The Ghost Is Back: An Exclusive Interview With Hittman on DUBCNN

[Lil Jay]

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He came and he disappeared like a ghost into the night. According to the Hip Hop industry, he was born on November 16, 1999 and died 22 tracks later. But that's what they say. Mr. Brian Bailey, better known as Hittman, is still alive and active in 2006.

Dubcnn tracked down Hittman for an exclusive interview to talk about his time on Aftermath and what happened after that. We go back in time and talk about the "2001" album and all the wasted potential that came after. Hitt goes into details about his shelved album and why it never saw the light of day, and talks about his label situation and the lack of loyalty at Aftermath. We also look ahead to what the future will bring and discuss his upcoming projects as well as working on "Detox".

He's Big Hitt, don't confuse him wit no other by the flow motherfu*ker!

Click here to read this exclusive interview with Hittman.

[WestCoasta]

fuck it's pretty boring

seems like this guy's making too many excuses

what, is he the first to get fucked in the music industry?

sounds like he kinda got too greedy

[Detox Iz Not Active]

so he is alive, going to read it now



who was the fan that asked that question? LMAO





great interview, props on asking everything, he does think VERY highly of himself though, nigga says he a combination of Snoop and Kurupt in their prime, damn

[Nima - Dubcnn.com]

Great interview, great questions! Props Jay!

[AndrE16686]

Wish Dre would stop with the solo albums.

Time for a huge mass collaboration album, from somebody, anybody!!!

[Bones01]

Great interview, great questions! Props Jay!

[Okka]

Major props for this interview, it finaly has been released 

[SGV]

This was one of the coldest of Interviews I've seen in a long time on any media source.

[Lindon]

great interview, props on asking everything, he does think VERY highly of himself though, nigga says he a combination of Snoop and Kurupt in their prime, damn

first off major props on the interview. this is the reason why i check dubcnn! 

i guess there are a lot of unanswered questions still and always will be cos we'll never hear dre's side except some weak non-controversial sucking dre's dick sh*t from mellowman.

dude may think highly of himself (but who in this rap game doesn't) he might not be combination of kurupt and snoop in their prime but he is a fuckin' tight mc and i'd always check for his sh*t. any project involving him and mel-man has to be dopeness. 

as for we$t coa$t's comments. fair point but aftermath has f**ked up much more established names who couldn't use their own names to secure releases or earlier releases (King T, Ra and Busta's wack album took 3 years!), this dude was at that time a young cat who got f**ked over and he is pretty honest in saying that it crushed him and he went into a shell for a minute. insofar as excuses go, it seems pretty plausible to me especially what he said about the labels requiring a formulaic approach to album making. the fact that he says he did not want to compromise is a good thing (if its true). the fact that we aint never heard nothing from him since is his choice man.

biggest things for me in this interview is excitement that we might hear some new sh*t from hitt (although i am sceptcal that anything will see the light of day) and not what might happen with the detox project. f**k detox i coud not give a sh*t about that and hitt being on it cos i've spent all the money i ever will on a dre project.

the other big thing that i feel after reading that sh*t is regret over what happened to aftermath as a label cos of dre (and/or jimmy). dre/jimmy (they may be one and same person) managed to take a label which had produced a couple of classics in 2001 and the MMLP and f**k it up with straight bullsh*t Truth Hurts, clowns like 50 and the Game (i know i will get hate for this but anyone who tells me Game was ready as an MC when his album came out is straight foolish, he maybe ready now, he wasnt then and the Documentary is weak despite the tight prodcution), weak eminem joints and the whole g-unit and shady circus (apart from obie). damn it is pitiful.

we should have had albums from King T, Hittman and aftermath backed releases by 6"2 and those other DFW cats D.O.C was down with back in 2002. I have to say i cannot understand cats who are disappointed that it never worked out with Ra on aftermath. damn Ra is hip hop. i do not believe that dre could ever do a dope universal hip hop album. what dre (seemed) to understand on 2001 was that he had to go back to gangsta sh*t. that is what he is dope at...   

[wcsoldier]

GREAT interview , props 

[Darksider]

props for the good interview

[UKnowWhatItIs: welcome to my traps....game over]

Good interview, thx.

[Don Seer]

This was one of the coldest of Interviews I've seen in a long time on any media source.

for real.

[Tha_Blaq_Sinattra]

Good luck to the man, but someone should tell him that when you go to www.myspace.com/hittman some dweeb pops up. Is that the right address?


www.myspace.com/thablaqsinattra

[lbc213]

Major props for this one