Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: You don't know who you are to call that radio. That's who we are.
And just B is trying to call that radio right now, but there's some technical issues.
Give me a second.
[00:00:15] Speaker B: Still can't hear you.
[00:00:17] Speaker A: You can't hear me? You can't hear me.
[00:00:19] Speaker B: What's happening? I heard the music fine. Yeah, I can't hear your microphone.
It's.
[00:00:26] Speaker A: I think it's because they turned the hadron collider off, which is. I don't know anything about physics, but I like watching things about physics. Because NABDI knows about quantum physics.
It's quite reassuring to hear experts talk, basically shrugging their shoulders and saying they don't know anything.
I just changed my phone this week two days ago.
And as a an elderly millennial, it's the first time I felt old with technology.
The new phones are strange.
It's when a bit Blade Runner.
I had to wait two days to get a PIN to open the SIM card.
Every single app wanted a password.
And then I've got AI all these new AI hangs saying, what would you like an AI assistant? I don't want any assistant.
I don't want one.
I don't know where. I don't know what. Gemini. I don't need Gemini. I don't need chat. Gbt Baxby.
If you can hear me, type in Bixby.
Who knows what the that is?
But yeah, we're getting there.
And it's maybe a full moon. There's maybe a solar hanging on, but we are just b. Is just logging it and back in again. Sound check went fine, but there seems to be my window.
Do you like my window, Bixby? So you can hear me? Yeah, Bixby. What the is Bixby?
So, yeah, just BE is gonna be with us in a moment and I'll just. I'll just introduce him. We'll just start the recording for here. For the audio podcast listeners, just be. I met about, I don't know, maybe 12, 13 years ago, and it was either through Donald Jenkins or the Milk the Cow podcast that's now known as Cow Daily.
One of the guys recommended Just Be and we brought him to perform our Bimbap roll stage in the Borders.
And he was incredible. Absolutely incredible. It blew me away.
And it's the first time that I've been kind of introduced to hip hop and a Jordy accent. And I want to get clarification if it's okay to say Geordie, because I know that it just be represents Ashington, which is about 15 miles outside of Newcastle upon time and I know that there's a little bit of a difference in the accent so there's. We'll hopefully get into that later on.
And then most recently I met just be in on the beautiful tropical isle of Arran.
When he messaged me he noticed that we're putting on a wee festival called me Solar Fest and he asked if he could get involved and of course the answer is yes. It's always an honor to have that guy on the stage and we hope we will have him on the stage very soon for you as we sort out these technical issues.
So I'm going to play you one more of your students in the meantime. I think that's probably the a good show.
[00:04:10] Speaker C: I need to look inside and try to find a life is better to calcified and organized like I'm Terrence McKenna. You'll never ever enter heaven when the devil's got you wrapped around his finger Want to talk I've never learned me lesson but still I'm using I'm abusing myself I'm not improving me health it could be worse it could be spooning about never confused on what I choose to be deal Still I'm stuck inside consumerism losing me wealth yeah but still I'm paranoid certain patterns that I avoid you're rolling with a pack of loud fuck that I got a bag of noise I put the shits up in them never missing every track I'm spitting since then hitting pull it back and then reload the rhythm you couldn't step inside me shoes I say the vision cause the views are like I'm trippin see the future like religion Still I'm living a CM killing a peeing tricking me brain I couldn't be anyone thinking they're gonna get anybody I was similar playing hey you wanna talk about the catalog I dropped so many tracks a laptop cannot manage them and CDs if I stack them up they probably sound with God and I'm the same if the camera and the camera's off and all I see gets people stealing jumping on a trend whilst I'm daydreaming making a means to head breaking that I can make more than breaking even and leave the ends I taking everything to get made a we never say again I'm sick of feeling stuck heading towards the choice of feeding pops of water heating up just put the lights of ivory on tables and we clean them up just ever the microphone you know that I be freezing on Still I kill it every season just Give us a reason to stop breathing and I leave them grieving or beating the demons trying to live a life with no belief not taking meaning when you're stuck inside addictions I be needing feeding you tell yourself apart but now you're rattling you try to grab the bull by the horns where you kind of gravel it you're feeling lost inside the world you cannot manage feel like everybody's laughing you just want to turn your back on it Now I'm telling them nothing. It doesn't matter there's nothing that isn't matter. Still coughing me longs up. You want a tag? I've got some more packets. I spit on the bastards and piss on them from the rafters counter manifest all the master of this disaster I'm dancing around these MCs nobody can do it faster from my the globe and I'm back and I'm raising S I laugh in the face of all them say he's acting like granders you're not a legend you know when you're past ascension on the edge getting closer now that I'm stepping up say the end and I'm knowing that every second I begin to wear sleeves as closer the w be deport pledge allegiance to the music till I rest in peace until I find the time and decide that it's best to leave for destiny I couldn't be asked to read the stars I check the leaves and cutting all the divies off was easy cuz it's less to please I couldn't get two shits sick you're rocking a blue tick or move bricks or who's up in your videos and yeah prove you're just clueless you never felt opinion not been through this gamble with me life until I flop or lose it I do this I'm fitting away until I get sticking out my lower blue lips or digging a hole and sticking this under the throne that even is cupid and taking out everything going to be different and stupid this life is complicated leaves you twisted like a Rubik so move it.
