John Mackk On Growing Up In East Oakland, Catching A Burglary Charge In 9th Grade & More!

John Mackk talks about going viral with hit song "Slow it Down", sparking a bidding war amongst many labels, and more. ----- 0:00 Intro 0:10 Almighty says John Mackk is everywhere right now! John drove from the bay for the interview 1:24 John is from East Oakland, regular upbringing, raised by his mom, pops was in the streets 2:55 Says he was the man of the household, protecting his sisters 4:45 School days, John was a angry young kid after he lost his pops 5:45 Got kicked out from a couple schools, just a bad little kid, started playing football in middle school and taught him discipline 7:55 Basketball was definitely his favorite thing to do at that point, says he was on his way to the league no question 9:20 Unfortunately John did not make it to the league, coz his grades were terrible, but he was nice so the coach was like nah you playing anyway 10:00 Then he started to record himself in the garage, while playing ball, right after practice straight to the studio, says his fave artist is Kid Laroy 12:00 Rap wise is Lil Wayne, praise Wayne wishes for a feature 17:15 John says he used to listen to Sus and Frusty when he was coming up, Sus is flattered 17:30 Politics never really was an issue for him to navigate, he always separated everything from the streets, 20:25 Relationship with Philthy is cool 21:14 John Mackk on creating “Slow Down”, he didn't like it at first, didn't think it would go up like that 24:50 John Mackk performed at the Mike Sherm show and the crowd was singing word for word! He was shook! 28:21 Being called a tikotok rapper gives him more fire to go harder and know these ppl will eat their words 31:00 John started sm*king weed at 9 y/o, his mom caught him and yelled at him and WHOOPED his *ss 32:00 He quit smoking in 9th grade after getting caught for burglary and put on house arrest 33:21 John was charging his ankle monitor in school!! 34:40 John is already signed and it was a bidding war he had like 10 meetings, he says it's cool but he still very much move like he's not signed 36:20 Remix to "Slow it Down", John locked in with Bizzy thru their managers and they just clicked 43:19 The biggest misconception about the music industry: "Everything is fake AF!" everything is manufactured, pushed, and forced, so when he had an organic hit, the label went crazy 44:05 John calls his manager Matt the goat, even his mom who hates everyone loves that his manager does well by his son 46:20 John says there's TOOOO many rappers, kids should be inspired to do something else 48:00 Almighty and John geek about Kobe being both their goat! 54:45 John asks if Sus would take a gay role for millions of dollars? Sus says "naaah" 56:40 Says Katt Williams is the truth! And Diddy been freaky 1:02:09 John really wanna work with Rod Wave and Kid Laroi 1:03:00 John advice: find a solid team, stay consistent and have structure ----- Get the latest news & videos http://nojumper.com CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE STORE!!! https://shop.nojumper.com/ NO JUMPER PATREON   / nojumper   CHECK OUT OUR NEW SPOTIFY PLAYLIST https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5te... Follow us on SNAPCHAT   / 4874336901   Follow us on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4z4yCTj... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Follow us on Social Media:   / 4874336901     / nojumper     / nojumper     / nojumper     / nojumper   JOIN THE DISCORD:   / discord   Follow Adam22:   / adam22     / adam22     / adam22   adam22hoe on Snapchat