Tha Row/Deathrow Records

[nateandmiles]

What happened to their website??

now chuuuuuuuuuuuuch

[REGIME MOB 510]

i think suge knight got fuct over somehow, but im not sure.

[da flayboyant 2]

maybe the stoped paying the bills because of the trial

[Darksider]

new site
www.thenewdeathrowrecords.com

rumour from allhiphop.com
SUGE KNIGHT PLAYS SUGE KNIGHT

I heard that Suge will be playing himself in a movie based on the Pac and Biggie beef. Now, this movie is different from the one that Sylvester Stallone was working on. I think Suge was to play himself in that too, but nobody's heard a peep from that flick for a couple years. Sly was going to play Det. Russell Poole, formerly of the LAPD. I'm not sure who is doing the work on this, but I’m hearing that Suge could be one of the producers.

another warlord (new deathrow artist) interview

WorldWideConnected.com: Where are you from?

South Central L.A.

WorldWideConnected.com: Who were some of the rappers you were looking up to when you were young and started rapping?



Scarface, Pac, Biggie, Jay-Z, Nas, Method Man… That’s about it.


WorldWideConnected.com: What did you do before you signed to Death Row?

I was doing music but I was doing music independently. I was with different companies but it never worked out.


WorldWideConnected.com: Do you have any old material out there like albums or mixtapes or anything like that?


Nah the first mixtape is dropping right now called I Can Get Cha Block Knocked Off Vol 1.


WorldWideConnected.com: Ok but you don’t have anything left over from before?


Nah. The first company I was fuckin’ with was Twister Records. It got all fucked up and the company went under and shit. The second company I was fuckin’ with was a company called Beron Entertainment but the CEO and president of that company got locked up and we lost the whole album. I had a group project that I was doing and I had a solo project but all that shit got lost, so… I’m starting all over.


WorldWideConnected.com: How did you hook up with Death Row?


Shit, I was in the mall one time just chillin’ and I spotted Simon and P (Petey Pablo) coming down the escalator and hollered at him. He shot me his number and a couple days later, just by coincidence, I met the VP of his company and CEO of Last One Standing Entertainment which is Big Los. Me and Los got to choppin’ it up and it turned out we have mutual friends and just wrapped it up, man.


WorldWideConnected.com: When was this?


It was about a year ago.


WorldWideConnected.com: I thought Kurupt was the VP back then?


By the time I met Simon, Kurupt had already left to do the Dogg Pound thing.


WorldWideConnected.com: Yeah. How do you feel about all that?


He’s getting his money. He’s doing Kurupt. Any time mothafuckas are friends for a long time and they separate, it’s always going to be a reunion. It’s love there. It’s more than just music with them. They’re homeboys.


WorldWideConnected.com: What do you think about everything that’s going on with Suge and the lawsuits and everything?


It ain’t nothing but a fork on the road for us to roll over. That’s it. It ain’t gonna stop nothing, I can tell you that much.


WorldWideConnected.com: For a while there he was saying he was going to shut down Death Row tho. I believe the words were he was serving Death Row its last meal.


A lot of people took that out of context. What he meant was he was closing the old shit and doing something new. That’s what people have been so patiently waiting for him to do – something new. So that’s what he meant when he was saying he was closing Death Row and doing something new. He’s got new artists. He’s got Petey Pablo. You got the Death Row East taking off with Lakey The Kid out there in New York. And you’ve got me and a couple of other people. It’s going to be real big this year.


WorldWideConnected.com: Who’s on Death Row right now?


Me and Petey Pablo and then you’ve got my group which is Groove Tribe. It’s five members: Underdogg, Silent Groove, Lady Time Bomb, T.P. and G Mac. That’s my group and that’s the other project right there.


WorldWideConnected.com: For those who didn’t check out your music yet, how would you describe your style?


Just every day life. I don’t really have no one style. I don’t particularly go after one thing. I do whatever the fuck I feel and I think that’s why Simon is so comfident about me because I don’t have no problems touching those subjects or I ain’t trying to follow nobody. I’m just doing me. That’s how I’ve been working on this album. We’ve just been going in there and knocking shit out, knocking shit out, knocking shit out.


WorldWideConnected.com: So right now you’re working on a solo album and a group album?


Yeah.¨


WorldWideConnected.com: Are you involved with other projects on Death Row? I guess right now the Petey Pablo album.


Yeah
.

