B.G.: Original Hot Boy (Interview)

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B.G.: Original Hot Boy (Interview)

December 10, 2009 at 3:35 PM



Almost 4 years since his last solo album, “The Heart Of Tha Streetz – Volume 2”, B.G. finally releases the long awaited and delayed “Too Hood 2 Be Hollywood.” He talks to WordofSouth about the album, Chopper City, 50 Cent, Young Buck, T.I., and much more.

B.G.: What’s up Justin?

WordofSouth.com: How you doing B.G.? You’re on www.wordofsouth.com.

B.G.: Wassup wassup? What it do? What’s happening? What it be like Justin?

WordofSouth.com: We’re chilling over here. We’re real happy to have you. How you been?

B.G.: Ah man, I can’t call it, I can’t complain. I’ve been chilling and thugging like a real G is supposed to, ya’ heard me?

WordofSouth.com: You’re in a good mood because “Too Hood 2 Be Hollywood” is in stores right now and it was as of yesterday (editor’s note: interview was completed Dec. 9). Start us off by speaking to your WordofSouth family about what your overall thoughts on this project are?

B.G.: My overall thoughts on the album are my album is one of the hottest albums this year. The album is incredible. I got some incredible features and incredible production and I’m incredible myself. You know it’s been anticipated for almost two years. I’m sure the fans are real pleased with what they’re getting from it.

WordofSouth.com: The album is definitely a hot one. With an album like “Too Hood 2 Be Hollywood”, do you feel that the rap game is a little too watered down right now?

B.G.: Most definitely man. You know what it is. I know I ain’t the only one who thinks it’s like that. It’s missing that raw, street shit. You got a handful, maybe two handfuls of real, raw, uncut street music and the rest is just anything but that. You can’t catch me riding, bumping that bullshit they be putting out these days. They’re just making ring tone music. They ain’t making real albums anymore.

WordofSouth.com: No doubt about that. The “My Hood” single is doing what it do, but have you picked out the next single for the album?

B.G.: I shot it already. I shot the next video. It’s called “Back to the Money” and it’s featuring Magnolia Chop. And I got a remix to it featuring Baby and Lil Wayne. I already shot the 2nd single and I’m gonna’ let the streets pick the one after that.

WordofSouth.com: When can the fans expect to hear the remix with Baby and Lil Wayne?

B.G.: I’m gonna’ put the original version out there first. I’m gonna’ put the original version video out first. And then I’m gonna’ come back and put the remix out. Come on man, you already know what they can expect. They can expect greatness. It’s some of that greatness.

WordofSouth.com: You said you’d let the streets pick the next single and you also have a remix with Baby and Lil Wayne. Is there any chance we might get to see an old school style Cash Money video for “Ya Heard Me?”

B.G.: Maybe, maybe not. I might, I might not. With this Hot Boyz reunion that we’re working on, you’ll get a lot of hits from that. I don’t think that would make sense right now. I’m focused on “My Hood” right now, and I’m focused on “Back to the Money” right now. I’m just focused on moving this album out the stores. We want to get these sound scans up. I’m doing everything I gotta’ do to get this album to do as well as it can do, as best as it can do – what I know it’s capable of doing with the quality of the album.

WordofSouth.com: There is a lot of quality on the album. I get what you mean in terms of a video for “Ya Heard Me” not really making sense. I spoke to Juvenile last week and everybody is excited for the Hot Boyz reunion, along with all the solo albums you guys got out right now.

B.G.: Right. I know Juve is focused on his album and I’m focused on my album. [Lil]Wayne has a judicial situation that he has to face so I know he’s focused on The Carter 4. And then will all focus on the Hot Boyz reunion. It’s all about the timing. And then I have some judicial problems I have to face in the near future. It’s a lot going on but at the same time, everything is gonna’ work out for the better.

WordofSouth.com: If you could pick one other artist in the game in your mind that is “Too Hood 2 Be Hollywood”, who would you pick and why?

B.G.: Probably from being around him in the studio and being in the club with him, just fucking with him, there are a couple of them that come to mind but Lil Boosie reminds me of me. He’s just from another city that is 45 minutes away.

WordofSouth.com: Lil Boosie is incarcerated right now but is that mixtape with yourself and Lil Boosie gonna drop?

B.G.: Yeah it’s gonna’ drop for the New Year. I’m gonna’ work my album but we’re gonna’ drop that. I gotta’ hold him down while he’s gone and I’m gonna’ keep my word on that. Yeah, I’m gonna’ keep my word on that and hold him down. We got some hot shit together, like man. It’s for the streets. The streets have been disappointed. That’s why records haven’t been doing as good as they used to do. We’re going off with the label thinks is a hit and not following the backyard. Whatever the streets jump on, mainstream will follow. That’s how we did it when we were kids. Universal never picked any of our singles. We picked all of our singles and every single we ever picked hit.

