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Eyekon talks about his upbringing, getting in trouble at a young age, music career, podcasting, rap beef with Lush, and more.
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00:00 Intro
1:20 Eyekon breaks down his upbringing, growing up in East Los Angeles
2:10 Eyekon on being a 5th generation American, his ancestors being in America before it was America
4:10 Eyekon on being able to do whatever he wanted as a kid and being a**icted to weed and cr**k
5:20 Eyekon on getting him and his mom kicked out of their apartment and out of school in the 7th grade
6:40 Eyekon speaks on his past a**iction
12:00 Eyekon reminisces on being in the streets at 13 and stealing cars
15:40 Eyekon speaks on going to juvenile hall for fighting and being snitched on by his girlfriend at the time
19:00 Eyekon on breaking up crack on his mothers entertainment center and his mom walking right in the middle of it
22:00 Lush on how smoking c*** back then was way more normalized and sm*king a "Pookie"
25:40 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
27:45 Lush asks Eyekon if he held any resentment toward his mom for partying
30:00 Eyekon on seeing homies that became homeless that never bounced back and feeling bad for wearing his jewelry around them
31:10 Eyekon breaks down tagging at a young age, his involvement in graffiti culture and referred to himself as a "bus rocker"
33:40 Eyekon on being one of the first people that sold weed to dispensaries and when he first started rapping
38:20 Eyekon reflects on going to Project Blowed, meeting Omar Gooding and rapping with Almighty Suspect's father
40:20 Lush and Eyekon discuss whether or not things are more dangerous now compared to back then
42:00 Eyekon speaks on having a kid when he was 16 and not being able to see his son
51:00 Eyekon on shooting behind the scenes for a Jay Rock and Mack 10 video and realizing he could shoot music videos
53:00 Eyekon speaks on things going really well for his rap group, going on tour with Phora and reacts to people calling him a snitch
56:00 Eyekon reacts to Lush calling him an actual MC at the time and not lip-syncing while performing
57:30 Eyekon breaks down why his rap group decided to go their separate ways
58:30 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
1:02:00 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
1:08:00 Lush asks Eyekon how he initially met Brownside, shooting videos at Rosarito in Tijuana
1:18:00 Eyekon on being the only one involved with Brownside that's not from their hood
1:24:30 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
1:30:40 Eyekon on quitting the label after Toker's passing and stopping his album rollout immediately
1:37:40 Eyekon breaks down starting a show with his wife and her being indicted under a RICO charge
1:38:40 Eyekon on what he thinks about 30 dudes pulling up to No Jumper
1:45:00 Eyekon tells a story about performing with Busta Rhymes at a charity event and calls him a "busta" for not giving Eyekon a drop
1:47:50 Lush asks Eyekon what makes him think that he's a good podcaster, denies rumors of Lush bringing Eyekon to No Jumper
1:50:40 Eyekon asks Lush how he feels about his Lush diss track
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