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Bishop Lamont "Just Don't Die": New Album, Chuck D & MC Eiht Features | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Apr 14, 2026
Hip hop legend Bishop Lamont returns to Sway in the Morning for a deep dive into his latest project, Just Don't Die, and a masterclass on the importance of independent ownership. Alongside his creative partner Blitz, Bishop breaks down the cinematic vision behind his new music and why he is choosing to bypass traditional industry gatekeepers to connect directly with his fans. 🎤
The conversation gets real as Bishop and Sway tackle the systemic issue of agism in the music business. Bishop explains why the industry often tries to push out veteran voices just as they gain the wisdom to negotiate better deals and maintain their power. He also shares the emotional inspiration behind his song My Headphones, a tribute to those he has lost, and explains how music serves as a medicinal tool for navigating grief and mortality. 🎧
Stick around for an incredible live freestyle session where Bishop takes on topics like artificial intelligence, LA traffic, and politics, proving why his lyricism remains top tier. This is a must watch for anyone who loves the culture and wants to understand the blueprint for staying relevant and independent in the modern era. ⚡
Chapters
0:00 Intro and Welcoming Bishop Lamont
3:15 The Vision Behind Just Don't Die
6:45 Breaking Down Sand Castles and Principles
10:30 Why the Industry Fears Older Artists
14:50 Ownership and Moving Direct to Consumer
19:15 Redefining Success Beyond Charts and Views
23:40 Working with Legends Ice T and MC Eiht
28:10 Advice for Artists Reconnecting with Their Craft
33:20 Music as Medicine and the Story of My Headphones
38:50 The Psychological Meaning of the Album Art
42:45 Bishop Lamont Live Off the Top Freestyle
47:20 Supporting the Movement and Closing Thoughts
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0:00
Oh man, listen.
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That what you just heard that freestyle
0:03
it was two LA juggernauts.
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The one and only Myka 9 from Freestyle
0:08
Fellowship. Rest in peace to peace.
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Also the band who's here with us today.
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You can find this on the SKT Network
0:16
app. Download it now. You can see them
0:18
performing live in our For the Culture
0:20
one presentation. Have the beat. This MC
0:23
right here has been revered for a long
0:26
time man. Not just for his political
0:29
commentary. Not just for his his
0:31
lyricism but because of the work that he
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does
0:34
in the community as well. His The
0:36
Confessional mixtape was one of the ones
0:39
that really set it off for him.
0:41
He's been getting busy. The Layover is
0:43
probably one of the most critically
0:44
acclaimed projects that he put out. He's
0:47
been getting busy ever since. I love him
0:50
for what he stands for. He's not a man
0:53
who's going to be defined by anybody
0:55
else's narrative and he's proven that
0:57
over the years and sometimes when you do
0:59
that you make sacrifices. You know, when
1:02
you stand up for yourself and you stand
1:04
up for what you believe in and you don't
1:06
and you don't follow the status quo.
1:08
Sometimes you can be ostracized right
1:11
from a movement and then you get wise
1:14
and you realize the only true movement
1:15
is your own movement. The only true
1:17
movement is the movement that you carve
1:19
for yourself and he's done just that.
1:22
He's been very precocious in his in his
1:24
pursuit of presenting music. When you
1:27
look at his Instagram you see a lot of
1:29
different pre sentations how he works
1:31
with AI artificial intelligence. Mike I
1:34
know you would enjoy this. Even the way
1:36
the cinematic way that he's been
1:38
promoting this album Just Don't Die
1:41
which features Chuck D, Ice T, MC Eight
1:44
and many more. This is the new album but
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you can't just go buy this album. You
1:49
got to purchase it on his on his
1:51
platform the reivindicated.com.
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The reivindicated.com.
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That's t h e
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r e v i n d i c a t e d.com.
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I want to welcome my brother back on the
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show. We did it in New York. Now we're
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doing it in LA. Give it up for the one
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and only Bishop LAMONT IS BACK.
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FAMILY FAMILY.
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YO, WHO YOU BRING WITH YOU BRO? My
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brother Glitch who helped me design and
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this whole vision like for the mini
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movie for the art design the cards just
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the whole concept the shirts the shows
2:29
that we doing. It's just great having
2:31
somebody like him. I'd say it's like
2:32
Neil Brennan and Dave Chappelle. Okay,
2:34
that's that's who who's Dave?
2:37
Who's Dave? I mean it goes it goes back
2:39
and forth BUT I'M DAVE SOMETIMES.
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I CAN SPEAK PROPER. I CAN BE NEIL.
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YEAH, it's yeah. So and my brother Magic
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Engineer is here. My lady Alex is here
2:48
somewhere. Yeah man. Shout out to my
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mom. And shout out to your mom. You
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brought the whole team with you. No no I
2:53
called I hit you. I was like man when
2:55
you coming up to the show. I know you
2:56
didn't think the turnaround was going to
2:57
be this fast.
2:58
>> Exactly. We talked about that. Thank
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you. No you my brother man. Like you
3:02
know King Tech and I we we like you man.
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When I see you I think of who we were
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you know when we were younger. We didn't
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we went we did a lot of stuff
3:10
independent and people didn't really
3:11
understand our music necessarily being
3:13
from the Bay. It was different from what
3:15
people were accustomed to hearing. We
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were coming from hip hop B boy culture
3:19
and so some of the music reflected that
3:21
and it it it it
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caused us I won't say forced us but it
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in a way forced us to carve our own
3:28
paths. You know what I mean and the
3:30
belief that we had in ourselves the know
3:34
that we had in ourselves. We knew if we
3:36
didn't come through the status quo we
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were going to win anyway and then the
3:40
status quo would come to us and guess
3:42
what happened? They came to us. Right?
3:45
Message right? And when I listen to this
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project Just Don't Die I hear a lot of
3:51
that kind of messaging
3:53
in this project and even with this song
3:55
Sandcastles
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that we just played
3:58
you say some very poignant things in
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this song like when I actually wrote
4:03
down some lyrics.
4:05
Pick a side of where you stand.
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When you're building your life right and
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cuz sandcastles that's what do you say
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cuz sandcastles They do crumble. They do
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crumble man and pick a side to where you
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stand. What side do you stand on?
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Man that's a great question. Shout out
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to Solly Ghost cuz that's him on the
4:24
hook. That's another dope new artist I
4:26
always love to promote new people but
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the concept behind sandcastles is when
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you build it on false foundations the
4:34
waves is going to take that away. So
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it's it's all in vain. So for me it's
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about standing on the principles and
4:39
what you believe in. So what made me
4:42
love hip hop in the first place is what
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I'm going to stay with. Like I was
4:45
telling Horse in the hallway when Common
4:47
did I Used to Love Her I was with him
4:48
100% but I've never stopped loving her.
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So it's about what's right. It's about
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community. It's about being the light in
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the dark. It's about saying what needs
4:56
to be said when most people are
4:57
complicit and afraid to do it. So we
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have to be that that that Abraham
5:02
Lincoln penny. While everybody else is
5:03
looking that direction we're the only
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ones looking that direction. So I have
5:06
to stand on what's right for the people
5:08
and it's just giving them that energy
5:09
especially in the times that we going in
5:10
now. There's not enough hope. There's
5:13
not enough spirit to tell people keep
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going. There's so many artists out there
5:17
that stopped making music and I have to
5:19
show them you have to keep going. So
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with this album at the same time it's a
5:22
celebration of so many artists that got
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crushed by the business. So for me I
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stand on never leave a man or a woman
5:28
behind. Your inspiration your gift is
5:30
through God. It cannot be stopped by
5:31
anything except you. So that's just
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where I stand
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and I hope people feel that and receive
5:37
that. Wow man. You Bishop Lamont man.
