Friday, October 23, 2009 - Paris 20eme - Franky Montana receives me in the local Generations 88.2, a week after he crossed the first time during the recording of the program devoted to Pascal Cefran Belgian rapper Scylla (the collective OPAK) who had presented his first solo maxi Immersion (still available on justlikehiphop ). After fifteen minutes spent at Paris Saint Germain (he proudly wears the colors), the Virage Auteuil and Lutece Falco, we're off for 2 hours of discussion ... Hip Hop another passion ...
[first interview of my "career", the first question lol]
MacroPolo: we will start from the beginning, causing the blaze, Franky Montana, it comes from Tony Montana, we agree .. .
Oh no ... not at all! (Laughs) My name is Franck, since I was a kid all people call me Franky Montana and in fact it relates to my past, I have done for at least 8 years of graffiti and Montana is a trademark of bomb which I used. I also use other bombs like color spray or Sparvar j'me but saw no call me Franky Spraycolor ... I had a second nickname Bikiz in fact it was my tag KIZ, when we were kids we put B behind B-Boy and j'te talking about that it was between 1985 and 1990, all my friends called me in slang, and it gave B-Kiz and that's why the name stuck and Montana 's came after the first mixtape we will say between 1995 and 1998. There are some who call me Frank White as the King of New York (fundamentalists Christopher Walker in The King of New York, 1990) a film I often Kiff and I, being young in hip hop , was the only "white" nigga surrounded at parties, concerts, etc. ... and if you watch the movie Frank White is the only white band and it's head (laughs)
First contact with the Hip Hop
Like everyone of my generation is HIPHOP in 1984, you watched the show and then you find yourself with other guys outside trying to break on a piece of cardboard on a carpet ... I personally did not dance but i like everything ambience, music, sound a little electro-funk, early smurf what and I was really there in this universe, all the time with breakers but it was never my delusion and it still is not (laughs) . A little later, I tagged the first time in 1986, we can say that the first real thing that got me interested in Hip Hop was graffiti.
on vacant lots?
Nan, in the street, me my delusions, which I enjoyed with graffiti, vandalism was not even, because it was based micro society, there was not much we "know all". I tagged in my corner on 93 but also in places like Stalingrad cults, I went to la Villette in Garibaldi, Convention where there was a kind of wasteland behind an art school and later there had big spots everywhere because they work and they were smashing buildings and it turned into a wasteland as Voltaire, for example. But my delusion was the street, I was beating balls on buses, subways, trains, RER, was really beside their name, as in rap, it was the delirium competition that I enjoyed most in hip hop, it was he who made the most, best, etc. ... the tag was really my delirium, I saw at the time the first graffiti arrived in Paris with SQUAT, SIGN, BOXER, BANDO, BBC (SKKI, JAY, ASH), JONONE, MOE, MODE 2, COLTER, STEPH, MUCK, Lokiss ...
Your meeting with Tecnik and Poska
So the friend we've known each Tecnik pfff ... we had 7 / 8 years, we were in the same football club, we lived not far especially one another, we had friends in common and after it was to high school together.
Poska And I remember how we met but it was in the delirium of graffiti in fact, he lived at the base in Noisy-le-grand and I'd just Neuilly-Plaisance right side, through the graffiti has become one buddy. One has to know to start 90 and the first mixtape in 1994 it was the tag, do stuff for young, etc. ... And him at the music he touched the decks, we wanted to be with Tecnik s' fun rapping and the basic composition of our group LYR-X is coming fast enough.
you was producing sounds for the group?
No, it was used nothing to increase the caps, Tecnik at the base was a training Zikos he played drums while I do not know how many years ... for me it is one of the best programmers in France that ever existed, I'll frankly, when he Samplit him something he always found the good rhythm, good sounds to use with the drum machine and everything ... and Poska already produced at the time.
So basically the beginnings in the music, you're young, you gets off the zik, you want to try your hand at rap, turntables strength is drunk and then buy you a sampler here .
Your influences at the time, your motivation?
My primary motivation to make mix-tapes was that when we were little between 1983 and 1988 in the suburbs, cassettes were circulating in all directions ... when someone had a tape with deadly discs found right and left when the tape was duplicated throughout the city ... the tapes emissions Dee Nasty on Radio Nova was also copied to all the senses ... was that the 1st mix-tapes .... Those of DEE NASTY, his radio show (laughs) So then, even if our steps were paying, I felt to perpetuate this atmosphere.
kid I was fortunate to find myself down the stairs of Radio Nova, it should be between 1986 and 1988, I remember the day I went there was Ministère AMER who rapped but there were so many people who rapped you could not even have access to the studio or even the corridor that would limit it to the studio ... if I not that the stairs ... one taggant on the stairs ... frankly if they could retrieve the brick stairs to Radio Nova era ... it was heavy, everyone had tagged the above ...
At the first influences I would say EPMD, Rakim, the stuff that really pushed you discover an interest in rapping, Eric B., the stuff of sermons, perhaps the first Gangstarr, it was early 90 this.
can record the group's inception Lyr-X when?
Anyway LYR-X had a short life, first in 1994's "The Nightmare (French rap)" on the mixtape
not even for sale just to have a little knowledge, we have output at exactly the same time as the first What's the mixtape flavor in September 1994, just after the summer.
At the time I was working in a record store mythical Châtelet LTD 1994 to 1998, it was there that it retailed, there were also Tikaret at Stalingrad where it brought our k7 and another store at Les Halles and I remember the name and who sold saps and k7, the first mixtapes, but it was really where LTD was centralized most of sales of mixtapes and the beginning of the French rap vinyl by cons in figure I could not tell you ... but if we had the wind 500 cassettes was sure we would have done.
And there was already a public mixtape at the time?
soon emerged that what was going live ... Cut Killer was the 1 st to do a mixtape, it was perhaps more fortunate than us going to the States United and when he came back, I can not remember who he used for reference but it should be remembered Mister Cee, Tony Touch, Evil D, DJ Premier, is really the first guy who made tapes I think
mixtapes These first American arrived in Panama in stores that you quoted me?
Nah, the guys who went there brought back and we made copies but K7 Cut Killer was the first to make mixtapes in France and when he released his 3rd mixtape ever in 1994, we were out ours and I think Clyde was also his first at this time. Anyway the first 3 to be released in stages was Cut Killer, Clyde and Poska. But for the record, we had the "plan" to exit the screen printed with our first mixtape blaze on the tape, and all ... célophanée The first 3 cassettes Cut Killer was still handmade, the type cassette TDK, he copied and recopied.
level of blazes :
LYR-X: The X-anonymity because at first they would not show our mouths and the word lyrics that means words
Funky Maestro : Funky gets off because we always Soul and Funk, and that first we wanted to compose music was a bit in this delirium is
What's the flavor? : It was I who found it in a magazine The Source is the name of a single by Young MC and there was an ad in the magazine marked with a "What's The Flavor? "And I figured it was said deadly because when you go out of mixtapes is like when you go out of monthly magazines, it should present what is currently the flavor of the moment, therefore," What is the flavor of the moment? "I thought the name was funny.
To fill the mixtapes, how you provide you with vinyl?
LTD, I was working so it was easy, I had a number of disc offered a month since I was employed there and also if ever there were records I'm not buying it or was not present, I could take what I wanted ... ALTHOUGH it happens at all ... I
Hence the 11 mixtapes out in 1995 ...
I really wanted to do as I if it were a magazine and as I was in the store was easy for me to manage inventory and to impose these steps, then there was the talent that was behind Poska So what happens when we sell we did not care a rap not the mouths of people ...
1-one had the sound, really all Songs of the moment
2 - mixed by DJ
good
3 - good advice since I was salesman in the shop, listening to the sounds all day, I knew myself ...
You select sounds to put on the tapes?
actually work
normal
About the # 15 exit in 1996 is indeed a special French rap?
if anyone has the front of the cover: thank you macropolonais@msn.com
The # 15 was the first mixed tape with only French rap ... that vinyl out in trade, which had gets off with a mixture of guys old school and new school with few X-Men, The clicked, etc. ... there was no vinyl EAST, so we recovered a freestyle tribute to him and because kiffa this rapper.
trips to the states to bring back vinyl?
No, the first time I went to the states it was about 97/98
In fact there are pictures on the covers of # 28 and # 29 where we see Poska on a rooftop in New York right?
