producer from Chicago, would be handling all the production. I asked
Qwel what to expect from the album.
"Its time to harvest, we came up with the concept on the
harvest moon, I've been having fucked up dreams. We're going to
harvest, because if you let a grape sit on a vine too long, it will
swell with so much juice that it will burst itself and be a useless
grape. You have to save it and so we're going to incorporate some of
these fat and happy grapes. Also, tell me if I'm wrong, but there are
some people here still communicating, but there's a lot of bullshit
that has to go," he said.
I definitely agreed with him.
He continued with, "Plus, Maker is the like a fucking Mastodon
that plays the harp. He provides the kick in it, just like the song
Chicago Barbeque, you know what it feels like, no matter what I'm
talking about and all I did was be the muscles to the skeleton of that
beat."
Some how, I knew exactly what he was talking about. I asked
him to tell me more about the Rubber Duckie. I had to know more.
He said, "I could talk about however I want to in the voice I
want to, but if my honesty bleeds truth, souls will hear it. I've had
so many people come up to me and say "yo I like the Duckie" and I'll
be like "yo the Pinocchio Syndrome is about money". You know what I
mean, "seven blasphemous heads" and "the gentlemen's drug." But, they
still like the shit."
I felt his transformation as an artist really shocked people.
He came with raw hip hop on the Typical Cats album and opened his solo
career with If it Ain't Been in a Pawnshop then it Can't Play the
Blues. He managed to hide a completely different artistic side to his
work and catch