[00:06:49] Speaker B: The psychedelic experience is the replay of human history in the individual mind.
[00:06:56] Speaker A: Right.
[00:06:57] Speaker B: If you don't know where you came from.
[00:07:02] Speaker A: Hello?
[00:07:03] Speaker B: I can hear you.
[00:07:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:07:05] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:07:07] Speaker A: Just be in the house.
All right.
[00:07:11] Speaker B: Good man. Good man.
[00:07:13] Speaker A: Good stuff. Good stuff. We just listening to Terence McKenna there. What. What an absolute should. Mate.
[00:07:20] Speaker B: Definitely. Man. I love it.
[00:07:22] Speaker A: It's. It's. It's great. So. Yeah. Because I hadn't listened to it for a while. But you shared that again because you were back in the place that you filmed originally and you just splattered it. You just splattered it.
[00:07:33] Speaker B: Yeah, man. Just relived the video again because I was up there. Well down there, up in. It's a Kilda if you've ever been there before.
[00:07:41] Speaker A: I've not been there, mate. I was going to get into that. I don't know how much you heard while I was talking but I was. When we were just. I gave you a bit of an introduction there.
[00:07:47] Speaker B: I didn't hear anything.
[00:07:49] Speaker A: You didn't hear anything. Right. So I was just. I was just wanting to clarify because Obviously in the YouTube title I said Newcastle but I'm aware it's Ashington and. And it's a. Ashington has got. It's got a bit of a twist in the accent. So just for. For as I didn't. Scottish or people who are not from the. The northeast. What. Tell us about Ashington. What's the differences? Is it okay to be linked with Newcastle Jordan? Is it they rivals or what's going on?
[00:08:15] Speaker B: No, no, we're not rivals and all that. Ashton's just like more of a. A small mining town about 16, 17 miles north of Newcastle. So our accent's just slightly different to theirs.
More like a pit pitmatic dialect, you know, like from all the mining history and stuff.
[00:08:32] Speaker A: So could you give us one of the. The, the differences? Because I think I've heard this before but there's just this was. Could you give an example? What's different? What would you say what's different with
[00:08:42] Speaker B: the like accent in us?
[00:08:43] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:08:44] Speaker B: So like for instance the pronunciation of the word like dog would be like dog but like. And I was just like dog. Like D E R G sort of pronunciation like dog, frog, Bob. So anything with that sound like I'm Robert but I get called Bob. Bob. Yeah.
So it's like that's the sort of twang. There's other stuff as well but like that's the main one that people always
[00:09:05] Speaker A: like remember the first time. I. I mean I think that I think you were my introduction to hip hop from the northeast. So. Absolutely the king of the northeast. As far as I'm concerned there's nobody even close.
I'm sure that there's lots of good guys we can shout out because we've got a gig at the. You've got a gig at the cleaning, the 18th. So we'll. So we'll get to that a bit. But I remember the first time you came along to audio strip. The first time I met you many years ago now.
[00:09:31] Speaker B: I Think. Was that about 2014? What you say?
[00:09:35] Speaker A: Good guess. It sounds a bit right. It sounds a bit right. You know, everything's about 10 years ago, but it's probably a lot longer than that. I would. I would say 12, 13.
[00:09:44] Speaker B: I'd say about. I think I came doing twice, to be fair. I think I'm doing 2014 and 2015, to be fair.
[00:09:50] Speaker A: That's right. And there was.
Yeah, it was. You came along, you smashed it. And I remember at the time being pure grateful for you for traveling all this way because you're in Scotland, but we were in the borders.
And then when I checked the maps, I realized that I traveled longer than you.
Thank you so much. You've traveled. Traveling all this way.
Yeah. You were traveling.
I think I did about two and a half, but yeah, the boom box rule 10, that was good. That was good times. And then obviously recently, we. We. You came up all the way to Aaron at the resort last year. Did you have a good time in the aisle?
[00:10:31] Speaker B: I loved it, man. Class.
[00:10:35] Speaker A: The.
You like a hike? You like a hike? Did you do a good feel? Did you do it? Because.
[00:10:41] Speaker B: Well, me and me pal attempted it, but it was just too hot, man. We got like halfway and I was like, oh, I'm gonna mic la. I'm like, if we get the top of here and then we'll have to come all the way back to. And I was like, nah, so we'll give up. But I would like to go back there. But, like, when we were there, we're drinking and stuff. I was like, nah, this is not the day for it.
