@Cormega Talks New Album The Realness II - Working w/ @NasVEVO #Havoc and Touring
[Music] Max so listen you know what's amazing about this overall right so you don't realize but I interviewed you years ago when I was doing DVDs right wow but I was always what gets me in this game right is that part of this music industry right but on a I can't even I can't even Define the level right I want to say Indie right I want to say uh underground but your music right carries over to the world you dig what I'm saying uh but I can respect the India pill right I want to start off I'm gonna take it back then we're gonna move up man I've been at you for a minute right after the fact right but one thing I love about how you keep your structure right is structure which is key I was always at Jackie right which is one of your Publishers right yeah when you hit Jackie up you know you know well you know he he's he wants to know the numbers he wants to you know you structured like a mall flower so I applaud you man for sticking to what you would feel is relevant to how you want to move you think I'm saying because it's easy for us to get caught up in the melee of quote-unquote the music business you know we come from we come from an era and we come from a world where you know there was chaos this is your career this is part of a career you know what I mean this is something that you love man so I just wanted to applaud you on that corner thank you um but I want to delve into something man that I never really got a chance to do as well which was talk a bit about your book man okay um which one because I I put out the understanding the true meaning I did that so I could break down how we made the album the true meaning the true meaning was an important album to me because it was my second album that came out it was the first independent album that ever won the source award I won a source award because of that album and you know it did well um so I wanted to break it down because some people hold that highly with in my category a lot of people was uh measuring out against the realness or any of my best albums some people thought the true meaning was my best album so I wanted to give it some special respect you know what I'm saying and I did the book and you know it turned out well the only thing is uh there was a few producers that was missing from the initial book so I have an updated version of that that's going to come out now when you say multiple books tell me about the second because that's why I honed it on which was that came out maybe 2016-2017. that was the understanding the true meaning the second book I just put out what uh maybe last year but I didn't really go hard with it I only made a digital version I didn't make it and that started from um Noriega when I was on a drink chance I was reading some of my quotes right right in the book and then people was like everybody was like yo what's up with that book what's up with that book and the noise like she's called the black book so I made I made it and I called it the black book but I never put it out so I just put out digitally so being that it's all digital what I'm gonna do is I will put it out in a physical form but I'm gonna add more quotes you know it's important that you know a lot of times when you when when I conduct to bring it back right because that was new to me of course I seen the interview but never put two and two together you dig what I'm saying right right so it's important and I think that even as an indie artist right it's important to to give you to paint a picture but I tell you this man you're you're following is cult like bro yeah cult-like man so for those individuals that may not know that cult like float this audience will say well damn he got two books on he has a myriad of albums out you know what I mean yeah and of course you know they associate you with okay a Nas or this and so on and so forth but it's like nah bro this dude has a portfolio you know what I mean the catalog a portfolio of everything and if y'all heard the interview if y'all heard what we were talking about prior your man is up here doing a slew of different types of photo shoots right one of the greater things that I I do like is that tauren for you was so important so as we were talking you were talking about doing magazines for a myriad of uh doing covers from a myriad of magazines not state-bound no doubt how is that how was that feel for you right now when was the last time what was your last album you put out the last album I put out was uh Mega philosophy that was 2014 and then I made an EP after that which is you know a short version of an album but I never counted as an album right so the last album was Mega philosophy and uh that was eight years ago right right so now you put out the sequel and we're gonna get to this right how do you feel about the influx of oh man because dogs y'all put up I put up that uh when I initially went to your first listening event yeah my man in the in the in the uh the comments you know dude just hit like yo man why you put up yo man caught I'm like damn this dude follow his it's cold like man yeah it's a beautiful thing um I don't take it for granted I feel blessed to have fans like that and support like that it's a blessing do you feel like a new artist one more again I can't I feel renewed but I don't feel new because because uh after that third um party I wanted to take a nap yo and you know what's so crazy right when I when Jackie sent me like a slew up right I said man look at and I didn't even get the mingle because having an eight-year-old child right you know she's like Dad Dad listen you're doing a lot right like and I'm like no but I gotta get this I gotta get this so she respects it you know that but it's like three in a row I'm like yo how cool man do it bro you know what I mean so I applaud you man um in regards to shows man uh are you planning um step outside of the country I definitely plan on stepping outside the country it's uh it's on my bucket list it's a priority y'all I could I could be in England right now if I wanted to I have a venue that's ready to rock and roll and that has nothing to do with the other spot in England that I always rock at right it's a whole different one I usually go to a place