WorldWideConnected.com: How about Death Row East projects? It seems like Death Row East are kind of doing their own thing…


Lake’s doing it real big out there right now. Lake and Del Son is doing it real big, man. They’re going to set shit down in New York. It’s about that time for us to get that structure back and then come through and just clam down on shit again, ya know? That’s the main focus right now. Just get back on that business and come back to do what we do best – make hit records.


WorldWideConnected.com: Do you collaborate a lot between Death Row East and you out West?


Oh yeah anything Death Row we fuck with. It’s gonna change right after this mixtape. This first mixtape is just all me.


WorldWideConnected.com: Yeah and this one’s going to be available on the internet, right?


Oh yeah it’s all promotion right here. The first one is going to be free to download on the internet. Just getting it out there for everyone to get for free.


WorldWideConnected.com: Do you plan on doing more mixtapes after that?


I’m gonna rock a couple of volumes of the mixtape and at the same time work on the album.


WorldWideConnected.com: You keep the best tracks for the album or how do you do that?


Nah this mixtape is me freestyling over everybody elses beats. Like I redid some of Dre’s old shit, some New York beats… just all my favourite beats and all the songs that I always liked. I just dropped a verse or two and talk some shit on it. It’s a straight promotional album, ya know? The next one is going to be a little bit of everybody from Death Row. We’re gonna have Petey on there, Lake, me, the Groove Tribe. We’re going to have everybody on this one project on the next one. So volume 2 is going to be real big too.


WorldWideConnected.com: I guess it might be early to say, but when do you think that’ll come out?


We’re in the works for Vol 2 already. I’d say next month. We’re putting everything together right now. Volume two will be complete songs with original beats.


WorldWideConnected.com: Who do you have producing on your solo album?


I got J. Classic who did a lot of stuff on the latest Mack 10 album and has been working with a lot of other cats as well. I got this cat out of Detroit called S. Owens who did a lot of work with Proof before Proof passed. We’ve got Blaqtoven. Everybody know who Blaqtoven is already. The Administration and Lil Jon is on there too.


WorldWideConnected.com: Are they inhouse producers on Death Row or outside producers you worked with?


Nah they’re people that heard about the project and got a chance to hear some music and they wanted to contribute to the album. Then we’ve got this new cat named A-Roc who is my homeboy and he work for my production company which is Half Heart Half Money Productions.


WorldWideConnected.com: How about Ambassador Cash and other producers that was inhouse producers a while back?


You know what I can’t even lie I didn’t work with any of those producers so I can’t even speak out on that. All the cats me and Simon’s been working with… We’re going after a classic right now, dog. We’re going after the top producers right now.


WorldWideConnected.com: Do you feel the pressure to make a classic album? I mean Death Row’s got a real impressive catalogue…


Nah man, not at all. I get to work around all these mothafuckas that already got classic albums and people that produced classic albums before that got to work with certain people. Being able to get in the studio with them and just freelance and vibe with them is good, man. It’s been real easy. It hasn’t been hard at all.


WorldWideConnected.com: It’s got to be easier to get people to work with you when you’re on a label like Death Row too.


Yeah it can be easy but it can be hard too. You’ve got all these scared mothafuckas out there running their mouth and don’t know what they’re talking about.


WorldWideConnected.com: Are you working on any compilations or anything like that on Death Row?


No, we haven’t worked on no compilations right now. The only thing we’re focusing on right now is getting the company back organized and structured, and working on these projects to make sure we’ve got the right music.


WorldWideConnected.com: So what we can expect is an album from Petey Pablo, an album from you and an album from your group?


Yeah and Lake The Kid. He’s got an album with Cormega right now. That shit is crazy too.


WorldWideConnected.com: How about features on your solo album?


I can tell you these three: T.I, Young Dro and Trey Songz.


WorldWideConnected.com: Do ya’ll still work with Murder INC and Rap-A-Lot?


Yeah that’s family, man, and that’s always going to be family.


WorldWideConnected.com: Have you taken over any of the beefs that Suge Knight’s got with some artists? I guess Suge’s got beef with some of the former artists, like Snoop and some others…


Yeah that’s for the fans tho. They don’t mean what they say. At the end of the day when people hit the streets, they don’t see them.


WorldWideConnected.com: Are you going to call any of them out on record?


I have no reason to. Suge haven’t asked me to take on no beefs. It’s about starting a company new, but if it’s a problem then it’s a problem. They ain’t said nothing to me.


WorldWideConnected.com: So you don’t have any beefs with anybody then.


Not right now. I’m getting my foot in the door, but I ain’t got no reason to hate on nobody. I don’t do all the battle rap, man. That shit is for the rap actors. That’s what the beef shit is for, man. If people’s got a problem it’s like Suge said: “We bring two rounds of rappin’ and one round of scrappin’”, haha.


