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 business and his prime 5 rappers. DJ Thoro and Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur additionally discuss to Time period concerning the energy of his model, Good Dad Gang, which goals to empower and encourage fathers to be current of their youngsters’s lives.

Time period emphasised the significance of staying true to at least one’s fashion and never conforming to common 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 your complete discuss. 

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

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

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

Termanology: I simply love Hip-Hop. If it’s nothing out that’s shifting me, I’ll return and hearken to classics. After I first received 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 need to strive my hardest.’ And it nonetheless won’t even sound half pretty much as good as that. It’s like once I take a look at these kind of legends and the artistry and that stage of lyricism, I be attempting my hardest to simply be a ten out of 10 with it each time.

Chuck Jigsaw Creekmur: I’ll always remember while you mentioned “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 attempting 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 attempting 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, while 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 mentioned 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 growth 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 nicely.

Termanology: Little question, man. All of us are in right here. Good Dad Gang is the good factor I’ve ever finished. And I’ve been capable of assist fathers get again of their youngsters’ life, assist fathers take care of plenty 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 plenty of s###, bro.

Chuck Jigsaw Creekmur: Say it once more.

Termanology: We undergo plenty of s###, man. If there’s 8 billion folks on this world, proper? I’m certain there’s plenty of unhealthy dads, however there’s simply as many good dads, particularly in 2024, proper? In my period, you didn’t see your dad. You realize what I’m saying? Ever details On this period, once I go decide up my child from college, that s### is at the very least half dads. So it simply, we’re in a special period the place we all know higher and we doing higher. However for some motive it’s so many individuals out right here that also have that stigma.

There’s nonetheless on us. So I’ve been working so onerous to show that s### round. And if you happen to go to Good Dad gang, if you happen to go to my web page on Instagram, you’ll see 1000’s of images of dads doing actual s### with their youngsters. You realize what I imply? So you may see what it’s. And it’s like, yeah, an image might lie. You possibly can be a lifeless 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 youngsters know and other people know.

DJ Thoro: So for anyone that don’t know, do you could have music that talks about this topic? Do you could 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 simply may need to seek for it. However a number of the songs discuss concerning the stuff I went by means of in court docket. A few of them discuss simply that. I like my youngsters and I hung out 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 youngsters.

I’m the one one [forced to take classes]. She’s like, oh, he’s not match. Effectively, you not match both. OK, so he received to take a parenting class then to take her child— but it surely’s our child. It’s unfair. That’s a complete ‘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 youngsters on Father’s Day, Instances Sq., large billboard, simply doing optimistic 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.