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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, ladies and gentlemen, Hello, I am Stormy with you.
It is the pulse. Welcome In. Welcome in, y'all, come
on in. Okay. We keep our fingertips on the pulse
of our community. Every weekend. This show runs on our stations,
and we talk to people in our community. For sure.
And again, I'm Stormy and welcome got a special guest
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on the show today, Ladies and gentlemen. How do I
introduce you? Oh? My goodness, you.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Want me to do it?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yeah, already.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I go by the name of al Capeasy.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Oh boy.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Some people know me by some other different names, like
our home. But yeah, yeah, you know, when I'm doing
my blues and sudden soul vibe is our Caapeasy.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Oh boy, oh boy. So when did you start doing
the Oh boy.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
It goes back to early two thousands, I say, definitely
the early two thousands.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Okay, Yeah, it's like a signature trademark.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It became a signature trademark.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Actually, I got it from a friend of mine out
of Debate area of California. Name and he's there's something.
There's something. They used to say a lot out there.
When I went out there, they say, oh boy, and
I was. I just started saying Acopine Achope's old boy.
When I came back to Memphis and it caught on
and I tried to stop saying it. People were like, no,
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you gotta say it now. So I'm like, okay, it
became a thing. Yeah, I stuck with it.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Like now when I say your name, I remember, oh boy,
you know what I'm saying. It's just yeah, it's in me, You're.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
In us alcohol, It's a it's very memorable.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yes it is, okay, accolades. You've won what.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
A lot of different awards?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Uh, it's I guess the one that a lot of
people would speak on his that award Critic Choice Award
got from Hustle and Flow. That's one and several platinum
and gold albums. But it's a lot of different awards.
I can't I lost.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Were you nominated for a Grammy?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I was nominated for Grammy as well? Yes, okay, see
I wouldn't remember to say that, so thank you for
putting it.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
On my brain. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, yeah, it's quite a few different things, but I
will tell you it's some it's some local things that
I've won awards for that that are near and a
lot of hard.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I've seen you and a lot of awards around the city.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yes, yeah, and I appreciate that because when it's coming
from you know, your peers in the hometown, it's just
it's an extra special love. You know what I'm saying
a lot of times in your hometown, people could be
hard on you in your hometown. So I should receive
love from people in the town, and and they want
to give me awards and stuff like that. It just
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makes it extra special.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So born in Memphis, what year I almost got that?
Got it?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Know what? I feel like I can hide it because
you can.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Hello, But what what high school? We'll go there? Central High,
Central High one.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Year, one ye Side, one year in north Side, Okay,
but three years at Central High.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
So where the award winning jazz band is.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yes, yes, yes, very proud to see that they won
that award and see Central d High schools.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
You're still shining like a diamond.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
And international competition.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
That's huge too, because you know, like you just said,
it's worldwide, it's international and b number one.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And jazz is not like I know jazz well, I
want to say, jazz is not easy a genre to
master right and for them to that that that age.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
So kudos to the teacher.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, to the teacher.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, kudos to him because he did an amazing job
to bring that out of them and for them to
be that young and to go out there and win
a worldwide title like that.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah, amazing, amazing. Yes, And kudos to you because that's
where you went to school, Central Central. I got it
going on. Seemed like, I mean, comes out of there, man.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, And it's a lot of us that come from Central.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
You know, if you really looked at the list in it, Yeah,
it'll speak for itself.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah. You know. One of the reasons I want you
to come on the show, and not because of all
of your accolades. I mean that helps, because I really
think that it is important when young people hear about
people like you.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Thank you, I have.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
It's rare now that you meet somebody like yourself who
has gone and flown as high as you have that
is still level to the ground. You know what I'm saying.
You're You're still down to earth, You're still Memphis, You're
still that guy and and probably you know, one of
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the most decent people I know.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Thank you well. I know, I know where my blessings
come from. At the at the end of the day,
I know where my blessings come from. Uh you know,
without God, you know, blessing me. And you know that
alone reminds me that, you know, not to get the
big head, not to let my not to you know,
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get too prideful.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Because all the stars love you, Like Terrence Howard, y'all,
we still talk.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I can reach out to them right now.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah, yeah, you hey, whatever it is, you know, like
I said, it goes back to knowing where my blessings
come from and knowing you know that, Uh in my mind,
if I start to I think it's all because of me.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah, He'll let me know.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So that's what keeps you ground.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
You're gonna be like, all right, let me get that. Yeah,
let me take that away. It is since you since
you think you you know what I'm saying. So yeah,
I just kind of live by that, and that will
always keep me grounded, just knowing. So no matter what
I get, no matter how far I go, uh, you know,
no matter how how on the mountain I get, you know,
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make it or whatever the case may be, I'm always
gonna know, you know, just I'm just gonna have that
feeling of knowing that I know where it comes from.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
So I better be thankful. Yeah, just be thankful.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
It's rare. Yeah, it's rare to hear people talk like
you that have that are at your position and have
done all the things that you've done. Would you call
yourself a rapper or would you call yourself.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
A blues artist?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I'm an artist or just an artist? Okay?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I say that because honestly, I'm a songwriter first, and
being a songwriter, you don't necessary when you're writing songs.
You're writing you could write to any type of song.
As a songwriter, I can write any genre of music.
But the only thing is when you become an artist,
you know that audience, a particular audience may want to
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lock you into whatever that genre is. So as a
songwriter I could I have to try to separate the
two because as an artist, I know when they want alcopone,
they're gonna want.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Some turn up. You know.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That. But but since I've been doing blues and southern soul,
I said, you know what, I'm a break. This is
my chance to use the alkapeasi part of me to
kind of show this is a separate side of me
and as it represents where I am in my life.
