The Breakfast Club - Kid Capri Talks DJ Culture, Squashing Beefs, New Music, Being Proud Of His Madonna Collab + More

Episode Date: July 22, 2022

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Wake that ass up early in the morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. What's up? What's up?

Kid Cabrini. Back again. I knew he was going gonna say it like that. You have to. I mean, it's only right. You know how many places I went around the street, people, I got so tired of people doing it to me. Whatever we do, it's my day.

Yes, I was saying. You started it. But you know when they come up to me and they be like, yo, do the thing. Come on in everybody, it's the EJ. Like, it's the same thing. It becomes your signature. Yeah, yeah, it is what it is.

So how are you feeling, man? I mean, I know a couple of months ago you had COVID. You said you lost 40 pounds. Yeah, man. Talk about that a little bit. Because that was right around the time that, rest in peace, K. Slay had COVID as well. Me and K. Slay got sick at the same time.

And he went in the hospital and I didn't. And I was talking to K. I was talking back and forth. And I remember him telling me, he said, yo, kid, I almost checked out last night. And then I stopped talking to him and i started talking to his moms and me and her were going back and forth i would check on make sure he was all right and then i said let me just lay off of him for a while i know she's probably

going through it with him let me just lay off and then next thing you know i found out that he was he passed and then when i spoke to her she said i can't even go in the room and look at him wow she couldn't she uh his uh role manager somebody was, she said, I can't even go in the room and look at him. Wow. His role manager, somebody was over him praying, but she couldn't even go in the room and see him. It was just sad. It was sad, man. Did you have all your shots, or did you go through the shots and the boosters and all that?

Nope. I sure didn't. So how do you feel about that now? Would you have got your shots now? Was it one of those things? And why didn't you get your shots, if you don't mind me asking? I didn't understand. I wanted to see. I didn't,

I wanted to see where it was going, man. You know, I, I, I still don't know. You know, I will say since the boosters and since the shots came,

everything did go down as far as the COVID is concerned, but I just didn't, I wasn't fully convinced yet. I didn't really understand. This is the second time I caught it too. Wow. Yeah. The first time I caught it it, it was way worse.

I caught that at the beginning of the COVID. And it was bad. I understood why people died for me. Fred, the Godson, he was sitting in my crib. A month later, he was dead. Wow. You know what I'm saying? This dude was dancing around my house and happy.

But I just felt like it just wasn't something I was prepared to do at the time. And, you know, Clue, as a matter of fact, when I got sick the second time, he sent me CMOS. He sent me different days of people from around the country sent me stuff. So I was taken care of and I was good, you know. I just didn't see myself taking them shots yet. I just, I don't know. And as a matter of fact, certain dates that I was supposed to do,

certain shows I was supposed to do, I had to cancel because I didn't have the shots. Because you didn't have the card. Yeah, yeah. So, but I feel good. I, certain shows I was supposed to do, I had to cancel because I didn't have the shots. Because you didn't have the card. Yeah, yeah. So, but I feel good. I feel healthy. I feel strong. Hey, guy, you look healthy. Yeah, man, I don't have no issues.

Everything is beautiful, man. I was saying that because, you know, the other day you were supposed to come up here, and my wife got COVID, and my daughter got COVID, the baby. And, you know, they didn't really have, I mean, the only reason she even knew, we were on our way to go out. Like, I was in the car car, she was dressed makeup. We were about to go out on date night. And then she sprayed perfume and was like, babe, I need you to test me. And I'm like, wow. She was

like, I can't smell the perfume. Wow. Tested her. She had COVID. I tested all my kids. Nothing. Tested myself. Nothing. Tested the nanny. Nothing. Tested the baby who was six months old at COVID. Wow. Called the doctor immediately, and she was like, you know, the reason why it probably didn't affect the baby and mom is because when she was pregnant, she got the shot.

She got both shots and a booster. So in four or five days, it was out their system, and they didn't feel anything. My baby, she was a little moody, but nothing too crazy. So it's not as strong as it was now as it was then when it was killing people. It's just that it's still in the midst. It's still around.

Either that or just because she got the shot, it didn't affect the system the same way. I just had it myself. How long ago was that? A couple months ago? Maybe like two, two and a half months ago. Yeah, like two months ago. You caught it too? Mm caught it too but it just felt like a cold i only had it i was probably i felt a little under the weather and i don't get sick

that often so i was like this doesn't feel right so i did an at-home test it was positive and then i did another one and that was positive too and i just was a little under the weather for maybe like three days man to see, to see all the entertainers and all the different people that I knew that passed from this, man, it was a treacherous time. You know, the last pandemic was in

2000, in 1918. That was the last time they had, they went through the same thing. Two years of masks and everything went around. But imagine what they went through then without having the medicines and the technology that they have now back then. They had to suffer that out. So it was definitely something that turned the world around. It kind of cheapened the world a little bit for a minute, you know, and you didn't know what to expect.

