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DJ Muggs & Rome Streetz Talk New Project “Death & the Magician” | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Apr 21, 2021
Longtime Cypress Hill producer, DJ Muggs is connecting with several new artists to create some collaborative projects. His latest work, he links up with NYC's Rome Streetz to produce Death & The Magician.
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DJ Muggs & Rome Streetz Talk New Project “Death & the Magician” | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
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I can't say it enough. Every time we
0:03
talk to him or talk about him, man, you
0:05
got to keep him on a higher frequency,
0:07
HV. Some of these juggernauts done put
0:10
down work, they laid a foundation that a
0:12
lot of folks don't know, Tracy G, but we
0:14
let them know. We inform them. You just
0:17
heard that clip. That was from the DJ
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Muggs Pass as Prologue documentary.
0:23
They said the backbone of the Cypress
0:25
Hill sound, one of the best and largest
0:27
and most successful groups to come out
0:28
of hip-hop. Round of applause for
0:30
Cypress Hill.
0:32
House of Pain.
0:34
Funk Doobiest. What you know about Funk
0:36
Doobiest?
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Planet Asia.
0:40
Soul Assassins.
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The list goes on and on, man. This man's
0:44
affiliations run deep. He's been doing
0:47
it for decades and he keeps doing it
0:49
better and better. He gets finer with
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time. They say that same thing about
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wine.
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He's with us today. This my brother,
0:55
man. This is he's we we cut from the
0:57
same cloth. World famous Wake Up Show,
0:59
Sway Calloway, Tech DJ Revolution, DJ
1:02
Muggs, all of it. We all come from the
1:03
same place, ladies and gentlemen.
1:06
Welcome him to the show. The one AND
1:08
ONLY DJ MUGGS. IT'S HIM. MUGGS. MUGGS.
1:12
WHAT UP? WHAT UP?
1:14
WHAT UP, MUGGS? TALK A LITTLE LOUDER,
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MAN. You got that you still you still
1:17
got that burner phone?
1:19
Uh you know I do. Got to keep that in
1:22
the pocket, baby. THE OLD MUGGS.
1:25
YOU KNOW WHAT?
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HEY, MAN, I MISS YOU, MAN. HEY, the dude
1:30
didn't He didn't come alone, man. I This
1:32
this man, I've seen this dude spit in
1:34
various freestyle forms. I went and
1:36
listened to his nose I mean his noise
1:38
candy series. I I liked his style
1:41
because I liked his voice and then I was
1:43
listening to this project that they got
1:44
out now called Death and the Magician.
1:47
And I was like, I can't wait to get him
1:49
in the studio to spit some flames.
1:51
Welcome him to the show. The one and
1:52
only Rome Streets. Rome Streets.
1:55
Yo.
1:55
What's up?
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What's good? What's good? What up,
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Streets? What's the word?
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What's the word? What's up, bro?
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Rome got that I just woke up voice.
2:04
Rome, what time did you get up this
2:05
morning, bro? I'm here. Trust me, I'm
2:07
chilling. I'm good. You chilling?
2:11
You've been up? All right, man. We got
2:13
Hey Rome, you talking with Heather B,
2:16
Tracy G.
2:17
What's up? How you doing?
2:19
We good, family. Happy to have you on
2:21
the show.
2:22
Yeah, thank you for having me. Thank you
2:23
for having me. I'm a big fan. Big fan of
2:26
everything y'all do.
2:28
Since I was a kid, trust me.
2:30
That's what's up, man. Rich Nice on,
2:32
too. Rich Nice is on, too.
2:34
Hey, um
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I I always
2:37
you know this mugs, what I do is if if
2:39
if someone sound, you know, with me they
2:41
might sound a little hardcore and and
2:43
edgy and and cool, so I throw Heather B
2:45
and Tracy in the mix and everybody perk
2:47
up when I mention their name. I like
2:52
You saw that work.
2:53
tricks. It's a some tricks right there,
2:55
man. Hey, um I'mma start with you, Mugs.
2:57
Talk talk to me about the Cypress Hill
2:59
Smoke Session that's taking place, man.
3:01
What this is tomorrow?
3:03
Yeah, at the Roxy in LA. You know, every
3:05
year we we celebrate 420. We usually do
3:09
420 month, usually, you know, and and
3:12
and and and hit a little tour every
3:14
every April. But, um this year we we had
3:17
to slow down a little bit, so I'm glad
3:18
everything opened back up, so
3:20
you know, we just going to celebrate the
3:22
good herb, baby. We just we got the
3:24
torch passed passed on to us from, you
3:27
know, the likes of Bob Marley and people
3:29
like that, and we just doing our part to
3:31
legalize this thing. You know, we've
3:32
been pushing pushing hard for 30 years
3:34
on this, man. Pushing hard and to see it
3:37
all unfolding and opening up in front of
3:40
our eyes, man, I never thought I'd see
3:42
it. I I hoped it would happen,
3:44
you know, but to see it happening, man,
3:46
it's a beautiful it's a beautiful day.
