00:00
Intro
Off the Record is a show from 88.1 WKNC in which DJs talk with artists about everything from their music to upcoming tours to former bandmates birthdays. Make sure to follow WKNC on SoundCloud and Tumblr so you never miss a beat. Enjoy.
00:26
DJ Iron Mic
Yeah, you know what it is? Local rap lunch. WKNC 88.1 FM. It's your boy, DJ Iron Mic. I got the homie Shame in the building with me.
00:34
Shame
What's good? What's good?
00:35
DJ Iron Mic
You were just listening to Lute - Still Slumming. Of course. You know, on the Dreamville lineup.
00:41
Shame
Yeah, that's crazy.
00:42
DJ Iron Mic
You know, we got that. We, you know, we got that Dreamville fest were just talking about off the air how like, no one knows what's going to be at the Dream.
00:48
Shame
It's like. It's like Mission impossible. It's like everything is so secretive, yo.
00:53
DJ Iron Mic
I mean, I get. I guess like, you know, the tickets are already bought.
00:55
Shame
Yeah.
00:56
DJ Iron Mic
People are gonna come. You gotta come regardless. All over the place.
00:58
Shame
I just hope they don't have Young Thug or nothing like that on him. Then I'll be like, you're on.
01:04
DJ Iron Mic
The record for that now. Yeah, like, yeah.
01:06
Shame
I mean, if they do, then yes, it is. But I mean, I still go. I'm still gonna be there. But I mean, yo, like, I just ready to see, like, I want to see Earth gang again. They was fire.
01:17
DJ Iron Mic
Yeah.
01:18
Shame
JID was fire. Lute was fire. So, yeah, them, like, I mean, I.
01:22
DJ Iron Mic
Think we can all assume that all the dreams.
01:25
Shame
Yeah.
01:25
DJ Iron Mic
Cars and all that. But yeah, you know, the local people who they select for. That's going to be interesting. Of course, I'm hoping they get you. And they're also, you know, my own people.
01:35
Shame
Yeah, I'm hoping so too, man. Would be. It'd be great to see a lot of familiar faces on him, man. Like, that'd be really dope for the city, man.
01:42
DJ Iron Mic
Absolutely. I mean, all. Everything that we got going on. Beats and bars. Yeah. The only thing hopscotch is that they. They kind of went thin on the hip hop this year.
01:55
Shame
Yeah. Yeah. It was a lot of R B accident.
01:59
DJ Iron Mic
Yeah, exactly. And was Vic Mensa. I haven't seen Vic Mensa.
02:03
Shame
Yeah, I ain't seen him a minute. He looked like a rock star. Yeah, right.
02:08
DJ Iron Mic
But yeah, man. So before went back on, before went on break, we listened to Drinking Smoke.
02:12
Shame
Yeah, yeah, Drinking Smoke, man. It's real dope track produced by Chemists. He's actually one of Childish Gambino's producers. I've been working with him for like a minute now. Recorded that even from studios as well. Yeah, it was a dope. It was a dope track, yo, like when I first heard the beat, it was just like, man, like I gotta do something about this, you know, And I wanted to make some feel good for people, you know, saying something. Ride to chill too. Smoke too.
02:36
DJ Iron Mic
Got you. So what, so what was the vibe you were kind of going for on this album as opposed to like your other mixtapes? Like the same Sundays mixtapes, all that more storytelling wise?
02:48
Shame
I wanted to be, you know, not. It was dark, of course, because I'm speaking on a lot of things, you know, I'm saying that's been going on in my life, you know, in the past experiences. So I've had a lot of dark situations, but also share light that you can make it out of those situations, you know what I'm saying? And. But yeah, that was just mostly what I was trying to stick to, man. Just the vibe of everything. Just to sound so smooth at the same time and stay hip hop, but then show people that, yo, like, you know, I can also be versatile and go into other things as well. So.
03:20
DJ Iron Mic
So you got. You got some singing on there, anything like that?
03:27
Shame
I know auto tune, I got some singers on it vibe and everything like that, you know, and you know, good feel music, man. But this is totally different from the sequence 1988. It's totally different from the Untitled EP Shame Sundays mixtape. This is something new and fresh.
03:41
DJ Iron Mic
All right, that's what's up. So let's. I guess let's just back. Get back in the music. We got a few more tracks to bring.
03:46
Shame
Let's go ahead and get into. Let's go and get into The World Is Yours with featuring Trey Mars and Ali J. This is really dope. Really smooth, yo.
03:55
DJ Iron Mic
All right, let's get into it.
03:56
[Intermission]
04:05
DJ Iron Mic
Here playing in a couple weeks, man. Holler me when you get this message, though. Holl at me, it's important. What's going on? DJ Iron Mic. I got Shame in the building.
04:14
Shame
Yeah.
04:15
DJ Iron Mic
Local rap lunch, 88.1 FM. What's going on? You were just listening to Power by Rapsody, fire. Yeah, man, that joint's crazy.
04:22
Shame
Super dope.
04:23
DJ Iron Mic
Earlier in the hour had some J. Cole with ATM that new Kooley High. And of course were listening to Shane's new track. Yeah, what was the name of that?
04:31
Shame
The World is yours.
04:32
DJ Iron Mic
World is yours.
04:33
Shame
Yeah, it's good.
04:33
DJ Iron Mic
Yeah, all new. All new stuff, man. I gotta memorize it now.
04:38
Shame
Shout out to Trey Mars and Ali J on the track, man.
04:41
DJ Iron Mic
Oh, Trey Mars was on that?
04:43
Shame
Yeah, Trey Mars is on there.
04:44
DJ Iron Mic
So I was wondering who. Who the other person.
04:46
Shame
Yeah, he came on there and Ali J is on it as well, man. We all collaborated on this, man. It was really fire the way it turned out, man. Like, I'm really proud of it, man.
04:54
DJ Iron Mic
That's. Yeah, I had really smooth flow vibe when, See, like when you showed me the track, I didn't get to hear because I wanted it all to be fresh for the show. I was expecting maybe like a World is Yours [by] Nas sample.
05:08
Shame
Fit in.
05:09
DJ Iron Mic
I'm happy you didn't.
05:10
Shame
I'm happy you didn't.
05:11
DJ Iron Mic
You did something different with it, but it still kind of had that bounce. So. Yeah, so that's like. I mean, like, I feel like the tracks we've heard so far, they've kind of had that like, you know, chill vibe to it. As you said earlier in the hour,
05:24
Shame
The whole, like I said, the whole album is kind of like that. I mean, I got some bangers on there, of course, though, you know what I'm saying? Like, everything just flows into it. Like each track, when you go from track one, track two, track three, everything flows right into it.
05:36
DJ Iron Mic
So on this album, you kind of like going for like the whole sound design.
05:39
Shame
Yeah.
05:40
DJ Iron Mic
Making like, you know, making a 1:1.
05:42
Shame
Piece instead of something with a bunch of one piece. Because when I did the Untitled ep, it was just. I just threw songs out, you know what I'm saying? And it was just like, yo, I want to give people something to get ready for this. And then this is something to get people ready for the next joint, you know what I'm saying? So. But I want to keep it all in the story, you know what I'm saying? So when everything comes out eventually, then everybody, oh, I know why he did this and I know why he did that, you know.
06:05
DJ Iron Mic
No, I mean, it's kind of a nice, you know, change of pace for you. You know, you've, you know, you've had a lot, you know, you've a lot of your one off singles, stuff like that, you know, you had a little confrontation with somebody earlier.
06:18
Shame
Crazy stuff, man.
06:19
DJ Iron Mic
A year ago, and you had a couple tracks about that situation with Josie Mo and.
06:23
Shame
Yeah, yeah, you know.
06:24
DJ Iron Mic
Yeah, we trying to get your other situations.
