Har skrivit eller håller på med recensioner av några av dessa trevliga tapes… och tänkte bara uppdatera er med vad från 2012 som har snurrat runt en hel del hemma i burken.
Main Attrakionz kickar stenat skitsnack över Englands knepigaste flumstrumentaler. Precis vad de bör göra som mellannummer medan vi väntar på nästa kapitel i Greenova-sagan.
Och vänta behöver vi faktiskt inte göra då Greenova släpper grejer lika ofta som den genomsnittliga Brytburken-läsaren tar en dusch: den utmärkta Diamonds Of God-EP:n släpptes förra veckan.
Brorsan blir bara bättre och bättre, och nu är det dags för honom att turnera – med ett stopp i Atlanta för att lägga ner lite låtar med DJ Burn One, en av våra favoritproducenter.
Har inte lyssnat igenom ännu, men det ligger en instrumental version och en remixad version av Chandelier ute här. Ett lovvärt initiativ, då det var ett väldigt experimentellt släpp där jag egentligen bara fuxxade med låten I Gotta Youngin Doe till 100 procent.
Avslutningsvis delar jag med mig av den här låten från Huntsville-favoriten Dizzy D – med en gästvers från Shady Blaze.
I chose that title because that was the mentality. I had a line on a song where i say “five dollar Bandcamp, I’m back selling crack“, it motivated me like, damn for real. It’s not me saying I’m back walking around grinding, it’s saying I’m charging for this dope shit I’m finna whip up.
Hustling is a common topic in rap… do you think you approach it differently than other rappers?
Everybody approach it differently, except the ones that come and go. Grinding gotta be top three shit that people make songs bout.
How was the process of making B$C from idea to Bandcamp?
It started as just this is my next project then it got crazy hyped up after i put the pre-tape out. The pre-tape was just collection of songs sitting around, so in November, December i started working with DJ Ambush and went in. We did a lot of construction on it that I never did on any past tape, worked with new producers just to give it a new feel.
Around October I was getting beats from Da Vette Boyz. If you listen to the pre-tape you can hear Count Stacks. I really wanted to do the whole tape with them, but they wouldn’t get the beat files to me. Without the beat files you can’t do much with the beat, and how I was doing this project it just wasn’t gonna work. By the time money wasn’t a issue. It was no response back, so I went a whole new direction with the tape.
YS really snapped on this tape. Who is this producer?
He’s been working for a long time, a producer out of Fresno. He go in. Y’all will definitely see more and more of him as time progresses.
Haha man, it’s recorded at the nest, DJ Ambush’ studio. He’s good peoples, knows damn near any rapper you could think of. I did I Smoke Cause I Dont Care About Death in my room engineering it myself so to finally have someone to do it for me felt really good. Even if I gotta pay em. Wish i was getting paid to do it back then.
It’s the most time taken with this tape. I made ISBIDCAD in a week flat, minus Kissin On My Syrup which had older tracks. I put real life Squadda dollars into this project which is new on this level.
Since we’ve last talked, you’ve made music with G-Side, Danny Brown, ASAP Rocky. Any other artists you looking to work with?
Whoever on the same shit. Just got back to do this interview from our first in-person studio session with G-Side & Davinci from Fillmore, SF today.
How did you hook up with G-Side?
That happened through a company named Yours Truly. They got us in the lab together before we had our first show with em. They’re cool peoples too, been seeing their name ever since Internet started fucking with us. They got bars, could really rap.
Do you have more shows coming up?
Too many, catch us December 21st in SF performing with Davinci & G-Side, opening for Danny Brown & Kid Sister in L.A sometime in January… y’all gotta look it up.
How did you hook up with the ASAP fam?
Crazy thing is he hit me right before he took the world over so I’d say God’s blessing and the way we live our life.
What went through your mind when arriving in New York?
Mann I was cool until we passed up Lefrak City on the highway, but the streets & projects was above us so I’m looking up going crazy like nigga “LEFRAK”… Queens! If I had twitter on phone at that time I’d got on it earlier. I fasho bragged that night.
Did you record Down in the studio together with Danny Brown? How was it meeting up with him in real life?
