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She likes gifts and, See the cars on page naturally, guys that 26. give them. Check out Don’t you love her Instagram. Her diversity? Hip-hop yoga poses will turn is a form that blends you on. She’s Latina different genres of music into something Astrid and Hazel we can dance and rap and on page five. are beautiful and light to. This magazine is on their feet. Danielle dedicated to diversity. is a pretty Ebony Earth is a diverse model based in Orange planet. There’s one County. Her spread is earth. One Love, on Tash from Tha Liks. right after our profile Charles Purnell, Chief I interviewed Tash Content Provider he was at his house in twice. The first time ELITE MODEL ANDREA DREAA_99 ELITE MODEL azel H CATASHTRAPHE Words by Charles Purnell ing T’s birthday was the previous day. Tash posted a pic of King T on Instagram and wished him a happy birthday. King T sent a direct message saying he was having a good time. Tha Alkaholiks will celebrate King T’s birthday tonight, Dec. 15. Tash will be in Southern California for two days. Currently he’s in Orange County. It’s 10:30 a.m. He flew into LAX from Vegas and landed half an hour ago. “We thought it was going to take us 45 minutes to get out here,” Tash says.” It only took us 15 minutes. We on Beach Blvd. We right by Metro Sound and the Jeep Dealership.” They’re scheduled for a podcast with High Times. They’re early. Instead of getting in the mix, Tash says, they’re stalling. Tha Alkaholiks will talk to High Times about the new Likwit Crew clothesline “Live Victoreus.” And they’ll discuss their brand of marijuana products called “Smoke-a-holics.” It’s eighty degrees and Tash talks with zeal; even about his early life that was filled with drama. Tash and E-Swift were born in Columbus, Ohio. Between five and seven years old Tash traveled the world on tours with Al Green. “On the tour bus city to city and everything,” Tash says. “My mother worked with Al Green when he was super popular. He was like Michael Jackson and shit.” Al Green’s wife ran his fan club. She was Tash’s mother’s best friend. Tash and Al Green’s son were on home school. “That’s where I got the funk in my style,” Tash says. “Al Green the soul singer is one thing, but he was on tour with Con Funk Shun, Ohio Players, all these different groups. So that’s what influenced me to really keep the funk in my blood. “I think my style is funky but it’s a different kind of funk. That’s me being musical at a young age.” At a young age he liked watching rap acts including Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC, Roxanne Shante and LL Cool J. “Run DMC were like super heroes to me. They were my idols back then,” he says. “Run was cool. And I was like, ooh, if ahma do it ahma do it like him.” At 12 years old Tash was himself in, did time and represented ESP for a couple ready to rap. He relentlessly returned. Tash and E-Swift of months and then wanted thought of rap names that stayed in California while to change their name. They would differentiate him. their family moved back to welcomed ideas. One evening, Before he settled, however, his Columbus. Tash and E-Swift in the VIP section of a club, father was killed. “Tash-hell!” lived with E-Swift’s father Tash lolled with girls and his mind spat into his inner whom Tash calls Uncle Robert. gangster-rappers. A woman ear. At that moment he’d found “So I was kind of on my sputtered at Tash: “Yawl just his name. own. But I had a lot of family look like some drunks! Yawl “That’s what Tash meant. in L.A.,” Tash says. “I lived look like some alcoholics!” No clue how it popped in my all over the place. After I “T-LA took that and a head. But I thought it sounded moved out and got my own couple of days later was like, good. Tash.” shit I was living in L.A., ‘Remember what that girl Tash, the name, adopted two Hollywood, Inglewood, Hyde said to us? Ahma call yawl the abbreviations: the Tasmanian Park, Midtown off Wilshire – Alkaholiks,’” Tash says. devil and Catastrophe. apartments everywhere.” Tash was officially “in” His father’s catastrophic At sixteen he moved so fast with King T. They were the complement led Tash to live he didn’t attend a high school Likwit Crew. Tash recorded with his grandfather. At the more than two semesters. That three songs with King T and same time the Ohio Police were didn’t stop him from emceeing. the Alkaholiks. They were searching for Tash’s stepfather. He met J-Ro through E-Swift performing and Tash was “He had to get up outta and they formed a group called getting paid. there. So he disappeared for “Everyday Street Poets” or Before laying his verse on a year or two,” Tash says. “My ESP. the Alkaholiks’ debut single mom was still in love with him. “I met E-Swift at his house “Got It Bad Y’all”, featured on She talked to him every once in and he introduced Tash and me King T’s “Tha Triflin’ Album”, a while. But after a year of him a little later,” J-Ro says. “I was Tash went to Ohio; something being away my mother packed in a crew with King T before I he did every summer to visit our shit and we were on our met them. We just all started his grandmother. He went to way. We moved to California in hanging out. I introduced a nightclub across the street ’83? I was (he pauses) 12?” Swift and Tash to King T.” from housing projects. His stepfather turned Tash, J-Ro and E-Swift “I had a Cadillac rent-a-car. A big Ice Cube jacket. Bottom line I was breeding hatred,” Tash says. “So I was walking out this club and this drug dealer I heard about, named Terry - and they say he’s supposed to be a straight killer - he just tripped out on me one time. We got into a fight and I fucked him up. “I slammed him on the car. Busted him up. Chipped his tooth off with my knuckles. And I can’t even fight that good. He must’ve been drunk or something but I won this one.” The police arrived. Tash and his cousin Aaron walked with it,” he says. “The strap I When he was released, right across the street to the projects got caught with was stolen in a away he flew to L.A. The day where Tash yakked, “I fucked home invasion.” he arrived Tha Alkaholiks shot up. I fucked up Terry.” Tash went to jail. Police their video for “Got It Bad Out of the hospital Terry trumped the charges. Y’all.” combed Tash’s neighborhood “You blew your whole Tash made his debut on Tha and broadcasted he was going career. Your chance to pop and Alkaholiks’ ”21 & Over.” Then to kill Tash. all that,” Tash said to himself he struggled with alcoholism. “They was like, ‘If Terry say everyday in jail. “I thought I His favorite drink was Vodka.