N.U.N.E.  (February 2004) | Interview By: Yash

      Dubcnn.com hooked up once again with Westcoastaftershock.com to bring you a new interview. This time we took the time to talk to Shade Sheist's new artist N.U.N.E. from PYO Entertainment. In this interview he touched on alot of different topics so make sure to check it. 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 N.U.N.E. for taking out time to answer the questions fans wanted to know! (Interview was done by phone In February Of 2004)

Questions Are From Fans And Asked By : Yash

N.U.N.E. Gave Dubcnn.com A Shoutout! Check That Here

N.U.N.E. Spit An Exlusive Verse On The Phone! Check That Here

Full Interview In Audio : Here

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WCA/DUBCNN: For everyone who dont know you, introduce yourself and let em know where you're from.

N.U.N.E: Check it out Nunes from compton straight outta the best of the best place where all the best rappers are made You know nomatter where you think you're from you comin outta compton! Im doin it like this because I aint tryna base my whole life off of compton. checkit out Im comin outta compton after I come outta compton I'll be somewhere else. But im still gone represent compton to the fullest because im N.U.N.E and thats what I do. Now when you listen to my music..my music is type of like you gone get your party on thats what you gone do you might have a serious topic or a serious subject but at the same time your party's gone get on..you gone have fun when you come to my concerts to my shows thats the whole thing its called Entertainment. Thats what I feel the whole rapindustry is missin everybody so damn tough nobody wanna entertain nomore

WCA/DUBCNN: What artists influence(d) your music?

N.U.N.E: Im'a keep it real, Lionel Richie from the gate Stevie wonder from the gate Eazy E from the gate Dj quik on the underground.Outkast without a doubt taught me how to completely rap. Taught me how to flow I knew how to rap before that but Outkast listening to the "southernplayalistik cadillac funky music" ..You know people jumped on em now but ive been down with em from the gate. Thats my niggaz right there homie, I was withem for the ups and the down it just showed me how to be a wellrounded artist. Outkast and QUik showed me how to get my shit together..them two plus Eazy E thats make the entrepenuer rightthere.

WCA/DUBCNN: How old are You?

N.U.N.E: 27 right now.

WCA/DUBCNN: Did you get a chance to meet Eazy before he died?

N.U.N.E: Aaw dawg I took pictures with Eazy man, me and my people LA Dre man you know what I mean..that was my nigga. When LA Dre got married in Vegas he took us down there he told us it was gone be special you know we didn't know what and I was like 15 at the most so im comin inthere im just a regular compton N.U.N.E. I wasn't really into the rappin back then I was a DJ. So I see E and Dre, Cube and everybody man Yella the whole that was when NWA was still crunk right we at vegas at the little place were they gettin married. Me and Eazy was cuttin up homie thats why I can always remember somethin about E man. Dam man I wish he woulda never gone homie. He was cuttin the rug just being him with all that personality thats how people be like I cant believe he's gone like people say about pac its that personality that shines through homie. E was maan(pauses for a sec) He was the real one homie.

WCA/DUBCNN: Did E use to roll alone?

N.U.N.E: E rolled alone man it weren't no bodyguards it was Eazy E, Dr Dre uhh LA Dre Yella CUbe and Ren Period. No bodyguards None of that just straight people umm one of the albums they did in Vegas the one they was on the dice table that picture they took that was the week we was outthere because I remember I went back home and bought the album and was like man we was just outhere withem if you look inthere you can see me walk through the background.


WCA/DUBCNN: How did you come up with your artist name and does it stand for anything?

N.U.N.E: Ok ima just explain this to everybody once. You know how it got the dots N.U.N.E what it stands for is like really what time I went to school thats why they used to call me N.U.N.E because I used to show up at noon but the whole time im passing every class without a book in my hand because im always studying at the house thats how I learned to freestyle so good. But at the same time when I got my name once they was like alright you Noon I was like im not Noon im N U N E they was like watchu mean.. I was like Im IN U ANY..they said watchu mean?.. So I said spell my name and put time at the end so im In You Anytime.

WCA/DUBCNN: How did you hook up with Shade Sheist?

