Cassidy on His Come Up, The Freeway Battle, Dissing Mumble Rappers & More

Cassidy sits down with Adam to talk about his career, his legacy, battle rap, and more! ----- 00:00 Intro 0:55 Cassidy on writing his first rap in 4th grade about fire prevention and raps it 4:35 Cassidy lists all of his musical influences like Grandmaster Caz, Rakim and more 6:55 Not connecting the streets with rap at first and being influenced by Canibus and DMX 11:00 Staying on cadence, being creative with syllables and how technology changed music 16:10 Signing to a label at 17, hosting radio cyphers and creating the group Larsiny with Ruff Ryders 20:15 Ruff Ryders’ relationship and beating Freeway in a battle rap with Jay-Z & Swizz Beatz in attendance 34:00 How rappers used to represent labels during battle raps and dropping the first project 38:15 Curating the album “Split Personality”, dropping the single “I’m a Hustla” and having radio hits 42:35 Being locked up while going platinum, sampling Jay-Z bars and making a fortune off of ringtones 48:00 Hip hop creating sub genres for the new sounds coming out in music and radio play 52:10 Writing the record “6 Minutes” with Lil Wayne and Fabolous and changing the game again 57:00 Cassidy on his relationship with Swizz Beatz then and now 1:02:50 Cassidy on dissing Lil Uzi Vert and Lil Yachty and getting used to the new era rap music 1:09:15 New Cassidy album coming soon 1:13:40 Cassidy’s contribution to the battle rap culture and the Freeway battle that never happened 1:18:40 Cassidy charging $250,000 for appearances and believes he deserves more 1:24:35 Cassidy on Tory Lanez stealing his bars and starting a podcast 1:28:15 Writing bars in seconds, punching in and the creative process to make a hit record ----- NO JUMPER PATREON http://www.patreon.com/nojumper CHECK OUT OUR NEW SPOTIFY PLAYLIST https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5te... FOLLOW US ON SNAPCHAT FOR THE LATEST NEWS & UPDATES https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE STORE!!! http://www.nojumper.com/ SUBSCRIBE for new interviews (and more) weekly: http://bit.ly/nastymondayz Follow us on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ENxb4B... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Follow us on Social Media: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... http://www.twitter.com/nojumper http://www.instagram.com/nojumper https://www.facebook.com/NOJUMPEROFFI... http://www.reddit.com/r/nojumper JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Q3XPfBm Follow Adam22: https://www.tiktok.com/@adam22 http://www.twitter.com/adam22 http://www.instagram.com/adam22 adam22hoe on Snapchat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices