L.A. Eyekon on Stealing Cars, His Wife's RICO, Directing Music Videos & More
b'Eyekon talks about his upbringing, getting in trouble at a young age, music career, podcasting, rap beef with Lush, and more.\\n\\n-----\\n00:00 Intro\\n1:20 Eyekon breaks down his upbringing, growing up in East Los Angeles\\n2:10 Eyekon on being a 5th generation American, his ancestors being in America before it was America\\n4:10 Eyekon on being able to do whatever he wanted as a kid and being a**icted to weed and cr**k\\n5:20 Eyekon on getting him and his mom kicked out of their apartment and out of school in the 7th grade\\n6:40 Eyekon speaks on his past a**iction\\n12:00 Eyekon reminisces on being in the streets at 13 and stealing cars\\n15:40 Eyekon speaks on going to juvenile hall for fighting and being snitched on by his girlfriend at the time\\n19:00 Eyekon on breaking up crack on his mothers entertainment center and his mom walking right in the middle of it\\n22:00 Lush on how smoking c*** back then was way more normalized and sm*king a "Pookie"\\xa0\\n25:40 Eyekon on being skinny when he was younger, talks sleeping in stairwells of expensive condos when he was homeless and getting his GED in juvenile hall\\n27:45 Lush asks Eyekon if he held any resentment toward his mom for partying\\xa0\\n30:00 Eyekon on seeing homies that became homeless that never bounced back and feeling bad for wearing his jewelry around them\\n31:10 Eyekon breaks down tagging at a young age, his involvement in graffiti culture and referred to himself as a "bus rocker"\\n33:40 Eyekon on being one of the first people that sold weed to dispensaries and when he first started rapping\\n38:20 Eyekon reflects on going to Project Blowed, meeting Omar Gooding and rapping with Almighty Suspect\'s father\\n40:20 Lush and Eyekon discuss whether or not things are more dangerous now compared to back then\\n42:00 Eyekon speaks on having a kid when he was 16 and not being able to see his son\\n51:00 Eyekon on shooting behind the scenes for a Jay Rock and Mack 10 video and realizing he could shoot music videos\\n53:00 Eyekon speaks on things going really well for his rap group, going on tour with Phora and reacts to people calling him a snitch\\n56:00 Eyekon reacts to Lush calling him an actual MC at the time and not lip-syncing while performing\\n57:30 Eyekon breaks down why his rap group decided to go their separate ways\\n58:30 Lush asks Eyekon if he feels like he\'s more known for his rap or video career, Eyekon explains what "Brownside" is and Brownside being signed to Eazy-E\'s label\\n1:02:00 Eyekon on being offered to go to Mexico to shoot videos for Toker from Brownside and speaks on the beef between him and Kid Frost\\n1:08:00 Lush asks Eyekon how he initially met Brownside, shooting videos at Rosarito in Tijuana\\xa0\\n1:18:00 Eyekon on being the only one involved with Brownside that\'s not from their hood\\n1:24:30 Eyekon on how Toker\'s k___ing impacted him in the midst of his rollout and addresses rumors of his passing being caused by money being owed to the cartel\\n1:30:40 Eyekon on quitting the label after Toker\'s passing and stopping his album rollout immediately\\xa0\\n1:37:40 Eyekon breaks down starting a show with his wife and her being indicted under a RICO charge\\n1:38:40 Eyekon on what he thinks about 30 dudes pulling up to No Jumper\\xa0\\n1:45:00 Eyekon tells a story about performing with Busta Rhymes at a charity event and calls him a "busta" for not giving Eyekon a drop\\n1:47:50 Lush asks Eyekon what makes him think that he\'s a good podcaster, denies rumors of Lush bringing Eyekon to No Jumper\\xa0\\n1:50:40 Eyekon asks Lush how he feels about his Lush diss track\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'