Erotic D Interview

[D-Nice]

http://illuminati2g.com/site/2011/10/15/erotic-d-interview/

I2G kicked it with Erotic D for a exclusive and comprehensive interview. Genocide, DOC, Six-2, Death Row, and many other topics are covered along with Erotic’s new album, Sleeper Cell, coming later this month.

So what’s up with Genocide? What are those guys up to?

 

Well Genocide is made up of Six-2 and El Dog.

 

Right.

 

They are still around since their last album, Waste Uva Cular. I was on a mission to make them bigger and better because I feel that they are both very unique individually and together they are even more unique. El Dog always rolled with me more and Six-2 went on to work with Diddy, Pussycat Dolls, Timbaland and others. El Dog worked with Dre on the 2001 record, but even then we were still making songs together.

 

That chemistry is going to show on this Sleeper Cell album. I would say El Dog is on 80% of the album, whether it is a verse here and there or a chorus or whatever. We decided to do another Genacide album because it is about that time to take business into our own hands.

 

I am in a do it yourself mode right now. I am in my lane and people are in their lane. So we working on the Genacide album and at the same time working on my new album.

 

Word. I don’t mean to back track but what was the track El Dog wrote for Dr. Dre on 2001? Was it Ho’s A Housewife or was it Big Egos?

 

It was Ho’s A Housewife and Uptight wrote Big Egos.

 

What ever happened to Uptight? I ran into him a couple months ago on Facebook and I guess up until 2005 he was writing for Detox but after that I don’t know what happened.

 

I mean we all stay close and connected, but as far as what Uptight is doing careerwise, even if I did know, I can’t speak on it. I let these guys in my inner circle do their own talking. Uptight was always DOC’s artist, and Six-2 and El Dog was always my artists. So even as close and cool as me and Uptight are, I really don’t keep up with what he is doing musically.

 

We talk on occassion and last time I talked to him, he said he was trying to start his own label and that was the last I heard from him.

What else do you have in the works other than the Genocide project?

 

I got a new artist named U-Jay and he is featured on a couple songs on Sleeper Cell. I was also looking at this other artist named Quazi but I have also been looking at him on Facebook and now I don’t know (laughs). If he is checking out this interview, man chill out on Facebook man (laughs). Keep some of that shit to yourself.

 

What does he say on there?

 

I don’t want to put him out there like that. But yeah I also have a couple of producers too. One named Blue, he has been playing guitar for me for years. He did some production for MC Hammer and he produced Deion Sanders’ rap album as well. He came to California through me and hooked up with Suge and then after that he came back and has been working with me but I plan on putting him back in the production game.

 

Then I also am thinking about signing another producer named Spidey pending the contract talks. He has a unique talent that I think will go well with the team. But as far as artists, I am looking for new artists because I would rather produced for new artists. The reason behind that is I want to change the circle that was around me when I went to jail.

 

Six-2 and El Dog is family so that won’t change. I really want them to also be behind the scenes with me and write for some of these artists that I want to sign. I also want them to bring on new talent as well because you can’t rap forever. That will keep them relevant in the game one way or another, but yeah we are going to start having some talent searches to find the artists that I would like to work with.

 

Not just hip hop either, R&B, Pop, Rock, whatever. Like I was telling you the other day, I have a consulting business now also, where now I can advise other artists. I have a client from China, who I feel works real hard and when I went to prison, he was just a DJ. When I got back he had already shot his first video, paid for it himself, wrote and produced his own song.

 

He has a real nice style that I think can work in this industry. In this case, I am not producing his record, but I am making sure they sound right and that he is making the right moves with his money. He wants to be a Pitbull/Black Eyed Peas type of artist so for now I am consulting him and probably 6 months down the line I will start managing him.

 

I am consulting and looking for all types of artists and I feel that it is my time to kill the game.

 

Word. Do you mind if I do a history lesson with you right quick? I know the last guys that interviewed you did one but I would like to do a more in depth one if you don’t mind.

 

Go ahead.

 

So tell me how you got your start, did you say that you started out as a DJ?

 

Yeah I started out Djing when I was 13. I did not know that I was creating a business model when I did that because when I was 13, my parents would help me get the equipment I needed. Every week after doing parties, I would have hundreds of dollars, in rolls that looked like drug dealers money. What I would do with the money is reinvest it in myself.

