E-WHITE  (December 2003) | Interview By: Nima

       Dubcnn.com has the honour to bring you the first in-depth E-White interview on the internet. The Dogghouse signee spoke about his label situation, his album, his fears and concerns in the rap game, how he views his future and much more. Please feel free to send any feedback regarding the interview to: nima@dubcnn.com


Huge thanks to E-White for taking time out to answer the questions fans wanted to know! (Interview was done by phone on December 18th 2003)

Questions Asked By : Nima

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dubcnn.com: First tell us about life growing up? I know you were into basketball right?

I was into the whole thang, I played basketball, that was basically my roots, I was always there with music too, but I thought about pursuin a career in basketball, but it turned out unfortunate events or what not, mishaps, then I got a role to pursue in music.

dubcnn.com: Do you think you would have been more successful if you went with basketball rather than rap?

You know no use crying over spilled milk, I live and learn, So I feel like whatever I didn’t get at that angle, I feel like I’m digging up bones and it’s all coming together like butt cheeks, no need to cry about it, it made me a stronger person, you live and learn like I say.

dubcnn.com: Right so you don’t regret anything?

Nah, I ain’t got no regrets.

dubcnn.com: How did you first get into the music thang?

Well I was always creating music, it was easy for me to create a lyric that I can make and change, I always had a knack for doing it, I had a few cousins that were in the game of music, the Twinz they came out with Warren G, I got another cousin from the group called Foesum, they came out so they kind of raised me in the game, Long Beach at the time it was hot, Warren G, Snoop Dogg, Domino, Lil ½ Dead, everybody, Dove Shack I just was on the scene when it was cracking and you know I was talented, I had a lot of drive and I put a lot of work into what I was doing, a lot of planning and I took my package my four song demo to a little homeboy of Snoop’s, Snoop wound up listening to it and liked it, this was like 2001, January, and he wanted to sign me so 11 months between January 2001 and December 2001, he eventually signed me in December of 2001.

dubcnn.com: The first time we heard you was on the Foesum album on the song “Hello” and were their any pre-w tracks you were heard on?

Well I wasn’t herd until on Warren G’s Return of The Regulator, I co-wrote a couple of songs on there, on the single the Stevie Wonder song, “Ghetto Village” and their was a song called “Streets Of LBC,” and between that time I wrote a whole bunch of other stuff that I submitted that didn’t make the album, between that time I was learning about being in a real studio, writing, working with real artists, El Debarge, George Clinton, big name muthafuckaz, WC, and go to the studio and meet muthafuckaz, and I got to build relationships and people got to see how hard I work, and inbetween those whole 11 months I took a trip to New York, making the Warren G album and I was in New York for about three weeks, got some technique out there and some politics, coming out in the scene I was about to be sign, just out there politicin doing my thang, eventually later on that year, Snoop went ahead and we did our thang, and I felt at that time it was the right thing to do.

dubcnn.com: Were you happy with how the Doggystyle Allstars Compilation turned out to be?

I mean, yes and no, yes I was happy, looking at it through my eyes being a young artist, a new artist a virgin artist, who hadn’t been heard, it was good for me, I had this little invitation into music next to Snoop Dogg, the king of the West Coast, and make a huge impact and that’s what I needed, and it’s like riding with Snoop gave me that ID, and coming up out of the West Coast, and that nigga got to get verified, somebody got to vouch for him, that got to be the king of the coast, the man that got the power, the man that got the influence on the market, and so I had to get blessed, coming out of Long Beach, not just the West Coast, not just coming out of California, I’m coming out of Long Beach, so it ain’t no way around the whole Snoop issue, so somebody just ask hey Snoop who this nigga E-White coming out of Long Beach, 9 times out of ten he’ll be like fuck that nigga, so I had to go that route and I felt like it was a good move, and so I was happy with that, and the way that the album turned out, the way that we worked on it, the product the way it came out, they slept on it, kind of made me think twice like damn, and it made me think like damn how a nigga like Bad Azz ain’t gone platinum yet, shit like that make me look at the game of music, at a different angle, and it’s something I concentrate on the success, but I don’t become a flock.

dubcnn.com: So what’s more important to you, to make good music or sell more records?

Oh there’s no doubt the music, cause I’m listening to the radio right now and I ain’t disrespecting nobody, I ain’t the one to judge what should be played n what shouldn’t be played, but strictly from a man’s point of view right now, I’m still a fan of music, I turn on the radio and the cycle the way they playing it and the repetitious of it, you know it’s getting to the point where we walking down the street and find 10 aspiring artists with the hottest song and it’s hotter then what’s on the radio, and I ain’t hating on anybody, congratulations to anybody getting theirs now then, but as long as their doing it legit and shit, but I ain’t hating on nobody, but I’d rather make good music den sell, just for the simple fact that I’m always a man first and I want to do my music, of course I want to get paid of course I want to be successful, have a stable career, financial stability, and have a decent family business and life ain’t short and all that shit, but number one I love music, so I’m going to do good music no matter what.

dubcnn.com: What new aspect do you feel you can bring to the rap game?

