PipemanRadio Interviews Tech N9ne at Blue Ridge Rock Festival 2023

0:04 Hey, you to see wow, wake up of America. It's time for the adventures. So pype Man on W four cydi com West Palm Beach is number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the White Man. I see you, origin know how you wiggle this sort of saucy. You need a bit more to tap me. Paul had hords of thoughts. He some orders stopped me, no word to lock me before debauchery. Good orders taught me the morta opties. Gloria brought me any lord on across where you ignored the mockeries. It's quarter potty, but go and explore your hobbies from me ya twater folly another quarter potty. The pipe Man here on the Adventures Pipe Man W four c Y Radio and I'm here with Jack nine Man representing Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City Chiefs all day, all night Strange Music, number one independent label in the world. Thank you Nice. And you know my old head engineer he passed, but that was his favorite team too.

1:11 He would be so happy right here we're playing to night. Look look at that shirt behind you, man. You see that? Oh yeah, I's seeing that before. That's my uncle Ike Nice. Yeah, man, So you gotta love this. I played Madden Football and who I always pick as a quarterback? Mans? He is badass and I'm a Giants fan, but I have to pick him as he's the best. He's the new Michael Jordan's football, I know, right, it's amazing. Who was it? Who's the Michael Jordan football? Before? It was Tom Brady? Right? Yeah? And I don't think so. I like Mahomes better. And then I never liked Tom Brady. I never met him. I never was big into him. I used to like Montana though, remember my Yeah, that's right.

1:53 Yeah. Didn't you guys get Steve Young too? Did we have Steve who? You know? He was the one that replaced Montana? I don't remember that. There you go. So here you are at Blue Ridge? Yes, wow, for the I don't know how many time, man. And it's a wonderful thing. I know, way great festival. Yes, yes, yes, I've been doing it for years. I don't know one of the last time I was here maybe twenty nineteen or something, I don't know. Yeah, you know what, it's such a great festival. It took you two hours to get in here, didn't Oh my god, man, we got here I'm talking about, like we got here at one, we didn't get situated. It's almost right. Now. Wow, we missed the food, you know what I mean. We didn't eat breakfast purposely because we're gonna eat a catering. Got there too late. Horrid. Oh no fuel, you know what I'm saying. But we got it though, Man, you know what I'm saying. That's when the buddy goes into overdrive, you know what I'm saying. There you go, and yeah, this is gonna be like one of the final times you're gonna be dressing the way you normally dress on stage. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes yes about that. Yeah, man, I've been wearing the original Nuthouse scrubs for two tours. Now, that's what I started with. You know what I'm saying. My group back in the day, Double n U, Double T h O w Z E the House of Newton Arcolicult, Untamable Techniques, and I wear the scrubs in honor of the Nuthouse that gave me the Tech nine spirit, you know what i mean. So now for this upcoming tour with Hollywood Undead, I'm changing everything. I'm getting the new mask made,

3:23 not this clown mask anymore because everybody kept saying it looked like Sean Crahan and I'm like, that's my brother, but no, it's a mode of my face. You know what. I'm sizzling. So I'm getting new mask made. I'm getting changing the whole fit everything. I'm just assembled my new band. You know what I'm saying. We about to start rehearsing when I get done with these few shows. I'm changing everything, man, changing everything. Change. The music has changed. It just came out the last month, on the twenty eighth. I think it's called Bliss, you know what I mean, just dropped. The album is booming right now. Man, I've shot like six videos already. The music has changed. The music changes all the time. Evolution has to happen and every living thing, and it's happening to me. I've been meeting my morph for ten years now and I'm still morphing as we speak. You know, I love that because I was about to say, You're not an artist unless you're evolving and changing. You know why, you want to write the same song every time. You got fans that like what they like? I said, want my old music, by my old albums? You know what I mean, because when you're changing, you're gonna piss off some people. I don't get no fucks. I don't given noo focks. I have to evolve. You have to do it for you because that's how you stay real with the audience. Sir. I see I see my audience changing as I change, you know what I mean?

