Hanz On Speaks On Joe Budden Situation And Executive Producing Method Man!

[00:00:00] Oh, oh introduce yourself to the people. I know you but they, they, gotta introduce yourself to the people. You know it's hands on. Mr. Barker himself, Meth Lab henchman, what's your ad name?

[00:00:11] Look brother, Staten Island. I like to say Staten Island sometimes too. We can say Sheldon but we like to say Staten Island too. Staten Island before Sheldon. What do you prefer? Um, whatever. Yeah, whatever. So we got, we got hands on in the building. Hands on.

[00:00:28] Been a, been a, been a long time. Um, you know, um, I wanted, I wanted to qualify you on some stuff because some people just think hands is a goon, right? Did you get that little misconception about you early on? Yes. How did you feel about that?

[00:00:46] I mean, I, I mean, you know, it was flattering but I ain't no goon. Right, right. You know what I'm saying? Right, right, right. And because a lot of people don't know you don't, you do music. Right. And you executive produce music. Right.

[00:01:04] Tell them about the executive production. I'm gonna be quiet. Go ahead. Tell them who you executive produced for. Um, well, both all three Method Man projects installments. That's lab one, two and three was all executive produced by myself.

[00:01:20] Um, along with, you know, my, my last project was, you know, I try to stay involved in everything. You know what I mean? But those is my biggest accomplishments. And, um, yeah, but definitely not no goon. I'd rather be looked at as a producer.

[00:01:42] So, so you, you actually one of the few people that could get meth to rap. What is that like? Cause you know, he said he don't want to rap no more. He'd rather do his movies.

[00:01:51] He's tired of the business, the industry, but he, he will go on the booth and do projects that you kind of like help with the, the, uh, the production, picking the music, everything. What is that like?

[00:02:04] Um, it's, it's a lot of work. You know what I mean? Uh, the big homies, you know, he's a perfectionist, so he won't say anything to be right. So it's definitely a task. It's definitely a lot of work. It's definitely not easy.

[00:02:19] You know what I'm saying? Um, but yeah, it's, it's, you know, it's, it's a lot of work. You know what I mean? It's, it's just not, you know, everybody cause I've, I've done heard it like, yo, it's method man.

[00:02:32] Shit gotta be easy. Like it's not, it's not, you know what I mean? So what is he like in the studio? Cause a lot of people, you know, we hear the flow to flow even right now, hour from now is flawless.

[00:02:44] Like he, he, he got better. Like it's scary because you got the respectfully, you might've got the best method, man. Like, you know, the early on, but you got this clock kid stepping in the booth and you know what I'm saying?

[00:03:00] Like, well, did you realize what you really had while it was going on? Did you realize the magic that was taking place or was you just like, it's just work. Did you really realize what was going on?

[00:03:12] Um, at first I was like, it's just work. But then as it started to, as it, as it started to gain its own cult following, you know, it became, it became more, more, more, more of a blessing than anything else. You know what I'm saying?

[00:03:29] I mean, just the fact that, you know, somebody of that caliber trust you with stuff like that is, is, you know, is big. Did you realize too that if it was fucked up, it was your fault too? Did you, did you, it's like,

[00:03:46] I done took blame for shit that I, that I wasn't responsible for, but you holding the bag. So you got to take responsibility. Got you. You know what I'm saying?

[00:03:55] And, and you know, you from the hood. So, you know, you know, Paul killed, like you can't get into that with you start, you know, not taking responsibility. You have everybody on you. Like, you know what I mean?

[00:04:08] You got Johnny in the lab. That's all you like, yo, cause you know, everybody want to feature from him and he, and he basically said he doesn't really want to rap like that anymore.

[00:04:17] So everything he do now is like, cause he feel like it. And you got him to do what he wants to, because he wants to, cause he not, cause he has to, cause he wants to.

[00:04:26] When y'all went, what was the talk like? Like, what was the conversation like? Yo, did you go to him and say, yo, I want to do these projects.

[00:04:33] And I want you to, I want to put them through a day. He say, yo hands, put these projects together for me.

[00:04:38] Um, no, uh, it was more of, uh, my first project to Hannibal, the great, uh, method man presents Hannibal, the great, you know, he presented that, that project.

[00:04:53] Um, I kind of business wise, I didn't know what I was doing at the time. So during that we did a mixed tape with Kay Slate and we toured on that mixed tape.

