The S.H.I.T.T.S Podcast
The S.H.I.T.T.S Podcast
Red Bottom Logic And Other Things That Make No Sense
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Time is the one thing nobody can refund, and that truth sits underneath everything we talk about with Race Bannon. We start with a real check-in: what we’re working on mentally and emotionally, how mortality changes the way we move, and why being present is a skill you have to practice. From there we get into what “real wealth” actually means when the flex fades: health, peace, and relationships that are still standing 20 years later.
Then we zoom out to Chicago hip hop, independent radio, and the behind-the-scenes friction that comes with institutions, gatekeepers, and control. We talk about why some stations want to own your information, why online radio can be freer than corporate airwaves, and how cities build “safe bubbles” that protect money while squeezing everybody else. If you care about culture carrying, artist ownership, and building something that lasts, this part hits hard.
We also get into the internet attention economy: algorithms, outrage marketing, and why posting isn’t the same as connecting. Race Bannon shares what it takes to build community outside the feed, plus what he’s dropping now with Super Sounds, including the Roping release and where to get it direct. Tap in, share this with someone who needs it, and subscribe and leave a review so more people can find the conversation.
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Welcome And Meet Race Bannon
SPEAKER_16Yo, what the deal is. What up, y'all? This is your boy DJ Monsong Thora, the dopest DJ and dopest host you heard thus far. And I'd like to thank y'all for tuning in to the Shits Podcast. So we are either shooting the shit, starting some shit, or picking up a shit left off. And needless to say, we got a very special guest to the podcast this week. And I'm gonna tell you why this brother is so special to the podcast, because I've been knowing this dude for like 20 plus years. Like real shit. 20 plus years. When I say I'm a fan of his work, but I think that he's just an all-around real ass dude. You know what I'm saying? And I believe he's a culture carrier, especially with Chicago hip hop. And the nigga just make a lot of sense, man. You know what I'm saying? Um, so with no further ado, I want y'all to give it up for the one, the only race banning, y'all.
SPEAKER_03And the crowd goes wild. And the crowd goes well, hey man. First of all, uh you have known each other a long time, brother. Hell yeah. 20 plus years, my nigga. 20 20 plus years, man. I had to think that Cats was was uh uh was that the big wig?
SPEAKER_16It was at the big wig. Hey man, nigga, that shit was so long, neither one of our beards look like this.
SPEAKER_03I don't even think I had a beard. Man, nigga, I might have had some facial hair. That shit might have been like some some scruff coming out the skin and shit, like one like this, uh a shadow. No, I definitely wasn't looking like Moses. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_16Hey man, you know what? I wouldn't say Moses, I was saying a character out of um I am legend, like one like I could see that you know what I'm saying. Uh a nigga that Will Smith came along on his path to just drop some jams on him, you know what I'm saying? And had a drink for him at the same time. Well, I'm glad I wasn't a zombie and shit.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and I wouldn't I wouldn't I wouldn't I wouldn't make everybody else was fucked out that motherfucker, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_16Hey I I I I I gotta say this, man. Will Smith is the king of crying. He is the he is the king of crying. He could turn this shit on like like like water, man. And when that nigga lost his dog, well, spoiler alert. Um when a nigga lost his dog, I felt it, bro. I felt that shit. Because I got a dog my damn self.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I mean, the loss of animals is is a tragedy.
SPEAKER_16It is, it is. You don't think that shit till you get one?
SPEAKER_03Um you gotta be a pet owner to really understand, yes, sir.
The Internal Work And Mortality
SPEAKER_16So um on the podcast, man, I always like to ask the question, what are you working on? And I don't mean like project-wise, I know you got a lot of shit going on. I mean like what you what are you working on mentally, and internally, emotionally, what you working on this week.
SPEAKER_03Um well, one, um man, I appreciate that question. No problem. Uh I feel like it's a it's a solid check-in. And I also feel like um amongst artists, it's kind of rare. You know what I'm saying? You know, I mean, we some weird characters, you know what I'm saying? We got we got quirks and like you know what I'm saying, we sensitive people, motherfuckers is drawn from all types of shit, and been um touched in all types of ways, you know what I'm saying? Mentally, physically, spiritually, yeah, you know, so um I would say those are the things I'm working on, really. You know, um man, fostering um pruning pruning relationships, uh fostering relationships, um, reconnecting. Um I mean, we just talking about the beards and the and the 20 years, and uh I mean I think that's been a theme for me over the last maybe maybe two years is um man, like mentally coming to grips with my mortality. Uh I kind of figured you was gonna say that. I kind of figured that. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, like I mean, you know, think about when we were running around 20 something years ago. Um I mean, I I know I know I wasn't invincible, uh-huh, but I felt invincible. Yeah you know what I'm saying, and I definitely uh like these type of thoughts weren't really circling around in my head. I remember sitting down with my my grandmother on my father's side, and um I had took her, you know, when she was still alive, and I had took her to the grocery store, and like sat over there in the house with her, and just talking to her, and she was in her early 90s, and she was just talking about how she had just lost all her friends, and there was like uh you know, nobody that she could talk to that was around and grew up knowing the things that they had the shared lived experience thing. Yeah, that she could, you know, they had a shared lived experience. That's what I'm looking to say. You know what I'm saying? And um, I remember at the time thinking, like, goddamn, this is a morbid ass conversation. You know what I'm saying? Like, man, you just talking about all your friends dead and everything. And now I realize that that was just her reality, and that, you know, in a lot of ways, she was imparting wisdom on me about you know what my reality could look like at some point. You know what I'm saying? It gave me some perspective even now, and and and then just thinking, like, man, being a little more intentional about who I connect with, how I connect with people, you know what I'm saying? What I do with my time, where I go, you know what I'm saying, how I live, you know. Yeah.
SPEAKER_16It's it's it's it's interesting that you say that because I think one of the one of one of the best responses that I got to that question was shout out to Andres Haley. One of the best responses that I got to that was being present. He said he was working on being present. And that shit stuck with me, bro, because I think about how, you know, we always thinking about the next move. We talk, you know what I'm saying, the next situation, the next situation. And it's like, are we being present? Are we appreciating the relationships that we do have with the motherfuckers who here instead of being pissed at some shit that fell apart, you get what I'm saying? Or I'm trying to think about who can I, who can I network with, or whatever, whatever, whatever. You know what I'm saying? But it's like, like you said, fostering those relationships with motherfuckers that like I said, bro, I realized like, damn, I've been knowing you for like 20 plus years. You get what I'm saying? It's like that's crazy as fuck. You get what I'm saying? And you you you you think about how people put so much stock into material shit, and and and I think it's kind of up because as black people, I think we do it the most, like we put so much value, like our value lies in how much money we have, so that's how we that's how we base our quality of life. You get what I'm saying? And it's like a motherfucker don't get a chance to really look at the the benefits of just being able to have a conversation or chill with a motherfucker, you know what I'm saying? Like you have those experiences, you get what I'm saying.