3:47
So, we just celebrating out here, you
3:49
know, it's going to be people that are
3:51
in attendance is going to be able to see
3:52
it live and everybody else is going to
3:53
be able to get on the internet internet
3:55
and experience it that way. It it it
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ain't it hasn't just been see people be
4:00
mistaken like they put a stigma on it.
4:01
It's not that y'all was pushing hey man
4:04
we just want to be able to smoke
4:05
legally. Y'all talked about the
4:07
medicinal properties of cannabis.
4:09
You talked about you know the political
4:12
undertones of cannabis people who locked
4:14
up still because of because they were
4:17
dealing in cannabis or caught with
4:18
cannabis.
4:20
And and and really expanding their
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records. You guys talked about the full
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gamut of it correct?
4:25
Yeah yeah I'm a big
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I'm big for the last prisoner project
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you know I'm behind that it's it's
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getting everybody that's in jail for
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for
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non-violent cannabis
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you know non-violent cannabis things
4:38
just getting them out of jail. There's
4:39
no need for them to be in jail. So we've
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been pushing we've been pushing that
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line hard.
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You know for a lot of years and
4:46
and you know I believe people have the
4:48
right to do what they want with their
4:49
own body too you know. People can't come
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along and say you can do this and you
4:52
can't do this. Oh but you can do this
4:54
now but you can't do this now you know
4:56
so you know you got your body you should
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be able to do what you want with it how
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you want with it.
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I agree with that Ron. We're going to
5:03
get to you in a sec man. You got to
5:05
understand man that's my brother for
5:06
decades man. I ain't seen him in a
5:08
minute you know you know so we chopping
5:10
it up.
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Yeah man
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last time um
5:15
Cypress Hill came up on the show. You
5:16
remember this HP? We was in the in the
5:19
in the performance room where we used to
5:20
do the concert series.
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And
5:23
and B Real brought gave me a jar with a
5:26
a skull on it. And in it was some some
5:30
greenery you know mugs.
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And I
5:33
you know what's so amazing about it? I
5:34
never ever opened the jar and everybody
5:38
on that floor still got contact high
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man. I don't know what
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I DIDN'T EVEN OPEN THE JAR BRO.
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MAN I'M GOING to tell you that stuff B
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Real you know B-Real and them started
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that Kush. That whole Kush lineages that
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came from B-Real and Kenji years ago,
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man. So, the stuff they grow and the
5:57
stuff you know the stuff that that
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people are
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making making a lot of their um
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making a lot of this stuff from comes
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from their lineages. So,
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So so
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that they got that thing, boy.
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B-Real is the the original like that
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that that's the original first
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generation Kush.
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He
6:16
B-Real and his boy Kenji is the original
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OG Kush. They created the strand.
6:22
Everything else is a fake knockoff.
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Wow.
6:27
Wow. That's bananas.
6:31
You just changed everyone's life.
6:35
Cuz we gangstas in the '80s, man. We
6:37
just you know we move a little different
6:39
over here, you know. Shh. We just you
6:40
know Yeah yeah, I already know Mugs. I
6:42
already know. HB, you want to say
6:44
something to Mugs? Mugs. Man, Mugs just
6:46
shut it down. That was a mic drop. You
6:48
know everybody out here talking that
6:50
[ __ ] Mugs was like, "Let's be clear."
6:53
Like man, that that's crazy. Now, I'm
6:55
just happy to have you here. We were
6:57
talking the other day to um Talib and
7:00
and Diamond D and and I was and I was
7:02
thought about you guys as well because I
7:04
thought about people and groups and and
7:06
legends that's been out on this road
7:08
eating prior to like you know the
7:10
pandemic and everybody had to slow down.
7:13
How you been able to take care of What
7:15
have you been doing mentally taking care
7:17
of yourself mentally to try to not go
7:19
crazy from from from doing things the
7:21
quote-unquote normal way being out and
7:23
about even though you don't you know not
7:25
out much, but have you been able to take
7:27
care of yourself mentally?
7:29
Man, I get up every day. I eat me some
7:32
some good E3 live. Get me some good
7:34
greens, some good green juice in my body
7:36
and I hit the gym and then um
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and then it's to the lab. I get to
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create art every day now without no damn
7:42
interruptions. I don't got to go to no
7:44
birthday parties, no release parties. I
7:47
got to focus. Yo, all my creative
7:50
friends have it's kind of like this
7:52
quantum leap. It's like I got 5 years
7:54
worth of things done this year. And a
7:56
lot of my creative homies the same, you
7:58
know? You either got that mentality
8:00
where you going to go get it or you
8:01
going to just be in a little ball in the
8:03
corner complaining, you know? So,
8:05
um I kind of you know, I feel bad for
8:08
everybody who this didn't turn out so
8:10
good for, but on my end, you know,
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it's been a good thing on my end.
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Bless up, brother. That's good. That is
8:17
great to hear. Bless up to you, for
8:19
real. That's lovely. Happy for you.
