Cassidy on His Come Up, The Freeway Battle, Dissing Mumble Rappers & More

No Jumper

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🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Cassidy sits down with Adam to talk about his career, his legacy, battle rap, and more! ----- 00:00 Intro 0:55 Cassidy on writing his first rap in 4th grade about fire prevention and raps it 4:35 Cassidy lists all of his musical influences like Grandmaster Caz, Rakim and more 6:55 Not connecting the streets with rap at first and being influenced by Canibus and DMX 11:00 Staying on cadence, being creative with syllables and how technology changed music 16:10 Signing to a label at 17, hosting radio cyphers and creating the group Larsiny with Ruff Ryders 20:15 Ruff Ryders’ relationship and beating Freeway in a battle rap with Jay-Z & Swizz Beatz in attendance 34:00 How rappers used to represent labels during battle raps and dropping the first project 38:15 Curating the album “Split Personality”, dropping the single “I’m a Hustla” and having radio hits 42:35 Being locked up while going platinum, sampling Jay-Z bars and making a fortune off of ringtones 48:00 Hip hop creating sub genres for the new sounds coming out in music and radio play 52:10 Writing the record “6 Minutes” with Lil Wayne and Fabolous and changing the game again 57:00 Cassidy on his relationship with Swizz Beatz then and now 1:02:50 Cassidy on dissing Lil Uzi Vert and Lil Yachty and getting used to the new era rap music 1:09:15 New Cassidy album coming soon 1:13:40 Cassidy’s contribution to the battle rap culture and the Freeway battle that never happened 1:18:40 Cassidy charging $250,000 for appearances and believes he deserves more 1:24:35 Cassidy on Tory Lanez stealing his bars and starting a podcast 1:28:15 Writing bars in seconds, punching in and the creative process to make a hit record ----- NO JUMPER PATREON http://www.patreon.com/nojumper CHECK OUT OUR NEW SPOTIFY PLAYLIST https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5te... FOLLOW US ON SNAPCHAT FOR THE LATEST NEWS & UPDATES https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE STORE!!! http://www.nojumper.com/ SUBSCRIBE for new interviews (and more) weekly: http://bit.ly/nastymondayz Follow us on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ENxb4B... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Follow us on Social Media: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... http://www.twitter.com/nojumper http://www.instagram.com/nojumper https://www.facebook.com/NOJUMPEROFFI... http://www.reddit.com/r/nojumper JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Q3XPfBm Follow Adam22: https://www.tiktok.com/@adam22 http://www.twitter.com/adam22 http://www.instagram.com/adam22 adam22hoe on Snapchat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	No jumper, coolest podcast in the world, and I got my man court with me.
0:04.1	And I'm just overjoyed and incredibly happy to be bringing a rapper who I was listening
0:10.8	to so much when I was like 19, 20 back in the prime of my life.
0:16.6	Cassidy's albums were definitely a very, very significant soundtrack around that time.
0:21.6	So it's amazing to have you in here, man.
0:23.3	Appreciate you, man.
0:24.3	Thanks a lot, man.
0:25.3	Cutting it did it without you.
0:26.9	You wanted the reasons why I got the success I got.
0:29.3	That's really important.
0:30.5	I couldn't find it today, but like the first BMX video ever edited myself.
0:36.0	I remember I used AM to the PM as the soundtracks.
0:39.7	That's hot.
0:40.5	Yeah.
0:41.4	Yeah, shout out to Nioh.
0:42.8	He produced that record.
0:44.2	Right.
0:44.8	Nioh to Matrix.
0:45.9	Okay.
0:46.6	Yeah, that was a classic right there.
0:48.0	Yeah, he from Philly, too, where I'm from.
0:50.2	One of the producers that I was working with like the whole time back then.
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