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DUBCC - Tha Connection => Outbound Connection => Topic started by: WCEric on February 14, 2025, 12:44:56 PM
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Can someone post this on TheColi.com?
https://illuminati2g.com/jon-connor-interview/
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Check out our exclusive interview with Jon Connor. We discuss his new album, Food For The Soul, which we feel is an early album of the year candidate, upcoming projects, his work with Dr Dre and much more so check it out. Audio version is embedded below.
All right, we’re here with Jon Connor. How’s it going, man?
I’m blessed, man, I’m blessed. How are you?
Doing good, doing good. Let’s get right into it. You just dropped your new album, Food For The Soul, towards the end of last month.
Tell me a little bit about the album and how it came together for you.
Well, man, actually at the end of 2024, I knew that I just wanted to be super consistent in 2025. I love creating, I love making music, but also there is the sport aspect that still gets me excited about making music and creating and hip hop. And so for me, it was like, I want to leave my mark on the world.
I want at the end of the day, whenever I’m done creating hip hop music, I want my name to be one of those names people bring up as somebody who left a mark on the culture. So in 2024, I was thinking, I just want to be super consistent, I want to stockpile a bunch of music, I want to just keep creating, creating at a level that I’ve never created before as far as the quantity, like of how much I was creating. And that all started with creating the Food For The Soul album.
And that Food For The Soul, to me, it’s a part of a bigger plan, you know. We got Food For The Soul, then it stopped. And then I got another album coming in April.
And then after that, another one coming in June, July. And how this particular album came to be was, man, I just was taking, reaching out to just a bunch of different producers that I knew, and telling people, send me joints, send me beats, because I was just in a really dope, creative space. And I ran into this cat, Dylan Kusch, man, and he was just sending me fire.
And it went from me just, me listening to his beats, like maybe I’ll ride on a couple of them. I love his sound so much that it inspired me to make just an album that was in the same vein of the hip hop classics that I grew up loving, or the hip hop sound that I grew up loving, like Common Be album, or listening to The Pharcyde, or listening to Black Sheep, or listening to just that era, or one of my favorite records is Queen Latifah, Just Another Day. I’ve always loved that style of hip hop.
And Dylan Kusch was coming with it. So it was a wrap after that, man. He sent me a beat pack, and then that turned into him sending me like a hundred beats, and then that turned into Food For The Soul.
So I’m just less than grateful for Dylan Kusch. And yeah, the album came about just as a first part of phase one, if you will, of a bigger plan. So I’m just glad people liking the album, and I was happy to make it, man.
Yeah, absolutely. I call it lyrical therapy. I mean, you cover a little bit of everything on this project.
And you have definitely laid down the gauntlet. This just for it being in the January, you’ve already got album of the year candidate in my book. It’s not too many albums that are gonna be able to match this.
“Production, lyrical content, everything. And you cover so many different topics with it. As far as visuals, do you have another video?
Do you have any videos or visuals set to drop from the project?