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Mistah FAB on The Hyphy Era Tour Featuring Keak Da Sneak, D-Lo, The Federation & More
Apr 17, 2023
The Hyphy Era Tour is finally kicking off this Friday, May 5th (Cinco de Mayo), and it's going to be an unforgettable night of Bay Area hip-hop. The tour features an impressive lineup of some of the most legendary hyphy artists, including Mistah FAB, Keak Da Sneak, D-Lo, The Federation, The Team, and more. Recently, Mistah FAB stopped by Sway In The Morning to talk about the excitement building up for the tour, and we're here to give you all the juicy details.
If you're not familiar with hyphy, it's a subgenre of hip hop that originated in Oakland, California. It's characterized by its upbeat, party-like atmosphere, and it's all about having a good time. The Hyphy Era Tour aims to bring that same energy to cities nationwide.
Mistah FAB sat down with Sway to talk about the tour, and he couldn't be more excited. He mentioned how, growing up in the Bay Area, he was heavily influenced by the hyphy movement and how it was a major part of his childhood. He believes that the genre helped put Northern California on the map and establish it as a hub for hip-hop.
The Hyphy Era Tour is not one to be missed. If you're a fan of hip-hop and love to party, then this is the tour for you. With an incredible lineup and surprise guests in store, it's going to be a night full of energy and excitement. The tour kicks off this Friday, May 5th (Cinco de Mayo), so make sure you get your tickets before they sell out. Get ready to hyphy like it's 2006 all over again!
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[Applause]
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that voice right there oh
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oh
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[Applause]
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I say it man this man personifies
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everything the Northern California is
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about
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I tell you Manny I celebrate him because
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of the way he celebrates us he's an
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ambassador he's a true speaker he's ten
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toes down he's one of our leaders
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easily he's a griot he does it all for
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us as he represents the Bay Area
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come on man he's done put it down for so
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many years in so many different ways you
0:34
know a lot of people come to him when
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they're trying to explain or understand
0:38
what it is that magic that we produce
0:40
out of debate had never really been
0:42
properly represented I don't think it's
0:44
ever been properly celebrated but we
0:46
don't look for validations from others
0:48
we get it from ourselves okay and that's
0:51
why we always been a independent minded
0:53
and able to stand on our own tent ten
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toes even when the music business wasn't
0:57
signing Bay Area or artists uh the music
1:00
business wasn't giving Bay Area Credit
1:02
that's all old narrative all old
1:05
conversation we don't need that
1:07
validation we did it independently and
1:09
did it ourselves so when I say he's the
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very personification of where the
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Oakland is in the Bay Area Tracy G I
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tell no lie I gotta welcome him back to
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the shoulder one and only Mr Fab come on
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man
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I love y'all
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um a citizen a family member a little
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brother
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um you're my mentor Tracy G and and
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Heather man y'all y'all add so much to
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this the Dynamics of just what we
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represent Man in Black Culture man this
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is this is Iconic and for us to be here
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man the last time we were together we
1:51
were at the White House
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that was huge man being able to be at
1:56
the White House what man Staples in the
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White House of what we were representing
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at that moment and at that time that's
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right for us to be here right now and
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this is um we definitely appreciative of
2:06
the moment man I um I appreciate you
2:07
taking your time out bro to come in and
