Jay Royale - Mixtape (feat. Planet Asia, Ill Conscious, Skyzoo, Illa Ghee, Ransom Termanology...)

1. Planet Asia & Milano Constantine - Don't Become A Victim (feat. Jay Royale) 0:00 2. Jay Royale - The Ode (To The Bubblegum Sole) (feat. Bossman Da God) 3:44 3. Jay Royale - Pearl Handled (feat. Ill Conscious) 7:24 4. Ill Conscious - In the S.T.R.E.E.T.S. (feat. Jay Royale) 9:28 5. Planet Asia & Snowgoons - Pistol Grip Pump (feat. Jay Royale & DJ Access) 13:32 6. Jay Royale - Thousand Gram Figero (feat. Skyzoo) 16:54 7. Snowgoons - 4 Stripes (feat. Jay Royale, Fel Sweetenberg, Illa Ghee & Ali Vegas) 20:05 8. Supreme Cerebral - Roddy Piper (feat. Jay Royale) 24:34 9. Jay Royale - The Town 28:27 10. Jay Royale - The Aspiration (feat. Lonnie Moore) 31:19 11. Jay Royale - Skee Rack (feat. Ransom) 35:27 12. Jay Royale - The Transaction 39:20 13. Jay Royale - Tint Cruddy (feat. Termanology) 42:36 14. Jamil Honesty & Hobgoblin - Scribez (feat. Jay Royale & DJ Grazzhoppa) 46:02 15. Ill Conscious - The Narrative (feat. Jay Royale & DJ TMB) 49:42 16. Jay Royale - Hate To Love It 52:41 17. Jay Royale - The Iron (feat. Benny The Butcher) 55:10 18. Jay Royale - Lime (feat. Willie The Kid) 58:08 19. Grime Lords - Power Refinement (feat. J Scienide & Jay Royale) 1:01:33 20. Jay Royale - The Iron (feat. Benny The Butcher) (Big Ghost Ltd Remix) 1:05:08 21. Jay Royale - The Transaction (Remix) 1:08:05 22. C-Lance - Keep Calm (feat. Daniel Son, Charlie Fettah & Jay Royale) 1:10:39 23. Conway The Machine - Walk With A Gun (feat. Jay Royale & Ill Conscious) 1:14:15 24. Jay Royale & P.U.R.E - Bullies 1:17:16 25. Madoa Sankara (feat. Jay Royale) - Long Livin' 1:20:48 26. Jay Royale, Nems, Snowgoons & DJ Crypt - Finga Printz 1:24:20 How's the situation down there in Baltimore? Are you maneuvering differently in terms of planning, making and delivering music during the pandemic? The city's slowin' down. I'm not in the streets as much as I used to be, but watching the city grieve and seeing it at a halt, is an eye opener. It really turned on the hustle and it put things in full perspective. The hustle that's in my heart grinds for times like this, because it doesn't have to be a dope performance and a merch table in order for me to get my product off. Me, the studio, my man Sos (Ray Sosa) or whoever I'm lockin' in with on the beat—I'm sorta like MacGyver; I gotta create a way with these things, you know what I'm sayin'. I'm glad that the streets are taking to what it is that I do. Can you talk about your roots in East Baltimore? My father is from South Carolina. He moved to New York and made his way around NY at a fast pace with a pool stick—that was his hustle and how he got fast money. My mothers side of the family is from Baltimore. My mother was a beautician; she did hair, and my grandmother sewed and made clothes. My father was the suave ladies man, so my mother had to outsmart him to get that father out of him, you know what I'm sayin'. My father was more active in the streets than he was on the home front. So, when my mom needed him to be where he needed to be, she had to swindle him. My mom was a real slick chick because she had to out-slick a slick talker—she had to be that much more keen with the tongue, you know what I mean. I learned how to read between the lines, thanks to my mom. There was The Boondocks and there was a comic strip called Curtis, and we would read those comic strips every Sunday. Every comic strip would have little punchlines in there, and my mom didn't give it away; she made me figure it out. I always held on to that. The conversation and the dialogue in these comic strips created my personality. Take me back to your introduction to music. What are some of your earliest music-related memories? My pop, you know, he was a smooth southern cat that had his run in New York and in Baltimore, so a lot of Ray Charles—a lot of it was blues. My mom and pops' particular taste in music was dope! There was a song called Soldier Boy by The Shirelles that was one of my moms favourite songs, and a memory of ours. Sam Cooke, he was another one that my mother liked a lot. These artists are battling demons in real life, and are people who have a story behind their music endeavors. The music that I take part in is very truthful, too. You gotta be truthful, you gotta be real transparent, and the music that I deal with comes from the heart. You're well aware of the trials and tribulations of the hip hop listener. Comin' up, I listened to MC Hammer—I grew up to Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em. Run DMC looked like the guys that was outside of my house. To go outside and see cats in the street and then come home and see dudes on the TV, and they looked alike, I was like, "Oh shit!." That was crazy, you know what I mean. I didn't have to take sides because the same cats I looked up to in the real world, I could look up to musically. The words rhymed and you had these cats on stage, and you had a crowd that was goin' crazy, and I'm like, "Yo, I wanna be that, I wanna control a crowd!