WorldWideConnected.com: Haha ok. About Suge Knight: I heard he’s in the studio with the artists a lot.


Every time I’ve been in the studio Suge’s there.


WorldWideConnected.com: What’s that like? You feeling the pressure?


You know what, we actually get in there and we have fun. It’s not all up-tight and it’s not all pressure to do nothing big or super-big. We’re just getting there and we create good music. That’s when shit get fucked up when people are trying to pressure you to do something and you’re going after something. If you just get in and just create, that’s how you make good music.


WorldWideConnected.com: So when you’re in the studio and you do a song, do you make the song for the album or do you decide later what’s good enough to be put on the album and what’s not?


So far the songs we did is for the album. We’re real precise about what we’re doing right now. We’re just keeping the creativity. Producers come, produce their beat in the studio and then we sit down and pick the beats that we wanna go with and fuck with ‘em. We just ain’t recording on anything and we just ain’t in the studio fuckin’ with nothing. We sit down and map it out and see what beats we wanna use, what beats I’m feeling, and we knock ‘em down.


WorldWideConnected.com: How much have you recorded for the album right now?


We’ve got maybe like 98% of the project done right now.


WorldWideConnected.com: Do you have any plans for when ya’ll wanna release the album?


March, no later than April 2007. We’ve got a couple of moves that we’ve been making as far as features and stuff on the album and schedules sometimes conflict so no later than March is the date. We’ve got the mixtape series going on right now.

WorldWideConnected.com: Is your album coming out after the Petey Pablo album?

Yeah Big Petey’s shit’s coming first and I’m next right after that. That shit’s fire too.

WorldWideConnected.com: And I’m assuming you’re on his album as well…

Yeah I’m on the Petey project.


WorldWideConnected.com: I mean I guess you are the only Death Row artists right now, do you work a lot with eachother…


I’m not the only Death Row artist but I’m the new poster boy. I’m that new franchise player. I’m what Kobe Bryant is to the Lakers.


WorldWideConnected.com: There’s been a few artists on Death Row over the past years and most of them has left without releasing any solo albums. Is that something that you worry about?


Not at all.


WorldWideConnected.com: You said you had some big names on the album…


We’re in the works on some stuff right now. We’re gonna chock everybody. Everybody’s been running their mouth and don’t know what they’re talking about but it’s going to be real big.


WorldWideConnected.com: If you look at old Death Row releases you can see that a lot of guest appearances are from underground rappers from the West Coast and I guess Death Row’s been known for that – to bring on West Coast artists instead of just using the big names out there at the moment…


Not only that though. No matter how far you look back, when Death Row was eating the whole West Coast was eating. As soon as Death Row went down for a minute with all that legal bullshit and all those little problems in the past, with 2pac and all, the whole West Coast stopped eating. Everybody got selfish. Everybody went into what we call the… everybody basically went to their cell. It’s like being in prison out here on the West Coast because don’t nobody wanna share shit and everybody keep to themselves. Don’t nobody want to fuck with each other, so it’s just like being in the prison system. Everybody don’t wanna let everybody in, and that’s what’s fucked up about out here. Everywhere else everybody can eat because everybody support eachother. Them rappers down south is winning because they support eachother. They stick with eachother and they support eachother, and they grind and work hard. Same thing on the East Coast.


WorldWideConnected.com: So that’s something you wanna do for the West Coast?


That’s what we’re going to do. That’s what we’ve got to do. It’s the only way we’re gonna win.


WorldWideConnected.com: So if you got to pick a few West Coast artists to work with who would that be? Not saying you’ve worked with them or that you’re going to work with them.


Kam from Watts. Jay-o Felony, Ice Cube, WC, Xzibit… Basically everybody from the West Coast. I’d like to do something with everybody but everybody’s on… everybody don’t fuck with eachother and that’s the problem. Shit I’ll work with anybody that’s out there husteling and grindin’, ya know? At the end of the day right now them south cats are winning. They fuck with everybody and they’re supporting eachother.


WorldWideConnected.com: What do you have to say to fans that has kind of lost faith in Death Row because of lack of releases?


That we ain’t going to let them down. Everybody always lose faith sometimes. Look how they did Jesus, haha. A lot of people think we let them down, right? Well we ain’t going nowhere.


WorldWideConnected.com: Yeah Death Row’s got a lot of fans but the label hasn’t released anything new… I mean the last album was “The Chronicles” which was some kind of greatest hits from Dr Dre, but still Death Row has a big fanbase.


