up. wooooo
LOL. sup lord?
don't laugh, this is serious matter. put on your game face
*drinks water* *spits in wastebasket*
this is IHY here with 40 Dawg Edmonds, we'd like to thank you for taking time out to do this interview. How's it going?
Slaving out in the corporate world. You know the Clark Kent aspect of my life.
Is that a shot at the christopher reeve aspect of mine?
Never that. It alludes to the duality of my life. Corporate exec, Master's Degree dude during the day. 40 Drinking, Jersey wearing, Hip-Hop derelict, after hours. I don't make fun of the crippled. I ain't had kids yet.
I didn't ask all that. so, silence. do you, 40 dawg, care to offer any personal background about yourself?
Born in Brooklyn in 1975, started out in South Side Queens (Rochdale Village), and grew up in Long Island, went to college and played ball in Philly. Currently I live in Harlem with only one pink shirt in the closet, and a couple pink socks that got caught up with my red gym shorts in the wash. I think that's a good start for the readers...
Yes. that's a great start. So what kind of things does 40 dawg do in his spare time that don't include drinking?
I consider myself the consummate hip-hopper. "40 Dawg" was also my tag name in Philly, and I still write and do graf on occasion, DJ a party here and there, I stopped rhyming a few years ago, and have battle Bobbito in uprocking so I got all my elements covered. Besides that I'm an avid sneaker junkie, conspiracy history buff, and enjoy playing in the snow.
you must make the biggest ass snow angels in history.
I mean a different kind of snow, and not the Peruvian blend either.
Well mr. hiphop drunkie, what's in your rotation right now? tell me you got that black album.
Yeah I got The Black Album, my fave joint off of there is "Lucifer" which I'd love to see as a single. Kanye is that next dude for real. I've been really bored of most rap lately so outside of that new 'Kast most of my CDs in the player are old head shit. I'm an old soul like Ghost - Bob Marley, The Temptations, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, Miles, Coltrane, Lou Donaldson. My friends hate it. But that's what I groove to, I'm getting older and this crack baby rap dominating the scene is lame. I would like to see the development of "Adult Contemporary Hip-Hop".
sounds like you have an ear for good music. word is you got a good eye for collectable sneakers. what's the most recent pair you've gotten?
Um, my most recent bangers of note I got lately was a pair of 1989 Air Force III's red/white brand new in the box with the Nike Tag and the pamphlet. Those kicks alone got me on an upcoming documentary "Sneaker Heads" coming out in 2004. Sad to say they got ruined that night. But they're preserved on film for ever!!! I also broke out my JMJ Ultra Stars on the anniversary of his death.
I have the special throwback adidas kobes with the roll of ducktape included. beat that.
LOL. Um... I can't.
next. 40 dawg. when and how did you first come across sohh?
SOHH?
did i stutter, stay blak the roasted marshmallow man. SOHH! How and When!
I showed up early this year (Jan '03) by the recommendation of my main ace boon coon Jay Shiggs. He was getting hassled by E-Unit and called me off the Nas Board for back up. I wound up staying and e-friending all these cats.
who don't you trust?
Niggas who wear belts and suspenders. Its a sign of insecurity.
who do you trust?
My parents, my fam, and those honored enough to be my friends. oh yeah and the Nike Corporation.
If you had to rescue ONE pair of your kicks, what are you saving?
Easy. My white/black Air Jordan 11's. My favorite sneaker of all time.
Is he your favorite baller of all time?
Nah. My top three in the NBA right now is KG, Alley I, and Kobe. All time - Ewing, Chuck, and Diana Taurasi.
speaking of which. she's ugly. jesus, she's ugly. what's the fascination?
Well I love basketball chicks, I think it comes from being 6'7" myself. I don't know where the obsession started but she just does it for me. She's the best at what she does, she's confident, great personality. She has a lot of qualities I really love in a woman, and there isn't anything a little professional grooming can't fix. You can have Anna K. Give me DT and a few other WNBA broads and I'm good. Its just something about her.
I don't want anna k, she's overrated. but that taurasi is just...okay, 40, she's yours. in what ways has your 'size'(yes hetero) affected your life for the negative?
Well, I miss the annual trip to Six Flags every summer. People tend to gawk sometimes at me. Chicks tend to be scared of me until they actually sit down and talk to me. Little bouncers wanna talk shit, along with the rest of the Lilliputian world. But the biggest things is that drunk white guys at bars wanna always be my fuckin' friend when I go out to have a drink. Some of these dudes go out of their way to come over and speak to me. I hate it. But most of all my size has given me WAY more positives than negatives.
like the fact that size 76 sneakers are never sold out?
LOL. That and being able to breathe cleaner air on subways and in elevators.
good point! as far as the situation overseas is, what's your opinion?
Smoke and mirrors dawg. Its a distraction to hide the ineptitude of our president. The sad things is that thousands of people are gonna die chasing shadows while this faggot can't even eat a pretzel. He got Billion for Iraq meanwhile all my peoples here are getting laid off. Go figure, but if you saw that HBO Special "Rich Kids" you have a good look on the upbringing and the life of who became president. One of those kids are gonna be next.
come on 40, i'm sure dubya can eat a pretzel. do you think we have the SLIGHTEST reason to still be over there?
