May 29, 2026 • 7 mins
SUMiT joined DJ Pup Dawg to discuss his musical journey, explaining how his humble approach to the industry, letting the music do the talking, has paid off with big collaborations. He detailed the story behind tracking down the legendary Method Man for a feature with the help of his friend and producer, Terminology, who had recently released his 60th album. summit also laughed about a late-night recording session mishap in Lowell with Tyla Yaweh.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, straight from Pakistan to La to Boston, straight from
the five oh eight summit.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
What up?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
Man, Welcome in, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
In, Man, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I only seeing you around man. Nice to see you
have behind the mic today with me.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Absolutely, Bro, it's a blessing to be here for sure.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Well, come in, Man. You've been doing your thing for
a minute.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Man, likewise, I see you. Yeah, likewise You're a legend. Bro.
So I'm grateful to be up here. But yeah, I've
been grinding for a minute.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
You've never every time I've run into you, you've never
approached me about music, which is great.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I love that. And you let the music do the talking.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, Well, it's a competitive market. I'm sure you meet
a million artists a day. Sometimes what can separate you
is just not being the one that's like, hey, check
me out, check me out, yea, just like letting them,
like you said, let the music do the talking. So
I think my approach has been mostly to be respectful
of your time and like just being grateful to meet
you and just as a human being first and foremost.
And then if you ever do look into the music,
(00:48):
that can only benefit me.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
No, that's what's up.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I thank you for doing that way, because, like you said,
there's a lot of people that always, like y'all want
to put on for my city. I think everybody does,
you know, at the end of the day, and you know,
you got some crazy numbers going no man, And I
always tell my mixers that we have to let these
artists put in some work because there's a fine line
of a handout versus helping and versus enabling. You know,
(01:11):
when you all of a sudden get to get played
on jam and some people haven't put in that work
and don't know what to do after that, you know
what I mean. So there's a little criteria I have
where let these artists put in some work and then well,
of course we're going to support you, but you got
to put in that first work.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
So you've done that.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
It's a good job.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Man, Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Yeah, just
in being a rapper too, Like there's so many people
who have like not stuck with it or just like
artists in general, not even just rap, but like just
people who don't stick with it. And then you know,
if you were granting them an opportunity that they weren't
going to take advantage of or appreciate fully and then
it would be a waste. So I like how you
set the bar high and made people make artists like
earn it.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah. No, I just want you to see put in
the work because if you get it, you know, we
get a lot of it. Oh, I dropped the song?
Can we play it on jam? And it's like, Bro,
you know what else do you have? I need to
hear a project. I need to see what the station
is investing in, you know, like, are we gonna help
you become what you really want to become? You know?
So good job with that, man. Do we have a sound?
Do you think Boston has a sound? Should we have
(02:09):
a sound? Two part questions?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I think it's I think it's a eclectic sound. If anything,
I think it's there's a lot of different kinds of
talent in Boston, and I think that individuality is kind
of our sound. It's like not not really generalized, but
something that you can't really pinpoint, but it's it's kind
of a common thread in everybody who I see from
mass in New England is that they're they're true to themselves.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, do you think that kind of sometimes makes it
harder just because the West has a sound New York.
When we say East Coast we mean New York, they
have that sound. South has a sound. Do you think
it makes it harder that way?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I think so in a sense because people like things
that are packaged and easily like digested and able to
just being able to understand them quickly. And you know
that helps with like pitches and promotion for people like
to understand something, and one line is like a key
to be able to delivered to an audience or a
potential audience. So I think it can be difficult to
(03:04):
like kind of put us in a box or deliver
it in a way that's like concise for somebody on
the outside. But I think in general, once once you
do see the quality of the artists that we have
and the different kinds of music that we have to offer,
it's ultimately a strength, right.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
No, I agree with that.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I think that everyone does sound different, and then it
sucks because we're so close to New York that when
we do sound like you know, when we have artists
that do sound like that, it's like, oh, you're trying
to be New York. And then you got some people
that do have like a little sudden sound to them.