That must have been scary for your family, too. Absolutely. And when I got sick, you know, everybody reached out from around the world. I want to shout out to everybody that did that. But it was a scary moment because you don't know. You don't know it did it. All of a sudden, it just pops up on you. How do you deal with it?

Like with Biz, with Biz Mark, man. To see him gone right now, for him to not be here, that's just wild to me. I was looking at him in wild to me, man. I was looking at him in the casket, man. I couldn't believe it. You know what I'm saying? This is a dude. It's some people that you just, you know, everybody's going to go in one day.

But it's some people that you just see them here forever, like a Michael Jackson. You see him here forever. You know what I'm saying? But unfortunately, it's not that way. And you and Biz Markie have such a rich history together. Biz Markie gave me my first album deal when I didn't even want an album deal. I wasn't even trying to be a rapper.

I got hot with the mixtapes in the street. Cold chillin'. Yeah, it was cold chillin'. I said the little rhymes on the mixtapes, you know, they got poppin' in the street

and he gave me my album deal. He could've gave the album deal to anybody that was a good, worthless rapper at the time, but he gave it to me, sat in the studios, did beats, wrote the rhymes in the studio

and we put it out. And, you know, records never been my bread and butter, so that's why I didn't do one every year. My next record wasn't until seven years later, which was Soundtrack in the Streets, and now I got my new one out 20-something years later after that. You think if you would have been consistent

about putting out your own records back then, it could have been your bread and butter? Yeah, I mean, it could have been, but you know what? I didn't want to deal with clemences. I didn't want to deal with attitudes. I didn't want to deal with egos. I didn't want to deal with clemences. I didn't want to deal with attitudes. I didn't want to deal with egos. I didn't want to deal with all that stuff. I'm an easy dude.

I like things that just go easy. Everybody be happy and we just have fun and do what we do. This is supposed to be fun. This ain't supposed to be a thing you're supposed to stress out with. So when I did the soundtrack for the Streets album, dealing with the clemences, dealing with the schedule, people coming to the studio drunk, you know, just different things. It was like, you know, I don't know if I want to do this and I'll just make records here and there when I'm asked

But then when I did um when I started helping the battle rappers A lot of battle rap, you know the battle rap thing A lot of artists wasn't helping with it was figuring that the battle rappers couldn't make good records Which was a stigma on them. I said, you know, let me go and try to take that stigma away So I went got the battle rappers that did the album called top tier which was the stigma on them. I said, you know what, let me go and try to take that stigma away. So I went and got the battle rappers that did the album called Top Tier, which was the album before this one. I just never put it out. But they gave me the attitude of, yeah, I can do this because they was humble,

came in there, did everything I asked them to do, was on time. And it was just a breath of fresh air for me at that time to do it. So that's what got me back in the mood. So when I did the Love album, that put me in a real big focus. And it all started from the top two albums. Before we talk about the Love album, when it comes to DJs, you're probably one of the most known DJs when it comes to hip-hop, probably one of the biggest and best DJs.

What do you think of the DJ culture now? I'm going to tell you this, Sammy. You know, when I was getting on, at that time, man, unless you were somebody that was behind a group like Jam Master J behind Run DMC or Jazzy Jeff behind Fresh Prince or Red Alert on the radio at the time DJs wasn't getting the recognition the money and the respect that they were supposed to get and that was part of my whole fight was to have a stance on, treat me like an artist. I have to be good enough to demand that type of respect.

But when I show you who I am, treat me as such. So when I would get on stage with this platinum artist that had this big record that sold millions of records, what am I going to do? I'm going to be better than that dude on that stage because I had to be. Because the imagery of the DJ was we just play records we just come a dime a dozen girls will look at us like oh he's just a DJ you know and I didn't want to

be looked at like that I want to be looked at as an artist so my whole thing always been to make the DJ be an artist why aren't we on the front page of award shows award magazines or being invited to award shows, or being held in regard as somebody that, like a Stevie Wonder that plays keyboard. I'm playing the turntables. Why can't that be an instrument as well as a keyboard? You know what I'm saying? So that was my mindset.

