ECAY UNO  (April 2003) | Interview By: Nima

       Dubcnn.com got the chance to speak with San Diego artist, Ecay Uno. The rapper/producer talked to us about growing up, being shot numerous times - one occasion has left him in a wheelchair, the independent game, past & future releases and much more! We have both the transcript and the audio for you to check and please feel free to send any feedback regarding the interview to: nima@dubcnn.com
 

Huge thanks to Ecay Uno for taking time out to answer our questions! (Interview was done by phone on April 25th 2003)

Questions Asked By : Nima

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Full Interview In Audio : Here

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dubcnn.com : First off, for the people who don't know you: Where are you from and who do you represent?

My name is Ecay Uno, I'm originally born in Illinois, my family moved out here to San Diego when I was five years old, I represent San Diego, the SDC Car, West Coast Rollin' 30's crip gang. Baby westside hustla!


dubcnn.com : Tell us about San Diego's Gang Life.

San Diego's Gang life is a deadly thing to be involved in, it's not whole lot of fun and games, a whole lotta people come into the gang thinkin' that this is a cool organisation to be a part of, I can make money, I can mack females, and if niggaz trip I got a crew wit me that will demolish niggaz but it's a lot deeper than that. And it's alotta internal strikes goin' on with each individual gang right now. A lot of it has to do with the fact that the bloods in San Diego is over there doin' what they doin' to one another, so that leaves the Crip open to... You know you take a nigga outta war, he gone make a war. Now that the Bloods & Crips thang is kinda slowed down as far as killin', we gone take it to each other, cause niggaz is warriors and niggaz always wanna fight! So it's a situation that if you look up, it's cool, but it's not cool, cause it's so much internal shit, and it's kinda like playin' chess, you got to always really make the right moves, because if you don't, you might find yourself a victim, and you could be the victim of some niggaz you grew up with and grew up knowin'!


dubcnn.com : Would there be a rap scene if Gangs wouldn't exist?

In San Diego? Yeah the Rap Scene could exist without the Gang scene.. When I was young and gang bangin' and we didn't have no hope and no dream of bein' a rapper. Now with studios being so easily available, it's alotta rappers that aren't gang members. But in San Diego it's a whole different rap scene goin' on on some HipHop type shit, that us we don't get invited to, we don't be knowin' about the events, and if we was then we prolly wouldn't even dig the music too much. So yeah the rap scene in San Diego can survive independently of the gang scene, it's just two different flavors of Rap Music you know what I mean?


dubcnn.com : Is rapping a good way of making money?

Well that depends on who you are! If you are somebody like a Snoop Dogg, or 50 Cent, Eminem, somebody like that then hell yeah rappin' is a good way to make money! But on some underground shit, you can make a little bit of change here and there but it's really like... I know a whole lot of independent rappers, and niggaz ain't eatin' man! They still doin' their thang in the streets, illegal, and they still tryna pimp, and they still tryna run whatever scam they can to feed their family! On top of that they might put a record out and get a few dollars here and tere, but it's not too many independent underground artists that's eatin solely off rap music. Muthafuckas is still out here doin' a whole lotta bullshit tryna get some bread so.. I mean if you somebody big that's in the position to go platinum when you drop something, yeah it's a good way to make money other than that, niggaz is still out here hustlin'!


dubcnn.com : How did you end up in a wheel chair?

I got shot in 1992.. I got shot in my mouth and in my neck and it left me paralysed. I got into a fist fight with this dude, and I didn't know he had a pistol, and I figured my one hitter quitter is guaranteed, and I put all my faith in that one hitter quitter and it didn't sleep him so.. He had actually gotten his pistol and shot me in my mouth and in my neck, close range.

dubcnn.com : What happened to that dude?

