The Come Up Show presents part 3 of our interview with Phife Dawg, you might remember the 2011 documentary Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest, you might not know that it’s a winner in the Producers Guild Award, received a Grammy and NAACP Image Awards  nomination, amongst others. Phife tells us how he feels about all the attention and acclaim the documentary got. Something not too many people know is that Nas was one of the first to suggest that Tribe should do a documentary back in 2008. Michael Rapport and Nas came together to work on the documentary but due to personal issues in Nas’ life he couldn’t continue with the documentary.

Phife Dawg also tells about Q-Tip personality, why he feels Q-Tip is a reluctant superstar,  Phife says “in the studio and the stage  is when his ego comes out but offstage meeting and greeting he isn’t comfortable with people, he still hasn’t got used to it, I’m not sure why but it is what it is”. Check this out and more in part.3 of our itnerview with Phife Dawg, make sure to subscribe to The Come Up Show TV for part. 4 as Phife reminisces his working experience with J Dilla.

The Come Up Show Presents Part 2 of our interview with Phife Dawg, this is the first time he talks about the new album and its title Cheryl’s Big Son: The Anomaly and the first single is called Soulmen featuring one of his artists LEL. I asked Phife about the high expectation fans have because it is his first solo album in twelve years, he tells us he wasn’t thinking of making an album because of his battle with his health, unless it was a Tribe album, he was just going to produce, but all of a sudden he caught the bug again while producing. He tells us this and more in Part. 2 of our interview with Phife Dawg.

Make sure to check back tomorrow on The Come Up Show TV for part. 3 of our interview as he talks about the Tribe documentary.

The Come Up Show had the opportunity to sit down with Phife Dawg of the legendary A Tribe Called Quest. One of the best interviews we’ve done so far as Phife sat down for over 20 minutes answering our questions about J.Dilla, the Tribe documentary, his relationship with Q-Tip and much more. Since we live in a A-D-D- world we decided to split it the interview into a few parts, in part.1 of our interview Phife discusses how he feels about Jeremy Lin and the New York Knicks.

Check it out and make sure to subscribe to The Come Up Show TV for the rest of the series.

Right after his set at the Young Jeezy concert a couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to catch up with Richie Blackz for a quick interview. He discussed his focus, the La Vie mixtape, the branding, and what is coming up next for him. If you regularly visit The Come Up Show website and pay attention to the scene then you definitely know who Richie is. Check out the interview below.

Friend’s become stranger just to destroy and rebuild…Nas you think they ready? Damn the rap game is about to get a face lift!! I’m reloaded.- AZ

I got the opportunity to link up with AZ when he was in Toronto for Rock The Bells which featured Nas, Pete Rock, DJ Premier, and Lauryn Hill. AZ had a few minutes after he came back from an after party with Nas and Preemo. AZ talked to me about Doe Or Die 2, a follow up after the classic Doe or Die, he told us it’s on a whole another level since it’s been 15-16 years in the making. Another common remark you hear about AZ is how underrated and unappreciated he is, so he told us what he thought about that. I also asked AZ what plans him and Nas had since they plan to give “the game a face lift”. Check this out and more in our interview with AZ on The Come Up Show.

The Come Up Show is proud to present our interview with TFHOUSE. We interviewed him when he opened up for The Weeknd in London, we discussed the “cult” following he has, how he prepares himself when opening for acts like Mac Miller, The Weeknd, Wiz Khalifa and what Dstry means. Make sure to check out his mixtape Superior Taste, follow him on twitter and get very familiar with the Dstry lifestyle!!

If you have your finger on the Toronto music scene, or also if you happen to be a dub slave, then you’ve probably heard of Zeds Dead. ZD is a duo made up of Hooks and DC (pictured above) that started out both listening to and making hip-hop music, but somewhere along the way they got a bit sidetracked and ended up taking their hybrid sound to places more suitable for places where strobe lights pounce across walls and raging arms. And pouches of cocaine and ex and stuff.

For many reasons, club musics tend to far more international currency, or at least translation, when it comes to picking up a fanbase across international seas. So it perhaps comes as no surprise, that Zeds has over 50,000 followers on their facebook page, and most of the people screaming — or, erm, writing — their names are from far away lands like Denmark where the people write their names with with letters like this: å.

Enjoy!

While Brother Ali was in London for a show, he sat down with Chedo and The Come Up Show to discuss how independent music, or music from the margins, plays an important role in not only developing critical thinking skills in kids, but exercising those of adults. Ali also talks about music as a gateway to understanding others; sometimes, the most gracious gift of music isn’t a path to better understand yourself, it’s getting a chance to be exposed to the situations and perspectives of those whose acts and motivations may otherwise remain misunderstood.

The Come Up Show team packed up our bags and headed to Brampton to visit the ever-chill Moka Only in studio. While Moka may be pretty low key in person, anyone who has followed his 16-year (and growing) career knows he is anything but  low-key when it comes to making music. It’s not that his music isn’t chill, it’s that Moka is one of those hyper-productive — and therefore prolific — artists with a knack for churning out new music at a rate likely faster than you can consume it: Since 1995, Moka has notched around sixty solo projects and collaborations on his belt. Does Oscar Meyer even make wieners that fast?

Moka is prolific, yes, but his past work doesn’t compromise his forward-pressing mentality and relentless self-critique. As he told us when we asked him to reflect on his impressive opus, he actually considers himself a slow poke. “I could actually stand to pick it up…” he says, “it’s not that much, really, per year…”

Click play and one of Canada’s legends talk humbly about his craft, his affinity for Jazz, his anxiety of influence, and some the personal philosophies that guide his music making behind the scenes.

Caught up with Ab-Soul during the Road To Paid Dues tour stop in Toronto. This young emcee from Carson, California has made a name for himself from the Long Term Mentality mixtape series and he just released volume 3 on itunes this past week.

In our interview Ab-soul talks about his label Top Dawg Ent which consists of SchoolboyQ, Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, he also tells me why he doesn’t aspire to be on XXL’s freshman list, why he started questioning religion once he started reading on Malcom X, and the power of our words. Check out this amazing interview and the photo gallery with the homie Ab-Soul on The Come Up Show.

It’s another hilarious interview with D-Sisive and Muneshine, I must say I have such a great time interviewing these two. I also have to say I really noticed D-sisive’ confidence and hunger talking to him, you can tell just by watching as we discuss Jonestown 2.

He also tells me what happened to the name change from D-Sisive to Derek from Northcliffe and on why he released his album for free.