Nan is in Paris on the roof of a building in the 13th (laughs). And in any case the first time I went back to the States I do not record because eventually everything came here. We, for example, LTD is working with a U.S. supplier and it was hard with perhaps a week of maximum deviation. It was really a landmark hip hop throughout Europe, you had guys who came from Germany, Belgium, Switzerland or I do not know where, they knew the landmark in Panama, was the district LTD halls and it was already the little shop where everybody came to say hello ... etc. We sell vinyl, mixtapes and dj accessories (felt, cell, bag for carrying vinyl, mixer and certainly does shirt, stuff like that). I puff in the store from 1994 to 1998 and the store closed in 1998 on booming rap my French ... version is that the bosses do not have anything to do hip hop, they did it for business and they wanted to move out of Panam, so they missed the right train and it's Urban Music, which took over ... all the people who did not know where to go, went to Urban ...
Between the DJs how it was at the time ? A family? There was a competition between you?
A yes and no family, along with hip hop is always the spirit of competition. There was Cut Killer who was better known because he did a lot of nights so he had his audience, then we tried not to put themselves on the mixtapes, there is also the delirium of the pouch, it was it is more beautiful, etc. ...
And at the duplication of mixtapes and the evolution of sales:
We started small and is mounted and then down again, the record is the # 25, it had made in limited series, there was demand so we have emerged over the CD version
A word about Market mixtapes at the time, something completely illegal ...
was hip hop! The concept comes from the United States, the groups used it as a promotional tool, the guys gave their records to DJ's for him to put on their k7 because it allowed to convey their sound because at the time it There were not many radio stations playing this kind of music so for groups up to be broadcast, providing titles excluded for djs in AC created buzz.
In France, the songs they put on the mixtapes at the time was not passing stuff on the radio, not even coming out in France large scale or in CD format. Channel Live For example I do not think they released a record other than imports, Flatlinerz, Brand Nubian, Nine it was importing each time so whatever happens it did not hurt the record industry and that's why there was never anything, never had any stories etc. ..
The studio The House
It was called like that because we have always been in a room ... Like any kid, we lived with our parents, it was early in Poska, and then finally home from Tecnik moi.Quand parents arrived at saturation we moved all the gear. When we started out early mixtapes and get a little sorrel, it was possible to take a small place and buy in as and when the gear, Tecnik was a bit of our machines and first aim was to make his home, to be independent.
Funky Maestro logo
The logo is a maestro guiding an orchestra simply, it's Jay One of the BBC, which we did, I was a big fan of him (and still am) when I was little, I met him one day in the markets, he accepted me and made 10 drawings in one week, I farted a cable on a drawing, it took me a misery, and I thank him enough ...
Structurally, Lyr-X Records, Phunky Maestro Flavor Production ...
Lyr-X Records has never existed, it was really structured when released our first compilation from Universal in April 98
Exactly, talking about the legendary music / clash Oxmo Puccino vs Zoxea (Sages Po ') which was to be on this compilation:
Then I'll explain the real story, there were 15,000 CDs have been manufactured and were broken with this title. It was this piece, it was that we wanted to highlight, it was a novel, it had produced the sound, made the recordings etc ... and 2 weeks before the release of skeud, the record label Universal received a registered letter signed by the hand and Kool Shen former artistic director of Warner who owned the rights to artistic Zoxea clearly saying "we do not want to appear on this project Zoxea"
And at the recording session of this piece:
It was deadly! The guys were all on their side, they wrote each other during that arose, they took the valves in the mouth and after they met ... it was legendary because qu'Oxmo is not someone who does what kind of thing, Zoxea yes, we have seen thereafter. And then it was our guys Oxmo, Poska was already a moment for him and for Pit Bacardi. Time Bomb Kessey, March is already friends, we knew for a very long time ... so here's what title did not exist on the final compilation, but it had played in any radio potato, he had been given to everyone, we did exist and some time after it was re-exist on the tape in 1999 "French touch freestyle as" unreleased bonus track ... "( ed. Remixing is also available on the project all starz Funky Maestro released in 2006) we were not to break the balls with the mixtape but somehow we did not care, it would perhaps have done nothing, any way Kool Shen we knew after we met, we talked about it and then here.
To return to the project itself was leaving his Cut Killer Hip Hop Soul Party at Universal, I working in the middle of the disc so I was aware that he had moved to go so instead Sony, Universal was "free", I tried to reach the people concerned and happy coincidence, these people were trying to reach us also, they knew our mixtapes. For the record the artistic director who made us sign over there was in a party where mixaient Cut Killer and Poska and it seems that night Poska was super fit ... the guy is tilted and made the compilation.