Shit I don't even know homie.. I don't even know. When that shit happened I was so drunk homie I could barely remember the incident.. And a lot of my account of it comes from my homeboy that was right there with me. But I don't know what happened to this dude, I don't know if he went to jail, police ain't never tried to get me to be no witness, and I wouldn't be if they did, but at the same time, I don't know who he is.. And when I was recuperating I was more worried about my life, I'm paralysed, you know what I'm sayin? I wasn't really too much like "well lets find this dude and let's go do somethin' to him", I'm just like "hey man life goes on, let me get on with my life"...


dubcnn.com : Is life more difficult now?

In some ways it is more difficult, and in some ways its not. If you look at things from a physical standpoint, you know I do whatever it is I gotta do.. I got to gym and lift weights, I perform on stage, you know, I do what I gotta do. But my mobility is challenged, so from a physical standpoint, things are more difficult, but where I have to sit down and use my mind, now I have to think my way through situations, and be more creative about gettin' things done that I need to get done and still maintain my independence, that part of life is easier, you feel me? So from a mental standpoint it made me stronger, it made me able to deal wit things better, physically, it's more of a challenge than it was before.


dubcnn.com : I've heard you don't smoke weed or drink... How come?

Nah, I don't smoke weed, I stopped smokin' weed in '97. Basically it was just a situation where I been smokin' since my early teenage years heavily, and I just got tired of bein' high and got tired of seein' everybody I was around high. And it seemed like everyday all day it was just a big quest to get high, and everybody from around wanna smoke and wanna drink, and I'm lookin' at certain people that do sherm, that do coke, and all kinda shit and I was kinda like "whoa hey all I do is some weed!". But at one point it just started all lookin' like the same thing to me, it was all everybody chasin' the high and I got tired of doin' that. So I tested myself to see how I feel without it and I liked it and I just didn't go back to it. As far as drinkin' go, uhm, you know I quit that maybe like two years ago, and it was basically the same thing, I was kinda relying on it too much, so I just cut it out, you know what I mean?


dubcnn.com : Anyway, let's move on to the music: What projects have worked on that have been released?

Uhh, first nigga that ever bought a beat from me was the nigga Lil CS, some shit I did for his first project, "Ghetto Classics", and I did some work on his second one.. I did the song "Came Around" for Jayo Felony that was on Crip Hop and it was also on West Coast Bad Boyz III.. I'm workin' on some stuff for Luni Coleone right now.. You know it's more I did Mackvillin "Ear Infection", workin' on his second one, it's more shit.. But I ain't really done nuttin' thats out there that made a significant thing in the industry. I been also doin' some shit with the Eastsidaz, if it makes the new album, the new Eastsidaz album, if it makes it it's gravy but if not then we back to the drawing board, but you know a nigga try to stay hustlin'.


dubcnn.com : What do you prefer: rapping or producing?

Uhm, that's a hard question I ain't never been asked that before.. I like them both for different reasons. Rappin' comes easier to me though, so I can sit down and rap, it's easier I'm quicker with that, but I like the producin' aspect, cause as a producer you get to work with alotta different artists, and artists will come to me with an idea, and I'm the one that helps shape that idea into a song that sounds good, that people can listen to. So I probably prefer producin' just because I get more control, I get more of an input on songs as opposed to when I'm just rappin', you know what I mean? But another thing is that as a rapper AND a producer, I have to sepparate myself. When I'm writin' I have to just only think as a rapper, when I'm producin' I have to just only think as a producer, because if not, when things start gettin' crossed up, that's when thing don't come out the way they supposed to, so.. I like them both man but I lean a little bit more towards production.


dubcnn.com : What's your relationship with other San Diego rappers?

I fuck with alotta San Diego artists man, me and my nigga Bay Loc we in close contact all the time! My nigga Bay Loc at SDC Records, I fuck wit the nigga Mitchy Slick, that's my dude, he call me up we fuck wit each other on some rap shit.. My nigga Damu, B-Stone, I fuck wit the nigga Lil CS, my niggaz from Out The Gate records, the artists he fuck wit, my homeboy Blue Stick, he wit Out The Gate, and uhh, shit man I be politicin wit my San Diego niggaz man we all down here tryna do it.. I fuck wit Mackvillin and his brother Illicit.. We out here tryna do it so we fuck wit each other!


dubcnn.com : Your just released an album called Operation Elimination. Tell us about it.

