Meyhem |
DJ J-Love
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February 2006 - Issue 002.5
Most people out there know you for your extensive Lo' wardrobe... From what I know, you're also doing your thing with music. How long have you been rhyming?
MEYHEM:
Ever since I could remember Hip Hop was a major part of my life… I’m talking since elementary school. I would go around the corner to my cousin’s crib and we would listen to The Great Adventures of Slick Rick like ten times every day. When my friends were coloring and playing with legos and shit, I was kickin’ the verse from Indian Girl- not even knowing what he (Slick Rick) meant by “crabs with spears and Indian drums” at the time. As the years went by, I was always up on shit… Mainly because I grew up around a lot of older cousins and niggaz from around the way. In Junior High, I was that kid with marker and paint stains on his starter jacket who would rack junk food and save lunch money to buy a new tape, every Tuesday- and I mean every fuckin’ Tuesday! I was honestly addicted. All I wanted to do was listen to rap... all day, everyday! At that point in time, my life consisted of rap, graffiti, and lo’. Anybody who knew me back then can confirm this. I didn’t actually start writing rhymes until about 1998. I would battle kids in school, go to little bullshit open Mics and all that. The first time I ever recorded something was with two turntables, a Mic, and tape recorder. I laugh when I hear those rhymes now, but it was my start nah'mean?
How do you feel about the current style of rap that is beginning to take over the hip-hop scene today?
MEYHEM:
On the real, I’m doing the only thing I know how to do, and that’s me. I don’t look down or condemn niggaz for making a certain type of song or music. It just kills me that niggaz are scared to be themselves. When I was coming up, I’d listen to all types of shit from Kool G Rap and M.O.P, to Tribe and Wu... They were all completely different, but they were all ill nah'mean? Nowadays it’s like everybody’s on the next man's dick. It’s disgusting!
As for that bling bling shit, personally it’s not my choice of music to make or listen
to, but if a niggaz livin’ like that then let them do them. I also understand that niggaz gotta make radio singles and all that shit. Cool, but when a nigga makes a whole album about the same shit, it gets annoying. It’s fucked up because the youth gets fed this bullshit. They begin to think that that’s the only thing they can rap about. I can’t even count the amount of times that I've seen a young nigga with scuffed kicks, dirty jackets, no shape up, etc... Yet they’ll kick 100 bars about rims and assorted color diamonds. Niggaz need to wake the fuck up for real.
Can we expect Lo/Gear tracks? On that note, what can we expect from your music?
MEYHEM:
As of now, I haven’t done any straight gear tracks (not to say I won’t). I do make fashion references cause stayin dipped is a major part of who I am before rap or anything else thats what niggas know me for being... A fly nigga on some "DOUBLE L'S" shit. One thing that I will say is that creativity is the key. Of course niggaz are gonna have similar songs about similar things, but when I spit about something, I just try to freak it a different way. As for my M.O. with rhyming, It’s like this. I will rhyme about whatever the fuck I feel at the time. I might write a song about hustling one day, and then about females the next. Like I said, all I can do is be me...
How'd you hook up with J-Love?
MEYHEM:
J-Love Nigga! That’s my man nah'mean? We from the same hood, and cool with the same people, so the merging of two of the illest minds to inhabit the planet was inevitable. The first time I met J was through Lo’. I was in tenth grade rockin’ a cream rings jacket and my man Al Greens "the living weapon" was like, "Yo Mey my man has that same jacket" and I was like, "NAAAAAAAAAAAAA he doesn’t have this jacket". He was like, "Yea J-Love" and I was like "The Dj Nigga?!" The rest is history. We did Lo’ deals for a minute before I even told him I rhymed. We were cool on some round the way/Lo shit first.
Any other collabo’s?
MEYHEM:
As for collabo’s I got a few things brewing, but that’s all I’m gonna say for now. Production wise: J-Love has been holding me down. I also got some beats from Thirstin Howl and PF Cuttin. Other producers I plan to fuck with this year are Large Professor and Ayatollah. This nigga Just Blaze just did some cuts for me on a new joint, peace to that nigga...He's on his lo game too. I got alot of other shit in the works ,all the plans are in the pot the stew just isnt ready to be served yet nah'mean.
Shout out/final words...
MEYHEM:
I just wanna say peace to all the real hip hop and gear heads (not the ones who jump in and out cause someone told them something was cool). I’m talking bout the niggaz who got real love for this shit and appreciate the culture. One love to all my lo and rap niggaz, You know who you are.
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