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T.F. Makes It Clear “We Riding We Ain’t Hiding”

DJ Muggs brings T.F. on board for “We Riding We Ain’t Hiding”, which is the 4th single off the Soul Assassins’ upcoming 5th album Soul Assassins III coming later this summer.

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Psycho Realm’s Cynic Premieres “Iluminario” Video Produced By DJ Muggs

If you a Los Angeles underground head it’s always a special occasion when new music is released out the Soul Assassins camp. Psycho Realm’s Cynic connects with DJ Muggs for the official video premiere for “Iluminario”.

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B-Real Details How He Developed 1 Of Hip-Hop’s Most Distinctive Voices (Video)

Guru famously proclaimed “It’s mostly the voice” on a Gang Starr song of the same name. Like the late, great Keith Elam, Cypress Hill and Prophets Of Rage member B-Real has one of the most recognizable voices in music. The Los Angeles, California veteran raps with clarity and a nasal breathing pattern. Live, songs often sounds just like they do on albums, which is one reason why his groups have dominated the festival circuit for nearly 30 years. Even before Cypress showed their faces on early single covers or their 1991 eponymous artwork, B’s voice (along with Sen Dog’s) stood apart from the Rap pack. The MC/producer/entrepreneur and media host is the latest guest on The Joe Rogan Experience. In the last several days, the newly-inducted member of Hollywood’s Walk Of Fame gives an incredible two-hour interview about his passion for cannabis awareness, his teens in a street-gang, and how almost overnight, Cypress Hill became celebrities that had a hard time being in public places. Cypress Hill’s Entire Next Album Will Be Produced By Black Milk (Video) At 48:00, Joe Rogan asks B-Real when he developed his trademark vocal style. “Once we started working on our Cypress Hill demos,” B responds. “[DJ] Muggs came to me and said, ‘Ay man, you gotta do something different. Otherwise, you’re gonna [only] write for Sen [Dog].’ ‘Cause Sen had a good voice; his sh*t was locked-in. My voice, I was rapping in a voice similar to the one I talk in. Although the rhymes were good, it didn’t cut through on the style on the beats. It just sounded like some regular sh*t. So…I didn’t want to be someone’s writer; I wanted to write for myself. There was a guy we used to listen to, coming up, his name was Rammellzee.” The New York City graffiti writer, painter, MC, and sculptor gained profile through Wild Style and Style Wars. The latter film, a documentary, included the K-Rob collaboration “Beat Bop.” Rammellzee died in 2010. “He was this rapper who was very obscure, but he was an artist too—a graffiti artist [and also a professional artist in galleries]. What he’d do is he’d rap in a regular style, like his talking voice, ‘This is the brother they call the Ramm-ell.” He had a deep voice like that. And then he’d flip, right in the middle [of a verse], ‘Take it uptown to Cypress Hill with the shotgun.‘ We were always freaking out that he had two styles. So I tried throwing my voice in that sort of similar style. And it ended up sticking. I didn’t think anybody was gonna like it.” They did. B-Real recalls exactly when this transformation happened. “I think the first song that came about in that style was the song ‘Real Estate.’ That’s where I tried it the first time. They liked it, so then [‘How I Could Just Kill A Man’] came next, then ‘Hand On The Pump.’ It just became [my] flow after that.” Cypress Hill Is The 1st Latino Hip-Hop Group On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame B-Real notes that the effort caused him strain on stage. “For the few years, I was trying to do the voice and I’d be getting over-hyped ’cause the crowd is hype, and I’d start yelling the verses instead of rapping them, like on the record. I’d throw my voice out. My voice would get scratchy; I’d start sounding like Busta Rhymes and sh*t. It took me five years to actually harness how to actually do the shows with this voice. I had to go to this Opera singer coach. Using former Opera singer and Hollywood veteran vocal coach Elisabeth Sabine, B-Real learned to project through his diaphragm, use circular breathing, and preserve his unmistakable voice. “I never went hoarse again after that. People often compliment me on sounding close to how the records are. I gotta give all props to her.” At 39:00, B-Real opens up about surviving some severe trauma in the streets of South Gate. Joe Rogan asks B-Real about his lung health, given all the years of heavy marijuana smoking. “I get physicals and stuff like that. Occasionally, I’ll have my lungs checked, and they’ll tell me they’re [in] great [condition].” The MC says that his fitness is to thank. “It’s a funny thing, ’cause in [approximately] 1987, I was 17, and I was gang-bangin’. I got shot. I got hit by a .22, and it—as hollow point [bullets] do, it broke into three pieces. One of them punctured my lung on my left side.” B-Real says that as a teen scared for his privacy, he did not divulge to doctors that he was an active pot smoker at the time of the shooting. “They said, ‘That’s good [you do not smoke], ’cause you’ll never smoke again. They punctured your lung.’ They thought I was gonna have to work off of one lung. But in the three days [of hospitalization at Lynwood’s Martin Luther King Hospital], they were able to get the blood out of the lung. I was able to get it back through the exercises they told me [to do] to get it back to its regular size. I’ve never had a problem since then, knock on wood.” Alchemist Tells B-Real About Just How Much His Time With Cypress Hill Shaped Him B-Real adds that the bullet fragments are still inside of his body. He reveals that the other two pieces are near his heart and spine. The one piece near his lung has moved. B-Real admits that he feels the lead on cold days. “I was livin’ crazy before I got into the music; the music saved my life.” Moments later, Dr. Greenthumb is very transparent about how street-gangs recruit. “Falling into the gangs, it’s easy. If you don’t have a good home-life, the guys on the street are your second family. They eventually become your first family. If you don’t have a father-figure at home, one of the guys in the gang becomes your mentor. He could become the guy you look up to as your father-figure. There’s that. Again, there’s not enough programs out there to keep people [engaged in] doing something different than falling into that. Sometimes it’s just a matter of you growing up in this neighborhood. If you have to walk down that street and they approach you and say, ‘Hey, you live in this ‘hood; you gotta be with us. If you don’t, we’re gonna make it hard for you.’ So there’s that peer pressure,” B-Real says. “Fortunately, I had friends that weren’t gang-bangers. They had talent for music, which was Muggs and Sen, and Sen’s brother Mello [Man Ace]. I did music as a hobby before I got into gangs, and they got me back into the music. ‘Cause they recognized something in me, and said, ‘Hey, we want you to come back where we got these opportunities over here. Come join us.” Elsewhere in the interview, B-Real admits that he was always carrying a handgun between 1989 and 1997, well into Cypress Hill’s stardom. At 43:45, B-Real is very blunt that one can never really leave a gang unless they are “jumped out.” However, he says that he changed his ways around 1988 when he was 18 years old. “I was too into it to be jumped-out like that. That wasn’t something I was gonna do. My boys that I ran with, they understood that I was trying to do something different. I made a choice to try the music and leave that sh*t alone, ’cause there’s no way you do both. If you do both, you see the results today with what’s happening with a lot of cats…when one bleeds into the other, it f*cks everything up.” Erick Sermon Discusses His New Vernia Album & Previews Music At 57:00, B-Real recalls Cypress Hill getting on. Philadelphia’s Joe “The Butcher” Nicolo was instrumental in getting the group signed to RuffHouse/Sony Records. Additionally, the MC says that EPMD helped spread some of Cypress’ biggest awareness, despite no formal affiliation. “When Sony put out our snippet tape, guys like EPMD [rallied for Cypress Hill]. They were one of our favorite groups in the world. They were Top 5 for Cypress Hill. It was Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, and EPMD. F*ck, they were the sh*t. Those were the guys that took our snippet tape, and they were showing our snippet tape to other rappers. Like, ‘Hey guys, look at these new f*ckin’ guys.’ Busta Rhymes told me this story: ‘Yo son, I heard your sh*t from EPMD way back in the day. They was playin’ it for Public Enemy, and I just happened to be in the room.’ Ice Cube, when we met him for the first time—and we had our ups and downs with him—but he’s one of my homies, he [said the same thing]. They were like our first street team, man. EPMD.” B-Real plugs Erick Sermon’s just-released album, Vernia. Later in the interview, B-Real reveals that his rapping style emerged out of writing poetry first. He says that he planned for a career in journalism and adapted those principles of non-fiction storytelling to songs like Cypress’ “Throw Your Set In The Air.” Elsewhere, he recalls House Of Pain’s Everlast “choking out” somebody in the Rainbow Room for continuously talking about him from a nearby table. The MC praises KRS-One as one of his leading influences. Redman Highlights Cypress Hill’s Green Thumb In Cultivating His Career (Video) Cypress Hill released Elephants On Acid last year with DJ Muggs back at the musical helm. The group has confirmed that Black Milk will produce their next LP.

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DJ Muggs Aims To Make Sure All Hip-Hop Heads Know Mach-Hommy’s Name (Audio)

Mach-Hommy may not be a widely-known name outside of a hardcore corner within the Hip-Hop scene, but for those who do know it, it’s hears as something like a myth. His reputation is that of a secret weapon for producers who favor dusty samples, like Alchemist or Knxwledge. He made a major appearance on last year’s Weather Or Not album by Evidence, voted 2018’s best album by Ambrosia For Heads readers. He also shared high-profile real estate with MF DOOM, Kool G Rap and Raekwon on DJ Muggs’ Soul Assassins: Dia del Asesinato LP.

The New Jersey MC has remained prolific since his breakout LP, HBO (Haitian Body Odor), which initially was sold through Instagram direct messages at $300 a pop ($1,000 on his official website, and it’s sold out). Mach-Hommy reportedly uses a low-budget microphone to record concise, clear-cutting rhymes by way of an unorthodox flow, which hears as dizzying to some, but mesmerizing to many. He’s respected and collaborated with artists such as Earl Sweatshirt, Roc Marciano, and Conway The Machine. However, in the spirit of DOOM or early Ghostface Killah, this MC regularly keeps his identity covered. His music is his primary calling card.

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After seemingly going deliberately under the radar, Mach is gearing up to unleash a project made entirely by a multi-platinum legend, Cypress Hill’s DJ Muggs.

“His flow is ridiculous,” Muggs told Complex‘s Angel Diaz in a recent interview. “To me, he’s like a Jazz musician, like Miles Davis. The way he raps, he’ll go totally off-beat then come back on-beat. His references — you’ve never heard his references. His rhyme patterns — you’ve never heard them. He flips from English, to Creole, to Spanish, and he evokes that hard, gutter, street sh*t without having to be like ‘Yo, I’m slangin’ dope, I got the homie that’s the shooter, I’m from the hood.’ It’s mad unorthodox.”

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Muggs revealed this month that the upcoming entry within his “Vs.” series will be a collaboration record with Mach-Hommy, titled Tuez-Les Tous (translated to “Kill Them All”). DJ Muggs’ series started back in 2005 with Grandmasters, a collaboration LP featuring GZA. After three additional LPs featuring rappers Ill Bill, Planet Asia, Sick Jacken and Cynic, DJ Muggs paused working on the “Vs.” Series in 2010, but eventually picked up the pace in 2017 with Gems From The Equinox, alongside Meyhem Lauren, 2018’s Frozen Angelsagain with Meyhem Lauren, 2018’s KAOS with Roc Marciano, and the most recent Hell’s Roof with Eto, which dropped at the top of this month. During that same run, Muggs was also at the production helm for Cypress Hill’s Elephants On Acid.

DJ Muggs and Mach-Hommy’s first single from Tuez-Les Tous comes with the grimy “900K,” a hard-hitting instrumental tinged in paranoia and threats. Mach’s hook stands as a firm warning in Creole, roughly translating to: “Be still, just chill, This tall, it might be a big deal, 900K / Me? I’m one mill, but you still need 100K to steal.

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“Mach is one of the greatest talents to ever walk the earth,” Muggs added to Complex about his latest counterpart. The Cypress Hill DJ and producer also told the publication that “once Mach and I connected everything just flowed. First of all, you must understand we vibrate on a higher level than most. Mach-Hommy moves with grace and ease through the creative process, and he has an intelligence that comes along very few and far between. There are originators, and there are imitators. Mach-Hommy is one of one.”

The MC also expressed why he chose to work with Muggs for a full project, stating: “It takes about 10,000 hours to master a skill. That’s what they say. DJ Muggs for example, that man is basically 30-for-30… he’s been holding it down for over three decades, goin’ on four. And what about the subconscious hours…you feel me? Albert Einstein had his greatest revelation in a dream! Whether it’s one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century, or a sonic composition so polarizing that it shifts the zeitgeist in its favor for the next 100 years. Say what you will, but certain people always keep ‘one in the head’ and to that I can relate.”

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Billboard also spoke with Mach-Hommy for an interview — his third, to be exact, and second with writer Sweeney Kovar. When Kovar asked Mach-Hommy how he developed a relationship with DJ Muggs, Mach-Hommy revealed: “Whatever the diametric opposite of grossly misinformed is, that’s him. But what was most impressive is how he managed not to make any of the many preconceived moral value judgments about me, my creative process, or even my immediate circle, all the faux pas that many others before him had made up until then. But, you know, as they say much too often, real recognize real. He’s not afraid to teach and at the same he’s not afraid to learn as well.”

