Vancity Raps

1 00:00:02,003 --> 00:00:04,001 ... 23,976 fps ... 2 00:00:03,101 --> 00:00:05,589 ... for [HD] dokumentary ... 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:13,074 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm 4 00:01:39,933 --> 00:01:41,768 - Your mic joke, hit that intro, y'all get up. 5 00:01:41,768 --> 00:01:45,772 - Y'all gonna get some, come on. 6 00:01:47,398 --> 00:01:48,817 - Oh bro, what you just watching? 7 00:01:48,817 --> 00:01:51,861 - Oh, hey man, what's up, how's work though? 8 00:01:51,861 --> 00:01:52,946 - Work was good. 9 00:01:52,946 --> 00:01:56,699 - Just turning on lets see, work yeah, it's good. 10 00:01:56,699 --> 00:01:58,952 Good, they covered kinda like, 11 00:01:58,952 --> 00:02:00,703 I don't like the local scene in Vancouver. 12 00:02:00,703 --> 00:02:01,538 - Oh yeah. 13 00:02:01,538 --> 00:02:02,413 - t's kind of keeping it up with like 14 00:02:02,413 --> 00:02:03,623 what's trending and stuff. 15 00:02:03,623 --> 00:02:04,916 - I know - You know you like it? 16 00:02:04,916 --> 00:02:06,918 - Yeah, I like it. 17 00:02:12,924 --> 00:02:15,635 - Hey, what's up, it's Dangerous, aka The Dream Catcher, 18 00:02:15,635 --> 00:02:19,013 aka the Deli MC aka the Lyrical Miracle, you already know. 19 00:02:19,013 --> 00:02:21,766 - Give it up party people for this motherfucker. 20 00:02:31,651 --> 00:02:34,362 - Rocking with Emotions right now representing Vancouver. 21 00:02:34,362 --> 00:02:36,114 We rocking live right now with Vancity Rap. 22 00:02:50,587 --> 00:02:54,716 - Yo, it's your boy, JGeezy and this is Vancity Raps. 23 00:03:03,850 --> 00:03:06,519 - This is Moka Only and welcome to Vancity Raps. 24 00:05:37,545 --> 00:05:39,213 - What's her name, the South side girl? 25 00:05:39,213 --> 00:05:41,257 Something like that, Ben Saucer. 26 00:05:41,257 --> 00:05:42,091 - Saucer. 27 00:05:45,678 --> 00:05:47,847 I thinking yeah... 28 00:05:47,847 --> 00:05:49,098 - Yeah, yeah. 29 00:05:58,608 --> 00:06:00,109 - I guess, in all essence, 30 00:06:00,109 --> 00:06:02,487 I just wanna find the most diverse, 31 00:06:02,487 --> 00:06:05,031 like I really wanna focus on the diversity of Vancouver 32 00:06:05,031 --> 00:06:06,741 'cause that part of the film 33 00:06:06,741 --> 00:06:08,201 is definitely shining through it. 34 00:07:09,470 --> 00:07:12,306 - In Morning of became a good ferry with her basket 35 00:07:12,306 --> 00:07:17,019 and said, here are gifts, take one, leave the others 36 00:07:17,019 --> 00:07:19,480 and be wearing, choose wisely. 37 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:23,526 Oh, choose wisely for only one of them is valuable. 38 00:07:23,526 --> 00:07:27,697 The gifts were five, fame, love, riches, pleasure. 39 00:07:34,245 --> 00:07:38,458 - I was born in Surrey British Columbia, don't judge me, 40 00:07:38,458 --> 00:07:40,710 I then moved out to Trinidad and Tobago, 41 00:07:40,710 --> 00:07:42,712 which is where my father's from, 42 00:07:42,712 --> 00:07:46,090 lived there for a few years, came back to Surrey. 43 00:08:01,939 --> 00:08:03,900 - You rocked in with Emotionz right now. 44 00:08:03,900 --> 00:08:08,488 Rapper, beatboxer, singer, DJ, grew up in Vancouver. 45 00:08:08,488 --> 00:08:11,365 Been in and out, lived in LA for a bit 46 00:08:11,365 --> 00:08:14,368 and lived in Montreal and in Nelson for a bit, 47 00:08:14,368 --> 00:08:17,079 but primarily Vancouver, my whole life. 48 00:08:17,079 --> 00:08:20,666 I had a record deal out in LA with Dreamax records 49 00:08:20,666 --> 00:08:23,836 and I lived out there for about a year. 50 00:08:23,836 --> 00:08:26,631 Well, when I lived in LA I was real busy recording. 51 00:08:26,631 --> 00:08:29,967 So pretty much every day was recording in the studio. 52 00:08:29,967 --> 00:08:32,929 We were working with DJ Quick, West Coast legend. 53 00:08:32,929 --> 00:08:34,347 So that was amazing. 54 00:08:34,347 --> 00:08:37,934 And my days consisted of like just hanging 55 00:08:37,934 --> 00:08:42,855 with my crew clockwork and writing a lot of songs. 56 00:08:42,855 --> 00:08:44,023 Favorite thing about LA 57 00:08:44,023 --> 00:08:46,526 is just like inspirations in the air. 58 00:08:46,526 --> 00:08:49,987 There's something special about LA in that sense, 59 00:08:49,987 --> 00:08:52,865 it feels like you're in one of the Meccas of just art 60 00:08:52,865 --> 00:08:54,867 and creation and culture and fashion. 61 00:08:54,867 --> 00:08:58,579 And I really like it in that sense. 62 00:09:19,517 --> 00:09:22,061 - We get a lot of outta town a lot of people move here 63 00:09:22,061 --> 00:09:24,063 from other places right. 64 00:09:24,897 --> 00:09:27,650 But back when I was growing up being from East Van, 65 00:09:27,650 --> 00:09:29,402 everybody sees the east van thing 66 00:09:29,402 --> 00:09:31,696 and it's become this thing, oh yeah, East Van, 67 00:09:31,696 --> 00:09:34,115 but growing up it really was East Van. 68 00:09:34,115 --> 00:09:37,326 So it was like a tale of two cities in Vancouver. 69 00:09:40,246 --> 00:09:43,541 Not, West Vancouver though, the West end, 70 00:09:43,541 --> 00:09:45,376 which was the rich side of Vancouver. 71 00:09:45,376 --> 00:09:48,713 Then there was East Vancouver, which was the poor side. 72 00:09:48,713 --> 00:09:50,131 It was, you know what, 73 00:09:50,131 --> 00:09:52,466 I'm a child of immigrants. 74 00:09:52,466 --> 00:09:54,885 They immigrated here from the west Indies 75 00:09:54,885 --> 00:09:56,596 and they worked really hard 76 00:09:56,596 --> 00:09:59,390 to provide a good life for me and my sister. 77 00:10:05,146 --> 00:10:06,397 - I started smoking weed in high school, man. 78 00:10:06,397 --> 00:10:08,149 I remember man, it was grade 10. 79 00:10:08,149 --> 00:10:09,066 It was not good either. 80 00:10:09,066 --> 00:10:10,359 It was not a good experience bro. 81 00:10:10,359 --> 00:10:13,487 But, it was just chilling outside smoking 82 00:10:13,487 --> 00:10:17,575 we dropping freestyles, getting into shit, 83 00:10:17,575 --> 00:10:20,828 grades had to be on point though, and the teacher them, 84 00:10:20,828 --> 00:10:22,496 they understood like 85 00:10:22,496 --> 00:10:25,207 in the urban environment where we came from, 86 00:10:25,207 --> 00:10:27,752 attention was something that we didn't have 87 00:10:27,752 --> 00:10:28,961 for a long period of time in class. 88 00:10:28,961 --> 00:10:30,963 She knew that, they knew that, so they... 89 00:10:30,963 --> 00:10:32,089 Not that they worked with us, 90 00:10:32,089 --> 00:10:33,549 but they were just like, yo listen, y'all just make sure, 91 00:10:33,549 --> 00:10:34,717 when it's time to do these tests 92 00:10:34,717 --> 00:10:35,718 and when it's time to get this work in, 93 00:10:35,718 --> 00:10:38,804 you guys get it in and it's whatever, 94 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:42,600 it was a common ground of respect 95 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:44,977 in some spot, not all the teachers were like that. 96 00:10:44,977 --> 00:10:46,646 Some of the teachers were fucking assholes motherfucker. 97 00:10:52,068 --> 00:10:53,277 - Daniel Denton, 98 00:10:53,277 --> 00:10:55,529 better known by his stage name Moka Only 99 00:10:55,529 --> 00:10:57,657 is a Canadian underground hip-hop artist. 100 00:10:57,657 --> 00:10:59,325 He has won three Junior Awards, 101 00:10:59,325 --> 00:11:01,535 five MuchMusic Video Awards 102 00:11:01,535 --> 00:11:02,745 and has been nominated 103 00:11:02,745 --> 00:11:05,247 for 11 Western Canadian Music Awards. 104 00:11:05,247 --> 00:11:07,249 - I was born in Canada, actually. 105 00:11:07,249 --> 00:11:09,085 Toia, British Columbia. 106 00:11:09,085 --> 00:11:12,296 - Thick, what, oh my God, Moka Only. 107 00:11:12,296 --> 00:11:14,799 - I was a pretty quiet kid. 108 00:11:14,799 --> 00:11:17,259 I didn't have a huge range of friends, 109 00:11:17,259 --> 00:11:19,804 I was by myself a lot. 110 00:11:19,804 --> 00:11:20,638 But I liked it 111 00:11:20,638 --> 00:11:25,434 'cause I was an introvert was then, still am now. 112 00:11:25,434 --> 00:11:29,689 And music was on my mind at a very early age. 113 00:11:29,689 --> 00:11:32,942 My family had a piano in the house 114 00:11:32,942 --> 00:11:36,445 and that was the first instrument I gravitated toward. 115 00:11:36,445 --> 00:11:39,365 So I started writing music at a very early age. 116 00:11:39,365 --> 00:11:43,786 First song I wrote, I was about three or four years old 117 00:11:43,786 --> 00:11:45,955 and wrote a rock and roll song on a piano. 118 00:11:49,917 --> 00:11:52,336 - Well, I grew up in Penticton. 119 00:11:52,336 --> 00:11:55,673 We used to battle on the beaches and parties 120 00:11:55,673 --> 00:11:59,051 and freestyle in the cars and it's definitely a place 121 00:11:59,051 --> 00:12:00,094 where I got a lot of love. 122 00:12:00,094 --> 00:12:02,471 Like I would say the main source of my creativity. 123 00:12:02,471 --> 00:12:04,598 It depends on the situation 124 00:12:04,598 --> 00:12:06,726 I'm going through, my life at that time. 125 00:12:06,726 --> 00:12:09,687 A big part of it though, when I created Little T. 126 00:12:09,687 --> 00:12:11,605 was this element of fighting back, 127 00:12:11,605 --> 00:12:15,109 I'm smaller, I'm shorter, I grew up on that battle. 128 00:12:22,408 --> 00:12:24,869 So I could use my words to flip it right. 129 00:12:34,420 --> 00:12:37,673 Even if I'm going through something really hard, 130 00:12:37,673 --> 00:12:41,510 I flip that into a positive by using my writing. 131 00:12:41,510 --> 00:12:43,512 So I would say that is a main source, 132 00:12:43,512 --> 00:12:46,223 but then sometimes even if I'm in a really good mood, 133 00:12:46,223 --> 00:12:47,683 then I wanna write like that. 134 00:12:47,683 --> 00:12:50,102 But I would say a lot of it is therapeutic. 135 00:13:02,364 --> 00:13:04,784 - Yeah she is harmless 136 00:13:04,784 --> 00:13:06,118 who is this? 137 00:13:06,118 --> 00:13:06,952 She is 138 00:13:11,290 --> 00:13:12,625 - Baby C, Baby C 139 00:13:13,584 --> 00:13:15,169 - Baby C huh! 140 00:13:20,424 --> 00:13:23,219 - I don't think it's necessary to be signed to a label 141 00:13:23,219 --> 00:13:26,639 with CD Baby and Distro Kid and Tune Cor. 142 00:13:27,515 --> 00:13:29,850 There's so many ways to like get your music out 143 00:13:29,850 --> 00:13:31,310 and get people listening. 144 00:13:31,310 --> 00:13:34,230 YouTube, people will just watch videos on YouTube 145 00:13:34,230 --> 00:13:35,898 or stream their music on Spotify. 146 00:13:35,898 --> 00:13:38,150 You don't need a label to do any of that. 147 00:13:38,150 --> 00:13:40,361 You can do it on your own. 148 00:13:40,361 --> 00:13:42,613 And not many people are buying physical copies. 149 00:13:42,613 --> 00:13:45,407 So it's not like back in the day when you need a label 150 00:13:45,407 --> 00:13:47,576 to distribute your music to all the stores, 151 00:13:47,576 --> 00:13:51,455 no one does that anymore, so I don't think it's necessary. 152 00:13:51,455 --> 00:13:54,792 I do think you need a team of individuals around you 153 00:13:54,792 --> 00:13:57,169 to help you with promoting your career. 154 00:13:57,169 --> 00:13:58,921 I don't think you can do it all yourself. 155 00:13:58,921 --> 00:14:01,173 So surrounding yourself with the right people 156 00:14:01,173 --> 00:14:03,050 with the right connections is important 157 00:14:03,050 --> 00:14:05,553 and not being afraid to pay for services 158 00:14:05,553 --> 00:14:08,138 that you need to advance your career. 159 00:14:23,779 --> 00:14:25,197 - Oh, hey, sorry, I'm late. 160 00:14:27,366 --> 00:14:30,160 oh yeah sorry, sorry, traffic was a biatch. 161 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:31,620 You know what I'm saying? 162 00:14:33,122 --> 00:14:36,000 - Oh what was your original question? 163 00:14:38,002 --> 00:14:40,421 - Oh, sorry, sorry, yeah, yeah, you're right, you're right 164 00:14:40,421 --> 00:14:41,505 I am getting off track. 165 00:14:41,505 --> 00:14:45,551 Vancity Raps, so you want it to be about the hiphop artists, 166 00:14:45,551 --> 00:14:48,262 the rapping, but not just the rapping of the music 167 00:14:48,262 --> 00:14:49,763 you wanted about the rapping, 168 00:14:49,763 --> 00:14:52,808 the talking style rapping to get to know the artist 169 00:14:52,808 --> 00:14:54,852 so that you can shape the story. 170 00:14:56,395 --> 00:15:00,065 - Just want the most popular artist I remember, 171 00:15:00,065 --> 00:15:01,734 you wanted some veteran artists, 172 00:15:01,734 --> 00:15:03,527 so I went out and got Moka Only. 173 00:15:03,527 --> 00:15:06,655 And Emotions is, I would consider him a vet. 174 00:15:08,073 --> 00:15:10,367 - Yeah, you wanted the newbies, 175 00:15:10,367 --> 00:15:12,244 you wanted the intermediate and the veterans 176 00:15:12,244 --> 00:15:14,705 I got them all just finished filming them all 177 00:15:14,705 --> 00:15:16,206 I'm dead tired. 178 00:15:18,751 --> 00:15:21,503 - And, I'm beat and going to bed. 179 00:15:25,716 --> 00:15:27,051 - Alright, cool. 180 00:15:36,435 --> 00:15:40,606 - That was funny, make me disappear again. 181 00:15:43,651 --> 00:15:45,277 - Wow, that's nuts. 182 00:16:05,589 --> 00:16:08,634 - I was actually born in the Dominican Republic 183 00:16:08,634 --> 00:16:09,969 in Puerto Plata. 184 00:16:11,679 --> 00:16:15,224 I immigrated here when I was about a year and a half 185 00:16:15,224 --> 00:16:19,395 to South Surry, I still rep the DR, but at the same time, 186 00:16:19,395 --> 00:16:21,105 I'm pretty, pretty Canadian. 187 00:16:21,105 --> 00:16:22,606 I still rep Vancouver pretty hard. 188 00:16:22,606 --> 00:16:25,234 That's an interesting question. 189 00:16:25,234 --> 00:16:28,445 I'm trying to think, when I'm writing songs 190 00:16:28,445 --> 00:16:31,073 and even when I'm about to perform on, 191 00:16:31,073 --> 00:16:34,618 I feel like everything about what you do as an artist 192 00:16:34,618 --> 00:16:36,120 is a creative process. 193 00:16:38,914 --> 00:16:42,876 Yes I'll say I'm a singer, but I'm also a performer. 194 00:16:42,876 --> 00:16:46,547 I'm a personality, there's all, whatever I say, 195 00:16:46,547 --> 00:16:47,965 when people are listening to you, 196 00:16:47,965 --> 00:16:50,217 you have to be conscious of that. 197 00:16:50,217 --> 00:16:53,679 I feel like there's this sort of energy 198 00:16:53,679 --> 00:16:56,098 that I want to share with people. 199 00:16:56,098 --> 00:16:59,810 And I find that when I perform in front of people, 200 00:16:59,810 --> 00:17:02,813 there's this certain energy that they give back to me. 201 00:17:02,813 --> 00:17:06,150 A Creative process, it just comes from how I'm feeling. 202 00:17:06,150 --> 00:17:08,235 If I'm feeling like shit, it's gonna be a shit. 203 00:17:08,235 --> 00:17:10,195 It's gonna be a pissed off song. 204 00:17:10,195 --> 00:17:12,031 What I'm saying, if I'm feeling happy as hell, listen, 205 00:17:12,031 --> 00:17:13,115 we're all celebrating. 206 00:17:13,115 --> 00:17:15,534 So It just really depends on my mood. 207 00:17:15,534 --> 00:17:17,369 - I had a great childhood. 208 00:17:17,369 --> 00:17:20,080 I mean, my dad was like the Joe Jackson, 209 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:21,957 he was putting a guitar in my hand, 210 00:17:21,957 --> 00:17:24,084 harmonica for my birthday. 211 00:17:24,084 --> 00:17:26,420 I remember it was like 1990. 212 00:17:27,504 --> 00:17:29,798 He got me my first camera to start making movie. 213 00:17:29,798 --> 00:17:31,592 We actually created 214 00:17:31,592 --> 00:17:33,469 a rap root back then called Blackout Boys 215 00:17:33,469 --> 00:17:37,097 with my best friend, and we went down to "Star Search." 216 00:17:37,097 --> 00:17:38,682 Did the audition. 217 00:17:57,701 --> 00:18:00,329 To get on "Star Search" with Ed McMan, 218 00:18:00,329 --> 00:18:03,207 rap was definitely not in the mainstream back then. 219 00:18:03,207 --> 00:18:06,502 So we didn't get past auditions, 220 00:18:06,502 --> 00:18:08,837 but he's always been pushing me to do music. 