called a chip shop in Brixton that's like my house um there's another venue that wants to do something with me out there so I'm just trying to lock in the right time and the right date um somebody from France just just reached out and somebody from England from Italy is trying to do a little tour and then yesterday the guy my guy from Canada was like we're trying to get you some dates we're gonna start in Vancouver so it's a blessing so that there was an anticipation it's obviously it was an anticipation of a new cormega album right it's been what two weeks it ain't even been two weeks yet it's been out like a week and a week in a day you know and sometimes I know we don't like to get caught up in numbers man but looking at what's been occurring are you shocked I'm a little bit shocked but I'm a little bit not shot because it's a BL I mean like the last time I put out an album in chartered in billboard and all of that so I guess I was shocked to see that I was number three I was number two for a little while on What's That iTunes whatever and then I was number three so just to to be in the top five period the top ten period is a blessing and at this point and then um the stream numbers are [ __ ] um but at the same time one thing that I know a lot of people market and a lot of people hype anybody could Market something anybody could hype something but you cannot make people feel genuine a genuine appreciation for something that is the best promotion because that word of mouth comes from here like when when you was at my listener session it was all industry people you know to be honest with you I had to really I really had to hold myself back from being emotional that night because for one we've talked about Prodigy and that made me emotional and then it's just like the love that I get now is so overwhelming that I'm just getting used to it it's not something that's always been like that so you know like this album I felt it was a special album I said it on Instagram months and months ago I said I'm not saying my album is the best I'm not saying it's this or that I'm just saying this I don't feel special and I knew it felt special because I make music and like around music right and I listen to music and there's a certain feeling that I get when I hear some of these songs and I'm not saying it because it's me sometimes it's the production sometimes it's the beat that takes you there and makes me rhyme a certain way but I knew this album was special to me but what I feel might not be what you feel what the world feels but when I did that listening session and it was all media you was there I'm not capping there I gotta standing upload and it wasn't no fake Applause no it wasn't you know so it's like wow like I was like wow like I thought that was cool but I didn't know it was like the way people was talking like you I've you've never heard me use the word Masterpiece out of my mouth if you go on the internet all you see is this is a master yo Masterpiece I'm like wow then Chuck D posted it and I'm like wow now I was posted it yeah like Foxy like drink Champs Nori Drake jams and Nora yes like it's like it just feels good man like to get the love from the piss like um and because it's a Fickle Mark fickle Market at this current moment yeah yeah yeah you know you know and it's crazy you say that right because um when we look at fickle right we there's a myriad of different sounds out right and of course as listeners we we look at the and respect the fact that what sounds what what new genres of quote-unquote hip-hop because I'm gonna say genres you know what I mean sub coaches right right we come from an arrowheads bars you dig what I'm saying right um but I'm not gonna get caught up in saying that everything that's currently out is trash right because then you know we get into this old head [ __ ] you see what you see what I'm saying but because there's so much of a myriad of sounds you was able to still cut through all that right cut through it right had to reprogram like I ain't gonna lie I ain't gonna lie and say I don't listen to No Offset you know I mean or you know or or future you know all these youngins shout out to all of them shout out to all of them but dude reprogramming [Music] when I got in it was no fast forward I was like the freak right you know what I mean like Come on B how long did it take you to put this album together and mind you y'all mind you we didn't see the name of the album but just just please the realness too how long did it take you to put it together it took about two years um the pandemic slowed everything down I didn't want to go to the studio for a while so I just really when I stayed home I was just writing I was going hard with the writing and I deliberately wanted to uh separate myself from the pack I set it on it I set it on on social media because there's a lot of rappers and then there's uh you know when there's a lot of rappers and some rappers get hot or they get a little attention on themselves they start banging on their chest and you know people talking like they're the best or like like no like nobody else is ill and I'm looking at it like okay so I said to myself I'm going to push myself so hard that I'm gonna separate like you're not gonna look at me the same way you look at some of these other rappers because a lot of people have bars a lot of people have flows but everybody's not a Lyricist and everybody's not poetic there's only like a handful of Poetics amongst hundreds of rappers and I know I'm I'm one of the Poetics so being lyrical and being poetic is different from just having bars I wanted to separate myself from people and I think I did it I think I did that job on this album strategically as well and and looking at being strategic the features aside from just nice man hold on I'm not happy so when I first heard the Havoc joint right I had to I ain't gonna lie I had to look at it right after Danny's mother [ __ ] young boys no no no listen come on baby I said I had I said damn it's this is and I'm not seeing young in the sense that um you had the voice it was just the bars itself they were strategically laid together and y'all gel well on it man it sound like that young cormega where he was in the hab you know I mean so how did that come