For a MC receiving recognition from media and respect from some of the greatest rappers and producers in the game today, Mach-Hommy still doesn’t have a Wikipedia page, nor does he take many photos without being decked out in full-on Ralph Lauren Polo Sport gear, and covering his face with Haitian imagery. When asked why he’s making art in the first place, Mach-Hommy infamously told Kovar: “The respect just opens a conversation. I’m here for the bag, son. I’m here for the f*cking bag of money, you dumb ass.”

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He’s not afraid of charging triple digit numbers for an album he created, and he’s not pressured into putting his music on any streaming service. Mach-Hommy, by all means, is an authentic musician, and DJ Muggs aims to serve him up an instrumental platform that truly showcases that this year.

#BonusBeat: Here’s “Floorseats,” a track from The Alchemist’s 2017 album, The Good Book, Vol. 2, featuring Mach-Hommy:

Mach-Hommy may not be a widely-known name outside of a hardcore corner within the Hip-Hop scene, but for those who do know it, it’s hears as something like a myth. His reputation is that of a secret weapon for producers who favor dusty samples, like Alchemist or Knxwledge. He made a major appearance on last year’s Weather Or Not album by Evidence, voted 2018’s best album by Ambrosia For Heads readers. He also shared high-profile real estate with MF DOOM, Kool G Rap and Raekwon on DJ Muggs’ Soul Assassins: Dia del Asesinato LP.

The New Jersey MC has remained prolific since his breakout LP, HBO (Haitian Body Odor), which initially was sold through Instagram direct messages at $300 a pop ($1,000 on his official website, and it’s sold out). Mach-Hommy reportedly uses a low-budget microphone to record concise, clear-cutting rhymes by way of an unorthodox flow, which hears as dizzying to some, but mesmerizing to many. He’s respected and collaborated with artists such as Earl Sweatshirt, Roc Marciano, and Conway The Machine. However, in the spirit of DOOM or early Ghostface Killah, this MC regularly keeps his identity covered. His music is his primary calling card.

Roc Marciano Unleashes The 1st Video From His DJ Muggs-Produced Album

After seemingly going deliberately under the radar, Mach is gearing up to unleash a project made entirely by a multi-platinum legend, Cypress Hill’s DJ Muggs.

“His flow is ridiculous,” Muggs told Complex‘s Angel Diaz in a recent interview. “To me, he’s like a Jazz musician, like Miles Davis. The way he raps, he’ll go totally off-beat then come back on-beat. His references — you’ve never heard his references. His rhyme patterns — you’ve never heard them. He flips from English, to Creole, to Spanish, and he evokes that hard, gutter, street sh*t without having to be like ‘Yo, I’m slangin’ dope, I got the homie that’s the shooter, I’m from the hood.’ It’s mad unorthodox.”

Alchemist Tells B-Real About Just How Much His Time With Cypress Hill Shaped Him

Muggs revealed this month that the upcoming entry within his “Vs.” series will be a collaboration record with Mach-Hommy, titled Tuez-Les Tous (translated to “Kill Them All”). DJ Muggs’ series started back in 2005 with Grandmasters, a collaboration LP featuring GZA. After three additional LPs featuring rappers Ill Bill, Planet Asia, Sick Jacken and Cynic, DJ Muggs paused working on the “Vs.” Series in 2010, but eventually picked up the pace in 2017 with Gems From The Equinox, alongside Meyhem Lauren, 2018’s Frozen Angelsagain with Meyhem Lauren, 2018’s KAOS with Roc Marciano, and the most recent Hell’s Roof with Eto, which dropped at the top of this month. During that same run, Muggs was also at the production helm for Cypress Hill’s Elephants On Acid.

DJ Muggs and Mach-Hommy’s first single from Tuez-Les Tous comes with the grimy “900K,” a hard-hitting instrumental tinged in paranoia and threats. Mach’s hook stands as a firm warning in Creole, roughly translating to: “Be still, just chill, This tall, it might be a big deal, 900K / Me? I’m one mill, but you still need 100K to steal.

Cypress Hill Says DJ Muggs Is Dead In Their Weirdest Video Ever

“Mach is one of the greatest talents to ever walk the earth,” Muggs added to Complex about his latest counterpart. The Cypress Hill DJ and producer also told the publication that “once Mach and I connected everything just flowed. First of all, you must understand we vibrate on a higher level than most. Mach-Hommy moves with grace and ease through the creative process, and he has an intelligence that comes along very few and far between. There are originators, and there are imitators. Mach-Hommy is one of one.”

