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(Interview was done by phone on December 18th 2003)
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dubcnn.com: First tell us about life growing
up? I know you were into basketball right?
I was into the whole thang, I played basketball, that was basically
my roots, I was always there with music too, but I thought about
pursuin a career in basketball, but it turned out unfortunate events
or what not, mishaps, then I got a role to pursue in music.
dubcnn.com: Do you think you would have been more successful
if you went with basketball rather than rap?
You know no use crying over spilled milk, I live and learn, So I feel
like whatever I didn’t get at that angle, I feel like I’m digging up
bones and it’s all coming together like butt cheeks, no need to cry
about it, it made me a stronger person, you live and learn like I
say.
dubcnn.com: Right so you don’t regret anything?
Nah, I ain’t got no regrets.
dubcnn.com: How did you first get into the music thang?
Well I was always creating music, it was easy for me to create a
lyric that I can make and change, I always had a knack for doing it,
I had a few cousins that were in the game of music, the Twinz they
came out with Warren G, I got another cousin from the group called
Foesum, they came out so they kind of raised me in the game, Long
Beach at the time it was hot, Warren G, Snoop Dogg, Domino, Lil ½
Dead, everybody, Dove Shack I just was on the scene when it was
cracking and you know I was talented, I had a lot of drive and I put
a lot of work into what I was doing, a lot of planning and I took my
package my four song demo to a little homeboy of Snoop’s, Snoop
wound up listening to it and liked it, this was like 2001, January,
and he wanted to sign me so 11 months between January 2001 and
December 2001, he eventually signed me in December of 2001.
dubcnn.com: The first time we heard you was on the Foesum
album on the song “Hello” and were their any pre-w tracks you were
heard on?
Well I wasn’t herd until on Warren G’s Return of The Regulator, I
co-wrote a couple of songs on there, on the single the Stevie Wonder
song, “Ghetto Village” and their was a song called “Streets Of LBC,”
and between that time I wrote a whole bunch of other stuff that I
submitted that didn’t make the album, between that time I was
learning about being in a real studio, writing, working with real
artists, El Debarge, George Clinton, big name muthafuckaz, WC, and
go to the studio and meet muthafuckaz, and I got to build
relationships and people got to see how hard I work, and inbetween
those whole 11 months I took a trip to New York, making the Warren G
album and I was in New York for about three weeks, got some
technique out there and some politics, coming out in the scene I was
about to be sign, just out there politicin doing my thang,
eventually later on that year, Snoop went ahead and we did our thang,
and I felt at that time it was the right thing to do.
dubcnn.com: Were you happy with how the Doggystyle Allstars
Compilation turned out to be?
I mean, yes and no, yes I was happy, looking at it through my eyes
being a young artist, a new artist a virgin artist, who hadn’t been
heard, it was good for me, I had this little invitation into music
next to Snoop Dogg, the king of the West Coast, and make a huge
impact and that’s what I needed, and it’s like riding with Snoop
gave me that ID, and coming up out of the West Coast, and that nigga
got to get verified, somebody got to vouch for him, that got to be
the king of the coast, the man that got the power, the man that got
the influence on the market, and so I had to get blessed, coming out
of Long Beach, not just the West Coast, not just coming out of
California, I’m coming out of Long Beach, so it ain’t no way around
the whole Snoop issue, so somebody just ask hey Snoop who this nigga
E-White coming out of Long Beach, 9 times out of ten he’ll be like
fuck that nigga, so I had to go that route and I felt like it was a
good move, and so I was happy with that, and the way that the album
turned out, the way that we worked on it, the product the way it
came out, they slept on it, kind of made me think twice like damn,
and it made me think like damn how a nigga like Bad Azz ain’t gone
platinum yet, shit like that make me look at the game of music, at a
different angle, and it’s something I concentrate on the success,
but I don’t become a flock.
dubcnn.com: So what’s more important to you, to make good
music or sell more records?
Oh there’s no doubt the music, cause I’m listening to the radio
right now and I ain’t disrespecting nobody, I ain’t the one to judge
what should be played n what shouldn’t be played, but strictly from
a man’s point of view right now, I’m still a fan of music, I turn on
the radio and the cycle the way they playing it and the repetitious
of it, you know it’s getting to the point where we walking down the
street and find 10 aspiring artists with the hottest song and it’s
hotter then what’s on the radio, and I ain’t hating on anybody,
congratulations to anybody getting theirs now then, but as long as
their doing it legit and shit, but I ain’t hating on nobody, but I’d
rather make good music den sell, just for the simple fact that I’m
always a man first and I want to do my music, of course I want to
get paid of course I want to be successful, have a stable career,
financial stability, and have a decent family business and life
ain’t short and all that shit, but number one I love music, so I’m
going to do good music no matter what.
dubcnn.com: What new aspect do you
feel you can bring to the rap game?