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you know the politician right here
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just disingenuing this man like um hey
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man we we add so uh to The Fray what we
2:18
have we actually add to each other is
2:21
that value he spoke on that in the
2:22
embassy stages of this but that value of
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what we have to have the first value
2:27
comes from family and friends of people
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that's where we recognize that value
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when you're you know when your son or
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your daughter or your mother or your
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father when they value you and they pour
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that value into you that that means a
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lot
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um and and that's what it's all about
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right now and as as one of the the new
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uh ambassadors of our area man I want to
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continue to
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kind of defer that to the Young
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Generation that's that's doing their
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thing now and that's what it's all about
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for me man being able to show those
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young guys hey man value yourself y'all
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are value in what you're doing even
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though the major labels may not be
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coming even though the the the
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mainstream radio may not be playing your
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records what you guys are doing to go
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from your government name to your artist
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name and people recognizing that that
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alone is should be valued man so big
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shout out to all the artists that are
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from our area doing things and abroad
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around the world man that's continuing
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to keep taking their dreams and making
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it other people's reality I love it man
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uh Mr Fab you hear this young man is the
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bear
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like New York once was
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or like Atlanta once was or like Houston
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once was is the Bay Area
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the the
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the mecca of the music industry in your
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in your opinion I think of the
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independent music industry
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um it's always we've always flourished
3:48
as Independents we've always had
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um the two short E40 Andre Nickatina Mac
3:53
Dre mentality that were eight that we
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were able to just say we're gonna get up
3:57
and go get it our own um we've watched
3:59
several floors from that JT the bigger
4:00
figure who implemented the super
4:02
independent hustle and Master P A lot of
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those guys mirrored some of the things
4:06
that they were the blueprint that they
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were laying down
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um but yeah nowadays you know you have
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got uh Ghazi with Empire and he's like
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he's a he's I like to call it like a
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middle pendant he's an independent and
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he's a major and they've conflated and
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and in that conflation what they've been
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able to do is the birth of several
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artists that you get a chance to see
4:27
guys he's doing a hell of a job giving
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some of these young guys an opportunity
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to even have their music heard on these
