The S.H.I.T.T.S Podcast
The S.H.I.T.T.S Podcast
From Philly Ciphers To Nerdcore Stages: Steve Skax On Art, Family, And Hustle
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The moment you decide to end something beloved is the moment your standards get loud. We talk with author-engineer-artist Steve Sxak about closing the Marston House Cipher after 15 years of free, culture-first sessions—and why a final-season victory lap and documentary are the right way to honor it. The reasons are honest: parenthood, touring, writing, and an unwillingness to do a half-speed version of a pillar that helped define Philly’s underground hip-hop.
From there we dive into the shifting DNA of battle rap. Steve’s watched the scene evolve from off-the-top, on-beat warfare to intricate, months-in-the-making a cappella performances. We break down the pros and cons of both, the real boundaries—words are open, hands are not—and the intangible skills that separate a punchline from a moment: timing, breath, and crowd control. Philly is the backdrop for it all—late nights, tight roads, and tighter communities that push you to grow or get left.
Creation doesn’t stop at the booth. Steve’s touring with The Heroes League into SXSW’s Nerdcore Days, carrying a mobile studio to capture spontaneous collabs. He’s dropping a project every month across hip-hop, R&B, folk, and punk, plus a hard-knock record with Amsterdam’s Skinny Bones the Godfather that’s taking him to Europe and beyond. We also unpack the surprise hit of his YA novel, Invasion Of The Punk Rockers Who Drink Blood, how a joke title became a serious story about belonging and real-world monsters, and what it took to bring it to life.
Underneath the accolades is a working parent’s blueprint: homeschooling for flexibility and focus, kids in the room learning engineering and rhythm, and a studio practice that values preparation over posturing. If you’ve ever wrestled with when to close a chapter, how to protect your standards, or how to build a creative life that still makes room for Nerf wars and bedtime, this conversation lands. Subscribe, share with a friend who loves hip-hop and books with bite, and leave a review with your take: is anything off-limits in battle rap?
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Welcome And Guest Intro
SPEAKER_03Yo, what the deal is. Hey, welcome back to the Shits Podcast. So we're either shooting shit, starting some shit, or picking up what shit left off. I'm your host and DJ, DJ Monsoon, Stuart Adobe's DJ and Adobe's host that you've heard thus far. And I like to thank y'all for coming back. Y'all came back again. God damn it, that's what's up. So um I just want to say, man, I I I have the opportunity to have uh interesting conversations and and and exchange dialogue with interesting people, and I'm very appreciative of the job that I have. You know what I'm saying? So this week, um our very special guest to the podcast is he's an author, he's an engineer, uh punk rocker. Um he has a well-known studio um that's doing some some big things and and and making um and making a way for artists coming up, uh especially in hip-hop. And uh man, I just want to try to have the opportunity to talk to him as well and then see what he got going on. So with no further ado, I won't try to give it up for the one, the only, and like I would say, yeah, I I try not to fuck up people's name. You know what I'm saying? I had a public school education, Steve Skax.
SPEAKER_04Hey, bro, you you got it. You you nailed it. I've gotten some crazy shit, bro. So you you nailed it right on the money. That's what's up.
Ending The Marston House Cipher
SPEAKER_03So, first and foremost, man, thanks for um you know hanging out with us on the shits podcast, man. I appreciate you having me. No problem. So we'd like to do a check-in with our guests, and I'd like to ask the question um, what are you working on? What I mean by what are you working on? I mean like a project. Well, actually, I do mean like a project. That project is you. So, what are you working on, like mentally and emotionally and and and internally this week?
SPEAKER_04Man, so you know, this week earlier we announced that we're ending the Marston House Cipher. So what? Yeah, so for those who don't know, you know, Marston House Cipher, we've been doing it for 15 years. Um, we've had some of like the biggest names, you know, in especially underground hip-hop. We've had terminology, diabetes. I'm not gonna name drop everybody, but uh a ton of people have been on those from all over the world, and uh, you know, we just both, you know, me and Ethan, we've got kids, and um, I I don't want to do it if if we're not able to put a million percent into it, you know what I mean? Because I just think so many other cipher things are kind of corny, and uh we've all ours has always been really dope. We've never charged anybody for it, we've never charged a producer, a DJ, an artist. It's always been just something we do for the love of it, for you know, give back to the community and for the culture. So it's like in order for us to keep doing it, we would have to change that. And uh, I don't I don't want that to ever be the case, so it's very bittersweet. I'm battling with it, you know, I'm sad, I'm happy. You know, we're gonna do one final season the rest of the year, the last weekend of every month for the rest of the year. We're gonna do one and we're gonna drop a documentary about it. But um, yeah, it's been it's been something I'm struggling struggling with, you know. But yeah, trying to balance all this stuff, you know, and I'm I'm I'm writing the books now, you know, I'm teaching, it's the studio staying open. Plus, you know, I'm I'm doing a lot of touring on my own. I'm about to go to South by Southwest, and now I got support. So I'm yeah, I'm I'm everywhere with the music and with the books, so it I just don't want to do the ciphers if if it's not gonna be what it always was, but it is really hard. It's kind of like watching your baby go off to college or something, you know. Yeah, I feel like I feel like an empty nester or something now, right?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, well, you know, well, now you get to walk around naked. That's what empty nesting is. That's what they say. I'll live into that. So let me ask you this, man, because I don't think we I don't think we established it. So where are you from? Uh Philly. Yeah, Philly, Philly, okay. The great city of Philadelphia. Okay, okay. So I know you said earlier you say I had a lot of underground cats come through there. Um, so uh could I name some names and see if they came through there? Okay from underground stuff, yeah. I mean, like what period, especially from Philly.
