Sunspot Jonz: History Of Mystik Journeymen & Living Legends, Underground HipHop, Meeting Kurt Cobain
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- History of the Bay Podcast Ep. 60: Sunspot Jonz fka BFAP is one half of Mystik Journeymen and a founding member of Living Legends. Growing up in East Oakland, he fell in love with music early but didn't identify with gangsta rap trends. This led Sunspot to find like-minded artists in the underground hip-hop scene, like his partner Luckyiam fka PSC, who joined Mystik Journeymen. Frustrated with the mainstream music industry, they pressed their own tapes and CDs, created their own magazine, and threw their own shows, including the Broke Ass Summer Jam. After traveling the world independently, the Journeymen became founders of the Living Legends crew along with Grouch, Murs, Eligh, Arata, Scarub, Bicasso, and Aesop. Since then, the Legends have sold millions of units and continue independently touring around the world.
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0:00 Introduction
1:41 Growing up in Oakland, foster care
5:41 Getting into hip-hop
8:33 Early Bay Area rap
11:08 Making music
14:32 Starting Mystik Journeymen
18:21 Kurt Cobain
20:17 Rap / Hip-Hop split in the Bay
27:18 Early Mystik Journeymen shows
31:41 Independent music
35:06 Forming Living Legends
43:41 Making music a career
44:55 Broke Ass Summer Jam
48:24 KRS-One tried to sign the Legends
52:35 Moving to LA
59:22 New underground hip-hop
1:09:00 Children’s book
1:12:06 Supporting artists
#livinglegends #mystikjourneymen #undergroundhiphop #bayarea #rap #hiphop - Hudba
This was a really inspiring convo with Sunspot. Who else from the Bay Area underground hip-hop scene do you want to see on our podcast?
Nickatina if you can get a hold of him. Equipto, Lil Ric, Boots Riley.
Del The Funky Homosapien
Nickatina, Keak Da Sneak, Laroo Tha Hard Hitta , Turf Talk, Kasual
Casual, saafir/hobo, The grouch, richie rich, mike d/sonny b/the whoride, delinquents, askari x, HAMMER
Del tha funky… and boots Riley. It’ll be sick if you can get a Sway & (or) Tech interview
I recall that soulful instrumental in the background was on one of the UHB or Mystik Journeymen albums. Nas used the same sample on a song call Remember The Times. The sample is from Carol Douglas's "We Do It".
Peace to The Living Legends.
Gratitude.
I bought a copy of The Return a few weeks ago from Amoeba.
"I wanna be a writer. No one in my family understands till there's money in my hands" - Sunspot Jonz
"not once, did my family ever, ask to read, my shit"
'NOT ONCE DID MY FAMILY EVER ASK TO READ MY SHIT'
Eek-a-mouse!
Saw Sunspot at chop suey, Seattle around 2003. A standout memory for me 💯
First flyer I was on I opened for them. In Stockton 1997. Needless to say. It got shot up.
I saw them back in 94 at santa cruz university like only 20 people showed up when they came out one of them idk which one had a messed up leg and was on chruches but said fu*k it we going to still rock it for you i jad mad respect for them doing thay and they put on a good show i will never forget it cuz it showed me real MCEES will always spit...MAZE 408 JBF
A true Living Legend!! I bought Mystic Journeymen's first tape directly from Sunspot at a World On Wheels concert in LA
UNSIGNED AND HELLA BROKE
Great video, my favorite part of Bay Area rap music over the years has been the variety! Got Mobb shit like Cougnut, E-40, B-Legit, Earlier Mac Dre, RBL Posse, Jacka, etc.. but then you got Hieroglyphics/Living Legends/Locksmith style stuff that is more laid back and then you got the more party Hyphy stuff like Keak the Sneak, Later Mac Dre, etc... The Bay has had a wonderful diverse set of rapping over the years which is a big reason why i love rap music from the Bay over the years.
Mac mall next!
Mystik Journeymen, LIVING LEGENDS 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
The amount of music the Living Legends made is insane ...so many albums,solo shit and underground tapes and cds....I still have alot of them...