4:46 And some people they're just stuck in the past. And that's cool. They have that to go on, they got that to reference. Okay, I want Tech nine's darker album, so I'll go back to kod King of Darkness and Oh nine, my only dark album I've ever done, and I ever will do. You know, you got people who are stuck at ever Ready and O six. You got people that are stuck at Angelic and OH one. It's okay, you know what I mean. But I'm sorry you're missing all this greatness right now because I am better than ever? Why can't you like old and new? And what I'm saying, the better than ever is the key, Like how good of an artist would you be if you never got better? Right? Right? If I just stuck to it at one thing that made me money, you know, I'm just doing it for money. And not for the love. And that's why I am changing.

5:33 It's about the love. Yes, it's about the love. Brother, And it's like, if you love it and you do it hard as you can, everything else will come. That's right. I know they're being real. Yes, then people will stick around when you're real it's great or later, man, that's right. Something. I know it's on your Facebook, and I just know I see it on your wrist that I really love where you're saying, fuck that. Man. I've lost some close friends of mine to fennel on the streets. I mean, you know, people who are getting it from the hospitals, you know it maybe stop their pain. But when that shit hits the street and the people that are taking their coke or whatever or whatever they do for fun don't know that it's in there. That's when the dealers need to be charged. Sorry, and shit, I think Big Farming needs to be charged because that's that's just get the shit out of here.

6:26 You know, there's no reason for it, and they're doing just for the money. Yeah. Did you see that new series about oxyens on Netflix? Ya? Like, I already knew that was going on, but watch that and it's like, oh, what bullshit. Yeah, it used to be used to be. They used to give me whenever I would hurt my leg well, like I tore my guy struck near me this muscle on the tour before, and they gave me morphine. I took the pills for like two days. I'm like, nah, that feels too good. I gotta stop. You know, I'm saying that was morphine. But I didn't die though. See, I consider myself lucky because they gave me morphine one time for something and I was like, don't give it that to me. And I liked the ship at all. Yeah, I loved it, and I was like that luckiest day in my life. But I used to be a drug addict back in the day. Though I've been I've been cleaned off X and shrooms and no not shrooms now I'm back on shrooms now. Uh yeah, micro does and yeah yeah yeah, but all the harder shit. You know what I'm saying. I never did cocon, I never did heroin, but everything in between there. You know what I'm saying, I haven't done that since two thousand and six. Maybe, yeah, I've been cleaned off that since two thousand and six, and I've been sober of alcohol for two years. That's one of the worst drugs in my opinion. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, So good for you. He was killing me. It was killing me. I was drinking like a rock star since in my early teens. Like my doctor said, so now that I'm in my fifty first year, well, actually I'm in my fifty second year.

7:46 I'll be fifty two November eight. So my doctor's laugh. Good, thank you, man. I feel good. I feel good. I feel good. But my doctor said, if you don't stop, you're gonna die. I'm like, I don't want to die. I just had a little baby months she's six months. Hey, I'm stopping and I'm getting healthy. I want to be here. Good for you, because how many parents are there that don't stop after that and then they leave that little baby without a parent, right right right. I don't want to do that. I want to do that. So I want to talk about that. Then what does it feel like to be a dad? Oh? Man, all over again? Man? You know, before Elena, she's six months now, I had Dantes, which is twenty eight, Aliyah who's twenty nine, and a Rainbow.

8:28 Her name is rain but we call a Rainbow Rainbow twenty four. So does it feel like after all these years, Like I have a sister that's thirty years younger than me, you know, and I'm like, I have adult kids now, and I'm like, I don't know if I want to do it that way. I like having the grandkids where I can just be the cool grandpa, teach them how to mash, teach them as skateboard, surf, and then feed them a bunch of sugar and drums and give them back to their parents. Yeah. Yeah, Yeah, I'm doing I'm doing I'm in the most right now. Man. I'm enjoying. I'm enjoying time with my newborn. Back then, I didn't have time because I was hustling to keep money on the Yeah, you know what I'm saying, to take care of my kids. You know what I'm saying. Now years later, and I have all this cushion, you know, from all the work I've done, thanks to my teammate Strange Music and myself, I have time to just do shows on the weekend, you know what I'm saying. One off like this, you know what I mean, and go back home with a little women get ready for the big tour. October sixteenth with Hollywood And did you know, so, I'm really enjoying the time that I have and that I didn't have with my other kids. Man, you know why I love hearing that because you know, people they assume things okay, and even if they see okay, Like back in the day when you're working your butt off, I'm thinking, oh, you know, I'm missing parent blah blah blah.