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah, like look at these freeway freeway. We've recorded freeway, but freeway never did a cipher. Okay, we have recorded him. Same with Beans. Uh we recorded some stuff with Beans, but he didn't do a cipher either. Uh, I just I just was looking at you know, one of our artists, Jazz Fresh, was Beans' mentor, so they did a song together. It was the two of them, it was the two of them and uh Eric Sandon did beans, and uh it's on YouTube, it's on everything, but um soup, so we got to record that. Um, so a lot like those a lot of the Philly guys from that era, they've we've either recorded them. Uh there's a couple of them who did ciphers, like Reef the Lost Cause did one, um, then you know Malik B from the Roots did one. Oh yeah, rest in peace, Malik B. But um, we got some music from him that's unreleased that we recorded that's never come out, and uh, you know, I think it's in a custody battle right now, so I'm just oh okay, you know what I mean. But uh, so a lot of like the OG Philly guys have been to the studio and uh uh you know we're cool with um, but even like Joey Jihad, like me and him used to host rap battles together back in the day. But yeah, he never ended up doing a cipher. If you're watching this, come do one. But Slaughterico did that's my man, if you know Slaughter Rico, uh not familiar, not familiar. Yeah, the DVD era in Philly was crazy. I can name a thousand of those guys, but a lot of them came and did it, but some of like the state property guys and you know that whole you know, beard gang and stuff, they were they've been there but haven't done one.
Philly Roots And Studio Legacy
SPEAKER_03Yeah. So like I've been checking out, um, I've been checking out more battles, right? So right now, one of my favorites is O Solo. Okay, I think O Solo is dope. Um uh and and before that, I think my favorite was Sirius Jones. Okay, um so do you I mean like you saying that that you hosted battles, what has the evolution of to you?
SPEAKER_04Man, it's a lot different, man. So uh, you know, a little backstory. Uh if you are familiar with like the Philly battle culture, we had this thing called Street Arena. Uh it was hosted, uh it was started by Big Philly. Rest in peace, big Philly. He was my mentor. Big Philly. Um, you know, he really took me and Ethan like under his wing and would bring us out to all this battle stuff. And he had us, you know, Tech Nine, Joey, like all these, all these dudes would be there, and he would just have me and Ethan there, you know, hosting, judging, filming, all this stuff. And that's how we met a lot of people was through him. But watching how much it's changed, just the style, the wordplay, the the ferocity of it, like it's it's a way different animal. But it was dope back then too. It was a little more underground, I feel like. You know, you had some of your bigger leagues because you know, uh, I grew up with like Rosenberg Raw. Um, he lived down the street from me. Um, he's been on them before too. But uh, you know, he was big, uh Frosenberg, everybody calling him for a long time on the smack scene, and then like uh Easy the Block Captain. That's my guy. He did a he did a Marcinhouse cipher before he was on that fresh prints remake. Um, so seeing going up and seeing all these guys, man, like I think the the wordplay was crazy, like the Philly underground scene was crazy and still is crazy, but it's it's a lot there there's more mainstream appeal now, and I could see it. Like, yeah, it's not as regional, like the Philly stuff is very regional back then. Now I think they're the these guys coming out like EZ is one of the biggest battle rappers in the world now, but I think he appeals to such a big crowd where it's a little bit different than in what it was in uh you know the earlier 2000s.
SPEAKER_03Okay, okay, so I'm like like like an old head. That's the that's what they caught me. But I'm like, yeah, yeah. I come from I come from the era where it was like you didn't write the shit. You know what I'm saying? Like freestyling. Like you right, you was freestyling off the top of your off the top of the head. So I ain't gonna lie to you, bro. Like it was uh it was I was kind of taken back when I started to see like motherfuckers coming in, and you know, they boy know the next line, shit like that. So I was like, that's not a fucking freestyle.
Battle Rap Then And Now
SPEAKER_04They had six months to write the stuff, bro. So it's a it's a lot different now, you know. Yeah, I I I'm with you. I I do really love like a good off-the-top battle. Um couple people from Philly that uh the one of the first ones I judged for Street Arena with Joey, and Tech Nine was hosting it. I I met a guy named Mike Voss. Um, and he was he won the Freestyle Friday show, but now he he was in Philly doing he's from Philly and he was doing uh Street Arena League, and we were giving out a prize. It was uh, I think we were giving out like I don't know, a couple thousand dollars worth of studio time, and then that the winner got the studio time, and they got a car, and they got uh yeah, it was a crazy, it was a crazy battle, and then this runner-up got like a thousand dollars of studio time and some other crap, but uh I remember at the end it was Voss and this dude Torriano, and uh they they were going at it, Voss all the way off the top, and then uh he was he's a white dude, and I remember Joey leans in and he's like, Hey bro, uh if if we give it to this white dude, they gonna kill him. Yeah, it was so that was really the main reason. So they boss uh he lost that one, but that was like the main reason because it was it was getting rowdy in there, yeah. Oh yeah, bro, it was getting rowdy. It was uh so they he was like, Um, it was at the Tacone billiards. Anybody listening from Philly, they'll know I'm talking about it was at the Taconi Billiards, and yeah, bro, it was it that's why he lost because they were fearing for this man's life, but uh he went on to win freestyle Friday, and I know he went back for like um when they did like that best of and they had everybody on there, he went back for that. Yeah, but yeah, another guy, Trey Digga. Trey Digga is one of the nastiest off-the-top I've ever met. Him, okay, biz Mighty, another dude named 310, off-the-top guys that when they battle you, it's just like, yeah, because they'll say you know, they'll comment on anything about you. I love that shit.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, see, that's the kind of shit that I like, and I think like the shit is genius for the simple fact that for somebody to be able to be that quick witted, like like meaning quick wits, not with it, with it, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got you. Um, but like to be that quick with with their wits and to to be able to stay on a beat, I'm like, that shit is fucking amazing, dude. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm not taking any, I'm not taking anything away from today's battle rappers because they do say some clever shit. However, like you said, you got like six months to write that shit, fam. Right, right, right. You know what I'm saying? So you you better if you got all in time to write and do the research on the motherfucker, you know.
SPEAKER_04I mean, I I also the the a cappella thing is a lot different too, because I I'm with you. I love a beat in a in a battle. I do love a beat in a battle, and um it uh I I already mentioned him, but Jazz Fresh, if you look this up uh on YouTube, he battled Big Daddy Kane, and it's on it's on you that he battled they battled twice. Um and when he was signed with us, we were trying so hard to make a third battle happen because they battled once in New York and battle once in Philly. It's on it's on YouTube, it's it's on a beat, you know, freestyle, and it's it's so good, man. Like, and that that's what I like. I like that kind of stuff. We were trying real hard. Jazz was dropping all these diss songs to him. Uh, he had a song called Um I think it was like Never Eat an Apple from a girl named Eve, and he's he said uh ain't or what'd he say, cable killed ain't or ain't killed, I don't forget, but he he he was going off on him. It was like yeah, yeah. It never happened though, unfortunately.