5:39
You hear that Heather? No I do and it's
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interesting. Thanks again though for for
5:43
pulling up. It's great to see y'all and
5:45
and happy to have your energy and your
5:47
spirit and your wisdom here. We had a
5:49
caller call in
5:51
about two days ago
5:53
and basically just really stood on after
5:56
a certain age people shouldn't be making
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music especially in hip hop. And it was
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it was really really crazy to hear
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because
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you know
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we're the only ones that do it and I
6:09
hate to keep having to repeat that but
6:12
what is that about because you said you
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we have this gift and we're the only
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ones that stop it. You know and and it's
6:19
true. The industry can crush you. It's
6:22
it's not for the faint of heart at all
6:24
but I do believe now especially we can
6:27
find other ways to still be in in the
6:30
business so to speak.
6:31
>> And on your point right there the reason
6:33
for the design of ages in hip hop is to
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control how far we can go. We need the
6:38
people young and green so they're naive
6:40
so we can take you to the ringer and
6:41
then by the time when you wake up and
6:43
you're wise enough to renegotiate and
6:44
start asking what's this what's that
6:46
they want to get rid of you. That's the
6:48
only reason because every other art form
6:51
when it's not us Johnny Cash can go
6:53
forever. Ever. You see what I'm saying?
6:55
Mick Jagger's still going. You name Bob
6:58
Dylan is still doing stuff. It is only
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in our music because they want to call
7:02
our music the the hip hop game. This is
7:04
not a game. This is our art and this is
7:06
our business. This came from the have
7:08
nots. This came from everything that
7:09
they wanted to oppress. Now they control
7:12
it and try to tell you what's the truth.
7:13
So we have to stay connected to what's
7:15
true. We don't need them anymore. Even
7:17
when I signed back then the labels were
7:19
becoming a a Titanic. It was already
7:22
shifting. That's why they came up with
7:23
Spot-a-Lie. You know what I'm saying?
7:25
This this this
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>> Wait hold on. I'm sorry. I missed I
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didn't know if I heard him correctly
7:28
Heather. I heard him. Well that Since
7:31
you did since you still high off the
7:32
GUMMY YOU ACCIDENTALLY
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WATCHER SPLASH YOU SHOULD BE SHARING.
7:38
YOU SHOULD BE SHARING IF YOU GOT
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GUMMIES.
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I KNOW THOUGH IT WAS I THOUGHT IT WAS A
7:44
BREATH MINT. We went out laughing.
7:46
I wouldn't have this bag and it was just
7:48
He wouldn't have my bag. Yeah yeah yeah
7:49
but you said can you repeat that what
7:51
you just said? Spot-a-Lie.
7:53
All right. Shout out to Spotify but I
7:55
spot a lie and that system is not
7:57
correct and we have to keep calling
7:59
these things out. That's why we're doing
8:01
it direct to consumer. That's why it's
8:03
only on our websites for reivindicated
8:05
or mine www.thebishoplmontproject.com.
8:06
It's
8:09
so important that we have ownership and
8:10
we keep the identity and we keep the
8:12
connection and the information of this
8:14
because remember how hip hop started.
8:15
You had to be down. You had to be down
8:17
with a DJ or MC or a B boy. Somebody had
8:21
to bring you around or [ __ ] was going
8:22
to be on your head. Like who's this
8:23
[ __ ] You had to pay your dues to be
8:25
in. Now just cuz you get on the internet
8:27
you're part of hip hop. No [ __ ] You
8:29
had to pay your dues.
8:30
You had to come in these ciphers and get
8:32
lumped up. You had to come around and
8:33
really prove that you could be down. Now
8:35
anybody can have participation and
8:37
everybody represents where from the
8:39
internet. I can't even tell where
8:40
[ __ ] is from. They're from the
8:42
internet but where are you from really
8:44
in your region or your location in your
8:45
community? So my thing is concentrating
8:47
on that and not what they want in them
8:50
in them in them boardrooms because we
8:51
keep forgetting what hip hop was built
8:53
for and why we do this.
8:56
A lot of us in position of power and I
8:58
and I think the power is
9:01
symbolized or equated to the microphone
9:03
or the camera.
9:05
We measure we antiquate success by
9:08
what's been
9:09
given to us on charts on views on
9:13
streams. What are your thoughts about
9:15
that? I never done that. You can have
9:18
that's like and no offense to Vanilla
9:19
Ice but he outsold all of them. Right?
9:22
And does that make him a hip hop artist?
9:24
Does that make him a dope artist? Well
9:26
I'll tell you this. I loved Vanilla Ice
9:28
for the song he did for Teenage Teenage
9:30
Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 Ninja Rap. That
9:32
[ __ ] was hard. All right all right all
9:34
right okay.
9:36
THAT [ __ ] GOT DOWN. SO SHOUTS OUT FOR
9:39
THAT [ __ ] I'm not even taking shots
9:40
at him but you know what I mean? Like
9:43
yes but see that is what will psych out
9:46
true real [ __ ] artists. You know what
9:48
I'm saying? Like Vanilla Ice can never
9:50
be iller than a Kool Keith. Yeah. You
9:52
understand? A Pharoahe Monch. I'm not
9:54
going to even hear nothing them [ __ ]
9:55
is saying about how I'm a deer but
9:57
that's the way the system can work and
9:59
then our minds will then be tricked by
10:01
this is what success is and then they
10:03
start to define what the artist is
10:04
supposed to look at but these are the
10:06
same people you wouldn't let through the
10:07
front door when music first started.
10:09
Excuse me, you know what I'm saying? We
10:10
had to come through the back entrance.
10:11
We couldn't even use the bathrooms.
10:13
Let's not forget the same hatred and
10:15
racism that's here today still permeates
10:17
these labels still permeates all these
10:19
businesses where we go and they try to
10:21
take all of our blood, sweat, and tears
10:23
turn it into dollars and leave us with
10:25
nothing. Yeah. So it's always important
10:27
to keep giving people that energy. So I
10:29
keep putting up the bat signal. If you
10:31
stop making music, start making music
10:33
again. We don't need them to put our
10:35
[ __ ] out. We don't need them for
10:36
studios. We don't need them for videos
10:38
and that was the true example of showing
10:40
us using AI. Don't be afraid of AI. AI
10:43
is a tool. At the same time we're into
10:45
photography. We're into film. You know
10:46
what I'm saying? We're really developing
10:48
photographs. We're really doing all this
10:50
stuff. Acting, lighting, you name it.
10:52
Editing, sound, foley artist. We do this
10:54
[ __ ] but we're using it all in a
10:56
toolbox. So with that toolbox, use this
10:59
because then you don't need these loans
11:00
from these labels. You don't Man, I
11:02
remember when you can only have a video
11:04
with Hype Williams or Paul Hunter. Now
11:05
you can do it with your iPhone so
11:07
there's nothing to stop you and there's
11:08
a lane for everyone. You just have to
11:10
build it. And that's what I keep telling
11:12
people. Stop chasing awards and
11:14
accolades when it's about what's in your
11:15
heart. If you got that art and you got
11:18
to put it out, put that [ __ ] out and
11:19
watch how you going to feel but get them
11:21
dreams out before you die. Have no
11:23
regrets. That's the best life to live.
11:26
That's all I'm saying. Ah man, you
11:27
saying a lot man. Hollywould a splash. I
11:29
want to I want to have a I want to do uh
11:33
I want to do an experiment. You know,
11:34
this is Shade 45. This is the most
11:37
hip-hop station you you you should have,
11:40
right? And And with that it should be
11:42
the most hip-hop loving audience, right?
11:45
And if you
11:46
give me the headphones down a little
11:47
bit. I hear a little echo in New York.
11:48
If if you
11:50
if you love hip-hop then this is what
11:53
it's about, man. I'm going to purchase
11:56
a Bishop Lamont
11:58
album um at the re-vindicated.com.
12:02
t h e r e v i n d i c
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a t e d.com. The re- The
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re-vindicated.com.
