During his interview to “Sway In The Morning” Marshall talked about how hard he works to maintain his skill set and how new generation in hip-hop keeps him on his toes.
Continuing the conversation started on “Crook’s Corner” he pays respect to rappers that came to the game recently:
Being in a game for a certain amount of time, it helps us as artists and just as hip-hop connoisseurs to pay attention to what is out. To pay attention to all the new shit that’s coming out. Because a lot of these kids coming up they’ve studied the greats and you can tell. Just watching them is incredible because you might get to push back on certain sides of the argument about hip-hop, like, okay, “nobody’s really saying lyrics anymore”. But that’s bullshit. I mentioned Kendrick and Cole a lot. I know they’re not kids coming up anymore but they came before, they’re after us. But they’ve studied all the greats and you can tell because it goes into their pen. Don Tolliver is dope as fuck. Juice WRLD, man, his freestyle that he did on Tim Westwood and rapped for like an hour straight was incredible. Especially for coming off the top of the dome. A lot of people just can’t do that and they don’t know that there’s art, or they might not know that there’s an art to that, to be able to do that. So I keep my finger on the pulse of everything that’s out because I don’t want to get swept away with the tide. Because if you don’t keep up with the times… I swear to you, it might be harder to maintain it than it actually was to get it. Getting to the place where I was in the very beginning of my career, how hard I worked to get there! But I swear, I feel like I work just as hard, if not harder, just to be able to maintain a skill set.
Listen to the segment below:
