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The energy in the garage is electric as the first ever live Fire Friday Cipher takes over Shade 45. Join Sway, HP, and DJ Sunny James as they host a legendary lineup of MCs curated by C4, bringing raw talent and lyrical heat straight from the West Coast and beyond. This session is a masterclass in independent artistry and pure hip hop culture.
In this episode, we witness the return of the hyenas as artists like Rick Scales, Cam Archer, and Red Moore step to the mic to prove their craft. From San Diego to San Bernardino, these rappers showcase diverse styles, sharp metaphors, and the pure essence of the rap game. You will hear everything from high speed flows to soulful melodies, including a special anniversary performance from husband and wife duo Red Moore and Sean Christopher.
The session is not just about the bars; it is about the growth of the culture. Watch as the veterans offer crucial advice on stage presence and the importance of memorizing lyrics to bridge the gap between being a good lyricist and a great performer. Whether you are a fan of classic boom bap or modern wordplay, this cipher delivers the authentic bars you have been waiting for.
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0:00 Welcome to the Garage Fire Friday Cipher
2:15 Meet the San Diego and IE Hyenas
7:45 Fats Kicks Off the First Verse
9:50 Rick Scales Lyrical Breakdown
12:20 Ash the Arthur Freestyle Session
14:15 Cam Archer Represents San Bernardino
17:10 Shay Given and C4 Freestyle Rotation
21:45 Red Moore Lyrical Mastery
25:15 Sway and HP Give Critical Feedback
28:00 Red Moore and Sean Christopher Anniversary Song
30:10 Final Shoutouts and SKT Network News
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0:00
Live from the garage, fire Friday
0:02
cypher. We invited some MCs up here to
0:05
go live today. We got Mr. Sunny James on
0:07
the ones and twos. Give them a round of
0:09
applause. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
0:11
yeah.
0:12
What's up, Sunny James?
0:14
Yes, sir. Part of history, homie. You're
0:16
part of history.
0:17
I talked to my man C4. C4 step to the
0:20
mic real quick.
0:21
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, sir. Yes,
0:22
sir.
0:22
>> I said, "C4, I need some hyenas." Yes,
0:25
sir. I need some hyenas, C4. And then
0:27
you put together a assembly of MCs
0:30
representing all different forms and
0:32
fashions and walks of life right here
0:34
from Southern California. Correct?
0:36
>> Absolutely.
0:36
>> All right, man. Let's introduce them.
0:37
Who we got today, man? We got [ __ ] Fats
0:40
in the house from San Diego.
0:42
>> say what up, [ __ ] Step to the mic. Say
0:43
what up, man.
0:44
>> Yes, sir. [ __ ] Fats, Southeast born and
0:46
raised.
0:46
>> Southeast, huh?
0:48
Yeah, you drove all the way from San
0:49
Diego? This morning, 4:30. How long you
0:51
been MCing, bro? I've been doing this
0:52
for a minute. Talk in that mic, man.
0:54
Okay, I'm sorry. Yeah, I've been doing
0:55
this for a while now, man. Maybe about
0:57
10 years. Okay. A little longer, you
0:58
know. A little longer? Yes, sir. All
1:00
right, what's your social? Oh, man. [ __ ]
1:02
Fats, d a y g o f a t t s on everything.
1:05
>> All right, who else we got, C4?
1:09
Ric Scales from San Diego. Here you go.
1:11
Peace. Yeah, I'm Ric Scales coming from
1:13
San Diego. Yes, sir.
1:14
>> he look like he a beast.
1:16
>> Looks like he ready.
1:16
>> [laughter]
1:17
>> Ric Scales look like he ain't ate in 2
1:19
weeks.
1:19
>> Yo. He's just saving it for your
1:21
appetite for this mic, huh?
1:22
>> I'm a little hungry. I've been waiting
1:23
on this for a very long time.
1:25
>> You've been in battles, huh? Absolutely.
1:27
>> tell.
1:27
>> Yeah.
1:28
>> You look like you've been in battles.
1:29
>> [laughter]
1:30
>> That's all right.
1:30
>> Yeah, I like that.
1:31
>> Well, welcome, man. Have fun with it,
1:33
man. Your time to shine. How can they
1:34
reach you? Uh just Ric Scales, r i c s c
1:37
a l e s on everything. Or you can check
1:40
out 18 Scales, the other group I'm in, 1
1:42
8 s c a l e s. Mr. Scales, I'm going to
1:45
remind you before you spit those bars
1:47
later to not cuff that mic. We want to
1:49
be able to hear you. All right? I know
1:51
it's a bad habit. We all got it, but
1:53
it's your time. Indeed.
1:54
>> There it is. So, right. Who else we got,
1:56
C4? Cam Archer. Cam Archer. What up,
1:59
brother?
1:59
>> Yeah, Cam Archer, San Bernardino,
2:00
California. Step up there, man, so they
2:02
can see you, man. I'm doing this so we
2:03
can remember y'all handles. Used to the
2:05
shadows.
2:05
>> San Bernardino. Where's that
2:07
[clears throat] next to?
2:09
Not much. Okay, who's that I'm an hour
2:11
I'm an hour away from everything. The
2:12
beach, the mountains, the desert, you
2:13
name it. I'm an hour away from
2:14
everything.
2:15
>> Who taught you how to MC? Me. Really?
2:18
Seriously.
2:18
>> Who inspired you?
2:20
Lupe, Royce. Okay. That yes, that's the
2:24
lineage that we're doing. You cannot be
2:26
wack if those are your inspirations.
2:28
>> Never been wack a day in my life.
2:29
>> Say no more. Go talk that [ __ ] All
2:30
right,
2:31
all right, all right. Okay,
2:32
there you go. There it is. Who else we
2:34
got, C4?
