In this episode Durell is joined by hip hop rapper and songwriter Lunch Tha General. Durell and Lunch talk about what it’s like to be from the Inland Empire. Durell and Lunch talk about his earliest memories of music and him falling in love with hip-hop. Lunch knew that when he first heard hip-hop he knew that he wanted to start writing rhymes. Lunch shared with Durell that he started making mixtapes in 2001. He started taking popular West Coast rappers songs and adding his own verses which ultimately became “Lunch Reheated Vol 2.” “Lunch Eat & Defeat” and “The Lunch IE Standup Mixtape Vol 909.

Durell and Lunch talked about his mixtape success that ultimately led to him getting some really awesome media coverage in magazines/blogs such as All Hip-Hop, True Magazine, The Skinnie, Crunkmag, Live Magazine, & Word Up just to name a few. Lunch shares with Durell that this coverage really helped to establish him as an indie artist. He released a single called “Get Em’ Girl feat. Ray J began getting some major radio play and led to him being signed by Universal Records. Lunch shared that because his major label experience wasn’t the best he decided to part ways with Universal Records.


Durell and Lunch end the episode talking about him linking up with Nique and creating their project “Lunch & Nique” and his battle with Lupus and him overcoming kidney failure and not giving up on his musical journey,

For more information on Lunch Tha General, please visit his social media profiles:

Instagram- @lunchthageneral
@lunchandnique