Up next in 10
Kid Capri is a legend in the game and his legend continues wi RH his latest album “The Love”. He checks in on Sway In The Morning to talk about the album and give an update on his covid recovery.
Subscribe Here! http://bit.ly/SubscribeSU
Watch the Best of Sway In The Morning! http://bit.ly/BestOfSITM
Check out More From Sway’s Universe
http://swaysuniverse.com
http://twitter.com/swaysuniverse
http://instagram.com/swaysuniverse
http://facebook.com/swaysuniverse
#KidCapri #TheLove #SwaysUniverse #SwayInTheMorning #SiriusXM #Shade45
About SWAY’s UNIVERSE
Exclusive interviews from Sway Calloway and the Sway In The Morning/ SwaysUniverse.com team with some of today's biggest celebrities, like Kevin Hart, Kanye West, Eminem, Usher, Jessica Alba, Steve Aoki, Torey Lanez, Julia Stiles and so much more.
Sway’s Universe
https://www.youtube.com/UCuS96jkLKpTaGB_OWnwZV_A
Show More Show Less View Video Transcript
0:00
All right, there he goes, Kid Capri, Kid
0:02
Capri.
0:02
What up? What up? What up? We up town,
0:04
baby. What up? What up?
0:06
Yeah, Kid.
0:08
Hey, man, last
0:10
Yo, you got to give us an update, man.
0:12
Not too long ago, we saw you come on on
0:14
on on social media and you you looked
0:16
down and out. You were curled up in a
0:18
fetal position and you were sweating.
0:20
But, at the same time, you were giving
0:21
people insight. You were a little ill.
0:23
You know, what's your condition now,
0:25
man? What's the status of things?
0:26
I'm 100 100 right now, man. And um when
0:29
I was sick and I put that video out, I
0:32
had a thought twice of all the attention
0:34
it would have got. I probably wouldn't
0:35
have put it out, but I wanted people to
0:36
take care of theyself and I wanted
0:38
people to take it serious, man. So, my
0:39
message was don't trust nobody, get
0:41
yourself together, stay away, try to
0:43
stay in as much as you can and
0:45
you know, that was my whole thing
0:46
because it was real serious, man. It was
0:47
my second time catching it. The first
0:49
time I caught it was in March 2020 when
0:51
I did the Sony Sony Hall with KRS-One
0:55
and then the next night we did Howard
0:57
Theater in DC. And when I went on the
0:59
plane in the following day, they had a
1:01
bunch of wipes on the plane. I was like,
1:02
that's what killed y'all. I wiped off my
1:04
little area, got home and I was sick for
1:07
at least a week and a half, man. It was
1:08
really bad. The last time was worse than
1:10
this this time, but it was bad this
1:11
time, man. So, you know, it's real
1:13
serious, man. So, that's what I wanted
1:14
to do, make people understand what it
1:16
is. But, I seen all the attention after
1:18
it. I was like, damn, I shouldn't have
1:19
put the video out, but it was good, you
1:20
know, people showed me how well they
1:22
was. Yeah, you know.
1:23
But, I'm here now. We good now.
1:25
You didn't like that attention, Kid? You
1:27
Kid Capri, man. When do you not get
1:29
attention?
1:30
Hey, man, that's I I tried to you know,
1:33
keep it subtle, you know.
1:37
All right, man.
1:38
I I want to talk about this album. But,
1:40
you mentioned KRS-One, bro, and I I know
1:42
you've been on a roll with a lot of
1:44
major artists.
1:45
Man, if you could recollect, what do you
1:47
What do you think was probably for you
1:49
the most life-altering or life-changing
1:52
tour that you went on and and who was on
1:54
that tour with you and why?