2:36
Ashtheauthor.
2:37
Oh, yeah, man. What up? Ashtheauthor.
2:39
Yeah, he just He came up cuffing the
2:41
mic. Look at that, man. Nah, cuffing the
2:43
mic, yeah. There you go. [laughter]
2:44
You're from the Chi, right?
2:46
>> From the Chi, yeah.
2:46
>> South side, right?
2:47
>> Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
2:48
>> Okay, I know you don't came up with
2:49
everything.
2:50
>> Sweet knows me. Yeah, man. Stop playing,
2:53
man.
2:54
You know me and I I know everybody in
2:57
Chicago, man. Come on, man. Tell folks
2:59
who you came up rhyming with. Um Common,
3:02
Lupe, you know.
3:05
Royce. Man, don't don't let them down.
3:08
>> Nah, I got you.
3:08
>> How do they reach you, man? What's that?
3:10
>> How do people reach you? Uh
3:12
Ashtheauthorwest. There it is.
3:14
Ashtheauthorwest.
3:15
>> it. I like that. Who else we got, C4?
3:18
Shea Givens. Hello.
3:20
>> What's up, Shea? How you doing? I'm
3:22
good. I'm good.
3:23
>> Sing something real quick. Go ahead.
3:24
Ooh. I'm joking. Just get ready though.
3:26
That's all happening in a minute. Don't
3:27
make me start the cypher. That's great.
3:29
All right. So, how long you How long
3:31
you've been pursuing this? You know, uh
3:33
my mom was a singer, so I sang with her
3:35
growing up, and I've been out here uh
3:38
for like 11 years being more serious
3:40
about it. There you go, Shea Givens. How
3:42
can they reach you? Uh Shaygivensmusic
3:44
on everything. s h e a g i v e n s
3:48
music. Smooth like butter.
3:51
There you go.
3:51
>> You see that? Dropped [laughter] a bar
3:52
on them. Who's next? Who we got? Who we
3:54
got?
3:55
I'm Red Moore.
3:56
Say that again.
3:57
>> Red Moore. Say that again.
3:59
>> Red Moore.
3:59
>> Red Moore in the building. Y'all give it
4:01
up, man. Come on. Where you from?
4:03
>> cuff the mic, you see? I was taking
4:05
notes.
4:05
>> [laughter]
4:06
>> I was taking notes. That's right. Uh
4:08
Hawaii, then San Diego, and now I'm in
4:10
the Inland Empire. Damn. Yeah. You went
4:14
from Hawaii to the IE. I did.
4:16
>> Yeah.
4:16
>> that. I'mma use that. Okay.
4:18
>> it. Thank you. I appreciate that.
4:19
>> me any [laughter] credit for that,
4:20
either.
4:21
So, did you grow up in Hawaii? Uh for a
4:23
little bit. My parents were both
4:24
military, so I lived everywhere. Okay.
4:26
Do Do you speak any Pacific Island
4:29
languages?
4:30
Okay. Being from the IE, do you do IE
4:32
slang? I do not. Okay, great. All right,
4:35
[laughter] cool. How do people reach
4:37
you? I'm not very entertaining. I
4:38
apologize.
4:41
How can folks reach you? Uh Red Moore
4:42
Music on everything. Okay, you're going
4:44
You're going to slice these mics up
4:46
today?
4:46
>> bit. I'mma do something. I like that.
4:48
Who else we got? Who else we got?
4:51
Come on. What's up, everybody? I'm Sean
4:53
Christopher. Um originally from Texas.
4:55
Come on, man. Now I live in uh went from
4:57
Texas to San Diego. Now my wife and I
4:59
Okay. We're in IE. I knew it was
5:01
something. I picked the glasses early,
5:03
so I was like, "Okay, they either a tag
5:05
team That's my baby. That's my baby. I
5:07
like that. Okay. Okay.
5:09
>> So, you can catch my my uh everything on
5:11
Sean Chris Music. Sean Chris Music? Yes,
5:14
sir. All right, man. I like your style,
5:15
man.
5:16
Look at his sneaker game, HP. How we
5:18
rock with that? Did you see the flag in
5:20
the back? You see him? Come on, man. He
5:22
came ready. Who else we got? We got Is
5:24
that it? We got me. I'm I'm C4. C4.
5:27
Okay. All right. Okay.
5:30
>> [laughter]
5:31
>> C4
5:33
C4 yourself. Okay. All right. We're
5:35
going to play this one song to get it
5:37
fired up, get situated. We're going to
5:39
come back with our first ever live
5:41
Friday fire cypher right here in LA,
5:44
Sway in the morning, Shea 45, Heather B,
5:46
Tracy G. Y'all Torres, drop that. This
5:49
is it right now, man. This is where the
5:51
MCs come to eat, Heather B. I know it.
5:54
All right. This where artists come to
5:56
shine, Heather B. You know where we at.
5:58
I know where we are.
5:59
>> Man, we got the the direct curation from
6:02
one of the illest DJs on the planet. You
6:04
don't believe me, ask Jazzy Jeff. He's
6:06
one of his favorites, Mr. Sunny James.
6:09
We're in the VALLEY OF THE HYENAS.
6:10
>> LET'S GO, BABY. Drop a beat on them.
6:13
Fire Friday cypher. Who first to rock?
6:15
Get up to the mic.
6:17
Say your name. Yes, sir. [ __ ] Fats, San
6:20
Diego, California. You ready? Here we
6:22
go. [music]
6:24
Okay.
6:26
The well-rounded spitter. Hundred in my
6:28
drum, but once I squeeze, who really
6:29
counting [ __ ] Mr. Fats been honing up
6:31
my craft before they found a Twitter.