What I see right now is simple, as simple as it is a lot of people
make it hard, it’s hard to be real, too many niggaz in here don’t
keep it real, saying I keep it real, if a nigga don’t keep it real
with himself the nigga can’t be real with nobody else, and I’m going
to tell you like this, a bunch of these niggaz that say they
gangbangin, shoot em up gang bang, mean muggin and shit, some of
these niggaz ain’t done it, some of these niggaz ain’t real, niggaz
just dressing up and mean muggin and talking all this bullshit and
then you got niggaz trying to sound like Pac, niggaz trying to look
like Pac, you got niggaz trying to sound like, you got Joe Budden
trying to sound like Jay-Z, you got niggaz who’s obviously trying to
sound like other niggaz, and it’s insulting that other people can’t
see through that shit, and the answer to your question is it’s that
simple that’s what I’m going to bring to the game, I’m going to do
what a muthafucka wish he was doing that’s what I’m going to do with
my music, and ain’t nobody doing it, cause some of these niggaz lie
I ain’t going to lie, niggaz is doing it and I’ll tell you who in
the game is doing it, Scarface is doing it, he’s been doing it since
day one, and he’s always been doing it, and the success with him and
no matter how much money he makes you can tell through his lyrics
that, that nigga is in the studio working tell his brain hurts and
come up with something that’s clever and that makes sense and that’s
teaching you something, I know it’s flossy but his album is called
the Blueprint dummy, and you know what I respect that, cause that’s
a nigga who getting down and saying something, fuck all this Chingy
shit, this Ludacris shit, you getting a nigga like T.I. from the
south, a nigga like Scarface from the South, niggaz that represent
that sound, but all this sucka ass shit, that radio shit, and 50
cent he was a new face new sound, and people were ready for that n
he didn’t let them down, so you know a new face like myself going to
be more open minded for my album and know I’m not going to let them
down.
dubcnn.com: We heard you and RBX are
a group “Black & Blue” can you tell us about that project?
I wasn’t really down with the group album, not necessarily because
it’s with RBX, I’m not with a group album with nobody, to make my
entrance in this game, whoever can’t understand that, just can’t
understand that, I’ll do what I got to do to come out solo, to start
my career, I don’t need to have a parent helping me, feeling like
they got to break my record, we got to go pay a gang for a bunch of
features, paying full price for a heavy hitting beat, I got
relationships with hard hitting producers, that reach out to me and
make me aspire to keep on doing what I’m doing, come down to get
down, holla, I’m working with you.
dubcnn.com: How could they talk about the project if you
weren’t with it from the beginning?
You know how it is, I guess sometimes, when your not on the best
communication terms, with all people involved in the project, then
some things get misconstrued, or a piece might be missing, one
person may think this is happening and then another person is under
a completely different assumption, and it’s not like one particular
person to blame, but we all need to be under some kind of
communication, where this type of loophole, isn’t going down, and
I’m always going to stand up for what I believe in, number one I
remain as humble as possible, in all aspects because this is
something that is very serious, and if you ever speak your mind and
your opinion and how you feel and what you seen and been through, in
the time that we live in, I don’t worry about how good or bad the
money may be, I stay focused and I know that I’m blessed, You know
out of all the minorities coming up and to be heard by millions is a
blessing I stay hooked on that and I stay knowing that, two years
ago I didn’t have the opportunity to expand on the situations, but
like I said I feel strongly in what I believe, I got a whole lot to
say I’m not no straight chicken right here, I’m a full grown man
I’ve lived I’ve experienced, I’ve been nothing, I’ve been the shit
I’ve been shit, I’m ready to speak, I’m ready to live it, I’m ready
to testify to that.
dubcnn.com: So there is no group album happening right?
Not at all, their might be a group but it won’t involve me.
dubcnn.com: So your working a solo album then?
Yah, what I’ve been doing the last two years, I learned to not let
somebody see your working, very hard at work without looking like
your working, then muthafuckaz can’t read you, a lot of niggaz try
to size me up, and I know that, so the last thing I’m going to let
them do is size me up, and I been in the cut, I know where niggaz
been sleeping at, I’m going to make a lot of niggaz tighten they
game up, I ain’t going to say no names, a lot of old niggaz that
still in the game and got it in them, and they just bullshitting,
and I’m going to be that flame that spark everybody, like
"I can’t let this young skinny muthafucka
come in here and talking this shit, when I’m around he going to look
like he really about it, I believe you, let me step my game up",
you got niggaz that thinking they going to come here and gangbang
shoot em up, you got niggaz who think they just going to lyrically
and verbally and all that bullshit, this the testimony right here,
it’s real it’s street music, it’s gutter music I speak, when I say
street music I mean skid-row street music, I mean doing bad street
music, I mean it’s hard out here street music, I talk the same thing
I say in my music that I talk to niggaz on the streets about, I feel
that there is to many niggaz that feel this way and nobody is
representing them, too many muthafuckaz trying to dress up and be on
the radio and on the video and bling bling and shit, and it’s deeper
then that, and that’s the type of nigga you is.
dubcnn.com: Do you think your solo will ever see the light of
day on Doggystyle records?