 

When a new mixer would come out, I would go to the warehouse and buy it and like I said I did this at 13. So for me it was a natural progression to go from Djing to wanting to create my own beats. My first single from Sleeper Cell is called Hustler’s Eye and there is a line in there that says I can make a record, plus I got a gift, woke up one day I said I can do this. So then what I did was I started playing the record that I would play at these parties, and I would play my verse at these parties to see if people could tell the difference.

 

That taught me what I needed to know to make I song I produce sound full. Because I thought at first, if you play a little bass, guitar, or keyboards and that was it as far as the beat. But there are different effects that you can get with all those instruments and I learned them through trial and error and I learned it well before getting my first record deal.

 

I made my first record when I was 15, with a group from Fort Wort named Divine Intervention. I was still Djing at the time and they needed some scratches for their record. I auditioned for them and my turntables were on the floor because they did not have a place for me to put them. I got the gig, did scratches for their record, and the rest is history.

 

I decided then that I was going to put out my own records and show people what I could do. Shortly after that it went from Djing to a drum machine, a SD1200 and wanting to see how that worked. It was a real organic growth, from being on one end of the music and ending up wanting to be on the other end.

 

So after you progressed from being a DJ and a producer, what made you want to progress even further and want to become a producer and a artist?

 

That is a good question, because I considered myself a artist before I became a producer. Back in the 80′s when I started to mess around with rap music, we would play 2 records and we would play the part of a song that we wanted to keep going. I would do that on my 4 track recorder and keep recording it till it got around 4 minutes then I would write a rap to it.

 

So I started writing raps for this group I was in, and my partner and we were all in high school, 10th or 11th grade. One of the guys got a girlfriend and he stopped coming to rehearsal, because back in the 80′s we used to practice our raps before going in to record them. He was writing more then I was at the time, but once he stopped coming to practice, I started writing songs for him and songs for me.

 

I started to get pretty good at it, so eventually I just wrote songs for myself. That all came out of self preservation, if he is not going to do it, I will do it myself. We changed our name from Divine Intervention to Players Inc and Players Inc was the first record that I produced and I actually wrote the lyrics for. I was the youngest in the group, I was still in school and the rest of the members were out of school.

 

They were all out doing young adult things and I was at home, working on music and writing lyrics. The production all came from me and I just started working with the equipment that was there for me to create with. Made the beat, then wrote the lyrics to it as well.

 

What made you decide to move from Texas to California? Because you started on the mainstream level messing with NWA and DOC right?

 

Yeah. What made me move to California was that…, and I thank God, I was always good at this. Even at the beginning of hip hop, I have been blessed with a usual talent and I always wanted to do this and make it look effortless. DOC recognized that because we all ran in the same circle of people. DOC talked to me after he started working with NWA and was becoming big and he wanted to sign me and my group.

 

We ended up going out to Cali on our own and Suge Knight was out there. Now back then this was not the Suge Knight everyone remembers. Back then he was DOC’s bodyguard and we just all came in, drove up Wilshire Blvd and the next day or so we in the studio with NWA. No questions, no security stopping us at the door, none of that.

 

I can remember Eazy E and Ren…, for us coming from Texas, when we went to the studio, we all went together. For me it was a trip to see these guys trickling in the studio, Dre was already there, then Ren came in followed by Eazy. Maybe I was just young back then and I did not think that they all had their own car.

 

We only had one car and we all rode together and that was one of my fondest memories because they all rode separately. To me that said alot in and of itself.

 

So when you first started to mess with DOC when you first came out to California, was it Funky Enough or Future Shock that came first?

 

Funky Enough Records?

 

Yeah.

 

It was Funky Enough when we got there, and Future Shock never happened, not to my memory. Future Shock was a idea, and I can always remember feeling like it was a corny ass idea.

 

Laughs

 

When the Death Row name popped up, I felt like that was more appropriate. It was something that I thought would work, but when the Future Shock name was floating around I was not feeling that. The Funky Enough name made sense though because that was the song the group was known for. It served notice that it was DOC’s label, which it was supposed to be at that time.