I'm full grown, been full grown, but you know, full grown,
so I can make full grown people content and if
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it's perfect with the blues and southern soul, and I
can write and make that type of music and enjoy
it at the same time.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Do you write for other people?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I have wrote written, and yes I do write for
other people. Oh wow, Yeah, some people don't like some
artists don't like that revealed, so I don't.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I don't really like to say.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Okay, yeah, but we do.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Know about like Terrence Howard, you know what I'm saying.
I know I had to show him. He's an actor,
so he's he doesn't take it personal like if if
I wrote for another actual artists, music artists. But yeah,
he's one of the people that you most people are
for me with that I wrote and showed him how
to perform the lyrics and all of that. So he's
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one of them. But I've done it for a lot
of different people.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Okay, okay, awesome, because see I didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Know that about you songwriter first.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yeah, And I think I think a lot of people
don't realize we don't always know the songwriters. You know
what I'm saying, y'all can y'all can be hide and
wherever and be and be just feel the rich. Nobody
will knows that.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
That's really if I.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
If I wasn't an artist, you wouldn't have know, you know,
you wouldn't know that I wrote, you know, those songs
for the for that film or some like I said,
it's some songs that you know that you have no
idea that I written. But the only reason why you
know who I am because I am an artist as well.
So yeah, songwriters, I'm at the back in the background.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah. So okay, did you become a songwriter first or
did you become a rapper first?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Songwriter first?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
You did?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Actually, I became a performer before I became a songwriter.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You've you've been performing for how long since I was
in the sixth grade?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Probably now? No, No, I take that back. My mom
and my grandmom said I started performing for them around
three years out. Wow, I do not remember, they said.
I used to sing shoe shoe shoe shine Boy. I
couldn't hardly say it shoe Shine Boy by Eddie Kendrick.
I used to sing it to a T and I
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have no idea, but so I guess it was already
in me.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
But I remember performing for the neighborhood around the time
when Michael Jackson had got popular. So I was the
I was Michael Jackson of our crew what. So I
used to perform like the thriller of you know, routines
and stuff and sixth grade.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I was that hold on. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, I'm Stormy.
It is the pulse, our capone, our campone is on
the show today. Okay, oh boy? So okay, So you
started out singing.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Kind of singing. I was never a really good singer.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I was.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Can performed the you know, I could do all the movements,
and so you danced kind of dance. Yeah, I guess
I danced. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because I knew that. I
knew all the Michael Jackson routines. So I used to
perform and have the other guys in the neighborhood, they'll
be behind me, like you know how Mike's running all
the Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I used to be. I used to be.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
So you were that guy.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I was that guy.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
And then it went from that to you know, falling
in love with hip hop and and at that point,
I'm breakdancing and all of that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I was a performer first and then I became a
I want to say, maybe the performance and performing and
songwriting was right around the same time. Yeah. I was
writing stories first, in elementary writing, stories.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
And short stories.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Short stories.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think I wrote then yeah became
it became songs exactly exactly because I started learning as
I was listening to songs. I started learning the structure,
like oh, when this part comes, this repetitive part comes on.
It comes on in the beginning, and then it's like
these lyrics happened, that's explaining this repetitive part. Then the
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repetitive part comes back in. So I started learning songs structure.
So I started writing based on listening to songs. Yea
Barcades honestly like people like the Barcades.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Did you ever have conversations with David Porter. I remember
interviewing David Porter years ago. It is one of probably
one of my favorite and probably one of the best
interviews I've ever done. And I don't know if I
still have that interview somewhere, but David Porter told me
that every song is either about falling in love, being
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in love or being alone. And I think it wasn't
until rap music came in, because that's R and B. Okay.
I think it wasn't until rap music came along that
the songs started to be about more. There are songs like,
you know, Marvin Gaye, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
And he wanted to be that uh that project? Which
project was there? He's real conscious?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah, and even Michael Jackson, we are the world, you know.
So so those those songs, we know, we have those songs.
But then it's okay, and then we we here comes
hip hop, and so hip hop became about not all
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those things, but some, but they sometimes added elements of them.
But they started telling stories like everyday life. And then
of course it went to underground hip hop where they
were telling the good they were going to.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
The underground was pretty much dolomite.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Okay, and then you know they so it went to
a place that you I think, and maybe that's why
hip hop has become so powerful. And I'm not saying
I'm a huge I do. There are some aspects of
hip hop that I like, but there's some that I
don't I understand, Okayand but I understand how it's it's become.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
It's it's worldwide, and it's dom dumb. It has been
dominating world for a long time.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yes, So for you, did you get a chance to
work with some of those artists, even some of the
hip hop artists locally?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yeah, yeah, in the same circles. Yeah, yeah, I worked
with a lot of those artists. And and David Porter.
Uh we of course we never worked together, but uh,
me and David have David is like a mentor, and
you know, anytime I can be in his presence to
learn anything, he doesn't he doesn't probably he probably doesn't
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know that I'm paying attention when I am paying attention
because it's just so much you can learn from the greatest,
greatest one. So yeah, just yeah, love him to death
and working with I worked with a lot of different artists,
I just said, like especially locally, me and Isaac Hayes
was actually in the process of working on I was
in the process of working on some stuff with him,
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like maybe within the two year range before he pa. Yeah,
we went to his house and we was creating ideas
and everything. I was looking forward to that, but you know, uh,
you know, we lost them too soon. Yeah, so people
like him, especially the other rap artists, and and now
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working with people like Sir Charles in the southern soul market.