What I see right now is simple, as simple as it is a lot of people make it hard, it’s hard to be real, too many niggaz in here don’t keep it real, saying I keep it real, if a nigga don’t keep it real with himself the nigga can’t be real with nobody else, and I’m going to tell you like this, a bunch of these niggaz that say they gangbangin, shoot em up gang bang, mean muggin and shit, some of these niggaz ain’t done it, some of these niggaz ain’t real, niggaz just dressing up and mean muggin and talking all this bullshit and then you got niggaz trying to sound like Pac, niggaz trying to look like Pac, you got niggaz trying to sound like, you got Joe Budden trying to sound like Jay-Z, you got niggaz who’s obviously trying to sound like other niggaz, and it’s insulting that other people can’t see through that shit, and the answer to your question is it’s that simple that’s what I’m going to bring to the game, I’m going to do what a muthafucka wish he was doing that’s what I’m going to do with my music, and ain’t nobody doing it, cause some of these niggaz lie I ain’t going to lie, niggaz is doing it and I’ll tell you who in the game is doing it, Scarface is doing it, he’s been doing it since day one, and he’s always been doing it, and the success with him and no matter how much money he makes you can tell through his lyrics that, that nigga is in the studio working tell his brain hurts and come up with something that’s clever and that makes sense and that’s teaching you something, I know it’s flossy but his album is called the Blueprint dummy, and you know what I respect that, cause that’s a nigga who getting down and saying something, fuck all this Chingy shit, this Ludacris shit, you getting a nigga like T.I. from the south, a nigga like Scarface from the South, niggaz that represent that sound, but all this sucka ass shit, that radio shit, and 50 cent he was a new face new sound, and people were ready for that n he didn’t let them down, so you know a new face like myself going to be more open minded for my album and know I’m not going to let them down.

dubcnn.com: We heard you and RBX are a group “Black & Blue” can you tell us about that project?

I wasn’t really down with the group album, not necessarily because it’s with RBX, I’m not with a group album with nobody, to make my entrance in this game, whoever can’t understand that, just can’t understand that, I’ll do what I got to do to come out solo, to start my career, I don’t need to have a parent helping me, feeling like they got to break my record, we got to go pay a gang for a bunch of features, paying full price for a heavy hitting beat, I got relationships with hard hitting producers, that reach out to me and make me aspire to keep on doing what I’m doing, come down to get down, holla, I’m working with you.

dubcnn.com: How could they talk about the project if you weren’t with it from the beginning?

You know how it is, I guess sometimes, when your not on the best communication terms, with all people involved in the project, then some things get misconstrued, or a piece might be missing, one person may think this is happening and then another person is under a completely different assumption, and it’s not like one particular person to blame, but we all need to be under some kind of communication, where this type of loophole, isn’t going down, and I’m always going to stand up for what I believe in, number one I remain as humble as possible, in all aspects because this is something that is very serious, and if you ever speak your mind and your opinion and how you feel and what you seen and been through, in the time that we live in, I don’t worry about how good or bad the money may be, I stay focused and I know that I’m blessed, You know out of all the minorities coming up and to be heard by millions is a blessing I stay hooked on that and I stay knowing that, two years ago I didn’t have the opportunity to expand on the situations, but like I said I feel strongly in what I believe, I got a whole lot to say I’m not no straight chicken right here, I’m a full grown man I’ve lived I’ve experienced, I’ve been nothing, I’ve been the shit I’ve been shit, I’m ready to speak, I’m ready to live it, I’m ready to testify to that.

dubcnn.com: So there is no group album happening right?

Not at all, their might be a group but it won’t involve me.

dubcnn.com: So your working a solo album then?

Yah, what I’ve been doing the last two years, I learned to not let somebody see your working, very hard at work without looking like your working, then muthafuckaz can’t read you, a lot of niggaz try to size me up, and I know that, so the last thing I’m going to let them do is size me up, and I been in the cut, I know where niggaz been sleeping at, I’m going to make a lot of niggaz tighten they game up, I ain’t going to say no names, a lot of old niggaz that still in the game and got it in them, and they just bullshitting, and I’m going to be that flame that spark everybody, like "I can’t let this young skinny muthafucka come in here and talking this shit, when I’m around he going to look like he really about it, I believe you, let me step my game up", you got niggaz that thinking they going to come here and gangbang shoot em up, you got niggaz who think they just going to lyrically and verbally and all that bullshit, this the testimony right here, it’s real it’s street music, it’s gutter music I speak, when I say street music I mean skid-row street music, I mean doing bad street music, I mean it’s hard out here street music, I talk the same thing I say in my music that I talk to niggaz on the streets about, I feel that there is to many niggaz that feel this way and nobody is representing them, too many muthafuckaz trying to dress up and be on the radio and on the video and bling bling and shit, and it’s deeper then that, and that’s the type of nigga you is.

dubcnn.com: Do you think your solo will ever see the light of day on Doggystyle records?

As much as I thought it would be and how much I wanted that to be the jumpstart to my career, and how I want it to be the initial success of a hip-hop act not just out of the West, I’m talking bout in the game period, I know that’s a big statement, but I really believe that, and the only thing that makes me think that it ain’t going to happen under that label is I’m the only one that’s feeling like that right now, but before I can be on to niggaz like "yah we on to something right there," somehow, someway, and I don’t think I’m hallucinating, I’m a fair person, and I don’t talk first I pay attention, I don’t run my mouth without a reason, and I don’t see being that way and I refuse to drop my album under any less circumstances, I just can’t see it, I’ll be surprised more then anybody else if it does, as much as I want it to happen I can’t see it going down. But I'm putting every effort into it, I'm putting my complete willingness to drop a solo record.

dubcnn.com: So who is actually gonna have an album on Doggystyle cause we don't see much coming out on there..

I honestly can't tell you I don't even wanna hold you up speculating and shit, honestly I don't have a clue, I don't have the slightest idea.

dubcnn.com: Do you know who is currently signed to the label?

From what I understand, I'm still with the label, from what I understand Latoya Williams, Soopafly..

dubcnn.com: And that new singer right? Delano?

Yeah I'm not sure if he is signed, but he might be, I was just telling you about those that I knew i was signed with which was Latoya Williams and Soopafly.

dubcnn.com: Right, since Kokane left a while ago..

Yeah, he left a while ago, that's why I didn't mention him.

dubcnn.com: What's your current relationship wit Kokane right now?

That's my nigga! Kokane is my nigga man! My relationship wit Kokane is the same as it's always been! I respect him as a friend!

dubcnn.com: Yeah well Snoops been accused quite a few times lately of fucking over his friends. What's your relation wit Snoop?

Relationship wit Snoop is more like in a way he's a big brother, you know what I'm saying, on the social person tip man, I couldn't really picture him fucking over his friends like that, a more giving person, a more patient person. He's doing lots for alot of people in a lot of different ways as a person. And I'm sure his shoes and his position, being exposed that much as a person I think it's something that alot of people really don't understand. And in history, I can't really speak up on that too much cause I wasn't there, it was a long time before me. But you know, this is the mans life, theyve rugged him through the mud, and I think all along, your whole intent was to come into the game and be an entertainer, but at the same time, bring your homies from the hood along with you as far as you could. But like I said my relationship wit him is perfect. Now it's things as far as the company that I'm not sure my career can blossom into something as big as I believe it can be. Wether I'm being cocky wether I'm being arrogant or irrational or unreasonable, it's a matter of opinion. But I speak this way cause I'm confident in my work and I'm confident on how hard I could bring myself and how much pressure and how much dissipline I put on myself. And to be treated, and I'm not saying from Snoop right here, but to be treated by anybody as if I'm illprepared, lazy or as if I'm not down to go through the struggle, that just let me know that they got me twisted off the top, and we have the reconsider, reevaluate things.

dubcnn.com: But are you happy wit the way your career has went up until now?

Basically, not to say I'm content, but I'm happy with what I learned so far, learned alot that I didn't know, getting signed, going on tour, meeting artists, going to different venues, just experiencing life in traveling, doing real grown up shit, going to business meetings, discussing entrepreneur type of shit, just being exposed to another side of life. I coudln't really ask for more. BUT, I also feel like my 15 minutes of fame is ticking! And I don't really have alot to show for it right now and I'm starting to get, not necessarily panicky or franic, but I'm getting more and more concerned and each minute goes by and I'm starting to wonder, if the people in control have my best interest at hand! And if not, then I gotta boss up and do what I gotta do! I mean boss up with mine, I don't need to boss up on another mothefucker for nothin'. But I'm talkin bout boss up on mine, cause I know what to do wit my talent, wit my god given creativity and my god given act of how to get this, and executing business! I gotta believe in myself and I'm not gonna stop and I'm not gonna wait on another man, I'm not. I'm a team player to the fullest, I'm a team player, but how long do I gotta be a bench player, how long do I gotta score 25 points a game! Not only that, how many times to I gotta score 25 points a game and do 8 assists and still come off the bench?! If we was winnin' and I was playin' that role, then I couldn't complain, I'd be selfish if I did. But we're going up against all these other teams right now, and honestly, we're losing! And I ain't gotta name them, but you put us up against other companies and make it like it was basketball, NFL, and other teams that do what we do, the same profession, and they get money from the same corporation that we get money from, WE'RE LOSING RIGHT NOW! It always been like when you lose then you reajust your lineup and you go work. And it's odd that I can ghostwrite a song but I can never write a solo song for myself! But I can ghostwrite a whole song, and it makes the cut! But I can never put a whole solo song out. You think back to the compilation, FUCK IT man, you think back to the compilation! Why is E-White the only artist that don't get a solo cut out? You know what I'm saying?? And then you start paying attention, and then you start wondering why, why am I not on the Roc The Mic tour??

dubcnn.com: I was about to ask that!