WordofSouth.com: Isn’t that the truth right there. What happened to the “Rather Die” record with Maino?

B.G.: It was a clearance problem. Miss Shakur wanted a lot of money to clear the record. She wanted something that was just giving us a clearance problem.

WordofSouth.com: Is that why Young Buck was taken off the “Owe Me Some Money” record?

B.G.: 50 Cent didn’t want to clear him for the record. 50 Cent has been hating on him all away around the board. 50 has been hating on him. 50 Cent didn’t want to clear him for the record.

WordofSouth.com: Speaking of 50, how did you react to him saying your name on his “So Disrespectful” record?

B.G.: I thought it was funny. I mean I thought it was funny, but I didn’t find it funny. He could have used something else. If your gonna’ play with Buck, play with Buck, but don’t play with me because he doesn’t even know me like that. That’s rap; you know what I’m saying? Me personally, if he was in my region… he rolls with the secret service – the media police. I ain’t even entertaining that shit because I already know. That’s how he came up; dissing real niggas. He already took a real nigga name from the streets and ran with it. I don’t even want to talk about that. I want to talk about “Too Hood 2 Be Hollywood” in stores right now. If you ain’t got it, you need to go get it. Once you go get it, I guarantee that you will be very satisfied with it. It’s what the streets have been missing.

WordofSouth.com: B.G. is right on that, make sure y’all get the album because it’s a real street album. Moving on, do you plan on releasing any DVDs or documentaries on yourself? I remember there was a “Heart of the Streets” documentary and a supposed “Life after Cash Money” but they never came out.

B.G.: Right. Really, I want to do a movie on my life story. I want to do an autobiography on everything. I want it to cover how I came up, my Cash Money days, what went wrong, what went right, how everything got fucked up and we broke up. And then over the years, I did my own thing and created my own label and stamped my own brand. I came back up and people counted me out. I refuse to let him go off on me. That just ain’t me. If I start something, I’m gonna’ finish it and I’ve proved that.

WordofSouth.com: That would definitely be a hot look. With the album in stores now, what is the future of your Chopper City imprint in terms of artists and albums?

B.G.: Gar who is a Chopper City Boy has a solo album coming out called “Certified.” And then I got this compilation coming out with this group I got, Chopper City Guerilla Gang. It’s gonna’ be like a Cash Money, DTP or G-Unit, No Limit type thing; from when we started back then. It’s a bunch of my little young goons just getting it in. They got a lot of talent in New Orleans and I’m gonna’ bring it to the light with this CCGG.

WordofSouth.com: The fans will definitely be on the lookout for those two projects. What’s going on with Snipe and Hakizzle? Are they still with Chopper City?

B.G.: Nah. Snipe wanted to do his own thing. He just wasn’t man enough to come and tell me. He went up there and said it in an interview that he did. That’s how I found out about it. He wasn’t man enough to come to the studio or come to the office and tell me that he felt like he could do it on his own. He could have just told me he was going to try on his own. He just took it upon himself to do it the bitch way. I don’t respect it but I respect him. If he came to me like a man but he ain’t built like that. He ain’t built like me anyway. Not to be dissing him or nothing but he’s just too soft for this Chopper City shit anyway. My little brother and Gar was the reason that I signed him. And a family member of mine went and played a song he recorded for me. I had liked it and made him apart of the group off that strength. I thought he’d fit in and he fitted in for a minute but he was just bitch made. Not bitch made, but he just wasn’t full. He wasn’t built for Chopper City. Chopper City, you gotta’ be a straight up gangster. You gotta’ be about your business in any situation. There had been a couple of situations where we had been out on the road and we’re leaving out the show and we hear gun shots, we looking around looking for him and he’s hiding under somebody’s truck.

WordofSouth.com: Moving on from that, how do you feel about New Orleans hip-hop and its artists not really getting the credit they deserve? Their somewhat overlooked considering New Orleans was such a major force during the No Limit/Cash Money era?

