Eyekon talks about his upbringing, getting in trouble at a young age, music career, podcasting, rap beef with Lush, and more. ----- 00:00 Intro 1:20 Eyekon breaks down his upbringing, growing up in East Los Angeles 2:10 Eyekon on being a 5th generation American, his ancestors being in America before it was America 4:10 Eyekon on being able to do whatever he wanted as a kid and being a**icted to weed and cr**k 5:20 Eyekon on getting him and his mom kicked out of their apartment and out of school in the 7th grade 6:40 Eyekon speaks on his past a**iction 12:00 Eyekon reminisces on being in the streets at 13 and stealing cars 15:40 Eyekon speaks on going to juvenile hall for fighting and being snitched on by his girlfriend at the time 19:00 Eyekon on breaking up crack on his mothers entertainment center and his mom walking right in the middle of it 22:00 Lush on how smoking c*** back then was way more normalized and sm*king a "Pookie"  25:40 Eyekon on being skinny when he was younger, talks sleeping in stairwells of expensive condos when he was homeless and getting his GED in juvenile hall 27:45 Lush asks Eyekon if he held any resentment toward his mom for partying  30:00 Eyekon on seeing homies that became homeless that never bounced back and feeling bad for wearing his jewelry around them 31:10 Eyekon breaks down tagging at a young age, his involvement in graffiti culture and referred to himself as a "bus rocker" 33:40 Eyekon on being one of the first people that sold weed to dispensaries and when he first started rapping 38:20 Eyekon reflects on going to Project Blowed, meeting Omar Gooding and rapping with Almighty Suspect's father 40:20 Lush and Eyekon discuss whether or not things are more dangerous now compared to back then 42:00 Eyekon speaks on having a kid when he was 16 and not being able to see his son 51:00 Eyekon on shooting behind the scenes for a Jay Rock and Mack 10 video and realizing he could shoot music videos 53:00 Eyekon speaks on things going really well for his rap group, going on tour with Phora and reacts to people calling him a snitch 56:00 Eyekon reacts to Lush calling him an actual MC at the time and not lip-syncing while performing 57:30 Eyekon breaks down why his rap group decided to go their separate ways 58:30 Lush asks Eyekon if he feels like he's more known for his rap or video career, Eyekon explains what "Brownside" is and Brownside being signed to Eazy-E's label 1:02:00 Eyekon on being offered to go to Mexico to shoot videos for Toker from Brownside and speaks on the beef between him and Kid Frost 1:08:00 Lush asks Eyekon how he initially met Brownside, shooting videos at Rosarito in Tijuana  1:18:00 Eyekon on being the only one involved with Brownside that's not from their hood 1:24:30 Eyekon on how Toker's k___ing impacted him in the midst of his rollout and addresses rumors of his passing being caused by money being owed to the cartel 1:30:40 Eyekon on quitting the label after Toker's passing and stopping his album rollout immediately  1:37:40 Eyekon breaks down starting a show with his wife and her being indicted under a RICO charge 1:38:40 Eyekon on what he thinks about 30 dudes pulling up to No Jumper  1:45:00 Eyekon tells a story about performing with Busta Rhymes at a charity event and calls him a "busta" for not giving Eyekon a drop 1:47:50 Lush asks Eyekon what makes him think that he's a good podcaster, denies rumors of Lush bringing Eyekon to No Jumper  1:50:40 Eyekon asks Lush how he feels about his Lush diss track Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices