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What up? This is Marco Polo. It's your boy, Toray, and you are tapped in right now checking out All Hip Hop
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Listen, I'm a breeding ground alum, you know what I mean? So I really go back with All Hip Hop and allhiphop.com
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All right, y'all. It's your girl, Color Me Dizzy. We are now here with, you already know, All Hip Hop, and we got Toray and Marco Polo here
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What up, what up, what up? All Hip Hop, family for life. What up
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So, you already know, they got their new album. They just dropped, and we want you to tell us all about it
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How did you guys meet? Apparently, allegedly, we met through a mutual friend named Emilio Rojas, who's also an MC
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and I believe Emilio brought Toray to my apartment slash studio, and that's how we met, and then
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we started working from there. Is that correct? Is that accurate? Pretty accurate, pretty much
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Okay, so we already know you guys have been working together for a long time, and I mean
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a long time, but let's talk about Midnight Run. You know, I want to know all about- Let's talk about Midnight Run
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All right, all about that album. So, what inspired, what's the inspiration behind this album
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Literally this right here, New York City, you know what I mean, the streets, being out
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hip hop, you know, just that energy, that rugged energy, that raw energy, when the weather
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starts changing and you putting your hoodies on and Timbaland music, you know, it's just
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real aggressive, in-your-face hip hop that we feel like has been, not necessarily missing
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from this space, but it's never too much. You know, you can never have too much of just that gritty shit
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So, that's what we provide. Okay, all right. Also, you guys have been working together for a long time
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What made you pick him as your main producer on this album
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He picked me, because I'm the best. No, Marco is my brother, you know, outside of music, you know, like music is one part
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of it, but this is family, this is like deeper than rap, this is my brother, and it was just
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time for us to get back, you know, it's been a big hiatus between the Double Barrel album
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14 years ago and now, and so we felt like this was the perfect time for us to get back
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in and cook back up, and you know, the people who have been receiving Midnight Run really well
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Okay, so how long did it take you guys to finish this project
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So a majority of this album we knocked out a few years ago, and I love the music and
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I was bothering him every day, like, we gotta put this out, and we were close. I was like, let's put out an EP
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He's like, nah, let's record a couple more joints, make it an album, and those songs happen quick
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So yeah, I guess all in all, four or five years? But not because we kind of took a break, because we're very busy guys, I'm on tour, he's on
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tour, he's got 13 radio shows, he's a media mogul. But they're getting to the money
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So you know, we just felt it was time to let people hear the music. Okay, so I have another question for you right quickly
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So how is it working with Torey? It's amazing, because he's my friend
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It's always better to work with people, the bottom line is, in music it's better to work
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with people that respect what you do. So he's my friend, he's an amazing MC, and we respect each other's criticisms, and no
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one's got an ego in the lab, everyone's trying to make the best product. When you work with people like that, it's the best
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Okay, so Torey, every lyric on this album was like, hardcore New York. Hardcore
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Even the beats, I must admit. So was that like, the aim you was going for
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Like that New York, you know, old feel? You know, Marco and I, we have a very specific brand of hip-hop
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It's what we're inspired by, it's what we love to hear. And I feel like when people look to us for music, they look and they come in for a specific
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sound, and so just to be able to consistently deliver that, you know, like, he don't send
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me the pretty beats with the flutes and the butterflies and shit
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Whatever else you put, the chimes, the wind chimes and shit, what else you put
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The xylophone, he don't send me the xylophone shit. And I don't write, you know, the cutesy raps when it comes to Marco shit
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We get right to it, it's very in your face, very brash, very Brooklyn, New York
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Okay, so this is a question for both of you guys. Yo, what you got against flutes, girl
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You're hating on flutes. Wait, I used to play the flutes, so like... So now you don't..
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So now you don't... Wow, so now you don't want to do the interview no more
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This is crazy! How could you act like this? I'm just sticking up for flutes. Okay, well he said he's sticking up for flutes
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I hope so. Okay, so... I sound kinky. Alright, next question. Next, okay
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So this is a question for both of you guys. You know, rap has evolved into, you know, something totally different than what it was
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you know, a long time ago. So what's the difference between artists versus, you know, 2000 on down and today
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What's crazy is when we did our first album 14 years ago, people were like, man, we haven't
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heard this type of hip hop in a minute. And then here comes 14 years later
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People are like, wow, man, we haven't heard this type of hip hop in a minute
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So whatever that means, we just try and make timeless. It's not about what's current
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Clearly, our style of music is not popular style of hip hop in this moment, but it's
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the stuff we grew up listening to. And it will be appreciated for a longer span of time, in my humble opinion
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Because it always comes back to this style, in my opinion. So let's jump back into Midnight Run
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What are you guys, and this is for both of you guys, top five songs on the album
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Top five songs on the album. There's only six songs on the album. Right
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The whole, side A. My favorites on the album, The Return, Making Up, Oh No, Mardi Gras
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More Danger, Life Behind Bars. You need them in every song? Yes
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But that's great because that means we love the whole album. But for me, it would be Return, Intro, Gray Sheep, Oh No, Rap Shit
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Yeah, I like the whole album. That's the goal, right? The goal is not just pick five songs and fill up space
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It's like everything on the album. From our answers, you can tell we're proud of the whole body of work. Okay
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Give me. So you have a song called Mardi Gras, right? Yeah
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So BG just got out of jail. Okay. Shout out to BG
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Shout out to BG. Are you from New Orleans? Yes, I am. Oh, shit
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What's up, Walt? What's up with it, Walty? All right. So would you ever consider doing a song with BG
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Or have you ever thought about it? That would be legendary. I mean, I'm a chopper city, chopper city in the ghetto guy
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You know what I'm saying? I go back, shout to the hot boys, shout to all my peoples in New Orleans
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Too many to list. But yeah, that would be an amazing honor. Welcome home to BG
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Bigger than the music shit, for that man to be back and have his freedom and have his sanity intact and be back out here, get into it is a super blessing. Okay
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And shout out to BG once again. Baby. Right. So what are your goals for this album
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Our goals are to keep promoting it, keep releasing videos, spread the word
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That's the main thing. And maybe touch some stages around the world, performing some of the songs. Okay
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So you going on tour? You going on tour? Yeah. If it makes sense
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We get the right offers and Marco's schedule permits and my schedule permits. We not opposed to touring it. Okay
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So ladies and fellas, if y'all want him to come to a city near you in him, you have to
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accept the request. You want this beautiful specimen of Canadian manhood to pull up
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You know what I mean? Play some beats. Do some raps. I'll rap a little bit
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Yeah, man. Send a cash app. Yeah. Well, thank you guys so much for coming through
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And we really, really thank you guys for just allowing us to come through and like celebrate
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this new album with you guys. Thank you so much. Dumb and dumb. We never reach for
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