Time, Money, Health, And Presence
SPEAKER_03So I I I get or or or the what the real wealth is, I would say the real wealth is your health, you know what I'm saying. In the end, I mean, just to circle back on what you was talking about, your your mental health, your physical health, and your spiritual health, you know what I'm saying? That's probably the real jewels. I mean, you know what I'm saying? Because money, man, I mean, you could get a bunch of money, you could blow a bunch of money. It's it's it's I mean, shit. I'm not trying to talk like I done I I got a bunch of money and then ran through a bunch of, but you get money, yeah. Niggas know how to make money, right? You know what I'm saying? Right, PPP sold us that shit, so you get money, money, money can come and go, but them other things they is they not as easy to get back once they gone. No, no, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_16So you really probably want to like do your best to hold on to those as much as you can, you know, real street, and and and with that, bro, like it made me think about time. Like, that's why I'd be so irritated with motherfuckers when they when I feel like they waste my time because you don't get that shit back. You see what I'm saying? Like with money, you can get money back if you got back, if you got the right niggas, you can get money back. Like, nigga, you owe me. I'm I'm I'm gonna get it back, trust me. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. You don't get you don't get time back for shit. You see what I'm saying? And I feel like I was just having it, I was having this conversation with my with my girl the other day, man. Like, we I feel like as black people, we put so much emphasis on money. That's how we that's how we base our value, money, and we instill that shit into our kids. You see it on TV, you see you hear it in the songs, it's about money, and the crazy about it is, bro, we put so much stock into how much money we have, but at the same time, we spend it the quickest. You see what I'm saying? So if you really think about it, the shit that you putting so much stock into, you losing it so fast, it don't make sense, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_03And in a lot of instances, we losing it so fast because we trying to show a motherfucker we got money, so it's like a vicious ass cycle, you know what I'm saying? It's a ridiculous money to spend the money to show a motherfucker that you got money. You know what I'm saying? It's fucking ridiculous. I gotta go back. I spent that money though, so now I gotta go get some more money, you know what I'm saying? Just walking a hamster on a hamster wheel now, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_16Right, just so I can feel like somebody. Now I gotta go out here and stun on these niggas or stun on these bitches just so I can feel like something. To me, that shit don't make sense, bro. And it like it don't make sense, and I feel like that's some shit that we keep like we teach our kids that shit, bro. We teach our kids that, and then we wonder why motherfuckers got these big stupid ass prom send-offs, motherfuckers got tigers and shit for their fucking prom send-offs. These motherfuckers got C's and D's, bitch. What yo get the out of here, man?
SPEAKER_03Come on, man, stop helicopters and tigers, right? For a prom send-off. And you are you serious? I just like, where do you go from there? Like, like, I mean, I I get the shoot for the moon, like I ain't mad at you, you know what I'm saying? But I'm just my question is where does you go from there? And then you gotta send these, you sending them out into the world with these type of expectations, exactly, from other people that's not their parents, no, and they don't get and who don't give a shit about them.
SPEAKER_16You see what I'm saying? Like, okay, this is one of the most ridiculous things to me, nigga. Red bottoms are only uh they're only worth something when you hold your feet up, so people see that the bottoms is red, nigga. You know what I'm saying? So I'm just saying, so we're gonna spend all this motherfucking money on the shoes just so we we gotta hold our feet up, G, to let you know that the bottoms is red.
SPEAKER_03You gotta you gotta go in the you gotta go in the club and do um motherfucking leg lifts. You gotta sit down on the floor and do leg lifts in that motherfucker so everybody can see. You gotta be able to hold that. You better have a solid ass core, you gotta hold that for about an hour, nigga.
SPEAKER_16It don't make sense. It don't make burning gut burning, boy. It doesn't nigga, it don't make it don't make sense to me, and and and and I don't want to sound like a hypocrite because I go buy a pair of Jordans, but nigga, I don't have to hold my feet up for motherfuckers. So like it ain't like it ain't like the the rest of the shoe is bland, and then on underneath the shoe is a hologram fucking you know what I'm saying, image of Jordan. You know what I'm saying? Like they Jordans, nigga. You know what I'm saying? Like the whole shoe look nice.
SPEAKER_03Them ribbons in some ways I ain't mad at at that, you know, the that little thrift movement. Oh man, man, you know, I'm not mad at the at that that you know Cats is like went away from the labels, and you know what I'm saying, they thrifting hard for stuff, you know. I'm finding it, but then that I mean that just made the thrift people go up, you know what I'm saying? Good will they ridiculous. Yeah, y'all niggas will ain't that good. That will's greeting the motherfucker, you know.
SPEAKER_16I seen the motherfucking like I like I'm in love with the um with that with the the 70s dope dealer leathers, you know what I'm saying? You know, like the skinny little leathers, like I like some bitches, and I've been trying to find one anytime I go to the thrift store. I seen a I seen like a peanut butter one in the thrift store, but that bitch was$80. I felt like that was unheard of, bro. You know what I'm saying? Like, nigga, it's a thrift store. I don't think anything in this motherfucker should be over$50, bro. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but they that's what I'm saying. They done again. They find find out it's a trend, they're gonna start gouging. Yeah, yeah. Don't price goug. Needless to say, I didn't get that bitch. Uh of course you didn't, because you like shit,$80. I I don't want somebody else's funk in this motherfucker. I want not for no$80, nigga. Not for$80. Nigga armpit been in here. No, I'm straight. Pay$80 to put a nigga armpit on. I'm straight.
SPEAKER_16I so look, bro, like I said, man, at the beginning, man. I'm I'm I I'm I'm a fan. I'm a fan of the music. I'm a fan of the the progression. You being on the radio at HBK, uh producing uh the track that you did for uh Andreas Haley, Il Gordon, uh Rumble Japan, super fucking dope. Super fucking dope.
SPEAKER_03Um thank you, sir.
SPEAKER_16No problem, man. No problem. I say that with sincerity, man. So my question to you is this in your journey in this hip hop movement, has that has it always been intentional to the radio or the production, or was it something that you just felt like you you fell into? You know what I'm saying? Or was has it has it always been where Race Banner wanted wanted to take it?
SPEAKER_03Um the radio show, like HBK, uh to be honest, that kind of like fell in my lap. I'm being real. Um I I you know, I know um my guy Bones had kind of been going up there. I really believe that time slot we ended up getting was uh I think they were trying to get third rail to do it. Yeah and all, you know, in all transparency. But you know, um I you know he does the guardian angel thing, and um I think he was training with his trainer, and that motherfucker broke his leg. Oh damn, and so he turned it down because he couldn't get up there, right? And so then it was us, okay, so we slid in, um, you know, but we had kind of been filling in already for JP Chill here and there. So it was like a little mix of how we ended up, you know what I'm saying? You know how they say the stars aligned, and yeah, it just aligned to happen. Um, and then um I mean I guess I wouldn't say it's intentional, but now that I think about it, I mean I kind of been as far as like doing like radio, I kind of been involved in radio even for a while. Like I've written radio spots for Borel, uh for Glover Communications, you know, for for like uh commercials for like Hardee's, for like McDonald's, for 9X. Um those are the ones I could just remember off the top of my head, you know what I'm saying? I think I did Haynes commercial before um Coca-Cola, you know what I'm saying? So I mean, I guess you know, they kind of go together. I don't I don't think I have in my mind was like, ooh, I want to be in radio. Uh I always knew I wanted to do music, you know what I'm saying? And I always knew I wanted to uh use my voice as a as some sort of instrument. Um, and then the radio thing, like I said, with HBK, that kind of fell in our lap, and then from there, um like now I was a little more intentional with like the Southside uh radio.live thing. Yeah, like I know um AJ had kind of been seeking out J2, and I had been looking to do something other than HPK. Okay, I kind of wanted to get away from that station. Um, and so that just seemed like a good fit because it's online and um it's not tied to the airwaves, it's not tied to the um a corporation, you know, like the University of Chicago, you know what I'm saying? Um, so it just seemed like a good move. And so that that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be able to play whatever I wanted to play. That part, that part, right? You know what I'm saying? And not like HBK wouldn't let us do that, but um I think that relationship got shot for me, because Bones is still up there on doing it. Um, but for me, it kind of got sour when they wanted to like run my background and and get my social security number, but they not paying me, you know. It's like they did this whole thing, they had this whole campaign. With a lot of the DJs on there, a lot of the personalities on that radio station where they wanted to run everybody's background. And, you know, they asked me for my social security number and I refused. Because I'm like, you're not paying me, and you can run my background without my social security number. You know, you can't do a deep dive. You can't look into my credit and none of that shit. But you, you know, you want to know, like, if I'm a criminal and shit, nigga, you can do that shit without my social security number. You know what I'm saying? I'm not giving you my social security number. And then at that point, I was like, I don't know if I really want to be around here. I ain't really feel feel like they was for the community, like they were putting on. So no, I know it was uh it was uh I think Mario left. Mario probably was the first person to leave. You know what I'm saying? Doing uh uh news from the service entrance. And then so um after a while, yeah, I kind of felt the same way, you know what I'm saying.