And you know it's I just like I said, I
work with I can write to any genre, So I
can work with any genre of artists.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
So is gospel next?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
You never never, you never know, as you could see
from what I said about you know, knowing where my
blessings come from, I could definitely and I probably have
touched on subjects. Uh And so yeah, it's not hard
to go there at all, not.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
At all, Okay, because basically you in it.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I guess I am, you know, hey, and so I could,
I could speak on it. It's easy, easy, And actually
I know Bible, believe it literally, I literally write. At
a young age, I literally read the Bible because I
just I read it like it was a book.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I didn't like read different scriptures.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I just like from the beginning it started reading it,
and age I would say between six and seventh grade, Yeah,
I wanted to.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I just wanted to. I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
And man, I would have to say when I read it,
you know, I was looking for all the super positive overtones.
You know what I'm saying thinking everything is all about
you know, love and happiness and right, you know, and
I'm reading them like whoa, it's some row stories and
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like hold up, this isn't here. It's in the Bible.
They they this story is. It was like I was
mind blow, like like, okay, the Bible is way more
really than people. Again, I think on some levels where
people thinking about people being holy I guess or saved
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or whatever you think, it's all so positive to the
point that you don't realize if you actually look in
the Bible, it's so much real, day to day, down
to earth, everyday man woman stories and that the average
person can relate to. Yes, and it's real struggles, you
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know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
It's real struggles.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
From from everything we ever go through, from death to murder,
all of it, to adultery to come on all of that.
This is my sister. It's not my wife. This is
my sister.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Lovell the best best soldier.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
With the woman his wife. Rather this is is in there.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, that's a lot of it is, but it's but
I think it's beautifully written. Yes, it's it's like a
it's way better than anything Shakespeare could have put together.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
No question about it, it's it's way better.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
It's just raw real, but it's it's the messages are
there for you to take heed too.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
That's the whole point. That's it.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
And I kind of like the fact that it kept
it so raw and real because that lets you know,
you know that it's you. You know, you're no different
than people from those biblical times. You're just facing some
of the same struggles just in a different time period.
And you can, you know, you can learn from those stories,
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learn from them.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah, yeah, you know, it's why I love the show.
First off, I'm Stormy again. It is the post. Thank
you for being here. For those of you that just
joining us, I'm talking to Grahamy nominated al Capone. Oh Boy,
Old Boy is here with Straight out of Memphis. I've
done some amazing things. Worked on Hustling Flow. What was
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that like when when they were in town?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
It was just the fact that Craig was working with
John Singleton was amazing to see because you know, we
we are, we already knew who John was from Boys
in the Hood, Poetic Justice, and so to see him
in Memphis you know, about to make work, make another
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classic like that with Craig. It was just that alone,
you know what I'm saying. It was that alone that was.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Like, Wow, you're talking about Craig.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
C Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
So John Singleton just being in town, Yeah, being around
somebody of that greatness was amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Man.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah, and a lot of the actors, even who's that Who's.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
From Least.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And then from Blackish.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Anthony Anthony Anthony and I feel crazy not that because
I saw his facing me too.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yeah yeah man, Apolo J.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Parker.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah, they had a nice they had a great cast
for that.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah man. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
So okay, what's next for you? Because you you do
a lot of good stuff and people might not know this,
but if you follow him on social media or if
you're you know, out there in the community and you
you know, busy doing things, you see al Capone, Alcohoone's everywhere.
I mean I was doing uh the Bill Street World
Champion Barbecue, couldn't content and who was on stage with alcohol?
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You know what I'm saying. So you're everywhere, Well, uh,
how do you do it? Because I know you have
your own personal life, but you're everywhere.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Al And I have to turn down a lot of
stuff because I realize I can't be everywhere like I
would like to be, But I try to do as much.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
As I can do.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
You keep your own schedule.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
I do.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I do what you do everything yourself.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Pretty much, not not by choice but by force, because
I have no other choice but to do it myself.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
For the most part. So yeah, yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, But I see you everywhere.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I'm here.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I'm here, and I'm gonna tell you one thing I love.
One of the things that I love to do is
going to the different schools to speak to the students
and you know, not only give them game about the
music business, but to let them know that I completely
relate to the environments that they are growing up in
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because I grew up in those same environments and try
to give them some jewels on how to try to
navigate through, you know, growing up in peer pressure, and
you know peer pressure is real, so you know, try
to have those conversations with them and hopefully it relates
to some and.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
In a positive way.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
So I really enjoy throwing around talking to the students
for like I said, not only giving game about the
music business, but just life about growing up as a
young black person in the inner city.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, do you still deal with that pressure of being
al Capone and being in the industry of or being
around the rappers and things like that? Did you still
deal with that pressure?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
To be honest with you, my rap name is al Capone,
my blues rap name, my blues yeah, my blues son
and soul name, it's al Kapeasi. But my real name
is al Bailey, And I actually move and operate as
Al Bailey even when I'm in environments as the artist,
and I have to remember that.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Only time I know to turn on my artist persona
is when I'm about to go on stage of performed.
Oh okay, at that point it's like, okay, I'm about
to go to rock this joint. You know, Yeah, I'm
the artist at that point. But when I'm not on stage,
a lot of times I still move. I move around.
It's as Bailey. It's just and no, I don't know.
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I don't get caught up in a name part of it.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
That's so special, that's so and so rare. Do you
know how many people can say that, or how many
people you know that I've interviewed that has really looked
at it that way, you know what I'm saying. They man,
when when people get a name, they they get you
know what I'm saying, They get caught up, and I
imagine it's it's it's not hard to do when people
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wheneverywhere you go, somebody's like, oh, oh are they trying
to do this or that for you? You know what
I'm saying. So I guess it's not hard to do,
but you've managed not to.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Yeah, I can't. I can't do it, you know what
I'm saying. It's just again, like I said in the
I know where it comes. I know where my blessings
come from, and I know, uh, God can give it that,
he could take it the way, and I just try
to move in the right energy as much as I
can to keep my head level. And I'm a Bailey, Yeah,
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I am al Bailey.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
So so when you heard the Grizzlies uh doing your
song at their games and it was really, really, really hot.