1:56
Oh, man, I've been on a lot of tours. Um
1:59
my very first tour
2:02
uh was the I can't remember it was the
2:04
cold it was the Public Enemy tour. It
2:06
was the Public Enemy tour and it was 13
2:08
groups on that tour. Everybody was
2:10
known. Um and then the after that my
2:13
next tour was Def Comedy Jam. So Def
2:15
Comedy Jam, even though I would jumped
2:17
on all these different tours, Def Com-
2:19
I'mma leave Def Comedy Jam, go on
2:20
another tour, I'll come back to Def
2:21
Comedy Jam or I would be doing it at the
2:24
same time. So Def Comedy Jam was on I
2:26
was on the road with them
2:28
for maybe uh I don't know 9, 10, 12
2:31
years, something like that. Maybe longer
2:33
than that. Longer than the television
2:34
show. So
2:35
uh I think my life changes show or when
2:38
I knew I really landed was when I did
2:40
the Garden for Aaliyah. When I was
2:42
helping Aaliyah on on the Budweiser
2:44
Superfest tour
2:46
and I came out in the middle of a set.
2:48
Aaliyah, you know, she had the dance
2:49
set. So it was uh Ja Rule,
2:51
Mary J. Blige, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony,
2:54
uh Juvenile. So they had more of a
2:57
different kind of set that she had. She
2:58
had the dance set. So she wanted some
2:59
energy. So that's how she had me come
3:01
out in the middle of her set. When we
3:02
did the Garden, man, to this day me and
3:04
Busta Rhymes talk about it cuz I brought
3:06
after I did my set at the Garden, I
3:08
brought Busta Rhymes on stage with me.
3:10
And to this day me and Busta Rhymes talk
3:11
about the wind that we felt from people
3:13
screaming at us on the stage. We felt
3:15
people's breath screaming at us while we
3:17
were on stage and I'm glad Busta was
3:19
there to to to witness it cuz I had to
3:21
told people that they looked at me like,
3:22
"Yo, stop lying, kid." But he was there.
3:25
And we always talk about it. He always
3:26
say, "Yo, kid, remember when the wind
3:28
blew in our face?
3:30
It was just It was crazy, man, that day.
3:32
So that was my That was my That's when I
3:35
knew I said, "Yeah, I'm but I did is
3:37
accepted because I never seen a crowd go
3:39
that crazy."
3:41
It was really It was a lot of
3:43
Was there a lot of like blunt residue on
3:45
your skin from all that wind and the
3:47
Nah, it was Nah,
3:48
that was like the classic people.
3:52
Capri, what's up? This Heather. How you
3:53
doing? How you been?
3:55
How you been?
3:57
How you been? So then
3:58
um talk to us a little bit about being
4:00
on tour with Bell Biv Devoe and all of
4:03
them and like that because for me, I
4:05
think a lot of people didn't think New
4:07
um Bell Biv Devoe was going to be
4:10
successful as they were breaking away
4:12
from New Edition. And their shows used
4:16
to be and still are, in my opinion,
4:18
crazy. What was that like for you?
4:20
Well, the the tour was RBRM. What they
4:23
wanted to do was What happened was
4:25
Yeah, what happened was uh I'm a strong
4:27
believer of promoting people even if
4:29
they don't know I'm promoting them. You
4:30
know, that defines who you are to people
4:32
when you do things behind their back
4:34
that they don't know about. That's
4:35
that's a positive thing for them. So one
4:36
day, I had posted uh Michael Bivins' hat
4:40
uh
4:40
Sporty
4:41
Sporty
4:42
He has Sporty clothing line. So I had
4:44
posted a hat one time and he called me.
4:46
He said, "Yo kid." He was like, "Yo,
4:48
that what you did, man, was incredible.
4:49
I I can't believe you did that." And I'm
4:51
you know, I didn't look at it as no big
4:52
deal. But he said, "Yo, we're going to
4:53
go on tour one day." We used to see each
4:54
other places and we just say all the
4:56
time we're going on tour. So one day he
4:57
called me. He said, "Yo, we're doing a
4:58
RBRM tour. We're bringing Bobby, we're
5:01
bringing Bell Biv Devoe and we're
5:02
calling it the RBRM Bobby, Bobby, Ricky,
5:04
and Mike. And we want you to go out and
5:07
you're the you're the only person going
5:08
out. It's just us and you." So we
5:11
brought um
5:12
They would have uh
5:13
What we did we brought I think we
5:15
brought Faith Evans show. We brought
5:16
Genuine Evans show. We brought Jon B
5:19
Evans show. We brought uh Little Duval
5:21
Evans show. But the whole tour was RBR
5:24
uh Kicking and Screaming RBRM. And it
5:26
was an incredible tour, man. I was so
5:27
grateful for it cuz they could have
5:29
anybody they wanted. You know what I'm
5:31
saying? But they they got with me and
5:32
that was just really dope. You know, you
5:34
know, that's my man. I just got to
5:35
talking to Mike yesterday.
5:36
Yeah, shout out to Mike Bivins. A man of
5:38
his word. Love family. That's love.
5:40
Let's go.
5:42
All right, that's what's up. Kid Capri,
5:44
it's Rich Nice. What's good with you,
5:45
brother?
5:47
My brother, Rich Nice.
5:49
Yes, sir.
5:49
My brother, Rich Nice.
5:51
All right. Let's Let's talk about the
5:53
album a little bit cuz this is this is
5:55
uh you know, I'm not going to say it's
5:56
uncommon for people, but we don't hear
5:58
about this often where someone has
6:00
written, produced, and performed the
6:02
entire project. So, what was the most
6:06
difficult song to write and what was the
6:08
beat that you worked on the longest?
6:11
Um
6:13
I think the most difficult song to write
6:16
was Slap Key
6:17
because Slap Key was the very first song
6:19
I did when I decided to do anything.
6:22
And I wanted to have a record. I didn't
6:25
want to come out with a party record,
6:26
something that people would expect. I
6:28
wanted to come out with something that
6:30
was going to make people get
6:31
reacquainted with me, Robin, again.
6:33
Um I wanted That's why the video was
6:36
just me by myself, no no distractions in
6:38
the video. I wanted everything to just
6:40
be focused on me and people take it
6:42
serious. And once I seen that people
6:44
took it serious, that's when I knew I
6:45
was doing the right thing and then
6:46
playing it for a couple of celebrity
6:48
platinum artists that would have
6:49
probably said, "Nah, kid, this ain't
6:51
right. Don't do it."
6:52
They gave me the utmost praise with it,
6:54
man. So,
6:55
that's how I knew I was doing it right.
6:56
So, Slap Key was pretty much the hardest
6:58
because I wanted to get it come across
7:01
I wanted to come come across that I I I
7:04
like I like I like I got it, but I also
7:06
wanted to come across humble. I wanted
7:07
to come across
7:09
like I'm talking to my people, like I'm
7:10
talking to my man in in the store and
7:12
you know, just keeping it
7:14
150. That That That's all it was and and
7:16
make people understand that now that
7:17
that's out.
7:19
And then Uptown came out. Now you see
7:20
the party side, but after that, we get
7:22
serious. We get very serious after this
7:24
party after Uptown joint. So, you know,
7:27
but it it it Slap Key was the most
7:29
difficult to do.
7:31
I knew you were going to jump in.
7:32
Yeah, I was going to say for people that
7:33
don't understand the title though, Slap
7:35
Key, like say if you in Kansas right now
7:37
listening it's like, "Well, what is Slap
7:38
Key? What does that mean?" Break that
7:40
down, kid.
7:41
If you listen to If you listen to the
7:43
track,
7:44
it's a sad piano,
7:46
right? And the drums are the drums are
7:48
hard.
7:49
So, I called it Slap Key because of the
7:52
drums being the slap and the key being
7:54
the sad keys.
7:56
So,
7:57
I wanted I wanted to I wanted it to be
7:59
hard because when you make when you make
8:01
a a sad when you have a sad melody,
8:03
the the beat got to be hard unless you
8:05
trying to unless you trying to do a sad
8:07
song or trying to do a love song. You
8:09
trying to do something where you trying
8:10
to get people's attention, but you want
8:11
them to listen. You don't you don't
8:12
really care about them dancing or
8:14
anything. You want them to really
8:14
listen. It's got to slap a certain kind
8:17
of way.
