Cassidy on His Come Up, The Freeway Battle, Dissing Mumble Rappers & More

Cassidy sits down with Adam to talk about his career, his legacy, battle rap, and more!

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00:00 Intro

0:55 Cassidy on writing his first rap in 4th grade about fire prevention and raps it

4:35 Cassidy lists all of his musical influences like Grandmaster Caz, Rakim and more

6:55 Not connecting the streets with rap at first and being influenced by Canibus and DMX

11:00 Staying on cadence, being creative with syllables and how technology changed music

16:10 Signing to a label at 17, hosting radio cyphers and creating the group Larsiny with Ruff Ryders

20:15 Ruff Ryders’ relationship and beating Freeway in a battle rap with Jay-Z & Swizz Beatz in attendance

34:00 How rappers used to represent labels during battle raps and dropping the first project

38:15 Curating the album “Split Personality”, dropping the single “I’m a Hustla” and having radio hits

42:35 Being locked up while going platinum, sampling Jay-Z bars and making a fortune off of ringtones

48:00 Hip hop creating sub genres for the new sounds coming out in music and radio play

52:10 Writing the record “6 Minutes” with Lil Wayne and Fabolous and changing the game again

57:00 Cassidy on his relationship with Swizz Beatz then and now

1:02:50 Cassidy on dissing Lil Uzi Vert and Lil Yachty and getting used to the new era rap music

1:09:15 New Cassidy album coming soon

1:13:40 Cassidy’s contribution to the battle rap culture and the Freeway battle that never happened

1:18:40 Cassidy charging $250,000 for appearances and believes he deserves more

1:24:35 Cassidy on Tory Lanez stealing his bars and starting a podcast

1:28:15 Writing bars in seconds, punching in and the creative process to make a hit record

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