from May Day right now? Let's make some muff.

Are we supposed to be some noise and strange music right now? Yeah, yeah. You listen, man, we did what we had to do. Yeah. Because we had to do it and we loved doing it. And we love doing it. I feel like it's one more shot. There's definitely another shot here.

One more shot. I'm gonna join this. Yes, no, I'm gonna join you. Yeah, because you're gonna stop playing. I'm gonna relax. I'm gonna relax. Relax with you ain't, one now. Yeah.

Yeah, no, give me back to test. I stop smoking. And if you want to let another one, don't worry, no. Because you know why? You don't want that road. You're a lot in light one for me. This? Yeah.

Straight. We turn half Jamaican yesterday. You know what you were... Noi Bontan. Do you know what I did a song where I said, we in a club, like da-da-da-da, you know what I did that? Oh yeah, I did that. I forgot what song it was. You got like 9,000 sauce.

Yeah. You missed one. 9,000 what? I rhymed it though, like da-da-da-da. And I got, you got, you get nada from ah, you know what I, I fucking rhymed it. Come on. Tell you got to send me that, baby.

I don't know what something is. I forgot what you talked about on my song where I had with you. And you was like Molly, some shit. You and Molly had beat for a little while. Oh, yeah, we did. What happened? It almost killed me. I like Molly.

She never did nothing bad to me. Yeah, but see, I got the money to keep it coming in abundance. And you do too. You don't know what I'm saying. Yeah. But I didn't want it to stop. I don't want it to ever stop. You know, I learned my lesson.

I went from ecstasy. I woke up in Flatbush. I said, wait a minute. I'm from taking singles to double stacks. to triple stacks to four triple stacks and all that kind of serious. I went double stacks. Yeah, I went to triple stacks. You know what I'm saying?

You went to triple stacks. After that, you go to pure MDMA, you know what I'm saying? And the little capsules. Now, when we talk about that, are you talking about you was, you're breaking peace? Because look, I don't know if you're not. I saw a chemist right now. No, I only take a little base. Molly back then comes in like a little capsule.

You know what I'm saying? Like you're taking medicine and you can break it open. And if it's a group of people, we break it open and put it on the table, you know what I'm saying? And you put lines as many lines you can make. And you lick your finger and you do your line, bow, and your line is 1,000. You just bought a lot of cocaine, guys.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Techno. He did the Miami Vice. He was like that. He was professional. He was like, yeah. Oh, yeah. But this is how you know he was real with it.

Because he wiped it down. He was like that. Like, you know, you know, like, you know, like, no. Like, no. You wouldn't. Yeah, some people were, like,

some chicks who, like, put it up their nose and shit like that. I never did that. I knew, I knew people that, they wanted,

they wanted it in their ass. Yeah, they wanted in their ass. But it caused anal linkage, anal leakage, you know what I'm saying? Oh, no, I never dealt with that.

Yeah, I never dealt with that either. I'm just, I know, this bitch is like, they just wanted it in their ass. I think they just wanted somebody to put it in their ass. You know what I'm saying? So they would have something in their ass

or say, put something else in my ass if you put a pill in my ass. For some reason, I feel like we've been in the same tour. It's terrible, really. I met a couple of chicks that wanted it into their ass, and I'm like, you gotta go do it, my nigga. I'm not about to put it in your ass.

It was a losing hope for you guys right now. No, I'd never put it in the ass. I never put it in the ass. It was this talk of like, you have your hat it in your ass? I'm like, no. And I never will. I love JJ too Dick a shot

Oh I got a shot Look at my shit EF man You ain't drink it Look CheeChi you ain't get the Yeo bro Give me some more Give me some let's take mine Pull my shit

That's an honor That's the honor Last nigga pulled my shot was puff daddy You got yours over there now He had no respect for me Oh my Holy shit I'm in.

Listen. G-co. That's G-co shit. I am, much respect. Thank you very much that night. Vole TV,

Strange music, crazy hood, dug down entertainment, drink champs. This is what we do. We celebrate our motherfucking hip-hop legends

while they are alive. We give them their flowers where they can smell them. We give them their trees where they can hell them. We give them their thoughts where they can think them. Yes.

We give them their drinks why they can drink. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I want to break dance. I think I want to live a lot. I think I want one more. Nice.

Super movie. Super movie. You're talking about for this? Listen. Because I knew what this is going to be. Tech 9. Yes. May Day. Yes.

We want to salute you guys. We want to respect you guys because a lot of us, what happens is people have success. Mm-hmm. And when they humble themselves down and they got to go independent, it's almost like, damn, I gotta pay for this,

I gotta pay for this, I gotta pay for this, and a lot of us get distracted. Of course, especially when I see it returns. A lot of us lose roles. Yeah. I want to salute y'all. Yeah. I want to show respect to y'all.

I want to actually really salute y'all. Sluke. For sticking with it. Yes, sir. Believing in y'all selves and going out there doing what you got to do. Yeah.

To get what you got to get to make sure everybody and y'all, you know, spectrum is doing what they got to do. Yeah. Because a lot of people get distracted. I got distracted so many times being independent. I really hate it. No doubt.

Because it's because I was so spoiled. Yeah. I've been, you know, platinum for gold albums. After we lost that $180,000 on our first tour, you have to have you have to have the balls and to get up to say we're going to do it again. Do it again.

Yeah. Because after you lose that much money, I ain't like, I ain't like tour buses and all that kind of shit. You know what I'm saying? Now we go out with so many tour buses, you know what I'm saying? That's normal. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But we want to thank y'all. I want to thank you for getting me fucked up.

By the way, I still have my perjewat. He's double-fisted over there. I still have my, and I'll finish these two, and we've got two more. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay, Chi-Chi. Chi, get the Yale.

Get the Yale, Gigi. So listen, it's just our Puerto Rican Cuban shit. That's what we do. We do. But listen, man, drink champs. We are for the culture and by the culture. We're the new food. Exactly.

And the Arabian Rock Kimmel's podcast. And the Arabian rock him are podcasting. A DJ, an emcee got together, and we wanted to celebrate our culture. The thing about our thing is we don't bring people here and try to take them down. We get fun with them. We have fun with them. But at the end of the day, our thing is about big enough legends and making people continue to fuck with our people.

Exactly. Because, you know, they got motley cruel and they got entertainment tonight, and they got all this. And I always thought, like, where the fuck? Where is our shit? Exactly. And then, Iefento, where is our shit? And we said, we already make you there.

Exactly. This is what it is. This is a live sauce magazine. No doubt. You get five mics right here. in real time in real time and we're going to continue

because you know so many people hit me when we did these interviews and said my shit is charting again and that shit but that's not

what we're doing it for we're doing it because we sincerely believe in you please yeah absolutely yeah I appreciate it yeah

you understand we sincerely believe in you so that's what we continue to do we continue to we continue to big up

our legends May Day we love you wonderful show we wish you everything I wish I could be here. I'm going on the fucking...

Which way? Like he's on the phone right now. Anyway, you know what? Before we get out of here, thank you also, because you've helped mead it as well. I know. I know. It's my name.

So, thank you, man. That's real good. So it's real good. And thank you, tech as well. Tech is my nigga. Thank you. I just, I would like to bring you to this other, like, form of life.

What I mean by that is, you know, sure, you're sure seen it all. But so many people that I know, that are artists struggling on majors and they just don't know the other outlet they don't know it the thing is you can't call them stupid you can't call them dumb you can't call them none

because they just don't know they just feel like all right cool I'll make a record I gave it to such and such Tommy Swassable well and Tommy Smogblebaw that takes a lot that's a lot

Tommy Swazzoin'n yeah you know Tommy's Mollumulmo mom and Tommy's Mollum gives it to He gives it to... He gives it to emoji, my name, man.