Control, Background Checks, And Institutions
SPEAKER_16So did did they ever say why they wanted to they needed the social security number? Anything like that?
SPEAKER_03Like I mean, they were pitching a thing, basically, it was so basically it's like they want to elevate their stature amongst um prestigious universities. I say that. Like, I don't know if you've ever like for example, uh Harvard in Boston, right? You go to Harvard out there, and you get off on the train to go to Harvard, you're like in the middle of Harvard Square, you're like in the middle, everything's there. So if you look at like how they building up 53rd now, it's like how they brought everything from Wicker Park over to like 53rd, right? Squeezed it all on this block. That's because they don't want them kids traveling to Wicker Park, taking that money over there. They want them to feel safe in that little yeah, in that little box. So if they can build up like a little mini bubble, right, they can start to get more like legacy kids to come in, and that's when you get the real kind of like, but you gotta build up your prestige, you can't make it like your kid gonna come here and get robbed. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? He might get robbed though. He might, but he he might, but that's why they're trying to buy up about 71st to about State Street, 71st to about 47, State Street to about Stony. Right? If I can get all that and make that a bubble, you still can get robbed, nigga. You still can, but it'll it it'll be a little, you know what I'm saying? I can run, I can run y'all out because I'm running the price up over here, you know what I'm saying? So if you do get robbed, you probably was on the outskirts or somewhere your ass shouldn't have been.
SPEAKER_16True that, true that, you know what I'm saying? And and and and I say that because I remember it was it was like a surge in robberies where you know niggas was driving up north and robbing motherfuckers and going back to to they to their area. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_03I mean, yeah, they finally figured out to stop robbing the poor nigga. Like these niggas, I'm robbing niggas next to me, these niggas poor. No, nigga, they not poor up here, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_16Right, right.
SPEAKER_03I mean, I'm I'm sorry, laughing motherfuckers getting robbed, but I mean, niggas getting robbed, yeah. I mean, you know, go to the community that can afford uh extra police service. That's where you know the money is nigga when they got the niggas riding around with the green lights and shit. That's a paid for security service. You know what I'm saying? You're not gonna see that riding around motherfucking Rosalind, nigga. Not at all, you know what I'm saying? Not at all, but you'll see that riding around Lincoln Park. Yes, yes, you know what I'm saying. I mean, unfortunately riding around the University of Chicago, yeah, bright ass green lights blind the shit out of you when you riding behind them, you can't see shit. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_16People don't get me wrong. I'm not advocating for anybody to get fucking robbed.
SPEAKER_03I'm just saying that stop man that nigga. We've been getting robbed forever. Get some nigga. You know what I'm saying? This whole shit built on niggas' backs. I'm not telling you to do it, but I definitely ain't I definitely understand why it's happening. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_16Yeah, you're right. I mean, like I I think sometimes people don't understand where they from or where they at. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_03Like definitely, I'm definitely um glad to see you realized who really doing it to your ass. Yeah, so that that's an awakening in that sense. So, I mean, it you know, I mean, crucify me because it sounds cruel and shit, but it's a lot of motherfucking cruel shit that done happen. I got a lot of I got a lot of I mean, I had a lot of verbiage and a lot of kickback on that on a motherfucker if they want to really go there, you know what I'm saying? That's I mean, that's light, you know what I'm saying? You that that's light that little that little couple hundred dollars or a couple of thousand dollars is real light in comparison to the hundreds and hundreds of years of motherfuckers pillaging across the earth, yeah. You still motherfucking collecting money from motherfucking nations now, right here. Right, most of you motherfuckers is rich off the back of other motherfuckers anyway. You thieving ass sons of bitches, right?
Is There An Age Limit On Hip Hop
SPEAKER_16You can you know what I'm saying? Up the MacBook, you up that MacBook in that iPhone in that uh iPhone, you be all right, you be all right, the motherfucker, you be all right, you know what I'm saying. So when when I listen to your music, bro, what I like about your music is this, and then I say this in a good way. It's contemporary hip hop, meaning the shit is dope, but it has meaning, and it's it's mature, it's mature hip-hop. You know what I'm saying? Like, I like the delivery, I like I love your wordplay. You know what I'm saying? Like, you could take thank you. So you can take the same, welcome, you can take the same word and flip that motherfucker numerous times in a verse. Like, I've noticed that about about about your rhyme patterns, and I think that shit is clever as hell. Do you well I'll put like this. I'm a firm believer that one of the reason why, one of the reasons why there's an age limit on hip hop is because of the artist. Um, meaning that some of the artists haven't evolved. You get what I'm saying? Do you do you why do you do you think there's an age limit on hip hop? And if so, why do you think it's an age limit on hip-hop?
SPEAKER_03No, I don't I don't think there's an age limit on any music. I mean, um I think that they seek out younger artists um for obvious reasons. I mean, one, they're gonna seek out and they being like industry, you know what I'm saying? Like they're gonna seek out somebody that they know they can control. Oh form of fashion, okay. So I mean, a younger mind is more impressionable. Somebody like me is, and even I mean, there's even younger people that they not, you know, they can look at and be like, yeah, I can't, you know what I'm saying? Or I can't they won't say I can't control, it'll be like I can't deal with that, or you know, it's gonna be worded in a different way, but that's the essence of it is I I can't manipulate you, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, um, you know, so that's why I think is they may go younger, but um as far as um older artists, I'm no age limit, but I also think that um just to bring it 360. I mean, man, a lot of niggas ain't grown up. A lot of these niggas we know personally that we would have ran across right or you know what I'm saying, in this so-called Chicago music scene are immature niggas that never grew up, bro.
SPEAKER_16Very good point. I mean emotionally, mentally, I can tell by Facebook posts. I I could tell by some of the shit that niggas post on Facebook. I'll be like, damn nigga, like you heard, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, like nigga, you using this shit as a journal, nigga, and you need to go and take that shit off the book and put that shit in a book, and then maybe go talk to a nigga and about what you wrote in that book, yeah, and really figure out where that shit is coming from, you know what I'm saying? You know, so um, you know, in that respect, I think anybody's music, if they being true to themselves, is gonna sound like where they are in life, right? Right, right, right, right, right, right, right. You know, then you know, so that's why I'm saying that this is where you hear a motherfucker I age, and you like, what nigga, how old are you? You know what I'm saying? Like, what, like, what the fuck are you talking about? Now that's not to say that, man, I can't, I mean, you know, I'm definitely from the look, I've I've I I spent years uh doing a digital media class, um working in a uh studio class, you know what I'm saying? Um I definitely think that um they they call it teaching, but I I feel like it's more of an exchange, you know. In every situation where I was the so-called teacher, I was really a student. I probably just was the oldest student in the class. So I was I was tasked with the responsibility of keeping order, right? You know what I'm saying? But we were all learning. I mean, when I did the studio class, I definitely man, I learned how to make beats on Fruit Loops from the kids. Uh Fruity Loops, I ain't know how to use Fruity Loops. I've been using either SP or Emu or uh MPC, or you know, that was my first experience like making beats in a dog, you know what I'm saying? And I'm supposed to be teaching them, right? You end up learning from them, ended up learning from them, yeah. So I do think that that um you know, we we all can learn like old can teach young and young can teach old. We can learn from each other, yeah. But I I mean, I think everybody still within that has to be true to themselves and who they are and where you are life, you know what I'm saying? And some cats where they are in life is they all name her fucking fifth childhood shit, right? Right, right, right, right.
SPEAKER_16And you know what? Like, like I like I think about that, like how much, especially with hip hop, how much can you put into the music as you get older? How much can you put into it? Because the thing is, you know, at a certain age, even we don't want to hear you still serving packs, nigga. We don't. I don't give a fuck how cold a beat is on it. I I just don't want to fucking hear it. You get what I'm saying? Not from you, not not not from.