8:21
You know, I'm curious, Mugs, um and
8:24
Rome, you can speak on this, too, since
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Death and the Magician, this project,
8:28
has such a heavy influence from tarot
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cards, you know? And I've been
8:33
fascinated with the tarot for quite some
8:36
time.
8:37
Um I'm more on the receiving end. I
8:38
don't practice, but it's very rare that
8:41
I catch fellas who have interest in that
8:45
type of world, you know? It usually gets
8:46
labeled as woo-woo and just tossed it
8:48
aside and something that just women care
8:51
about. Can y'all speak about the
8:53
influence of tarot on your life and then
8:55
obviously how it impacts this project?
8:59
Um so, if I could say that
9:02
I started off just liking tarot cards
9:04
just um off the images.
9:06
You know what I'm saying? I just kept
9:08
seeing like a lot of the images on
9:10
just around and following like some of
9:12
the dope artists on Instagram who just
9:14
make their own. And then I started
9:16
really like looking into the meanings of
9:18
it. And then like
9:21
I don't know, like some of the meanings
9:22
just started to like relate back to my
9:24
everyday life with just doing [ __ ] So,
9:27
then when it come to like creating
9:29
music, I'm just I just wanted to do
9:31
something different. You get what I'm
9:32
saying? Like something that I don't
9:35
think no one ever touched on before, you
9:37
know what I'm saying? Like I just wanted
9:38
to come from a different angle with it.
9:40
So, that was kind of like
9:42
the whole idea behind it.
9:44
But, it really just started off enjoying
9:46
like the imagery on the cards. Yep.
9:49
That's how you get real reeled in.
9:51
You said that's how you get reeled in,
9:54
Treach. And and like my girl [ __ ] with
9:55
that [ __ ] a lot, like she she's into
9:57
that. So, it was like
9:59
you know, I just caught an interest off
10:01
of just second hand.
10:03
You know what I'm saying? So, it's cool.
10:05
Shout out to your girl. That's what's
10:06
up.
10:07
I see You see how she hooked you though,
10:09
right, Rome? You know it's something to
10:10
that, right?
10:16
You didn't just like her on your own.
10:18
You realize that, right, Rome Streets?
10:20
Anyways.
10:23
You can't cast a spell with tarot cards.
10:25
Oh, okay.
10:27
Okay.
10:29
Do that voodoo on me. I didn't know what
10:30
the [ __ ] was going on. Yeah, but you got
10:33
It didn't affect your bars though. You
10:34
got a lot of bars on this project,
10:36
brother. And you know, uh Yeah, yeah.
10:38
Come on, man. I Look, I'm going to I'm
10:40
going to play one of the songs and then
10:41
we going to come back and open up the
10:43
phone lines, man. We got the one and
10:45
only the legendary DJ Muggs and we got
10:47
Rome Streets on on the line with us
10:49
right now. Daft the Magician.
10:51
I'm going to play the song
10:53
the [ __ ] you know about me.
10:57
Mhm.
10:58
You see what I'm playing first, fellas.
11:00
You see what I did with it.
11:02
Uh Rome, tell me about this song.
11:05
Um [ __ ] You Know About Me? I could say
11:08
that was like one of the last joints we
11:09
did and it was like the beat was just so
11:12
jazzy. Just played the [ __ ] and I'm
11:14
like, yeah, I got something for this.
11:16
It's just, you know what I mean? It It
11:17
kind of cuz most of the album is really
11:19
dark. It's kind of took it in a whole
11:21
different direction. I'm like, yeah,
11:22
this is something I needed to be on it.
11:24
Trying to just, you know what I'm
11:25
saying? To give it a little variety, but
11:28
you know, I was just talking my [ __ ]
11:29
you know what I'm saying? Just telling
11:30
y'all what I think about certain
11:32
situations and just touching on things
11:34
that I I probably haven't even talked
11:36
about on records before. So, that's kind
11:38
of where I went with this one.
11:40
And here it is. 888-742-3345.
11:44
about me.
11:47
Come on.
11:49
Tha Funky Magician, that's the name of
11:51
the album, that's the name of the
11:52
project. DJ Muggs, Cypress Hill are
11:55
here.
11:56
Woo,
11:57
you know, man. Just some quick bars,
11:59
some quick fire for that ass, man. And
12:01
check this out, man. I actually just I
12:03
just got a call. We're giving you
12:05
Everybody tuned in right now. We're
12:07
going to give you a chance to win a
12:09
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12:11
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12:13
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12:16
That's tomorrow. We got five spots to
12:18
give away.
12:20
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12:22
win. I got to say that part. You got to
12:23
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12:26
least 18 years of age. So, we're going
12:28
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12:30
Right now. 888-745-2245. Call that
12:33
number, man. Um I'm Rich,
12:37
go ahead and jump in. But before you do,
12:39
you know, one of the things I want to
12:41
ask you, Rome, because I I kind of heard
12:43
a reoccurring theme
12:45
in a couple of songs in this project.