It's like, oh, you're trying to be the sound. It's like, well,
we can't be ourselves because then you're like telling.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Us, you know what you mean? Individual, you know what
I mean. It's such a it's such a I hate
that game.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
But it's a double edge. So yeah, yeah, we.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Got to sum it in here right now. Five oh eight.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
You got some big features, You've connected with some big guys,
you know, being in the game for a long time.
How did some of those networks happen? Like a method man, Like,
how did how did you connect with the method Man?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Well that was through the legend terminology, so I know
you're boys with him. Term and I did a collaborative
album last year. It was called Made seven Song Project.
On one of our songs was Ammunition, and it's basically
there's no hook to it. It's just me in Term
just kind of barring up. And we wanted a big
name feature on it, just one for the for that project,
(04:15):
and Term having a relationship with metha men and it
being a perfect flow form kind of just made it
a no brainer for us to reach out at least
to see if he would be interested and luckily he
was nice.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yo. Shot, that's a term. He just dropped his sixtieth
the album.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Stee At the album him in a royal flush.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
It's called royal term.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Shout out to my brother Terminology.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, he's been putting in work, and you know, I
know you have your mentors or your friends now and
people that have done it. You're you're cool with Joiner,
You're cool with Millies. How important is it to have
these kind.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Of networks just the correct I don't know join a person,
but he's from he's from worst. I'm obviously I'm super
like proud of what he's put together. And yeah, he's
an amazing artist. But I do have a relationship with
Millies that was introduced through my videographer Tang. Shout out
to Tang. Right, ten Reads is his company. And yeah,
just being able to link with with those those guys
(05:03):
who are in a place that I'm aspiring to get
to is inspiring for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Like years of putting in work behind the scenes, you know,
and I mean you've you've probably seen it from from
a long time. Yeah, that's what's up man, sum it's
in here right now. I kind of read it about
the eye. But let's explain just in case. Everything is
capitalized with the eye. Yeah, why is that?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
It's just to symbolize, like the keep staying humble.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
How does that symbolize that? That's what that was the
question of.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Okay, So like instead of making yourself less than what
everything else is, the eye is the is the lowercase
things and the other letters are capitalized. So it's in
the way of like the eye as in me m
staying humble and small.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Got I? Got it?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
No matter because Some is a grandule's name kind of
like you know, it's it's something that people hear and
they think that, okay, it's like reaching the top. It's
being the top or being the best or something like that.
It's something that kind of balances that off and kind
of tells who I am as a person.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Ah, okay, So the some it means high point at
the point.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, but with him me, it's like staying humble despite that.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Got it. That's what's up? Man?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You got this new record out with Tyler? Yeahwey man,
that's my guy right here.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Oh yeah, the encore.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah, a quick story.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
You know, Tyler, I was gonna come to that studio
session with you guys. He hit me up that day
when he was in here and he was like, yo,
pull up to the studio and I was like, all right, cool,
send me the address.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Send me the address. Where did you guys record.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
This at a H so right studios and Low and Low?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yes? Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
So He's like, yeah, it's in Boston, right. So I
was like, all right, cool, he had an event. I
was in the studio and then I was like, yo, bro,
you're gonna send me this address or what? And he
sends me the address. I was like, bro, I can't
make it out to Low. You're about yeah, I can't
make it there right now?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Like I thought it was.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Right here next to what I have, not realizing that
in Boston and not.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
That Yes, He's like, so you're not pulling up. I'm like, bro,
it's eleven o'clock at night. I have a wife now.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
We ended up at the Encore until like six a m.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
That night. He's a gambler.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, it was a crazy night. It was a wild night.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yoh man.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
He's fun man, he's a lot of blast. So how
did you got get together before we get into this record?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
That was through one of the other videographers who's a
part of the Right Tangerines team. His name is shot
by Nick, who had Tyler coming in to do their
segment Riper Rotten and we were just in the middle
of like doing a studio session or filming something around
that time. So he was like, Hey, if you're going
to be around, this is a song that we could
(07:23):
put together for you and we're able to do that
worked out perfectly.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Yeah, No, you guys sound great on this. Let's get
into it right now. While I got you on, going
to introduce it for everybody.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Hey, what up everybody? This is your boys Summit and
this is my joint with Tyler yahweh. It's called the
Uncle
Yeah, straight from Pakistan to La to Boston, straight from
the five oh eight summit.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
What up?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
Man, Welcome in, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
In, Man, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I only seeing you around man. Nice to see you
have behind the mic today with me.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Absolutely, Bro, it's a blessing to be here for sure.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Well, come in, Man. You've been doing your thing for
a minute.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Man, likewise, I see you. Yeah, likewise You're a legend. Bro.
