Tiewai over zoeken naar erkenning, Belgische rapscène en collabs met Sticks & Rico | NEW VIBES ONLY

Tiewai is inmiddels een Belgische rap veteraan die al meer dan 20 jaar muziek maakt. Hij was getekend bij Eigen Makelij en heeft ook eerder gewerkt met onder andere Adje, Roscovitch & Nosa (Zo Moeilijk) en Hayzee (Zwart Licht). 🇧🇪🇳🇱

In de nieuwe aflevering van NEW VIBES ONLY hebben wij het met Tiewai over zijn album “Stickies & Samples 2”. 🌬️🎵

Wil je weten hoe hij op dit album samen heeft kunnen werken met de legends Rico & Sticks? 🤝🏽
Hoe hij zijn era heeft beleefd en wat hij vindt van de Belgische rapscène? 🎤
Check dan nu deze aflevering  en heel veel luisterplezier!

00:45 Tiewai vertelt over zijn roots en waar hij is opgegroeid.
01:31 Wanneer is Tiewai begonnen met het maken van muziek?
02:43 Waar komt de naam Tiewai vandaan?
03:22 Wat was Tiewai’s gedachte over het concept van “Stickies & Samples”?
04:33 Wat zijn volgens Tiewai de grootste verschillen tussen “Stickies & Samples 1” & “Stickies & Samples  2”?
06:09 Wat waren Tiewai’s dromen in het begin van zijn carrière (2006)?
09:31 Tiewai vertelt de verschillen tussen de Belgische rapscène toen hij begon ten opzichte van de scène nu.
12:19 Wat is Tiewai’s Top 5 Belgische rappers?
16:24 Op welke manier was Tiewai in zijn jongere jaren op zoek naar erkenning? 
17:35 Tiewai vertelt over zijn samenwerkingen met Sticks & Rico.
26:47 Waarom heeft Tiewai alle interludes laten inspreken op dit album?
28:09 Wat kunnen we de komende tijd van Tiewai verwachten?

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:16

complaining.

Speaker 2: 0:22

We are in Gink, Belgium today. This is the second new Fibers, only that we shoot in Belgium. We are here in George and the Bear. I think it's a vinyl record store. Yes, vinyl coffee, yes, with no one else than TWI. I was really welcome. But I'm with you and indeed the Swiss is coming. But, yes, yes, of course, before we talk about your music, I'm very curious about who you are and where is your route.

Speaker 3: 0:54

Oh, who am I? I'm Thierry Alderaan of Rans, 34, bina. I've been working for 20 years. I was in my route in Gink. I already said that there were a lot of mine workers coming in. I have a father he is completely Belgian, and my mother is half Italian, half Polish, so it's a smelt cruise from various countries. But yes, my route is here in Gink in the Diplom which I also say. So that's it.

Speaker 2: 1:31

And when did you start making music? How did that go?

Speaker 3: 1:37

In 2002 we started. I say we because I started with a group of friends. We started with players. How did that start, while here local and a number of rappers Odyssey, I don't know that already it was with Don.

Speaker 3: 1:57

Luca Gio Iho from our business, also with Cannabio, also with Black, and then we had Nubser, who also rap here, and his brother. So mainly because of the guys you know, we checked a lot in the week and all the shit that came. But when they came it was like wow, I can also in Dutch and also in our city language. I would say, and that was an opening of OK, I want that too. And then we started with us four.

Speaker 2: 2:33

Great, and where did you come from? It's a pretty strange name. I've never heard of it before.

Speaker 3: 2:40

Well, that was also Death State. A friend of mine, livi, he was also a player. He said, yeah, terry. So my name the T and the Igrac, this is TY Mouw wrote it just for Nétis.

Speaker 2: 2:54

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, you have brought Sticky samples. 1 in 2020? Yeah, yeah, what was your thought behind the concert?