As much as I thought it would be and how much I wanted that to be
the jumpstart to my career, and how I want it to be
the initial success of a hip-hop act not just out of the
West, I’m talking bout in the game period, I know that’s a big
statement, but I really believe that, and
the only thing that makes me think that it
ain’t going to happen under that label is I’m the only one that’s
feeling like that right now, but before I can be
on to niggaz like "yah we on to
something right there," somehow, someway,
and I don’t think I’m hallucinating, I’m a fair person, and I don’t
talk first I pay attention, I don’t run my mouth without a reason,
and I don’t see being that way and I refuse to drop my album under
any less circumstances, I just can’t see it, I’ll be surprised more
then anybody else if it does, as much as I want it to happen I can’t
see it going down. But I'm putting every effort into it, I'm putting
my complete willingness to drop a solo record.
dubcnn.com: So who is actually gonna have an album on
Doggystyle cause we don't see much coming out on there..
I honestly can't tell you I don't even wanna hold you up speculating
and shit, honestly I don't have a clue, I don't have the slightest
idea.
dubcnn.com: Do you know who is currently signed to the label?
From what I understand, I'm still with the label, from what I
understand Latoya Williams, Soopafly..
dubcnn.com: And that new singer right? Delano?
Yeah I'm not sure if he is signed, but he might be, I was just
telling you about those that I knew i was signed with which was
Latoya Williams and Soopafly.
dubcnn.com: Right, since Kokane left a while ago..
Yeah, he left a while ago, that's why I didn't mention him.
dubcnn.com: What's your current relationship wit Kokane right
now?
That's my nigga! Kokane is my nigga man! My relationship wit Kokane
is the same as it's always been! I respect him as a friend!
dubcnn.com: Yeah well Snoops been accused quite a few times
lately of fucking over his friends. What's your relation wit Snoop?
Relationship wit Snoop is more like in a way he's a big brother, you
know what I'm saying, on the social person tip man, I couldn't
really picture him fucking over his friends like that, a more giving
person, a more patient person. He's doing lots for alot of people in
a lot of different ways as a person. And I'm sure his shoes and his
position, being exposed that much as a person I think it's something
that alot of people really don't understand. And in history, I can't
really speak up on that too much cause I wasn't there, it was a long
time before me. But you know, this is the mans life, theyve rugged
him through the mud, and I think all along, your whole intent was to
come into the game and be an entertainer, but at the same time,
bring your homies from the hood along with you as far as you could.
But like I said my relationship wit him is perfect.
Now it's things as far as the company that I'm not sure my career
can blossom into something as big as I believe it can be. Wether I'm
being cocky wether I'm being arrogant or irrational or unreasonable,
it's a matter of opinion. But I speak this way cause I'm confident
in my work and I'm confident on how hard I could bring myself and
how much pressure and how much dissipline I put on myself. And to be
treated, and I'm not saying from Snoop right here, but to be treated
by anybody as if I'm illprepared, lazy or as if I'm not down to go
through the struggle, that just let me know that they got me twisted
off the top, and we have the reconsider, reevaluate things.
dubcnn.com: But are you happy wit the way your career has
went up until now?
Basically, not to say I'm content, but I'm happy with what I learned
so far, learned alot that I didn't know, getting signed, going on
tour, meeting artists, going to different venues, just experiencing
life in traveling, doing real grown up shit, going to business
meetings, discussing entrepreneur type of shit, just being exposed
to another side of life. I coudln't really ask for more. BUT, I also
feel like my 15 minutes of fame is ticking! And I don't really have
alot to show for it right now and I'm starting to get, not
necessarily panicky or franic, but I'm getting more and more
concerned and each minute goes by and I'm starting to wonder, if the
people in control have my best interest at hand! And if not, then I
gotta boss up and do what I gotta do! I mean boss up with mine, I
don't need to boss up on another mothefucker for nothin'. But I'm
talkin bout boss up on mine, cause I know what to do wit my talent,
wit my god given creativity and my god given act of how to get this,
and executing business! I gotta believe in myself and I'm not gonna
stop and I'm not gonna wait on another man, I'm not. I'm a team
player to the fullest, I'm a team player, but how long do I gotta be
a bench player, how long do I gotta score 25 points a game! Not only
that, how many times to I gotta score 25 points a game and do 8
assists and still come off the bench?! If we was winnin' and I was
playin' that role, then I couldn't complain, I'd be selfish if I did.