N.U.N.E: Well this the situation his girl knew a friend of mine which was the ladyfriend of mine and my ladyfriend was always pushin N.U.N.E once she heared me freestyle she couldn't even believe it so everytime she got a chance she'd push N.U.N.E. She'd get intouch with Shaq she's push N.U.N.E She'd get intouch with the boy in the bay uhhm uhhm whats the name of the boy in the bay E 40 but not him B-Legit not B-Legit but umm ?..One of em right my homegirl she hooked me up with him right we was gonna do something with bosco but I didn't have enough cheese to get it goin but it was a hell of a deal man. Im still lookin out for them cats to give me that deal man. Man it was a hell of a deal so umm na it wasn't B-Legit he looked like 40 but I cant remember the fools name..

WCA/DUBCNN: Is he a Veteran in the game?

N.U.N.E: Yea he's a real one too dam I can't remember.

WCA/DUBCNN: So what happened after that?

N.U.N.E: We hooked up that really didn't get nowere so she just stoped on the hookin up N.U.N.E she kept tryna push me outhere so Shade had that "WHere I Wanna Be" song comin it wasn't even out yet it was in the ruff they just had the beat. So they played me the beat im flowin she's like well Shade's about to comeover in a minute thats his beat he left it over here.. I said well im not even struck im like whatever when he get here ima do my thang I aint trippin on tryna rap for nobody because I know how the game go. The door gets shut on you alot and once that happens you kinda hot about it so the thing is he came through and im just sittin there flowin and smokin weed doin my thang he's listenin on the sideline like daaam who is that? then he was like tellin her aight he can do that when noone is payin attention ima look dead in his face let me see what he do.. So he tryna you know punk a nagga so hes lookin all up in my face like ok now rap. Man I musta blew his head off you when you rappin real like flowin real killin it when people can't even deny your approval. That old you know he doin it *LAUGHS*. Thats what happened I was bustin him up man downthere ? heights We was downthere and I was doing my thang homie and basically I told him in the rap If you dont do nuttin for me this flow I got gone get me to the top so what you best do is jump on this and he paid attention to the flow.. You know there it is. Yea we been tight ever since working on some business type shit some real appreciation of the game not somethin like (lowers his tone of voice) *alright youre my artist ima do this * na none of that. We gone see how we can get in the game and make the game better because the rap game is basically is about doin somebodys endz basically about gettin money outta somebody you know and you aint doin nuttin. Thats basically how I see the rap game and I aint tryna be a trend to that I'ma be a trend to the new rap game. All other entertainers the country pop singers you dont see them strugglin like us you can have a rapstar that umm make a platinum hit and then two months or 6 months later nothing. Im tryna kick that out. Even if you dont have nuttin after that you should leave with half of the money homie. The game is to many ways to get paid for these artists not to be paid. Kinda like the same thing Suge felt when he got in the game..Man whats the deal why aint nobody getting paid in our field you know what im sayin. Theres some hot artists out here and the reason that you dont hear whats goin on with them is because nobody's payin em right. Everybody doing their own thing im tryna get paid im tryna pay people right thats what PYO is about. You think you HOT PUT YOURSELF OUT. We gone put you on the internet all we want is we gone do everything press your cd's everything then all we want is 10 % you aint gotto pay for none
of them cd's we sending out.

WCA/DUBCNN: What do you think your chances are to breakthrough as a new artist?

N.U.N.E: As a new artist man it's gone be hard because the backing we used to have BIG UPS TO DAMIZZA MAN eventhough we having our problems right now..Skanless is my dawg from Watts man He the hottest cat out of Watts that has never been heared .. Compton we doin this thang we working with Inglewood we working with longbeach we aint never been went back to Watts were it really kicked off. Compton and Watts was really kickin the game open. We aint never really went back there so right now what im doin is goin to my real roots where my real niggaz is.Compton And Watts.. Thats were I get Skan from Ive been knowin skan from back in the days back in highschool when he was knockin em out you know thats my boy. He had a record deal back in 90 and he called for me came and got me from my job when I was workin up at the airport that record deal didn't work out it was with shade cats with black lester you know what I mean doin real big thangs but that aint work out to good so tryna start it all the way over. My nigga skanless is rollin with me period Compton and Watts we most definetly puttin it down.

