Interview: THE Airplane Boys for Exclaim!

The Airplane Boys strive to do something different in hip-hop. They always have.

They’re just smarter about it now, blending trending trap drums with their signature cosmopolitan style. If you could record the vibe downtown at sun-down and sun-up and make it into a record, you’d get Brave New World.

I first saw these dudes live like two years at the Kool Haus when they opened for Big Sean. Mannie aka Beck Motley says they tried to go the “real music” lane with a live band — including their grade 8 teacher — but the Big Sean groupies weren’t exactly feeling it.

Their new project, Brave New World, appeals to both worlds, with enough EDM-inspired sounds to capture the attention of JODY HiGHROLLER fans and sufficient soul and meaning to appeal to [ahem] grown-ups.

My friend Carmen digs it.

Woah, I just sneezed and the little snot drops on the LCD match Neil’s photo. Woah.

Posted on April 3, 2013 by admin

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Interview: Ying Yang Twins for RESPECT. Mag

Yesterday I conducted, transcribed, and completed this interview with the Ying Yang Twins for RESPECT. Mag in New York City. Although we haven’t heard from them for a while — unless you frequent clubs where there is much booty shaking going on — the Twins want you to know that they’re still making music, and coming soft with songs like “Fist Pump”.

Yes, you read correctly, ‘soft’…

Read what I mean here.

Posted on August 29, 2012 by admin

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Interview: Smoke DZA for RESPECT. Mag

photo by Scull & Bone$

Remember that episode of Seinfeld where Kramer arranges the Merv Griffin Show set inside his own living room?

Halfway through the show he runs out of ‘guests’, so he and Newman have to ‘shut down and retool’?

Yes?

No?

Maybe?

Well, regardless, that’s what I’m going to do now: ‘shut down and retool’.

I’ll be back in a week or so with a new format. Until then, enjoy this RESPECT. Mag interview with Smoke DZA. He’s dropping his new album, Rugby Thompson, in a couple of hours. You should go out and buy it

Posted on June 19, 2012 by admin

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