12:47
And one of the things you mentioned is
12:48
hard when you
12:50
learn a a real lesson from a fake
12:52
friend. It's something you said. And
12:55
then there's other songs that you talk
12:57
about
12:58
you know,
13:00
friends, you know, not being able to
13:01
tell who your friends from your enemies
13:03
when you while you're wearing a mask and
13:04
all and you know, I just keep hearing
13:06
this reoccurring thread in the album.
13:08
And it led me to think that somebody did
13:10
something to you.
13:12
Like did did you have a um
13:15
Go ahead. No, go ahead. Continue.
13:16
No, did you have a friend that betrayed
13:18
you or like, you know, that
13:22
Um pretty much it's just like growing up
13:24
in New York, you see it a lot. You know
13:26
what I'm saying? Like I've been through
13:27
situations with friends where, you know,
13:29
it'd be one thing and it turn out to be
13:31
another. And then I've experienced
13:33
watching other friends go through
13:35
things. You get what I'm saying? And
13:37
just, you know, growing up in New York,
13:38
you see it all time. You hear the
13:40
stories and, you know, like friends get
13:41
into argument, one person kill the other
13:43
or one person stab the other. Like it's
13:46
[ __ ] that I've seen with my own eyes and
13:48
it it occurs a lot. You get what I'm
13:50
saying? Day by day. So, I feel like
13:52
that's something that I wanted to touch
13:54
on because if not me, I know a lot of
13:56
people around me go through that,
13:58
experience that. You know what I'm
13:59
saying? Mhm.
14:01
Um Rome Streets, man, how did you get
14:03
your name? From roaming the streets?
14:05
Um
14:06
One of my friends one of my friends
14:08
actually actually named me Rome Streets.
14:10
And it literally comes from roaming the
14:12
streets cuz like
14:13
my mom calls me Rome. Like that's my
14:15
name for real. You know what I'm saying?
14:17
So, like
14:18
back in the day, like, you know, I I I
14:20
was the person who just was always
14:23
outside going here, being here. Like no
14:25
matter Like I have friends all over the
14:27
city. So, people like, "Yo, where you
14:29
going?" I'm going here, I'm going here.
14:30
He like, "This [ __ ] just be roaming
14:31
streets." I'm like, "Yo, your name
14:33
should be Rome Streets." And I'm like at
14:35
first I didn't really get it. I thought
14:37
he said streak like streak and running
14:39
down street naked. I'm like, "Huh?"
14:41
It didn't really hit me. Then I went
14:43
home. I'm like,
14:44
"Rome Streets."
14:46
That [ __ ] is hard. And then like
14:48
everywhere I go,
14:50
I'm like everywhere I WENT I KEPT like
14:52
seeing that [ __ ] Like one time we was
14:54
in a car, we just ended up on Rome
14:56
Street. I'm like, "Oh [ __ ] Rome
14:57
Street." And then it was like a van that
14:59
said roam the streets of New York. I'm
15:01
like, "Yeah, this [ __ ] follow me
15:02
everywhere. Like this my name for real."
15:04
So, that's how I just became that, Rome
15:06
Streets.
15:07
Damn. I didn't I didn't get my name
15:10
I was I was throwing a joke out there.
15:12
That [ __ ] turned out to be facts. Rich
15:13
Nikes.
15:15
Real talk. Real talk.
15:17
Real [ __ ] Rich Nikes, you there?
15:19
Yeah, I'm here. I'm here. So, peace,
15:21
Rome. I I I heard I heard on on the
15:23
Wheel of Fortune
15:25
you say uh East Fordham Road. Are you
15:28
from the Bronx? Is that your Is that the
15:29
hood?
15:30
Am I from the Bronx? No, no. My cousin
15:32
is from the Bronx. A couple of my
15:34
friends is from the Bronx. Like, you
15:35
know, I'm familiar with that area. But,
15:38
um that particular song
15:40
it it wasn't like completely based on
15:43
truth. Like, I just used Fordham because
15:44
it rhymed. You know what I'm saying?
15:46
But, like um
15:48
that particular song if I talk about it
15:51
it was like the um
15:52
I basically was paying homage to GZA cuz
15:55
he did a song with Muggz on his album
15:57
called, I think, um
15:59
I think it's called Bishop's Gambit. And
16:02
where he like told a story where he used
16:04
like the names of football teams.
16:07
So, with that particular song I told the
16:09
story, but I used the names of tarot
16:11
cards.
16:13
Mhm. So, that that was that that was
16:14
that whole joint right there.
16:16
That was the gist behind that song.
16:18
Man, I I A Muggz, let me ask you this
16:21
cuz you you've worked with man man, we
16:23
can't even name all the MCs you worked
16:25
with.
16:26
But, you know, I sent you a text, you
16:29
know, about Rome. And then your your
16:31
your your your one-word response, I can
16:34
read the excitement in it. You know, and
16:36
I know, you know, you had a point in
16:37
your career where you ain't got to work
16:39
with anyone. Like, I'm sure you curate
16:41
to the T who you work with.
16:44
You work with, you know, everyone from
16:45
B-Real on down. What What was it about
16:48
Rome Streets that appealed to you?
16:51
Man, you know, I'm just I keep my ear to
16:53
the streets and and what's going on in
16:55
in this culture that we have here, man.
16:56
You know, I'm still inspired. I still
16:58
got mad energy and I I you know, I want
17:00
to be able to lend some of this, you
17:02
know, and and keep what we doing alive
17:03
and keep pushing what we doing. And I
17:05
was watching Rome and how he moves, you
17:07
know, I see a lot of people
17:09
they lose their minds with this [ __ ]
17:11
the social media stuff. But, Rome moves
17:13
correctly. He's doing everything right.
17:15
And um he's not oversaturating in
17:17
everything and you know, then I I I got
17:20
to know him and I started speaking with
17:21
him and he knows what he wants, but he
17:24
don't know it all.
17:25
You know, and that's a big thing cuz a
17:26
lot of these cats they think they know
17:28
it all, but they don't know what they
17:29
want. But that ego is right there, you
17:31
know what I mean? So, just getting to
17:32
know him and the small nuances, I was
17:34
like, "Okay,
17:36
let's get in." And then I always do a
17:37
tester song. Let's see how the song
17:39
goes. See if I even like being in the
17:41
lab with this person cuz I got to be in
17:43
the damn in this room with this person
17:45
for months now away from my family and
17:47
stuff. And I was like, "Oh, he's a cool
17:49
brother, you know, he he
17:51
he's he's got a good energy. He's a good
17:53
human, you know?" And then I was
17:54
spending music was banging. Then it was
17:56
just like, "Okay, let let the games
17:58
begin."
18:00
Mhm.
18:00
That's real, man. Yeah, man, it's a lot
18:02
of bars, Rome. I I want to say thank
18:04
you, Rome Streets, man, cuz I was Man,
18:07
listening to this project, You Two Mugs,
18:09
Death and the Magician is out now. We
18:10
going to give away tickets, too, if
18:11
y'all want to
18:12
be a part of the Cypress Hill Smoke Sass
18:15
virtual concert tomorrow.
18:17
But it was like reading a good book, you
18:20
know what I mean? I I couldn't put it
18:21
down. I'm just listening to these
18:23
lyrics, you know? And I'm like, "Wow,
18:24
man." Prayers of Packages, um,
18:27
Ace of Swords, All the Manuscript, High
18:29
Explosive is another one I was going to
18:30
play, man. I I like your lyrical output.
18:33
You know, it's it's it's very well
18:35
centered. Who Who Who are some of your
18:36
influences?
18:39
Um,
18:40
coming up, I would say
18:43
like Nas. Okay. Um, like before I
18:46
started rapping was like Nas, a lot of
18:47
Wu-Tang, a lot of like Mobb Deep, you
18:50
know what I'm saying? Like all that
18:52
Queen's [ __ ] Once I started rapping,
18:55
Mhm. who influenced me, I would say like
18:58
guys like Doom,
19:00
um,
19:02
I like Jay Electronica, like a lot of
19:03
those type of super lyrical guys, you
19:06
know what I'm saying? They they they
19:08
inspired me. But then like I I to
19:10
everything. Like Snoop Dogg was my
19:11
favorite rapper as a kid coming up. So
19:14
like I kind of have like a little a
19:16
little bit of everything with it. You
19:17
know what I'm saying? I like that, man.
19:19
It's not centered around like one one
19:21
artist that I was like trying to sound
19:23
like. It was just like everything. I was
19:25
just so deep into hip-hop that it's just
19:27
like I loved everything. So I found
19:29
inspiration in every little thing.
19:32
Uh Even um um London grime music is an
19:35
inspiration to me also because I lived
19:38
in London for a couple years as a kid.
19:41
Oh, word. Okay. All right. Well, that
19:44
that Yo, Rome Streets got a lot of
19:46
hidden gems about him, Buzz.
19:50
Mugs, you knew that? He lived in London
19:52
as a kid?
19:53
Nah, just as
19:54
as I got to know the brother we had
19:56
conversations. He brought that up and I
19:57
was like, "Okay, you got some depth
19:59
here. There's layers upon layers upon
20:00
layers. We haven't even gotten to
20:02
explore, you know, the depths of this
20:03
human being right here." There it is,
20:05
man. Rome Streets, y'all. Get to know
20:07
him. Rome, what's your social?
20:09
Are you you on social, right?
20:10
Rome Streets. I'm everywhere. Uh Rome
20:13
Streets. Um on Twitter is Rome _ Streets
20:16
with a Z at the end. Instagram is
20:18
regular Rome Streets. Everywhere else
20:19
it's just Rome Streets.
20:21
Okay. We got James on the line from
20:23
Cali. James, grand risings. How you
20:25
doing?
