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Why Didn't The Pharcyde Finish Their Joint Album With Souls Of Mischief?

We bumped into the hip-hop greats and got five minutes to chat about the unfinished Almyghty Myghty Pythons LP.

The Pharcyde are pretty much the great uncles of alternative hip-hop. They've been there since its genesis and it's been over 20 years since their seminal album

Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde

blessed the world. Tracks like "Passing Me By" and "Ya Mama" deviated from the Chuck Taylor wearing, gangsta rap tendencies of LA and helped birth rap with some soul. Despite only two of the four original members being active nowadays, Bootie Brown and Imani are still wooing crowds on tour. The other week I was rocking my dad's tropical shirts at

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in sun-drenched Croatia. I'd probably never get the chance again, so I grabbed them for five minutes to know what ever happened with the Souls Of Mischief collaboration,

Almyghty Myghty Pythons

. Then we got all nostalgic about first crushes and vinyls before they got nabbed away.

Noisey: How’s it going? I see you doing a couple of stretches there, is that a post-show ritual?

Imani: Oh no, I had an injury before I came and I reinjured it before I came on tour. I was feeling real good and then you know when you get a reminder from your body to tell you it hasn’t healed yet? I’ll be good though.

Get well soon man. Is this your first time in Croatia?

Imani: We’ve never been here. First time. All thumbs up.

Bootie: I feel like this place is a secret and nobody ain’t told anyone about how good it is. It’s like we don’t want to tell anybody about it or they'll come mess it up. I like it.

Imani: It still has the old vibes but the young people are here so you get a mixture that you don’t get in many places. Elsewhere, people be side eying you but here I haven’t really felt any of that. People are nice. They say hi.

Do you guys feel like vaults of wisdom yet? It’s been 20 years since the first album.

Bootie: I feel like the game is still changing so I'm still learning off of the Kendricks and Danny Browns of this world. They’re jumping in between different music genres and trying to flip it. I think that’s how you continue to have longevity. It’s like a doctor continually going to school. Still interacting with the new students and learning off of them. Might make you feel a little older but what was the first vinyl you ever bought?

Imani: The first vinyl I ever had was a Batman record.

Bootie: The first record I ever bought was The Apple Boogie. I opened it and it had the pop art in it. I just remember listening to the record and thinking "damn, look at the pop art". That was the first one I purchased.