On the Internet I was learning more about rap culture. It would be like, ‘This kid is gay/And we from The Bay.’ Real simple elementary rhymes but they were relevant to whatever was happening in school.”Īlexander Spit: “The Internet started popping off. It was funny to everyone because our raps weren’t serious. We sold them and made $50 bucks one day from selling tapes for $1 each.
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We probably have an entire walk-in closet full of cassette tapes, front to back recorded. We recorded non-stop, even during class while teachers were talking, we’d whisper freestyles. We would sneak down there during class to record freestyles. “In high school, we would ditch school and go to this underground sewer in the soccer field that had the craziest echo reverb. We had weird mindsets like if we record in the bathroom it’s going to have more of a reverb effect, if we record in this little tunnel under the freeway where there’s a lot of weird echoes and delays it’s going to pick up. “We would get to school and record on this little tape recorder. All we had to talk about were girls in school and making fun of kids. We had no skills, I hadn’t hit puberty and we had nothing to talk about. We would take that instrumental put that CD in our boombox, play the boombox as loud as possible, put the tape recorder next to the boombox and we would just freestyle into the tape recorder. We would cop CD singles which had the instrumental on it. There was just a mutual bond from there and we became homies.”Īlexander Spit: “One day, Kelsey bought a tape recorder. After a few weeks, I went up to Kelsey Rivera like, ‘Yo, you like Wu-Tang too?’ trying to fake it like I been down with Wu-Tang since the beginning. At that time I didn’t really have no friends, so I went home and studied that album front to back. “So I went to Tower Records and got 36 Chambers. During class the teacher would be like, ‘What is it called when an artist does this craft in Mesopotamia?’ He’d be like, ‘Tiger style.’ Every time he said a joke he was laughing his ass off, I didn’t really know what he was talking about but I knew it had to do with Wu-Tang. “My first year living in Marin County, there was this one kid in my class named Kelsey Rivera-he’s one of my best friends to this day-and he was dipped out in Wu Wear, head to toe. We didn’t really have that much money but if we bought music we listened to that for like four months straight on repeat. I remember going to Tower Records and buying Bone Thugs’ E. That’s kind of where I really started getting into rap music."Īlexander Spit: “Growing up in Los Angeles, I listened to stuff on the radio and bought a couple cassettes. It just happened to be that those kids were also the broke kids. I found myself coinciding with a lot of the weird kids, kids that I knew didn’t fall into no popular clique but they seemed cool. “ That’s when I realized there is a divide between people.
Me and my brother grew up kicking rocks around, but these kids were skiing. When we moved up there it was the first time I realized that I was a minority in the sense of social structure, race, and the way I think. It was filled with a lot more rich white suburban kids than I was used to. neighborhood to a little part of the Bay Area that was noticeably a lot richer. Eventually my pops had stacked enough money for us to move up closer to where he was working and my mom transferred jobs. We would go visit him a for a weekend like once a month. So it was me, my moms, and my brother for a good two years while my pops was just stacking money.
“After looking for work in L.A., my pops eventually found a job at this golf course in Marin County which is a pretty rich area of the Bay Area. I didn’t really understand the magnitude of being broke until I had to see my moms crying at the dinner table because we had to eat fast food dinners. That forced my mom to work a full time job.
When I was eight, my pops got laid off from his job and he was unemployed for a good two to three years. Both of my parents worked so a lot of the time was spent between me and my playings sports and biking.
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He raised me in a very San Francisco way, like showing me how to drink Root Beer with certain food. My pops raised me on Bay Area sports teams and to be proud of having roots in the Bay Area. Alexander Spit: “My mother grew up in the Philippines in a very strict Filipino family.
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