There are a lot of uneducated fans out there that are American idoled up or wannabe’d up like I wanna be Ja Rule or I wanna be this cat, you watch that shit on TV and your like damn be yourself. There are a lot of people in this club right now that we did this show in and a lot of people don’t know that they are in that club. JB: It’s been a long time coming, why do you feel now is the best time to release the album instead of a little bit earlier or even waiting a few months?Įl: I’m gonna tell you the truth something’s gotta happen. Plus to me I’m by myself so I have a lot more shit to say, but I had to figure out how I was going to do it without boring everybody or making them feel like they waiting for that next voice to come in. A lot of the stuff on the album came from that. And as long as they waiting that’s what I want to hear. They like El man when the album coming out you doing your shit cuz we waiting. There are people back home that’s really down for this shit and when they see me they see 94 or 95, they see all the shit that they remember listening to when the shit was music. I knew I was gonna have to do that song, I knew cats were gonna want me to do that song. It’s for cats that be coming up to me asking what’s up with you I tell them go buy the album it’s a song on there that’s gonna explain everything to a T. JB: At the show tonight you gave a preview of one of the new joints that kinda chronicles your whole career did you make that for the new cats or for your older fans?Įl: It’s for both. I wouldn’t say it’s a gamble, but in these days doing these records I told him to just give me a chance and Ill show you what I can do. I’m glad that I still get a chance to say what I have to say and to do another album and I thank Seven Heads for that because dude didn’t have to take a chance on me. To this day doing that show tonight and doing this whole tour I kinda know what to expect as far as people saying things to me on the old stuff, but half the shit they say to me is bugging me out because you never think people are really thinking about you till they say shit to you. I knew that was the ultimate group for me just to do what we did. When I first started I kept working with different people, but I told myself if me and tame stopped I wasn’t getting with nobody else as far as another mc ever. Me and tame did what we did and I wish him mad love, but I know that I was destined for a mission. That’s what I wanted to accomplish, I wanted to let the world know that I was solo. That wasn’t bad for me that was the first cat that stepped to me out of body as far as my group. He was like I’m gonna tell you right now I never heard that before I have never heard any of those songs I only know El Da Sensei. One dude walked up to me in Colorado and he was like what was that shit you was doing earlier in the show that “Come On with the Come On” and the “Wrong Side of the Tracks”? I was like I was in a group. Not that I felt old, but I was like yo these cats is following me. It was cats coming up to me saying I was nine years old when I bought your first record. Me and J been doing a lot of shows and for the first time going there with no video to be doing it with People Under The Stairs it was kinda weird for me because a lot of these cats is young and they remember everything from seeing me on TV. I had never been to Colorado, Seattle or Vancouver none of that. I saw real Indian cats straight off the reservation so for them to be on some hip hop shit I was like aiight I have a definite fan base. Once we got out of LA, we did Arizona and Albuquerque. That was like my first time deep deep in the west coast and I have to tell you that was a real totally different experience. The former Artifacts member came through The Ottobar and I had a chance to catch up with him and cover a variety of topics from Rawkus to Eminem to the current state of hip hop.Įl Da Sensei: We did the west coast. With the upcoming release of his first solo album Relax, Relate, Release El Da Sensei has been a busy man touring the country with J-Live and People Under the Stairs.
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