May 15, 2025 • 60 mins
Kid N Play sit down with the NEXT Great on the Mic O'hene Savant to talk about his journey into music and the remaining real lyricists. Follow, Like, Subscribe and Share @thefunhousepod #hiphop #podcast #kidnplay. Watch full episodes of #thefunhousepodcast with Kid n Play on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@U1PN/podcasts, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or visit @urban1podcasts to learn more. Follow us on IG: @thefunhousepod @KidFromKidnPlay @the_playgroundz @Jodi.Gomes See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
It's a podcast. The party is at the fun house.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I am playing, I am kid.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
We're together with kid and play and welcome to our
fun house. Another episode, my friend, another episode.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Another episode.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Check this out?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
What what if we did?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
You know? I know we have we have a great
theme song. You know, it's it's our song that that
we you know that we did fun House. But what if?
What if we what if we did like a remix
of of our intro song and you did it like
one of those old soul songs, you know, like in
a falsetto mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
You there to give us a sample?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
This is that fun house?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Hos It sounds like opening, sounds like the opening for
a soap opera.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
No it was, No, it's like you remember of old songs.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
So let the fun house speaking soap opera, sopa like drama,
like the opening of a of a serial television serials.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
That's what you used to watch back in the day.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah I did. That was my way having conversations with
the ladies at the party, like, yo, do you know
if Erica Kine and so and so it is ever
going to get together again? You know about the stories? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I do?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Oh And then we get engaged into a whole long
conversation and it's like, you know, I'm in there.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And by the way, full translation when when black people
say the stories that means soap opera.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Okay, yeah, we have think here at the.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Fun House Podcast, we have an obligation to uh to
translate whenever we feel it necessary.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
So uh that's but you Yeah, the mother's in the neighborhood.
Let me get on in the house here so I
could catch my story, see my story. But now it
seems like everybody wants to watch the court court television stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
What, So people's court all that court stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Right, and or reality television.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Reality television is kind of replaced soap operas.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah really much?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah? So all right, So.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Do you have a particular reality show that you get
into a guilty pleasure or something you wouldn't want anybody
to know that you're hooked on.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well, you know what, I tell you what years ago,
when when it first started, I would watch I would
watch love and hip Hop.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Then it got too ratchet.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Then I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Then I couldn't watch it.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
You know what I mean, Like it got too violent,
it got too crazy, and it got to it's this
is getting really far away from real, you know what
I'm saying. Sometimes now like my man, my man Young
Jock is on Atlanta Love and hip Hop. Big shot
out to him, Big shout out to him. And as
(03:18):
we're being told as we as we veer off course,
if you haven't joined us before, the Funhouse Podcast with
Kidd and Play is about hip hop. It's about the culture.
It's about classic hip hop meeting new school excuse me,
hip hop and us. That's where we meet in the middle.
(03:41):
We're trying to combine. We're trying to unite, would you
not say that?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, and we were doing it where the the old
soap operas meet the new reality shows, right, That was
that was our segue, you know, into that. But yeah,
you're absolutely right, and we want to thank all the
listeners and the viewers. We're doing really well and evidently
talking about stuff that y'all love to hear about, you know,
because the streets are talking. I keep getting all this
(04:08):
mail that they want to hear more of, say less
doing the most next.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Time mail, you're not getting no mail. You might get
an email that's not mail, you're getting physical mail.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Really, is that what We're exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
You can look all day you find out you gonna
find a bill and lie and says made.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Well, what we could do is get it to the
song of the day man. So right now we're gonna
hear from us both in regards to what our song
for the show is. You represent the future classics or
existing classics. I'm into the classics of yesteryear. It's still
(04:48):
hold their own. Like the minute the DJ throws them on,
somebody's mom is getting up going, oh that's my Jim.
That was my Jim.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You know that's how that's how the mother sounds. Is
that your mother pretty much?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Or the no to dance that was that was your
mother's jam.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
And then I damned your mother.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I knew. I knew that was covied. I knew that
was COVID. Anyway, my song, and it kind of fits
the theme in regards to our show today because we
do have a guest, do we not? We have a
get but we do have a guest, and that guest
is really appropriate with the song I have for today.
(05:30):
It's called new It's called Raps, New Generation. It's called
new Generation by the classical. Yes, get on up by
the by the Classical two and it was produced by
dude Teddy Riley.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Big shout out to Tristan who does the research. No,
I didn't know he did that. I mean we know
about him producing Dougie Fresh as the show. That was
interesting to learn years ago. Sweat stuff would keep sweat. Yeah,
and then of course Rex and Effect all of that.
(06:07):
But yeah, this this.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
This joint and black remember your favorite black record I
Do Before.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I Let Go and all of that. But no, I
like that song by them called Joy. She's given me
joy and Joy Joy I want to disrespect. But anyway, Yes,
that's my joint, New Generation the class I thought it
was called RAPS New Generation the Classical two, produced by
Teddy Riley. Check it out. That's my joint.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
What you got? Okay, So you know I'm rolling on
the new tip and guess this. I just stumbled on this,
like yesterday, I stumbled onto this. Now everybody's been following, uh,
the Kendrick Lamar Drake Beef. It's obviously it's just taking
over the hip hop universe. And uh, you know with
(06:55):
Kendrick coming out with that that body slamming bangerh they
not like us or not like us, And so everybody's
thinking like, what's what, what's next? What's next for Drake?
What can he do? What should he do? Well, guess
what he did?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
This is new, brand new, in your mouth, brand new.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
But it's not called in your mouth. It's called no Face. No,
it's called no No.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I'm just saying I'm putting it in, yeah, front and center,
in your mouth like Martin.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
So produced by who.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
All right, these are some new producers and that's you know,
with a lot of the new artists, they were going
to come across producers that I might not be h
completely familiar with. So if I get if I get
somebody's name wrong, I apologize. London Seer and Connor Sewer
(07:52):
London Seer and Connor Sewer produced new joint by Drake.
It's called no Face. And the reason why I was
I was attracted it and thought about bringing this song
to your attention is he acted actually addressing the situation
that he's gone through behind this.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Whole Kendrick stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
His lyrics are talking about, oh, I see you used
to be down with me. Now you flipping? Now you
know what I mean? And he's kind of being pretty
specific he's not naming names, but he's talking about the
overall vibe of he feels like he's been betrayed. Y'all.
Y'all snuck me people. I thought, well, my friend, when
(08:36):
you needed a hit, you came to me. I blessed y'all.
And but but his vibe, his vibe is I'm not done.
This is a little this is just a warning shot.
I'm coming taking I got all the receipts and I'm
coming for you, So keep it out.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I don't want to say no more than that.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It's it's by Drake, and it's called no Face, and
he's he's.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
And it's worthy of getting ready to lay down. It's
worthy of the time to check it out.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah yeah, yeah, and then and and I think there's
a I heard the original, but apparently there's a remix
that also has Playboy, Cardi and Little Baby on it.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
So everybody got scores to settle.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
So everybody's getting shipped off their chest, which is cool,
but you know what, to be honest, within the whole
dynamics of this battle that's been going back and forth,
it was nice to hear Drake's voice again. He sounded
he was dope. He sounded confident. He sounded like y'all
think I'm.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Out of gas.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
No, I'm coming.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
No, I'm not out of gas. I'm coming for that ass.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Okay, all right, okay, calm down, Okay, cool.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Well the next remix, well, I think.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
It's also time for us say less or doing the most.
And this one's a good one. This one's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
All right?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah yeah, handle handle handle, this is the see.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I guess the question I would pose is is the
c m A A's doing the most Country Music Association?
I believe that's what the A stands for.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
You think, sorry, well, in this case it could be
country music assholes, but go ahead, but.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
That country music? You know what, it's Country Music Awards,
that's what it would be. And I though, yeah, yeah, true,
that true that.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
The Association's Country Music awards.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
A very famous father for being the father of a
very popular person. Matthew Knowles says race played a factor
in Cowboy Carter not being nominated at the Country Music Awards.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
What you think, well, and and for for some of
our audience that might not be hip to it, maybe
our listening audience, Matthew Knowles is who's father.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Oh I'm sorry, but Beyonce, so many people know are
the Beehive and all of them, Yes, Beyonce Knowles, Beyonce Carter,
forgive me Her father Matthew Knowles says race played a
factor and the Cowboy Carter that's her latest album is
breaking records and doing more than just that. Not being
(11:13):
nominated at the Country Music Awards. I when I found
out about that yesterday, I was like, Wow, that you
could be that blatant and be.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Snub like that not even nominated. That was that was
my thing.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I was like, I mean, you know, if you if
you're not going to vote for her, that's.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
What That's what That's what a snub is, right is
when it's not even get nominated, right Yeah? Yeah, Like, wow,
I haven't heard it. I've never even heard the album,
but yeah, I know enough about it to know that
I would figure it would it would warrant a nomination.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Quite a few number one.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
It was excellent, But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
What the field is out there, What are the artists
out there that might have really earned you know, had
enough room for her to be in those in those
particular categories.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Bigger than Beyond, Bigger than Beyond Track.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Well, I mean, doesn't Rau.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Wasn't Beyonce just deserved to be because of her her
name and her track record, wouldn't. Like I'm saying to me,
the ultimate snub and the disrespect is that you didn't
even nominate it.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
You're trying to tell me there's.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Five other artists better than Beyonce that year with a
groundbreaking album that that was a hit too.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
It wasn't like it came out of the plot.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
But my question is back to the whole list of
the top so and so rappers that we got into.
It's like, what is the what is the merit? What?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
What?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
What?
Speaker 4 (12:48):
What?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
What makes it nominated? You know what? Did it fall?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah, it sounds like it's a bunch of white people
sitting in the room picking picking stuff. You know that's what.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Is it based on sales? Is it based on popularity?
Is it based on the quality of the music?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
You know what? That's a that's a good question, but
you know, I don't know, having having been down this
road before in many different walks of life and parts
of the culture. Yes, I know what it looks like.
And that's why Matthew Knows is calling it out.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
You can't help it.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
You can't help but think that you really can't.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
But guess what, how about this? How about this some
of these some of the country cats or the powers
that be, if you will, maybe they're a little they
see us creeping into that. Look, Lil Nazaks had the
biggest record period then he revealed who he really was.
So maybe the country people a little upset about that,
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you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Like, yeah, but one of the things, I'm sorry, one
of the things that makes me grateful for what she's
accomplished and others because she's not the only one, she's
the most popular, is the history of country music. I
wasn't fully aware of the origin of it, which is
from black people.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
You know people, they're the rich history of country music
that a lot of people don't know about. Someone's not
jumping on us, she's not jumping on a on you know,
on something that hasn't been done before.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah, yeah, and wait.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
And girl quick, I just want to say, no, just
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Maybe they feel like, like, like you know, the people
of color are creeping. Look this that guy Shaboozy, He's
got like a number one hit country hit. Another black guy,
Shaboozy then I saw another dude on the video today.
His name was Blanco Brown, another black, but he's got
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like he's got like a country song and a dance
to it. So do they feel like we were creeping
on him? And and they just like, you know what,
but these are our awards?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I don't, man, it's you know, we're in our lifetime,
which you would have thought by now with all what
so many of our you know, civil rights leaders, and
all the price that our forefathers and fore mothers paid,
you would think things would be really different. You know,
we have come a long way, but it's evident we
haven't come far enough. So when you just see what
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seems like at times blatant blatant racism, it's like really
like wow, you know, like this is what we're still doing,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, I can see you, I can see you.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Like yeah, So I just think I hope he's wrong.
Sometimes you don't want to be right because right doesn't
help you as well in certain topics. But it doesn't
look good, I tell you that much.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
How about this scenario, Maybe it's maybe it's best that
she didn't even get nominated, because guess what had she
had she been nominated.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
It wasn't gonna letter when you think right, and then
it would have just kind of went away or whatever.
Now there's light on it now, Jo this is blatant.
