{"id":41473,"date":"2025-09-27T06:33:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/hiphopmagizine\/tech-n9ne-on-the-house-that-made-him-storytelling-and-opinions\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T06:33:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:33:45","slug":"tech-n9ne-on-the-house-that-made-him-storytelling-and-opinions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/hiphopmagizine\/tech-n9ne-on-the-house-that-made-him-storytelling-and-opinions\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech N9ne on the House That Made Him, Storytelling and Opinions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt Hip Hop Magizine News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9431463036\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Tech N9ne<\/span><br \/>More than 30 years in the game, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/tags\/tech-n9ne\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tech N9ne<\/a> reflects on his new album, <em>5816 Forest<\/em>, and his illustrious career.<br \/><em>Interview:\u00a0Peter A. Berry<\/em><br \/><em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Editor\u2019s Note: This story appears in the\u00a0Summer 2025 issue of XXL Magazine, on newsstands\u00a0now and available for sale on the XXL website.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The album is called <em><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/1SExPzpX4Z5Ak7AYe1F1k7?si=9HISFjZ3QiW3pwZdkuZCiw\" target=\"_blank\">5816 Forest<\/a><\/em>. 5816 Forest is the address where I lived where my mom married a Muslim named Abul Hassan Khalifah. He moved us to 5816 Forest when I was 12. On the album, I\u2019m talking about all the stories that occurred while living in that place. I call this album my audio series with 17 episodes about my life on 5816 Forest from age 12 to 17, the age I ran away from home on a quest to become Tech N9ne.<\/p>\n<p>I had no plan to do this type of album at all. It was an old friend of mine. He just got released from jail a few years ago. He\u2019s the one that gave me my name in 1988. His name is Black Walt, and sometime last year, he told me, \u201cHey, man, real Tech N9ne fans don\u2019t want to hear all those collaborations that you be doing, man. We want to hear an album of all you rapping.\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cThat\u2019s boring as f**k.\u201d The next day, I told my partner, Travis O\u2019Guin, what Black Walt said, and Travis said, \u201cTech, he\u2019s right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, when I came up with the title <em>5816 Forest<\/em>, I said, I\u2019m going to tell these stories that happened in this house. You can hear my children having conversations with me throughout the album. Just natural conversations. On the third verse of \u201cJ6\u2019s,\u201d I talk about when I won the rap contest. The first thing I ever won was that rap contest in \u201991, man. And I only had on my lucky [Jordan 6\u2019s], and that\u2019s all I had to my name. It was a drought. And at that time, I was selling dope for my relative, and the story came forth. It\u2019s a special album.<\/p>\n<p><em>5816 Forest<\/em> is special to me. It\u2019s like I feel energized to tap into one of the main elements of hip-hop: storytelling. I do it so well. It\u2019s a special album this late in my career. I\u2019ve done it all. If you ask LeBron [James] what keeps him playing, he is going to say he loves the game. We got the money already. I\u2019m a multimillionaire. I\u2019ve been that way for a while. I still get excited for a dope beat. When I hear 2 Chainz and Larry June with Alchemist. I still am a lover of hip-hop.<\/p>\n<p>I was a dancer. I was a pop-lock breakdancer before I started writing in \u201985. I wrote my first rhyme in seventh grade. So, it\u2019s like, I\u2019ve been a student ever since. I\u2019m still learning. I still got my thumb on the pulse of hip-hop. I\u2019m older than hip-hop. I\u2019ll be 54 this year. By the end of my career, I want people to remember that I gave it all and I did it all.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve done music with people in all genres, from Blues with Gary Clark Jr., R&amp;B with Marsha Ambrosius, or R&amp;B with Boyz II Men. On the metal side, I\u2019ve worked with Slipknot and System of a Down. I\u2019ve worked with The Doors and Deftones. With hip-hop, don\u2019t even start. Me and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/tags\/tupac-shakur\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tupac<\/a>. Me and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/tags\/ice-cube\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ice Cube<\/a>. Me and MC Ren and Spice 1. Me and C-Bo. Me and Yukmouth. Me and E-40. Me and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/tags\/wiz-khalifa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wiz Khalifa<\/a>. Me and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/tags\/eminem\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eminem<\/a>. Me and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/tags\/kendrick-lamar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kendrick Lamar<\/a>. It just goes on forever.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m so decorated and I\u2019m so happy about what I\u2019ve done over the years. And what I\u2019m still doing. I want to be known as the person that didn\u2019t give a f**k about what people thought about how many genres I\u2019ve been in. That I just loved music and offered my life and my heart to the world. So, I expect the world back. And I\u2019m going to get it.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center\">Listen to Tech N9ne&#8217;s <em>5816 Forest<\/em> Album<\/h3>\n<p><em>The summer 2025 issue of XXL magazine featuring Tech N9ne&#8217;s interview is available to <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.xxlmag.com\/collections\/freshman-2025-capsule\/products\/xxl-magazine-freshman-class-2025-issue\" target=\"_blank\">purchase here<\/a>. The issue also includes interviews with all 12 members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/freshman\/\" target=\"_blank\">2025 Freshman Class<\/a> and producer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/cardo-got-wings\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cardo Got Wings<\/a>,\u00a0as well as conversations with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/key-glock-interview-album\/\" target=\"_blank\">Key Glock<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/larry-june-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">Larry June<\/a>,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/amine-interview-album\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amin\u00e9<\/a><\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/monaleo-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monaleo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/fredo-bang-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fredo Bang<\/a><\/em><em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/nardo-wick-interview-rapper\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nardo Wick<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xxlmag.com\/molly-santana-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">Molly 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