20:25
Hey, James.
20:27
Yo, yo, yo. Grand risings, yo. Grand
20:29
risings to everybody. Everybody
20:31
What up?
20:32
Yeah, thank y'all for having me once
20:33
again, man. Grand risings to Rome
20:35
Streets. Uh hey, man. Grand Grand
20:37
risings, bro.
20:38
Um
20:39
DJ Muggs, man. Man. Man. Man, you got a
20:42
ear, bro.
20:43
Um I appreciate that, my G.
20:46
Nice. What's his Rich Nice? Man. Man.
20:48
Beautiful beautiful work, man. Beautiful
20:50
work in the industry, y'all.
20:53
That was for you, Rich.
20:54
Thank you, brother. Okay. Yeah, yeah,
20:56
yeah. Peace. Peace. Peace. Um I had a
20:57
question for uh Muggs.
21:00
Mhm.
21:02
Yeah, hey. As as as you on that journey,
21:05
bro, you know what I'm saying? I'm an
21:06
inspired artist, I'm an inspired host,
21:08
I'm an inspired everything,
21:09
entrepreneur, all that from out here on
21:11
this side and um
21:13
when
21:13
as you make that breakthrough and what
21:16
you what you thought was that
21:17
breakthrough as you was you know what
21:18
I'm saying? Seeing it happen like
21:21
what was the sign that it
21:23
it is me also the
21:25
other listeners like what was some of
21:27
those signs and what was some of those
21:29
feelings that you was having as you was
21:31
in the line the limelight of that
21:33
breakthrough?
21:36
The limelight of what? Of your
21:38
breakthrough moment.
21:39
That breakthrough moment on your
21:41
know
21:42
my first my my my first
21:45
well, it was kind of like you know all
21:46
these years of working man it was like 3
21:49
years to make that first Cypress record.
21:50
A lot of work, a lot of work and then it
21:52
took a lot of time for it to pop. We was
21:54
just working and
21:55
you know, once it started to pop man, it
21:57
feels good man. It's like all your
21:59
dreams and all your aspirations are
22:00
starting to come true and then the real
22:02
work begins at that point. You know what
22:04
I mean? But
22:05
I just wanted to be like KRS-One and
22:07
Public Enemy man and EPMD. I was like if
22:10
I could sell 100,000 records and and the
22:12
people who needed to know me knew me and
22:14
I was respected, I was happy bro. You
22:16
know, we got a little bit more out of
22:18
that so I'm blessed so you know, now my
22:20
now now I'm here right now just trying
22:22
to give back and just keep feeding this
22:24
culture what it fed me.
22:26
Mhm, I like that. Hey James, great
22:28
question man. James, you're a citizen
22:29
bro. You're a citizen.
22:30
the morning. My man Jay.
22:32
hello hello. Hey was um how could a how
22:35
could I just kill a man? Was that the
22:37
that was the
22:39
was that the catalyst to the
22:40
breakthrough?
22:42
It was it was. It was like this perfect
22:43
storm man. That was the B-side. Mhm. The
22:46
label didn't want that as the A-side so
22:47
all the New York DJs started playing
22:49
that record at the same time we had Dre
22:52
and Ed Lover on MTV Raps was like you
22:54
had to run home to watch MTV Raps cuz
22:56
she was on it like 4 or 5 o'clock. We
22:58
was getting played two or three times a
22:59
week and then Juice hit. Mhm. And we had
23:02
the
23:03
you know like the the main scene at the
23:05
end of Juice like that peak scene. So
23:07
all that stuff hitting plus us being on
23:09
tour just doing everything from the one
23:11
stops to the morning shows to the in
23:13
stores grinding from city to city in a
23:15
van. And you know just putting that work
23:18
in man. There was no tweeting or [ __ ]
23:20
and just sitting back doing social
23:21
media. You had to get out there and go
23:23
from city to city. You know do shows in
23:25
front of 12 people at a [ __ ] at a at
23:28
a one stop for breakfast. What are they
23:30
eating eggs? You know what I mean? So
23:33
You put a lot of work in man.
23:35
That's dope man. Did Did you ever get a
23:37
chance to um
23:38
talk to Pac after Juice? Did y'all get a
23:41
chance to
23:42
even consider going in the studio? Yeah
23:44
yeah we was on when we was touring with
23:46
Naughty Pac Pac was with Treach a lot.
23:49
So
23:51
you know we hung out with Pac a lot like
23:53
from But see I knew Pac when he was with
23:55
Digital Underground cuz I was good
23:57
friends with Money B and and DJ Fu. So
23:59
when he was out here we used to go to
24:00
all the shows. Mhm.
24:03
All the all the Digital Underground
24:04
shows when he was working with them. And
24:06
then Money B and Fuze had Raw Fusion.
24:09
Remember that? They had the Raw the
24:10
group Raw Fusion at the same time. You
24:13
know I'm asking questions. I was right
24:14
there. Muggs don't realize I was
24:15
standing right next to him at those same
24:17
shows. But hey man it's all right. You
24:20
know I was there Muggs. Stop playing
24:21
man. Come on man.