And there is "jackpot"?
Nan, when you do compilations, unless you sell wholesale pounds ... just because you're the director, the titles do not belong to you. Even if our choice of songs, in fact it is with what we left. We made a list of 100 songs for a compilation of 20 tracks for example. On the 100 you got 80 rejection and hoped that the 20 agreements that either debt that you kiffer fatal. At the time you would get faxes that you had to sign was marked on the piece was to compile the 3min30, we had our shenanigans, but it should not be a scratch on the tracks, not Password -pass, you could not change the speed ... it Fuck the dj taf but record companies or managers in the states they would beat the balls ... but I am satisfied with the deadly compiles it was, everything was done to The studio room as for mixtapes but now it's coming out on CD with more means of communication
Let's go to mixtapes with just 2 Bal who open the series on French rap freestyle unpublished.
on number 20, yes, it was some friends of Chelsea in 77, they really lived not far away, we love them. And on that same tape there was Soul Swing I met at the store, their 2 dj's and Majestic Rebel came to buy sound and we became friends, J'kiffais Soul Swing, I had seen in Rapline to period with a combo base Rage Faf / Def Bond, the king was still K'rhyme backeur or dancer, I do not know, and we brought them back into the studio to kick a freestyle.
A word on the k7 exclusively rnB, # 22, for example
We kiffa it is seen that the base is loved Soul and Funk, whose r'n 'b is a kind of derivative. They had released several mixtapes in the series "New Jack" but we were wrong about the meaning of the word, at the time, early r'n'b, we called it "the new jack while already is "the new jack swing" is a musical that has linked the funk and r'n'b, the principle is the presence of singing on a hip hop beat. "New Jack" was a little word fashion so we put him on the covers (Editor's note # 3 mixtapes, 5,9,16,19,22 & 27) but from the # 30 was put the word r'n'b
There was in the series as on # 10, French rap remix ...
I do not remember, but it was probably to show that we could do music, I just hope it was not kainris instrumentals that had been placed behind (laughs)
The Time Bomb # 23 Special with frees from Hill G, Hi-Fi, Pit Bacardi, Oxmo, Cassidy and Jedi
Mythical, frankly it was magical. For this mixtape they came one by one, I was a big fan of Gilles aka G Hill but when I saved it I really say that this guy was a genius ... I remember for his freestyle the 23, we had not finished building a cabin in the vocals, so we had put the microphone in the main room, he hung his text on the wall, got in front of microphone and said "the sound balance I am a test "he muttered quickly released his text and" c'mon, there has been "we pressed the record button and jack ... 1 ... limit the guy he danced, he had too much feeling ... if Oxmo rapped quietly sitting on a kind of bar stool. The Jedi at the time we followed them all the time, for me these guys are out of place today ... I think they really have talent ...
A word on the artwork of this step
I played basketball and figure 23, the first thing that comes to mind when you're young basketball fan c East Jordan but it was a coincidence either that arose over Time Bomb ...
The number 24
Afrodiziak: Big fan of this group, one guy was part of the family of 2 Bal, where the connection, certainly very happy to have re-worked together for What's the Flavor R & B outlet at Sony in 2002.
Hasheem: One of the pioneers of R & B in France!
Busta Flex: A guy that has experienced during the recording of the Freestyle Cut Killer in 1995, he rapped with his brother, it was called Original Blue Funk and his dj Goldfingers was so direct connection, were put forward friends ...
Shankane: it was the ex-girl in Cut Killer, she rapped about a lot of his projects was a dancer at the base, I do not know what it became ...
We arrive at the 25th the 100% freestyle hip hop French
After Cut Killer has released his mixtape freestyle in 1995 when we asked for that matter, we said 'damn, he did so we'll do it! " For the guys who came to ask is that guy we skirted to the store or studio, more connections, your connections, your name guy for him to come back and save another guy and so away ... At that time there were not too many plans mixtapes / compilations guys were so desperate to come and ask but it's still a mixtape of friends, we all knew t'façon ...