 

So who was all over there, because I talked to Mr. Choc and he said it was him, you, Penthouse Playaz Click.

 

Yeah and DJ Quik, even Shanice the R&B singer, she was signed to Epic or Motown but she was always over there hanging out. I think her boyfriend, Mike, was a part of the label. I don’t know who was officially on the label. Then there was a guy by the name of DeLite, he produced What’s It Gonna Be for Busta Rhymes and Janet Jackson. He also did some music for Silk as well, but he was with us a well during those days.

 

There was a couple others but they fell by the waist side over time. Suge had a nice little squad and alot of those songs that were made are protected. Alot of those other artists did not make it and gave up, me I don’t give up.

 

Right, because it always take determination to say in this industry because the industry it’s very topsy turvy.

 

Yeah, and I love it (laughs).

 

I can’t say I love that aspect of it.

 

I love it all, and I love having my back against the wall and rolling up my sleeves and coming up with something that will turn the industry right side up. I get a rush out of that shit man. I feel that I am a standout no matter what.

 

Word, because you are a powerful producer and artist all around. So when it came to the material that was at Funky Enough, do you have copies or did everyone just end up losing everything that they did over there? Because that music is some pretty historical material.

 

Yeah and I remember some of the stuff that DJ Quik was doing and back then we only had cassettes. There was no such thing as digital backup, the copies you had that was it. I can’t say I know were the music we did for Funky Enough Records is, but I can say the stuff I was doing with Dre, DOC and the rest of them, Suge was taking those recordings home with him.

 

So I don’t know if he still has the masters or if they got lost. See there is the thing, when you are making history, in the moment of making history you don’t know. Of course I know now that material is historical, after all I have been through, I preserve everything that I have. But when you are young, and as young as we were, you don’t know that what you are doing is going to be a historical thing.

 

I think I can speak for everyone when I say we mishandled all that stuff not knowing that we would be who we are today. We were all struggling at the time and even though NWA had a hit, that was not a promise that the rest of us would have hits. It was a weird time now that I look back at it because we really did not take that shit serious.

 

There were songs that I wrote and took up there and Dre would record to. I would write a lyric and then I would have to go in the studio with Dre and record. People used to even say me and Dre sound alike. But I was rapping before I was producing, but yeah I don’t know where that music is, but some of it was super dope.

 

I know Suge had it, but I don’t know where it is now.

That is crazy though that all of that stuff is gone. And by the female artist, you meant Miss Allen right?

 

Yessir, and she will be making a comeback on my album, not Sleeper Cell though. Sleeper Cell I recorded since I have been home and the newer songs we put those with songs I already had. But Sleeper Cell, my post prison album, we are dropping that on Halloween night. That is going to be a big night because we are going to invite other artists and producers to come in and spend the evening with us.

 

It’s going to kind of be like a big ass party. People can hear some of my new records that will be dropping on my next album that will drop in 2012.

 

Word, man I can’t wait to hear that shit, it’s gonna be a banger.

 

Yessir.

 

Still going upon the history lesson, when you guys made the transfer from Funky Enough to Death Row, did you guys have to get involved with all the drama? Because I remember you saying you basically had to take everyones contracts after Suge threatened Eazy E and Jerry Heller, got the contracts and stashed them somewhere.

 

I want to make it clear, when Suge brought those contracts to my house, I did not know that Suge threatened anyone, so I did not know how he got them. What I do know is that the contracts he did have, those people were thankful that he had them. They came to me and I left them where I always left them, again not knowing the history, and no I never got involved in Suge’s drama.

 

There were times that he wanted me to, but I have always been my own man and I said no. There was not anything that I would do to hurt somebody else, and if I did, it would be something I decided to do on my own. It only took Suge one time for him to realize that it ain’t gonna happen and I am not getting caught up in it. Suge and I have never gotten into any altercations.

 

Ok. I heard that you are working on a new deal with Dr. Dre right?

 

Yeah.

 

Nice, so how did that come about?

 

Well we are all family, all I needed to do was reach out and say that I need you or let’s work and Dre was down to do it.

 

Word, that’s good. So the first time I had ever heard you was the Helter Skelter album that you did with DOC and you did the entire album. How many joints are in the vault for that album and will we ever be able to hear them?

