Tea & Converse Interview

T:

I mean we could always start with the music, but I actually wanna start with you being Haitian



Like, growing up and not being Haitian I've heard

"HBO"

I’ve heard

"Oh, they do vodou" or "they're dirty"

How do you take something like that and then kinda wear it as a badge of honor the way that you do throughout your music, man?



Mach:

I owe a lot of that or I drew from the weld

You know what I mean?

That was my grandfather

It was a source for a lot of mental clarity for me

Like you know, that's one of the voices that I still hear in my head when I’m tryna make difficult decisions

You know, all of us have those voices

You know what I'm saying?



You know, cautionary tales

Whenever I'm really really off

I just listen to my grandpa tell me a story

He always instilled a great deal of cultural pride in us

Our family

I wouldn't necessarily say I experienced that interacting with all Haitian people

But definitely my grandfather, he made that a point

He had to know your origins in order to even begin to learn the terrain

Because definitely at the end of the day, you know, this a diaspora

I don't care if you Haiti, Jamaica, United States

We all displaced



He made us understand that

We were brought up to have so much pride in our culture

To the degree of like

Haiti, okay Haiti is an island nation

You know, former French colony

A lot of the colonizer's shit is still there

Even in trace amounts, you know what I mean?

But it's there

And one of the primary vehicles of mental domination is language

Confusion



My grandfather, he a funny n***a

Like you know, Haiti is like-

You know, the primary language is French

That's the national language

Everything is written in French

All wealthy people speak French

And you know, you can’t go to school

Everything is administered through the colonizer’s language

My grandfather did not allow us to speak French in his house

Ever.

Said that was for, "Putting on heirs"

It's too pretentious to hear that in his house

He don’t wanna hear that

So, I carried that with me a long way

That sense of... self-reliance

Like yo, all the people on the ground level speak Kreyol

Noone, that you really need to do anything constructive, is speaking French



I don't know if you saw that time when I did that post on Haitian Flag Day

About "[?]"

What he tried to do, he tried to bring education to the poor people

You know Haiti is an island nation that has a very high illiteracy rate

Like O.D. - 90's

Upper 90 percentile shit

Which means what?

Everything that's set in place to allow you some sort of respite or something, like relief, is in French

But you know, if you can’t read in French where does that lead you?

All of those things I understood at a very early age because my grandfather, he didn't really hesitate with me

He just cut to the point

That's why I hear someone say "HBO" to me and I laugh

And you know, people attribute that to me being self-centered or arrogant or full of myself

I'd rather be full of myself than full of shit

At the end of the day they say "HBO" to me and I'm like

"You wish motherfucker"

That was my attitude

I mean, I didn't always have an answer right away

I would ignore it at first

I ignored it with such disdain that it escalated

My assailants, the n***as that was hurling the insults at me

They were hurt by the fact that-



T:

It didn't bother you



Mach:

Nah, it just slid off

Because it's like, you're not talking to me

I know where I'm from and I know who I am

And so you know, it got physical real quick

I make people feel that way sometimes

I don't acknowledge ignorance yo



And there's this-

I don't know what they call that shit

A euphemism or something in Kreyol

"Every Haitian person is a fucking philosopher king"

N***a finna give you all these puzzles and shit

Know what I mean?

They always tell you- the OP always tell you, it's to the effect of

"It costs money to smell good"

It say "sentir bon, coût de cent"

And I guess the science behind that is like

Yo bro, if you smell good - you obviously not working, right?



T:

Right



Mach:

So how you smelling good without a job?

You must be the shit

So basically the whole shit is like, making shit look easy

Everything, whatever it is - it's nothing

That's the whole wave I got from grandpa

When n***as started dissing me like

"Haitian Body Odor"

"Yo you got HBO?"

"African Booty Scratcher" or whatever the fuck

Go read a book muh'fucker

Fuck outta here



T:

So while people were hurling these insults at you

What did you know about your people that they didn't know?

What was prideful about being Haitian?



Mach:

First of all as far as I'm concerned, the story is phenomenal, right?

And to me, all black people - well, so-called black people

The entire diaspora needs to draw from that experience

Because it's a signal, it's a beacon FOR YOU

It's not just for me

You must understand that this place started off as a fugitive slave colony

They sent all the worst n***as there

Know what I mean?

Who couldn't be controlled, right?

Who basically were non-programmable

And so basically, damaged goods

They would send them to Haiti from everywhere

Jamaica, Saint Kitts - Anywhere, anywhere in the Caribbean

Because the French had a very brutal style of slavery

So, how they administered their techniques so it's like

Whenever you gave trouble, you know

Actually it's like a common threat or caveat of slave masters throughout the Caribbean that

"You keep it up and we gon' send you to Haiti"



So, these stupid motherfuckers-

But see that's the arrogance of the oppressor - of the colonizer

You think you finna put all the bad- all the "pop-off n***as" in one place?

Like, you really that arrogant?

And so that's what they did and they paid for it, dearly

After a while too many like-minded individuals started to feel some kind of way

I guess they didn't like the working conditions

They were less than desirable

So, n***as said that's enough of that

A slave who had just recently been relocated from Jamaica - he took it upon himself-

And you know what's funny? A lot of people don't know this

Like I told you

People had to keep their history alive, you know, verbally

Know what I'm saying?

Because nobody was speaking French or writing in French

You know, the modern day scholar or researcher-

He always gonna come with his scientific process

And you know, his way for deriving truths from hearsay, right?

Or you know, he say - she say

Whatever the case may be, but there's some corners of the globe where the truest story is the spoken story

Because nine times out of ten the person who's telling the story by mouth - they have no-

Know what I'm saying?

Like, what's their incentive for switching around the facts?

It is their honor and duty, traditionally, to keep it as close as possible to the truth



T:

Or as it happened



Mach:

As it happened versus you know-

I mean, of course people embellish-

Okay, there was like 30 bodies - they'll say it was 30,000

But n***as died

Know what I'm saying?



T:

Yeah



Mach:

Whereas the oppressor or the scholar..

It's a whole 'nother story once he gets his hands on the information because he has a process by which he deceives

It's fine-tuned

It's so innocuous because they do it with no second thought that you won't even know you being lied to

For me

I prefer the story from my elders who got from their elders who got from their elders who actually went through the shit

Versus some third-hand rag from some fucking- you know

I don't know where these people get their credentials from

Know what I'm saying?

