Word Is Bond Page #5

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Where the Neptunes

stuff at, man?

It's all... you know,

it's only, like, a few sounds.

Like, what-what are you doing?

Why-why they give you

this beat?"

Hip-hop dictates

everything, man.

- [man] Yo, Pusha.

- What's up, G?

All right.

Hip-hop dictates

everything, yo.

Everything.

And it's been like that

for so long.

Um... shout-out to...

shout-out to Kanye West, man.

[laughs] You know?

Sometimes a artist be so big,

and it takes a...

it takes a long time

for people to really, um...

to really admit the impact

of-of-of hip-hop and rap

on the culture,

but when you got someone

like Kanye spearheading

and being

the forefront of it...

you can't deny that truth.

[ bongos playing ]

[ J Dilla's

"The Creep (The O)" playing ]

[ staccato electronic beat ]

[Tech N9ne]

I used to be a dancer,

so I can enjoy Young Thug.

He f***ing cracks me up

'cause I can't understand it,

but he has melody that works.

And I know melody,

and I know harmony.

And I argue with Krizz all

the time 'cause he's a singer.

He's like,

"That sh*t is off-key."

I said, "No it's not."

Yeah

Yeah

All those notes

that Young Thug hit

work within that beat.

Best friend,

best friend, best friend

Best friend, best friend,

best friend

[]

Welcome to my car wash.

It's called The Wash.

Strange Music's own car wash.

Who the f*** in hip-hop

has a car wash?

I don't know.

I ain't never heard of one.

Fans, they'll travel

from Texas

just to come

wash their car here, man.

They'll travel

from all over the world

to Kansas City

to get the car wash.

It's top-notch.

This is something

to be proud of, though.

You know what I'm saying?

We can literally walk

to headquarters right here.

Strange Lane

is what I call it.

Pretty soon, we'll own

all this sh*t.

Next is gonna be a hotel,

then it's gonna be

a concert hall.

We're gonna keep growing.

- [line trilling]

- Hello?

I want to party,

you want to party

- We need to party

- Grazie

Let me get up.

- Saturday morning

- Yes

I ain't gotta work

Last night's show

sold a lot of merch

Bad b*tch in my bed,

so I ain't gotta jerk

Forbes' list caught me

So it's hard

to make a dollar hurt

We are now inside

Strange Music headquarters.

This is the house

that rap built.

This is our warehouse.

Every time I come in here,

I trip out.

This is where

all my colleagues work.

It's Strange Music

everywhere, man.

Funny that we started

with just a hat and shirt,

and now look at all this, man.

It's so wonderful.

This is what I like the most.

I like ladies.

Boom.

"Kali Baby."

Where are the G-strings at?

I... had nothing...

but talent...

to be able to write a song.

I thought my way

onto the Forbes' list.

When I first started rapping,

I sounded like Ice Cube.

I been mad ever since

my date of birth

My mother told me I'll be

a threat to planet Earth

Now I'm living up

to that title

[mumbles] Some sh*t

I used to say. I forgot.

It was a long time ago.

I been mad ever since

My date of birth,

my mother told me I'll be

A threat to planet Earth,

now I'm living up

To that title,

black with a rubber, yell

"F*** Billy Idol,"

the sh*t's too vital

I had to tap into what I was.

"Why do I have

these weird thoughts?"

You know what I mean?

So I gave them to my fans.

Gobble the track up like

I'm grubbin' at Mama Naka's

I can pop at you proper

'cause I'm partners

With Waka Flocka,

give me the top of hip-hop

And watch him make 'em rock

with a showstopper

The sick people that listen

to it, they connected.

[man] Why do you call them

sick people?

Because I'm sick... mentally.

I stole books because

they wouldn't give me

the classes in high school,

you know?

I stole psychology books.

I started doing drugs,

you know, and sizzling.

I almost died on those drugs.

I've been clean for,

like, 11 years.

What I realized

is that me writing my life

and telling people all

is totally my therapy.

Going through all the things

I went through

with my mom passing,

I noticed that over the years

that I'm my fans'

psychiatrist.

I was talking

about Krizz Kaliko

and my brother Makzilla,

you know, and I'm sizzling.

They're with me all the time.

Krizz is always with me

on tour.

Me and Makzilla lived

in the house for some years.

We're a writing team.

- How do you like the sriracha?

- [Krizz] It's hot as hell.

It's hot as hell,

but it's good, though, right?

Man, you got his mouth...

you got his mouth on fire.

Yelawolf ain't make these hats.

[Tech N9ne] Yelawolf

can't make what?

Yelawolf ain't make these hats.

- No, he did not make that hat.

- This is my Black Amish.

- [Makzilla] What you doin'?

- Aw, I'm in here

talking sh*t about y'all,

about writing.

[Makzilla]

You telling secrets?

- Oh, yeah.

- Ain't no secrets.

[laughs]

[Tech N9ne] How we did

with "Fear"...

only my brothers

could write a chorus

to that personal song

about my mom.

- Mm-hmm.

- You know what I'm saying?

We experienced

a lot of that with you.

You know what I'm saying?

Even if you was in a dark place

when you write it,

look what came of it, though.

That time that you have

to go to them places

in order to pull

that type of stuff out

is like, you wanna try

to get in there

and get out as fast as you can,

'cause you don't want

- to dwell on it too much.

- Aw, yeah.

- Wonderful.

- [Tech N9ne] That's why I'll

never do a totally dark

album ever again.

'Cause I didn't know I had

all those dark stories to tell.

Reoccurring dream

I was falling,

dropping from something tall

And Jesus' name

that I'm calling

This is pretty deep

I'ma decorate

the city street

Little bitty pieces,

there's really gonna be

Some chalky drawings

I been doing this

for so many years.

We write our music

to perform it live, dude!

The youngsters

don't do that nowadays.

You know what I'm saying?

I mean, that's cool.

You know, they didn't have

no OG teachers teaching 'em,

"Uh, how are you gonna

rap that onstage?

You just rapping

and rapping and rapping.

[stammers] When are you

gonna get a breath?"

"Um... I don't know."

I'm taking a breath.

I take a big breath. [inhales]

Follow me, all around

the planet I run the gamut

On Sickology, they could

never manage, we do damage

With no apology,

pick 'em off the panic

A little manic 'cause

I gotta be, frantic

I'ma jam it 'cause

I'm an oddity [inhales]

[rapping frenetically]

You know what I'm saying?

I got all that breath

to do that

'cause I took a breath.

I wrote it like that.

I want the fan

to come to the show

to hear what they love.

[Tech N9ne]

This is 904 Michigan.

From birth to ten years old,

I stayed in this house

with my mom, her mom,

her sister Suzy,

her sister Ivy,

her brother Ikey,

other brother Ricky.

We all lived in this house.

I used to ride my Big Wheel

down these steps...

over and over.

What's up, bro?

Kickin' it like a donkey?

- [laughs]

- I don't think they knew

- I was from down here.

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