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SHOTS FIRED! Potluck releases KMK diss track and tell-all interview to HipHopDX

Just when you thought that things had simmered down between the Kottonmouth Kings and their former labelmates, namely Potluck, a gigantic new interview is released at HipHopDX.com.  In it, an old screen shot from a post from Daddy X is displayed and he is accused of being racist. According to a former Sub Noize employee, while Daddy X was still at the helm of Suburban Noize, he would purposely ask that other things be worked on instead of Potluck’s current projects. There are all kinds of accusations, and the diss track is in the story.  Just read everything below and come to your own conclusions.

From HipHopDX.com:

Potluck Disses Kottonmouth Kings With “Down With The Crown” & Calls Group Members Racist

“Every interview that we do,” Potluck’s 1Ton says, “we got tired of saying, ‘Yo, we’re not talking about Kottonmouth,’ so we were just like, ‘Fuck it. Let’s make the song.’”

Potluck was blindsided. As then-recording artists for Suburban Noize Records, 1Ton and UnderRated were dragged into a feud between Brad X of Kottonmouth Kings and Kevin Zinger, partners in the record label who were going through a business divorce in 2013. By January of that year, Brad X and Zinger began supplying their sides of the story, which Potluck found out about online.

Soon thereafter, Potluck started hearing from Suburban Noize employees.

“Former employees started coming up, calling me, texting me, seeing me at shows and different things and basically having confessionals,” 1Ton says during an exclusive interview with HipHopDX. “Like, ‘Hey man, I just want to apologize. Remember like three years ago when this thing happened with your website that we were supposed to be working on and I had to not do it and all the sudden your record came out and there was no updates on the website? Really, what happened was that Brad came to me and said, “Do this other work instead of your guys’ work” and I just couldn’t get it done. He was the boss and he owned the label, so I had to listen to what he said and I never really felt right about that because you guys were always really cool to me.’ 

“That happened and I’m not talking about one person, two people, five people,” 1Ton continues. “I’m talking about double digits, 10, 15 people.”

Kottonmouth Kings Attacks Potluck

Soon thereafter, Potluck became the target of Kottonmouth Kings’ venom.

In April 2013, Kottonmouth Kings posted a series of comments to its social media.

“Nothing worse than slaves on the plantation sucking the slave masters Dicks-Free the Kings” was one post. Another read, “Potluck Sucks-horrible posers-We will never mention their Name again-Fuck those guys and their Manager.” 

The Kottonmouth Kings’ posts have since been deleted, but screen shots are available below.

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Kottonmouth-Kings-Facebook-Page-2

“To call a Black person a slave, especially coming from a White kid from the suburbs, is something you should never do,” 1Ton says. “However you meant it to sound, after you say that, you can get slammed by all your fans. You can take as many pictures as you want with Brother J from X Clan because he doesn’t know that you said that. You can go and do everything you want, but at the end of the day, you’re out here doing shows and you’re preaching all this hippie love on stage, then you’re going home and kicking it with convicted felons of hate crimes who are out there, straight open about being racist. It’s like you’re living a double life. You’re getting out there writing comments about us, calling me a slave and shit like that. To me, in my mind, it’s straight-up racist.”

Brad X did not respond to HipHopDX’s request for an interview.

UnderRated, who is White, says that he and 1Ton actually began making music, in part, to help bring people from races together. 

“It means a lot to us to help change way different people feel about different races being able to get along and kick it,” UnderRated says during an exclusive interview with HipHopDX. “That’s always been a big part of doing music for me, that I could actually be part of that movement and make that kind of thing work.”

Potluck Says Kottonmouth Kings’ Brad X Is “Phony”

Beyond the racial component, Potluck believes that Brad X had another reason to be uncomfortable with it. Potluck hails from Humboldt County California, which is the “Mecca of Marijuana,” as 1Ton calls it. 

But despite being the frontman of Kottonmouth Kings, Brad X did not live the lifestyle he projected, Potluck says.