At the end of the day, some cracker jack philosopher shit



Getting back to the subject

I know I be talking all tense and shit



T:

Nah, it's all good



Mach:

Getting back to what I was saying

Once this Jamaican came, his name is Boukman or whatever they called him and- this is funny - it's a lesser known fact

I don't know, a lot of people try to discount this or try to debate me

But I got this from the elders

Noone understands why they called this n***a "Boukman"

Because that's not even- what the fuck is that?

Right?

What it was, that was a pet name that he had acquired in Jamaica

Really, you know, 'cause Jamaica is English speaking

It's really Bookman

But you know, we didn't speak English in Haiti



So once he got to "Ayiti"

And it's really "Ayiti", it's not Haiti

That's some more trickery

That's a phonetic feather

Like Haiti, Hades is hell - it's a curse

Know what I mean?

I ain't even 'bout to get into all of that

It's Ayiti 'cause that's what the people, they found there, called it

So that's what it is



When Boukman finally got to Ayiti - You know, Bookman

They just called him "Boukman"

That's the disconnect right there, the language

For a long time people just running around believing whatever-

He's a "vodou priest" and all that

People don't understand he was a high ranking cleric, a Sufi cleric

Which is mystic Islam from the continent

The origins of what people-

Alright yeah, that's debatable, but this is what I know

And the reason why they called him 'Bookman' was because in order for you to gain that rank

You know, within that religious system

You had to memorize the Quran front to back

And be able to recite it

And he would do that on the plantation in Jamaica

Which is one of the reasons why they sent him to Haiti

But you know, whatever

"Vodou Priest!" - like a fucking scholar

Like you know, an Islamic scholar

And you know, royalty

You how every family, especially those royal families

Especially when culture is uninterrupted, right?

N***as in a diaspora

We in some suspended animation shit right now, still

We don't even know where the fuck to pick up from

Know what I'm saying?



The far east, that's why they shit is so beautiful whenever you see a Kung-Fu flick or something

Uninterrupted Progress

Ain't never been interrupted by no fucking third-party interloper shit

See what I'm saying?



At the end of the day, Bookman came with his uninterrupted knowledge and kinda was shaking shit up on the whole island

So they sent him away and shit

And he brought that esoteric knowledge of all the ancestral rights

'Cause that's what Sufi is

They don't separate the tribal knowledge or data from the religious-

'Cause religion has to have a structure

So, they don't separate the intangible from the tangible

They just put it together

You know what I'm saying?

He came with that knowledge - that holistic sense of being, right?

Where you can't separate one from the other

Where this ends, this begins - it don't never stop

He knew that and so he come to Haiti with this philosophy

This kind of energy, right? - it's noble



But what people don't know is, before he came to Haiti

He started the successful revolt, but there was one 10 - 20 years before that one

That was forwarded before it even took place

Because what happened is, the night before

The main organizer was a "Maroon" or "Nèg Mawon" and basically these are the slaves that escaped into the wilderness away from the plantations

And there was a very famous one named Mackandal

But what happened to him was, the night before

He got drunk - fell asleep in a cabin with a woman

She sold him out



People were pretty much done with that whole slave revolt shit

'Cause they was like

"Yo, look what happened to the hero"

"I ain't finna do shit"

It was kinda dead on the island - within that geography right there

It had to be some sort of agitation from outside to reawaken that sense of urgency - like "what the fuck, this shit need to stop"

So once they sent dude from Jamaica he just sparked the shit right back up and he wasn't having it

And that lasted like 13 years - 13 Years War which is insane

13 Years War with a ragtag assembly of fugitive slaves

Not to mention

Whoever was there that was fresh, but also the people that had been there for generations who were totally broken

Which would always get in your fucking way

Understand what I'm saying?



There was a lot of internal beef even during the revolution

Like, 13 years - you think n***as ain't finna try to sell n***as out?

How?

How did it happen?

It has nothing short of a miracle



ALL so-called black peoples need to draw from this

It's not mine alone - it's everyone's, it's an example

Like "fuck this shit" - you feel me?

You talking 'bout a loose collection of slaves who defeated the superpowers of the known world at the time

The Spanish Armada - because you know it was a big thing

Regardless of how much beef they had

Spain, France, England

It was in their best interests to align themselves against these unruly n***as

What did Napoleon call us?

He made it a point, there's a quote - he called us "Gilded Niggers"

Like "Yo, yeah there's something special about them, but you know they're still niggers"



In order for him to make that kind of joke regardless of whether he was trying to be comical or not

It speaks volumes of how he feels deep down inside

He was afraid

Right?

The first real challenge to White Supremacy

Before it even fully got its wings

The shit ain't even fully had its legs yet

They was still working on it

It hadn't even created races yet

That shit is new - white, black

That shit new - that shit new as fuck

It's peoples that's alive right now still, that you know

They remember a time before there was races

Caucasian, that shit's brand new son

So, they was working on they shit

You know, the interrupted day shit, for once

You talking 'bout the Spanish Armada, the British Crown, and the fucking emperor - Napoleon, this n***a was tryna rule the world

We smashed them n***as, real talk, they had to give up

You know what type of blemish that is on the fucking record of white supremacy n***a?



Like

"Yo n***a, I don't give a fuck what you call me

You know where I'm from?"

"Nah"

You know what I'm saying?

"Now, I'mma fight all you n***as"

That's what I was on 'cause my grandpa put a battery in my back

You know, I can't drop it

And real talk after 13 Years n***as said

"You know what? This shit is crazy, we losing

We're hemorrhaging money"

We almost broke them n***as' pockets son

'Cause like, we wasn't making no money so we don't give a fuck

Like

"Fuck it, we ain't get no money - nobody get no money"

That how it was for a while



Damn, there was some people that came because

They lost so many men they had to hire mercenaries from Poland to come in

I don't know what it was

A lot of those people, I think they sent like 20,000 or something

A majority of them-



T:

4:20!

4:20!



Mach:

Whatever, right?

'Cause I'mma keep it real with you

I like to cross-reference the oppressor's shit too

The colonizer- you know, what's on his mind?

'Cause you know, we all apart of this shit

Noone is innocent, know what I'm saying?

You being enslaved, you just as responsible as the fucking enslaver

N***a like me, you gotta kill me

If you allow it- you know you allowing

You know this universe functions on consent

At the end of the day, when they sent the Polish Legion n***as

The legionnaires - whatever you call them, the mercenaries, right?

