Dubcnn will occasionally offer glimpses into the past with exclusive unreleased interviews from years gone by. Some will be from our extensive “vaults” of material and others will be from published writers – in this case Adisa Banjoko, the author of “Lyrical Swords” Vol. 1 & 2, who’s also behind the recent article on Sean Bell which we featured [click here].
In 1996, the Bay Area’s Mac Mall was just getting ready to drop “Untouchable“. Young Lay had recently been shot, his early mentor DJ Cease was killed in an unrelated incident and life was tough.
But Mall, at 19 years old spoke like an OG about leaving Young Black Brother, about how stressful the streets can be and how the east/west beef ain’t that real. Check out the below feature from over a decade ago:
Throwback Interview – Mac Mall (March 1996)