Speaker 3: 3:30

I was actually mainly. You know that was the first album I made with the WETZ. We started with that. I knew WETZ for a very long time. We were on a trip together without any intention. It never came to us to make music together, until then a social friend, also a manager, he said boys, you know there's a lot of people there. We just came together, we started looking for samples, chopping. There were some, and then there was a nice little rock and then you said and it was just that vibe what we wanted to catch.

Speaker 3: 4:11

Just go to the studio together, don't think too much. Rap and just vibe. And then Sticky's came.

Speaker 2: 4:21

Yeah, exactly, and then you just go unnoticed. How you sound, exactly, not really over the top, just momentum and that's how it sounds.

Speaker 3: 4:32

Then it's all over the place.

Speaker 2: 4:34

But what are the biggest differences between Sticky's samples 1 and your newer Sticky's samples 2?

Speaker 3: 4:42

The biggest difference, in my opinion, is that I think I know what I have to do now. Personally, the beats are a little bit harder, a little bit more raw. It's more like a vibe with me, a vibe with him. I think it's a bit more mature and there's an album. You know what I want to do.

Speaker 2: 5:10

I want to rap, rap and stuff like that. Part 2 sounds darker, more angry sometimes. What do you think about life now?

Speaker 3: 5:22

Yeah, not exactly like a bad person or something like that, but we've taped everything when it was winter it was a bit darker. So I think that that vibe has made me more lean In your track, fort Fiesta.

Speaker 2: 6:12

You have a kind of a look back to 2006. There you also have a track with Rika. There you also have two guys with big dreams the world on our feet. What were your dreams in those periods?

Speaker 3: 6:31

I think we weren't that long to hit that moment, so we're already very hungry. But we know that when you start, you want to make everyone broke and show that you're the best, and just blow up. In what way?

Speaker 2: 6:51

For everyone, it's different, but one wants to sell out the other wants to be on TV. What was it exactly?

Speaker 3: 7:02

For me personally. I was in that Zwollevaart. I just wanted to come faster than them.

Speaker 2: 7:12

Actually, I came there more and more. Do you feel that you are now worth that dream, or are you now included? I am included.

Speaker 3: 7:27

The dream I had back then, as I said, was not. It's not that I'm living my life with music. Maybe in Belgium it's different here than in the Netherlands. You can't really eat from here, except a few artists, but on the other hand, I said that I was looking forward to Zwollevaart. I'm not blessed to be able to work with Timan, including James.

Speaker 2: 7:53

Nosa.

Speaker 3: 7:54

Solushen, so I'm happy with that. What are your dreams?

Speaker 2: 8:01

now.

Speaker 3: 8:08

My dream is to have a better family situation or to create a family environment. I can also make music with my job. I work 45 hours a day and I would rather do part-time music.

Speaker 2: 8:29

I'm just a little bit closer to my heart, I can do something. I like. I also think it's great that you are honest in your music. You have a full-time job. Some rappers don't want to say that, but you say that. What's the reason you're so open about that?

Speaker 3: 8:50

I don't think it's a big deal to talk about who I am or what I do. I think it's a big deal to talk about what people are saying. I think why would I follow someone? I'm not how.

Speaker 1: 9:16

I'm not in there.

Speaker 2: 9:32

In your track Pirouette, you're talking about the Belgian rap game. You're a bit critical about it. One of the lines you have is I can't act like boys anymore. What's your era? Oh, your era is about respect, right? Yes, yes yes. How do you look at the Belgian scene At this moment?

Speaker 3: 10:00

I think we've made a big improvement. I can see that everything is still in the children's shoes.

Speaker 2: 10:11

So you're talking about your era. How did your era look like?

Speaker 3: 10:16

I was talking about castes. We went to work together to buy an NPC and to be able to push tapes. We were there and now you can see how everything has been renovated. It's very good for the whole culture. There are many differences. We had to go to a mic session in the past. We had to fight for a place to have our mic. Then we came from Eind en Fergarde, which was fun. People from Brussels, antwerp, everyone is at home now.

