Paul Wall: "Music is not my first priority anymore"

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AllHipHop.com: What has been going on with Paul Wall since Get Money, Stay True dropped in '07?
Paul Wall: I've really just been touring so much, and we've been hitting a lot of cities like crazy man. I've also been preparing this new album Fast Life which should be released [March 24, 2009]. I have just been real busy with that recording the singles and getting the promotion together for it. I'm just doing me, I'm on the grind all day, you feel me?

AllHipHop.com: What are your feelings about the reception Get Money, Stay True got and the finished project?
Paul Wall: I was very pleased with the reception Get Money, Stay True got. I loved that album; I think it really showed growth from People's Champ. The beats on there were crazy and it showed a lot of versatility. We put a lot into the production especially on Get Money, Stay True. That was the kind of joint you listen to while you're posted up in the parking lot. That's the album for me, that brought everything together man. It brought everything full circle.

AllHipHop.com: With that album, you stuck to a formula and kept with things pretty gutter and glossy where your first album was a bit more on the personal side like an intro into the game. Will your next album be similar to either of them? What can we expect from it?
Paul Wall: Yeah true, the first album was a lot more personal and stuff. And this next album will definitely be a mix of both of the first and the second, taking the best of those two on this new one. We've worked hard on this one and made some real dope music. I have joints with my man Lil' Keke, another one with Yung Joc and Gorilla Zoe, and I did a some stuff with Travis Barker from Blink 182 and Skinhead Rob, plus I have the single with Akon ["Girl On Fire"].

AllHipHop.com: Has being a family man changed you at all? And more importantly will it change the music at all? Do you plan on embracing marriage in your future lyrics?
Paul Wall: I'm still the same old dude, the same old Paul Wall, baby. The only difference now is that I got to put that bread on the table. I have more responsibility now and have to provide for them back at home. Yet and still I have to keep making the music my fans want to and expect from me.

AllHipHop.com: You have definitely been instrumental in putting Houston cats on like Lil' Keke more recently…
Paul Wall: Well Lil KeKe was actually one of the cats I looked up to around the way. Lil KeKe has been in the game for a minute back when he was in Screwed Up Click. I just achieved mainstream success before he did, be he was definitely one of the people responsible for me getting in the game. He really put me under his wing and taught me a lot. It just happen that I have had all this success.

But now I'm able to go back and scoop cats up like him and give them some exposure into the mainstream. There are a lot of talented cats coming out of Houston and if I can help them out that makes me and Houston blow up even bigger.

AllHipHop.com: More recently, you got people like Weezy going back and forth wearing the grills on and off, where some are just taking them off all together. Have grills sales slumped recently, or do you feel like less people are rocking them now them? Do you think grills will fizzle out like a fad someday?
AllHipHop.com: More recently, you got people like Weezy going back and forth wearing the grills on and off, where some are just taking them off all together. Have grills sales slumped recently, or do you feel like less people are rocking them now them? Do you think grills will fizzle out like a fad someday?

AllHipHop.com: What does Paul Wall have to write about in an autobiography? What about Tucker Max and his writing style made you want to choose him to write it?
Paul Wall: I was checking out the work, he did an autobiography of a good friend of mines, Jamie Kennedy. How the book was so real and it was really funny, so I just knew I had to have him on mine. As far as the book, I'm talking about real life situations in there. I don't want to give everything away. So you'll have to get it and find out.

AllHipHop.com: With all these side hustles and different projects you're dabbling in, do you think it will be hard to make music your first priority?
Paul Wall: I mean honestly, it's not. Music is not my first priority anymore; I'm doing so many different things. Music has always been fun for me, so I'll always make time for it as long as I can. But when you put all the time and work into it, I've found that it isn't as much fun anymore. Honestly, I have a lot of things going on and that's the way I like it. I can't stay tied down to one hustle.

[scarface2oh4]

wow. the dude made trash anyway.

[thisoneguy360]

Good