So to see the DJ elevate to where it's at right now, that was always in my plan from the beginning. Where the downside is, is that when you got signed to a record label, if you got into a club, the DJ, or you got booked, you were special. Now it's to the point where anybody could grab a computer, throw a bunch of

MP3s on it, throw a fly out, and they're out. They didn't do no artist development, they ain't struggled, they ain't been here, they ain't cried, they ain't had no doors shut shut in their face everything was set up for them to just do what they got to do which is cool and i'm not mad at that but understand where it comes from understand that's why all the older people always been my heroes i would never talk down and i'm not saying anybody talk down on me i'm just saying i would never talk as a general statement i would never talk down on the people that came before me would never talk as a general statement I would never talk down

on the people that came before me the older people or the people that might not got the money the accolades or the things I might have later on

they always looked at to me as heroes because they didn't get those things and so that's why it's always it's always it's always right

to understand where it come from understand where you at and if you're gonna be in this then understand that it's not just about you. It's never about me. Whenever I go do a show, whenever I'm in a venue, it's always about the people that paid that money to come see me.

How can I make them feel better than they did before they got there? That's my whole focus. So that's what we need to worry about. Now who's the best DJ? Who's the best at this? Who can outshine on this? If I look out who's the best at this who could outshine shine on this if i look out for this person is he gonna outshine me because i looked out and that's not what's important what's important is we help each other and keep the movement going because you got things

like tiktok you know stuff like that is dictating what's supposed to go on and uh you know that's why we got to stay strong in it. Why do you think that a lot of the older DJs sometimes feel a way? Like, what I mean like that is it's like I feel like some of the older DJs a lot of times don't want to help the younger generation. I'll tell you this. Soulja Boy made a statement saying that the OGs don't want to help the youngers. That's not true. You listen to my radio show,

I play young music, the old music, everything together. You can't even put me in there. I'm a different thing. But I watched Grandmaster Flash the other day on IG. He said that DJs was out saying that the new DJs are the new influencers or the new something that he said.

And he also said that that's disrespectful, which it is. If you haven't done, if you haven't done what a Kid Capri done or Flash done or anybody that been around and did everything, you can't make statements like that you can't you can't be the man in your city and because you're the man in your city that's then all be over if I take you out of that city and put you in Wyoming what you're going to be able to do if I take you out of that city and put you in Mexico what you're going to do if I take you out of that city and put you in Albuquerque put you in Anchorage Alaska what you you going to do? If I take you out of that city and put you in Anchorage, Alaska,

what you going to do? You going to be able to satisfy those people the way you do at your hometown? But what happens is we get caught up in this thing where we embody who we are. I said this line on one of the new songs I did. I hate a little rapper that's a rapper all day. I'm David Love when I wake up. I'm not Kid Capri when I wake up. I'm Kid Capri when I need to be'm not kid capri when i wake up i'm kid capri when i need

to be i turn it on when i have to but sometimes we embody this thing that when we make it to a certain level we're that and that's it that's the end of all there's nothing beyond that it's nothing before that we are it and that's it and it goes further than that it goes way further than that and and that's what we have to respect we have to respect each other's position so i try to stay um as balanced as i can try to stay as humble and grounded as i can and just it's still learning and still trying to be creative and try to make people just understand that it's not it's always bigger than what I'm trying to do. It's always about them. So that's where I'm at with it. And who do, we always ask this question.

We talk about the Mount Rushmore DJs, right? Mm-hmm. Who will be on your Mount Rushmore DJs and why? Um, well, I'm definitely going to put myself up there.

Mm-hmm. And there's a reason why I'm going to put myself up there because of the business I brought to the, to the game, the style, the way I, a DJ should look. Don't put yourself, don't let nobody put you in the corner. Be in the game, the style, the way a DJ should look.

Don't let nobody put you in a corner. Be in the center stage. Like, you're going to tell Jay-Z to grab a mic, put him in a DJ in a corner, right? This is how we got to be treated as artists. But the Mount Rushmores for me will be Grandmaster Flash, Red Alert. I would say Hollywood. And I would put myself in there because of what my accomplishments were. But there's probably somebody else that probably deserved to be there before me. Now, as far as DJs coming up, who do you look like?

Who do you say, okay, this DJ has took it to the next level? D-Nice has took it to the next level with what's going on with the net. Absolutely. Positively. Definitely took it to the next level with that. And keep in mind. And I tell everybody, that was lightning in a bottle. That was lightning.

Don't follow it. Like, that was perfect time. Perfect place. Perfect time. He does it as generic as it was. It wasn't like I did it for a check. He did it out of his heart. And that's what resonated with the people.

