BIZZY BONE  (May 2004) | Interview By: Yash

       Dubcnn.com recently sat down to speak with rising Carson representative Bishop Lamont. He spoke on alot of different topics, including his new album, the New West Order, and much much more. We have both the transcript and audio for you to check and feel free to send any feedback regarding the interview to: yash@dubcnn.com



 

Huge thanks to Bizzy Bone for taking time out to answer the questions fans wanted to know! (Interview was done by phone on May 20th 2004)

Questions Asked By : Yash

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Full Interview In Audio : Here

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What's the deal how you doing?

Dubcnn.com: Wussup Bizzy

Right man hows it shakin outthere man?

Dubcnn.com: Everything's cool homie I just spoke to Krayzie Bone last week.

Wonderful

Dubcnn.com: yea he told me about the album and possibly doing a duo album with you.

Oh he said that he was gonna do a duo album with me?

Dubcnn.com: He said he was thinking about it, because I said why don't you guys make an album together..he said yea me and Bizzy thinking of doing something.

Yea we had talked about it you know for a quick second, me and Layzie actually went and did one.

Dubcnn.com: Could you tell us about that? How much have you recorded?

Well you know how it go man we linked up with the family me and Lay got together you know ' wussup you wanna put something together', yea I had just got out of jail you know I did a couple of things on tour with him and he was like lets do some stuff I was like ait cool lets do it. Shit we went and did it put it together in 3 weeks we mixin and mastering it right now as we speak. All is well man its a battlefield.

Dubcnn.com: Thats tight homie, so whats the first single gone be?

We looking at "Up & Down" a song called Up and Down..Kelly Robinson, Tiffanny, alter ego so im having a little fun the album is more of a celebration of life so we looking at somethin to put out just real fun just enjoyin eachother enjoyin the freedom of being off of Ruthless and doing our thang and doing our solo stuff and owning our own company so"Up & Down" will probably be the first single.

Dubcnn.com: So who's gonna distribute the album? Koch's records right?

Yea Koch is distributing that record in particulor it also going under 7th Sign records aswell.

Dubcnn.com: Oh tight man, so whats up with the rumour i've been hearing like Damizza telling me you guys might be hooking up with Dre to umm sign a contract?

Aw man you know I think those rumours come more over on the Krayzie Bone side because I really don't know nothing about it. Nobody really asked me nothing about signing to anybody, I just been really doing my 7th Sign deal with Universal and thats really the only thing that I been into at this point but you know im always there but you know I didn't hear that rumour though.

Dubcnn.com: Because you know I asked him about it too and he said he got people talking to Aftermath to get that done.

Well ain't nobody talking to me Baaby!

Dubcnn.com: Dam they always leave you out of it!

...leaving me out of it I wanted to be on the Mariah Carey song man they ain't even tell me about it, didn't tell me where they were going man left me out in the cold.

Dubcnn.com: Dam thats fucked up!

It's baad man alot of people hear alot of bad things about B man not showing up it don't even be about that man half the time. Don't nobody be telling me..

Dubcnn.com: What's the reason?

It just the crowd be screaming so loud when I get on stage it's ear deafening you know what im saying. I love to be there and I love to hear that but and Bone know if I don't know im supposed to be there, there's nothing I can do you know. I be watchin TV like everybody else and be like dam where Bizzy at? Me and my manager be sitting back like our phone's are still on I dont think they turned our phones off you know we checking our nr's making sure the phone company didn't cut off our phones because we was like wondering why we didn't get a call.

Dubcnn.com:*laughs* That's messed up

Yea im glad you got it, it took you a minute to get there but im glad you got the punch line.

Dubcnn.com: Tell us more about the album you doing with Layzie..

Well that's the little duet thing like I told you a celebration of life the basic thing the real concentration what we doing right now under 7th Sign records is we're putting out "Alpha and Omega" it's a solo album with Bizzy Bone and the 7th sign Regime. We're also putting a movie out with the cd so people could go and see me featured films starring Bizzy and you know learn alot about me. Cinema documentary type a indepth upclose and personal look at what im doing as an artist and what it takes to make it in this business and last 13 years like I have. We put at least 4 or 500 000 dollars into this project so it's looking as if we're gonna get a great turnout.

