Front page of the local rag today was a story about the upcoming concert from the Axis of Evil or whatever The Gayme, Akorn and Juelz “Carlos” Santana are calling this tour. Following up the Australian Immigration Dept. preventing Snoop Dogg from entering the country a few months back (even though he toured a year earlier) and the unfortunate incident where the producers of TV’s Rove tried to get Xzibit to fondle Michael Buble‘s junk on stage or something, which he refused, only to be informed that “you know we came a long way just having you on the program”, which the X-Man took offense to and got the fuck outta Dodge.
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Even though he hasn’t gotten wasted in over ten years, I get the impression that Marco Polo used to get tore-up with the best of ‘em, so I’m willing to give him a pass from my standard “Don’t trust anyone who doesn’t drink” policy. Fueled by a constant intake of caffeine and loosies, MP has followed in the footsteps of Pete Rock’s Soul Survivor project and collected his favorite verbal technicians to cut loose over some certified dope tracks for his debut album.

Robbie: I noticed you had Rock Marciano from the UN on the album. It’s good to hear from him again – I’m guessing you were a fan of the group?

Marco Polo: Oh hell yeah. That album was one of the most slept-on for the last five frickin’ years.

Whenever I mention them to people, no one’s ever heard of them.

They were on [Carson Daley’s] 4,5,6 label, and now I believe Rock’s got a deal with SRC. I bug him all the time to see what he’s up to, and he said he’s got a couple of albums recorded for his major label situation. I’m just dyin’ to hear new music from him, ‘cause I’m a fan. Hip-hop needs that type of shit. Me and him were ‘sposed to work on a project too. Him and his crew and that album was great – people slept on it, it fell through the cracks, and it’s a shame.

You did an internship at The Cutting Room studio – is that a Pro-Tools set-up, or reel-to-reel?

Actually we had two-inch machines at The Cutting Room. We had half-inch, two-inch. We had two rooms – one was a digital board, one had an SSL in there. Both also had Pro Tools. I remember syncing up two-inch tapes and aligning the tapes heads and all that crap. [laughs]

It’s all a pain in the ass I guess.

It was a pain in the ass! It’s not a pain in the ass when you pay someone to do it for you and you get to record to two-inches – it sounds incredible – but when I was interning or assisting, that shit gave us a pain in the ass.
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