So I'm grateful to be up here. But yeah, I've
been grinding for a minute.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
You've never every time I've run into you, you've never
approached me about music, which is great.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I love that. And you let the music do the talking.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, Well, it's a competitive market. I'm sure you meet
a million artists a day. Sometimes what can separate you
is just not being the one that's like, hey, check
me out, check me out, yea, just like letting them,
like you said, let the music do the talking. So
I think my approach has been mostly to be respectful
of your time and like just being grateful to meet
you and just as a human being first and foremost.
And then if you ever do look into the music,
(00:48):
that can only benefit me.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
No, that's what's up.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I thank you for doing that way, because, like you said,
there's a lot of people that always, like y'all want
to put on for my city. I think everybody does,
you know, at the end of the day, and you know,
you got some crazy numbers going no man, And I
always tell my mixers that we have to let these
artists put in some work because there's a fine line
of a handout versus helping and versus enabling. You know,
(01:11):
when you all of a sudden get to get played
on jam and some people haven't put in that work
and don't know what to do after that, you know
what I mean. So there's a little criteria I have
where let these artists put in some work and then well,
of course we're going to support you, but you got
to put in that first work.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
So you've done that.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
It's a good job.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Man, Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Yeah, just
in being a rapper too, Like there's so many people
who have like not stuck with it or just like
artists in general, not even just rap, but like just
people who don't stick with it. And then you know,
if you were granting them an opportunity that they weren't
going to take advantage of or appreciate fully and then
it would be a waste. So I like how you
set the bar high and made people make artists like
earn it.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah. No, I just want you to see put in
the work because if you get it, you know, we
get a lot of it. Oh, I dropped the song?
Can we play it on jam? And it's like, Bro,
you know what else do you have? I need to
hear a project. I need to see what the station
is investing in, you know, like, are we gonna help
you become what you really want to become? You know?
So good job with that, man. Do we have a sound?
Do you think Boston has a sound? Should we have
(02:09):
a sound? Two part questions?
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I think it's I think it's a eclectic sound. If anything,
I think it's there's a lot of different kinds of
talent in Boston, and I think that individuality is kind
of our sound. It's like not not really generalized, but
something that you can't really pinpoint, but it's it's kind
of a common thread in everybody who I see from
mass in New England is that they're they're true to themselves.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, do you think that kind of sometimes makes it
harder just because the West has a sound New York.
When we say East Coast we mean New York, they
have that sound. South has a sound. Do you think
it makes it harder that way?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I think so in a sense because people like things
that are packaged and easily like digested and able to
just being able to understand them quickly. And you know
that helps with like pitches and promotion for people like
to understand something, and one line is like a key
to be able to delivered to an audience or a
potential audience. So I think it can be difficult to
(03:04):
like kind of put us in a box or deliver
it in a way that's like concise for somebody on
the outside. But I think in general, once once you
do see the quality of the artists that we have
and the different kinds of music that we have to offer,
it's ultimately a strength, right.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
No, I agree with that.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I think that everyone does sound different, and then it
sucks because we're so close to New York that when
we do sound like you know, when we have artists
that do sound like that, it's like, oh, you're trying
to be New York. And then you got some people
that do have like a little sudden sound to them.
It's like, oh, you're trying to be the sound. It's like, well,
we can't be ourselves because then you're like telling.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Us, you know what you mean? Individual, you know what
I mean. It's such a it's such a I hate
that game.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
But it's a double edge. So yeah, yeah, we.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Got to sum it in here right now. Five oh eight.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
You got some big features, You've connected with some big guys,
you know, being in the game for a long time.