8:18
So, that's that's what my whole idea
8:20
that was, but it definitely was wasn't
8:24
was something that you know, I
8:26
I didn't say let me let me write it
8:28
calling it Slap Key. It didn't go It
8:30
didn't get called Slap Key until I got
8:31
to the hook.
8:33
Got you.
8:34
Mhm.
8:34
That's the song That's the song we just
8:35
played, Citizen Kid. Kid, I'm wondering,
8:38
man, like
8:39
it's it's a whole different landscape
8:41
out here in the rap game, you know, from
8:43
from from when you and when we all first
8:45
came out. And then as people make
8:49
projects for different reasons, you
8:50
know, when we were coming out, you know,
8:52
when when you made music, you wanted the
8:54
you really wanted the approval of your
8:56
peers. You wanted people to hear your
8:57
music and go, "Oh, wow, man. You hear
8:59
what Kid Capri just did? You hear what
9:00
Rich You heard that first on Hot 97's
9:02
new joint?" It was really about that,
9:04
getting the credible the credibility,
9:06
that props, you know, that was
9:08
motivated by culture, you know, um
9:11
nowadays is a whole different kind of
9:13
landscape, a whole different audience.
9:14
When when you go to record this album
9:16
being who you are,
9:18
are you aiming for a demographic? A lot
9:20
of times of folks who've been in the
9:22
game a long time try to adjust to what's
9:24
happening now, and then they become
9:26
inauthentic to who they are. Did Was
9:28
that a you know, a juggle for you?
9:31
No. My thing has always been the kids,
9:34
the grown-ups, everybody probably.
9:36
That's why my show on Sirius XM Fly is
9:38
called the Block Party because the Block
9:40
Party invite You go to a Block Party,
9:42
nobody's restricted. Doesn't matter what
9:44
your age is, where you come from, how
9:45
you look. Everybody come listen to good
9:47
music all at the same time and have a
9:48
good time. You know what I'm saying? So,
9:50
that's what I always represented. I
9:52
never been on one side of the spectrum.
9:54
You know what I'm saying? That's why I
9:55
don't like the the term, you know,
9:57
old-school or throwback or any of that
10:00
because I treat things that's old like
10:02
it's new. You know what I'm saying? I
10:03
treat things that's that's new like it's
10:05
classic. And that balance makes
10:08
something that sound old relevant. You
10:11
know what I'm saying? Or something that
10:12
a older person may not want to hear
10:14
that's you that's new, make them like
10:16
it.
10:16
You know what I'm saying? And and and
10:17
that's what it's about. It's about the
10:18
way you give it to people, the way you
10:20
do it, you know, um
10:22
when I did this album, my
10:23
I didn't say, "Yo, let me try to chase
10:25
the young kids." Or let me try to chase
10:26
that I said, "Let me make an album that
10:29
everybody can enjoy. There's going to be
10:30
something there for everybody."
10:33
And then the most thing and the bigger
10:35
picture is is kids ears still where it's
10:38
supposed to be.
10:39
You know, can I keep up, you know, with
10:42
all parts of the album, you know, from
10:44
the underground to the mainstream
10:45
records, you know, um
10:48
I I I set out to do something and I knew
10:51
I wasn't going to do do it thoroughly.
10:53
You know what I'm saying? So, whatever
10:55
style I came with, it was going to be I
10:56
was going to try to make it the best I
10:57
could make it, but I wasn't trying to
10:59
really chase nobody in no kind of
11:02
in no kind of way. I just wanted to put
11:03
put everything together in a melting pot
11:05
that people judge for they self.
11:07
Did you reach out to any
11:08
artists to be on the on the project, any
11:10
of the the newer MCs?
11:12
Negative. I wanted to do an album
11:14
where I could prove I could do an album
11:16
without a bunch of people on it. You
11:19
know, I want to do some records later
11:20
with guests, but I only have three
11:22
people on this album, and it's my
11:24
daughter, it's a R&B artist named
11:26
Lavelle,
11:27
and it's a reggae artist that people
11:29
know named Mr. Lex.
11:30
Um
11:31
but generally, I just wanted to do all
11:33
the beats. I wanted to write everything.