12:12
I want someone tuned in right now, just
12:14
one person.
12:16
Go on that platform right now
12:19
and buy his album.
12:21
Because when you do that, the proceeds
12:23
go directly to him.
12:25
And knowing him, that is also going to
12:28
serve as not only his family but his
12:30
community. Give it out one more time.
12:33
The re- The re-vindicated.com.
12:35
t h e r e v i n d i c a t e d.com. If
12:42
you love the culture, go on right now
12:45
and then after you buy it, I want you to
12:47
call up here 888-742-3345.
12:53
Now we just played the song Sand Castles
12:55
on it. I want to go into the song Music
12:58
to Drive By while people go online and
13:01
buy this project. Where else can he
13:03
Where else can they buy it? The other
13:04
easy to remember website
13:06
Lamontproject.com.
13:11
>> Okay, the Bishop Lamont You know what
13:13
I'm saying? Do that ONE CUZ
13:22
I'M STILL IT WAS BY MISTAKE, BISHOP.
13:25
THE BISHOP Lamontproject.com
13:28
Shade 45 citizens, you know how we do
13:31
it. Let's support this project. It is a
13:33
excellent project, well done,
13:36
well presented, well promoted, well
13:38
marketed quality. The Bishop
13:40
Lamontproject.com.
13:42
On this song you got two juggernauts.
13:45
You got two juggernauts. You got MC
13:48
Eight. Yeah.
13:49
>> And you got Ice-T. You understand?
13:51
>> On one song.
13:52
>> Man, shouts out to the big homies. You
13:54
have no idea to dream. You understand
13:56
what it is. When we talk about ageism
13:58
again,
13:59
MC Eight is showing us the way. Ice-T is
14:02
really showing us the way. Chuck D shows
14:04
us the way. KRS-One shows the way. Doug
14:06
E. Fresh been showing the way. You know
14:07
what I mean? So we're still out here.
14:09
It's just if you have something to
14:10
contribute to the art form. So here I am
14:13
and I get to have two of like my dopest
14:15
favorite influences in all of hip-hop
14:17
especially for the West Coast. Produced
14:19
by my boy Ant Live.
14:21
Ant Live. And we shot the video like
14:23
there's a mini movie. This is like we've
14:25
been working on this for a long time and
14:26
that's why I say we don't have the
14:28
million dollar budgets but this is our
14:31
own interpretation of a cross between
14:33
Moonwalker and Murder Was the Case. You
14:35
know what I'm saying? And we got
14:36
something that's so dope. So the video
14:38
and the the mini movie and to be able to
14:39
shoot with these brothers and what we
14:41
got is is just incredible. Did Did y'all
14:43
come in the studio together? No. Ice-T
14:46
was in New York but MC Eight was here.
14:48
Me and MC Eight got to be in the studio
14:49
but the crazy thing was I'm such a fan
14:52
first. So I He was in the studio with me
14:55
and I had to walk out cuz I kept staring
14:56
at him making him feel weird. I was like
14:58
this is [ __ ] MC Eight. Yeah, straight
15:01
up minutes. You know what I'm saying?
15:02
>> My [ __ ] up childhood
15:05
And then you know Wait, wait, you were
15:06
freaking OUT SAYING THAT? YEAH. OH MAN.
15:09
IT'S YOU. IT'S YOU. AND THEN I FANBOY
15:12
out on Ice-T like yo like you you have
15:15
no idea what this means and so the way
15:17
they showed up for me and how dope they
15:19
are on the song, it just takes you back
15:21
to what made you love hip-hop in the
15:22
first place. Yeah. I hear people say
15:24
give them their flowers like no [ __ ]
15:26
get them a verse. Get them some money.
15:28
Do some shows with them. Show them that
15:29
you really love your heroes. That's the
15:31
[ __ ] like just real talk. When when
15:33
Phife passed, all these people start I'm
15:35
like what y'all wasn't rocking with
15:37
Phife like that when you should have
15:38
asked for verses. Yeah. Praise these
15:40
[ __ ] Praise these gods and these
15:41
goddesses and lift them up the right
15:43
way.
15:43
>> Yeah. Shout out saying enough for me. I
15:45
want to work with these heroes that made
15:46
me want to rhyme. That made me believe.
15:48
That gave me self-esteem. When I had
15:50
nothing else, hip-hop was there. So I
15:52
have to treat it in that regard. So
15:54
having them on this means everything and
15:56
then Ice-T is so active online with me.
15:58
Every time I post, he's there and that's
16:00
another example of someone who started
16:02
in this and has continued the same way
16:04
to support others. It don't take no
16:06
shine from you. It don't take no time
16:08
from you to bless somebody else and
16:09
promote somebody else. We shine, we all
16:12
shine together, we shine brighter. It's
16:13
too much room out here for everybody and
16:16
we move stronger together and this is
16:17
another example of that. And then the
16:19
Chuck D joint, shouts out to Chuck D.
16:22
Uh I had to do a maxi single move. So
16:25
the song is on there but it's a maxi
16:26
single. It's popular. Remember Jodeci
16:28
and De La Soul? We're doing all that fun
16:30
stuff again so there's different
16:31
versions of the songs. So then when you
16:33
deal with Spotify, you can put that out.
16:35
There's so many different versions of
16:37
the same song. Now you can play that
16:39
game too and and and monetize it. You
16:41
know what I'm saying? Multiple ways. So
16:43
but it's just about embracing all the
16:45
dope cats, man and and just showing
16:47
hip-hop that you love it and you keep
16:49
going at it building it up in the way
16:51
that it's supposed to be revered and
16:52
seen. So this is Music to Drive By. Like
16:54
it's visual. It starts at a house party
16:57
in Carson and you going to hear it all
16:59
goes bad but it's it's so dope the way
17:01
we acted it out. It's going to be
17:02
incredible. First person to buy this
17:04
album at the Bishop Lamont project.com.
17:09
Right? You did good, Sway. I did good?
17:12
Yeah.
17:12
>> the Bishop Lamontproject.com
17:14
and call up 888-742-33
17:17
See now this is a call to action. Yeah.
17:20
Cuz we all sit on our couches and say we
17:22
love hip-hop. We get mad at you know, we
17:24
get mad at the screen. Well, if you want
17:26
to You know what I'm saying?
17:28
We all yelling at the screen. Brothers
17:30
to screen on our phone or the screen on
17:32
our TV from our couches. Message. Get
17:34
active, right? And this is how you get
17:36
active cuz any movement requires
17:39
funding. Message. Okay, so let's fund
17:42
this project. The Bishop
17:43
Lamontproject.com.
17:46
The new album is Just Don't Die and
17:48
after you buy it, I want to show you a
17:50
lot of love. Call up the station
17:51
888-742-3345.
17:55
Let me tell you something about Shade
17:56
45. By the way, that's a bomb ass song
17:59
right there, too. I enjoyed that. Hey,
18:01
you a fool with it, too. Yeah. Yo, let
18:04
me Shout out to Ice. Ice-T the whole
18:06
time Heather and Horse spent
18:09
things the holidays with my family up
18:12
north, right? And we got a Airbnb and we
18:15
were in somewhere near Castro Valley and
18:17
we were on a farm.
18:19
Right? I told Heather it was going to be
18:20
a luxury holiday.
18:21
>> Luxury holiday
18:24
What that lady enjoy? Take me on
18:25
holiday. That lady and everybody [ __ ] up
18:27
afterwards. That's what I was in that
18:29
live commercial. Yeah. Jet Blue holiday,
18:31
was it?
18:32
Jet Blue holiday. That's what I GOT FROM
18:34
SWAY.
18:36
BRO, they was waking up to chicken
18:38
roosters crowing.
18:39
>> She crowing, bro. Sheep, goats, goats,
18:41
the whole nine. It was beautiful. You
18:43
said it was beautiful.