I think it’s a good thing that we went through what we went through, though. What doesn’t kill ya make you stronger, ya know? We’re going to come out harder than ever, I promise that. We’ve got Peteys shit that’s crazy. We’ve got Lakey out on the East and his album with Cormega that’s crazy. We’ve got my shit and my group. It’s going to be real big this year.


WorldWideConnected.com: So where do you see yourself in the future? Say 5-10 years?


Shit, doing the same thing big homie is doing.


WorldWideConnected.com: Do you wanna get into other things like movies and stuff like that in the future?


You know what man I don’t know about that acting thing, man. I ain’t a good actor, haha. I keep it real, I ain’t good at acting.


WorldWideConnected.com: How about producing?


Yeah I produce. It’s not something I like doing, though.


WorldWideConnected.com: So you’re not gonna produce anything on your album or anything like that?


Nah, nah. This album is gonna be strictly industry shit. You might hear me produce on one of my mixtapes or something like that, but for the album I won’t be producing anything.


WorldWideConnected.com: The mixtape thing has gotten real big. I mean there’s been mixtapes for a long time but it’s been getting bigger and bigger it seams.


The mixtape thing is good for the fans. I mean we’re not even selling my mixtape. It’s mostly for the fans, to let everybody know we’re back and coming with good quality music. Just me freestyling over some industry beats and all the songs that everybody’s in love with right now. Let everybody know what a n*gga be working with so they can fall back in love with Death Row.


WorldWideConnected.com: Yeah a chance for people to hear you before your album drops.


Yeah it’s important for that because people wanna know what they’re fuckin’ with when they go out to get that album or go on iTunes to pay for it and download it.


WorldWideConnected.com: How many mixtapes do you plan to release?


We’re gonna play it by ear. We’re going to finish volume one volume two is going to be all original beats and complete songs. When Vol 2 is out we’re going to see about Vol 3. We’re going to play it by ear.


WorldWideConnected.com: WORD ASSOCIATION


Suge Knight


A real n*gga.


Kurupt


A dope MC.


Bang’Em Smurf & Domination.


They hot.


WorldWideConnected.com: Death Row and them had a thing going on in the past. Not as much any more it seems. Can we expect to hear you on a Domination track any time soon?


Hopefully yeah.


50 Cent


Hell yeah I like 50. 50’s doing it real big right now. I like 50 for the way he’s taking the business right now. 50’s doing a lot of shit that’s important for his run in music. He’s not just a rapper he’s a business man and I like that part about him.


Snoop Dogg


Snoop Dogg, haha.


Petey Pablo


He’s one of the dopest mothafuckas I’ve ever worked around. Peteys work ethics is crazy.


WorldWideConnected.com: So how does his shit sound? Is he going to have West Coast beats on the album or how does that work out?


Oh man Peteys shit is off the chains. That’s going to change how Down South is, when Peteys shit drops. Petey’s not just a rapper he’s an artist. We were just talking about this the other night. He’s like T.I. T.I is not just a rapper, he’s an artist. It’s a difference between being a rapper and an artist. A lot of mothafuckas can be a rapper but it takes a lot to be an artist, ya know? Make good music and not be on the same shit all the time, but still be appealing to his fans at the same time.


WorldWideConnected.com: So would you say you’re an artist?


Oh yeah I’m a artist, definitely.


Next name: R. Kelly


The dopest RnB mothafucka alive right now.


Yukmouth


I don’t know Yukmouth so I can’t really say. Yuk with the Luniz shit is tight and I met Yuk a couple of times.


J Prince


A real n*gga just like Simon.


Lakey The Kid


I like Lakey and plus Lakey’s a real n*gga also.


DMX


A beast.


Yourself, Warlord.


The next best n*gga to touch this industry since 50.


Since who?


Since 50. 50’s been the next best artist since Pac as far as his run, his album sales and his business.


WorldWideConnected.com: It seems like his popularity is fading right now though.


Yeah but you know, everybody have their run. Nobody is on top for a super-long time like that. That’s what I like about 50. He took his run and is taking his run and he’s utalizing it to the best of his abilities, ya know? He’s always going to be around as far as all the shit he’s into and his other businesses outside of rap he’s into.


WorldWideConnected.com: Is there anything else you wanna say?


That the coming is close. You’ve just got to break bread or fake dead now. That’s our new slogan: Break bread or fake dead.


WorldWideConnected.com: And people can check you out at myspace.


