Review Fix Exclusive: 832 Talk ‘The RAP-Ture’

Review Fix chats with Nawlege 405 and Solomis of the Oklahoma City rap duo 832, who discuss their new album, “The RAP-Ture.” Inspired by greats the likes of Bone Thugs N Harmony as well as Outkast, they have a familiar sound but push the envelope with real lyrics, anything but the pop-friendly “booze and bitches” tracks heard on the radio every day.

Review Fix: Most rappers today talk about think of excess, drinking, women, money. You guys do thinks a bit different. Why?

Solomis: You already said it, every song is the same song and we believe that people are tired of hearing the same song, there are other things going on in this world that doesn’t get addressed and people have the right to know and shouldn’t be refrained from it.

Nawlege 405: We want our lyrics to have meaning and our mission is to make others think different other than money, cars, and clothes.



Review Fix: What is your creative process like?

Nawlege 405: We listen to hundreds of beats and once we find that right beat, the lyrics naturally flow the concept is right, if everything is perfect between the both of us, we know that particular track is the one and we’ll record it almost immediately.

Review Fix: What did you guys learn from this album?

Nawlege 405: How deep my mind state can go and be able to put it on a song.

Solomis: I learned that you can truly get better the more experience you obtain in this game, I have yet to tell my whole story because it took me until this album to truly open up my world for people to hear and that’s another reason why I feel this was our greatest piece of work yet.

Review Fix: What do you think you have to do to get to the next level?

Nawlege 405: Tour!

Solomis: That’s definitely a must and also do more networking and building relationships.

Review Fix: What do you think is holding you back and how do you plan to address it?

Nawlege 405: I think what’s holding us back the most is currency, we need more of it.

Solomis:I believe it’s knowledge of the game that’s holding us back currency is a big issue but it’s also a small pawn in this threshold called “The Music Industry” the best way for us to address this is build relationships with those guys that are up there so that we can pull ourselves up to that level.



Review Fix: What song on this album do you think is most indicative of what you guys represent?

832: “The Crown” because of how we expressed what we are and what we are here to do to reach that pedestal.

Review Fix: What inspires you guys?

Nawlege 405: Honestly, living life inspires us, we’re brothers so we grew up together and got a lot of things in common that we share with each other even as adults and our common interest mixed with our individuality helps us apply that with our music.

Review Fix: Is it hard to be in a group with your brother?

Nawlege 405: Not at all we are best friends it’s usually uncommon but we’ve been thru a lot where all we had was each other so this is a bond that can’t be broken.

Review Fix: What performers do you guys look up to the most? Why?

Solomis:Bone Thugs N Harmony because they brought an element to the table that cannot be reversed and it became a standard in Hip Hop even today, Outkast because they were so different no one could put a genre on them if they weren’t successful at it- the more different they got the more successful they became. Nas because he’s Nas, he’s just one of the greatest, if not, the greatest period.Review Fix: What was it like to work with Juju?

Review Fix: What was it like to work with Juju?

Solomis: It was like it was meant to be when he sang it was like he read our minds and knew what we wanted to say and what we expected of him. Juju being a part of this album was truly a blessing and this album would not be half of what it was if it weren’t for him.

Review Fix: What’s next?

832: We are going back to the studio, but we are looking to tour this summer to make more money mainly in the south region, but we will continue to build our brand so we can tour the nation, then overseas.

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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