about we pushed each other we inspired each other whenever men have it do something it's going to be like that whenever me and Nas do something it's going to be like that like that's just how we are with each other we bring out the best in each other and that's why it's a beautiful thing when we collaborate was it hard to put uh other features on because you know it's been some years you know some you know a lot of people a lot of artists or you know or rappers would like to give them themselves as opposed to having features what made you you know collaborate with with others on this album well I think I did both I gave you a lot of myself on this album because it's only three features and the average rapper right now they have like seven feet you ain't never lie I just want you to say that so I have three features on the album one not nas is the most anticipated feature from my fan base and I think I'm the most anticipated feature from his fan base that's something that everybody wanted to see if you went to hip-hop you know it's just that was a mandatory Havoc has been on most of my projects so he's a consistent God that's that's contributing you know what I'm saying so he was going to be on there and then Lloyd Banks was my surprise bro without the surprise bro this Lloyd Banks joint B y'all got to do a video for that I'm with it yeah Yes Man three features and I and I wanted to say that maybe I wanted him to say that because the reality is once again there's usually six or seven right were you anticipating more that you reach out to certain individuals and they didn't respond or was it just that that always gonna happen with rap there's always going to be somebody that you uh might want to work with and then they might drag their feet or whatever but me I'm not chasing no rap from the future like at this point in my career um I'm not chasing you like it's not that serious unless it's like is like just wait I'm gonna wait yeah but I'm not waiting for no other rappers right right so it's like and why should I have to wait I got a verse from Naj Lloyd Banks that's all I needed I only wanted three features so whoever fronted God bless you man um it's all good there's no love lost just just more understanding right um but the features on my albums I let the features be like uh like an extra Edition if you look on social media or if you look on the reviews or you look at the people talking the songs that Captivate people are Solo records you ain't never lie you know what I'm saying everybody's talking about What's Understood everybody's talking about the soccer results they talk about her name they talk about that uh white roses Man vs myth hold up hold up hold up hold up hold up hold up white roses man I need you to bring white roses down I mean and I say that because you know you you you you highlighted right artists that once again we grew up to no doubt uh that's still create footprints in the game to this day what made you you know I wanted to show love um I wanted to be creative so when I did the first verse I broke down um The Ready to Die album you know what I'm saying and then um I was happy with that and then uh I said I want to do a second verse so the challenge was what's the second verse going to be so when you talk about biggie it's almost instantaneous that people are going to think pop so I said I want to keep it New York and I want to give it up for some people that I feel don't get as much credit as they should even though they get it worldwide right right but they don't get as much as they should in this game of what have you done for me lately so I just wanted to pick up the woo and I broke down the wool in the second verse so it was an honor to do that and um shout out to my man um inspector deck you know I'm saying he did an ad-lib on there and shout out to my man uh mathematics for who he did it when you hit the swords that's mathematics so I just it was me paying homage to hip-hop because you know what I'm saying at that time when um if you look at one of West Coast really dominated there was three people that brought attention back to the east it was Illmatic it was ready to die and it was the whoop I got knives in the album I picked up ready to die and I picked up the wolf how long did it take you to put that song together um I don't know the the Wu-Tang verse was easier than the biggie one for me and it bugs me out because people be like the Wu-Tang versus better and I'd be like what cause to me the biggie one was more difficult but the customer is always right right right so the Big E joint I had in the stash um and then the woo part I drove that one like it was real easy for me so I don't know how long it took but the Wu-Tang part was quick yo I forgot which title right don't don't don't my audience please disregard me the album it just mean right but there was a name yeah I was up top with this brother wow yes man Saigon we was in that I was with him for about a year so wow we got the dredge yeah what's up oh man that's my cousin that's my physical cousin he passed away man no yeah man boogie passed away when Boogie passed away a couple of years ago man broke my heart yo I never knew that I'm like yo I said I gotta I gotta hit him I didn't want to you know I mean I'm like oh oh yeah he's a legend in the mountain yo man oh yeah man miss oh man he rest in peace man oh I never knew that yeah that's my real cousin like my father and his father are brothers wow so when I heard that I'm like yeah [ __ ] just gave me chills I'm like what's up oh yeah man boogie passed away yeah me him and Saigon was together you know what I mean for a little while man I would walk that yard with a man and he was just he was nice yes wow so I deviated y'all I'm sorry but uh in regards to videos where we going with this how many albums how many videos you want to put out I mean in reality you could put out a whole you know what I mean I'm gonna go I'm gonna do as many as I can for this one it's a story line the album is a story line yeah yeah I'm gonna do as many as I can I already got like a central video will be out in a couple of days uh Paradise video was done already um see what Nas want to do Lloyd Banks say he's with it um and then there's a couple of songs that from the response from the