I mean it was so hot at one point that
Golden State Warriors was down there trying to get a
little some of it. Stephen Curry, just get on out
of here, Stephan.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I had to get on them.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I remember that particular game because when he came to
before they were on their way to mephis and he
did an interview with one of the ESPN or somebody yeah,
and they asked him, you're on your way back to
Memphis to play the Grizzlies. What's what's your game plan?
He looked at him and said, whoop that and and it,
and they broadcasted, and so I knew I was gonna
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be performing at night. Yeah, And I was like, man,
if everything goes right, I'm gonna make them eat those words.
And so by the time I was able to perform
it toward the end of the night, I remember going
around the court and at some point I saw him
at the corner of my eye. I was like three
years right there. So I went over to him, started
chatting in his face. Draymond Green came over, starts, you know,
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chatting it with men.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
It was fun. It was fun, but I had to
make set.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Yeah I heard you earlier, sir, Yeah, yeah, you and me,
you and Memphis.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Let you et there. You walk away like that.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
He was all over social media. I am and up
and then I saw some other teams like y'all got it.
But I imagine for you though, that felt kind of special.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
No question about it, team, no question about it.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I mean, come on, at the end of the day,
Steph is one of the great greatest players all time.
So to even have him to know that, to say that.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, and it's almost it's almost too like. So, so
one generation grew up with a song and they introduced
it to a whole other generation.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, And it's all about the spirit
of winning, you know what I'm saying, beating beating the
opposition for the win.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
So I like to where it went, you know what
I'm saying. I like where it went.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah, and you were part of it, a big part
of it. If there were no al Capone, that would
never have Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
I made the music and the lyrics, so yeah, it
would not be it wouldn't exist.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
So so when you hear the song or when we
do see it a different places, does that mean you
get little something when it's played?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Most definitely, most definitely saying yeah, yeah, a couple of
couple of couple of coins.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I love it, And the merchandise too on the trademark
to it and everything.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah, that's mine.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
That's what I'm talking about Yeah, and and so that's
another good thing too for young people to be able
to hear it's not just about having something that is
your own that other people know about, but it's also
about learning how to do the business aspect of it.
I was listening to Don Lewis and Jasmine Guy at
their brunch with Habitat for Humanity earlier this week, and
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they talked about the business of show business. They're like,
you can have the show, but if you don't have
the business, you probably won't be in show business too long.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
And you just I was about to say that you
need the business to be able to.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Last in the business, to stay in the show.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yes, just to stay in the show. You're right, you
got to understand and know the business to be able
to stay in the show for a long period of time. Yeah,
because if you don't, just when you'd be like, what
happened to this person? That person is nine times out
of ten some business was not done right, and you
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know they got Wow, they got devoured in the in
the business of music.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Yeah, And I never thought about that, you know, as
real as you just said it, because that's real.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yeah, that's the truth. That's the truth.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Shout out to Carley mccullor attorney Callie mccullor for helping
making sure I got business in order.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
I know that's right, man. That is so good to hear.
Al Capone, thank you again. Al Bailey alkapeas the blues
rap man.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
You know what I'm saying, Well, make sure they know
about but blues music and work by sudden soul, because
that's where I am right now. You know what I'm
saying as an artist, I'm on my blues and sound
and soul vibe and having a good time with it,
connected with the rest of my grown folks out here
that ain't with none of the extra stuff that you know,
we're grown.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
We just we were just trying to enjoy life right now.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
That's how we can gratulations to you and all your
success and just you know, for staying in it and
and and being such a bright light to the city
of Memphis. Thank you to these young folks for being
the kind of person that they could actually look up
and say, hey, I want to be like that one day.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Well, or if they don't want to be like me,
they can they can at least understand some of the
things it takes to navigate. Yeah, just it's all about
navigating through life because life is ups and downs. It
just we can't expect life to be up all the time,
and we definitely don't want it to be down all
the time. It is, it's, it's, it's it's the journey
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of life, ups and down. So uh, you just got
to know how to handle the loads and and and
and ride the highs and you know, and and put
a little bit of old highs away so when the
loads come you kind of getting you know, balance that
out as well.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
It's it's it's a journey. It's a journey.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
It is.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yeah, and I'm.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Thankful to be alive. I'm on the Stormy Show right now.
And it's all good baby, Emp town. See what's happening
with you?
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Oh ball, thank you alcohol man. This has been so wonderful.
Uh and you know I got to play this one
over go over again. You may be in around Christmas holiday.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Okay, please, this is so good.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
This is good.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Hey, make sure they know if for the listeners out there,
if they wanted to know more about me, just simply
go to my website a K Memphis dot com. It's
a K Memphis dot com.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Can they get in touch with you there and maybe
ask you to come talk to the kids or to
their nonprofit, or come to the jail and talk to
the prisoners.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
You can go to AK Memphis dot com. It'll be
a section where you can leave a message or whatever
the case may be. And you know, I get it
that way, so yeah, AK Memphis dot com. And also
if you go there and you want to like know what,
my Instagram and all my socials going to that, going
to my website to get you there as well. So
just it's simple AK Memphis dot com. Get up with
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me and I'm here.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
I'm here right yeah, Al Capone, all right, y'all, thank
you for being on the show.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Okay, I'm Stormy. It is the pulse. We keep our
fingertips on the pulse of our community. You'll see this
man probably all around town. So next time you see him,
tell him hello, Al Bailey. There you go, and let
me say oh boy, oh bo.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
I'll definitely say that. Definitely say that, oh boy.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
All right, We'll see you next week, same time, staying station.
God bless you have a great week.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, Hello, I am Stormy with you.
It is the pulse. Welcome In. Welcome in, y'all, come
on in. Okay. We keep our fingertips on the pulse
of our community. Every weekend. This show runs on our stations,
and we talk to people in our community. For sure.