[00:05:05] The mixed tape is actually what, what caught, we did the whole West coast with that mixed tape meth was on us. One of the songs that we performed.

[00:05:14] Um, but you know, he was, he was one day he was like, yo, we need something that we can all, um, perform together.

[00:05:25] Me calling him in street life, you know, shout out to street life. Um, so we, we did a song that song turned into an idea for mixed tape.

[00:05:37] Once we got into the mixed tape, you know, I'm like, yo, I could, you know, we could turn it into a full fledged project, you know?

[00:05:46] And, uh, he was apprehensive at first, but he gave us a shot and we poked it off. And, you know, uh, you know, that resonated in the number two and number three and, you know, possibly we got four coming.

[00:06:00] Um, so you, you, you doing this y'all and you're in y'all are in the studio. Let it be known. This ain't no fly vocals. This is y'all in the booth. Y'all really there. You ready? Yeah. Yeah.

[00:06:11] Did you ever have to tell him to, yo, you should do that verse over?

[00:06:16] I've told him that I didn't like certain things. Like he's not, he's not one of those. Like he can, he can take yo that. I ain't like that. He could take that. You know what I'm saying?

[00:06:30] Um, and sometimes he changes it and sometimes he doesn't, but you know, I try to, I try to stay next to things that I'd like, you know, cause I feel like that's how you start the process.

[00:06:45] Right. Right. As opposed to, you know, recreating something that was done already. You know, you put an out there what you think is hot. Right. Right. Right. And as long as it sound good to you, it sound good. You know what I mean?

[00:06:58] Let me ask you something. Um, were you ever ice water?

[00:07:01] Yes. Well, I wasn't part of the group, but yeah, that was my guys. Uh, when I first came home, you know, they gave me my first opportunity. Shout out Ray. Shout out K. Shout out Dawn. Shout out Soup. Shout out Ray. No, they gave me my first, my, my first shot.

[00:07:19] So that's how you ended up in that other situation that people think they know you for. Right. Cause you were right. Okay. Right. Okay. Right. Um, so what the other situation did you and did you and Joe ever get a chance to chop it up behind that?

[00:07:33] No. Okay. Did, what is that a conversation you think is worth having or it just was what it was when it was? Um, I mean, I don't think the conversation between me and him about that will be productive. Okay.

[00:07:49] You know what I'm saying? Um, you know, it was not impersonal, you know, that's what, see, that's where I wanted to go with it because a lot of people don't know. Sometimes you just riding for the team. It ain't right. I don't feel right.

[00:08:02] I was, I was coming out to play for my team. That was it. It was nothing personal. Uh, personally I'm a fan. I've, uh, you know, I like Joe buttons music. I think he's nice, you know, but you know, at the time I was playing for my team.

[00:08:17] Right. Right. Right. Um, did that, did that, did those situations hinder you in any way as far as your career?

[00:08:23] Yes. Explain that. It made everybody think I was a goon. Right. So in the eyes of the public, I'm just some big, you know, dumb motherfucker that, you know, ready to crash. Right. You ready to crash. Yeah. Right. Right. Right.

[00:08:39] And I think he was able to redeem yourself with EP and projects, your projects. Uh, uh, in, and like I said, you got meth in there that you was able to redeem yourself and show them you could put some plays together as far as business, which was a great thing for the redeem yourself. Um, so was you, was you ever on paperwork with ice water? It was just a, just okay. Okay.

[00:09:02] Just was never on paperwork. Um, but you know, they gave me my opportunity because when I went in, when I came out, you know, they had the album, the polluted water jumping and you know, they let me, they let me, you know, jump in and they let me, you know, get my feet wet, you know what I mean?

[00:09:20] And that was like my first big project. Cause I was doing music before that, but never on the level of, you know, industry music, like, you know, being on something as reputable as that with those features they had. And it was a good project.

[00:09:36] So, so let me ask you something. Um, you said you was incarcerated. Yes. So doing a whole Wu Tang shit, you wasn't there for none of that?

[00:09:44] Uh, I went to jail right after the protect your neck video. Um, I'm in the video. You would never tell it's me because I had just got shot at the time. So I was mad skinny, but I was in and out from that point on.