Dubcnn.com: You're one of the greatest artists man you worked with all the greats, Tupac, Biggie everybody..

Oh yea man we're some of the last ones still standing its about longetivity we put out hot stuff up to date stuff and just keep the music beautiful man and always have a message and something to talk about really formulate and build a relationship with the listener.

Dubcnn.com: Tell us about the movie you gone put out.

It's Alpha and Omega the motion picture aswell as with an album so its really an album a movie and soundtrack but we're gonna put it ou on cd and give the movie away for free so people can run into the stores and see the extra value ofcourse. So it's really and upclose personal about Bizzy where im from with all the deaths that are happening in my family.

You know the stuff that never got mentioned like when "Crossroads" came out it was never about any of my family members. You know I had alot of my own family members die my own people have died and it hasn't been televised and publisized. So it's alot of things going on with Bizzy that the people don't know, instead of just laying back and sayin if people really wanna know let them find out we're giving it to them.

We're showing it to them what it actually takes to stay in this game and all of the rumours put out the group rumours and all of those other things we're answering all questions and let people know we're here to stay. It ain't to many people outthere that can hold a candle stick when it comes to getting behind that mic and we're taking on all challengers. And that's all full of stance that we're taking aswell you're going to respect me as an artist and you're going to know actually how good I actually am because I work to hard for you not too so let me show you the whole thing and that's what it's basically about.

Dubcnn.com: Becuase I noticed that when Eazy was around everything looked cool with you guys as soon as he passed away rest in peace you know things started going wrong, what happened?

You know well im'a be honest with you I signed a contract with Eazy E when I was 17 years old you know im glad he took me out of the streets and I thank god I think him aswell him and anything around him at the same time it looks ok because we're drunk out of our minds & we're high out of our minds.

Not just smoking a little bit of bud im talkin bout smoking until you're Unconcious not just drinking one bottle of liqour but four bottles of liquor a piece. When you fresh and young you can do that and so after he died it was so much of our money that were tooken that it was like ok let us wake up and try to see if we can find someone how just can get our money for us and that became another struggle In the mist of all of that and in the mist of a ruth life it tore the group apart and thats how I look at it.

I mean we still friends but as far as.. its business we can't have fun anymore like Bone thugs and harmony can't go into the studio and have some fun anymore.
It's that fucking stupid that we all can't go into the studio and have a great time.

Dubcnn.com: But you and Layzie go together well right?

Aw yea yea definetly when we see eachother it's a beautiful thang but right now it's all about the business. You know the only thing that I can really say is if you ask me to be at your show and you call me, you get intouch with myself my people you can put money on our Bizzy I can only promise me I cannot promise anyone else.

It's sort of like a basketball team, you never catch Kobe Bryant, Gary Payton, Karl Malone and Shaquille Oneal with the same contract. Everyone has seperate agreements everyone is threated as an individual. I.E Threated as an individual because it ain't all about the money but it is all about the money.

You know us being in a position of not being threated as an individual now that we're actin as individuals their saying the group is split up and it's perpatuated itself with the group whereas the group is sayin ok well I guess we're split up but really everybody is just being accountable to their own business that's really all it is everyones owning and controling their own company so they can hold their own because you know 13 years in the game if you can't own your own at this point then why even be in the game this long.

You had your run fuckit we need to own our own that's the only reason to stay in the game. "Thuggish Ruggish Bone", "Crossroads", "4 The Love Of Money", "Days Of Our Lives" all of these songs our children getting no money off of. That was all tooken by Ruthless. *Yells* Tooken! I didn't say given not by myself so now it's a kind of a different story. We're just establishing new frontiers we've already layed groundwork. Now its time to establish our own frontier.

Dubcnn.com: You know when I spoke to Mc Ren he told me when you guys were both on Ruthless they tried to keep you guys away from eachother, they were like telling him that bone doesn't wanna do songs with him and viceversa.

Yea yea that's they whole survive and conquer because Ren has been with Ruthless so long their like aw shit he's gonna give these guys the scoop we gotto keep him the fuck away from them because Ren is gonna tell Bone thugs and harmony all the dirt on Ruthless and all the ways that they done him and we're gonna learn from that and turn it around to make it good for ourselves.