221 00:18:16,011 --> 00:18:19,598 - He's my favorite rapper, dead or alive? 222 00:18:19,598 --> 00:18:23,102 I always say myself when people ask me this question 223 00:18:23,102 --> 00:18:24,728 I think my shades though, 224 00:18:24,728 --> 00:18:27,564 but I also, there's a guy named 37 225 00:18:28,732 --> 00:18:31,318 and I remember talking to people like my bro and friends 226 00:18:31,318 --> 00:18:33,487 and dude, this guy is better than cannabis. 227 00:18:33,487 --> 00:18:35,948 I was feeling his lyrics more and mostly 228 00:18:35,948 --> 00:18:38,408 because one of the most poignant MCs I've ever heard, 229 00:18:38,408 --> 00:18:43,413 he just says things that are so true about what's going on. 230 00:18:43,705 --> 00:18:45,874 Like there's songs called "Hand That Feeds" 231 00:18:45,874 --> 00:18:46,959 try to find that. 232 00:19:07,479 --> 00:19:09,439 - I wasn't even the best in my school 233 00:19:09,439 --> 00:19:12,609 in Seattle at rapping, which is crazy. 234 00:19:12,609 --> 00:19:17,322 I was probably like third best, fourth best, third, best. 235 00:19:18,490 --> 00:19:21,076 There's two guys named Frosty. 236 00:19:21,076 --> 00:19:23,662 Frosty was a 6'7, big black guy 237 00:19:28,125 --> 00:19:30,252 looked like Gucci man, 238 00:19:30,252 --> 00:19:33,505 fur coat, fur Air Force ones to match, 239 00:19:33,505 --> 00:19:35,382 different color every day. 240 00:19:35,382 --> 00:19:39,386 Ice called Frosty had freestyle raps like Gucci. 241 00:19:40,304 --> 00:19:43,182 This free styles all day, he doesn't miss a beat. 242 00:19:43,182 --> 00:19:46,393 Street guy, rapper, I wasn't in the street. 243 00:19:46,393 --> 00:19:49,730 I was playing basketball and you know, I'll be in the hood. 244 00:19:49,730 --> 00:19:51,148 So, I'm cultured, 245 00:19:52,524 --> 00:19:54,276 but these guys were full time, rapping, 246 00:19:54,276 --> 00:19:56,862 getting bitches, trapping on that. 247 00:19:56,862 --> 00:20:01,325 Seven 16, I mean 15, 16, you know, this guy's 17, 248 00:20:01,325 --> 00:20:02,784 but they rock with me, I rock with them. 249 00:20:02,784 --> 00:20:04,161 They gang members and everything too. 250 00:20:04,161 --> 00:20:06,121 - I did a song on from Marley & Me 251 00:20:06,121 --> 00:20:07,873 which was a great opportunity 252 00:20:07,873 --> 00:20:09,208 to get signed in 253 00:20:10,751 --> 00:20:14,087 so also some other highlights were shooting in for my city 254 00:20:14,087 --> 00:20:15,631 one of the music videos 255 00:20:19,509 --> 00:20:22,471 We rented a boat and we had two floors DJs, 256 00:20:22,471 --> 00:20:25,933 music video, and people just were having a good time. 257 00:20:25,933 --> 00:20:28,227 And it was like, it was just a blast with your, 258 00:20:33,065 --> 00:20:35,442 - Did you hear little T did a track with Snoop Dogg as well? 259 00:20:35,442 --> 00:20:36,276 - Oh, yeah? 260 00:20:36,276 --> 00:20:37,110 - Yeah. 261 00:20:37,110 --> 00:20:38,946 - That's crazy, right? 262 00:20:54,336 --> 00:20:55,587 - My early childhood. 263 00:20:55,587 --> 00:20:59,216 Well everyone's really individual my family. 264 00:20:59,216 --> 00:21:02,094 So got my dad who was like the iron worker type, 265 00:21:02,094 --> 00:21:05,013 very like strong grew up in the 60s 266 00:21:06,181 --> 00:21:08,934 really free loving, really cool, 267 00:21:08,934 --> 00:21:11,520 but also could be, a tough guy. 268 00:21:12,521 --> 00:21:15,148 My mom was sweet as an angel, 269 00:21:15,148 --> 00:21:17,651 very nice Christian lady, 270 00:21:17,651 --> 00:21:19,987 and I always kind of joke around that. 271 00:21:19,987 --> 00:21:21,530 My dad was like the devil. 272 00:21:21,530 --> 00:21:24,199 My mom was like an angel and I was raised by both, 273 00:21:24,199 --> 00:21:27,953 but they're both very different when it came to parenting, 274 00:21:30,455 --> 00:21:31,415 - Ben it's me, 275 00:21:31,415 --> 00:21:33,125 you know what this little hoe say to me 276 00:21:33,125 --> 00:21:34,543 - Man whta that bitch say? 277 00:21:34,543 --> 00:21:36,420 - To hold for the other night, man, 278 00:21:36,420 --> 00:21:38,505 that little b said it's prime time in the city. 279 00:21:38,505 --> 00:21:40,674 If I want slide in the cut or something hop side. 280 00:21:40,674 --> 00:21:43,927 So man, I said, bitch you know what time it, 281 00:21:43,927 --> 00:21:46,221 Come and spend fan time always in the city. 282 00:21:54,563 --> 00:21:56,315 - Anybody that's hung around me knows me 283 00:21:56,315 --> 00:21:59,693 they know I keep it real, I don't like to talk a lot. 284 00:21:59,693 --> 00:22:02,738 I just find like when you talk too much, 285 00:22:02,738 --> 00:22:05,949 you're saying too much, you know what I mean? 286 00:22:05,949 --> 00:22:08,368 I'm not one to play like talking about other people or, 287 00:22:08,368 --> 00:22:11,204 I like to have fun, have a good time, I like to laugh. 288 00:22:11,204 --> 00:22:12,789 You know what I mean? 289 00:22:12,789 --> 00:22:16,001 So a lot of time, everything else is just hidden. 290 00:22:16,001 --> 00:22:19,546 I like to just laugh and stay happy and and keep my joy. 291 00:22:19,546 --> 00:22:21,506 So if there's anything that I need to get out, 292 00:22:21,506 --> 00:22:23,633 that's not of that nature, 293 00:22:23,633 --> 00:22:25,635 I just let it go when I write. 294 00:22:30,223 --> 00:22:31,975 - Well, that's a really good question. 295 00:22:31,975 --> 00:22:34,102 My favorite three in Vancouver right now, 296 00:22:34,102 --> 00:22:37,314 trying to remember T, can't say Little T 297 00:22:37,314 --> 00:22:39,483 'cause he's he's rebranding. 298 00:22:39,483 --> 00:22:41,985 But T has been doing this thing for a long time 299 00:22:41,985 --> 00:22:45,655 and I've been following him all through his Anza Club days 300 00:22:45,655 --> 00:22:46,865 and all that stuff. 301 00:22:46,865 --> 00:22:50,535 People who are really putting in for the city. 302 00:22:50,535 --> 00:22:53,538 So I'd say T on the top of my list right now. 303 00:22:53,538 --> 00:22:56,750 EBA Mob, he's really doing a lot of big stuff. 304 00:22:56,750 --> 00:22:58,794 I'm just following everything he does. 305 00:22:58,794 --> 00:23:01,671 And he just understands how the social media is working 306 00:23:01,671 --> 00:23:05,467 and he gets his groups and his followers really vibing 307 00:23:05,467 --> 00:23:07,761 with third favorite right now. 308 00:23:07,761 --> 00:23:11,056 Gotta go with a female, Kimmortal. 309 00:23:11,056 --> 00:23:13,683 Kimmortal been doing some really big things working 310 00:23:13,683 --> 00:23:17,187 with Snottynose res kids and JB, the first lady and Missy D. 311 00:23:17,187 --> 00:23:19,356 But my list will go on forever, 312 00:23:19,356 --> 00:23:21,691 I'll just be here all night, 313 00:24:11,491 --> 00:24:13,952 - I mean, when I first started getting into it, 314 00:24:13,952 --> 00:24:17,372 I have to say everybody sounded the same. 315 00:24:18,331 --> 00:24:21,710 Like from one rapper, hip hop artist 316 00:24:21,710 --> 00:24:23,962 to the other right into the other, 317 00:24:23,962 --> 00:24:26,381 there was probably like one or two that stood out for me. 318 00:24:26,381 --> 00:24:28,175 and I didn't wanna be the guy 319 00:24:28,175 --> 00:24:30,093 that sounded like everybody else. 320 00:24:30,093 --> 00:24:33,263 My drive as a musician is just 321 00:24:33,263 --> 00:24:35,223 at first I just started getting into music 322 00:24:35,223 --> 00:24:37,976 'cause I wanted to control my own ride home. 323 00:24:37,976 --> 00:24:42,647 I didn't wanna listen to somebody else's BS sometimes. 324 00:24:42,647 --> 00:24:45,734 So I was like, I wanna listen to my own music 325 00:24:45,734 --> 00:24:46,735 on the way home. 326 00:24:46,735 --> 00:24:50,655 Put it my CD in my car, drive home to it after work. 327 00:24:50,655 --> 00:24:53,825 And that was my whole viewpoint 328 00:24:53,825 --> 00:24:56,369 on getting into music, took me a while. 329 00:24:56,369 --> 00:24:57,871 It took me longer than other artists 330 00:24:57,871 --> 00:25:01,500 to get out there because I really had to do it my way. 331 00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:04,377 And unfortunately that takes a long time. 332 00:25:04,377 --> 00:25:08,048 I know all you rappers, musicians, DJs, MCs, 333 00:25:11,092 --> 00:25:13,553 whatever out there that just wanna it tomorrow. 334 00:25:13,553 --> 00:25:17,474 Will sell their life away in an instant to get it tomorrow. 335 00:25:17,474 --> 00:25:20,644 I'm telling you it's life is a journey. 336 00:25:20,644 --> 00:25:25,649 Life is a journey, and if you sell it all in the first year, 337 00:25:25,815 --> 00:25:26,691 you're done. 338 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:58,848 - In the mid nineties, 339 00:25:58,848 --> 00:26:03,103 Limblifter was on the radio all the time, 1996, 97. 340 00:26:04,729 --> 00:26:07,232 Weirdly I didn't listen to the radio at the time, 341 00:26:07,232 --> 00:26:09,150 so I didn't have a car. 342 00:26:11,236 --> 00:26:13,780 I'm sure I heard it on the radio at some point, 343 00:26:13,780 --> 00:26:18,785 but we were like heavy rotation on the big Toronto station, 344 00:26:19,536 --> 00:26:23,873 The Edge, we actually we won the Casby Award, 345 00:26:23,873 --> 00:26:28,461 which is Edge Radio's Canadian artist selected by you. 346 00:26:28,461 --> 00:26:33,466 We were also on MuchMusic, heavy rotation in like 1997. 347 00:26:33,675 --> 00:26:35,885 MuchMusic was just music. 348 00:26:35,885 --> 00:26:38,805 I do vaguely remember seeing video, 349 00:26:41,891 --> 00:26:43,435 it is a weird time. 350 00:26:44,352 --> 00:26:45,937 I was kind of indifferent to it. 351 00:26:45,937 --> 00:26:47,814 - So a lot of... 352 00:26:47,814 --> 00:26:52,193 The rappers are used to rapping about being rappers. 353 00:26:52,193 --> 00:26:54,279 What essence is gangster rap? 354 00:26:54,279 --> 00:26:55,947 What else is rap really in, 355 00:26:55,947 --> 00:26:58,867 even in the 90s and the 1000s you had the only guys 356 00:26:58,867 --> 00:27:01,119 that could really last mainstream 357 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,705 that wasn't doing gangster rap was like Ludacris, 358 00:27:03,705 --> 00:27:07,125 Busta, Common, most def like soul rappers 359 00:27:09,919 --> 00:27:10,754 and like party rappers. 360 00:27:10,754 --> 00:27:14,132 But if you if you didn't do a gangster hard hardcore stuff, 361 00:27:14,132 --> 00:27:16,009 you weren't selling records. 362 00:27:20,889 --> 00:27:23,558 - This festivals called Electric Love Music Festival. 363 00:27:23,558 --> 00:27:25,518 It's one of my favorite music festivals around, 364 00:27:25,518 --> 00:27:28,688 but like I said, they do catering to the hiphop community. 365 00:27:33,401 --> 00:27:35,654 - Turn it off my headphones 366 00:28:10,063 --> 00:28:11,940 - They always have a big hip hop upstage there 367 00:28:11,940 --> 00:28:13,942 and actually Travis Turner 368 00:28:13,942 --> 00:28:15,860 and I performed before mad child last year. 369 00:28:15,860 --> 00:28:18,113 And just cool to be able to perform 370 00:28:18,113 --> 00:28:21,950 for some of these, I guess higher level artists 371 00:28:21,950 --> 00:28:25,954 per se, but to kinda have them come up 372 00:28:25,954 --> 00:28:27,414 after you and be like, hey, I liked your drumming. 373 00:28:27,414 --> 00:28:29,541 And that was cool I wanna do a track with you 374 00:28:29,541 --> 00:28:31,751 it's a really big thing in my eyes just having that. 375 00:28:47,684 --> 00:28:51,146 - Moved to Canada, pretty early in life I came up 376 00:28:51,146 --> 00:28:53,356 when I was about 14. 377 00:28:53,356 --> 00:28:56,568 Under the banner of multiculturalism. 378 00:28:56,568 --> 00:28:58,111 As far as the division 379 00:28:58,111 --> 00:29:01,531 between us as humans, men and women, 380 00:29:01,531 --> 00:29:06,161 and also nationalities, I really don't believe... 381 00:29:06,161 --> 00:29:08,872 If we believe we'll ever eradicate 382 00:29:08,872 --> 00:29:11,541 that I think we're sadly mistaken, 383 00:29:11,541 --> 00:29:12,709 now of course, 384 00:29:14,210 --> 00:29:17,547 because our neighbors to the south have a little bit more 385 00:29:17,547 --> 00:29:20,633 of a vivid agenda right now on the go than we do. 386 00:29:20,633 --> 00:29:22,051 We get pulled into that 387 00:29:22,051 --> 00:29:24,053 because we're so closely linked to them. 388 00:29:24,053 --> 00:29:26,431 So we feel anything that's going on 389 00:29:26,431 --> 00:29:29,601 that reverberates from what it is they're doing 390 00:29:29,601 --> 00:29:31,478 in terms of their actions. 391 00:29:31,478 --> 00:29:35,398 I think now with social media, with technology, 392 00:29:36,316 --> 00:29:39,068 with the way we connect, we can have stories 393 00:29:39,068 --> 00:29:42,781 that come in from around the world in seconds now, 394 00:29:42,781 --> 00:29:45,700 in terms of knowing what's going on in the world, 395 00:29:45,700 --> 00:29:48,077 because seeing so much more of it 396 00:29:48,077 --> 00:29:51,331 because we're so in tune with so much more of it, 397 00:29:51,331 --> 00:29:53,500 of course, we're gonna be way more aware 398 00:29:53,500 --> 00:29:56,836 of it now than we were before. 399 00:30:20,777 --> 00:30:22,153 - So what's my occupation? 400 00:30:22,153 --> 00:30:27,116 I'm a Audio Engineer/Producer fully artist ADR recorders. 401 00:30:28,701 --> 00:30:32,997 The list was on mixing engineer, sometimes mastering. 402 00:30:32,997 --> 00:30:34,791 I was born in Poland. 403 00:30:34,791 --> 00:30:37,377 I feel like I had a pretty interesting childhood, 404 00:30:37,377 --> 00:30:39,796 maybe a little bit more interesting than some people. 405 00:30:39,796 --> 00:30:42,507 I mean it was a good childhood, like nothing weird. 406 00:30:42,507 --> 00:30:44,175 But I grew up with my grandparents 407 00:30:44,175 --> 00:30:45,635 that I was about six years old. 408 00:30:45,635 --> 00:30:49,722 Then I moved to Germany and lived until I was 16 409 00:30:49,722 --> 00:30:53,184 and then immigrated to Canada where my father lived. 410 00:30:53,184 --> 00:30:55,645 So I've been here for about 15 years at this point. 411 00:31:00,859 --> 00:31:03,528 So this is a little bit of a different genre 412 00:31:03,528 --> 00:31:06,614 and this is definitely more high fidelity of a beat, 413 00:31:06,614 --> 00:31:09,450 I would say, more pop production, 414 00:31:09,450 --> 00:31:13,079 and again, I just get ads to sort of have a certain vibe 415 00:31:13,079 --> 00:31:14,455 of a certain song. 416 00:31:14,455 --> 00:31:16,833 And if I could, not necessarily copy the song, 417 00:31:16,833 --> 00:31:18,001 but give them the certain vibe. 418 00:31:18,001 --> 00:31:19,669 So I sat there and produced this 419 00:31:19,669 --> 00:31:23,256 and with pretty good results, I think. 420 00:32:08,384 --> 00:32:13,139 - Feel my take on the Vancouver Rap scene, is it's young. 421 00:32:14,307 --> 00:32:15,558 There's a lot going on. 422 00:32:15,558 --> 00:32:18,186 There's little pockets everywhere. 423 00:32:18,186 --> 00:32:22,190 There's people releasing tracks with Snoop, 424 00:32:22,190 --> 00:32:24,692 there's people releasing tracks with Dell, 425 00:32:24,692 --> 00:32:26,861 there's underground homies 426 00:32:28,112 --> 00:32:29,864 that have been putting out albums 427 00:32:29,864 --> 00:32:32,742 for years, getting signed to Bastard Jazz. 428 00:32:32,742 --> 00:32:35,787 There's like all these little pockets 429 00:32:35,787 --> 00:32:38,915 of stuff going on and it's bubbling. 430 00:32:42,710 --> 00:32:43,670 - Where was I born? 431 00:32:43,670 --> 00:32:46,422 Right here, Gilfred City, G Town baby. 432 00:32:46,422 --> 00:32:48,591 There's rainbow rappers, and there's real rappers. 