But we're going up against all these other teams right now, and
honestly, we're losing! And I ain't gotta name them, but you put us
up against other companies and make it like it was basketball, NFL,
and other teams that do what we do, the same profession, and they
get money from the same corporation that we get money from, WE'RE
LOSING RIGHT NOW! It always been like when you lose then you reajust
your lineup and you go work. And it's odd that I can ghostwrite a
song but I can never write a solo song for myself! But I can
ghostwrite a whole song, and it makes the cut! But I can never put a
whole solo song out. You think back to the compilation, FUCK IT man,
you think back to the compilation! Why is E-White the only artist
that don't get a solo cut out? You know what I'm saying?? And then
you start paying attention, and then you start wondering why, why am
I not on the Roc The Mic tour??
dubcnn.com: I was about to ask that!
With Jay-Z and 50 Cent. If that's the cracking-est spot, in HipHop
right now, and I'm supposed to be the next to bubble, and not even
the next to bubble, ONE of the next to come out and represent what
we represent, WHY am I not on tour?? And I ain't knockin' nobody
else that was on tour, anybody who was there deserved to be there,
I'm just saying I feel I deserved to be there. If I didn't atleast
let me know what's up!! I mean wouldn't anybody in their right mind
start to ask questions? After not seeing a check in so long for a
company you've worked for, would you not start to ask questions??
dubcnn.com: I feel you man!
Everybody, everytime you step out the house in the hood, or wherever
you at, niggaz askin you the same questions! "What's up with this
why did whoop whoop whoop whoop why you da da da da" let's get it
right I ain't no dope fiend! I ain't checking off money I ain't
smokin' off money! I don't believe in bling bling! Nigga I'm out
here surviving. You know what it all comes down to is a lot of
niggaz are scared, at the shit that you say in your lyrics! If you
pay attention to what I say lyrically, I don't let up on one word.
And I'm gone tell you, there's TWO songs that I did it on, TWO songs,
two verses, and I ain't even gone tell you, cause if you ain't
recognized it, I don't want you to! It was only two times I got lazy
and I know when I did it! And I don't mean for no whole bar, nephew,
I mean for a WORD, where I got lazy, and I know it. Niggaz to what
you say, and when you hold up to be the type of nigga that you
portrait yourself as, alot of people ain't ready to deal with it.
And I'm not talkin bout sports, like tearin a muthafucka up
physically, none of that. I'm talkin' bout stand up to what you do.
Real life shit! What type of nigga iz you? How noble is you? Fuck
the cute shit, fuck the showing off, fuck the stunting. You against
the world! Cause I'm the type of nigga that can sit down with
anybody, one on one, they can feel the way they wanna feel about me,
and say what they wanna say, but you know what? I feel like I can
sit down one on one with anybody in the world. And be confortable
when I got home to sleep that night with the impression that they
got about me. Bottom line, and I don't think alot of people can do
that. I think alot of people are scared to sit down one on one wit
motherfuckers, cause alot of people can be one on one with
theyselves.
dubcnn.com: That was some real shit right there..
That's real!
dubcnn.com: I feel you though, cause you're not the only one
saying this. Alot of people been saying the same thing. I remember
Bad Azz was supposed to go on the Roc The Mic tour, and he had all
his shit packed and ready to leave and he was at the tourbus and
they didn't let him in, just said he can't ride.
And this makes me wonder you know? Cause this is your career right
here, and you start to consider that, you know... Long Beach ain't
that far from Compton. We right next door to Compton, home of Death
Row, you know what I'm sayin? So I mean realistically, if you wanna
stay away from the Hollywood aspect of the game and stick to the
specifics and the basics: anybody can be touched. At any moment. And
you start to wonder if... let me see how I put this before I say it.
Cause I mean it. Don't get me wrong, I knew who I signed with! Don't get me
wrong! I'ma go back to what I said earlier, and this is where real
recognize real at. I'm a Long Beach rapper, and there's no way
around that, going across Hollywood for some meal ticket, without
Snoop knowing! Comon man, that ain't going down. If you're a real
Long Beach nigga which I am, if you got any roots to Long Beach or
family in Long Beach, and niggaz can get at you and check your files,
then you gotta go through Snoop! It's not a bad thing, if it was it
wouldn't work, cause he's holdin down the West! And he just happens
to be from Long Beach, you got to go through there! Ain't no going
around it, and everybody knows thats how it is! And that's not
something I gotta walk around explaining. But you start to wonder,
if my life and my career is important to the people that I pledge my
allegiance to. And this is real life shit,
FUCK hollywood, FUCK the music, just get back to the real life. Long
Beach is right next door to Compton. Long Beach is right next door
to Compton. And I have concerns about my affiliations sometimes..
And I wonder if it's give give situation on my end, you know what
I'm sayin'? If it's right for me if a worst case scenario does
happen. And I ain't on no scared shit, bottom line this is real shit,
anybody got something negative to say about it, EAT A DICK BITCH!
