1. The Story Behind “Black & Brown”

    So by now i know all u guys prolly heard the Black joint by now … and just like u all i probably played this song countless times …  so i figured i might as well tell u guys how it all came about … now im not giving niggas secrets on how i do my shit but every now and then i get bored and i say to myself “fuck it lemme write a rap” … so on a bus ride to DC wit my homey FWMJ i did just that …. and i wrote this long as rap which eventually became the verse i did for “Black & Brown” … now that night in DC we linked up wit the homie Oddisee and recorded this real cool song about white bitches bombing me up called “Kirby” … anyway to be honest i figured the song wasnt that good not because of the beat trust me Oddisee did his thing but because i wrote that rap earlier that and not to that beat i felt like i wouldnt of used that flow and in my head it ended up being a scrapped song so im hoping to get up wit Oddisee to make some shit in the future so anyway…. Black had told me awhile ago that he was gone do a joint wit me for his album … months went by and i figured Black prolly aint gone hit me up … so im sending him sporadic textes every blue moon … i know i prolly was getting on his nerves but anyway … one morning i get the text like come to the studio … bet i was there on time … didnt even had that much weed just like a couple nicks of reggies …. so i went up there wrote a joint off a blunt … black said … “its cool” … “but do another” … so i did another … black said … “naw i dont like that one” … “i know u got something harder than that” … then the beat came on … yea as soon as the drums dropped i said it to myself in my head “sitting on some kobes” … word so i knew that was the rhyme … went to that long ass rap took the best parts of it ran in the booth came out … and …. black said … “damn i cant even hate on that” …. so after that i went home … that was in like march or april blame the trees i dont remember … so anyway …. fast forward its august and im in a dressing room at the Jay Z and Eminen concert and Alchemist says to me “Yo Brown u killed that Black joint” im like word i aint even heard it yet … So me and Yayo go into his dressing room to roll up and he played it to me off his Iphone man i cant front … i was fronting like i aint really go that crazy … then this weekend all of sudden im getting twits from everybody showing love talkin bout i killed it … then i wake up today and i the homies the smoking section and kevin nottingham and the wrote the verse out … i swear in all my life i dreamed of getting a hip hop quoteable in the source „, and in some sense today i felt like i achieved that cause that shit dont really hold any weight anymore … but of course due to my eastside Detroit accent even tho i rep linwood but thats another story …. so due to my hangings around fiends all my life i developed there speech impediment … now i talk like them … which is real fast merging two words together sometime … and with this missing tooth in my mouth the words can come out a lil funny or mispronounced so … so here goes the verse some say might call the verse of the year even tho its not over yet and if thats true “dilla bot vs the hybrid” and “Black & Brown” that a be 2 for 2

    “Sitting on some Kobe’s” (24 inch rim)

    “smoking on a stogie” (a fat blunt)

    “banging noreiga when im done i lite the bogey” 

    (if anyones a fan of Nore then they know that his slang for cigarettes)

    “40 on the floor mat a leave ya holey moley”

    (funny guys thought i said Aaliyah but RIP)

    “Banana in her tailpipe a make her Axel Foley”

    (know u guys know that famous Beverly Hills Cop scene who else cud make that into a punchline a poking a chick u know where)

    “eatting on peroggis”

    “goose mixed sobe”

    “smoking on a oz”

    “pimping like a og”

    (some cool wordplay for u)

    “if u never knew me then u prolly never know me”

    “blade on my homey mask on like shinobi”

    (gotta love a vintage video game reference)

    “Ball so hard gotta MVP trophy”

    ( a lil braggadocio)

    “blow so much kush i forget the hoes that blow me”

    (stoner bar)

    “thick white bitch slurp a nigga like Kirby”

    (double entrende the video game/and the vacuum cleaner)

    “Hoes on a nigga and they all look thirsty”

    “Say they 19 and they all look 30”

    (a lil misogyny)

    “Everday clean yall always dirty”

    “Chronic coming in the same bag as a turkey”

    (my niggas on west coast know about them turkey bags)

    “Dark color purple in its tasting like Hershey”

    (shots out to the Brooklyn)

    so thats it i cant thank Black enough for having me on this phenomenal album 

    so please go out and support it Sept. 14th