It's May 14, 2024, 07:00:13 PM
Nobodysmiling.com : A lot of people first came in contact with your music from your work on the Diplomatic Immunity album, as well as the Cam’ron, Juelz, and Jim Jones solo projects. What’s your relationship with Dip Set like nowadays? Rsonist : Those’ll always be my niggas, man. The only thing is now, you know, obviously because of them and what they did for us, it’s getting more hectic, you know what I mean? We’re branching out and fucking with a lot of other people, but we still always find time to get to Dip Set because that’s priority, because they put us on. Anything they need we make sure we get back to them, take care of them first, then we branch out and do whatever we gotta do. Like right now on Juelz’s new album we did four tracks. I think with the first album, a lot of people might’ve thought that – I don’t know, I really don’t think a lot of people got the first album. They probably thought it was an overkill for us, like they think we probably did too many tracks. But I think as Juelz gets bigger, people are gonna go back and appreciate that album more.
Nobodysmiling.com : Have you ever encountered people who listen to your newer beats and say, “Oh, that sounds like a Cam record,” or “That sounds like a Dip Set beat.” You know, trying to pigeonhole you? Rsonist : Yeah, they’ve been doing that, man. To me, that’s what so crazy about it. Nobody’ll take a Dre beat and go, “Oh, that sounds like a Snoop beat,” you know what I mean? What it is, is that people respect Dre as a producer. I think a lot of people to this day haven’t given us our due respect as producers yet. I’m not saying like I’m mad at it ‘cause I’m not; I know it takes some years to earn that respect like Primo and producers like that. But what a lot of people started doing was they started hearing our records and being like, “Yo’ that sounds like a Cam’ron record, I need something different,” or “That sounds like a Juelz record,” you know what I’m saying? To me, I can’t respect that because it’s not like we’re talking about dudes who didn’t go gold on their first album. We produced a gold album pretty much for self, you know what I’m saying? People don’t see our side of it; they say “Oh, it sounds like this...” I mean, if it’s a good record to me, it’s a good record regardless of what it sounds like. Every good producer has his or her signature sound. Dre got his signature sound, Primo definitely got his signature sound, I think we got our signature sound, RZA got his signature sound, and to me that’s just the mark of a good producer.
^which lable is cam'ron releasing his solo on?...