Well I thought we were there to get Osama in response to 9/11 (which I was 10 blocks away from the WTC). And I thought we had a reason to be in Afghanistan. But this has developed into giving the government carte blanche to run amok and enforce their policies. Meanwhile Osama becomes Saddam and WMD's and the American public buys it hook, line, and sinker. Now Osama is making more tapes than Kay Slay. Go figure.
We're playing ourselves. You got educated people struggling here in this country and we're putzing around 3000 miles away.
okay you say that. but would 9/11 have not happened if we would have putzed 3000 miles away earlier?
The son is paying for the sins of the father. If INS was doing its job this wouldn't have happened. My uncle is a hard working man who was trying to emigrate to the US from Jamaica since the Jamaican economy is shit, and he don't wanna wind up dead in his bed because he has a few things. Well when my grandmother who was his sponsor passed in 1995 an 4 year process was shot back to square one, and he's still toiling in Kingston. Meanwhile any Arab coming through Europe gets a free pass and student aid. Its bogus, there should have been a moratorium on Middle Eastern immigration after the 1992 attempt. But see Rumsfeld was there when Saddam was put in power, and we need that oil so these guys get a pass everytime. I'm no tree hugging hippie or a revolutionary, but a simple analysis of the fact shows this is all bullshit. Domestic policy could have prevented an international incident. POINT BLANK.
of course its bullshit. i know first hand. why don't you go over there and just eat everybody?
LOL.. Because they don't eat pork, and as my man said in "Good Fellas" - "the pork gives you the flavor!!!"
your man was in goodfellas?
Nah but my HS Calculus teacher used to hang at the bar all those dudes did. Shout out to Eddie Bernauer.
I'm sure he's reading andrew. now, the people aren't reading this for politics or shout outs for your gym teachers. So tell us, how much does a 7X shirt run you?
Well I cop my Harlem sized 6x white tees 4 for at Foot Action on 34th & 7th Ave. The fancier shit cost more naturally.
nobody believes you wear 6X. stop trying to fool us. have you tried Jared's subway diet?
Jared is a pussy. He looks like he's about to melt any minute. I bet you he lost 250 lbs and still don't get any 'tang.
come on 40. walk up to a girl minus 250 pounds and a couple subs, she's gonna be impressed. right?
Nope because if you were and insecure, no game having, dude when you were fat. You're gonna be the same skinny. Look at Jared, he's not even gully enough to order a Subway Meatball with extra cheese and bacon.
that's how he lost weight, you rotund, suge knight lookin, carpet muncher
I know you are but what am I.
next question. i noticed your top posters. i wasn't on the list. why was this?
Well actually I had you on my short list for a super crew. Me and you never crossed paths before even though I knew you were out there. I didn't wanna come on some ignant rah-rah and step on toes because I know you are hella respected. But you're in my top rankin' easily brother.
good. because i think you're terrible. no need to ice the cake, im not in your top posters. but you'll regret that. what is a typical 40 dawg dinner...the WHOLE dinner.
Dinner. Well since I grew up in a close knit family, I'll stay with the Sunday soul food meal. Chicken, Catfish, greens, sweet potatoes, mac& cheese, cornbread, you know that old school southern nigra shit. I'll take that anyday.
you yourself count as a family. mama must have had to make a lot of soul food?
LOL. Yeah her and my grandmother would put in that work. There's not time for games here.
but there is time for games here. because you still haven't played word association. dun dun dunnnnnnnn
Aight
Drew Carey:
Cleveland Browns
Dallas Cowboys:
Did Emmit Dirty
95 Air Max:
top 5 sneaker of all time
speakerboxxx:
BAMBOO!!!!
school:
Cake walk.
kobe tai:
Ashlyn Gere.
richard gere:
Supermodel losing homo
diana taurasi naked behind you right now:
Signing off AIM
SOHHU
the Official Unofficial!
smartsook
The Riggs to My Murtaugh.
wesley snipes:
Black and ugly as ever.
40 Dawg Edmonds:
Renaissance Man.
did you like word association?
It was all the way down on the pannie stai.
=-O. you ever think smartsook will do an interview?
Who knows I think he enjoys his whole Illuminati anonymity
don't we all. what's your plans for tonight?
Get my wig tightened at the barbershop, 40's and hopefully giving some chick her F.B.E.
yes, we all love giving chicks fried bologna eggwiches. who was your favorite smurf?
Papa - he ran shit.
ninja turtle?
Mike.
gi joe
The black guy.
Sgt. slaughter?
Nah the other dude... There was one right?
yeah, they had a refrigerator william perry gi joe. it was gully. are you satisfied with your interview?
No doubt. Thanks for taking the time
any last words for sohhu/sohh?
Shouts to Jay Shiggs, my man Kaodik, Sook, Sherm, Chink, NME, CMF, Donna Braskie, Femme, my lil sis BBallChiq, Black Af, JBO, and anyone else who can intelligently discuss a topic. One time for CBright for his persistence (where ever that leads you). Congrats to Diana for making the cover of ESPN. Shouts to Jose Leroy, 132nd & Lenox, Levels Barbershop, Westbury LI, Temple U, and all my NFL and NBA cats. And most of all big ups to you doggz.
that's what's up 40 dawg. from your friends here at sohhu, we thank you for your time and words. peace
Three Strikes.
I'm not a new york yankee. *rimshot on ny*
LOL
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