Termanology Boston Hip-Hop, The Good Dad Gang And How He By no means Misplaced His Starvation

Termanology is celebrating his fiftieth album, Time is Forex, in collaboration with DJ Nastee. The Boston-to-Brooklyn elite MC discusses experiences within the music trade and his high 5 rappers. DJ Thoro and Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur additionally discuss to Time period in regards to the energy of his model, Good Dad Gang, which goals to empower and inspire fathers to be current of their kids’s lives.

Time period emphasised the significance of staying true to 1’s model and never conforming to standard traits in music. He expressed concern about the way forward for Hip-Hop, noting that many younger artists seem like training in entrance of audiences earlier than they’re prepared. 

The spirited dialog under is a closely edited Q&A, however watch the video for all the discuss. 

DJ Thoro: The place do you get pleasure from your inspiration from to place out 50 albums? As a result of that’s loads of songs, recordings, concepts, ideas.

Termanology: Proper. And that’s simply what made it, as a result of it’s loads of stuff that by no means sees the sunshine of day. However I feel that, to be sincere, bro, I simply love being within the studio. It’s my ardour, what I’m saying? I really like being within the lab, clearly. Yeah. And to be sincere, man, loads of the stuff that I do doesn’t present up on the scoreboard. Govt producing, co-pro producing, ghostwriting. I’m doing every kind of stuff. I simply love being within the studio, what I imply?

Chuck Jigsaw Creekmur: What retains you lyrically motivated? What retains you lyrically transferring and shaking and sharp?

Termanology: I simply love Hip-Hop. If it’s nothing out that’s transferring me, I’ll return and hearken to classics. Once I first obtained right here, we have been speaking about Capital Punishment and Able to Die. If I ever really feel like, ‘Rattling, I don’t know what to say proper now,’ I’ll go hearken to albums like that and be like, ‘I’m going to must strive my hardest.’ And it nonetheless won’t even sound half nearly as good as that. It’s like once I take a look at these sort of legends and the artistry and that stage of lyricism, I be making an attempt my hardest to only be a ten out of 10 with it each time.

Chuck Jigsaw Creekmur: I’ll always remember whenever you stated “I’m a younger Rakim with the bars.” That’s audacious. 

Termanology: I used to be speaking heavy once I first got here out. I used to be speaking, that was like 2006, too. Yo, once I first got here out, bro, I used to be making an attempt to make a reputation for myself from a comparatively unknown metropolis. Lawrence Mass, it’s subsequent to Boston.

And I moved out to New York and I making an attempt to get folks in New York to respect my bar. So doing shock rap and simply punchline rap was one thing that basically helped me as a result of folks, whenever you dropping some names and also you’re saying some loopy s###, folks have been like, “What the f### you say?”

DJ Thoro: It’s humorous that folks would do that at Boston as a result of Boston is entrenched, enriched in Hip-Hop. Guru from Gang Starr, he was from Boston. 

Termanology: Ed O.G.

DJ Thoro: I all the time stated New York artists, it’s a crowd of rappers watching you…goons.

Termanology: Goons relying the place you at, and so they’re not going to fan out for you both.

DJ Thoro: Does Boston have a sound?

Termanology: I’d say Boston Hip-Hop all the time had the New York sound. We’re solely 4 hours away and we do increase bap. So who was from Boston? Ed O.G.? Proper? Guru, Huge Suge. That’s Gang Starr, Almighty RSO, who was doing their beats Hangmen 3 (manufacturing Ray Benzino, Jeff Two Instances, and Johnny Bananas). So it had a New York sound. It was simply New York’s cousin. And now it doesn’t as a result of now it has the sound of no matter is popping, the homogenized sound.

DJ Thoro: Now switching gears, I’m a father man, and it’s one thing I need to commend you. I need you to talk on it. Your model, the Good Dad Gang.

Chuck Jigsaw Creekmur: I’m a father, as effectively.

Termanology: Little question, man. All of us are in right here. Good Dad Gang is the good factor I’ve ever completed. And I’ve been capable of assist fathers get again of their children’ life, assist fathers take care of loads of stuff. Yeah, it’s actual stuff. It’s actual stuff. There’s a loopy false impression on this world that fathers don’t care. Fathers don’t need to be there, particularly Black and Latino.

DJ Thoro: Proper? We undergo loads of s###, bro.

Chuck Jigsaw Creekmur: Say it once more.

Termanology: We undergo loads of s###, man. If there’s 8 billion folks on this world, proper? I’m certain there’s loads of dangerous dads, however there’s simply as many good dads, particularly in 2024, proper? In my period, you didn’t see your dad. You understand what I’m saying? Ever information On this period, once I go choose up my child from faculty, that s### is not less than half dads. So it simply, we’re in a special period the place we all know higher and we doing higher. However for some cause it’s so many individuals out right here that also have that stigma.

There’s nonetheless on us. So I’ve been working so arduous to show that s### round. And in the event you go to Good Dad gang, in the event you go to my web page on Instagram, you’ll see hundreds of images of dads doing actual s### with their children. You understand what I imply? So you’ll be able to see what it’s. And it’s like, yeah, an image might lie. You can be a useless dad and take a pic and act like one. However you bought to look within the mirror and your child mother is aware of. Your children know and other people know.

DJ Thoro: So for anyone that don’t know, do you will have music that talks about this topic? Do you will have music that touches on precisely what we’re talking on proper now?

Termanology: Yeah, I do. Among the songs. My catalog is so loopy that you just may need to seek for it. However a few of the songs discuss in regards to the stuff I went by means of in court docket. A few of them speak about simply that. I really like my children and I frolicked with them. Among the struggles I went by means of as a younger dad, for instance, I needed to take a parenting class and my child mother, we each didn’t know nothing about children.

I’m the one one [forced to take classes]. She’s like, oh, he’s not match. Nicely, you not match both. OK, so he obtained to take a parenting class then to take her child— however it’s our child. It’s unfair. That’s an entire ‘nother story, it’s loopy. However the good half is, it’s like we’re doing nice.

We did a collab with DJ Premier, “Good Dad.” We had all of the fathers come out with their children on Father’s Day, Instances Sq., large billboard, simply doing constructive stuff. We do backpack giveaways yearly. In my hood, I give away a thousand backpacks and Lawrence, Massachusetts. That’s the poorest metropolis in Massachusetts. It’s loopy. So we’re doing great things, man.