Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
Outlook Festival
Almyghty Myghty Pythons
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.
Now you don’t get many songs in hip-hop about people being dissed by girls but on “Passing Me By” you guys are open about that. Apart from Biz Markie, it’s an untouched area. Who was your first crush though?
Imani: Somebody in school I’m sure. When I first realised that girls were different. Pre school, kindergarten or some shit. Actually, do I have to be honest? I was in pre school and I used to daydream about shrinking myself down and walking on my teacher’s booty. That’s the God honest truth.
Bootie: Freak. My first crush? I don’t think it was a teacher. My mum used to have parties, she’s a nurse and her Filipino friend had a daughter. At that time I think I wasn’t used to seeing people of different origin and it tripped me out. It was like I didn’t know what this girl was but I knew she was pretty. I think it fucked me up to this day.
Imani: ‘She different, damn she different’. [sung in tune to 2 Chainz – “I’m Different”]
Bootie: You know what I’m saying? At that time there wasn’t really a serious Filipino in the hood so we were like “oh wow”.
Moving on though. Bootie, how’s all the Frank Fiction stuff going?
Bootie: It’s good. I’ve been working on it for a couple of years. I started off doing the AMP (Almyghty Myghty Pythons) stuff with the Souls of Mischief. I’m just building it up. I don’t think I’m gonna be a smash like that but when I die, I want to have my 2Pac. I wanna have a gang of songs that people have on their hard drive and be like ‘man, do you hear this shit’. That’s what I’m working on right now because I can’t work on too many things. I feel like if I pass, there’ll be a bunch of stuff. I wanna be like Bob Marley and 2Pac.
Whatever happened to the Almyghty Myghty Pythons though?
Imani: It got ahead of itself. We didn’t realise the power at the time. Word got out and then people were like “oh my garsssh, it’s gonna be so great”. Hype kills. That’s another t shirt. Sometimes a project can get ahead of itself and people start talking but we don’t have any music. Everybody thought we had an album when we actually had about 6 songs. Scheduling didn’t happen the way it was meant to happen and that was the end of it.
I guess we’ll just have to imagine that album.
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