433 00:32:48,591 --> 00:32:49,842 The rainbow rappers; 434 00:32:49,842 --> 00:32:51,636 that's, everything looks pretty, 435 00:32:51,636 --> 00:32:53,054 they dress and they got the drip 436 00:32:53,054 --> 00:32:55,348 the swag, they're dressed a certain way. 437 00:32:55,348 --> 00:32:57,850 They're always taking these type of pictures on Instagram 438 00:32:57,850 --> 00:32:59,852 where they're just like posing and doing all this stuff 439 00:32:59,852 --> 00:33:04,190 and it seems to be about everything except the music. 440 00:33:04,190 --> 00:33:07,568 And maybe that person might have like a hot hook 441 00:33:07,568 --> 00:33:08,403 or something and you might hit 'em out 442 00:33:08,403 --> 00:33:10,863 and be like, yo, let's do a song 443 00:33:10,863 --> 00:33:13,241 and everything have gotta be perfect 444 00:33:13,241 --> 00:33:16,077 and tailored to them for them to make a song. 445 00:33:16,077 --> 00:33:17,870 They can never adapt. 446 00:33:17,870 --> 00:33:20,415 And that's a huge thing that separates a lot of people 447 00:33:20,415 --> 00:33:23,126 I think, is being able to adapt to different styles, 448 00:33:23,126 --> 00:33:24,711 different flows, different beats. 449 00:33:24,711 --> 00:33:27,088 That's one of my favorite things is collaborating 450 00:33:27,088 --> 00:33:29,382 with people because I love the challenge, 451 00:33:29,382 --> 00:33:31,884 especially when the person's already laid down a verse 452 00:33:31,884 --> 00:33:34,387 or a hook and I've got to kinda adapt 453 00:33:34,387 --> 00:33:36,431 because I want the song to sound cohesive. 454 00:33:36,431 --> 00:33:38,683 I gotta like adapt to whatever they did 455 00:33:38,683 --> 00:33:41,310 and doesn't mean I gotta do copy their flow, 456 00:33:41,310 --> 00:33:43,896 but it's just like, okay, you're talking about this. 457 00:33:43,896 --> 00:33:45,982 You're rapping, like, then I just gotta, 458 00:33:45,982 --> 00:33:47,942 it influences the way I write 459 00:33:47,942 --> 00:33:51,404 and I feel like I could do that with anybody, any beat. 460 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:04,959 - One of the hardest things 461 00:34:04,959 --> 00:34:09,047 to get through in my creative life, artistic life, 462 00:34:09,047 --> 00:34:10,339 maybe just life in general 463 00:34:10,339 --> 00:34:12,759 'cause it was such a big part of me 464 00:34:12,759 --> 00:34:13,843 it such a long time 465 00:34:13,843 --> 00:34:17,555 Was when you know, my group, "The Family Compact" 466 00:34:17,555 --> 00:34:22,435 when we split up not due to any bad blood or anything, 467 00:34:22,435 --> 00:34:25,938 some of us had to go another path in life. 468 00:34:27,231 --> 00:34:28,066 Their life was taking them 469 00:34:28,066 --> 00:34:29,859 in a different direction, you know, 470 00:34:29,859 --> 00:34:32,820 and we decided to say, you know what, 471 00:34:32,820 --> 00:34:35,281 well, that's, you know, that's gonna be it. 472 00:34:35,281 --> 00:34:38,284 And so I started doing my own thing, 473 00:34:41,079 --> 00:34:43,539 I tried to do my own solo thing for a long time, 474 00:34:43,539 --> 00:34:47,919 but that really kind of took the wind outta my sails. 475 00:34:49,253 --> 00:34:53,091 And I think its the time looking back at it, 476 00:34:53,091 --> 00:34:55,468 I don't think I realized how much it affected me, 477 00:34:55,468 --> 00:34:57,678 until I could, you know, look back. 478 00:34:57,678 --> 00:35:01,099 But, you know, I see that as one of the big moments, 479 00:35:01,099 --> 00:35:04,519 sort of my professional life was just, 480 00:35:04,519 --> 00:35:06,729 you know, having the group split up. 481 00:35:06,729 --> 00:35:09,065 - This is Glimmer from the Hipster Cartel, 482 00:35:09,065 --> 00:35:10,900 you're listening to the urban renewal project, 483 00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:13,653 with DJ Denise on 100.5 FM. 484 00:35:13,653 --> 00:35:17,573 - Yeah I feel like Vancouver's scene is, bubbling up. 485 00:35:17,573 --> 00:35:20,660 People are trying to do their own DIY shows, 486 00:35:20,660 --> 00:35:22,829 and making sure to bring out their friends 487 00:35:22,829 --> 00:35:24,747 so they can showcase what they're doing 488 00:35:24,747 --> 00:35:26,165 and having listening parties. 489 00:35:26,165 --> 00:35:30,002 I recently was invited to a video release, 490 00:35:30,002 --> 00:35:32,630 like a launch party, which was really cool. 491 00:35:32,630 --> 00:35:35,633 So the person who invited us came to the studio, 492 00:35:35,633 --> 00:35:39,220 and brought us a hand like created invitation, 493 00:35:39,220 --> 00:35:40,304 which was really cool. 494 00:35:40,304 --> 00:35:43,015 So people are really thinking outside of the box 495 00:35:43,015 --> 00:35:45,309 to bring people out to their events, 496 00:35:45,309 --> 00:35:49,105 so yeah, I love what's happening in Vancouver. 497 00:35:49,105 --> 00:35:51,649 - For music on the hip hop side, 498 00:35:51,649 --> 00:35:54,402 Canibus is really the guy for me. 499 00:35:55,319 --> 00:35:56,529 I mean, Eminem as well, 500 00:35:56,529 --> 00:35:58,239 but Canibus was the first guy 501 00:35:58,239 --> 00:35:59,866 that I would have to go 502 00:35:59,866 --> 00:36:01,200 and like check at the source, 503 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,953 and look up things that he was doing. 504 00:36:03,953 --> 00:36:06,747 His, you know, he had the most intelligible terminology, 505 00:36:06,747 --> 00:36:07,832 that you'd ever seen, 506 00:36:07,832 --> 00:36:10,084 the level of metaphors and what kind of syllables 507 00:36:10,084 --> 00:36:14,297 he was crushing into such a small vortex was amazing. 508 00:36:14,297 --> 00:36:17,884 And so I was always aspiring to be an artist like Canibus, 509 00:36:17,884 --> 00:36:20,720 very lyrical, very thought provoking. 510 00:36:25,850 --> 00:36:29,687 Probably in 2009, when I then said, you know what, 511 00:36:29,687 --> 00:36:33,316 I wanna meet this man, I wanna work with him, 512 00:36:33,316 --> 00:36:35,902 and I just put it out there, I just reached out to him. 513 00:36:35,902 --> 00:36:38,237 We got on this track called "The Dream Catcher", 514 00:36:38,237 --> 00:36:41,616 collabed on it and then I was like, you know what, 515 00:36:41,616 --> 00:36:44,827 let's take it a step further, let's do a show together. 516 00:36:52,710 --> 00:36:56,005 We put that together, we flew 'em out. 517 00:36:59,008 --> 00:37:02,136 We usually played the truck and he never said like- 518 00:37:02,136 --> 00:37:04,555 - We put 'em up for two days and was amazing, 519 00:37:04,555 --> 00:37:07,350 because it was actually Canibus's birthday the next day. 520 00:37:07,350 --> 00:37:10,686 So to go out and do a show where he's like, "Yo Dangerous," 521 00:37:10,686 --> 00:37:12,396 he's like, "You know all my tracks right?" 522 00:37:12,396 --> 00:37:13,231 I'm like, "Yeah", 523 00:37:13,231 --> 00:37:14,232 he's like yeah 524 00:37:14,232 --> 00:37:15,233 "I want you to be my hype man, 525 00:37:15,233 --> 00:37:17,485 like we've been doing this for like 15 years." 526 00:37:17,485 --> 00:37:19,153 This is a even more so a dream, 527 00:37:19,153 --> 00:37:21,781 so I got to be his hype man for the whole show, 528 00:37:21,781 --> 00:37:23,950 and then he's like, "This is your show Dangerous, 529 00:37:23,950 --> 00:37:26,452 you close it out." right so we closed it out 530 00:37:26,452 --> 00:37:29,538 with the dream catcher track and it was just unbelievable. 531 00:37:29,538 --> 00:37:31,290 And then to take the man out for his birthday, 532 00:37:31,290 --> 00:37:34,377 we went for some teppanyaki, it was just unbelievable. 533 00:37:34,377 --> 00:37:37,129 The stories that this guy was telling me of hip hop, 534 00:37:37,129 --> 00:37:39,882 of him and, and Mos, and to live, 535 00:37:40,841 --> 00:37:43,886 I felt like I had reached the pinnacle on my career, 536 00:37:43,886 --> 00:37:45,179 I did nothing else. 537 00:37:45,179 --> 00:37:47,139 I felt like I'd already like died gone to heaven, 538 00:37:47,139 --> 00:37:48,975 and came back able to do a little bit more. 539 00:37:58,359 --> 00:38:01,570 - Like my mom raised me up learning the piano, 540 00:38:01,570 --> 00:38:04,156 from the age of like literally four or five, 541 00:38:04,156 --> 00:38:08,452 till I became a teenager 542 00:38:09,495 --> 00:38:13,666 I turned 14, 15, and I'm like, mom fuck this shit, 543 00:38:13,666 --> 00:38:14,792 you know, this is not cool. 544 00:38:14,792 --> 00:38:16,419 I wanna be outside with the cool kids man, 545 00:38:16,419 --> 00:38:18,754 I don't wanna be doing piano lessons on the weekend, 546 00:38:18,754 --> 00:38:22,675 but I was raised playing piano, so I did a lot of that. 547 00:38:22,675 --> 00:38:25,052 The fact that now I'm still in school, 548 00:38:25,052 --> 00:38:27,346 so my mom's very happy 549 00:38:27,346 --> 00:38:31,559 and I'm also doing other things, extracurricular stuff, 550 00:38:31,559 --> 00:38:33,686 so she likes that, she's happy. 551 00:38:33,686 --> 00:38:35,855 She doesn't really understand what it means, 552 00:38:35,855 --> 00:38:38,107 when I tell her I'm doing a show, 553 00:38:38,107 --> 00:38:39,984 she's like, oh you know, "Good for you," you know, 554 00:38:40,943 --> 00:38:42,987 she doesn't really understand you know like 555 00:38:42,987 --> 00:38:44,989 what it means but she's encouraging, 556 00:38:44,989 --> 00:38:46,407 and she's very supportive, and she loves it. 557 00:38:56,125 --> 00:38:58,419 - And if you don't know my name is Dawreckage 558 00:38:58,419 --> 00:39:01,088 I'm the nigga with the loud mouth from Vancouver 559 00:39:01,088 --> 00:39:02,340 Whadup' party people. 560 00:39:04,759 --> 00:39:06,594 Well I teach Krump 561 00:39:20,566 --> 00:39:22,526 - I call it an aggressive style of dance, 562 00:39:22,526 --> 00:39:25,154 because I love it, because it's powerful. 563 00:39:25,154 --> 00:39:26,238 It's a powerful style of dance. 564 00:39:26,238 --> 00:39:27,990 krump started in the early 2002, 565 00:39:27,990 --> 00:39:31,869 by two originators are Tight Eyez and Mijjo. 566 00:39:31,869 --> 00:39:34,205 They created their own style, 567 00:39:34,205 --> 00:39:35,081 putting together different moves, 568 00:39:35,081 --> 00:39:36,707 that they seen in the hip-hop world 569 00:39:36,707 --> 00:39:38,125 from rappers to war movies, 570 00:39:38,125 --> 00:39:41,545 from movements and clowning and movements in hip hop. 571 00:39:41,545 --> 00:39:44,673 And I actually thought when back when I was in Edmonton, 572 00:39:44,673 --> 00:39:47,176 beautiful fucking dance. 573 00:39:47,176 --> 00:39:49,095 Like I said, I started in the early 2000s, 574 00:39:49,095 --> 00:39:52,723 and I was actually on a movie called "Rise," which was dope. 575 00:39:52,723 --> 00:39:54,225 And it showed huh... 576 00:39:54,225 --> 00:39:58,145 My phone is going off just put it directly 577 00:39:58,145 --> 00:40:00,731 it shows clowning, krumping and stripper dancing, 578 00:40:00,731 --> 00:40:02,942 and the one I fell in love with was krump, 579 00:40:02,942 --> 00:40:06,028 and I've been krumping ever since. 580 00:40:06,028 --> 00:40:08,239 - Then of course some mad rappers, 581 00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:11,409 gonna like drop some cooler shit here. 582 00:40:16,997 --> 00:40:21,752 Big drop here, oh, no I was wrong sir 583 00:40:21,752 --> 00:40:24,171 I gotta set my shit up right? 584 00:40:41,522 --> 00:40:42,731 - I didn't grow up in the city, 585 00:40:42,731 --> 00:40:45,443 I remember having boots on and going out, 586 00:40:45,443 --> 00:40:46,819 and playing and making tree for it. 587 00:40:46,819 --> 00:40:49,447 That's what free time was, you know, 588 00:40:49,447 --> 00:40:52,116 I had a dog growing up, I had like three cats, 589 00:40:52,116 --> 00:40:54,285 that all either got eaten by coyotes 590 00:40:54,285 --> 00:40:55,786 or something happened to them. 591 00:40:55,786 --> 00:40:57,872 At some point we had pet rabbits, you know, 592 00:40:57,872 --> 00:40:59,039 and they got eaten by coyote. 593 00:40:59,039 --> 00:41:00,249 We would go coyote hunting, 594 00:41:00,249 --> 00:41:03,586 and we had four acre farm that we lived on. 595 00:41:03,586 --> 00:41:05,212 We lived on the house area, 596 00:41:05,212 --> 00:41:07,298 but the rest was just like rented by other people. 597 00:41:07,298 --> 00:41:10,176 And at one point there were cows living on the farm, 598 00:41:10,176 --> 00:41:12,428 so I feel like I come from a pretty humble 599 00:41:12,428 --> 00:41:14,763 grounded background of just like wilderness, 600 00:41:14,763 --> 00:41:17,224 and you know I didn't start getting electronics 601 00:41:17,224 --> 00:41:19,560 until I was older and even then it was like, 602 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:21,479 you only were allowed to use it for a certain time, 603 00:41:21,479 --> 00:41:23,731 you had to go outside and play so- 604 00:41:35,493 --> 00:41:39,330 - Is it getting signed and not getting signed on both sides? 605 00:41:39,330 --> 00:41:44,168 I mean, it's fast becoming less lucrative to being signed, 606 00:41:46,795 --> 00:41:50,799 and then as they say, being put out to work 607 00:41:50,799 --> 00:41:52,092 so that you can pay 608 00:41:52,092 --> 00:41:54,762 for somebody else to have more than you do. 609 00:41:54,762 --> 00:41:58,807 So a lot of people are now aware of that, 610 00:41:58,807 --> 00:42:02,102 and once again, with technology being what it is, 611 00:42:02,102 --> 00:42:03,854 giving the independent artist, 612 00:42:03,854 --> 00:42:08,192 just as much if not more control and ability 613 00:42:08,192 --> 00:42:11,403 as to what the bigger people had in the industry. 614 00:42:11,403 --> 00:42:14,782 I think things have definitely changed, 615 00:42:14,782 --> 00:42:17,535 I still think it's okay to be signed at a certain level, 616 00:42:17,535 --> 00:42:22,540 because big promotion can really get you from A to B, 617 00:42:22,581 --> 00:42:24,542 but if you're ready for it. 618 00:42:24,542 --> 00:42:26,752 If it's the right part of your equation, 619 00:42:26,752 --> 00:42:28,546 if you set your game plan 620 00:42:28,546 --> 00:42:32,424 and that's the right time and the right area, 621 00:42:32,424 --> 00:42:35,427 where you're supposed to be, I think it can work, 622 00:42:35,427 --> 00:42:39,181 there can be a symbiosis there and they can work together. 623 00:42:39,181 --> 00:42:43,811 - My main source of income is from my day job 624 00:42:43,811 --> 00:42:46,438 So I would love to say that I could make a living, 625 00:42:46,438 --> 00:42:49,149 just off music but realistically, I can't. 626 00:42:49,149 --> 00:42:51,193 I probably put more into my music, 627 00:42:51,193 --> 00:42:53,487 than I get out of it at the moment but I love it, 628 00:42:53,487 --> 00:42:54,738 so it's a passion of mine. 629 00:42:54,738 --> 00:42:56,991 But during the day I work as a physiotherapist, 630 00:42:56,991 --> 00:42:59,827 so I did go to school, went to university, 631 00:42:59,827 --> 00:43:01,287 got my master's degree. 632 00:43:01,287 --> 00:43:03,330 And I work during the day, 633 00:43:03,330 --> 00:43:06,292 like at full time as a physiotherapist and I love it. 634 00:43:06,292 --> 00:43:08,544 And so that's how I like make most of my money, 635 00:43:08,544 --> 00:43:11,463 enough to like live comfortably I would say 636 00:43:11,463 --> 00:43:13,674 if I was just on the grind all the time. 637 00:43:13,674 --> 00:43:16,468 So personally I think it's good to have a day job, 638 00:43:16,468 --> 00:43:19,430 to support your career as you're developing it. 639 00:43:19,430 --> 00:43:21,849 And also to have something to fall back on, 640 00:43:21,849 --> 00:43:23,350 like you never know, 641 00:43:23,350 --> 00:43:26,270 if you're gonna be super successful in music. 