Daz Dillinger breaks silence on So So Def, Snoop, DPGC Idols, and his future

[thehiphopbrand]

source: thuglife army

TLA: Your cousin, Snoop Dogg was recently involved with the police
can you talk about it? Or do you want to discuss it?

Dillinger: Yes I definitely want to discuss it. I wholeheartedly
believe this is just another form of discrimination. He's Black and on
top of that an entertainer, so the police will scrutinize him as
oppose to a White entertainer. The white entertainer has to damn near
run a person off the road before they get any type of survelliance. [referencing the alcoholics in the industry]

TLA: Daz, what happened with your last album So So Gangsta, it didn't
sell as well as it should've. Are you still with So So Def and
Jermaine Dupri bring us up to speed.

Dillinger: Bottom line, I don't think that particular business knew
how to market my product or my art. I had no say so whatsoever in the
artistic development of my project. And they were trying to market me
to a crowd that I am no longer appealing to. I've grown. I am a
gangster but not an irrational gangster. I am still a gangster but I
am not someone who takes lives at whim. There are degrees of being a
gangster, and the stick up kid that sold petty dope is no longer me.
My audience is sophisticated. If I am a gangbanger let it be for my
people, and let it be for recollection of diamonds, oil and etc. They
didn't even get my input. They didn't want my input. It is no longer
wise to kill one another, it never was. But when you talk about
making plans to empower or to globalize or to get money to rebuild
then not only are you a gangster you are marked, and no one wants to
market that in the industry today. Black people or Black artists are
so proud to get 100 shots or take shots or go to jail. They act like
its bragging rights, but the President is a full fledged gangster and
you don't see him in jail, nor do you see him getting shot. That's a
gangster one that is above the law so to speak. So in otherwords, I
was turning my gun in a different direction not on myself, not on my
people and they didn't want to hear that. I didn't click well with
them.

TLA: What is your take on Suge Knight, Snoop Dogg spoke out what do
you have to say on it?

Dillinger: Really I try not to give too much energy to him. It's sad
really because he is a Black man and we have a lot to gain from
everyone. But Willie Lynch has us bullying each other. We already
suffer enough abuse from the hands of the police, corporate america,
the land lord, why do we need another person in our midst acting worse
to us than our outright open enemy. Living in terror is a way of life
for Blacks we don't need to experience that at the hands of our own.
That's all I will say on that.

TLA: People classify you as a gangster rapper and gangster rap is in,
what is the street's definition of gangster rapper?

Dillinger: A gangster is an outcast first and foremost, but he or she
is someone that takes control of a situation that is not or was not in
his for her favor. Black men and women in this generation and younger
are being gangsters every time they strategize and manuever a way
outside of this corrupt and criminal-criminal system. But there are
degrees of gangsters and those who have the less knowledge will do
things that make them a pawn on the chess board or even getting
checkmate at the highest level. Everybody else is studio.

TLA: Going back to the last album record sales, what do you think of
it, do you consider it a flop by industry standards and what are your
plans in the future?

Dillinger: As long as I have an audience out there, I dont think I
flopped. But by industry standards I am an outcast. I dont mind it.
I rather be an outcast and free than a slave and appeal to a group of
people that is not my true audience. I speak to the people that are
struggling. I can't dance, don't want to dance, and I don't want to
talk about f-king and getting high all the time. That's what they
wanted me to do. The people that grew up of my music are now
Corporate thugs, they are not in the hood banging and if they are they
are OGs the girls are dealing with relationship issues and trying to
make it. So So Def cut 1/2 of my music out and really didn't want my
input. So my plans for the future is to break free like Prince.
Slavery is back, this whole world is one big plantation. And I am a
run-away slave busting caps back.

TLA: What about Dogg Chit, is it the same or is it revolutionary,
does it show your change?

Dillinger: It's the last of the best and the last of the great. It's
for those that are still in the bottom of bottoms feeling those
sentiments dealing with baby mama drama. But I am upgrading my music
and implementing new lyrics because gangsters who are at this level
have more woes than that. We are chess players, we are reading 48
laws of power, we are not just trying to rep a hood we are trying to
get a f-cking country!

TLA: What is the future of the Dogg Pound Brand?

Dillinger: I am looking to develop new talent. We had the DPGC Idols
and I would like to sit down and develop them a team. They are all
talented. Shouts out to: Brian, Lix, Dangerous Rob especially, and
just everyone that entered. It was a tough process and they are still
maintaining. But our brand is here, we are just trying to space age it
out. We are just trying to close the gaps from the 90s until now.

TLA: I am sure you heard of Kramer's use of the N-word will you stop
using it now? Will you join other rappers?

Dillinger: That just reinforces what I believe that slavery is back
and it aint really went no where. I mean this is one big plantation.
I may slip up every now and then, because I am human. But I am going
to make an effort to exclude that word from my language or at least my
music. It doesnt make you harder if you use the word. I think that is
what other artists believes. We can still bang without using that
word and I am going to work on that.

TLA: If Tupac was alive would he be proud of you or upset?

Dillinger: I think Tupac would've understood how I had to manuever
for the time period, play the game. That's what he did even at Death
Row. He was political but knew his audience wasn't ready for anything
preachy. We were both geminis and we are both versatile. We had a
mutual respect for one another.

TLA: When do you think your work would've been done in the Hip Hop industry?

Dillinger: When I die. I mean if Madonna can still sing at 40
something and so forth why can't our art have that same longevity.
They want this disposable but it isn't going anywhere. It's grown up
and growing up.


TLA: Do you think you are underrated as a Producer of a Multi-Platinum
album and all these different acts?

Dillinger: I think I will get my shine eventually. But because I
don't play the politics, and I am not a Hollywood type of person, it
has taken me a little while longer to get the shine that is necessary.
But if its all hood, and I just get hood awards year after year
that'd be fine with me. I rap for the lower class, struggling class,
those who haven't made it yet. Them appreciating my music is enough
for me right now.

[J$crILLa]

Daz is real muthfucka

[westkoastanostra]

is this really a daz interview? he sounds so mature 

[big mat]

is this the first time daz does an interview sober?

[d-nice]

is this really a daz interview? he sounds so mature 

Yeah a little too mature. I smell bullshit on this one. Sounded like a essay you would say in history class for a book report. But if he did it then big ups to sounding logical.  

[Tha G In Deee]

Wow...never thought I'd hear Daz talkin' like that...nice interview though...

[J$crILLa]

Wow...never thought I'd hear Daz talkin' like that...nice interview though...

that ass is fuckin amazing!

[P Nelson]

Great interview, he was sober that time

[Tha G In Deee]

Wow...never thought I'd hear Daz talkin' like that...nice interview though...

that ass is fuckin amazing!

Word...

[Paul]

is this the first time daz does an interview sober?

lol jus what i was thinkin wen readin it.

[MontrealCity's Most]

I like Daz over kurupt better he makes more sense when he RAPS.

[Nutty]

lol, think he's surprised everyone w/ this interview.

[d-nice]

Well I have seen alot from Daz this year I never thought I would

Did a Dogg Pound album with Snoop and appeared on his album

His So So Gangsta album actually came out

He sqaushed his beefs for the most part

This interview

[Eddie G.]

This has to be bullshit.  It really just doesn't look real.  For instance, why would he say that he doesn't just wanna talk about pussy and getting high?  I'm sure he had a grip of input on "Cali Iz Active," and that is one of the most blatant pussy and weed extravaganza CDs I've ever heard, besides maybe a Too Short CD.  So that doesn't make sense.  It also just doesn't sound like some shit he would say, with all the definitions and all that.  Who I really feel sorry for is the pathetic douchebag who actually wrote all of that.  Why would you waste your time?

[Nutty]

This has to be bullshit.  It really just doesn't look real.  For instance, why would he say that he doesn't just wanna talk about pussy and getting high?  I'm sure he had a grip of input on "Cali Iz Active," and that is one of the most blatant pussy and weed extravaganza CDs I've ever heard, besides maybe a Too Short CD.  So that doesn't make sense.  It also just doesn't sound like some shit he would say, with all the definitions and all that.  Who I really feel sorry for is the pathetic douchebag who actually wrote all of that.  Why would you waste your time?

I think he was refering to his SoSoDef release. I haven't heard it yet, so I dunno how much of it is about pussy & weed