I ended up doing some things with Teddy Riley. I met Teddy down at Jack the Rapper and he told me he was ready to move me to Virginia and work with me. Charlie didn’t want to make the deal, I was a young guy coming from the streets like, “Hey, let’s get this million dollars.” When Charlie made that move it put a bitter taste in my mouth and I decided I had to move a little different. I rapped in front of Teddy and he was like, “Fuck that, I don’t care who likes you, you’re mine now.”īut they fucked up a million dollar deal, like when he was signed to Capital, and he fucked up some money and some folks got fired. I went to Hollywood, I went to some Jack the Rapper shit, and then Teddy Riley stole me from them. I don’t want to get too much into it, but I was kinda a big guy back then. He had ran into me and heard me spit and he put me in front of Queen Latifah and Shakim and they flew me to L.A. The Charlie Mack who used to be Will Smith’s body-guard? I decided to start battling everybody in New York and Philly and I got discovered from battle rapping by a guy named Charlie Mack. Just from being young and in those streets, and my son was ready to be born, so I figured I have to do something other than running these streets to provide for my child. That’s when I came into the music business. So when does the story of Knowledge the Pirate begin?Īs far as professional music wise, I first got my start in the ’90s. – The 10 Best New York City Rap Albums of 2013 – Meat Guns, Weed Brownies, and Riesling: Our Conversation With Roc Marciano But it turns out Knowledge’s story goes back long before the recent rise of Roc Marci - as he tells us here with a personal history that involves bouts with Teddy Riley, Biggie’s girl, and Will Smith’s old bodyguard Charlie Mack. Alongside KA, who we recently nominated as recording the best New York City rap album of the year, Knowledge appeared on Marci’s acclaimed Reloaded project and was also around during the recording of that project’s predecessor, Marcberg. Knowledge the Pirate counts himself as a member of the rapper Roc Marciano’s inner circle.
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