24:23
Uh let's go to the phone lines in DC.
24:25
Dan what up Dan? Hey Dan.
24:28
Oh hey what's going on y'all? Hey it's
24:30
good to get through again. I just want
24:31
to say good morning. I hope everyone
24:33
having a wonderful day. 420's tomorrow.
24:35
I'm sure everyone's excited. Uh I just
24:38
want to say DJ Muggs um I turned 42 this
24:41
summer and you Cypress Hill were
24:44
literally the things that got me into
24:46
hip hop like back in like two you know
24:48
uh 13 years old and living over in
24:50
Europe cuz my dad was in the military
24:52
and seeing on your
24:53
European MTV Insane in the Brain and
24:56
that just that that hit that hit and
24:59
I've been on I've been in love with hip
25:00
hop since and I and thank you. And Rome,
25:04
yo, you you mentioned in Doom. Yo, man,
25:06
rest in peace. He was amazing. I'm going
25:08
to I'm going to cop your cop your album
25:10
when I get back home. I just want I'm
25:12
looking forward to it.
25:13
Appreciate it, man. Thank you. Thank
25:14
you, bro.
25:15
That's what's up. Hey,
25:17
you, brother. I appreciate them words,
25:18
man. Yo, citizen Dan. It's way in the
25:21
morning. All right, look, man, we said
25:23
we had some tickets to give away cuz you
25:26
know, I I figure if if we give these
25:28
away, we'll get free tickets, too. So,
25:29
we're giving you a chance to win a
25:31
virtual pass to attend Cypress Hill's
25:33
virtual live stream concert. That's
25:35
tomorrow at the Roxy Theatre.
25:38
888-shay45.
25:39
If you want to win, you only got to be
25:41
18. You got to be 18 and over a US
25:43
resident. So, let's go to North
25:44
Carolina. We got Alex on the line from
25:46
North Carolina. Alex, grand
25:47
Alex, what's popping? Alex. What up,
25:50
citizens? Glorious day. Glorious day.
25:53
Glorious day, Alex. You're a winner,
25:55
baby. You're a winner, ALEX. DING DING
25:57
DING DING DING ding ding. Now, ring the
25:58
bell, man.
26:00
Making my week. It's going to be a great
26:02
day tomorrow. Love you guys. Love you
26:03
guys. Much love. All right. All right.
26:06
Hold on the line, man. We got Jamie from
26:08
Texas. Grand risings, Jamie. You good?
26:10
Jamie. Hey, Jaime.
26:13
Jamie from Texas, I'm great. I'm ready
26:15
to see Cypress Hill at 4:20, baby. That
26:17
Duca Earl. Okay, you're a winner, man.
26:20
You're a winner, Alex.
26:21
man. Ring the bell, man. Ring it.
26:24
Let's go to Louisiana. No, no.
26:27
LA. We got Jacob in LA. Jacob, what up,
26:29
baby? K-U-R-U-P-T
26:33
WHAT UP? YOU'RE A WINNER, JACOB.
26:35
JACOB. AND YOU'RE FROM LA LIKE TERRY.
26:37
RING THE BELL, MAN. Ring it.
26:42
K-U-R-U-P-T All right.
26:45
We got Jane Nicole from Phoenix. Jane
26:47
Nicole, what up?
26:48
Hey, Jane. Hey, thank you. I'm
26:50
representing Nirvana Green Medicinal
26:53
Edibles from Phoenix. Okay. She did a
26:56
plug and everything. Okay. Y'all Y'all
26:59
carry that Cypress Hill in there?
27:02
I need to make some for Cypress Hill.
27:03
You know, they're the OG of this thing.
27:05
So, we got to give them their flowers
27:06
for sure. Okay. Well, you could give
27:08
them the flowers to smoke the flowers
27:10
tomorrow BECAUSE YOU'RE A WINNER DRINK
27:11
THE COKE.
27:14
THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
27:15
ALL RIGHT. All right. Love you, too.
27:17
Love you, too. You know. Um
27:20
Did I Is that four or is that five? Did
27:22
I give away five? That was four? Okay.
27:24
That was four. That's four.
27:26
Who Who said that? Rich or Rome?
27:28
Rich and Ice. Okay. Rome, I didn't think
27:31
you said it. I didn't feel like you was
27:32
counting. You know what?
27:36
All right. Let me We going to find one
27:38
more, but hey Mugs, um Yes, sir.
27:41
I can't wait to see you in person, man.
27:43
Rome, I can't Rome
27:45
Mugs and our history go
27:48
It runs so deep. You know what I mean?
27:50
And it's just great to see people who
27:53
who been around this entire time. When
27:55
we came on the radio, it was in I want
27:57
to say '90 '91 and that's when
28:00
uh you guys really start really start
28:03
really start blowing up and I remember
28:05
you guys coming to the Bay Area as well.
