It’s here! In celebration of Special Sundays Radio Show’s 4th anniversary: “Make You Feel” the beat tape: Make You Feel

Featuring beats by: Beats4Clothes, Jonathan Lowell, NAMELESS, Jansport J, maticulous, Mook of MeloDrama, RUFIO, Jon Reyes, and HAZ SOLO.

I cannot thank the producers who participated enough and I truly couldn’t think of a better way to commemorate the 4th anniversary than this. It was incredible to be able to work with talented producers from all over North America, from New York, Canada, Boston, Milwaukee, Detroit, West Covina, and all the way back to Sacramento.

Please enjoy and I hope this makes you feel special!

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Check out my interview with Miss Special. Transition 2013 x For Lights x Alora x Dub Temple Records x jst to name a few subjects I touched basis on…

Miss Special of Special Sundays Radio Show caught up with John West to talk about the past, present, and future. They began by talking about his song “Loved You Tonight” and releasing the original version, singing on the Santa Monica Pier, and working with Pusha T and Christian Rich on “Lovely” because of Shae from N.E.R.D. He also spoke about his new sound having a more rock rhythmic sound and using a ukelele, as well as releasing a new album on Island Def Jam soon.

Yes this interview is slightly lengthy, but Bambu is an artist who’s message I completely admire and respect, so I didn’t want to cut too much out and there was a great deal that I wanted to talk about.

We of course spoke about his newest album “One Rifle Per Family”, where he said that he initially wanted it to be about family but it evolved into being about community. We also spoke about the features including Killer Mike, Rocky Rivera, and their son Kahlil.

In addition, we spoke about why this is his last album and what that entails for him. We also got to speak about things such as topics he’s been nervous to address, if he is ever overwhelmed by the news of the world, and where he gets his news.

Upcoming he is getting in the lab with the Soul Assassins camp, doing the Bambu vs DJ Muggs tape, another record from The Bar, working with Kixxie Siete & Rey Resurreccion, working with the Native Guns, working on Rocky Rivera’s “Gangster Of Love”, and more.

Omen calls in to Special Sundays Radio Show with Miss Special to discuss his upcoming project “Elephant Eyes”, amongst other topics such as; writing during a food fight, his mystery sample for “Enchanted”, upcoming music with BJ The Chicago Kid, GLC, and more.

“I was on the tour when Cole was on tour with Rihanna, I was actually just working on the project on that tour, I wasn’t performing I was on the bus with them, writing and recording. I think it was after the show and they were just being clowns but I was in the zone so it didn’t really matter. It was crazy that I was able to write that in the midst of that food fight” he says about writing “Mama Told Me”.

When asked if he writes all his lyrics on paper he replied, “I see those Tupac books and all those books artists have, like rock and roll artists, when they retire or pass away. They have that left behind. So I do want that, but there are times when I do write in my phone.. or on my computer. But, majority of times I really write in a notebook. I like the nostalgia of it.”

With his upcoming project “Elephant Eyes” he is focusing on creating a sound “no one has heard before”, but he is just getting started. “I’m in the early stages, kind of in experimentation mode, really finding what I want the sound to be.” Being both a rapper and producer, after three previous projects where he felt like he was proving himself, this project is “more so fine tuning what I think my strengths are and differentiating me as an artist.”