They pledge no true allegiance to any flag

It's like The Odyssey or whatever - with the argonauts or some shit

You know, mercenary shit

They sent them n***as there

It was like yo, they were so inspired by what they witnessed and experienced that a good majority of them n***as-

They didn't necessarily join us, but they definitely gave up their arms - a good deal of 'em

And stayed and settled - stayed there and had families and shit

But noone talks about that



There's this place, right?

In the mountains, right?

Just to give you a good idea, in the North

'Cause after a while they had to start to come in from the furthest point from the actual hotbed of the conflict

'Cause you know, shit was real for them

So they start coming in further and further North

So there's this place called "Fond-des-Blancs" and basically

It translates into literally, "Fond of Whites"

And you go there and there's people with green eyes

Very pale skin

Know what I'm saying?

But these people are Haitian like, they've been there for hundreds of years

And you know, it's just amazing how shit starts off and where it ends ups further along down the road

You can never really project that what began as a conflict can turn into that type of communion

A community or whatever you wanna call it



And so anyway, after all that shit happened they were losing too much money

It had nothing to do with

"Oh, you know what? Nah, we respect these people"

Know what I'm saying?

"Cause you are deserving of self-respect and privacy"

Whatever, whatever an English man deserves

Or whatever a French man deserves - whatever the fuck

I don't give a fuck

So, it wasn't that it was just like

"Damn, we losing too much money and that's not what we came for"

"The only reason why we created this system was to make money"

I think a lot of people forget that shit

All these issues are economic - at the ROOT

Nobody intelligent believes that you're fucking smarter than me because of your skin tone

You fucking stupid?

What?

They bout to make up some new shit - phrenology?

You finna measure the crown of my head and that's gon' tell you I'm smart?

Because you notice Europeans got bigger heads

You created science around that!



It's like, they shoot and then they aim

They shoot and they draw a target around the shot

And that's the bullseye

Wherever they shit hit at - it's the bullseye

Because you can do that

When you control the narrative you can do whatever the fuck you want

N***as like us, where we from, we gotta aim then shoot

You feel me?

'Cause we don't have the power to create the bullseye and the target

We can't just do whatever the fuck we want



And so yeah man, they took it pretty rough

They didn't take it too well

You know, Napoleon invited Toussaint over for some coffee

He never came back

And I guess we settled on an amicable truce in which we would pay them a million francs or whatever over however long it took

And that's the only reason why people try to shit on Christophe and all the leaders that came directly after the revolution for being too hard

But they don't understand why n***as had to do that

Why n***as had to make compulsory labor apart of the lifestyle

It wasn't a continuation of slavery

It was like yo we need to pay these motherfuckers so they could get off our back

All we did was our fighting - but now it's still war, but it's cold

And you know, United States just watched and shit

Even after hundreds of years, they still just-

"Hmm? Oh, EMBARGO"

For what?

Like, what are we doing?

What are we doing other than sitting on a rich cultural history, but no real political infrastructure

Know what I'm saying?

There's still no fucking sewage system

The fuck?

It's fucking 2016

You know how close Haiti is to the fucking United States?

There's not supposed to be a third-world country that close to the U.S.

You know what I'm saying?



T:

Yeah



Like yo son, y'all n***as wouldn't even had this country-

Motherfuckers would be speaking French if it wasn't for us

Like, one of the most pivotal battles of the American Revolution was in Savannah

You know, they had to send reinforcements from Haiti

Yeah, like n***as - in Savannah, Georgia

'Cause guess what?

There's one thing I know about Babylon there's one thing I know about the oppressor yo

He not finna make a statue of n***as and put it in Savannah, Georgia for no reason

There is a commemorative site there in Savannah with the soldiers from Haiti depicting the bonds



And so, I know that about myself bruh

Like

"What the fuck you been telling me about this lifestyle n***a?"

Know what I'm saying?



T:

Alright let me ask you this

Having been born here in the U.S. and then going over to Haiti

Was there ever any challenges or conflict?

Like, did people look at you like you didn't belong because you were American?



Mach:

I didn't belong anywhere

When I'm there, they call me "te blond"

Which is like basically, you speak English

They call you, "white"

Out in Haiti they calling me "white"

I get to America, I'm an "African Booty Scratcher"

So, n***as calling me "Haitian"

Haitians calling me "white"

White people call me "nigger"



So, I definitely had to rely on myself for everything

'Cause wasn't nobody tryna accept me for who I was, really

I wasn't about to make up a new face for you to like

'Cause I wasn't raised like that



That's what I like about the hood though

Like I told you, shit went from teasing - whatever

Shit escalate to violence quick

You know - kids

Whatever level of violence kids do

But that's where shit start to change

'Cause n***as is like

"This n***a really crazy"

The hood like that shit yo

And then like you know, n***a's fucked with me

Motherfuckers wanna know now

It goes from

"Yo, what the fuck is that nasty shit you eating?"

To

"Yo slime, that's that black rice?"

I did that

I may not be an ambassador in nice places

I go where n***as need to know

And it's usually in the worst places

Motherfuckers don't need to know shit in the castle, in the palace, in the mansions

They good, they got tutors - they got everything at their fingertips

They could rewrite history - revisionists, everything

But in the hood that's where n***as is fucked up

They need to see you

They need to know things



To me, it's a crime for you to be so-called black in America

And you don't know what the fuck is a Haiti, son

Other than, you know

"I come looking for you with Haitians"

Like - "Nah"

Nah, no way - you not gonna reduce my shit to that

You not gon' reduce my culture to that

That's your misinterpretation of something that's way greater than what you think it is

I'm not dealing with it

I have strong feelings toward that shit

Because like yo, that's a more recent development

We've been scholars, scientists, lawyers, doctors, philosophers, painters, sculptors for way longer than whatever the fuck n***as talking about these days

Know what I'm saying?

That's the type of shit that make my grandfather roll in his grave and shit

Just the way I turned out

But you know, we could start talking about PTSD and shit

But we ain't gonna do that

'Cause I'm from Newark - fuck all that shit

That shit is some other shit

Like, all that shit they talk about in New Jersey Drive

Come on bruh..

On a scale of 1-10 that shit -9

I witnessed the shit that they was tryna depict

It was nowhere near that clean

I've seen a lot of shit-

Oh, you know what?