 

I don’t know how many I got and I am not even sure if I have the masters to Helter Skelter. There are several different versions of damn near every song on that album, the remixes that I did that never got released, like there is a remix of Return Of The Living Dead that is out there but there is another remix that never got released and it has a video as well.

 

After the original single started to slow down after being released, MTV suggested that we remix it because people were relating to the original song. That was cool to me because it was not my idea to use the original track anyway. So I did the remix to it and got paid for it, we shot a video for it, and I have a copy of it that I hold on to for dear life.

 

I have never heard it out in public and I never seen this version on MTV. It’s the same exact video, just not the same track.

 

Yeah I remember there was the remix that was the B-Side to Return Of The Living Dead and you also had From Ruthless To Death Row B-Side remix as well.

 

Yeah I love that. I replayed Eric B For President for the Death Row remix and I love it. I might have to drop that, but as far as would people ever hear that out of the vaults, honestly man I am not one of dudes that releases a bunch of material without everyone being in on it. Something like that I would hae to ask DOC, because even though I am in possession of most of these songs, I would not drop them without him being on board.

 

People have asked me if I am dropping a new version of Helter Skelter, which I would love to, but DOC would have to be in agreement with that. That is the style of my business and I don’t run over people like that.

 

Right, so then fast forward a few years later and you guys start working on Chronic 2001. Then you guys form your own imprint called Silverback. Tell me a little bit about the sessions and the whole atmosphere.

 

The atmosphere stays the same because we are all family. Dre does not have an ego, and if someone comes with something dope, he listens. The thing that stands out the most to me on those 2001 sessions was me and Dre linking up in the studio for Six-2 sessions and those were some of my proudest moments. Because when Miss Allen came into the sessions, Dre jumped in with us on those because I discovered her. Six-2 was one of my proudest moments because now things were supposed to be different at this time. I had more control of my artists and what they did so I remember waiting with Dre on Six-2 to catch a plane. He had missed 2 or 3 planes that day. I just felt like man I did it again, I got Dre waiting on my people to make music.

 

That was what I was more concerned with at that time because I have never been a glory hog, I have always been grateful and happy in helping other people. I don’t even have pictures of me with Dre, I do have pictures of me with DOC, but I don’t have pictures with any of the celebrities that I have worked with.

 

Maybe when I am in my 70′s or 80′s I will regret that because I might tell my grandchildren something and they might not believe me. I am just happy seeing other people get their shine and just being behind the scenes. That is going to change because the people in my circle need me to be as involved as possible with this business.

 

I can’t rely on Dre to sign everyone that I bring in nor do I want him to. That is why I told you my new interviews will not be about Dr. Dre or DOC. I am taking my company in a direction where whether they are involved or not, my people are set and making moves.

I guess at the end of the day, that is what it is and I never looked at things that way until I started getting all these letters and calling and writing people back. People actually love what I do and that makes me want to do it even more.

 

I am glad that you are humble, most people in this industry aren’t. I am glad that you also appreciate your fans because alot of artists disrespect their fans.

 

Fuck that, I don’t get that and that will never happen with me. I got people that…, I have a fan of mine named David, he came to my new studio and helped me clean up the building. Just because he wanted to be in the atmosphere and of course I can’t be that accessible to everybody, but I feel that I am a good judge of character.

 

I don’t look at myself as this legend that people keep calling me. I just did what I did and it accumulated over the years and I have been blessed to never have an off moment, not to me. I never had a bad time in this industry, I just don’t like some of the people in the industry for some of the reasons that you just mentioned.

 

So I tend to stay out of the spotlight because I don’t want to get mixed up with anyone elses shit.

True, so before we go, on the outro tip, is there anything else that you want to say to anyone out there?

 

Man I want to say shout out to DOC, Dr. Dre, Six-2, Miss Allen, El Dog, and everyone that is down with Eworld man. I want to thank everybody for their kind words and the negative words. It does not matter what you say, it is all fuel for the fire. Me personally I have not experienced too much negative about me, but it’s all good to me because that lets me know that you are at least hearing the music. That is all I care about, because you are getting something out of it one way or another. If anyone wants to reach me man, reach me at eroticd@gmail.com.

