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New B.G. Interview
« on: January 11, 2006, 08:50:17 AM »
B.G.: New Light
By Poet

Like many of the reigning kings of late 90’s Southern rap, B.G.’s career has been in a bit of limbo. Like his Hot Boy brother Juvenile, BG’s reach was never as far as when he had the Cash Money Records tattoos out and the label on the album. The three Koch releases since found cult fans, but lacked one-tenth of the punch of his “Bling Bling” bolstered Chopper City In The Ghetto seven years earlier.

With a potential G-Unit record contract on the table, B.G. is looking to raise the stakes again. He’s reunited with father-figure producer, Mannie Fresh. B.G. has also been active in upholding fallen No Limit star, Souljah Slim’s legacy. Even in touching on issues such as Hurricane Katrina and his sobriety, BG carries himself more seriously than. Going into the mixtape, “The Heart of the Streets Volume 2”, get an inside look as AllHipHop.com and B.G. have a very real discussion on the future, the past, and the Almighty.

AllHipHop.com: Let’s cut to the chase - are you really signing to G-Unit?

B.G.: I could be. But fo’ real, I got several offers on my plate.

AllHipHop.com: Like?

B.G.: Sony, G-Unit of course, a couple others. I ain’t trying to jinx nothin’. Just looking for the best deal for me and my team.

AllHipHop.com: If you do sign to G-Unit, will you drop something like all the other artists on the roster? That was 50’s promise to the people?

B.G.: I’m dropping somethin’ regardless. That’s just me. I make music for the world, feel me? So no matter what I chose, my album will get to the people. G-Unit or no G-Unit.

AllHipHop.com: With G-Unit being a prospect, how did you feel when Lil’ Wayne was allegedly sporting G-Unot shirts?

B.G.: You know it was crazy man, like my peoples was calling my phone and s**t. That was a little after the story was out there that I may sign to them, you feel me? And I didn’t even believe it at first. ‘Cause to me, that’s that young stuff. Then I got the emailed pictures, and then I decided I had to do what I had to do.

AllHipHop.com: Was that how the Lil’ Wayne diss record came to pass?

BG: Yeah, I ain’t no b*tch ass n***a, you feel me? For me not to finally step up and say something would have made me look like a b*tch. I wasn’t going to say nothing at first when this thing first started. I know that he felt like he had to be loyal to his team and I can respect that. But what I was going through with Baby was basically between me and Baby. I ain’t holding no one accountable for his action, that’s why I focused on him only. Wayne needed to be chastised. You got to do that sometimes. Discipline the child so they know better next time.

AllHipHop.com: Speaking of Baby and Cash Money, how’s Turk? Do you still keep in touch?

B.G.: Turk is family, man. He gets everything he need from me. Phone calls, visits, whatever. We still family ain’t nothing changed because I ain’t with Cash Money anymore. Being down don’t stop relationships, people do. I ain’t no bail-out n***a. if my fam going through it, then I’m going through it.

AllHipHop.com: Leaving Cash Money was a major step for you. Do you think Juvenile set an example by finally succeeding without Cash Money? Did it make it any easier for you to make you move?

B.G.: It was something to see. When you with these, big labels man. They’ll make you believe that without them behind you, ain’t nothing go ever come to pass, you feel me? It was like being trapped on a sinking ship. You know it’s going down [for you anyway], but you got that feeling of being stuck and not being able to move. Then a n***a was getting high, so that only made the feeling and situation worse. But just like with everything, you get to that point where it’s either do or die. Getting clean was that first step, once s**t ain’t cloudy no more, you see a whole everything.

AllHipHop.com: You’ve been clean for two and a half years now right?

B.G.: Yeah! In July of ‘06, it’ll be three years.

AllHipHop.com: with that being said, when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, after seeing all the devastation, did that desire to use nip at you?

B.G.: Hell Naw! I won’t say that seeing all that I saw ain’t effect me, ‘cause it did. That’s my home and my roots right there. I had the means to move me and my people feel me? We packed up, and now I’m in Detroit doing what needs to be done for my label and my family. I ain’t using, that was a decision I made a while ago because I never want to be where I was. You know what it feels like to read an old magazine article and see that hey wrote about you noddin’ - or how you looked or presented yourself? I don’t want that for me or for nobody else. When Katrina hit, I did the only thing I could do, I prayed.

AllHipHop.com: Do you feel like since you’re an artist from New Orleans that people expected for you to do more then the average for the survivors?

