The duo talk about their new album, releasing music on an NFT platform, and how friendship turned into collaboration
Allen Hughes on the Arrest in Tupac Shakur’s Murder: ‘What Took So Long?’have been scouring YouTube to find their “mystery album” for years to no avail. Luckily for the scavengers, the beloved artists released their collaboration albumlast month, and they dropped the DSP version today, with three new tracks in tow — including two with close collaborator Vince Staples.
Earl: I’ve seen some of the homies do it though. Mike always picks some [specific] date. He always picks a solstice. A winter solstice or some shit. So it can be cool…I’m sometimes envious. I be wanting to pick a cool date. I would just make some shit up after the date gets picked like, “Yeah, I always wanted it on 10/6. That’s the day when I first started 10th grade.
Earl: Being aware of what’s happening. It’s like being awake for surgery. Just cool it out, man. Let it happen.Earl: Yeah. I mean, we got to do both. I think that’s the win for me in all honesty. Trying shit out and it worked. It would’ve been weird if it didn’t. That would’ve been super awkward. I would commiserate with niggas if it was never coming on DSPs. If we did the Wu-Tang album move.Alchemist: All of them. None of them.Earl: I’m going to say it was mainly in LA at Al’s crib.
Earl’s definitely one of the best ever rapping and one of my favorite artists to work with. So for me, he was on that list for me of this is my man, this is my brother, but we have to make a whole album. Roc Marci was on that list. We had been 10 years friends before. I pressed him. I never had to press [Earl] because this happened naturally. Any couple more years, I probably would’ve been like, “Yo-“Alchemist: I work with literally my favorite artists.
That’s funny though because I wanted to ask you about one of the lines on “Mancala:” “I love my partner, but he Chris Bosh, Cuz can’t shoot.” I was like, “Damn, he thinks Chris Bosh can’t shoot. I feel like Chris Bosh is a prototypical stretch four.”the distinction. Okay, cool. Alchemist: Yeah. He’s into detail. He might switch a syllable. He might switch a syllable on your ass. Now that was a different syllable, not a whole word, a third of a word.Earl: MIKE, man. Baby Jesus, man. New York City. That’s my guy. It’s out there, bro: I make music with my friends. Mike is a dear friend of mine. My friends is the niggas that’s around by the time I’m ready to record some music. He is one of my favorite rappers ever. This nigga is incredible.
I feel like that’s the mark of all of my favorite music isn’t necessarily… I think great talent is a really necessary component to being great, but discernment and wisdom and consideration contribute to the rest of someone’s staying power because those other things will determine the love and care they put into the creative experience. So you’ll feel it in the listening experience and how they’re not trying to fucking talk your ear off like how I just did right now.
Earl: Different hats for different occasions. You know what I mean? It’s a gala party, you got a DSP party, man. Can’t wear the same shirt to the events.Earl: You’re getting Vince. And instead of the more slightly somber nature of all the small things, it’s a similar beat even in instrumentation and shit. But just the vibe is a little bit more whimsical on the heat check.
Earl: Yeah. It was like, again, let me live my life at this crib. So there was everything that came with life. There was good days, there was bad days that I recorded.Earl: Immensely, bro. Yeah, it helped me make sense of some shit.
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