[00:10:00] I got back out in 96, went back, you know what I'm saying? So I've been, you know, in and out of jail and stuff like that since then. So the wave, the wave was definitely going on, but I didn't figure it out yet. I was still playing in the street. I was, you know.

[00:10:19] So let me ask you something. So when you get out finally, and you see this Park Hill in Stapleton dynamic going on, was you like when the fuck this happened? Like what was you surprised? Like everybody else was.

[00:10:33] Yeah. Cause I want you to explain that to me because people really don't know that wasn't, I ain't see that happening. So I was like, this Park Hill niggas was stable to me. Like what the hell would explain to the people.

[00:10:45] Right. So, I mean, it went from, you know, you know, Park Hill was a war zone at that time. Yes. Literally in all aspects of the world, it was a war zone. So certain people, you know, not only Wu Tang, it was certain people at that time when I came home that,

[00:11:02] that, that I was looking at like, Oh shit, niggas done turned this shit into a dollar. You know, not just, it was a lot of people at the time that reached the plateau where inspired me like, Oh shit, words could be worth money like that.

[00:11:19] You know, this is shit that we was doing for free all our life, you know, and, and it's, you know, it turned out a lot of motherfuckers, you know, brought they self up out of that war zone with, with the music.

[00:11:33] And it's dope that music ended a lot of street shit. The music, cause nowadays the music goes into the street, but at that time it took everybody out the street.

[00:11:43] Yeah. And, and it was, there was a time where Park Hill and Stapleton people couldn't be in the same room. That's what I'm trying to do. The people don't know that the people would never understand how bad that was. It was very bad.

[00:11:57] The significance between Ray and Ghost right now, people don't understand because the two projects was so at odds. You know what I'm saying? And 15 minutes away from each other. And it's a walk, a little walk down the block.

[00:12:13] You know, and, and, you know, they, they, they brought it together. They knocked down that wall. So when I came home, it was a different, it was a whole different, you know, vibe, whole different feel.

[00:12:25] I spoke to many different people, artists from Staten Island, and they always say Kappa Donna was the biggest influence on everybody at first. How accurate is that?

[00:12:35] Yeah. Kappa was always like, you know, if you asked me, Kappa was the, you know, the guy for, for rhyming back then. We would be talking about original though. That would be original.

[00:12:49] That was it. Kappa was the fly dude all the time. You know what I'm saying? He had, you know, he had the bars and, you know, somebody I looked at because I'm, I'm younger.

[00:13:03] So, you know, I was, you know, kind of just watching for a little while. You know what I'm saying? What building you from? I'm from 260. From 260 I moved to 240. You know, I done lived in 185. You know what I'm saying?

[00:13:17] You know, I never crossed the street and I never walked that far down. I went to 160, 180, 140. That was the only time I went. That was where it was jumping. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Yeah.

[00:13:31] That's where you was going. You was walking through the, you know what I mean? Cutting across to go to Tarji to the video store back in the days. I was doing all of that. You know what I'm saying? I was doing all of that. You went to 49 too?

[00:13:42] Yeah. I went to 49. What high school you went to? Oh, I went to Newdorf for one day. I got caught with a gun the first day of school. So that was a wrap for that. Yeah. Go ahead. I got expelled. I wound up going to Concord.

[00:14:03] Concord? Oh my God. I knew you were going to say Concord. Well if y'all don't know, Concord is a 600 school for children with very, very bad behavior.

[00:14:11] I used to live in New Brighton. So our corner store literally was right there across the street. Heidi's is across the street.

[00:14:19] That's where I went to the store, but Concord is right there and the park is the Concord Park. Damn, you went there. I knew you was going to say Concord.

[00:14:28] So, could you explain to people too the dynamic of Staten Island? You literally grow up with white people that are not all prejudice too. Sometimes they like a nigga for real. Explain it because we see racism, but in Staten Island it's a little different.

[00:14:49] Right. Yeah. We see racism, but Staten Island, the white boys on Staten Island is different though. I think Meph said this at one time, like nobody else got white boys like us. Our white boys is spectrum. Do the cop cars say shall and find us too, right?

[00:15:10] I don't know. I think they say shall and find us. I think the last time I was on the island, I see shall and find us dead serious. That's I don't even look at police.

[00:15:20] Yeah, that's what I'm saying. But I think I see. I don't like the 120th prison, but let's just talk about it. I don't like the 120 at all.