B.G.: [Pause, long sigh] Yeah man, I felt like, like there were people looking at me expecting me to do something. I ain’t no broke dude, but at the same time, my money doesn’t stretch so far as I can bring back a whole city feel me. With all that I gave, I still wish I could do more. I lost people close to me; I ain’t trying to be part of a story because I lived it. It still break a n***a down just to think of it. Just the thoughts and the sights brings a n***a to tears…the world saw a lot but it was so much that ya’ll didn’t see that like, burned to my memory. I don’t think people understand - that was our 9/11. People went to bed with their version of everything and then you woke up to nothing. I pray everyday that everybody that made it out, makes a way.

AllHipHop.com: You sound like this is really hard to talk about…

B.G.: It’s more than hard to talk about it - it’s that vision that comes back every time you speak it. ‘Cause in a way, it’s like through the story your reliving it. Knowing that this horrible thing took place and it may have been prevented man… [pauses] all I can keep doing is saying the serenity prayer; I say it every morning, afternoon and evening. That’s how I get through this. God and my music are my therapy.

AllHipHop.com: It’s working if your single with Mannie Fresh is any indication, how did that reunion happen?

B.G.: Man, me and Fresh been family. He raised me in the studio. We been trying to do somethangs, but our schedules at the time didn’t allow for us to do what we wanted to do. I made it clear when I left Cash Money, that my issues were with, who they were with and nobody else. I can’t hold everybody accountable for one man’s actions. We realized that we had time at the same time. We made it happen. Can’t nobody do a beat like Fresh. He puts you into the beat, feel me? It’s like he makes you, your own little theme music. When he do something for you, you know it’s for you and not just some Sh*t. My new album is gonna let everyone know where BG been, and where he is now.


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New B.G. Interview
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2006, 01:46:30 PM »
thanks for posting the interview

hopefully BG and Mannie can get back and record a whole album together
Always talkin bout the cash he got, the little pesos for shows
And God knows his materialistic raps and wack flows
are like Stay Free pads, fake V.I.P. rappers get garbage disposed
Unrecouped for his flamboyance and reflection
He's leasin rentin and frontin
- Kool Keith 'Haters'
 

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Re: New B.G. Interview
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2006, 06:21:48 PM »
thanks for the interview. Good to hear what B.G is up to
 

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Re: New B.G. Interview
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2006, 06:47:50 PM »
not sure if this has been posted aswell, but hers another BG interview from Ballerstatus.com:

He helped coin the term "bling bling" in the late '90s with the Hot Boys and helped build the highly successful Down South based label, Cash Money Records, with an arsenal of chart-topping hits. But just as fast they the label grew, so did BG's suspicions of the label's business practices.

After going through money matter conflicts at Cash Money, the New Orleans native jumped ship to take control of his own destiny -- the product of his departure is Chopper City Records, the rapper's own label. Now, as his own boss, B.G. calls the shots, and learning from his past mistakes, the rapper says he knows what not to do while running a label...that being "not to keep it real."

With his fan base intact after going independent and his record label continuing to grow, B.G. reflects on the lessons he's learned in his career, how HE runs his label, and why his fans love him.

BallerStatus.net: For the past few years, you've been really building your label, Chopper City Records. Talk about that process and the grind behind making your label successful.

B.G.: I ain't never stopped, you know what I mean? I do what I do and I do it well. So, really I left Cash Money and rap was all I knew. It was either rap or the streets, so I got with my auntie and she knew my thing -- what I wanted to do -- and I formed Chopper City. And I got some artists and I try to do everything opposite of what Cash Money did -- that's not be loyal, not keep it real and not do business properly. That's really been my way of getting my company off the ground and building good relationships with people and just keeping it real.

BallerStatus.net: What are some of the lessons you've taken with you from after leaving Cash Money?

B.G.: I do everything the opposite of what they did. I keep it real and they didn't. I mean, I ain't crazy, I ain't selfish and I ain't holding nobody back. I want everybody to be happy. I want everybody to be able to write their own checks and be equal. There's enough money for all of us out here, and I don't wanna be greedy. I basically wanna take care of my own -- put my n----s on and put them on properly. I'm just gonna do the opposite of what Baby did with the Hot Boys, and that's keep it real with my Chopper City boys.

BallerStatus.net: You've moved major units on your own, why do you feel you're still be relevant after all these years?

B.G.: Because I had a solid fan base. Everybody that knows B.G. and knows Cash Money history knows that I practically built Cash Money -- me and Mannie Fresh. When I left I had a solid fan base, even though I was independent and didn't have a major marketing or promotion machine behind me. I still had the streets with me. I brought the streets [to Cash Money] and I took the streets with me. The numbers that I've been able to put up was just motherf---ers that just love me for being me. And the numbers I didn't sell was because of the lack of that major machinery.

