THE GUESTLIST NETWORK | MAY 2011 THIRSTIN HOWL III @mroshi
In Miami we hooked up with underground rap king Thirstin Howl III. We caught up on back in the day working with Eminem, his new album The Natural Born Skiller and doing it big!!
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ERIC B & RAKIM
Eric B & Rakim are generally considered by Hip Hop enthusiasts to be one of the most influential and innovative groups in the genre.
It’s Osh chillin’ with the one and only Thirstin Howl III, how you doin’? I’m good, I’m good. What’s going up people?
Where am I right now?! I’m in Miami. I’ve just come over the bridge and I’ve been told not to come over this bridge! Yeah it’s crazy across the bridge man. But right now you in Brown- ville Studios- You know what I mean! You in little Haiti right off of Biscane.
Thirstin is one of the largest underground rappers out there. I mean, a lot of people are talking about this guy. I’m here in Miami meeting you and I’ve been watching your videos and a lot of them are shot in New York right. So where you from? I’m from Brownville, Brooklyn, New York. I mean we shoot the videos everywhere though. So we shot a lot here in Miami- just as much as we shot in New York. You know, we’ll shoot one in your area once I touch down
OK now these people are gonna check you out right now. What’s the first tune they should go and listen to? I mean you should go to youtube. com/thistinhowlthethird. Check out the ridiculous video. The Brother Lo video, The Black and Yellow video. Check out the Jail Recipes Cooking Show. I mean it’s crazy man. Check out the new Brooklyn Killers joint. Check out
the Thirsty Thirsty... a lot of crazy stuff up there.
Wow, I’m not sure I’ve seen any of those videos and I’ve seen a lot of good stuff out there man. Now tell me about two L’s, love and loyalty? I mean you know, the two L’s’ come from the Low Life Fam- ily, founded in Brooklyn. It just represents where I come from, who I am, how Thirstin Howl was moulded. But the L’s represent the love and loyalty- you know cause the L’s go together. You know one L means nothing with- out the other. And you know, you got to be about it. It’s not a game- it’s not just a slogan that people say out there.
What does the Love mean to you? Love is unconditional man, love friends, love your peoples, love what you do, love who you are. It’s just been real with yourself. There’s no fake love, you’re being real with who you are, what you do and who you love, you know? Don’t show me no fake love, I’m not with that either. The loyalty just goes right with it. When you love something dearly, your loyal to it man. No matter what it is, a lot of people out there are loyal to drugs. They love it, that’s what they do, that’s what it’s about, so can’t be mad at that you know.
So I heard Eminem talking about you and reppin’ you. What’s going on there, have you got music together?
Yeah we did joints. Me and Eminem used to rock before ev- erything blew-up, we did a couple of joints together. You know, we used to run around and do a bunch of things. We had Eminem out in Brownsville Brooklyn with me- my projects, rapping, chillin’, freestyling and all that.
You’re shit is real street. I’d like to know what kind of artists out there you feeling right now. I’m feeling a lot of people man. I mean there’s some mainstream people that are doing some good. I actually like Rick Ross. I like his stuff. I like Papoose seriously. I think he’s one of the greatest lyricists ever. As far as intelli- gence and street smarts and the thugged out stuff all at the same time- that’s it really done properly. But you know, sometimes an art- ist is either one or the other so it’s hard for an artist to be both and really be real about it.
Now I’ve come here to the lab. I’ve seen all kinds of things going on. I’ve seen you making movies, I’ve seen you producing, presenting shows. You guys are definitely on your grind here. What’s going on with the TV shows? We basically started to create our own shows man, which is the plan you know. We’re doing some stuff right now for Hip Hop Weekly Magazine, and basically doing our own shows. I got my Jail Recipes Cooking Show out there right now and a lot of things
coming man.
OK what are you really look- ing forward to that’s going down in 2011? I mean, you know my new album about to drop, The Natural Born Skiller album. It’s crazy, I got a lot of guest appearances. I got Canabis, Chino XL, Keith Murray…I got Special Ed, Ed O G., The late great Professor X, I got my family team on there, Richie Balance, Unique London.
Well thank you very much Thirstin. It’s been a pleasure hangin’ here to see what’s going on. Make sure you check the YouTube channel. You’ll see a thousand videos with a thousand more coming! Be on the lookout for the Low Life family droppin’, everything on the Skillionaire Enterprizes. Got myself, Huricane G, Big Cousin, City Boy, Booze Brothers, TMP, The German Regime. Yo the list is long, it’s crazy but we going skillin’! Every time man, I’m not playing. We got a lot of albums ready, Spanish and English.
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Nas, Snoop Dog, Raekwon and Big Daddy Kane all acknowledge Rakim as hav- ing influenced their rhymes and style. Chuck D of Public Enemy is quoted as describ- ing Rakim simply as ‘the best rapper alive today’. During Hip Hop’s “golden age” of the mid-1980s to the early 90s, the duo was almost universally regarded as the premier MC/ DJ combo in hip hop. The two had a potent chemistry and each represented the height of innovation in their respective roles: Rakim was the master lyricist, an innovative talent who pushed the art of Hip Hop lyricism to new creative heights with his use of internal rhyme, sophisticated metaphors, and with a methodical-yet- effortless delivery; the duo’s beats built on the hard-hitting sound of Run-D.M.C. by adding James Brown samples and Eric B’s scratching skills, setting the stage for Hip Hop’s late-1980s/early-1990s infatu- ation with samples from the Godfather of Soul. The duo recorded its debut album, the seminal Paid in Full, in 1987, 4th & Broadway issued the
album; which, after the suc- cess of “Eric B. Is President,” was accompanied by a mighty underground buzz. The album represented an artistic shift in Hip Hop; the extensive sampling of James Brown would send the rest of Hip hop rushing through the legend- ary performer’s catalog; and Rakim’s wordplay represented a quantum leap forward as far as lyrical complexity and skill. The album made instant Hip Hop stars out of the duo. The album was captivating, pro- found, innovative and instantly influential, undoubtedly Eric B & Rakim changed the land- scape of Hip Hop musically and lyrically.
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