642 00:43:26,270 --> 00:43:28,897 So like for the young kids coming up they are like, 643 00:43:28,897 --> 00:43:32,276 "Oh, I'm just gonna drop everything and just do music 644 00:43:32,276 --> 00:43:33,569 and not work a day in my life," 645 00:43:33,569 --> 00:43:35,487 I'm like, good luck 646 00:43:35,487 --> 00:43:36,989 I wish you the best. 647 00:43:36,989 --> 00:43:38,866 - By the pizza. 648 00:43:38,866 --> 00:43:42,453 - Yeah so can you get a pizza for delivery? 649 00:43:43,454 --> 00:43:47,583 - Oh you want Hawaiian? - Pineapple, green peppers. 650 00:43:48,792 --> 00:43:51,503 - Oh you got our address? - Yeah, I got your address 651 00:43:51,503 --> 00:43:52,796 - Same place? - Same place 652 00:43:52,796 --> 00:43:53,797 - Yeah 653 00:43:53,797 --> 00:43:55,841 - Yeah I guess couple of bands, 654 00:43:55,841 --> 00:43:57,801 like ranted was a big influence of mine. 655 00:43:57,801 --> 00:44:01,013 She got me into hip-hop when Tim Armstrong, 656 00:44:01,013 --> 00:44:03,223 Travis Barker and Skinhead Rob started 657 00:44:03,223 --> 00:44:05,934 this project transplants in 2001. 658 00:44:05,934 --> 00:44:07,811 They did like California Babylon, 659 00:44:07,811 --> 00:44:10,939 I believe they were on a shampoo commercial, 660 00:44:10,939 --> 00:44:12,149 in the 2000s. 661 00:44:12,149 --> 00:44:13,400 It's one of those tracks everyone knows, 662 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:15,986 but no one knows the band of. 663 00:44:15,986 --> 00:44:17,613 So that was actually my big transition, 664 00:44:17,613 --> 00:44:20,074 was around 2001 there listen of transplants 665 00:44:20,074 --> 00:44:22,618 and getting me into hip-hop and kind of the underground. 666 00:44:22,618 --> 00:44:25,162 That was like the underground LA low-rider kind of scene, 667 00:44:25,162 --> 00:44:27,706 and that's what I really enjoyed when I was growing up. 668 00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:37,591 - The way I look at life is like, you know shit happens. 669 00:44:37,591 --> 00:44:38,425 You know what I mean? 670 00:44:38,425 --> 00:44:43,180 You might be huge today and might not be so huge tomorrow, 671 00:44:43,180 --> 00:44:45,307 like, you know there's been times, 672 00:44:45,307 --> 00:44:49,269 where shit I've had fucking so much money. 673 00:44:49,269 --> 00:44:51,647 Money I needed someone to help me count, 674 00:44:51,647 --> 00:44:54,358 but then there's been times where I've been broke too. 675 00:44:54,358 --> 00:44:55,859 So you never, you never know, 676 00:44:55,859 --> 00:44:57,653 I think you just have to roll with the punches, 677 00:44:57,653 --> 00:45:00,030 but the best advice I can give 678 00:45:00,030 --> 00:45:03,242 is not to believe everything that you see. 679 00:45:23,971 --> 00:45:25,681 - And I think for the most part, 680 00:45:25,681 --> 00:45:27,641 us as human beings, regular human beings, 681 00:45:27,641 --> 00:45:29,518 out there working doesn't matter, you know, 682 00:45:29,518 --> 00:45:32,646 if you're working at, you know, furniture warehouse, 683 00:45:32,646 --> 00:45:36,150 you're mechanic, you're a radio superstar, 684 00:45:37,484 --> 00:45:41,572 there should be harmonic, unity in all our races. 685 00:45:42,406 --> 00:45:46,452 And we shouldn't have to deal with the same shit, 686 00:45:46,452 --> 00:45:47,536 over and over again, 687 00:45:47,536 --> 00:45:51,582 like the world just keeps recycling, just keeps recycling, 688 00:45:51,582 --> 00:45:54,001 you know, oh, let's go back to the 70s, 689 00:45:54,001 --> 00:45:55,419 okay what happened in the 70s? 690 00:45:55,419 --> 00:45:58,547 Well fashion was this, there was this racial uprising, 691 00:45:58,547 --> 00:46:02,176 there was this war over in Chechnya, 692 00:46:02,176 --> 00:46:05,637 there was this, okay so then let's just recycle all that. 693 00:46:05,637 --> 00:46:10,601 Alright put that enter, boom, let's just recycle a decade, 694 00:46:10,934 --> 00:46:12,978 that's how I feel like the world is. 695 00:46:12,978 --> 00:46:15,439 - Glimmer from the Hipster Cartel 696 00:46:15,439 --> 00:46:16,774 you know that song? 697 00:46:25,199 --> 00:46:26,950 - That's a tough question, 698 00:46:26,950 --> 00:46:29,077 I mean I feel like there's a lot going on, 699 00:46:29,077 --> 00:46:30,829 and there's a lot of people 700 00:46:30,829 --> 00:46:32,790 that aren't necessarily telling the truth, 701 00:46:32,790 --> 00:46:37,002 about what they're doing environmentally. 702 00:46:37,002 --> 00:46:40,172 And not necessarily really does come down 703 00:46:40,172 --> 00:46:42,508 to the individual but you know it does, 704 00:46:42,508 --> 00:46:46,094 using less waste minimalized you know, 705 00:46:46,094 --> 00:46:49,515 I feel like that's an important step. 706 00:46:49,515 --> 00:46:51,934 I feel like my weekends are lazy, 707 00:46:51,934 --> 00:46:56,939 sleeping's, making coffees, listening to some records, 708 00:46:57,189 --> 00:46:59,066 maybe checking out some new music, 709 00:46:59,066 --> 00:47:01,819 going to different record shops and thrift stores 710 00:47:01,819 --> 00:47:03,987 and hunting for some gold. 711 00:47:37,479 --> 00:47:39,147 - My parents were both professionals, 712 00:47:39,147 --> 00:47:41,358 they were both working that nine to five life. 713 00:47:41,358 --> 00:47:44,528 So grew up with a brother and a sister 714 00:47:45,445 --> 00:47:47,239 and we had everything we needed, man, 715 00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:50,117 we had everything we needed, not everything we wanted, 716 00:47:50,117 --> 00:47:52,077 but we had enough man. 717 00:47:52,077 --> 00:47:53,412 - I met everybody there like, 718 00:47:53,412 --> 00:47:56,540 we were touring for like two weeks together. 719 00:47:56,540 --> 00:47:59,543 That was like 2000 and what? 720 00:47:59,543 --> 00:48:03,213 That was super fast 2008 or some shit, 721 00:48:03,213 --> 00:48:05,048 not all of them were playing ball, 722 00:48:05,048 --> 00:48:07,217 like lots of their homies and entourage was, 723 00:48:07,217 --> 00:48:09,136 but Chris Brown couldn't play ball though. 724 00:48:09,136 --> 00:48:12,472 Chris Brown was interesting, because he was playing, 725 00:48:12,472 --> 00:48:14,808 like ball for like two hours. 726 00:48:14,808 --> 00:48:18,020 And he performs at night time right 727 00:48:18,020 --> 00:48:19,479 like nine o'clock or some shit, 728 00:48:19,479 --> 00:48:21,106 so he'd be playing at lunchtime all the way 729 00:48:21,106 --> 00:48:23,191 to like three or some shit, 730 00:48:23,191 --> 00:48:26,403 like aggressive, hard, sweating, yelling, 731 00:48:26,403 --> 00:48:29,865 fucking arguing basketball, man. 732 00:48:29,865 --> 00:48:32,492 And then you see him go on stage, 733 00:48:32,492 --> 00:48:33,535 I can say is like, 734 00:48:33,535 --> 00:48:36,413 almost like an hour and a half or some shit. 735 00:48:36,413 --> 00:48:39,583 And he's singing and he's doing flips, 736 00:48:40,918 --> 00:48:43,295 and he's running around doing flips, 737 00:48:43,295 --> 00:48:45,839 like for an hour and a half. 738 00:48:45,839 --> 00:48:47,966 And then he's doing it again at the next show, 739 00:48:47,966 --> 00:48:50,636 playing basketball all day long 740 00:48:50,636 --> 00:48:54,932 and then doing flips all day for an hour and a half. 741 00:48:55,849 --> 00:48:57,643 Like I was getting tired, you know, 742 00:48:57,643 --> 00:49:00,270 so I'm just like the long days in a festival, 743 00:49:00,270 --> 00:49:03,649 I'm like, how's this guy fucking doing that? 744 00:49:03,649 --> 00:49:06,026 You know what I'm saying so Chris Brown is just like, 745 00:49:06,026 --> 00:49:07,319 he got energy, man. 746 00:49:07,319 --> 00:49:09,571 That's back in the days when people were like, 747 00:49:09,571 --> 00:49:11,865 fuck Chris Brown, he beat up Rihanna. 748 00:49:16,286 --> 00:49:18,163 Dude that boy's in shape, man, 749 00:49:18,163 --> 00:49:20,207 he's like a UFC fighter, man, 750 00:49:20,207 --> 00:49:22,626 he's like 6'2 in real life, 751 00:49:22,626 --> 00:49:25,879 and he's like lean and he's ready, man. 752 00:49:26,922 --> 00:49:29,841 So I hope you in shape . 753 00:49:29,841 --> 00:49:32,010 if y'all think I can fuck with Chris Brown man, 754 00:49:32,010 --> 00:49:35,180 because it's not walk in the park, man. 755 00:49:39,476 --> 00:49:41,937 - How is the documentary coming along 756 00:49:41,937 --> 00:49:43,397 - So where do you reside, 757 00:49:43,397 --> 00:49:45,273 like where do you call home and shit? 758 00:49:45,273 --> 00:49:46,733 - Far, far away 759 00:49:46,733 --> 00:49:49,027 - Oh, far away really give or take? 760 00:49:49,027 --> 00:49:51,279 - 1500 miles give or take 761 00:49:51,279 --> 00:49:53,407 - 1500 miles, interesting. 762 00:49:54,741 --> 00:49:56,910 So why'd you choose me out of all the directors, 763 00:49:56,910 --> 00:49:58,453 you could have chosen. 764 00:50:02,249 --> 00:50:04,334 - really? 765 00:50:04,334 --> 00:50:06,878 - Then that child would come over to my house a lot, 766 00:50:06,878 --> 00:50:09,047 in 1995 and just bring rhymes, 767 00:50:09,047 --> 00:50:12,426 and we'd share rhymes or whatever. 768 00:50:12,426 --> 00:50:16,096 And you know sometimes Prevail would be there, 769 00:50:16,096 --> 00:50:18,306 and one night we just had this wild idea, 770 00:50:18,306 --> 00:50:19,850 why don't we combine forces 771 00:50:19,850 --> 00:50:21,727 and try to make like this super group. 772 00:50:21,727 --> 00:50:23,020 Now bear in mind, 773 00:50:23,020 --> 00:50:25,063 me and Prevail already had a group, 774 00:50:25,063 --> 00:50:28,442 we were split spirit, we were a duo. 775 00:50:28,442 --> 00:50:32,529 So in my mind I liked the idea of this super group, 776 00:50:32,529 --> 00:50:34,197 but I felt like me and Fred, 777 00:50:34,197 --> 00:50:37,951 hadn't really expanded as a dual at the time, 778 00:50:40,287 --> 00:50:41,204 regardless, 779 00:50:42,831 --> 00:50:46,334 Prevail my child and myself and DJ Kelo C, 780 00:50:47,669 --> 00:50:49,212 decided to form this group. 781 00:50:49,212 --> 00:50:51,965 We had been drinking and just making up silly names, 782 00:50:51,965 --> 00:50:54,051 Like, what should we call it? What should we call it? 783 00:50:54,051 --> 00:50:55,886 You know what I'm saying, the bowling balls, 784 00:50:55,886 --> 00:50:58,388 let's call it the paper plane, 785 00:51:00,182 --> 00:51:01,224 I think I said something like, 786 00:51:01,224 --> 00:51:02,768 yo, let's call it the big dicks, 787 00:51:02,768 --> 00:51:04,352 I was like, no, no, no, no, no, 788 00:51:04,352 --> 00:51:07,230 let's call it the swollen members and it's it stuck. 789 00:51:07,230 --> 00:51:10,609 We laughed about it but by the next day it stuck. 790 00:51:10,609 --> 00:51:14,321 - Well I met Moka when I lived in Victoria, 791 00:51:14,321 --> 00:51:17,574 and this is all before the Swollen Members stuff, 792 00:51:17,574 --> 00:51:21,286 this is when Moka was still doing stuff on tape, 793 00:51:21,286 --> 00:51:24,539 like tapes, like you gotta literally buying a mix tape. 794 00:51:24,539 --> 00:51:28,960 And Jeff back and all those dudes out there and Moka, 795 00:51:30,212 --> 00:51:32,964 we were just, boy, I just appreciated his music, 796 00:51:32,964 --> 00:51:35,258 and we were just friends at first and in that aspect, 797 00:51:35,258 --> 00:51:38,220 and then I just started doing some tour managing, 798 00:51:38,220 --> 00:51:40,138 cause I was like, yo, blah, blah, blah, 799 00:51:40,138 --> 00:51:41,681 and Moka was like, yeah, sure, 800 00:51:41,681 --> 00:51:43,350 you can find some dates for me that's dope. 801 00:51:43,350 --> 00:51:46,895 And that was after the smaller members side of it, 802 00:51:46,895 --> 00:51:50,398 and Moka is just a dope dude, man, outside of the music, 803 00:51:50,398 --> 00:51:51,858 So that's why I was drawn to him, 804 00:51:51,858 --> 00:51:53,151 to even wanna work with him. 805 00:51:53,151 --> 00:51:54,069 - High school was cool, 806 00:51:54,069 --> 00:51:57,239 I went to four or five different high schools. 807 00:51:57,239 --> 00:51:58,448 I was moving a lot with my family, 808 00:51:58,448 --> 00:52:02,160 I got kicked out of a few different schools. 809 00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:04,913 But yeah I had a great high school experience, 810 00:52:04,913 --> 00:52:07,749 and from moving around a lot and from changing schools, 811 00:52:07,749 --> 00:52:09,501 I got to meet a lot of different people, 812 00:52:09,501 --> 00:52:12,587 and different neighborhoods and a lot of us we still cool. 813 00:52:12,587 --> 00:52:15,215 Yeah my parents have always been awesome, 814 00:52:15,215 --> 00:52:16,800 and you know I came up, 815 00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:19,219 my dad was in a band called the "Payolas" 816 00:52:19,219 --> 00:52:21,012 and he was the you know, 817 00:52:21,012 --> 00:52:22,973 songwriter and singer in the group. 818 00:52:22,973 --> 00:52:25,767 So I came up around music and studios and stuff, 819 00:52:25,767 --> 00:52:28,228 and then my mom's always been an amazing artist 820 00:52:28,228 --> 00:52:29,980 and poet and sculptor 821 00:52:31,106 --> 00:52:32,607 artists of all different types, 822 00:52:32,607 --> 00:52:34,943 so that inspiration's been really cool. 823 00:52:34,943 --> 00:52:38,071 They've always pushed me to do music 824 00:52:38,071 --> 00:52:41,783 and pushed me in my graffiti even and things like that, 825 00:52:41,783 --> 00:52:43,827 so yeah they've been awesome. 826 00:52:43,827 --> 00:52:47,330 - I think if you are a real gangster out here, 827 00:52:47,330 --> 00:52:49,708 there's more ways than showing the gun, 828 00:52:49,708 --> 00:52:51,751 to show that you're a real gangster. 829 00:52:51,751 --> 00:52:52,669 unlike you were saying, 830 00:52:52,669 --> 00:52:54,379 the realest gangsters speak in silence, 831 00:52:54,379 --> 00:52:55,922 that's been the rule from day one. 832 00:52:55,922 --> 00:52:57,716 You don't need anybody to know you're at gangster, 833 00:52:57,716 --> 00:53:00,385 Why, what does that do for you? 834 00:53:00,385 --> 00:53:01,803 You know what I mean? 835 00:53:01,803 --> 00:53:02,846 I don't know. 836 00:53:02,846 --> 00:53:05,473 - Hip-hop's gone more mainstream, 837 00:53:05,473 --> 00:53:07,434 and because it's mainstream, 838 00:53:07,434 --> 00:53:09,769 it's less focus on lyrics and more of you know, 839 00:53:09,769 --> 00:53:14,274 it's all about selling it rather than what hip hop is. 840 00:53:16,276 --> 00:53:21,281 And hip hop is you know it's truth, it's about the struggle, 841 00:53:21,907 --> 00:53:24,910 whether that struggle has a racial minority, 842 00:53:24,910 --> 00:53:27,954 or it's a struggle in terms of class, 843 00:53:29,497 --> 00:53:32,209 in terms of poverty whatever it is. 844 00:53:32,209 --> 00:53:36,087 It's about the struggling, it's about life, 845 00:53:36,087 --> 00:53:37,631 that's what hip-hop is to me. 846 00:53:37,631 --> 00:53:38,673 And hip-hop got me through 847 00:53:38,673 --> 00:53:41,760 some of the lowest points in my life, 848 00:53:42,928 --> 00:53:47,349 because it was filled with lyrics that mattered 849 00:53:47,349 --> 00:53:50,393 and now I'm hearing some of the newer stuff 850 00:53:50,393 --> 00:53:51,770 from like, these lyrics are about nothing, 851 00:53:51,770 --> 00:53:53,813 but yeah like all the newer stuff, 852 00:53:53,813 --> 00:53:55,607 it's just like all the beats sound the same to me. 853 00:53:55,607 --> 00:53:57,359 I don't know, I'm I getting old? 854 00:53:57,359 --> 00:53:59,236 Is that what's going on? 855 00:53:59,236 --> 00:54:01,029 Like I don't hear any creativity in the music anymore. 856 00:54:01,029 --> 00:54:02,656 - Grew up as a bit of a punk rocker, 857 00:54:02,656 --> 00:54:05,784 low in the pop punk scene I mean, 858 00:54:05,784 --> 00:54:07,911 yeah, Travis Barker's a big inspiration 859 00:54:07,911 --> 00:54:10,413 for a lot of drummers as he was for me growing up. 860 00:54:10,413 --> 00:54:12,499 But from there actually, 861 00:54:12,499 --> 00:54:16,002 I had a lot of inspiration from jazz and Latin. 