With Jay-Z and 50 Cent. If that's the cracking-est spot, in HipHop right now, and I'm supposed to be the next to bubble, and not even the next to bubble, ONE of the next to come out and represent what we represent, WHY am I not on tour?? And I ain't knockin' nobody else that was on tour, anybody who was there deserved to be there, I'm just saying I feel I deserved to be there. If I didn't atleast let me know what's up!! I mean wouldn't anybody in their right mind start to ask questions? After not seeing a check in so long for a company you've worked for, would you not start to ask questions??

dubcnn.com: I feel you man!

Everybody, everytime you step out the house in the hood, or wherever you at, niggaz askin you the same questions! "What's up with this why did whoop whoop whoop whoop why you da da da da" let's get it right I ain't no dope fiend! I ain't checking off money I ain't smokin' off money! I don't believe in bling bling! Nigga I'm out here surviving. You know what it all comes down to is a lot of niggaz are scared, at the shit that you say in your lyrics! If you pay attention to what I say lyrically, I don't let up on one word. And I'm gone tell you, there's TWO songs that I did it on, TWO songs, two verses, and I ain't even gone tell you, cause if you ain't recognized it, I don't want you to! It was only two times I got lazy and I know when I did it! And I don't mean for no whole bar, nephew, I mean for a WORD, where I got lazy, and I know it. Niggaz to what you say, and when you hold up to be the type of nigga that you portrait yourself as, alot of people ain't ready to deal with it. And I'm not talkin bout sports, like tearin a muthafucka up physically, none of that. I'm talkin' bout stand up to what you do. Real life shit! What type of nigga iz you? How noble is you? Fuck the cute shit, fuck the showing off, fuck the stunting. You against the world! Cause I'm the type of nigga that can sit down with anybody, one on one, they can feel the way they wanna feel about me, and say what they wanna say, but you know what? I feel like I can sit down one on one with anybody in the world. And be confortable when I got home to sleep that night with the impression that they got about me. Bottom line, and I don't think alot of people can do that. I think alot of people are scared to sit down one on one wit motherfuckers, cause alot of people can be one on one with theyselves.

dubcnn.com: That was some real shit right there..

That's real!

dubcnn.com: I feel you though, cause you're not the only one saying this. Alot of people been saying the same thing. I remember Bad Azz was supposed to go on the Roc The Mic tour, and he had all his shit packed and ready to leave and he was at the tourbus and they didn't let him in, just said he can't ride.

And this makes me wonder you know? Cause this is your career right here, and you start to consider that, you know... Long Beach ain't that far from Compton. We right next door to Compton, home of Death Row, you know what I'm sayin? So I mean realistically, if you wanna stay away from the Hollywood aspect of the game and stick to the specifics and the basics: anybody can be touched. At any moment. And you start to wonder if... let me see how I put this before I say it. Cause I mean it. Don't get me wrong, I knew who I signed with! Don't get me wrong! I'ma go back to what I said earlier, and this is where real recognize real at. I'm a Long Beach rapper, and there's no way around that, going across Hollywood for some meal ticket, without Snoop knowing! Comon man, that ain't going down. If you're a real Long Beach nigga which I am, if you got any roots to Long Beach or family in Long Beach, and niggaz can get at you and check your files, then you gotta go through Snoop! It's not a bad thing, if it was it wouldn't work, cause he's holdin down the West! And he just happens to be from Long Beach, you got to go through there! Ain't no going around it, and everybody knows thats how it is! And that's not something I gotta walk around explaining. But you start to wonder, if my life and my career is important to the people that I pledge my allegiance to. And this is real life shit, FUCK hollywood, FUCK the music, just get back to the real life. Long Beach is right next door to Compton. Long Beach is right next door to Compton. And I have concerns about my affiliations sometimes.. And I wonder if it's give give situation on my end, you know what I'm sayin'? If it's right for me if a worst case scenario does happen. And I ain't on no scared shit, bottom line this is real shit, anybody got something negative to say about it, EAT A DICK BITCH! Eat a dick cause you know me! And if you're sitting up there saying something different, then YOU're scared. Bottom line, and holla at me! I'm in the beach EVERY da, ALL day. ALL day, doing the same thing! That's just how it is, I'm not going nowhere so don't act like E-White on the internet giving interviews and running and ducking nigga I'm down for what I'm saying and as soon as I get done with this interview, guess what! I'm walking! Right back to the hood from where I'm at right now! And I be doing this, until my royality money comes in. But back to the point, I have concerns that's deeper than music now. Alot of niggaz die behind alot of shit and I ain't getting into details and all that shit! I'm not saying I know all the behind the scenes and what's going on and every last nigga that died and murdered behind certain beef shit. But I know it's real! And I wonder if my allegiance is real with my career where I'm at right now! That's just the way it is! And I can't say nothing different cause that's the way it is and I'd be lying if I said something different. I wish I could make something else up to say that and make it sound sweet and dandy, happy type of shit! I wish I could but it's not that way man. I'm concerned about my career in every which way I could be. im concerned, very concerned...