That guy's... And then they say, Damn, my shit ain't work. The thing is, you're just hiring, hire help. You're not having a whole structure to see why it works. A family. And the thing is, me looking from the outside in,

I know that's what it is. And the thing is, we have to spread that. Yes. That's what the thing is drink chance. We've got to help each other, help each other. No doubt. We need each other. the master mind to being independent,

I think that it's not only up and becoming artists that should come and see strange music, but it's also established artists. Oh, yeah. People that's legends and people that you respect. No doubt. Brother Lynch on.

We sign brother Lynchon. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? We signed MERS. You don't see people we listen to for years. You know what I'm trying to say? We got to continue that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because if you have the method to the madness, let's come over here. We'd be fair with you. Because this is what we, This is what we're preaching, correct? And it should come to you. Why should there be these other independent? I don't want to name no names because I got it right here.

Please. Do not name a syllable, need of. Exactly. Because I'm out of it. Yeah, yeah. You know, I want to do that. But this is what I'm saying. We got to keep, you know, represent.

visiting that. Yeah. That if there's a person, and I'm not going to say a black man, but I don't want to say that. If this is a healthy entrepreneur that has the method to winning. And there's other people

who have the method to wanting to win, they should be referred in your direction. No, my bugger. No doubt. You're absolutely correct, bro. Yeah, Hobson came our way, you know what I'm saying, before he figured out he could do it his own.

You know what I'm saying? Did you almost mess with Goody Mum? I could have swore Goody Mob was going to Strange at one point. Yeah, they made some statements like they wanted to. Right. You know what I'm saying? They were interested in coming to Strange, but it never did materialize. You know what I mean?

A lot of people come out way, you know what I'm saying? It has to be 1,000, though, you know what I'm saying? What you mean by that? It has to be good, you know what I'm saying? You know, everybody we have on the label is because we love their music. You know what I'm saying? We just put them on fuck his own. Just be put on fucking his own.

Right. You know what I'm saying? They have to be doing the product at the same time. So right now the hottest artist from it, bubble fuck. People, people, people, people, people, people, people telling me to sign X, X, X, X, X, X, Tentacion or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, how you say his name? That's a good name. That's a good thing.

That's a good thing. Extentacion, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he is. Yeah, he's from Leia. Vanessa, Vanessa from, uh, double X, L said you need to sign this kid. and he's a sign his kid and she turned me on to him because I'm in my own world

I heard about him and I heard about the phone keeps having and all that kind of shit I don't want to he got to stop this is Drake other than that

he got to stop Dickson Drake dissing Drake oh yeah other than that I think X Dex Sean is a star oh yeah you know if he realized

that he ain't got to dis nobody to get his motherfucking money you know what I'm saying flow on money you know what saying it's like

you ain't got to do that shit now I think about that that's a perfect fucking fit yeah yeah I mean that's what she said and the little yeah

yeah she's So I told her I look into it. Let me lift him my glasses So you know But I've been seeing him with Gazi lately So maybe maybe this Ran out You've seen him as Empire

Gassi, it's my man Yeah yeah All day Me too But maybe Maybe that's what it is Anybody partner Because that's the thing

That I got from 444 album right And I hate to keep bringing it up But that's I love that album That's an amazing album Because what he's preaching

Is Why should I compete with you when I can eat with you. Exactly. And he's preaching maturity, number one, which hip hop needs. Which hip hop needs. To be mature.

No doubt. So the thing about it is maybe Gazi got him on the radio. Yeah. But maybe Gazi don't got him on that tour circuit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All of us play a part. Play a part. That's a beautiful thing.

Like, to me, that's what hip hop is missing. No doubt. You know what? You know, what? One day, all right, fuck, I'll tell the story. One day I go to Vegas, right? Mm-hmm. So I got, I got niggas, you know, handling my business.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't really. So, they're like, yo, Scarface must go last. Oh, I've been through that. And my people are like, nah, no, it's going last. I'm in Las Vegas. Yeah.

What was wrong with me not saying relax. That's scarf. To yourself. You said relaxing yourself? No, I'm just hot. This is ecstasy days. Oh, yeah, you're just walling out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

This is ecstasy days. So I'm like... I got a story like that. So they say some shit and I should have said, no, no, no, let's scarface go last. Mm-hmm. But I'm not... You're sure? All right, cool.