862 00:54:16,002 --> 00:54:18,129 My drum teacher, Scott Robert was amazing, 863 00:54:18,129 --> 00:54:19,714 I mean Benny grab, 864 00:54:19,714 --> 00:54:22,968 or even go into the more drum and bass side of it. 865 00:54:32,143 --> 00:54:34,062 - I watched a lot of hip-hop artists, 866 00:54:34,062 --> 00:54:35,188 and even though 867 00:54:35,188 --> 00:54:37,524 there's some really good emergence happening, 868 00:54:37,524 --> 00:54:41,528 I still think it's an untapped market, it's an open market. 869 00:54:41,528 --> 00:54:43,238 - I like to think of Vancouver kind of like, 870 00:54:43,238 --> 00:54:44,572 it's like a teenager, you know. 871 00:54:44,572 --> 00:54:47,075 Like you know when you look at like New York, 872 00:54:47,075 --> 00:54:51,121 okay, you look at like, LA, you look at 873 00:54:51,121 --> 00:54:55,667 identities, and we're like still finding that, right. 874 00:54:55,667 --> 00:54:57,335 - The day in the life of DJ Denise, 875 00:54:57,335 --> 00:55:00,880 oh my gosh, It is hectic, it's crazy. 876 00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:02,549 So I have four kids, 877 00:55:03,591 --> 00:55:07,178 So to start off, I've got to wake up, 878 00:55:08,596 --> 00:55:11,391 make sure that my kids are getting off to school, 879 00:55:11,391 --> 00:55:16,021 and from there I'm usually checking my emails right away, 880 00:55:16,021 --> 00:55:18,648 getting everything set. 881 00:55:18,648 --> 00:55:20,859 Say we're start talking about a Monday, 882 00:55:20,859 --> 00:55:23,361 I'm making sure that I have all of my confirmation emails, 883 00:55:23,361 --> 00:55:26,197 for what's happening on the show. 884 00:55:26,197 --> 00:55:28,825 Then I'll be checking out some new tracks, 885 00:55:28,825 --> 00:55:32,370 also for a DJ set I'll probably have during the week. 886 00:55:32,370 --> 00:55:34,497 And for the rest of the day, 887 00:55:34,497 --> 00:55:36,541 I'm always just listening to music. 888 00:55:36,541 --> 00:55:39,044 - I think the biggest myth in hip-hop, 889 00:55:39,044 --> 00:55:42,297 is how they try to tell you it's a young man's game. 890 00:55:42,297 --> 00:55:46,343 That's just the studio executives basically enforcing, 891 00:55:46,343 --> 00:55:49,846 a younger signing deal is country music. 892 00:55:49,846 --> 00:55:51,389 You got country music with all old, 893 00:55:51,389 --> 00:55:53,266 fucking bearded fat guys, you know, 894 00:55:53,266 --> 00:55:56,102 still doing it doesn't matter how old they are, whatever. 895 00:55:56,102 --> 00:55:59,147 RnB, you got a lot of older people doing it, 896 00:55:59,147 --> 00:56:00,398 and also rock and roll, 897 00:56:00,398 --> 00:56:02,025 I mean look at 898 00:56:02,025 --> 00:56:02,901 they must be 70 years old. 899 00:56:02,901 --> 00:56:06,363 And I think their last tour made $105 million, 900 00:56:06,363 --> 00:56:08,448 I mean there's no age limit to music 901 00:56:08,448 --> 00:56:09,991 who have a really young audience, 902 00:56:09,991 --> 00:56:12,243 It doesn't matter what you look like. 903 00:56:18,333 --> 00:56:20,168 - The nineties are hard to describe, 904 00:56:20,168 --> 00:56:24,464 but well specifically the indie rock or whatever, 905 00:56:24,464 --> 00:56:26,800 the scene it's so different. 906 00:56:28,343 --> 00:56:31,346 Culturally, there's a huge difference, 907 00:56:31,346 --> 00:56:35,600 I think even though musically is like so similar, 908 00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:39,729 culturally, there was a big difference between, 909 00:56:39,729 --> 00:56:40,814 I just mean musically. 910 00:56:40,814 --> 00:56:42,440 All music is very similar, 911 00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:44,442 but culturally there's a big difference 912 00:56:44,442 --> 00:56:46,403 between like indie rock and the nineties, 913 00:56:46,403 --> 00:56:49,030 and like hip-hop, probably in the 90s. 914 00:56:49,030 --> 00:56:52,742 But also now where hip-hop if people succeed, 915 00:56:54,452 --> 00:56:57,080 or they're doing well or even if they're not so much, 916 00:56:57,080 --> 00:57:01,584 they blow everything up and brag about it incessantly, 917 00:57:02,419 --> 00:57:06,131 that's part of the culture and that's cool. 918 00:57:06,131 --> 00:57:09,426 I mean no one's gonna look down on you, 919 00:57:09,426 --> 00:57:11,803 for talking about how great you are 920 00:57:11,803 --> 00:57:13,096 or how great you were, 921 00:57:13,096 --> 00:57:14,931 or something you succeeded at. 922 00:57:14,931 --> 00:57:18,643 But in Indie rock you're supposed to be humble, 923 00:57:18,643 --> 00:57:20,979 you're not supposed to celebrate your success 924 00:57:20,979 --> 00:57:21,813 for whatever reason. 925 00:57:21,813 --> 00:57:23,690 I shouldn't say you're supposed to, 926 00:57:23,690 --> 00:57:26,609 but the the overall kind of feeling 927 00:57:27,610 --> 00:57:30,196 was that trying too hard also trying hard 928 00:57:30,196 --> 00:57:33,491 was also something that was frowned upon 929 00:57:33,491 --> 00:57:34,742 during that era. 930 00:57:34,742 --> 00:57:38,163 It is hard to put your finger on exactly, 931 00:57:40,290 --> 00:57:41,916 why or where it came from, 932 00:57:41,916 --> 00:57:45,378 but it's culturally I would say interesting time. 933 00:57:46,754 --> 00:57:49,632 - Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, 934 00:57:49,632 --> 00:57:51,134 I got the goggles. 935 00:57:55,263 --> 00:57:56,931 - Okay, I won't do that again. 936 00:57:59,100 --> 00:58:03,813 that's some good shit. 937 00:58:11,446 --> 00:58:13,364 Just fucking with you. 938 00:58:13,364 --> 00:58:15,700 Alright I gotta go to bed 939 00:58:15,700 --> 00:58:18,786 - I don't know why he keeps telling him this stuff though, 940 00:58:18,786 --> 00:58:20,955 but it seems right, right? 941 00:58:23,208 --> 00:58:24,334 - He was just so dope, 942 00:58:24,334 --> 00:58:27,128 I mean, the stuff that's on video that you see, 943 00:58:27,128 --> 00:58:28,755 that's on the internet now. 944 00:58:28,755 --> 00:58:31,799 I mean I wasn't at that one, but that's exactly how it was, 945 00:58:31,799 --> 00:58:34,302 it was an event, he used to have people, 946 00:58:34,302 --> 00:58:37,180 when he started spitting just coming outta everywhere. 947 00:58:37,180 --> 00:58:40,725 And I was so young, you you know, it was just New York. 948 00:58:40,725 --> 00:58:42,602 That's how it was I used to see fat boys, 949 00:58:42,602 --> 00:58:44,687 like prince Markie Dee and all those dudes, 950 00:58:44,687 --> 00:58:46,814 and they used to be everywhere. 951 00:58:46,814 --> 00:58:48,274 Like you just go somewhere, 952 00:58:48,274 --> 00:58:49,651 you like walk in white castle, 953 00:58:49,651 --> 00:58:52,904 and you're like, oh, he's right there da, da, da. 954 00:58:52,904 --> 00:58:55,114 So to see Biggie before he blew up to me, 955 00:58:55,114 --> 00:58:55,990 he was just a rapper. 956 00:58:55,990 --> 00:58:57,325 He's just some dude on the street, 957 00:58:57,325 --> 00:59:00,495 and then further as you go I'm like, oh, 958 00:59:00,495 --> 00:59:03,581 as I left I'm like, is that the same dude? 959 00:59:03,581 --> 00:59:05,375 I'm like but how many fat dudes, 960 00:59:05,375 --> 00:59:07,001 are that dope with a fucked up eye? 961 00:59:07,001 --> 00:59:08,169 That's the same dude. 962 00:59:08,169 --> 00:59:10,380 - It's the funny thing talking about that, 963 00:59:10,380 --> 00:59:13,341 nobody really ever knows for certain, you know, 964 00:59:13,341 --> 00:59:17,428 I could sit here and make up some glorious story, 965 00:59:19,430 --> 00:59:23,518 but it was just in me from the second I heard it. 966 00:59:25,228 --> 00:59:26,980 I hear something on the radio or whatever, 967 00:59:26,980 --> 00:59:28,898 my records, literally vinyl records, 968 00:59:28,898 --> 00:59:30,733 my parents were playing, 969 00:59:30,733 --> 00:59:32,485 'cause this was the 1970s, 970 00:59:32,485 --> 00:59:35,280 and I would just want to emulate it. 971 00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:37,323 And it's funny because I remember, 972 00:59:37,323 --> 00:59:39,909 by the time I started going to grade school, 973 00:59:39,909 --> 00:59:41,411 you know, I'd go to grade school, 974 00:59:41,411 --> 00:59:43,788 like singing the songs I hear my parents playing, 975 00:59:43,788 --> 00:59:44,998 'cause I thought it was new music. 976 00:59:44,998 --> 00:59:46,791 I didn't know what they were playing was, 977 00:59:46,791 --> 00:59:49,836 you know, from 20 years prior 978 00:59:49,836 --> 00:59:52,005 a lot of it or whatever. 979 00:59:52,005 --> 00:59:53,298 People they were like, what's that? 980 00:59:53,298 --> 00:59:55,300 What are you singing, what is that? 981 00:59:55,300 --> 00:59:56,968 You know what I mean but yeah. 982 00:59:56,968 --> 01:00:00,138 - That okay was definitely my favorite joke for sure, 983 01:00:00,138 --> 01:00:03,474 I got to dance with her, got to open for a sell out crowd, 984 01:00:03,474 --> 01:00:07,770 and you know, everyone just super responsive warranty, 985 01:00:07,770 --> 01:00:10,106 definitely ares up there 986 01:00:10,106 --> 01:00:12,984 But yeah with school members, 987 01:00:12,984 --> 01:00:15,737 and then as well as Canibus, D12, 988 01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:23,244 - Someone like Moka Oonly you know, to me, 989 01:00:23,244 --> 01:00:25,038 I looked up to and I still think, 990 01:00:25,038 --> 01:00:28,374 as far as if I can consider him up here and he's a friend, 991 01:00:28,374 --> 01:00:32,712 because you know he's been in the industry for years 992 01:00:34,255 --> 01:00:36,966 and he's got just albums of albums, 993 01:00:36,966 --> 01:00:39,010 of albums, of albums, of material. 994 01:00:39,010 --> 01:00:42,722 Like I don't think anyone has that much material out there, 995 01:00:42,722 --> 01:00:45,516 but then, you know, right now someone like Mike Mees, 996 01:00:45,516 --> 01:00:48,478 people are saying is very, you know, successful 997 01:00:48,478 --> 01:00:50,772 because he does have a big following 998 01:00:50,772 --> 01:00:54,525 and he's definitely done some things that presently. 999 01:00:54,525 --> 01:00:57,695 I would say currently he's probably, you know, 1000 01:00:57,695 --> 01:01:00,239 someone that is doing very well right now. 1001 01:01:00,239 --> 01:01:03,117 - Fazz is watching, they, watching everything, 1002 01:01:03,117 --> 01:01:04,577 they love when you drop music videos, 1003 01:01:04,577 --> 01:01:08,081 they love when you drop music video, they love it, 1004 01:01:08,081 --> 01:01:10,416 drop it, show all the guns you want, 1005 01:01:10,416 --> 01:01:12,001 you're gonna get a million don't worry. 1006 01:01:18,841 --> 01:01:21,469 - Are you where you see yourself today, 1007 01:01:21,469 --> 01:01:24,138 or did you see yourself as someone else? 1008 01:01:24,138 --> 01:01:25,932 I obviously thought I would be, 1009 01:01:25,932 --> 01:01:30,520 one of the biggest actors in the world right now, 1010 01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:31,437 Right here? 1011 01:01:33,022 --> 01:01:35,108 Hi, my name's Cart. 1012 01:01:35,108 --> 01:01:36,859 Can I do that again? 1013 01:02:09,058 --> 01:02:12,395 Anyway, but yeah, I thought I'd be a big actor, 1014 01:02:12,395 --> 01:02:16,774 when I was started out acting in acting class, 1015 01:02:16,774 --> 01:02:18,735 my teachers would pull me aside 1016 01:02:18,735 --> 01:02:20,027 and say you need an agent 1017 01:02:20,027 --> 01:02:21,112 you should get out there. 1018 01:02:21,112 --> 01:02:22,947 You know, you're one of the best actors in the class, 1019 01:02:22,947 --> 01:02:25,533 like straight up saying that to me. 1020 01:02:25,533 --> 01:02:27,285 And I think it almost gave me an ego, 1021 01:02:27,285 --> 01:02:29,620 that I didn't deserve to have at that stage. 1022 01:02:29,620 --> 01:02:32,749 And I just burned it out, like I just went in, 1023 01:02:32,749 --> 01:02:35,543 like I was the best thing in every audition, 1024 01:02:35,543 --> 01:02:37,837 I'd walk in I mean, I'd book some stuff, 1025 01:02:37,837 --> 01:02:40,882 but like I was going up for some big roles at the time. 1026 01:02:40,882 --> 01:02:42,800 And I got close to really close to book 1027 01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:43,968 and a few large ones, 1028 01:02:43,968 --> 01:02:46,179 but I think I shoot myself in the foot 1029 01:02:46,179 --> 01:02:48,014 because I think I have a afraid 1030 01:02:48,014 --> 01:02:51,100 of being famous type mentality and... 1031 01:02:52,059 --> 01:02:55,229 Like I don't know if I would want people 1032 01:02:55,229 --> 01:02:57,774 to come up to me and like introduce themselves to me, 1033 01:02:57,774 --> 01:02:59,609 say hi to me all the time. 1034 01:02:59,609 --> 01:03:03,529 And I don't know like I'm kind of reclosed that way right. 1035 01:03:19,712 --> 01:03:22,131 - The people that follow that and believe that, 1036 01:03:22,131 --> 01:03:24,717 can't really separate the reality of it that, 1037 01:03:24,717 --> 01:03:26,385 most of these people there... 1038 01:03:26,385 --> 01:03:27,428 I just saw a rental, 1039 01:03:27,428 --> 01:03:31,474 for a 2016 Rolls Royce for 150 bucks an hour, 1040 01:03:31,474 --> 01:03:32,475 That I know for a fact, 1041 01:03:32,475 --> 01:03:35,019 is only rented up to rappers in this city. 1042 01:03:35,019 --> 01:03:36,479 And like, that's the thing, it's an illusion, 1043 01:03:36,479 --> 01:03:38,481 and that's why I say I like the hip-hop I listen to, 1044 01:03:38,481 --> 01:03:39,565 is a lot of underground stuff 1045 01:03:39,565 --> 01:03:40,858 It's a lot of more heartfelt stuff 1046 01:03:40,858 --> 01:03:42,527 because I wanna hear the real stuff. 1047 01:04:04,215 --> 01:04:07,301 - Well you know tough love existed for sure, 1048 01:04:07,301 --> 01:04:09,804 but it wasn't anything negative, 1049 01:04:09,804 --> 01:04:11,722 like you know nothing like child abuse, 1050 01:04:11,722 --> 01:04:13,391 I didn't experience none of that. 1051 01:04:13,391 --> 01:04:16,310 My parents were loving without a doubt, 1052 01:04:16,310 --> 01:04:19,647 loving they both grew up in rural Kenya, 1053 01:04:20,731 --> 01:04:22,608 very traditional up upbringing. 1054 01:04:22,608 --> 01:04:27,196 So they raised us with still that traditional element. 1055 01:04:27,196 --> 01:04:29,699 So discipline is an important factor 1056 01:04:29,699 --> 01:04:31,951 in that traditional element. 1057 01:04:31,951 --> 01:04:33,077 That's how you live your life. 1058 01:04:33,077 --> 01:04:34,579 That's how you build a life. 1059 01:04:34,579 --> 01:04:36,122 So that's how they raised us. 1060 01:04:36,122 --> 01:04:37,540 Everything. 1061 01:04:37,540 --> 01:04:38,749 School is very serious. 1062 01:04:38,749 --> 01:04:40,835 - The thing I'm trying to break for every artist, dude. 1063 01:04:40,835 --> 01:04:43,170 I'm a young, black getting it, bro, like dude 1064 01:04:43,170 --> 01:04:45,006 and I ain't tied to no mother fuckin' buddy. 1065 01:04:45,006 --> 01:04:46,632 I don't owe no mother fuckin' buddy. 1066 01:04:46,632 --> 01:04:48,634 And if I wanna fuckin' tour, 1067 01:04:48,634 --> 01:04:50,511 I just tour pay for my own tour. 1068 01:04:50,511 --> 01:04:52,847 I don't wait for the government. 1069 01:04:52,847 --> 01:04:53,681 You know what I'm saying like, 1070 01:04:53,681 --> 01:04:54,682 that's what you, 1071 01:04:54,682 --> 01:04:56,017 I own all my own music, 1072 01:04:56,017 --> 01:04:57,018 I own my own studio. 1073 01:04:57,018 --> 01:04:58,519 I have shit like this in my house too 1074 01:04:58,519 --> 01:05:00,062 and in my office in Yale town. 1075 01:05:00,062 --> 01:05:02,607 But I'm not doing enough selling drugs, dog. 1076 01:05:02,607 --> 01:05:04,817 I'm doing enough opening up with legitimate companies. 1077 01:05:04,817 --> 01:05:06,944 Yeah, we probably also sold a couple QPS 1078 01:05:06,944 --> 01:05:08,070 with a couple half pounds, 1079 01:05:08,070 --> 01:05:08,905 but my ass, 1080 01:05:08,905 --> 01:05:09,989 once I got my profits, 1081 01:05:09,989 --> 01:05:11,574 I never ran to the club to chase bitches, 1082 01:05:11,574 --> 01:05:12,408 I saved my share. 1083 01:05:12,408 --> 01:05:14,869 So I sold, quick 20,000, 30,000. 1084 01:05:14,869 --> 01:05:17,038 I started to invest into legal things, 1085 01:05:17,038 --> 01:05:18,998 opening up studios, 1086 01:05:18,998 --> 01:05:20,416 focusing on that, 1087 01:05:20,416 --> 01:05:22,793 opening up that didn't make enough money as I wanted. 1088 01:05:22,793 --> 01:05:24,295 Opening up junk companies, 1089 01:05:24,295 --> 01:05:25,796 opening up dispensaries, 1090 01:05:25,796 --> 01:05:27,340 opening up other shit, 1091 01:05:27,340 --> 01:05:28,174 you know what I'm saying. 1092 01:05:28,174 --> 01:05:30,092 So like, you have do other things 1093 01:05:30,092 --> 01:05:31,719 and boom me hit a jackpot 1094 01:05:31,719 --> 01:05:32,887 as soon as you don't give up. 1095 01:05:32,887 --> 01:05:33,721 You know what I'm saying. 1096 01:05:33,721 --> 01:05:37,642 All of a sudden you're able to fund your music career. 1097 01:05:43,731 --> 01:05:45,983 - My parents were against it. 1098 01:05:45,983 --> 01:05:48,319 'Cause I got really into it. 1099 01:05:48,319 --> 01:05:50,446 I was like, yo man, I got, I gotta do this, 1100 01:05:50,446 --> 01:05:51,781 like I got to style down so, 1101 01:05:51,781 --> 01:05:53,157 I was very into it 1102 01:05:53,157 --> 01:05:55,493 and I was running around telling people, 1103 01:05:55,493 --> 01:05:56,619 oh, I'm gonna be a dancer, 1104 01:05:56,619 --> 01:05:58,663 I'm gonna be a tour dancer. 1105 01:06:15,388 --> 01:06:19,308 I go by Wreckage, my real name is Kofi Amoah 1106 01:06:19,308 --> 01:06:21,519 I'm a Ghanaian descent from Africa, 1107 01:06:21,519 --> 01:06:24,188 but I just go by Wreckage, 1108 01:06:24,188 --> 01:06:26,524 just get the whole name out there so. 1109 01:06:26,524 --> 01:06:28,234 - And where I'm from Nova Scotia, 1110 01:06:28,234 --> 01:06:29,110 we just had this. 1111 01:06:29,110 --> 01:06:29,944 I don't know if you heard it, 1112 01:06:29,944 --> 01:06:30,903 the so Brooklyn challenge, 1113 01:06:30,903 --> 01:06:33,280 everybody was free styling over this beat. 1114 01:06:33,280 --> 01:06:34,657 Just started rapping over that beat bit 1115 01:06:34,657 --> 01:06:36,909 in their best verse so whatever. 1116 01:06:36,909 --> 01:06:38,369 And it was good to see a lot of people 1117 01:06:38,369 --> 01:06:39,996 from where I'm from, coming together 1118 01:06:39,996 --> 01:06:41,247 and doing their thing. 1119 01:06:41,247 --> 01:06:43,332 But to showcased the talents as well. 1120 01:06:43,332 --> 01:06:44,917 Everybody coming over to Woodworks people, 1121 01:06:44,917 --> 01:06:46,335 I didn't even know that rapped 1122 01:06:46,335 --> 01:06:47,503 was doing it. 1123 01:06:47,503 --> 01:06:50,506 And there's a lot of talent there as well. 1124 01:06:50,506 --> 01:06:53,843 - So what's my opinion of the Vancouver Rap scene. 1125 01:06:53,843 --> 01:06:55,803 Again, I think it's actually 1126 01:06:55,803 --> 01:06:57,638 in an interesting spot right now 1127 01:06:57,638 --> 01:07:00,141 because you have all these artists 1128 01:07:00,141 --> 01:07:01,851 that were on the come up 1129 01:07:01,851 --> 01:07:04,186 over the last 10 years, or longer 1130 01:07:04,186 --> 01:07:07,231 that are definitely seeing success now. 1131 01:07:07,231 --> 01:07:08,983 So I think it's again 1132 01:07:09,900 --> 01:07:11,402 positive in a way. 1133 01:07:11,402 --> 01:07:13,988 I mean, I remember when we were kinda doing hip hop, 1134 01:07:13,988 --> 01:07:16,699 it was almost like that was 10, 12 years ago. 1135 01:07:16,699 --> 01:07:18,034 It was almost a little bit dead. 1136 01:07:18,034 --> 01:07:19,368 Like there really wasn't too much 1137 01:07:19,368 --> 01:07:21,871 coming out of Vancouver at that point. 1138 01:07:21,871 --> 01:07:23,748 And now when I look at Junk, 1139 01:07:23,748 --> 01:07:24,832 is doing really well. 1140 01:07:24,832 --> 01:07:25,833 And I remember that's a guy 1141 01:07:25,833 --> 01:07:27,293 that I met at The Anza Club 1142 01:07:27,293 --> 01:07:29,670 that was 10 years ago longer. 1143 01:07:29,670 --> 01:07:31,964 And you see Snak the Ripper, 1144 01:07:33,007 --> 01:07:34,091 you see Merkules. 1145 01:07:34,091 --> 01:07:36,802 And those guys are like on top of the world, right? 1146 01:07:36,802 --> 01:07:40,056 And so I really think it's growing 1147 01:07:40,056 --> 01:07:41,182 and there's more and more great, 1148 01:07:41,182 --> 01:07:42,433 Vancouver hip hop coming out. 1149 01:07:42,433 --> 01:07:44,477 As I said again, I'm so Lowkey Bands 1150 01:07:44,477 --> 01:07:46,020 and you got a lot of young kids 1151 01:07:46,020 --> 01:07:47,480 and everybody's sort of doing their thing. 1152 01:07:47,480 --> 01:07:49,857 And I felt like the community definitely grew, 1153 01:07:49,857 --> 01:07:52,485 and it's less about the battle rap scene, 1154 01:07:52,485 --> 01:07:53,736 like it was 10 years ago 1155 01:07:53,736 --> 01:07:55,738 and people would dis each other a lot. 1156 01:07:55,738 --> 01:07:56,572 I felt like 1157 01:07:56,572 --> 01:07:59,200 and instead of helping each other. 1158 01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:01,744 And to me coming from the German hip hop scene, 1159 01:08:01,744 --> 01:08:03,287 that back then when I left 1160 01:08:03,287 --> 01:08:04,914 was very supportive 1161 01:08:04,914 --> 01:08:07,458 and you know, everybody was in the crew 1162 01:08:07,458 --> 01:08:08,709 when helping each other out 1163 01:08:08,709 --> 01:08:09,877 just to make it bigger 1164 01:08:09,877 --> 01:08:12,838 because back then German hip was still sort of underground. 1165 01:08:12,838 --> 01:08:15,257 And so when I moved here, 1166 01:08:15,257 --> 01:08:17,009 I was slightly disappointed 1167 01:08:17,009 --> 01:08:18,177 because I felt like, 1168 01:08:18,177 --> 01:08:19,804 you tried to connect with these people, 1169 01:08:19,804 --> 01:08:22,431 but they would treat you like you weren't good enough 1170 01:08:22,431 --> 01:08:23,516 or, you know, 1171 01:08:25,267 --> 01:08:27,895 or there was just this like little bit battle mentality. 1172 01:08:27,895 --> 01:08:29,021 And I didn't feel like 1173 01:08:29,021 --> 01:08:29,939 it had to be there. 1174 01:08:29,939 --> 01:08:31,899 - Really wipe my ass. 1175 01:08:31,899 --> 01:08:33,776 - I'm unable to do that for you, sir, 1176 01:08:33,776 --> 01:08:35,653 I am a computer generated voice 1177 01:08:35,653 --> 01:08:37,613 built to track your motion and your movement 1178 01:08:37,613 --> 01:08:38,823 throughout the world. 1179 01:08:38,823 --> 01:08:40,491 - Fucking useless. 1180 01:08:53,420 --> 01:08:55,005 - My five year goal, 1181 01:08:55,005 --> 01:08:56,841 I'm definitely working on my green card. 1182 01:08:56,841 --> 01:08:59,093 I'd like to be, you know, in LA, 1183 01:08:59,093 --> 01:09:01,303 I work with some people like Day 1 already there. 1184 01:09:01,303 --> 01:09:03,681 So I'd like to expand there. 1185 01:09:03,681 --> 01:09:05,266 I see within five years, you know, 1186 01:09:05,266 --> 01:09:07,059 touring Canada, North America, 1187 01:09:07,059 --> 01:09:08,227 probably Europe. 1188 01:09:08,227 --> 01:09:12,189 I also just see myself producing more movies. 1189 01:10:09,205 --> 01:10:11,040 - Hip hop, always shifts, 1190 01:10:11,040 --> 01:10:12,833 it always trying to... 1191 01:10:13,918 --> 01:10:15,461 There's always somebody who's not happy 1192 01:10:15,461 --> 01:10:16,754 with the way that it is 1193 01:10:16,754 --> 01:10:18,589 or they say, I don't fuck with it like that. 1194 01:10:18,589 --> 01:10:21,383 So I'm gonna do it in this way. 1195 01:10:21,383 --> 01:10:24,929 I think, anytime that there's mediocrity 1196 01:10:24,929 --> 01:10:25,846 in a scene, 1197 01:10:27,181 --> 01:10:29,850 it is an opportunity for the other people 1198 01:10:29,850 --> 01:10:33,312 to show off their true originality. 1199 01:10:33,312 --> 01:10:35,397 Yeah, I work as a landscaper, I love it. 1200 01:10:35,397 --> 01:10:36,815 And it actually can be inspiring sometimes. 1201 01:10:36,815 --> 01:10:38,651 Like you find that 1202 01:10:38,651 --> 01:10:41,654 your vocabulary and your vernacular changes 1203 01:10:41,654 --> 01:10:42,905 based on what you're doing. 1204 01:10:42,905 --> 01:10:43,739 And so, 1205 01:10:44,782 --> 01:10:45,824 you know, I was working in a kitchen. 1206 01:10:45,824 --> 01:10:47,743 I had a lot of like food lines 1207 01:10:47,743 --> 01:10:50,246 because like heard new new words. 1208 01:10:50,246 --> 01:10:52,623 And so like with the gardening thing, 1209 01:10:52,623 --> 01:10:56,335 like you know, I wrote this song like, wow, 1210 01:10:56,335 --> 01:10:57,962 and actually we just recorded it 1211 01:10:57,962 --> 01:10:58,796 and it's gonna come out 1212 01:10:58,796 --> 01:11:01,090 and it's getting good feedback. 1213 01:11:01,090 --> 01:11:03,133 The tenant of title is like old leaves 1214 01:11:03,133 --> 01:11:04,260 might be called the forest. 1215 01:11:04,260 --> 01:11:06,845 But I wrote it like, as I was raking up leaves. 1216 01:11:17,273 --> 01:11:18,899 It all came to me kind of like, 1217 01:11:18,899 --> 01:11:20,067 oh, I'm just raking up all these, 1218 01:11:20,067 --> 01:11:21,318 and then you put it together. 1219 01:11:21,318 --> 01:11:22,444 So sometimes actually 1220 01:11:22,444 --> 01:11:24,613 what you were physically doing all the time, 1221 01:11:24,613 --> 01:11:26,031 like a lot eight hours a day 1222 01:11:26,031 --> 01:11:29,243 really affects, where your mind goes, 1223 01:11:29,243 --> 01:11:30,661 playing with words, right. 1224 01:11:35,249 --> 01:11:39,169 - The alien is telling him how to do the documentary. 1225 01:11:40,296 --> 01:11:42,006 - Sorry, can you repeat the question? 1226 01:11:42,006 --> 01:11:44,049 Am always your original question? 1227 01:11:44,049 --> 01:11:46,927 - The aliens, a filmmaker. 1228 01:11:46,927 --> 01:11:48,637 That's outta sight. 1229 01:11:48,637 --> 01:11:49,471 I don't get it, man. 1230 01:11:49,471 --> 01:11:51,015 Like where did this guy come from? 1231 01:11:51,015 --> 01:11:54,393 - Is he wearing a suit, this alien 1232 01:11:54,393 --> 01:11:55,602 - No, I think that's his skin. 1233 01:11:55,602 --> 01:11:56,437 That's his skin. - That's real. 1234 01:11:56,437 --> 01:11:57,563 - Yeah, yeah, yeah that's his skin. 1235 01:11:57,563 --> 01:11:58,939 It looks like a suit probably, 1236 01:11:58,939 --> 01:12:00,232 but it's just, it's like, 1237 01:12:00,232 --> 01:12:02,359 probably like a latex rubbery texture. 1238 01:12:09,908 --> 01:12:11,910 - First thing, when I came here 1239 01:12:11,910 --> 01:12:13,829 and I went on YouTube and Google, 1240 01:12:13,829 --> 01:12:15,831 you know, I tried to find Vancity hip hop, 1241 01:12:15,831 --> 01:12:17,124 like who is Vancity hip hop, 1242 01:12:17,124 --> 01:12:18,375 what's going on Vancity hip hop. 1243 01:12:18,375 --> 01:12:21,211 And I saw young Merkules okay. 1244 01:12:21,211 --> 01:12:22,046 - Okay. 1245 01:12:22,046 --> 01:12:22,880 - And I said, yo, 1246 01:12:22,880 --> 01:12:24,923 this big boy is disgusting though, 1247 01:12:24,923 --> 01:12:26,091 this is what's here. 1248 01:12:26,091 --> 01:12:27,718 And I never heard of his name in Toronto. 1249 01:12:27,718 --> 01:12:29,595 I never heard of this guy's name. 1250 01:12:29,595 --> 01:12:30,429 And I heard this guy, 1251 01:12:30,429 --> 01:12:31,472 I'm like, yo, this guy is disgusting, 1252 01:12:31,472 --> 01:12:33,515 how come this guy is not busting right now? 1253 01:12:33,515 --> 01:12:36,727 But it was at the time when things were happening now. 1254 01:12:36,727 --> 01:12:37,895 he was getting the sway show, 1255 01:12:37,895 --> 01:12:38,937 things were popping off. 1256 01:12:38,937 --> 01:12:39,772 And actually one of my first shows, 1257 01:12:39,772 --> 01:12:41,440 Shout out shout out. 1258 01:12:43,400 --> 01:12:44,735 Where head entertainment. 1259 01:12:44,735 --> 01:12:45,611 They got me that show 1260 01:12:45,611 --> 01:12:47,946 and they got me the open for Merk. 1261 01:12:47,946 --> 01:12:49,073 And I got to see him live. 1262 01:12:49,073 --> 01:12:50,783 And I'm like, yo, like this guy, 1263 01:12:50,783 --> 01:12:52,242 he has the capability 1264 01:12:52,242 --> 01:12:55,329 to really open the door for advanced city hip hop. 1265 01:12:55,329 --> 01:12:57,081 And that's just how I feel. 1266 01:12:57,081 --> 01:12:58,207 I'm not, I don't ride dick, 1267 01:12:58,207 --> 01:12:59,458 I don't know the man, 1268 01:12:59,458 --> 01:13:00,751 I'm just talking what I'm talking. 1269 01:13:00,751 --> 01:13:01,668 And from what he's doing, 1270 01:13:01,668 --> 01:13:03,420 he's dropping albums and he's getting numbers. 1271 01:13:03,420 --> 01:13:04,254 He's doing tours, 1272 01:13:04,254 --> 01:13:05,172 he's getting numbers. 1273 01:13:05,172 --> 01:13:06,423 That's the things that you need 1274 01:13:06,423 --> 01:13:08,425 to make it like a thing where you see like, 1275 01:13:08,425 --> 01:13:10,552 yo, we have artists out here 1276 01:13:10,552 --> 01:13:12,513 from Vans, he's from BC. 1277 01:13:12,513 --> 01:13:13,972 Oh, okay, that's in Canada. 1278 01:13:13,972 --> 01:13:15,182 JGeezy from there too. 1279 01:13:15,182 --> 01:13:17,142 Let's see what else is in Canada. 1280 01:13:17,142 --> 01:13:18,769 Let's see what else is in the country 1281 01:13:18,769 --> 01:13:19,728 because right away, 1282 01:13:19,728 --> 01:13:21,397 you already know when you hear Canada, 1283 01:13:21,397 --> 01:13:23,273 first thing you think of is, right? 1284 01:13:23,273 --> 01:13:24,108 Right now, 1285 01:13:24,108 --> 01:13:27,611 for everybody to kind of just ramp through this door, 1286 01:13:27,611 --> 01:13:29,446 out here in Vancouver. 1287 01:13:29,446 --> 01:13:30,322 Three years ago, 1288 01:13:30,322 --> 01:13:31,323 I don't believe that. 1289 01:13:31,323 --> 01:13:32,825 Now I believe that. 1290 01:13:32,825 --> 01:13:35,661 - My favorite rapper would be Eve. 1291 01:13:36,829 --> 01:13:38,705 She inspired me to get into music, 1292 01:13:38,705 --> 01:13:42,376 growing up, having her as a role model. 1293 01:13:42,376 --> 01:13:45,546 She was a strong, independent female rapper. 1294 01:13:45,546 --> 01:13:48,173 And she wasn't, like all girly. 1295 01:13:48,173 --> 01:13:50,968 She was okay with just being like badass 1296 01:13:50,968 --> 01:13:52,719 and just like more of a tomboy. 1297 01:13:52,719 --> 01:13:54,972 And like her album dropped when I was in high school. 1298 01:13:54,972 --> 01:13:56,849 I think it was in grade nine 1299 01:13:56,849 --> 01:13:58,851 when Ruff Ryder's First Lady came out. 1300 01:13:58,851 --> 01:14:00,686 And I was just like in awe, 1301 01:14:00,686 --> 01:14:01,770 I was, I was like damn, 1302 01:14:01,770 --> 01:14:03,105 if she can do it, I can do it. 1303 01:14:03,105 --> 01:14:04,398 And to this day, 1304 01:14:04,398 --> 01:14:05,983 I just fuckin' love her. 1305 01:14:05,983 --> 01:14:06,817 She's amazing. 1306 01:14:06,817 --> 01:14:08,735 I wish you would come out with more music now 1307 01:14:08,735 --> 01:14:10,571 'cause like there's other 1308 01:14:10,571 --> 01:14:12,489 female MCs that are like more popular now, 1309 01:14:12,489 --> 01:14:13,657 she's got a couple tracks, 1310 01:14:13,657 --> 01:14:15,742 but like I'm just dying for her next album to drop. 1311 01:14:15,742 --> 01:14:17,453 I don't want her to stop making music 1312 01:14:17,453 --> 01:14:18,287 'cause I love her. 1313 01:14:28,130 --> 01:14:29,006 - A lot of times, 1314 01:14:29,006 --> 01:14:31,175 I spend my days writing music, 1315 01:14:31,175 --> 01:14:35,220 doing artwork and then, you know, meetings, 1316 01:14:35,220 --> 01:14:37,514 meeting up with different people, planning out tours 1317 01:14:37,514 --> 01:14:41,185 or you know, different ventures and shows 1318 01:14:41,185 --> 01:14:43,061 and things like that. 1319 01:14:43,061 --> 01:14:43,979 And we also, 1320 01:14:43,979 --> 01:14:47,357 I help run a hip hop drop in Center and East Vancouver. 