people I want to do I want to definitely do a video for this song um the song that I'm really glad people like is um what's something what's up what's understood is getting yeah yeah and it was and I'm and I was and I'm real happy because I came up with the concept me and Sean shall money Excel produced that um and also shout out to Marcus Machado because he played the live um bass and guitar and stuff on it to those live instrumentation on that and uh whenever you cook something you really want people to enjoy it so the fact that people are really gravitating towards that song makes me feel good so I'm definitely doing a video for that I've always been into fashion right right um and so fashion is something I'm going to be digging deeper into um writing more books and uh real estate and stuff like right right right that all makes sense man you know um how long were you a lot of this album to Bubble before you move forward I'm rocking out I'm I'm rocking out to the wheels polo with this one because when I first made the realness I came up with the true meaning album uh the next year but it wasn't even a year yet it was like 11 months I should have Let It Rock long because the building still had a lot of legs so this album I'm going to rock I'm not I'm not treating this like inventory because it's not inventory if it's not right you know and a lot of rappers treat their stuff a lot of companies treat stuff like immature all right you got this one out you need another one nah you got this one out and you got grown men that's in their 40s saying I haven't felt like this in years or you got people saying this album made me cry Bernadette price said your music always makes me emotional like you know Ronnie fee hits me the guy who owns kept album is amazing uh DJ FM from drink cam it's a masterpiece so when you got people like Nas like yo bro this is crazy so when people that you respect and look up to Chuck D's and all of these guys is hitting you and this music is making people feel a certain way let them hold on to that feeling give them everything I'm gonna give them everything like whatever the top songs is that the fans love I'm doing videos for those and I'm Gonna Do videos for the songs I wanted to so I'm gonna rock out on this album I can see me promoting this album for like a year how important is it to pay attention to the fans right because you know sometimes we'll get caught up in us and not respecting the fact that it's those fans and the supporters that help push that man right that's that's just Matt that's simple mathematics if you cook something and you like this is the [ __ ] but everybody else is like that's disgusting maybe you just got accustomed to that taste right and it's not good so if you make music for yourself you might as well not put out publicly you got to get the people what they want every bit every successful business does it uh why you think Knight made Retros and things of that nature so um you listen to people what people want and then you try to give them exactly what they want and add add a little bit what you want meatballs meet me somewhere in the middle so What's Understood is definitely gonna be a video The Saga resumes is definitely gonna be a video and white roses I gotta figure out what to do with that and then I'll figure out what I want to do with me with the stuff that I like and then we put it all together and everybody wins well Mega Man I I appreciate you man like you know you know I'm a fan my brother you know what I mean no doubt and whatever I can do and moving forward I'm here bro I appreciate you you already know yeah man it is it was it was needed it was nutritional it was nutritional and I you know it's so crazy not to get caught up in the Ditty storm or whatever but you know you know despite wherever we going like how wherever we move to we still New Yorkers right and and Diddy you know came out with that you know we need to bring it back to New York you did here's our sound like you caught it at a time it was great time and now that you was moving off that because you put it out uh you know it was it was coming out anyway it was just the fact that it happened here and now and you know our ears is glued and of course you know and and I say and I say yeah New York right because it's a New York sound but it's still a worldly sound as well you know what I'm saying so this is what New York sounds like y'all this is what New York sounds like the realness thank you brother who that's a challenge for you this is to the whole album not just one this is what New York sounds like y'all I applaud you man I applaud you I appreciate you bro my man oh man Max are you going are you taking a power nap soon um tonight yo Meg you into gaming once in a while I haven't played a game in over a year like I play a game if my son I used to love games but I program myself like you don't deserve to play in the game so your album come out now I might go play a game no you know why I say that man um you know I used to have a a gaming company and I just LinkedIn would assist you got a game and she just opened her first gaming company of stuff right up the block I'm gonna start doing shows and eventually a gaming uh gaming tournaments when you come back out there I got to link you with a black sister she has three flaws in there that's like three floors yo dude bar and everything in there they got a showroom and all that in there that's the studio and everything else you got one room where it's old schools where duck hunt Nintendo and then you got other rooms where you go and you can play every game Call of Duty 2K all that so next time man I'm gonna definitely I would definitely love for you to meet him man that's dope with it man I'm with it like and I say that because it's a market that your audience would cater to you know what I'm saying I mean even and putting songs on and look into it that's you know of course you play it you know I mean it's it's really big man so I'm I'm going into I'm getting into a heavy good good you know I'll keep you in tune with it man I appreciate you yeah man so I'm gonna sit and I'm gonna send you a page so you know you touch down with her any pics hold on we got some pics I know uh
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