You have such a good crossover appeal and have appeared on tracks from other genres, most notably metal- who was your favourite metal artist to collaborate with?

I’m coming out to new shit like I never did before, just trying to bring my new music to the forefront, but I have to have an area where I do Einstein, Straight Out The Gate, shit like that. I just came up with one before I came out to Europe for my Red Rocks show (Oct 19th, Morrison, Co) and it’s fuckin’ crazy. There are certain songs I have to perform forever and those are just some of the few, but it’s extremely hard to try to come up with a setlist. interlude, Riot Maker, Caribou Lou, I have to do those.

But there are certain tracks that I have to always do, like Einstein, I have to do that forever, Stamina, it’s not a song but a 14s. I have to sit down and go through my whole catalogue cuz I have all the CDs that I’ve ever put out, I have ’em stacked so high, I take them out of the cabinet, look at the whole tracklists, I just go through, it’s a hard task cuz there’s so many songs I haven’t done live that people want me to do. My style is like percussion, I think that’s where it’s from, just really wanting to play the drums and doing it with my tongue, I believe that’s why my lady’s in love with me, because I can play the drums with my tongue, hahaha. I wanted some drums when I was younger but my mom didn’t have enough money to buy them, so I’d beat on tables and shit. Yeah man, I used to be a dancer, not a stripper or no shit like that, I’m talking about breakdancing, pop-locking, all around dancing and with rhythm came rhyme.

Your flow is rather unique, people often compare you to the likes of Eminem and Twista for your fast complicated rhyme style. I still got beats and rhymes in my head so I’m just gonna keep going. The music is growing so much still, like it’s just now starting again, the fans are even younger so I don’t know how they ever gonna let me stop. The way I said it in the song with King Iso “ I won’t quit until the day I go, four years more, me and Kali shoot as high as the sky yo, then it’s bye though.” The last part made people think ‘oh shit, he’s gonna retire’ but I meant bye for a while, just to pull back a little bit. I wanted to slow down doing music, slow down the touring and help my artists become their own act, create their own lane. The way I put it out made people think I was gonna retire but I was saying I wanted to slow down in 4 years that was when Planet ( 2018) came out.

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