What else too - I'mma say this too

I never really experienced poverty until I came to America for real to really stay and live



T:

Which is opposite of what people think



Mach:

Like real discomfort, social awkwardness - none of that shit in Haiti

It's all black people - everything is fucking black

We don't give a fuck about that other shit

It doesn't come into your mind

Well, I come from a position of privilege 'cause my family was culturally rich

Let me say that though - I gotta say that

There were people across the street that knew nothing of the fucking revolution

Because obviously illiteracy and shit like that

And just abject poverty had a tendency to make people numb

Nobody gives a fuck about anything

It's hard for you to draw pride from a concept when you're fucking starving and you tryna touch something - maybe a piece of bread

And you can't

Because there's no economy where you live - there's no industry

It's like they just play with us on purpose

Because of what we symbolized

Because that blemish can never be wiped from the record

Literally, it's the only real shit that happened

We talking 'bout contemporary history

I ain't talking 'bout some shit in the Bible that you can't even authenticate - like some fairy tale type shit

"Let my people go"

No

"Fuck you up until you let me go and keep fucking you up some more until you forget about me"

And that was the way

The motto was, "koupe tet, boule kay"

Know what I'm saying?

"Cut the head, burn the house"

That was the motto throughout the whole 13 Years

That was the mantra

"Koupe tet, boule kay

Cut the head, burn the house

We don't wanna see you

Don't come back"

Know what I'm saying?

"Leave us the fuck alone because we can't even go back to where we come from, shit different now

So we finna take this

This shit that you brought us to, this mine now - go"



T:

Listening to you speak

For some people it would be hard to put everything that you just said into music form

But when I think about F.Y.I.

Like, that's something that you've actually accomplished

I mean, maybe you didn't go into as much detail about the history of Haiti-



Mach:

Because it's virtually impossible to do that

I have an opportunity, two-three minutes max, to fucking connect with someone, right?

I'm not gonna alienate you by fucking bombarding you with boring ass facts and shit

I'm gonna allude to something greater

Follow the finger 'cause you gon' miss all the heavenly glory

Like what Bruce Lee say

The moon - I'm pointing at the moon n***a

I'm not about to try to describe the moon to you

I'mma just tell you "yo, look"



That's where n***as fall short

That's why when n***as try to get too conscious the shit sound wack

The vibe suffers from too much intention

You have to let the shit flow

It's art - it's a vibe

You kill it, you bog it, you weigh it down with all that shit

You drown it out with all that thoughtfulness

Get yourself right inside and then speak

But a lot of n***as - I watch 'em too

I've had the displeasure of being around a lot of rappers and shit

I see how they work

It's different - it's not the same thing

They don't work like painters



T:

But I think you did a good job of like-

Know what I mean?

You talk about the financial crisis

You talk about Malcolm X

You talk about H. Rap Brown

You talk about Haiti

You talk about poverty

You put all of these things-

And then you also talk about being able to get fly

You know what I mean?



Mach:

Yeah



T:

So I think you do a good job of wrapping all that shit up in one place

Where does that come from?



Mach:

Again, just the way I was raised

Nothing is really separate from anything else

Not for real



Okay prime example, right?

Because of how severe the punishment was for engaging in your own culture or shit from the continent

In the colonies, motherfuckers had to codify everything they did that was cultural and find some sort of corresponding European ideal to mask the shit

So, you'll go into a vodou temple and see a bunch of white-

You know, Euro-centric shit

And you know, you'll might be in a bit of disarray mentally especially if you don't know the system

You'll be like

"I thought I was coming to Haiti n***a

I thought this was where they-

You know what I'm saying?"

"Nah bruh, this shit ain't culture"

Like nah, you don't understand all of those faces represent ancestors, but it's a code



I think what happened over time people forgot that the shit is codified because of lack of communication, stress

Know what I'm saying?

Third-party interference

Four-fifth-sixth-seventh-eighth-nine-party interference

'Cause you know the shit real for us

Everybody come in to fuck our shit up



I think people forgot to remind their children

"Remember we're just pretending"

Some people start to take this shit for real

You got some real staunch republican-type catholics in Haiti that's never gonna give that shit up

And that is the motherfucking handmaiden of white supremacy

Christianity n***a, most organized religion

'Cause what it tells you is

"It's okay to be tread upon and it's alright, just so long as Jesus loves you"



I don't know..

I was raised Catholic too, I always had beef

I used to get fucked up all the time



T:

Yeah?



Mach:

Yeah, Catholic School - beat your ass

Know what I'm saying?



T:

When I met you for the first time last year

There was no signs, or at least to my knowledge, of you being a rapper

You came with your camera



Mach:

Yeah, yeah



T:

But then over a period of time, obviously, you rapped

Then we come to find out that you write, that you paint

What came first, of all of the arts, for you?



Mach:

The first thing I ever did was draw some shit

As far as I can recall, I may be wrong

My mom say I was singing first - it's all the same



Alright

Prime example, right?

This is some of the shit I be talking about

Shit get funny when you coming from where I'm coming from

For instance, this morning when I got to Jersey

It's like 4 in the morning when I got to Jers'

I'm chilling with my man on the sofa

Some shit come on - Neil deGrasse, whatever

And they talking about the universe, gender and shit

They get to one part and this bitch start describing synesthesia and all the different types

And I'm like, "Damn, that's fucked up because

I've been tryna explain that shit to people for mad long"

That's what I got

But nobody cares 'cause it's like

"The fuck this n***a talking about?"

'Cause I be in the studio tryna convey a really strong-

Some strong shit, some real intuition

Not no "I sat here and thought this up"

Like some shit from deep inside me

And I'm telling the n***a 'pause'

I'm telling the n***a 'Yo!'

"This shit too flat, make it rounder"

And the n***a looking at me like I'm retarded

I know what I'm talking about, but I can't explain it to you

OR I might be in the spot and be like

"Whoo, this shit blue - stop playing, make it red"

N***a like

"Word, word, word."



I'm really tryna communicate though bruh

The shit pointless

So what happened to me is, after a while I just was like

"You know what?

If I'm ever gonna get any of this shit that's inside of me out

I gotta be the soul controller of the lynch

I can't even fuck with these n***as - they get in the way"

So that's when I made myself learn how to do-

Even down to the video shit

It's just out of necessity - that's the mother of invention

It's like

"Yo word, n***as don't like me?

Okay

Oh, I can't shop here?

Okay, Black Wall Street toss over 'em"

Well you know, they gon' bomb the shit out of a n***a eventually

But fuck it, we gon' go for it anyway



Sidebar

Just real quick

I don't think people understand not too long ago in Philadelphia the local government leveled one-two square residential blocks

Because n***as was tryna be culturally aware

That's the type of reward you get for wanting to be someone in this shit



People always ask me

"You not afraid of being ostracized?"