6:33
Near as in my glass, I ripped the
6:34
plastic off and down to witcha. Just
6:35
north of the border, stay in motion.
6:37
That's my premonition. [music] Time for
6:38
change. Can you stand the rain? This is
6:40
a new edition. Few and far between, I'm
6:42
hard to read. I'm talking long division.
6:43
[music] Blood alone will leave through
6:44
horn of me. That was the wrong decision.
6:46
Who am I?
6:48
Born in the year of [singing] the dragon
6:49
in rage. Harder in the flesh, I spit
6:51
fire, lava, and grenades. Brimstone in
6:53
my breath, you can tell that my lungs is
6:54
inflamed. The crash out sensei, the
6:56
haute couture can't take. [singing]
6:58
Domino speaks the language of you lame
6:59
and not comprehend it. I'mma mollywhop
7:01
your lollipop. No sucker [music] punches
7:02
been made. I'm on [singing] that.
7:04
Swinging till my bones crack. Four
7:06
fingers twisted in the middle. Snatching
7:07
thrones back. WEST UP.
7:09
WOW.
7:10
OKAY. WE GOT A HYENA UP IN HERE. Fire
7:13
Friday cypher.
7:14
Who next to rock?
7:17
Who's next to rock?
7:19
Yeah. Hold up. One, two, one, two. My
7:21
name Ric Scales, San Diego. We about to
7:23
do it to y'all.
7:24
>> that mic, Ric.
7:26
Yeah. Yeah. Still cuffing, Ric.
7:30
Yeah.
7:31
See, I forgot what I was about [music]
7:32
to say. Yeah.
7:33
>> [laughter]
7:35
>> Oh, yeah.
7:38
Yo, could make a junkie OD off all these
7:41
bars while new booties looking goofy in
7:43
the leotard. Punch lines will have them
7:45
stumbling and seeing stars.
7:47
[music and singing] South Bay shoes,
7:48
hover boards to flying cars. I'm about
7:50
to be everywhere like broken glass.
7:52
Corbin Dallas with a [ __ ]
7:54
multi-pass. I'm not on the present. I
7:56
know how to multitask. Got non-believers
7:59
coming round like the total sack. Has
8:01
you nominal phenomenon on your almanac.
8:03
Feeling like a [ __ ] rap god starter
8:05
pack. [music] The clouds my sofa. Now
8:08
host the one round, you'll get found and
8:10
pronounce you overlooked. [ __ ] louder
8:12
than a Harley when they starting up, but
8:14
ain't hardly tough. They get to moving
8:16
and they start to putt. Hey, why you
8:17
started us? We standing tall as [ __ ] and
8:19
touching constellation. Hard enough to
8:21
turn to start to dust. What? Ric. Hey,
8:24
come on.
8:25
>> When somebody says Uma, I ain't thinking
8:27
about Thurman. I'm thinking on a count
8:28
of three, but I'm yelling off this
8:29
Suburban. Sipping burgundy and swerving
8:32
all over these streets. And on a count
8:34
of three, we say
8:36
Yeah, [ __ ] them. George Orwell picture
8:38
can't hear you. Eat me like ill
8:39
communication in the mirror. And if you
8:41
don't get that line, then do your
8:43
hip-hop history. If you never heard of
8:45
Sway and Tech, you can niggedy miss me.
8:48
I'm about to obliterate [music] a [ __ ]
8:50
Yo, got sick of Donald Duck's gibberish.
8:52
Yo, it's like all of us lip was fibrous
8:55
and it was raised not to eat [ __ ]
8:56
Todd Marinovich looking like citrus runs
8:59
from his clitoris to his body. How we
9:00
get a blood orange leading the
9:02
Republican Party? I think we need to
9:04
start a blood orange tea party in John
9:06
[music and singing] Gotti's body like
9:07
the Boston Tea Party. Jump in the man's
9:09
daughter in the chest with his barber
9:11
with spray tan paint cans out in the
9:13
Boston Harbor. I'm surely hoping this
9:15
verse don't make me a martyr. We just
9:17
speaking talking on streak shouldn't go
9:18
any farther than this cookie cutter
9:20
culture that came along with a turned up
9:22
kid. I'm cutting like it's blood like a
9:24
tourniquet. It's my turn to get turned
9:26
and burning your scalp like a permanent
9:27
sweat. To get props, they got to earn
9:29
that [ __ ]
9:30
>> They got to earn it, man. C4, you heard
9:32
it. Fire Friday cypher, Shea 45, the
9:35
home, [music] the house of hip-hop.
9:37
Who's next to rock?
9:39
Not cuff the mic. It's Ashtheauthor.
9:43
I'm not cuffing the mic at all.
9:44
>> Don't cuff that mic, Ash.
9:46
Yeah.
9:49
Yeah. Yeah.
9:51
Yeah, it was this rapper I knew said
9:53
[singing] I'm only rapping the truth.
9:54
Either that or the man got to strike me
9:55
down. Then I saw a flash [music] in the
9:57
booth. Heard a clap and a thundery sound
9:58
when the man came through. It was only
10:00
ash and a pal. That [ __ ] was actually
10:02
wild. Anyway, the other day I flew the
10:04
PJ to the bay. Got a freak lit like
10:06
Saweetie. Said she need me cut a weight.
10:08
Got that scalp that I love peace your
10:09
phone a friend and had a threesome.
10:11
Couple rounds I had them freed up tell
10:12
them straight this [ __ ] was saying okay.
10:14
I woke up later cut the keys to the
10:16
scraper. Walked out the suite straight
10:18
to the elevator. [ __ ] was hella crowded
10:20
with the deuces look like agents.