1321 01:14:47,357 --> 01:14:49,985 So we're doing that every week as well. 1322 01:14:49,985 --> 01:14:52,154 And just planning out the curriculum, 1323 01:14:52,154 --> 01:14:54,531 getting guests, people to come in for workshops 1324 01:14:54,531 --> 01:14:57,743 and then actually teaching hip hop ourself. 1325 01:15:03,290 --> 01:15:04,333 - What the fuck men. 1326 01:15:06,502 --> 01:15:07,336 I'm trying to talk to the girl. 1327 01:15:07,336 --> 01:15:11,048 . 1328 01:15:11,048 --> 01:15:12,299 - Man I quit, 1329 01:15:12,299 --> 01:15:13,717 I quit. 1330 01:15:13,717 --> 01:15:15,511 - And I'm taking these tips too. 1331 01:15:16,970 --> 01:15:18,847 I grew up in North Preston with my family, 1332 01:15:18,847 --> 01:15:20,432 we got a big family. 1333 01:15:20,432 --> 01:15:22,059 My main source of income right now 1334 01:15:22,059 --> 01:15:24,645 was work actually on BC Ferries. 1335 01:15:24,645 --> 01:15:26,396 So I'm traveling a lot to the islands, 1336 01:15:26,396 --> 01:15:27,981 things of that nature. 1337 01:15:27,981 --> 01:15:31,360 So yeah, I got a little hustle hustle here and there, 1338 01:15:31,360 --> 01:15:33,111 but that's just how it goes, you know. 1339 01:15:52,881 --> 01:15:54,675 - I am absolutely not 1340 01:15:54,675 --> 01:15:58,887 where I thought I would be, four years ago. 1341 01:15:58,887 --> 01:16:02,558 Life took a really interesting turn 1342 01:16:02,558 --> 01:16:05,185 when I did some soul searching. 1343 01:16:05,185 --> 01:16:09,231 After the third time of dropping out of school 1344 01:16:09,231 --> 01:16:10,649 and I was really... 1345 01:16:10,649 --> 01:16:12,067 Because I'm a perfectionist 1346 01:16:12,067 --> 01:16:13,902 and because I'm an overachiever, 1347 01:16:13,902 --> 01:16:16,238 I saw myself dropping out of school 1348 01:16:16,238 --> 01:16:18,115 as complete failure. 1349 01:16:18,115 --> 01:16:20,784 I thought I had failed myself as a person. 1350 01:16:20,784 --> 01:16:22,244 I had wasted money. 1351 01:16:22,244 --> 01:16:23,996 I thought I had failed my mother. 1352 01:16:23,996 --> 01:16:25,872 I thought I was failing my family. 1353 01:16:25,872 --> 01:16:26,999 And I really was... 1354 01:16:26,999 --> 01:16:29,334 I had no idea where I wanted to go in my life. 1355 01:16:29,334 --> 01:16:31,628 I was directionless and I was lost. 1356 01:16:31,628 --> 01:16:34,423 And you never really get out of that. 1357 01:16:34,423 --> 01:16:36,925 I just feel like now I'm a little bit more sure. 1358 01:16:41,930 --> 01:16:44,474 - When I moved from Victoria to Vancouver 1359 01:16:44,474 --> 01:16:45,475 around 1992, 1360 01:16:47,561 --> 01:16:49,521 the scene wasn't big here at all. 1361 01:16:49,521 --> 01:16:52,149 You know, hip hop, wasn't a mainstream thing. 1362 01:16:52,149 --> 01:16:54,776 I got a little acceptance, 1363 01:16:54,776 --> 01:16:57,195 me and my boy prevailed, 1364 01:16:57,195 --> 01:16:59,197 we soon moved to the US, 1365 01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:01,533 moved to San Diego. 1366 01:17:01,533 --> 01:17:03,952 And people, they embraced us, 1367 01:17:07,205 --> 01:17:08,957 tenfold of what, 1368 01:17:08,957 --> 01:17:12,169 how we were embraced in Vancouver. 1369 01:17:12,169 --> 01:17:15,464 So we really earned our stripes 1370 01:17:15,464 --> 01:17:16,840 in Southern California 1371 01:17:16,840 --> 01:17:19,426 and had great teachers. 1372 01:17:19,426 --> 01:17:22,679 We had a place in the Golden Hills District, 1373 01:17:22,679 --> 01:17:23,805 just in south San Diego, 1374 01:17:23,805 --> 01:17:25,724 like south of downtown. 1375 01:17:26,808 --> 01:17:27,893 We get up, 1376 01:17:27,893 --> 01:17:30,354 we had a band that we had assembled 1377 01:17:30,354 --> 01:17:31,772 like a Jazz band, 1378 01:17:32,606 --> 01:17:35,108 but you know, we'd have 'em play hip hop stuff. 1379 01:17:35,108 --> 01:17:37,486 We'd curate the songs with them. 1380 01:17:37,486 --> 01:17:41,657 So most days we're about rehearsing with this band 1381 01:17:42,532 --> 01:17:44,910 because we had some upcoming shows 1382 01:17:44,910 --> 01:17:46,328 and we were always doing, working on 1383 01:17:46,328 --> 01:17:49,039 doing appearances and all that. 1384 01:17:49,039 --> 01:17:50,832 If it wasn't, 1385 01:17:50,832 --> 01:17:55,170 doing band rehearsals or going on graffiti missions, 1386 01:17:56,046 --> 01:17:57,631 I'd often take off by myself 1387 01:17:57,631 --> 01:18:00,258 and walk around Seaport Village, 1388 01:18:00,258 --> 01:18:01,677 which is just a chill place. 1389 01:18:01,677 --> 01:18:02,636 I'd take a notepad 1390 01:18:02,636 --> 01:18:04,429 and go right and sit by the water. 1391 01:18:04,429 --> 01:18:06,181 Seaport Village is... 1392 01:18:07,099 --> 01:18:10,769 It's like this true tourist trap essentially. 1393 01:18:10,769 --> 01:18:15,524 With all this marine and nautical themed shops and cafes. 1394 01:18:16,900 --> 01:18:18,819 What-have-yous 1395 01:18:18,819 --> 01:18:20,529 It was a special time, man. 1396 01:18:20,529 --> 01:18:23,573 Undeniable, I met some of the greatest people. 1397 01:18:23,573 --> 01:18:27,411 And like I said before, the best teachers, 1398 01:18:27,411 --> 01:18:30,997 who were very well educated, in the streets 1399 01:18:31,873 --> 01:18:33,625 and in the music lab. 1400 01:18:41,842 --> 01:18:43,468 - But there's so many artists today 1401 01:18:43,468 --> 01:18:44,553 that they just rather 1402 01:18:44,553 --> 01:18:46,096 take pictures on Instagram. 1403 01:18:46,096 --> 01:18:47,764 They just rather be in the club, 1404 01:18:47,764 --> 01:18:50,392 hosting parties. and this, this and that. 1405 01:18:50,392 --> 01:18:52,102 And then they'll have all these pictures 1406 01:18:52,102 --> 01:18:54,104 where they might even be with other Whack Rappers. 1407 01:18:54,104 --> 01:18:55,647 And they're just like, they're posing, 1408 01:18:55,647 --> 01:18:57,315 they're looking all cool. 1409 01:18:57,315 --> 01:18:58,817 But then when you go to their shows 1410 01:18:58,817 --> 01:19:01,570 and you hear them performing, you're like, dude, 1411 01:19:01,570 --> 01:19:04,489 first of all, I can't even hear you perform. 1412 01:19:04,489 --> 01:19:06,366 Second of all, it's just a track. 1413 01:19:06,366 --> 01:19:07,534 You're just playing the track 1414 01:19:07,534 --> 01:19:09,119 but I can't even hear you performing. 1415 01:19:09,119 --> 01:19:10,245 It's just a track playing. 1416 01:19:10,245 --> 01:19:11,663 And you're just on the stage, 1417 01:19:11,663 --> 01:19:13,123 just either dancing around 1418 01:19:13,123 --> 01:19:14,833 or doing whatever, whatever. 1419 01:19:14,833 --> 01:19:15,959 Stage performances, 1420 01:19:15,959 --> 01:19:18,879 that's how you can tell who a whack rapper is, 1421 01:19:18,879 --> 01:19:21,214 is when you see them on stage performing 1422 01:19:21,214 --> 01:19:24,092 and you're like, yo, you had all these views, 1423 01:19:24,092 --> 01:19:26,052 all these likes, all this... 1424 01:19:26,052 --> 01:19:28,764 You get up on stage and it's just like, 1425 01:19:28,764 --> 01:19:30,348 like, what is this? 1426 01:19:31,349 --> 01:19:32,267 What am I listening to? 1427 01:19:47,866 --> 01:19:50,202 - Like on the littlest biggest deal on the mix tape, 1428 01:19:50,202 --> 01:19:51,119 I got John Merkules. 1429 01:19:51,119 --> 01:19:52,829 I'm more battling, I'm raw. 1430 01:19:52,829 --> 01:19:54,247 I'm like, I'm hungry right. 1431 01:19:54,247 --> 01:19:55,457 On my second album, 1432 01:19:55,457 --> 01:19:56,500 it's like back to the basics. 1433 01:19:56,500 --> 01:19:59,503 I was really learning about a lot about myself. 1434 01:19:59,503 --> 01:20:02,297 I lost my dad, I lost people like Randy Ponzio. 1435 01:20:02,297 --> 01:20:03,131 I work with David , 1436 01:20:03,131 --> 01:20:04,049 I work with Moka. 1437 01:20:04,049 --> 01:20:05,383 That was that album. 1438 01:20:05,383 --> 01:20:07,010 I feel good, I'm in LA 1439 01:20:07,010 --> 01:20:08,887 and I'm doing tracks with Doug C. 1440 01:20:08,887 --> 01:20:09,721 I actually am... 1441 01:20:09,721 --> 01:20:11,014 I've done Marlene , 1442 01:20:11,014 --> 01:20:11,848 I've done movies. 1443 01:20:11,848 --> 01:20:13,266 You know, I've had my TV show. 1444 01:20:13,266 --> 01:20:14,559 So I'm feeling like 1445 01:20:14,559 --> 01:20:16,686 I can talk a little bit about that, right? 1446 01:20:16,686 --> 01:20:18,355 By the time I did T, 1447 01:20:19,189 --> 01:20:21,316 Travis Turner was Snoop. 1448 01:20:21,316 --> 01:20:23,360 I mean, I was in a really good place. 1449 01:20:23,360 --> 01:20:25,153 You know, it just depends where you're at. 1450 01:20:25,153 --> 01:20:26,363 - And again, going to the illusion 1451 01:20:26,363 --> 01:20:27,989 of it being the untouchables, 1452 01:20:27,989 --> 01:20:30,534 and now there's these "Gatekeepers." 1453 01:20:30,534 --> 01:20:35,121 And I see all these singing competitions and of people, 1454 01:20:36,498 --> 01:20:37,499 they'll go up on the stage 1455 01:20:37,499 --> 01:20:39,668 and they'll just be in tears 1456 01:20:39,668 --> 01:20:42,087 and they'll just be distraught 1457 01:20:42,087 --> 01:20:44,339 because they'll say things like, 1458 01:20:44,339 --> 01:20:46,466 "Oh, I have nothing else to live for. 1459 01:20:46,466 --> 01:20:48,009 You know, I'm giving it all." 1460 01:20:48,009 --> 01:20:49,678 But I'm like, what do you like... 1461 01:20:49,678 --> 01:20:52,305 It's like, they're sacrificing themselves for something. 1462 01:20:52,305 --> 01:20:53,890 And they're putting everything on the line. 1463 01:20:53,890 --> 01:20:56,059 And I'm like, what is that, like for what? 1464 01:20:56,059 --> 01:20:57,686 Why would you wanna live your life that way? 1465 01:20:57,686 --> 01:20:58,728 It just confuses me. 1466 01:20:58,728 --> 01:20:59,729 And it's like, okay." 1467 01:20:59,729 --> 01:21:01,439 So these select people 1468 01:21:01,439 --> 01:21:03,650 tell you that you're not good enough. 1469 01:21:03,650 --> 01:21:05,861 And then your whole life 1470 01:21:05,861 --> 01:21:07,279 is just down the drain. 1471 01:21:07,279 --> 01:21:09,155 And then that you're a failure to yourself. 1472 01:21:09,155 --> 01:21:10,740 I think that is not self love. 1473 01:21:17,789 --> 01:21:19,583 - Yes, I was a 19 year old kid 1474 01:21:19,583 --> 01:21:21,835 and I saw a lot of what the Rascals 1475 01:21:21,835 --> 01:21:23,712 and swollen members were doing in the city. 1476 01:21:23,712 --> 01:21:25,964 And I just wanted to make sure that 1477 01:21:25,964 --> 01:21:27,757 my friends and other people 1478 01:21:27,757 --> 01:21:30,552 would be able to hear some of the music. 1479 01:21:30,552 --> 01:21:34,472 So I really got myself immersed in the radio 1480 01:21:34,472 --> 01:21:37,225 business, you know, just getting friends out, 1481 01:21:37,225 --> 01:21:40,145 making sure that, they were able to play their songs. 1482 01:21:40,145 --> 01:21:42,564 And just being a part of community. 1483 01:21:42,564 --> 01:21:46,443 - Like Steve Nash, my one and only Steve Nash, 1484 01:21:46,443 --> 01:21:48,486 I'm a big basketball head, right? 1485 01:21:48,486 --> 01:21:49,696 So I'm like, 1486 01:21:49,696 --> 01:21:52,157 yo, I got Steve Nash and I see another celebrity, 1487 01:21:52,157 --> 01:21:53,742 I see another celebrity, 1488 01:21:53,742 --> 01:21:54,993 I'm like, damn. 1489 01:21:56,161 --> 01:21:58,163 Yeah awesome, that sounds was cool. 1490 01:21:58,163 --> 01:21:59,706 I went to like Rascalz school, 1491 01:21:59,706 --> 01:22:00,540 you know what I'm saying. 1492 01:22:00,540 --> 01:22:02,167 So like, I graduated from Rascalz school. 1493 01:22:02,167 --> 01:22:04,711 So like they give back, 1494 01:22:04,711 --> 01:22:05,754 they go back to Africa, 1495 01:22:05,754 --> 01:22:07,172 they do trips like that 1496 01:22:07,172 --> 01:22:09,090 with like Soul guy and like Kemo 1497 01:22:09,090 --> 01:22:09,925 and those guys, 1498 01:22:09,925 --> 01:22:11,301 they do lots of community work. 1499 01:22:11,301 --> 01:22:14,179 So like that was always in the forefront. 1500 01:22:14,179 --> 01:22:17,557 Like, no, like when I first read, like you might think, 1501 01:22:17,557 --> 01:22:19,225 like, oh girls, this isn't . 1502 01:22:19,225 --> 01:22:22,312 The first tour we did was a high school tour 1503 01:22:22,312 --> 01:22:24,189 across the whole country. 1504 01:22:24,189 --> 01:22:26,858 It was just Red talking to kids, 1505 01:22:26,858 --> 01:22:28,026 staying outta trouble, 1506 01:22:28,026 --> 01:22:29,277 all these things. 1507 01:22:29,277 --> 01:22:31,071 And then we perform after. 1508 01:22:31,071 --> 01:22:33,365 So God, that was the first tour we did 1509 01:22:33,365 --> 01:22:35,659 before we was even clubs, right? 1510 01:22:35,659 --> 01:22:37,035 So like Red really 1511 01:22:37,035 --> 01:22:38,954 put that in us, you know. 1512 01:22:38,954 --> 01:22:41,373 Like he made sure like, yo bro, 1513 01:22:41,373 --> 01:22:44,167 like these kids need us to come there. 1514 01:22:44,167 --> 01:22:46,711 It's not all just about hitting the club at nighttime. 1515 01:22:46,711 --> 01:22:48,755 Like we gotta do the daytime shows, 1516 01:22:48,755 --> 01:22:49,923 go to the schools 1517 01:22:49,923 --> 01:22:52,509 and like speak to these kids, 1518 01:22:52,509 --> 01:22:55,220 so that was just embedded. 1519 01:23:06,690 --> 01:23:08,400 - In my life, the way it used to be 1520 01:23:08,400 --> 01:23:09,734 is so much different. 1521 01:23:09,734 --> 01:23:11,820 Now I live in a family neighborhood. 1522 01:23:11,820 --> 01:23:13,571 I take my kids to school, 1523 01:23:13,571 --> 01:23:15,031 you know, I'm like responsible 1524 01:23:15,031 --> 01:23:18,076 . 1525 01:23:18,076 --> 01:23:19,035 I'm responsible. 1526 01:23:19,035 --> 01:23:21,329 I actually am surprisingly responsible. 1527 01:23:21,329 --> 01:23:22,747 I don't know where it came from. 1528 01:23:22,747 --> 01:23:24,499 It must be my sisters and my mom, 1529 01:23:24,499 --> 01:23:28,503 but I yeah I can be irresponsible like 1530 01:23:28,503 --> 01:23:30,296 if you're out partying with me on the night, 1531 01:23:30,296 --> 01:23:32,007 I'm definitely 1532 01:23:32,007 --> 01:23:34,217 gonna be close to the wildest one of the night, 1533 01:23:34,217 --> 01:23:35,510 depending on the night, 1534 01:23:35,510 --> 01:23:37,846 like I'll hit the dance floor, man. 1535 01:23:37,846 --> 01:23:40,015 I will be everywhere. 1536 01:23:40,015 --> 01:23:41,433 But yeah... 1537 01:23:41,433 --> 01:23:43,560 And in this evolution, 1538 01:23:43,560 --> 01:23:45,687 I'm not afraid to do any kind of music. 1539 01:23:45,687 --> 01:23:47,605 Like I said, I will make a gangster track. 1540 01:23:47,605 --> 01:23:48,773 You want a gangster track. 1541 01:23:48,773 --> 01:23:50,817 You wanna track, for guys ride 1542 01:23:50,817 --> 01:23:53,903 through the hoods of fuckin' Los Angeles, California. 1543 01:23:53,903 --> 01:23:55,613 I will provide you with that beat. 1544 01:24:07,542 --> 01:24:09,127 I know that street, 1545 01:24:10,170 --> 01:24:11,212 that's how I grew up. 1546 01:24:11,212 --> 01:24:13,590 If you want some sort of light poppy 1547 01:24:13,590 --> 01:24:15,091 Taylor Swift type track, 1548 01:24:15,091 --> 01:24:16,342 I'll give you that too. 1549 01:24:16,342 --> 01:24:17,677 Like I do not care. 1550 01:24:29,481 --> 01:24:32,484 I'm not the artist that pigeon holes himself to one thing. 1551 01:24:32,484 --> 01:24:35,028 And I'm going out with that label. 