Eat a dick cause you know me! And if you're sitting up there saying
something different, then YOU're scared. Bottom line, and holla at
me! I'm in the beach EVERY da, ALL day. ALL day, doing the same
thing! That's just how it is, I'm not going nowhere so don't act
like E-White on the internet giving interviews and running and
ducking nigga I'm down for what I'm saying and as soon as I get done
with this interview, guess what! I'm walking! Right back to the hood
from where I'm at right now! And I be doing this, until my royality
money comes in. But back to the point, I have concerns that's deeper
than music now. Alot of niggaz die behind alot of shit and I ain't
getting into details and all that shit! I'm not saying I know all
the behind the scenes and what's going on and every last nigga that
died and murdered behind certain beef shit. But I know it's real!
And I wonder if my allegiance is real with my career where I'm at
right now! That's just the way it is! And I can't say nothing
different cause that's the way it is and I'd be lying if I said
something different. I wish I could make something else up to say
that and make it sound sweet and dandy, happy type of shit! I wish I
could but it's not that way man. I'm concerned about my career in
every which way I could be. im concerned, very concerned...
dubcnn.com: Yeah I hope Snoop gets to read
this interview and maybe he'll realize
Ain't no tellin what's gone happen man itss good for me right now,
muthafuckaz is
comin up to me sayin E-White "whats goin on whats goin on" u know
what im sayin? Fuckit this is wassup and
if they wanna know I cant help it that they wanna
know.
dubcnn.com: Earlier you mentioned Foesum is there any chance
we might see another collaboration with them?
Oh yea, no doubt! My cuzzin T-Dubb, my peoples Glaze, the DJ, my boy
M&M! You know they raised me basically. I was a lil slap nose lil
knucclehead I couldn't even hang out with them niggaz when they were
doin their raps, they were so much
older than me! My older kinfolks, so I basically saw them as long as
I can remember doin what they was doin, so it just inspired me all
the way around so it's always a thrill for me just knowin that me
being the littlest nigga sittin
up there watchin them in the studio workin on some tight shit knowin
that I'm in there with them niggaz right now we working their shit
or my shit but we in there on some equal shit and we up there gettin
busy like old school times just the way of steppin back in time like..
and its always family oriented so its always beautiful! Look for a
whole lot of collaborations with Foesum and the Twinz and E-White,
just for the fuck of it!
dubcnn.com: Yeah I was about to ask you about
the Twinz man..are you gonna be on their
album?
Yeah man believe it or not, the Twinz got some heat right now
they've been working umm I believe they got songs gathered over like
shit 6 years off the top but I'm sure it's even longer than that
over the years they've put together but it's crazy cuz it remained
brand new cuz they been squattered up to not let it out they aint
let it leak they just been sittin back workin like u know they been
in the game, they passed the rush the videos and the big paycheck
you know what im sayin they done been there and seen that so I think
they have real nice plan right now and I like the way their music is
soundin man I've been playin it alot basically it's all im playin,
is their underground mix shit.
dubcnn.com: Yea I wanna hear that shit man its been 8 years
since they dropped their album.
Yeah its basically all they ask me about man... "Where the twinz at
wussup wit them", you know what im sayin they got alot of people out
there! I hear alotta cars rollin up bumpin the conversation album
bumpin that original Warren G album were they came out featuring on.
You know what I'm sayin, I owe them alot I wanna give them a
shoutout right now all of em T-Dubb, Wayniac, Trip Loc as far as
just basically making me comfortable around ummm all I remember is
meetin my first time really just fuckin wit stars like hands on go
to a party wid them niggaz put somethin in cars with them niggaz
they comin scoopin me up where I be hangin out we chillin shootin
dice them, just smokin just doin it. Them niggaz rollin out somewere
prolly wouldn't even tell a nigga were he's goin next day I know he
in beverly hills at the house of blues just you know what im sayin
and I'm like prolly 18 at the time that was really just hittin on me
at grown up spots so it was just really turnin me on to it. The
grown up style of partyin and really being hands on with people like
I just used to see on TV or hear on the radio and it was just
something that I aint really been able to get nowhere else just
somethin I only expirienced can make it comfortable enough to be
around that atmosphere.
dubcnn.com: You're set to drop a
mix cd called E-White and The Entourage tell us
about that:
What that is is alot of people tend to think I was sleepin just
because I wasn't heard mainstream like I wasn't on Snoops album that
Snoop had put out. Lotta people don't understand this money that you
got to put in studios, proper things
that you gotto get. Then you gotto get shit cleared when you in a
contract and it took me some time, you know the trials and
tribulations and testin the waters to see exactly what I could do
away from the doggystyle camp. This is just stuff that you
gotto do you gotto go out there cause alotta niggaz think the answer
is in the book. I mean a book can teach you the teqnicalities words
and the terminology n shit but anybody would tell you that its not
neccesarily what you know its who you know and you gotto be in the
right situations its about timin to all that type shit.
Thats what I was spittin all this time doin which is why I can't say
Im bitter or unhappy about this game im very happy because I learned
alot and I see alot now I got a long way to go but I know im
improving. alot of people thought I was sleepin and in between all
this time ive been doin nuttin but writin and diggin deep in my
frustration, my joy my pain my everything man my excitement my
boredom everything man I just rounded it all up and the cold part
was we didnt really put no mix to it cause I wanted to keep that
grimy feel to it, that hard that gutter feel to it maskerated it
like a mixtape but truthfully its an album. You pick it up you play
it you, you gone be like "damn ima let all that run all the way
through without stoppin that or fastforwarding that."