[00:15:30] So you doing your thing. What inspires you to do music? Because a lot of people would think you got access. You got access to this one. Dec come to the island and you were lounged so I could call Cap.

[00:15:43] Explain to people that you still got a long way to go on a tough time doing this thing. Yeah, because one thing about my guys, if they see you working, they're going to support you.

[00:15:57] The key is to keep working. And, you know, naturally they're going, they're going, you know, help you and they're going to be around.

[00:16:06] And, you know, on any given day, anybody can walk in my flat studio just because I'm saying, because, you know, even though they might not know what's going on, they know we are here working. You're bugging. Hold up. Concord ain't a new bright way. Concord at it.

[00:16:19] That's all. That's the one I'm talking about. The other one I'm talking about. It's going to come to me after the same. Yeah, that's the one I'm talking about. Yeah, yeah, that's the one I'm talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:16:30] Because I was thinking, hold up. Concord is on target. So then so you was a walking distance to the school. What's over there now? The Home Depot or something like that. Right. And that was still there. But the Home Depot is across the street. Right. Yeah.

[00:16:43] Right. Right. Right. That's where we shot the home. Do you wasn't even out there when we did it. No, I was locked up and you wasn't out there when we did went to war. You was there. Right. Went to wars. I think I was there. OK. Yeah.

[00:16:55] Because I like it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I shot that. Yeah, I shot that. Yeah. Shot that video. And it's in rest in peace to a lot of the bros that was in milk.

[00:17:05] The count has no longer with us no more because some of the some of the brothers are actually passed away. A couple of the brothers in the video. I'm not going to go into that.

[00:17:13] So you want our tools right now? You want all the streaming platforms or streaming platforms? We just we just we just dropped a couple of joints. It's real with with Capitano and Lounge and Lowe. Shout out to the boomer. Yes, sir. We dropped Richmond County Coalition.

[00:17:31] That's what me and Fest last week. That's the day we dropped. We dropped. We dropped. We dropped. We dropped. We dropped. We dropped. We dropped. We dropped. We dropped. We dropped. We dropped. The Method Man single or fire. That's up right now. OK.

[00:17:49] On all streaming platforms, you know, me, you, too. Whatever. You know me, you can find it. And I seen a joint with you. I am Michael. Yeah. I am. I got I got a shout out to Mike. That's a homie.

[00:18:03] I am Mike is a is the Richmond Terrace. Yeah, he's from New Brighton. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I am Richmond. Richmond Terrace is a whole nother subject to I want to play. Is there any good? No, it ain't no good places in Staten Island.

[00:18:18] I think about every place is like a mom for going. I really think about it. I'm like, oh, you can't really. You know, I mean, it's small, too.

[00:18:25] But everybody know each other. But it ain't no you know, I think the perception of Staten Island to other people was that it's a place everywhere is turned. Even if you go to like Port Richmond and you know, you got, you know, the Mexican.

[00:18:39] You got you got mad. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is crazy. Oh, one thing I want to ask you about the music. So you you basically just stay in the studio. That's that's yeah. Yeah. That's all I do. How has that kept you out of trouble? Oh, tremendous.

[00:19:01] My life basically. I mean, the whole music in general, you know, just music having me places where had I not been there, you know, I'd have been jam somewhere.

[00:19:12] You know, I mean, so. So the studio is a place where, you know, I come, you know, and I could just, you know, I could work. I could, you know, vent. You know, I'm saying we got that.

[00:19:24] We got that. We got this. We got we got the studio operating 24 hours a day. I got other projects with people that I'm collaborating with. I don't know if you remember a Fest Taylor. I said Fest Taylor earlier. I said, well, you said Fest. I said Fest Taylor.

[00:19:41] I remember. I remember. Yeah. So Fest is all the joint. He be down here working. You know what I'm saying? And. I don't know. You know, we get in a project done with King Just. I know you remember. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

[00:20:01] Day up next. Blackfish. That was Blackfish. Blackfish. That's the big homie right there. Yes. So, you know, that behind you. That's King Just. Just was good. Me and me and just did one of the most classic.

[00:20:17] And you just know we did on them numbers. We did some crazy. It was me, him and pop did some crazy. It's hot in season, man. Right here in our. Yo, you know, it's funny because King just made my gym

[00:20:33] playlist with no no flows on a rodeo like you got to music. Come on, man. You know, you know, you know, Easy Mo B is the big homie too. We already know how that goes. You know, I'm saying.