06:26
Shame
Yeah, what we're trying to do now is just stay Away from all that, you know, like what we doing now is focusing more on the music and, you know, less on the Petty stuff. Yeah, yeah, they ain't gonna get you nowhere.
06:38
DJ Iron Mic
Exactly. Yeah, you know, that's like, you know, local. Raleigh. Raleigh's cool. We're on the come up and everything.
06:43
Shame
Yeah, it's too much. It's too much of people, you know, going at each other when it should be a lot more unity, man. That's what I feel.
06:49
DJ Iron Mic
Yeah, I feel you on that for sure. So. Well, we don't have that much time left. We gotta talk about 10 minutes left, so we might as well get back into it. But before we get back into it, just let us know what you got coming up.
07:00
Shame
Yeah, man. So we got the album release party going down this Friday. Doors open at 8. Legendary Slum Village is going to hit the stage. They're going. They're going to end it off.
07:10
DJ Iron Mic
Ask you about that. So how was that like a thing where they were already coming through the town or did you actually get to book them for you?
07:15
Shame
They were actually coming through the town and I actually got out with the promoters and we was. I was actually trying to throw my album released the same day they was coming in town.
07:24
DJ Iron Mic
Got you.
07:24
Shame
And so what happened was we ended up reaching out to them through the promoter saying, hey, can we throw the album release the same day? You guys coming? That's what's up. And they was like, yeah, you know, and I was like, wow, that's super dope.
07:34
DJ Iron Mic
Yeah, that's mad humble.
07:35
Shame
Yeah.
07:35
DJ Iron Mic
Like you think that they'd be like, nah, like this.
07:37
Shame
Yeah, but they show mad love on it, man. And so I. I was able to, you know, put a word in and get some of some other artists on it that I wanted to get on that I was fans of from de facto Thespian and also OC from nc and yeah, I was like, yo. Because that's who I originally was gonna pick anyway for my album release.
07:54
DJ Iron Mic
Okay.
07:54
Shame
And then I was just like, why don't we just throw us all on there with them, you know? And then they also threw in Ill Mac as well. So it's gonna be fine.
08:00
DJ Iron Mic
Yeah, it sounds like it's gonna be fire. I'm excited for that.
08:03
Shame
I was open at 8, man. You know, tickets online. So you can get them online right now. Early Bird tickets. Or you can come to the door and get them. You know, either way, that's what's up.
08:10
DJ Iron Mic
And then the album drops.
08:11
Shame
Next drops. Nah, actually midnight that night.
08:14
DJ Iron Mic
Midnight that night.
08:15
Shame
Yeah. But we'll have physical copies, new merchandise, everything on deck that night.
08:19
DJ Iron Mic
All right, we're in. For the people who don't follow the show maybe hearing you for the first time. How can they find you on social media?
08:24
Shame
Everything on social media is I am Shame. I got also the website I am shame music dot com. Everything is I am Shame. You should find it here.
08:33
DJ Iron Mic
That's what's up. And we're gonna just pretty much play this music for the rest of it for the rest of the hour. If you wanna. If you hear anything that you like, you can always follow our website at www.wknc--that's a lot of Ws--at wknc.org/playlist. And you can check out some of the Shame’s music. You can get the names of some of Shame's songs that you didn't get catch earlier. And you can always follow us at wknc881 on Twitter and Instagram. So coming up, we got the neck, the last track, Monster.
09:06
Shame
Yeah. This is a dope one, man. Monster.
09:07
DJ Iron Mic
This one’s a banger.
09:09
Shame
It's a banger. Yeah. Also produced by Chemists as well and recorded at Even form studios. So, yeah, check it out.
09:16
DJ Iron Mic
All right, that's what's up. And you can always catch me again. DJ Iron Mic on the local. I can't speak today on the local Rap lunch. Come to local Rap Lunch every Wednesday, noon to 1. Let's get into this music. I'll see y'all next week. Peace.