The Operation Elimination LP is uh.. What I did was, over the past year and a half, maybe 2 years, I done put alotta songs on different compilations, that really never made it to the town. And the niggaz I submitted the songs to send me a copy or two, but it never really got to town, so I just like fuck it.. My nigga Rocc (I-Rocc) came to me wit the idea, and I was like "it's a good idea to put all these songs I put on different compilations, on one album, and then I put my bonus tracks on it". And once I did that I hooked up wit my nigga Nemo from Wet Cat Company and he pressed them up for me, and we doin' some lightweight distribution, that's just somethin' I wanted to do basically for my San Diego folks man, cause they been waitin' on Mental Scars for so long, and also they didn't get to hear alotta shit I was submitting to others comps that was doin' cool in other parts of the country. So that's what that is.

dubcnn.com : And who can we hear on Operation Elimination?

Operation Elimination I got uhh, it's me of course, and I got some of my Bomb Leery artists, my artist Cee Wee 3 is on there, my artist Lil Crazy Cee Wee, they're brothers.. My homegirl LC Janet, I got the homie Illicit on there, uhm, I-Rocc and Silas is on there, you know, that's basically it, there's a few more but..


dubcnn.com : And you produced all of it right?

I produced the whole thang except one song.

dubcnn.com : And who did that one?

My homeboy Doc Deeve did that for me. That's some old shit that I threw in the mix man. So yeah I basically do all my own production anyway.


dubcnn.com : How can you pick up this record?

Uhh shit, if you ain't in Dago, you can go onto Siccness, siccness.net, and cop that motherfucker! My boy Vamps at the Sicc Shop got it available, and if that don't work for you, you can email me ecayuno@ecayuno.com and I'll make sure you can get it wherever you at, you feel me?


dubcnn.com : You are also supposed to release a solo album with all new tracks called "Mental Scars". How did you come up with the title?

The title Mental Scars was uhh.. Man a while back me and my homeboy Shotgun, that's my nigga he the other half on Bomb Leery. Me and nigga was sittin up man, and we was talkin' about some shit, and I just had a thought that went through my head, a Mental Scar, a Mental Scar is uhh... You know how a motherfucker could go through something, and not even really remember what he went through, but it may shake his personality, turn him into the person that he is. So alotta of the shit we don't even remember we went through, that makes us who we are, is Mental Scars, and it accumulates. So good and bad shit, everything leaves a stain, nothin just happens, everything leaves a stain.


dubcnn.com : Describe the album for us.

Mental Scars is a collection of my experiences, some of it is political, I'm not talkin' about political wit the government, but some of the songs on there was like political moves, cause I wanted to get some cool features, some artists that I dig and I wanted to work with. But for the most part it's just me, thinkin' about shit, and writin' it, and makin' beats to fit it, or makin' beats and writin' something to fit that. And you know, I got good experiences on there, bad experiences, some of my inner thoughts I revealed on there, and it's just Mental Scars man, I don't really know how to put it my nigga, it's just Mental Scars homie, when you cop it you gone feel me a little bit more.


dubcnn.com : Who is featured on it?

My nigga Goldie Loc from the Eastsidaz dropped a verse for me, I got my nigga Killa Tay on there, my nigga Bad Azz dropped one for me.. My homebody Mr. Tan, my nigga from Baby Boy, and also I got some of my Bomb Leery on there, my homeboy Cee Wee 3 my homegirl LC Janet, I got a feature from Mitchy Slick, feature from Cricet, I got a feature from Lil CS, uhm.. Oh yeah I forgot to mention Steve Vicious and Cricet too homie as far as the Dago artists I fuck wit, I stay in close relations wit them. So that's the feature list on Mental Scars.


dubcnn.com : Do you think your album could go down as a San Diego classic like Mitchy Slick and Lil CS records?