And again, I'm Stormy and welcome got a special guest
(00:22):
on the show today, Ladies and gentlemen. How do I
introduce you? Oh? My goodness, you.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Want me to do it?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yeah, already.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I go by the name of al Capeasy.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Oh boy.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Some people know me by some other different names, like
our home. But yeah, yeah, you know, when I'm doing
my blues and sudden soul vibe is our Caapeasy.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Oh boy, oh boy. So when did you start doing
the Oh boy.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
It goes back to early two thousands, I say, definitely
the early two thousands.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Okay, Yeah, it's like a signature trademark.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It became a signature trademark.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Actually, I got it from a friend of mine out
of Debate area of California. Name and he's there's something.
There's something. They used to say a lot out there.
When I went out there, they say, oh boy, and
I was. I just started saying Acopine Achope's old boy.
When I came back to Memphis and it caught on
and I tried to stop saying it. People were like, no,
(01:27):
you gotta say it now. So I'm like, okay, it
became a thing. Yeah, I stuck with it.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Like now when I say your name, I remember, oh boy,
you know what I'm saying. It's just yeah, it's in me, You're.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
In us alcohol, It's a it's very memorable.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yes it is, okay, accolades. You've won what.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
A lot of different awards?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Uh, it's I guess the one that a lot of
people would speak on his that award Critic Choice Award
got from Hustle and Flow. That's one and several platinum
and gold albums. But it's a lot of different awards.
I can't I lost.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Were you nominated for a Grammy?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I was nominated for Grammy as well? Yes, okay, see
I wouldn't remember to say that, so thank you for
putting it.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
On my brain. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, yeah, it's quite a few different things, but I
will tell you it's some it's some local things that
I've won awards for that that are near and a
lot of hard.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I've seen you and a lot of awards around the city.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yes, yeah, and I appreciate that because when it's coming
from you know, your peers in the hometown, it's just
it's an extra special love. You know what I'm saying
a lot of times in your hometown, people could be
hard on you in your hometown. So I should receive
love from people in the town, and and they want
to give me awards and stuff like that. It just
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makes it extra special.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So born in Memphis, what year I almost got that?
Got it?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Know what? I feel like I can hide it because
you can.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Hello, But what what high school? We'll go there? Central High,
Central High one.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Year, one ye Side, one year in north Side, Okay,
but three years at Central High.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
So where the award winning jazz band is.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yes, yes, yes, very proud to see that they won
that award and see Central d High schools.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
You're still shining like a diamond.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
And international competition.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
That's huge too, because you know, like you just said,
it's worldwide, it's international and b number one.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And jazz is not like I know jazz well, I
want to say, jazz is not easy a genre to
master right and for them to that that that age.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
So kudos to the teacher.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, to the teacher.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, kudos to him because he did an amazing job
to bring that out of them and for them to
be that young and to go out there and win
a worldwide title like that.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah, amazing, amazing. Yes, And kudos to you because that's
where you went to school, Central Central. I got it
going on. Seemed like, I mean, comes out of there, man.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, And it's a lot of us that come from Central.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
You know, if you really looked at the list in it, Yeah,
it'll speak for itself.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah. You know. One of the reasons I want you
to come on the show, and not because of all
of your accolades. I mean that helps, because I really
think that it is important when young people hear about
people like you.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Thank you, I have.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
It's rare now that you meet somebody like yourself who
has gone and flown as high as you have that
is still level to the ground. You know what I'm saying.
You're You're still down to earth, You're still Memphis, You're
still that guy and and probably you know, one of
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the most decent people I know.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Thank you well. I know, I know where my blessings
come from. At the at the end of the day,
I know where my blessings come from. Uh you know,
without God, you know, blessing me. And you know that
alone reminds me that, you know, not to get the
big head, not to let my not to you know,
(05:31):
get too prideful.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Because all the stars love you, Like Terrence Howard, y'all,
we still talk.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I can reach out to them right now.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yeah, yeah, you hey, whatever it is, you know, like
I said, it goes back to knowing where my blessings
come from and knowing you know that, Uh in my mind,
if I start to I think it's all because of me.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah, He'll let me know.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So that's what keeps you ground.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
You're gonna be like, all right, let me get that. Yeah,
let me take that away. It is since you since
you think you you know what I'm saying. So yeah,
I just kind of live by that, and that will
always keep me grounded, just knowing. So no matter what
I get, no matter how far I go, uh, you know,
no matter how how on the mountain I get, you know,
(06:22):
make it or whatever the case may be, I'm always
gonna know, you know, just I'm just gonna have that
feeling of knowing that I know where it comes from.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
So I better be thankful. Yeah, just be thankful.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
It's rare. Yeah, it's rare to hear people talk like
you that have that are at your position and have
done all the things that you've done. Would you call
yourself a rapper or would you call yourself.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
A blues artist?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I'm an artist or just an artist? Okay?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I say that because honestly, I'm a songwriter first, and
being a songwriter, you don't necessary when you're writing songs.
You're writing you could write to any type of song.
As a songwriter, I can write any genre of music.
But the only thing is when you become an artist,
you know that audience, a particular audience may want to
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lock you into whatever that genre is. So as a
songwriter I could I have to try to separate the
two because as an artist, I know when they want alcopone,
they're gonna want.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Some turn up. You know.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That. But but since I've been doing blues and southern soul,
I said, you know what, I'm a break. This is
my chance to use the alkapeasi part of me to
kind of show this is a separate side of me
and as it represents where I am in my life.