All right. Nick, I can't know artists come on at the Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't say, come on after that. Yeah. Buster rounds might say, you gotta relax. Shit, all you gotta do is say what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what? No, I let that motherfucker cool off.

I said, Scarface. I said, who set this up? Who's the idea? You're an asshole. Whose idea was this? Some nigga came to me and said And then I said, word, yeah I mean, he came back to me

And you a foul maker But this is what I'm trying to say So how do you You go worldwide And you don't give it for you wherever you at No, that's because you are the headliner Yeah Let's keep it real

You had a story like men's It's good to yours Kee's cold Is it cold? Is it cold body? No You don't say he's going to be able to watch this shit She just wasn't about to have

Go on from some nigger in Kansas City Like she's the queen She ain't about to go on before no nigga But it's my town And I went tripping You know what I'm saying? I was like shit if she want to go on let her You know what I'm saying? After me, it's cool You know what I'm saying? I didn't give a fuck

But I've seen it I was like She's like I went through that with Rakham I went through that with And went to what? You got to describe. Like motherfuckers, they didn't want to go on without me.

They didn't want him to be the headline. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Before me. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But Keisha Cole was the hardest because, you know, my mom was there and she wanted to hear her. Oh, wow.

You know what I'm saying? So what happened to describe this moment? So they did it slide. So I gave her the slot, but the slot where she was supposed to play was just an empty stage and everybody just had to wait for that 45. to our, you know what I'm saying, the spot she was supposed to play.

Wow. You know what I'm saying? And then I went on after that and gave her hers after that. You know what I'm saying? And then the security tried to push us out. And I'm like, nigger, no, we're not moving. Fuck that. My mom want to see, go go get your boss.

You know what I'm saying? No. Even though she tried to pull rank, you know what I'm saying? Wow. It was nothing. It was my town to kick you out? Yeah, like you got to get off the stage. I'm like, no, no, I don't.

There's my mom right there in the chair. No, we're not moving. I gave up my spot for her. I'm not giving up my mom's spot. Sorry, fuck y'all. Tech, we know who you are. We know who you're... No, I don't give a fuck about Tech night right now.

My nigga, I'm talking about my mom. Move. Move, just move all the way. So I'm wrong, you know what I'm saying? I'm wrong. I'm wrong. Let's make some noise with Tech Mom and Mother's hit. We got gifts.

We got gifts. Thank you, thank you, thank you. What is it? Drink champ's shirt, Green Champs Cup. Oh, hell yeah. I'm wearing this shit. That's what y'all call Nats for my size.

That's tight. Boom. Boom. We gave two sides just in case. I don't know. Oh, yeah. We got shit in here, Holmes. Bang.

Yeah, that album, goddamn. You got to listen to it. Zang. Yeah. What are chocolate? Jogalap? No, chocolate. This is going down to my bar, man.

Hey, hit that. You got to take a smoke. No, I already smoked last week. You're a wreck. You're going to take a smoke? I don't know anything of chocolate. All right, so listen, Rex, I need to understand. I'll smoke today.

I need to understand how did this thing come up. What happened? Was you, like, you woke up drunk and cheeseburger baby? What did you ask? Who did you ask? I got a question right now. No, how did you and your wife? Oh, okay.

I got twins on the way. It's my first kids. Oh, shit. You're trying to compete with con. Yeah, and the men. I guess, I mean, it wasn't on purpose, but we got twins on the way. And I figured for the first time ever. my life, I'm gonna go, you know, I'm gonna go clean, I'm gonna go dry, sober.

It was you on your own. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My wife never forced that, you at all. No, no, no, my wife can never force that. No, she's a G. But be honest, but she challenged me. I first saw the pregnancy. You did, you did.

You were the first one to call it, actually. We had dinner and we met up at a, um, what's this, what's this spot? Aoki's. Yeah, Aoki's. And you were like, yeah, let's, actually I was drinking still then. I hadn't decided because it took me a little while to be like, am I going to do this? I'm like, I could commit to this, you know?