Yeah it’s myspace.com/warlorddrr. You can get the mixtape there and ofcourse on World Wide Connected aswell.

[o g s u e s o n e]

new death row.. lol.... fuck suge and all that. its over n it will never be the same.

[The "Untouchable" DJR]

new site
www.thenewdeathrowrecords.com

rumour from allhiphop.com
SUGE KNIGHT PLAYS SUGE KNIGHT

I heard that Suge will be playing himself in a movie based on the Pac and Biggie beef. Now, this movie is different from the one that Sylvester Stallone was working on. I think Suge was to play himself in that too, but nobody's heard a peep from that flick for a couple years. Sly was going to play Det. Russell Poole, formerly of the LAPD. I'm not sure who is doing the work on this, but I’m hearing that Suge could be one of the producers.

another warlord (new deathrow artist) interview

WorldWideConnected.com: Where are you from?

South Central L.A.

WorldWideConnected.com: Who were some of the rappers you were looking up to when you were young and started rapping?



Scarface, Pac, Biggie, Jay-Z, Nas, Method Man… That’s about it.


WorldWideConnected.com: What did you do before you signed to Death Row?

I was doing music but I was doing music independently. I was with different companies but it never worked out.


WorldWideConnected.com: Do you have any old material out there like albums or mixtapes or anything like that?


Nah the first mixtape is dropping right now called I Can Get Cha Block Knocked Off Vol 1.


WorldWideConnected.com: Ok but you don’t have anything left over from before?


Nah. The first company I was fuckin’ with was Twister Records. It got all fucked up and the company went under and shit. The second company I was fuckin’ with was a company called Beron Entertainment but the CEO and president of that company got locked up and we lost the whole album. I had a group project that I was doing and I had a solo project but all that shit got lost, so… I’m starting all over.


WorldWideConnected.com: How did you hook up with Death Row?


Shit, I was in the mall one time just chillin’ and I spotted Simon and P (Petey Pablo) coming down the escalator and hollered at him. He shot me his number and a couple days later, just by coincidence, I met the VP of his company and CEO of Last One Standing Entertainment which is Big Los. Me and Los got to choppin’ it up and it turned out we have mutual friends and just wrapped it up, man.


WorldWideConnected.com: When was this?


It was about a year ago.


WorldWideConnected.com: I thought Kurupt was the VP back then?


By the time I met Simon, Kurupt had already left to do the Dogg Pound thing.


WorldWideConnected.com: Yeah. How do you feel about all that?


He’s getting his money. He’s doing Kurupt. Any time mothafuckas are friends for a long time and they separate, it’s always going to be a reunion. It’s love there. It’s more than just music with them. They’re homeboys.


WorldWideConnected.com: What do you think about everything that’s going on with Suge and the lawsuits and everything?


It ain’t nothing but a fork on the road for us to roll over. That’s it. It ain’t gonna stop nothing, I can tell you that much.


WorldWideConnected.com: For a while there he was saying he was going to shut down Death Row tho. I believe the words were he was serving Death Row its last meal.


A lot of people took that out of context. What he meant was he was closing the old shit and doing something new. That’s what people have been so patiently waiting for him to do – something new. So that’s what he meant when he was saying he was closing Death Row and doing something new. He’s got new artists. He’s got Petey Pablo. You got the Death Row East taking off with Lakey The Kid out there in New York. And you’ve got me and a couple of other people. It’s going to be real big this year.


WorldWideConnected.com: Who’s on Death Row right now?


Me and Petey Pablo and then you’ve got my group which is Groove Tribe. It’s five members: Underdogg, Silent Groove, Lady Time Bomb, T.P. and G Mac. That’s my group and that’s the other project right there.


WorldWideConnected.com: For those who didn’t check out your music yet, how would you describe your style?


Just every day life. I don’t really have no one style. I don’t particularly go after one thing. I do whatever the fuck I feel and I think that’s why Simon is so comfident about me because I don’t have no problems touching those subjects or I ain’t trying to follow nobody. I’m just doing me. That’s how I’ve been working on this album. We’ve just been going in there and knocking shit out, knocking shit out, knocking shit out.


WorldWideConnected.com: So right now you’re working on a solo album and a group album?


Yeah.¨


WorldWideConnected.com: Are you involved with other projects on Death Row? I guess right now the Petey Pablo album.


Yeah
.

WorldWideConnected.com: How about Death Row East projects? It seems like Death Row East are kind of doing their own thing…


Lake’s doing it real big out there right now. Lake and Del Son is doing it real big, man. They’re going to set shit down in New York. It’s about that time for us to get that structure back and then come through and just clam down on shit again, ya know? That’s the main focus right now. Just get back on that business and come back to do what we do best – make hit records.


WorldWideConnected.com: Do you collaborate a lot between Death Row East and you out West?


Oh yeah anything Death Row we fuck with. It’s gonna change right after this mixtape. This first mixtape is just all me.


WorldWideConnected.com: Yeah and this one’s going to be available on the internet, right?


Oh yeah it’s all promotion right here. The first one is going to be free to download on the internet. Just getting it out there for everyone to get for free.


WorldWideConnected.com: Do you plan on doing more mixtapes after that?


I’m gonna rock a couple of volumes of the mixtape and at the same time work on the album.


WorldWideConnected.com: You keep the best tracks for the album or how do you do that?


Nah this mixtape is me freestyling over everybody elses beats. Like I redid some of Dre’s old shit, some New York beats… just all my favourite beats and all the songs that I always liked. I just dropped a verse or two and talk some shit on it. It’s a straight promotional album, ya know? The next one is going to be a little bit of everybody from Death Row. We’re gonna have Petey on there, Lake, me, the Groove Tribe. We’re going to have everybody on this one project on the next one. So volume 2 is going to be real big too.


WorldWideConnected.com: I guess it might be early to say, but when do you think that’ll come out?


We’re in the works for Vol 2 already. I’d say next month. We’re putting everything together right now. Volume two will be complete songs with original beats.


WorldWideConnected.com: Who do you have producing on your solo album?


I got J. Classic who did a lot of stuff on the latest Mack 10 album and has been working with a lot of other cats as well. I got this cat out of Detroit called S. Owens who did a lot of work with Proof before Proof passed. We’ve got Blaqtoven. Everybody know who Blaqtoven is already. The Administration and Lil Jon is on there too.


WorldWideConnected.com: Are they inhouse producers on Death Row or outside producers you worked with?


Nah they’re people that heard about the project and got a chance to hear some music and they wanted to contribute to the album. Then we’ve got this new cat named A-Roc who is my homeboy and he work for my production company which is Half Heart Half Money Productions.


WorldWideConnected.com: How about Ambassador Cash and other producers that was inhouse producers a while back?


You know what I can’t even lie I didn’t work with any of those producers so I can’t even speak out on that. All the cats me and Simon’s been working with… We’re going after a classic right now, dog. We’re going after the top producers right now.


WorldWideConnected.com: Do you feel the pressure to make a classic album? I mean Death Row’s got a real impressive catalogue…


Nah man, not at all. I get to work around all these mothafuckas that already got classic albums and people that produced classic albums before that got to work with certain people. Being able to get in the studio with them and just freelance and vibe with them is good, man. It’s been real easy. It hasn’t been hard at all.


WorldWideConnected.com: It’s got to be easier to get people to work with you when you’re on a label like Death Row too.


Yeah it can be easy but it can be hard too. You’ve got all these scared mothafuckas out there running their mouth and don’t know what they’re talking about.


WorldWideConnected.com: Are you working on any compilations or anything like that on Death Row?


No, we haven’t worked on no compilations right now. The only thing we’re focusing on right now is getting the company back organized and structured, and working on these projects to make sure we’ve got the right music.


WorldWideConnected.com: So what we can expect is an album from Petey Pablo, an album from you and an album from your group?


Yeah and Lake The Kid. He’s got an album with Cormega right now. That shit is crazy too.


WorldWideConnected.com: How about features on your solo album?


I can tell you these three: T.I, Young Dro and Trey Songz.


WorldWideConnected.com: Do ya’ll still work with Murder INC and Rap-A-Lot?


Yeah that’s family, man, and that’s always going to be family.


WorldWideConnected.com: Have you taken over any of the beefs that Suge Knight’s got with some artists? I guess Suge’s got beef with some of the former artists, like Snoop and some others…


Yeah that’s for the fans tho. They don’t mean what they say. At the end of the day when people hit the streets, they don’t see them.


WorldWideConnected.com: Are you going to call any of them out on record?


I have no reason to. Suge haven’t asked me to take on no beefs. It’s about starting a company new, but if it’s a problem then it’s a problem. They ain’t said nothing to me.


WorldWideConnected.com: So you don’t have any beefs with anybody then.


Not right now. I’m getting my foot in the door, but I ain’t got no reason to hate on nobody. I don’t do all the battle rap, man. That shit is for the rap actors. That’s what the beef shit is for, man. If people’s got a problem it’s like Suge said: “We bring two rounds of rappin’ and one round of scrappin’”, haha.


WorldWideConnected.com: Haha ok. About Suge Knight: I heard he’s in the studio with the artists a lot.


Every time I’ve been in the studio Suge’s there.


WorldWideConnected.com: What’s that like? You feeling the pressure?


You know what, we actually get in there and we have fun. It’s not all up-tight and it’s not all pressure to do nothing big or super-big. We’re just getting there and we create good music. That’s when shit get fucked up when people are trying to pressure you to do something and you’re going after something. If you just get in and just create, that’s how you make good music.


WorldWideConnected.com: So when you’re in the studio and you do a song, do you make the song for the album or do you decide later what’s good enough to be put on the album and what’s not?


So far the songs we did is for the album. We’re real precise about what we’re doing right now. We’re just keeping the creativity. Producers come, produce their beat in the studio and then we sit down and pick the beats that we wanna go with and fuck with ‘em. We just ain’t recording on anything and we just ain’t in the studio fuckin’ with nothing. We sit down and map it out and see what beats we wanna use, what beats I’m feeling, and we knock ‘em down.


WorldWideConnected.com: How much have you recorded for the album right now?


We’ve got maybe like 98% of the project done right now.


WorldWideConnected.com: Do you have any plans for when ya’ll wanna release the album?


March, no later than April 2007. We’ve got a couple of moves that we’ve been making as far as features and stuff on the album and schedules sometimes conflict so no later than March is the date. We’ve got the mixtape series going on right now.

WorldWideConnected.com: Is your album coming out after the Petey Pablo album?

Yeah Big Petey’s shit’s coming first and I’m next right after that. That shit’s fire too.

WorldWideConnected.com: And I’m assuming you’re on his album as well…

Yeah I’m on the Petey project.


WorldWideConnected.com: I mean I guess you are the only Death Row artists right now, do you work a lot with eachother…


I’m not the only Death Row artist but I’m the new poster boy. I’m that new franchise player. I’m what Kobe Bryant is to the Lakers.


WorldWideConnected.com: There’s been a few artists on Death Row over the past years and most of them has left without releasing any solo albums. Is that something that you worry about?


Not at all.


WorldWideConnected.com: You said you had some big names on the album…


We’re in the works on some stuff right now. We’re gonna chock everybody. Everybody’s been running their mouth and don’t know what they’re talking about but it’s going to be real big.


WorldWideConnected.com: If you look at old Death Row releases you can see that a lot of guest appearances are from underground rappers from the West Coast and I guess Death Row’s been known for that – to bring on West Coast artists instead of just using the big names out there at the moment…


Not only that though. No matter how far you look back, when Death Row was eating the whole West Coast was eating. As soon as Death Row went down for a minute with all that legal bullshit and all those little problems in the past, with 2pac and all, the whole West Coast stopped eating. Everybody got selfish. Everybody went into what we call the… everybody basically went to their cell. It’s like being in prison out here on the West Coast because don’t nobody wanna share shit and everybody keep to themselves. Don’t nobody want to fuck with each other, so it’s just like being in the prison system. Everybody don’t wanna let everybody in, and that’s what’s fucked up about out here. Everywhere else everybody can eat because everybody support eachother. Them rappers down south is winning because they support eachother. They stick with eachother and they support eachother, and they grind and work hard. Same thing on the East Coast.


WorldWideConnected.com: So that’s something you wanna do for the West Coast?


That’s what we’re going to do. That’s what we’ve got to do. It’s the only way we’re gonna win.


WorldWideConnected.com: So if you got to pick a few West Coast artists to work with who would that be? Not saying you’ve worked with them or that you’re going to work with them.


Kam from Watts. Jay-o Felony, Ice Cube, WC, Xzibit… Basically everybody from the West Coast. I’d like to do something with everybody but everybody’s on… everybody don’t fuck with eachother and that’s the problem. Shit I’ll work with anybody that’s out there husteling and grindin’, ya know? At the end of the day right now them south cats are winning. They fuck with everybody and they’re supporting eachother.


WorldWideConnected.com: What do you have to say to fans that has kind of lost faith in Death Row because of lack of releases?


That we ain’t going to let them down. Everybody always lose faith sometimes. Look how they did Jesus, haha. A lot of people think we let them down, right? Well we ain’t going nowhere.


WorldWideConnected.com: Yeah Death Row’s got a lot of fans but the label hasn’t released anything new… I mean the last album was “The Chronicles” which was some kind of greatest hits from Dr Dre, but still Death Row has a big fanbase.


I think it’s a good thing that we went through what we went through, though. What doesn’t kill ya make you stronger, ya know? We’re going to come out harder than ever, I promise that. We’ve got Peteys shit that’s crazy. We’ve got Lakey out on the East and his album with Cormega that’s crazy. We’ve got my shit and my group. It’s going to be real big this year.


WorldWideConnected.com: So where do you see yourself in the future? Say 5-10 years?


Shit, doing the same thing big homie is doing.


WorldWideConnected.com: Do you wanna get into other things like movies and stuff like that in the future?


You know what man I don’t know about that acting thing, man. I ain’t a good actor, haha. I keep it real, I ain’t good at acting.


WorldWideConnected.com: How about producing?


Yeah I produce. It’s not something I like doing, though.


WorldWideConnected.com: So you’re not gonna produce anything on your album or anything like that?


Nah, nah. This album is gonna be strictly industry shit. You might hear me produce on one of my mixtapes or something like that, but for the album I won’t be producing anything.


WorldWideConnected.com: The mixtape thing has gotten real big. I mean there’s been mixtapes for a long time but it’s been getting bigger and bigger it seams.


The mixtape thing is good for the fans. I mean we’re not even selling my mixtape. It’s mostly for the fans, to let everybody know we’re back and coming with good quality music. Just me freestyling over some industry beats and all the songs that everybody’s in love with right now. Let everybody know what a n*gga be working with so they can fall back in love with Death Row.


WorldWideConnected.com: Yeah a chance for people to hear you before your album drops.


Yeah it’s important for that because people wanna know what they’re fuckin’ with when they go out to get that album or go on iTunes to pay for it and download it.


WorldWideConnected.com: How many mixtapes do you plan to release?


We’re gonna play it by ear. We’re going to finish volume one volume two is going to be all original beats and complete songs. When Vol 2 is out we’re going to see about Vol 3. We’re going to play it by ear.


WorldWideConnected.com: WORD ASSOCIATION


Suge Knight


A real n*gga.


Kurupt


A dope MC.


Bang’Em Smurf & Domination.


They hot.


WorldWideConnected.com: Death Row and them had a thing going on in the past. Not as much any more it seems. Can we expect to hear you on a Domination track any time soon?


Hopefully yeah.


50 Cent


Hell yeah I like 50. 50’s doing it real big right now. I like 50 for the way he’s taking the business right now. 50’s doing a lot of shit that’s important for his run in music. He’s not just a rapper he’s a business man and I like that part about him.


Snoop Dogg


Snoop Dogg, haha.


Petey Pablo


He’s one of the dopest mothafuckas I’ve ever worked around. Peteys work ethics is crazy.


WorldWideConnected.com: So how does his shit sound? Is he going to have West Coast beats on the album or how does that work out?


Oh man Peteys shit is off the chains. That’s going to change how Down South is, when Peteys shit drops. Petey’s not just a rapper he’s an artist. We were just talking about this the other night. He’s like T.I. T.I is not just a rapper, he’s an artist. It’s a difference between being a rapper and an artist. A lot of mothafuckas can be a rapper but it takes a lot to be an artist, ya know? Make good music and not be on the same shit all the time, but still be appealing to his fans at the same time.


WorldWideConnected.com: So would you say you’re an artist?


Oh yeah I’m a artist, definitely.


Next name: R. Kelly


The dopest RnB mothafucka alive right now.


Yukmouth


I don’t know Yukmouth so I can’t really say. Yuk with the Luniz shit is tight and I met Yuk a couple of times.


J Prince


A real n*gga just like Simon.


Lakey The Kid


I like Lakey and plus Lakey’s a real n*gga also.


DMX


A beast.


Yourself, Warlord.


The next best n*gga to touch this industry since 50.


Since who?


Since 50. 50’s been the next best artist since Pac as far as his run, his album sales and his business.


WorldWideConnected.com: It seems like his popularity is fading right now though.


Yeah but you know, everybody have their run. Nobody is on top for a super-long time like that. That’s what I like about 50. He took his run and is taking his run and he’s utalizing it to the best of his abilities, ya know? He’s always going to be around as far as all the shit he’s into and his other businesses outside of rap he’s into.


WorldWideConnected.com: Is there anything else you wanna say?


That the coming is close. You’ve just got to break bread or fake dead now. That’s our new slogan: Break bread or fake dead.


WorldWideConnected.com: And people can check you out at myspace.


Yeah it’s myspace.com/warlorddrr. You can get the mixtape there and ofcourse on World Wide Connected aswell.

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