Sean Price (
Rap Artist)
Number of kids/ages: I have 3 kids, I claim two on taxes. Boys are 18, 15, and my daughter is 4.
Personal Rap Dad description: “My son like, ‘They can’t fuck with you Dad!’ True.”
First rap song my kids knew all the words to: My daughter knows “Gangnam Style.” And I have a new song, I don’t even know the name of it, but there’s a little tongue-twister in there, I say, “George Papadopoulos, monotonous botanist, apocalypse proper shit, chocolate doctor that doctored the document.” And she likes to go, “Dad, ‘Chocolate doctor that doctored the document,’ I said it.” To hear her say that is amazing.
My kids favorite rappers: I had a free show yesterday at Betsy Head Park, and my 18-year-old son is so corny, he was like, “Yo, who’s Joey Bada$$?” I’m like, “You ain’t up on nothin’.” He’s wack. And me and his mother love music. He got access to all the Sean Price shit, then he waits until his friends jump on the dick, and comes back like, “Dad, you got this?!” I’m like, “Get outta here with that shit.” He’s corny as hell. He’s at that age where first your Dad is cool, then you think your Dad is corny, and now he’s realizing that he isn’t. And I’m like, “Whatever, get the fuck out my face now.”
My other little man, he really likes Eminem. He listens to Em all the time.
Where I listen to rap music at home: In the kitchen. My kitchen is my office. Got my laptop and a couple other things in there, and I write my rhymes in there. And the refrigerator’s right there, so it’s convenient.
A classic rap album I recommend to other Rap Dads to play for their children: I let my kids hear anything, because the records aren’t your parents, I’m the parent. When I was younger, I listened to Richard Pryor records. That might explain why I rhyme like this, now that I think about it. But when I grew up, my grandmother was an illegal numbers runner. So I was surrounded with all kinds of music I shouldn’t have been around. But, I came up pretty good. I don’t play them the edited versions. I let them hear the curses and all that, because that’s real life. And I come from a family of, “Don’t do what I do, do what I tell you.” I grew up that way, so I do that with my kids.
Favorite kids music/TV show/movie: Max and Ruby. I watch
Max and Ruby with them, we love
Max and Ruby. “Max and Ruby, Ruby and Max!”
How my opinion of rap music has changed since I had kids: When my son was first born, I was aiight. But now that he’s 18, I’m fuckin’ nice!!
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