Consequence: Kanye West & Q-Tip Part of The Fam

[bjax]

For anybody (like me) who's interested in this dude, here's an article from HipHopDX.

Consequence: Kanye West & Q-Tip Part of The Fam
Thursday - July 22, 2004
Jessica Koslow
Q-Tip’s cousin was an unofficial member of Tribe Called Quest on Beat, Rhymes & Life, and now he’s the first artist to drop from Kanye West’s Kon Man Crew.

Consequence met Kanye at the right time. The multi Platinum producer/rapper was searching for an MC to get on his Roc-A Fella debut, and producer 88 Keys suggested Consequence. The rest is his story. Quence is now part of Kanye’s Kon Man Crew, along with John Legend and GLC (both featured on “Spaceship”), and he’s working on his his solo debut, Don’t Quit Your Day Job on Kanye’s Roc-A-Fella-distributed label. Until the full-length streets, catch Con on his Sure Shot mixtape release, Take Em To The Cleaners hosted by Kanye. Here, the future discusses his past.

I really got into rapping around ‘89. When Tip was doing his thing, I wasn’t really on him. It got to that when I got to high school. I’ve always been a person that went out and did things myself. I always feel like then you work more. I kept going to the studio, and every time I saw him I was like, I just wrote this. They were working on Midnight Marauders and Tip was like let me hop on, “The Chase Pt. II.” It came out crazy. They asked if I wanted to put it on the album or the B-side of “Award Tour.” Not knowing the business at the time, I said put it on the B side. I should have put it on the album cause I would still be getting paid to this day. A lot of people thought I was supposed to be signed.

I started shopping my demo and everyone asked, if he’s Q-Tip’s cousin, why wasn’t Q-Tip walking him in. But I felt that I could get my own deal. Basically, I had to go ask my cousin to take my stuff around. He took me to the studio but he was like, you have to stop getting high and drinking. The thing that made me stop was we got in the studio one time and I needed one more song. I’m in the studio, high, drunk and my voice locked up. I couldn’t say sh*t. After that I stopped smoking and drinking. I liked to get high but I love to rap. Then one day Tip said, I just met with Puffy and he wants to sign you. So I’m happy as a mutherf***a. But he said, I got an idea. I’m going to put you as a new member of Tribe. So that’s how me on Beats, Rhymes & Life came about.

Unfortunately, Phife, Tip and Ali wasn’t getting along like they used to. Mind you, I didn’t get told they had drama. I found out when I got there. When I first got to the studio, me and Phife wasn’t clicking at first. I thought this [bringin me in] was something ya’ll came to a decision on. This is something that Tip decided but he never told them. Phife thought I was there to replace him. My thing was, every day I came to the studio to write. It was a golden oportunity. I graduated six months early from high school so I could get a record deal. I gave myself 6 months and then I would go to school cause I got accepted to St. John’s and a couple of other universities. But Tip said I got you. I was supposed to be their first artist on Elektra. Then after a while, we stopped recording cause they was having problems with Jive and Phife took me to Atlanta. That’s when I found out they was having problems, they had a fist fight. It made me look at the whole thing differently. I’m not going to give nobody a pass cause they family. They both did some fu**ed up shit. I asked to be released.

I started fu**ing with Rashaun Smith. He did “Ladies Night” and “Dangerous.” Me, him and Monie Love were thinking of doing a group. Then I did joints with Ty Phyffe. I signed to him and got a deal with Relativity. I ended up punching the manager in the face. They were trying to make me be something I wasn’t. Relativity folded and Loud didn’t want to put out the project. I did the group thing. We caught a singles deal with Rawkus. When we handed in the single we were supposed to get a album deal with a budget of half a mill with Q-Tip executive-producing it. The name of our group was called Guilty but the records were just Consequence records. I deaded the group. I tried to get back in touch with Rawkus. They were going to give me a singles deal and then 9/11 happened.

In January 2002, I got a call from my man 88 Keys. He’s like, I’m doing a song with my man Kanye West. He just did “H To The Izzo.” He wants to put someone on and he loves your sh*t. Kanye told me, I feel like you could make a classic album with the right circumstances. He told me his assistant would send me his beat tapes to write to. After that, we put out my mixtape, The Con, Volume 1: All Sales Are Final, and then his mixtape, Get Well Soon which had “Through The Wire.”

Whatever you do, just do what you do and do it to death. Even when you get where you want to be you’re going to find out there’s so much more beyond where you thought you wanted to be. You don’t know how much you can attain until you attain your intial goal. Hip-hop is a gift that we all have.


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[Minkaveli]

The Consequence album wasn't that good.


Best tracks:  6. Wack N*ggas
                 9. You and Your N*gga
                10. I see Now


I thought Kanye's beats were real half assed or left overs from his College Dropout CD

[white Boy]

getting out the game was amazing

[Leggy Hendrix]

i thot Take Em To The Cleaners was better than what people are making out...I See Now is tite...