The production credits are also hefty, which are a testament to how beloved Price is.
He wouldve wanted me to go do exactly what I did, go get the apes and body records.
I was glad I was able to embody that more than the sadness of it.
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On the inside, [his loss] kills me, but lyrically, thats not what he wanted.
Its not no Were going to miss you forever, Sean Price.
What was your relationship with Sean Price like?We was like brothers, bro.
Wed talk almost every day on the phone.
He had a landline phone and we would talk between the hours of 9 to 5.
Thats how it used to be [laughs].
I would call him or hed call me, and wed write raps on the phone together.
We talk about beats together, we talk about family together.
We crack mad jokes.
He would tell me that all the time.
He would always send me beats that he wanted to rap over.
And hes like, I just want to hear you rap over it.
I aint going to even feature you on the song because that shit inspire me.
I would go and write raps to it, and then I would send it to him.
Hes like, Yeah, now Im ready to rap over it.
Thats how [much] I inspired him.
He was a real huge fan.
So that process, to be able to be in that pocket with him was just dope in itself.
Not only did he believe in me, he was super inspired by me.
I noticed on your Bandcamp you reference that part of your music experience is the wit of Sean Price.
How influenced were you by his work?It started withNocturnal.He always went by Ruck.
I studied his rhyme patterns.
I studied how he say shit.
I liked how he had run-on sentences.
Hell make one sentence two sentences and make two bars.
He cheats the game, but he is also funny.
Hell say some funny shit while he do that.
So its like a double entendre, triple entendre in the simplest way.
Sean Price said, I would wild on every nigga cross-dressing, the essence of Tyler Perry.
Thats one [sentence but] it sounds like two sentences.
Nobodys able to calculate like that.
Nobodys creating poetry or art in that form.
When you really listen to Sean Price, youll get that kind of impact from him.
Many people feel like hes a godfather of the modern indie-rap scene.
He was taking advantage of that.
I feel like thats what pushed the envelope for a lot of artists.
Then when the albums come out, its just as spectacular, as funny.
I always went to Sean Price for funny bars.
To add to that, its just like, you could tell he was having fun with his life.
Some of these guys thats out right now, theyre not going to say things like Sean Price did.
Theyre just going to be all gats and packs and coke.
Sean Price was never a conceptual rapper.
Sean Price was shitting on the industry.
When he started buzzing, he was rapping about everybody.
Wale, Lupe, everybody, he was bodying their ass.
When did yall record Distorted Views?A little bit over 10 years ago, we recorded that joint.
When I went to New York, I recorded two joints with Sean Price in the studio.
We recorded a total of five joints.
That was the first joint that we recorded together.
Sean Price also did something for an upcoming album of mine thats not out yet right before he passed.
Sean Price passed on a Saturday morning.
I talked to Sean Price the Wednesday night before.
He was in the studio with PF Cuttin.
I know when hes in the studio with PF Cuttin because he answers [his cell] phone.
He never had a cellphone until right before he passed.
What?Never had a cellphone.
And he called me on the cellphone.
I still got the cellphone number saved as Sean Price.
Hes like, Yo, son.
He started rapping out of nowhere.
So hes doing the a cappella.
Im like, Man, this shit is hard.
Then he asked PF Cuttin to play the joint.
Its a joint thats mine, [he] said that hes featuring on [it].
Im like, Oh, shit, thats my shit.
Then he sent it right over.
That was the last time that I spoke to Sean Price.
That song is not out yet.
That was always something in the back of my mind.
Everybody thats on the album was opening arms.
Its like, Yeah, man, Vic Spencer.
Sean Price rocked with you tough.
I only met Rockness Monsta one time, and we only had a few conversations after Sean Prices passing.
He was always telling people, Vic Spencers the nicest, and was vocal about that everywhere.
My process is just having the beats first, and this project no different.
I waited until I got all of the beats that I wanted to rap over.
Having all the beats gave me room to have ideas as Im sending tracks out and getting stuff done.
Having all the beats and having all my vocals done is what made this album come together.
Thats how I normally work.
It reminded us of roofing vehicles.
Thats what Sean Prices music did.
I feel like this album is what its supposed to be if Sean Price was alive.
There are a lot of producers on this project.
Did you have a prior relationship with them?
Id reach out to [them], or people reach out to me.
I open my email, I open my DMs up for guys.
I get around my guys, and well sit down and listen to beats like we listen to albums.
It was their job.
Otto From The Simpsons.
Hed have got on the first song, Blood Sofa.
Hed have got on Fittsburgh.
Hed have got on the third beat, Crawfish Stew.
Hed have got on a lot of those joints.
I picked them because I had Sean Price in mind.
Also, that was a signature move with Sean Price.
So theres a lot of joints on there Sean Price would body.
He would body the Ear Wax joint at the end.
He would body the Buktoof joint at the end.
Theres a good 10 of them on there.
She just text me yesterday, like, Bro, the albums so cold.
Thank you for representing you.
You really snapped on this album.
And just to get that nod, thats all that matters to me, man, for real.
To get the nod from his family is everything.
If she loves it, then I dont need no more validations.
So this project was released on Ruck Down.
I dont want to force it.
Whenever I feel something on my heart, thats when I do it.
I wanted it to just be like that.
I want to be able to just be natural and free about it.
We didnt have no contracts signed or nothing like that.
So its just all natural love.
Also, Im working onPsychological Cheat Sheetpart five, and thats produced entirely by August Fanon.
Both of those albums are done.
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Muggs also dug through the crates for some arresting saxophone play on Blood Money and Spooky.
His focus is on the powers that be and the consequences of their perceived agenda.
On Sandbox, he creatively foretells the future of three young Brooklynites playing together, from triumph to tragedy.
The presumably fictional tale may be his strongest example of storytelling on the project.
Hes the leading man, and no one can speed him up or slow him down.
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Droog deserves credit for fusing it all into an exceptional project.