11:35
I didn't want to get a bunch of guests
11:36
on there. I wanted to show the world I
11:38
could do it. And this is not something I
11:39
do all the time. That's the wild factor
11:41
in it. I'm not I'm not somebody I had to
11:42
depend on making records. I never had to
11:44
depend on making records. It was a
11:46
secondary thing. Uh
11:48
but now that I'm doing it, if you're
11:50
going to do it, you got to do it to a
11:52
high level. And sometimes you just got
11:54
to do it by yourself.
11:56
Sometimes you just got to do it just to
11:57
show people that you can do it. And and
11:59
you ain't got to depend on anybody's
12:01
help. Even though I'm always offered I'm
12:03
I'm
12:04
I'm always open arms to help. But this
12:07
time I did This is something special.
12:08
This is This is just another thing under
12:10
my belt. And if I could prove to
12:11
everybody I could do it by myself. Yeah,
12:13
and another thing another point I want
12:15
to make is I never liked Maybe this is
12:17
why I never been on a whole bunch of
12:19
albums. You know, I got a lot of records
12:20
I produced for people, but I never liked
12:22
going to people and saying, "Yo, I got
12:23
beats. Let me get on your album, you
12:25
know, let me come up in your session,
12:26
yo." I never I
12:28
And maybe that's the downfall or a fault
12:30
of mine, but I never could get in the
12:32
mode of doing that. So, I felt like if I
12:34
put this album out or put whatever music
12:37
out, it'll make people come to me. You
12:39
know what I'm saying? And it'll give me
12:40
a different leverage. You know, it'll
12:42
it'll give it different respect to me
12:43
trying to force myself on somebody
12:45
else's music, regardless of the fact
12:47
that my name is Kinky P or not. I'm not
12:49
known
12:50
for being a producer or writer, even
12:52
though I have a I'm Grammy award
12:53
producer. I got my first album I'm rhyme
12:56
doing, but I I got big as Kinky P the
12:58
DJ. So,
13:00
that's the narrative I got to change
13:01
now.
13:02
Yeah, I was going to ask you if you feel
13:04
like uh people overlook your your
13:06
production prowess. Like I'm familiar
13:08
with it because, you know, I dig in the
13:10
crate, but I I people don't mention Kid
13:12
Capri the producer. So, can you
13:14
can you share with us some songs that
13:17
you've been a part of from the
13:18
production side that some of the biggest
13:20
songs that you've been a part of,
13:22
whether you contributed, whether you
13:23
gave the idea for the song, or whether
13:26
you actually worked on the song in the
13:28
in the studio. What are some of those
13:29
songs that you've been behind or you've
13:30
been a part of?
13:32
Besides the people that I produced on my
13:35
album, which is well, let's go back. My
13:38
my biggest records is where
13:40
when I produced Heavy D Nothing But
13:42
Love, I wrote some of that, too.
13:44
I did It's Like That for Jay-Z.
13:47
I did Masterpiece for Madonna. I did
13:49
Rowdy Rowdy for 50 Cent.
13:52
I did um
13:54
uh I can't remember now, but it's but
13:56
yeah, I I did quite a few records. I did
13:59
um
14:00
Troy Ave.
14:02
Mhm.
14:02
Quite a few records, but I never
14:04
I never took it like as a consistent
14:06
thing. They would get beats from me
14:08
whenever it whenever it happened, but it
14:09
wasn't a thing where I was trying to
14:10
like really push it. You know what I'm
14:12
saying? I didn't really take it
14:13
seriously. Me being on the road all the
14:15
time, that was my bread and butter.
14:17
Like, you know, you're doing all those
14:18
days, doing all those shows, you're
14:19
making bread.
14:20
That's what my focus was, and whenever I
14:22
did beats, it was really for me. You
14:24
know what I'm saying? It was really for
14:25
me in the house and stuff like that. But
14:27
now, you know, I got a little older,
14:29
you know, when the pandemic hit,
14:32
that was the first time I had a chance
14:33
to sit down cuz I've been on the road
14:34
from '88 to the pandemic pretty much.
14:37
You know what I'm saying?