So instead of letting us better ourselves Ruthless being the evil demented company that they were while working with Bone thugs and harmony did everything they could to keep us supressed. It's sorta like a female who doesn't wanna let go of a man she gone do anything she can scratch, claw, syke, put the baby in your face, take you to court call up the homies to fuck you up. Any and everything to keep you. The only thing that has actually happened is you've solidified my decision to never come back and never turn my back again.

Ruthless is the worse babymoma you can ever have in your entire life and guess what the baby ain't even yours. She just puttin it on you because the muthafuckaz light skinned .

Dubcnn.com: That's fucked up.

Yea it's fucked up so when you finnally get swobbed up and you get the DNA test and you find out I.E paperwork you don't have to be at this muthafucka and you wake up the only thing that can be done is a broader hand method so say well I tried I got as much out of it as I could. And she made millions, she sold the publishing off for millions but Bizzy Bone's kids don't get to eat off of that.

Dubcnn.com: How many kids you got?

Right now we're working on 7.

Dubcnn.com: Dam that's so many how old are you Bizzy?

27 yea im relatively young im'a come outthere and show yall what a real hiphop artist is supposed to do.
I've never been able to go overseas yet because noone was really talking to me the way they needed to speak to me they more or less trusted the group members and Ruthless records to bring me there. And by them being a bit behind on the industry and not knowing as far as right away they didn't know that Bizzy was sueing Ruthless.

They didn't know that Bizzy was kicked out of Bone Thugs and Harmony. They didn't know that but they expected me to be there not even knowing the stories about me being actually kicked out of the group by the members then giving me paperwork like I was dated rappin and me suing ruthless and winning.

So when they get outthere what they would say is oh Bizzy couldn't make it instead of we put him out of the group because they didn't wanna hear the aaaw from the crowd. That is the real when you talk to me you're gonna get the real when you see me you gonna get the real when you just hear me you gonna get the real.

Dubcnn.com: oh ok can you tell us about your solo album whats that called?

Alpha and Omega that is what we're putting out with the movie and what we're doing is we're taking it back to the realness and we got the 7th sign vibe the begining and the ending. I put this album together through many years of hard earned struggle blood sweat and tears. This is my blood sweat and tears. This is better than heavens movie it's better than the gift, it's awhole nother level.

Dubcnn.com: Daam who's handling the production?

Aw yours truely..

Dubcnn.com: I didn't know you produced.

Well I have here and there, I did one song on "heavens movie" I did like 3 songs on "the gift" and now i'm doing the majourity of this production because I know it's me but it's still has to be good.
So I can only come with good stuff I can't come with the bullshit so it took me a minute to make sure I had my skills groomed to the point of where my raps are. So now were I really need to be and people gonna be very surprised of what they hear they gonna be very surprised, i'm gonna make sure that we get some albums out and some snippets to you so you can be surprised aswell because we need you guys outthere to help push..

Dubcnn.com: Man we gone help you anyway we can..

That's what we need we don't need to build this bridge for a second this needs to be something that lasts long to where when you need any help where im at I got you do not worry about it and vice versa.

Dubcnn.com: I would do anything to help you homie.

That's a wonderful thing man im glad that I finnally had the chance to speak to you and I can't wait til you get this out to my people because they've never been able to hear what I had to say Iv'e been black balled with ducktape on my mouth because what i'm telling you right now is very scary.

Dubcnn.com: Yea yea man i'ma let em hear this real shit.

Thank you

Dubcnn.com: So do you still smoke weed?

No not really man now i've been so busy you know at a club you know 'here won't you tap on this blunt' I might tap on the blunt every now and then but right now were my mind is I just been I haven't been drinking i've been off thee bottle battling the bottle because that's something that I don't wanna do so as far as smoking blunts that really isn't me nomore. I'm really so much more into my music than I ever was so it takes my thoughts and all of my time and concentration.

Dubcnn.com: Yea so you ain't gone be making nomore weed songs?

Oh yeea you gone get you one... Ooh Yea we're not saying that it doesn't happen it's just that's not gonna be my best song any longer. If you catch my drift?