Like I knew she was pregnant that night. I was drinking. She wasn't drinking. And then she said, nah, I'm not drinking. I got a headache. And he's like, or you're pregnant.

I was like, God damn, like right out of the gate, EFET, like, chill. Or you're pregnant. I can tell if someone's not drinking, there's a problem. Yeah, you called it.

You were the first one to call it. So are you pregnant, too? You gave me the out of you. You gave me the alley-you. You gave me, and you looked at me too. You looked at me like. What is he pregnant? Somebody is not drinking.

He was to be artificially inseminated. No, no, but for real. So you feel like if you drink, it messes up your life. No, no, no, no. Solidarity. I just figured, look, my family's British, right? So we, drinking is in my blood. My family British.

You know what I'm saying? You drink like your British. Find out. In my mind. Yeah. So that's where you're drinking, that's where your love for drinking comes from, because that's what we do. In England, you drink socially.

It's just like... We drink pites, mate. Oh, yeah, you drink a pite. It's mate. Is that? Yeah, that's like, I swear. It's not sure you, too. Is it a pikes.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, exactly. It's a piker. Australia. God damn. He's a piker. So I do love to drink. So when I figured I was going to, if I was ever going to be able to go a little bit without drinking,

because I do, I've been drinking, you know, since I started drinking. And, you know, I've been drinking for whatever, 10 plus a year is easy. And I figured the only way for me to maybe take a real detox was to tie it to something that was as monumental as like the birth of my first kids, you know, and the twins that I got on the way. So I figured I'm going to tie it to that. And then, yeah, I'm going to pray for the best because I'm three months in now. I got six months left. Respect.

Respect. And then I'm back with a vengeance. Respect. Well, we're drunk it high enough for him. We drink it for six kids, man. I just realized as I was telling you all this, I'm telling us to a table full of drunk people and shit. That's okay.

Respect. Listen, man, I got six kids. Damn. Do every pregnancy for all six kids. I know what you're about to say. I win! I'm sorry. I'm clapping for you right now.

It's okay. Hey, man. You're the only one to date. That's okay. It's okay. But listen, man. Strange music, May Day. And my brother right here.

No, I'm... That's May Day. May Day, it burns. Recognize. But we got more champagne. Shout out to Plex, Gio. Even tea. What up, T?

And we got more... Listen, man. I'm hip-hop. We don't have enough of hip-hop. Celebrating hip-hop. So instead of me and my partner, DJ EFIN, sitting around and complaining and saying,

which we did a lot. Why don't people sit around and, you know, you know, salute naughty by nature and K.S.1. Yeah. You know, and a Niles or J or a mob deep. We didn't want to sit around and complain about that shit. You know what we wanted to do? We wanted to do the exact opposite.

Yeah. And just fucking sit around and show them respect. So Tech 9, if you never heard it, we did hear it you're gonna hear it again you're a motherfucking legend we appreciate you to do for hip hop we appreciate what you set

out for hip hop for everybody that if you want to be independent there's a whole fucking platform this a whole fucking blueprint this a whole fucking format we want to thank you for that we want to thank you for taking Mayday and making them

an international group this is our local Miami family and you sitting there and making We want to thank you for that and we want to thank you for being motherfucking tech nine All day, bro. Tick, no. We're a Revolt TV. Revolt.

I ain't gonna lie, I smoke like 10, I smoked like 10 of every bloods, right? You're looking like a blunt right now. Did we do fragile on Revolt? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You want to drink some more champagne? I feel like you want to drink some more. I feel like you want to the shot. Not the, not the Juay, huh?

Okay, I got, I got more wet. And I got, I'm what you guys. I have to say it's time for the picture. I got a picture. Is this a cool? I gotta go. We gotta take a picture, that's it. Right?

We gotta take a picture here. Let's go. Come on, come on, go ahead. All right. Make some nice. Shakira. Luke and Yerrin. Have surprises?

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