[00:20:45] But shout out, shout out to King Just, one of the unsung heroes of Staten Island as well. You know, I'm saying definitely was repping that hill. A long time, you know what I'm saying? Like a like a long time and,

[00:20:58] you know, I like I said, I put it on my own, my Instagram. I always going to have an affinity for Staten Island, every artist, because I know what y'all go through with some of y'all. That's not a part of the clan per se. It's harder for y'all.

[00:21:14] You know what I'm saying? People don't know that it is harder for you because if you're not one of them, nine, 10 members, people be like, but it's a lot of talent in Staten Island. You know what I'm saying?

[00:21:24] No, that's why my situation is so that's why my situation is so ideal because I ain't got no problem. You know, I'm putting I'm putting records out, but I'm I'm trying to be recognized as a label.

[00:21:36] Right. Not just an artist. Right. So to be recognized in these rooms as a label, you got to have content and the content needs to be more than you. Let me show it's easy for me to come to my borough

[00:21:48] and get nothing but talent. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. We got like four projects cooking in here right now. You know, whoever want to work, holler at me. You know what's because I was just watching the first Taylor interview

[00:22:01] on sodium TV. That's where everything I love is on the TV right now. I wish I could swing the camera and show you right now. I'm watching Taylor right now on sodium TV. It's just something that just popped up in my YouTube feed.

[00:22:14] And I'm like, oh, shit, that's funny. You know what I'm saying? So how did the politics because everybody don't get along? How do you stay out of the politics? Oh, what kind of what's politics? The politics of of passion of rappers not getting along.

[00:22:32] I remember, you know, people did this records towards each other. How do you stay out of that shit? Oh, you don't know what the fuck going on. I mean, I really don't pay attention. It's counterproductive to the whole movement.

[00:22:47] So if there is shit like that going on around me, I'm not even entertaining it, bro. Like I done wasted so much time already. You know what I'm saying? Like I'm 15 steps behind still. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

[00:23:03] So, you know, you might outsiders might look at it like, oh, son is in a good position, but it's still all work. And I still got a long way to go. So paying attention to people doing this records and stuff like that

[00:23:16] is just I don't even pay attention, bro. Production. How do you pick what beats you want to rap off of? Um, well, with everything, with every project we go into, we, you know, we call producers in the studio, you know what I mean?

[00:23:32] And, you know, that's even tedious work because if you, if you tell a producer to send you some beats, he'll send you a hundred beats. You know, you got to go through them and you may only get one.

[00:23:47] So I just try to retain the producers that I worked with in the past that we did good business. And every time I'm rolling something out, I just, you know, reconvene with them, tell them what I need, get the beats in, you know what I'm saying?

[00:24:02] Shout out, shout out to PA Dre. You know what I'm saying? Shout out to P-Dot. Shout out to P-Version. You know what I mean? These are all the producers that, you know, I go to. Style to Shadow Figure, B-Divine.

[00:24:16] You know what I mean? That I go to when I need beats. I try to, you know, if I get, if I'm getting beats for somebody I want to know them, you know what I'm saying? I don't really, you know.

[00:24:27] So that's a tedious process in itself. Just getting the beats. You got to go through thousands of fucking beats. Yeah. Then they send you some shit. You'd be like, man, what the fuck is this nigga need to go outside, man? Nigga been in the basement too long. Right.

[00:24:42] Production. So how could people send you production though? Do you have an email? Well, I don't want you to get an email on here, but do you, how could people get music to you? On my website. I have a website that we about to launch as well. Okay.

[00:24:58] We just, we just working it out and getting it, getting it together. But before that, just my social media. Like everybody stay in tune with my social media. Instagram and hands on Facebook. Yeah. So yeah. Send me beats, hit me, DM me.

[00:25:18] I'll give you my email, send the beats in. They need to be original though. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know how to turn that over. Got you. Um, dream collaboration. Who, who, who you dying that you got to do one with? Um, I don't know.

[00:25:36] I can't even really say I've worked, I've worked with, with, with a lot of people. I'm, I'm, I'm kind of like, you know, dream collab. Dr. Dre maybe. I knew it. Everybody need that Dre touch. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that would be an, a major accomplishment.

