Gangsta of The Comrads Interview

[Lunatic]

GANGSTA INTERVIEW 6/18/08

[The Official Page of Gangsta - My Photos - Photo 3 of 3]

Illuminati 2G chopped game with Gangsta from the Comrads. He talks about his upcoming mixtape and solo album, his time on Hoo Bangin, a possible Comrads album in the works and much more so check it out. For the audio version of the interview, click on the link below.

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Illuminati 2G is here with Gangsta from the Comrads. How's it going?

G: Oh everything is all good.

First question off the bat. What have you been up to since Pentitentary Chances dropped? I seen a video with you on the Crazy Toones DVD and that was what made me contact you actually.

G: I have been working on groups. A group called the Sweat Hogs with Kenny Stats, Dutch and one of my lil homies from my neighborhood named Devo. And I had finished they record up. But due to some bad shit, the record never did come out. I am also working on a record called Criminal Minded that I signed with Blackground Recrds and Barry Hankerson's label.

There is also a mixtape you are working on too isn't there?

G: Well I am working on a mixtape called Featuring Gangsta. Actually you might see that in the next few days. We in the mastering stage of it right now. After working on Criminal Minded, I got a catalog of so many songs from people hollering and getting at me. That's why I did that mixtape Featuring Gangsta and put that out right before the record (Criminal Minded) come out. The record was scheduled to come out in July, but now it is looking more like September.

How did you feel looking back at Penitentary Chances being that was your 1st solo album? I really felt that was a slept on album. Were you satisfied with the response and how it came out?

[The Official Page of Gangsta - My Photos - Photo 1 of 3]

G: I mean actually that was not my first solo record. My 1st solo record was Wanted. I did an independent record called Wanted that was actually before the Comrads. But that was what got the attention for the group project. But to answer your question was I satisfied with the results of Pentitentary Chances. In a sense yeah but in a sense no. Because like you said it was slept on because it did not have the big machine to move it across the country or whatever. I did get satisfaction out of the record because real hip hop fans or gangsta rap heads or westcoast fans or Comrad fans, when they see me, they give me my all about that record. Because I did everything myself on that record. All the tracks as far as financing it. As a artist, I am satisfied, but the business end of it, where that record should have been compared to other records that did what they did, that part I am probably a little disappointed in.

I get this question from alot of people. What happened with the whole Comrads situation and you and K-Mac, especially after Ball Or Fall came out?

G: Well really nothing happened between me and K-Mac. K-Mac my nigga, I am probably going to link up with him in a few hours. Really the whole Hoo Bangin situation people really did not know that I decided to roll. I felt like I was riding coach. I did not feel that my situation with Hoo Bangin and Mack 10, I didn't think I was progressing, so I just rolled out. So me and K-Mac are still dogs, it ain't never been no problem with me and him. We just actually did a song called Blue Cortez with Snoop for Snoop's mixtape that he got coming out.

That's good to hear. Is there a chance of you guys reuniting and doing another Comrads album?

G: I mean, we sit and talk about it all the time and then a few times when I am in the studio working on a project, K-Mac will come through and we will do songs. We have a catalog of songs. I am really trying to wait until this Criminal Minded project. Hopefully that will open the doors for us to drop another Comrads album right behind it. And then I got another group called Havin Thangs. Some young niggas turning it up in the streets of LA, with clean tennis shoes and big wheels and shit. So I am just staying moving through all this and alot of different projects. I got a film called Mr. Boulevard that is going to come out soon. All of the music is going to be heard from the Comrads, or from Gangsta or the Sweat Hoggs or Havin Thangs or a aritst I worked with named T-Roy, all of the music is going to be heard one way or the other. On soundtracks, mixtapes or records.

Tell me a little bit about the song Homeboyz from the Comrads 1st album. That was a classic west coast joint and just behind the scenes and the process of making that song?



G: Homeboyz was the last record we did for that album. I was actually in the studio with Cube, and we was working on a song called Bend A Corner with me or something. We finished it and I just stayed in the studio and came up with that beat and I woke K-Mac up and told him he had to drop his verse on that. And on the original Homeboyz track, CJ Mac was actually on the 3rd verse, but when we decided to make it our single, we had to take him off.

That was a cold ass beat for that song. Wasn't Ed MacMahon in that video too?

G: Yeah he was and make sure you put produced by Gangsta in there too!

Of  course. That was actually going to go into my next question. Your production is well known for alot of different projects that you have done. Whether it be for the Comrads or for different West Coast artists. Is there any other up and coming projects where we can hear your production on?