Yeah I definitely think that man, I definitely think that. The only thing that could stop it is me, you feel me? The only thing that could stop that from happenin' is me, if I don't handle my business right, if I'm not out promotin' it the way I'm supposed to, if I'm not doin' interviews like I'm doin' right now, doin' appearances and doin' shows, if I don't do that, then it won't happen. But as long as I'm up on my toes, it's definitely gone be in that category.


dubcnn.com : What does the future hold for Bomb Leery?

Uhh, the future, for Bomb Leery is just.. Man we out here.. I got my nigga Cee Wee 3's record, it's comin' soon, we don't have a release date slated for it yet, and my homegirl LC Janet album, my nigga Mooch Massive, his album. And aside here man we gotta movie that my wife shot and is editin' right now, we workin' on that, it's called Dago, DVD action. We tryna do shows in close conjunction wit the other SD record labels that I fuck wit real close, like SDC Records, Out The Gate, Crackles Entertainment.. And aside from that just community activism, where we can be in situations where we helpin' to influence youth towards something more positive than just gangs and jail you feel me? Show them that there's more options out here than just that.


dubcnn.com : Will Illicit ever drop a solo?

Illicit, will you ever drop a solo album cuz? My nigga is sittin' right here on the couch right now, gotta ask him that. You gone drop a solo album? Hell yeah my nigga produce, he rap, he do his thang so.. He gone drop a solo album and I'm gone help him put it together.


dubcnn.com : What are the good and bad sides of bein' with an independent label?

The good thing is you can control your music man, you know! As a independent I can turn in a project, motherfuckers can't really tell me too much or nuttin'.. Except for a suggestion here and a suggestion there! As opposed to if you part of a big label, they take me, they put me wit that producer, put me wit that designers, and have me wear what they want me to wear, and goin' where they want me to go, and rap about whatever they want me to rap about! The bad thing is, we really not eatin' the way we supposed to.. But we got ourselves to blame as well, cause we don't really make best decisions with our money, you feel me? But I love it man, I wouldn't change the game for nothin', a motherfucker would have to get at me and offer me some money to change the game.. Cause I wanna make the music I wanna make! I wanna do it the way I wanna do it, and on my on own terms, I wouldn't accept nothin' less!


dubcnn.com : I heard there were were some problems between you and Jayo Felony because of some track.. Can you tell us the real deal?

Well the real deal is, I'm the typa nigga that a motherfucker can get at me, and man I'm open typa dude, so a motherfucker say I need this or I need that, if I believe in your talent homie I'ma do it! But at the same time, when we make an agreement, to where no money exchange happens up front, but when money does exchange hands a motherfucker gotta come payin' you feel me? And that just never happened. And the way I deal business was, homie I'm a gentleman, you tell me this, and I'ma take your word for it, I'ma tell you this, you take my word for it. So I took his word for it, but when the nigga started gettin' bread, he wasn't fuckin' wit nobody in town. And when the bread wasn't there and he was at my spot, at my nigga Shock G spot, he recordin' and niggas is all on some "we lookin' out".. Nigga everybody know Jayo Felony is a tight rapper, so we appreciate the nigga even comin' to our studios, where he could be wherever else he wanted to be, which is what we was thinkin' at the time, we wasn't really knowin' his situation. But right now, I have to see a motherfucker done burned me, and that's what he did to me dogg, he burned me, simple as that.

dubcnn.com : And what song are we talkin' about right now?

