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answer the questions fans wanted to know! (Interview was done by
phone in April 2004)
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dubcnn.com: What's going on Michelob? Before
we get into your music, tell our visitors abit about yourself. Where
are you from, and what do you
represent?
I'm born in L.A., raised in the Bay, and I'm full of game! So I'm a
Game Banger! You know, I wasn't really trippin' off of the whole rap
shit, I was just workin' like everybody else trying to make a livin'.
But then I went on the road with my nigga Spice [Spice 1], we went
to New York, and I was out there with him while he was recording his
last album on Jive Records. And then I started getting interested in
the game, I mean I always rapped but I was never really gone trip
off that shit cause I know that what you know is who you know. But
then, we left New York and went to Detroit, we was fuckin' with my
niggaz from Crime Side, and Spice was out there to do a feature, and
while we was in the studio kickin' it, they heard me freestyling.
They went and told Spices manager that they wanted me on the song
too! So I hopped on that song, and ever since then, I've just benn
on one!
dubcnn.com: You're part of the Game Bangers, along with
Rappin 4Tay, Spice 1 and 40 Glocc. How did you hook up with them?
Well I already was folks with Spice, and we had came out here to L.A.,
we was livin' in L.A. and shit, while he was recording, and that's
when I met 4-Tay and 40 Glocc. I met 40 Glocc through Bad Azz, and
4-Tay through Spice 1, and we was all in the studio one day together,
and Spice really came up with the name Game Bangaz, and we layed a
song with all of us on there, and ever since then, it's been on! But
at the same time, I started doin' my solo shit too, cause everybody
else was already doin' their solo shit, so we didn't really have
time to focus only on the group stuff right then and there, so I was
doin' my solo shit too. So for a while we stopped doin' the group
shit, but now it's like almost done and it's official now!
dubcnn.com: How big are the chances of us getting a complete
album from the game Bangers in future?
Oh it's as big as it can get! It's gone come out fo' sho! As long as
we keep breathing everyday, it's gone happen!
dubcnn.com: How much material has been recorded up until now?
We got like 8 songs done right now for the album, we prolly gone do
like 5 or 6 more and we'll be done!
dubcnn.com: Sounds good! Who handled the production on that
album?
We got like 3 or 4 different producers, my nigga Flexx did a couple
tracks, my nigga Peb, my nigga Pozition did a couple of tracks, and
DJ Spin "Battle Hungry Music", and
some more, so you know we got a few different cats working on it. We
trying to have different sounds and different flavors to cover all
aspects for the listeners.
dubcnn.com: You released your solo album "Don't Let The
Smoove Taste Fool Ya!" this year. What can you be heard on from
before that album?
Uhm, I was on the Last Dance [Spice 1], that independent album Spice put out, I
was on 4-Tay's Gangsta Gumbo, and I was on that compilation Spice
put out, Thug Disease. I'm the very first person to rap on that
album, first song.
dubcnn.com: Ok so tell us abit about your solo. You had alot
of big name features on it, mostly from your Game Bangers homies,
but also Ras Kass and Eastwood. How did you hook up with them?
Oh shit, me and Ras Kass been folks for a while, I met him out here
in L.A. too once I was out here and I had met Eastwood out here too,
and me and 4-Tay had took Eastwood with us to Vegas, he always been
the homeboy! So it was like nothin' to hook up with them, we just
clicked, and when it was time for me to do my solo shit, and I asked
them for a feature, they was with it! Ohh ohh shit I forgot, I'm on
RAS KASS - RE-UP compilation too! I'm on that one too, number 5!!
dubcnn.com: Ok, so we will probably see you working with
those two again?
Hell yeah, I mean Eastwood is gonna be on my Mix CD too and shit, we
work together that's my nigga and shit! I did some shit with Roscoe
too, Kurupt's lil bro. He's on my song on Spice's Thug Disease
Compilation.
dubcnn.com: Who handled the production on your album?
Shit, I got like 5 or 6 different producers, some of the ones who
did the Game Bangaz shit, and one other, Bobby Jones is on there too,
he did Mary J Blige and shit.
dubcnn.com: And you shot a video for the first single too.
Which song was it?
Yeah! I just shot the video for my first single called "Hello
World!", my debut to the world, like saying Hello, here I am, I
ain't goin' no where, so get used to it! That shit came out real
real hot!
dubcnn.com: Tell us some more about the video, what is it
like?
Oh shit it's everything you wanna see in a video, I got the
lowriders bouncin on three wheels, I got the jetskis, the limousines,
the hummers, all the females, it's just full of everything, it's my
world, what goes on in my world!
dubcnn.com: Do you think your video will get any airplay,
cause it's hard nowadays!
Oh yeah I think it'll get airplay, unless they just hatin' on me. But I know I'ma push it regardless, to make sure it gets play!
dubcnn.com: How has your record been doin' up to now?
Right now, I still do
the E-40 Master P thang, and sell out the trunk and go out there and
dump the Don't Let the Smoove Taste Fool Ya right now, and everybody
is feelin it! I haven't had, not one person, say it ain't cool!
Cause all of my songs, every last track is bumpin! It ain't know "kinda
cool", every one of them is knockin'! And nowadays, when you go buy
some shit, you'll be lucky if you get 2-3 songs that's bumpin on
there, you can go through all of my shit, and not skip one song! And
that's just real talk!
dubcnn.com: We all know the music business is shady, and
frustrating. Tell us your view, and how you evaluate your chances of
making it in the game.