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different platforms and there's a
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plethora of artists and several
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different genres in the Bay area that
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are striving right now man you know um
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amongst you would normally see Oakland
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or you would normally see you know San
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Francisco but now you have all
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surrounding cities that have their
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spokesmans we have the uh you know the
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valleos with the Russells the antiochs
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with the uh the simbas and you know the
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Richmonds with the cash click bugs and
4:58
the you know the berkeleys and there's
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different artists man that are that are
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definitely just flourishing from the
5:04
music side and then on the media side
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you have things like little Blood TV
5:08
which is you know to me he looks like
5:10
the next way in the making if you get a
5:13
chance to check out little Blood TV it's
5:15
super wrong cut media alongside with
5:18
Lord Rabb and the no vultures and we're
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just trying to continue to just curate
5:22
and cultivate our own media our own
5:25
independence like we may not ever be
5:27
major artists but if you can look at
5:29
what a filthy rich or J Stalin has done
5:32
with their artists and their Collective
5:33
and what they've been able to build the
5:36
maturation of all of that hard work hey
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man you put us side by side with any
5:40
major artists you won't be able to tell
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who's the major artist there you go
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tracks one shout out to him
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telefonte you know real repti and two
5:48
juice quasi that whole movie that they
5:50
have going one of the things you did
5:52
that I find fascinating and I admire you
5:55
for and all of us had to do it too short
5:57
had to do it for he had to do it all of
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us that came from a certain era had to
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do it you picked up the game from it is
6:04
you expanded I won't say reinvent
6:06
yourself but you expanded your brand uh
6:09
where people didn't know you just as a
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songwriter in the MC at what point in
6:14
your career did you decide to do that
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why did you decide to do that and how
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did you do it
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it was a few things that was going on in
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the Bay Area
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um that forced that okay
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um with me musically
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um and you know I like to bring up the
6:31
if you know you know if you don't know
6:32
it's no need to backtrack and go through
6:34
that I'm not here to
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kind of reread certain chapters of life
6:38
but in this new book that was that that
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forced the hand and uh and I had to go
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right for others
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um you know there were there was
6:46
something that was going on in my life
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at that time that wasn't giving me a
6:50
chance an opportunity to talk to my
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people as I as I would like
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um so I began writing for others um
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disguising my influence I began writing
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records for others and that's what birth
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the songwriting
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um which latter led to you know plaques
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and some experiences from that which was
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super dope
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um and it was very opulent and then from
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there we we dove into the community and
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we move that in droves by what we were
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able to do for the people you know
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um there was it was it was cloudy for me
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at a chance man it was it was real
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lugubrious man and it was it was it was
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I was stuck and I just dove into the
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community the backpack giveaways the
7:31
charity and all of those things which
7:33
was the community restoration of just
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building that up which gave the people
7:37
like oh this is the the Native Son who's
7:39
coming back giving back to the community
7:40
and then the clothing line sparked with
7:43
with crypto and duct tape and my brother
7:45
rest in peace to G field and we just hit
7:46
the line with the dope error and that's
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where I felt like we took Brandon
7:50
seriously because everything at that
7:53
moment I took a page out of Masterpiece
7:56
book it was just it's dope error
7:57
everything you know it's it's we just
8:00
bought the dope Air Museum it's a
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hip-hop Museum that we're launching come
8:04
on uh this summer in Jack London Square
8:06
the hip-hop Museum where I definitely
8:08
have I'm going to surprise you but since
8:11
we're here now and I have an exhibit a
8:12
sway exhibit where there's a painting uh
8:16
just dedicated to you like you know to
8:18
my heroes so my heroes are
8:20
Huey Newton MC Hammer too short and sway
8:24
Calloway wow so there's it's like a
8:27
mausoleum that will be dedicated to you
8:29
in the hip-hop Museum
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um
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and then it's um we have the dope Air
8:42
Academy for the school that's launching
8:44
this summer is something that we've been
8:45
doing Funk and myself have been super
8:48
dedicated to making a difference and
8:51
digging in with these kids and taking
8:53
them to you know field trips amusement
8:55
parks museums camping trips fishing
8:57
trips and now we're going to launch the
9:00
campus which will
9:02
um kind of like allocate that same care
9:04
and concern with these children and the
9:06
cultivation of entrepreneurialism and
9:08
other things that are going to be and
9:10
changing the narrative pouring value
9:12
into these children that don't recognize
9:15
their greatness and extracting that out
9:17
of them so that's the dope era Academy
9:19
the dope air clothing store we just
9:21
opened up the nightclub the club the
9:23
club is directly across the street from
9:25
our clothing store which is named after
9:28
my mother my mother always wanted a club
9:29
so Club Desi's that's been something
9:31
that's been rocking and rolling to be
9:33
one of the only black successful club
9:36
Owners that has this liquor license and
9:38
things like that all legitimate that's a
9:40
pat on the back as well for myself just
9:42
to be able to say wow look at what we're
9:45
doing in a city that they said this
9:47
couldn't be done wow that's amazing bro
9:50
yes yes so we're doing it like we could
9:52
have easily moved away and uh sought
9:54
after you know lower rates and cheaper
9:57
prices for rents and things of that
9:58
nature but we're we're maneuvering and
10:01
one of the most expensive places in the
10:03
country and still opening up businesses
10:06
and this is coming out of a pandemic
10:07
where several businesses failed yeah
10:09
horribly and for us to have the support
10:12
from the community and still pour in man
10:15
um what we're doing uh I'm humbled by it
10:19
and I'm appreciative but I think what
10:21
I'm most thankful for is the support
10:23
that we have from my immediately my
10:26
immediate family with Uncle
10:28
hunk man worldwide baby yeah he walking
10:31
into hey man this man walking to any
10:34
door to get love man come on man Timo my
10:38
sister timote what's it like for you man
10:41
girl up in the town and they're saying
10:43
your nephew do like what what you see in
10:45
the change that's come from the moves in
10:47
the in the investment that you guys have
10:49
made but how did it feel for you because
10:52
you've had your own life you know what I
10:54
mean you face your own adversities and
10:56
here you are well for me um just being
10:58
able to see these things
11:00
um continue to give me hope and inspires
11:03
and motivates me to continue to push and
11:05
be a better person you know what I mean
11:06
yeah I just feel like um at this point
11:09
I'm like
11:10
um like a part of the tree so I also
11:13
have my own um
11:15
works and efforts and things that I need
11:18
to do to make sure that we look good at
11:20
all times you know with me coming from
11:21
you know I'm going in out of prison to
11:23
using drugs to just you know what I'm
11:26
saying um having one class in school so
11:29
you know I ain't gonna be able to be
11:30
talking like he's using the big words
11:32
but you know I have my own story so I
11:34
have my own um I have my own angle of
11:37
how I go um try to attack the problems
11:40
that we have in our city streets yeah
11:42
with the young guys you know what I'm
11:43
saying because I we we had different
11:45
experiences kind of you know what I'm
11:46
saying he have what he's been through in
11:48
life as far as musically and the
11:50