How did some of those networks happen? Like a method man, Like,
how did how did you connect with the method Man?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Well that was through the legend terminology, so I know
you're boys with him. Term and I did a collaborative
album last year. It was called Made seven Song Project.
On one of our songs was Ammunition, and it's basically
there's no hook to it. It's just me in Term
just kind of barring up. And we wanted a big
name feature on it, just one for the for that project,
(04:15):
and Term having a relationship with metha men and it
being a perfect flow form kind of just made it
a no brainer for us to reach out at least
to see if he would be interested and luckily he
was nice.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yo. Shot, that's a term. He just dropped his sixtieth
the album.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Stee At the album him in a royal flush.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
It's called royal term.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Shout out to my brother Terminology.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, he's been putting in work, and you know, I
know you have your mentors or your friends now and
people that have done it. You're you're cool with Joiner,
You're cool with Millies. How important is it to have
these kind.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Of networks just the correct I don't know join a person,
but he's from he's from worst. I'm obviously I'm super
like proud of what he's put together. And yeah, he's
an amazing artist. But I do have a relationship with
Millies that was introduced through my videographer Tang. Shout out
to Tang. Right, ten Reads is his company. And yeah,
just being able to link with with those those guys
(05:03):
who are in a place that I'm aspiring to get
to is inspiring for sure.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Like years of putting in work behind the scenes, you know,
and I mean you've you've probably seen it from from
a long time. Yeah, that's what's up man, sum it's
in here right now. I kind of read it about
the eye. But let's explain just in case. Everything is
capitalized with the eye. Yeah, why is that?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
It's just to symbolize, like the keep staying humble.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
How does that symbolize that? That's what that was the
question of.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Okay, So like instead of making yourself less than what
everything else is, the eye is the is the lowercase
things and the other letters are capitalized. So it's in
the way of like the eye as in me m
staying humble and small.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Got I? Got it?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
No matter because Some is a grandule's name kind of
like you know, it's it's something that people hear and
they think that, okay, it's like reaching the top. It's
being the top or being the best or something like that.
It's something that kind of balances that off and kind
of tells who I am as a person.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Ah, okay, So the some it means high point at
the point.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, but with him me, it's like staying humble despite that.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Got it. That's what's up? Man?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You got this new record out with Tyler? Yeahwey man,
that's my guy right here.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Oh yeah, the encore.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah, a quick story.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
You know, Tyler, I was gonna come to that studio
session with you guys. He hit me up that day
when he was in here and he was like, yo,
pull up to the studio and I was like, all right, cool,
send me the address.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Send me the address. Where did you guys record.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
This at a H so right studios and Low and Low?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yes? Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
So He's like, yeah, it's in Boston, right. So I
was like, all right, cool, he had an event. I
was in the studio and then I was like, yo, bro,
you're gonna send me this address or what? And he
sends me the address. I was like, bro, I can't
make it out to Low. You're about yeah, I can't
make it there right now?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Like I thought it was.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Right here next to what I have, not realizing that
in Boston and not.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
That Yes, He's like, so you're not pulling up. I'm like, bro,
it's eleven o'clock at night. I have a wife now.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
We ended up at the Encore until like six a m.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
That night. He's a gambler.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, it was a crazy night. It was a wild night.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yoh man.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
He's fun man, he's a lot of blast. So how
did you got get together before we get into this record?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
That was through one of the other videographers who's a
part of the Right Tangerines team. His name is shot
by Nick, who had Tyler coming in to do their
segment Riper Rotten and we were just in the middle
of like doing a studio session or filming something around
that time. So he was like, Hey, if you're going
to be around, this is a song that we could
(07:23):
put together for you and we're able to do that
worked out perfectly.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Yeah, No, you guys sound great on this. Let's get
into it right now. While I got you on, going
to introduce it for everybody.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Hey, what up everybody? This is your boys Summit and
this is my joint with Tyler yahweh. It's called the
Uncle
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