Or whatever the fuck, marginalized

I'm like

"More than I am already?"

What the fuck you mean by that?

Afraid of what?

Whatchu afraid of?

Oh, I know what you did

You done normalized this fuck shit

You don't reconcile the fact that you're a coward with the fact that you're a bitch

'Cause eventually you gotta turn on yourself like

"All of this is happening to me because I allow it"

You know, you can use economy as a scale - it don't matter

It could be some one on one shit

Know what I mean?

Where it's nobody but me and you and I do something to you and you let me get away with it

That shit prolly gon' haunt you later

So, imagine that shit on the level that it's on now in reality when the entire diaspora is like that

Not to mention - the continent is like that too

It's even worse on the continent

Like, the exploitation

I'm not about to be on some Chuck D shit like

"I will never say 'n***a"

Nah - that's some old man shit



And also too, in the same respect

I'm not about to marginalize the young rappers

You know how n***as try to shit on the young rappers?

How you think them n***as got like that, pussy?

That's your fault n***a

They was kids when you was doing your thing

Where would they get this idea to do what they're doing?

It's a direct result of whatever you did or didn't so



I'm not finna do that to the little homies

That shit stupid to me, yo

When n***as try to go in on the little n***as

Like, whatever 'cause they wear different clothes

That shit weak, son

That's the youth n***a!

You doing the same shit

It's some vicious cycle shit - retarded, n***a

N***as don't wanna fuck with the youth?

So what you finna do?

Dawg, them n***as finna get killed just like you

You know, for being so-called black

How you got something to say about some little n***a?

Like, bruh that's prolly ya little cousin or something

What's on your mind?

What's wrong with you?

I thought we was freer than our predecessors because of shit like Hip-Hop and you know, the monetization of HIP-HOP

Little bit of financial freedom

N***as start to learn more shit

It hasn't really contributed to the collective 'cause everybody on some individual rugged-shit - rugged-individual shit

Know what I'm saying?

"I MADE IT!"

Now it's like all the n***as that don't make it shit on the young n***as who made it

"Ol' colorful dreads - skinny jeans"

Really?

So, you gon' throw the baby away with the bath water?

That's what you doing

After all this shit we done witnessed

It's videotapes of this shit bruh

We don't gotta remember shit, all this shit was chronicle



T:

Record, right?

Yeah

Documented..



Mach:

Yeah, like how you fronting on little n***as?

I don't understand

Like, listen n***a don't get sooped

I'm not finna rap with you

Know what I mean?

I love you though

Just because we don't have the similar tastes in music doesn't mean I'm bout to shit you

Like, no n***a I'm not making no songs with you - no, probably not

But I love you nonetheless and I'ma play your shit 'cause I know what it do to the other side

They don't like it so I'ma pump it



Yo man, this shit is ridiculous yo

The way we treat each other

Shit wack, bro

That's all I got to say about it

I'm probably gonna shit on a n***a right after this just because I don't feel right

OR I'm agitated

But at least I have the presence of mind to know I'm shitting on a n***a and I can do better

I think n***as need to start being more accountable



Yo, all older heads stop shitting on the little n***as

That shit does nothing, but breed contempt

Like, how are n***as supposed to get with you when you shitting on them?

Bruh trust me, if n***as thought you was a role model n***as would follow you

But all you pussy n***as come and everytime you not a role model



T:

But listen, they not even followers-



Mach:

No, I'm saying it wouldn't be so different

The contrast wouldn't be so stock

How does 5-10 years separate n***as?

Why the shit so stratified, yo?

Why n***as is super hyper-feminine and n***as is ultra-masculine?

What the fuck is the disconnect?

Somebody ain't do they job!

These little n***as ain't come up with the shit by theyself, bro

Know what I'm saying?

You let it happen

You let it happen and now you tight



I don't want no parts of that discussion

For instance, some n***as followed on the social media or whatever - they followed my account

My sister be wheeling and dealing the twitter shit

But they followed my account and shit

She was like 'yo, I'm bout to follow these dudes back'

I'm like

'What is this?'

ANTI-TRAP or some shit

I'm like

"Nah, block that shit"

I don't want no parts of that shit

Anti what, pussy?

I'm from the trap n***a

How I'm "anti" where the fuck I'm from, n***a?

It doesn't make any sense

Oh, because these n***as look different and dress a little different

It's your little cousin

Your little brother

That's your sister's son

What the fuck wrong with you?

Pussy n***a come on - wake up n***a

You weak as hell in the mind

The division, it's unnecessary - the shit is illogical, yo

I don't give a fuck

What?

You suup?

You thugged out?

Ain't nobody scared

You don't want no sauce with me n***a

I'm talking facts

I ain't worried about the ignorance

That could come - you could come in droves

You don't like this interview, come see me

I'm talking about what I experienced myself, bro

Why I'm so different than the n***as that came before me?

I was not embraced, n***a

This shit is just gon' keep happening over and over and over again

Until somebody say

"Yo, I don't give a fuck what's wrong with you

It's trauma, so I'm fucking with everybody - it's trauma"

I'm not about to single n***as out 'cause the way they express their trauma is different than how I express my trauma

We all totally fucked

Ain't nobody winning when you dissing n***as

"I hate these young rappers"

You sound like a bitch, to me

I don't respect that

'Cause these the same n***as that you gon' wanna-

"I gave my little n***a the ----"

Right?

The same n***as that you shit on

You no better than the fucking oppressor

You worse actually

'Cause you make the shit like a self-cleaning mechanism

The shit on auto-pilot pussy, and it's all your fault



So, you know

Deal with yourself - I deal with myself everyday

I know what I contribute to the bullshit

Do you own it?

I own my shit

I fucked up a million times and I'm bout to fuck up some more right now



It is what it is, man

I ain't even wanna go this direction, but like yo - whatever

I'm willing to talk about anything right now - it doesn't matter



T:

Well let's talk about F.Y.I. though



Mach:

Yessir



T:

Like again, it is a project with a lot of layers and depth

What was your intention in creating it?



Mach:

I just felt like I was in a mood

It's alway a mood

Right?

