How does the Staten Island sound differ from other New York rap?
Trife: We’ve got our own slang, we wear our clothes different, we talk different and we look different. We’re like the forgotten borough. Most people that live in New York City ain’t never been to Staten Island. What’s some of the Staten Island slang? Trife: We get “bucketry.” That means we get buck wild. Like, “Yo, son over there was getting bucketry last night!” I’m going to write you a little Ebonics dictionary. SW: I like “hard.” If something’s hard, that means it’s the move. The “move?” You mean like “awesome?” SW: Yeah, like awesome. That’s the move. You’re going to move with that. That’s something we’re gonna be doing. Working with such a big group, did anyone ever butt heads? SW: Not really. It’s like we’re pretty much all on the same page and everything. Ghost gave us the opportunity to pick what we liked out of our own personal recordings. Then he picked what he liked out of that and put it on the album. We all sat together and put our fish together and seasoned it out and bo