[00:10:57] Speaker A: Like, there's actually. I seen a hang on YouTube the other day. I think it might be BBC, but it was on YouTube. And it was a guy who fell off, quote Phil. And he. He was fine. He fell off the top and he's. Well, it wasn't. He fine.
It was badly injured, but he's fine. He was like, talking about it and all that, so it said when. So would you. That was a long time ago. You were. You were. You've been rapping for a long time. You were already brilliant back then. When. When did you start? And what was the.
How long did it take you to.
Because obviously you make it. You make it look effortless, but it must. A lot of hard works went into that, clearly.
[00:11:36] Speaker B: What do you mean? Like, when did. I think I got to the level where, like, I.
[00:11:39] Speaker A: When did you start mc? Just give us a wee background. When did you start McK. You know what? I think I've. I Think I've got the hang of this.
[00:11:46] Speaker B: I've got something new. I know probably like when I probably talked like 15 plus years ago, like I used to just like MC the rave music. What was like obviously the thing in north, the northeast, which it still is, but like I didn't really know that anyone rapped here. I didn't even think it was a thing, to be fair.
I'd heard the odd people having to go, but now just when that kids with daft American accents, they're not, not serious, you know what I mean? And then like I had discovered a few of like the hip hop heads from up here who were actually class and I was like, wow, so that is a scene.
[00:12:20] Speaker A: Did you name drop a couple of them?
[00:12:22] Speaker B: Of course, man. Like I used to go into a youth club, like a youth center thing where they used to come doing with the decks and people used to jump on the mic and stuff like that. And then as a DJ called Ads Adam, he was part of a crew called the Scruffs. Like SK R U F Z was like three guys and they were like hip hop, boom bap style rap. And he sort of opened me eyes to the hip hop scene in like Newcastle. So that was them, it was Ad Lib Degen.
Ads were like the Scruffs. But then there was a guy called Rick Fury in a crew called Dialect.
And I was just a massive fan of them.
Proper class from like South Shields. And then from there I was like, no, I'm gonna have to start now because I was being a big hip hop grime fan or whatever. But I just. When you're not a part of that scene up here, you kind of think it's impossible to get into that. Do you know what I mean?
[00:13:14] Speaker A: Essentially, because it's the same thing. I think everybody run about my age in Scotland. We always joke about it as well. We all thought we'd invented Scottish hip hop because it wasn't really Internet, you know, there was.
Internet existed, but it wasn't right now
[00:13:31] Speaker B: like it is now.
[00:13:32] Speaker A: Nice. There was no way. It was a simpler time. But as a result, you know, I had to go back and discover all. I mean the, the hip hop's actually got a rich history going in Glasgow and beyond Paisley, going back to the late 80s, you know, two tone committee, power cup productions and stuff. So it was, it's. But it's interesting. Everybody does. I mean it's the lack of mainstream attention because of regional dialects and yeah, it's exactly the same in the north east, like yourself as in Scotland, but it seems to be criminally overlooked.
[00:14:10] Speaker B: Oh, for sure. Like, I fully support that, like the whole regional thing, I think it should be pushed more because it's an identity for one and it's like an arter one thing. But like you say, it's criminally overlooked in it and it has been for a number of years.
[00:14:26] Speaker A: And how did you. Like. So obviously I think Scottish and Newcastle accents a little different. There is. So there's a lot. They're very similar.
So I could. I could pick up your accent on.
Even though. Even. Even though you're going really fast. I can pick up. I can hear it very clearly. What was the first time you had a Scottish accent and. And did. Was it. Were you. Were you able to comprehend it straight
[00:14:48] Speaker B: away or did it.
[00:14:49] Speaker A: Yeah, I think so.
[00:14:50] Speaker B: Like, I feel like even when I. If I've just been to Scotland before, like, for whatever reason and I speak even some drunk Scottish guy in a bar, like, he could just be whatever, and I still managed to understand. I don't know if it's just a link between, like the north, like you see in Scotland, where you can just get it, you know, I mean.
[00:15:06] Speaker A: Absolutely. And there's nowhere a better example than that than Linda's Farm Festival, which is that, like, was it the Beano or the Dandy? They did the Jocks and the Geordies, but it's basically everyone's either Newcastle or Scotland.
Obviously. I've seen you playing that a few times. Are you playing this year?
[00:15:25] Speaker B: No, I'm not this year, to be fair, but I have quite a few years. It's a class festival. I would recommend that anyone who hasn't been there, for sure.
[00:15:33] Speaker A: So you got. You've got the clinic coming up on the 18th of July. July, yeah.
[00:15:40] Speaker B: A week Saturday, I think.
[00:15:41] Speaker A: Two weeks.
[00:15:42] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:15:44] Speaker A: 11 days.
This is the 7th of the 7th. At 7pm that's maybe technical issues. Bang.
Sorry. Sorry, I had a. I was. Last time we were done in Newcastle, we. We ended up having beers the following day outside the clinic. I've not actually been inside it, but I've heard that it's the venue to be. It's the one you want to be at in the decent venue.