18:45
And And the whole time Ice-T and I was
18:47
communicating. Ice-T's my big brother,
18:50
man. Nobody's realer, bro. Like nobody's
18:53
realer. I don't care who you are.
18:55
Message. Ain't nobody realer than Ice-T,
18:57
bro. And Ice-T was hitting me sending me
19:00
music the whole time. Where's Horse at?
19:02
We was listening to Ice-T's music. You
19:05
remember that, Horse? I remember that.
19:07
Yeah, he was sending us music and we
19:10
called him and right? Yeah. And I was
19:12
like yeah, man and it sounded great. I
19:14
loved
19:15
I think Mike News said to me he wanted
19:17
to hear what Ice-T's perspective would
19:19
be like at this stage in his career
19:22
because if they have it their way and
19:24
and they being anybody who says that
19:27
people who come from hip-hop shouldn't
19:29
be making music past a certain age, then
19:31
we miss out on all the wisdom, the
19:33
experience, and the knowledge that
19:35
somebody who's Ice-T's age has had.
19:38
Right. Who going to tell you not to sign
19:40
that deal?
19:41
Right?
19:42
>> Exactly. Who going to tell you? Unless
19:43
somebody that been through it already
19:45
and have experience. Yeah. And look how
19:47
Stevie Wonder still going. All the real
19:49
greats, if If have that time, you look
19:51
at a Davis, you look at a Quincy Jones.
19:53
Keep going at people that continue to
19:54
progress and grow through decades. A Ray
19:57
Charles, a Michael Jackson. It doesn't
19:59
stop until you stop as long as you have
20:00
something to contribute to the art and
20:02
growth and relevance to the times we
20:03
live in.
20:04
>> Bro, Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight, Chaka
20:07
Khan, and Stephanie Mills just ripped on
20:09
tour. We went to go see They're on tour.
20:12
I think the average age was 75 or
20:15
something. They were out I was a
20:16
teenager in there. You give me
20:18
Yeah, EXACTLY. EXACTLY.
20:21
BUT TO YOUR POINT, to your point.
20:23
>> why we have to give the freedom back to
20:24
it and that's why I say again the bat
20:26
signal goes up if you quit, if you pawn
20:28
the equipment, you know, because people
20:30
life be lifing, but you cannot let your
20:32
dreams go and that's what God put there
20:34
for you. Other forces will try to trick
20:36
you out of your gifts and get you out of
20:38
your protective hedge. So, I invite you
20:40
to go after what you dream of. You know
20:42
what I'm saying? Like you're going to
20:44
feel so much better, even more rewarding
20:46
for your family when you got these
20:47
responsibilities. You know, when you're
20:48
parents or whatever your obligations
20:50
are, you're like I got to put this
20:51
first. But if there's no you, you can't
20:53
do it for anybody else. It's the same
20:55
way on the plane when they say you got
20:56
to put the oxygen mask on yourself first
20:58
before the person next to you. So, in
20:59
this way there has to be self-love,
21:01
there has to be awareness, and no matter
21:03
what people say, how you see yourself,
21:06
what intrinsically is in your heart and
21:07
soul, go for that [ __ ] and watch how
21:10
you're going to feel. Watch how you're
21:11
going to feel. Bishop Lamont is here. Uh
21:14
the new project is just on die part one
21:16
lost in the in the in between. Mike
21:18
Muse, you want to jump in? Yeah, I love
21:20
this conversation and Heather B, what
21:22
you just said highlighted to what Bishop
21:23
said earlier to the conversation to
21:25
where you mentioned in terms of who's
21:27
going to teach these artists to say like
21:29
not to sign the contract or be mindful
21:30
of the contract, right? I remember that
21:32
conversation distinctly Sway, that
21:33
that's what you were saying in terms of
21:34
why they don't want these artists to age
21:37
and still stay in the label cuz then
21:38
they can teach um wisdom to those who
21:41
come behind and also too these artists
21:43
will have more empowerment to understand
21:45
contract deals and negotiations better.
21:46
But to Bishop, to you, I'm just curious.
21:49
You're giving a lot of advice and I'm
21:50
just wondering for an artist who has may
21:53
have decided to opt out because they
21:54
felt ageism, right? But they have an
21:57
itch of getting back in. What are some
21:59
tips that you could give them that they
22:01
could reconnect with their audience to
22:03
begin to grow their audience again, to
22:05
reconnect and then to grow?
22:07
I love that. First, if it's got to start
22:09
at home, well, it does have to start at
22:11
home. Um
22:12
get back into your songs and start
22:14
loving hearing your lyrics again or
22:16
hearing your singing voice or hearing
22:17
your beats or whatever it is. And do it
22:20
in front of the mirror as weird as this
22:21
sounds, just the truth. You have to see
22:22
yourself first and really be comfortable
22:24
and love what you see because when you
22:26
see these cats polished on stage, that
22:28
took time and rehearsal. You can see old
22:30
Prince footage. He was throwing that mic
22:31
down, throwing that mic down, but you
22:33
have to do it with repetition. But once
22:35
they start there and you start to feel
22:37
that confidence again and everybody can
22:39
have home set up so there's no struggle
22:42
to get to a studio and start recording
22:44
your music in again and play it for your
22:46
peers and play it for those cats that
22:47
got you into music. And once they're
22:49
giving you that signal like that's the
22:50
one, that's it, move forward with that
22:52
stuff and put it out and don't be afraid
22:54
of being judged because this is art and
22:55
it's subjective. And this is your
22:57
gallery and your gallery's not going to
22:58
have everybody in it, but those that
23:00
come, they were seeking it. So, what you
23:03
are seeking is equally seeking you in
23:05
this universe. I can say that 100% and
23:07
that's the way to start and to remember
23:09
as long as your vocal cords is good,
23:11
your lungs is good. This is not an
23:12
athletic sport where you got to run
23:14
around the stage. A [ __ ] can be still
23:16
and and and kill the illest [ __ ] So,
23:18
it's just about finding what you have to
23:20
say to people because life continues
23:22
until it ends. So, there's a perspective
23:24
and there's a truth and there's a
23:25
journey for everybody. So, that's why I
23:27
say we need as many artists out here
23:29
creating music because [ __ ] politics. If
23:32
it's Republican, Democrat, independent,
23:34
it's all the same bird. This wing, right
23:37
wing, whatever. What's really going to
23:38
make the difference is the music because
23:40
this is what we need to reflect the
23:41
times and to talk to people directly.
23:44
That's what's going to make things
23:45
change. So, again, if you're out there,
23:48
get back to making music. You ain't got
23:49
to be signed to nobody. You signed to
23:51
your [ __ ] self. You don't have to be
23:53
told when it can come out. You can
23:55
choose the beats you want and express
23:56
yourself. It's It's unlimited out here
23:59
and that's why we shouldn't be afraid of
24:01
technology and we shouldn't be afraid of
24:03
what they try to say because that's
24:05
propaganda. Hip hop is not dead, always
24:08
stays alive. That's why they still
24:09
trying to make money off of it. And the
24:11
last thing what you were saying,
24:12
brother, it's so much easier when the
24:14
artists are disposable and then if they
24:16
get killed, they're like Pokémon cards.
24:19
And then we can just collect them
24:20
and yeah, and just use their image and
24:23
their music how we see fit. And so, when
24:25
we have people like ourselves that can
24:27
navigate for these artists coming up,
24:29
they can avoid these pitfalls. We have
24:31
no United Nations for our artists. We
24:32
have no embassies so people can know how
24:35
to navigate this. It's so predatory and
24:37
dangerous for female artists in studios.
24:39
We have to talk about these things and
24:41
be like it has to be better protected.
24:43
But if you're out there, you don't have
24:45
to put up with none of that [ __ ]
24:46
You can just create and see the results
24:49
of it and it's going to feel so good.
24:50
And you have to really in your mind go,
24:52
"What does success look like for me?"