So I had to give people somethin right now like I said thats part of
my 15 mins of fame the people who happen to know me and the real
hiphop heads who happen to like me who wanted to hear more of my
shit I had to give them more of my shit. Cause theres alota of new
niggaz comin out talkin bout they this and that about the westcoast
and im unimpressed but dont get me wrong theres alot of niggaz im
feelin out here so dont get me wrong but for the most part man its
....I can say what I want right now my nigga im just so well in it
and so ready to just ... I hate talkin that shit cuz im about it I
rather be about it but its an interview so I gotto talk about it
right now im just so ready to show and prove and shut muthafuckaz up
and really show muthafuckaz how to do it and really just show
muthafuckaz how to do this shit how to talk from the gut how to turn
off being cute how to turn off worrying about what a muthafucka is
sayin how to turn off followin that trend I aint talkin about no
jeffrey diferent shit! Hey look at me I'm diferent I'm talkin about
give it to them real, thats all you can appreciate!
Give it to em muthafuckin real, be creative take time let me see you
just love that music when you do it and it's quite simple, well you
know its easier for me to say it cuz I'm home and I aint never been
rich and I do hope I stay driven I do hope if I do have 5 million in
the bank right now and 300 000 sittin up in my house here and a jet
and yaght there I hope to get inspired to work in the studio the
same way I do now. I hope I stay motivated cause the moment you stop
beein driven is the moment you fall off. If you look around at all
these artists who used to be successful and you look around, how
many did support you and you'll say "dam hes the hardest lyricist
thats been around" and you listen to the same nigga now, and you
like "What the fuck is this shit? Does he not know he's boo boo??
You can't get caught up in the hype man like my big homeboy Soopafly
told me, you can see the real in a nigga when they grab that
camcorder and hit that record button and that nigga start showin off
infront of that camera thats who the nigga really is. You see the
camera recording and you wanna get back to the full you wanna change
the character up thats the type of people that you dealin wit. When
the camera is recording, nigga be the typa nigga you is! Nigga sit
back and get a grip!! Theres too many niggaz runnin' out and showin
out and actin cute. I just think that people gone start payin
attention to other type o shit cuz its so easy and simple for people
to start speedin to somethin they relatin to which is game which is
joy which is partyin u know what im sayin? Ain't nobody really goin
there, you got muthafuckaz just gettin their paper then you got a
muthafucka just shootin muthafuckaz up in every rhyme, then you got
a mothafucka talkin bout how he only got one pops on his whole album,
then this muthafucka sittin in jail his whole life. This is really
what muthafuckaz are doin and everybody ridin everybody else stinks.
and they really think dont nobody see that shit!
Well you know what muthafucka? Im talkin all this shit cause 1. Im a
signed artist with a deal so fuck with any other inspired rapper who
ain't got a deal thats down talkin it anybody thats spit me a rhyme
with yall then I support him and I luv yall and yall is the reason I
have heart and dig deep with my words so in these rhymes but for all
yall muthafuckaz thats gone read this shit and hear this shit up in
there readin my shit in the magazine gotto hard hate, you know what
im sayin, FUCK THAT, 1. Im an artist wid a deal I came from the same
situation u came from or probably worse, there wasn't no deal fall
into my lap, I went out and got that, I didn't know about no lawyers,
didnt know nuttin about no high school diploma. What I knew was
perole. What I knew was probation. What I knew was I couldn't vote.
What I knew was GR. What I knew was somebody elses phone bill. BUT I
GOT A DEAL MUTHAFUCKA!
dubcnn.com: Yeah let's talk about the mix cd alittle more.
Who's the entourage?
It's basically my homeboy Swade doin alot of the production and also
featuring on the hooks, adlibs basically just that right now, cause
this is the first one. We did this in about 14 days, trying to knock
out about a song a day, get busy, you know what I'm sayin?
dubcnn.com: So who you got featured on that?
The homie Silva Satin from Long Beach, just a couple of Long Beach
area products people that I had relationsships with or prior history
with not just somebody Ive just ran into meetin and shit. It's just
a way for me of gettin wit people that I been wanting to get wit on
the underground cause I'm all wit, u know, takin time out. I mean
it's not like givin a muthafucka a million dollars, Im not in a
position to do that right now, but what I can do is take time out
and let a nigga know. All real stay on the grind its nuttin to it if
u keep workin its only gonna get better I try to stay positive so,
whenever I am goin through a negative time hopefully I can reach
down on somethin good that I did and pull me through the hard times.
So Swade is on there Silva Satin is on there who else is on there?
The homie Quic 2 Mac came off on a couple of songs!
That's Lil Half Deads homie right?
Yeah exactly, that's my homeboy we all got a history together we all
come up, we were the younger generation when they got it crackin the
first time around in 93 94 we were the niggaz in highschool we was
the niggaz doin our thangs smokin indo sippin on gin n juice in
highschool with them bitches, goin to the basketball game or the
football game about to play. So it was like that, now we all doin
music so like I said we all come the same line of music, we all came
together, full circle, its amazin how we all work together right now
and just build so thats what I just did reached out to small school
homies that didnt made it out.
dubcnn.com: Is Chag G on there?
Oh yeah I got to give it up to my nigga Chag.. Ay! Special shoutout
to that nigga Chag G, he laced on that track as matter of fact I
only got one on there with him right now, cause hes so exclusive man
I didn't even wanna burn him out like that cuz he got a hell of a
project he working on.
dubcnn.com: Yeah I know thats my boy right there!
Yea thats the last thing I wanted to do, it was so hard to leave his
music just laying there, it was so tight I had to get it. I had to
jack him for it and then go appologize to him! I got a cut on my
shit with me him and Silva Satin it's called Keep On Husltin' I
think you had it playing on your website a few weeks back. I got the
version without RBX on there cause he hadn't laced his verse yet
when I got it. But yeah, Chag G over there doin it real big cuz he
versatile, he can do the r&b thing, the hiphop thing. I wanna get a
straight HipHop beat from him as soon as I can get at him!
dubcnn.com: So swade did the production on the mix cd?
Well actually he more like engineered it and he did produce a few
tracks but I also wanna give a special shoutout to Meech Wells who
produced like 4 tracks. It's more like an album cuz I only redid one
song wich was the 50 cent cut "what up
gangsta" thats the only thing I recycled. 4 tracks from Meech Wells
5 from Swade and umm a couple of others from my homeboy.
dubcnn.com: So is this out already?
Its in the streets man its wild on the streets its crazy cause you
know I just did it old school, with my own little copies u know and
tagged it up a few of them niggaz hit me up like crazy sayin its the
hottest shit out right now!
dubcnn.com: You gotto shoot me one of those
Hell yeah! Infact let me let you hear some shit right now *plays "What
Up Gangsta" remake song*.
dubcnn.com: Sounds tight how can people buy your mix cd?
In the swap meets!
dubcnn.com: What about people who don't live in that area to
pick it up?
I'ma try and hook up something real quick with my man and them. I'm
trying to get my lil website which is getting hooked up within the
next week
dubcnn.com: What's the adress?
Hold on let me see...dam, nigga I don't know were I got that!
dubcnn.com: Apparently you were gonna drop a record on DPG
Recordz is that true?
You know, I'm open and my situation right now is everythings clear
to go, so thats somethin that gotto be done, and it's not gone be no
bullshit.
dubcnn.com: Would you be down to get on a track with
Kurupt or Crooked I?
You know what man, and Ima treat it as such cause it would be
falsening right here for me to sit here and to act like I got beef
with muthafuckaz in the game cause ive been fortunate enough that
people been welcoming me with open arms it aint nobody that been
talkin about me disrespectful. So I'm not gonna create problems
thats not there. I got respect for the mens work I like the work
they do, I will never try to take nuttin from them. And at the same
time not tryna act super friendly and tryna be friend of a
muthafucka who dont give a fuck about me at the same time. Musicwise
I dig the work that they do and they got talent. I never tryna take
nuttin from nobody. I've had no problems up til now. And I wouldn't
cancel out nothin, music and music I aint never met them man so I
can't personally have nothing against a nigga that I aint met. I
cant down talk, and pretend that I got beef with a nigga that I aint
even met. Im a real muthafucka aint no tellin what gone happened.
dubcnn.com: Everybodys talkin about bringin the west back
whats your take on that do you think you got that kinda potential or
do you think it takes more than just one person?
Nah, it's like, to bring the west back I'm bringin it back I
honestly think, as humble as I am, when it comes to music when I
look at it its like Im an artist just like everybody else. Im under
contract im a proffesional now so it aint nomore waitin for this
nigga to carry me none of that. But when I get my look when its on
me Ima be ready. Its on me all the blueprints are there all the
whole makeup the way that I had always pictured the game goin its
kinda foldin in that direction so it leads me to believe that I got
the right context that Im headin in the right direction.
dubcnn.com: What do you think with
all the beef goin on right now do you think its holdin the west
back?
Ima say it like this man... I aint seen nobody throw a punch! I feel
like if you beefin with a muthafucka and its like that, fuck just
gettin on wax over and over then nigga its time to handle something!
Ain't that how it go? I mean how many times u gone start... I mean
goddam we gone meet up somewhere sometime and in all this beefin and
all this talkin and I aint seen nobody throw no punches. I aint seen
nobody in no pay per view. You know lets get your money winner take
all looser git done I aint seen none of that with niggaz that are
beefin like I said I cant say its real or its fake, you asked my
opinion and thats my opinion about it.
dubcnn.com: What are your current favourite artists right now?
