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Huge thanks to Speedy aka Gotti Gotti for taking time out to answer the
questions fans wanted to know!
(Interview was done by phone in January of 2004)
Questions Asked By : Nima
Speedy Gave Dubcnn.com A Shoutout! Check That
Here
(Video)
Full Interview In Audio :
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We also had the chance to conduct a quick video
interview with Speedy this summer, to check that now, click below:
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Speedy aka Gotti Gotti Video Interview |=-
dubcnn.com: Wassup Speedy? What you working
on right now?
Oh on my new "Flight Risk" record!
dubcnn.com: When is it comin' out?
It's coming out March 15th! I got The Game on there, Too Short,
Prodigy, Method Man, Tha Realest, Dru Down, Roscoe, Kurupt, Nico
Supreme, Zig Zag, and more. Anyway the record is off the muthafuckin
chain!
dubcnn.com: Who handled the production?
Oh yeah I got Mark Sparks, B.C., Rhythm D, S Class from the Beat
Brokers, and more man, it's a nice lineup!
dubcnn.com: What label is dropping on?
It's dropping on Death Before Dishonour, D.B.D. Records! That's my
label! Independent. I got disitribution through Activate.
dubcnn.com: So it's not on West Coast Mafia?
Nah, it's not on West Coast Mafia, but on the back of the record it
says "Speedy from the West Coast Mafia Gang". I'm the one that made
up the West Coast Mafia Gang, which is C-Bo, and I'm still pushin'
that movement. But as far as dropping solo, I gotta be CEO and push
my own record and do my own thing cause I got my own shit cracking
now!
dubcnn.com: How did you hook up with C-Bo in the first place?
Well me and C-Bo we hooked up at the Source Awards in 2001 or 2000,
I can't even remember, but that's when the lil shit broke out, all
that riot shit errupted when DJ Quik and them went to jail, that was
then. And after the show we was at a Burger stand in Pasadena, and a
gang of bloods came up there kinda on one, and niggaz kinda
outnumbered us, so we (me and Bo) kinda marbeled together. We kinda
like stood together, and held our ground. That's how we met each
other, I found out he was C-Bo he found out I was Speedy, shit,
since then we was tight! I ended up goin' to jail like a day after
that, and he ended up goin' to jail like 3 days after that!
And after that it was a wrap, cause when I got to
jail, he was moved to where I was at. We hooked up right there, we
was in the same cell. And we was so cool wit the police, they were
goin by the Crip module, and he ended up comin over there wit me,
and we was over there, it was a wrap!
dubcnn.com: How did you come up with your name, Speedy?
Oh because when I was young I used to play football, I used to box,
I was fast to do everything, fast to get in trouble, quick temper. I
used to love running, I was just ready to get into everything. So
that's why I chose the name Speedy. I had a cousin, he was a red
rag, his name is Speedy, and I lived on the Crip side and I met this
Crip nigga, his name was Speedy, and he was real tight, gettin' his
money on, big nigga, cool as a muthafucka. And I was gettin' in
trouble, and he liked a nigga, so I was like "Damn, this nigga named
Speedy, my cousin named Speedy" I was diggin' that, so I just ended
up bein' Speedy!
dubcnn.com: And if you were to go back, would you do the same
things you did?
Hell nah! Because if I could rewind my life back, I would be a boxer
or a football player or somethin homie! I wans't even into rap when
I was younger! I chose to rap because there was this kid that used
to walk to school bustin' rap shit. And I was like man I can rap
better than you! So I wrote a rap, and my shit was better than his
shit the next day we walked to school. So that's how I ended up doin'
that rap shit! And I got shot up when I was young, I got shot like 5
times at 16, so you know, I just chose to rap, cause a nigga
couldn't box no more, couldn't play football no more, I was damn
near paralyzed at 16. Right before I turned 17.
dubcnn.com: How would you describe your style?
I'd say hood. I'd say like a poet. I'd say soulful. I'm a blessed
person.
dubcnn.com: Do you still have that crazy haircut you had when
I met you?
With all the designs and shit? Hahaha... Right now I got a lil fade
cause I'ma be 30 in a month, but yeah I be rockin' that haircut when
I got shows and shit, I be rockin' that shit!
dubcnn.com: You've been in the news in the last months
because of a song that was recorded with Yuk and Game, apparently
squashing the beef, but Game was still taking shots at Yuk! Please
tell us the whole story.
Yeah okay! Well basically this is how that happened. Yukmouth he
wasn't really a nigga that I liked, or that I was fuckin' wit at the
time, I mean you know, I felt like he never wanted me around, like
everytime we see each other it was real cool, but the nigga never
really fucked wit me. So to make a long story short, I ended up
hookin' up wit Game. All that shit was stupid, I got a cousin named
E-Knock, from Game's neighbourhood which is Cedar Block Piru, and I
ended up hookin' up wit this nigga. And I was already on a song with
Game, I had did a song wit Yukmouth too, Yuk was always kinda spook
to me. And this nigga and Game had got into on records someway, on
some old rap computer shit, I don't know. I don't get in that
bullshit. But they got into it with each other on some rap shit, and
Yuk said "Oh Speedy my homie he checked you" and all this old shit.
And Yuk actin' like he was at the video! Which really he wasn't even
at the video shoot. Feel me?
So then what had happened was, I didn't like the way
that he had said what he had said, because he wasn't even there, and
he put some extras on it. So I went and got at the nigga, and when I
got at him he was like "okay" and he wanted to squash it so I said
alright nigga, you need to come with me and go meet Game, so ya'll
can squash the shit, you can get down and it'll be squashed, just
come wit me and I won't let the nigga rush you or nothin, because I
got a cousin from Game's neighbourhood, period. My cousin and Fase
are tight, which is Game's big brother, they kinda run that shit
over there. But he didn't wanna go, he did his verse, and so when
you do your verse, and you don't wanna go to the studio, and meet
with a nigga or whatever... So he layed his verse down, I took his
verse over to Game's house. Then Game layed his verse, and Game was
like "What you think about it Speed? You don't like it? I can change
it." And I said "Nigga you said what you said, leave it on there!"
Cause he had said he would change it for me. But I felt like if this
is how he feel, then let it be on there!
Because Yuk didn't come like a man, if he would come
like a man, and they did it together, then he wouldn't have talked
about the nigga like that, if he woulda came over there. But since
you talked about the nigga all that video shit, that's just how Game
struck back on him and said all that shit about him because he
wasn't man enough to go over there and meet a nigga in the studio!
So it really didn't have nothin' to do with "Oh I let this nigga
Game shit on that nigga!" Nah, you let a nigga shit on you yourself!
Feel me? He let a nigga do that to him himself!
dubcnn.com: So what's your current relation with Yuk?
Oh me and him cool homie. To keep it real, I never really got a
chance to talk to him like that, and we never really kicked it like
that. But now, he be choppin' it up, I called the nigga, he got good
conversation. I understood why the nigga was scared of a nigga back
then, cause a nigga was wild! Takin' shit from muthafuckas! I was
busin' my gun robbin' everybody, alotta shit. And he knew about it,
he used to see a nigga doin' all kinda shit, runnin' wit the goons
and fightin' in the clubs... But now he know what time it is, that's
my cat! I hold a nigga down, that's one of my niggaz!
dubcnn.com: And will you be workin' with Game in future?
Hell yeah! Whenever he's ready to work I'm ready to work! I told
you, that's my nig, and E-Knock is my cousin over there. So shit,
hell yeah we gone work, he never did nothin' to me to not wanna work
wit the nigga!
dubcnn.com: If you could pick whatever label to sign with,
which would you pick and why?
I already picked my label, my label is Death Before Dishonour
records, cause nobody gone treat me like me. I give a fuck about
nobody with labels, it ain't about payin' nobody else. It's DBD Gang
Records period point blank! Fuck everybody's shit, except my shit.
If a nigga got his independent shit, more power to him, fuck all
these big labels and all these funny ass niggaz.
dubcnn.com: What's the most memorable moment of your musical
career up until now?
Oh man... With C-Bo shootin' that video for West Coast Mafia Gang.
Thats my most memorable moment man.
dubcnn.com: Oh the one that was on BET Uncut?
Yeah man, cause when those lights came on, its like one of my dreams
came true. Ain't nothin' like bein' behind that camera man, and doin'
what you doin' man.. I ain't gone lie, that nigga (C-Bo) made alot
of my dreams come true.
dubcnn.com: What should the fans be on the lookout for in the
next year coming from Speedy?
Shit, movies and shit man. And I'm trying to come with a clothing
line. Anything that a black man can conquer man. Shit I might be
makin' pampers for grown ass men! Ain't no tellin! *laughs*
dubcnn.com: Is there anything else you'd like to let
everybody know?
Yeah... Man, I got shot like New Years Eve this year... I'm a
blessed individual, I feel like God got a plan for me. And I love
everybody that pray for a nigga, every muthafucka that talked good
about a nigga, everybody that's on my record, I wanna give them a
shoutout. I hope God got his hands on anything that they touch or
that they work on. Any nigga that was cool wit me is cool wit me
still, any muthafucka that I didn't like, I still don't like you!
Period. But I don't got no hate in my heart. I don't got no hate. If
I don't like you, I don't like you. Period point muthafuckin' blank.
And it ain't too many niggaz that I don't like. You know what I
mean?
And I wanna give some shoutouts, Blackwallstreet,
Death Before Dishonour Records is my shit, we finna count money, I
wanna give a shoutout to that nigga C-Bo, man get your ass up outta
jail nigga and get right wit the niggaz that's on your label nigga,
and quit bein' lazy nigga doin' bullshit my nigga, show some support
to your niggaz! And I want every nigga to know that just cause I'm
doin' my thing don't mean that I ain't fuckin' wit my brother, cause
Bo is my brother. 100!
dubcnn.com: Aight man, thanks for takin' the time to talk to
us!
Alright, 100 man, peace!
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Speedy aka Gotti Gotti