24:53
Stop looking at what they try to show
24:55
you cuz most of the time that's filters
24:57
and that's make-believe and you don't
24:58
know the sacrifices and how much that
25:00
people have chipped away at their own
25:02
souls to get that
25:04
m- material [ __ ] but there's there's
25:07
the soul is gone. So, again, what is
25:09
success? It's making a living off what
25:10
you love doing. You eating. So, from a
25:13
starving artist to artist to a nibbling
25:15
artist to a fully eating artist, take
25:17
the journey, but it's great to live by
25:19
your own principles and your own choices
25:21
as hard as it can get and I'm living
25:23
proof of that. Like you said, being
25:25
ostracized and going against the grain.
25:27
It's going to be everything and there's
25:28
going to be moments of doubt, but when
25:30
you really feel in your heart of hearts
25:32
this is what is meant for you, it will
25:34
be so. Holy water splash. There it is,
25:36
man. H Dub
25:38
A couple of people bought the album was
25:40
on hold, but some of them hung up, but
25:42
if you won't call back, I'll put you on
25:43
now. H Dub from the ATL, you hip hop
25:47
homie.
25:49
Yes, sir. What's up, family? How y'all
25:51
holding up? What up?
25:53
>> man? Did you buy the album?
25:55
Yes, sir. I went and grabbed it, man. I
25:57
was sleeping on family, but just from
25:59
his conversation and the love and the
26:01
energy and the passion, I was like, let
26:03
me let me see what he's talking about. I
26:05
can't wait to to listen to it and dive
26:07
in, but yeah, I had to grab it. Had to.
26:09
Thank you. There it is. Bishop Lamont,
26:11
meet H Dub. Salute.
26:14
What up, man? What up?
26:16
All right. Enjoy the project. Thank you
26:18
for supporting it, the culture, brother,
26:20
for real. You were You were a
26:22
contributor. You ain't just a customer,
26:24
a spectator with an ugly hat on.
26:26
YOU KNOW WHAT? JUST SAYING, MAN. THEY
26:28
ALWAYS DO YOU KNOW on spectators. All
26:30
right, thank you, H Dub. Super citizen.
26:33
My man Pell from Yonkers. What up, Pell?
26:36
What up, family? How y'all living? How
26:38
y'all living? Good. Yeah, man.
26:40
Beautifully, man. How about yourself?
26:43
I'm blessed, man. Had to pull over on
26:45
the road right quick to go ahead and buy
26:46
that album, man. There There you go.
26:48
Come on, man. Safety first. Thank you.
26:50
All right. There you go, man.
26:53
Um and we're talking because we want
26:55
everybody to tune in and go to the
26:57
bishoplamontproject.com
27:00
and buy this project. You can't It ain't
27:02
enough. Like you you you Some folks sit
27:05
here and argue back and forth about what
27:07
what's what's needed in hip hop, what
27:09
should be omitted in hip hop and don't
27:11
even live by it, right? They They They
27:14
sit here a a Drake and Kendrick battle
27:16
and think that now they're experts
27:18
because they like one more than the
27:20
other. And then you got people who say
27:22
because of that battle, it ruined hip
27:24
hop. Nah, man. Nah. Nah, y'all [ __ ] What
27:28
What y'all talking about? Y'all ain't
27:30
You ain't connected. That's not us
27:32
talking. That's them talking.
27:33
>> talking, right? It's a whole world.
27:36
>> That's the machine. That's the machine.
27:38
So,
27:39
it it's just like, you know, bombs ain't
27:41
going to destroy the planet Earth. Your
27:44
these critics ain't going to destroy hip
27:45
hop,
27:46
>> Message. right? And so, the fact that
27:48
Pell, you invested, you're a
27:49
contributor, brother. Thank you. You're
27:51
a super citizen, man.
27:52
>> in the morning, man. All right, Big
27:54
Eyes. What up, man? Big Eyes. What up,
27:56
man? Big Eyes.
28:00
You got a horrible phone.
28:04
Just wanted to call in and
28:06
There we go. You know, shout out to
28:08
Bishop. Man, I got put on with dude back
28:10
in maybe '06, man. And dude had
28:14
He Bro, I'm like, who is this dude from
28:16
the West Coast? But life was lifing, you
28:19
know, didn't hear from him for a while,
28:21
but man, good to be re-introduced to
28:23
you, man. Hey, from what I heard in '06
28:26
I just purchased the album. Let me get
28:27
that out the way. Okay. All right. Okay.
28:29
Thank you. All right. Get out the way.
28:32
Uh from what I heard from you and then I
28:34
would subsequently go back and listen to
28:35
the old music I had of you. Yeah, and
28:38
what you just played with the Ice-T Oh,
28:39
yeah. That's right right there, bro.
28:41
That's right.
28:42
>> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. There
28:44
you go. Big Eyes, we appreciate you,
28:46
man, for being a a contributor.
28:48
Uh thank you very much. You were a super
28:50
citizen, brother.
28:51
>> A Sway in the morning. You know,
28:53
this album is really dope. You got a a
28:56
song on on this album that
28:59
I
29:00
you know, I I thought about but never
29:02
really put to words of
29:06
the headphones. Yeah.
29:09
Can I talk about that real quick?
29:11
>> Can you please? He got a song called My
29:12
Headphones on this project.
29:13
>> Produced by AD Empire. Shout out to AD
29:15
Empire. So, a very good blessed
29:18
individual by the name of Dave New York.
29:20
Rest in peace.
29:21
Uh my big brother who really brought me
29:24
into this hip hop [ __ ] at a deeper level
29:25
and really put me on in New York. Um
29:28
Dilla, I had been talking to Dilla off
29:31
and on when I first signed to Aftermath.
29:33
And so, the original idea was going to
29:35
be that Dilla did half the album and Dre
29:37
did the other. Now, when I started
29:38
talking with Dilla, he's answering my
29:40
phone calls, I didn't know how sick he
29:42
was. But he still gave the patience and
29:45
um
29:46
subsequently he died and
29:48
when we went to the wake at Common's
29:50
house
29:51
that's where I met Dave New York. We We
29:53
had known each other through mutual
29:55
friends my bro double O seven and we
29:56
started riding together and doing so
29:58
much dope music but he died from cancer
30:02
a few years back and it just was such
30:04
severe depression that I couldn't even
30:06
get out the bed for like a week. That's
30:08
my brother and so when they sent me this
30:10
beat this was the first thing that I'm
30:12
that I made and wrote and cried writing
30:16
and reciting and so many people that
30:17
died that if I put all the names at the
30:19
end the song would have never ended. So
30:22
this is this is
30:24
this is medicinal music like the way I
30:26
temper the music is for every mood and
30:28
every aspect we might face in life and
30:30
the sequence accordingly. So with my
30:32
headphones at the end of the album it
30:35
closes out the first experience of just
30:37
don't die part one and it's dealing with
30:39
death it's dealing with mortality. It's
30:41
dealing with seeing our parents age and
30:43
knowing the inevitable is there but you
30:45
have to embrace and love every moment
30:47
and you know do your best to get through
30:50
life and that's what my headphones is
30:52
because music saves lives and that's
30:54
what I love about being a part of this
30:56
because it can change people's lives in
30:58
an instant when they listen to it. If
31:00
the frequency is right if the vibration
31:02
is right it can do so much that voting
31:06
or whatever could never do because it
31:08
catches people in that most vulnerable
31:10
moment and then headphones is such a
31:12
private world to protect you from
31:13
whatever else is going on. So this is a
31:15
way for me to arm people. You know what
31:18
I'm saying because a lot of times you
31:19
have to go inside and close out
31:22
everything outside and that's what I had
31:23
to do and so this is just a
31:26
a living meditation with this song and
31:29
what it does.
31:30
So this is my headphones. Lord Sear this
31:33
is for you.
