From The Desk Of Lo

Formally known as Shim E Bango he now goes by Bang Belushi! Lo & Bang talked a bit about his history in his musical career starting out as Obie Trice’s hypeman & Fat Killahz recording the album ‘Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner’ also Bang talked his debut album The Adventures Of Bang Belushi & how he hooked up with Middle Finger Music, why he chose to have minimum features on the album, coming to Canada & being overseas for the first time with Obie Trice, old work, meeting The Almighty Dreadnaughtz & Aztek The Barfly, influences, & what he hopes to accomplish & much MUCH more!

From The Desk Of Lo proudly presents a Detroit hip hop pioneer! DJ Los!!!!! Lo & Los talked about the history of Detroit hip hop & how he was apart of it, getting his first big look on the Above The Rim soundtrack, being apart of the Almighty Dreadnaughtz & A.R.E.S, working with Kid Vishis, process of making his beats, appearing on the Untold Story of Detroit Hip Hop, sharing memories with Proof (R.I.P.) also DJ Los shared some information about his group A.R.E.S. (A Red Eye Smoking) upcoming project & much more! #AlienGang

Trevor Lang shared his passion for hiphop especially the underground movement, starting his career off by making art work for artists like Conway & being inspired by the 1 of 1 Wu Tang Clan album titled ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ by doing limited runs with cassettes with artists like Flee, Knowledge The Pirate, Tokyo Drip, meeting Sauce Heist & Jay Royale, doing Flee Lord’s I Want Out cover & Lord Talk 2 cassette, fulfilling obligations before taking on more projects, doing mixing & mastering, working with Widowmaker & much much more!

From The Desk Of Lo proudly presents the 3rd producer to ever appear in the show, Big French! We talked about getting his first placement for KRS One back in 1995, being a engineer in 1992 before taking up production we also talked a few of the artists he produced for, getting inspired DJ Permier & Pete Rock, loving boom rap, working with godBLESSbeatz, him doing his mixing & mastering, break beats,having a wide selection of sounds, having several projects with G4 JAG, how it was in the 90s in Hip Hop, having your business right when it comes to music, French also gave a little bit more insight on ghost production & much much more!

One of Harlem’s best MC’s blessed the show this week! Lo proudly introduces G4 JAG! Lo & G4 had a dope conversation about his FIRE project The Survivors & that being the project he’s really pushing, Flee Lord being a big part in the project! Wanting his projects to have playback value, working with producer Big French, his album having a Reasonable Doubt vibe to it, enjoying the process of writing, short term goals & much much more! Also the beloved Flee Lord made a quick 3 min camo! Fly Family x Loyalty Or Death got a bright future ahead of them!

LUCKY SEVEN BLESSED THE 50TH EPISODE! During this interview Lo & Luck had a very good conversation about MTV, finding his name, releasing his first official project at 18 & wanting to release it later in his career, listening to his old music to get inspired, projects 53Cree: Bad Luck & Merry Christmas Retro Gamer, how the Game Boy collaboration with Flee Lord came about, videos games, being involved in Conway’s projects, & much more! This is a episode you won’t wanna miss!

U.S. MUZIQ blessed the show this week with their energy! Gray & Ford are the duo that form U.S. Muziq ! They both shared finding their passion for music, stage names, meeting one another, how the group name came together, first hearing about Khory Enigma (Trackz), Gray taking up production, meeting B.A Badd, Ford & Gray talked about their future goals, solos projects & much much more! U.S MUZIQ!!!!

From The Desk Of Lo proudly presents the story of B.A Badd! Lo & B.A discussed his beginnings & being influenced by Bad Boy at a early age, finding his way to his music career while in Syracuse & the transition moving to Buffalo, life in high school before meeting Khory Enigma (Trackz), bring apart of different collectives before Da Zombeez & Zombee Gang formed, life experiences before his solo career took off, how EBE came about & future goals cause his story isn’t finished yet! This just the beginning!

For the start of Da Zombeez week Lo, kicks things off with Jimmie Blanco! Formally known as Sparkz he started his music career by first hearing Reasonable Doubt & it was lit from there on out! Jimmie discussed his beginnings growing up in Buffalo NY, finding his stage name, The bond between him & Khory Enigma, the Zombeez sound, his first project Closed Dreams, his other projects Seeing Is Believing and the story behind that project & his Usual Suspects project, his label CenterLane Muzik Group (no typo) & branching out into his own career, influences, what he hopes to accomplish in music career. Lo & Blanco got into other topics like Dipset, history of some songs like UNO & Zeekos & much much more! Salute to Blanco for being a real one! Keep pushing sir! #Zombeez

As Lo introduces the last member of the Dat Feelin movement, Lo proudly introduces DJ 110! (Pronounced DJ One Ten) they talked about how DJ CX also stands for DJ 110 in Roman numerals, getting into hiphop through New York mixtapes, getting into DJing, the history between him & E-Smitty then meeting MRK SX & wizisbeast, producing Dat Feelin Anthem & Go Get It from the groups EP, how his IG Live series In The Den came about. Also discussed how he also got into being a producer, artists he would like to work with! Working on his upcoming EP & much much more!

As the DatFeelin season 3 premiere continues Lo, has the MC, the beast! wizisbeast (spelled like that! NO CAP!) wizisbeast discusses finding his passion for music early on in his life including genres like gospel, soul & then hiphop, later on in life seeing the change in Chicago in music, moving to Florida, preferring home studios over professional studios, finding the right stage name that fits him. Also when he moved to Florida that’s when he first heard Wu Tang Clan & going though that Wu rabbit hole as like how everyone does when they first discover the WU! How certain music can last through the test of time, meeting MRK SX,E-Smitty & DJ 110 & much much more! Just remember wizisbeast is spelled like that! NO CAP!

As Lo continues the DatFeelin premiere theme. Lo has with him the RnB star to the group E-Smitty! For this episode we talk about finding his passion for RnB & who he was influenced by, the interesting story of finding & meeting MRK SX & getting involved with DatFeelin, knowing DJ 110 before anyone & getting to know wizisbeast. E-Smitty digs a little dig into Lo’s personal life a bit, upcoming tour with the camp also recording with them. Working on his solo project, dream collaborations, how his stage name came about, recording process, & much more! Salute to E-Smitty for being the first RnB singer to appear on the show!

For the season 3 premiere I have a talent duo they go by the name of Hello Tomorrow! Consisted of MRK SX a Detroit MC & Tone Beatz a South Carolina producer! We discuss how the group name Hello Tomorrow came about, how they met, Tone being the band & MRK being the soloist to the band, Tone being a master record digger & having a unique sound with his production, being true originals, why they chose to have a Gospel Theme with Turn to Your Neighbour, while borrowing elements from Hip Hop & Jazz, Tone challenging himself while crafting beats, their album Turn to Your Neighbour being a bridge to their unreleased titled The Building Fund, Bandcamp, & much much more! Salute to MRK SX & Tone Beatz for being apart of the season 3 premiere!

For the season 2 finale I wanted to have someone special to the culture. I proudly introduce the legendary General Steele! We had a very very good conversation about touring overseas in Europe, getting new music in the 90s, adding the General to his stage name, possibility doing a America’s Nightmare part 3, his brand Bucktown USA,enjoying the simple things in life, staying true to himself, motivation, meeting Buckshot & other members of Boot Camp Clik, Timberlands & Hoodies,writing a book, respecting the ones who came before you, music having shelf life, understand bridging the generation gap & so MUCH MUCH MORE! Salute to General Steele for blessing the show for the season 2 finale! Smif-N-Wessun album number 7 titled The All produced by 9th Wonder coming in 2019!

This interview was a real treat for me, I have another legend to hiphop I proudly introduce: Rock of Heltah Skeltah! We discuss how his stage name Rock came about, how him & Sean formed Heltah Skeltah, Boot Camp Clik, Heltah Skeltah’s 1996 album Nocturnal, the difference between albums & mixtapes, his solo album Rockness A.P. (After Price), future projects & more! Make sure you check out his album Rockness A.P. available on all streaming sites! Salute Rock!

313 heavily blessed this season! For this episode I have Aztek The Barfly! For this episode we discuss Aztek’s finding his first passion for music, how his stage name came about, how he first his career as s rapper, battle rap, his first show outside of Detroit, social media, his album the ‘16th Chapel’, Working with Foulmouth for the collaboration album titled ‘The Line King’, how the Kid Vishis features happened for that album, The Doors being his all time favourite, future work with godBLESSbeatz, & much more! Salute to Aztek & the whole Middle Finger Music camp!

For the conclusion for last Saturday’s debut episode of The Council we continue our conversation about being supported by strangers & just support in general, The Wire (tv show),Where we are from Baltimore,Brooklyn & Calgary, Norm asked why Corey & Lo got into podcasting JR asked one hell of a question by asking who the god of rap is, Rakim being signed to Aftermath back in 2000, we covered a lot during our debut recording! Can’t wait to see where this take us! The Council is consisted of Lo, Norm Regular (MC), Corey from Baltimore County Forever & JR Swiftz (Producer) Follow each member of The Council on instagram Norm Regular - @normal_regular JR Swiftz - @thereal_jrswiftz Lo - @kxnglo Corey - @baltimorecountyforeverpodcast Part 1 ITunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/from-the-desk-of-lo/id1380031681?mt=2&i=1000425862411 Also available on Spotify,Google & Anchor FM

The legendary O.C. of D.I.T.C. blessed the show this week to drop some serious jewels! We discuss his new album with PF Cuttin titled Opium, how hiphop was in the 80s topics include how DJs back then were more in the forefront of attention, hiphop park jams & who’s speakers had the most bass. How the younger generation & older generation can learn from one another, the importance of having physical releases like vinyls, cassettes ,cds & how they hold more value. We also talked about how his O.C. Logo came about, going overseas for the 1st time with DJ Premier, Lords Of The Underground & Biz Markie in 94, touring Canada to a jam packed show in 97, we also had touched on the topic of out of print albums & MUCH much more! Salute to O.C. for being a real one!

For this episode I have someone who is very unique to the game, also from Detroit which makes his style even more unique! Salute to Young Roc, we discuss his album ‘Fear Of Floating’ & his single off the album ‘We Are Not the Same’ Starting out as a MC,Producer then eventually adding C.E.O. to his resume,Black Summer, being inspired by Denaun Porter as a producer, why he never changed his stage name,getting into every genre of music, receiving his first gold plaque on his work on Shady XV & much more! Young Roc just released his new EP ‘Black Winter’ available on all streaming platforms!

The Council is consisted of Lo, Norm Regular (MC), Corey from Baltimore County Forever & JR Swiftz (Producer). I picked each member with a vision this podcast supergroup could be a big hit, the way the four of us have conversations about albums of 2018, what we bring to the table, the art of producing, ghostwriting, how the Shady/Aftermath/G-Unit era was our Death Row era is pure chemistry! We also touch on the topic of what each of us brings to the table. Things went a little left halfway through the episode with the hilarious topics of premium snapchats, the anime Naruto! This is definitely a episode you won’t wanna miss! Salute to Norm, JR & Corey! We got something with this! (Part 1 of 2) Part 2 airing next Saturday. Follow each member of The Council on instagram Norm Regular - @normal_regular JR Swiftz - @thereal_jrswiftz Lo - @kxnglo Corey - @baltimorecountyforeverpodcast