14:37
Hold up. That might have been a stunt,
14:39
y'all. I don't know if y'all heard what
14:40
he just said. You could do the math on
14:42
that from '88 until the pandemic, which
14:45
happened in 2020. So, how many years is
14:48
that? That's 32 years. Kid Capri has
14:50
been on the road before your mother was
14:52
born. Come on. That's how long you've
14:54
been getting money. Come on. Stop
14:55
playing. Go ahead, Kid. My bad.
14:57
So, you know, um
14:59
being on there that long I mean, of
15:00
course, going on the road and coming
15:02
home in between, but being on the road
15:03
that long, I never had a chance to
15:06
really sit down and focus on other stuff
15:08
that I wanted to do.
15:09
Even losing weight. I lost about 40 lb
15:12
in the pandemic, you know, because I had
15:14
a chance to sit down.
15:16
And you know, with that, I did not only
15:19
one album, I did four albums.
15:21
I got, you know, we have the clothing
15:23
line, sucker free. We have Jazz has the
15:26
real estate, you know, we have other
15:28
things going on. We did a couple of
15:29
movies, we did cartoons. I did all this
15:31
while sitting in the in the pandemic.
15:33
And
15:34
so when when it was time for me to go
15:36
back on the road, when people started to
15:37
get me back on the road, I didn't go
15:39
back on the road until
15:40
2021, June 2021.
15:43
All that time before that, people were
15:45
trying to get me to come out when they
15:46
felt like it was time for them to do
15:48
something.
15:49
I personally wanted to make sure people
15:51
were safe, so I would eliminate me going
15:53
out. I I canceled every gig, but me
15:55
doing that,
15:56
you know, I
15:57
I did start taking dates in June, but I
15:58
wouldn't take certain dates, certain
15:59
size rooms, wouldn't take certain
16:02
certain bread, but I wanted to like just
16:05
I got used to just doing other stuff for
16:07
a while, cuz I've been on the road for
16:09
so long, man, and me getting a chance to
16:11
open up and do all these other things
16:13
that just put a different focus on me. I
16:14
love the road, I still still want to do
16:16
it, but I don't want to do it when I
16:17
want to do it, not because I have to do
16:19
it. I want to do it because
16:21
because that's what it is. And right
16:22
now, my mindset is owning everything,
16:24
you know what I'm saying? Being being
16:25
having your hand in everything, forget
16:27
about working for people. Put
16:29
opportunities out there for others to to
16:31
have a a situation.
16:33
So, that's where my focus is at right
16:34
now, brother.
16:35
Let's go.
16:36
Al Talk a little bit about the love.
16:38
Yes.
16:39
Got your boy Seven Kick the Priest
16:40
joining us. 887-423-345.
16:43
Rich Nice.
16:44
Yeah, I just wanted you to add in um um
16:46
cuz I know you just recently did some
16:48
production for the Fatback Band. Tell us
16:50
about that.
16:51
Yeah, my uncle is Bill Curtis from the
16:53
Fatback Band, leader of the Fatback
16:54
Band. Um
16:56
and you know, they always made their
16:58
records throughout the years through the
16:59
'70s. They've been a very funky band.
17:02
They was the first to make a rap record,
17:04
well, not the first to make a rap record
17:06
ever, but they were the first in our era
17:08
of hip-hop. When hip-hop started, they
17:10
were the first to make a a rap record
17:12
called King Tim the Third Personality
17:14
Jack, right before uh Sugarhill Gang
17:16
dropped. So, most people think Sugar
17:18
Hill Gang was the first record, but it
17:19
was King Tim the 3rd, and then it was
17:21
Sugar Hill Gang. So, their their
17:23
footprint in music is bigger than they
17:26
probably they than they get credit for.
17:29
You know, so I interviewed my uncle Bill
17:30
Curtis on IG Live one day.
17:33
And a lot of people that, you know, was
17:35
on there, they got a chance to learn
17:36
about him, you know, and see the
17:37
history.
17:39
So, when he, uh, decided to do the Bang
17:42
Bang record, he had sent it to me, said,
17:44
you know, he wanted me to hear it.
