Self Provoked talks about his early days, early success, Myspace days, the LA underground scene, and more. ----- 00:00 Intro 0:05 Self Provoked dropped his first song on MySpace at 16 5:39 The differences between Sun Valley and other places in the Valley 8:50 Self and Lush speak on the Basement and doing freestyle battles there 11:25 Self on getting in trouble as a kid and getting his house raided when he was 17 17:19 Working with Bizzy Bone by shouting out Bone Thugs-N-Harmony on a song 20:42 Self on how he developed his distinct rap voice 21:59 Self talks the attention he was getting from on MySpace and at what point he felt like he should make an actual album 23:41 Forming his crew and the obstacles that came with bringing together different personalities 27:49 Self on his musical influences and being first introduced to boom-bap rap 29:20 Self on what he thinks made people gravitate toward his music coming up 30:52 Female following and the impact that audience had on his career 34:38 Self on why he thinks the whole crew felt like they should move in their own directions 36:15 Getting away from "boom-bap" and getting backlash from hip hop heads 38:00 Self talks actually rapping at his shows opposed to other artists lip syncing over pre recorded vocals 39:04 Self on not making too much music consistently at the moment and wanting to move toward being an A&R and managing 42:04 Lush says he's looking for the West Coast Mexican version of Cardi B 44:30 Self on having a very rebellious and unique perspective due to finding out the origins of his faith 50:10 Self on how his pursuit of this type of knowledge made him shy away from being in the spotlight 54:12 Self's take on Ye 59:32 Self gives his recommendations on Mason's authors 1:00:49 Self gives his take on the surge of Latino and Chicano rappers coming up right now out of LA ----- 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