http://www.rappersiknow.com/2012/09/28/conversationalists-fwmj-vs-dego-part-1-elitism-greed-the-common-denominator-the-underground/

Last December, I had the opportunity to record and, with the help of my friend Daniela, transcribe a candid conversation I had with dego. This was a few short weeks before he moved back to London, after spending the previous 5 years living in Brooklyn, and several months before I moved to Los Angeles, after living in Brooklyn the previous 6 years.

I didn’t discover dego’s music for myself until my freshman year at Rice, when a friend, and eventual roommate, let me rip a Giant Step promo CD that had “Starchasers” off 4hero’s 1998 release Two Pages on it. From there, it was the inevitable fall into the sphere of raves, jungle, drum n bass, broken beat, nu jazz, downtempo and all matter of, at the time to me, odd sub genres emanating from the British Isles.

New York being the smallest, big city in the world, our paths eventually crossed as relatively like minded music nerds (a polite way of saying that we’re often dubbed haters). I was introduced to dego via DJ Brainchild I believe. Or maybe via Filthy, who then was J*Davey’s manager. My memory is hazy, and I’m not completely certain. That initial (DJ Brainchild) introduction resulted in a collaboration between dego and Wayne & Erica (The Luv Bugz) for his album A Wha’ Him Deh Pon that was premiered here on Rappers I Know, which is one of my favourite songs they’ve been apart of that Wayne didn’t produce himself.

Our conversation covers a lot of ground, and beats a few dead horses as well. At time reads angry, critical and jaded, yet certainly sounded a lot more jovial and fun as it was happening. This is part 1 of the full conversation and the first of an all new section, Conversationalists I plan to update whenever I have a conversation worth recounting. The rest of this conversation needs to be formatted still.

dego’s new album Tatham, Mensah, Lord & Ranks with Kaidi Tatham (Bugz in the Attic), Akwasi Mensah & Matt Lord will be out soon.

http://www.rappersiknow.com/2012/09/28/conversationalists-fwmj-vs-dego-part-1-elitism-greed-the-common-denominator-the-underground/

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this is a nice piece. Dego has long been one of my favorite criminally underrated musicians.

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I was wondering why he'd been relatively quiet since moving to the states. I was expecting to hear more. His homies (Daz-I-Kue, Mark de Clive Lowe) have been just as active if not more active in the States as they were in the UK.

However, you can't let scenes dictate what you are doing. There are many scenes in the U.S. Maybe Brooklyn just wasn't his cup of tea.

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cuz i was just thinking that that guys been way too quiet lately,
& Dego has been putting out plenty the last year or so... lol



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dego put out two silhouette brown projects, 2000black's a next set a rockers, his solo a wha him deh pon, and had finished 2/3rds of this before heading back to london


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Cheers for this interview.

Material from upcoming project:

http://2000black.com/freeness-vol-4-tathammensahlord-ranks

http://www.youtube.com/user/2000blackvideos

uP!

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more snark where that came from.

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like "my older brother just started driving & got a new car and i'm over here looking at my bicycle" mad.

but oh yeah the interviews are tight too though.

im pretty sure this is the first time i've "heard" Dego speak,
except for like a minute long YouTube clip a few years back where he was discussing soccer, lol.



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