It's a mood to precipitate whatever the fuck coming out of my mouth



At the time I made F.Y.I. I had a really bad accident that immobilized me for like a year

I had to re-train myself in terms of how to walk correctly

Shit like that

Basically I was bed-ridden for the first three months and after that I was just immobile for the most part

Crutches, whatever - pneumatic cast, Aircast and shit

I was in a funny place and shit

'Cause you know it was some real bad shit that happened and I'm allergic to opioids - so, no pain-killers



That's what F.Y.I. is - I guess

A combination of that and just where I was

You know how it is when you're fucking disabled

You at the mercy of the elements and/or whoever you're with

That's vulnerable - that's some vulnerable shit

In my adulthood

I've never had that happen to where I been benched

Literally, I was benched for a year

That shit was that - that's what that shit will do to your brain

No painkillers - no nothing

I basically separated over 90% of my right ankle tendon

Two ribs, separated shoulder, some other shit

And like no pills - no nothing

I ate that shit everyday

That shit was not fun

Pain is transformative in the truest sense of the word

And I can't really tell you what happened to me forreal

Off of feeling that shit - it's nothing like that shit

That shit real yo, that shit serious



Anyway, long story short

That probably contributed to the tone of that

That's why that shit sound like whatever it sounds like to you

That's what F.Y.I. was - just a n***a benched

You know how it is when you used to being outside

I'm an "Outside N***a" - I jumped off the porch early

So, for me to be sitting down like that on some invalid shit

That shit was fucking with my mind more than anything



'Cause then you start to wallow in self-pity and you get to a point to where you like

"Will I ever walk again?"

Goofy shit...

You know, you go through it

Yo, imagine you being the healthiest young man and then next thing you know your foot is hanging off your ankle like this bruh

"Just Dangling"

And you can't do nothing about it

And you like

"Damn, a n***a finna be lame bruh"

"How's that gonna heal?"

Then you know, n***a ain't got no insurance

I'm outside - I been outside

You know I ain't got insurance - I ain't got shit!

All I got is what's in my pocket and the contacts in my phone

N***a try and play me?

Know what I mean?



That's the most humbling experience I ever had like

"Sit yo ass down"

I had to sit down

I really had to sit down

I was into shit - I had things going, different things I was working on

All that shit fell through because you know...

I couldn't do anything

It was bad - my attitude was totally fucked up off of that

You can imagine



That's what F.Y.I. is - it's born of that experience



T:

What's your infatuation with acronyms?

You got FYI, from the first project, and then now HBO

Or was it even not an intentional thing?



Mach:

I'ma tell you what it is

Yo, what they call that shit?

In a sense, right?

Follow me though, follow me

They got some shit called pneumonic device, right?

It's just something you use to remind you of something else

That's just how I break it down

I don't be considering all the details, all the time, like that



So, n***as is coming from a position of extreme depression, confusion, a lot of really bad shit where I'm from

And so, I don't want n***as racking they brain all the time

Understand what I'm saying?

It's way easier for you to create a marker or a sign

OR some sort of device to stimulate a thought than to just make someone remember, repeat, and recite some shit

Everytime a n***a say 'H.B.O.' he gotta have a thought process now

'Haitian Body Odor'

'Cause now he gotta break something down

Now, a n***a starting to read

I'm encouraging thought n***a!

I was just raised like that

Know what I'm saying?



So, even 'F.Y.I.'-

'Cause in the beginning, n***as racking they brain to what it is

And once I give 'em the key - they take off

'Cause they been sitting with that question for so long

"F.Y.I.

F.Y.I.

F.Y.I.

For Your Information

For Your Information

For Your Information"

Then they start to do shit - start to go backwards

They start to put that together with little pieces they picked up from the songs that they've been listening to

You don't wanna make a big deal about it, right?

You wanna let a n***a just do his thing and then tell him

"By the way, the shit you drank had kale in it

It was good for you

You ain't know, right?

Haa! gotchu!"



You know, you kinda gotta trick the kids or the homies - whoever

Sometimes I gotta trick myself

N***as be thinking like I read books

Pfft, barely

I got some of them shits

But most of my observations come from empirical data

I'm outside, forreal

'Cause I feel like that's the only place you can get in contact with the shit

And then what I like to do is, I like to check out the little journals, whatever, scientific whatever the fuck they talking about

Know what I mean?

I just weigh that against what I know

It's a secondary thing for me

Most people go the other way

They checking reality off the book



Aha, that shit so stupid

They judging reality off a book

They not judging the book off reality

It's no good

That's stupid

Real fucking dumb



T:

I wanna ask this before I forget

August Fanon?



Mach:

Whoo!

That's my n***a like, seriously!



T:

What's the origin of that relationship?

You guys seem to have this-



Mach:

Synergy



T:

Right



Mach:

Nah, he's sick

He a different type of animal

I met a lot of people - he 1 of 1



T:

He from Jersey too?



Mach:

Nah, that n***a from everywhere

Forreal, seriously

Yo, August he's really unique

That n***a special bruh, seriously

I don't meet a lot of special n***as



T:

Did y'all connect off of music or was it just some everyday shit?



Mach:

Nah, nah, nah

Let me tell you what's funny about that, right?

N***as be tryna shit on n***as

I don't be engaging



It's like yo, what happened is, around the same time I destroyed my life after the accident

I was in a place where I was so sick I couldn't even really sample right

You know a n***a know how to do everything bruh

So, I'm making beats - I ain't feeling them

I'm recording on goofy shit n***as sending me, that ain't really poppin, some of that shit may be out here

I don't approve it and I don't endorse it

It's like 'mistakes'

We all make mistakes - I made mistakes

I made songs with n***as, goofy n***as, that I shouldn't have

But I'ma own my shit



Anyway, long story short

I was looking for someone to work with

And you know, someone told me

"Yo, I got some shit called Soundcloud son"

I'm like

"Oh word?"

Went on Soundcloud, set my shit up, and just start going crazy like a fucking maniac

You know, there's no real way to look for anything on Soundcloud

Not forreal, it's not like you could be like

"Yo, give me all the n***as who make good beats"

Know what I'm saying?

Basically, a needle in a haystack bro

After a couple weeks I found him

I just liked the name, period - the shit says

"BlackKidsProductions"

I said

'N***a, what? Fuck you mean?

How you got 'BlackKidsProductions' without me?

That shit ain't right"

So, I DM'd the n***a literally like

"Yeah, I'm in"

"Excuse me?"

"Oh nah, I wanna work with you"

Then it's like yo...

We've been cultivating that relationship



As much as people like to say I'm 'closed-minded'

OR I'm not 'tech savvy' - whatever the fuck

Guess what yo?