The MC also expressed why he chose to work with Muggs for a full project, stating: “It takes about 10,000 hours to master a skill. That’s what they say. DJ Muggs for example, that man is basically 30-for-30… he’s been holding it down for over three decades, goin’ on four. And what about the subconscious hours…you feel me? Albert Einstein had his greatest revelation in a dream! Whether it’s one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century, or a sonic composition so polarizing that it shifts the zeitgeist in its favor for the next 100 years. Say what you will, but certain people always keep ‘one in the head’ and to that I can relate.”

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Billboard also spoke with Mach-Hommy for an interview — his third, to be exact, and second with writer Sweeney Kovar. When Kovar asked Mach-Hommy how he developed a relationship with DJ Muggs, Mach-Hommy revealed: “Whatever the diametric opposite of grossly misinformed is, that’s him. But what was most impressive is how he managed not to make any of the many preconceived moral value judgments about me, my creative process, or even my immediate circle, all the faux pas that many others before him had made up until then. But, you know, as they say much too often, real recognize real. He’s not afraid to teach and at the same he’s not afraid to learn as well.”

For a MC receiving recognition from media and respect from some of the greatest rappers and producers in the game today, Mach-Hommy still doesn’t have a Wikipedia page, nor does he take many photos without being decked out in full-on Ralph Lauren Polo Sport gear, and covering his face with Haitian imagery. When asked why he’s making art in the first place, Mach-Hommy infamously told Kovar: “The respect just opens a conversation. I’m here for the bag, son. I’m here for the f*cking bag of money, you dumb ass.”

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He’s not afraid of charging triple digit numbers for an album he created, and he’s not pressured into putting his music on any streaming service. Mach-Hommy, by all means, is an authentic musician, and DJ Muggs aims to serve him up an instrumental platform that truly showcases that this year.

#BonusBeat: Here’s “Floorseats,” a track from The Alchemist’s 2017 album, The Good Book, Vol. 2, featuring Mach-Hommy:

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Alchemist Tells B-Real About Just How Much His Time With Cypress Hill Shaped Him

B-Real can get some interviews on his Smokebox TV that go beyond typical taped conversations. Beyond the obvious reasons included in the title, “Dr. Greenthumb” asks great questions and seems engaged in wanting to understand his guests’ story. The Cypress Hill MC’s latest episode with Alchemist does not disappoint. In part one of their hotbox session, the Beverly Hills, California native described his come-up in the Rap game. After giving a nod to his good fortune, Al described how his beginnings in music flourished by being around some of Hip-Hop’s greats at the time.

“I think what it was too is we had this super training,” he said, recalling his group The Whooliganz. “A lot of people don’t know [this], but when we were 14 years old. We were hanging out – you, me, and Scott [Caan]. You guys, Cypress Hill, House Of Pain, being part of Soul Assassins was a big f*ckin’ deal, and that was the first time I ever got to see someone make a beat, the first time I got to see anyone with a drum machine. I remember T-Ray, you, [DJ] Muggs, [DJ] Lethal, [DJ] Ralph M, that’s where I first saw that you could even do this sh*t.”

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Alchemist also reminisces about going to Woodstock ’94 with the rest of Cypress Hill and Soul Assassins. He recalls B-Real throwing him the keys to his GMC Typhoon truck to go pick up Busta Rhymes at the airport. It was a memorable trip for the budding MC/producer.

Later on in the interview, Alchemist describes how a trip to a store with House Of Pain’s Lethal (who later was in Limp Bizkit) got him his first piece of producing equipment and ultimately shaped a lot of his style. “I remember Lethal took me to Guitar Center and I wanted to buy the [SP 1200] ’cause everyone had the SP 12,” he said. “And he was like, ‘Just buy this; this is a different thing.’ It looked like a keyboard. I didn’t play piano, but he was like, ‘Trust me, it does the same thing,’ and that’s kind of how I developed my style.”

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Finally, Alchemist is asked about how he linked with Mobb Deep. Many people associate the Gangrene and Stepbrothers member’s early days with M-O-B-B. Notably, it began with Cypress, who helped make the introduction. As Alchemist relocated from California to New York City for school, Muggs, who was working with the Mobb Deep at the time, that introduced them. Interestingly, vibing with IM3 really helped Al establish a good relationship with Prodigy and Havoc early on.