[00:16:09] Speaker B: For sure.
[00:16:10] Speaker A: Yeah. So what's the. What's the. What's the night all about? What's. What can people expect?
[00:16:15] Speaker B: Well, basically me and NATO Northeast basically started collaborating, even though I've known the kid for 10 years. Plus he's like a year younger than me and I think I met when he was like 18 so that like over 10 year ago and we just never made music with each other. Even though we're both into the same stuff. It just never happened in four years. It's like a message in an inbox. We should dune together bro. I definitely will link up here and it just never happened. And then last summer I was like should we dune together, bro? I I and then I like went down to his and then we just like got into creative mode and like literally track after truck after track after track.
Maybe it was Aliyaza built up not doing them happened at once kind of thing, you know, I mean but I so it's basically a sort of set for me and him to do all the tracks that we've recorded with a few solos each in obviously from our catalogs and stuff. But the main night is like to focus on the stuff we've dropped over like the past 10 months and the.
[00:17:16] Speaker A: It's what could I. Because obviously every time I see a new just B track I don't know what to expect. Which is a good, it's a good thing because it could be, it could be Graham, it could be Bimba, it could be Makina which a little bit McKina.
[00:17:31] Speaker B: Yeah but Bikina basically is the, the biggest sort of genre for the northeast. Like I was introduced to it in sort of like there was a club called the New Monkey in Sunderland. Well the MCS used to MC then we used to have the cassette tapes back in the day were like the things to have with just like the sets on recorded from the night. So it was like the club I was never old enough to get in. It got shut down before I hit 18 unfortunately. But I've been like many different versions of it if you get what I mean.
And it was just like a Spanish Makina hard fast music basically with MCS over the top. People would say just like council estate type music but you know what I mean that's, that's what people say about like everyone around here's grow up on. Everyone has the tracks even there could be 30 year old rave tracks but they still get played today. Yeah I fast over the top of that pretty much. But that's when I was introduced to it and then everyone loves it up here. People love it in Scotland as well though, I've noticed.
[00:18:31] Speaker A: Yeah, absolutely. It's got a bit of a different thing. It's a different thing. But yeah the, it was actually there's a, there was a, there was a. Because Scotland's playing the World cup there Was actually.
There was a. There was a lot of Scottish World Cup. It was a kind of diss track culture.
The gangs. So the gangs were distant. The other gangs. Yeah, you know, slagging each other's moors over a pure.
So it's, it's, there's a lot of similarities and there's a lot of differences between what you, what you do, what happens here. But yeah, absolutely.
Glasgow loves that kind of stuff.
There's also what's the. Yorkshire's got his own kind of thing as well in it. Do you know?
[00:19:10] Speaker B: They've got a sort of similar sort of thing.
Yeah, but it's a CM sort of vibe.
[00:19:17] Speaker A: Yeah, I, I It's a scheme. It's from the schemes.
Save shows to save car. Who's actually got a. I've got a new song about Sevka.
Death of A Daydream music video is going to premiere here on Thursday night, seven o'.
[00:19:33] Speaker C: Clock.
[00:19:33] Speaker A: But saves asked. Nice to be introduced to your music. You mentioned creative mode. How do you get into that?
[00:19:39] Speaker B: As in just how to become creative? Yeah, I'm guessing when what I was on about before was just obviously like two people who are similarly inspired, I suppose, bouncing off each other. I think that's what it was. And like I said, we're meant to do tracks for a number of years together, which never happened, so it was like, oh, we should do this, we should do that. And it's just millions of ideas and creative stuff happening all at once. So then I just end up writing a few songs a day and a lot of demos, though, so not being afraid to just record, even though it's not perfect. Because I've for a number of years have been stuck in sort of perfectionism. Like, that's not good enough. That's not good enough. And then for the past few months when we've been dating stuff, I've just been like, just Dana putting it out there.
[00:20:25] Speaker A: Just it.
[00:20:27] Speaker B: If it feels good at the time, then somebody's gonna like it to somewhere.
[00:20:31] Speaker A: Well, I just, I just did a demo in Friday.
[00:20:34] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:35] Speaker A: I let someone hear it and then I did a a better version the next day and ruined it.
[00:20:41] Speaker B: Oh, really?
Sometimes it's the moment in it.
[00:20:45] Speaker A: I complicated it over.
[00:20:48] Speaker B: Complicated for sure, man. Definitely.
[00:20:51] Speaker A: And you know, the, it's because it's a sort of. It's such a nice beat. It's like.
So I don't do Jackal Trees. Listen, I'm not, I don't even try and do the kind of flows that you're doing or Anything. But there's. Obviously there's the. The MC part of me that wants to just put in, make it more complicated. But that song didn't need it. I should have just left it. But I'm gonna go back.
There's a better from column A and a bit from column B. It was. The first one was too simplistic. The second one needed a bit of space. There was too much space on it.
