Some of you may remember a certain little diddy by a man called Mac Dre and it was titled “Thizzle Dance”. Well…the man behind the track on the production side was Portland Oregon’s own Syko. Syko has been on the Bay area and Northwest Hip-hop scenes for years and has major ties to the bay music scene.
To keep up on what’s good with Syk and to hear his latest slap’s, check out his myspace at www.myspace.com/syko12 and check out the website at www.themanbehindthepill.com.
Me an Syko chopped it up to let y’all know what the latest is with the man…here it go!
Syko: Aight what’s up wid it?
Nick: Man…just tryin’ to see what’s been going on with you latley. Give me the scoop on the latest in Syko’s world.
Syko: Ah man…the latest? Were just gearing up for this whole promotional shit for the summer man. Taking over the town with this S.O.S, the summer of Syk. Were droppin’ an album every month of the summer. June, July, August. In June we got The Movement gone drop. You know that’s a double CD. All my artist’s with this Syko production. I’m probly featured like 2 or 3 times on the whole Shit!
Nick: Wow!
Syko: And then we got um…In July we got (The man) Behind the Pill finally!
Nick: We been waiting for that one.
Syko: Yeah, the double CD. It’s way different from that Internet shit. It’s got 16 new songs ya feel me? So it’s just like a whole big ass stockpile with some new shit. And then to end it off we got the Taliban which is my group. They got they album comin’ in August called Taliban Action. We got a video that’s gone be hittin’ youtube and I’mma have all the albums for download on iTunes so you can just buy the tracks you want…all that! I’m just…I’m really gearing all this shit for internet ya know what I mean? Because it’s the best way for a mothafucker to get his shit off. Plus I got a gang of fans on the net, and on the street… Other than that man I just been producin’ my as of man. From LA to Colorado to Virginia man, all over the damn place.
Nick: So I was reading online about a possibility of you hooking up with THIZZ ent. for one of your projects coming up. Anything come of that yet.
Syko: I’m not gonna say for sure. I mean aint nothing really materialized accept for the fact that me and Dunna is doin’ a album you know what I’m sayin’? But they was gonna fuck with my album. I had a little time within myself to really think is that the best move for me and my label imprint and what I’m tryin’ to do myself so, I really don’t think, like, at this time I’m gone say %85 don’t look for it to be on THIZZ Entrtainment. Look for the solo SYKO album to be on Makin’ the Grade Entertainment and I’m looking through a gang of companies right now tryin’ to get my straight. I hollered at Select-O-Hits, I done hollered at Koch, I done hollered at a lot of mu’ fuckas’ man so It’s gone get that distribution it’s just really who I want to fuck with.
Nick: It’ll get it! If they do there homework they’ll see theres a lot of people waiting to hear it!
Syko: Plus I got my guy Bootz up at 95 like really pushin’ for me and fuckin’ with me and making sure I get spin and making sure I’m getting the kind of
exposure I need now. I think everything is gone catch on like really really really big this summer.
Nick: So, youtube video? You guys are shooting a video.
Syko: Yeah, we already shot a video for “Drop, Rock and Roll. That’ll probly be on youtube at the end of this month. Basically it’s a two in one video. Then sometime next month in May were gone wrap up this Taliban. Oh yeah I got the Taliban, American Taliban mixtape comin’ in May. So it’s really like we takin’ over the whole summer. We got May, June, July, August.
Nick: Damn! I guess!
Syko: I’m not really givin’ nobody else the oppertunity. I mean people gone try but everybody been waiting for this Syk shit for the longest. So now I’m just gone overdose em’ on shit. Like…alright, you don’t like this album then go get this one. You don’t like that one, go get this one. You like all of em’, buy all the mothafuckas’.
Nick: Buy em’ all right?
Syko: Yeah, cause all together it’s really six CD’s cause the first two, The Movement and The Man Behind the Pill are double CD’s! And then the Taliban is the only single album that’s gone have about like 16 slaps on there so.
Nick: Are we looking at a fat list of features or is it a lot of Syk?
Syko: It aint really…the most features you gone get is on my album! I got Luni on there, I got Dubee on there, and I got Dunna, and everybody within the camp. But I tried to stray away from getting a gang of features on there. I’m tryin’ to wrap it up with this song with Fab that sampled that old ass car song “Who’s gonna drive you home tonight”. So I’m thinkin’ about throwin’ Fabby on there. I got a pretty good relationship with all them cats. That’s probly the last little element I’m gone add to the album. But the Taliban, they don’t got no features, the Movement, the only features that’s on there is everybody out my click and then Dubee made a guest appearance on there and then that’s pretty much it.
Nick: Cool man! Keepin’ it SYKO, I like that.
Syko: I’m tryin’ to let people know that it’s okay to be yourself, you don’t need everybody else to sell your reacord.
Nick: Right! Right!
Syko: Then it aint really an individual anyways. People look at me as my own entity so I gotta give people me, I can’t give people me with Snoop Dogg, and me with Mack 10 every album, or Too Short…you know what I’m sayin’? People get sick of that shit so…
Nick: Right! Absolutely! So…production. You been producing! Are we gonna see a lot of Syko production on there too?
Syko: Ah yeah man. I’m hadling everything accept uh, accept for maybe 2 or 3 tracks out of like 80 songs man so you gone hear a whole lot of that Syk sound from a lil bit ago and you gone hear that new shit and then I’m workin’ on that me and Dunna album. Me and Nonstop are probly gone split the production down the middle and we gone start workin’ on our album in like the ass end of August. We already got like 5 or 6 songs done. Now that he down in Atlanta he hookin’ up with a gang of major mu’fuckas. He got a couple deals on the tablke with Geffen and some other mu’fuckas for our project. It’s as a production team also so not only just artist’s, we gone be producing for a lot of other people so.
Nick: So your going to be showcasing your skills not only as an MC but production wise as well.
Syko: Exactly!
Nick: Especially this summer. That’s a lot of tracks man!
Syko: Man, I’m tellin’ you bro. It’s compiled with, I’m gone say the ass end of 2006 to now. It’s a whole lot of shit that I aint been able to put out that’s why I been just givin’ away like here go the mixtape, here got the Internet version of my album cause people been waiting and waiting and waiting and I gotta give mu’fuckas what they want.
Nick: We’ll Syko…I appreciate the time fam.
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