My man Sean Deez of Kevin Nottingham recently had the opportunity to sit down with Phonte and Nicolay of The Foreign Exchange a couple of hours prior to their sold-out show in Toronto. Since he didn’t have any way of recording the interview, I thought I’d lend a hand to ensure that the opportunity wasn’t wasted. - Keezy

Phonte and Nic talk about the very interesting, romantic, and symbol-filled album covers of Connected and Leave It All Behind. A great part of the conversation comes with Phonte talking about one's interpretation of one of his joints, hilarious ish. The guys also talk about what they "left behind" (baggy jeans according to Nic!) and go in depth with each topic. I also ask Nic about his album name connections from (T)Here to Time:Line, etc, and why they have have this distancing connotation to them. Essentially, we get inside the head of the artist away from the actual music and more behind the context about the product they are putting out.