SPEAKER_03I mean, I I I I've I've I've had enough cocaine in my ears, I've overdosed several times, nigga. You know what I'm saying? Poke me in the chest with the adrenaline and revive me. I don't need no more coke, right? You know what I'm saying? I don't need I've had I only I've had enough, you know what I'm saying? And I took it through the I didn't even sniff the shit. Y'all niggas shoved the shit in my ears. Pause. You know what I'm saying?
Internet Noise And Outrage Marketing
SPEAKER_16Right, but no, I get it, and and and that's why like I tell my folks, man, like when when I think about when I think about Chicago hip hop, like I like to hear, like I like to hear the shit that sounds like a nigga talking to you. You see what I'm saying? Like, so that be the shit that I gravitate to. So when I hear motherfuckers talk about real shit, and like especially like mature shit, but the delivery is so cold, I appreciate it so much. And I'm like, that's the shit that you need. Granted, yeah, you're gonna have your newer artist that's gonna come out, and they may hit you with a new style or some shit like that. But I think for the most part, I think at some point Chicago got away from balance. We didn't have a balance and music anymore, you know what I'm saying? It was just this, you know what I'm saying? It was 50 niggas doing this, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_03Instead of I also think it's the internet. Oh, I think I think it's the internet, I think it's the the people trying to cut through the noise of everybody is posting content, right? So it's like, yeah, how do I separate myself from these other motherfuckers? And at this point, um, I mean, the biggest marketing tool out here is is is is rage or outrage, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, so if I can either piss you, if I can if if I I gotta evoke an emotion, and the yeah, most moving emotion is is rage or anger.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_03I agree. So so if I can get you, you know, and then maybe behind that it might be um what like shaming the motherfucker, you know what I'm saying? Like laughing at ha ha ha, shaming, you know, look at look at them, you know, to the you know, um to to make you feel better about yourself, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, so if you can get one of them two things going, like either something that's gonna make a motherfucker go, oh my god, what the uh uh uh uh uh uh you know, or something like that that's gonna make them either want to start typing or share with that motherfucker. This is what motherfuckers is is doing, it's reduced that it ain't no, it's hard to have balance, you know what I'm saying? Like when we came up, it was like balance of the radio. You had righteous, conscious shit, and then you had you know whatever you want to label us, gangster shit, gangster, whatever, you know what I'm saying, or whatever commercial or whatever, but you did have like a curated balance until like at some point, yeah, until there was a point where they said they killed all the conscious shit, and they was like, No, and y'all take all that, yeah.
SPEAKER_14Yeah, just take the Gucci man, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Just listen to the Gucci man, and no, turn that pump more of that shit, you know what I'm saying? Right, ultra-processed food, all that give them the bullshit, you know what I'm saying? So, um, but with the internet, it just a made it man. It's like you gotta think like how how did Doja Cat get on? Does anybody remember? You remember how she got on? Oh no, I don't know. Thank you, bro. Moo, bro. She dressed up as a cow and wrote a song about moo. This motherfucker talented. I know that she good looking, talented, bro. Moo had the with a cow outfit on. I did not fucking know that cut through all the noise. Now, now look at me. I got you. Now I can I can give you this. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like the game. I think that's what it is with the with the internet now. It's like, you know what I'm saying? Niggas don't mean ice ice jj fish, like how we even know this nigga's name, bro. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_16Like or 50 Tyson, or 50 Tyson, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Right, remember all this. So that was to and that's early. We still talking everything we name it, was like 10 years ago, 10 years ago. Yeah, but this is where it led to now, you know what I'm saying? Is cats trying to cut through the noise, you know what I'm saying? On the internet, because the internet is the is the is the new TV and radio, definitely. I don't know. I couldn't tell you who was who the radio personalities are. Remember, we grew up as a Bob Wall nigga. I live next door to Ty Wandsley that was on V103, Crazy Howard McGee, Crazy Howard McGee Crazy Howard. I went to went to school with his son, Crazy Howard McGee. You know what I'm saying? Uh the bad boys, Mike Love and the Diz, Tifa, uh, motherfucking uh Pink House, um herd can't heard can't right now, though they all online. Charlotte I know Leon, I know Leon Rogers. I know Leon Rogers. That nigga online, too. You know, he on the radio, but you you gotta be online, bro. That shit is online. The most of the I mean, I say what serious XM probably is yeah, one of the bigger ones. Satellite radio, that's kind of online, you know what I'm saying? It's that's pretty much where radio done move to.
SPEAKER_16So with with what you saying that, bro, like it does make me think like this. Like it makes me concerned that the future of the music may not be in the hands of the people who has his best interests. You get what I'm saying? Like, for the motherfuckers that feel like I'm invested in this culture because I know the power of this culture. Not I'm not I'm investing in this culture because I know I can make money off of it. It's I know that this culture has taken motherfuckers through rough ass times, it's taken us through a crack epidemic, it's taking us through a civil rights movement, it's taking us through motherfucking COVID, all the type of shit. So, how do you think that whether how do you think radio can help, whether it's internet or it's mainstream radio? How can radio be a bigger tool to be more of an effective culture carrier? Not just for hip hop, but for black music period.
SPEAKER_03That's a good question. Um I don't know, man. I think we gotta build communities, man. We gotta get like-minded people really to kind of come together. And uh man, and and and build these and build that stuff. You know what I mean? Outside of the the parameters of those that seek to control it.
SPEAKER_16Yeah.
SPEAKER_03It's not a part of it, you know what I'm saying? So I think that's really the only on only way to do it, you know. Um you know, and and and and uh and continue kind of what it's always been. I mean, some there's always gonna be some sort of underground shit.
SPEAKER_16Yeah.
SPEAKER_03It has to be what I'm saying. And I think that's the the the underbelly is really kind of like the real pulse and heartbeat uh the of the culture. Know what I'm saying? Yeah. So um, yeah, I I just think people gotta connect though, man. You know what I'm saying? Like, like minds. You know what I'm saying? That's why I say it. That's when I why I started with the pruning and and and the you know the vetting process. Because uh some people ain't in it for that, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, some people are in it, like you said, just to just for the dollar, and they they ins they inside the house, yeah, and and they bleeding that bitch, bro.
SPEAKER_16They bleeding it, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_03They bleeding it, and they don't they inside the house, like we we we know them and they inside the house, yeah. And you know, we looking at them like they family, but really they not them niggas, they yeah, them niggas they're not, you know.
SPEAKER_16Hell no, they they they want that. I mean, don't get me wrong, I don't think anybody ever wanna be broke, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_03Like I'm not advocating for that at all, right? You know what I'm saying? Not at all, that is not what I'm saying, you know what I'm saying? I don't want to be a poor righteous teacher, I want to be a righteous teacher, you know what I'm saying, and that's not a diss, because that that's not a diss, because that you know that comes from teachings, but everything needs to be updated, yeah. You know what I'm saying? So I I I just I would want to be, you know, righteous teaching and um compensation, man, justly, yeah.
SPEAKER_16I I I laugh because when you say poor righteous teacher, only thing the the thought the the vision has that time to get pumpkin as I get to the thought.
SPEAKER_03That's yeah, but when you see when you see him, he he don't look like he he's suffering. You see what I'm saying? So yeah, now nowadays, yeah, man. On online, he's still man, he's still upholding that that message, that torch. That's what I'm saying is we just gotta build communities, you know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, you gotta, you know, we you gotta rise to the water, rise to the level. We gotta all connect with those that that's on the same page we own. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So when when when you think about when you think about it, I don't know if I answered your question though, but you did, you did okay. Good, good, because I I don't I can't tell. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_16When you think about Chicago hip hop, two things. When you think about Chicago hip hop now, what do you get excited for? And what are you concerned about? When you think about Chicago hip-hop now.