struggles and things that he had along
11:52
his paths and then I have my own
11:54
personal
11:55
um
11:56
self-destruction
11:58
um things that I've been through that
11:59
you know I'm saying that I went about
12:00
why are you so nervous swinging your
12:02
feet and stuff why are you in my
12:04
business you know what you know I had
12:06
one class in school man so when I get on
12:08
the spot I get nervous
12:11
this ain't like the resource class
12:16
but see uncle is a real Oakland story
12:19
you know like it's you know you you've
12:22
been through a lot done a lot and you're
12:23
doing a lot man I see you overseas and
12:26
you have a way of communicate with
12:28
people you walk in rooms or people don't
12:30
know you right and they feel like they
12:32
know you and love you yeah I guess it's
12:34
just um
12:36
and when you've been through so much in
12:37
life you just want to be a light to
12:39
everything so when you go in there you
12:41
just want to be like hey hey like like I
12:43
just want to bring positive energy into
12:45
anything that I operate with and
12:47
anything I walk in I just try to be me I
12:49
just try to be happy excited you know
12:51
I'm a little tired I was up all night
12:52
that started so you know oh damn man you
12:55
have work to do
12:56
um yo yo whatever happened with that
12:58
that
12:59
that that chip you ate that high chair I
13:04
ate that high chair for 500. did you eat
13:07
it did I ate it for 500 it was hot but
13:09
you know um
13:11
I didn't done a lot of worship for 500.
13:15
I heard you were gonna be nothing hot
13:17
what
13:18
good boy said I got 500 for you
13:22
oh you were sweating though I saw that
13:23
you know um like I say when you when you
13:25
have a uh a dark path a Hot Chip ain't
13:28
nothing like well if you know what I've
13:31
been through you would have tried to
13:32
give me about five minutes
13:37
easy 500 for you huh definitely and
13:41
y'all travels what was the most uh for
13:44
you uh fulfilling place or a place that
13:46
you
13:47
you know he was most surprised I can't
13:49
believe I'm standing here
13:51
I mean
13:53
I never if you want to be honest
13:55
um what I come from you know what I'm
13:57
saying what I've been through in life I
13:59
probably never thought that I was going
14:00
to be able to travel the world I never I
14:02
never was inspired to go anywhere you
14:04
know I'm saying I was cool we're right
14:05
there once I got clean I was just cool
14:07
with being clean in my area you know
14:09
what I mean and my nephew you know I'm
14:11
saying come on I'm gonna make you and
14:12
I'm gonna show you and I'm gonna take
14:13
you around the world so you can
14:14
experience life so
14:16
um I think like uh
14:20
Cuba was one of the best bikes that I
14:22
liked it the most wow Cuba bro yeah
14:26
yeah it was the food was great the
14:29
greatest yeah the people was great yeah
14:31
I mean and um just to um be there and
14:35
understand some of the things
14:36
historically that they have been through
14:38
to be where they was at in life and I
14:40
understand that they were
14:41
self-sufficient like it was a it was a
14:43
place like we had a Airbnb and I used to
14:45
go on the roof of the airbn just look
14:47
down because kids were still playing
14:49
outside yeah like nobody was nobody was
14:52
checking for a cell phone we didn't even
14:53
have a cell phone like we couldn't even
14:55
we had to go way downtown get the Wi-Fi
14:57
card scratch it you get an hour on your
15:00
Wi-Fi you know I mean on your um
15:01
whatever it was using so it really gave
15:04
us it gave me the opportunity to to slow
15:06
down and just focus on what I was trying
15:09
to do in life because for a long time I
15:11
was lost like even even when I was
15:13
trying to
15:14
um even once I got clean off drugs it
15:16
still took me five six seven years to
15:19
find myself so people we used to say
15:21
like man laugh he joke like I never used
15:23
to talk you know what I'm saying like
15:25
when people came around I'll just always
15:27
be I'd be like for him I'll be like let
15:30
me see who the bad guy is let me see you
15:31
trying to use him like I was so caught
15:33
up in that that and then I but it gave
15:36
me time to like try to figure out who I
15:38
was again because I had lost myself
15:41
you know what I'm saying I'm gonna say
15:43
it more so maybe I hadn't lost myself I
15:45
haven't never I hadn't had the
15:47
opportunity in life to find myself yeah
15:50
you know what I'm saying so I never even
15:51
knew who I was period because I was so
15:54
busy trying to be a version of everybody
15:56
else I've seen yeah you know sometimes
15:58
you would look up to the wrong people so
16:00
you would pick up the wrong stuff so
16:01
you'll start inquiring that to you and
16:03
you'd be like man it didn't work for you
16:04
because it wasn't you yeah so I had so
16:07
much in me that wasn't me because of me
16:09
trying to follow behind and chase behind
16:11
the wrong lifestyle so my role models
16:13
was wrong so the things that I learned
16:16
from them I had to unlearn you know what
16:18
I mean in the process that I learned
16:19
you'd be like in a blank space where now
16:21
you don't like you don't want this
16:22
information but now you got to try to
16:24
find out who you are and that's kind of
16:26
like what my struggle was at you know so
16:28