Naa, I had Down all the way done with just me rapping, and I sent it off. It comes back and I’m like damn i gotta rearrange the song, so I put Shady on it too. We met Danny Brown like three, four months back at Fader Fort. We was backstage sipping, sitting down then Danny Brown pops up out of nowhere, pretty lil white girl with him. That nigga’s really cool, I fuck wit his whole demeanor. Shit got crazy when ASAP Rocky was performing, a fight broke out and shit, everybody scrambling and shit, so we go back to the backstage area to get our other shoes and this nigga Danny Brown still in last place we left him with the bitch haha. Didn’t even know what was going on.
(Squadda B, Dope G, Mondre M.A.N., Shady Blaze, Danny Brown)
Even though many of your beats are very mellow, you seem to be very energetic when rapping live. What tricks do you have for putting on a good show?
Couldn’t tell you, besides alcohol and smoke will slow you down, but being sober will make you be fake energetic – if you’re anything like me.
How did it work out with the being sober for a month thing?
I didn’t last a month but it made me see it’s easy to stay clean in daytime. I get a lot of work done and am super energetic sober. I don’t think people want that.
Like other Greenova releases there was a lot of variation in ideas and sounds on B$C – you ever feel like making more of a strictly conceptual album?
Already ahead of you, Main Attrakionz Bossalinis & Foolyiones, the album coming in a few months thats about as close to conceptual we gonna get.
What else are you planning for the future?
A hectic year living life. Introducing the fam to y’all, which I’ll focus on doing with my last solo of this year.
All chapters of Greenova?
Them plus some, thats what I’m saying. Robbie Rob was here meeting Kreayshawn’s manager today. February should be next month you hear from all them again, minus maybe Shady Blaze, who might drop before hand.
Do you have any relation to Livewire, HD, or any other Bay Area rappers outside the Greenova fam?Besides seeing these niggas and seeing bitches i know in they videos, nah. Nobody is blood relative to any rappers out here besides Mondre, Clyde Carson is his cousin. And my cousin’s dad is Seagram from East Oakland who died in the 90s.
Will you put out your music and present yourselves to the world differently in any way this year?
Yea, in a bigger way. Clearer visions, looking like money.
At what moment did you think: “this rap shit is really working out”?
When I started making stuff happen with the money it brought. Every time I needed something and could get it easily I started being thankful of the path I chose for real.
As you’re getting more famous, what are some traps and pitfalls that you’re watching out for?
“I don’t make that gangsta rap I make that music to survive.
Listen to my lyrics and you might last in these streets.
I know real gangsters, killers and they listen to me.“
(jag vet… det är sent… men @alabama187 är ännu värre slacker och M.I.A., så jag får bestämma allt själv helt enkelt…)
OFFICIELLA… 2011… THE MOST HEAVIEST RAPS N SLAPS…!
ASAP Rocky – Demons
E-40 - Lil Grimy Nigga
Shady Nate – Front Cover
Stevie Joe – Go Back
G-Side – Came Up
Lil B – I Hate Myself
Squadda B – Oakland State Of Mind
Big KRIT – Save My Soul
Shady Blaze -Dreamin
On-Ree feat Abidaz, Marshall Arts & C.U.P. – Ba!
Kartellen – Fortfarande Knas
Stockholmssyndromet – Kärlek
Aleks – Fruängen
Bästa pop-remix:
No Lay – Someone Like You
Årets icke-raplåtar:
Zomby – Witch Hunt
R. Kelly – Shut Up
Så genialiskt men ändå så nära till hands att sampla Satie för en kort bit realityrotad cloud rap, så rätt på så många sätt.
Erik Satie och Squadda Bambino, båda innovativa, torrt bitska musiker, som skänkte sin mäktiga musik till världen med en aura av lågmäldhet och en viss förkrossande sorgsenhet och livströtthet.
“I wake up capital H in front of the headache.
I need a medic ‘cuz I’m crazy from selling rocks at nighttime,
and that’s below minimum wage, it’s not right.
I see the old lady missing all her teeth,
probably ‘cuz the shit she smoke back in the eighties.
(…)
Yeah, I’m all skin and bones, the money is short.
We got enough for weed, drink and Newports.“