“I moved to New York, and I was going to school and Muggs at the time was doing those Soul Assassin albums, and he had hooked up with Mobb Deep,” he described. “[Music executive] Bigga B was so instrumental with Loud [Records], Muggs was working with him, and he helped connect Muggs with Mobb, so when I moved to New York, Muggs had met Infamous Mobb, which were Mobb Deep’s homies, and Muggs was like, ‘Yo, you gotta hook up with them ’cause you’re our little homies and that’s their little homies.’ So I hooked up with Infamous Mobb first.”

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Also during the interview segment, Alchemist remembered his first big outside production placement (Tequila Sunrise (Remix),” which featured Fat Joe, how a management connection originally linked him with Cypress Hill and producing for their III (Temples Of Boom) album.

Last year, Alchemist released Fetti with Freddie Gibbs and Curren$y. He also dropped Bread and Lunch Meat. Meanwhile, Cypress Hill released its first DJ Muggs fully produced album in 14 years, Elephants On Acid.

B-Real can get some interviews on his Smokebox TV that go beyond typical taped conversations. Beyond the obvious reasons included in the title, “Dr. Greenthumb” asks great questions and seems engaged in wanting to understand his guests’ story. The Cypress Hill MC’s latest episode with Alchemist does not disappoint. In part one of their hotbox session, the Beverly Hills, California native described his come-up in the Rap game. After giving a nod to his good fortune, Al described how his beginnings in music flourished by being around some of Hip-Hop’s greats at the time.

“I think what it was too is we had this super training,” he said, recalling his group The Whooliganz. “A lot of people don’t know [this], but when we were 14 years old. We were hanging out – you, me, and Scott [Caan]. You guys, Cypress Hill, House Of Pain, being part of Soul Assassins was a big f*ckin’ deal, and that was the first time I ever got to see someone make a beat, the first time I got to see anyone with a drum machine. I remember T-Ray, you, [DJ] Muggs, [DJ] Lethal, [DJ] Ralph M, that’s where I first saw that you could even do this sh*t.”

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Alchemist also reminisces about going to Woodstock ’94 with the rest of Cypress Hill and Soul Assassins. He recalls B-Real throwing him the keys to his GMC Typhoon truck to go pick up Busta Rhymes at the airport. It was a memorable trip for the budding MC/producer.

Later on in the interview, Alchemist describes how a trip to a store with House Of Pain’s Lethal (who later was in Limp Bizkit) got him his first piece of producing equipment and ultimately shaped a lot of his style. “I remember Lethal took me to Guitar Center and I wanted to buy the [SP 1200] ’cause everyone had the SP 12,” he said. “And he was like, ‘Just buy this; this is a different thing.’ It looked like a keyboard. I didn’t play piano, but he was like, ‘Trust me, it does the same thing,’ and that’s kind of how I developed my style.”

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Finally, Alchemist is asked about how he linked with Mobb Deep. Many people associate the Gangrene and Stepbrothers member’s early days with M-O-B-B. Notably, it began with Cypress, who helped make the introduction. As Alchemist relocated from California to New York City for school, Muggs, who was working with the Mobb Deep at the time, that introduced them. Interestingly, vibing with IM3 really helped Al establish a good relationship with Prodigy and Havoc early on.

“I moved to New York, and I was going to school and Muggs at the time was doing those Soul Assassin albums, and he had hooked up with Mobb Deep,” he described. “[Music executive] Bigga B was so instrumental with Loud [Records], Muggs was working with him, and he helped connect Muggs with Mobb, so when I moved to New York, Muggs had met Infamous Mobb, which were Mobb Deep’s homies, and Muggs was like, ‘Yo, you gotta hook up with them ’cause you’re our little homies and that’s their little homies.’ So I hooked up with Infamous Mobb first.”

Curren$y, Freddie Gibbs & Alchemist Are Money. Stream The Fetti Project (Audio)

Also during the interview segment, Alchemist remembered his first big outside production placement (Tequila Sunrise (Remix),” which featured Fat Joe, how a management connection originally linked him with Cypress Hill and producing for their III (Temples Of Boom) album.

Last year, Alchemist released Fetti with Freddie Gibbs and Curren$y. He also dropped Bread and Lunch Meat. Meanwhile, Cypress Hill released its first DJ Muggs fully produced album in 14 years, Elephants On Acid.

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