Shiiit right now Scarface I love that Scarface umm what else am I
bumpin..
dubcnn.com: You said the Twinz..
Twinz? Nah man.. OH OH YEAH THE TWINZ! I thought you was talkin bout
Ying Yang Twinz *laughs* But yeah hell yeah the Twinz.. Then Eminem
is real lyrical man...I cant say I buy it but I appreciate the
effort he put into his music. with all that success he could choose
to sit back n be lazy n go do anything for 15 mins and go kick his
feet up but you got a young man willing to protect his shit thats
willing to work in the studio. thats his response from the game.
thats work thats what hard work does for you!
dubcnn.com: How does E-White's typical day look like when
youre not recording?
Man I'm layed back man! My days... I done did so much at a young age
that the average thrill right now to the average muthafucka my age
is not a thrill at all. What I do is catch some good eatin and I
gotto have a pretty lady. I gotto have a pretty woman. Also I like
to keep up on current events so I read the news paper before my day
over with, sit down somewhere, relax and catch a glimse of whats
goin on around me so Ill be aware you know not just the music aspect
but so I know what im up against that I know what we up against as
people. I look at alot of shit on tv and shit bothers me, 9/11 shit,
all this war shit lotta shit bothers me. Muthafuckaz hungry overseas
muthafucka might have lost both they legs might be a old white
muthafucka, this fucked up shit vibin me and I like to be aware of
that this is the life that we live and umm not to take it for
granted you only live once, and only thing is "what did you do with
while you was here with your time" thats what it all come down to.
and I think that alota shit that botheres alot of people that shit
that you wanna turn off in your mind if you pay attention to that it
does alot better for us as people.
dubcnn.com: Can people catch you live on stage to?
Yeah as a matter of fact I'll be in Arizone on friday with the Ying
Yang Twinz umm who else ..yea Knocturnal and a couple of other local
artists arizona and two other surroundin cities. We got another show
somewere outthere on the 27th. Then we tryna hit vegas sometime
within the next month and a half then we tryna put together a 15 day
tour in february here we hit arizona, vegas and maybe LA somewere
down here.
dubcnn.com: How do you hope your future will look for lets
say for the coming decade?
How I think my future will look? I think Ima end up hopin I wasnt so
successful.
dubcnn.com: Is that right?
Yea I promise you its gone be record breaking results! Not to say I
would be dissappointed if it werent but I honestly think man for
record breaking numbers actually in more ways than one. And I think
that would be the only hold up for the e white album. I might not be
the only one thats thinkin it. on the real I wont be dissappointed
if it don't turn out that way, but im not settin myself for nuttin
less. I think its gone be the biggest entry to hiphop to urban music
I think im gone make the biggest entry. I aint even had no album out
but everybody knows me I aint talkin about fans n shit im talkin
about artists. everybody knows me man. They know me I aint talkin
shit I appreciate it that's what inspire me and keep me goin when
I'm down. They dont know how much they do for me. "E-White you hard
keep doin what u doin im a fan of that shit" you know what im sayin
that shit thrills me. they the ones that make me feel that it's
nuttin! What the fans tellin me or when im around these stars that
have the success that I hope I have half of. I know what it is, I
know what its like to shine I was a highschool star. I stayed in the
paper every day behind that shit. I got dam near a hundred trophys
at my momma house right now behind that shit and I aint talkin bout
no litlle mini ass shit im talkin bout steal trophys man, 2-3 feet
of the ground man, I know what its like to be 15 years old and in
the paper wid everybody trippin on you! Im gettin that same response
right now with music, maybe a little better with this music!
Back to reality on the real, you know I think Im in for breaking
records if I stay strong and do what I know I gotto do let somebody
if I don't face the pressures, let somebody persuade then take my
creative control off in the area of the rap game that I feel like I
sold up then I dont feel like its nobody doin what im doin to the
music right now. and what im doin the music right now im doin
somethin to every word. You know how eminem, every word he doin
somethin to you, jay-z every
word he doin somethin and their not takin off. But youre not gonna
look at it and be like "yea he sounds like eminem hes not doggy he
sounds like jay z", naaaw the only thing in common is he's not takin
off no words he's not playin with them words! When they hear me they
gone be like "He sounds kinda real wit it" then when they see me
they gone be like "He look like he real with it!" and when they get
to meet me they gone be like "Oh he IS real wit it! This is our new
shit, we fuck wit E-White!" That's all it is man, it's that simple!
dubcnn.com: Yeah well I wish you best of luck man!
Yeah I'ma need it though! I appreciate everything homie!
dubcnn.com: Thanks for takin the time out to answer all the
questions man ima get back with you later have a good day man.
It's all good baby!! It's all gravy! Hopefully we'll do a followup
interview in a couple of weeks or so.
dubcnn.com: Alright man!
Good lookin out!
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