When you do things from your heart. That's why I had a hard time with DJs or supposedly DJs that was up there begging for cash apps when the turn of the pandemic happened. Five days later, you're doing bad. A lot of people were mad at you about that. I didn't care who was mad, and I still don't care who's mad. Let me explain. So if you don't know,

Kid Capri, a lot of DJs during the pandemic, when they DJ, they put their cash app on the bottom. That's not what happened. Okay, I'm sorry. Let me tell you what happened. What happened was, I personally think people should send you money if you're up there djing and wasting electricity and sweating and trying to entertain the people yeah they supposed to damn

right send you money and if you want to put your little pin up there because you don't want to keep answering the people but i want to send you money you damn right but when you turn to the camera in the middle of people's misery five days after it started. And the first thing you saying out your mouth is, yo, who could send me $50 of my cash in the next 10 minutes? Yo, two minutes, send me $20. Yo, I need you to send me. Now you're making the business that took care of myself and you look trashy. You make it look like we a bunch of beggars.

There was no cooks up there doing that. No actors up there doing that. No, no Actors up there doing that. There was no behind the scenes sports people no sports people There was nobody up there doing that but the DJ the strippers Well, I mean The DJ was the one and it was deep people that wasn't really DJs They were probably somebody that had a controller. You know, they do what they do.

But in the name of the DJ, they just made it look terrible. And I got promoters all around the country watching this. You know what I'm saying? Promoters see that and say, yo, these dudes back there, I ain't paying them what they want. They making the business look crazy. And that's how I came from it. So it wasn't a thing about I didn't want people to make money.

Of course someone should make money, especially in the situation that was going on. but there's a classy way of doing things you know and my way of my thing was you know i'm a d y'all see me up here on the live doing my thing come see me tomorrow if y'all like it have me come do your wedding have me come do your event that's a that's a business way of doing it a classy way of doing it where you don't look like you're taking advantage of people misery so that's what my problem was and i stood on it and i remember mr c called me and he said to me he was like okay what you said was 100 right but what even more that i love about it is that you stood on what you said it didn't matter if somebody felt the way about it or not because

they didn't totally understand where i was coming from and that's whatever we live in in this internet era is that you got to be real particular and real sure about what you say when you say it, because if you meant something, they don't take what you meant. It gets misinterpreted, for sure. You and Scratch got into it a little bit because of that. But y'all never squashed that out and said, like, because y'all got back and forth for that.

And I hated it because y'all both my guys, and I look up to both of you guys. But y'all were both staying on what you believe. But what you don't understand is like, Scratch and Kid are the two DJs that you grew up watching. Well, I did. My generation, I can say. Because a lot of kids say they grew up watching me.

But I watched Scratch do the tricks. And I used the same mask and tried to do the same tricks as him. And Kid Capri, like a lot of his style, I got from Kid. Yes, I'm the same way. Don't put me on the side stage. Put me in the middle. Don't make me a side. No, put me right in the middle.

I'm the star tonight. I see the way that you speak, the way that you talk, the way that you use your mouth pause when it comes to the crowd. I got that from Kid. No, it's the truth. Why'd you have to pause that, Envy? Because I said the way he uses his mouth to the crowd. Thank you. I'm a New York new yorker just who i am so to see you guys not necessarily see eye to eye on things

why was that this is before i'm gonna say this the verses was the was the uh was the the icing on the cake man we already had some issues and and let me just say this scratch is somebody I spoke to every other day this is like my brother so for things that happened the way it did I was more hurt than mad you know I'm saying because I didn't see that coming you know I didn't see that coming so I'm not gonna get to all everything that happened but as far as the verses was concerned, you know, when I went to verses, I came there, hugged him, because at first I wasn't really rocking with him. But did it start from the cash app thing?

That's where it started from? He felt you should have went to DJ's? No, it started before that. Oh, okay, all right. It started before that, but that was one of the things that made that, that was starting to weaken our relationship when he interjected in that,

and instead of being on my side and understanding where I was coming from, he went and put a message under there saying, before you get at me, SNS and D-Nice for taking cash apps, which are nonsense 60 ways and all the stuff he said, I wasn't even talking about him, D-Nice or SNS, you know. It just elevated into something else. So by the time the verses came, you know, before that whole,

before the verses came, I wasn't rocking with them at all. And then when the verses came, when I was asked to do it, I felt like it was bigger than me. It ain't about me. It ain't me just going to do the event. It's about these guys. I want to see them get their flowers. Let's just make it happen. So when I got to the venue, first thing I did was see Scratch and I hugged him.