dubcnn.com: Yeah I hope Snoop gets to read this interview and maybe he'll realize

Ain't no tellin what's gone happen man itss good for me right now, muthafuckaz is
comin up to me sayin E-White "whats goin on whats goin on" u know what im sayin? Fuckit this is wassup and if they wanna know I cant help it that they wanna
know.

dubcnn.com: Earlier you mentioned Foesum is there any chance we might see another collaboration with them?

Oh yea, no doubt! My cuzzin T-Dubb, my peoples Glaze, the DJ, my boy M&M! You know they raised me basically. I was a lil slap nose lil knucclehead I couldn't even hang out with them niggaz when they were doin their raps, they were so much older than me! My older kinfolks, so I basically saw them as long as I can remember doin what they was doin, so it just inspired me all the way around so it's always a thrill for me just knowin that me being the littlest nigga sittin up there watchin them in the studio workin on some tight shit knowin that I'm in there with them niggaz right now we working their shit or my shit but we in there on some equal shit and we up there gettin busy like old school times just the way of steppin back in time like.. and its always family oriented so its always beautiful! Look for a whole lot of collaborations with Foesum and the Twinz and E-White, just for the fuck of it!


dubcnn.com: Yeah I was about to ask you about the Twinz man..are you gonna be on their album?

Yeah man believe it or not, the Twinz got some heat right now they've been working umm I believe they got songs gathered over like shit 6 years off the top but I'm sure it's even longer than that over the years they've put together but it's crazy cuz it remained brand new cuz they been squattered up to not let it out they aint let it leak they just been sittin back workin like u know they been in the game, they passed the rush the videos and the big paycheck you know what im sayin they done been there and seen that so I think they have real nice plan right now and I like the way their music is soundin man I've been playin it alot basically it's all im playin, is their underground mix shit.

dubcnn.com: Yea I wanna hear that shit man its been 8 years since they dropped their album.

Yeah its basically all they ask me about man... "Where the twinz at wussup wit them", you know what im sayin they got alot of people out there! I hear alotta cars rollin up bumpin the conversation album bumpin that original Warren G album were they came out featuring on. You know what I'm sayin, I owe them alot I wanna give them a shoutout right now all of em T-Dubb, Wayniac, Trip Loc as far as just basically making me comfortable around ummm all I remember is meetin my first time really just fuckin wit stars like hands on go to a party wid them niggaz put somethin in cars with them niggaz they comin scoopin me up where I be hangin out we chillin shootin dice them, just smokin just doin it. Them niggaz rollin out somewere prolly wouldn't even tell a nigga were he's goin next day I know he in beverly hills at the house of blues just you know what im sayin and I'm like prolly 18 at the time that was really just hittin on me at grown up spots so it was just really turnin me on to it. The grown up style of partyin and really being hands on with people like I just used to see on TV or hear on the radio and it was just something that I aint really been able to get nowhere else just somethin I only expirienced can make it comfortable enough to be around that atmosphere.

dubcnn.com: You're set to drop a mix cd called E-White and The Entourage tell us about that:

What that is is alot of people tend to think I was sleepin just because I wasn't heard mainstream like I wasn't on Snoops album that Snoop had put out. Lotta people don't understand this money that you got to put in studios, proper things
that you gotto get. Then you gotto get shit cleared when you in a contract and it took me some time, you know the trials and tribulations and testin the waters to see exactly what I could do away from the doggystyle camp. This is just stuff that you
gotto do you gotto go out there cause alotta niggaz think the answer is in the book. I mean a book can teach you the teqnicalities words and the terminology n shit but anybody would tell you that its not neccesarily what you know its who you know and you gotto be in the right situations its about timin to all that type shit. Thats what I was spittin all this time doin which is why I can't say Im bitter or unhappy about this game im very happy because I learned alot and I see alot now I got a long way to go but I know im improving. alot of people thought I was sleepin and in between all this time ive been doin nuttin but writin and diggin deep in my frustration, my joy my pain my everything man my excitement my boredom everything man I just rounded it all up and the cold part was we didnt really put no mix to it cause I wanted to keep that grimy feel to it, that hard that gutter feel to it maskerated it like a mixtape but truthfully its an album. You pick it up you play it you, you gone be like "damn ima let all that run all the way through without stoppin that or fastforwarding that."
So I had to give people somethin right now like I said thats part of my 15 mins of fame the people who happen to know me and the real hiphop heads who happen to like me who wanted to hear more of my shit I had to give them more of my shit. Cause theres alota of new niggaz comin out talkin bout they this and that about the westcoast and im unimpressed but dont get me wrong theres alot of niggaz im feelin out here so dont get me wrong but for the most part man its ....I can say what I want right now my nigga im just so well in it and so ready to just ... I hate talkin that shit cuz im about it I rather be about it but its an interview so I gotto talk about it right now im just so ready to show and prove and shut muthafuckaz up and really show muthafuckaz how to do it and really just show muthafuckaz how to do this shit how to talk from the gut how to turn off being cute how to turn off worrying about what a muthafucka is sayin how to turn off followin that trend I aint talkin about no jeffrey diferent shit! Hey look at me I'm diferent I'm talkin about give it to them real, thats all you can appreciate! Give it to em muthafuckin real, be creative take time let me see you just love that music when you do it and it's quite simple, well you know its easier for me to say it cuz I'm home and I aint never been rich and I do hope I stay driven I do hope if I do have 5 million in the bank right now and 300 000 sittin up in my house here and a jet and yaght there I hope to get inspired to work in the studio the same way I do now. I hope I stay motivated cause the moment you stop beein driven is the moment you fall off. If you look around at all these artists who used to be successful and you look around, how many did support you and you'll say "dam hes the hardest lyricist thats been around" and you listen to the same nigga now, and you like "What the fuck is this shit? Does he not know he's boo boo?? You can't get caught up in the hype man like my big homeboy Soopafly told me, you can see the real in a nigga when they grab that camcorder and hit that record button and that nigga start showin off infront of that camera thats who the nigga really is. You see the camera recording and you wanna get back to the full you wanna change the character up thats the type of people that you dealin wit. When the camera is recording, nigga be the typa nigga you is! Nigga sit back and get a grip!! Theres too many niggaz runnin' out and showin out and actin cute. I just think that people gone start payin attention to other type o shit cuz its so easy and simple for people to start speedin to somethin they relatin to which is game which is joy which is partyin u know what im sayin? Ain't nobody really goin there, you got muthafuckaz just gettin their paper then you got a muthafucka just shootin muthafuckaz up in every rhyme, then you got a mothafucka talkin bout how he only got one pops on his whole album, then this muthafucka sittin in jail his whole life. This is really what muthafuckaz are doin and everybody ridin everybody else stinks. and they really think dont nobody see that shit! Well you know what muthafucka? Im talkin all this shit cause 1. Im a signed artist with a deal so fuck with any other inspired rapper who ain't got a deal thats down talkin it anybody thats spit me a rhyme with yall then I support him and I luv yall and yall is the reason I have heart and dig deep with my words so in these rhymes but for all yall muthafuckaz thats gone read this shit and hear this shit up in there readin my shit in the magazine gotto hard hate, you know what im sayin, FUCK THAT, 1. Im an artist wid a deal I came from the same situation u came from or probably worse, there wasn't no deal fall into my lap, I went out and got that, I didn't know about no lawyers, didnt know nuttin about no high school diploma. What I knew was perole. What I knew was probation. What I knew was I couldn't vote. What I knew was GR. What I knew was somebody elses phone bill. BUT I GOT A DEAL MUTHAFUCKA!

dubcnn.com: Yeah let's talk about the mix cd alittle more. Who's the entourage?

It's basically my homeboy Swade doin alot of the production and also featuring on the hooks, adlibs basically just that right now, cause this is the first one. We did this in about 14 days, trying to knock out about a song a day, get busy, you know what I'm sayin?

dubcnn.com: So who you got featured on that?

The homie Silva Satin from Long Beach, just a couple of Long Beach area products people that I had relationsships with or prior history with not just somebody Ive just ran into meetin and shit. It's just a way for me of gettin wit people that I been wanting to get wit on the underground cause I'm all wit, u know, takin time out. I mean it's not like givin a muthafucka a million dollars, Im not in a position to do that right now, but what I can do is take time out and let a nigga know. All real stay on the grind its nuttin to it if u keep workin its only gonna get better I try to stay positive so, whenever I am goin through a negative time hopefully I can reach down on somethin good that I did and pull me through the hard times.

So Swade is on there Silva Satin is on there who else is on there?