SPEAKER_03Let me ask you this you being someone that has judged battles, excuse me. What do you think is off limits in a battle?
SPEAKER_04I mean, I I don't think anything like to say you're saying, yeah, to say, yeah, I don't think anything's off limits. I think I do think it's corny when maybe you start touching people because then because that usually that's what leaves somebody get hit, you know. I mean, like it's I I I know a dude, Johnny on the spot in Philly, he got shot during a battle. And uh get the fuck out of here, yeah. In Philly, like he got shot, and um I just I think that's like it's like if you can't take what people are saying to you, you just shouldn't be there, you know. I mean, like it's a it's entertainment at the end of the day, it's entertainment, so it's like that people you know you're going there, somebody's gonna say some crazy stuff on you, and if you got six months to write, some they probably dug up some shit on you, yeah. Yeah, so I don't know. I I think like I think touching, like hitting people, shooting people is crazy. Um and then before that, it's crazy, it's crazy, like it just doesn't need to happen. Like, you just shouldn't be like in the battle if you get that worked up on something somebody said now. If they're over there and they're like, this is why I'm saying, like touching people, like if you're over there and you're just like you know, hitting their shoulders and like you know, grabbing their face and all that stuff, that that it makes it understandable that you're gonna hit them, but that's where I just think yeah, that that takes it too far to me. But I don't think there's anything you could say that's off limits.
SPEAKER_03That's crazy. Because I I I think about I think about how just say, like with the um like talking about somebody's dead mother, like that shit right there. I feel like, look, man, to me, I feel like there's no way you can make this shit dope creatively. You get what I'm saying? Like, I kind of think that's fucked up. Um now I will say this much. I feel like significant others definitely we're talking about them. You know what I'm saying? Like, so if if if your girl got a history and you you might want to be prepared, you know what I'm saying? Right because motherfuckers is gonna bring it up. Um talking about motherfuckers' kids, I don't know about them. I don't know because I feel like you that's that that's shaky ground right there, man. That that shouldn't get you popped in the mouth, you know.
SPEAKER_04It's not tasteful. I'll say that. It's definitely not tasteful. Like, I wouldn't do it personally, but again, at the battle, I I just feel like all all cards are in play at this point because people say some crap. I meant one of the first battles I ever went to. I remember this dude, young jerseys. He said, like, I'll play, I'll play football with your daughter, and he's like, Did this crazy kick just like jumped up in the air, did this kick, and he's like, I'm gonna punt your daughter, and all this shit. We're just like, Oh, okay. So, I mean, I've been hearing people coming at people's kids in wild ways.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's crazy. Um, I feel like, but that goes back to what you said. Like, if you can't take that type of shit, don't be a battle rap. Right, right. Yeah, yeah. Some of the ones that I've watched, I'm like, damn. Uh that's that's that's crazy. Um you said you spoke about being from Philly, right? Um, how do you think well, do you think Philly has molded you into the adult you are to this day, the individual that you are to this day?
Freestyle Ethics And Off-Limits Lines
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I definitely think so. You know, like um Philly is such a unique place, right? And I've lived and been all over on tour, I've been touring musician for uh you know 20 plus years now. Um, so I've been all over, I've I've played in three different continents, um, and there's just nowhere like it. You know, I've I've lived in Houston for a while teaching out there. I'm actually I'm trying to open a second studio in Tennessee. So like I've I've definitely been bouncing around, but there's the the diversity in Philly is crazy, but everybody's the same. It's not so it's not as um, there's definitely like some segregation, but it's um it's it's just different, man. Like, I feel like we're all united through like the love of the city, through the love of the Eagles, through the sports. Um, also, if you learn to drive in Philly, I think you could drive anywhere because the I it's crazy. People will cut you off, like burn red lights, like just the potholes are you know the potholes are like it looked like a grenade went off sometimes. Um, so it's like that, and then plus, you know, the the hoods in Philly are different too, like you know, there's not grass and trees and stuff. So it's like when I was out in Texas for a while, it took me a little while to get, you know, I'm teaching in a school called Workshop Houston, one of the greatest schools on earth. And um, I was like the music teacher out there, and I was in the third ward, and everybody's like, yo, you gotta be careful out in the third ward and all this stuff. And I'm like, they got trees and grass, bro. You know, so it was weird for me to get used to, like, right, you know what I mean. So um it was it's just different, but yeah, it mold it molded me, like it molded a lot of my values. You know, I grew up in a very like um like diverse friend group, yeah. Um, and that's that's like really affected my life in like a really positive way. Like, I've I I fit in, I feel like I can be friends with anybody and and not uh I see it being different in other places, like you just go other places and it's not like that, and that's weird, and also the food, man. Like at three o'clock in the morning, if you want Vietnamese food, you can get it. You know what I'm saying? If you want uh a cheesesteak at 4 a.m. after a night out, like you can get it. If you want to slice right, if you want to slice out your your head, like you can go get it at Lorenzo's, or you know, there's always Wawa open, and it's just different, man, and Houston. I love Daniel's too, bro.
SPEAKER_03I love I love it, and I call it fat ass shit. Yeah, bro. I said it as a compliment, you know what I'm saying? Oh, it is, it's good. I fucking love it, and and that's one of the things I like about New York, man, is that you can hit up those fucking bodegas, bro, like right two, three o'clock in the morning and get a bomb ass fucking sandwich. Like, especially after you've been out, you know, you know, clubbing and shit like that. You got the lick on you, you need that grease to soak that shit up, man. You grab a more see, I'm just getting hungry right now, man. Um, he said something about um about Houston, man, the third war. Uh, I gotta say what's up to my man Brandon, man. He uh he from Houston, he always talks about third war, and uh I remember we was having the conversation, man, and he was like, Yeah, you know, I had to take my clothes to the wash material. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, I was like, huh? I'll pause for a minute, you know what I'm saying? I'm the fuck. I ain't never heard him correctly, you know what I'm saying? So he was like, Yeah, wash interior. And I was like, what the fuck is the wash interior, bro? And he was like, Where you wash your clothes at man? And I'm like, the laundromat motherfucker, right? Right, right. I had never heard I had never heard anybody refer to it as the wash interior until my man brands it.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, they got it on the sign, it'll be like the wash interior. Like it's it is kind of wild. I it's only called that down there because it's it's a damn laundromat everywhere else. Like that's right, exactly.