1552 01:24:35,028 --> 01:24:36,738 Like so that I can always, 1553 01:24:36,738 --> 01:24:38,281 you know, branch out, 1554 01:24:38,281 --> 01:24:40,950 oh, look what he is getting into this time. 1555 01:24:40,950 --> 01:24:42,327 I don't know if you'll ever even hear 1556 01:24:42,327 --> 01:24:44,579 any my music after of this movie, 1557 01:24:44,579 --> 01:24:45,705 who knows, 1558 01:24:45,705 --> 01:24:48,374 but regardless of all that, 1559 01:24:48,374 --> 01:24:50,585 it makes me happy making music. 1560 01:24:50,585 --> 01:24:51,878 - That's one of my iconic tracks, 1561 01:24:51,878 --> 01:24:53,129 'cause this was a time when 1562 01:24:53,129 --> 01:24:54,964 Jay Z did the "22 Twos", 1563 01:24:54,964 --> 01:24:57,092 Canibus came out and did "33 Threes". 1564 01:24:57,092 --> 01:24:58,009 And I said, 1565 01:24:58,009 --> 01:25:00,595 let me come and hit you up with "44 Fours" 1566 01:25:00,595 --> 01:25:02,263 and hadn't been done yet. 1567 01:25:02,263 --> 01:25:03,848 So this is before then Jay Z came out, 1568 01:25:03,848 --> 01:25:06,184 did his own version of "44 Fours". 1569 01:25:06,184 --> 01:25:08,186 And I crushed "44 Fours" 1570 01:25:09,020 --> 01:25:10,355 and probably about, 1571 01:25:10,355 --> 01:25:11,439 I don't know, 1572 01:25:11,439 --> 01:25:13,233 a minute 14 or something like that 1573 01:25:13,233 --> 01:25:14,067 where it's just like, 1574 01:26:23,428 --> 01:26:24,512 - So everybody's on this right. 1575 01:26:24,512 --> 01:26:26,389 Where you get this okie okie okie business. 1576 01:26:26,389 --> 01:26:27,807 So yo, when I was a young youth, 1577 01:26:27,807 --> 01:26:29,893 yo I beer Okie top okie dokie talks, 1578 01:26:29,893 --> 01:26:30,727 all that was hard. 1579 01:26:30,727 --> 01:26:31,561 It was stupid. 1580 01:26:31,561 --> 01:26:33,479 And I was like, it was like, yo, 1581 01:26:33,479 --> 01:26:34,480 I that's just my shit. 1582 01:26:34,480 --> 01:26:36,065 Everybody had their line that was mine. 1583 01:26:36,065 --> 01:26:38,067 So it started to form into like, okie this 1584 01:26:38,067 --> 01:26:39,611 everybody's just started calling Okie 1585 01:26:39,611 --> 01:26:40,486 and that's what it is. 1586 01:26:40,486 --> 01:26:41,696 And the fresh water thing, 1587 01:26:41,696 --> 01:26:43,364 I think was me when, 1588 01:26:44,365 --> 01:26:47,035 I started really like, really like 1589 01:26:47,035 --> 01:26:48,036 getting into like 1590 01:26:48,036 --> 01:26:49,996 my faith and my spiritual, 1591 01:26:49,996 --> 01:26:51,331 you know, side and feeling like, 1592 01:26:51,331 --> 01:26:52,165 there was a time 1593 01:26:52,165 --> 01:26:54,751 where I decided to like kind of like slow down 1594 01:26:54,751 --> 01:26:56,628 and not be crazy like I used to be 1595 01:26:56,628 --> 01:26:59,505 and not be surrounded by the people that I used to be, 1596 01:26:59,505 --> 01:27:01,466 knowing the poison that came with that... 1597 01:27:01,466 --> 01:27:03,134 So I felt like it was like a rebirth. 1598 01:27:03,134 --> 01:27:04,969 So the freshwater thing is like that, 1599 01:27:04,969 --> 01:27:06,638 that, yeah, that splash. 1600 01:27:06,638 --> 01:27:09,432 - I got to see Sharon Jones 1601 01:27:09,432 --> 01:27:12,769 live with the Dap-Kings in Stanley Park. 1602 01:27:13,645 --> 01:27:15,480 That was amazing. 1603 01:27:15,480 --> 01:27:18,316 That was she's rest in peace. 1604 01:27:18,316 --> 01:27:19,984 She passed away now. 1605 01:27:21,027 --> 01:27:24,239 But yeah, that was a really special show. 1606 01:27:24,239 --> 01:27:26,366 Even then, I didn't know she was sick or anything. 1607 01:27:26,366 --> 01:27:28,284 And I felt a vibe of like, 1608 01:27:28,284 --> 01:27:30,370 this is really special to get to see this. 1609 01:27:30,370 --> 01:27:32,872 George Clinton and Parliament. 1610 01:27:34,874 --> 01:27:36,626 That was a really crazy show. 1611 01:27:36,626 --> 01:27:37,710 I liked that a lot, 1612 01:27:37,710 --> 01:27:40,171 just he was wearing like a wizard costume 1613 01:27:40,171 --> 01:27:42,090 and he had like a wound 1614 01:27:43,549 --> 01:27:45,969 and he was like shooting vibes at people in the crowd 1615 01:27:45,969 --> 01:27:47,971 and she like that 1616 01:27:47,971 --> 01:27:50,890 And just the songs were, you know, like original G-funk. 1617 01:27:50,890 --> 01:27:54,143 Like it really captured the 70s kind of funk vibe. 1618 01:27:54,143 --> 01:27:56,271 It was cool to be around that life. 1619 01:27:56,271 --> 01:27:58,398 - Just try to keep it cool with everything I do. 1620 01:27:58,398 --> 01:27:59,691 I just try to stay smooth, 1621 01:27:59,691 --> 01:28:01,109 keep myself level headed 1622 01:28:01,109 --> 01:28:03,444 'cause I'm one of those kinda people like, 1623 01:28:03,444 --> 01:28:05,780 I used to have really bad anxiety, 1624 01:28:05,780 --> 01:28:06,614 you know what I mean. 1625 01:28:06,614 --> 01:28:07,657 So I learned over the years, 1626 01:28:07,657 --> 01:28:11,327 how to control myself and to control my mind, 1627 01:28:11,327 --> 01:28:16,332 to just tell myself that nothing is too hard to handle. 1628 01:28:16,332 --> 01:28:18,835 Everything can be done if you just take your time 1629 01:28:18,835 --> 01:28:19,877 and do it right. 1630 01:28:19,877 --> 01:28:21,921 So basically, my biggest thing, 1631 01:28:21,921 --> 01:28:23,214 when I'm getting ready for something like that 1632 01:28:23,214 --> 01:28:24,549 is what am I gonna wear. 1633 01:28:24,549 --> 01:28:25,633 - Welcome to the show, 1634 01:28:25,633 --> 01:28:26,718 Travis, welcome back to the show. 1635 01:28:26,718 --> 01:28:27,969 - Yeah, thank you very much. 1636 01:28:27,969 --> 01:28:29,595 You know, always grinding, 1637 01:28:29,595 --> 01:28:31,347 so appreciate being here. 1638 01:28:31,347 --> 01:28:34,100 - Well, I actually, I met Maestro 1639 01:28:35,476 --> 01:28:38,688 when he dropped the "Conducting Things Album" 1640 01:28:38,688 --> 01:28:39,939 and he was doing a promo tour 1641 01:28:39,939 --> 01:28:42,275 and I was in a rap group called the Maximum Definitive 1642 01:28:42,275 --> 01:28:44,402 back then, and back then, 1643 01:28:44,402 --> 01:28:46,904 and we had a track called "Jungle Man Out" 1644 01:28:46,904 --> 01:28:49,490 and the video was on much music, 1645 01:28:49,490 --> 01:28:50,992 but I was wearing the masks, 1646 01:28:50,992 --> 01:28:52,869 so I didn't rap in that. 1647 01:28:52,869 --> 01:28:53,828 It was just dark 1648 01:28:53,828 --> 01:28:58,499 and I believe Roger 1649 01:28:58,499 --> 01:28:59,792 and yeah, so Maestro, 1650 01:28:59,792 --> 01:29:00,710 we were on tour with him 1651 01:29:00,710 --> 01:29:02,462 and we just became, we were friends since then. 1652 01:29:02,462 --> 01:29:04,297 And I, now I'm 1653 01:29:04,297 --> 01:29:06,549 I did some tour management stuff with him 1654 01:29:06,549 --> 01:29:09,552 and his son's godfather big up Chance. 1655 01:29:09,552 --> 01:29:12,096 But now I've just kinda 1656 01:29:12,096 --> 01:29:14,724 veered myself more into film and television, 1657 01:29:14,724 --> 01:29:17,101 but I still can't get away from the music. 1658 01:29:17,101 --> 01:29:18,603 So I just kinda... 1659 01:29:20,021 --> 01:29:21,522 Yeah, I always double and dabble, 1660 01:29:21,522 --> 01:29:23,983 I always say I'm out, but I'm always drawn back in. 1661 01:29:23,983 --> 01:29:25,193 - As far as major labels go, 1662 01:29:25,193 --> 01:29:27,695 I would probably just avoid that. 1663 01:29:27,695 --> 01:29:30,865 I've been down that road before 1664 01:29:30,865 --> 01:29:34,202 and it's just so many fingers in the pie 1665 01:29:36,579 --> 01:29:39,582 and I find it really difficult to know 1666 01:29:39,582 --> 01:29:41,209 who to trust or whatever. 1667 01:29:41,209 --> 01:29:42,377 I feel with a smaller label, 1668 01:29:42,377 --> 01:29:43,294 like a boutique label, 1669 01:29:43,294 --> 01:29:44,504 like you know, 1670 01:29:44,504 --> 01:29:46,130 I get to know the people 1671 01:29:46,130 --> 01:29:49,801 and I have a much greater sense of security and trust 1672 01:29:49,801 --> 01:29:53,179 with people that I've had a proven track record with. 1673 01:29:53,179 --> 01:29:54,138 You know what I mean. 1674 01:29:54,138 --> 01:29:56,641 Instead of a rotating cast of 1675 01:29:56,641 --> 01:29:58,351 interns and people that yield 1676 01:29:58,351 --> 01:30:00,186 probably never even meet some of them, 1677 01:30:00,186 --> 01:30:02,438 you know, at a major label. 1678 01:30:03,815 --> 01:30:05,900 Yeah, pick your poison and stick with it. 1679 01:30:10,363 --> 01:30:11,864 - What's up J-Geezy. 1680 01:30:11,864 --> 01:30:13,199 - What's up man. 1681 01:30:14,492 --> 01:30:16,452 - Well, you didn't sign the contract. 1682 01:30:16,452 --> 01:30:18,663 - No, I didn't find a contract. 1683 01:30:18,663 --> 01:30:19,580 We're not . 1684 01:30:20,498 --> 01:30:22,333 Check this out. 1685 01:30:22,333 --> 01:30:24,210 Here's this guy online, 1686 01:30:24,210 --> 01:30:25,795 DJ More Money. 1687 01:30:25,795 --> 01:30:28,548 He claims he is the king of G town. 1688 01:30:28,548 --> 01:30:29,590 His song, 1689 01:30:29,590 --> 01:30:33,469 video on Youtube just hit over a million streams. 1690 01:30:33,469 --> 01:30:34,554 Now I'll tell you one thing 1691 01:30:34,554 --> 01:30:36,514 I ain't signing no damn contract, 1692 01:30:36,514 --> 01:30:38,307 unless I can be the number one 1693 01:30:38,307 --> 01:30:41,394 undisputed King of G town, you heard? 1694 01:30:43,312 --> 01:30:44,564 - Okay, okay, all right, 1695 01:30:44,564 --> 01:30:46,190 meet me here tomorrow, 1696 01:30:46,190 --> 01:30:47,024 I'll take care of it. 1697 01:30:47,024 --> 01:30:48,025 - Okay. 1698 01:30:48,025 --> 01:30:49,652 - I'll bring another contract. 1699 01:30:50,695 --> 01:30:54,282 - Lily, locate DJ More Money. 1700 01:30:54,282 --> 01:30:57,034 - Locating DJ More Money. 1701 01:31:00,663 --> 01:31:04,500 DJ More Money otherwise known as Tyrone Power. 1702 01:31:57,720 --> 01:31:59,388 - Eazy, eazy wake up 1703 01:32:00,848 --> 01:32:01,849 - Yo J-Geezy, what's up? 1704 01:32:01,849 --> 01:32:05,561 - Yo, contract, signed, filled, and delivered. 1705 01:32:05,561 --> 01:32:07,438 - Sweet, what changed? 1706 01:32:07,438 --> 01:32:10,733 - DJ More Money is no longer in the picture. 1707 01:32:10,733 --> 01:32:12,527 Someone took care of him for me. 1708 01:32:12,527 --> 01:32:13,361 - Sweet, that's good. 1709 01:32:13,361 --> 01:32:17,073 'Cause I really wanna have you in this movie. 1710 01:32:18,157 --> 01:32:20,451 - But the guy just like off that dude, 1711 01:32:20,451 --> 01:32:22,286 and now he's getting, 1712 01:32:22,286 --> 01:32:23,996 he's getting the papers finally. 1713 01:32:23,996 --> 01:32:24,997 - Wow. 1714 01:32:24,997 --> 01:32:26,374 - What's going on. 1715 01:32:26,374 --> 01:32:28,125 - Wow, that is crazy. 1716 01:32:29,544 --> 01:32:32,296 - So my five year plan is just to keep dropping music, 1717 01:32:32,296 --> 01:32:34,257 but to use the knowledge that I've gained 1718 01:32:34,257 --> 01:32:36,968 over these last five to 10 in years 1719 01:32:36,968 --> 01:32:37,885 and apply it 1720 01:32:37,885 --> 01:32:39,971 and kinda think outside the box 1721 01:32:39,971 --> 01:32:41,597 and not necessarily do things 1722 01:32:41,597 --> 01:32:43,099 the way I've been doing them before 1723 01:32:43,099 --> 01:32:45,393 and kinda upgrade my strategy 1724 01:32:45,393 --> 01:32:46,561 as I go along. 1725 01:32:46,561 --> 01:32:48,688 - Yeah, well I've just been doing what you said, you know, 1726 01:32:48,688 --> 01:32:50,606 eliminating competition. 1727 01:32:53,109 --> 01:32:56,571 - Oh, you didn't mean like eliminate, eliminate them. 1728 01:32:56,571 --> 01:32:58,573 You just meant like be better than them. 1729 01:32:58,573 --> 01:33:00,783 Like get more like 1730 01:33:00,783 --> 01:33:03,494 views and more streams and more popularity than 'em. 1731 01:33:03,494 --> 01:33:04,745 That way better? 1732 01:33:06,163 --> 01:33:09,083 - Oh, oh my bad, my bad, I'm sorry. 1733 01:33:10,459 --> 01:33:12,295 Hey I misunderstood. 1734 01:33:13,296 --> 01:33:14,463 - Huh? 1735 01:33:20,553 --> 01:33:21,846 - Was that dumb, 1736 01:33:21,846 --> 01:33:23,598 I was crawling all over the floor, 1737 01:33:23,598 --> 01:33:26,058 you shit everybody's shit was whack. 1738 01:33:29,854 --> 01:33:32,523 - Sorry, can you repeat the question? 1739 01:33:32,523 --> 01:33:34,108 - It all makes sense now. 1740 01:33:34,108 --> 01:33:35,693 So what you're telling me, 1741 01:33:35,693 --> 01:33:38,863 the alien is the producer of the film 1742 01:33:38,863 --> 01:33:42,283 and he hired that guy to do it. 1743 01:33:42,283 --> 01:33:43,117 Huh. 1744 01:33:43,117 --> 01:33:43,951 - What? 1745 01:33:43,951 --> 01:33:45,494 Producer of the movie. 1746 01:33:45,494 --> 01:33:48,456 - What did he say? - That's what he said. 1747 01:33:48,456 --> 01:33:50,499 Right, well you so smart. 1748 01:33:50,499 --> 01:33:53,002 He speaks fucking alien, dude. 1749 01:33:53,002 --> 01:33:55,546 Producer, is the alien. 1750 01:33:55,546 --> 01:33:58,215 - The alien is the dog. - The alien is the producer. 1751 01:33:58,215 --> 01:33:59,717 - Wait, the dog can understand the alien? 1752 01:33:59,717 --> 01:34:00,551 - Yeah. 1753 01:34:00,551 --> 01:34:01,677 - How often do you guys talk? 1754 01:34:01,677 --> 01:34:03,429 - The last, like 10 minutes. 1755 01:34:03,429 --> 01:34:05,473 - I need to get high 1756 01:34:05,473 --> 01:34:06,307 I'm going to bed. 1757 01:34:06,307 --> 01:34:07,183 - All right, man, good night. 1758 01:34:07,183 --> 01:34:09,185 You wanna watch "Vancity Raps". 1759 01:34:09,185 --> 01:34:11,145 All right, let's do it one more time then. 1760 01:34:17,818 --> 01:34:20,029 - So can I have my body back 1761 01:34:20,029 --> 01:34:24,367 or yeah can you like get that thing out of me 1762 01:34:24,367 --> 01:34:26,077 that you put in me. 1763 01:34:27,703 --> 01:34:28,996 See, it's the end of the movie. 1764 01:34:28,996 --> 01:34:29,955 I did everything you said. 1765 01:34:29,955 --> 01:34:32,208 Can you get that thing out my body now. 1766 01:34:32,208 --> 01:34:33,250 Yeah, just take it back. 1767 01:34:33,250 --> 01:34:34,835 Take it in your space shift. 1768 01:34:34,835 --> 01:34:36,420 Take off to wherever you gotta go. 1769 01:34:36,420 --> 01:34:38,631 But I need to get on life movies done 1770 01:34:38,631 --> 01:34:42,134 and I get everything said and yeah. 1771 01:34:44,845 --> 01:34:48,057 - So we just finished filming "Moka Only" 1772 01:34:48,057 --> 01:34:49,517 good interview. 1773 01:34:49,517 --> 01:34:51,143 This is pretty much our last 1774 01:34:51,143 --> 01:34:52,395 that was our last interview. 1775 01:34:52,395 --> 01:34:53,229 We now got our film 1776 01:34:53,229 --> 01:34:54,772 and now we're gonna hit post production. 1777 01:34:54,772 --> 01:34:56,816 - Yeah, thank you for having me aboard 1778 01:34:56,816 --> 01:34:58,275 "TNT Star Entertainment", 1779 01:34:58,275 --> 01:34:59,735 Travis Turner but 1780 01:34:59,735 --> 01:35:04,740 more than thank you, everyone who came a part of the film, 1781 01:35:04,782 --> 01:35:07,243 you know, I'm really glad that 1782 01:35:07,243 --> 01:35:10,246 we've in one way or another, we've been working together 1783 01:35:10,246 --> 01:35:11,747 over this last decade, 1784 01:35:11,747 --> 01:35:12,957 in the Vancouver scene. 1785 01:35:12,957 --> 01:35:14,625 So it's really cool to just see 1786 01:35:14,625 --> 01:35:16,085 how it's all come together. 1787 01:35:16,085 --> 01:35:18,170 - Yeah, totally TNT made a good point. 1788 01:35:18,170 --> 01:35:19,046 He said, 1789 01:35:19,046 --> 01:35:21,882 Vancouver's got a very humble hip hop scene 1790 01:35:21,882 --> 01:35:24,427 and I think that's a good way to describe Vancouver. 1791 01:35:24,427 --> 01:35:25,970 And I like that. 1792 01:35:25,970 --> 01:35:27,430 And you're gonna see that in our movies. 1793 01:35:27,430 --> 01:35:30,516 So anyway, peace out, "Vancity Raps" 1793 01:35:31,305 --> 01:36:31,471 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org