Like the fact that she didn't even get nominated. It
may bring more eyes and ears to that Cowboy Carter project.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Well you got you got the country category and the Grammys,
you got it in other award shows as well, and
who knows, maybe BT Music Awards or whatever will put
in a country section. Because what I did learn not
only about the history of our culture and our relationship
to country music, but also finding out she's not the
only one. There's so many other groups, solo artists and
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bands that are either have black artists, black musicians and
singers in them or solo artists because I remember them.
Do I see it a special on her album where
they had had a interview with I think the way
I saw it and heard it right a couple of
people it wasn't crazy about why she getting so much
fanfare where there's other artists, other black art This has
(17:00):
been here before she did this album and been doing
very well but not getting the attention they feel they
deserve as well. So it's interesting, you know.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
No question, no question yet, but you know she's gonna
throw some light on it. Anywhere Beyonce goes.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
You know, well, it's all about the new and I
think that falls right in line with our next our
next thing here right next on the mic. But we
we were gone next great on the mic. That's what
we every once in a while we will introduce because
our thing is about when the new school meets the
classic school or all schools. Some people may call it
(17:36):
that I'm not crazy about. But we're going to start
introducing new artists from time to time and we're very
excited about our first guests on this on the show
doing this. So ladies and gentlemen, we want to introduce
you to a gentleman by the name of oh Henny Savant.
Let's bring him in.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
No, I didn't do it at all, so forgive me.
You know what I'm saying, what's up, sir, what's up?
Speaker 4 (18:03):
O' henny?
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Oh hey man, Thank you. Thank you to the legends,
as they say, salute. You know, it's an honor to
you know, to join you on the podcast. And you
know we have a history play You've been a mentor
to me over the years, so we definitely have a history.
And the Brother Kid is one of one of those
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MC's man that you watch and you're like, Okay, you know, man,
you got to accept your pen game up.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's what motivates you, right.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
But wake up, like, man, my last verse wasn't there. Man,
I got to step my game up.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Well, you know what they say, play always likes to
say it because it has like a biblical connotations. Were
you always say steel sharp and steel.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Iron sharping exactly. That's what it's all about, innovation, inspiration,
and that's a good thing at leads to you know,
before we go any further with you to tell us,
tell the audience, our listeners and our viewers, tell tell
us something about yourself. You know, your origin so to speak,
Where where you're from?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Where? Yeah? Yeah, what's the journey? Like?
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Yeah, my journey is a heck of a journey.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
You know.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
I couldn't use another word, but I'll just say this.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
I'm a multi instrumentalist, rapper, slash producer. Somebody clocked it
one of my videos, I played like nine instruments and
I didn't even know that it was that many but
I learned how to play everything by ear, so I
hear music and sounds, and sonically I can recognize melodies
(19:45):
and everything that I've ever played. And I play multiple
genres of music, everything from jazz to classical to R
and B. Hip Hop is my main thing, but my
background is in all of these different genres. I've been
mentored by musicians from soul, funk, R and B, and
I've done work in multiple genres. My story is a
(20:08):
pretty interesting story. It starts off in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where
I was raised.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Actually was born in Virginia. A lot of people don't know.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
That, but my story starts off as far as my
development in Philadelphia. Had pretty rough childhood, you know, dealing
with a few things as far as just family struggles.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
It's well documented on social media.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
My mother was not really I actually don't know my
biological father, and my mother was really strung out on drugs,
really bad at the time, and so I went through
a lot of issues, like you know, dealing with homelessness
and certain things. And at some point I was adopted
and I ended up in Ghana, West Africa, so you know,
(20:55):
like coming to America, this is like the reverse version
of that Africa. So I ended up in a house
being raised by a high court judge and a classical
pianist slash.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Pastor of a of a of a church. Uh. And
so that's.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Where a lot of my exposure to Western classical music.
And there's a distinction because there's African classical, Indian classical,
many different styles, but that style, whether it be Mozart, Bach,
Beethoven and all of that stuff. And so you have
that and the collection of the Philly Years, which I
(21:37):
grew up. Even with all of the hardship with hip hop,
I was growing up hearing you know, real hip hop
and hardcore hip hop, and and so I ended up
being this collage of things, these collection, uh, these two
worlds that collided, you know.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Uh, that's kind of how it starts.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah. So not never classically trained, No, I I I
hear the music, and so everything you've ever seen me
do in different.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Classical I learned it just by hearing. I told him
this one time.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
He said, you didn't tell people this, so they might
put you in a museum.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Right, No, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Well I know that. I mean I used to play
lead and rhythm guitar, and I never took the time
to learn how to read music. Everything that I did
was like by ear. But I mean your your your levels,
and that is like its bananas, you know. And one
of the things that's it makes you a great guest,
our first guess, and this type of segment is your
respect and your passion and your love for what people
(22:41):
would call the golden era of hip hop. But that's
not necessarily what you produce. But you're inspired, so to speak,
correct me if I'm wrong in regards to the eraror
and and and and and loving the the icons and
the pioneers coming out of that. You know.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Yeah, what you would call somewhat of a curator, But
I'm also a futurist in the sense that excuse me.
I like to create and preserve the culture, right. I
like to create things that show people, So in some
ways I'm somewhat of a musical museum. When Michael Jackson
(23:19):
passed away, one of the first things I did was
try to make something that sound like pyt because musically,
I feel as though it's the responsibility of some of
us artists, not every artist, but some of us to
preserve the greatness that comes.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Before us, and so one of my goals and my.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Missions have my mission has been to preserve the music,
whether it be bebop, whether it be you know, R
and B sol, the Philly International movement with Gamble and Huff,
or the motown era. If you look on my social media,
a lot of times you see a collage in collection
of all these different styles of music. And so when
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it comes to the Golden era of hip hop, I
always shout you guys out. I mean, I think that
people don't realize how valuable it is to look to
what came before you because.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Era.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Yeah, sorry to say that again.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Excuse I'm not sorry to cut you off, but I'm
curious in me the audience might be curious to what
do you consider the golden era of hip hop? Is it?
Is it a span of time or a certain a
certain span of time.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Well, I think like this.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
I actually had to study because I taught a class
on hip hop at Temple University, and I lectured throughout
the country from time to time.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
I just recently did Howard.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Teaching about rap the art of rap, specifically hip hop culture.
I know a lot about because I had to study
and so, and of course I grew up with hip hop.
But when I think of the Golden Era, for me,
at least, I think of from a standpoint of culturally
or are we talking in terms of rap, Because if
(25:03):
we're talking in terms of rap, for me, I think
the golden Era is gonna be somewhere in the nineties,
and I'm talking specifically from the development of rap techniques
and different styles. That being said, I'm also aware because
of my studies and I had to go back and
do research that some of the.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Most innovative music came.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Before that, and a lot of what we still use
till this day is a result of the people like
the Cool Molds and the Melo Mals and Grand Master
Kazes and those guys. And so I always feel like
I need to find a way to add all of
that into the lessons whenever I'm teaching, because it's.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
All building from the last thing.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
But for me, technically, when I look at all of
the different innovative styles that were coming out, whether it
be some of the stuff that you heard from Freestyle Fellowship, uh,
you know, like some of the stuff you might have
heard with the melodies of bone Thugs and harmony, what
you might have heard with some of the stuff rhythmically
that Buster was doing.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Even I talked to Play a lot about this with Pac.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
I feel like, emotionally, what he was able to tap
into was something that rappers who are technically based might
not fully be able to understand or even pull off.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Being a technical rapper is one thing.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
Being a rapper that is able to connect on an
emotional level is another thing.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
And I can go on and on.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
There were so many different unique perspectives that came out
around that time.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Well that's a good way. That's a good way to
ask you. Now, top five wonderful.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
So so my top five I put Kumbo D in
there because he wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Be particular order or.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Or please order, you know what I mean, Please no
particular order. But Kumo D is in there because I.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
Feel as though Kumo D is such he was so
ahead of his time when I look at what he
did on the New Rap Language, and I look at
how that evolves into what Trench did, and even just
recently Ll cool J and Eminem they just dropped the
song and you can hear that technique in there. That's
way ahead of his time. So the Kulmo D is
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definitely in my top five. I love what he brought
to the table in his mindset.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
In my top five, I would say, I'm.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
Gonna put cannabis in there for the technicians.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
There's different elements.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
Of rap, and I want to make it very clear,
I really don't think there's only a top five.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
I think that's a mystery.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Right, we did it just for the sacred time, for
the sake of time, will choose five, Okay.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
Five, I'm gonna put cannabis because as a technician, he
did things with words as far as vowel sounds that
I think a lot of people don't really fully understand
rhyming with things like the same thing as a priceless painting.
You know, it's hearing words of sound in a way
that I think people really overlook phonetically. So cannabis, I said,
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cool on these cannabis. I'm putting pock in for the
reason I stated earlier. I feel as though he's able
to connect with people in a way and his what
he did tonally with.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
His voice was special.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
That's three, right, Four I'm gonna put I'm gonna do
something radical. My man Snipe is going in for four.
He's somebody that works with me. I'm putting them in
as number four.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
You guys, if you're on my social media, you'll see
that I'm not reaching with this. But you know, snipe
the artists.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
H e snipe the artists, and I have reasons for
that other than of course personal reasons, like he's somebody
I work with, but he's an incredible artist.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
He's on the rise.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
He's coming.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Yeah, yeah, he's gonna come up. Now this the last person.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
I'm gonna do something very radical again, and I'm gonna
put myself as number five.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
I'm only in my top five period.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
And if you're MC in the world and you don't
put yourself in your top five, I feel bad for you.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
But you gotta vote for yourself too. So I'm making
that list.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Well, this is what I need for you. This is
what I need for you to do. As we can
tell you on spit something bro Okay.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
Some say I'm criminally underrated. I just want to know
who are the criminals to rated? Is it the blogs
or the outdated magazines selling that black genocide.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
From the trap to teens marketing devours them?
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Empowers men, take your clothes off, baby, social empowerment, liberate yourself.
I'll be in a shower when you're done. I'm gonna
teach you about Edward Brenets. I got lessons for days.
I pullect you the page, perfect, the rephrase, Amaze even
heckless of free efeless sage, holly, polymetrics. I make a
polymath doubt his math, an incredible brain. Da Vinci on MPs,
(30:08):
Stravinsky to mcs from the intrigu they intrigued. He murdered beats,
beat bleed, Burgundy, meet meat, while the coyote you speak
too slow for me globally would imported barrels.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
So pull on, y'all scales. I'll go to war with cartels.
Seemed listens the seamstress, the four in apparel, no need
for the chief.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
This is Gordon Gartrell, from your right ear to your
left ear.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Savanna's the finest. I can spit in silence and even
make the you know what, Oh, I'll put myself in
the list. But that's not all.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
That's what's good. You know what? Oh, it's like you know,
I know of your journey. It's been many, many years,
and it's interesting because now what's beginning to take place
is as you ascend certain notable ones are taking notice.
Can you speak that.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
It's been a beautiful thing. This movement that I've been
a part of.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
It is not just mine.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
There's been many people on social media that have believed
in me, and you've believed in me before social media,
So I gotta thank you for that, you guys, both
of you. But let me just say, I've had everybody
from Buster reach out to me. You know, Buster is
always showing love. He jumps in common section and that's
something about him. He's very supportive of the next gen
(31:29):
of MC's and Doctor Dre you know, reached out and
you know, it's been it's been a lot of people.
I've even had calls from Good Music with Kanye West.
I have a very specific thing that I'm trying to
accomplish right now, and so I'm listening to everybody and
the advice and the things that they're telling me, and
(31:50):
I'm taking it all in. But at the end of
the day, we all have an inner voice, and I say,
it's the God in you that tells you what exactly,
you know, what you're supposed to be doing.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
But yeah, I've gotten gotten some calls.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
I mean, I've been blessed considering where I've started.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
I've worked with some of the same people that Michael
Jackson worked with. You know, it's been an incredible journey
everybody from the Marley family. You know, I've been you know,
able to connect with uh. So it's it's it's been
a it's been a beautiful journey.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
But you've also had a very special, special and God
bless his soul relationship with him two.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
May Yes yes, he originally yeah Yeah, James and two May,
who's responsible for writing the hit Juicy Fruit. The closer
I get to you, I never knew a love like
this before, uh Stephanie Mills. And he also played with
Miles Davis for about five years on ten of Miles
(32:49):
Davis's albums, and so my background with him, my relationship
with him was very close. We we created projects.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
And music together that I haven't released.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
Some I put out, but there was a very spiritual
relationship that we have.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
I'm still actually not past his passing.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
It's kind of like, whenever he comes up, I kind
of feel, you know, the sadness coming upon me, and
I try to look away whenever I see stuff with
him because I haven't really fully accepted the fact I
could call him out the blue and we would just
talk about.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Different things and so. But the reality is that the
journey continues through me. And this is why a lot of.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
These elders and music have trusted me, because they know
I have the heart for this. They know I really
love music and I will not leave a note unless
I feel like it's the right note. I will play
it a hundred times if it needs to be played
a hundred times. I will say it a hundred times
if it needs to be said a hundred times. And
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they know I give that level of love and care
to it.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
You know your thoughts on mainstream hip hop today.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
I can't stand it.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
I hear like a Jamaican vibe.
Speaker 7 (34:12):
Oh, don't make me get into my You know I
grew up in God and my accent switches easily, So
you know you If you asked me if I'm feeling
the new hip hop today, to be honest with you,
I'm not really feeling it.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
So no, the reality is that I am not really
feeling mainstream hip hop. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not
gonna be one of those politically correct guys. I don't
think that it reflects hip hop as we've known it.
There's no kid in playing in mainstream hip hop. There's
no reality where you can say, hey, these guys just
make hip hop and they're having a good time.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Like you guys said, we ain't gonna hurt nobody. It's
not wrong with that.
Speaker 6 (34:52):
Everybody don't have to be about to hurt somebody, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
And one of the things for me to.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
Have seen with you guys that I think is inspirational
is that it was okay to do that and it
was cool to do that. So I get that it
makes people uncomfortable when people don't go along and say, oh, yeah,
the party is, let's I'm not one of them. Sometimes
I will just snap into this mode that I'm in
(35:17):
right now. I do not think it reflects the black
community period. We talk about what country.
Speaker 7 (35:24):
Music is doing, and I think some of being blocking
people out of different places is to marginalize us.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
It's to present us as one specific thing. Here.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
You have a rapper that plays classical music, jazz and
all these different genres, and a lot of times people
are like having to ask who I am now.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
Granted, once they find out who I.
Speaker 6 (35:45):
Am, then they're like, oh, the first question they ask
is why haven't I heard of them?
Speaker 4 (35:50):
That's a good question, and take me off the table.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
Let's do that for every other artist that you can
find on TikTok right now, the best music is on TikTok.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
That is my opinion, and I'm into it.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
So what can we expect? What what can we look
out for? And where to and where to go to
to get it and to hear more? And I want
you to spin another one if it's okay with the
K I D before you're out of here.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Okay, Yeah, So everything I'm doing is at oh Henny
Savin O H E n E s A v A
n T.
Speaker 6 (36:26):
I do want to say there is there are some
mainstream artists that are dope, and I want to make
that distinction.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
I'm not saying all of it's bad, most.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Of it's trash, all right, So back to what.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
I'm saying at O Henny Savit uh O H E
n E s A v A n T.
Speaker 6 (36:41):
Everywhere you type that, my website will take you there.
It's it's that everywhere, okay. And as far as the rhyme,
you shouldn't bother the rhyme with father the vine, I
gotta call following.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
There's no stopping survived. I can't be talked out of it.
I get it popping online.
Speaker 6 (36:59):
You get it ofp and online, but it was out
and this prom get it you deceptive condos or boss
that you buyd.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
No engagement like women being righteous online. No engagement like
women being trifling online. Both truth to the site for
that rhyme, you might sure a wind, I'm a.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
Problem, but seeing these boss about to die from a
lack of a batman, too many jokers got them got
it a round with a mind like Scott Joplin time
of the line with a mine.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
Is all right. That's enough for that. I get into it,
I get it through it.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Well, I did you have any other question?
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Yeah? I just want to go on the road with
oh Henny. And every time he dropped a round, I go,
hey man, I'm gonna need that you Jamaican r.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Yeah, yeah, that's that.
Speaker 6 (37:47):
That might actually hey man, you know what, that would
be my excuse to get you to go on the
road with me.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
That might actually help.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Oh minute.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Was really good.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
You have anything else you want? You have anything else
you want to share before we out.
Speaker 6 (38:02):
Well, I just want to add again, I think that
rap should be seen as more than just a thing
we do to club music and party music. Rap is
in our form and part of my mission and goal
is to teach rap also music is power, and music
is propaganda in my case is proper Ganda. We're pushing
positive messages and we're pushing a different image and image
(38:24):
of intelligence. We know that there's other images out there,
and that's fine. Sometimes I'm not knocking what people do sometimes,
but there should also be what we see today on
the independent scene that we're not seeing a lot of
in the mainstream, which is an alternative, intelligent lyricism. That's
about bars, that's about talent, that's about you know, actual creativity,
(38:47):
you know. And so that's what I'm hoping to bring in.
Come over, you know, Welcome to death Row.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
I know we would get ready to close out, but
I feel compelled to at least acts this. I hear
what you're saying, but more importantly, the audience hears what
you're saying. But fortunately or unfortunately, people want to party.
How is this just something that you just listen to
in your car when you're home and you're not feeling
(39:17):
compelled to dance to it, So it's conscious. That's what
conscious music is usually known for. Are you going to
be doing anything or experimentation? Where like a trojan horse
these words, it's knowledge like public Enemy did they will?
I think the last brilliant ones to be able to
put in stuff of substance. But you could dance to
it or you could party to it too. Your thoughts
on that.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
Yeah, you don't have to. I don't have We can
make party music.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
I just don't have to kill you.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
In the in the process of making the party music.
Like I don't have to make shot them in their head.
Speaker 6 (39:47):
I'm gonna shot them in their head, shoot them in
I don't have to make that type of hook, you know.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
What I mean?
Speaker 6 (39:52):
Like I can be teaching you something, or I could
be saying something and you might not even realize that
there's some deeper message there.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
I don't think that music works like that. And we've
had these conversations.
Speaker 6 (40:03):
From my perspective and not just from my perspective, from
actual science, sound affects you how it affects you.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
So when something connects with a person, it.
Speaker 6 (40:15):
Makes the hair on their arm and on their you know,
and their bodies stand up, they get the chills, to
get goosebumps.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
I make that type of music.
Speaker 6 (40:23):
I don't really focus on necessarily saying, oh, it's positive,
just to be positive. I'm not trying to make no corny. Yeah,
I'm somebody that battle people on the streets. I roll
up on people in Cyphus and just battle you.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
Like, I'm serious about this hip hop.
Speaker 6 (40:38):
So it's not a situation where it's like we're just
making something that's gonna work for a certain audience.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
Now, it's quality music across the board. This is Bob Marley,
this is Michael Jackson.
Speaker 6 (40:49):
When you think of Michael Jackson, his music is the
best selling music period, but it still uplifts you and
you walk away with something positive.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
Bob Marley is the same thing. It's the best selling
music period, but it's still quality and it still has
some substance.
Speaker 6 (41:06):
So what I'm advocating for is another Lawrence Hill is
another public enemy, you know what I'm saying, more of that,
and also for kids and play like for people.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
That just don't want to hurt nobody like that's I
gotta tell you, this is like one of my guilty pleasures,
Like I love battle raps, you know, like go on,
I go on YouTube all the time and watch these battles.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Charlie Clips, right, what happened to Serious Jones? Wasn't there man?
Speaker 3 (41:36):
You know when he was up there?
Speaker 2 (41:37):
But yeah, like that and oh, Hanny, you can you
can attest to this what I compare like battle raps.
It's almost like UFC because you can be you can
you can have a great stretch. But but but but
you know, we're dropped by the next dude that you
come across. Right, it was you was the man. Move
(42:00):
was the man. You need to love.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Loaded Lucks Charlie Clips is one of my favorites.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
Now he was Arian Solomon was dope too.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
He was yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
But but you know it's sometimes it's they're just there
for a season because it's so it's so ferocious, right right,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (42:20):
You know, you know if you if you have a
bad day, it's like it is like force in that way,
if you have a bad day, you lose.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
And now social media it gets around quick too, so.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
You know what, yeah exactly, So what I want to
say for everyone out there. There's a particular piece that
o'hanna did called Hip Hop Heaven, and you know, when
I'm on YouTube, it's popping up more and more that
you have these YouTubers that listen to and I know,
you know this kid listen to records for the first
time and they'll comment on it. You know what I'm saying,
(42:52):
because somebody has highly recommended that they hear it, and
that particular joint by o'hanna is really getting around and
I think it's a good representation of how he feels
about music. But giving tribute to a lot of artists,
even from Big l to so many artists that have
passed that he is knowledgeable of, gives flowers to and
(43:13):
it's getting quite a buzz on the viral tip. So
I would ask everyone highly recommend for everybody to check
out Oh Henny Savan, google hip Hop Heaven and you'll
be feeling that. With a little bit to.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
Add another song or two leaves well, this one song,
I have a song.
Speaker 6 (43:29):
Called rap opera very ambitious creative piece in the sense
that it's a thirty minute song. It is now we
know that radio is not going to play a thirty
minute song we know that a lot of people might
be like, oh man, I don't know about that. But
part of again, creatively, what I bring to this culture
(43:50):
is pushing the boundaries. I have a thirty minute song
and then I have a nine second song because I
don't believe in those type of boundary And unless we're
doing we're doing it for a specific reason, Like we
can take three minutes songs, two minutes souce, but we
shouldn't be limited to that creatively.
Speaker 4 (44:09):
We should be able to do whatever comes to us.
And rap opera is in like five different genres.
Speaker 6 (44:16):
It goes from soul music, classical to jazz to R
and B. It's hip hop, it's boom back, it's rocking it.
I'm playing some rock guitar midway in the song. So
it's but creatively, it's taking you on this journey. And
it's two parts. The first part is analog, the second
(44:38):
part is digital. So the second part is dealing with synthesizers.
And you know, I had the Molde stymp in the background,
you know here. But I'm saying, this is the type
of creativity that I've been pushing for for some time.
Right now, though it's all about the bars. I'm doing sixteens.
I'm bodying beats.
Speaker 4 (44:57):
That's where I'm at right now. Creatively, I'm all the
way going.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Hell, we're excited about artists that are up the road
that you you know, other producers as well, from Jazzy
Jeff to Rot Wild and all of that. So it's
an exciting time. So we just we want to thank
you very much for being the launch for this particular segment.
And hey, man, respect and we look forward to more and.
Speaker 4 (45:23):
More and more always an honored brothers.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
All right, man, God blessed, appreciate you. Man, you know
what's a blessing?
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Hey now, hey, all right, so yes.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
And check them out. That's what we can say. So
now our favorite, another favorite portion of people are mailing
me so much about that. I'm getting paper cuts from
opening up.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
I have yet to see one piece of mail that
what you're talking about. And don't don't hold up your
light build and tell me it's it's a piece of mail.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
I'm gonna do something about that.
Speaker 2 (46:02):
Cable bill and tell me that it's that.
Speaker 3 (46:05):
It's well on net.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
We get ready to take another joint soon, so I'm
gonna find some mail to show you not.
Speaker 2 (46:13):
But anyway, it's time.
Speaker 1 (46:15):
It's time for the playlists. All of what the playlist
is about is me just sharing films that have affected me,
in documentaries that have affected me one way the other.
It could be literally all over the place.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
But you're not gonna You're not gonna put something you
don't like on the playlist.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Well, you know, there are things. There are things that
I could put up that I'm not crazy about, but
they had a specific lesson to be learned or something,
because sometimes I'm not watching stuff for storyline. Sometimes I'm
watching for techniques and stuff of that nature. But no,
I would not make a habit of sharing things I
don't like. But what I do like is a movie
(46:56):
that I watched. You ever watched You have a watched
the movie recently, and you've seen the movie before, maybe
you've seen it several times before, but all of a sudden,
now when you see it, it's almost like you want
to say, wow, I don't remember that part. Oh wow,
Now I know what they mean in that because you
didne lived, Yeah, and you've lived a lot, you've lived
(47:17):
a little bit, and now you're like, oh, I know
just how that.
Speaker 4 (47:21):
This is a movie you've seen.
Speaker 3 (47:23):
This is a movie you've seen before.
Speaker 4 (47:25):
This is a movie.
Speaker 3 (47:27):
You recently saw it again. Yes, and you have a
new appreciation.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
They get that too, But this is a movie we've
all seen before. So I was a little reluctant to Shan.
I said, now, let me just share some reasons why.
Eight miles two thousand and two, Curtis Hansen, written by
Scott Silva. Yes, with Eminem, I watched this movie and
(47:52):
I've seen it before. Normally I would have, you know,
I have seen it before. Let me finish channel surfing,
and I'm like, I'm feeling nostalgic. I'm like, let me,
let me peet this. And I'm glad I did because
getting past the sensation, you know, the high points in
the movie with the rat battles, and you know we
were just talking about that. That's what it was about. Right,
(48:14):
Here's this guy that you know, we in Eminem's character.
We're in his life, you know, living in a trailer park,
him meeting this girl that he's really getting into. These
bunch of friends that he hangs out with, and they're
riding around in a hoopdie. They just trying to survive.
And I can we can relate to that. It might
not have been to the extremis in the movie with
(48:35):
a trailer park, but you know, there was times where
we our parents were vocal with bills getting paid and
them trying to make it and maybe being a single
parent at times in our lives and all of that.
So I'm watching it and I'm really feeling what his
character is going through and the friends that he has,
And then it got me really more caught up in
(48:58):
the high point in the movie, which was that battle.
You know, and you got a friend Anthony who is
now the new uh Captain America, but you know, to
see that he was in the movie and he was
popping up. He was the main cat that you know,
Eminem's character didn't want to really battle because he was
(49:18):
the number one rapp pop it up something like that
was his name.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
Yeah, right, so you're saying Anthony Mackie, Yes, Anthony Mackie
was was the main cat at the end, because I
don't even remember.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
That now he was gonna he was gonna wrap battle.
That was the big climax to the movie, was the
fact that this him playing that role, Anthony Mackie was
gonna you.
Speaker 2 (49:41):
Know, right, right.
Speaker 1 (49:46):
Exactly, and the way the movie went so brilliantly written
and just it's like it just was a different side,
a different perspective of hip hop culture when it isn't
always about the hit or becoming the number one. Because
the crew that Anthony Mackie's character was with, one of them,
(50:08):
did Eminem's girl played by Brittany.
Speaker 3 (50:11):
Murphy rest in peace exactly?
Speaker 1 (50:15):
So it was a lot of moving parts in this
movie that was very movie moving. Ken Basinger played his
mother in it, So it was a deep, deep movie. Yeah,
to watch this movie and for it to take on
a different meaning and like a good mentor of mine
by the name of Michael Corbett, who taught me a
(50:35):
great deal when it came to making movies and documentaries,
said don't don't get caught up in the bells and whistles.
It's always about the story. And that's what made that
movie a hit because people really got into the story
and will this guy make it out of the trailer park?
And how the movie ended, he did win.
Speaker 2 (50:55):
He won the rap Bat movie.
Speaker 4 (50:57):
And what happened was he.
Speaker 1 (50:58):
Came out his boys and them I wanted to celebrate
and he says, Nah, I'm going back to work in
the Still factory. This is motown Detroit.
Speaker 2 (51:06):
That all about to say in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (51:09):
And it was very symbolic because in order for him
to make the rap battle in the story that the
final rap battle, he asked the guy to cover for him,
a fellow worker for a couple of hours, so he
could have simply said, I ain't going back. I'm gonna
be a star now, you know. I'm it, I'm the man,
and he looks at his crew and says, I'm going
back to work. So was it a happy ending or
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a sad ending? You know, it's like, how do you
internalize it as the viewer that if you could relate
to this story, what would be your choice. So it
didn't get super deep, but it did a lot for
me watching it a few days ago.
Speaker 3 (51:45):
Yeah, No, it sounds like the movie had heart.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
And I've heard you say this in the past in
terms of you know, movies, everybody always wants the summer
blockbusters with the explosions and the spaceships and all of
that all that stuff when and then you'll always there'll
always be some movie, you know, every summer or whatever
time of year. Yeah, a low budget joint Ski that
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people really gravitate toward and people and you know, like
a five or ten million dollar movie. Yeah, absolutely right,
that heart and people gravitate towards and.
Speaker 1 (52:22):
Interestingly enough, you know, to forgive the self promotion or whatever.
That's what House Party did. You know, That's exactly what
it did. You know what the budget was. But it
was a movie, like you said, that had heart. You know,
it was relatable. You know what I'm saying. It was relatable.
Speaker 2 (52:39):
So all right, yeah, that was good.
Speaker 3 (52:40):
That's a good one. I'm definitely gonna have to revisit.
Speaker 1 (52:43):
Oh, you'll enjoy it, Yeah, you'll enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
All right, So check this out. Now it's time for
the segment that no one is talking about.
Speaker 1 (52:54):
They're not talking about it. They're writing about it.
Speaker 2 (52:56):
But you know what, people are talking about your segment.
They're thinking about my segment, but they don't want to
talk about it. All right.
Speaker 3 (53:06):
This is just this is just kidding.
Speaker 2 (53:09):
Uh you know, well, you know, we check out stuff
that's going on up in the culture or just in
the atmosphere and uh and speak on it. A lot
of stuff.
Speaker 3 (53:17):
There's always stuff going on with with with kids, you
know what I mean. You know, were there there.
Speaker 2 (53:23):
They are our most precious commodity, but you always hear
some funky stories.
Speaker 1 (53:27):
So we say they are precious commodity, but do we
really treat them that way?
Speaker 2 (53:32):
That that good point, then this this may apply to that.
Before I even get to that point, I just I
realized right out here in La this was a few
days ago, they found this baby, baby like a toddler,
like with diapers, no shoes on, and little little funky
t shirt, just wandering around a McDonald's parking lot. It's
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just kind of wandering around and somebody says, hey, you know,
can you imagine that you and McDonald's here, Like, is
that a baby in the parking lot?
Speaker 1 (54:04):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (54:05):
Yeah, So they came that somebody called somebody, the cops came.
Speaker 2 (54:08):
They gave a baby a hamburger, took him back to
his grandmother's house. I'm waiting to get the final story,
like how did the baby get from the house to
the McDonald's. Okay, all right, that's that's an aside. But actually,
what I'm really trying to talk about apparently there was
a missing child. I want to say, Tristan correct me
(54:30):
if I'm wrong.
Speaker 3 (54:32):
He was nine years old.
Speaker 2 (54:33):
The kid was nine years old and he was caught.
I guess he came up missing or he ran away
or something, but he was actually caught. He was caught
and they found him by means of the news copter,
you know what I mean, Like they actually you know,
they set the ghetto bird up and uh and they
found him. And I think there was a there was
(54:55):
a background of the kid. The kid was skipping class.
I mean obvious, clearly there's there's a problem. So you know,
there's there's a connect with sometimes the kid is slipping clap,
sometimes the kid is the kid was hungry.
Speaker 3 (55:10):
He went to McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (55:12):
Like what the.
Speaker 1 (55:15):
School lunch wasn't acceptable, you know, the school lunch.
Speaker 2 (55:18):
The kid the kid was like two years old, three
years old?
Speaker 3 (55:23):
Did he walk down the block to the McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (55:26):
Wow? Wow, I mean, can you remember when your when
your kids were that young? One kids were that young.
I never let him out of my sight, of course,
never let him out of my sight. So I don't
get I don't get how a two and three year
olds wander off. I don't I don't get that because
that's that's un that's unacceptable. That could never happen. You
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gotta you gotta be vigilant.
Speaker 1 (55:50):
It's so funny. Not funny, because I was someplace yesterday
where this little kid was just roaming around, playing with
rocks and stuff in the dirt. And finally I'm like, okay,
this is It hasn't been a long time, but this
is long enough for not a parent to show up,
and some other little kids getting off the school bus,
you know, a little older approached him and said, you know,
(56:10):
where's your mommy, where's your there? And the kid wouldn't talk,
So I let you know, I was here some place
where some authority was around, and I said, hey, you know,
and I don't know what happened. I guess everything turned
out all right, but for such a long time for
no to see, no Mama Bear or Papa Bear around,
just keeping the eye on a kid. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (56:30):
How did you approach him? Did you say to excuse me, authorities.
Speaker 4 (56:34):
No, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (56:35):
There's a child there and it doesn't seem to be
any adult around him. And at first they thought maybe
I was speaking of a child that just got off
the school bus, but that wasn't the case. This was
a little kid like the age you're talking about just
playing in the dirt, you know, and in an odd
place where any parent would have said get out of there,
you know, like come from and you're.
Speaker 3 (56:54):
Like, yo, whose kid is this?
Speaker 1 (56:55):
Yeah? Whose man's is this?
Speaker 5 (56:57):
You know?
Speaker 1 (56:58):
And you know it's something. You know, it's something when
other kids that are older, a little older, they too
are like where's your mommy? Where's your dad? They were concerned,
you know what I'm saying. So that's how long it was.
Speaker 2 (57:11):
So yeah, all right, So it's like back in the days, remember,
back in the days on Channel five in New York. Yes,
do you know where your children?
Speaker 1 (57:23):
Children are? That's such a great question still today you know.
Speaker 2 (57:26):
It's ten pm? Do you know where your children are?
Speaker 3 (57:31):
And the guy had his voice was like scary.
Speaker 1 (57:34):
Like yeah it was, and it could be like in
these days you go up to a kid, it's ten pm.
Do you know where your parents are? You know?
Speaker 2 (57:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (57:42):
Or like it, you know the kid is like your
ten pm, I'm goin to go out.
Speaker 1 (57:48):
And then again this is more of the content that
we have here at the Funhouse.
Speaker 3 (57:55):
It's ten pm, do you know where get in? Playoffs?
Speaker 1 (57:58):
Exactly? Anyway, did we learn anything today? Did you learn
anything today, did.
Speaker 2 (58:04):
We learn anything to well, you know what, it was
nice to have oh Hanny Savan as a guest. He
was probably he's probably our first uh artist from the
youthful more youthful side of hip hop. So that was
great that the good get on your part.
Speaker 1 (58:20):
Well, the next grade the segment is the next great
on the mic, right, and yeah, this would be a
great opportunity like in the the the ways that like
the Sauce did with five mics and or them just
picking out the next great one. So maybe our platform
here as we because Lord knows, we get so much
stuff sent into us.
Speaker 2 (58:41):
So hey, right right, listen, we'll do this. We'll do
this on the next episode. Play if you don't remember it, Tristan,
you remember it. And I want to tell the story
about when the young dudes send us that song they
yes called okay, yes, yes, yeah, tune into that. You're
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gonna love that story. And this is a new this
is a young artist and they made a record called
kidd and play it. So we'll tell you that story.
Speaker 1 (59:10):
Well what I learned, what I learned today was ye,
Drake has returned. I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (59:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, and give that, give that a listen,
it's called no Face God. And when you hear very
very excuse me, very cleverly written, and he's not he
sounds like he's not gonna he's done. He will be Yes,
he will be heard from again. The owl is alive, lights,
(59:37):
and let's go.
Speaker 1 (59:39):
So on that note, Thank you, everybody. We want to
thank all of you for making us as successful as
we are becoming and are not only in our rap
and acting careers, but with the podcast Top twenty five
as far as well almost listened. Big shout out to
Urban One, big shout out to Spotify, YouTube, all the
(01:00:01):
platforms that you could watch or you could hear us.