I accomplished that greatness through the technology

Through the same shit you say I don't know how to use

The shit you hearing comes from me engaging in that manor

So don't me nothing about internet

The shit you hearing is because I USED the internet - thank you



I didn't fucking waste my time tweeting some bullshit

I got with the right n***a and then we made history, son

My shit the third highest priced album in hip-hop history

You got the shit Shkreli just bought from Wu

You got Nipsey

Then you got Mach-Hommy n***a

I don't care what you're used to

You want my shit, you gotta come to IG that's it

AND real talk, forreal, after our conversation we that had today at the KRAVAT mixer

I'm bout to pull that shit off - whatchu call it?

You can't get it unless you see me n***a, now what?

Now, you gotta see me at a show or something

I'm cutting n***as off

Know what I'm saying?



T:

I can't even really discuss it 'cause I have a copy



Mach:

You know you gotta have a copy



T:

But I won't listen to it until-

I don't know what the occasion is gonna be

But-



Mach:

Damn, you on it like that!

I like that



T:

Yeah, I haven't cracked the plastic on it yet

Like, even when you sent me the package I was even hesitant to even open the box



Mach:

Ahh shit!



T:

But I got around to actually doing that

So now, it's just a matter of finding the right occasion to actually listen to the music

'Cause I read a review of it and it was dope

You know, it was in depth



Mach:

Mmm..



T:

Yeah, I haven't found the right circumstances under which I wanna listen to it



Mach:

I can respect that

Yeah, I know what that's like 'cause I'm like that too

See, that's why I say August is special

August is always digging

Y'all n***as crate diggers

August Fanon is a fucking gravedigger n***a

Over for you..



I've heard shit that I haven't allowed y'all to hear yet

You're not ready

Like, sometimes his shit is so ill I can't fuck with it, I just listen to it

Most of the time

Forreal, 85% of the shit he sends me, I can only listen to it



That's who we dealing with

That's my n***a and it ain't no fake rap shit - we build

He deals with music way more than me

I deal with him more than music

He's a true- what they call that?

Audiophile

He's the real thing

It's borderline unhealthy

But then that's how you get that result that you get

That's that Beethoven madness

That's that shit - you buggin'

He could teach a lot of people a thing or two about this music shit



T:

Let me ask you this

Being the self-contained unit that you are

Director, photographer, producer-



Mach:

No, not because I want to

Out of necessity

I would love to work with everybody, but I can't



T:

The follow up to that was

Why'd you link with Griselda?



Mach:

Alright

This is what inspired me in the first place

I was minding my business like I'm always doing

Ask about me

Right?

And then what happened was, I came across this visual

It was really some luck of the draw shit

It just happened to be something that was just there as a part of the search

I don't know what the fuck I was searching for

It was something called "Never Coming Homme"

And then I clicked that, and I seen it

I ain't even need to see the whole thing

Aight, yeah

I need to go document that shit 'cause that's it right there

And then I reached out to him or whatever-



T:

So, at that time it wasn't even on some rap shit for you?

That's when you were more into your camera work



Mach:

Yeah, 'cause I had really been just entrenched

I had been utterly imbued by the film shit

I'm talking about every aspect of "what is film?"

That's all I gave a fuck about

That's how I am

I zoom in, that's it

Until I'm satisfied, I'm not done

You know what I mean?

I was on that

And so when I seen them n***as I was like

"Oh yes - willing participants"

So I'm finna go

OR rather I'ma check if what I think is true, is true

And then it was true

I reached out, son hit me right away

We spoke and then I just started fucking with n***as like that

I'm like

"Yo bro, I don't even need nothing from you

I don't need no money - no nothing

Just let me know when y'all n***as doing your shit

This is some shit I'm doing for the culture"

So that's all it was forreal - it was on some 'found' shit

Especially once I met son and he start telling me the story and giving me some history

I'm like

"Yo, this is it

I'm fucking with n***as

This is good for the culture"

And I'm definitely gonna be here

Whatever role I gotta play

You know?

I ain't no beta n***a, I ain't no gamma motherfucker

And I ain't no alpha, I'm God

And I ain't about to be made to feel secondary, tertiary - nothing

To nobody, I'm just here

A fly on the wall and that's it

I don't need to assert my authority or make my presence known

You remember



T:

Yeah, I was just about to say

You were just like there and shit



Mach:

As if I don't know how to speak English or some shit



T:

Even at the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival

Same vibe



Mach:

I was just there

Yup, I'm just around

That's how it started



T:

I think people who have heard 'Gold Pots'

Or 'Easter Gunday'

Or 'Don't Get Scared Now'

Or 'Beloved'

I think they might be disappointed that the relationship is no longer in existence between you and Griselda

But I think people are familiar with F.Y.I. think you're capable regardless of who you're aligned with



Mach:

They don't care

They literally don't care

I had people come in my DM's and say we don't care

I haven't had any real negative reactions

Just a lot of

"Damn! Aight.."

"Damn forreal dawg?"



T:

Are you back to doing it on your own though?

What's the agenda or team?



Mach:

Aight look, it was never my agenda to be lumped up with a bunch of free-radical shit

There's a way I do what I do

I thought that this collective or business arrangement-



T:

Was home



Mach:

That's a strong word



T:

Too strong?



Mach:

No, I wouldn't say 'too strong'

I just wanna identify it - it's a strong word

I was to say like I thought it was advantageous 'cause it's business

I'm definitely ain't rapping for free

We know that by now, right?

Everybody knows that now

And so that's how I approached it

At the end of the day, this universe is 'economy'

If you go down the street..

The opportunity cost of going down the street is not being able to stay in the house and watch a show

You choose this one, that one has to go

That's just what it is bro

You make the best decision for yourself

And you know at the same time, people need to understand this, the way business is just like life

Things are constantly shifting

You have to adjust

It's just common sense

You have to adjust and keep your best interest at heart

That's all that is, it's just an evolution of a business relationship

I anticipated OR I projected OR I expected

Whatever, whatever word you wanna use

Oh! Okay now we have a conflict of interest and inability to agree

What's the next logical step?

You just move forward because that's the only thing you can do

Same way you go in court, you can't self-incriminate

You can't fuck yourself over

Not choose something just because

We don't do things just because we said

We do what we do when it's done

That's it

People lie, people tell the truth

But what speaks volume is your action

You can think of

"When I get to the buffet I'ma eat this, this, this.."

And then you get there, you eat a egg roll - it's a wrap

Or you know how this goes

I'm not tryna be sexist either

You go to the spot with your girlfriend, she don't want nothing to eat

"C'mon man.."

You ask her like ten times

"You sure?"

"Nah, I just ate"

Get your food, she fuck up 3/4 of it

Right?

