John Mackk talks about going viral with hit song "Slow it Down", sparking a bidding war amongst many labels, and more.

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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

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