being in Cuba like allowed me to be like
16:31
like it was a long run to me trying to
16:33
figure it out so I was like no phone you
16:36
know what I'm saying because we all get
16:37
caught up in The Matrix so now I can
16:39
really like just can't call nobody I
16:41
ain't got in Cuba
16:43
maybe so I don't know never knew that I
16:46
just I mean it's like where I was like
16:48
you know it was and the kids was playing
16:50
it was just like a lot of stuff that was
16:52
from my era of being a kid was still
16:55
going on yeah kids was outside pushed
16:57
one little kid sitting on the skateboard
16:58
his brother pushing him like it was just
17:00
stuff that was grounding almost right
17:03
yeah I could kind of something like that
17:05
that's amazing man [ __ ]
17:07
sometimes saying nothing so damn saying
17:10
everything I only want to act five
17:11
nothing
17:13
Mr hook interview make sure y'all check
17:16
out
17:16
oh man I love it man yeah man no I just
17:21
think it's important that you know
17:22
sometimes people would get caught up in
17:25
who they see you is for today right and
17:27
they won't know who you was before so
17:29
once they get an idea once I'm
17:32
transparent like I'll tell you anything
17:33
I'll tell you I got Dentures I'll tell
17:35
you like I don't care yes
17:39
[Music]
17:48
thank you
17:50
nephew but that's confidence you don't
17:53
care about it it don't care what nobody
17:55
else
17:57
they just left the building she got it
18:00
she might she might know what them gums
18:02
do
18:05
he was talking about my road kill
18:07
earlier today from my earlier life on so
18:10
I understand what you made with your
18:12
past life and everything but I'm clean
18:13
now I love y'all citizens have a
18:15
beautiful weekend
18:17
I love you so much
18:21
you hear that did you hear what she said
18:25
you see what she said go Sacramento
18:29
we said we wasn't going to start like
18:31
this this bird's not in there nephew
18:39
the whole season
18:41
I said we don't play for the regular
18:43
season we play for the playoffs and
18:45
y'all getting like the number one pick
18:46
though so don't you know it's like one
18:48
of the worst teams don't go get
18:50
something big shout out y'all want
18:51
enough the Spurs had they run definitely
18:54
beautiful so no disrespect to all the
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Spurs fans out there but I understand
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what I'm out means you know
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just walked out
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you know they haven't been going crazy
19:14
back and forth man about these King uh
19:16
the Warriors and Spurs you know they
19:17
used to dominate us man and one thing
19:19
about them tables they gonna turn they
19:21
always gonna turn Tracy you want to jump
19:23
in yeah absolutely well first uh you are
19:25
very very hilarious and personable and
19:28
electrifying and so I [ __ ] with you I
19:31
appreciate it absolutely thank you for
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sharing so much of your story Fab you
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know we had um
19:36
such an incredible filmmaker and fellow
19:40
man of the culture Alan Hughes right up
19:42
here before you join us in the studio
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and he was talking about what troubles
19:47
him is how narcissistic of a society
19:50
that we've become you know and he was
19:52
talking about even from the title of an
19:55
iMac and an iPhone and just the emphasis
19:57
on me me me and I would say one of the
20:00
flaws of America is that we have valued
20:03
the individual for more centuries than
20:06
we have valued community so for someone
20:10
who is having an eye-opening experience
20:14
you know and they're thinking dang I
20:16
have been focused on myself but how do I
20:19
let go of that attachment maybe someone
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who doesn't even see why Community is
20:24
important because they feel like
20:25
everyone's always been against them and
20:26
so that's why they're hyper focused on
20:28
self talk about like why being an active
20:33
member of your community is cool because
20:35
it always seems like that's a hard
20:36
itself like people think that's corny or
20:39
there's no like you know kind of
20:41
sexiness to it but everything flashy
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um
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one of one of the key components is all
20:50
of the things that were poisoned were
20:51
were the things that were
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we were awarded for we were rewarded
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with are you so dope you're a real [ __ ]
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oh you'll kill her you're a real one
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you're a prostitute you're a real one
21:05
you out there really you standing down
21:06
on that go hey are you really standing
21:08
about [ __ ] about her money are you a
21:10
pimp man you my role model so all of
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these things that were actually created
21:15
to destroy the community all of these
21:17
things that led to the devastation uh
21:19
and and the destruction of what we were