For real man. I bought Black Sands Ov Eternia on a hunch back in the day. Didn’t listen to it for around 4 months then when I did, started buying other stuff.ff I could find. Then the solo stuff, they’re the reason I moved from Anaheim to Oakland, why I went to Berkeley to stay up in the area. Pretty much everyday of high school and after, I was listening to legends stuff. Crazy amounts of my life have the Legends as my soundtrack. Hopefully they do a documentary one day. Murs has his podcast that I’m listening to and I was like wait a minute, he lived in Buena Park? Like, I knew had seen him locally but was like nah. Turns out it was him all along.
First heard Depths Of Survival on the Wake Up Show but then he dissed them on Sandman's Revenge. Always wondered what that was all about.
Man this interview was needed.
Greetings from San Francisco Bay Area to all the world even Mt Fuji
Salute @Dregs_One for reppin the Bay! Fellow #BayBred folks. I had commented a while back to have any of the Legends on, and you got the right one(no diss to any of my LL brothas) hopefully be the first of the Legendary super group. I knew Aesop years prior when he came up from Fresno to be in a group with my homies I grew up with. When we, HA crew(became Tha HA Mansion) moved to #The Compound in Oakland basically next door to the #Outhouse and other side of us Stat7(@buildestroy7 - Cory Shaw) was all underground Hip-Hop culture. All day erry day was beats, rhymes, graffiti, skateboarding and with Doze Green, B-Boyin.... Anyway, big up my true brother for life @SunpotJonz aka #Distructicon, preciate you for bringin me along on all our wild ass adventures in that time and still. Much respect and love ta all my LL brothers. #LL #4TrackIsKing #ControlYourDestiny #DontBeASheeple #HA42FamFoLife
Been waitin on it!
Unsigned and Hella Broke publication put me up on Ras Kass and Xzibit well before they dropped any music.
There was a time when Mystic Journeymen opened up for top acts. I remember going to shows and leaving talking about them instead of the top bill.
I recall telling one of my homies that this wouldn't last and word was going to get out about them.
Sure enough, eventually they were headlining shows. To this day I say they are one of the best live performers I've ever seen.
It was over when they perform 'Never Forget'! Listening to the song now makes me appreciate how them and Lateef when he performed 'The Quickening', got everyone so hyped. Great songs but the stage presence was something else....
Dope interview. I learned so much. Thank you.
I went and saw him with the Legends In SF he was dope, and he had his mom in the balcony which was cool.
Man i remember being in tower revords in the 90s and seeing the artwork on mercury rising and just bought the maxi single without hearing it. Got on the train in Atlanta and was in love.
WORLDWIDE UNDERGROUND
Next Stop Oakland...slappin
Absolute best album!!!!
4 track is king!
Remember Latyryx Lateef and Lyrics Born? That was some I'll 90s Bay hip-hop.
Legendary.
Legend. Period.
Yo Dregs love the content fam. Just a thought if u gonna do History of Bay Area Hip Hop cover the whole culture get some B boys on here Strutters u already do the graff and i saw the Dj Qbert episode. Keep goin in that direction
Dude!!! Helll yeah, this is bay are hip hop fa sho!!!
Frisco used to be off the chain fresh whild lyricsl selling tix
Just found again a dregs verse on my ProTools over a elusive beat
👍🏼👍🏼a Legend
Loved the interview I suggest anyone reading go listen to Stoney hawk it’s a collab group with sunspot and a plus from hieroglyphics
Dopest!!! The rappin Bob Marley!!!!!
Aye mane where
MY sushi 😂
🐐
Woooooawwh
EEKAMOUSE one of the mf'n goats!
"Next came the pitch on how we supposed to sign up
"Get under the wing" Rap City/MTV
All them things that momma and my sister want to see for me
Next scene performing at a club
For the label that he runs
We supposed to sign up
Put us up in the Holiday Inn on Highland
We do the show everybody drunk and smiling
Leak out the info that we 'bout to sign it
But little did we know that the Blastmaster's lying
Another chapter in this book called the Legends
Everything ain't never what it seems and that's forever"-Lucky I am PSC
No matter WHAT IT'S Still Under Ground💯💯back pack 😆😆😆🤣🤣
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BLAZE ONE
The next step LL Corp lol jk imagine
first
STOP AND RETALIATE!
It’s like listening to two sloths have a con….ver….sa….tioooooon. 🥱