SPEAKER_03So you said that you're about to head back out on tour, man. Uh so you do punk rock, correct?
SPEAKER_04Uh, I mean, I've I've been in a ton of punk rock bands. Um, currently it it's a hip hop tour. I I do a lot of music, like I I've put out a ton of RB, hip hop. Up punk rock. Um, you know, my book is about punk rock. I got it right here.
SPEAKER_03Invasion, I was gonna ask you about that.
SPEAKER_04Invasion of the punk rockers who drink blood. It's a it's a big boy, but um, this tour is with my group I'm in called the Heroes League. Um, it's a crazy uh it's me, Trey Digga, Ray Riley, Black Conickey, um Fire. Um, we got it's a uh Matthew Raheem, Ohm, um Spaz Black. Like it's a it's a really dope crew. Um, and it's all kind of like nerdy bars, like it's all just like hardcore stuff about Dragon Ball Z and stuff. So it's it's a fun yeah.
SPEAKER_03Like the far shit.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a lot of fun. So we're on this uh at down at South by Southwest. Um there's a uh showcase called Nerdcore Days. Okay. So we're on that, it's like a three-day event. Um, and then from there, we got Secora Festival in Philly. Um, we're just we're going crazy this year, and I just did an album with the producer uh Skinny Bones the Godfather, a very hardcore hip-hop album from uh he's from Amsterdam, so I'm going over there later this year. We're gonna do some shows over there, and then uh probably heading out to Brazil later this year. So yeah, I'm I'm always going, man. I'm always going.
SPEAKER_03So I gotta I gotta be honest with you, bro. Like, I'm jealous, man, because you go into South by Southwest. I I've been to South by Southwest twice, bro. Right, and every fucking time. It's mind blowing. And the first time I went, the the reason why it was mind blowing to me was because it was just all these creative people in one space. You see what I'm saying? Like, you got all these creative people just walking down the street, everybody got their signs and shit out like that. You know, motherfuckers got their speakers out there, motherfuckers is performing, you networking. It's like the energy is amazing, it's amazing. And the second time I went, it was even better. Um, because like I took my equipment with me and I was like doing like on the spot interviews and shit like that. So I had a chance to meet some fabulous people that I still talk to to this day. So, like I said, man, I'm jealous, bro, that you that you're heading down there, man. Hey, come down, bro. Yeah, head down. I wish I could. I wish I could. I wish I could.
SPEAKER_04This is this is gonna be my third time down there, and uh, yeah, it's always been good. I had a weird experience one time, it was the year where um Jay Prince Jr. was out there shooting in the street that that whole yeah, I was down there when that happened. That was a weird time, but uh it was still an interesting, you know. Uh it still was good, it just was weird because I also had some young kids with me that I was that were performing that I was taking down there, and all this stuff was going on because of that. So it was just you know, I'm chaperoning some kids, and it just was yeah, it was an interesting thing to be going on.
How Philly Shapes An Artist
SPEAKER_03It it's it's it's it's it's crazy. It's crazy. The the first time I went, I was on some I was like on some artist shit, right? Um, but the second time I went, I was on some media shit. And I was trying to like I always try to compare the two, like the two times. I think when I went on some media shit, I was accommodated way better. Like I was, you know, like I went to like a um, they had like a brunch, had all these different fucking foods there, and you could drink for free, and you had your own booth and all that shit. You had the chance to like talk to numerous people and woo-woo. Um, and the time I went as an artist, it was kind of like fan for yourself, motherfucker. So, like on both sides of it, man. So it's like it's it's dope that you get the opportunity, man, to go back down there and check that shit out, man. What are you looking forward to the most?
SPEAKER_04Um, I mean, I'm definitely looking forward to seeing like some of my old friends. You know, I haven't there's people that are gonna be there I haven't seen in a few years, so that's that's probably the thing I'm looking forward to the most. But uh, other than that, like I love performing, like it's my it's one of my favorite things to do. I'm not gonna lie, you know, just being there's no better feeling than being on stage and just killing it. Yeah, so I'm looking forward to that. That's what I'm really looking forward to, but also just having fun, you know. I'm going out there with these are some of my best friends, bro. So, you know, we can go have a good time. Yeah, you know, it's it's gonna be fun. We got the Airbnb, we got the I'm bringing down a uh mobile studio setup. Yeah, I got the mobile roof, I got the mobile monitors, the interface, all that. Um, and I'm bringing I'm I'm gonna set it up, and hopefully some of these people we link with, we can you know do some collabos, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and this I th I I think is I think I think it's dope, man, when you go down there and you network with people, you would talk to somebody that's from a whole different city, but they're going through the same shit that you going through. You know what I'm saying? Just in a different environment, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, for sure. I think that is awesome. Um, so the book. I want to talk about the book, man. So I want to make sure I got it right. Invasion of the punk rockers who drink blood.
SPEAKER_04Yes, this is invasion of the punk rockers who drink blood. Um, that is that is correct.
SPEAKER_03So, very interesting title, right? Very interesting title.
SPEAKER_04Break it down to us, like all right, yeah, yeah. So the the shortest way to describe it, right, is it's about a group of kids in a town where they just don't really feel like they fit in. Small town mentality, um, they feel a little different. So they're they're there battling, you know, the the stuff every kid goes through their whole life, you know, the the racism, the sexism, the homophobia, the uh just that, like I said, small town mentality, feeling like none of the adults get you, feeling like you don't fit in with the other kids. Um, you know, so they they kind of come together and form this community, this punk rock community where they they truly feel like they can be themselves and they're from a very like diverse background, um, but they they unite through this um through the music. Um and during that, while they're you know battling the real world monsters, these metam metaphysical you know monsters come in there to to really try to get them. Uh so it's kind of like a war on two fronts situation and how they band together to try to survive the chaos. So uh and it and it I'm I was kind of shocked how well it did. You know, when it first came out, it was hitting every Amazon top 10 young adult list and all this stuff, and it was it was going crazy. So I've you know gotten to do some library tours and run around promoting the book, and that's been a lot of fun. That's a lot different than doing music, but still really fun. Um yeah, yeah, man. It's it's it's cool, it's cool. So I'm working on the sequel to it now because we're trying to get this um streaming deal, but they were like, you gotta have the sequel done. So I'm I've been working on it, but I'm I'm slow. It took me 20 years to write this thing, so I'm trying to get this.