We shout out to those behind the scene that helped
make this work. And hey, nothing but blessing. Still the
next time we all come together
Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
The fun House, It's It's a podcast available on or
streaming podcast platforms
It's a podcast. The party is at the fun house.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I am playing, I am kid.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
We're together with kid and play and welcome to our
fun house. Another episode, my friend, another episode.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Another episode.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Check this out?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
What what if we did?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
You know? I know we have we have a great
theme song. You know, it's it's our song that that
we you know that we did fun House. But what if?
What if we what if we did like a remix
of of our intro song and you did it like
one of those old soul songs, you know, like in
a falsetto mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
You there to give us a sample?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
This is that fun house?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Hos It sounds like opening, sounds like the opening for
a soap opera.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
No it was, No, it's like you remember of old songs.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
So let the fun house speaking soap opera, sopa like drama,
like the opening of a of a serial television serials.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
That's what you used to watch back in the day.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah I did. That was my way having conversations with
the ladies at the party, like, yo, do you know
if Erica Kine and so and so it is ever
going to get together again? You know about the stories? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
I do?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Oh And then we get engaged into a whole long
conversation and it's like, you know, I'm in there.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
And by the way, full translation when when black people
say the stories that means soap opera.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Okay, yeah, we have think here at the.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Fun House Podcast, we have an obligation to uh to
translate whenever we feel it necessary.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
So uh that's but you Yeah, the mother's in the neighborhood.
Let me get on in the house here so I
could catch my story, see my story. But now it
seems like everybody wants to watch the court court television stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
What, So people's court all that court stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Right, and or reality television.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Reality television is kind of replaced soap operas.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah really much?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah? So all right, So.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Do you have a particular reality show that you get
into a guilty pleasure or something you wouldn't want anybody
to know that you're hooked on.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well, you know what, I tell you what years ago,
when when it first started, I would watch I would
watch love and hip Hop.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Then it got too ratchet.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Then I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Then I couldn't watch it.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
You know what I mean, Like it got too violent,
it got too crazy, and it got to it's this
is getting really far away from real, you know what
I'm saying. Sometimes now like my man, my man Young
Jock is on Atlanta Love and hip Hop. Big shot
out to him, Big shout out to him. And as
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we're being told as we as we veer off course,
if you haven't joined us before, the Funhouse Podcast with
Kidd and Play is about hip hop. It's about the culture.
It's about classic hip hop meeting new school excuse me,
hip hop and us. That's where we meet in the middle.
(03:41):
We're trying to combine. We're trying to unite, would you
not say that?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, and we were doing it where the the old
soap operas meet the new reality shows, right, That was
that was our segue, you know, into that. But yeah,
you're absolutely right, and we want to thank all the
listeners and the viewers. We're doing really well and evidently
talking about stuff that y'all love to hear about, you know,
because the streets are talking. I keep getting all this
(04:08):
mail that they want to hear more of, say less
doing the most next.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Time mail, you're not getting no mail. You might get
an email that's not mail, you're getting physical mail.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Really, is that what We're exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
You can look all day you find out you gonna
find a bill and lie and says made.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Well, what we could do is get it to the
song of the day man. So right now we're gonna
hear from us both in regards to what our song
for the show is. You represent the future classics or
existing classics. I'm into the classics of yesteryear. It's still
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hold their own. Like the minute the DJ throws them on,
somebody's mom is getting up going, oh that's my Jim.
That was my Jim.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
You know that's how that's how the mother sounds. Is
that your mother pretty much?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Or the no to dance that was that was your
mother's jam.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
And then I damned your mother.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I knew. I knew that was covied. I knew that
was COVID. Anyway, my song, and it kind of fits
the theme in regards to our show today because we
do have a guest, do we not? We have a
get but we do have a guest, and that guest
is really appropriate with the song I have for today.
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It's called new It's called Raps, New Generation. It's called
new Generation by the classical. Yes, get on up by
the by the Classical two and it was produced by
dude Teddy Riley.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Big shout out to Tristan who does the research. No,
I didn't know he did that. I mean we know
about him producing Dougie Fresh as the show. That was
interesting to learn years ago. Sweat stuff would keep sweat. Yeah,
and then of course Rex and Effect all of that.
(06:07):
But yeah, this this.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
This joint and black remember your favorite black record I
Do Before.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I Let Go and all of that. But no, I
like that song by them called Joy. She's given me
joy and Joy Joy I want to disrespect. But anyway, Yes,
that's my joint, New Generation the class I thought it
was called RAPS New Generation the Classical two, produced by
Teddy Riley. Check it out. That's my joint.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
What you got? Okay, So you know I'm rolling on
the new tip and guess this. I just stumbled on this,
like yesterday, I stumbled onto this. Now everybody's been following, uh,
the Kendrick Lamar Drake Beef. It's obviously it's just taking
over the hip hop universe. And uh, you know with
(06:55):
Kendrick coming out with that that body slamming bangerh they
not like us or not like us, And so everybody's
thinking like, what's what, what's next? What's next for Drake?
What can he do? What should he do? Well, guess
what he did?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
This is new, brand new, in your mouth, brand new.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
But it's not called in your mouth. It's called no Face. No,
it's called no No.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I'm just saying I'm putting it in, yeah, front and center,
in your mouth like Martin.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
So produced by who.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
All right, these are some new producers and that's you know,
with a lot of the new artists, they were going
to come across producers that I might not be h
completely familiar with. So if I get if I get
somebody's name wrong, I apologize. London Seer and Connor Sewer
(07:52):
London Seer and Connor Sewer produced new joint by Drake.
It's called no Face. And the reason why I was
I was attracted it and thought about bringing this song
to your attention is he acted actually addressing the situation
that he's gone through behind this.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Whole Kendrick stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
His lyrics are talking about, oh, I see you used
to be down with me. Now you flipping? Now you
know what I mean? And he's kind of being pretty
specific he's not naming names, but he's talking about the
overall vibe of he feels like he's been betrayed. Y'all.
Y'all snuck me people. I thought, well, my friend, when
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you needed a hit, you came to me. I blessed y'all.
And but but his vibe, his vibe is I'm not done.
This is a little this is just a warning shot.
I'm coming taking I got all the receipts and I'm
coming for you, So keep it out.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I don't want to say no more than that.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It's it's by Drake, and it's called no Face, and
he's he's.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
And it's worthy of getting ready to lay down. It's
worthy of the time to check it out.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah yeah, yeah, and then and and I think there's
a I heard the original, but apparently there's a remix
that also has Playboy, Cardi and Little Baby on it.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
So everybody got scores to settle.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
So everybody's getting shipped off their chest, which is cool,
but you know what, to be honest, within the whole
dynamics of this battle that's been going back and forth,
it was nice to hear Drake's voice again. He sounded
he was dope. He sounded confident. He sounded like y'all
think I'm.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Out of gas.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
No, I'm coming.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
No, I'm not out of gas. I'm coming for that ass.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Okay, all right, okay, calm down, Okay, cool.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Well the next remix, well, I think.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
It's also time for us say less or doing the most.
And this one's a good one. This one's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
All right?
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah yeah, handle handle handle, this is the see.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I guess the question I would pose is is the
c m A A's doing the most Country Music Association?
I believe that's what the A stands for.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
You think, sorry, well, in this case it could be
country music assholes, but go ahead, but.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
That country music? You know what, it's Country Music Awards,
that's what it would be. And I though, yeah, yeah, true,
that true that.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
The Association's Country Music awards.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
A very famous father for being the father of a
very popular person. Matthew Knowles says race played a factor
in Cowboy Carter not being nominated at the Country Music Awards.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
What you think, well, and and for for some of
our audience that might not be hip to it, maybe
our listening audience, Matthew Knowles is who's father.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Oh I'm sorry, but Beyonce, so many people know are
the Beehive and all of them, Yes, Beyonce Knowles, Beyonce Carter,
forgive me Her father Matthew Knowles says race played a
factor and the Cowboy Carter that's her latest album is
breaking records and doing more than just that. Not being
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nominated at the Country Music Awards. I when I found
out about that yesterday, I was like, Wow, that you
could be that blatant and be.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Snub like that not even nominated. That was that was
my thing.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I was like, I mean, you know, if you if
you're not going to vote for her, that's.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
What That's what That's what a snub is, right is
when it's not even get nominated, right Yeah? Yeah, Like, wow,
I haven't heard it. I've never even heard the album,
but yeah, I know enough about it to know that
I would figure it would it would warrant a nomination.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Quite a few number one.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
It was excellent, But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
What the field is out there, What are the artists
out there that might have really earned you know, had
enough room for her to be in those in those
particular categories.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Bigger than Beyond, Bigger than Beyond Track.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Well, I mean, doesn't Rau.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Wasn't Beyonce just deserved to be because of her her
name and her track record, wouldn't. Like I'm saying to me,
the ultimate snub and the disrespect is that you didn't
even nominate it.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
You're trying to tell me there's.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Five other artists better than Beyonce that year with a
groundbreaking album that that was a hit too.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
It wasn't like it came out of the plot.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
But my question is back to the whole list of
the top so and so rappers that we got into.
It's like, what is the what is the merit? What?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
What?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
What?
Speaker 4 (12:48):
What?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
What makes it nominated? You know what? Did it fall?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah, it sounds like it's a bunch of white people
sitting in the room picking picking stuff. You know that's what.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Is it based on sales? Is it based on popularity?
Is it based on the quality of the music?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
You know what? That's a that's a good question, but
you know, I don't know, having having been down this
road before in many different walks of life and parts
of the culture. Yes, I know what it looks like.
And that's why Matthew Knows is calling it out.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
You can't help it.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
You can't help but think that you really can't.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
But guess what, how about this? How about this some
of these some of the country cats or the powers
that be, if you will, maybe they're a little they
see us creeping into that. Look, Lil Nazaks had the
biggest record period then he revealed who he really was.
So maybe the country people a little upset about that,
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you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Like, yeah, but one of the things, I'm sorry, one
of the things that makes me grateful for what she's
accomplished and others because she's not the only one, she's
the most popular, is the history of country music. I
wasn't fully aware of the origin of it, which is
from black people.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
You know people, they're the rich history of country music
that a lot of people don't know about. Someone's not
jumping on us, she's not jumping on a on you know,
on something that hasn't been done before.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah, yeah, and wait.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
And girl quick, I just want to say, no, just
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Maybe they feel like, like, like you know, the people
of color are creeping. Look this that guy Shaboozy, He's
got like a number one hit country hit. Another black guy,
Shaboozy then I saw another dude on the video today.
His name was Blanco Brown, another black, but he's got
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like he's got like a country song and a dance
to it. So do they feel like we were creeping
on him? And and they just like, you know what,
but these are our awards?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I don't, man, it's you know, we're in our lifetime,
which you would have thought by now with all what
so many of our you know, civil rights leaders, and
all the price that our forefathers and fore mothers paid,
you would think things would be really different. You know,
we have come a long way, but it's evident we
haven't come far enough. So when you just see what
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seems like at times blatant blatant racism, it's like really
like wow, you know, like this is what we're still doing,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah, I can see you, I can see you.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Like yeah, So I just think I hope he's wrong.
Sometimes you don't want to be right because right doesn't
help you as well in certain topics. But it doesn't
look good, I tell you that much.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
How about this scenario, Maybe it's maybe it's best that
she didn't even get nominated, because guess what had she
had she been nominated.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
It wasn't gonna letter when you think right, and then
it would have just kind of went away or whatever.
Now there's light on it now, Jo this is blatant.
Like the fact that she didn't even get nominated. It
may bring more eyes and ears to that Cowboy Carter project.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Well you got you got the country category and the Grammys,
you got it in other award shows as well, and
who knows, maybe BT Music Awards or whatever will put
in a country section. Because what I did learn not
only about the history of our culture and our relationship
to country music, but also finding out she's not the
only one. There's so many other groups, solo artists and
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bands that are either have black artists, black musicians and
singers in them or solo artists because I remember them.
