Stan Ipcus with Matisyahu at SUNY Purchase, October 2006

Stan Ipcus with Matisyahu at Sundance Film Festival, January 2007

WP Unplugged

Stan Ipcus with Matisyahu and Max B White Plains, 2006

Stan Ipcus with Matisyahu in California August 2006

Stan Ipcus with Matisyahu and MaxB in Mount Vernon, NY Sept. 2000

Air Ippy's

Show Flyers

Stan Ipcus Live Videos

DI: Ipster, whats cooking my dude?
IP: Chillin froggy. You know what it is.
DI: Hows the summer been so far?
IP: Bananas. Just had a couple fun shows down in NYC. Peace to DJ Destro and DJ Roz for rocking with me. Im feeling good, my rhymes are up, the fam is good, everything is lovely. Shout to Lev Doggy, were making it pop right now.
DI: I just got a hold of the new mixtape you did with DJ Roz. Shit is hot, you gotta a lot of joints on there.
IP: Yeah my dude, I got into the zone this spring, thats my season. And everyones chi has been through the roof, so Ive been inspired. Me and Roz had been talking about doing a joint for a few years now, and the timing was right. I just kept sending him MP3s. And he put it together perfectly.
DI: You used some interesting beats. How do you pick your beats?
IP: I just need fly, smoke out type joints. A lot of the stuff you here on the mixtape I looped up myself. Thats my shit, to just find the sweet spot in an old song and loop it. Thats the kind of shit I love, those soul samples that you just wanna twist up and spit all night to. I chose some classic early 90s New York beats too, from Gangstarr and A Tribe Called Quest and Wu Tang, in addition to some newer Alchemist, Mobb Deep, Jigga shit, thats the essence of hip hop to me, thats what I came up on. Im trying to take everyone back to the future with the sound on some smooth gritty soul shit.
DI: I love Real Ganja Talk. The flow is crazy. Thats not a New York beat though.
IP: Yeah, no shit my dude. Actually, thats the one beat Roz told me to smash. He lives down in Maryland and that beat was on his radar, and he called me one day and told me to check the beat out, and I got a hold of it and I was feeling it, and I just wrote my verses and layed it down and sent it to him. I think it was one of the last joints I did for the mixtape.
DI: Whats up with Matisyahu?
IP: Hes chilling, busy as ever on his way to Japan and Australia. He actually was in NYC and came to my last show at Pianos and made a nice guest appearance. It was an incredible moment for me, to have him up on stage at one of my shows after doing so many performances with him and all his success, you know, he has done a lot for me. We spit WP, you know the track from Youth, but over an old Bob Marley beat that I looped up. It was beautiful. Hes a great friend and an amazing vocalist. Im headed out west next month to perform with him in LA and Santa Barbara.
DI: Word?
IP: Yeah, ya boy Ipcus aka Aquaman is headed west with the entourage. Were all going out, Matty B, Egg Salad, Big Jiggs, Baby Jiggs, the whole crew. Its gonna be an earthquake.
DI: Sounds like fun. I see the Westcheddar/Do Us single officially dropped. I like how you sound with the band.
IP: Yeah, the single is available all over the internet, Itunes and Yahoo and all that. Check it out and support the prep hop movement. I got some new stuff in the works too.
DI: Oh yeah, like what?
IP: Im about to rape the 80s for beats. And rock records too, not that Linkin Park type shit though, some other shit. Im about to start flipping everything in sight, strictly fly whiteboy shit. Im looping up all that. Man, I got a joints over Red Hot Chili Peppers shit, G Love and Special Sauce, thats my zone too. You hear the Sade shit on the mixtape? Thats what it is.
DI: Yeah, that song sounds like Miami to me. Shit Ip, you must record a lot.
IP: Whatever, it comes in spurts, especially if I have beats that I like. This has been a long one though. Ive been talking real breezy, but I got some love songs on the burner cats arent ready for. I got this new shit I Put My Hammer On For You, you know, like, ma if anyone fucks with you Im gonna kill them. That type of love. Its gangsta daddy.
DI: I see. Damn Ip, you got so many joints. My favorite is still I Does This. Whens the album coming?
IP: Be patient my dude. Its coming. I need the right backing behind me to really drop, so right now Im just staying fresh, doing shows, recording, and getting right. These big wig dudes are scared to fuck with me. Theyve never heard a white rapper like me. Its confusing for them.
DI: It must be, especially since youre on the Matisyahu album and then the next minute youre doing songs like Spit Crack, Get Face.
IP: Yeah, but thats real. I got all that in me. Dont put me in a box, I does all that. Tell me what you want, Ill give it to you. Until then, Im gonna keep doesing what I does best.
DI: No doubt. Whats up with that song Boring? I like that joint, is that directed at anyone in particular?
IP: Not really, theres just a lot of rappers out that arent that interesting. Im a fan of the music, I still cop mixtapes and see whats hood. Im not a hater, do you and live, Ill even cop your shit to support, but most of it is pretty pathetic or just not that fly. Everyone wants to be a rapper nowadays. I mean, give me a fucking break dude. I does this. You doesnt.
DI: Whos Bats?
IP: Thats my boy from Ogden Ave, his voice is poison. Hes sitting right over there with the fam. Check for the joint on the mixtape with me and him getting busy on the back and forth Styles and Jadakiss type flow. Plus we got a new joint over this Jack Johnson beat. I told you were on some new whiteboy shit for real for real. Its not a game.
DI: Someone told me you did a remix of Will Smiths Summertime. Thats crazy.
IP: Yeah, I performed that at my last show. I flipped the lyrics up Ipcus style, and the crowd loved it. Like, Then 4 oclock rolls around, you just finished tonguing ya girl down. Shit like that. Its a fun one.
DI: No doubt. Yo, how about a quick verse before we get out of here?
IP: Ok, Daddy Long Legs in your mouth baby, yeah its daddy long the don, long dick long whip everything is long, long bong/ six footer, Ill spit a quick 12 bars, fuck a long ass song, I spit all night long, its Lionel Ippy/ long nights white bimbos in thongs, long limos stretch benzes long king kong schlongs/ I hang with long haired hippies who blow sticky on lawns, and get busy with guitars yo theyre so long gone and far out,/kind of trippy and tipsy its ippy, long stints at the bar, quick winks long eye contact its on/ and before we get back to ogden Im getting long throat face smoking a long ass dutch sipping on dom perignon, its long/hows that?
DI: Too long. Just kidding, thats pretty sick. Well Ip, thanks for the time to sit down and catch up. Enjoy the rest of the game, and have fun out in California.
IP: Thanks my dude. If you dont have that Real Breezy mixtape yet you need to get your hands on it. Holla at ya boy, Ill give you one myself. Thats what it is. Cheah.