If you lucky, you have enough money to order another thing for you



It's kinda like that

We have to adjust my n***a

No one can predict all the nuances of the road

Especially if it's a road less travelled or somewhere you've never been in

You don't know, it's the little shit that can fuck your life up

We talking 'bout engineering, mechanics, physics

You know, a little bump this big can have your car flipped and kill your whole family



Know what I'm saying?

You don't know what's coming

So, you gotta adjust with everything

That's what I did, I just adjusted

I'm definitely no stranger to adjustment

So, that's what I did again - I adjusted

"Oh word ABC no good?

XYZ then.."



T:

Through that though, you developed this relationship with Fahim



Mach:

Hell yeah



T:

I had the pleasure of talking with you guys a couple months back about you executive producing T.G.I.F-



Mach:

Ha!

I'm proud of that project

I'm very impressed with the way Fahim performed on it

I said it before with some other dudes, but I meant it

And I'ma say it again

It's a combination of things he did so far, in one body



I wouldn't say you have to listen to some shit before, but if you hadn't heard it - you might be okay

This is a major turning point for son

He really about to come, he coming

People don't understand

He probably achieved 30% of his potential in public

In front of you motherfuckers

I've seen the real shit

You don't want it

Nobody wants that, but it's coming

I'ma do whatever I can do

Whatever I have to do for you to make sure you get it

'Cause you deserve it, I mean he plans

Those that are out here claiming they doing this and that

You joking

Tha God Fahim is on the way

Like, he here but he coming some more

So, you know, I'm definitely looking forward to the reaction that we get from what's coming

Me & Fahim - we sitting on some shit, bro

People don't even understand - we sitting on it



T:

Shit better than Blackwater?

Shit better than Beef Ramen?



Mach:

That's the thing

I don't even know what's better forreal

I'd lie to you if I could tell you forreal

Like, if I could really quantify shit in terms of music

I don't know

I just know we're becoming more precise as a unit

It's scary



T:

When I think about Jakk Kevorkian

When I think about Blackwater

When I think about Beef Ramen

I'm like, what's the next step?



Mach:

I don't know, but the sound is evolving

You know, he's really like a kid

He's just starting to understand his own strength

I know he probably don't agree with what I'm saying, but what the fuck do he agree with?

It's just the way I've come to see him

It's like

"Wow bro, you really 'bout to take off son

I hope you really like this rap shit

I hope you do 'cause it's yours"

I don't like it, fuck that

Fahim know that



T:

I alluded to this earlier, the thing that I appreciate about what you bring to the table is the ability to own a song like Breastmilk

Say something like

"Black boy you ain't no human being

You need to curve your ambition

Slide right up in that kitchen and do your thing

Make your momma proud, boy

Jump high, go to class, get a job, get your miles up"

But on the flip side, coming from the same person

You argue with Keira about her tryna play you for being from Jersey and you being like "You from Long Island, bitch"



Mach:

You know what's funny about me?

I always end up having to assert my self-awareness in the face of that kind of shit

I don't know what's wrong with motherfuckers

I literally had bitches tell me they can't fuck with me because I'm Haitian and I go from that to having the same shit happen 'cause I'm from Jersey

Then within the framework of New Jersey, I had people tell me they can't fuck with me 'cause I'm from Newark

I don't give a fuck about what nobody talking 'bout then



Like, c'mon man

How does one gain your approval?

I don't even wanna know!

Maybe 10 light years ago I wanted to belong for half a millisecond and that was too long for me

'Cause it didn't sit right with me

All that was, was an instance where I was at the weakest I ever was, in that moment, thinking that I wanted to conform and shit



T:

Alright well that's all I got for you man

I definitely got a lot more than I bargained for with the Haiti talk earlier



Mach:

I don't even know where the fuck that went

Yeah, you sparked some shit dawg!

You sparked some shit Tyron



T:

Yeah, I probably don't got to do a re-in for another couple months

I could just listen to this shit back again

But yeah, thanks again for your time



Mach:

Oh man, it's always a pleasure

An honor and a pleasure

Like I told you before and I tell you all the time

Like yo, I know when a n***a faking the jacks bro



T:

Yeah, you told me at the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival

You was like 'yo, you did the Ralph joint'

But I had to make sure that it wasn't just a one-off

And it's crazy that Tasha's here 'cause she's the one that introduced me to Ralph at that same Barbeque that you mentioned earlier



Mach:

You contributing to the culture, yo



T:

It goes back that shit that we were saying earlier about telling our story

I don't want the mainstream publications to be responsible for telling our story



Mach:

C'mon..

It's unavoidable, the level of corporate interest is so high

Like, how?

How is this shit supposed to be objective on what planet?

But it can't..

People really don't understand business

That's the problem with us, we don't learn economics



Prime example, right?

I got some wealthy family who send their kids to school in primarily non-melanated areas or whatever

Not only that, but affluent as well - on top of that

That's what they see for they kids - it's all well and good

But what I'm tryna shine some light on is

My mom told me she was speaking to my godson and he's 15 now

And he was explaining to her how they had to take money classes

Starting in middle school...

That's fucked up - they're prepared

They had to take courses on credit

That shit is not even in the rubric where we're from

It's never even gleamed upon - they don't even mention it

Like, that shit is fucked up son

I heard that shit

I was supposed to be happy 'cause I'm like how he getting set

They setting him up good

But I couldn't help but think of like, everybody I knew grew up without it

Price and company included

That's a fucking crime against humanity son..

Fo a n***a not to understand money



That's like one of the biggest problems we have

We don't understand the system

This shit is a capitalist system

I don't care what you wanna do

You can't think in terms of what ought to be

What is here is here - what is done is done

The globe is capitalist

This fucking place runs on that shit - that's what it is

In order for you to even have a fucking fighting chance

You need to familiarize yourself with what you are in

I'm sure fishes know about water

Forreal

Some stupid shit going on



You know, at the end of the day, why don't I be out here marching and all that fuck shit?

Like, there's work to be done

Precious work

There's very little time

No one is doing and I don't understand it



This shit is supposed to be covert

I don't know, I think religion got n***as on some other shit

Son, n***as need to be more private with this shit bruh

Maybe, maybe if you're gonna rob a bank - I don't know!

Maybe you wanna keep it on the low

Maybe if you gonna take something from somebody you might not wanna tell 'em

Like when they come repossess your car - they just come get it



T:

Yeah, there's no forewarning



Mach:

They just come get it

Usually under the cover of night

Yeah..



T:

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Mach-Hommy