10:22
Everyone was scowling when this weird
10:24
[ __ ] came in swear to God he got a
10:26
[singing] white girl lay the tar and a
10:29
[ __ ] [ __ ] go. Let's go. Flow it. KEEP
10:32
FLOWING.
10:33
WHO'S NEXT to rock? Say
10:34
[music and singing] your name. Cam
10:36
Archer.
10:37
San Bernardino, California. I in here. O
10:40
in here.
10:42
This is my excited face, Heather. I like
10:44
it.
10:44
>> Yep.
10:45
Look.
10:46
If slow and steady win the race, guess
10:48
who raising the cup? C4 on the beat as
10:50
if I ain't explosive enough. Take
10:52
plastic to bad chic I unsheathe and it's
10:54
up. Got hits for hire. In other words,
10:56
it's knock if you buck. It's the Lupe
10:58
disciple. Who you deem in a demon? I
11:00
find a mean and we rightfully walk them
11:02
down taking titles who riding waves.
11:03
Kill them all till they sold the caves.
11:05
I'm spiteful. Try to meet higher beings
11:07
but all these graves getting sizable
11:08
now. Why you match up a fact [music]
11:10
with a fact simile? By six my view is
11:12
foreign like Kobe Bryant in Italy.
11:14
Life's a gamble but the true gambit is
11:15
drawing energy from cards dealt. That's
11:17
[singing] how I knew I'd meet Sway
11:18
eventually. The chemistry is
11:20
mind-blowing. To the side showing clowns
11:22
waving down the drive till I turn them
11:24
into Kennedys. Complicit with the
11:25
topics. [music] Stock got bigger by
11:27
shows end. Had a big on say that's my
11:29
kind of [ __ ] huh? The heat I throw
11:31
Satoshi Gojo meet today or no more.
11:33
Potential Kanye in that Polo for his
11:35
Vida Loca. To view this kill must be the
11:37
SA show. They got to blur out my image
11:39
in the pic they plan to post for promo.
11:42
This is not for the innocent, awkward
11:43
and gifted. They flock over my flyers
11:45
opinions. My talk is the litmus so E
11:47
still the click that was heaven sent.
11:48
Now take apart each bar and figure out
11:50
what dismemberment. Cam [ __ ]
11:54
Yeah.
11:55
Welcome to the home of the hyenas. Shade
11:57
45. LA we on fire right now. C4.
12:02
>> the holy moly that caught the holy
12:04
ghost. I'm the holy [ __ ] Keep talking
12:05
[ __ ] I turn your whip into some holy
12:07
[ __ ] I'm kidding. That's probably
12:09
something I should not say. Like Kanye
12:11
singing something about a not say. I've
12:12
always wanted to be from Nottz. I wonder
12:14
what would Nottz say. Probably C4 is the
12:16
[ __ ] Yeah, that's what a lot say. I'm
12:17
the him that he pretends to be. The him
12:19
they going to sing him at the reading of
12:20
his eulogy.
12:22
Back in this [music] [ __ ] off the top
12:24
of the head. I'm rocking with the homies
12:26
whether he got a drip thoroughbred. See
12:28
for yourself in the place to be. Off the
12:30
top we representing that I to the E.
12:32
Bought a couple homies with me drove up
12:34
from SD. They was on that five. I was on
12:36
that 15 free. We made a left off the
12:38
mic. Show you this [ __ ] was tight.
12:40
Somebody [music] grab the mic and blow
12:42
it up. Yeah. Yeah. Blow it up like I
12:44
[ __ ] a freestyle off of the top and I'm
12:46
[ __ ] prolific. I'm trying not to
12:48
covet MCs getting punched in they face
12:50
like McEnroe [music] bending them up
12:51
like Agassi. McEnroe is this SD. [ __ ]
12:54
can't mess with me. My name be [music]
12:55
Ricta. Hit a MC knock the lights out the
12:57
fixture. Don't need to write no
12:58
scripture. Do it all off the top. All
13:00
this written I'mma drop them [ __ ] off
13:02
of the dock. Watch. [music] These [ __ ]
13:03
is drawing C it. Be off of the
13:05
microphone slapping the [ __ ] out of a
13:07
never mind. I was going to say some [ __ ]
13:08
I probably could get canceled for but I
13:09
don't really want to have to answer for
13:10
or Swayde have to answer for that
13:11
tension I'm throwing
13:13
on the microphone. The speakers getting
13:15
blown in. I'm [ __ ] around with
13:16
Katherine [music] Project Blow but it's
13:18
San Diego up in this [ __ ] What do you
13:20
know? It's that West Side love. And
13:21
attention is a drug. Thought the beat
13:23
was going to stop but it wasn't. Yo,
13:24
what the [ __ ] I'mma do what I [music]
13:26
please. Freak a Z MCs. Yo, what's the
13:28
RRC? RRP the weak MCs. What up? Rick.
13:31
Shade 45. Come on. Shade 45. Yeah, yeah.
13:32
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I'm
13:32
back. Yeah. Rick.
13:34
Shade 45. Huh? Come on. Shade 45.
13:38
>> Yeah, yeah.
13:39
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah,
13:41
yeah. I'm back. Yeah. Since I dropped my
13:44
EP it's been a part of me this numb I
13:45
mean my heart been on my sleeve like my
13:47
garments soak up blood. Giving
13:48
narcissists no credit [ __ ] them let them
13:50
to come. Put the raw before the T like a
13:52
Marj [music] only son. Let the music
13:54
drown out all of the barnacles and
13:55
leeches. Tell them apart it's hard to
13:56
distinguish. Far as the features giving
13:58
facials but not the ones that take their
14:00
age away. They want [music] to give them
14:01
wrinkles on their brow like Cain came to
14:03
play. They want the sequel. Waiting on
14:04
the return like layaway. You think we
14:06
equals? I made you pay before [music]
14:07
you pay today [singing] and there's no
14:08
refunds.