WCA/DUBCNN: Yea I heared a few rappers from Watts The Young Hogs have you heared them? Watchu Think Of them.

N.U.N.E: Yea I heared em, They tight they show you how gutter it is but at the same time the gutter gully that they got its still party.

WCA/DUBCNN: So Why should people go out and check for you and cop your new album?

N.U.N.E: Basically right now the rap game is real thirsty for a real artist, like a cactus out in the desert and im the new wave of muthafuckin clouds im coming through with rain on the whole game. Im makin everything right I got Shade I got Skan I got Psilla with me. Its poppin all day.

WCA/DUBCNN: Who will be featured on your album?

N.U.N.E: I have Knocturnal, Shade, Rich Bo, Damizza, ima try to get E-40 to come through ima try to get Quik, because Quik owe me somethin you know it's just compton love you owe me compton god dammit *Laughs*. Just basically all the people i wanna work with im tryna work with homie. We got the new song comin out "what would you do" you know the one with me Shade, Mariah Carey and Nate Dogg but we might take Mariah off and put p silla on there thats what I was thinkin about doin anyway because yall need to hear who she is and see whats crackin with her get her blown up because Mariah she got famous.


WCA/DUBCNN: Who will handle the production on there?

N.U.N.E: Damizza did the production on that one but on my new album we got producers such as sox such as N.U.N.E, LT Hutton, Warren G, Quik Mahogany, Scat and Kato. Its goin down man we got some real compton and watts situation. we got Kindo from watts producing..You know it goes down homie.

WCA/DUBCNN: Tell us what type type of tracks we can expect on the album? Will you touch other subjects than partying on the album be a little political maybe?

N.U.N.E: Yea when I say party im talkin bout the track my lyrics gone contain somethin else. My lyrics gone tell you what ima be doing in a couple of years. I aint gone be talkin about im ballin because im not but when I do that then you hear about it. But basically my lyrics it aint no self consious shit it aint no I luv the world shit. Its some real shit about whats really goin on and then some shit I done made up. This is entertainment dont never get it twisted.

WCA/DUBCNN: Why is there a little bit tension between Damizza and your clique

N.U.N.E: Ima tell you the real man, My boy sheist has been way unappreciated on the westcoast it seems nobody give a dam but us so we had to was take our camp and roll it over. Damizza you know what I mean he a good cat and all he a good producer but he overstepped the boundaries. you all out his lane right now I feel like he can rap and all that shit but if you got two real hot artists by your side if you really believe in em what you do is put all of your resources into them then you blow up and start doin other stuff. Its like hes goin backwards goin doin other stuff and then he come and do somethin with us. We aint finna wait around for none of that you know. He gone be on the radio, he gone do his thang because of the pull he got and the power position he in but we tryna do is give the other position the power by just stayin with it, doing hard music and keeping it real.


WCA/DUBCNN: So how many people are on PYO right now?

N.U.N.E: We got atleast 7 ..We got the she readies, S ready buck ready and sub ready. we got Skanless, we got Shade Sheist, Rock D, P silla, about 6 of us.The other ones gone come in a minut Westadelics shorty bank, Clev and all them .but right now as the groundwork those are who we dealin with.


WCA/DUBCNN: Where can people buy the albums? or do you guys have some kind of a distro ?

N.U.N.E: The albums gone be in VIP's across the state, its gone be in blockbuster. We got a distribution deal comin got somethin on the table right now with sony red. Sony Red if youre out here I lost your contact get at me but I know how to get in touch with you. We got my boy a new upincoming film director his name is booth he HOT he's doing alot of stuff for bisquite films right now he on the team, He doin all our videos. We got our own little crew PYO we puttin ourselves out we got connections. These connections we got gone definitely connect. We got Timbaland down there wanna represent he wanna do my first single.

WCA/DUBCNN: Oh you're doing a Movie? What kind of Movie Is It?