G: You know I had did some production on Bad Azz's record, I actually did some production on Snoop's record. I did some writing on a song Snoop had for the Easy Mo Bee project. I did a couple song with Dogg. Really on my production, I kind of produce for myself. I did tracks for Cube and WC, but most of my production be in house. With the homies. I mean it won't take nothing to fire up that MPC and get it crackin.

What are your thoughts on the West Coast musically at the moment? Are you happy with the way it is repped and what artists up and coming are you feeling right now?

G: Well to be perfectly honest with you, I am not happy with the state that it is in. Coming out the west coast, because to me alot of different other states and regions mimmick our style and I think they getting paid on it. But I think the reason why they able to do that, is because it's alot of fake ass niggas coming out the west coast. Alot of the stuff is recycled over and over again. The shit that is in my deck right now is niggas that ain't even signed really. Bad Lucc, I got Glasses Malone in my deck right now. As far as stuff that is in my deck from the west coast, Snoop, he is in the deck. Cube I got a couple of his new songs from his new record in the deck. I listen to some grimey shit. Some dudes from Nickerson Gardens. I really try to listen to alot of dudes that's trying to get on. That be the realest shit to me. To be perfectly honest I think that alot of west coast artists started out Hollywood and that's where they at to me.

Could you give any more details about your upcoming album that you talked about earlier?

G: Criminal Minded is going to be another one of those Penitentiary Chances type joints. I will probably have to get you Wanted, because Wanted was the 1st record and then I did Penitentiary Chances and now it is Criminal Minded. But Criminal Minded got production on it from Timbaland, I got production from Neff-U, the TrackStarz, I got a song with Tank that is circulating right now. I got a song called Suitcases with Suga Buga from the Relativez that kind of floating right now. Production from Rhythm D. I was promised a track from well there is supposed to be a track with me, Beanie Sigel, Jadakiss and Glasses Malone. So that is really in the making right now. I got a song with Cube and Bone Crusher. I just been busy as a muhfucka man. It will be like Wanted or Penitentiary Chances without the massive radio play, but then again it might because it is on Blackgound, it's on a major through Universal, but it's some of my same type of shit. The Homeboyz, Die Hard type of music. Shit I used to walk out my front door and see niggas doing on the corner. That's the type of stuff I really know to rap about.

Well that is all the questions that I have for you. Appreciate you getting down for the interview. Do you have any last words or shoutouts for the fans?

G: What I wanna say is I'm coming, Criminal Minded is coming. And for those that really want to know Gangsta, they can check my credibility. I'm a fence away from Watts and a block away from Compton. Dudes know me really out here. The Macks, the Snoops, all of them. Some of them I'm cool with, some of them are alright. But if you a real nigga, we probably cool with each other, but if we not, you probably not a cool nigga.



bot my work, but dope!

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[D-Stress]

thx.comrads are dope!

[D~Nice]

Comrads reunion? 

[Lunatic]

Comrads reunion? 

i know D, can u imagine, first album a damn classic

[DOPE, GUNS AND RELIGION]

good read

[D~Nice]

Comrads reunion? 

i know D, can u imagine, first album a damn classic

2nd one was dope too. And Gangsta is a hell of a producer as well.

[Laconic]

What is this Wanted album he's talking about?  I've got one entitled E/S Fuck All Y'all W/S.  Is that the same album just retitled?

Anyway, I always liked Gangsta and the Comrads/AllFrumThaI.  Just that whole click essentially.  I'll keep an eye out for Criminal Minded most definitely. 

I'm gonna go throw in Dog Gone Shame right now 

[D~Nice]

What is this Wanted album he's talking about?  I've got one entitled E/S Fuck All Y'all W/S.  Is that the same album just retitled?

Anyway, I always liked Gangsta and the Comrads/AllFrumThaI.  Just that whole click essentially.  I'll keep an eye out for Criminal Minded most definitely. 

I'm gonna go throw in Dog Gone Shame right now 

Yeah I am interested to see which album that is. I never heard of it before.

[Laconic]

^According to Amazon it has the same track listing as Fuck All Y'all so apparently it was just retitled.

[D~Nice]

^According to Amazon it has the same track listing as Fuck All Y'all so apparently it was just retitled.

Could you pm me a link to that? I ain't paying 40 bucks for a copy.

[ICHI THE KILLER]

^According to Amazon it has the same track listing as Fuck All Y'all so apparently it was just retitled.

u right i have the same album but later i found corectly titled.
any chance to get those sweat hoggs album?did gangsta said if he release them soon?

[COMPTONRIDA1]

 

[MIC44]

Thanks, I will read that!

[gio™fugahoo]

who know the myspace pages from them
K-mac  and gangsta ?

[ICHI THE KILLER]

gangsta

http://www.myspace.com/theofficialpageofgangsta