?uizlove - Evidence vs Peak Street

Peak Street Magazine caught up with 1/3 of Dilated Peoples, blunted producer of choice and LA kingpin Evidence at the Wax Museum in-store this week and talked about Madlib’s crates, Babu’s dream movie role and Freddie Foxxx’s handskills in front of a bunch of fans for one of our patented quizzes (Excuse the drunken flicks *burp*).

Peak Street: Alright Mr Evidence

Evidence: That is me.

You ready for some random shit?

Ready. You better be good at this shit man, I’m telling you I’ve done this in the past.

What was the last song stuck in your head?

“You Think You’re Too Cool For Me” or some shit., what the fuck was the guy’s name? (Starts singing the Mike Posner song) “You think you’re cooler than me”.

What the fuck is that?

(Still singing) “You think you’re cooler than me”.

Ricey (singing): ‘You got designer shades just to hide your face’

Ev: You think you’re cooler than me.

Sounds terrible

He’s like a Justin Timberlake rip-off, I like him, I like him. If there is no Justin, I’ll fuck with that.

Alright now this is an important one, so get your thinking cap on. What should Beyonce and Jay-Z name their kid?

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Unpublished Trem Interview (circa 2008)

 Remember Method Man’s Wu-Tang/Voltron analogy from 36 Chambers? Apply that to Lyrical Commission and Trem, not the GZA, would form the head. Progressing from painting back in the day to a vicious verbal threat on the mic he released some sought after 12’s before pulling together LC and slapping the scene upside the head. On top of that he helped found Unkut Recordings and has become one of the most talented and respected producers in the game, banging out some more pure heat for Strut’s new LP. Back in early 2008 when Strut dropped “Legend: Official” we got Trem to step out of the studio for a yak on beats, Brad and picking up the pen again. 

We know yourself and Brad are really tight-knit. Now while recording Legend Official he went through a lot of bullshit and strife. Was it ever difficult making music together under the circumstances?

No never. When it comes to recording with Brad it’s fairly seamless. We’ve obviously worked together for a long time and I prefer to work with Brad than probably anybody else in the studio. It’s a breeze man. I get a lot out of working with him and I think he does with me. When you look at it from that perspective it doesn’t matter what sort of gets thrown at us. Once we hit the studio together it’s all sweet. None of that gets in the way of the job getting done. Regardless of what we’ve got on in our personal lives or whatever, as soon as we hit the studio together none of that shit is intrusive or fucks up the connection or the link that we’ve got going on in the studio, so it’s all good. If anything it might contribute to a better product at the end of the day. I love working with that dude, he’s my brother and no matter if we’ve got testing times outside of that anyway as soon as we sort of get in the studio there’s a cohesion there that’s really good.

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