N.U.N.E: Oh the movie about your girl *laughs* the movie is called Your Girl if you ever heared the song I did "your girl" with skanless you can listen to the song and picture what the movie gone be about.

WCA/DUBCNN: Are you gonna shoot a video for the first single anytime soon?

N.U.N.E: Yea the first single your girl is gone be shot in two months. If you wanna get on the video come to the website leave me a picture and adress so I can get back to you. Then we doing your girl the movie and another single to the movie is "We Ready" thats another song that we got on the GTA 1.

WCA/DUBCNN: Will you be featured on any upcoming california rappers album in 2004?

N.U.N.E: Yea im tryna get on Knoccturnal Album, im tryna get on one the B sides of his singles. Shouts out to Knocc. Im tryna get down with this DP2 Damizza presents 2 is comin out we tryna basically iron out the deal with Damizza because its really too much drama so what we need is to get that back straight and keep rollin. It look like we broke up on some bull right on some bull like (Lowers his tone of voice) 'What is yall doin' Its like when you really aint recording with somebody you feel like they done jumped camps right. So what we need to try to do is sit down one day at the table smoke a couple of blunts drink a couple drinks and it would be a done one. It aint really no serious beef we just need to get our business straight everything else will be ironed out.



WCA/DUBCNN: What do you think about westcoast rappers not gettin as much luv on the radio and tv unless their affiliated to the veteran mcs.

N.U.N.E: You know wussup with that? Thats cuz they didnt PYO thats because they went through the record company. The record companys homie gone do it like this: everybodys whos hot thats comin out got somebody singin on their stuff featured right? if you got a feature then you hot if you dont have a feature then you maybe get on the radio. Im tryna restate the whole way to think of this rap.
None of that featured artist man none of that Do your own if you cant rap then go home.
I feel like the westcoast need to start boycottin all this situation not just some of the situations then get back with the game I think we need to just stop going. Do our own situations make them come down here and get with us. Because they gone get with us they wanna get with us. Like we just went and did this tape at 106 and park yesterday. or two days ago and we blew it up. When you see Kanye West and them all on there..Kanye West Twista and jammie Fox we blew it up. The audience was more crunk not to take anything away from them but Compton was in there so thick. Its about representing were you from homie and doing your best as you. Thats why everybody talkin about I want these people on my album. I want them on my album but its not to push me not to blow me up I want them on my album because I wanna rap with em.

WCA/DUBCNN: why do you think West Coast Rap is in a Slump right now??

N.U.N.E: Because of the production because of the attitude its like dam right now on the west its too much dicking goin on. I swear homie its like (Changes his voice) 'I aint fuckin with that nigga, that nigga doing this I aint fuckin with suge that niggaz this..' Nigga SUge This Is N.U.N.E Holla at your boy! ill fuck with you I aint worried about nuttin. W'ell fuck with you we aint scared of shit. Lets blow the game lets kick the door in. Thats how I feel about it. Any company that really wanna make the wanna that wanna create a buzz and get this shit crunked not just crunked to were everybodys scared but crunked to were their like 'Dam look at them they just do it'. Thats what they say about deathrow 'Dam they just doin it' Yea lets do it again!

WCA/DUBCNN: SO if Suge came to you today and wanted to sign you ..You would sign?

N.U.N.E: Yea id say no problem I gotto get my boys on the album I gotto get red rum on my album I gotto get Kurupt to come and oversee the situation because yall dont know how hard Kurupt is. Kurupt is hard than a muthafucka Not just producing not just listening not just rappin Im talkin about the whole structure on how you make a song homie. With that type of guidance man you can tell he paid attention when he was under Dre. He watched he know how to make a hit. umm Knocturnal to, he's another westcoast artist that has got here and QUik just surround me by my peoples, by my brothers and ima show you what we can do. Not no bloods no Crips my peoples homie we natives in this muthafucka we the first ever step on the ground. Thats a new album we comin out The Natives N.U.N.E, Skanless and Shade..NSS The Natives, We got the first thing thats comin out prolly like in april march mayish type we gone release mines. Thats the N.U.N.E album "In You Anytime". The second thing comin out is gone be NSS. Third thing comin out is prolly a compilation im tryna get the she readies either them Psilla or shade sheist dropping his album. I want him to drop his first just to boost everything so the whole list im givin you now might be rewind. Shit might go another way.