Do I see it a special on her album where
they had had a interview with I think the way
I saw it and heard it right a couple of
people it wasn't crazy about why she getting so much
fanfare where there's other artists, other black art This has
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been here before she did this album and been doing
very well but not getting the attention they feel they
deserve as well. So it's interesting, you know.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
No question, no question yet, but you know she's gonna
throw some light on it. Anywhere Beyonce goes.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
You know, well, it's all about the new and I
think that falls right in line with our next our
next thing here right next on the mic. But we
we were gone next great on the mic. That's what
we every once in a while we will introduce because
our thing is about when the new school meets the
classic school or all schools. Some people may call it
(17:36):
that I'm not crazy about. But we're going to start
introducing new artists from time to time and we're very
excited about our first guests on this on the show
doing this. So ladies and gentlemen, we want to introduce
you to a gentleman by the name of oh Henny Savant.
Let's bring him in.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
No, I didn't do it at all, so forgive me.
You know what I'm saying, what's up, sir, what's up?
Speaker 4 (18:03):
O' henny?
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Oh hey man, Thank you. Thank you to the legends,
as they say, salute. You know, it's an honor to
you know, to join you on the podcast. And you
know we have a history play You've been a mentor
to me over the years, so we definitely have a history.
And the Brother Kid is one of one of those
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MC's man that you watch and you're like, Okay, you know, man,
you got to accept your pen game up.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
That's what motivates you, right.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
But wake up, like, man, my last verse wasn't there. Man,
I got to step my game up.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Well, you know what they say, play always likes to
say it because it has like a biblical connotations. Were
you always say steel sharp and steel.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Iron sharping exactly. That's what it's all about, innovation, inspiration,
and that's a good thing at leads to you know,
before we go any further with you to tell us,
tell the audience, our listeners and our viewers, tell tell
us something about yourself. You know, your origin so to speak,
Where where you're from?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Where? Yeah? Yeah, what's the journey? Like?
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Yeah, my journey is a heck of a journey.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
You know.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
I couldn't use another word, but I'll just say this.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
I'm a multi instrumentalist, rapper, slash producer. Somebody clocked it
one of my videos, I played like nine instruments and
I didn't even know that it was that many but
I learned how to play everything by ear, so I
hear music and sounds, and sonically I can recognize melodies
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and everything that I've ever played. And I play multiple
genres of music, everything from jazz to classical to R
and B. Hip Hop is my main thing, but my
background is in all of these different genres. I've been
mentored by musicians from soul, funk, R and B, and
I've done work in multiple genres. My story is a
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pretty interesting story. It starts off in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where
I was raised.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Actually was born in Virginia. A lot of people don't know.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
That, but my story starts off as far as my
development in Philadelphia. Had pretty rough childhood, you know, dealing
with a few things as far as just family struggles.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
It's well documented on social media.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
My mother was not really I actually don't know my
biological father, and my mother was really strung out on drugs,
really bad at the time, and so I went through
a lot of issues, like you know, dealing with homelessness
and certain things. And at some point I was adopted
and I ended up in Ghana, West Africa, so you know,
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like coming to America, this is like the reverse version
of that Africa. So I ended up in a house
being raised by a high court judge and a classical
pianist slash.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Pastor of a of a of a church. Uh. And
so that's.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Where a lot of my exposure to Western classical music.
And there's a distinction because there's African classical, Indian classical,
many different styles, but that style, whether it be Mozart, Bach,
Beethoven and all of that stuff. And so you have
that and the collection of the Philly Years, which I
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grew up. Even with all of the hardship with hip hop,
I was growing up hearing you know, real hip hop
and hardcore hip hop, and and so I ended up
being this collage of things, these collection, uh, these two
worlds that collided, you know.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Uh, that's kind of how it starts.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah. So not never classically trained, No, I I I
hear the music, and so everything you've ever seen me
do in different.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Classical I learned it just by hearing. I told him
this one time.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
He said, you didn't tell people this, so they might
put you in a museum.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Right, No, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Well I know that. I mean I used to play
lead and rhythm guitar, and I never took the time
to learn how to read music. Everything that I did
was like by ear. But I mean your your your levels,
and that is like its bananas, you know. And one
of the things that's it makes you a great guest,
our first guess, and this type of segment is your
respect and your passion and your love for what people
(22:41):
would call the golden era of hip hop. But that's
not necessarily what you produce. But you're inspired, so to speak,
correct me if I'm wrong in regards to the eraror
and and and and and loving the the icons and
the pioneers coming out of that. You know.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Yeah, what you would call somewhat of a curator, But
I'm also a futurist in the sense that excuse me.
I like to create and preserve the culture, right. I
like to create things that show people, So in some
ways I'm somewhat of a musical museum. When Michael Jackson
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passed away, one of the first things I did was
try to make something that sound like pyt because musically,
I feel as though it's the responsibility of some of
us artists, not every artist, but some of us to
preserve the greatness that comes.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Before us, and so one of my goals and my.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
Missions have my mission has been to preserve the music,
whether it be bebop, whether it be you know, R
and B sol, the Philly International movement with Gamble and Huff,
or the motown era. If you look on my social media,
a lot of times you see a collage in collection
of all these different styles of music. And so when
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it comes to the Golden era of hip hop, I
always shout you guys out. I mean, I think that
people don't realize how valuable it is to look to
what came before you because.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Era.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Yeah, sorry to say that again.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Excuse I'm not sorry to cut you off, but I'm
curious in me the audience might be curious to what
do you consider the golden era of hip hop? Is it?
Is it a span of time or a certain a
certain span of time.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Well, I think like this.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
I actually had to study because I taught a class
on hip hop at Temple University, and I lectured throughout
the country from time to time.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
I just recently did Howard.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Teaching about rap the art of rap, specifically hip hop culture.
I know a lot about because I had to study
and so, and of course I grew up with hip hop.
But when I think of the Golden Era, for me,
at least, I think of from a standpoint of culturally
or are we talking in terms of rap, Because if
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we're talking in terms of rap, for me, I think
the golden Era is gonna be somewhere in the nineties,
and I'm talking specifically from the development of rap techniques
and different styles. That being said, I'm also aware because
of my studies and I had to go back and
do research that some of the.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Most innovative music came.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Before that, and a lot of what we still use
till this day is a result of the people like
the Cool Molds and the Melo Mals and Grand Master
Kazes and those guys. And so I always feel like
I need to find a way to add all of
that into the lessons whenever I'm teaching, because it's.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
All building from the last thing.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
But for me, technically, when I look at all of
the different innovative styles that were coming out, whether it
be some of the stuff that you heard from Freestyle Fellowship, uh,
you know, like some of the stuff you might have
heard with the melodies of bone Thugs and harmony, what
you might have heard with some of the stuff rhythmically
that Buster was doing.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Even I talked to Play a lot about this with Pac.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
I feel like, emotionally, what he was able to tap
into was something that rappers who are technically based might
not fully be able to understand or even pull off.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Being a technical rapper is one thing.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
Being a rapper that is able to connect on an
emotional level is another thing.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
And I can go on and on.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
There were so many different unique perspectives that came out
around that time.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Well that's a good way. That's a good way to
ask you. Now, top five wonderful.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
So so my top five I put Kumbo D in
there because he wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Be particular order or.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Or please order, you know what I mean, Please no
particular order. But Kumo D is in there because I.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
Feel as though Kumo D is such he was so
ahead of his time when I look at what he
did on the New Rap Language, and I look at
how that evolves into what Trench did, and even just
recently Ll cool J and Eminem they just dropped the
song and you can hear that technique in there. That's
way ahead of his time. So the Kulmo D is
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definitely in my top five. I love what he brought
to the table in his mindset.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
In my top five, I would say, I'm.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
Gonna put cannabis in there for the technicians.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
There's different elements.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
Of rap, and I want to make it very clear,
I really don't think there's only a top five.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
I think that's a mystery.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Right, we did it just for the sacred time, for
the sake of time, will choose five, Okay.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
Five, I'm gonna put cannabis because as a technician, he
did things with words as far as vowel sounds that
I think a lot of people don't really fully understand
rhyming with things like the same thing as a priceless painting.
You know, it's hearing words of sound in a way
that I think people really overlook phonetically. So cannabis, I said,
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cool on these cannabis. I'm putting pock in for the
reason I stated earlier. I feel as though he's able
to connect with people in a way and his what
he did tonally with.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
His voice was special.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
That's three, right, Four I'm gonna put I'm gonna do
something radical. My man Snipe is going in for four.
He's somebody that works with me. I'm putting them in
as number four.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
You guys, if you're on my social media, you'll see
that I'm not reaching with this. But you know, snipe
the artists.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
H e snipe the artists, and I have reasons for
that other than of course personal reasons, like he's somebody
I work with, but he's an incredible artist.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
He's on the rise.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
He's coming.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Yeah, yeah, he's gonna come up. Now this the last person.
Speaker 6 (29:09):
I'm gonna do something very radical again, and I'm gonna
put myself as number five.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
I'm only in my top five period.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
And if you're MC in the world and you don't
put yourself in your top five, I feel bad for you.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
But you gotta vote for yourself too. So I'm making
that list.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Well, this is what I need for you. This is
what I need for you to do. As we can
tell you on spit something bro Okay.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
Some say I'm criminally underrated. I just want to know
who are the criminals to rated? Is it the blogs
or the outdated magazines selling that black genocide.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
From the trap to teens marketing devours them?
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Empowers men, take your clothes off, baby, social empowerment, liberate yourself.
I'll be in a shower when you're done. I'm gonna
teach you about Edward Brenets. I got lessons for days.
I pullect you the page, perfect, the rephrase, Amaze even
heckless of free efeless sage, holly, polymetrics. I make a
polymath doubt his math, an incredible brain. Da Vinci on MPs,
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Stravinsky to mcs from the intrigu they intrigued. He murdered beats,
beat bleed, Burgundy, meet meat, while the coyote you speak
too slow for me globally would imported barrels.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
So pull on, y'all scales. I'll go to war with cartels.
Seemed listens the seamstress, the four in apparel, no need
for the chief.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
This is Gordon Gartrell, from your right ear to your
left ear.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Savanna's the finest. I can spit in silence and even
make the you know what, Oh, I'll put myself in
the list. But that's not all.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
That's what's good. You know what? Oh, it's like you know,
I know of your journey. It's been many, many years,
and it's interesting because now what's beginning to take place
is as you ascend certain notable ones are taking notice.
Can you speak that.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
It's been a beautiful thing. This movement that I've been
a part of.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
It is not just mine.
Speaker 6 (31:07):
There's been many people on social media that have believed
in me, and you've believed in me before social media,
So I gotta thank you for that, you guys, both
of you. But let me just say, I've had everybody
from Buster reach out to me. You know, Buster is
always showing love. He jumps in common section and that's
something about him. He's very supportive of the next gen
(31:29):
of MC's and Doctor Dre you know, reached out and
you know, it's been it's been a lot of people.
I've even had calls from Good Music with Kanye West.