The homie Quic 2 Mac came off on a couple of songs!

That's Lil Half Deads homie right?

Yeah exactly, that's my homeboy we all got a history together we all come up, we were the younger generation when they got it crackin the first time around in 93 94 we were the niggaz in highschool we was the niggaz doin our thangs smokin indo sippin on gin n juice in highschool with them bitches, goin to the basketball game or the football game about to play. So it was like that, now we all doin music so like I said we all come the same line of music, we all came together, full circle, its amazin how we all work together right now and just build so thats what I just did reached out to small school homies that didnt made it out.

dubcnn.com: Is Chag G on there?

Oh yeah I got to give it up to my nigga Chag.. Ay! Special shoutout to that nigga Chag G, he laced on that track as matter of fact I only got one on there with him right now, cause hes so exclusive man I didn't even wanna burn him out like that cuz he got a hell of a project he working on.

dubcnn.com: Yeah I know thats my boy right there!

Yea thats the last thing I wanted to do, it was so hard to leave his music just laying there, it was so tight I had to get it. I had to jack him for it and then go appologize to him! I got a cut on my shit with me him and Silva Satin it's called Keep On Husltin' I think you had it playing on your website a few weeks back. I got the version without RBX on there cause he hadn't laced his verse yet when I got it. But yeah, Chag G over there doin it real big cuz he versatile, he can do the r&b thing, the hiphop thing. I wanna get a straight HipHop beat from him as soon as I can get at him!

dubcnn.com: So swade did the production on the mix cd?

Well actually he more like engineered it and he did produce a few tracks but I also wanna give a special shoutout to Meech Wells who produced like 4 tracks. It's more like an album cuz I only redid one song wich was the 50 cent cut "what up gangsta" thats the only thing I recycled. 4 tracks from Meech Wells 5 from Swade and umm a couple of others from my homeboy.

dubcnn.com: So is this out already?

Its in the streets man its wild on the streets its crazy cause you know I just did it old school, with my own little copies u know and tagged it up a few of them niggaz hit me up like crazy sayin its the hottest shit out right now!

dubcnn.com: You gotto shoot me one of those

Hell yeah! Infact let me let you hear some shit right now *plays "What Up Gangsta" remake song*.

dubcnn.com: Sounds tight how can people buy your mix cd?

In the swap meets!

dubcnn.com: What about people who don't live in that area to pick it up?

I'ma try and hook up something real quick with my man and them. I'm trying to get my lil website which is getting hooked up within the next week

dubcnn.com: What's the adress?

Hold on let me see...dam, nigga I don't know were I got that!

dubcnn.com: Apparently you were gonna drop a record on DPG Recordz is that true?

You know, I'm open and my situation right now is everythings clear to go, so thats somethin that gotto be done, and it's not gone be no bullshit.

dubcnn.com: Would you be down to get on a track with Kurupt or Crooked I?

You know what man, and Ima treat it as such cause it would be falsening right here for me to sit here and to act like I got beef with muthafuckaz in the game cause ive been fortunate enough that people been welcoming me with open arms it aint nobody that been talkin about me disrespectful. So I'm not gonna create problems thats not there. I got respect for the mens work I like the work they do, I will never try to take nuttin from them. And at the same time not tryna act super friendly and tryna be friend of a muthafucka who dont give a fuck about me at the same time. Musicwise I dig the work that they do and they got talent. I never tryna take nuttin from nobody. I've had no problems up til now. And I wouldn't cancel out nothin, music and music I aint never met them man so I can't personally have nothing against a nigga that I aint met. I cant down talk, and pretend that I got beef with a nigga that I aint even met. Im a real muthafucka aint no tellin what gone happened.

dubcnn.com: Everybodys talkin about bringin the west back whats your take on that do you think you got that kinda potential or do you think it takes more than just one person?

Nah, it's like, to bring the west back I'm bringin it back I honestly think, as humble as I am, when it comes to music when I look at it its like Im an artist just like everybody else. Im under contract im a proffesional now so it aint nomore waitin for this nigga to carry me none of that. But when I get my look when its on me Ima be ready. Its on me all the blueprints are there all the whole makeup the way that I had always pictured the game goin its kinda foldin in that direction so it leads me to believe that I got the right context that Im headin in the right direction.

dubcnn.com: What do you think with all the beef goin on right now do you think its holdin the west back?

Ima say it like this man... I aint seen nobody throw a punch! I feel like if you beefin with a muthafucka and its like that, fuck just gettin on wax over and over then nigga its time to handle something! Ain't that how it go? I mean how many times u gone start... I mean goddam we gone meet up somewhere sometime and in all this beefin and all this talkin and I aint seen nobody throw no punches. I aint seen nobody in no pay per view. You know lets get your money winner take all looser git done I aint seen none of that with niggaz that are beefin like I said I cant say its real or its fake, you asked my opinion and thats my opinion about it.

dubcnn.com: What are your current favourite artists right now?