WCA/DUBCNN: When is that comin out??

N.U.N.E: Thats comin out shortly after my album.

WCA/DUBCNN: Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

N.U.N.E: I see myself in ??heights in my pool smokin lookin at the capitol records sign talkin about aaaaaaaww. *Laughs* Im talkin about I need some food. Real shit homie this shit is not a dream this some shit thats gone really happen. It just takes hard work and dedication man. Theres people outthere that wanna get westcoast money its nobody out here doin nuttin people doin somethin but its not no really you know how Longbeach hit the game and it was like that sound that they had? Thats the shit I got right now. Compton man we got this sound and once we hit the Game its over. And speaking of Game my Nigga GAME is outhere. Think hes with GGG Unit..it's appearing homie we coming in so many angles yall aint gone know what hit you when it hit you!


WCA/DUBCNN: Did you record any songs with Game?

N.U.N.E: Me and Game is working right now on the underground I got him doing something for me right now. But he's so busy right now its hard to really get intouch with him. It's hard to stay intouch with him but I stay intouch with his brother face cuz thats my nigga cap from the gate so we do it like that though. all you gotto do is look for it it's gone start poppin im tryna put more signs and billboards and shit. Mixtape but aint even tryna sell em We just gettin em outthere homie we want them to hear this shit. Once you hear it then you know were to get the album from. You aint got no problem doing an album when they give you 10 mixtapes for free. You like all of em the album is nothin

WCA/DUBCNN: So what kind Of artists are you feeling at the moment besides Game?

N.U.N.E: Im feelin Luda, im feeling my boy Knoc. um Im feelin Outkast their new shit oh man they crazy *laughs* im feelin T.I but really im feelin the PYO camp and the Baby Re camp. We really got some new shit, Jayo Felony got some new shit, Butch Cassidy got some new shit even Damizza got some new shit. We all got some new shit thats real HOT! We gone try to get that shit out.

WCA/DUBCNN: What Type Of Music Do You Listen To Besides Rap/Hiphop?

N.U.N.E: Yea I listen to R&B thats pretty good man im a DJ I listen to everything! Ive heared it all and I like it all. You can be hear listening to some Doors you would be like DAM N.U.N.E listen to the doors? My boy from Monatana got me on that.

WCA/DUBCNN: You said you produced aswell didn't you? so what is more fun producing or writing rhymes?

N.U.N.E: The best fun I done had is writing rhymes homie, production is fun but I really like to write rhymes. When you express yourself it's real fun. You be able to say what you wanna say and get it across like you want it to get across then you listen to it and be like dam I like that rapper.
Oh that rapper is me! *Laughs* Like when you're on stage and you demand respect man thats the shit!

WCA/DUBCNN: Do you have any last words before we wrap this up homie?

N.U.N.E: Yea be on the lookout for that Rich Bo album I aint said nuttin about that. Be lookin out for the Jay cats album that shorty bang bang katie T. I dont know what he got goin on he got so many names he gone killem with all of em be lookin out for TKO, Be looking out for Game. Lookout for
N.U.N.E and stay out looking for everything we doin because it aint just sayin the compton the compton. Listen us black folks is fin to put the smash on it the Black and Brown is puttin it down and we taking it to the sky with the tada's. We dont even give a fuck homie. We takin it to Japan to Mexico to africa thats the new connect. How you like that They dont like us we dont like them Lets do this.

WCA/DUBCNN: You need to come to Europe soon man!

N.U.N.E: man im tellin you man London is my spot homie McDonalds is my spot *laughs* You got me twisted boy. I hit London before I was anybody man. That's what made me say ok im tough. When they didnt even like Westcoast it was about the time biggie died. So I went over and rocked this club called hanover gram. Never forget homie. You know hannover gram?

WCA/DUBCNN: Na but my homie lives in Brixton south London.

N.U.N.E: The brixton academy then you know wussup then homie. Whats happenin to my boy Shawn and my boy David. Wussup!