[00:25:55] Um, for me. Um, but you know, I've worked with a lot of people and, and, you know, just, you know, being around and doing what I do. And, um, you know, You involved, you in the mix. You know, a lot, a lot of people, uh,

[00:26:12] up until this point, give me a, give me a, if I had to make a wish, Dr. Dre, give me a classic studio session that you was there for, that you couldn't believe that this record, everybody love. I was right there when this shit was recorded.

[00:26:27] Give me one song that you was there for that you saw being made. Etha. What? What? With Nas. You was in the studio with Nas, man. Oh, you said a session. I was in session. You're about to say if you was there,

[00:26:47] I thought she was like my dream session. If I could be there. Okay. Well, Ethan would be a, Ethan would be ill to dream session. But what studio session was you actually in where you saw magic being like, hold up. Not battle rap though. Right? Whatever, whatever you,

[00:27:03] whatever you was there for that everybody loved that you bear witness with your own two eyes. You was actually in that studio session. The Wu Chang, the Wu Chang song. I got my Uzi back. Hmm. Grab is that grab, grab a pen. What's the name of that song?

[00:27:21] It's I got more. It's the single to the double album. The gravel. I got my Uzi back. Damn. I'll be, they will fans going stone. They we in trouble, man. Cause we can't, we don't know. But that was it. So you saw everybody lately.

[00:27:37] No, that's no back, back and forth. No, no, no, not that. Oh, that's gravel pit. Okay. I know Uzi. Is it click? It's doing that. It's showing that album. That album has so many damn songs. Damn. We in trouble.

[00:27:55] Yeah. But the reason why I said that shout out, God bless. Um, all rap to my, my son for life. I was about to say, I was about to say that. Was for me because I was fresh out of jail.

[00:28:07] And, um, we, you know, I got up with polite. We went to the studio. The niggas were working on that song. That's actually polite on the hook on the song. If you listen to the song that I got my Uzi back, that's polite. Wow.

[00:28:27] They got a video for it. Yeah. They got a video for it. It's not, it's not clicking with me for some reason. Cause I could so much swoosh it be in my head. And then after a while it was just so fucking much, you know what I'm saying?

[00:28:42] Like it was so much. I'm starting. I am man. Just popped up like so much shit just popped in my head. I'm like, damn, when you go through the Wu-Tang catalog, shit might be 600 songs, but I'm ready to get rest in peace.

[00:28:54] I'm like, I'm ready to get rest in peace. I'm like, I'm ready to get rest in peace. It's like 600 songs, but I'm ready to get rest in peace to polite. Um, rest in peace to polite. So this is the interlude TV, right?

[00:29:06] So I gotta ask you, what's your favorite interlude on any album of all time? Interlude? Oh, I don't want to toot my own horn, but I'm going to say, I'm going to say Mephlad 2. Okay. Which one was it? What's the name of it? Lithium.

[00:29:31] That album is called Lithium. Okay. What was the name of the interlude? Do you remember? Nah, I don't. We don't, we don't name them. They usually just call interludes. Okay. Okay. Um, on this album right here that you got out right now,

[00:29:48] give them the features they're on there. Oh, I got, I got Meph on there. Of course I know that. I got Ray. I got RJ Payne. I got Inspector Deck. I got Chat. You know what I'm saying? I got Cortez, you know.

[00:30:04] Um, I got, well, and then, you know, we got the usual suspects, Carlton Fish, uh, Uhef we got on there. You know what I'm saying? Um, who else we got? DE for the team we got on there. You know what I'm saying?

[00:30:24] Lounge. Lounge. You can't forget lounge. The boomer. Boom! Yeah. Lounge is on there. Lounge and the lounge is definitely on there. He's on the street, uh, the street story. So, um, yeah, I got my little cuzzo from new Brighton on there. You know what I mean?

[00:30:43] Um, shout out Billy. You know what I'm saying? What's the visuals? What was the visuals you were shooting last week? Um, we shot, oh, last week we were shooting the Carthage song. Okay. It's a song on there named Carthage with, uh, uh, Nef Ron Burrows did the beat.

[00:31:04] So Nef they would know him as the last American B-Boy, but we know him as Nef. He also was a director, but he's also an MC. People don't know that he rapped. You know what I'm saying? So you got Rockness on there too, right?