Guys Time Bomb came this time together for the long-freestyle, just missing Booba who was in prison at that time and that really is THE thee ... So sorry Time Bomb while in the studio, Hill G should not ask on this freestyle, he did not smell the stuff and had to do a solo on the tape but at one point he said "nah, freestyle is too heavy, I'll do ketru an "in fact there was not much instrumental to the end and I freaking out because I did not know what he would do, he said 'go j'teste something," a text that 'he had in mind ... I had the opportunity to support the REC jack ... 1 ... and when you listen to the freestyle when he finished his verse is exactly the time when the music stops ... it was magical ... If t ' plays well, I know if we left or not, but just after the last faz "and there is chaos in high-YES" in the studio told you the impression of being at the Parc des Princes, all his buddies have yelled at the same time as a goal ... and out he said "what makes' em so we asked?" (Laughs) I said "dude you rest nothing is saved!" We have listened to it again and it was magical ... a decision ... it was not even be on it ... magic ...
level, we chose the most part, when you know a guy well you know the artistic level that may be of interest but the mc's had their say. On the recording we did it quickly enough, 4 or 5 months great for any save up and get out in September 97. At the photo inside, the 2 guys that Tecnik and me, we do not recognize us as usual ... ... it is the anonymity the deal, they sold the k7 like shit for a 50 franc note told you what was ... and the target was to show as we were "under surveillance"
Futuristiq, NASM, Verbal Aggression I think it was the first time they settled on a project. In addition to these we did ask a lot of guys of the future New Deal team (Jerry Dafunkyla, Disiz), I was in high school with the cousin of Kodjo. Thereafter he sought as a studio to make his first compilation and it had vibrate the delirium of the 25th, he opened the doors, recorded and mixed a few songs with the sound of Lyr-X "urban guerrilla" in feat . SEFIL with Sully (Koalition).
Regarding Yusiness is a group that has managed and produced, they came from Noisy le Grand / Marne Valley. We worked together for a short period but they experienced a large exposure (fundamentalists compilations New Deal vol.1, vol.2 Hostile Hip Hop, mixtapes Poska # 25, # 9 James dj, dj Kost # 10, # DJ Tal 6, Cut Killer Freestyle 2, etc ...) they were everywhere but they decided not to cooperate with us because they were young and they were inflating the head by other people and since we do seen again ... Tecnik posed with them on the Max Prolific 3, a derivative of Arsenal, the song was called "saturday night fever" on a large sample of Imagination or something in that style, great thing burnt but wished the DJs play the sound box, where it broadcasts generally very little rap French.Parents has also brought on the compilation From Paris to New York in 1998. We had the chance to work with an artist that kiffa: Smooth da Hustler, when we offered to make a sound with him and his guys, it was really called "egg trick". Specifically to the piece we have never seen but they sent the theme and the instrument made by us, after using the machine, you add the voice, synchronized and you're done. The producers have compiled together later for the promotion.
On this compiles found a solo Tecnik "Tecnik microfonik" which for me is the most significant piece of the history of Lyr-X
Already we can see that this Tecnik was more than I do in rap .. . For the record this piece was treated to a remix for Tecnik did a few scenes at the time and it's even more routing machines.
And we can find where this famous remix?
Nowhere (laughs), on stage, this song was his calling card
A word on the B side which we see the logo on the cover of the 25 :
I was the manager and at the DJs had Poska, Kost, James, Lord Chamy, Doze, Nasser & Sample. At the very beginning there was even dj dj Ralph.On Majestic and Cutee B even wanted to come because he was not in the initial formation of the Double H. The story of the creation of the B side is just to piss Cut Killer and its dual H (laughs), the guys had a monopoly and everyone spoke only of them ... So we took decided to assemble a crew, individually we were quite a buzz and we all knew. I do not know why it was called the B side but it was probably for the next "Underground", usually on vinyl EPs, the A side was the single and the B-side "the right song," The B side was also the freestyle side, instruments, short double H it could be " side "and we" Side B ", the challengers in a way.
I've always wondered if James with dj you could not bring a group like NTM on your mixtapes?
unaffordable ... It is a regret ... I know Kost did something with Joey Starr, we were contacted them (like Iams) but it was unmanageable, it has never managed to get them. Already NTM, they did not featuring for years, they did not grafted with others. They refused to even their titles appear on the compilations that the record companies did they put the pieces that had the most market during the year ... NTM was in-compilable ... we had to buy their albums.
A final word on the # 25 and thought to EAST (RIP) on the cover
It would have really liked it ...
(more coming this weekend ...)
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