Speaker 3: 10:56

The Belgian scene is good, how we've made a good progress. The climate is changing. There are many young MCs who can do things. It doesn't sound like it was in the past, but it's not bad. It's more commercial, but it opens doors for other people. I'm very positive about that. I personally find it less, because I notice that there are many younger MCs, a new generation, who do their best to get into the stage with the Dutch accent. I don't have a lot of problems with that.

Speaker 2: 11:42

It's not necessary.

Speaker 3: 11:45

I think it's a part of losing identity. I think that's a shame. If you want to do that, fine. I understand that the Dutch are also a big offside, but we speak the same language. That's not really an issue. I think we're doing very well in Belgium. We can still be back in the Netherlands for 10 years.

Speaker 2: 12:11

I do feel that it's really starting to come. Exactly, what is your top 5 Belgian rappers?

Speaker 3: 12:23

Swanger Ruggie standard, the best rapper. I also won many rap, real rap, hard rap, Good tracks, honesty, I would say Kloos, yes, I know him. He's a bit smaller now, but I think he's one of the most important MCs Top 5 for me also, Rika. He has a unique sound, unique voice, something no one does, and he has so much to tell. And that's what happens.

Speaker 2: 13:06

I'm a man. You were all together for a long time.

Speaker 3: 13:09

Thank you, I think you have three now. I would say Yellow. I know Yellow, but it's a good reason to watch this video. He also has the time I was still rapping at Eigenmakerlei, but he hasn't done anything for a long time. He just released a solo album and he's a real bum. It's not really hip-hop, it's a bit wider, but it's super hard. And then the last one. I think that's what I'm talking about with Don.

Speaker 2: 13:46

Luca.

Speaker 3: 13:49

Also Ron Het Veet. He's already 20, 25 years old and his music is getting better. The authenticity, the identity, is also super strong. That's what I'm talking about. That's what it is at the moment.

Speaker 2: 14:07

It can always change. You just mentioned Eigenmakerlei. I know that it was a label in. Belgium. I don't know much about it. I know you were there, but I think it was a pretty big label.

Speaker 3: 14:27

I think at that time, when it was a Belgian, it was almost ten years ago it was actually a label. At that time they had Safi et Mechelen taken, sprayet Gent and me from Limburg. It was a good move for all the provinces. It was really hard to believe at that time we could do a lot of things in the top match. We also got food in the Netherlands. I think we have reached that point with EM. That's a really good basis for the scene.

Speaker 2: 15:15

It seems like an era that has been there when certain MCs can be in the screen. Do you know why it stopped? For me, it was out of nowhere.

Speaker 3: 15:28

I wouldn't say anything. It's a bit of a waste of time, but I think everyone. I said we made nine compilation albums. It was a really good time. We became older. I focused more on my personal life on my family, I think everyone had their own search, but we didn't leave because we were always together.

Speaker 2: 16:25

In your track live with Styx you say I'm not looking for recognition anymore. I'm making my own script and planning If I'm right. I'm not looking for recognition anymore. Exactly. How did you find recognition?

Speaker 3: 16:46

I always say I'm always on the run. I hear the best of them, I hear people shoot with me. I was very busy with you. I'm not a person. Maybe they're not the kind of people you're talking about, like a mask or an image or something like that, but I've just let them go. Maybe it's because I've become a father now and you know I'm 34, everything's calm and I'm not working on it anymore. That's not a priority anymore to be there. I'm just happy when I can make music and become a person who comes to me.

Speaker 2: 17:34

Exactly, as I just said, there are also sticks on your track live. I think we're about one age, so we're all dressed up in that dress. In fact, with the two of them, we're all dressed up in a turntable and everything. Why did you choose to have them all on separate tracks?

