3. “Is This Thing On?” f/ Outasight

Nitty Scott, MC: "“Is This Thing On?” was one of those records that I just thought it was dope. It was one of the first records that I felt like I grew on. It was created in the time period of The Cassette Chronicles but it was one of those records that it was too good to put on the mixtape. It was an original instrumental by 6th Sense. Let’s take advantage of the fact that it could be a single and then we have Outasight on it. I think the quality of the record is what made me hold on to for a while and just made me decide this should be on the actual EP.

"The record itself was born feeling like I declare who I am. What I am about. What I am not about. All the time. But, sometimes I feel that people just don’t hear me. Or when I just scream at the top of my lungs and what I am not willing to do and people will still approach me with bullshit. It was kind of like this feeling, “Is this thing on? Is anybody listening? Did I not just say what I am about?” I think that’s what that record was really about. It was more out of frustration. People hadn’t completely got me yet and it really was proclaiming what I am about for a final time.

"Outasight was just the homie. He works really close with 6th Sense. 6th Sense, we were in there working on the record and OU just happened to be there. It was just like, ‘Yo, I think you should just hop on this.’ OU is doing very well right now, he has a platinum record. His sound is a little different than before. I think it’s really dope that I got an earlier version of OU. I got him rapping like really spitting on this record. And I haven’t heard any spitting in a little while. I think just its going to be dope for his fans and just cool for me like, ‘Yeah, I got rap OU.’ He brought it. His whole swag on the verse or whatever was really entertaining.

"I think the last verse what wasn’t part of the snippet. It’s just a very powerful verse. It’s one of those verses that’s just meant to resonate with people and have a lot of quotables. A lot of things that people can just put out there like, ‘Nitty Scott said this.’ It’s a really solid verse at the end that I was saving to unveil to people. When you get to listen to the record in its entirety, you can really hear the chemistry between me and OU and how it all comes together."