17:45
And I didn't like how I didn't like some
17:48
of the arrangement. I didn't like the
17:49
drums. Like, there was certain things I
17:50
didn't like on it.
17:51
And I said, "Yo,
17:52
yo, uncle, let me uh, let me remix this
17:53
for you, man." I remixed it for him and
17:54
sent it to him, he went crazy. So,
17:56
that's how it ended up being. He has a
17:57
big following, real big following in
17:59
Europe. So, Bang Bang is doing really
18:00
good in Europe right now.
18:03
All right, Kid Capri is here, man. Um,
18:07
I want to take a couple of callers, and
18:08
then I want to ask you about your
18:10
daughter, okay? They need no love, all
18:12
right? We got Reggie on the line. Um, he
18:14
traveling on the road. Rise and shine,
18:16
Reggie. What's popping?
18:17
What up, Reg?
18:18
Hey, what's popping, man? How you doing?
18:20
What up?
18:21
We got the icon here, man. What's up,
18:23
Reg?
18:24
Hey, man. I used to Hey, look, I wanted
18:26
to say
18:27
back in the day when I I was like 15, I
18:30
used to travel from Washington D.C. on
18:32
the Greyhound
18:33
and go up to New York
18:35
and end up downtown in Times Square
18:38
looking for somebody who was selling a
18:41
Kid Capri mixtapes. I used to buy the
18:42
mixtapes for $25. And get back home
18:45
before 9:00 that night before I had to
18:47
be in.
18:49
I I used to make that travel. I just
18:51
want to say one more thing. Hey,
18:53
Mr. Sway,
18:54
on the days you play your old school,
18:56
can you play Heather B. All Glocks Down?
19:01
You know what?
19:03
Yeah, man. I think that's a song we
19:04
should start playing. You know what I
19:06
mean, Heather B.? We never played that
19:08
before, Reggie.
19:10
Okay.
19:12
But I got your back, man. I got you.
19:14
I'll get that for you. All right, my man
19:16
Reggie. You a citizen man. The love come
19:18
out February 7th. Make sure you get it.
19:21
Mixtapes are like
19:24
I'm sorry. But mixtapes, man, kid, a lot
19:25
of us You know, I used to play a lot of
19:27
music off your mixtapes on in Cali. You
19:29
know what I mean? That's why I would you
19:31
know, just you know, when we was on the
19:32
radio, we
19:33
just act like we did the mix.
19:35
And just, you know, right where you said
19:37
Kid Capri, I'LL SAY SWAY.
19:43
THE CRAZY THING WHEN I WAS ON THE RADIO
19:45
ON BLS back in the days, I you I'm sure
19:47
you know, I used to start off my show
19:49
with you and Tex Wrecks. That Every
19:52
single night with that record that beat
19:54
started and the show started, I started
19:56
with that record every night.
19:58
The follow for now record when we had
19:59
the Don't Tempt Me to Dial. Yep.
20:02
Man, let me tell you what you did when
20:04
you did that cuz we would hear about it.
20:06
Like, yo, they playing your record in
20:08
New York. And And if you were from the
20:10
West Coast at that time
20:12
Mhm.
20:12
If you got any burn in New York on New
20:16
York radio, you made it. And then when
20:18
they said it was
20:20
Go ahead.
20:20
That That's that you're very right about
20:22
that because they wasn't playing no
20:24
South, they wasn't playing no none of
20:25
that. I was the I was the only one
20:26
playing The My very first plaque that I
20:28
ever received before I got a plaque from
20:30
any New York artist or anybody was the
20:32
Geto Boys for me Blowing Up My Mind
20:34
Playing Tricks on Me in New York.
20:36
And
20:37
the second one was second playing Mr.
20:39
Music by Outkast. Nobody was playing
20:41
Outkast. I was playing that on the
20:43
radio. So, I was way ahead. The Source
20:46
Awards I was the '95 Source Awards with
20:49
the Shug thing. I was the announcer on
20:51
the television set. I was sitting in the
20:53
fifth row when Outkast got called out.
20:55
And they you know, the the boos
20:57
happened. It
20:59
And and the boos happened. It wasn't The
21:00
boos wasn't for Outkast. It was for the
21:03
situation that was in the in the room.
21:04
It It a very
21:06
tense situation. Like things were to pop
21:08
off any second. You know what I'm
21:09
saying? So, yeah, Outkast always been
21:11
dope to me.
21:12
I Well, that's that's what made made you
21:14
special. I was at that Source Awards. I
21:17
was actually sitting rows behind Dave
21:19
Mays
21:20
when when that all happened. So, I was
21:22
there, too. And that was just a a
21:24
magical
21:25
a really magical moment, man. But thank
21:27
you for playing Sway in the morning in
21:28
New York, man. You was the first, you
21:30
know, to do it on radio.
21:32
[ __ ] you might have been the only to do
21:33
it.
21:38
at that time.
21:39
Um I want to ask you about mixtapes, but
21:41
first I want to bring your daughter in
21:43
who's been on our show a few times, and
21:45
I think she's amazing. She's like a
21:47
niece to me and and it probably scares
21:50
her sometime when I go on her IG live
21:52
and she getting wild in the
21:53
conversation. I'll just show up, kid,
21:55
just for a few minutes just to let her
21:56
know I'm watching.
21:58
Um I remember you talking about you
22:01
know, Vena Love and saying early on you
22:04
wasn't sure if you want to put her in
22:05
the industry, wasn't sure if she was
22:06
ready. And then now you guys are doing
22:09
music together. When did you know your
22:12
daughter was ready? What was it?
22:14
As far as, you know, the you know, you
22:15
you in the music music industry, you
22:17
know how it how it is. You know what I'm
22:18
saying? But she showed me how she was
22:22
growing up. You know what I'm saying?
22:24
She always been
22:25
She always been kind of like me,
22:27
independent, stay on top of things, you
22:29
know what I'm saying? Don't don't make
22:32
herself look crazy, you know, try to you
22:35
know, treat people fairly, treat people
22:37
right, you know, and um so she knew all
22:40
that. She knew all that. Now, when she
22:42
wanted to do music,
22:44
it's I she was I knew she was talented
22:46
before I knew she wanted to sing because
22:47
when I did Radio City Music
22:50
Music Hall, myself, LL, Ciara, and
22:52
somebody else, I can't remember who was
22:53
on the show.
22:54
When I came out the second time on the
22:56
show to come out on stage, I brought her
22:57
on stage with me and she did a dance
22:59
routine out of nowhere. I didn't know
23:00
she was going to do it. And
23:01
Radio city lost their mind. They went
23:03
crazy after when
23:05
Ciara was on stage. I took Davina put
23:08
her on my shoulders and walk around the
23:09
crowd. They would you know grabbing at
23:11
her and asking for autographs and
23:12
pictures and all that. So, she was a
23:14
little star before she knew she was
23:15
going to be one. So, when she started to
23:17
sing
23:19
I didn't think she was ready yet. Not
23:21
that I didn't think that she was going
23:23
to be good. I didn't think she was good
23:24
yet.
23:25
And then one day she brought me a record
23:28
that she did with her little boyfriend
23:29
at the time
23:30
called Best of Me. It was the the Maya
23:32
and Jay-Z record. They redid that.
23:34
And I was like that's when I was like,
23:36
"Okay, yeah, this is serious." And then
23:37
when she brought Air, that's when I knew
23:39
she was ready.
23:40
Air was written for Rihanna.
23:42
Air was written for Rihanna and never
23:44
got to Rihanna. So, Davina ended up
23:45
doing the record herself and
23:47
that was the one that put it in. So,
23:49
yeah, she she and she shows a lot and
23:51
she very hard worker.
23:53
Treat people right. Do what she got to
23:55
do, you know what I'm saying? Very
23:56
serious and critique everything about
23:58
her. If there's if there's a video we
24:00
have, she want to make sure that all her
24:01
angles is right. You know what I'm
24:03
saying? Like she's very much on it. So,
24:05
yeah, she she's she's just like her dad,
24:07
work hard.
24:08
The count black
#Arts & Entertainment