Speaker 3: 17:57

There was no choice. That's just how it went. In the first instance I had contacted them all not to make music. I had my samples out and I said it was a record that I'm really satisfied with. I had to send it to boys, but I had to send it to a package shop and we had to check the vinyl. And then I got a message back and the guys were really enthusiastic, so it was nice to hear them. And then the cooperation continued, because it wasn't the intention of me to make a track with them, but to make a record together or separately.

Speaker 2: 18:48

How did it go? You guys are really on my norm.

Speaker 3: 18:52

Yes, I think it's a shame that we can't dive into the studio together because of the whole pandemic and everything. But it went really well With the Sticks. I wrote my songs with him and it went really well With Rico. It all went more organically. I also wrote some beat-jocos sent them, messaged them. It was online. It worked really well.

Speaker 2: 19:23

Yes, it sounds really cool. If you still hear the chemistry that you guys have, especially the track with your Sticks, you hear that you're really playing together and the lyrics are really cool. Thank you, so Rico and Sticks are two legends. I think it's always been a dream collab for you.

Speaker 3: 19:46

Yes, of course, if I can make a team with Timan, I can go on Friday, but which people do you have more on your list? There are two that I really like to do with him. One that I don't think is possible. I'd like to do something with him. I look up a lot, even if he's a person I can learn a lot from. And the other would be Jiggy. Jiggy is still there.

Speaker 2: 20:19

I've got a new track back, so we could always do that that was the one I was referring to.

Speaker 3: 20:27

It won't work anymore. We're now on a big label basis, but it's really.

Speaker 2: 20:31

The chance is less.

Speaker 3: 20:34

I think it's even more difficult to check for an album. But I don't know why we're on the same label for years.

Speaker 2: 20:41

Right, so win and Jiggy let's boy bro, yeah, right.

Speaker 1: 20:47

Done. I just want to rap, not think about the things we put in, after talking to my people for years About things we'd like to have later Only relaxing or sitting in the moon sweating to stress. I hear too much of the life under pressure, but it's all about learning. Don't fall. Keep on balancing. A lot needs to be cleaned up for the rain.

Speaker 2: 21:09

Your track Pioone is one of the more calm tracks on your album. That's why you say I'm a late bloomer, but I'm on Pioone. What makes you?

Speaker 3: 21:23

a late bloomer, probably the fact that I have something that I've just changed, that my music is good enough, or good enough to bring it out, because I'm 100% behind, while I've tried a lot of things before and I've done things that I've changed. Maybe I should have done something else. And I don't think.

Speaker 2: 21:44

I've done that.

Speaker 3: 21:46

I think it was the whole process. I was at Egemaker Leydan. It went really well, I did our things and everything was great. But then comes the moment of the dip. I've done nothing for four or five years.

Speaker 2: 22:00

Why did you spend so much time?

Speaker 3: 22:03

I used to be. I went to school. I never went to a good job, I always did interim jobs. And then the moment started to come closer. My girlfriend in the meantime went to study, started to come to life, that we also had to think about what we were going to do.

Speaker 3: 22:25

I didn't have a decent job, I didn't have an income from music. I had to make sure my life was on the rails and then I could go on. And then I did that. I've done a good job. I got two beautiful daughters, I bought a house. So you had to make sure my life was on the right track and then I could go on. And I think that from that moment on I started with Wunderslag Millionaire. I was born with my first daughter, milly, so I was also a millionaire. I had something like that. I have skills, I know what I'm doing. I put everything on music and then it got all the time going Well, it really was a experience, or even if it's not now or later.

Speaker 3: 23:17

And I did make a little click back then.

Speaker 2: 23:22

You just said that you have no time for school. Did you have a spite?

Speaker 3: 23:26

No, no. Second.

Speaker 2: 23:28

Why not?

Speaker 3: 23:31

There is nothing I would do that I wouldn't do. I might have my job outside, but I already started. I will come out of the bush and do something with music, but I am very lucky, my life is beautiful at this moment, so I would eventually do nothing else.

Speaker 2: 23:50

And if I had a?