I'm full grown, been full grown, but you know, full grown,
so I can make full grown people content and if
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it's perfect with the blues and southern soul, and I
can write and make that type of music and enjoy
it at the same time.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Do you write for other people?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I have wrote written, and yes I do write for
other people. Oh wow, Yeah, some people don't like some
artists don't like that revealed, so I don't.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I don't really like to say.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Okay, yeah, but we do.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Know about like Terrence Howard, you know what I'm saying.
I know I had to show him. He's an actor,
so he's he doesn't take it personal like if if
I wrote for another actual artists, music artists. But yeah,
he's one of the people that you most people are
for me with that I wrote and showed him how
to perform the lyrics and all of that. So he's
(08:38):
one of them. But I've done it for a lot
of different people.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Okay, okay, awesome, because see I didn't.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Know that about you songwriter first.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yeah, And I think I think a lot of people
don't realize we don't always know the songwriters. You know
what I'm saying, y'all can y'all can be hide and
wherever and be and be just feel the rich. Nobody
will knows that.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
That's really if I.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
If I wasn't an artist, you wouldn't have know, you know,
you wouldn't know that I wrote, you know, those songs
for the for that film or some like I said,
it's some songs that you know that you have no
idea that I written. But the only reason why you
know who I am because I am an artist as well.
So yeah, songwriters, I'm at the back in the background.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah. So okay, did you become a songwriter first or
did you become a rapper first?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Songwriter first?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
You did?
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Actually, I became a performer before I became a songwriter.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You've you've been performing for how long since I was
in the sixth grade?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Probably now? No, No, I take that back. My mom
and my grandmom said I started performing for them around
three years out. Wow, I do not remember, they said.
I used to sing shoe shoe shoe shine Boy. I
couldn't hardly say it shoe Shine Boy by Eddie Kendrick.
I used to sing it to a T and I
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have no idea, but so I guess it was already
in me.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
But I remember performing for the neighborhood around the time
when Michael Jackson had got popular. So I was the
I was Michael Jackson of our crew what. So I
used to perform like the thriller of you know, routines
and stuff and sixth grade.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I was that hold on. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, I'm Stormy.
It is the pulse, our capone, our campone is on
the show today. Okay, oh boy? So okay, So you
started out singing.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Kind of singing. I was never a really good singer.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I was.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Can performed the you know, I could do all the movements,
and so you danced kind of dance. Yeah, I guess
I danced. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because I knew that. I
knew all the Michael Jackson routines. So I used to
perform and have the other guys in the neighborhood, they'll
be behind me, like you know how Mike's running all
the Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I used to be. I used to be.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
So you were that guy.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I was that guy.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
And then it went from that to you know, falling
in love with hip hop and and at that point,
I'm breakdancing and all of that good stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I was a performer first and then I became a
I want to say, maybe the performance and performing and
songwriting was right around the same time. Yeah. I was
writing stories first, in elementary writing, stories.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
And short stories.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Short stories.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think I wrote then yeah became
it became songs exactly exactly because I started learning as
I was listening to songs. I started learning the structure,
like oh, when this part comes, this repetitive part comes on.
It comes on in the beginning, and then it's like
these lyrics happened, that's explaining this repetitive part. Then the
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repetitive part comes back in. So I started learning songs structure.
So I started writing based on listening to songs. Yea
Barcades honestly like people like the Barcades.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Did you ever have conversations with David Porter. I remember
interviewing David Porter years ago. It is one of probably
one of my favorite and probably one of the best
interviews I've ever done. And I don't know if I
still have that interview somewhere, but David Porter told me
that every song is either about falling in love, being
(12:22):
in love or being alone. And I think it wasn't
until rap music came in, because that's R and B. Okay.
I think it wasn't until rap music came along that
the songs started to be about more. There are songs like,
you know, Marvin Gaye, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
And he wanted to be that uh that project? Which
project was there? He's real conscious?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah, and even Michael Jackson, we are the world, you know.
So so those those songs, we know, we have those songs.
But then it's okay, and then we we here comes
hip hop, and so hip hop became about not all
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those things, but some, but they sometimes added elements of them.
But they started telling stories like everyday life. And then
of course it went to underground hip hop where they
were telling the good they were going to.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
The underground was pretty much dolomite.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Okay, and then you know they so it went to
a place that you I think, and maybe that's why
hip hop has become so powerful. And I'm not saying
I'm a huge I do. There are some aspects of
hip hop that I like, but there's some that I
don't I understand, Okayand but I understand how it's it's become.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
It's it's worldwide, and it's dom dumb. It has been
dominating world for a long time.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yes, So for you, did you get a chance to
work with some of those artists, even some of the
hip hop artists locally?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yeah, yeah, in the same circles. Yeah, yeah, I worked
with a lot of those artists. And and David Porter.
Uh we of course we never worked together, but uh,
me and David have David is like a mentor, and
you know, anytime I can be in his presence to
learn anything, he doesn't he doesn't probably he probably doesn't
(14:32):
know that I'm paying attention when I am paying attention
because it's just so much you can learn from the greatest,
greatest one. So yeah, just yeah, love him to death
and working with I worked with a lot of different artists,
I just said, like especially locally, me and Isaac Hayes
was actually in the process of working on I was
in the process of working on some stuff with him,
(14:55):
like maybe within the two year range before he pa. Yeah,
we went to his house and we was creating ideas
and everything. I was looking forward to that, but you know, uh,
you know, we lost them too soon. Yeah, so people
like him, especially the other rap artists, and and now
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working with people like Sir Charles in the southern soul market.