SPEAKER_03Oh wow, it took me a long time to get this together. That was my next question was how long it takes you to write it?
Tours, Nerdcore Crew, And SXSW
SPEAKER_04Man, I started it. I I typed um the title and everything, and it was originally very different. So, you know, there's a there's a movie company called Troma, they do like the Toxic Avenger and um movies like that, like low budget B movies. But when I was a kid, I loved those movies, and I met the guy who runs it, Lloyd Kaufman, and I was like, What would it take for you to you know put my make my script into a movie? Uh and he's like, Well, what's your script called? And I don't have a script, so I'm just making it up. I'm like, uh invasion of the punk rockers, uh, who drink blood, the musical, you know. So so he's he's laughing, he's he knows I'm full of shit, but he's like, All right, kid, you know, get in touch with my people and we'll we'll see what can happen. But I'm at home ferociously typing this thing, you know what I mean? And it it was hot garbage. I'm so glad I didn't finish the pen because it was a it sucked, it really was trash. And you know, a few years ago, you every now and then I'd go back to it and and check it out, see what it was like, and I'd be like, Man, this is trash. But I always loved the title, so you know, eventually I just dropped the musical and I kept some of the characters' names and just rewrote the whole thing. And I my boy 310 was living with me, he was living in my office, but this is where I would do all my work, and um I'd come in here and I'd write from like mid once I put the kids to bed till four in the morning, and uh you know, so he would he could attest to that. I'd just be in here writing, writing, writing, and then I had um my good friend uh from um up my way. Well, she's in like Baltimore, Jay the Lioness. She was the first one of the first readers, and then uh another artist named Ewan, he was like he really got behind it and helped me edit it, and then I hired a you know, I hired a copy editor and all that stuff. So, you know, we we went big on it, got a publicist, and you know, it's it's been going well. I'm very happy with it so far.
SPEAKER_03Well, first of all, man, congratulations on that. Thank you.
SPEAKER_04It was with the kids, man.
SPEAKER_03That was the hardest part because they just want to play, and you know, my kids are young, so and then I also gotta command you. Um what's the word I'm looking for? Um is it selfless selflessness? Because the reason why I say that is because you said that that you let your friends stay in your I'd be honest with you, bro. I hate for motherfuckers to come in my office, G. I don't fucking hate it. I I mean like well, besides my lady, you know what I'm saying? But like motherfuckers sleeping in this motherfucker, shit like that, sleeping, eating, all types of shit. I fucking hate it. And I'm and I and I got like OCD, bro. So anytime I walk back in this motherfucker, like I'm making sure that the the book is exact way I left it, or the papers uh the exact way that I left it, all types of shit. So I commend you, man, for even letting somebody sleep in your shit, bro. Real talk.
SPEAKER_04I mean, I didn't, I wasn't, you know, now I got a little drum set back here. I got the piano and the guitars. That shit wasn't able to happen at the time. I had that all was all in storage, but um, you know, it I I could never let uh one of my one of my brothers, you know, be just completely assed out. It's just not in my character. And I didn't have any other place for him to go. So it was like, all right, you know, as long as you don't mind me being in here working sometimes, you can you can here, and and it was cool, man. I it was nice having somebody around that uh we we work, you know, he was one of my artists. I managed him for years, and then we just really became like very close. So we do music together, we we write a lot of stuff together, too. Like he's an actor, so he's in Law and Order. And his name's Wallace Little, he's in um he's in Law and Order, Strangers with Candy, Angel Rodriguez, like his IMDB page is crazy, and then he's also a fan favorite on the Marson House cipher. So me and him would sit and write scripts. We were trying to pitch stuff to Marvel and all this stuff. So it was cool having him around, you know. Now he's uh he's married, he's got a kid and stuff. He moved out, and that's cool too. But yeah, I'm not gonna lie, I it was nice having him here, even though I my office was a little more limited in my use, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03So I'm like, bro, I'm I'm hearing you say all this stuff that you got going on, man. You got tour coming up, the studio, writing a motherfucking book, writing scripts. So, how in the world do you manage to get any type of what do you get down? Do you get downtime?
SPEAKER_04Like, do you how much sleep are you getting, bro? Very little sleep, but this is my down. This is what I consider my downtime, right? Because you know, I'm I'm mostly with my kids, like I'm with my kids all the time. Um I got two. My my daughter's six and my son's two. Okay. So we're homeschooling and all that stuff too, because the curriculum's crazy. But you know, I I uh my my wife is in tech and she runs a company, and then um I got the studio, so we got people working for us. So I I really just I'm able to be here with them. But from the second I can get them to sleep, the you know, my downtime is work. Um probably when we're done with this, I got a song to record. I was supposed to have done yesterday. So I'm you know, that's that's my downtime is work, work, work. But I enjoy it. Uh, it can be very frustrating. And then sometimes I'm not gonna say I'm always uh you know, sunshine and rainbows over here. Sometimes I'll be getting very frustrated on little asleep, or if I'm not meeting deadlines, that's when I'm really not not very fun to be around um that yeah, man.
SPEAKER_03I can definitely understand that just as um just as a creative and somebody that tries to be as organized as possible, when when you feel like you're not gonna meet that deadline, they can't fuck with you.
SPEAKER_04For sure. Yeah, um it really will, actually. Just throw it out. That is life for real.
SPEAKER_03Um so with you having a young daughter and a young son, how is this tour making you feel?
Writing The Punk Rock Novel
SPEAKER_04Um, this will probably be this will this might be the longest I've been away from them on that. Because you know, usually I'll go out for I'll have a show or a couple shows. Um, or I gotta go up, I I go up to Philly, like or I mean I go up and do uh well, like I said, we're traveling back and forth a lot because I'm trying to open the second studio. So it just depends. It's it usually they're with me, but sometimes they're not whenever we're traveling. So, but for the most part, it's not that long, you know, it'll be a couple days, maybe a week tops. Uh, but this year I just really decided I wanted to make a crazy push with the music. Um it's a it's an interesting feeling. Like, I I hate not being around. I'm like, but you know, like I have so I literally played nerf war with my son for hours the last two days, like we've just been yeah, you know, so and he likes a lot of stuff I like. He likes Power Rangers, so we'll just be playing Power Rangers and soar fighting and and stuff. So it's really fun. Like I have really cool kids. Um and uh yeah, so it's it's interesting. I know my wife's like not really uh not really looking forward to having to do it all by herself while I'm gone. So that's that that's the big thing, is like I I never want to leave my family like assed out either. Uh but you know, I got all these opportunities on the table, and I'm trying to make it, you know, both of us are very focused on um we want to make enough money in these next few years to where we can just retire and just do what we want to do. Exactly.
SPEAKER_03I mean it bro, it it sound like it sounds like that's exactly what you're doing.
SPEAKER_04We're trying, we're trying, man. And she she works very hard too. Like she's she's building a company called Seed and Society, and she just does public speaking and all this stuff, so she works really hard. I try to work as hard as I can. You know, we're just that's that's the goal, man. That's the goal is just to be able to travel around and give the kids great experiences, and uh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03So it is fun. And and and I will say this much, man, because I have three kids. I have uh I have a damn, hold on. A 25 year 25 year old, 24 or 25, one of them. He knows I love them anyway. Um then I have a 18, an 18-year-old, and then I have an 11-year-old daughter. Okay, so I will say this much, man, that I am so grateful that they're not assholes. You know what I'm saying? So we'll talk. Um, there's some asshole kids out there for sure, bro. It is, it's it's I know people that have asshole kids, man, like for real. And um, I'm very grateful and very appreciative that I don't have asshole kids, and that I actually like I actually like spending time with them, man. Right, right. Like for real. So it it it really makes it uh it makes it even better when you're trying to be creative and you're focused and you're trying to get the stuff done that you gotta get done, but you know you you you have to put that quality time in with the kids, it makes it even better that they're not assholes, bro.
SPEAKER_04It does, it does, and you know what's fun too is because they're they're kind of interested in the music. Um, it's it's you know, it's been a little bit um my daughter once she actually engineered two songs I'm putting out. I let her get the fuck out of here, yeah. Man, she was engineering and she did a good job too. And then my son, he just is like he has impeccable timing, and I think he's got perfect pitch because I had him back here just playing the drums, and he was like hitting it, and there's there was nothing playing, but he's just like playing to a beat that's like very on time, uh, you know. So I think my daughter could be like a a brilliant producer, and she tries to write some songs too. Me and her write like little kid songs together, and uh you know that I think she could do that too, but I could see her being like an incredible engineer producer and him being just like you know the biggest singer in the world or something because he is, I'm telling you, man, like he hears a song and he's got the key of the song down, he's singing along with it, and it it blows my mind. Like they're way more talented than I was at that age, especially.
SPEAKER_03But you're getting them started, like you're getting them started, and that's that's a beautiful thing, man. Like, especially when you're able to see their talents, you know what I'm saying? Like my um, like my oldest son, he's super athletic. Right, like he's he's super athletic, and he's he's he's super charismatic, like he really is. Um and my middle child, my 18-year-old, like he has that gift of gab. Like he like public speaking, he just did a um, he did uh he was the keynote speaker at his high school's black history uh event. And I'm telling you, dude, like I watched this shit and it reminded me of Barack Obama's acceptance speech. So he's gonna be the next uh next president, kind of hey, listen, bro, with the way this fucking country is right now, I don't think that's a compliment. No, I agree, I agree with you on that. This shit is crazy. That's a whole that's a whole other story. It's like some shit out of a movie, man. But um, and then my daughter, like her eye for um, like she takes pictures on her phone and like she just captures shit, dude. Like she'll like she'll show me the picture. I'm like, damn, I would how would you able to like really just capture it at that moment, you know what I'm saying? So I think they all have um they all have their talents. And I always tell them, don't ever let nobody tell you that you're natural at something. Because I feel like that means you didn't work for that shit, you know. You you you you work for it. And like I I say that to say because you talk about your daughter and her engineering and your son uh with the per with with the perfect pitch, like encourage that dude, like encourage you're working at that. That shit ain't fucking natural, you see what I'm saying? You're working at it, you know what I'm saying? And and that's how you get better at it. Um, I agree.
SPEAKER_04So you say you homeschool your kids, right? Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, it's um again, cuz we we do travel a lot, and you know, that that was a big thing when me and my wife got together, because you know, she's travels a lot, and both of our parents are um like we're both first generation, like her her uh dad was from Jamaica, my dad's from France, so they both moved over here when they were little. Um, so it was important for us to just be for the kids to be well-rounded and travel a lot, yeah. Um, and I think that's hard to do when you're um when you gotta go to school every day. Um, and also the curriculum is crazy these days, man. That's what I was about to say. Maybe that's what I was about to say. So the school, the school my daughter was at for preschool, they got off because the girls' basketball team is going to state championship, and uh they sent them home with the packet. They are in school eight hours a day. We did the whole packet in an hour. I'm like, what the fuck are you doing at school for the other seven hours? Like, I and the food, man. Like they would be feeding her this crazy like slop, I feel like, and she she'd want to bring her lunch, and they'd be like, Well, if you bring your lunch, you can't sit with the other you gotta sit with the kids who bring their lunch, and so it would it was weird, man.
SPEAKER_03It was just up, man. I know like like that's a disgrace, right?
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SPEAKER_04It really it really was. So we had decided we're just gonna take them out. We we put her in the school, it's an online school called Bina. Um, it's really, really, really dope. Uh, she's really for having there. Um, it's a shorter day. I feel like they do way more. And you know, she's she's reading better now, she's writing better now. And again, like I just feel like they just were there for seven hours for no reason. Like they had nap time, which I get it, you need nap time, but like she hated nap time, so I'd get a call all the time or have to talk to the teacher when I pulled up to get her because it's like she wouldn't nap and she's talking back and all this stuff. And it's like I I went through that, bro. I was in the alternative school, I got kicked out of school for fighting. I was told, you know, my whole I didn't even finish, I didn't even graduate high school because I got kicked out of school. Um I they put me in alternative school and then I was fighting at alternative school. I always heard a talk back, and I just think that that kind of stuff, uh, especially if you're just not built for hearing it all of your life, like it'll really beat you down eventually. And I'm just not I'm not willing to like have my daughter get beaten down this early in life, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, no, no, no, I feel you, I feel you on that. Like, I think that I think that the educational well, many things in in this world that needs a complete overhaul. For sure. Um, and I think the educational system is one of them, but then again, when you got uh Linda McMahon, yo, bro.