I was like, yo, we don't rock right now, but I love you. And we'll see eye to eye later on at some point. And I walked away, and that was it. That was the end of it. No more, I lost, and it was about the event, let's do that. And the whole time, he had a whole setup where he was trying to shit on me in front of the whole world. Like, he took that opportunity to do that,

which wasn't a smart thing, first of all, because I'm not the dude you do that to. Take my talent, and you move it to the side. I don't have a record of being bad to people or treating people foul or doing bad business or any of that. So I said this on the drink chance. Right there you lose just because of that alone. Let's take my talent and move it over there.

Now you got to deal with the talent. You know what I'm saying? And I done been up against a lot of great people. You know what I'm saying? And I done been up against a lot of great people. You know what I'm saying? And Scratch is one of the great people. He is who he is. But nothing intimidates me. Nothing's going to make me fold.

Nothing's going to make me feel like this person's going to be better even if they are. I'm always going to have that attitude that I'm the greatest on stage no matter what. So for him to do what he did in that setting, it was like a smack in the face because it wasn't about me and him. It was about KRS and Kane. It was about making sure they was all right. Now, how they came to me and say, yo, kid, there's a battle situation you want to get?

I would have said, hell yeah. You know what I'm saying? But that's not what was told to me. What was told to me, kid, I need you to do assignment. Come out there out there tear that shit down when you first come out and then do the KRS thing And that's what I did so When that happened it was an awkward moment. That's why I started rhyming I did little wax scratch because it was an awkward moment. I didn't know what to do. I it was like dead air

But in that moment, I was pissed off I was really really hot because I'm thinking, like, dog, why would he even do some shit like that? Like, where did this come from? And then, you know, KRS gets at him. Kane gets at him. So it was just all wrong. It was wrong.

But mainly, it was about Kane and Chris. And that's what I wanted to do. Like I said on the drink champs, I got a sucker-free clothing line. I could have wore a sucker-free shirt, sucker-free hat. I could have wore it today. But in every situation, it's not about me. It wasn't about me

in that situation. It was about Kane and Chris. It wasn't about me being, it's Kid Capri, I'm here, look at me. I did what you asked me to do

and that was my job. But keep in mind, I've been asked to do versus four different times before that. And, you know, normally somebody would have took that opportunity because it's there.

I don't take opportunities because it's there. I take it because it's the right thing to do at the right moment, like the KRS and the Kane thing was. Have y'all spoke after? Who? You and Scratch? No. No.

And here's the thing. After it was all over and everything happened, right, because we had a meeting in Kane's room, you know, but after it was all over and everything happened, right, because we had a meeting in Kane's room, you know. But after it was all over, if Scratch would have called me and been like, okay, you know what, that was foul what I did, but even if you don't rock me like that, that was just foul what I did. You know what I'm saying? I shouldn't have did that, and I apologize.

I'd have said, you know what, Scratch, I love you, but I don't want to worry about it. Let's go fix this shit up. And that would have been that. We would have fixed it up. We would have been on our way instead he goes on the net and he lies against me he says that he said the first thing he said was the rhyme i said was about kane that's not the truth what are you talking about if i didn't tell kane i wasn't going to do it with him you wouldn't even been on the show kane's my man

my mom's used to cook for. No, it was about you. Then he said, Kid Capri don't want DJs to shine. That's why he brings DJs on the road with him. Well, ain't that making DJs shine if I'm bringing DJs on the road, paying them all this money they've seen the world,

they're having a good time, they ain't got to worry about nothing. Ain't that making DJs shine? Like, what are you saying? Like, he tried to say everything to get him out of that situation. And I understand that. But then I don't because I'm somebody that you talk to all the time.

You call me, your kid, you know what kind of dude I am. I'm not a dude of you to call me and be like, your kid, nah, man. Nah, let's work it out. And that's what I'm saying. So when something like that happens, it's like, damn, man, where's it going to come from next? Who's next to shit on you? Who's the next one that's mad at what you're doing so now they're going to come at you this way?

And it makes you shut down against everybody. And I'm not naturally like that. I'm an easygoing dude. I want everybody to win. I want everybody to do good. I want everybody to be happy. And that's my life. That's why God has blessed me the way he has blessed me because I have greatness in my heart for everybody

Now that you said they approached you about a bunch of verses who did they want you to do verses with? One of them was Keith sweat To mean you're singing as Keith sweat you the light skin keeps wet. What do you mean? No, yeah, he won They wanted me to back him up. I was like, battle? I was like, what the hell? No, they wanted me to back him up. But my thing was, he's the mighty Keith Sweat. Come on, he is who he is. And he's Harlem on top of that.

