There are legends and then there are living icons. It was an absolutely pleasure to secure some time with a breathing hip-hop game-changer in the form of Goodie Mob’s one and only Khujo Goodie. With serious heat like ‘Still In Me’ and ‘Boy Stop’ making it a hot winter, it’s only right the Atlanta native comes through for ATC to talk about setting 2022 right with a new album, acknowledging his group’s longevity, keeping it a buck about the solo grind and much more.

The interview is not only a must-read but must-hear with Khujo sounding hungrier than ever to take the rap game on. Peep some of our favorite quotes and keep scrolling to hear the entire Attack The Culture conversation.

The massive new album announcement

At first I was just really working with a double barrel. Putting out another one, boom, putting out another one, boom. When you look at it, it’s a lot of competition out here and I don’t want to give people too much but I don’t want to give them too little either. The nostalgia that’s just been coming up, people want to know if I’m going to put an album out or something - I’m dropping an album January 21, 2022.

The title of it is going to be called The K-Files.

I’m working with a little something. It’s no use to having this music in your computer and you’re just listening to it. I want to share this sh*t with everybody. It’s what hip-hop is supposed to be about. Sharing it with the world. If they like it, it’s great. If they don’t like it, it’s even better.

Gotta feed the people while you can feed them. Let me shout-out some producers on my songs. On ‘Still In Me,’ that’s my homeboy Kojack. You can holler at him on IG, @Kojack. And then the one that did this ‘Boy Stop’ is my homeboy Dr. Freakington and he’s on Instagram, @DrFreakington.

The ‘Boy Stop’ is a direct statement

‘Boy Stop’ is definitely like a staple slang down here in the South. It’s almost like if you think he can rap better than you, boy stop. Not with all this 26 years of experience - I just really been putting it all on Instagram. Just the first part, the ‘Boy Stop’ part and it’s just a statement. Man, stop. You don’t know what you’re talking about. This is what it is right here. I’m Khujo Goodie. I’m from Goodie Mob. I’m talking about Dungeon Family. It’s time out for being Mr. Nice Guy and it’s perfect time for not being Mr. Nice Guy. Underground rap is still here.

DJ Kay Slay is messing with Khujo’s bars

Underground hip-hop is still here. People still want that raw type of thing. I have to shout-out Kay Slay, DJ Kay Slay. He premiered both of my songs on Shade45 on his Streetsweepers Radio. I was listening to it from top to bottom and I just seen the content that was on before me and after me and it’s all about people just representing. Sheek Louch. Snoop Dogg. I’m talking about Short Dog [also known as Too Short]. Papoose. People just still representing. Hip-hop is still in them. Regardless if they don’t have a Grammy or they ain’t sold 20 million records. Real grassroots artists that are still here and out here doing it.

Atlanta’s rap scene has stayed hot for a long time

It’s just like a baby New York. New York still is and was the same way with artists coming out of all the boroughs of New York. Queens. Manhattan. Staten Island. It was the same thing but I’m not sure, once we got record labels down here, you got record labels that were able to connect with the West and record labels up top with Def Jam. Ludacris was on Def Jam. I’m not sure if 2 Chainz was on there or not. You’ve got some Southern artists that were up on Def Jam and they’re in New York.

Then with that happening, you hav different producers from the South coming up to New York and kind of partying together. I think that’s what it is. You can’t really shut the water off in several places because you’d have leaks everywhere. I think with Atlanta, we were searching to work with anybody and anybody that had the same passion that we headband I guess that was kind of cool because across seas they don’t care.

They just want to hear hip-hop. They just want to hear raw hip-hop.

Check out Khujo Goodie’s full Attack The Culture conversation and be on the lookout for The K-Files dropping January 21, 2022.