SPEAKER_03Now, what do I get excited about? Um, I would say across the board, man, I'm I'm just excited about um the diversity. Okay. You know, it's good to see like young, old, you know what I'm saying, uh, you know, so-called street cats, and you know what I'm saying. Um it's just uh righteous people. It's just good to see a nice variety and a mix of artists, and um and it's good to see um a lot of us actually starting to realize that we don't need to go outside of here to seek validation. Right? Yeah, well, I remember, man, what year could that have been, man? This had to be like this had to be like, it could have been, it could have been like maybe like 2000, let's say, and um Third Rev was on the radio, you know, they do that show up on NUR, right? And um he was on there talking about Chicago artists and how the music sound and a whole bunch of other stuff. He's playing a lot of New York artists, and I'm listening to what he's saying, and I'm listening to what he's playing, and shit was pissing me off. So I called up there, and I was like, bro, you can't be like talking about Chicago artists, but only playing all New York artists on the radio. This shit kind of asked me. And if you look at New York, Atlanta, and LA, all of them built their own market because they played local artists and they supported local artists, yeah, right? So I'm like, you know, why don't you play some local artists on your on your radio show? You know what I'm saying? That was the whole impetus of us doing the Lakeshore Drive radio on, you know what I'm saying? It was we really want to showcase Chicago artists, you know what I'm saying? Like we could build our own community and circle, it could be a money circle, it could be a resource, it could be a resource pool, it could be, you know what I'm saying. We could be educating people on the artists that are out here by just playing them, you know what I'm saying, versus you know flying in talent to get people to see us.
SPEAKER_16And and I think from from from where I was at, I think that's why a lot of motherfuckers gravitated to what y'all what y'all was doing. Because motherfuckers felt like I can be heard over the radio, you know what I'm saying? And so it kind of felt like a motherfucker was building that ecosystem. And yeah, it you just need to capital, I think it just needs to capitalize on that shit. You know, like it needs to be that arena where it's that the the radio is playing its part, the DJs are playing their part, the promoters are playing their part, and the artists are playing their part, and I think eventually the fans gonna play their part because you you've created an ecosystem of this of this this this this culture, the Chicago hip hop culture, or Chicago music scene culture, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, and I I think that's what motherfuckers need to work on, but that's just my personal opinion.
SPEAKER_03I I I see I I see cats doing it, like I mean that Philly and Friends. I think they're lines, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like they sold out a whole venue with just Chicago artists, you know what I'm saying? Like it's possible, bro. I mean, it's been done. I mean, I remember with Prime Meridian, we was us and Pevern ever. We sold out the dark room twice. I love it. You know what I'm saying? So, I mean, I I think people can do it, you know what I'm saying? I just think for whatever reason, we just been we just been duped into believing we ain't just a consumer's market and shit, and like we can't be, you know, we can't be a manufacturer, and you know, yeah, really, it's still meals around here. I mean, Detroit right up the road, they was making cars, they get they making cars over here off Torrance Avenue. So, I mean, we we we we produce they making them out of um uh four heights too.
SPEAKER_16Well, four heights close to Chicago Heights in between, yeah. Yeah, it's a Ford plant over there, yeah.
Algorithms, Real Contact, And Boundaries
SPEAKER_03So we we produce, we just gotta man, we just gotta get on it, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just think a lot of I think a lot of things fell by the wayside too, even with the internet. You know what I'm saying? Like I think people got lazy on promotion, you know. They that that word of mouth, hand to hand, got lost because I could just everybody think they could just put up a post and the whole world fucking saw it, and nigga, eight people saw it because the algorithm is like fuck you and whatever you promoting if you ain't paid me. You know what I'm saying? It's like cut cut me in or cut this shit out, nigga. You know what I'm saying? So yeah, I lost a lot of that. Uh somebody ain't gonna call you or text you. We ain't getting personal, you know what I'm saying? And the cats that really are, they win it. Yeah, the cats is really connecting with their audience and really getting, you know what I'm saying. Even even if they do something weird, they still win it with their audience. It don't take that many people, bro. You know what I'm saying? That's what cats gotta realize. It don't take a lot of people, you know what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_16No, that's that's a good ass point. I think that I think that with with the increase of use of social media, I think people do feel like all I gotta do is post the shit and everybody gonna see it, but it's not.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, you know, I mean niggas, tell me that. I posted the shit, nigga. I ain't see that, you know what I'm saying? I didn't see it, you know. I I I wish I had, you know. I'm not trying to, but but I didn't, you know what I'm saying? It just I be on there. I mean, I'm on the mother, it never came across my screen. You know what I'm saying? I'm I'm doom scrolling, I'm scrolling, so I know how to you know it never popped up. Algorithm said, nope, not not him.
SPEAKER_16He not one of your but not he ain't in your tribe, not that guy.
SPEAKER_03This one, I mean that shit's weird, bro. It's motherfuckers on here who I be in full out conversations with in DMs. I'll never see none of their posts, not one that's crazy as hell. Not one, bro. They be posting shit. I will not see a post. I know they post it because I go to their page. I'll be like, damn, this nigga posted this and that. We've been talking every day in the DMs, I'll never see it. So you can't rely on that shit, man. You know what I'm saying? And you shouldn't, because it's taking the humanity out of you, you know what I'm saying? Damn, that's a good point. Talking to a computer and shit, like it's a person, and that is not a person, is it's not, you know what I'm saying? And it's detaching you from people who you really should be talking to, you know what I'm saying? That makes sense. So if I was really talking to the motherfuckers, then if I'm talking to you, I don't need to see your post, you know what I'm saying? Because I know I can just text it to you, and you can just text it to me, you know what I'm saying? That's a little more personal, or you can email it, or you could call me and tell me about it, yeah. Because if you over a certain age, you can call me now. If you're younger, you know, like man, you gotta text me. I can't I can't call my youngest, my youngest child. That is like an ultimate sin. Uh FaceTime. Oh my god, why you wanna look at me? Because I'm gonna see your damn eyes. You know, I hate it. You know what I'm saying? Hey, listen, you don't want to call because I want to hear your voice. You what you called about that was just a text, right? Sorry, that's how you get treated.
SPEAKER_16I ain't gonna lie to you. I don't know if it's me and my own and my own little issues. I don't believe in faceman niggas, though. I I just don't. Like I just nigga, I just don't. I don't I don't I'll be honest with you. I mean, and it and it be weird to me when a nigga face tab you like, hey fam, like what the fuck did you do? I mean, if it ain't my son, you know, if it if it ain't my sons, bro, I'd be like, nigga, why you face tabbing me? Like, okay, and oh, unless you you know, like you're in the store, some shit like that, but just for you to be you not the only one, though, bro.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, you're not the only one, though. I done you you you not the only nigga that I haven't heard say that, you know what I'm saying? I don't see how niggas do it.
Game Time Bitch I Got Options
SPEAKER_16I just don't straight up. It just it just seemed fucking weird, it seemed weird to me, but anyway, hey man, look, I I I I tell you all the time, man, bro. Love you, bro. Man, real shit, man.
SPEAKER_03I love you too, bro.
SPEAKER_16And I appreciate the time. So before we get out of here, man, I got this game, man. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
SPEAKER_03Okay, and before we start the game, I got one thing I had to start when you first said that because you said we like to shoot the shits. Now imagine if you was actually shooting shit out of gun at somebody. Like, what would that be like running around? Like, imagine niggas running around with guns shooting shit at each other. I had to I had to it'd be less killing, bro. I had to share it with you when you said it.
SPEAKER_16It'd be less killing, my nigga. It'd be less killing straight up.
SPEAKER_03I don't know. It was a nigga might get it'd be less killing by bullets and more choking by hands. Nigga, you shot me with I gotta get up close and personal now, nigga.
SPEAKER_16You know, shot shit on me. What the fuck?
SPEAKER_03Hey hey, that's real personal, you know. It is it is now I gotta get close. Uh I ain't no drive by nigga. No, I gotta get out the car and come find you. I'm gonna walk right up on your ass, put you to sleep with the shit on me. You know, about to choke you and rub it back on you, nigga. This I ain't gonna be the only motherfucker going home smelling like shit. Nope. We all finna be shitty out here, you know.
SPEAKER_16Hold up.