9:58 No, he's working to provide for his family. Yes, yes, you know. And so now that you don't have to do that as much, now we see the reel you that doesn't want to spend time with your kids that you didn't want to think about it is. It's a double as sword because time is everything to kids, no matter if you're putting them through college while you're working, no matter what you're doing, buying them cars for their sixteenth birthday, whatever you're doing. In the end, that time matters, man, you know what I mean. And you know, we went through a lot, man, a lot of battling together, you know what I mean, with my children because I didn't have the time. But we got past it because I started evolving and started learning how to control my emotions.

10:43 This whole thing's It's a hard thing to do, but I've mastered it, and now me and my kids are on the incline. Nice, you know what, I'm sizzling after all the hurt from the past. No matter how much you provide, h man, the father is the one who knows how hard he has to work to get everything they need. Yea. And when they're not doing that, they'll never understand that, you know what I'm saying. And you're right, and I understand completely because like I remember my kids being kids. I'm like, man, eighteen seems like a long time away, but it's gonna happen like that, right, you know, right right right now, now that eighteen is thirty eight, Yes, yes, yes, My little one is six months man, and she's already messing with the phone and already responding to music. Six months man. Wow, does she listen to your music? Oh? Yes, she listens to my music.

11:41 But she listens to like old school music. I play her old school music, you know what I mean. So, but when she hears my voice in the music, she knows it's daddy already. That's cool. Does she have a favorite yet of music? Does she have a favorite artist besides dad beside. She don't really know yet. She's just listening to right now. Her favorite artists are number Blocks. You know what I'm saying, one and another one is two and another one is that's three five four three two one number blocks. You know what I'm saying, This little teaching show that's her favorite right now. There it is there. So tell everybody how they can reach out to you on your socials and buy your merch most important.

12:26 Yeah, if you want anything Tech nine, it will go to Strange Music Inc. Dot net. You know what. I'm sizzling for merchandise and everything. I am Tech nine, the Real Tech nine on Instagram. I don't know what I am on Twitter? On go on Twitter? You know what I'm saying. I think I'm Tech nine on Twitter. Man, I'm never on there. I have a I have a team, my team. I am the Real Tech nine on TikTok too, but I'm not on TikTok. You know it's in My team tells me, Hey, we need to post this TikTok it's caption, you know. So you know I'm more on ig and Facebook, man, the Real Tech nine all day. Is there a techtok TikTok they wanted you to do and you're like, no, I'm not doing that. Oh yeah, it was some stuff. It was some stuff.

13:13 At the beginning. I was like, no, I'm not about to get on there and dance with nobody. Man. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry sorry. Yeah, it's a yeah, it's a it's trending, but not for me, you know. And you know, things trend on TikTok of mine and I'm not trying songs of mine like face Off with the Rock and Hood go Crazy and everybody but me and Red Kingdom for the Chiefs. You know what I'm saying. All those things, yes, go, they go viral on their own. I just do the good music. It's a trip, right, Yeah, I just do the good music and somehow the kids will find it. That's a beautiful thing about TikTok. It is it is. It's a great algorithm for artists. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. So cool. I'm glad you're here. Uh man. You are badass, and even more so now that you have evolved. Yes, totally, I love it. Tech nine evolved And thanks for being on the Adventures pipe Man. Thanks for the Avengers having me man. You know what I'm saying. I've evolved since we started this.

14:16 I'm I'm I'm a new man right now than I was ten minutes ago. There you got, thank you. That's the way it should be. Yes, sir, you're the copy, I'm the original. How you wiggle it, yo? Just be the one of them called tech nine and you listen to the pipe Man on W four cy dot com. Baby let's go good? Or was taught me the more Gloria brought me? Any Lord, I'm across for you at Norton. Thank you for listening to the adventures of Pipe Man. I'm W four CUI Radio.