Krispy Kream: Lemme tell you something, dog. In one of our interviews, the dude said everybody compares us to Bill Cosby; that we make some Bill Cosby-like statements.

TSS: Huh?

Krispy Kream: ‘Cause the shit be true. We say shit like, “Why is it White shit to be smart and free-thinking?” Why does it have to be White? So Black people are dumb? This is what I never get about artists. They call rappers who don’t do gangsta rap conscious rappers. So what are the other rappers, unconscious? Like, what the fuck?

TSS: That brings me to my next question, as far as labels and categories and stuff like that. How do you guys feel about getting tagged with the “hipster” label? Actually, how do you guys feel about being labeled at all?

Rah Almillio: You can know from just talking with us, dog. Labels… I’m not going to bitch about it ‘cause at the end of the day it’s like, if I bitch about it I’m kind of owning the fact that I’m a hipster or some ol’… whatever label they’re trying to put on us. I don’t even pay attention to it, dog. ‘Cause at the end of the day, the music is gonna speak for itself. But I will say this… it’s an ignorant statement if you label somebody by self-image. Now what I’m saying is, if you label “hipster rap” by saying “somebody in tight jeans,” what would you label the when the whole button-up era was in? “Executive rap?” What would you call that? We got to stop being so intoxicated with shit like that. Don’t get me wrong, I hate bullshit. I hate garbage music and that’s how I am. But I never, ever judge any style of music before I heard it. I’ve never done that before in my life. People, it’s like…they’re not listening.

Krispy Kream: They’re looking at the clothes and shit, dog.

Rah Almillio: I think the Knux is nothing like The Cool Kids. The Cool Kids ain’t nothing like Wale. Wale is nothing like Lupe. Lupe ain’t nothing like… all of it’s different. If you actually listened, it’s all different. It’s Hip-Hop. But the thing is, over the last six years, gangsta rap became Hip-Hop. So you’ve got to understand. That was two different things at one point. Gangsta rap and Hip-Hop was two different things. But now gangsta rap has become Hip-Hop. So anything outside of that is not Hip-Hop now; that’s what’s happening right now. If you ain’t talkin’ about kilos on the floor, lying about coke and shit like that, it’s not Hip-Hop.

If you remember back in the day, we was against that shit. Like, if the nigga come up talking about some shit and he ain’t lyrical, and he talkin’ about some crack and shit, we’d be like, “Son, you got to get the fuck out the cipher.” But now, it’s the other way around. You come lyrical and it’s like, “Man, look at these corny-ass niggas. He ain’t talkin’ about no real shit, he’s talkin’ about lyrics and shit.” Ummm….. that’s the purpose of Hip-Hop, lyricism and shit like that, you know what I mean? A Canibus? He could not survive these days. It couldn’t exist; that’s the problem.

Basically we are doing Hip-Hop, but we’re just bringing it back to the essence which is… you can have different fuckin’ styles of Hip-Hop and you can have a selection to pick from. You may feel like a Lupe day. I feel I’m in a Knux mood, I want something real genre-bending and I want to fuck with that shit. I want to fuck with Cool Kids, I want to fuck with straight nostalgic and kind of old-school… whatever. But you’ll always have different styles of music to pick from and I think that’s what’s going on right now. And a lot of people are scared of that change.

So they would rather lump it (in one category) and push it to the side before this shit becomes actual Hip-Hop, you know what I mean? It’s that fear of Hip-Hop being this and that’s why they push it off to the side and pass it off as something.

Krispy Kream: They’re scared this shit is going to be all Hip-Hop and there ain’t gonna be no (gangsta/street rap). They think that shit’s gonna be gone. That shit’s gonna still be around, man. All that shit can be on the same plane. We don’t want that shit to be gone. I like Young Jeezy, I’ma tell ya’all out my mouth: I like Young Jeezy. The whole point we mention is everything can exist on one plane. You don’t have to have one thing all day. People just want that monopoly Hip-Hop, as I call it; where one style of music just rules the whole fuckin’ (game). We’ve got to get out this box, man, and just open our minds more. I’m telling you, it’ll free us up to do so much more things in life.

TSS: Ya’all made an appearance on “Entourage.” You have any other plans as far as acting and the Hollywood side of things?

Rah Almillio: Actually, I wrote the treatment for (our video) “Bang Bang.” We have a production company. I think my bro Krispy is definitely going to explore acting. That’s a passion of his that he always wanted to do. I’m definitely into writing films and stuff. But we’ve got a lot of indie films in the works, as we’re speaking right now. Some of them are our music, some of them are comedies, some of them is just weird as shit. But all of them is in the works right now. So we definitely want to get into the film industry like, real big. I want it detached from the music, we’re getting into that. We’ve got two artists that we’re working with on our label; we’re almost finished with both of their albums. It’s two different styles of artists from each other. One of them is standard gangsta rap; he’s bringing some hard-ass shit. We’re talking ‘bout like It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot, DMX’s first album. No jewelry, he ain’t talkin’ ‘bout none of that shit.

Krispy Kream: This nigga’s from one of the poorest places in America… this nigga’s from Flint, Michigan.

TSS: This nigga’s from one of the poorest places in America… this nigga’s from Flint, Michigan.

Rah Almillio: Black Flint. We got different things we’re dabbling with. I started an actual punk band on the side that I’m doing. Me and my brother’s putting an electronica album together that’s not going to be under The Knux. You know what I mean? We got different things we’re getting into early, we don’t want to wait later to start showing all these things.

Basically it’s all about how you market yourself, you know what I mean? If we came out just doing one way and later on we want to start showing these things, people won’t understand it. They’ll say, “What the fuck is The Knux on? Why they doing this and that?” That’s solely on marketing, knowing how to put yourself out there basically. We doing all this shit early in the game.

TSS: Cool. Ya’all were real thorough, I got a nice lil’ interview here. You have any parting shots for the Smoking Section readers out there?

Krispy Kream: Yeah, man. Fuck it… buy the album. You’re gonna have something good there.

Rah Almillio: And be yourself, man. Be yourself. That’s for everybody; journalists, deejays, artists, just do what you want to do.

Krispy Kream: See this Smoking Section interview? This was a real original interview. You came with the questions that people won’t never ask and guess what? I respect you for that. This is probably one of the better interviews I’ve had, dog.

TSS: Likewise, fam. Good lookin’ out.

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