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The Lords of the Underground Interview

S1 & The Lords of the Underground
Lords of the Underground: Here Come the Lords Again!!!
The first Lords of The Underground song I ever heard was “Psycho” and I said aw shit this shit right here is different and I was hooked on the 3 catz from Newark’s style ever since…Real hip hop is what I’m talking about yo!!! Chief Rocka shit na meen…So it was a no brainer to finally get an interview with Lords and S1 delivered one of his best interviews by far and this is what they had to say:
S1: Yeah, yeah, yeah!!! What’s going on my peoples? You know who this is, this is the mother fucking man S1!!! Legacy Magazine, Legacy Radio, Legacymag.net and listen man you know we always come thru with the legends, nothing but the legends!!! But today we got something extra special we got Lords in the house!!! We got the mother fucking Lords of the Underground what’s poppin baby talk to us!!
Doitall: S1 what it is homie man Doitall in the house man!!!
Mr. Funke: Yeah, yeah Funk in the house that’s what it is!!
S1: Alright alright I got my boys Mr. Doitall and Mr. Funky!! So what’s going on with you guys man a lot of words a lot of things being said on the underground you guys are making moves, grinding here, I see you pictures over there and what’s poppin off, what you guys got going baby?
Doitall: Man its just like I said its just a blessing to be able to keep doing this man and keep doing what we love and keep having the fans feel us you feel me…Like you know I think hip hop is ready for us again man we was fun type dudes who brought classic fun to hip hop man and I think hip hop is ready for us again because everything is starting to sound the same you know…You got people trying to say hip hop is dead and I don’t like Nas meant it like that, I think he meant like the fun, the feeling that hip hop brought back to you in the golden era in the early 90’s was gone you know and I think hip hop is ready to see that if you can bring that back and that’s what the Lords of the Underground is doing…
S1: No doubt, no doubt…I’m definitely feeling you on that you know what I’m saying…For ya’lls that don’t know they definitely had some slamming albums back in the early day “Here Come the Lords” that shit went platinum…You had mad singles off of that shit “Tic Toc”, “Funky Child “ But Mr. Funky what going on with you I hear you guys are putting some stuff together some projects, who you guys working with? What can we expect from you guys yo?
Funke: Man this year is gonna be a big year we got the greatest hits album coming out in like August something like that right Joe?
Doitall: Yeah that will be out on EMI Records in August…
Funky: We got 2 new joints on that plus we got the Still Lotug DVD, you know what we did was we took a camera crew on our European tour in 2006 and it was crazy!!! I mean it came out real good too we gonna get that out…
Doitall: Before you go any further you can check out that DVD on stilllotug.com check out!!!
Funke: But!! Main deal is this “House of Lords” album we just blasted out a single called “The Clinic”…We got a couple more singles coming out after that we gonna go out on the road, overseas back and forth across the country, we gonna push that I mean it’s gonna be crazy!!!
S1: Alright you giving me goose bumps over here man…Fill us in on what’s going on with DJ Lord Jazz he living overseas right?
Doitall: Big DJ Lord Jazz man that our other brother he completes the triangle man of the Lords man…He in Paris right now he’s on the radio man on the internet on the connection right now conspiracy radio.uk…He was on the radio out there in Paris he was producing some Parisian groups man this guys doing everything I might have to let him borrow my name Doitall!!

S1: Alright that’s definitely what’s up, but yo you don’t get away from that too quick either dawg I hear you been on the acting tip, got bit by the acting bug and you got a couple of projects just real quick bring us up to speed dawg!!!
Doitall: I mean real quick man, you might have caught me on New York Undercover and a couple of episodes on OZ, Law and Order and the streets definitely know me from the movie “Dirty Game” I played Roc on the movie Dirty Game and a couple of joints…I did “Crossing the Line” with Taye Diggs and I got a new joint coming out in April called “Cash Rules” with my man Trech from Naughty By Nature…We grindin man!!!
S1: Alright it sounds like you catz is keeping mad busy…But Mr. Funke I got a question for you dawg from any of the catz that are out today that may have lost their way for lack of a better phrase and need some words of advice, you know you as a legend that was there in the early day, any words of advice you feel me…
Funke: Wow you put that on me!... Man!!! You know what? Actually as a grown man I’m really not the type to tell another grown man what to do…But as an uncle type figure in the game is we got to do what we got to do to eat, we got to do what we got to do to survive…But from an artists standpoint I don’t think a lot of artists nowadays and it doesn’t matter where your from whether you from the east and they have a problem with the catz down south or Midwest it’s about making good hip hop because there are a lot of catz making real good hip hop down south even better then some of the catz up north and I think there is a lot of fear out there…You know back in the days when people talk about the golden era of hip hop they didn’t mean that the music was so much better…It was just you had so much variety and the originality was a big deal…But nowadays people are like afraid that nobody is going to feel him unless he sounds like the dude next to him or that they have the same name or the same sound you see what I’m sayin…From a financial point it seem feasible but as an artist I really can’t condone it because being an artists is about doing whats in your heart, its about doing what inside you…You know…You don’t see jazz musicians going out and making and hip hop records or going out and making pop records because that’s whats selling because jazz musicians make jazz and they have they fans and play to their fan base because that’s what artists do…Don’t be scared to do you, be you!!!
S1: Real talk that’s definitely real talk…Doitall real quick any last words advice man its been a pleasure…
Doitall: My dude Funk man really summed it up and I really feel the same way he feels…Like you have to understand and realize that hip hop is a culture…In “Chief Rocka” you have Funk sayin he lives for the funk he dies for the funk…That’s hip hop man live like it, talk like it, be like it that way you will influence hip hop…Just like Funk says people are scared to be themselves…Cmon cause everybody hasn’t killed 12 dudes on a record, everybody hasn’t had 6 chicks in they bed at once, I know everybody don’t always walk around with a gat in they hand, I know everybody ain’t selling coke and dealing kilos...
Funky: I mean I know dudes from the bricks of Newark that were gangstas, and killers and they never told on themselves…I mean when did it become cool to rat yourself out on wax…Rapping about what’s life is like in your hood is not creative man…That’s an excuse for not being creative…I mean me and Doit came from some of the worst hoods in America but we found it somewhere in our hearts to be creative, I don’t know maybe we were lucky because the creativeness gave us the ability to characterize and picture other things…
S1: This is real talk you young bucks really listen to these catz!! Any shout out!!!
Doitall: Shout out to homies, Lord Jazz and my main man in rhyme Mr. Funky!! The album “House of Lords” out May 1st, go check it out!!!
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