And you know it's I just like I said, I
work with I can write to any genre, So I
can work with any genre of artists.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
So is gospel next?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
You never never, you never know, as you could see
from what I said about you know, knowing where my
blessings come from, I could definitely and I probably have
touched on subjects. Uh And so yeah, it's not hard
to go there at all, not.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
At all, Okay, because basically you in it.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I guess I am, you know, hey, and so I could,
I could speak on it. It's easy, easy, And actually
I know Bible, believe it literally, I literally write. At
a young age, I literally read the Bible because I
just I read it like it was a book.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I didn't like read different scriptures.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I just like from the beginning it started reading it,
and age I would say between six and seventh grade, Yeah,
I wanted to.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I just wanted to. I wanted to.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
And man, I would have to say when I read it,
you know, I was looking for all the super positive overtones.
You know what I'm saying thinking everything is all about
you know, love and happiness and right, you know, and
I'm reading them like whoa, it's some row stories and
(16:49):
like hold up, this isn't here. It's in the Bible.
They they this story is. It was like I was
mind blow, like like, okay, the Bible is way more
really than people. Again, I think on some levels where
people thinking about people being holy I guess or saved
(17:10):
or whatever you think, it's all so positive to the
point that you don't realize if you actually look in
the Bible, it's so much real, day to day, down
to earth, everyday man woman stories and that the average
person can relate to. Yes, and it's real struggles, you
(17:33):
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
It's real struggles.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
From from everything we ever go through, from death to murder,
all of it, to adultery to come on all of that.
This is my sister. It's not my wife. This is
my sister.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Lovell the best best soldier.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
With the woman his wife. Rather this is is in there.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, that's a lot of it is, but it's but
I think it's beautifully written. Yes, it's it's like a
it's way better than anything Shakespeare could have put together.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
No question about it, it's it's way better.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
It's just raw real, but it's it's the messages are
there for you to take heed too.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
That's the whole point. That's it.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
And I kind of like the fact that it kept
it so raw and real because that lets you know,
you know that it's you. You know, you're no different
than people from those biblical times. You're just facing some
of the same struggles just in a different time period.
And you can, you know, you can learn from those stories,
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learn from them.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah, yeah, you know, it's why I love the show.
First off, I'm Stormy again. It is the post. Thank
you for being here. For those of you that just
joining us, I'm talking to Grahamy nominated al Capone. Oh Boy,
Old Boy is here with Straight out of Memphis. I've
done some amazing things. Worked on Hustling Flow. What was
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that like when when they were in town?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
It was just the fact that Craig was working with
John Singleton was amazing to see because you know, we
we are, we already knew who John was from Boys
in the Hood, Poetic Justice, and so to see him
in Memphis you know, about to make work, make another
(19:39):
classic like that with Craig. It was just that alone,
you know what I'm saying. It was that alone that was.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Like, Wow, you're talking about Craig.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
C Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
So John Singleton just being in town, Yeah, being around
somebody of that greatness was amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Man.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah, and a lot of the actors, even who's that Who's.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
From Least.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And then from Blackish.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Anthony Anthony Anthony and I feel crazy not that because
I saw his facing me too.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yeah yeah man, Apolo J.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Parker.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah, they had a nice they had a great cast
for that.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah man. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
So okay, what's next for you? Because you you do
a lot of good stuff and people might not know this,
but if you follow him on social media or if
you're you know, out there in the community and you
you know, busy doing things, you see al Capone, Alcohoone's everywhere.
I mean I was doing uh the Bill Street World
Champion Barbecue, couldn't content and who was on stage with alcohol?
(20:57):
You know what I'm saying. So you're everywhere, Well, uh,
how do you do it? Because I know you have
your own personal life, but you're everywhere.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Al And I have to turn down a lot of
stuff because I realize I can't be everywhere like I
would like to be, But I try to do as much.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
As I can do.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
You keep your own schedule.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
I do.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I do what you do everything yourself.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Pretty much, not not by choice but by force, because
I have no other choice but to do it myself.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
For the most part. So yeah, yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, But I see you everywhere.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I'm here.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I'm here, and I'm gonna tell you one thing I love.
One of the things that I love to do is
going to the different schools to speak to the students
and you know, not only give them game about the
music business, but to let them know that I completely
relate to the environments that they are growing up in
(21:51):
because I grew up in those same environments and try
to give them some jewels on how to try to
navigate through, you know, growing up in peer pressure, and
you know peer pressure is real, so you know, try
to have those conversations with them and hopefully it relates
to some and.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
In a positive way.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
So I really enjoy throwing around talking to the students
for like I said, not only giving game about the
music business, but just life about growing up as a
young black person in the inner city.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, do you still deal with that pressure of being
al Capone and being in the industry of or being
around the rappers and things like that? Did you still
deal with that pressure?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
To be honest with you, my rap name is al Capone,
my blues rap name, my blues yeah, my blues son
and soul name, it's al Kapeasi. But my real name
is al Bailey, And I actually move and operate as
Al Bailey even when I'm in environments as the artist,
and I have to remember that.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Only time I know to turn on my artist persona
is when I'm about to go on stage of performed.
Oh okay, at that point it's like, okay, I'm about
to go to rock this joint. You know, Yeah, I'm
the artist at that point. But when I'm not on stage,
a lot of times I still move. I move around.
It's as Bailey. It's just and no, I don't know.
(23:18):
I don't get caught up in a name part of it.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
That's so special, that's so and so rare. Do you
know how many people can say that, or how many
people you know that I've interviewed that has really looked
at it that way, you know what I'm saying. They man,
when when people get a name, they they get you
know what I'm saying, They get caught up, and I
imagine it's it's it's not hard to do when people
(23:44):
wheneverywhere you go, somebody's like, oh, oh are they trying
to do this or that for you? You know what
I'm saying. So I guess it's not hard to do,
but you've managed not to.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Yeah, I can't. I can't do it, you know what
I'm saying. It's just again, like I said in the
I know where it comes. I know where my blessings
come from, and I know, uh, God can give it that,
he could take it the way, and I just try
to move in the right energy as much as I
can to keep my head level. And I'm a Bailey, Yeah,
(24:17):
I am al Bailey.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
So so when you heard the Grizzlies uh doing your
song at their games and it was really, really, really hot.