We talkin' about the song "Came Around". I produced that motherfuckin' song. Didn't nobody come in my studio like "Ecay, let's make a beat, we want it to sound like this, we want it to sound like that". Baby Scarr and Bay Loc came over here, who was the other Du Lo Gang niggaz, and I was playin' beats for them, and when they heard that one they were like "that's the one, don't play no more beats" you feel me? It wasn't no situation where nobody else could say I helped produce that. No you didn't you lyin'! But, when I look on the Master P, WestCoast Bad Boyz III, it says produced by Loco Records! That's a blatant slap in the face to me homie! And then I get at the nigga about it, and he get all kinda flim flam to tell me about it, you know what I mean? And I'm just kinda like "Well homie, I'ma let that go, you did what you did homie, I'm not finna bring it to you like that, I really don't want no problems because it's not just gone be Jayo Felony and Ecay, it's gone get bigger than that" So that's what I'm thinkin' about, as one of the reasons I didn't let the dogs loose you feel me? And on the other hand man, it all comes back.. Everything you did, it's all gone come back, and everything I do and say, all of that is gone come back, so I ain't gone lie to you, I ain't gone make it out to be more than what it is, I ain't no helluva nigga that's just out here, I snap my fingers and niggaz die, niggaz get killed.. But you know, on some gang shit, if a motherfucker crosses one of the homies, the homies is gone wanna protect a nigga, specially me, seein' I'm in a wheelchair, I'ma a nigga that done got shot as a part of this cause, there's niggaz out here that's willin' to stick their neck out for me, you know what I mean? Not to be braggin' or boastin', that's just the game right there!


dubcnn.com : Is beefin' an important factor in the rap game?

Beefin'?? Man I think beefin' is a bunch of gay shit homie! If you ask me homie, if niggaz is on some battle rap shit, that's cool cause when you battle rappin' you rappin' and you battlin'. But motherfuckers out here talkin' bout what they gone do to each other when see him, how they gone kill him, how they gone this and that.. And man I be seein' niggaz that be sayin' all that shit.. See them niggaz together, and they only pass words homie. That shit is gay. Alotta niggaz do that shit just for attention, motherfuckers do it just because, they feel like "if I do this, a motherfucker gone listen to what I got to say, and if this nigga shoot back at me, then it's gone blow me up" you know what I mean? And that's a nigga who don't have enough confidence in his talent, to say "I'm doin' this shit on my own terms". I'm the type of nigga that feel whatever I say about you, I need to come and do it to you! And at the same time, if a motherfucker put my name in a verse homie, it ain't gone be no "Oh Ecay let's make peace, oh ecay let's calm down" hell nah nigga, then man I'm lettin' the dogs loose, and it's simple as that! I don't do that shit, I don't condemn that shit, I just think that shit is gay homie!


dubcnn.com : Nevertheless, diss records have brought out some of the greatest songs out of some artists...

Yeah, LL and Kool Moe Dee some shit like that, but LL wasn't talkin' about killin' Kool Moe Dee!

dubcnn.com : But I mean like the Death Row and Ruthless Records beef...

That shit was gay man!! All them niggaz didn't even fuckin' know Eazy-E and was just dissin' him cause of him and Dre! That shit gay homie!! You got niggaz speakin' on shit they don't know nothin' about!

dubcnn.com : The tracks were tight tho!

Yeah the tracks was tight, it's good entertainment.. But when a motherfucker gotta lay down to sleep, with all that kinda shit runnin' through your mind, you gotta think about "damn I said this about this nigga, and he might be a punk, I might think he a punk, but he might not be punk, he might be the typa nigga that ain't havin' that, and he'll bring it to me!" So it's good entertainment, but at the same time if you cross certain lines then you puttin' your family in danger, cause if the nigga a killer he not gone bust open the door kill you and leave! He gone kill everybody in the motherfuckin' house! So I mean, yeah, it's entertainin' homie, that's fine, but to me it's like, if a nigga rappin' about it, I hope the nigga livin' it, I got the illusions of grandchildren! That shit need to be real, if a nigga speakin' about it, he need to be tryin' to live it in someway! So if I make a diss song about somebody, you can call me a bitch too, cause I said it right here on dubcnn.com: that diss song rappin' shit is BITCH shit.


dubcnn.com : Is the internet a good way for promotion nowadays?

