Tech N9ne recently scored his highest Billboard debut with All 6’s & 7’s, landing at No. 4 on the Albums 200 chart. Speaking with Bootleg Kev, the Kansas City, Missouri native explained how his movement keeps picking up steam even when he thinks he’s maxed out.
“It keeps getting bigger and bigger right before my eyes. Right when I’m thinking I’ve done a lot, a lot more comes. That’s a blessing, for real, because to be the only independent in the top five,” he said. “It was crazy. I don’t get no radio play or no video play, it was crazy. But my fans are insanely, crazily in love with me.”
He credits his success to his heavy tour grind, though a co-sign from Lil Wayne put him in new territory. “I think it started with Rock the Bells and Paid Dues, and then when Wayne said my name, a lot more people took notice and tried to see what it is. Then, they got this album and they were like, whoa,” he said. “With this album, there’s going to be a lot of awareness. People are going to start being familiar. After this, I’m about to work on a collabo CD called Strange Land with all our artists. Then I’ma do my rock album.”
T9 also explained that even though his collaboration with Eminem, “So Lonely,” couldn’t be completed in time for All 6’s & 7’s, a duet will one day see the light of day. “Royce [Da 5’9] hooked us up and Em said he’d love to do a song, we sent it to him and everything. And he said I’d live to do it. He was like, ‘I got that, give me a couple of weeks.’ And then Paul Rosenberg called and said it’d be like a month, and I was like, ooh, my mastering date was coming up in two weeks. So I was like OK, next time.”
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album would have been num 1 no doubt if it had eminem an wayne on it. man do those dudes have selling power or what..
man fuck wayne all he need is eminem on the album
Yeah Wayne is trash… I’ve heard 2 good verses from him in his entire career… Plus his flow sucks and he’s got the most annoying voice ever…
co-sign wayne and em can put out whatever they want and sell, its really amazing, whether u like their shit or not, its remarkable power to have in this day and age, only jigga and maybe t.i are similar
That new Bad Meets Evil Hell: The Sequel EP is going to the #1 Spot on next weeks billboard for the sole fact that eminem is on the cover. Eminem basically promoted it with twitter and Facebook and that’s all it needed
EMINEM IS AFRAID OF TECH N9NE HAVING THE BEST VERSE ?
They’ve been on a track together before called “The Anthem”…..
They didn’t actually know back then it was pretty much chopped up
Tech n9ne raps really fast and eminem is not really a speed rapper so that might pose a problem. But if em wanted to he can spit out a rapid fire verse like the one he did on Biterphobia or that song with T.I.
their collabo will be insane. midwest stand up………..
I like Tech 9 and BigScoob they got some stupid and ignorant lyrics sometimes for grown men but i fucks wit em 100 percent
tech n9ne is that nigga mang. got flows on flows and he never been on some sucka shit. nigga makes cold ass gangsta shit, music for the strippers, party music and real life pain. his success doesn’t surprise me cuz he been grinding forever and he never came slacking on the mic. i like how tech collaborates with niggas and brings them to his world.
one of the nicest dudes to come out in our generation
So Lonely with Blind Fury is easily one of my top 3 songs on that album already. Blind Fury’s verse was excellent, but I can’t imagine what an Em verse would be like on that beat. It would just be insane.
i would love for em and tech to do a song together.. em seems to be open to doing alot more collabs with MC’s then early on in his career.. its great but i hate when people obsess about who killed who.. at the end of the day its individual preference when 2 MC’s of that calibre work together (as opposed to say em working with like a a gucci mane or something, then its most likely gonna be obvious who had the better shit).. itd just be great to see what theyd come up with flow and wordplay wise
tech is making his way up to the main stream with out even trying like em did,
For fuck sake I can understand the first time Slim couldn’t do it his mind was all over the place but again that’s fucked up I’m sure Shady could have dug out or come up with a verse I’m starting to getta feeling Em don’t want his fans to say he got outdone again like he did on ‘Remember Me’ by Sticky or ‘Above the Law’ by Royce.
I’m far from hating cos Marshall is in my top 10 but he says he loves his fans so give us what we want Mathers.
Eminem just doesn’t want to be mean and say no. Truth is, why would he do a song with Tech when hes got Slaughterhouse, Yelawolf, 50 and Dre to work with?
Because Tech is hot now and its a good move to make a song wit em nd its what the fans want
I don’t see how Tech Nine is hot now. He sold almost 54,000 albums his first week. That really isn’t much compared to other artists. And Em is busy with his own record label so that comes first. Everyone wants a collaboration with him. It’s hard to please everyone.
54,000 albums and a top 5 album is great if u take into account he’s on an independent label, which he also happens to own, so yea he is hot right now, and having a song with tech would definitely make me a happy person, but em’ is busy
He sold that many units without the help of radio or video plays… crazy. The man’s finally getting what he deserves.
Holy shit, could the interviewer suck on Tech’s cock any harder?
Seriously…… This white muh fucka just slobberin all over Tech, and if tech says sizzilin one more time ima go crazy
How do you clowns think 54k in the first week is awesome when All 6’s and 7’s was promoted on World Star hip hop for months before it came out?!? I think some of you clowns missed something because that Album was promoted way heavier than Bad Meets Evil, Hell 2 the sequel!!! Who landed on the top spot and sold 3 times as much, without all the collabs? Thats the only reason why Techs album sold is because he had so many collaborations…