31:35
T Noah XL this is for you. By the Bean
31:38
this is for you. Sapphire Ooh this is
31:41
for you you know what I mean like Wow.
31:44
Yeah. Yeah yeah man. Holy water splash.
31:48
Holy water splash.
31:50
Yeah man.
31:51
I say Lord Sear we going over a little
31:53
bit but we going to go into the Lord
31:55
Sear show after this
31:57
rest in peace our brother man. It's too
31:59
many man. Yeah Kay Slay
32:01
His Marquis birthday was the other day.
32:03
Shout out to
32:04
DM X I mean it's just we could we could
32:07
go on and on man and um
32:10
this is just a sample of this project.
32:12
It's very well executed. Even the album
32:14
cover is interesting to me and I want to
32:17
understand from you what what is
32:20
what is this album cover represent? It's
32:23
like ghost hands wrapping around you or
32:25
spirit spiritual hands wrapping around
32:28
you. You coming out of a some motel next
32:30
to it it's like you
32:31
coming out of a time
32:33
warp or Yeah I love I love I love where
32:36
you going. It's multi-layered
32:38
so the thing you can look at it a lot of
32:41
ways. I like to get nerdy and
32:42
psychological but we carry a lot of
32:44
luggage right? So we start there from
32:46
our past and our pains. The the things
32:49
that we can get caught in in our loops
32:50
right? Cuz our minds can tell us
32:52
terrible things when we have bad
32:53
experiences we have failures we have
32:55
divorce we have all kind of tragedies.
32:57
So you can become
32:59
a prisoner of your own past and your own
33:02
hell so I'm breaking free of that
33:03
because the concept from the album
33:05
before was the reformation and at the
33:07
beginning of the album
33:09
we're just leaving the studio finally
33:10
get it done and I get in a bad car
33:12
accident. That's the way the album
33:14
starts and what's unbeknownst to the
33:15
listener if you stay for the ending I'm
33:18
in the ambulance and I start to fade so
33:20
I don't know I've died and I'm lost the
33:22
lost in the in between is when you're
33:24
trapped in that place you can't move
33:25
forward in life because you're still
33:27
carrying all that stuff. So I have to
33:29
escape those demons. I have to escape
33:31
those wrong thoughts and those things in
33:33
my mind. I have to unlearn things. I
33:35
have to heal I have to grow and that's
33:37
what that's a metaphor for. At the same
33:39
time those hands reaching for you are
33:41
the elements in life right right now
33:42
that we're facing because what they try
33:44
to impact you with mentally and
33:46
physically is all to try to take you off
33:48
your square. So we really have to have a
33:50
mental diet on what we receive in every
33:53
which way and so it's a lot of that.
33:55
It's like you cannot succumb to what
33:57
people try to say to you. You know what
33:58
I mean the devil is a lie. You have to
34:00
stay with your moral compass you have to
34:02
stay in a very still place to hear God
34:04
or whatever you believe in. I don't want
34:06
to put anybody in a box that they're not
34:07
a part of agnostic atheist whatever
34:10
we'll just say the universe but the
34:11
universe it doesn't have a limit on the
34:14
budget. So what you ask for is not is
34:16
not far-fetched. What you want to create
34:18
if it's in your heart and you can see it
34:20
is manifested. So it's it's all the
34:21
trials and tribulations of life and so
34:23
you'll see it in the mini movie you'll
34:25
see it in the videos. It has
34:27
supernatural overtones undertones
34:29
because there are spiritual warfare
34:31
there's economic warfare there's
34:33
physical warfare there's a lot of things
34:34
that we're being attacked with and
34:36
bombarded with as a nation as a world
34:38
and so this is a way to tap into the
34:40
spirit you know with the album and with
34:42
the art and then what we're doing
34:44
at the shows but just don't die is a
34:46
mantra again everything is eventual if
34:48
you choose just to keep going forward.
34:50
Suffering is a part of life but you
34:53
don't have to accept it. It is about
34:54
enduring and moving forward. Everything
34:56
is temporary. So that's the energy for
34:59
it. You know what I mean? We can go
35:01
deeper. I didn't even let my man speak
35:02
on it. I'm sorry you got to say
35:03
something about the art cuz he designed
35:05
it but Oh yeah no I mean that was that
35:07
was well said. I mean honestly I I had
35:10
you know I read a book by Robert
35:11
Rodriguez you know and he always said
35:13
utilize what you have around your house.
35:14
You know utilize what you have around
35:16
your house
35:17
and I had my stepfather had this
35:19
suitcase and I tripped over it one day
35:20
and I was like oh [ __ ] I need to use
35:22
that. You know what I mean? So we went
35:24
into it
35:24
>> clumsiness? Yeah from my clumsiness came
35:26
out from pure clumsiness and I loved it
35:29
so we we went into it and the beauty
35:31
part about
35:33
working with Bishop on these covers is
35:35
that coming from a background of
35:36
traditional art and understanding
35:39
his
35:40
ideas and translating them onto what
35:43
you're seeing here you know and doing a
35:45
theme with what's interesting is the
35:47
horror theme cuz his birthday is October
35:49
31st on Halloween.
35:50
So well given that twist and I've always
35:52
found it interesting that
35:54
certain people don't like horror films.
35:56
They'll be like I'm not going to watch
35:57
that right?
35:58
But at the same time they don't have the
36:01
problem watching 187 or Colors or Menace
36:04
to Society. So it's interesting to me
36:06
because it kind of feels like
36:09
we're more safer with grounded violence.
36:11
There seems to be a violence that feels
36:12
like it's not happening here but it's
36:14
becoming something that's the norm
36:17
right? And so it shows that
36:19
it's more creepier I guess to be chased
36:21
through a cornfield by a possessed meat
36:23
butcher that never blinks his eyes
36:24
comparison to a gangbanger who will
36:27
possibly blow your head off. Right.
36:28
>> Right? So when you put those two
36:30
together
36:31
it's an interesting theory and with
36:33
Bishop's album hearing it and hearing
36:35
his explanations and how vivid he is he
36:37
is with detail it makes it that much
36:39
more fun to be like dope I can do this.
36:41
I can do from the ground up we can do
36:42
the artwork I'll do the illustrations
36:45
the t-shirts we'll do the skate decks
36:46
and every and the cool part is we're
36:48
like two kids with this [ __ ] because as
36:50
soon as we we're just like giddy about
36:52
it. You know what I mean? He's like oh
36:52
we could do this. Yes we can. Oh [ __ ]
36:54
let's do it and it's cracking you know
36:56
what I mean? So overall with everything
36:58
I think
37:00
people are starting to realize more and
37:01
more and feel that
37:03
when it comes down naturally to the root
37:05
of hip hop the state that it's in that
37:07
it's it's doing gorgeous as long as you
37:09
>> He said doing gorgeous. As long as you
37:11
see it you know
37:12
He's doing it son. But what we're saying
37:13
is you got some dope [ __ ] and and the
37:15
thing about the violence thing yeah
37:18
because that's an everyday occurrence of
37:20
of having that violence happen. So I
37:22
want to do some dream vivid fantasy
37:25
stuff but I really want to be conscious
37:26
with what people consume. So everything
37:28
is done in a tasteful way. Just like you
37:30
said I can't watch horror movies no more
37:32
but I still love the art form so I got
37:33
to create it in a way where it's all
37:36
inclusive but it's still exciting but
37:38
also it does great justice for the mind
37:40
body and soul. So we're going to shut up
37:42
but yeah yeah. Say your name man.