SPEAKER_03Okay, okay, I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_16All right, so this is the game portion of the show, and this game is called Bitch, I got options, and I like to call it that because it's multiple choice, and I'm at the school, I'm with public school, so multiple choice is my thing. I fucking hate essay questions. Real shit. I felt like with multiple choice, you got a better chance of you know what I'm saying, processing.
SPEAKER_03Use one of the ones in the middle, and you might be good. No, exactly. Exactly.
SPEAKER_16So basically, man, you just answer the shit how you see fit. You know what I'm saying? All right, first question If a nigga wallet gets stole at the jump while they playing basketball, who is most likely to have stolen? A one of his opponents, B a weak ass nigga on the sideline that didn't get picked, C, a teammate that he didn't pass the ball to, or D, the nigga who helped him look for it. D.
SPEAKER_03For sure, for sure. Um that's a diabolical ass nigga, too. Yeah, definitely. That's a real diabolical ass nigga.
SPEAKER_16Next question The average price of a coochie in the 50s was most likely A, the rent, B,$40, C a hundred dollars, D, a nice dress and a pair of heels. Is there an E?
SPEAKER_03No, there's no E. There's no E?
SPEAKER_14No.
SPEAKER_03I'm gonna say the rent.
SPEAKER_16Probably probably right. You probably right.
SPEAKER_03Next question. More like you you married to me and I I own this house, the rent, you know.
SPEAKER_16Right, right.
SPEAKER_03That kind of like it wasn't like I'm well. I mean, you know, back then, you know, the niggas had two households out factory jobs, so maybe it was a little different back then, you know what I'm saying? Motherfucker have a whole whole nother family on the other side of town and shit. That is true, and sometimes blocks away. That is true. That is true, you know. So versus now, shit.
SPEAKER_16If you get right on the end, you'll see it. You'll see it. Next question: What is the worst response to getting your ass whooped? A keep talking shit, B take a swing on a person again, C laugh it off, or D take karate or boxing classes.
SPEAKER_03Say the choices again. A to keep talking shit, B, I'm gonna say A. To keep talking shit. Yeah, cuz I seen a nigga do it and get I seen a nigga get knocked out twice in five minutes. Seen that shit. Man, first of all, niggas walking down the street, we out there, you know, this party, it's late. We was up north too. Up on, like up on two we up there, you know what I'm saying? Rogers Park. And niggas came walking down the street, whatever. We out there, it's some chicks out there. They trying to holler at the chicks. I don't know what this nigga was on. I don't know if he called himself so-called stopping it or you know, cock blocking or whatever. Cats was real cool about it, but he just got kind of out of his body, got the rah-rah rah nigga. That nigga went right out. Boom! Pick him up. Wait, they pick him up, put him in a car, back seat of the car, right? Boom. He's sleepy time. Yeah, he night night. He's sleepy time for about five minutes. Now, meanwhile, the guys are still out there. I mean, now they done knocked you out, so now it's it's is you know, it's masculine energy in there. The women is intrigued now. So now they're getting a little action, you know what I'm saying? So they staying around, right? They hollering woody woo, they get out the back seat, come out, rah rah, rah, rah, shut your ass back up, nigga. Back in the backseat, you know what I'm saying? Five minutes. I'm like, bro.
SPEAKER_16So so basically, this nigga that's getting other niggas the alley you for the bronze, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_03You helping out, man. You just you you it's the party, bro. It's a party, bro. They weren't them cats wasn't on nothing. We we took the party to the street, and now you mad because the street came up on the party. We came out to the street, right? Right. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm like, if y'all didn't want them to come down here, why the fuck are we outside? That's true. We was inside the party, was inside. Everybody came out to the front, and now niggas came up. No shit.
SPEAKER_04I just think it's up. Of course, niggas came up, of course they did.
SPEAKER_03I think it's fucked up. You got knocked out twice because you was talking crazy to some, you know, and I know what you probably thought. You know what I'm saying? We up here, but hey, nigga, yeah, we up here, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_16Not where you from, and then for a nigga to put you in the back seat, like that's I don't know, like that's they're gonna let you sleep it off. You know what I'm saying? You ain't like you ain't just stay asleep.
SPEAKER_03You should just stay asleep, right? I'd probably just stay sleep. Uh you know what? I'ma just I'ma just hey, hey man, I just lost one. Sleep that shit off, bro.
SPEAKER_16Um how do you come back from that?
SPEAKER_03Though hey, listen, no, that's why you should stay sleep. You know what I'm saying? Don't come back. You know what I'm saying? It's over. You know what I mean? Like, even if you ain't really sleep, act like you sleep. You know what I'm saying? Like, man, I'm just, I'm not, I'm sleep. But I'm not, but I'm sleep.
SPEAKER_16That's fucked up. That is fucked up, man. Like, because like niggas know once you get knocked out, depending on who you get knocked out in front of, it ain't much you can say to anybody anymore. Because the first thing a nigga gonna say is, hey boy.
SPEAKER_03Don't get you anywhere we go, like, first of all, I don't want to go nowhere with you. You couldn't, I don't even feel like dude really tapped you like that. Like, damn, that's all it takes. Like, you Joe Glass, nigga. I for real. You know what I'm saying? I mean, yeah, I mean, I mean, you know, it didn't seem like both times it didn't seem like the nigga really leaned into you right for you to it wasn't like he came from Alabama. I don't even think he came from another state.
SPEAKER_16He just got crazy.
SPEAKER_14You that is out of you.
SPEAKER_16All right, last question, bro. Last question. Um do you think is the most neglected body area when people get in the shower? A behind the ears, B behind your knee, C, in between the toes, or D, the navel.
SPEAKER_03In between the toes.
SPEAKER_16Damn. Oh niggas is nasty.
SPEAKER_03I'm gonna say niggas in the I really would say probably the tank. What the fuck is that? What is that? That's that motherfucking the shit that the it the between your balls and your ass. The area between the coots and the booty hole.
SPEAKER_10I'm gonna say that's the most scrubbing there, bro.
SPEAKER_03You know what I'm saying? Right, right. Get up in there, bro.
SPEAKER_16Hey man, hey bro, it's always a pleasure, man. Real shit, man. Yes, sir. Straight up, man. Let the people know what you got going. Hey, also, man, that motherfucking quiet money, fire, yes, sir, fire. Fucking fire.
SPEAKER_03I appreciate you.
SPEAKER_16No problem, man.
SPEAKER_03Let me this what I wanna, since we on that, this is what I wanna right now. What I wanna uh promote we got going on, you know what I'm saying? You see this right here. All right, on the record label record label super sound. All right, this is called Roping. It's uh Dutch. It means purpose, like location, yeah, calling. So um it's produced by Don D, an original super legend. Don D has worked with um Mussolini and man, a bunch of artists, bro. He's uh from Amsterdam, met him um over there in Amsterdam on my trips to Amsterdam. We went to Platypus Records, and they like Don D is holding down hip hop in Amsterdam, so we linked up with him. And then original Super Legend, you know, been rocking with Vic Spencer and his uh partner, label mate with Super Sounds, and we got a bunch of Chicago artists. We got some hoodies on that bitch. You know what I'm saying? We got Bob Chin, Donald Mayhem, Jay Wade, AM Early Morning, myself, Phil Moore, and Hidee, Mo Sirus, Taiwan, Andreas, Pugs, Rufus, Tony Stanza, you know, so it's our latest project. We got out. We got a video out with Jay Wade right now. Um got a video for with the Philmore and um Rashi Hadid song, Marquise Room, that we're gonna be dropping soon. Hopefully, we get a video a visual for uh the Taiwan and Andreas Haley song, Pots in the Kitchen. Okay. Um so man, that's our latest project, exclusively on our uh website, super soundslc.com. Um, it's on vinyl. You can get a digital copy. It'll be on DSP soon, but it ain't on there right now. You can only really get it through us now. Is it on the band camp? Yeah, that that that that URL I told you is gonna take you straight to the band camp. Gotcha. You know what I'm saying? It's the it's the same thing. So, you know, we celebrating. I wish we we didn't get that new one on there, you know, the NPC sample, the calculator that everybody you see online making beats with before the heads. We got all the gear you can think of, you know. That's dope as hell. That's dope as hell. Yeah, appreciate you, brother. So yeah, that's uh that's what what uh uh got going on right now, man. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_16Are you gonna be doing some um are y'all gonna be doing some shows to promote it?