I have a very specific thing that I'm trying to
accomplish right now, and so I'm listening to everybody and
the advice and the things that they're telling me, and
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I'm taking it all in. But at the end of
the day, we all have an inner voice, and I say,
it's the God in you that tells you what exactly,
you know, what you're supposed to be doing.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
But yeah, I've gotten gotten some calls.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
I mean, I've been blessed considering where I've started.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
I've worked with some of the same people that Michael
Jackson worked with. You know, it's been an incredible journey
everybody from the Marley family. You know, I've been you know,
able to connect with uh. So it's it's it's been
a it's been a beautiful journey.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
But you've also had a very special, special and God
bless his soul relationship with him two.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
May Yes yes, he originally yeah Yeah, James and two May,
who's responsible for writing the hit Juicy Fruit. The closer
I get to you, I never knew a love like
this before, uh Stephanie Mills. And he also played with
Miles Davis for about five years on ten of Miles
(32:49):
Davis's albums, and so my background with him, my relationship
with him was very close. We we created projects.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
And music together that I haven't released.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
Some I put out, but there was a very spiritual
relationship that we have.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
I'm still actually not past his passing.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
It's kind of like, whenever he comes up, I kind
of feel, you know, the sadness coming upon me, and
I try to look away whenever I see stuff with
him because I haven't really fully accepted the fact I
could call him out the blue and we would just
talk about.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Different things and so. But the reality is that the
journey continues through me. And this is why a lot of.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
These elders and music have trusted me, because they know
I have the heart for this. They know I really
love music and I will not leave a note unless
I feel like it's the right note. I will play
it a hundred times if it needs to be played
a hundred times. I will say it a hundred times
if it needs to be said a hundred times. And
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they know I give that level of love and care
to it.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
You know your thoughts on mainstream hip hop today.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
I can't stand it.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
I hear like a Jamaican vibe.
Speaker 7 (34:12):
Oh, don't make me get into my You know I
grew up in God and my accent switches easily, So
you know you If you asked me if I'm feeling
the new hip hop today, to be honest with you,
I'm not really feeling it.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
So no, the reality is that I am not really
feeling mainstream hip hop. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not
gonna be one of those politically correct guys. I don't
think that it reflects hip hop as we've known it.
There's no kid in playing in mainstream hip hop. There's
no reality where you can say, hey, these guys just
make hip hop and they're having a good time.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Like you guys said, we ain't gonna hurt nobody. It's
not wrong with that.
Speaker 6 (34:52):
Everybody don't have to be about to hurt somebody, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
And one of the things for me to.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
Have seen with you guys that I think is inspirational
is that it was okay to do that and it
was cool to do that. So I get that it
makes people uncomfortable when people don't go along and say, oh, yeah,
the party is, let's I'm not one of them. Sometimes
I will just snap into this mode that I'm in
(35:17):
right now. I do not think it reflects the black
community period. We talk about what country.
Speaker 7 (35:24):
Music is doing, and I think some of being blocking
people out of different places is to marginalize us.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
It's to present us as one specific thing. Here.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
You have a rapper that plays classical music, jazz and
all these different genres, and a lot of times people
are like having to ask who I am now.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
Granted, once they find out who I.
Speaker 6 (35:45):
Am, then they're like, oh, the first question they ask
is why haven't I heard of them?
Speaker 4 (35:50):
That's a good question, and take me off the table.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
Let's do that for every other artist that you can
find on TikTok right now, the best music is on TikTok.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
That is my opinion, and I'm into it.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
So what can we expect? What what can we look
out for? And where to and where to go to
to get it and to hear more? And I want
you to spin another one if it's okay with the
K I D before you're out of here.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Okay, Yeah, So everything I'm doing is at oh Henny
Savin O H E n E s A v A
n T.
Speaker 6 (36:26):
I do want to say there is there are some
mainstream artists that are dope, and I want to make
that distinction.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
I'm not saying all of it's bad, most.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Of it's trash, all right, So back to what.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
I'm saying at O Henny Savit uh O H E
n E s A v A n T.
Speaker 6 (36:41):
Everywhere you type that, my website will take you there.
It's it's that everywhere, okay. And as far as the rhyme,
you shouldn't bother the rhyme with father the vine, I
gotta call following.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
There's no stopping survived. I can't be talked out of it.
I get it popping online.
Speaker 6 (36:59):
You get it ofp and online, but it was out
and this prom get it you deceptive condos or boss
that you buyd.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
No engagement like women being righteous online. No engagement like
women being trifling online. Both truth to the site for
that rhyme, you might sure a wind, I'm a.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
Problem, but seeing these boss about to die from a
lack of a batman, too many jokers got them got
it a round with a mind like Scott Joplin time
of the line with a mine.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
Is all right. That's enough for that. I get into it,
I get it through it.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Well, I did you have any other question?
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Yeah? I just want to go on the road with
oh Henny. And every time he dropped a round, I go,
hey man, I'm gonna need that you Jamaican r.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Yeah, yeah, that's that.
Speaker 6 (37:47):
That might actually hey man, you know what, that would
be my excuse to get you to go on the
road with me.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
That might actually help.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Oh minute.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Was really good.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
You have anything else you want? You have anything else
you want to share before we out.
Speaker 6 (38:02):
Well, I just want to add again, I think that
rap should be seen as more than just a thing
we do to club music and party music. Rap is
in our form and part of my mission and goal
is to teach rap also music is power, and music
is propaganda in my case is proper Ganda. We're pushing
positive messages and we're pushing a different image and image
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of intelligence. We know that there's other images out there,
and that's fine. Sometimes I'm not knocking what people do sometimes,
but there should also be what we see today on
the independent scene that we're not seeing a lot of
in the mainstream, which is an alternative, intelligent lyricism. That's
about bars, that's about talent, that's about you know, actual creativity,
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you know. And so that's what I'm hoping to bring in.
Come over, you know, Welcome to death Row.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
I know we would get ready to close out, but
I feel compelled to at least acts this. I hear
what you're saying, but more importantly, the audience hears what
you're saying. But fortunately or unfortunately, people want to party.
How is this just something that you just listen to
in your car when you're home and you're not feeling
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compelled to dance to it, So it's conscious. That's what
conscious music is usually known for. Are you going to
be doing anything or experimentation? Where like a trojan horse
these words, it's knowledge like public Enemy did they will?
I think the last brilliant ones to be able to
put in stuff of substance. But you could dance to
it or you could party to it too. Your thoughts
on that.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
Yeah, you don't have to. I don't have We can
make party music.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
I just don't have to kill you.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
In the in the process of making the party music.
Like I don't have to make shot them in their head.
Speaker 6 (39:47):
I'm gonna shot them in their head, shoot them in
I don't have to make that type of hook, you know.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
What I mean?
Speaker 6 (39:52):
Like I can be teaching you something, or I could
be saying something and you might not even realize that
there's some deeper message there.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
I don't think that music works like that. And we've
had these conversations.
Speaker 6 (40:03):
From my perspective and not just from my perspective, from
actual science, sound affects you how it affects you.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
So when something connects with a person, it.
Speaker 6 (40:15):
Makes the hair on their arm and on their you know,
and their bodies stand up, they get the chills, to
get goosebumps.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
I make that type of music.
Speaker 6 (40:23):
I don't really focus on necessarily saying, oh, it's positive,
just to be positive. I'm not trying to make no corny. Yeah,
I'm somebody that battle people on the streets. I roll
up on people in Cyphus and just battle you.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
Like, I'm serious about this hip hop.
Speaker 6 (40:38):
So it's not a situation where it's like we're just
making something that's gonna work for a certain audience.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
Now, it's quality music across the board. This is Bob Marley,
this is Michael Jackson.
Speaker 6 (40:49):
When you think of Michael Jackson, his music is the
best selling music period, but it still uplifts you and
you walk away with something positive.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
Bob Marley is the same thing. It's the best selling
music period, but it's still quality and it still has
some substance.
Speaker 6 (41:06):
So what I'm advocating for is another Lawrence Hill is
another public enemy, you know what I'm saying, more of that,
and also for kids and play like for people.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
That just don't want to hurt nobody like that's I
gotta tell you, this is like one of my guilty pleasures,
Like I love battle raps, you know, like go on,
I go on YouTube all the time and watch these battles.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Charlie Clips, right, what happened to Serious Jones? Wasn't there man?
Speaker 3 (41:36):
You know when he was up there?
Speaker 2 (41:37):
But yeah, like that and oh, Hanny, you can you
can attest to this what I compare like battle raps.
It's almost like UFC because you can be you can
you can have a great stretch. But but but but
you know, we're dropped by the next dude that you
come across. Right, it was you was the man. Move
(42:00):
was the man. You need to love.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Loaded Lucks Charlie Clips is one of my favorites.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
Now he was Arian Solomon was dope too.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
He was yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
But but you know it's sometimes it's they're just there
for a season because it's so it's so ferocious, right right,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (42:20):
You know, you know if you if you have a
bad day, it's like it is like force in that way,
if you have a bad day, you lose.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
And now social media it gets around quick too, so.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
You know what, yeah exactly, So what I want to
say for everyone out there. There's a particular piece that
o'hanna did called Hip Hop Heaven, and you know, when
I'm on YouTube, it's popping up more and more that
you have these YouTubers that listen to and I know,
you know this kid listen to records for the first
time and they'll comment on it. You know what I'm saying,
(42:52):
because somebody has highly recommended that they hear it, and
that particular joint by o'hanna is really getting around and
I think it's a good representation of how he feels
about music. But giving tribute to a lot of artists,
even from Big l to so many artists that have
passed that he is knowledgeable of, gives flowers to and
(43:13):
it's getting quite a buzz on the viral tip. So
I would ask everyone highly recommend for everybody to check
out Oh Henny Savan, google hip Hop Heaven and you'll
be feeling that. With a little bit to.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
Add another song or two leaves well, this one song,
I have a song.
Speaker 6 (43:29):
Called rap opera very ambitious creative piece in the sense
that it's a thirty minute song. It is now we
know that radio is not going to play a thirty
minute song we know that a lot of people might
be like, oh man, I don't know about that. But
part of again, creatively, what I bring to this culture
(43:50):
is pushing the boundaries. I have a thirty minute song
and then I have a nine second song because I
don't believe in those type of boundary And unless we're
doing we're doing it for a specific reason, Like we
can take three minutes songs, two minutes souce, but we
shouldn't be limited to that creatively.
Speaker 4 (44:09):
We should be able to do whatever comes to us.
And rap opera is in like five different genres.
Speaker 6 (44:16):
It goes from soul music, classical to jazz to R
and B. It's hip hop, it's boom back, it's rocking it.
I'm playing some rock guitar midway in the song. So
it's but creatively, it's taking you on this journey. And
it's two parts. The first part is analog, the second
(44:38):
part is digital. So the second part is dealing with synthesizers.
And you know, I had the Molde stymp in the background,
you know here. But I'm saying, this is the type
of creativity that I've been pushing for for some time.
Right now, though it's all about the bars. I'm doing sixteens.
I'm bodying beats.
Speaker 4 (44:57):
That's where I'm at right now. Creatively, I'm all the
way going.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Hell, we're excited about artists that are up the road
that you you know, other producers as well, from Jazzy
Jeff to Rot Wild and all of that. So it's
an exciting time. So we just we want to thank
you very much for being the launch for this particular segment.
And hey, man, respect and we look forward to more and.
Speaker 4 (45:23):
More and more always an honored brothers.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
All right, man, God blessed, appreciate you. Man, you know
what's a blessing?
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Hey now, hey, all right, so yes.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
And check them out. That's what we can say. So
now our favorite, another favorite portion of people are mailing
me so much about that. I'm getting paper cuts from
opening up.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
I have yet to see one piece of mail that
what you're talking about. And don't don't hold up your
light build and tell me it's it's a piece of mail.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
I'm gonna do something about that.
Speaker 2 (46:02):
Cable bill and tell me that it's that.
Speaker 3 (46:05):
It's well on net.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
We get ready to take another joint soon, so I'm
gonna find some mail to show you not.
Speaker 2 (46:13):
But anyway, it's time.
Speaker 1 (46:15):
It's time for the playlists. All of what the playlist
is about is me just sharing films that have affected me,
in documentaries that have affected me one way the other.
It could be literally all over the place.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
But you're not gonna You're not gonna put something you
don't like on the playlist.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Well, you know, there are things. There are things that
I could put up that I'm not crazy about, but
they had a specific lesson to be learned or something,
because sometimes I'm not watching stuff for storyline. Sometimes I'm
watching for techniques and stuff of that nature. But no,
I would not make a habit of sharing things I
don't like. But what I do like is a movie
(46:56):
that I watched. You ever watched You have a watched
the movie recently, and you've seen the movie before, maybe
you've seen it several times before, but all of a sudden,
now when you see it, it's almost like you want
to say, wow, I don't remember that part. Oh wow,
Now I know what they mean in that because you
didne lived, Yeah, and you've lived a lot, you've lived
(47:17):
a little bit, and now you're like, oh, I know
just how that.