I mean it was so hot at one point that
Golden State Warriors was down there trying to get a
little some of it. Stephen Curry, just get on out
of here, Stephan.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I had to get on them.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I remember that particular game because when he came to
before they were on their way to mephis and he
did an interview with one of the ESPN or somebody yeah,
and they asked him, you're on your way back to
Memphis to play the Grizzlies. What's what's your game plan?
He looked at him and said, whoop that and and it,
and they broadcasted, and so I knew I was gonna
(25:03):
be performing at night. Yeah, And I was like, man,
if everything goes right, I'm gonna make them eat those words.
And so by the time I was able to perform
it toward the end of the night, I remember going
around the court and at some point I saw him
at the corner of my eye. I was like three
years right there. So I went over to him, started
chatting in his face. Draymond Green came over, starts, you know,
(25:26):
chatting it with men.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
It was fun. It was fun, but I had to
make set.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Yeah I heard you earlier, sir, Yeah, yeah, you and me,
you and Memphis.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Let you et there. You walk away like that.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
He was all over social media. I am and up
and then I saw some other teams like y'all got it.
But I imagine for you though, that felt kind of special.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
No question about it, team, no question about it.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I mean, come on, at the end of the day,
Steph is one of the great greatest players all time.
So to even have him to know that, to say that.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, and it's almost it's almost too like. So, so
one generation grew up with a song and they introduced
it to a whole other generation.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, And it's all about the spirit
of winning, you know what I'm saying, beating beating the
opposition for the win.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
So I like to where it went, you know what
I'm saying. I like where it went.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah, and you were part of it, a big part
of it. If there were no al Capone, that would
never have Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
I made the music and the lyrics, so yeah, it
would not be it wouldn't exist.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
So so when you hear the song or when we
do see it a different places, does that mean you
get little something when it's played?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Most definitely, most definitely saying yeah, yeah, a couple of
couple of couple of coins.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I love it, And the merchandise too on the trademark
to it and everything.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah, that's mine.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
That's what I'm talking about Yeah, and and so that's
another good thing too for young people to be able
to hear it's not just about having something that is
your own that other people know about, but it's also
about learning how to do the business aspect of it.
I was listening to Don Lewis and Jasmine Guy at
their brunch with Habitat for Humanity earlier this week, and
(27:21):
they talked about the business of show business. They're like,
you can have the show, but if you don't have
the business, you probably won't be in show business too long.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
And you just I was about to say that you
need the business to be able to.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Last in the business, to stay in the show.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yes, just to stay in the show. You're right, you
got to understand and know the business to be able
to stay in the show for a long period of time. Yeah,
because if you don't, just when you'd be like, what
happened to this person? That person is nine times out
of ten some business was not done right, and you
(28:05):
know they got Wow, they got devoured in the in
the business of music.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Yeah, And I never thought about that, you know, as
real as you just said it, because that's real.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yeah, that's the truth. That's the truth.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Shout out to Carley mccullor attorney Callie mccullor for helping
making sure I got business in order.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
I know that's right, man. That is so good to hear.
Al Capone, thank you again. Al Bailey alkapeas the blues
rap man.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
You know what I'm saying, Well, make sure they know
about but blues music and work by sudden soul, because
that's where I am right now. You know what I'm
saying as an artist, I'm on my blues and sound
and soul vibe and having a good time with it,
connected with the rest of my grown folks out here
that ain't with none of the extra stuff that you know,
we're grown.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
We just we were just trying to enjoy life right now.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
That's how we can gratulations to you and all your
success and just you know, for staying in it and
and and being such a bright light to the city
of Memphis. Thank you to these young folks for being
the kind of person that they could actually look up
and say, hey, I want to be like that one day.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Well, or if they don't want to be like me,
they can they can at least understand some of the
things it takes to navigate. Yeah, just it's all about
navigating through life because life is ups and downs. It
just we can't expect life to be up all the time,
and we definitely don't want it to be down all
the time. It is, it's, it's, it's it's the journey
(29:36):
of life, ups and down. So uh, you just got
to know how to handle the loads and and and
and ride the highs and you know, and and put
a little bit of old highs away so when the
loads come you kind of getting you know, balance that
out as well.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
It's it's it's a journey. It's a journey.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
It is.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yeah, and I'm.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Thankful to be alive. I'm on the Stormy Show right now.
And it's all good baby, Emp town. See what's happening
with you?
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Oh ball, thank you alcohol man. This has been so wonderful.
Uh and you know I got to play this one
over go over again. You may be in around Christmas holiday.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Okay, please, this is so good.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
This is good.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Hey, make sure they know if for the listeners out there,
if they wanted to know more about me, just simply
go to my website a K Memphis dot com. It's
a K Memphis dot com.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Can they get in touch with you there and maybe
ask you to come talk to the kids or to
their nonprofit, or come to the jail and talk to
the prisoners.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
You can go to AK Memphis dot com. It'll be
a section where you can leave a message or whatever
the case may be. And you know, I get it
that way, so yeah, AK Memphis dot com. And also
if you go there and you want to like know what,
my Instagram and all my socials going to that, going
to my website to get you there as well. So
just it's simple AK Memphis dot com. Get up with
(30:56):
me and I'm here.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
I'm here right yeah, Al Capone, all right, y'all, thank
you for being on the show.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Okay, I'm Stormy. It is the pulse. We keep our
fingertips on the pulse of our community. You'll see this
man probably all around town. So next time you see him,
tell him hello, Al Bailey. There you go, and let
me say oh boy, oh bo.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
I'll definitely say that. Definitely say that, oh boy.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
All right, We'll see you next week, same time, staying station.
God bless you have a great week.
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