SPEAKER_03Um possibly. You know what I'm saying? Possibly. Um I'm really thinking, you know, on the show side, bro, I really like what Most Deaf is doing. You you you you up on how most deaf is getting down? Uh-uh. No. So like last year he did it through Bandcamp, but he just doing like live shows online. Now he's doing it through his sub stack. And then so you pay him, and then you tune in at a certain time, and he does a live performance online. Really? I like that. It's not bad. He doing it, he's doing it kind of bi-weekly, you know what I'm saying? Monthly. You know what I mean? Put you together something, you know, it's interesting. I like the concept. I mean, it's not as intimate as like uh, you know, a small intimate venue where we all kind of, you know, you you can smell each other's lunch. But um it's uh it's definitely if you got depending on the type of fans you have, you know, you got international fans of different places, you know. Yeah, I can see that. I I can definitely see the benefits of that. Yeah, yeah, you definitely could get, you know, uh a nice little decent audience online. Know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can see that. That's smart.
SPEAKER_16That's that's that's that's innovative.
Online Shows And The New Marketplace
SPEAKER_03And it's just and innovative and man, using the tools that's right in front of you. I mean, people are already online anyway. Yeah. I mean, this is where the that's the marketplace. You know what I'm saying? I mean, I I I was just talking to my buddy earlier today, talking about uh he used to work at Lincolnwood Mall. And uh I sent him a post about Lincolnwood Mall closing. And then we just talking about like all the malls, really.
SPEAKER_16Yeah, Fort City about to close too.
SPEAKER_03All those inside walk-around malls, you know, it's like you can get a strip mall with restaurants in it, food, and then maybe some sort of services, laundry, uh you know, cleaners, or I make locksmith, something like that, but retail people buying online. The people are online, bro.
SPEAKER_16They go on Amazon and getting that shit the next day or overnight, you know what I'm saying? I had a motherfucking Amazon person pull up at four o'clock in the morning. I was like, damn, that made you think like motherfucker trying to get some ass or some shit. You pulling up to the crib four in the morning with a package. What say hard pause, nigga? Hard pause. What but man, bro? Once again, man, congratulations, man. Real shit. Hey, I I I love to see your progression, man. You you you keeping your hands in something. You get what I'm saying? Like, like I said, honestly, for like 20 plus years, and that's to me, man, that shit is phenomenal. Because I know it's niggas that we started, started rhyming with, they just they just supervisors at UPS or a burger can or some shit. You know what I'm saying? They not even legs no more. You know, so I'm so I I always be appreciative to see that you deny any of it in that shit. Like you you continuously reinventing yourself, bro. That shit is inspiring, man. That's real shit.
SPEAKER_03Before we go, bring it 360. I I think that's part of and this is kind of like me like bringing a conversation I've been having in, you know, my inner circle out to I think that is part of the the growth and uh for a lot of people what's keeping them healthy, bro, is actually like living in their heart's purpose, what they what they heart desires, and and doing those things, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, even if you gotta do some other things too, you know what I'm saying? I I mean I've definitely I mean I've been a teacher, I've done all types of stuff, but still like music is a is a passion and a love for me, you know what I'm saying? And I really do think like if I wasn't doing it, I don't think I would be right. Yeah, that we see that we know that's why they're not right. They're not fully doing what they're supposed to be doing, bro. That shakes you sane. You see what I'm saying? Oh, it's therapeutic, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, it's definitely therapeutic, man. It's definitely therapeutic, you know what I mean? It's it's definitely therapeutic. I mean, again, to bring it back 360 is uh sometimes even when you see the cats bleeding out online. That is a thought I have like nigga, that's a song, and you just gave it away on this book, it's content for free, it's unmonetized, nothing. You know what I'm saying? That's a concept right there that you could uh refined and made into something. You see a motherfucker with a diatribe, long ass post, nigga. That shit be 32 bars of niggas don't even read the whole thing.
SPEAKER_16The the eight mother, the eight motherfuckers that it got sent out to, they ain't even read the whole motherfucking thing. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, you wrote a song, you spent all that time and you wrote out all them characters, and uh there's enough characters to make a couple verses, yeah. You could have put that energy into that, other than that, or man go rant to or vent to somebody that really cares, that actually I'm not even not even no, I'm not even like that. Like I literally mean that cares about you and is gonna listen with care and hear you out so you feel heard. I really mean that, you know what I'm saying? You're not gonna get that, you're not gonna get that online, bro. Yo no echo chamber, you know what I'm saying? And you're not gonna get no real feedback, you know what I'm saying. Most of the motherfuckers on there ain't gonna tell you nothing real, and if they do tell you something real, they killing your dopamine, and you're gonna lash out at their ass. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. You're not gonna hold another photo, you know what I'm saying? You're not gonna hear that shit because they not, you know what I'm saying? It's a yes man echo chamber, and that ain't no fucking good.
SPEAKER_16That shit ain't like that, yeah. That shit ain't no fucking good. You need a motherfucker that's gonna be like, hey bro, either call me and let's talk about it, or go see a fucking therapist. I don't know. Just shut stop doing that shit that you're doing. You you look soft as fuck. Cut it out, it's like you FaceTiming a nigga. You know what I'm saying? FaceTime me, niggas. Call me, nigga. Don't FaceTime me. What the fuck wrong with you, man?
SPEAKER_03Hey, that was it, bro. You you put the ball on it, thank you.
SPEAKER_16No problem. We're gonna we we're gonna link up, bro. Like I said, man, it's it's always good to talk to you, man.
SPEAKER_03And uh love you, man. Love you too, bro.
SPEAKER_16I'm all at you.
SPEAKER_03Alright, peace. Peace.
SPEAKER_16Yo, y'all know what it is. That's my man Ray's Bannon, y'all. Y'all make sure y'all check out that new Apple Sound Arts on there. Man, y'all Ray's Bannon, Andreas Haley, Vig Spencer, Rufus Sims, Feelmore Green, y'all make sure y'all, Mo Cyrus, y'all make sure y'all check that album out. As for now, man, we're about to get into the mix. Uh, like I always tell y'all, DJs, if you want to get your stuff, uh, your mix played on the podcast, email djmonsoons to raw at gmail.com. Make sure you put your name in the mix, let motherfuckers know where you're from. Uh, but as for now, let's get into it, y'all. It's the shit. Are you a DJ?
SPEAKER_06Did DJ Monsoons to Raw? First of his name, dopest in the game.
DJ Mix And Music Run
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. We're in that back at the shit's podcast. I'm your host and your DJ, DJ Monsoon to Raw, the dopest DJ that you heard thus far. Twelling from the city of Chicago, y'all.
SPEAKER_16Shout out to my man Race Banner. Thank you for coming through and shooting the shit with us, bro.
SPEAKER_12Tell me the world is right. Just me. Do me eat me.
SPEAKER_04We're gonna put y'all the pocket.
SPEAKER_15I'm after quiet money. Shh, stay quiet, dummy.
SPEAKER_04Shout out to Ray's banner, y'all. Stay quiet, dummy.
