INET 6: THE STAR: September 2016

I learned about Rap-A-Lot through a friend in high school named Shawn Griffin (RIP). We would hang out a place called Pockets near Westford,MA . The club would have a teen night while the adults would play pool . Right around that time i discovered Ice Cube's Kill At Will up at Old Orchard Beach, Maine... So i was beginning to like what they called gangsta rap back then. While at the club, a funky melodic Jimi Hendrix sample on a song came on and Shawn went nuts. He was wasted and he was like "Duuude, you have to listen to this song by the Geto Boys" I was definitely feeling it... After that night i saw the video for that song on The Box. As each MC did their verses on the song..an artist named Mr Scarface stood out the most to me at that time.After that Geto Boys album..Mr Scarface came out with his solo album. So one day i bought the album at Strawberries Tapes & CD's behind my parents back. Excitedly i ripped open the plastic on the cassette case and i popped in the tape. It was one of the hardest tapes i ever heard in my life.

Fast forward a few Scarface albums.. i heard Face scream out "Funky white boy Mike Dean". Of course me being a music nut since birth..i would look at the liner notes to see who produced what. The reason i really looked is because the guitar riffs on Face's songs were friggin bananas..I'm a country boy that travels to Maine for the summer..So these smoked out cow tippin country-fried guitar riffs fit right in at the place i traveled to. Yes, the songs were produced in H-Town but it felt right at home in Maine..

Hyper speed through tech waves to today and Mike Dean is still producing hits..The first time i heard Mike Dean on a Kanye record i was like "Hell yeeeeeaaah" ..It amazed me how my taste in producers back then were considered underground ( like Timbaland in DeVante's Da Bassment) become mega producers of today. Funky Mike finally gets to shine and show the world how genius he is musically..Congrats Mike..

Petey Wheatstra(Coughee Brothaz) brief interview from 2006 ...

TB: I don't think people really hear what Scarface has to say...

PW: No they don't. They don't understand it.. Like for instance with Face, a lot of them songs he wrote were reality. It might have not of happened to him but it was around us. As far as the stories from Houston..it's actually true. Big Mike was the same way.. 2 Pac was the same way..Shoot, Pac would see something going on and then come back in the studio, sit down and write about it. Pac was a madman ..That's what you gotta do when making a song (***mumble rappers take note**)

TB: So when's your album coming out?

PW: Me and partners are putting together a mix CD. There was so much controversy behind it that we never got a chance to put it out..We got so much on our plate right now with Trae, Devin The Dude, Coughee Brothaz albums coming out its hard to focus on our album..

(we talk for about 20 more minutes about the state of hip hop)

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