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Sometimes a relaxed mind is the most creative, know what I’m sayin’? I guess it helps me mellow and it helps certainly, for me, in a writer’s block situation. I smoke in the morning after the session too. Yes, I smoke before the session, during the session, and after the session. How does smoking affect your recording process? Obviously it’s a subject you talk about a lot. I guess, it’s hard to predict how long you’d be doing something if you love doing it. At the time, I didn’t know if I’d still be rapping in 2010 ! Now it seems like it was yesterday.

I looked at the calendar and realized that 4/20 wouldn’t fall on a Tuesday for years and years! So we were like ‘oh shit!’ So we had to wait this whole time to make this happen. As you know, records come out on Tuesdays. Back in the day we had the idea to release an album on 4/20. Īww man, it’s called Suite #420, and it came out on April 20th.

Sometimes, it’ll let you know to do both, but it has never told me to straight sing my guts out. I just want to have fun with the music–and sometimes the music tells you to sing, sometimes it tells you to rap.
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Maybe if it had a lot of meaning, or was something random like a movie soundtrack or something. I wouldn’t say yes or no for sure, but I can’t see myself just hearing a track and trying to sing over it. Would you release an album where you only sing? That’s when we was like ‘something’s wrong with this picture’.
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You’d see it on movies and TV commercials but never at parks or on the streets anymore. It’s crazy now how breakdancing has progressed to what cats are doing these days, but in the late ‘80s it started getting commercialized. I guess breakdancing became too commercial for me and everything became watered down so I just moved onto the next hip-hop thing that was rapping. Houston always supported hip-hop to the fullest. Then Geto Boys and Rap-A-Lot blew up and it just all made sense, man. It was a real big thing all over Houston. This was the early ‘80s and I had my tape recorder ready every single Saturday. The radio stations, and especially the local college stations, would play all hip-hop all day on Saturdays.

It struck us hard man! Living in Houston, everyone was influenced by hip-hop in general. How did hip-hop strike Houston in the 1980s? I lived between Houston and East Texas, Douglasville and Austin. Petersburg Florida is where I was until about the fourth grade when my family moved to Texas. But yeah, I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for them two. He made the type of songs that you wouldn’t dare play at your family reunion. So street, so tough, and was quick to call a bitch a bitch too. He was just speaking his mind and not caring about how he came off. I mean, he had that ‘I don’t give a fuck’ style that spoke to me, man. He was so creative and projected personality into his songs. How he put his songs together and just all the silly humor in his songs spoke to me. But really, I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for Slick Rick. Back when I was a kid, a song sounded like it was a movie and I loved every bit of it. You could dance to it and it had a story behind it too. I thought it was the funniest, grooviest thing I’ve ever heard. The very first rap record I heard made me laugh! It was called “ Rap Dirty” by Blowfly. I spoke with Devin on all things casual: from how often he smokes, to how Europeans sound funny rapping his lyrics. His new project, Suite #420, finds him delivering over rolling beats where he’s the butt of his punchlines. Dre, as work with De La Soul, Premier, Nas, and Xhibit followed. He continues, barely audible from laughing so hard: “My songs are like my kids, some are uglier than others but I love them all the same!”Ī longtime Rap-A-Lot signee, Devin added ease and self-deprecation to Houston’s rap scene, counteracting the overt aggression of labelmates, The Geto Boys, and other local rap acts. “Sheeeit, I’m just a normal dude who smokes weed and raps, ” he says, confirming his entire approach and motto. But for the span of 5 albums (and a new 6th) his everyman approach has endeared him on both coasts as well as in Europe. Granted, weed and big butts aren’t entirely all Devin “The Dude” Copeland talks about. The Village Voice called him, “An asshole in the tradition George Clinton or Rudy Ray Moore, a shit-talker who thinks yukking and fucking is a life plan”.
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