14:10
You'll never get your money back.
14:12
I said that I'm the greatest and I never
14:14
say it back. I stand [music and singing]
14:15
on that statement like I'm scale away
14:17
the fat. I spelled it on the pages and
14:18
you plagiarized and it's facts. I left
14:20
the rap race and now they only playing
14:22
trap. Like lace fronts I'm over their
14:23
heads when laying traps.
14:25
Uh, the flow waves me. You know Yacky.
14:27
The bars should come in bundles. [music]
14:29
Your girl trying on and she gets so
14:31
sassy. The road to riches is slow
14:33
molasses but about to broke matters fast
14:35
as you can pose [singing] for the
14:36
cameras. Uh, I say cheese for the flick
14:38
for the directions they action. Me and
14:40
my friends change the direction you
14:42
can't imagine. I know it's one thing I'm
14:43
a scene just like Sebastian about the
14:45
eight under the sea without the action.
14:47
California king with our dream without
14:49
the accent but uh
14:51
Yeah. Who next? Let's go. Who's next?
14:53
Come on.
14:54
Uh.
14:55
I'm back again, guys. You're back again.
14:57
I didn't get to clear my throat before.
14:59
I feel a little bit more natural now.
15:01
There you go. You got it? Look.
15:03
>> [music]
15:04
>> Cam rapper for Swayde? They must have
15:06
froze Hades. Flow hated mostly by poor
15:08
traces. You know lately I can tell they
15:10
loathe the attention I get so don't pay
15:11
[music] me. And Dino City my roots are
15:13
deeper than Alex Haley's. You want my
15:15
place it's going to be a while. These
15:16
[singing] [ __ ] know the deal. I keep
15:17
it real. I'm a cinephile. Track the
15:19
progression it leads to ends like
15:20
emergency exits. They work as boxing.
15:22
Them boys used the factory settings.
15:24
Okay, I'm locked in. Or it's so ill got
15:26
a piecemeal [music]
15:26
man. My cup running over like Tyga
15:28
behind the wheel. Try messing with mine.
15:30
I'm finding the time to kill. My EPK
15:32
[music] on Collider. I told you I keep
15:33
it real, right? Looking for who relates.
15:35
Shoot like Luka my usage rate just
15:37
displaying my origin. Someone call Eva
15:39
Duvernay I'mma pray to Jehovah. Only
15:41
right that I rule the wake. Audience may
15:42
seem Anglophone. I'm cream Ali Boumaye.
15:44
I don't know everything but you know
15:46
less. Middle finger been up so long
15:48
might start a new OS. Mental makeup is
15:50
pale. I'm on my Undertaker behavior so
15:52
under a poly drives where your weak [ __ ]
15:54
rest. Ha.
15:55
Adhere to what I add here. Even if they
15:57
drip they still fall under a god tier.
15:59
Of course my efforts tenfold. I've been
16:00
a goat for 10 years. The mirror showed
16:02
that me and my enemy share a worst fear.
16:04
Crazy. My gosh.
16:07
Wow. You going to make it hard for MCs
16:09
to come up here. You got to bring your A
16:12
game. Say your name.
16:14
I'm about to spaz on this here. You
16:16
promise? [music] I'mma call out your
16:17
favorite rapper. Flow past them. Oh
16:19
yeah. Boogie man in some slippers.
16:20
Through my rapping this year. It's Bob
16:22
Rubber all in your nostrils. Going to
16:23
have a good year. I promise I'm owing
16:25
[ __ ] over. Former facet your service.
16:27
Hipsters built for your boy till I steer
16:28
them back when they heard this. I just
16:29
been patiently waiting. Played on the
16:31
jankiest stages. Popped
16:32
[music and singing] in the cleanest
16:32
record then they make the stankiest
16:34
faces. I'm absolute in my cool in the
16:36
grooviest mood. My connections on par.
16:38
Mothership kind of dude.
16:39
Extraterrestrial nature. Signing bury
16:41
[music] your papers. A multi-ton rocking
16:43
Archaean plates on my scraper. Metaphor
16:45
stacks come in layers. These rappers
16:46
answer to a taper. Keep my name out your
16:48
mouth if you signing the fattest
16:49
retainers. See I can honestly speak
16:51
confidently there's no artist harder
16:52
than me. Obviously. [ __ ] Yeah. [ __ ]
16:54
look [clears throat] thicker than ever.
16:55
I was trained to shoot to kill. [ __ ]
16:57
then got serious. Ain't never been a
16:58
drill. Sir Independence still ain't
17:00
never signed a deal. I gave them grace
17:03
but now it's time to eat this meal. You
17:04
see I float like a butterfly. Sting like
17:06
a man of war. [ __ ] ain't touching me.
17:08
I'm like nothing you've had before.
17:10
Furthermore all the warmongers all the
17:11
love of the war. Harder cause us farther
17:13
my hall off and go start a car. You
17:15
momma ain't dangerous for those who lame
17:16
as [ __ ] You must be off that nasal
17:17
[music] dust. You can't even stand
17:19
yourself. Why would I let you hang with
17:20
us in the players circle? Drift through
17:21
every lane and hurdle. Stop the show to
17:23
kill [music] a roach or two. I'm such a
17:24
radical martial aim to hurt you never.
17:26
Cooling in the hottest weather. Sticking
17:27
out I'm banging two grenades [music]
17:28
tucked in my pocket sweaters. It's too
17:30
easy, [ __ ] A leader racing second
17:32
place can never please me, [ __ ] All
17:33
about that chicken. No I never do you
17:35
greasy, [ __ ]
17:37
>> [music]
17:38
>> Redmore.