[00:31:19] Rockness Monsters on there, yeah. Yeah. I got, um, I got up. So in this video right here that y'all going to see the first pinned comment is going to be the project. Y'all get it on. It's everywhere. Apple iTunes everywhere. It's everywhere. Right.

[00:31:36] Just spell my name right in Google H H A N Z. You know what I'm saying? You long as you spell my name right in Google, you won't get it. All right. So we here with Hanz, man. Um, damn, man,

[00:31:49] we like we could fucking talk all day. You in the lab though. What y'all working on now? Now we've been in here all day. We, we, we, we done. Okay. So he's just doing interviews and shit today. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm happy that you won't free.

[00:32:05] I'm happy that you represent in the, uh, the, the, the unspoken borough. Um, did you go shopping at Alby square mall too when you was younger? Yeah. The train, the bowling green, right. It take the four to five. Everybody, everybody y'all caught with Staten Island caught up though.

[00:32:25] I ain't going front. Staten Island used to be way behind. Now here's crazy. Yo, I want to, I would name like it, you know what I'm saying? Like you can't even, you can't even name, like I could name 50,000 people.

[00:32:39] You can't even name, like I could name 50 more focus out here right now. But please, but, but, but you know what though? I was talking to lounge about this years ago. If you can bro, please name five of them. We ain't leaving nobody out, but just off cap,

[00:32:55] let's give them some because they got to hear these other names of some of these people. You know what I'm saying? Like it's, it's important for Staten Island to get is just do in my opinion.

[00:33:05] You know what I'm saying? In my opinion. So whoever you want to name, bro, shout them out now, put, put them out and get fucked. If you name 50, let's give them something because they need to hear their name out there. You know what I'm saying?

[00:33:16] You talking about like young boys to whoever, bro, whoever you think got it, let's put them out there cause they need to be on these platforms, man. We gotta, we gotta, um, should wait a while to begin. Like, um, Trump bizzo cash Marizano that's caught in fifth son.

[00:33:37] You know what I'm saying? We got, we got C black out here. We got Vito. We got James rich. We got fucking who else we got. Who else we got? You got the hillside scramblers still doing a thing.

[00:33:52] I was just watching. I was watching on leather face earlier too. Dead ass. Right. You got them still doing a thing. I mean, the talent is rampant. You got, you know, people on the Harbor side, you know what I'm saying? Still doing a thing. Uh,

[00:34:09] what's some name that we go about the work with son that had the thing with the next, it's just mad multitude of talent, man. Multitude of talent. It's finished. If I, if I miss you, I'm sorry. I'm high.

[00:34:24] Yeah. Shout out to West Brighton, new bright and poor rich. New York. Like, uh, let's shout out to for Wadsworth. Shout out to, to Park Hill, Stapleton. Shout out to, to all South, shout out to South beach. Shout out to every area of Staten Island.

[00:34:44] If you were, if you were a white executive and you got some money, you trying to invest in music. This is where you got a fish at Staten Island. Still live, still live. So yo cans, man, we, we gotta re up on man.

[00:34:58] I appreciate you joining me. Yo, you the first new interview on this channel. I want you to know that you broke. You the first one on this channel is a new channel. First one. So tell them the name of the project again.

[00:35:13] Uh, name of the project is called Carthage. You know what I'm saying? We slowly rolling it out. You know what I'm saying? Just dropped a single today featuring iron Mike and method man. You know what I'm saying? Got something for y'all next Friday.

[00:35:26] Stay in tune with me. Follow me on the gram. You know what I'm saying? On the gram is hands, uh, hands. The great H A N Z D A G R E H E. Is the name of the company still hands on music? Entertainment. All right.

[00:35:47] Music entertainment. So we, it's for acronym is home. Oh, dope, dope, dope, dope. So, so, so you, so for the people to know he looking for directors, he looking for actors, he looking for producers, he's looking for, uh, uh, MCs,

[00:36:03] anybody that you want to collaborate, whatever you want to do. He looking for everything. You know, he got access to the who's who on hip hop. They all on his project. And if you were an executive that you want to, um,

[00:36:14] you know, you want to put some money into something. I don't care if you, you 27 years old and you got one of them hedge funds or something like that. You want to put some money into something. It's still in Staten Island.

