YOUNG JOKER (February 2008)| Interview By: Eddie Gurrola

       Dubcnn linked up with Young Joker for an exclusive video interview. After starting things off with a freestyle, Joker tells us more about his role on Meech Wells's "New West World Order 2" that is available now for free download. After this, we discuss Joker's future plans in the rap game, including where he sees himself among other artists and what he hopes the fans get out of his music. We also talk about his forthcoming street album "Mayhem", which will serve as a pre-cursor to his debut album "Heaven Sent". Check out the interview for all of this and much more.



As always we have both the transcript and the audio for you to check and please feel free to send any feedback regarding the interview to: eddie@dubcnn.com

 

Interview was done in February 2008.

Questions Asked By : Eddie Gurrola

Full Video Interview: Download Here (70MB, Windows Media)

Video Stream (Brightcove):

 
 


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We’re live over here, we’re In A Zone! It’s your boy Young Joker. “Mayhem” is coming to you before the end of this year. I apologize to all of my listeners out there, all my die-hard Young Joker fans, for not having “Mayhem” out to you. I will have that out to you soon, it’s already complete. We’re just finishing some things with a couple different situations. You might get the album soon too!


Dubcnn: You just spit this freestyle for us. Tell us about your lyrics. How do you approach writing a song?

Lyrically, if you listen to my songs, if you break it down bar for bar, there’s something behind everything. Lyrically, I’m the dopest on the West. I don’t give a fuck what nobody say. That’s out to anybody that’s listening: If you think you’re doper than me, send some shit to Dubcnn. They’re willing to listen to it. If you can’t compare to [me], don’t send it, because I’ma chew that shit up.

But lyrically, what you just heard! That’s just basic shit, it ain’t complicated. I can bring it that way, or I can bring it street. When I’m talking about the women of this world in a positive way, [I can] still shit on these regular songs. A lot of niggas can’t do that. But for real, lyrically, there’s not nobody fucking with me, period.


Dubcnn: Tell us about the role you’re playing on “New West World Order 2”…

Oh, I forgot to tell you guys! I’m shittin’ on an artist. He’s out of Long Beach, y’all can figure it out. He didn’t say my name, but I did diss him. He knows who I’m talking to – it’s a nigga that don’t got all of his teeth. But it’s a message to you, you fucking faggot. I’m coming for your ass!

I’ve got some stuff with 211, Eastwood, Juve. It’s tremendous, it’s unstoppable. For my viewers, so you can finally know who I am, I’m from Compton, California. I spell that with a “K”. I’m from Tree Top Piru. I’ve been doing this shit for a long time. If you go back to DJ Quik’s “Under Tha Influence” album, open it up and look in there. DJ Quik’s from Tree Top, and I’m from Tree Top. If you look in there, you’re gonna see my picture. That’s back when I was about 16. I’ve been doing this shit a long time. Black Tone, what it do, Laneway Records!

I’m a real nigga, I’ve been to jail, been shot, been to jail for attempted murder and high-speed chases. Next time I might ask Dubcnn to go with me to see my P.O. He can pull out the stack of papers and you’ll need a fuckin’ dolly to get the shit on a table. So you niggas know, this that real West Coast.


Dubcnn: If people want to get more of your music, what’s your Myspace address?

www.myspace.com/komptonyoungjoker. Hit me up, send me messages! For the bitches out there, if you’re beautiful, really send me a message. Send me a friend request too because I wanna holla. For my niggas out there that love my music, send me a message and let me know if you like my shit. If there’s a certain kind of song you want to hear that niggas don’t make anymore, send that shit in. If I check my messages and a few other people wanna hear it too, that’s what I’m gonna put together. I’m gonna give you shout outs too. That’s just to let you know that we ain’t bullshittin’ over here.


Dubcnn: So the new street album “Mayhem” is going to come out sometime this year…

Yeah, it’ll be out this year. The label that we’re fuckin’ with is gonna push it out, so there’s gonna be a gang of copies everywhere. Now “Mayhem” is a lot different then a lot of the other mixtapes y’all ever heard. What I’m providing with “Mayhem” is I’m preparing you for my album “Heaven Sent”. So nine times out of ten, you’re gonna hear something related to the album.

The street album is put together by me and Meech Wells. We’ve got features on there like Young Mack Life, Eastwood, Jay Rock, and a few other features. We’ve got a lot of songs I put out to better everything. Don’t think you’re finna pop some shit in and there’ll be some bullshit-ass happy songs that niggas get tired of hearing. That shit don’t sound right, the shit sounds stupid. That’s not what’s going on at all here. I speak on real shit. A lot of y’all are gonna relate to it.

What I plan on doing is, for all my fans out there with a certain situation, male and female alike, it’ll open up a door for you. When you wake up in the morning, there’s something for you to listen to. When you go to bed, you can bang this. You don’t gotta dance! People don’t like dancing at 6 in the morning, and you don’t gotta wake up at 6 in the morning hearing about killing nobody. You can wake up feeling like, “I’m gonna go get this money, I’m feeling good. I know I can let all my problems go, I already know what’s worth what!”

I’m gonna keep it real with y’all. There’s a lot of bullshit out right now that’s not real. If all a nigga rap about is killin’ and all that different shit, that don’t make him an artist. It makes him a gangsta rapper. It’s just that one shape, no other forms. I come in a gang of different forms, I rap several different ways, and this “Mayhem” is chaos! My objective is to send a little ball of “Mayhem” to blow up and explode so everything will be fucked up in the game. I want everything to go haywire, and then “Heaven Sent” can put it back together.


Dubcnn: Can you tell us anything about “Heaven Sent” yet?

The first single is going to be “Destined To Be The Best”. If y’all heard “The Takeover” mixtape, y’all done heard the single, but it’s going to be re-done. We’re gonna have singers on there and the original Biggie voice. I promise every one of my fans out there, every single one of y’all, this is gonna be the best album you’ve heard in the last….well however old you are, think about the day before you were born. It’s gonna be the best album you’ve heard since then. So if you can understand that, then you’ll know what I’m talking about!

“Heaven Sent” will be out more like December 2008. “Mayhem” will most likely drop in April, around my birthday time. When you hear “Mayhem”, you’ll already know what “Heaven Sent” is gonna do. I’m a blessing, and not just a blessing as far as a good rapper. I’m a blessing as in what I say as a rapper to everybody else. I feel like I’ve got a voice, and people listen to it. You’ve gotta watch what you say, because at the same time you can actually make a difference.

Martin Luther King had a voice, Malcolm X had a voice, everybody had voice. It just depends on how you use it. If you pay attention, a lot of these niggas are just saying shit that don’t count. I’m gonna bring some shit to you where you’re gonna hear it, and it ain’t gonna be no political shit, nothing like Talib Kweli, not too technical like that. [It’s] all street, all street shit, like Pac would do it. I’m just Pac and Biggie mixed together, sprinkled with a little bit of Nas, and if I want to I can go on some Big L shit. I am the West Coast, period. There’s nobody better than me, nobody!