But I'm a DJ battle. No, there's never been a DJ. And that's another thing. That's another thing, too. In the history of Versus, there's never been a DJ battle. Correct. So for Scratch to do what he did, it didn't make sense. They just had a Spanish one this

weekend. This weekend, yeah. But up until this weekend, there has never been that. So that's why it didn't make no sense. Me and Scratch don't do what each other do. I don't have sparks and all that. I don't do that. So that didn't make sense. He came there to kill me. That's what

he came there to do. But it's all good. It's all good. It's past. But the verses, yeah, the one thing about verses, when you come there, make sure that you're there to work and really get it in. Don't come there playing around, man. Right. Because that's all of your legacy in one spot at one time

and the whole world watching it. So you can't come in there playing. Shout out to Ray J, shout out to Jeremiah, see what happened. But, you know, I don't think they have took it as serious

as they might have thought they should. Until afterward. Until afterward, they see the impact. What's your relationship with Flex? I love Flex. I mean, Flex, I do what he act with me,

but I love him. Like, you know, I'll tell you the truth, man. I would love for me and Flex to be super cool. Me and Flex could have made... I think that would be a great versus.

Me and Flex could have made so much money. When me and Flex had our little situation going on... Which time? Which time, kid? The last time.

Seems like y'all always had a place to be. The big one. I called Flex. I said, yo, Flex, you know how much money we could have made? We could make to take...

Because at the time, I was doing Giving Kid Foundation for the kids. I was going around the you know how much money we could have made? We could make to take, because at the time I was doing Giving Kids Foundation for the kids. I was going around the country, taking care of the kids around the country. So I said to Flex, we could have made so much money to take care of a bunch of people that need it. Flex thing was more of, I don't want the shine off of me. Then let's take care of other people because I said to him it's not about

the DJing it's about the opportunity that we could create for other people right but he felt like I gave him pressure he felt like it wasn't the right time at the time you know whatever the case may be but here's my thing man I don't want no

beef no issues no nothing with nobody. I just want to do good in what I do. I just want to have fun, make my bread, create opportunities for other people, and keep doing what I've been doing. I'm not into if I'm better than this dude or this dude's better than me or... You feel secure in your spot. I'm a grown-ass man. You're secure in your spot. I'm not into if I'm better than this dude or this dude's better than me. You feel secure in your spot. I'm a grown ass man.

You're secure in your spot. I'm good. I did it all. I ain't got nothing to prove. I think that would be great for Versus though. If they could figure out a way to do it. He will never do it. Because it's not about who's better and who's not, right?

It's not. It never is. It's the culture, right? It's the culture. It's the same thing as, you know, Mixtape's back in the day. But Envy, that's when I told Flex, let's have a little battle. Let's battle. It was's the coach. It's the same thing as you know, mixtapes back in the day. But Envy, that's when I told Flex, let's have a little battle. Let's battle. It was about the culture.

Keep in mind, I didn't get on there and say anything about his family, his girl, his radio station, his friends. I said battle. Let's battle for the culture. And that was it. That man got on there and said fell off he said all these

different things so i mean i guess in battle that's a part of it but that's not where my head was at my head was you know skills it was just skills it's just doing this half it wasn't even about the skills it was because it's a day that you angela anything could have went wrong that day bad equipment for me Nobody want to hear excuses They want the results So I could have had a bad day with equipment Sound man messed up Whatever happened

Flex would have won It's not about that It's about what we could have did And the opportunities we could create To open doors for other people Right That's what my head is always about You know what I'm saying

It's always bigger than me It's always about How can we make things better? Now let's talk about this album, Love. First album in 24 years. Yep. You must have been bored at home during the pandemic. No, what it was, I've been on the road from 88

to the pandemic. You know, of course, time out, but most, that's been my bread and butter. 88 to the pandemic, I've just been going and going and going. I never had a chance to sit down and focus on anything else. Even when I did the soundtrack to the Streets album, I kind of had help because I had track masters with me. But I never had a chance to sit down and just focus on other things.