SPEAKER_04This shit is stupid, bro. It shit is stupid. Like, if you give me star on this shit, is it we can go all night, bro? Because I'm always out here like going crazy on this, like it just makes me so mad, man. Like, what the fuck did you expect? Like, what can we get one qualified person in any department? Right, right, that's crazy as hell to me.
SPEAKER_03Anyway, so what do you feel like is the most challenging part of homeschooling?
SPEAKER_04Man, I mean, so I think that's a that's a tough one because there's definitely a lot of challenges because you know, I think when you get bring your kid to school, you don't see them throughout the day, so you don't really know what they're going through. You you just are taking the word for it. So I definitely see like I see when she's struggling, and I see when she's having a rough day, and and sometimes it can be hard to just not like want to interject.
SPEAKER_12Yeah, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_04And again, she's doing an online school, and there's a million of them now. They got public online school, they got private, they got all sorts of stuff. So it's like it's hard for me to not just want to go in there and like talk to her or like help her with certain things because you're not you're not supposed to. It's like this is between them and the teacher, but I can see her. I'm looking at her. We you know, we got her a desk and a laptop, and she's in her room, and she's like, but I can see her through the door, so I'll just be looking at her. And uh if sometimes I have to, I'll just go, hey, pay attention, you know what I mean? Or plus my son wants to play with her all day, so he'll just be at the door, like we put a little gate there, like a baby gate, and he'll just be in there like Afia, Afia, Afia, and she's screaming like Saya's bothering me, Saya's, you know what I mean? So it's like that could be weird. Um, go tell the principal. Right, right, right. So those are probably the biggest challenges, but I mean, otherwise, I really do love having her home. I think um, cause it because as soon as she's done, we could go do something. Like, she's done, she's done at one o'clock, and they have after school clubs, so like they got yoga, they got cooking, um, and it'll be like yeah, yeah, so they do yoga, and you just she's got a yoga mat and they just do it like because they got other kids there too, they're all doing so. It's like a zoom yoga class, and then they got cooking, and it'll be like every week I they'll give out like what ingredients we gotta get. And I'll go to the store and grab blueberries and yogurt, and they'll make a little blueberry yogurt popsicles or something. So it's like, you know what I mean? It's it's cool, it's cool, but it's like uh so on the day she has cooking, it's an extra 30 minutes, or you know what I mean? An extra a club, and then uh after that we go to indoor playgrounds, outdoor playgrounds, we might go, you know, run around and do all this stuff. So I like that. I like being able to get her, you know. As soon as she's done, we can go wherever. We can go do whatever we want to do, it's fun.
SPEAKER_03That's just up. That's just up. Yeah, that does. I mean, like I've I I I mean, thinking because I used to take online classes for college. Right. And I I I just I just wasn't disciplined enough. I feel yeah. I just wasn't. Um, and I really had to be honest with myself, so it's kind of like it's interesting to hear how it is for uh the the younger kids and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_04Um I think just the because of the younger kid, like all the teachers, it's it's a I think there's six kids in her class, and they split there's two teachers, they split it up two and two, and then they got a different teacher for the clubs. But literally every teacher is Miss Rachel, you know what I mean? So they're they're very like, okay, kids, listen, you know what I mean? It's it's not I do I couldn't do it, I don't have the patience for it, but that I think uh if you're that engaging for young kids, then you know I think it can keep their attention, but yeah, they are all Miss Rachel.
SPEAKER_03So I'm not gonna hold you, man. Uh, but but but I have I have one more question. Being an engineer and working in a studio for so for so many years, what is the most annoying thing that you see artists do when they come to the studio?
SPEAKER_04I really I mean I can't stand when I see people come in and just like waste their own time. Um you know, I I I feel like people come in and and think the studio is like a flex or something, like just coming into the studio to mess about, right? Yeah, taking pictures and stuff, which is cool. Like, I don't have a problem with that. Like, I don't I definitely don't have a problem with it. But but when I see we've had people come in and like pop a couple perks and go to sleep for hours. It's like that you just and then I'm just talking to your homie that you brought, like you're passed out on the couch, me and your home, we're not no music got done, and then you wake up, you just pay for it and you leave. It's like that's just not the flex I think you think it is. So that like that always drives me crazy. The other thing that really gets me is like I can't stand when people cannot take coaching or like any constructive criticism. Yeah, like I've recorded thousands of people at this point, and um, you know, this is our 17th year being open as a studio, and um I don't think I'm not saying I'm the greatest engineer to ever live or anything, but I've seen enough people that I can help like hey bro, you got you should just take the word and out right there because it's crowding your work throws you off beat right here. You're you're dropping off beat, and it's like people who some people are like, Yeah, you got that, bro. That's perfect, and then it makes the swallowing work. Other people are like, No, no, I got it, and then they just are keep doing the same shit, but can't even nail it because they're falling off the beat. So it's like people who aren't coachable, and then people who just like waste time, man. It's like I thankfully at this point, I have all these interns, so any kind of session that I don't want to do, I just give it to the interns. Like, I'm not, I don't want to waste my time on, you know, I'm pretty selective now. It's like if I'm if I'm taking a session, it's usually like I'm also the producer on the project, or I'm you know, I have some extra to do with the music beyond just the recording. I I don't take too many recording sessions like that anymore, just because I I don't get the joy out of it like I used to. At one time it was so exciting, but um uh you know, again, like after doing it, thousands of artists, it's like, okay, uh, you know, there was one point at like our peak, uh, maybe like uh 2009, 10, 11, 12. I mean, we're taking three, four sessions a day, five sessions a day, and it was just people, you know, back to back to back to back to back. And it was very, it was cool, it was exciting and everything. But now it's like, you know, like with the kids and all this other stuff going on. I'd rather somebody come to me like, hey, Steve, um, I love your production. I want to work with you on the whole thing. And then we can sit down, I can bust out the guitar, you know, we're cutting RB tracks, we're cutting, you know, we're really like making something, something special. Like, that's what I like to do now. And then my interns got to cut their teeth. So it's like they get to do those sessions where somebody's sleeping on the couch and they're just talking to their girl or their homie for three hours or whatever. Like, you know, that's part of the experience.