Dubcnn.com: Yea I feel you, so what topics will you touch on the new album?

Well we tell them on the album that we're not afraid, that we would die for you, that murder is outta control that capo got murdered, that the streets mothered me, that I left my niggaz, that Thug world we live in a Thug world and we also tell them you know I got a little something when the lights turn off and you with that special one that you wanna spend time with at the moment.

We tellem all in together now daam what is the woman that I love doing to me, we tellem that and we letem know at the end all we want you to do is sit back relax and have a puff or two because all we wanna do is get high with you.

Dubcnn.com: *laughs* tiight alright man do you still mess with the Ouiji board or that's part of the past?

You know that game left a long long time ago, it left while we were still thinking about it. It was still never a part of our napsack with never in the backpack never next to the hennessey. That was something that was played as ... uh I guess I was 15 years old the rest of the guys were like 17, 18, 19 and it was something that was played in our youth an experimentation and we took that experience of it and left because the last thing the Ouiji board told me to do was take in a cult. After it said that I ended it's life stand with me and I never touched it again.

Dubcnn.com: Do you still fuck with Mr Majesty?

You know what he went straight Gospel rap you know a couple of murders in the 7th sign my little brother got murdered unfortunetly my liutenent got murdered unfortunetly..and you know he went gospel. Aw yea you gonna hear all about this on the new album and in the new movie. Things that have been happening that Bizzy is going through that people are wondering why is Bizzy's style changing why does it sound like Bizzy is so aggressive?

It seems like busy isn't insync it's just that i'm living a street life and im still in the streets I dont live in Hollywood I still live in Ohio Im still here, i'm still thuggish ruggish. Like foreal foreal, ducking and shit muthafuckaz is shooting i'm searching cars and shit it's serious so I need to be able to bring that. Thats why people are still feeling Bizzy and they will not let Bizzy go down without a fight.
And I REFUSE.. THEY GONE HAVE TO KILL ME.. THEY'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE YOU CAN BELIEVE THAT SHIT..

Dubcnn.com: Oh man I hope they never kill you.. So will you have Tony C do something for you? Do you still talk to him?

Well you know Tony C he's so crazy man Ima tell you what happened to Tony C, He did alot work on Eternal that he didn't get alot of credit for..Yea he always thinks that somebody gonna rob him and somebody gone take something from him so he spit to say certain things that he really don't mean at the time as long as he gets his money.

You know but I didn't go with Tony C on this one because I needed as much production room as I could and I also got a team of producers that I work with Chase the cat Studio rat uhh K roll different producers that I work with that are on the team that are fenomenal that's their only job.

So I couldn't have ganked em anylonger and with this new team that we got, Double R you know 7th Sign IMG distrobution, Universal distrobution we putting out movies 7th Sign Films, I mean with this new level that we're on right now that i'm on it just I didn't have enough room for him this time but it doesn't mean I won't holla.

Dubcnn.com: Yea because he told me that Dj Uneek stole some of his stuff and put his credit on there.

Well you know that was stricly a production thing and the only thing I know on "Creepin On Ah Comeup" so if anybody you know want to pitch a bitch I should be bitchin.

Dubcnn.com: Dam what songs did you produce on "Creepin On Ah Comeup"?

Oh I hummed out all the songs man fucking "No Surrender" you know what im sayin.

Dubcnn.com: Oh that's my favourite song man.

Aaw man I hummed that shit all of the songs on "Creepin On Ah COmeup" as far as the production with a brother named Kenny Mcclowd.

Dubcnn.com: Yea what's he up too now?

Aw me and Kenny I was just in LA we did a little against B2K talking like im set to sign for them. So we did a little diss song to them made em look like little boys. Man comon what I look like signing to them little kids? SIgn to them.. if Ruthless can't handle me you think them kids can handle me? I be in jail for something I really ain't wanna do.

Dubcnn.com: Yea, so you wanna add anything else?

Naw man just 7th Sign you know what i'm sayin we bangin that 7th Sign all the way in Europe from Columbos Ohio to Europe, Cleveland all of that I know where i'm from Bone Thugs and Harmony!
Rest in Peace to my Little Brother Capo and that's how we ride!