37:44
My name is Gifted Glitch
37:46
representing Revindicated and I'm very
37:49
thankful to be here you know I mean this
37:51
is
37:51
this is crazy you know I'm I'm I'm so
37:54
thankful for this like straight up if
37:56
tomorrow my rhymes flop my beats don't
37:58
do [ __ ] nothing works anymore I don't
38:00
care because I stayed true to myself
38:03
I stayed I never took no for an answer I
38:06
always kept it original I've always
38:08
loved what I do and it's surrounding me
38:10
with beautiful people and one recognizes
38:12
as a beautiful mind as Bishop Lamont and
38:14
damn it I'm here on the Sway in the
38:18
So cheers to hip hop this is awesome. I
38:20
don't take it for granted. You know what
38:22
I mean? So I'm very proud to be here and
38:24
thank you guys. Wow man we're we're
38:26
we're we're proud to have you man and
38:28
You know thank you. Yeah
38:30
you guys have done
38:31
you've done a
38:32
you've done an excellent job with this
38:34
project and it's available on CD it's
38:38
available on cassette it's available on
38:41
vinyl and you could go to the
38:43
BishopLamontProject.com
38:46
and make sure you purchase this project
38:48
it all goes directly to them.
38:49
>> And all the merch. And your donations go
38:51
to feed a dope MC. There it is. Thank
38:53
you very much. Yeah man hey man it's
38:56
good to have you guys here man. Thank
38:58
you for blessing the airwaves here at
39:00
Shade 45.
39:02
This is the home of hip hop. Shout out
39:04
to Paul
39:05
who who's always just you know just
39:09
just always supportive in how we do our
39:11
creative here at Shade 45 and you know
39:14
Bishop Lamont man
39:16
good to see you brother. Man good to be
39:18
seen. I got to shout out Rev. I got to
39:20
shout out Revmatic. I see you over
39:23
there.
39:23
>> What what's that?
39:24
Rev Revmatic. What's that? What what's
39:26
what? You know where you at right now?
39:29
You're in the VALLEY OF THE HYENAS SON.
39:31
Come on man.
39:33
What we going to do with this beat right
39:34
here man? We we're going to do
39:36
everything.
39:37
Shout out shout outs out to Sky. What up
39:39
to Sky. Here we go. Shout out to Crooked
39:41
I. Rectify the whole situation and here
39:44
we go. Electrify everything that you see
39:46
when we start to flow. Redmatic, hit it.
39:48
Then the static begins. Kinetic energy,
39:50
we flow. How many minds must we bend?
39:52
Transcend through the time and then step
39:54
on the wind. The air bender. Depend on
39:56
what you talking. I remember. We got the
39:58
things that you can't do from here to
39:59
December. Across all that. Burn them
40:01
down to small little embers. Now, we go
40:03
even deeper with the future with the
40:05
things we flow. The loochie with the
40:06
[ __ ] we spit, okay. We can go on even
40:08
harder than that. Let me show you the
40:10
format. Don't give a [ __ ] about it.
40:12
Flatten them all like a doormat. And we
40:14
can go beyond that. All blocks down.
40:16
Heather B. My kind of [ __ ] You pull
40:18
the trigger. But it's all from the
40:19
verbal. You don't want this stuff. Then
40:21
we enjoy like it's herbal. Huff and
40:23
puff. Knock the houses down. Here's the
40:25
big bad wolf. You getting clowned.
40:26
Circus Vargas. Regardless, don't give a
40:28
[ __ ] You not the hardest. Y'all just
40:29
easy targets. Bullseye is on your back.
40:32
This off the top of the head. Now, go
40:33
and try react. They be spitting written,
40:35
please. That's forbidden. We on the
40:37
thing that we be doing, okay. That's
40:39
enough.
40:40
BISHOP LAMONTE, I LOVE YOU CAN SWITCH
40:42
THE BEAT IF YOU WANT, SON. Dial on. Dial
40:44
on.
40:45
Put them down. Iron. Iron.
40:48
1 2 3. Here we go. Come on. S H O to the
40:51
P. Okay, even more thermal. Hit them
40:53
with it. Burn right through your
40:55
thermal. I guess they trying to do like
40:56
we do with this thermal now. Show you
40:58
what it all's about when we start to
41:00
freestyle. Meanwhile, getting into
41:01
condition. This is that rendition when
41:03
we flow. And let me show you how we move
41:05
into position with the most spectacular.
41:07
Y'all just some actors and we hitting
41:09
you. The sun hits you. Move like you
41:10
Dracula. Evaporate. Man, that rap is
41:13
great. Show you what it is. Knock them
41:15
all down. Disintegrate. Backflip. You
41:17
ain't saying [ __ ] Abandon ship. I'm on
41:19
that A-rab. Hit you with the [ __ ] like
41:20
Captain Ahab. Okay, wait. We can get
41:23
even dirtier. Move to the ground with
41:25
jujitsu. Flip you. Hold up the shitsu.
41:27
You just a little dog. I'm Doberman. And
41:29
I'm over them. You [ __ ] around and
41:30
flowing. Whoa. We with them shows and
41:32
men. I'mma stop there. All right there.
41:35
I'm always be asking you to freestyle
41:36
with me. Of course, you like, "Nah, son.
41:38
I ain't doing nothing."
41:39
>> Yeah, I'm already at work. [ __ ] [ __ ]
41:41
WALK AROUND LIKE THEY RUGGED.
41:43
[ __ ] [ __ ] WALK AROUND LIKE THEY
41:44
RUGGED.
41:46
THERE'S ONLY 5 YEARS LEFT.
41:48
SO, I'M JUST SAYING, BUT YEAH. We got to
41:50
get something in. Yeah. Yeah. Let's get
41:52
it. Family rap. Family rap. What beat
41:54
you want? I mean
41:56
My kind of [ __ ]
41:57
But we can keep going.
41:59
Yeah. Yeah. Check. Check. 1 2 3. You you
42:01
trying to ask him to play my kind of
42:03
[ __ ] beats so me and him can freestyle
42:04
together?
42:05
>> Yeah. No, I'm saying No, he him. WE
42:08
TRYING TO START. I'MMA RIDE. I'MMA RIDE.
42:10
All right. All right. All right. All
42:10
right. All right. You got that, Red? You
42:12
got that?
42:14
All right. Y'all trying to test Red's
42:16
skills.
42:18
Moving all around.
42:19
>> at work. I know you. More remarkable
42:21
sound. I already know him. We we hold
42:23
the West down.
42:24
>> Hold the West down. More of this. Don't
42:26
need the crown. No. No. Serve imperial.
42:28
Scratch off the cereal. More material.
42:31
Milky like the cereal. Okay. Serial
42:33
killer the iller Godzilla to hit you on
42:35
the ground and move around the earth and
42:36
let you hear the more remarkable sound.
42:39
This is only what I do as a practice. We
42:41
ain't got time for none of these cats
42:42
that's moving backwards. We're for the
42:44
culture. It's so damn ultra. Like MK
42:47
Ultra. Uh, put the pedal to the metal.
42:49
[ __ ] these pedals. You J. Edgar Hoover
42:51
is stilettos. Now, watch the way
42:53
COINTELPRO. That's just how it go. Off
42:56
the top, you know it's switch it up.
42:57
Redmatic, we going even harder. Ain't
42:59
nothing that can stop this. Throughout
43:01
the metropolis, this is how we flowing.
43:03
We remain on top of this.
43:05
I like that pause. Now, he's jaws in the
43:07
water. Don't [ __ ] around and flow. Hide
43:09
your daughter. Hide your mama. We
43:11
coming. They raping everybody out here.
43:13
Kids and everybody. Old the nation's
43:15
[ __ ] up. It's shotty. Hit them. Knock
43:16
them back. Ain't got no time for how
43:18
they try to interact with all that whack
43:20
[ __ ] They say it's fresh. Matter fact,
43:21
none of that even works. It's to the
43:23
death. This is what we doing.
43:25
Disciplining with the breath. What's
43:26
left? Rocking like a meth in the cabin.
43:28
Show them what it's all about. Sikao.
