MB: We’re gonna get right into the interview because I know you’re mad busy. You feel me, like you’re getting your career started and everything. FTG: Let’s Do It! MB: Alright! First I want to get to know you a bit, you know what I mean, as Fred. The whole world knows you as Fred the Godson already if not I’m sure they will by the end of the summer. (~Fred Laughs~) I know you got big things planned. I feel it in my bones. I know you’re coming off. FTG: Yeah man! God willing. God is good, we’re gonna keep rocking so yes by the summer it should be real big. MB: Growing up what type of artist did you admire as true lyricists? Better yet, what was the argument in your house between your brothers and sisters.Who did you feel were the true Lyricists at that time? FTG: I mean, growing up I’m the oldest out of six, so my brothers and sisters, those weren’t really the people I was arguing with in my house. The arguments were with cousins and friends that came over. I always took to the artist that was more lyrical in my eyes.A lot of my friends would say, “yo Method Man is the illest rapper out”, and I love Method Man for his energy but I always took to a person like Jay-Z and Nas because of what they were saying and the way they were ipping the words. My attraction was to the lyrical rapper instead of the person that would send off energy and get the crowd crazy. I always took to the rapper that would say things that have me to sit there and it would stimulate my mind. That argument would last forever. You know what I’m saying? That’s the kind of rapper I like and that’s the kind of rapper they like and I would always have my point and they would always have their points too but you know I wasn’t hearing it so I try to always win my argument.
40 Entrigue Magazine | May 2012