So in the pandemic, I did four albums. Well, I did the fifth album. It's five albums. I did five albums. I did the real estate. We opened the real estate. We opened up the Saker free clothing line. Um started

Start another business. So that's what say I had a chance to sit down and just focus on stuff So when I did this album, one of the reasons why I did this album was that I seen a little pump disrespect Eminem No, nobody listen to you old nobody listen to you I'm like yo, what's up? People old does that mean they're not capable? So I'm one of my records the business on the album. I say that say Yeah, I better stop back and like the old geez ain't capable get your ass crushed on that stage I say that on the record right so when I seen the pump say what he said that kind of contribute to me You know I said, you know know let me do that then and then i started seeing some of the older statesmen and the music been scared to put their music out because

they're scared about what the young dj is going to do and um i just said you know what let me just let me just write slack and i wrote slap key my first joint i just wrote it and when i seen that i was like wow did the record came out good and then i did the album so when i put slack key out my thing was if people don't accept this record if i get any kind of negative off this record the album's never going to see the light of day even though i knew what i had even though i knew i had and with this album i could have asked any of my producer friends or any artists that i know come get on this album. I produced and wrote everything. I just did everything.

And I wanted to show the world that I'm not just DJ Kid Capri. I'm everything. But DJ Kid Capri is what I got big as. I got a Grammy on my wall with Jay-Z. I got different accolades of records I produced. But I got big as Kid Capri the DJ. So they never looked at me in another way. I don't get a lot of credit for writing or producing.

So this was part of the reason for me to do it. So I put my mother on the front cover. I put my daughter in the uptown record. And I made it about the love. I made it about the love of the career and the music and everything that should be going on. How you should listen to music. How a body of work should be made. It should never just be just one thing

because that one thing is hot. Make it everything. So there's layers to it. What other DJ is a rapper? Most DJs put out albums, it's like a compilation situation. Yeah, well, the first album like that

of his kind was my album, Soundtrack to the Streets. Right. But I'm saying, who else has, what other DJs? But then you have DJ Quick who was a dj oh yeah of course you know saying you have um run was a dj um who else uh diamond d dj producer yeah you know um q-tip's a dj producer you know so you have people that is you know but for me to sound the way I sound right now

after all the time my last album and at at my age right now it's pretty dope you know I'm saying the beats everything the way I write the way I perform it I haven't got one complaint since I put this album out now one person say okay you shouldn't have did this or this record's whack or that record's weak I haven't got one complaint the only frustrating part for me is i know that everybody doesn't know it's there because i'm independent i don't have no big machine behind me i'm doing it myself i try to make it as good as possible so that it'll have life on its own whether djs on the radio play it or they don't or if we get the the big backing behind it i wanted to make an album that people will really like say yo this is really good and that's all i've been getting that's

that's that's that's what the feedback been so you know i shot three of the videos i did a slap key i did uptown i did wide awake those out now i'm doing more videos to it and another thing a lot of people put their projects out and after a month for their project being out they offer to the next thing like their project ain't worth them putting the time to it i'm never scared to go back to the beginning i'm always going to work i have no problem with working and i'm going to continue to promote my album as long as i need to i own it as mine you know and this is a message to a lot of people out there. 60,000 records come out a day on Spotify.

Your music will get lost in everything. So it's up to you to make sure that people know it's there. Not every radio station is going to take care of it. Not everybody's going to have $200,000, $250,000 to promote one record on the radio and across the board. So you have to make it as good as possible and then be able to take that cool thing about you, push to the side, and work it, and make people know it's there, and keep pushing it,

and keep letting people know it, and be cool with the DJs, and be cool with people that can help you, and in return, return them favors back to those people. Don't get on like a lot of artists do when DJs help them, and once they get where they going They don't even call to check to see if you healthy They don't even see if you alright if you need anything not that I do but a call your kid you good you alright

You call me every day when you needed something So that's what kind of made me kind of shy back from people to like I don't help so many people no same people I help I came to get a phone call to say okay. Are you good? Who checks up on you when you down and out who calls you like myself i know i know fat joe's gonna call i know fab's gonna call i know nori's gonna call i know uh buster's gonna call oh my gosh i love buster um trying to think who else calls all the time those are the brothers that will call me all the time besides clueing you that make sure I'm good mm-hmm who reaches out to the kid I'm gonna be honest with you I mean not a lot of entertainers when I got sick a lot of entertainers reached out you know a lot of actors a lot of different people my mom's that

people like Terry Crews and people like that reached out. But, you know what? I don't know if I have a type of imagery that people think I'm all right. Like nothing's never wrong or like I got everything under control. I'm as human as anybody else. I got feelings like anybody else. You know, I want to be checked on too. Give me a call, yo, kid, you good? Because this is how I move.