21:21
building from Community moments and
21:23
Community times those things became
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glorified and then glorifying that the
21:28
the the person that may have been the
21:30
demure laid-back chill shy but modest
21:33
individual who felt like I was going to
21:35
school but I was hiding that I was an
21:37
intelligent person because I didn't want
21:39
someone to call me these names and hang
21:41
up under these monikers that they would
21:43
give me that led to negative content and
21:46
negative context uh I ran away from that
21:49
so being smart wasn't Gangsta you know
21:52
that's why people get more love
21:55
getting home from prison than they do
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graduating from college
21:58
so in this days and times the new Role
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Models have to come in and reinvent
22:04
the narratives of what's cool of
22:07
creating the cool one thing with me
22:09
about the community was everything that
22:11
we rap about everything that I am came
22:13
from my city of Oakland and it was
22:15
everything because Oakland is a
22:17
multitude of many different diverse
22:19
cultures Community mindsets so in one
22:22
house you may have had your uncle was a
22:24
panther and then in the room downstairs
22:26
your other uncle was a pimp yeah so
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you're getting uh uh the the mixing in
22:32
of that uh uh the Potpourri of that
22:34
where it's just these these these crazy
22:37
mixed in ideologies and philosophies and
22:40
you're trying to say okay well which one
22:42
do I do right my mom a drug dealer my
22:45
uncle drug user my cousin The Pimp My my
22:48
sisters are conscious thought leader and
22:50
so we have an ability to grab from
22:52
several different things to me the
22:54
community was most important because
22:55
that's where the common Unity is even in
22:58
the word the common Unity with with
23:00
community and it was always about
23:01
watching The Village and I think a lot
23:03
of people that turn their back on in the
23:05
village that's a secondary term and
23:08
primary that Village has abandoned that
23:10
child an old folklore there's a saying
23:12
that the child that is abandoned by The
23:14
Village will later return and burn that
23:15
Village down and what we're witnessing
23:18
is the watch Riots of our Villages our
23:21
Villages being burnt down because of so
23:22
many of us have created this
23:24
individualism that we no longer care
23:26
about that little kid that's selling
23:28
candy outside the store and we walk
23:30
right by him so that little kid says
23:32
this candy ain't selling I'm finna break
23:34
somebody window I'm gonna rob somebody
23:35
I'm gonna break into somebody's house
23:37
because you don't want to notice me when
23:38
I'm trying to do right
23:40
unfortunately we have so much money
23:42
allocated to negativity there's money in
23:45
prison reinforcement there's money in
23:47
all of these rehabilitation centers
23:49
there's money in uh re-entry programs a
23:52
person can get out a job and have more
23:53
of an opportunity to be a modeled
23:55
citizen than someone that's a model
23:57
citizen
23:58
so now we have all of this money
24:00
allocated that's kind of like rewarding
24:03
negativity like oh if you become a [ __ ]
24:05
up in life we we got some rewards for
24:07
you you're on probation or we got
24:08
somewhere for you to stay you know in
24:10
parole you did some crime we'll do all
24:11
of this and I'm not against that right
24:13
because I'm definitely again with the
24:16
whole you know Community restoration and
24:17
giving people a chance and second chance
24:19
options but what about these kids that
24:21
are doing good what about the kid that
24:23
has a straight A student that is a
24:24
straight A student that's not being
24:26
rewarded because all of the focus is
24:27
being on this kid that's dropping out
24:29
all of the classes all the dementor
24:31
programs and all of the the the the the
24:34
um available
24:35
internships or for the kids that are at
24:38
risk youth what about the children that
24:40
are doing good and so they begin to take
24:42
on the ideology like oh I got to be a
24:43
mess up to get y'all attention
24:46
interesting so these These are the
24:48
narratives that have to change we have
24:50
to start looking at that we have to
24:51
start looking at this child and and
24:53
pouring into this child I said on an
24:55
interview not too long ago about instead
24:58
of just being a dad and being a mom we
25:00
have to learn to pull off that title and
25:03
and pay attention to our children pay
25:05
attention to what your children is doing
25:07
most of most of the most people don't
25:08
even know their their children's
25:10
favorite color their favorite TV show
25:12
what they like they don't pay attention
25:13
to their children so now these are the
25:15
same children that's like oh you don't
25:16
pay attention to me watch How I get your
25:19
attention
25:19
then you on the news like whoa he did
25:22
what yeah yeah that is the formula of
25:25
rebellion that that is it like you're
25:27
not paying attention to me you're not
25:28
watching me you're not pouring into me
25:30
you're not as we said you're not giving
25:32
me value it's dehumanizing and so now
