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Huge thanks to Sky Balla for taking time out to answer the
questions fans wanted to know!
(Interview was done by email in February of 2004)
Questions Asked By :
SGV
dubcnn.com: Yo we got Sky Balla right here.
What up Sky?
Sky Balla: You already know. I'm grindin playa. What's poppin’?
dubcnn.com: Trying to help bring the West back
Sky Balla: We never left!
dubcnn.com: haha
Sky Balla: I'm tryna bring it to the frontline.
dubcnn.com: Gotta love that mentality. So you were an
original member of the Gamblaz right?
Sky Balla: Yeah. Back in the days. Founding member.
dubcnn.com: Was this before the GLP days?
Sky Balla: Naw, during…
dubcnn.com: You were in GLP?
Sky Balla: Off top
dubcnn.com: I ain’t popped in my GLP tape in a hot minute.
Sky Balla: Haha
dubcnn.com: So how old are you? You had to have been like 17,
18 around then. Im assuming you about 27?
Sky Balla: I'll be 25 this month on the 25th.
dubcnn.com: Oh ok, You still young.
Sky Balla: Believe that pimp.
dubcnn.com: Thats whats up.
Sky Balla: Young, with a grown man bank account.
dubcnn.com: You still fuck with Seff and D-Moe?
Sky Balla: Off top, Them my big homies.
dubcnn.com: How about JT and San Quinn?
Sky Balla: Fillmoe 4 life.
dubcnn.com: I hear that…
Sky Balla: Fashigady
dubcnn.com: Tell the people about Never Broke.
Sky Balla: That's my new mixtape I'm droppin wit my nigga DJ I-Podd.
Straight heat for the streets. And that's the name of my big cousins
clothing line, Never Broke.
dubcnn.com: Never Broke clothing?
Sky Balla: Yes sir.
dubcnn.com: Where can the peeps check that out?
Sky Balla: It will be in stores nation wide sometime this year.
dubcnn.com: Oh ok
Sky Balla: Its guarenteed to be a house hold name.
dubcnn.com: Whens the Mixtape dropping?
Sky Balla: In February featuring The Game, Young Buck, E-40, Eminem,
Lil Flip, 50 Cent, Dollar Sign, The Committe, San Quinn & Keek Da
Sneak
dubcnn.com: Sounds tight, What about the album? Whats the
album called?
Sky Balla: Off top!! Mobb Report, the album is pressed up and ready
to drop, I'm just trying to establish a distribution deal.
dubcnn.com: Hows that stackin up? Whos on it?
Sky Balla: The Game, Juelz Santana, Mac Dre, Lil Flip, E-40, N.O.R.E.
San Quinn & Messy Marv, Keek Da Sneak, Notorious Big. Its stacked up
like my like a bitch with fake tits.
dubcnn.com: haha. Production?
Sky Balla: Fire
dubcnn.com: Who’s on the beat?
Sky Balla: Scott Storch, Tone Capone, Cozmo, Sean-T, Rob Lo.
dubcnn.com: Heat! Doing a video?
Sky Balla: Yes sir, Soon.
dubcnn.com: Oh tight.
Sky Balla: I'm waitin on my big homie to get out the feds.
dubcnn.com: Who’s that?
Sky Balla: Mack Millions.
dubcnn.com: Oh ok. So who you feeling? Favorite artist at the
moment?
Sky Balla: This young hot nigga from the San Francisco Yay Area
named Sky Balla!!!
dubcnn.com: haha
Sky Balla: haha
dubcnn.com: You a foo.
Sky Balla: Besides me…
dubcnn.com: Yea…
Sky Balla: Jadakiss And Banks.
dubcnn.com: Oh ok
Sky Balla: T.I., too. The funny thing is I been bumpin T.I. shit
years ago before any nigga in Cali.
dubcnn.com: You were bumpin I’m Serious?
Sky Balla: Yeah, I’m Serious, was my shit. Same with Jay-z, I was
listening to that nigga before he was even poppin’. My older god
sister turned me on to Jay-Z "Reasonable Doubt."
dubcnn.com: You weren’t bumpin' Hawaii Sophie?
Sky Balla: I kept "P.I.M.P" on repeat in my whip. Naw no Hawaiian
Sophie.
dubcnn.com: That’s vintage Jay-Z.
Sky Balla: That’s cool.
dubcnn.com: All time fav?
Sky Balla: 2Pac
dubcnn.com: Least favorite?
Sky Balla: Chingy
dubcnn.com: haha
Sky Balla: For real I'm serious!
dubcnn.com: Any reason?
Sky Balla: Nope.
dubcnn.com: hahahaha What’s in your whip right now?
Sky Balla: haha. Sky Balla "Mobb Report", The Game "Documentery",
Jay-Z "Reasonable Doubt", Dre "Chronic 2001" 2-Pac "All Eyes On Me",
Scarface "Untouchable."
dubcnn.com: Oh ok
Sky Balla: That's in my disk changer…
dubcnn.com: That’s tight.
Sky Balla: Yup
dubcnn.com: Being from the Bay, but being down with Game, how
do you feel about all the shit going on with Messy Marv, Guce and
Yuk going at G-Unit?
Sky Balla: No Comment
dubcnn.com: Ok. I respect that. You gonna hop on any other
mixtapes?
Sky Balla: That's not my beef. I'm tryna get these M's daddy! I'm
gonna be on too many mixtapes.
dubcnn.com: Like what?
Sky Balla: Go to my web site you can see every project I've been
featured on. www.skyballa.com Click on releases. From albums to
mixtapes…
dubcnn.com: Oh ok That’s tight.
Sky Balla: Thanks.
dubcnn.com: You gonna do any shows?
Sky Balla: Yeah soon.
dubcnn.com: Nationwide?
Sky Balla: Yes sir.
dubcnn.com: By yourself? With someone else?
Sky Balla: I’ma probably piggyback a few niggas tours.
dubcnn.com: Ok. You work with Balance and the New Bay dudes?
Sky Balla: Not yet, Balance is my nigga. We gonna do some shit so
quick so fast.
dubcnn.com: That would be a hard ass collab.
Sky Balla: Fasho! Believe that, Playa.
dubcnn.com: How about servicing radio...Gonna have anything
on rotation soon?
Sky Balla: Yeah I'm pushing my 1st single "Put It In Da Air"
Featuring The Game. DJs need 2 jump on the record and stop sleeping
on it!
dubcnn.com: haha. Tell the DJs man, this is your chance.
Sky Balla: "Put It In Da Air" is a classic record playa, some real
Bay to L.A. West Coast Shit.
dubcnn.com: Who you lookin to fuck with?
Sky Balla: The same people lookin to fuck with me!
dubcnn.com: haha. I feel that!
Sky Balla: True Story!
dubcnn.com: What nationality are you?
Sky Balla: Black/Puerto Rican & Dominican.
dubcnn.com: Latinos reppin!
Sky Balla: Black & Brown Baby!
dubcnn.com: How do you feel about the Latin Hip Hop game?
Sky Balla: Reggaton is taking over playa.
dubcnn.com: Took long enough to get to the States.
Sky Balla: No took long enough to get to the West Coast.
dubcnn.com: haha.
Sky Balla: They been bumpin that shit in Miami and NYC.
dubcnn.com: Man I was bumping Reggaeton back in like 97, 98.
I’m from Honduras.
Sky Balla: Oh boy!
dubcnn.com: We been bumpin that shit.
Sky Balla: Cool. Early!
dubcnn.com: haha. Thats whats up.
Sky Balla: Yup
dubcnn.com: You dig any Latin artists?
Sky Balla: Pitbull. I wanna do a joint with dude.
dubcnn.com: Oh for real? That would be hot.
Sky Balla: Yup…
dubcnn.com: Anyone else?
Sky Balla: Fat Joe, N.O.R.E, J-Lo, Shakira, Talia, Nina Sky.
dubcnn.com: Shakira fell off!
Sky Balla: So what she won't fall off my dick ha!
dubcnn.com: haha What are you thoughts on Bush?
Sky Balla: Fuck Bush! Fuck Bush! Vote Sky Balla for President!
dubcnn.com: haha Sky Balla in 08?
Sky Balla: Oh boy!
dubcnn.com: haha Yo so Game did some big numbers, can we
expect something similar from you?
Sky Balla: Damm that's a lot to ask from a nigga who ain’t signed
but anything is possible.
dubcnn.com: Haha Do some Lil Flip indi numbers then!
Sky Balla: Exactly! What I have in mind pimp. I'm getting $8 a CD so
I'm a be good with sellin’ just 10,000 units ya dig.
dubcnn.com: Thats what the West needs!
Sky Balla: Oh please believe that, and I got the Bay on my back.
dubcnn.com: Thats a lotta weight. But you got the support out
there.
Sky Balla: Definetly. Its more than music its more like a movement
they need be in tuned with!
dubcnn.com: So do you consider yourself apart of the New Bay?
Sky Balla: No!
dubcnn.com: You're not?
Sky Balla: Nope
dubcnn.com: Ok
Sky Balla: I am the Bay.
dubcnn.com: haha! Thats whats up.
Sky Balla: I'm an Original Bay Area boss who been on the scene since
1996 when most niggas was still playin at the Boys Club.
dubcnn.com: Haha Do you fuck with the Frontline and them?
Sky Balla: Balance is my nigga.
dubcnn.com: Oh ok. I’d like to hear ya’ll together.
Sky Balla: Me 2
dubcnn.com: Aight so Plug the albums, mixtapes, shows,
everything you got.
Sky Balla: www.skyballa.com "Mobb Report" the album "I'm Rich Bitch"
pt.1 "Never Broke" pt.1.
dubcnn.com: Any dates for them to be dropping?
Sky Balla: not yet
dubcnn.com: Aight! Well Congrats on getting the Unsigned Hype
in the Source by the way.
Sky Balla: All my fans, Dj's, Radio Stations, Record Stores,
Magazines.
dubcnn.com: Big ups!
Sky Balla: All my niggas on Lock Down. All My down ass Bitches.
Shout out to the whole San Francisco Bay Area West Side for life.
dubcnn.com: No doubt! Thanks for your time homie!
Sky Balla: Its nothin to a boss! Anytime.
dubcnn.com: Peace!
Sky Balla: 1
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