Your sound has to match your shoes.
And your shoes gotta match your video.
Your video gotta match your bitch.
Your bitch gotta match your car.
When you making art, everything has to be cohesive.
Everything is a look, a sound, and a feel.
I’m a visual artist.
I just wanted to just give my interpretation without being like, “Yo this Harlem."
"Let’s go.”
Like but it’s like that’s why I’d rather be like instead of saying, “This Harlem.”
I’m like, “This Tone Wop.”
He talk like, “Yo what’s goodie good?"
"You going to the story store?"
"Nah, what’s good with the boyie boy?”
That’s how he talk.
Tone Wop was responsible for like a lot of shit.
Like Rucker Park dances, like Aunt Jackie.
He was around Harlem Shakin’ days.
The Tone Wop dance, you know what I’m saying?
Tone Wop for me.
That’s Tone Wop from Harlem.
Kingdome is where you go to get bitches.
Rucker Park is where you go to really watch niggas play and shit, you feel me?
I was probably like 5 or 6 years old when my older brother Pate played "Mo’ Murda."
Mo’ murda, mo’ murda, come again.
Like 5 or 6 years old.
I fell in love with that song.
Mr. Ouija.
That shit was hard, you know what I’m saying?
Rakim Allah the God emcee himself, nigga.
I’m named after one of the best rappers alive.
In hip hop, every story you hear is “I ain’t have no pops."
"I ain’t have no pops."
I ain’t have no pops.”
So I’m not even…
I had both parents.
I was lucky.
I had a great father.
I’m not even trolling, not even playing.
I wouldn’t do no shit like that.
I’ma have to raise that… if I do have a kid.
I just…
You know, we gonna have to make something happen.
I can’t be a regular statistic.
That ain’t Flacko.
Man purse.
Man, if you look back in 2013 and 14, we had the Goyard satchels and shit that.
I ain’t gonna say we invented fanny packs and satchels, but we made them very popular today.
Niggas was like, “What y’all niggas is doing bro?”
They was looking at niggas stupid but you see them 2 summers later like ahhh…
We like to develop all components before driving straight into a release or a rollout or whatever
the case is.
You gotta kinda figure out what you wanna do.
I think that’s always the most complicated portion of the process.
Potatoes.
Lambs.
That shit was just funny.
We had beams.
We had lean.
Mercedes.
Tomatoes.
Had greens.
And lambs.
Just me and Yams.
Shit’s funny as hell.
Creatively, ain’t nobody fucking with us.
This legacy he put down, this dynasty bro?
Nigga, got that on smash.
That’s how I feel.
That’s what it is.
So I just named two name brands that’s from Harlem.
V-Lone is from Harlem.
Wingstone is like an old east side Harlem shit.
If you uptown, you get a dirty boy t-shirt.
Dirty boy used to write on his shits.
It used to be fire.
If you was on east side, you got a Wingstone t-shirt type shit.
Now V-Lone is like…
Nigga took it to another… to Paris nigga.
Took it to Italy.
Took it to wherever the fuck you want.
You know what I’m saying?
We took it there outta Harlem.