SPEAKER_03So when you said about the whole falling asleep thing, I understand that because as an artist, the recording, the recording part, I I stayed up all the time. I still do. I stayed up. When it comes to the mix now, and the master, hey bro, I'm out of there. You know what I'm saying? Like, I usually let them leave. I'm I'm falling the fuck asleep. But but but I asked you that question, man, because um I I I do see a lot of artists that feel like the studio is a flex. You know, like so they wanna bring, they wanna bring the weed, they want to bring that, they want to bring the alcohol in there, and it's like, you know, we're gonna sit around and talk about every fucking thing under the sun, but this fucking song. You know what I'm saying? Like it just like it doesn't make sense. Like you want to take all these Instagram pictures and you know, you wanna hop on live and TikTok and show motherfuckers that you're in the studio, but you ain't doing no type of work. That shit don't make sense to me. It's just it's idiotic.
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SPEAKER_04I'm with you, bro. Uh, I've probably been in a million people's lives just doing that, like just at the you know, I'm at the the desk just mixing or whatever, so I come up with the live, and then it's just like a party of the studio, you know. Now when we teach, we do a whole like segment, like a lot of the class who I think that most engineers fail because they're not trained to do the business part of it, right? Um, they're not trained to understand how to deal with clients, and and we weren't either I didn't go to school until way later. Like, I got my master's in um studio technology, like we'd already been open for 12, 13 years, but um, I did that because when I was teaching, I hated the bureaucracy, and I wanted, I was like, next time I do a job like this, I am going to be the head of the department, and I'm not gonna be, you know, there's not gonna be all this red tape on me. But so when we when we teach now, bro, we we literally uh we do half of the class is on dealing with clients. We have a whole segment on like talking about the client that brings 50 people to the studio and you're by yourself, or we got the client that no show, no call, no shows, or we got the client that's very experienced and really don't necessarily trust you yet. You got to earn his trust. We got the very inexperienced guy, you know. I mean, there's so many different types of sessions you could run into and just being prepared for um anything that might pop up. Like a guy comes in and just sees a guitar on the wall, and now he just wants guitar in his song. Uh right, you know, I mean, so now how do you deal with that? Are you prepared to set up and record guitar? Do you play guitar? You call a session musician? Like, what are what are you doing? So we really try to focus on getting these guys prepared, not only to be a good engineer, but to deal with all the stuff that might pop up and um throw like a what is it, uh a wrench in it or something that throw a wrench in the session that could be crazy. Yeah, it's fun.
SPEAKER_03Pretty much fuck the shit up. Right, right, right, right. Um, so um let people know where they can catch the tour at, bro.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, man. I mean, if you're gonna be in um Texas, uh up the we're doing a bunch of shows on the East Coast, Philly, Baltimore, DC, all up that way. Uh, and then if you over in Europe, man, like come see me, check out uh Goblin Town with Skinny Bones the Godfather. And I'm I'm this year, my thing is I'm dropping a project every month. So I've been doing I got folk project coming out, RB project, hip hop, nerdcore, like all punk rock. Like I'm doing so much different stuff, so keep up with me. Um, I post the tour dates on my website, which is just uh let's go guide.com. Um and then you can follow me on uh anything at Steve Skacks, and and you'll see all the dates. Come come check me out. I'll literally sit and talk to anybody. I'm a I'm a rambling man.
SPEAKER_03That ain't bad. That ain't bad. Well, I I I definitely appreciate your time, man. Um and and and and I like man what you what you're doing with the kids, bro. The how you stressing the importance of quality time with the kids. I think that's very important. And and you're still able to be creative and do what you gotta do, man. So that's a lot of fucking work, bro. I commend you. I commend you, man. Bro, talk. Um, man, dude, I always tell people, man, that I thank them for their time because time is way, way more important than money. You can't get time back. Money back, you know what I'm saying? You can't get time back. So I appreciate your time, bro. I appreciate you watching.
SPEAKER_04I appreciate you having me. It was good to get to talk with you. Hopefully, we can do something in the future.
SPEAKER_03Hey man, I'm gonna be in Philly, bro. Oh, when are you coming? When are you coming? I I'm I'm figuring it out. I'm figuring it out. I just I'm gonna hit your email. You know what I'm saying? I'm DJ a cipher. Come DJ a cipher, bro.
SPEAKER_04We got the technique.
SPEAKER_03See, that's what the I'm talking about, right?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah, I'm so serious. The last Saturday month, yeah. I got techniques in the studio right now. You can use those. You don't gotta bring nothing, just yourself. See what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_03That's what I'm talking about. Um hey man, we're gonna talk because not only would I like the DJ the cipher, I want to hear some of the spots out there, bro. I I ain't never been to Philly. I ain't never been to Philly, bro.
SPEAKER_04I'll take I'll take you to all the best spots. Just let me know. Let me know what month you want to come. I'll take you to the good the stuff that nobody knows about. The cheesesteak, bro. Come on, bro. I'm gonna take you to the I'm not taking you no tourist spot, man. We're gonna either go to like Max's or Angelo's or Toadie's, like there's there's some there's some spots.
SPEAKER_03Okay, okay. Now, hey, Steve, it was good, it was good talking to you, bro. But hey, I'm gonna hit that email because like I said, I gotta get to Philly, man. All right, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Let's make it happen.
SPEAKER_03All right, bro. All right, you be safe out there. You too. Yeah, yeah. Y'all heard it here, man. Shout out to my man Steve Sky. Y'all make sure y'all get in tune with him, man. Hey, check out that book too. Hold on, man. Hold on, hold on, hold on. I wanna make it right. Um wanna be mis Y'all write this down too. Put it in your phone, put it in your notes. Everybody got that phone. Even if you got an Android, goddammit. Um y'all make sure y'all get the book. The book is invasion of the punk rockers who drink blood. Invasion of the punk rockers who drink blood. And make sure y'all check that out. And as for now, man, we're about to get into the DJ portion of the show. Uh, brought to you by yours truly, DJ Monsoon's to Raw, the dope is DJ. You heard it thus far. So we're gonna get into it like this, and y'all check it out.
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SPEAKER_07Let's get to the picture.
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SPEAKER_03And we look at the music makes me do it. We get ready, go be in Chicago. Hope y'all are getting ready, put up Joe.
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SPEAKER_03And we keeping it going, y'all, cause we love the music. Put your hand on your heart for the one you still have, goddammit. Let's go. Love you, Ty. Jalen, Rice, Joey, let's get it.
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