Kool G Rap Talks Rakim, A Collab Project With Alchemist And More...

[IronFist]

Check out some excerpts from Kool G. Rap's unkut.com interview where he talks about Rakim, Bel Biv Devoe using his voice for “Poison”, Recording in California, and A possible callaboration project with Alchemist below...

How was it going from working with Marley to Eric B. and Large Professor?

It was great. Me and Eric was close, and I looked-up to Eric B. and Rakim as a group. I was just as much a fan as everybody else. Nobody can deny their music.

How did you feel about Bel Biv Devoe using you for the hook of that “Poison” record?

I just heard my voice on the radio on Bel Biv Devoe record. They never said, “Yo G, we’re gonna use your voice,” they just used it. But that’s part of hip-hop and R&B. R&B was becoming very similar to hip-hop, production-wise, so I didn’t look at it no kind of crazy way. I was honored that they wanted to use my voice like that. It meant that I was on their radar.

Did you stay in LA while you were making Live and Let Die?

I would go out there for like a month at a time, sometimes two months. I spent around six months out in Cali recording that with [Sir] Jinx.

Was it more laid-back out there?

Laid back? It was gang-bang central out there! [laughs] It was a different atmosphere. I was charged up about recording an album out there, because my first time going to Cali with Kane, Biz, Shante, Shan – all of us – we had went out there for a big industry function to perform. I just loved Cali after that – I loved the atmosphere, I just loved being there. Plus I wanted to work with Jinx. Jinx is one of the illest producers out there that don’t get his proper credit.

Any plans to work with Alchemist again?

Me and Alchemist was talking about doing a collaboration album together. Right now I’m wrapping-up my collaboration album with Necro. It’s lyrical onslaught – back-to-back lyrical swordsmanship.

Check out the rest of the interview to read about him discovering Papoose and more


unkut.com – A Tribute To Ignorance (Remix)

 

[TrifeGod]

Necro WAS regarded as the few emcees that could go back and forth with G rap when it came to the wordplay and grimey "hardcore" raps..we'll see if Necro can keep up...which I know he can...

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Check out some excerpts from Kool G. Rap's unkut.com interview where he talks about Rakim, Bel Biv Devoe using his voice for “Poison”, Recording in California, and A possible callaboration project with Alchemist below...

How was it going from working with Marley to Eric B. and Large Professor?

It was great. Me and Eric was close, and I looked-up to Eric B. and Rakim as a group. I was just as much a fan as everybody else. Nobody can deny their music.

How did you feel about Bel Biv Devoe using you for the hook of that “Poison” record?

I just heard my voice on the radio on Bel Biv Devoe record. They never said, “Yo G, we’re gonna use your voice,” they just used it. But that’s part of hip-hop and R&B. R&B was becoming very similar to hip-hop, production-wise, so I didn’t look at it no kind of crazy way. I was honored that they wanted to use my voice like that. It meant that I was on their radar.

Did you stay in LA while you were making Live and Let Die?

I would go out there for like a month at a time, sometimes two months. I spent around six months out in Cali recording that with [Sir] Jinx.

Was it more laid-back out there?

Laid back? It was gang-bang central out there! [laughs] It was a different atmosphere. I was charged up about recording an album out there, because my first time going to Cali with Kane, Biz, Shante, Shan – all of us – we had went out there for a big industry function to perform. I just loved Cali after that – I loved the atmosphere, I just loved being there. Plus I wanted to work with Jinx. Jinx is one of the illest producers out there that don’t get his proper credit.

Any plans to work with Alchemist again?

Me and Alchemist was talking about doing a collaboration album together. Right now I’m wrapping-up my collaboration album with Necro. It’s lyrical onslaught – back-to-back lyrical swordsmanship.

Check out the rest of the interview to read about him discovering Papoose and more


unkut.com – A Tribute To Ignorance (Remix)

I always thought Live And Let Die had a west coast feel to it.

 

[smokeurobinson]

*reads*

 

[kp404]

One of the greatest

 

[IronFist]

*waits for rhyme king to enter thread to talk about kool g rap multi's*

 

[FRIED MASON]

Greatest MC of all-time.

 

[Ian1362]

Theres my GOAT, can go bar for bar with any rapper dead or alive

I've been copping his vinyl left and right lately

Kool G: This was after my first album. I made ‘Road to the Riches’? and we was on the train going to do the next performance and I met this Italian kid. This is when G Rap first realized he had Italian fans. He met me on the train like G Rap yo I fukking love you, here’s my numbers believe me I will fukking die for you. I will murder nikkas for you.

Wow, what did you say to that?

Kool G: I don’t remember exactly what I said, but I was blown away by the shyt. That never happened to me in my whole life. This shyt was fukking shocking to me. I’m listening to duke in amazement. This dude was dead serious you could see it in his face, his expressions, everything. He was really trying to convince me that he would really do this.

Was this a grown man?

Kool G: Yea, he was older than me. I’m like 18 at the time this guy had to be about 25. This was a grown ass man. He let me know he was Italian and everything.

 

[Ian1362]

Further

"G Rap was on some old gangster stuff when he was a kid. That stuff he talk about, ‘his life ain’t no fairytale’? It’s not! He was from a dysfunctional situation. He was a kid hangin’ in after-hours spots at three in the morning. When I met him, he was like 13 or something like that. But he was a 13 year-old hustler – with money – hanging with grown men. He had girls on corners, he had spots…everywhere he would go, he would go to pick-up money."