For listeners who have not had the opportunity to listen to Chuuwee yet, you are in for a treat. When I spoke to the Sacramento lyricist this weekend, his diction, accent, and traits, made it clear that I was speaking to a rising musician from northern California. Yet, if you sit down and meticulously listen to Chuuwee, don’t be surprised if his cadence, timing and pure bar structure remind you of a young Nas. With an emphatic delivery, and potential out the ass, the teenage emcee is still honing his craft until the fat lady sings and bogus swag rappers are deaded by the “neo-boom bap youngin. Today we are premiering “Amalgam Back” a track featured on an upcoming project between us at RubyHornet and our homies itstheBino.com. #OTTN
Ruby Hornet & itstheBino Present: Chuuwee Amalgam Back (Prod. By J57) by OTTN
Ruby Hornet: When did you record “Amalgam Back? How did it come about and are you affiliated with Amalgam now?
Chuuwee: No, I work with them closely because their owner is my manager. But the song came about because when ya’ll hit me up to do the track [for #OTTN], I was really trying to think of how I could contribute to the project because you said it was like the “death of swag.” The last 3 or 4 months I’ve seen like 60 different “backs.” That sh*t is dumb to me so I was just like, ‘If I’m going to bring some sh*t back, it’s going to be forreal forreal. That, and the fact that a lot of people sleep on Amalgam. I f*ck with Amalgam tough, them is my peoples. So I was like, “I’m bringing Amalgam back”.
Ruby Hornet: You have a line in the song saying people are “letting the game slip through their hands.”Are those the people not truly “bringing” anything back?
Chuuwee: That’s not a direct shot towards other “back” songs, but I honestly said that because my intention was to make this track with for Amalgam because they’ve done so much for me, and you for your tape, but that was more of a reference to the Max B. song “Tattoo’s on her Ass”. That sh*t is hard, that Max B did on his album, Vigilante Season. And I hella love that song, so when J57 sent me the beat, I was like ‘This sh*t sounds like “Tattoo’s on Her Ass”. I was like I’m going to do Amalgam Back, and it went from there.’
Ruby Hornet: Where do you see this song fitting in your career now? And in two years?
Chuuwee: I mean, Amalgam’s hella excited about it so I’m hoping they take it and do whatever they’re trying to do with it. I just think it’s a dope song, I’m sort of scared people won’t like the chorus, but other than that I just want people to respect it for what I intended it to be. Just paying homage to a label that has done a sh*t ton. When Steve Jobs died a lot of people were like ‘oh iTunes did this for artists…’ Amalgam did everything for digital artists. They had the biggest independent digital Hip Hop store. They were iTunes strictly for rap, basically. A lot of people don’t know that, or respect that, so I just wanted to give them the respect they deserved. Without them, and iTunes of course, but mainly without Amalgam, their wouldn’t really be no video blogs, digital distribution sales, they started that sh*t. iTunes didn’t jump on the bandwagon until after that. Artists weren’t selling their sh*t in iTunes like that until after Amalgam. I want people to understand they’ve done a lot for the game, and independent artists and I want them to get their props for it.