Get the seasoning right.
It'll be fine. Of course I've got. I've actually got a video of the Fantasies. What would you. How would you describe that? What kind of beast fantasies?
[00:21:33] Speaker B: This track's like. This is like a Makina rework. So this track, Fantasies is like an old school. Like I was just mentioning before, like a Makina truck that's like well known across the whole of Northumberland, the Northeast, Sunderland, the whole region. Basically it's just a classic from. It's massive nostalgia trip for me. It's like I remember being a teenager listening to this and it's just like. And I've done a number of like these sort of remixes, like slowing it down a bit to more of a grime rap tempo. But like I wasn't gonna do any more then. I was like, no, I need to do this one. And it's just. It's just a nostalgia trip for me. Basically.
[00:22:08] Speaker A: I'm gonna play it because for people who just don't. They don't maybe don't understand because obviously I'm more into my. My bimbap type stuff as well. But it's. It sounds class. I love. I love the accent over the. Over the speech. So let's check out. This is Fantasies.
[00:22:22] Speaker C: How many more times did I want to see me go back to the start? I've been tell memory land that I've theater up north I was trapped like a star Never really did it for the cash or the fame Just wanted a chance to be leaving a market hard when nobody reps for the northeast and around here I get left in the dark I'm just wishing time it would slow down honestly a piece of ground in your hometown Never heard the sound of the starting gun in 10 years I passed don't know where to go now stories are off to the B side lyrics on the villas Ever since I was knee high still I see a person like a beehive you get caught backed up like a 35 I'm living in a valley of the gas trees where a valley or a man ask like cats if you pass Jason get Cash that's tax free and stay sharp like a Mach 3 me a tracks on a crack version of logic on an old MacBook so that's free Still I put everything that I had inside so it now gets past me I come through and they know I'm authentic I spit like a wrench till now when I spent it I feel like I've been on the do I'm demented and everything I see is pure true and I meant it they haven't got a clue where the rest live they wouldn't know what to do in the trenches I didn't need to kill for the guest list I'm different, didn't do what the rest did still three or four the ones that are gone I put your name in a bar and a song I felt pain in me hard I was strong I never been the same so I'm marching along Feels like I'm going in circles Downstream in a boat with no purpose the town speaks in the chores and it verses I'm northeast but me floors universal it's funny how time flies Back then no Bluetooth or wi fi Just took a blank T and a high five in a R no phone, just wide eyes but then I felt like I had nine lives on a set in the same five rhymes Then I switch on the rear to the crime I hear dream brought a reenter Time side then around the globe I'm not the same kid from down the road I went from PlayStation a cloud of smoke to announcing shows where the crowd explodes with a thousand floors Been along December like counting crows Stay freezing out in the cold Keep killing the rhythm until the cows come home now change put the prices back then Full of doubt and decisiveness now don't want to shout who's the best on the mic? You ain't got the drive I'm revoking the licenses Put the fries in a bag it lives in me blood I'm not flagging a flag I kill him in a ring like Ivan Drago I'm supplying a bag Ever since I was a little young and never seen.
Every chance I give it Never giving up I'm feeling me when I couldn't give a single People sitting wishing in the Want to sing it so far homie more I guarantee there isn't any other and there never been one since Cuz I've got it on lock like Bronson the only time I stops when I'm unconscious They didn't want it cuz the floor is obnoxious Now I'm back In a place been killing MC since back in the day Is still hacking away rocking me brain Never want to take us back on a tackle again.
Every time I drop another classic I'll be killing for free Now I'm feeling them.
[00:25:00] Speaker A: Just be revoking licenses Amazing, man. So the. So what with.
And I heard you mentioned the village again. So can you explain the village? Because obviously you reference the Villas a
[00:25:15] Speaker B: lot in your music and everyone knows what it is.
It's basically just an area where I grew up. To be fair. I never even lived there, but I lived close by and it's just where all my friends lived and it was called Warthorn Villas. Like V I double L E S. But I just wait, pronounce it like Villas, but like modern villas.
Just like a housing estate, to be fair. Where to be fair.
[00:25:35] Speaker A: So it's like we said, it's a nostalgia trip.
[00:25:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:38] Speaker A: What does that beat make you think of? Or be talking Mary down Cythere for us, like.
[00:25:45] Speaker B: But I just achieved nasty stuff, you know. I mean.
[00:25:48] Speaker A: Yeah, well, Mary didn't marry was cheap and nasty, but maybe that was more than.
No, we'd Frosty Jackson White light.
Yeah, yeah, nasty too. But it's funny that I went to Belladrome festival a few years ago and they'd repackaged Mary down as like a. Like a kind of hipster, sort of like ironic cider.
[00:26:15] Speaker B: Oh, really? The rebrand.
[00:26:17] Speaker A: I don't know how he's doing. I mean, you don't see it. You don't. I've not seen it anywhere else, but I think there's.