SPEAKER_15I'm after quiet money while y'all barking about it the loudest. Tryna get ahead, so I'ma think about it. Niggas can read but don't. They feel blind to the fact, so I'ma put it in real. Yeah, I'ma keep it real. I don't write this, I like this my type. No particular type. I ate a like with tightens that roll tight as you right list. Raised up to the sky. Now that's right. Just position us right where we breathe. Every lifeless is heavy, steady, uplift through enlightenment. Even when I'm writing it, the petty ain't right with it. Lines, punch them in the chin and hook them right in. Straight to the chest, no ice, no taser. Need proof from the truth. It's written on the label. Keep it above like a male did. Hell yeah. After dough, like I'm trying to fuck a feedback. Are you a DJ? Like my nature like pollination. It's in my nature like I'm a Queensbridge native. Team did it, made it from the base, like ball players made hits. With the pits when we stepped to the plate, or took it to the field, but the gear was bountiful. Can't take them down, so don't rush the mouthful. Cause here's what it comes down to. Even when the makeup's off, we'll still clown you. I'm after quiet money. Stay quiet, dummy. When the die, don't have a choir for me. Slight me on fire like the stove when you're hungry. I'm after quiet money. Stay quiet, dummy. Niggas tryna drive at night with no headlights, wearing sunglasses, a bunch of dumb asses. Lost with no guidance, too prideful to find it. New kids on the block with behavior that's mind. Bunch of racks free boys, monkey steal, monkey do. They got one direction, limited the scope, jacket around the edge, too immature to know. Throwing off the poison like Bell with the boat. They voice the minute, but we didn't raise them. No, we left like the television radio. Now we filling up prisons, bad boys on death row, blind, dumb, deaf. Jammed in the interscope. Not too long ago. TV wouldn't play our videos. Locked in the car fit for profit. For a product, we created corporations beating off it. Sitting in my office, staring out the window, tapping on the desk, I reflect on my info. This just info, poetic perspective, fruits of my labor, the juice and the nectar. More cash to make change like a register. So I can make the paper like I'm friends with the editor. I'm after quiet money. Stay quiet, dummy, wanna die. Don't have a choir for me. Just like me on fire like a stove when you're hungry. I'm after quiet money. Shh. Stay quiet, dummy, wanna die. Don't have a choir for me.
SPEAKER_12Just like me on fire like a stove when you're hungry.
SPEAKER_08All night.
unknownFrom the first to the last of it. Just the book with your statin. Not the hat of it.
SPEAKER_08We just followed clothes, like a stop my headman. Shall I like your ass to it? Like up the house, I'm just a house. Don't believe it, have but just see that, but it's like it all can believe that. Tell the wallet, wallet, tell the what we do.
SPEAKER_01So biggie and cash reach cuts, cause it's get a fabulous life. Look pretty well, pretty once it's still fitting stats. It's 10 steps. Street sets is time, and they can't be covered within steps. My presence stuff, my name is Polly. People think you're empty, it's your hand from this conception. Let me meditate. That is straight. Came to the conclusion that most of these cats is starting. Let me demonstrate. Walking the streets is like a battle, and be careful with your body. You must know karate. Stop acting like a bitch already. Be a visionary. Maybe you can see your name in the column of a bituary. Third with teacher reading and talking about. I knew he'd an outside knot, and they was like he was the quieter. Whoa, thought they was quiet. Talk to loud like you and RCA get caught in the way with body parts and traits. What's the way to start your day? Yo, it's like one two, one two, one two, one two, one two, one two, one two, one two, right, right, flash Shout out to Kanye.
SPEAKER_04Shot time's finest.
SPEAKER_02We're not rocking with DJ Mars to buy the dope and key that you heard that's part.
SPEAKER_05She don't believe in shooting stars, but she believes in shoes and cars. Wood floors in the new apartment. Couture from the stores departments. You more like a load of start shit. I'm more of a trips to Florida, order the order, views of the water, straight from a page of your favorite author. And the weather's so breezy, man. Why can't life always be this easy? She in the mirror, dancing so sleazy. I get a call, like, where are you, DZ? And try to hit you with the old wacky. Till I get flashed by the paparazzi.
SPEAKER_02These niggas got me.
SPEAKER_05I hate these niggas more than I got. All I know you know the show.
SPEAKER_02I like the shit.
SPEAKER_05I love that shit. Take it this far. I know fashion.
SPEAKER_14I know.
unknownJ'low sick. Oh, y'all hate us, no kick. I split the day, dope, dope, breaks. Money back, holds, money, packs, five.
SPEAKER_07Sex, murder, remain, romance for the street. Only wife I'm on is a life of crime. Shout out to Jay Z. Rest of PCMX. Nah, flirt with tapbacks, likes the nigga.
unknownLongest life. We gon' send a lot of great crypto. Give the fucking ice garest and raise the price on these niggas. Y'all can't flaw so my level. I'll invite you all to get rid of. If you get close enough, you can be descriptive. Money, my cash, oh, is that nigga? What money cash?
SPEAKER_07Money, cash, oh, my money, cash, money, cash, oh, money, cash, money, cash, oh, money, EBT cost two.
unknownMoney, cash, hoes, money, cash, oh, money, cash, oh, money, cash, oh.
SPEAKER_00Are you a DJ?
unknownFlavors, roll up. Black, let me go touch. Yeah, I rap now.
SPEAKER_07Fact, money, let's load up. Um, niggas try to stop JC, so no duck. Rock and fella, forever. See, yo, uh, uh, Us the villain, uh fuck you feelin'.
SPEAKER_04Fuck your feeling.
SPEAKER_07We in the upper millions, what you feelin'? Just like we all finished off a stitch.
unknownCame through and crushed the feelings.
SPEAKER_07I'm tryna restore the feelings. Fuck the Lord, keep feeling. More money, more cash, more chillin'. I know they gon' piti size the hook on his own. Like I give a fuck. I'm just the brook on the song. Back style, brook no took on the world. Shit, I let a life you can write a book on.
unknownSex, murder, and man, romance for the street. Man, and I can tell you be the best.
SPEAKER_07Tell about money, cash, gold, money, cash, go, money, cash, go, money, cash.
SPEAKER_02So y'all know a DMX parking on. Y'all gotta get wild in the fuck. I don't care where you at.
SPEAKER_07If you at work, cash, go, money, click the burgers and get wild and go. Money, cash, go, money, cash, go, money, cash, go, go, go, C M X of my dog's fight.
SPEAKER_09Jigga, my nigga, rhyme for night. Let him go.
SPEAKER_02Rest the peace.
SPEAKER_09Active like we hold them so we show them some, talking greasy. I dick those found up down the road and so fuckin' with a mad man in a bad mood. Like fuckin' with a mad dog, that was a bad food. And the only thing that's stoppin' is you. The only thing that help me droppin' is you dropping the clue. Never spot it from the street. One dog that loves all people back to I love my niggas. I share fluff, all my niggas, let a nigga holla.
SPEAKER_02Where my nigga?
SPEAKER_09All I'ma hit is right there, my nigga. Come on.
SPEAKER_07Money, cash, oh, money, cash, oh, money, cash, oh, money, cash, oh, money, cash, oh, money, cash, oh, money, cash, oh, oh, oh, money, cash, oh, money, cash, oh, money, cash, oh, money, cash, oh, money, cash, oh, money, cash, oh, money, cash, oh, go, go, fella shit. Uh-huh.
Final Shout Outs And Sign Off
SPEAKER_04Yo. I wanna thank y'all for checking out the shit podcast. I wanna thank y'all for y'all's support. Shout out to everybody that keeps fucking with me. Shout out to the family, shout out to my man Mark G, Decaders, the pickpocket. What up, male? Love you, baby. Yo, check it out. Y'all can find the shit's podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, anywhere you get your podcast set. Y'all make sure y'all check it out. Hey, and if you want to book me, you can find me at DJ Monsoon's to ra at gmail.com. Hey, I fuck with y'all because y'all fuck with me. I'm out. It's the shit.
SPEAKER_00Are you a DJ?
SPEAKER_06DJ Monsoon's the ra. The dopest DJ you've heard thus far.
SPEAKER_16Yo, that was the mix for this week, man. Damn. Thank y'all for tuning in to the shit's podcast. Shout out to my man Brace Bannon. For stopping to shoot the shit with me on everyone shooting shit at each other. Anyway, y'all make sure we all check them out. Make sure y'all check out that. Um y'all can find a man.