Speaker 3: 23:51

school. At that time I would never have been able to do everything with EM. I would never have been able to work with Topnotch, with Atche, roscoe or Fizy. So that's a big deal.

Speaker 2: 24:06

How was your school period?

Speaker 3: 24:10

I was a very good student. I always had A, and I don't know how to call it in Dutch.

Speaker 2: 24:17

I did.

Speaker 3: 24:17

Human sciences had no problems until I was in fourth grade and then I thought, fuck it, I just throw everything at music do my group work, don't have to study.

Speaker 2: 24:34

What would you want if you didn't have any music, if you had to focus on something? I never thought about that.

Speaker 3: 24:43

Never, really no very strange. It was just music and besides, I also came from a family that I was very young. I used to work for the club. I was 15 years old. I also worked at a bakery or I went to a restaurant.

Speaker 2: 25:01

From your 15 years old.

Speaker 3: 25:02

Yes, we had some extra sciences, so I never really worked differently. I had no problems with that, I just had no work and I had to do music for the rest of my life.

Speaker 2: 25:40

I started this album with the track Cantone. And you ended it with Maradona. Where did you get that football references?

Speaker 3: 25:48

Sent to legends. I'm a football lover myself. I didn't watch Perseus at all because I had to play football. It's a coincidence that it's like that, but it's nice. It's true, you look at it like that.

Speaker 2: 26:10

Is it true that you see certain characteristics of yourself in your own?

Speaker 3: 26:14

way, I can't say it Not per se. I think that arrogance of Kanto-na is wonderful, but I'm not that arrogant.

Speaker 2: 26:27

No, I wouldn't say that you're arrogant.

Speaker 3: 26:30

No, not per se, but I just liked it. I also have Peter van den Beemt, a football commentator. He also did something for us on the car of Kanto-na, so it's just right. Yes, definitely.

Speaker 2: 26:47

Something that was really popular was the interlude. You were mentioned by Rosa Anna. Super cool and it fits perfectly with the album. She takes a kind of door on what you said in the tracks before that she takes a kind of door in her lyrics. How did that come?

Speaker 3: 27:04

about. I got to know her a lot. I got to know her with a kind of exchange program from the Netherlands and Belgium MCs. She was a member of that, together with Nonsauk. Oh okay, and then they invited me to give her a master class, and that's how we got to know her, because I don't think that's how it was before. No, that's right, because I said to her I'm done with the album, but I really have that. I understand, I hear you. I hear your voice, your wife's voice, your feel.

Speaker 2: 27:43

I need that extra sparkles.

Speaker 3: 27:47

To get that. And I also said to her here's the album, listen to it and check which track you feel and do your thing. You don't feel bound. And she killed it. I'm really happy because I really have the album in my mind.

Speaker 2: 28:02

So very nice. You released an album every year in the past three years. That's pretty productive. What else can we expect from you?

Speaker 3: 28:14

I'm not really working on the next project at the moment. It's not concrete. I'm already a tank or something, but I will try to. I'm not saying within the year I have two years to release a new project but I'm still looking for something, something special.

Speaker 2: 28:41

Something concept-wise. I'm curious. I think because of this interview, people will know you better, but what would people really know about you?

Speaker 3: 28:55

One of my last tracks, because I already give a lot of my blood, and two, I just don't know what to say. I have the feeling that the idea that I really have to take now that I want to the drive is still a bit big after 20 years. So, yeah, hold your horses, because I'm coming, and how?

Speaker 2: 29:24

do you keep that drive so strong after 20 years, after 20 years?

Speaker 3: 29:30

Yeah, maybe just because I'm your dad and want to leave something to my children A new motivation, yeah, a legacy to leave to the city. Like this, it can, and I'm going to do it.

Speaker 1: 29:53

Nice, I think at the end.

Speaker 2: 29:55

I want to thank you for this interview. The people at home Go check out Stikies and Samples 2. And enjoy.