They tried to make it ironic cider or something.
So the, the, the, the. That. That is the sound of the Villas when you're growing.
[00:26:31] Speaker B: Pretty much. Pretty much.
[00:26:33] Speaker A: Were you listening to, Were you also listening to like American boom bop type stuff at that time?
[00:26:39] Speaker B: Like probably the first rappers that I probably heard were the likes of like probably what everyone listening. Like your two party Biggie. But then I used to like a lot of big L, big pun. People who were fast, like born folks in harmony. Twist up us the rhymes. Like I was always like really like people who were like faster than. I just loved it. Like technique, anything that was on it was just like that extra bit for me. I just loved it.
[00:27:00] Speaker A: And when you're, when you're writing these songs, are you, are you. When you. Are you hearing the flow in your head and how long? I'm just, I'm just curious. I think what I'm curious about as breath control.
[00:27:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:14] Speaker A: Because I wouldn't even attempt though. I wouldn't even attempt that stuff because it's just, it's too, it's too difficult.
[00:27:21] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it's just.
[00:27:24] Speaker A: Well, yeah, someone younger than me. This isn't for me, by the way. This is for the young MCs coming up where. Where they haven't smoked all the life.
[00:27:32] Speaker B: I haven't absolutely damaged their lungs.
I mean, I had to be fair. But no, I think like, it's just because.
I think because like MC into like super fast BPMs first. So I started f and then went slow, if you get what I mean. So I started, I'm seeing at like 170, 180 bpm, like German trans Makina stuff as. As the beginner. So then. Then gone doing the 140 grind 90 BBM hip hop. Yeah, it's like, oh, well, I've already done the fast stuff so I'm gone, I'm gone slower. Yeah. So it's just incorporating.
I think I'm just stuck in that mode. Like a lot of the time. I find it's harder to do slower stuff, even though I can and I have, but like not as much.
[00:28:13] Speaker A: Yeah, but it's, it's nice when you get that. The, the perfect mix, you know, you've got. I don't know, you know, we, you know, Scotland's, we're blessed with lots of fast mcs. Like physics is incredible in fact.
So, you know, with physics. And I love it when he does a slow bit. But then, but then he's got that. Then he just. That, that in football terms, that ton of pace just to kind of speed it up again. I love it when it, when it comes together like that and. And shout outs to Ian as well, who, who's fairly new but you.
[00:28:43] Speaker B: Yeah, I really, I really like him. I've seen bits of his stuff, obviously, but then I've seen him at. On the Island. I really like his flow in the way he styles his tracks and stuff. Just like he's constant with a man. Very fast.
[00:28:55] Speaker A: Yeah, no, he's, he's doing great and I mean, I think that was like his fifth gig ever.
I. Well, I've known him for years but he's been, he's just been a fan of the, you know, he's been a fan of the gigs and coming to gigs and just being at festivals. He's been in the background. He didn't mention once that he could rap. And then one day you sent me a message saying, can you check out my, my first Rap song, which is sometimes I'll get those messages and you'd usually let.
[00:29:19] Speaker B: Oh yeah.
[00:29:19] Speaker A: The first rap songs. It's not gonna be good, but it was brilliant. And I'm like wait, wait, hold on a minute.
But yeah, he's obviously been. He's obviously worked in his. His craft in the background for sure. Who else played that night with Gasp and Keon were also on that night as well.
[00:29:39] Speaker B: I was really impressed with Kian Gasp of Legend. I seen him at that first audio. That was the first time I seen him live. And I've been a fan since then. To be fair.
[00:29:48] Speaker A: There's actually a.
Tam Shouts to Tam Tam. Found a video for Audio Soup and I don't know how much. I don't know how long it is, but. Gasp. School sets on it. I wonder if your sets on it. But we're gonna. It's all to look back on it. Yeah, it's good to look back on it and. But we need to find a way. I need. I need to buy a DVD extension.
[00:30:10] Speaker B: Like a camera. Like an old school.
[00:30:12] Speaker A: Yeah. So yeah, it was Thomas Brother. I think it's timeless. Brother Jim RIP Jim Adams Legend. He used to film a lot of the stuff and then put on the DVDs.
[00:30:20] Speaker B: Right.
[00:30:20] Speaker A: So I've got all this footage for like hours and hours and hours of footage from all these different review to review.
[00:30:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
Gems in it, man.
[00:30:31] Speaker A: In it for sure, man. I just need to get it. Need to get it digitalized.
I saw the. So the project that you're bringing out, what kind of. What kind of sound is that that you. That you're. That you've been working on?
[00:30:44] Speaker B: I've been working on a collaborative project with someone. Like it isn't announced, so I'm not really gonna say his name because it's like sort of a surprise. But it's kind of like mainly like rap, hip hop, to be fair. Like on the project that me and this other Northeast lads working on, we just need to record one more session and it's done. Trying to think what the style will be stylized, like a couple of fastest sort of grinds there, but it's like predominantly like rap and sort of emotional type stuff, to be fair. I'm quite excited to release that probably in the next few months that'll be announced like it's done. Just needs one more session of recording.