B.G.: If it wasn’t for Cash Money or No Limit, everything that came out after Cash Money and No Limit was imitating in my opinion. To me it was just that. I never felt like New Orleans rap is over looked or underrated. I feel like we’re overrated. My little brother shorty [Lil Wayne] is pretty much the hottest in the game right now. B Gizzle is one of the “streetest” in the game right now. Juvenile is doing what he do. My man Turk is locked up going on six years but he’ll be home in a minute. No Limit pretty much just collapsed.  C-Murder got that life sentence but I felt like he didn’t get a fair trial. That should have been a mistrial. He gonna’ end up giving it back again because they charged him with it and he beat it the first time, and then they went and charged him with it again. I don’t know if they got something against rappers or something. We’re not out here killing people or selling drugs. All we’re doing is telling our story, what we’ve been through and what we’ve seen. The streets made me. If it wasn’t for the streets, there wouldn’t be a B.G. I’m just telling my life story and I know every hood, my hood is no different from your hood and I don’t know what hood you’re from. Real recognize real all over the world.

WordofSouth.com: No doubt. It’s great to get an update on Turk; you say he’ll be home in a minute. Do you ever plan on releasing any unheard material that you have with Soulja Slim?

B.G.: Of course. When he got killed and the police impounded his track, one of the police took the CD outta’ his CD deck and the CD he was listening to was me and his album. Because we had done right about 20 songs. He only had about 9-10 songs on the CD he was listening to. I still have music that people never heard from me and Slim. I’m gonna’ go ahead and listen to the album, the songs that never been released and the songs that have been released. I’m gonna’ put some features on it because a lot of people have been asking me about it. People want to be apart of it because Slim was a real nigga. Slim was like a 2Pac to Louisiana. Just like Biggie was to New York and 2Pac was to California, that’s how Slim was to Louisiana. His legacy will always be alive, generations from now. Slim was before his time.

WordofSouth.com: What happened to the Chopper City artist Wood?

B.G.: VL Mike got killed. One of the Chopper City boys got killed. My little brother wants to take a break. He’s just lying back chilling like a fat rat. He really doesn’t like this rap shit, he thinks it’s fake. He doesn’t even want to fuck with it. He still been up in the studio recording and doing his thing and I’ve been on his case but he just ain’t feeling it. He is way cooler than I was when I was his age. My little brother goes hard but he just ain’t feeling this shit.

WordofSouth.com: You mentioned Lil Wayne is the hottest in the game right now. What do you think of the direction he’s taken his music in?

B.G.: See, that’s something a lot of people don’t understand. It’s about what works for somebody else. What works for me might not work for [Lil] Wayne. What works for Wayne doesn’t work for me. I ain’t gonna’ say he’s just all over the place. He’s just trying different and new things. Like I said, he got the world at the tip of his feet right now.  They’re just feeling it. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it don’t. At the end of the day, they love it.

WordofSouth.com: Have you had a chance to speak with T.I. at all recently? He’ll be home in a couple of months. You were never signed to Grand Hustle but you were heavily affiliated.

B.G.: I’m still affiliated with them. Besides T.I. and Alfa Mega, I really never had no real relationship with the rest of them. When I saw what I saw on Youtube about Alfa Mega; that kind of hurt my feelings because I really thought he was 100%. Before me and T.I. started doing business together, we were friends first. We would call each other to get on a song on each other’s albums. I’d fly to Atlanta. We’ve spent Christmas together with our kids and our families. We were friends before we started doing business together. Me and Tip will always be 100%.

WordofSouth.com: Who are your top 5 artists in the game dead or alive?

B.G.: 2Pac, Soulja Slim, Notorious B.I.G., Lil Wayne, and B.G.

WordofSouth.com: Ok, no doubt. A few weeks ago, just like how you got a mixtape coming with Lil Boosie, some info leaked (a cover art) on a mixtape with you and Juvenile. Juvenile hasn’t heard of the project. Is that real or something a fan made up?

B.G.: I haven’t seen it.

WordofSouth.com: So there is no B.G. and Juvenile mixtape on the way?

B.G.: Me and Juvenile had already started working on a mixtape. We have like 7-8 songs done already.

WordofSouth.com: So maybe the cover was fake but there is a B.G. and Juvenile mixtape on the way?

B.G.: Right.

WordofSouth.com: That does it for my questions. I really appreciate your time B.G. and you’re on www.wordofsouth.com. “Too Hood 2 Be Hollywood” is in stores right now, we hope everybody reading this interview goes and pick up the album because it’s one of the hottest albums of the year. Do you have any last words before I let you go?

B.G.: Just keep it 100% baby, ya’ heard me? Keep it real with yourself first and if you keep it real with yourself and you’ll be able to keep it real with others. That’s how I feel.  Thank you.

– INTERVIEW BY: Justin Melo

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[Blood$]

great interview and thanks for asking the questions I had posted, figured those must have been the reasons for those songs not making the album...

it's crazy too cuz I was wondering how B.G. would take 50 using his name in that track haha

[D-Nice]

Great interview. Been bumping his album all week.