Shiiit right now Scarface I love that Scarface umm what else am I bumpin..

dubcnn.com: You said the Twinz..

Twinz? Nah man.. OH OH YEAH THE TWINZ! I thought you was talkin bout Ying Yang Twinz *laughs* But yeah hell yeah the Twinz.. Then Eminem is real lyrical man...I cant say I buy it but I appreciate the effort he put into his music. with all that success he could choose to sit back n be lazy n go do anything for 15 mins and go kick his feet up but you got a young man willing to protect his shit thats willing to work in the studio. thats his response from the game. thats work thats what hard work does for you!

dubcnn.com: How does E-White's typical day look like when youre not recording?

Man I'm layed back man! My days... I done did so much at a young age that the average thrill right now to the average muthafucka my age is not a thrill at all. What I do is catch some good eatin and I gotto have a pretty lady. I gotto have a pretty woman. Also I like to keep up on current events so I read the news paper before my day over with, sit down somewhere, relax and catch a glimse of whats goin on around me so Ill be aware you know not just the music aspect but so I know what im up against that I know what we up against as people. I look at alot of shit on tv and shit bothers me, 9/11 shit, all this war shit lotta shit bothers me. Muthafuckaz hungry overseas muthafucka might have lost both they legs might be a old white muthafucka, this fucked up shit vibin me and I like to be aware of that this is the life that we live and umm not to take it for granted you only live once, and only thing is "what did you do with while you was here with your time" thats what it all come down to. and I think that alota shit that botheres alot of people that shit that you wanna turn off in your mind if you pay attention to that it does alot better for us as people.

dubcnn.com: Can people catch you live on stage to?

Yeah as a matter of fact I'll be in Arizone on friday with the Ying Yang Twinz umm who else ..yea Knocturnal and a couple of other local artists arizona and two other surroundin cities. We got another show somewere outthere on the 27th. Then we tryna hit vegas sometime within the next month and a half then we tryna put together a 15 day tour in february here we hit arizona, vegas and maybe LA somewere down here.

dubcnn.com: How do you hope your future will look for lets say for the coming decade?

How I think my future will look? I think Ima end up hopin I wasnt so successful.

dubcnn.com: Is that right?

Yea I promise you its gone be record breaking results! Not to say I would be dissappointed if it werent but I honestly think man for record breaking numbers actually in more ways than one. And I think that would be the only hold up for the e white album. I might not be the only one thats thinkin it. on the real I wont be dissappointed if it don't turn out that way, but im not settin myself for nuttin less. I think its gone be the biggest entry to hiphop to urban music I think im gone make the biggest entry. I aint even had no album out but everybody knows me I aint talkin about fans n shit im talkin about artists. everybody knows me man. They know me I aint talkin shit I appreciate it that's what inspire me and keep me goin when I'm down. They dont know how much they do for me. "E-White you hard keep doin what u doin im a fan of that shit" you know what im sayin that shit thrills me. they the ones that make me feel that it's nuttin! What the fans tellin me or when im around these stars that have the success that I hope I have half of. I know what it is, I know what its like to shine I was a highschool star. I stayed in the paper every day behind that shit. I got dam near a hundred trophys at my momma house right now behind that shit and I aint talkin bout no litlle mini ass shit im talkin bout steal trophys man, 2-3 feet of the ground man, I know what its like to be 15 years old and in the paper wid everybody trippin on you! Im gettin that same response right now with music, maybe a little better with this music! Back to reality on the real, you know I think Im in for breaking records if I stay strong and do what I know I gotto do let somebody if I don't face the pressures, let somebody persuade then take my creative control off in the area of the rap game that I feel like I sold up then I dont feel like its nobody doin what im doin to the music right now. and what im doin the music right now im doin somethin to every word. You know how eminem, every word he doin somethin to you, jay-z every word he doin somethin and their not takin off. But youre not gonna look at it and be like "yea he sounds like eminem hes not doggy he sounds like jay z", naaaw the only thing in common is he's not takin off no words he's not playin with them words! When they hear me they gone be like "He sounds kinda real wit it" then when they see me they gone be like "He look like he real with it!" and when they get to meet me they gone be like "Oh he IS real wit it! This is our new shit, we fuck wit E-White!" That's all it is man, it's that simple!

dubcnn.com: Yeah well I wish you best of luck man!

Yeah I'ma need it though! I appreciate everything homie!

dubcnn.com: Thanks for takin the time out to answer all the questions man ima get back with you later have a good day man.

It's all good baby!! It's all gravy! Hopefully we'll do a followup interview in a couple of weeks or so.

dubcnn.com: Alright man!

Good lookin out!