[00:31:16] Speaker A: And where. Where. When you're recording how. How fast that process is, you just sort of alluded to earlier on. You were just being about too much of a perfectionist. What changed? What changed in the. Your memory?
[00:31:29] Speaker B: I think for this project, it's still a bit of that perfectionism, like, because it's like different style of stuff and then it's back to the, like, sort of all that sort of style stuff. I'm doing, like, more introspective. So, like, more time will be took with the recording process. And I've took ages to write one of the verses. Like, I've been the one holding it up, to be fair.
I was like more of a deep track and I just couldn't approach it. I didn't know how to do it. But it's done now.
But no, the recording of this will probably be done in like 8 hours to finish it off, but it took about a year all in.
[00:32:04] Speaker A: So what. What would. Why. What made you think? What made you go, this is it, it's finished, it's over, it's done?
[00:32:12] Speaker B: I don't know, just give me sell a kick up the ass. I think I was like, right, you need to do this one verse. You're holding it up. It needs to get out before it gets too wild. And you just didn't want to put it to the doll. So it's like, just finish.
[00:32:22] Speaker A: Must be a good verse.
[00:32:24] Speaker B: All right.
[00:32:27] Speaker A: It's a good version. That's why you don't want to let it go.
You're having fun. Playing a bit weird. Like a crossword.
[00:32:33] Speaker B: No, it wasn't even like that, you know, it was just like I couldn't think and out and I just didn't day now. And then I wrote the verse in like an hour. So I sat and thought about it for about four months and then just done it in like an hour.
So just putting it off, really. You know what I mean?
[00:32:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:32:49] Speaker B: But like, it's done now, so it's done. Excited for that.
[00:32:55] Speaker A: So we can't. But we can't announce anything like that. So what. What. What stuff is out just now that people. We can point people towards
[00:33:03] Speaker C: the tracks.
[00:33:03] Speaker B: With Neo Northeast, a new literally track has just dropped in the past couple of days. A grime track called Sitting Ducks. It won't really promote it yet because we're waiting to just like do a couple of clips and stuff ready for, like, ready for the gig, basically. And then we'll perform it there for the first time. So that's just came out.
[00:33:19] Speaker A: Can I get it? Can I get it in there?
[00:33:22] Speaker B: You probably could. I. That's not like a music video or anything.
[00:33:25] Speaker C: It's.
[00:33:25] Speaker B: But the docs are spelled day U X okay Just to be awkward.
[00:33:30] Speaker A: Oh that's all right.
It's gonna be easily find that way. Yeah I found that. Okay cool.
[00:33:35] Speaker B: That's literally came out and we'll be performing that on the next weekend and then we'll just be performing all the tracks we've released in the past like 10 months.
[00:33:45] Speaker A: Pretty much Amazing. And is it you seem.
Where can people follow you? Where are you most active?
[00:33:54] Speaker B: Probably Instagram.
Just underscore. Just underscore B. But then like Facebook. It's just me actual personal name. Robot stories like me main page on there. And then Tick tock. Start to use Tick Tock recently which is just. Just B. But The S is a 5 just to be open. Have different usernames on every platform.
[00:34:14] Speaker A: Sorry, I'll update it and then for. For people who are wanting to give your full. If you're listening to this it's difficult because there's a.
[00:34:21] Speaker B: There's a. Just B. Who's like a K pop group who are huge. They came out after me by the way. I was first.
They're massive new and I'm just like. So when you search just be on like YouTube it's rlem. Unless you put like just be the track. If you put a like rapper then it's all me. So like yeah. Sometimes the odd one might come up me but like I'm like damn it. But I was first.
[00:34:43] Speaker A: Sure. Sue the man. Keep up. Keep up.
[00:34:46] Speaker B: I was definitely before that.
[00:34:48] Speaker A: Yes. Well get them sued man. Get him sued.
One one of my. My good friends Lou he's. He was called the Dragon Bone man years before for Rag.
He's a one man band so he's got like a. A half a drum kit and a guitar. Yeah. In fact he played that and I don't know if he was the same night as you though but he's. He was then I met he hates Rag and Bone man because he stole his name and then he changed his name to the Dragon Ball Man.
[00:35:17] Speaker B: The one and only Dragon Ball Man.
[00:35:19] Speaker A: The original but the ragged woman. Yeah he. But I actually met Rag and Bone Man.
A classic grand. He just jumped up for a cipher. He was in the crowd and he jumped up.
[00:35:30] Speaker B: I can't remember rapping that like didn't
[00:35:32] Speaker A: he before it was actually sound and I wanted. I wanted to dislike him because I knew my friend.
It's like you bumping in and just be the K pop guy and you're like well a.
