Ras Kass on His Beef With His Dad, Twin Rapper Sons & Coast Contra

West Coast legend Ras Kass sits down for one of the most layered and hilarious fatherhood conversations of Season 2. He opens up about writing his first album as a direct letter to the father who walked out when he was 12, only to call that same man years later sobbing in a hot car with a hot girl saying "this shit is hard." He talks about his twin sons Ras and Taj forming Coast Contra, why he didn't want them rapping because hip hop is like the girl who's been with everybody except the one who loves her most, how Taj was finding pockets and co-writing before he could even fully form words, and why his real dream was for his kids to become an accountant and a judge because his cousin is Blue, and when you're from where he's from you need someone to watch the money and someone to get you off. Plus the story of leaving his twins alone for 30 seconds and coming back to a broken turntable, a destroyed CD player, and two babies who somehow knew exactly what they did.

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