Speaker 4 (47:21):
This is a movie you've seen.
Speaker 3 (47:23):
This is a movie you've seen before.
Speaker 4 (47:25):
This is a movie.
Speaker 3 (47:27):
You recently saw it again. Yes, and you have a
new appreciation.
Speaker 1 (47:32):
They get that too, But this is a movie we've
all seen before. So I was a little reluctant to Shan.
I said, now, let me just share some reasons why.
Eight miles two thousand and two, Curtis Hansen, written by
Scott Silva. Yes, with Eminem, I watched this movie and
(47:52):
I've seen it before. Normally I would have, you know,
I have seen it before. Let me finish channel surfing,
and I'm like, I'm feeling nostalgic. I'm like, let me,
let me peet this. And I'm glad I did because
getting past the sensation, you know, the high points in
the movie with the rat battles, and you know we
were just talking about that. That's what it was about. Right,
(48:14):
Here's this guy that you know, we in Eminem's character.
We're in his life, you know, living in a trailer park,
him meeting this girl that he's really getting into. These
bunch of friends that he hangs out with, and they're
riding around in a hoopdie. They just trying to survive.
And I can we can relate to that. It might
not have been to the extremis in the movie with
(48:35):
a trailer park, but you know, there was times where
we our parents were vocal with bills getting paid and
them trying to make it and maybe being a single
parent at times in our lives and all of that.
So I'm watching it and I'm really feeling what his
character is going through and the friends that he has,
And then it got me really more caught up in
(48:58):
the high point in the movie, which was that battle.
You know, and you got a friend Anthony who is
now the new uh Captain America, but you know, to
see that he was in the movie and he was
popping up. He was the main cat that you know,
Eminem's character didn't want to really battle because he was
(49:18):
the number one rapp pop it up something like that
was his name.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
Yeah, right, so you're saying Anthony Mackie, Yes, Anthony Mackie
was was the main cat at the end, because I
don't even remember.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
That now he was gonna he was gonna wrap battle.
That was the big climax to the movie, was the
fact that this him playing that role, Anthony Mackie was
gonna you.
Speaker 2 (49:41):
Know, right, right.
Speaker 1 (49:46):
Exactly, and the way the movie went so brilliantly written
and just it's like it just was a different side,
a different perspective of hip hop culture when it isn't
always about the hit or becoming the number one. Because
the crew that Anthony Mackie's character was with, one of them,
(50:08):
did Eminem's girl played by Brittany.
Speaker 3 (50:11):
Murphy rest in peace exactly?
Speaker 1 (50:15):
So it was a lot of moving parts in this
movie that was very movie moving. Ken Basinger played his
mother in it, So it was a deep, deep movie. Yeah,
to watch this movie and for it to take on
a different meaning and like a good mentor of mine
by the name of Michael Corbett, who taught me a
(50:35):
great deal when it came to making movies and documentaries,
said don't don't get caught up in the bells and whistles.
It's always about the story. And that's what made that
movie a hit because people really got into the story
and will this guy make it out of the trailer park?
And how the movie ended, he did win.
Speaker 2 (50:55):
He won the rap Bat movie.
Speaker 4 (50:57):
And what happened was he.
Speaker 1 (50:58):
Came out his boys and them I wanted to celebrate
and he says, Nah, I'm going back to work in
the Still factory. This is motown Detroit.
Speaker 2 (51:06):
That all about to say in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (51:09):
And it was very symbolic because in order for him
to make the rap battle in the story that the
final rap battle, he asked the guy to cover for him,
a fellow worker for a couple of hours, so he
could have simply said, I ain't going back. I'm gonna
be a star now, you know. I'm it, I'm the man,
and he looks at his crew and says, I'm going
back to work. So was it a happy ending or
(51:31):
a sad ending? You know, it's like, how do you
internalize it as the viewer that if you could relate
to this story, what would be your choice. So it
didn't get super deep, but it did a lot for
me watching it a few days ago.
Speaker 3 (51:45):
Yeah, No, it sounds like the movie had heart.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
And I've heard you say this in the past in
terms of you know, movies, everybody always wants the summer
blockbusters with the explosions and the spaceships and all of
that all that stuff when and then you'll always there'll
always be some movie, you know, every summer or whatever
time of year. Yeah, a low budget joint Ski that
(52:11):
people really gravitate toward and people and you know, like
a five or ten million dollar movie. Yeah, absolutely right,
that heart and people gravitate towards and.
Speaker 1 (52:22):
Interestingly enough, you know, to forgive the self promotion or whatever.
That's what House Party did. You know, That's exactly what
it did. You know what the budget was. But it
was a movie, like you said, that had heart. You know,
it was relatable. You know what I'm saying. It was relatable.
Speaker 2 (52:39):
So all right, yeah, that was good.
Speaker 3 (52:40):
That's a good one. I'm definitely gonna have to revisit.
Speaker 1 (52:43):
Oh, you'll enjoy it, Yeah, you'll enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
All right, So check this out. Now it's time for
the segment that no one is talking about.
Speaker 1 (52:54):
They're not talking about it. They're writing about it.
Speaker 2 (52:56):
But you know what, people are talking about your segment.
They're thinking about my segment, but they don't want to
talk about it. All right.
Speaker 3 (53:06):
This is just this is just kidding.
Speaker 2 (53:09):
Uh you know, well, you know, we check out stuff
that's going on up in the culture or just in
the atmosphere and uh and speak on it. A lot
of stuff.
Speaker 3 (53:17):
There's always stuff going on with with with kids, you
know what I mean. You know, were there there.
Speaker 2 (53:23):
They are our most precious commodity, but you always hear
some funky stories.
Speaker 1 (53:27):
So we say they are precious commodity, but do we
really treat them that way?
Speaker 2 (53:32):
That that good point, then this this may apply to that.
Before I even get to that point, I just I
realized right out here in La this was a few
days ago, they found this baby, baby like a toddler,
like with diapers, no shoes on, and little little funky
t shirt, just wandering around a McDonald's parking lot. It's
(53:56):
just kind of wandering around and somebody says, hey, you know,
can you imagine that you and McDonald's here, Like, is
that a baby in the parking lot?
Speaker 1 (54:04):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (54:05):
Yeah, So they came that somebody called somebody, the cops came.
Speaker 2 (54:08):
They gave a baby a hamburger, took him back to
his grandmother's house. I'm waiting to get the final story,
like how did the baby get from the house to
the McDonald's. Okay, all right, that's that's an aside. But actually,
what I'm really trying to talk about apparently there was
a missing child. I want to say, Tristan correct me
(54:30):
if I'm wrong.
Speaker 3 (54:32):
He was nine years old.
Speaker 2 (54:33):
The kid was nine years old and he was caught.
I guess he came up missing or he ran away
or something, but he was actually caught. He was caught
and they found him by means of the news copter,
you know what I mean, Like they actually you know,
they set the ghetto bird up and uh and they
found him. And I think there was a there was
(54:55):
a background of the kid. The kid was skipping class.
I mean obvious, clearly there's there's a problem. So you know,
there's there's a connect with sometimes the kid is slipping clap,
sometimes the kid is the kid was hungry.
Speaker 3 (55:10):
He went to McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (55:12):
Like what the.
Speaker 1 (55:15):
School lunch wasn't acceptable, you know, the school lunch.
Speaker 2 (55:18):
The kid the kid was like two years old, three
years old?
Speaker 3 (55:23):
Did he walk down the block to the McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (55:26):
Wow? Wow, I mean, can you remember when your when
your kids were that young? One kids were that young.
I never let him out of my sight, of course,
never let him out of my sight. So I don't
get I don't get how a two and three year
olds wander off. I don't I don't get that because
that's that's un that's unacceptable. That could never happen. You
(55:48):
gotta you gotta be vigilant.
Speaker 1 (55:50):
It's so funny. Not funny, because I was someplace yesterday
where this little kid was just roaming around, playing with
rocks and stuff in the dirt. And finally I'm like, okay,
this is It hasn't been a long time, but this
is long enough for not a parent to show up,
and some other little kids getting off the school bus,
you know, a little older approached him and said, you know,
(56:10):
where's your mommy, where's your there? And the kid wouldn't talk,
So I let you know, I was here some place
where some authority was around, and I said, hey, you know,
and I don't know what happened. I guess everything turned
out all right, but for such a long time for
no to see, no Mama Bear or Papa Bear around,
just keeping the eye on a kid. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (56:30):
How did you approach him? Did you say to excuse me, authorities.
Speaker 4 (56:34):
No, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (56:35):
There's a child there and it doesn't seem to be
any adult around him. And at first they thought maybe
I was speaking of a child that just got off
the school bus, but that wasn't the case. This was
a little kid like the age you're talking about just
playing in the dirt, you know, and in an odd
place where any parent would have said get out of there,
you know, like come from and you're.
Speaker 3 (56:54):
Like, yo, whose kid is this?
Speaker 1 (56:55):
Yeah? Whose man's is this?
Speaker 5 (56:57):
You know?
Speaker 1 (56:58):
And you know it's something. You know, it's something when
other kids that are older, a little older, they too
are like where's your mommy? Where's your dad? They were concerned,
you know what I'm saying. So that's how long it was.
Speaker 2 (57:11):
So yeah, all right, So it's like back in the days, remember,
back in the days on Channel five in New York. Yes,
do you know where your children?
Speaker 1 (57:23):
Children are? That's such a great question still today you know.
Speaker 2 (57:26):
It's ten pm? Do you know where your children are?
Speaker 3 (57:31):
And the guy had his voice was like scary.
Speaker 1 (57:34):
Like yeah it was, and it could be like in
these days you go up to a kid, it's ten pm.
Do you know where your parents are? You know?
Speaker 2 (57:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (57:42):
Or like it, you know the kid is like your
ten pm, I'm goin to go out.
Speaker 1 (57:48):
And then again this is more of the content that
we have here at the Funhouse.
Speaker 3 (57:55):
It's ten pm, do you know where get in? Playoffs?
Speaker 1 (57:58):
Exactly? Anyway, did we learn anything today? Did you learn
anything today, did.
Speaker 2 (58:04):
We learn anything to well, you know what, it was
nice to have oh Hanny Savan as a guest. He
was probably he's probably our first uh artist from the
youthful more youthful side of hip hop. So that was
great that the good get on your part.
Speaker 1 (58:20):
Well, the next grade the segment is the next great
on the mic, right, and yeah, this would be a
great opportunity like in the the the ways that like
the Sauce did with five mics and or them just
picking out the next great one. So maybe our platform
here as we because Lord knows, we get so much
stuff sent into us.
Speaker 2 (58:41):
So hey, right right, listen, we'll do this. We'll do
this on the next episode. Play if you don't remember it, Tristan,
you remember it. And I want to tell the story
about when the young dudes send us that song they
yes called okay, yes, yes, yeah, tune into that. You're
(59:03):
gonna love that story. And this is a new this
is a young artist and they made a record called
kidd and play it. So we'll tell you that story.
Speaker 1 (59:10):
Well what I learned, what I learned today was ye,
Drake has returned. I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (59:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, and give that, give that a listen,
it's called no Face God. And when you hear very
very excuse me, very cleverly written, and he's not he
sounds like he's not gonna he's done. He will be Yes,
he will be heard from again. The owl is alive, lights,
(59:37):
and let's go.
Speaker 1 (59:39):
So on that note, Thank you, everybody. We want to
thank all of you for making us as successful as
we are becoming and are not only in our rap
and acting careers, but with the podcast Top twenty five
as far as well almost listened. Big shout out to
Urban One, big shout out to Spotify, YouTube, all the
(01:00:01):
platforms that you could watch or you could hear us.
We shout out to those behind the scene that helped
make this work. And hey, nothing but blessing. Still the
next time we all come together
Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
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