Mack 10 on Westside Connection Breakup, His Relationship with Gangbanging & More

No Jumper

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🗓️ 15 April 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Legendary Mack 10 talks about his career, legacy, fatherhood, relationship with Westside Connection, and more. ------ 00:00 Intro 0:05 Mack 10 making a comeback to music 2:30 Mack speaks about enjoying current music, but recording new music in his own style, Adam asks is LA hip hop should keep its sound 4:00 Adam talks about the LA sound in rap, and the East Coast and South not understanding the movement the sound 5:24 Mack 10 reflects on his childhood, growing up in the 80s in Inglewood, witnessing g*ng b*nging at an early age 7:55 Mack 10 on getting into music and poetry at an early age, being inspired by Ice T, Eazy E, Run DMC, etc 9:35 Mack 10 discusses taking music seriously in 7th grade, making swap meet tapes, and first time going to a studio 11:45 Mack 10 on forming Westside Connection with Ice Cube and WC 14:30 Discussing Westside Connection having both blo*ds and crips in a group, how it is more acceptable now 16:50 Adam and Mack 10 talk about the break up between Westside Connection, and Mack 10 clears the story 19:00 Youtubers/influencers having the wild takes for clout, and the media always glorifying negative stories 23:00 Mack 10 talks about his career about the breakup of WC, starting businesses, and becoming a solo artist 25:00 Mack 10 talks about the changes in record sales and live performances over the years, learning the business 28:30 Adam and Mack 10 discuss having kids, and the difficulties going on tour while having kids, what fatherhood has taught him 32:00 Mack 10 discusses his son becoming a rapper, and what advice he gave him, having his kids realizing who he is 35:10 Adam asks Mack 10 about the New York drill scene, and rap feuds turning into real-life beef 38:30 Mack 10 talks about living in Calabasas for years, and collecting classic cars and lowriders 39:35 Adam asks Mack 10 about signing Glasses Malone, and Mack 10’s thought process on signing an artist 42:30 Mack 10 talks about his new album THE RED PRINT coming out in the Summer ----- 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/ 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 today I'm extremely honored to have an absolute West Coast icon
0:06.4	Mac 10 in the building. Hey, how you doing man?
0:08.1	Can't complain, bro. Was that new witty?
0:10.0	I'm a good time. I'm happy to have you in here.
0:11.9	Thanks. Glad to be here.
0:13.3	Yeah, definitely. What, how's your sort of doing interviews at this point?
0:17.3	Like, what does it feel like? Is the reason that you're kind of trying to come out and be a little bit more publiclyly?
0:22.5	I just felt like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I put a couple of, you know,
0:27.4	got a couple of records done, getting ready to put an album out.
0:30.0	Uh-huh. Drop that King of Chevy's single and, um, you know, I just feel like coming out, you know,
0:37.1	that's it really to be honest.
0:38.6	Right. Cause that was your first video on your YouTube channel in like 14 years.
0:42.8	Yeah.
0:44.4	And you haven't put out an album in approximately the same amount of time.
0:48.7	Right. So it's got to feel kind of crazy to be making a comeback all of a sudden.
0:54.3	What needed to happen in your, in your mind before you were able to actually go for it?
1:00.5	Really music is just a feeling to me. You know what I'm saying? I've been extremely blessed.
1:05.1	So I don't have to do music. You know what I'm saying? But, um, it's a feeling to me.
1:10.1	I felt like coming out at them for real. That's just what it was. I just,
1:14.0	oh, I don't think I do a record. I'm saying, um, I did a few records and I liked them.
1:19.9	You know what I'm saying? And, uh, it just made me keep going back to the studio and let's
1:24.8	keep working. You know what I'm saying? Right. And I just said, you know,
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