ALLHIPHOP - Hood Surgeon interview

[prince]

http://www.allhiphop.com/features/?ID=1389

AllHipHop.com: I know that everybody has a lot of curiosity about you know, your relationship with your dad and everything. Can you speak on that a little bit?

Hood Surgeon: Yeah, a little bit.

AllHipHop.com: How is he?

Hood Surgeon: My dad is cool. I’m just doing my thing. I’m going through the grind like he did, like he had to go through. And so that way when I get it, I’ll respect it more, even though it’s there.

AllHipHop.com: Oh okay. So you don’t, do you ask him for help?

Hood Surgeon: No, I’m my own man. I’m capable of doing same thing he did, you know. And you know how you respect something more if you can do it on your own.

AllHipHop.com: Were you close with your dad growing up?

Hood Surgeon: On that one, that’s really like personal because it’s like really something I don’t want to discuss about the childhood growing up, ‘cause I’d rather let them hear about that in the music, you know what I mean? I’ll put it like this: I went through the same thing he been through. So I just put it like that, so. : I’ll tell y’all this though, I met him when I was 21. I didn’t know him growin’ up. I just, we just was right up under each other’s noses basically, not knowing that, you know that that was my pop and he didn’t know I was his son, ain’t s**tting.

AllHipHop.com: Yeah, yeah. But you know it’s funny because you, you closely resemble him. I mean you know you really do look a lot like him, you know in the pictures that I see at least, you know.

Hood Surgeon: F**king identical.

AllHipHop.com: How was being raised in Compton for you?

Hood Surgeon: Oh man, I mean, s**t it was rough. Like, I’m just like him you know, he’s a little bit darker than me that’s all.

AllHipHop.com: When you started to you know. You produce as well, right? You rhyme and product, right. Hood Surgeon: Yeah, when I was 12, ‘cause I found out, my mom told who my real father was. Ever since then, I started rapping, I wanted to be like him all his life, you know. You know, all that s**t. This type of s**t, this type of shit, like some of my good friends don’t even know, they sit here like, ‘Damn.’

AllHipHop.com: Well, thanks for being candid.

Hood Surgeon: No, what I’m here, I’m here for the truth. I speak the truth. Know what I mean, that’s main thing with me.

AllHipHop.com: So production-wise, you know your own style. How would you describe it for people that may not have heard your stuff yet?

Hood Surgeon: Monsterish. Everything’s big. I don’t do little s**t. Everything is big. Hood Surgeon: Not even to be like that, it’s just you know we do everything big, you know like a big statement. [I’m] bringing the West Coast back, we can’t come with no little bulls**t.

AllHipHop.com: Other people talk about bringing the West Coast back: Game and Lil’ Eazy-E. Have you made any connections with those kind of guys are anything like that?

Hood Surgeon: Yeah, I know them, yeah.

AllHipHop.com: Yeah are y’all cool?

Hood Surgeon: I’m me. They’re them. You know what I mean? They’re artists too, so we all, you know they’re in the, you know they doing their thing for the West Coast.

AllHipHop.com: Okay, now with So Hood Records, you’re like the CEO of So Hood Records?

Hood Surgeon: Yeah, I’m the founder/CEO of So Hood Records.

AllHipHop.com: Okay, what made you, what made you start your own label as opposed to you know trying to use obvious leverage?

Hood Surgeon: Like most the people that I got, I don’t go and get people from Hollywood. I get people from the hood. I know how to run s**t. People from Hollywood, they’ll quit when s**t gets rough, you know what I mean? I got people that have been through the stuff, so they gonna hold it down regardless, whether we got money whatever we doing, you know what I mean?

AllHipHop.com: How many artists you got?

Hood Surgeon: There’s about 10 of us, honestly.

AllHipHop.com:Wwhat are you talking about on a record? What are we gonna hear?

Hood Surgeon: It’s like, you know you’re gonna hear the struggle I went through - hear how amazing it is now. [My] single is called “Paradise.” I got a mix[tape] that’s on the street now is called "The Autopsy.”

AllHipHop.com: What’s, like what’s Compton like these days man? Is it the same or has it changed?

Hood Surgeon: Oh man, hell yes, it’s the same. I mean usually you can catch motherf**kers just nestling up, fighting or tripping. You know what I mean? It’s more shooting, know what I mean, honestly say, it was kinda, well I ain’t saying it was less, little bit less shooting. Motherf**kers can [check up on] my s**t and see what I been through and where I grew up at, and they’ll see that I’m not lying. I’m not gonna say I was out there shooting motherf**kers and doing all that, but I grew up around that, so I might speak on something that happened around me in my music. ‘Cause they ain’t gonna hear me say something I didn’t do.

AllHipHop.com: Do you feel other artists do that now?

Hood Surgeon: Oh yeah, lot of artists do that, [such as] Game.

AllHipHop.com: Yeah?

Hood Surgeon: He is the West Side story. I ain’t tripping on that fool though, man.

AllHipHop.com: Yeah, yeah now --

Hood Surgeon: I don’t know, he’s just scary man. I mean I don’t know.

AllHipHop.com: Yeah, he’s real cool with your dad though. Has there been, you know --

Hood Surgeon: Yeah, I just know the real on him, man. I went to school with him. He ain’t nobody.

AllHipHop.com: Nah, nah saying it sounds like a little friendly competition going right now. Now it’s funny to me because Game kinda was seen as, you know the new NWA so to speak --

Hood Surgeon: Nah, nah. You know what it is? I ain’t even gonna say it’s competition. It’s just look and see who’s better. You know what I mean? He ain’t f**king with us over here, man. I honestly, honestly could say, my sister and like my pop, man. You know what I mean, like honestly the n***as that I’m with, we head-busters man. We, my people we escorted Game at the club in Rosaritos, so. ‘Cause he was scared and s**t, you know walk through the crowd with him and stuff.

AllHipHop.com: Anything else you want to say to people or relay?

Hood Surgeon: Man, f**k the world. The West is back.

AllHipHop.com: I don’t know how y’all feel, but I feel like Game did a good job bringing the West back to the forefront. You know what I’m saying, ‘cause --

Hood Surgeon: He did a good job as far as sending the resume to the West Coast.

AllHipHop.com: Yeah.

Hood Surgeon: I’m gonna get the job. We ain’t getting the national recognition. Honestly, the only person that can bring the West back is probably my pop, in a real way, so who better than his son? AllHipHop.com: Let me ask you this, this is more of a personal question, but when is the damn Detox album coming out?

Hood Surgeon: He working on it.

AllHipHop.com: Yeah, okay.

Hood Surgeon: I am the Detox.

[prince]

seems like he is dissing game.

also cool how he goes he is the detox!!!!!

[No Compute]

he doesn't say he's on Detox

[SlickPants]

now dr. dre is a legend and that's his fam, but personally if i were a rapper i wouldn't be talking like that until i stepped my lyrics and flow game up by quite a few levels.  he's got a lot to improve before he gets anywhere

[We Fly High]

yeah he sucks pretty hardcore.

[notorious^q8I]

is it me or is the script kinda fukked?
any ways good to see a new artists on the come up
hope he does well
and how the fuck didnt he meet his pops till he was 21 when he knew he was his son at the age of 12??
according to many ppl dre takes care of all his kids, and their moms

[Don Seer]

^ through money maybe..

[J$crILLa]

dissin game and almost dissin his dad in ways, whatever tho

[Teddy Roosevelt]

Doesn't anyone remember that skit of 2001?


Biggest hoes, on planet Earth..
.. are walkin through the motherfuckin neighborhood
You KNEW when you got with the nigga he already had a woman
You knew he already had a family
but you fucked him anyway!!!
And then when you thought you gon' lose the nigga
you went and got pregant - didn't you bitch, DIDN'T YOU!!
THE OL' KEEP A NIGGA BABY
And then when the nigga ain't around, what do you tell the child?
"Aww that nigga ain't shit, that's why yo' daddy ain't here;
cause that nigga ain't shit."
How bout bein a woman, and tellin the kid the truth
that yo' momma, you was a hoe!
TELL THE KID!
Momma was a hoe, I was weekend pussy
I had you to keep the nigga, it didn't work out
that's why he ain't here - but he a good nigga
cause he take care of his REAL family
I was just a dumb bitch, tryin to keep, a nigga that I wanted
 

[SlickPants]

Doesn't anyone remember that skit of 2001?


Biggest hoes, on planet Earth..
.. are walkin through the motherfuckin neighborhood
You KNEW when you got with the nigga he already had a woman
You knew he already had a family
but you fucked him anyway!!!
And then when you thought you gon' lose the nigga
you went and got pregant - didn't you bitch, DIDN'T YOU!!
THE OL' KEEP A NIGGA BABY
And then when the nigga ain't around, what do you tell the child?
"Aww that nigga ain't shit, that's why yo' daddy ain't here;
cause that nigga ain't shit."
How bout bein a woman, and tellin the kid the truth
that yo' momma, you was a hoe!
TELL THE KID!
Momma was a hoe, I was weekend pussy
I had you to keep the nigga, it didn't work out
that's why he ain't here - but he a good nigga
cause he take care of his REAL family
I was just a dumb bitch, tryin to keep, a nigga that I wanted
 

  lmao

[C-BLUE]

he tellin the real. sounds alot realler then his bitch ass pops.

[italianguy]

Doesn't anyone remember that skit of 2001?


Biggest hoes, on planet Earth..
.. are walkin through the motherfuckin neighborhood
You KNEW when you got with the nigga he already had a woman
You knew he already had a family
but you fucked him anyway!!!
And then when you thought you gon' lose the nigga
you went and got pregant - didn't you bitch, DIDN'T YOU!!
THE OL' KEEP A NIGGA BABY
And then when the nigga ain't around, what do you tell the child?
"Aww that nigga ain't shit, that's why yo' daddy ain't here;
cause that nigga ain't shit."
How bout bein a woman, and tellin the kid the truth
that yo' momma, you was a hoe!
TELL THE KID!
Momma was a hoe, I was weekend pussy
I had you to keep the nigga, it didn't work out
that's why he ain't here - but he a good nigga
cause he take care of his REAL family
I was just a dumb bitch, tryin to keep, a nigga that I wanted
 

Props man

I like the song
 

[M Dogg™]

Oh shit... Dre didn't even know he had him. Makes sense. He gots kids coming out the wood work. And he dissed Eazy for the same thing, he better be thankful he ain't got AIDS. But on the real, if the money paid right, Hood Surgent would drop his 9 or 10 homies and start producing for Game in a heartbeat, and then try to get Lil' Eazy for a new NWA. This kid is trying to keep it hood, but like Pops, money talks.