25:35
that's and now you have children that
25:37
are so forward mentally than we were
25:39
because of the access to technology
25:41
they're able to age there once was a
25:43
place called a child's place when we
25:45
grew up staying a child's place now that
25:48
child place is occupied by adults and
25:50
children so we live in the same
25:52
community so your child has the same
25:54
access to information to news to updates
25:57
to everything that you have access to so
26:00
it's up to you to monitor where they
26:03
grow with that or what they do with that
26:05
information because even though they may
26:07
have knowledge or be knowledgeable
26:09
towards things it's up to parents and
26:12
mentors and brothers and role models to
26:16
add in comprehension
26:18
because knowledge without
26:20
application is just information and we
26:23
have to be able to be comprehensive to
26:25
understand how to digest this knowledge
26:27
to come back in a reflection of the
26:30
community that was a key point for the
26:31
Panthers and that's what one of the some
26:33
of the policies that they had it worked
26:35
then and it continued to work if
26:38
implemented correctly
26:41
Mr Fab uh man I wanna man I want to
26:44
thank y'all for coming by man this is
26:46
appreciate it man man we don't even do
26:49
the verses no more I mean we just said
26:50
we just these are the verses this this
26:54
is elevation man it's elevation it's
26:56
always still available
26:58
um no no no no we're gonna get to that
27:00
but not today
27:01
I didn't even want to do that today I
27:04
wanted to talk like this talk about the
27:06
books that we have coming out and the
27:07
hypey tour the hypey tour kicks off
27:10
Friday May the 5th Cinco de Mayo what's
27:12
the first place on the stop we're going
27:14
to Bellingham
27:15
um Washington Seattle the whole hiviera
27:18
tour is just paying homage to the um a
27:21
movement in the Bay Area that
27:23
spearheaded fun times great ball
27:25
involvement keep the sneak Dilo uh the
27:29
Federation the team Turf talk it's like
27:31
all of the guys and then we have some
27:33
spot dates with you know too short
27:34
that's going to come out and the whole
27:36
hyphy era tour is just about
27:38
saying we never packaged it up where
27:41
people can actually see it and just come
27:42
out and have fun man and go and let
27:44
relive some good moments
27:46
um executive prints are we're doing all
27:48
the merchandise that executive friends
27:50
is our new company our manufacturing
27:51
company so we're printing up everybody's
27:54
stuff every every all of the clothing
27:55
line so big shout out to
27:58
um that as another adventure of
27:59
something that we've been working on and
28:01
um man let's just keep Building Man
28:03
shout out to the whole Bay Area all of
28:05
y'all guys that's doing your thing let's
28:07
get it Bay Area hey new face said shout
28:10
me out I want to say new face was here
28:12
that's my brother from Atlanta and he's
28:14
everywhere and I love his spirit and
28:16
anything we finna go down to Philly
28:17
right now we're gonna go to Philly
28:18
Cosmic Kev Mr Fab one of them you want
28:21
to come destroy your mic Booth please
28:23
hook that up you want it and I want to
28:25
shout out homegrown radio DJ head and
28:27
the team over there played a clip from
28:29
their interview and that's where you
28:30
talked about dads was on that show they
28:32
do a great podcast over there
28:35
um I'm gonna shout out to Doug C and CJ
28:37
Mack they got a great podcasts that
28:39
they're doing too I saw them we took a
28:41
clip with Tyron Turner
28:43
um on talking about um Allen Hughes and
28:45
Menace to Society they do a great
28:47
podcast there fabunk I want to thank
28:50
y'all man when I watch I watch you all
28:52
the time I'm on Instagram you really uh
28:56
carried this torch for the Bay Area in
28:58
an excellent way that moment we all
29:00
shared at the White House is something
29:01
surreal I haven't even been able to
29:03
process it all of us sitting there in
29:05
those chairs and then in the so-called
29:07
biggest house in the world you know what
29:09
I mean the most powerful house in the
29:11
world and we held court that was and we
29:14
did it our way hey I didn't say I can't
29:16
even process it man yeah and closing I
29:19
just want to shout out my daughter
29:20
straight A student I love you so much
29:22
and I tell you this all the time and
29:24
I'll tell you publicly it's not about
29:25
the Straight A's it's about the effort
29:27
that you're putting in and we not
29:28
disappointed if you get a b or get
29:30
anything I just love the effort that you
29:31
keep pushing and I want you to feel
29:33
pressured by having to stick keep up the
29:35
Straight A's but so big shout out to
29:36
Liberty Big shout out to the Oakland
29:38
girls that won national state
29:40
championships
29:44
Oakland High to the Oakland High and
29:47
we're done man Liberty Legacy and uh low
29:50
blood TV man check that out I'm gonna
29:51
check out a little Blood TV and shout
29:53
out to Laura Rabb over no vultures my
29:55
cousin cleeg I can't wait to see you
29:57
clean up baby bay area we up we want to
30:00
shout out Alan Hughes we'll be back
30:01
Monday y'all stay on the right side of
30:03
positivity on that note we have nothing
30:06
left to say
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