28:08
Y'all even performed at one of me and
28:09
King Tech's clubs back then. You may not
28:12
even remember it, but um I just remember
28:15
Cypress Hill having the whole country
28:17
baffled about where they're from. Are
28:19
they from the Bronx? Are they from New
28:20
York? Are they from LA? And we loved it
28:24
because you kind of had to
28:26
you had to kind of be um
28:29
that kind of anomaly back then. You You
28:31
couldn't really cuz of the game was so
28:33
regionalized. Remember them days, Mugs?
28:35
Where it was the West and the East.
28:37
Yeah. And it It didn't even matter if
28:40
you were from a different place, you
28:41
wasn't going to get a lot of love. So,
28:42
they kind of snuck in there and and
28:45
before people realized what it was, all
28:47
they all they knew is was great music,
28:49
well-produced,
28:51
you know, the MCs, you know, everything,
28:54
the musicality, the messaging, the
28:56
imaging, everything was aligned at that
28:59
time. And you guys really opened doors
29:01
for a lot of West Coast artists um to to
29:04
be looked at differently. And so, I
29:06
always wanted to thank you for that,
29:07
Muggs, and continue to thank you,
29:09
brother. Continue to thank you, all
29:10
right? I'm good. Same to you, brother,
29:13
man. Just you know what I'm saying? Just
29:15
keep keep building this thing we love,
29:17
man. Just keep having a good time, man.
29:18
Just keep, you know, spreading the word.
29:20
Okay. We got you, man. Rome Streets,
29:22
man.
29:23
man. We took over the world, bro. 30
29:25
years later, hip-hop took over the
29:26
world, bro. Hell yeah. Yeah. Say it
29:28
loud.
29:29
Uh who's got the last laugh now,
29:31
[ __ ] There you go. Come on,
29:33
baby. Talk your [ __ ] Muggs.
29:34
Talk your [ __ ] [ __ ] OUT OF HERE. COME
29:36
ON, MAN.
29:38
All right. And then, Rome Streets, man,
29:40
we going we we got to get you in the
29:41
studio in person. I seen you do your
29:43
rounds. You got to come up and into the
29:45
valley of the hyena, ROME STREETS.
29:50
I'M READY.
29:51
OKAY. It's coming, Rome.
29:53
over the phone. Re- really? Oh.
29:56
Let me Okay. Since you said it, man,
29:57
give give me an a cappella. What was
29:59
that?
30:00
There you go, man. Man, man, I'll work.
30:02
Hey, yo.
30:04
Hey, yo. Listen. I said,
30:06
really got no other option. Just live by
30:08
the code of plot the whole of part of
30:10
gold and not to compromise my soul. Pops
30:12
get sold. Proceeds is hundreds I fold
30:14
inside of roads. Socialize the bold.
30:16
Wise like minded gods that holds your
30:18
eyes are closed. Blind to the gold. You
30:20
focused on the wrong [ __ ] The more God
30:22
attached design for your toe. I'm about
30:24
to bag broke my grimiest folk. Stay far
30:27
away from it. I heard the hater hard. I
30:28
did amazing on my latest [ __ ] Paint
30:31
word pictures. Peep how illustrated it.
30:33
Nobody illustrate facts. [ __ ] who on
30:35
your favorite list. I fire in they faces
30:37
quick. I turned nothing to a fistful of
30:39
Franklins. That's happening and I made
30:41
it flip. We were street corner dwellers,
30:43
pack sellers, getting dirty dough from
30:45
all the dope smoke. I hell is born
30:47
rebellious. Nickel plated pistol by the
30:49
pelvis. Pull it on the peon and leave
30:51
the [ __ ] melted. Whatever street spill
30:53
[ __ ] felt it. Only associate me with
30:56
green like a Celtic currency. With the
30:58
pen I show you a beautiful side of ugly.
31:01
Made it out the mud to the money and now
31:02
I'm bubbling.
31:04
Rome.
31:05
Rome streets citizens. Rome streets.
31:09
Come on baby.
31:10
We got A HYENA UP IN HERE. COME ON
31:12
HYENA.
31:15
I'M BLESSED. COME ON ROME. Can't wait to
31:18
do it in person man. That was ill. I
31:20
love that flow family. You keep doing
31:22
what you doing Rome. You keep doing and
31:25
then you know if you ever wake up and
31:27
you see your girl she praying over you.
31:29
It's okay Rome. You going to be okay.
31:35
She got great intentions. I'm good. Yeah
31:37
there you go family. Mugs love you
31:39
brother and man you guys get the album
31:42
Death in the Magician is out now. Make
31:44
sure you tune in tomorrow 4:20 p.m.
31:46
Pacific Coast time. Cypress Hill smoke
31:49
sesh virtual concert man.
31:51
Congratulations to all our winners too.
31:55
You get to get in there for free. All
31:57
right. Thank you fellas. Thank you.
31:59
Y'all have a great day.
32:03
Absolutely.
32:05
Salute.
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