Shit I know I got a clear head! I don't smoke weed no more, so I got
a very clear head. I don't knock nobody that smoke weed, but I just
feel like now I'm really makin' shit happen! And as far as the
industry, I know the industry is shady as fuck, and that's what you
got entertainment lawyers for, so they can break down the contract
to you so you can really understand what you're signing. And I'm not
no dummy, not by far, by no means! I know what I want and I know
what I'm lookin' for, so if I can get that, it'll be all good. And
like I said before, and I'ma say it again, when it's my time to
shine, I'ma blind everybody! You muthafuckas out there that ain't
heard about Michelob, you gone see, my name is getting out there a
little bit, it's circulating abit, but they really really don't know!
But it's gone change, trust me!
dubcnn.com: Is there anybody you'd particularily like to hook
up with in future to collaborate, production or rap wise?
Shit I wanna work with my nigga Rick Rock, he got heat! I wanna do
some shit with DJ Quik, he got heat, I wanna do some shit with Swizz
Beatz, he got heat too. And as far as artists, I'm not really
trippin' off doin' hella features with muthafuckas, unless they
really diggin' me as a artist. I ain't jockin' none of these niggaz
to keep it real with you. I got love for all of them, but I ain't on
'em like that. But there's a couple cats out there that would get
down with. Of course all my Game Banga niggaz cause we always gone
get out with each other!
I'd like to do some shit with Ice Cube, I always been a fan of Cube,
I'll do some shit with Nas, Nas is tight to me too, and Ludacris,
I'll get down with Luda cause I feel like me and him kinda on the
same page and shit to a certain extent.
And uhh.. That might be it to be honest with you! Besides people
I've already worked with.. I mean I'll get down with any of my
niggaz on the West Coast, it just gotta be love, I ain't fuckin' wit
no fake bullshit, cause niggaz ain't lookin' out for each other like
they supposed to!
This shit is like the game is segregated. East Coast niggaz be
lookin' out for each other and shit, but our West Coast niggaz it's
like every man for himself! So if it's like that, I ain't trippin
off doin' no songs with them, you know what I'm sayin'? But if a
nigga wanna do a song with me, if he diggin' me as a artist, he's
really feelin' my shit, then hell yeah I'll fuck with him! That's
basically all it is, I ain't got time to be like "Oh I got 5
thousand for a verse" nah fuck all that shit! If I feel your shit
and you feel my shit, nigga let's do a song together. We can get
them labels to pay each of us, instead of us payin each other! You
feel me? I feel like I don't NEED none of these niggaz on my shit.
Oh hold on I got one more name I gotta throw in there, I would love
to do a song with my nigga DMX. Please believe that, that's a real
ass nigga. Period. I don't care, wether they think I need the
features or not, I don't care. I really don't, I'm not trippin' off
that shit. Cause really, to be honest with you, when it's time for
me to blow, then everybody gone wanna come and do a song with me. It
shouldn't be
like that, they should fuck with you now, while they know you hungry
and you hella tight, and before that shit happens! Because then when
it happens, I'm not really gonna fuck with you, it's like a female!
She won't wanna fuck with ou if you takin' the bus and you broke,
but as soon as you sign a deal and you in that Benz, now she wanna
call you and kick it with you. That's some fake ass shit! And that's
kinda how the rap game is too! You know what I'm sayin? So I'm kinda
cool on that fake shit.
dubcnn.com: Is there anything else you would like to let the
fans know?
Yeah, just that the Mix CD is HOT, it's got alotta bangers on there,
we ain't got hella people on there, it's really just the Game Bangaz,
I got Jayo Felony on there, there's one with my nigga Flexx on there,
but yeah the shit is hot, we took all these niggaz beats and killed
it more than they did! I can't wait for ya'll to hear that shit,
I'ma shoot DubCnn the tracks so you can put them up there for free
download, cause I want everybody to hear this shit, to let
muthafuckaz know that the public be brainwashed when they hear shit,
cause they go off whatever the radio play. So that way, that's why
we doin' the mix cds, we not just to be doin it, we doin' it cause
you're brainwashed, you don't listen to shit unless you hear those
beats that you recognize, and that way you pay more attention to our
lyrics. And that's why we doin' this shit, you feel?
And then as far as this Black College tour, we doin' this tour me
Spice, Krayzie Bone goin' on tour April 14th, hit up the south,
perform in most black colleges, we bout to go out there and
represent the West Coast to the fullest, and create that buzz, so
they know how we gone bring the west back!!!
And if you ain't heard it, you better find somebody that got it, or
go to CDBaby.com and cop my album "Don't Let The Smoove Taste Fool
Ya", it's one of the hottest CDs that ain't really hit mainstream
yet! It's one of the hottest CDs out, and I'm not just sayin' that
because it's my shit, I'm sayin it because of all the feedback I
done got. I haven't had no negative feedback.
Also, any nigga that reads this, and is hatin' on me, just go on and
hate! I'm not trippin', you can hate all you want! But just don't
ever try to come at me, or try to battle rap me or none of that,
because that's when it's really all bad for you. Don't none of these
niggaz wanna battle rap me. I'ma tell you that now! I'm cool with
everybody, I ain't trying to start nothing, but if a nigga come at
me like that, then
I'm goin' full force on they ass!
dubcnn.com: Thanks for taking the time to talk to us it's
appreciated.
Oh fo sho my nig, it's nothin for DubCnn, I got love for ya'll! I
appreciate what ya'll doin', regardless! I'ma still have love for ya'll and I'ma always support
ya'll!
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