43:30
Ow. And do the style like you never
43:32
seen. The mental goes even iller. It's
43:34
something for you. This is just the
43:36
skill what I'm built with. Just real
43:38
[ __ ] Hold up. Yeah. There you go. Yeah.
43:39
Yo. Yo. Yo. Yo. Yo. I was going to have
43:41
you going to these politicians. I'm just
43:42
saying we going to keep going. YO, WE
43:43
GOING FOR THE POLITICIANS. TALK TO THESE
43:45
POLITICIANS. What you see in the world
43:46
today, man?
43:47
>> nerds. You don't deserve the money that
43:49
you get. You talking about you going to
43:51
give a [ __ ] How can somebody that never
43:53
live where I'm at going to tell me about
43:54
what I need? And they ain't trying to go
43:56
through the combat. If you want war, put
43:58
your kids in there first. We put that
44:00
[ __ ] on pay-per-view. Y'all can go for
44:01
the verse. All this war and all this
44:03
stupid [ __ ] talking. Let them little old
44:05
Mr. Burns looking [ __ ] fight for
44:06
themselves. Yeah. Let's get our wealth
44:08
back. Relax on that bull [ __ ] Now, we
44:11
on it. Got to move with a full clip.
44:13
Like it's gangsta. A group home. This is
44:15
just what I'm writing. Some dope
44:17
insightful poems. And I'mma stop there.
44:19
>> All right there. Hold up, man. HOLD UP.
44:20
SON. SON.
44:23
HEY, YO. BISHOP LAMONTE, I DON'T THINK
44:24
THEY KNOW some of the dopest MCs in LA
44:27
history to come off the top of the head.
44:29
Can you name some of them for them, man?
44:31
Oh, man.
44:33
Off the top. Corrupt. Corrupt. My
44:35
favorite. Corrupt. Corrupt. Come on.
44:37
Famous. I remember was on Yaki Street.
44:40
Watching them and watch how we speak.
44:41
When we do what we do. Tell down the
44:43
street with more lava. Molten lava. How
44:45
can we do what we do? You can't move
44:47
like we move. We destroy your crew. I
44:48
love what I heard when these cats was
44:50
busting. I remember when Tech N9ne came
44:52
on with verse. This discussion. So many
44:54
dope cats. Michael Myers. Ras Kass. All
44:57
the cats that I admire. Crooked I. They
44:59
say it enough. The dope vibes are heard.
45:01
And now we here giving them every word.
45:03
Swerve. This the nicest [ __ ] you going
45:05
to hear. It go even farther. Persevere
45:07
onto a new frontier. Love it. Can't
45:09
believe it. Leave it alone. Rest in
45:12
peace to Nate Dogg. Love that song. You
45:14
know what I mean? There you go. Yo. Yo.
45:15
He off the top. Dial on. DIAL ON. OFF
45:17
THE TOP. LIKE YOU. HE OFF THE TOP. I see
45:19
the bad head. You know what I mean?
45:21
Respect. Mike, give him a topic. Throw
45:23
him off. THROW ME OFF, SON. GIVE HIM A
45:25
TOPIC, MIKE.
45:26
>> MY CELSIUS IS GOING TO KEEP ME ON. GO
45:27
AHEAD. TRY IT. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE,
45:29
BABY.
45:30
Artificial intelligence. Skynet.
45:32
Give a [ __ ] You still ain't fly yet.
45:34
It's me. I remember from Terminator 1
45:36
and Terminator 2. Watch John Connor. We
45:38
got to stop it, but cool. I need to use
45:40
this for my commercial when I'm on my
45:41
album. What the outcome is going to be,
45:43
I really doubt them will be able to stop
45:45
us cuz God's force is unstoppable. And
45:47
this is what we doing. And I'm
45:49
unconquerable. There you go.
45:51
Next subject. You got You got something
45:53
for him, ASB? You got a topic for him?
45:56
LA.
45:57
LA. LA. [ __ ] can't drive out here.
46:00
Uh-huh. It take forever like a year to
46:02
get down the street cuz traffic get so
46:04
severe. And people be walking around
46:06
like everybody's a star. Shut the [ __ ]
46:08
up. Them some whack ass bars. You ain't
46:10
paid your dues. Everybody's a model.
46:13
Piss you off. Want to hit a [ __ ]
46:14
with a bottle. But I'mma remain not
46:16
violent. I'mma stay silent. That's it.
46:19
That's all I got. Bishop Lamonte, LADIES
46:21
AND GENTLEMEN.
46:25
THAT BOY GOOD.
46:27
YEAH, MAN. I LOVE IT, MAN.
46:29
>> Thank you, Celsius. There you go, man.
46:31
And thanks. Salute to your whole crew
46:33
that's here, too, man. Shout them out
46:35
real quick, man.
46:36
>> Uh, I got to say thank you to Gifted
46:38
Glitch because we made this dream come
46:39
true. Man, you did that, kid. My brother
46:42
Magic. Um, everybody on this album. Um,
46:45
I'm just grateful everybody listening.
46:47
Thank you. Absolutely, brother. The best
46:48
is yet to come. Um, that's it. I'm just
46:51
grateful, man. God is good. It's good to
46:52
be here. Next time we going to get you
46:54
cuz it's my dream. We got to do a song.
46:56
Like just to And you do that live.
46:57
>> AND [ __ ] [ __ ] WALK AROUND LIKE THEY
46:59
RUGGED.
47:01
WELL, YOU LET HER FINISH that sentence.
47:02
What were you going to say after? No, we
47:03
can do it in the studio. We'll go in the
47:04
studio together. Yeah, I ain't Listen, I
47:07
ain't doing your your Chrissy D. I ain't
47:09
never heard It's not [ __ ] I miss
47:11
you doing your thing. You have no idea
47:14
how dope you are and impactful. Even
47:17
then what it meant. And the way you was
47:18
rocking on the subway. The do. The whole
47:21
get down. Thank you.
47:22
>> What was it? 54th precinct?
47:25
Yeah, 54th precinct. You know WHAT I'M
47:26
SAYING? WILDING.
47:28
SO, BUT BUT THAT'S THE FUN. NO, WE'LL
47:30
GET IN THE studio for sure. No, we'll
47:32
get in the studio. Not freestyling here
47:34
with I'm already You know how
47:38
I need some of that gummy. I need I need
47:39
SOME OF THAT. LET ME GET SOME OF THAT.
47:42
UM, LISTEN, MAN. I HEY, I love you. I
47:45
love you. You my brother. And wherever
47:48
I'm at, you have a home because I know
47:50
wherever you are, I have a home. Yes,
47:52
sir. All right. Let's Let's do this
47:53
thing together. We've been doing this
47:55
for years. Uh, King Tech and I got the
47:57
ultimate respect Shout out to King Tech.
48:00
Thank you for showing up to our 4 the
48:02
Culture 1. That was a
48:05
what they call it? A proof of concept
48:06
for us. You know, when we did that. And
48:09
we did all of that. That's all us.
48:11
That's all out of pocket. Same with 4
48:13
the Culture 2. And we got a 4 the
48:15
Culture 3 coming August 22nd. August
48:18
22nd. Okay.
48:19
>> right? In LA? In LA. Dope. Okay.
48:22
>> In LA. I'm there. Okay.
48:25
Um, and I want to say thank you, man.
48:26
I'm I'm trying to say it as, you know,
48:28
as best as I can, man. I appreciate you.
48:30
I respect your artistry. I respect who
48:33
you are as a human being, as a man, as a
48:35
father,
48:37
as a a colleague. All of those things,
48:40
brother. Keep going, man. And And man,
48:42
you know, the way your physique is
48:44
remind me of myself. When? What era?
48:46
What era was that? Man, you know, what
48:49
era? What you talking about, man? Now.
48:50
What you talking about? I mean, uh, back
48:52
in the day.
48:52
>> Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
48:55
Give it up for Bishop Lamonte. That's
48:57
for Redmatic.
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