[www.ClintDogg.com]

I jst got 5 tracks from Erotic D's new album SLEEPER CELL in my email inbox 2 play at the clubs down here.

[Sir Petey]

this guys talented as hell but full of shit

[Dre-Day]

i thought you were going to do the interview D~Nice?

anyway, nice interview.

I don’t know how many I got and I am not even sure if I have the masters to Helter Skelter. There are several different versions of damn near every song on that album, the remixes that I did that never got released, like there is a remix of Return Of The Living Dead that is out there but there is another remix that never got released and it has a video as well.

 

After the original single started to slow down after being released, MTV suggested that we remix it because people were relating to the original song. That was cool to me because it was not my idea to use the original track anyway. So I did the remix to it and got paid for it, we shot a video for it, and I have a copy of it that I hold on to for dear life.

 

I have never heard it out in public and I never seen this version on MTV. It’s the same exact video, just not the same track.

cool, would be nice to hear it one day, but i doubt The D.O.C. wants that.

this guys talented as hell but full of shit

explain?

[HighEyeCue]

nice interview, would like to hear the remix of Night Of The Living Dead as well

[D-Nice]

i thought you were going to do the interview D~Nice?

anyway, nice interview.

I don’t know how many I got and I am not even sure if I have the masters to Helter Skelter. There are several different versions of damn near every song on that album, the remixes that I did that never got released, like there is a remix of Return Of The Living Dead that is out there but there is another remix that never got released and it has a video as well.

 

After the original single started to slow down after being released, MTV suggested that we remix it because people were relating to the original song. That was cool to me because it was not my idea to use the original track anyway. So I did the remix to it and got paid for it, we shot a video for it, and I have a copy of it that I hold on to for dear life.

 

I have never heard it out in public and I never seen this version on MTV. It’s the same exact video, just not the same track.

cool, would be nice to hear it one day, but i doubt The D.O.C. wants that.

this guys talented as hell but full of shit

explain?

Nah I am gonna wait until after Sleeper Cell drops.

[2euce 7even]

thanx 4 tha info will read it later.....

[www.ClintDogg.com]

Erotic D - Hustlaz Eye

Erotic D - High Powered feat. Sixx-Two

Erotic D said that they will be shooting videos to both songs soon and they are both the first single.

"LINK/Source"

[Dre-Day]

Nah I am gonna wait until after Sleeper Cell drops.

i see.

[ICHI THE KILLER]

Nah I am gonna wait until after Sleeper Cell drops.

i see.

promo version of Sleeper Cell  is available for sale now and it sounds really heated so far

[Hittman2001]

Nice read...thanks

[Dre-Day]

by the way D~Nice, in the beginning of the article it says genocide, but the group is called genacide

Nah I am gonna wait until after Sleeper Cell drops.

i see.

promo version of Sleeper Cell  is available for sale now and it sounds really heated so far

yeah i saw it did you listen to the preview?

[HighEyeCue]

by the way D~Nice, in the beginning of the article it says genocide, but the group is called genacide

Nah I am gonna wait until after Sleeper Cell drops.

i see.

promo version of Sleeper Cell  is available for sale now and it sounds really heated so far

yeah i saw it did you listen to the preview?

its out?

[Dre-Day]

by the way D~Nice, in the beginning of the article it says genocide, but the group is called genacide

Nah I am gonna wait until after Sleeper Cell drops.

i see.

promo version of Sleeper Cell  is available for sale now and it sounds really heated so far

yeah i saw it did you listen to the preview?

its out?

i sent you a link to a new website right?
its available for order there.

yesterday i found another website to stream the album and buy it.
http://vibedeck.com/erotic-d/sleeper-cell-promo

ill make a topic about it

[HighEyeCue]

by the way D~Nice, in the beginning of the article it says genocide, but the group is called genacide

Nah I am gonna wait until after Sleeper Cell drops.

i see.

promo version of Sleeper Cell  is available for sale now and it sounds really heated so far

yeah i saw it did you listen to the preview?

its out?

i sent you a link to a new website right?
its available for order there.

yesterday i found another website to stream the album and buy it.
http://vibedeck.com/erotic-d/sleeper-cell-promo

ill make a topic about it

yeah I got it, thanks