Charles Hamilton has taken things back to a time when things were a bit simpler, revisiting a 12-minute cypher from 2009 featuring himself, Kanye West and The Game.
The Cleveland-born artist sat with Jeff and Eric Rosenthal of OTHERtone’s The Blog Era and discussed the details of throwback moment.
“So yeah, I’m aware that Kanye is there and Game is there,” Charles Hamilton began. “Kanye West comes around the corner with this like, Melania Trump-looking chick and he talking his Kanye shit. I’m like, ‘Mr. West,’ and he like, ‘Ahh!’ And he said some shit. He’s reading a program, and it’s like a dress up event and he says, this gon’ be difficult to go to because I dress down when I dress up and I dress up when I dress down. So his girl does a Vanna White laugh.”
He continued: “So The Game comes out and Kanye, and The Game start talking about how they were cyphering outside of Nike Town. So I was like, ‘Yo, ya’ll want to get a cypher going right now?’”
The podcast episode went on to talk about how the cypher was impromptu, and each rapper spit acappella while continuing to pick up where the other person left off at. The entire cypher was filmed by Hamilton’s team and posted on SkeeTV by DJ Skee, who was one of the most prominent figures in the Hip Hop blog space during that time.
“It was one of the rare exhibitions of me believing in myself,” Charles Hamilton said. “Props to me, but like, I believed in myself.”
Listen to the full episode featuring Charles Hamilton below:
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