only talk about what you know; we kept it real ‘cause real was all around us. All of our friends were gangsters, but we were just groovers. But we groovers and gangsters learned a lot from each other! When you started out, what was your main goal as Te Pharcyde? Our main goal was to get in the game and have a fresh and hard hitting sound like the East coast did. We looked up to De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, KRS, LL Cool J, Brand Nubians, Large Professor, and many others. Te bar was high, and we had to meet that standard. You’ve clearly influenced a lot of rap artists. What do you think of what hip hop sounds like in 2015? I'm pretty open about hip hop these days, I'm watching it transform. I love 90's hip hop, but I'm one to keep an open ear of the heartbeat of the culture. It may not be what I was feeling whole- heartedly like the 90's, but I'm waiting for that one thing to make me feel like 90's Hip Hop did. Was it difficult to record Ya Mama? You must have struggled not to laugh throughout the recording! Ya Mama was easy... no pun intended. Ha ha! We had so much fun and SO MANY JOKES. Tat's just how we were, even to this day. My crew is crazy. Passin’ Me By is perhaps the best known track on Bizarre Ride. What’s your favourite line in it and why? My favorite line is... "When I think of fairytales I think of me and Shelly." Tat was a marker in my high school and early college life. I wanted every relationship I had to start off good like that one. Being young, you want all the parts to work out right. And when things fall apart you want something just as great to take its place.
24 / July 2015/
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How did you manage to find such a perfect order for the tracks on the album? Were there many tracks that got rejected ahead of release? When I was making the track list or sequence, I wanted it to be in the form of a sentence, like someone was reading it to you or reciting it to you. We wanted all parts of the record to be fun. It just flowed out that way; we were in the divine flow. Did just one person write the rhymes for Bizarre Ride, or was it a joint effort? It was certainly a “joint” effort, no pun intended again. Ha ha! But it was a group effort with the help of joints! After Bizarre Ride did so well was nothing until Labcabincalifornia until a whole three years later. How come? We were touring like crazy! So non stop. We had to make ourselves stop, to start Labcabin. Kanye West has described Bizarre Ride as his favourite
“It was a group effort with the help of joints!”
album of all time. But what do you think of his music? I love Kanye's music. He is extremely creative. Why do you think Bizarre Ride has stood the test of time and has been so lauded by critics and fans to this day? It's just a timeless album. Te vortex was wide open for us and we made an amazing mark in time. You’ve been working with DJ Nu- Mark from Jurassic 5 recently; can you tell us about your most recent album? Te most recent album is called Slimkid3 and DJ NuMark, it’s self titled. But the group is called TRDMRK, a mixture of our two names. Te album is a play on what it would be like if J5 and Pharcyde made a record, and we made that happen. Te boom bap of it all is completely there. It's an amazing record with a bangin’ sound.
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