I remember one time Buster said to me, yo, kid, you never asked for move i remember one time buster said to me your kid you never asked for nothing he called me he's like yo you never asked for nothing i said ask for nothing because i always call to check on him see if he healthy whatever you never asked for nothing i said why do i need to ask for something because i know you got i got my own like i called to check on you generally because i care about how you're doing if you're healthy if you eat and everything is all right you're moving around you know you don't think about these things sometimes nobody's gonna say nothing i said i get it you used to people having a handout all the time so when somebody don't they're looking out for you you know you ain't used to that i get it i can't stand when people call and they don't tell you right away what it

is that they want but they try to act like they make a small talk but you know this person is calling me for a reason let's just get to it yeah but it's it's it's dope when somebody calls say yo you all right it's unusual there's everything straight like you know i'm saying like and and and and that's what i'm talking about that's somebody that really care about what you're doing and care about your well-being and how and you know you can have your life in their hands and you're straight but not you know unfortunately we live in a business we're in a business where we love the business we love we get out of it but it's not for everybody but everybody wants to be a part of it and some of those people that are part of it their heart is not in the place where my heart to be a part of it. And some of those people that are part of it,

their heart is not in the place where my heart might be. And I used to get confused with that. I used to say, yo, why nobody think the way I think? Why nobody see this the way I see it? And take it personal. But you can't. You can't. Everybody's their own individual.

You know what I'm saying? Let me ask you this. Of all the artists that you've worked with and helped, what are you most proud of? Like, what collab would you say, this is the one that I'm like, this was a defining moment, I'm really proud. When Madonna called me. When I did Madonna.

Madonna, I mean Jay-Z, everybody I worked with, I'm very honored. But when Madonna called me, that was weird. That was... It's different. It's all the way with that side because that wasn't even somebody I had a relationship with. Right. And she called and asked me to produce Masterpiece for her.

I did that. And then she asked me to do the record. She wanted me to redo the record with her and Nicki Minaj that she had out. But she already paid LMFAO to remix it. But she still gave me the same amount of money that she gave me for masterpiece to put to remix this record just to hear i will come out and she never got the record never asked for the money back never came and got the record nothing i still have the record so i said this on drink champs nobody ever talked bad about madonna she's all right with me top of the list she's and she got that bag in a big way so

let's let's play a record off the album what What you want to hear now? You can play Her Type. Her Type. Her Type. And we appreciate you for joining us, the legend, the OG Kid Caprice. And shout out to Vina Love for us, your daughter. Vina doing the thing. Just give us an update on Vina also. She's working on her music. She's in the studio all the time, man. And you know,

I don't have no dealings with how she do her music. I ain't into nothing else. I let her rock and do her thing, but she really, really works hard. She really works hard. Every time I talk to her, as a matter of fact, she's in the studio more than I see her. It's that business. You got to be consistent.

You got to stay hard. You got to really work. And when she started showing me that she could sing, it was more than just the singing. I knew that she would be able to handle the business how it goes, you know, you know how it is out here, but more than that,

she could treat people good and, you know, really perform and really work hard and show me a lot. So she's doing her thing, man. And then one last thing I wanted to ask you,

DJ Premier was up here the other day and we were talking about hip-hop turning 50 next year. So do you have any big plans? Oh! Or anything that you're planning to do

because that is a big deal. Yeah, I got to think of that. I can't let that day go without me doing something. I'm going to figure it out. I've been so busy with everything, man. It's been hard to keep up with a lot of stuff. But you're right. I got to definitely start planning on that.

You have so much history and so many artists. I got to start planning on that. And this big Rock the Bells thing is coming up, too, that Elle just asked me to be a part of. To tell you the truth, I just wanted to see the show. It's going to be crazy out there, but I want to be a part of it too, so it's going to be dope. But I'm doing my own festival and my first, you know, I've been on

the road forever, but I never had my own Kid Capri tour. So now I'm putting that together. And I'm putting an annual festival together. We're working on that right now. And it's going to be big. I'm going to try. Wow. And I'm putting an annual festival together. We're working on that right now. And it's going to be big. I'm going to try to make it as big as possible and make it a lot of fun.

The festival's in New York? Yeah, well, we're going to try to take it around to different places. Okay. I got to do, matter of fact, I got a big thing, the soundstage at Katona Park coming up August 14th. I'm doing that, me being in love in the hoodies. It's going to be real big. So everybody that's out there in New York, come to Katona Park coming up August 14th. I'm doing that. Me being in love in the hoodies. It's going to be real big. So everybody that's out there in New York, come to Katona Park that day. Katona Park is a legendary park where hip-hop started.

See the park with Herc. But Katona Park is just as important as that park. So make sure y'all come through and have a good time with us, man. It's going to be really dope. All right. Well, it's Kid Capri. It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning.

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