Yeah, the internet is BOMB for promotin' man! Cause it open up doors to niggaz like me, who's independent, to be able to get my music heard in France, Germany, Japan, where they don't have nobody that would be like "hey, ecay uno, we wanna fly you to japan and let's do some shows and sell some of your records in Japan!". So yeah, that's the game right there homie, I can't say nothin' about that!


dubcnn.com : And can we see you collaboratin' wit some mexican rappers such as Mr. Shadow and them who are from Dago too?

Yeah, hell yeah! My nigga Mackvillin did his collaboration with Mr. Shadow at my house! And I got a collaboration with Mr. Lil One in. If a motherfucker is tight homie, I wouldn't care if he was a Aboriginee. I do something with you, simple as that!


dubcnn.com : Who else will we see you collaboratin' with in future?

Uhm, you gone hear some shit from me and the Eastsidaz, I'm gettin' wit my nigga Bo (C-Bo), we finna lay some shit man, as soon as we get everything right where we can just sit down in the studio, C-Bo. I'm fuckin' wit Killa Tay and Luni Coleone, uhh.. As far as the Dago artists you know thats the livest niggaz down here! They can call me up like "Ecay I ain't got no money, I got a tight song I did" and I'll have 'em up in the pad and we'll be droppin' some heat! So I'm fuckin' wit Bay Loc, and all my niggaz from Neighborhood Crips that's rappin', that's tight except Jayo Felony, you know what I mean? I'm fuckin' wit my lil homeboys from West Coast Rollin' 20's and 30's that's spittin, my nigga Illicit, my nigga Cee Wee 3, my girl LC Janet, my nigga Mooch Massive from East Dago Mob Crips, you gone hear all kinda shit comin' from us! That's the game, that's the niggaz I been fuckin' wit since day one!


dubcnn.com : I was about to ask about C-Bo, how did that come together?

Well me and C-Bo, we don't really know each other, we only met one time, but it's somethin' that I was readin' on the siccness when people was askin' for collabo from C-Bo and Ecay.. But you know, that really don't make things happen, what makes things happen is my nigga I-Rocc knows the nigga C-Bo, so they was just choppin' it up about doin' this and doin' that. So as long as everything's cool, and the nigga can properly conversate, then it's gone happen. I don't wanna have C-Bo over here just tryin' to get verses and I can't offer him nuttin' in return, so that's the game.. That nigga he big, you gotta respect that, he like a godfather of this westcoast independent rap shit.


dubcnn.com : And what else can we expect from you in future?

Shit, I'm workin' on the second one, I got like 15 songs for it, I got 10 brand new songs, and then I got some older songs, that sound cool.. I got like a list of 15 songs. When I make a album, I probably do like 30 or 40 songs, and then choose from that, but I got like 15 songs right now for a new solo album.. Doin' some production.. I'm tryin' to get some production out there a little bit more, to be able to do somethin' with them 10,000, 20,000 dolla beats.. Some shit like that. But really, the thing I'm really interested in doin' is developpin' artists that I fuck wit. And showin' a whole lotta motherfuckers in San Diego that we got more options then just dyin' and goin' to jail. Nigga put his mind to it he can do whatever he want. I mean I been shot 13 times homie, on 4 different occasions, and I was supposed to be dead.. But I'm married, with a young son, healthy, I'm healthy, my family healthy, I got a studio, I got talent and I'm usin' it! So that's what you can expect from me, and just inspire whoever I can inspire that's watchin' me. And you know what else you can expect from me is, all this bitch shit that's in the game right now, it's gettin' shut down nigga. Right now, the SDC Car, of the San Diego music scene, we consolidated homie! We sit down and have breakfast and brunch, and we talk about shit! And if a motherfucker that's representin' this SDC shit, if you ain't sittin' at that table you ain't bein' heard, and you finna be out! You finna be out, you gonna be blackballed homie! And you ain't gone be able to do that shit you doin', and tryna represent this shit in a big fashion, and you ain't involved in no SDC shit, nowhere! I sit down and politic wit the whole SDC Car on this music shit and every SDC music thang, we sit down and we collaborate nigga. And we might no be on each others projects per say, but we at the table nigga, politicin' about what's gone be the next proper move to make, who gone be the next niggaz that we need to be fuckin' wit, what niggaz is outta pocket what niggaz need to be disciplined, what niggaz need to be brought to the table, what niggaz need to be excluded from the table nigga. We consolidated homie, so that's the kinda shit you can expect frome me, I'm about unity, I'm about fuckin' wit whoevers right, regardless of where you from, and I'm about blackballin' whoever ain't right, regardless of where you from, and niggaz who catch some swift beatdowns, cause it's dogs right now that's been chained up for too mutherfuckin' long nigga, and when they get lose, they gone tear somethin' up!


dubcnn.com : As a last question, how much do you charge for a beat or a verse?

Uhh, it's all negotiable my nigga.. If a motherfucker like a record label, wit some real major distribution, thats sellin' units, they got to pay me homie, I'm a new producer, so you want a beat, you got to pay me new producer price! 10 racks! That's 10 thousand dollars. Features for a verse, you got to pay me 5 racks. But now if its a motherfucker that's on some independent shit, then it's all negotiable, cause it's different amounts of money, and the tighter you are, the more I can believe in you, and the more negotiable shit is, you feel me? I like to see tight music bein' made, so I ain't gone let the money stop that, but a motherfucker can't walk to me sideways neither, you know?


dubcnn.com : Do you have anything you want to tell the people out there? Any shoutouts?

Yeah man, I wanna give shoutouts to all the SDC, my niggas from West Coast 20's and 30's, my niggaz from Neighbourhood Crips 41 45 47 Block, my niggaz from the EDMC, Lil Neighbourhood 44 Block, and I wanna give it up to niggaz like Lil CS and Mitchy Slick, Cricet and Steve Vicious that be puttin' it down wit this rap shit, for a long time. My nigga Damu, openin' up doors for me, I got some lil homeboys I wanna shoutout, my nigga Cee Wee 3, my homegirl LC Janet, my nigga Mooch Massive, my nigga Illicit, Mackvillin.. Man if I ain't named you homeboy, then I don't mean nuttin' by it.. My mind be goin' so bad sometimes shit gets left out.. But I got much love for the whole Dago, much love for this SDC shit, and whatever I can do make it pop, just get at me, if it's right, then it's gone happen! And I'ma tap my resources for whatever nigga! I'm tryna see this shit get right homie, I ain't tryna see niggaz outta pocket like we been for so long, we gone get this shit in order man, and we gone start eatin' off this rap shit homie! Oh yeah, there's another thing I wanna say. If niggaz can't rap homie, you KNOW you can't rap! Don't come to me, cause you gone get mad at me when I tell you you can't rap, you feel me? Man I'm brutally honest! My niggaz will tell you so! Man if you can't rap, then don't even bring it to me! Try to be a promoter, go plan a concert, promote it, and do that.. Everybody ain't supposed to rap! Nigga you can be security, you can be involved in this shit without rappin' homie! You can come to the studio and beat-box, spark ideas, everybody can't rap tho!

dubcnn.com : Can you name me somebody in the game right now that can't rap?

In the game right now? Uhhh.. I gotta think homie... Project Pat! *laughs* But he doin' his thang, he sellin' records so my opinion don't really mean shit, but I was just speakin' more from a standpoint of niggaz who be gettin' at me like "Ecay, I'm tight homie I wanna do a song, and niggaz come to the house and they garbage! We get a studio and niggaz can't remember their verses, they be mumblin', takin' 3 4 hours on one verse. I was speakin' more from that standpoint, I ain't goin' to down on a nigga who be sellin' records, motherfuckers been buyin' it so it don't matter if he can rap or not! If you really wanna get technical about that, I really don't even listen to alotta rap music, cause I'm very thoroughly unimpressed! So we ain't even gone get into that my nigga!


dubcnn.com : Aight, that's about it for the questions, I appreciate you takin' the time to answer them..

It's nothin' homie, I appreciate you callin' man!

dubcnn.com : All good.. aight man.

Peace.