17:41
Yeah.
17:43
Say your name. Redmore. Listen. To whom
17:46
it may concern or pretend not to. This
17:48
apology is long overdue but I don't want
17:50
to sound rude so I penned these bars in
17:51
lower case letters. Try not to yell.
17:53
Hope this finds you well and the pity
17:54
palace where you envy dwell. My bad for
17:56
the glow. It could be too much. Next
17:57
time I wait you shade and dim the bulb
17:59
you like your lights off like a feelings
18:00
and such. My fault for climbing out the
18:02
box you built. I know it's wild watching
18:03
me pop out like Jack but keep your ego
18:05
intact. Forgive me for the elevation.
18:07
The growth and self love is bold. I know
18:09
I watered my roots. How dare I grow? How
18:11
dare I heal? How dare I laugh? How dare
18:13
I go beyond [music] the forecast without
18:14
first floating the group chat. Cause I
18:16
wasn't supposed to peak right like
18:18
Dante. You wanted me low but in the dirt
18:19
I never went. Kanye. Climbed out the mud
18:22
and said the rain you claim I drowned
18:23
in. I apologize. I'm just playing. I'm
18:25
in every win. Redmore. Redmore. Shade
18:28
Givens. Come on. Shade Givens. Attention
18:31
is a drug and we on it.
18:34
>> [music]
18:36
>> Attention is a drug and we on it.
18:39
Yeah, yeah. [singing] Yeah, attention is
18:41
a [music] drug and we on it.
18:46
Pay respects to the ones you love.
18:50
>> [music]
18:51
>> Take your time for the one that you
18:52
love.
18:56
Give some more for the one you love.
19:01
Take some time for your mind for the
19:02
ones you love.
19:05
>> [music]
19:06
>> Cause we going to laugh in the morning.
19:09
I know it gets heavy in the evening
19:11
time. We going to laugh in the morning.
19:14
>> [singing]
19:14
>> Thanks. [music] Thanks to C4 and Cass
19:16
for this hot beat. Yeah, yeah.
19:19
>> beat. Yeah, yeah.
19:21
For this hot beat. Yeah, [singing] yeah.
19:24
For this hot beat. Yeah, yeah.
19:27
Come on, man. [music and singing] Big
19:28
round of applause. You heard it first
19:30
right here on Shade 45. Shout out to the
19:32
SKT Network. Make sure you download that
19:35
app. You'll be able to see this, too.
19:37
C4.
19:38
Yes, sir. Say all these MCs names. All
19:41
these hyenas. We got [ __ ] Fast from San
19:43
Diego.
19:45
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
19:47
We got Redmore from Planet Earth. There
19:50
There is.
19:50
>> [laughter]
19:51
>> Shout out to Red. We got Shawn
19:52
Christopher. Y'all about to see him in a
19:54
second.
19:54
>> Okay, Shawn Christopher. We got Shay
19:56
Gibbons from Missouri, now San Diego and
19:59
IE everywhere.
20:00
>> Okay. We got Rick Skales from SD. Rick
20:04
Rick. We got Astro Arthur, San Diego by
20:07
way of Chicago.
20:08
>> Astro. AT
20:09
>> Mr. Cam Archer, San Bernardino IE. Yo,
20:13
HB, what you think of these MCs?
20:16
Where's my man that's this guy right
20:18
here?
20:18
>> Yeah. Step up to the mic.
20:20
>> Get up there, man. ATA.
20:22
So, I've been watching and studying
20:24
y'all and some of y'all I'm seeing for
20:25
the very first time do your thing. And
20:28
how much time do you actually spend
20:30
writing?
20:31
>> [music]
20:32
>> A lot.
20:33
So,
20:35
let me just give a suggestion to you.
20:37
>> Yeah.
20:37
You are an incredible lyricist, like an
20:40
incredible lyricist. I listened to
20:42
everything you said.
20:44
The amount of time that you spend
20:45
writing, you should spend half that time
20:47
studying your lyrics every day.
20:49
>> Respect.
20:49
>> And I give that to all of y'all. Memory,
20:53
your memory. I've watched you a couple
20:55
of times and it's there, but it's like
20:57
damn, let me catch, let me catch. You're
20:59
not spending the time to memorize what
21:01
you're writing. And it's [music] once
21:03
you start doing that, bro, it's going to
21:04
make a world of difference. You're an
21:06
incredible lyricist. Start spending some
21:08
of that time just memorizing, even if
21:10
it's for 15 minutes a day. I receive
21:12
that. I appreciate that. Love you.
21:14
You're ill, baby. You're ill. For real,
21:16
man. You're ill, man. All right, cool,
21:19
man. What you think of these MCs, HB?
21:21
>> Man, listen. My man here,
21:24
yo, grab the mic.
21:26
>> [music]
21:26
>> Yeah.
21:27
Um I watched you command the stage.
21:30
You commanded the stage. Like you you
21:32
knew it, you studied, you write, you're
21:34
a student as much as you are a master of
21:36
this. You got right to that camera and
21:39
your confidence was amazing. I
21:41
absolutely loved it. I mean
21:42
>> Thank you so much. Beautiful. Beautiful.
21:45
I won't be surprised if you get a call.
21:47
I thought you were mad, for real.
21:48
Thanks. Beautiful, man. You were mad,
21:50
for real. Wow, man. I thought I thought
21:52
I thought that was important. People
21:53
shout you out all the time.
21:55
>> you out, too, bro. I know. That's what I
21:57
said. Thank you. That's what he said for
21:58
his Yeah. My family affairs, you feel
22:00
me? Incredible. Thank you so much.
22:01
Incredible. I greatly appreciate it.
22:03
Incredible, man. Everybody Everybody was
22:05
good, but it's just things that I
22:06
noticed that would like [music] separate
22:10
um good from great. You know what I
22:12
mean? And and and just what I saw this
22:14
first round or two was really
22:16
incredible.
22:17
>> Yeah, man. You got C4. You passed the
22:20
test. Give it up for C4.
22:21
>> All of y'all is dumb talented. Thank
22:24
you. Thank you.
22:25
>> talented. Amazingly talented.
22:27
>> Amazing. We got hyenas and we going to
22:29
come back. What we going to do when we
22:30
come back?
22:31
>> Yeah. We got
22:32
uh
22:33
Red Red and Mo. Red and Shawn.
22:35
>> the ladies. Yeah. They got a song
22:37
together. They're husband and wife. Uh
22:39
they're This is actually their 1-year
22:41
anniversary of marriage today.
22:42
>> Oh, congrats. Congratulations. Wow.
22:44
[applause] Congratulations. Hey, man.
22:46
I'm happy about this. Our first ever
22:48
Fire Friday cypher right here in LA live
22:51
broadcast. Mr. Sunny James on the ones
22:54
and twos. We coming right back right
22:56
after this. Shade 45.
22:59
>> Shade 45.
23:01
Man.
23:02
Woo.
23:04
Feel like I was spitting bars, Heather?
23:06
Man.
23:07
>> You wasn't, though. I but I feel like I
23:09
was. You wasn't.
23:10
>> Man, I was
23:12
absorbing all these hyenas right now.
23:15
Yeah. Sunny James, what you think, man?
23:17
What that feel like to you, bro? That
23:18
was incredible. Yeah, right?
23:20
>> Yeah, holy moly. Yeah. Mr. Sunny James,
23:23
man. It's always good to see it in its
23:25
rawest form. Like this is how we
23:28
started, you know, whether you was in
23:30
somebody backyard, block party, block
23:32
situation, basement studio. You just
23:35
wanted to spit your bars to get in, you
23:37
know, and just to see what you wrote the
23:39
night before or maybe earlier that
23:41
evening could even compete and compare
23:43
with what somebody else was doing. It's
23:44
just an opportunity to get a shot, you
23:47
know, and to hear what y'all been
23:49
working on and what y'all doing was
23:50
really dope. I'm sure a lot of people
23:52
are following everybody right now. Good
23:54
show, for real.
23:55
>> Good show, C4. Good job, man. And uh
23:57
>> That's a fact. We'll be playing this,
23:59
too. You go to download the SKT Network
24:01
app on Swag King Tech Network. Download
24:03
that now on all your phones. Make sure
24:05
you get that. Uh you can play this back
24:07
here, too, at SXM SiriusXM. Man, this
24:10
was live on the air here at Shade 45
24:13
downstairs. We're in the garage right
24:15
now, HB.
24:16
>> Yes, sir. We confiscated the building
24:17
for this moment. One minute. It's the
24:20
moment in time, right? And we going to
24:21
keep it moving, man. One of the
24:22
objectives that we always wanted to do
24:24
with this platform is provide people
24:26
with opportunity that otherwise may not
24:28
be able to get it. You know, that's the
24:29
same way Eminem came up. You know, at
24:31
one point he had to do the rounds. He
24:33
had to go to the radio stations. He had
24:34
to do the battles. He had to, you know,
24:36
do the demo tapes, the mixtapes. That's
24:38
all a part of it. And so now with this
24:40
platform, it's a way of giving back, you
24:43
know, one of the greatest MCs of all
24:45
time having this platform with one of
24:48
the greatest MCs of all time
24:50
um being a part of it, working with him,
24:52
whatever it be, and and myself and you
24:55
know, King Tech with the world-famous
24:57
Wake Up Show DJ Revolution. This is what
24:59
we do it for. Yeah. This is what we
25:01
always done it for and with the Wake Up
25:03
Show when we were syndicated here at The
25:05
Beat 92.3 The Beat. A lot of these MCs
25:08
grew up listening to that, watching it,
25:10
you know, and now they're in it, you
25:11
know, and it's like you're living out
25:13
your dreams. Everything you work for is
25:15
for these moments here, right? And now
25:17
you got a gigantic audience that get a
25:19
chance to hear you from the West Indies,
25:22
from South America, from Canada. They
25:24
listen to us in France and Japan,
25:27
Mexico, Africa. All of these different
25:29
places.
25:30
>> Swain in the morning.
25:31
>> And you didn't have to pay nothing for
25:32
this exposure. All you had to do is pay
25:35
attention to your craft and come up here
25:37
and rock out. And I think that's what
25:38
this channel is all about. Big round of
25:41
applause for Shade 45. All right. All
25:44
right, man. So, what we got coming up
25:46
next, man? Red, what we doing?
25:49
I'm just going to do a little something
25:50
that I wrote and my husband's going to
25:52
sing on it.
25:53
>> Okay, what's it called? Don't Mean a
25:54
Thing. Don't Mean a Thing.
25:56
>> Yeah. So, basically like your haters,
25:59
what they doing, what they saying, if
26:00
it's not moving you forward, then it
26:02
don't mean a thing. If it ain't got that
26:03
swang. Y'all got haters?
26:06
Always.
26:06
>> Yeah. Everybody got haters.
26:07
>> Always. Yeah. You got haters? People
26:09
going to hate you all the time. If I do,
26:10
I don't necessarily pay attention to You
26:11
know they don't register. Yeah, I ain't
26:13
ain't registered. I'm looking for it.
26:14
That's that Texas thing, huh? Already.
26:17
Yes, [laughter] sir. Man said already.