“We’re out there on the road with him for three months in a row and he doesn’t smoke no weed at all, which is fine if you don’t want to smoke weed,” 1Ton says. “But don’t call yourself a Kottonmouth King and then you go three months on tour talking about you’re getting high everyday and partying and you don’t even smoke weed one time. He felt threatened that we were coming from the legitimate place and what we were talking about was real and what they were putting out was phony. I felt like he always felt threatened by that, whereas me and UnderRated, we never felt threatened from them. We felt like, ‘Yo, you guys must be amazing at doing business because look at what we’re able to accomplish and you guys aren’t really about any of the shit you’re talking about.’”

Potluck Releases “Down with the Krown” Kottonmouth Kings Diss

Although Potluck had not addressed its rift with Kottonmouth Kings, it felt that it finally should tackle the topic. 

“It’s like this cloud that’s hovering over our head,” 1Ton says. “All the fans want to know. They want to ask us. Every interview that we do, we got tired of saying, ‘Yo, we’re not talking about Kottonmouth,’ so we were just like, ‘Fuck it. Let’s make the song, do an interview and just be done with it so it can be in the past and we can just go about our way.’”

So Potluck recorded “Down with the Krown,” a diss track that is premiering on HipHopDX that is also included on the duo’s #StonerProblems album, which is set to be released tomorrow (May 26).

[youtube]https://youtu.be/ssqfZtGBGM8[/youtube]

1Ton says he wanted to take Suburban Noize’s motto and flip it. 

“You’re not the kings of anything,” he says. “Down with you guys now and all these years of crooked industry bullshit that you put us through that we’ve just been quiet about for all these years.”

Potluck also says that the lawsuit between Brad X and Zinger has been resolved, though HipHopDX was not able to find out the results of the lawsuit. Potluck says now that the lawsuit has concluded, the Kottonmouth Kings are again allowed to release music, which would enable it to respond to “Down with the Krown” if it were so inclined. 

Despite the issues it has with Brad X and select members of Kottonmouth Kings, Potluck does not have problems with former managers Ivory Daniel and Kevin Zinger. 

“I know there’s things that’s been said in the media about Zinger fucking people over and not paying them,” 1Ton says. “I’ll just say, when it comes to Potluck, because that’s all I can speak on and I handle Potluck business, any issue I’ve ever had in my life with money with Suburban Noize records that I brought up to Kevin Zinger, he made sure he addressed it and he made sure I got paid. And even if he made a mistake, he would fix his mistake and we would still get paid, which is way more than I can say about 99 percent of the music industry.”

Potluck Releasing “#StonerProblems” & Touring With Wrekonize

In addition to #StonerProblems, Potluck is set embark upon its co-headlining “The Pre Hangover Tour” with Wrekonize and Prevail of Swollen Members.  

It is also looking forward to moving past its Kottonmouth Kings issues now that “Down with the Krown” has been released.

“I didn’t event want to write a song like this or even open up anything more, but it just got to that point now where it’s different people asking us all the time, so it just makes sense to do it,” UnderRated says. “It frees up your mind. You don’t have to worry about the bullshit. You just make music everyday.”

Adds 1Ton: “People can hear it and judge it however they want to judge it. They can take from it [whatever] they want to take from it, believe who they want to believe.”

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    Faygoluvers Comments

  1. Miklo Velka

    Miklo Velka

    Comment posted on Monday, May 25th, 2015 08:38 pm GMT -5 at 8:38 pm

    Potluck seem like cool dudes, but that diss track is pretty wack.

    Furthermore, KMK put out a lot of shit music, but they also put out a bunch of awesome music. They don’t deserve to be pissed all over by everyone now.

    Things were never the same after they screwed over Pakelika though.

    Damn shame how Subnoize went sour in the end.

  2. BlackSand

    BlackSand

    Comment posted on Monday, May 25th, 2015 09:37 pm GMT -5 at 9:37 pm

    I thought weed was about peace and love, what happened?

  3. wonka69

    wonka69

    Comment posted on Monday, May 25th, 2015 10:02 pm GMT -5 at 10:02 pm

    I’m calling bullshit on Slopgut! they sucked Brad’s dick 2 get on the label and then when shit hit the fan? they talk shit about Brad and suck Zinger’s dick ! Fuck 1 ton and josh ! They never gonna be more then an opener !

  4. wonka69

    wonka69

    Comment posted on Monday, May 25th, 2015 10:06 pm GMT -5 at 10:06 pm

    1 ton can rape an all you can eat buffet and josh can become an auctioneer! while sucking Zinger and Mono’s dick !

  5. Tw1n Gats

    Comment posted on Monday, May 25th, 2015 11:05 pm GMT -5 at 11:05 pm

    3 Words for Potluck: Magic Ninja Entertainment

  6. King Lucem Ferre

    King Lucem Ferre

    Comment posted on Tuesday, May 26th, 2015 01:29 am GMT -5 at 1:29 am

    Black Sand, weed is a fucking plant that gets you high. That’s all it is. It’s consider a symbol of peace and love to shady two faced stoners that never practice what they preach and are just as violent and hateful as the sober people.

  7. Mr.Bitches

    Mr.Bitches

    Comment posted on Tuesday, May 26th, 2015 03:32 am GMT -5 at 3:32 am

    U oh.Buzz must be slackin.Potluck just tryin to hype the album…Theres no real beef here.This WWF promotion type shit.Next a midget with a folding chair gunna hop outta left feild

  8. the_almighty_smack

    Comment posted on Tuesday, May 26th, 2015 01:07 pm GMT -5 at 1:07 pm

    and nobody cares

  9. dribblybob

    dribblybob

    Comment posted on Tuesday, May 26th, 2015 01:50 pm GMT -5 at 1:50 pm

    If you read this, you are gay. Like me and Moon Glorious

  10. prosinz

    Comment posted on Tuesday, May 26th, 2015 10:34 pm GMT -5 at 10:34 pm

    Potluck actually has rapping talent you ignorant white trash crack head teenage juggalo morons

  11. Mr.Bitches

    Mr.Bitches

    Comment posted on Tuesday, May 26th, 2015 10:57 pm GMT -5 at 10:57 pm

    UnderRated has talent…a whole grip.1 Ton average as hell tho.Cocky lil shit talkin,Juggalo nuttin huggin fuck stick

  12. Blacklisted MC

    Blacklisted MC

    Comment posted on Wednesday, May 27th, 2015 06:19 am GMT -5 at 6:19 am

    I am so sick of these racist accusations – Potluck is a multi racial group and Im pretty sure long term KMK member Lou Dog is clearly not a fully aryan white dude. Plus they have worked with, signed and hung out with many many black artists over the years. The slave reference was aimed at both of them and was obviously a reference to Zinger being THEIR slave master and them being the slaves, irregardless of what colour they are.

  13. Blacklisted MC

    Blacklisted MC

    Comment posted on Wednesday, May 27th, 2015 06:25 am GMT -5 at 6:25 am

    Interestingly I spoke to OPM last time they were in UK ( they released a few albums on SubNoize) they admitted that they hadn’t seen a penny from the label but while trying to not get involved they were suggesting that they were more inclined to believe Brad over Zinger from their experience on the label.

    Interesting how it seems to be completely split – Putlock are obviously all over Zinger’s Dick and Madchild and Swollen members are going into business with him withthe battleaxe warrior thing.

    Whereas X Clan obviously are still down with KMK and Judge D has been still working with them and HED PE will be touring with them…

    I say interesting, I mean irrelevant and in the past – I don’t care and don;t know why I even bothered to post this

  14. Mr.Bitches

    Mr.Bitches

    Comment posted on Wednesday, May 27th, 2015 08:00 am GMT -5 at 8:00 am

    Subnoize still has allota relationships and distribution..It woulda been foolish for madchild or any of them other cats to bounce with KMK.They pretty much had to take the Dr.Dre approach and leave a label they helped build and repped for 15 years behind em and start over from scratch.Of course they were pissed off and lashed out….Buddah Shack was my shit tho.Cant wait for the new record.Potluck’s last album was Meh’Welcome to the Movment was the shit.Ill give there new album a spin or 2.Im not a complete hater.Just Part Timin’

  15. wonka69

    wonka69

    Comment posted on Wednesday, May 27th, 2015 10:55 pm GMT -5 at 10:55 pm

    so many ridiculous posts from FaceBook!

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