[00:36:25] It's definitely still in Staten Island because, um, he got access to everybody anyway. So, um, hands, I want to thank you for joining me today, man. We gotta get the Carthage album. I'm going to make sure that they, they put it out there. Matter of fact,

[00:36:37] I'm gonna go on my social media and make sure it's all put out there right now. We going, I'm on a camp. I'm on a campaign with y'all. You know what I'm saying? I got to represent, got to represent for Park Hill. You know what I'm saying?

[00:36:47] 160 Park Hill apartment six P that's where I live as a little kid. Rest in peace to my Umi, my Umi, my Umi. That's my, you know, my grandmother. Nah, I was too young. Yeah. Yeah. My grandmother, she's the one who brought meth to the projects. Right? Yeah.

[00:37:03] She didn't want to brought meth to the project. You know what I'm saying? His mom was in his two sisters and shit. So, um, rest in peace to my Umi. And my pops died in one 80. In one 80. In one 80. Yup.

[00:37:14] Had a heart attack in one 80. Passed away. He was living in one 80. 2011 I believe. 2011. My pops name was Gamal. Gamal? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Gamal. There's only one of them. That's my pop. Yeah. One 80. Yup. Okay. Yeah.

[00:37:40] So I'm going to hear that. Yeah. I know. I know you knew my uncle's age, right? Yeah. Yeah. I know. His older brother is my father, you know what I'm saying? But you know, he lived, he lived in one 80. You know what I'm saying?

[00:37:55] My pops lived in one 80. He had a heart attack in the building. You know what I'm saying? He passed away in the process. So it is what it is, man. I remember Park Hill when it was a swamp in the back. Right.

[00:38:06] You know what I'm saying? There wasn't no buildings back there. It was a swamp. It was woods everywhere. So yeah, I was, as a little kid, I was, I lived there for a couple of years with Umi and all,

[00:38:16] you know what I'm saying? Park Hill always was good to me. Wild as hell though. Like people were good. Yeah. Good to good to the people who lived there. Like it, because what people don't know was a community. Like everybody really knew everybody.

[00:38:29] You went outside and one 60 was just turnt though. I don't know what the hell, what it was about that bill, but maybe because a lot of people lived in the building. You had captain. You had a lot of people in the building that was in, but yo,

[00:38:40] you know, I never been in a number of buildings. I never been in one of them like the one 85 to I never been across the street ever in my life and none of those buildings. I only been in a single to zero buildings that are serious.

[00:38:51] I've never been in none of those buildings. Cause I remember in Park Hill used to be able to go in the back of the building. Now you got to go all the way down and go in at one building.

[00:39:01] You used to be able to go pull up right in the building. Right. Each parking lot was open. Yeah. That's how, that's how I was that little when I was there, you was able to go at each parking lot.

[00:39:11] And then one day I took a cab from new Brighton and I'm like, this is the building right there. They said, no, we got to do the entrance right there. Cause the cab drivers was getting robbed. You know what I'm saying? DJ DJ is still there is Apple's.

[00:39:23] He joins us still around. I think that's how you know. So yeah, I'm naming shit way back cab companies. Cause you used to have to call a cab in Staten Island. There was no flag in the cab. You had to call a cab, you know what I'm saying?

[00:39:34] And, and you were going to share a cab with somebody before Uber. That's how it was. But Paul had his own cabs though. We ain't even call cabs back there cause they was around the corner. But I was too little for that. You know what I'm saying?

[00:39:48] So I was cause I was coming from, yeah, I was coming from new Brighton to park here. You know what I'm saying? So, so I had to get a cause DJ's on Bay street. I think they still in the same spot too.

[00:40:05] Yeah, no, they was there for a long time. Right on, right on bay. Bay like cause victory is right there at the beginning of the bay and bay and victory right over there. So yeah, they still there. Yup.

[00:40:16] I hands man. I'll talk you to death, man. We'll we'll make sure y'all get the coffee. It's just the first pen comment in this video. Make sure y'all pick that up. Listen to it, hit hands on home,

[00:40:26] hit them on the social media, let them know how you feel about the project, who you want to see and work with. If you got some work out there, you do artwork, whatever you do in this culture, you are needed.

[00:40:37] So make sure you hit them up. Don't hit me, hit him. He'll give you his email and everything. And until next time, peace. Peace.