26:18
That's definitely Texas. All right, we
26:20
going to chunk the deuce and get this
26:22
popping right now. What's the name of
26:23
this song? Don't Mean a Thing. Don't
26:25
Mean a Thing. Mr. Sunny James. Don't
26:27
mean a thing
26:29
if it ain't got that swang. Don't don't
26:32
mean [singing] a thing if it ain't got
26:35
that swang. If they be to rap what key
26:38
be to lock, then I'll be to hate what
26:41
big be to pop. Cuz I kill with kindness,
26:43
love you a lot. The word is the clip, my
26:46
tongue beat the glock. Bang. Love your
26:48
ops and pray for them. Bang. Hold your
26:51
peace, you'll pay for them. I'm still
26:53
learning to turn the cheek, so until
26:55
then they can kiss both when I'm walking
26:56
away from them. When I move group chats,
26:59
they get busy. No sleep lost, peace be
27:01
on DND. Y'all telling stories in your
27:03
stories, y'all don't even know my story.
27:05
Y'all beasts been blocked. How are you
27:07
seeing me?
27:07
>> Don't mean a thing if it ain't got that
27:11
swang. [singing] Don't don't mean a
27:13
thing if it ain't got that swang.
27:17
Listen. No freestyles because my pen
27:20
slays. Won't lace front, I keep the beat
27:22
laid. Like these edges, eloquent bars on
27:24
replay. King's kid, so it only matter
27:27
what he say. Opinions don't pay, why
27:29
would I spend the energy? When I can eat
27:31
free table in front of enemies. They
27:33
throw shade, but it's light is my
27:34
centerpiece. So, I still glow in the
27:36
dark, photosynthesis. I'mma change the
27:38
flow up and jump back in like double
27:40
dutch. When they seek the glow up, they
27:41
can't say much, they tongue is stuck.
27:43
Whispers in the background cuz that is
27:44
where they stand. Don't like me now, but
27:46
baby, they going to hate me hydrated.
27:48
Don't mean a thing [singing] if it ain't
27:51
got that swang. Don't don't mean a thing
27:55
if it ain't got that swang.
27:58
>> [singing]
27:58
>> It don't mean a thing, don't mean a
28:00
thing. The envious free promotion, thank
28:01
you for the campaign. President of the
28:03
fan club I pretend they don't see. It's
28:05
okay if you click that follow boo, your
28:07
secret's safe with me.
28:08
How you feel about me, it ain't my
28:10
business. I meant it when I admitted
28:11
that my shine got them squinting, no
28:13
tinting cuz I'm a prism cut with
28:14
precision through tunnel vision like
28:16
tension, ambition, wishing they suffered
28:17
from my condition. Don't mean a thing I
28:20
wasn't finished, just want to transition
28:22
into something more phonetic. Forget it,
28:23
I'm too poetic. Every word is prophetic,
28:25
magnetic, and energetic. Guess it's part
28:27
of my genetic settings.
28:31
It don't It don't It don't mean a damn
28:33
thing.
28:34
>> [music]
28:35
>> Come on.
28:37
Sing it, baby. Sing. Don't mean a thing
28:40
if it ain't got that swang. It don't
28:43
mean a damn thing. Don't mean a thing if
28:46
it ain't got that swang.
28:56
>> [singing]
29:01
>> C4, where you at? Come on, man.
29:03
>> Yes, sir.
29:05
Come on.
29:05
>> Like mama always said, if you ain't got
29:08
nothing nice to say, just say
29:11
Don't mean a thing.
29:12
>> Oh, sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. My bad, guys.
29:15
Oh, oh, my bad, man. We can get you on a
29:17
track. You can. Give it up, man. Give it
29:18
up, yo. Everybody come back on stage,
29:20
man. I love you, man.
29:22
>> Come on, man. As we proceed, that was
29:25
great. How can people get that music? Um
29:27
it's streaming on all platforms right
29:29
now. Hey, cool, man. Let me get one of
29:31
these mics, man. Uh yo, to all these
29:33
MCs, man, you're living out your dreams.
29:35
This all was manifested by you. The fact
29:37
that we all came here together today and
29:40
you got to show off and shine, man.
29:42
Congratulations. I'm glad we could be a
29:43
part of your legacy. I better see our
29:45
names in your Wikipedia's from moving
29:47
forward.
29:48
>> [laughter]
29:48
>> All right. Okay. Okay, man, but y'all
29:50
all killed it. Thank you for coming up
29:52
here. Thank you for being dedicated to
29:54
your craft. Thank you for supporting
29:56
each other in this whole process. C4,
29:59
man. Thank you, man.
30:01
>> Thank you, brother. Always. I appreciate
30:02
you.
30:02
>> the community, bro. I appreciate you.
30:04
>> always set me up for something, man.
30:07
>> [laughter]
30:07
>> No, but it's it's good though. You're
30:08
always working with folks. You're always
30:10
you you you you're a cohesive person
30:12
when it comes to this community,
30:13
especially in LA. So, we appreciate you,
30:15
brother.
30:16
>> Thank you. Thank you. I I I do my best.
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>> Ah, you're already doing it, man. And
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salute to your wife as well, man.
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>> Yes. All right.
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>> I know it couldn't be possible without
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her. She lets me know by the way she
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looks at me, too.
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>> [laughter]
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>> Mr. Sunny James. Sunny. Thank you,
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brother. Thank you. You have fun. Yeah,
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I had an amazing time.
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>> Yeah, right. What's next for you? Uh we
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got Sunday school Yes.
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>> on Sunday with the Beat Junkies, myself
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and Mr. Choc back-to-back.
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>> be crazy.
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>> All right. I'll be there. Yeah.
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>> That's what's up.
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>> Okay, that's what's up, man. And to all
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the guests that came this week, thank
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you have a great time.
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