BallerStatus.net: How would you say your music has matured since your days at Cash Money?

B.G.: I just do what I do. Really, all that is...is tell my story. Everyday I'm blessed to live and that's another part of my story. I'm successful, I got my label, but I'm still out here. I'm still on the road getting money, in the studio making music or in these streets. I can still talk it 'cause I still walk it.

BallerStatus.net: Right now, you got the track "Triggerman," which has been creating a lot of buzz. You have some harsh words for Lil' Wayne on the song. Can you talk about the tension between and Wayne and how that all started?

B.G.: Really, at first, I thought it was all love. I thought we was on the same page. I thought we were seeing eye-to-eye because really, I ain't ever had no problems with shorty. Shorty didn't take my money, Baby took my money. When he came out with the "I Miss My Dawgs" record, it really made me have more respect for him 'cause it couldn't get no realer than that. I couldn't even believe Baby let him put that on the album, due to what we were going through. I respected him so much for that, but then he contradicted himself. He turned around and said in a magazine "F--- everyone who left Cash Money. I don't respect them," and blah, blah, blah. And I'm one of the ones who left Cash Money, you know? I just seen you a couple of weeks ago and it was all hugs and kisses and now you say "F--- everybody that left," and I'm one of the n----s that left? He ain't gonna say f--- me and I'm not gonna say f--- you back, so that's where "Triggerman" came from.

BallerStatus.net: Although you and Weezy have fallen out, you are still cool with Juve and Mannie Fresh, right?

B.G.: Most definitely. Mannie Fresh produced the first single off my new album, so the relationship is good. That's always gonna be love. It's always been real. It wasn't never us; it was [Baby] who was the control freak. He didn't wanna see no one else shine...I don't know...

BallerStatus.net: When you look back at your time at Cash Money, what would you have done different if anything?

B.G.: Nothing. Everything I've done and everything I've been through -- and I tell everybody else -- it has made me the man I am today, so, really and truly, I don't regret none of my past. I don't regret nothing. God sent me through everything he sent me through for a reason. Everybody gets tested. I don't trip on nothing.

BallerStatus.net: I also hear that there a various labels trying to sign you as an artist. The one drawing the most attention is G-Unit South. Can you talk about that and how close you are at all to signing with them or any other label?

B.G.: I mean it's an option, but whatever my next move is gonna be, it's gonna be the best move for B.G. and Chopper City [Records] as a whole. I ain't busted my ass and pushing my label just to get a small piece of the cake or what not, so like I said, that's most definitely one of my options. Whichever one my heart tells me to go with, that what I'm gonna go with. I'm just gonna follow my heart.

BallerStatus.net: But whatever way you go, you're bringing your whole label and not just sign as an artist?

B.G.: Well, you know how the industry go. You gotta prove yourself and I ain't got no problem with that. I done did that on several occasions 'cause all I need is a shot.

BallerStatus.net: You are prepping the release your album, The Heart Of The Streets: Vol. 2. Tell me about the new album and what people should be expecting from B.G. this time around.

B.G.: It's just really like the sequel from The Heart Of The Streets: Vol. 1, picking up where I left off. I'm just letting people in on another chapter of my life. It's just life after Cash Money with myself "The Heard of the Streets" and I'm about to take you through the life of Chopper City. Because life in Chopper City, this sh-- is real.

BallerStatus.net: The Katrina thing happened last year, how did that effect you, being that you are from New Orleans?

B.G.: It, man...it's undescrib...words can't even express how I feel about that and how I took that. I took that to my heart, man. I still, honestly, ain't get over it yet. Man, cuz my heart...man...it was...it was a real low blow. That's all I know. I done been all over the world, but ain't no place like home. For me to see that, and for me to have to swallow this big ass pill that this sh-- is really real...that's just a hard ass pill to swallow. I still ain't finished swallowing it yet. I chopped it up into a few pieces and I take one at a time. I can't deal with it, you know? Sometimes I question God as to why he brought that onto my city like that, but then I have to check myself like "I can't question him on what he did." I just sit back and see the condition my city was in -- our murder rate was at an all-time high, but there was so many innocent people...you know? It's just something to really think about. It lets you know life is real. I'm trying to just keep my faith and just do what I do
Always talkin bout the cash he got, the little pesos for shows
And God knows his materialistic raps and wack flows
are like Stay Free pads, fake V.I.P. rappers get garbage disposed
Unrecouped for his flamboyance and reflection
He's leasin rentin and frontin
- Kool Keith 'Haters'