[00:35:41] Speaker B: It's a group. There's a few of them. I'll jump. Could probably Jump us.
[00:35:46] Speaker A: Okay. That be a good scandal, would it? Fighting with K pop Superstars Def.
It's. So I've added that on. I've got. So I've got sitting ducks. I'm just downloading that just now. So can you tell us a little bit about sitting ducks and where it comes from and what it is?
[00:36:03] Speaker B: Me, Neo, basically just been working with a guy called English G. He's just like a grain producer from. I think he's from the. Either the Southwest, I believe.
And we're just really like. He's beating with us there, just sort of like back and forth with him and then we're just.
Because we were like, like you said, like a player with genre. So we've done some rave stuff, done. Done some sort of hip hop stuff and then we'll be making some grime tracks with him. So like he's got some banger. So just bang the track out pretty much and we're like, it's a product,
[00:36:31] Speaker A: to be fair and I have permission to play this. Can you just tell me that?
Yeah, I got. I got my copyright claim this week.
[00:36:41] Speaker B: Oh, really?
[00:36:42] Speaker A: Yes.
Well, it was. I was interviewing the. It wasn't the guy that was. It was the guy that I was interviewing. I shouldn't say the name. I'm not going to say the name because it wasn't his fault. But see if I'm interviewing somebody and they recommend, oh yeah, put that one on, I think that's a fair game. But the person that filmed it, they recorded it.
Sorry, if you're watching this, by the way, I'm not starting any beef.
I think we've made. I think we've. I think we've came to an agreement. I think we're okay. But it's.
He said that he would tell YouTube that to take back the copyright strike because I've got four days to delete the video or I have a copyright streak and I think you get two and then your channel gets scrubbed.
[00:37:23] Speaker B: So, yeah, it's either two or three and you're gone.
[00:37:26] Speaker A: Yeah. So I'm only. Fancy that. How have you been? What have you watched in the World Cup? Do you give a.
[00:37:32] Speaker B: No, not so much now. You know, I've seen clips here and there, but like as a youth I used to love football, but as I grew up, I think it's just like couldn't care. Nobody is like.
[00:37:40] Speaker A: It's just, you know, I was quite similar as well with the. Football was my life. And then sort of music kind of took over.
[00:37:46] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it's just like not having too many things. Like music's me thing. But like I did used to love football. I used to play football. Just like not probably, but as a kid, you know, with all your mates and stuff was like, yeah, you just don't want to.
[00:37:57] Speaker C: It.
[00:37:57] Speaker A: Yeah.
So we've got sitting ducks here. I've got. I've got it lined up. Well, it's been. It's been great chatting to you, man.
We'll have hopefully have sitting ducks to finish the show. And error occurred.
It's. It's technology, mate. It's technology.
The Clin. Oh, yeah, sorry. That was what I wanted ask you is who else is playing the CLIN on the 18th? And also. And also who else is there?
[00:38:24] Speaker C: Who.
[00:38:24] Speaker A: Who's. Who's other. Kings of the North. Who's the other.
[00:38:26] Speaker B: Who's the other people basically have just
[00:38:28] Speaker A: heard the northeast accent for the first time. Who should they be checking it?
[00:38:31] Speaker B: I would definitely see a guy called Rick Fury. He's like my number one for the Northeast.
Just a legend in my eyes. And he's playing the night when we're on Gilly. Gilly Mandreyron, Rick Fury, Boombap hip hop legends.
We've got Rob Res in a guy called Fletchy Benny Benjamin's and K1. They're sort of like a little collective. They've got their own little thing going on. So they're opening as well. And there's a guy called Zeko MC Very Tick MC Graham Dubstep. Does bits of rap. He's playing as well. So should be a sick night to be fair.
[00:39:08] Speaker A: Amazing, man. It's so. It's good. So I'm gonna just play. I'm gonna play off of YouTube just now. If people are.
If people are listening to the audio podcast, then I'll change it up. But yeah, sorry if it just sounds. It makes you sound a little bit tinny sometimes. It's all. Usually you're better off downloading it first.
So sitting ducks just be. And where we going? We going to see in Scotland soon?
[00:39:30] Speaker B: I hope so. I'd love to come up and play in Scotland like Teo. I like the place. I've always had good fun. Every time I've been amazing.
[00:39:37] Speaker A: We'll hopefully can make that happen.
Ducks. Thank you very much.
[00:39:43] Speaker B: Just be nice one man.
[00:39:45] Speaker A: Take it easy, bud. Catch it.
You know I'm gonna talk my split plan. You know. I'm gonna walk that quick slam to the bottom like a heavy old rise to the top like dream of the club. I'm high as a bush non stop
[00:40:12] Speaker C: smoke so much till we he fall
[00:40:13] Speaker A: up I just want to see you pop yeah.
You're not wicked and bad you're not
[00:40:37] Speaker C: wicked as like J walking with cat to the doctor.
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