ou talk about how you got serious like four or five years ago. What exactly do you mean when you say that? When I started out I was just playin’ around rhymin’, you know, puttin’ different little bullshit together. Then little shit I was doing people start feelin’ it. Then I said, “Shit a nigga might have some type of talent,” so I really started concentrated on what I writing making sure the shit was really on point. Then I started going hard on that shit. Niggas started really recognizing me. At what point did you start to feel the recognition? What type of things were you doing as an artist to get that? A nigga was really hard in the street, right? So when I say I was playing around, I was just doing that shit. Then niggas start hearin’ little shit I was spittin’. Niggas started comin’ up to me like, “Nigga you hard. That shit you spit on mixtape O’boy had was crazy.” And that was some bullshit to me, because I was playin’. A few other cats hollered at me, wanted me do some shit with them. So I had to go hard on this shit. Then my big homie Dude Dawg heard some shit and that nigga came and hunted me down. I’m thinkin’ that Nigga about to check me on some bullshit I was in, but that nigga was gettin’ at me on real some rap type shit. Once I knew that Nigga was after me tryin’ to get at me on that shit, I [realized] I had talent. So, at that point it was like, “I’m about to go hard on this shit.” That really let me know, when the big homie came at me and told me, “Nigga you got talent. Nigga you need to get out these streets. I been through all this bullshit. Nigga it ain’t for you. Let’s get in this studio.” That nigga locked me in the studio for at least a week in that muthafucka. I couldn’t even get out. I was in the pen in that muthafucka! Did he bring you meals at least? That nigga cracked the door, fed me and the engineer, but you know them niggas had me locked up like a muthafucka. But you know what? That nigga saved my life. I was on a path. Either I was going be six feet under or locked up for life. I love him for that - the big homie. Had you been in any significant trouble? Yeah I done a little camp time. A nigga been in a bunch of bullshit. They had a nigga locked down. I’m in this gang injunction shit. It’s a video on YouTube. These muthafuckas [the police] come, they see a couple niggas from my hood, they come and snatch us and throw us in the muthafuckin’ car and take us to the station. I think Top Dawg [Dude Dawg] and them bailed me out like two or three times this year. A nigga try really to stand clear of the bullshit. I done learned a lot since I’ve been with this nigga. I wanna try to get shit right and show everybody in my hood it’s a better way. You know? You’re a Blood? I’m a Bounty Hunter to the heart, Blood game all day. A nigga ain’t on that bangin’ no more. Niggas can rep blood or niggas can rep the blue side. I’m feelin’ like it should be all love from here on out. I’m looking at that Jena 6 stuff and I’m hoping niggas will look at that and realize it’s still some shit out there we need to look out for instead of tearing ourselves down. You kick back and you look at the KKK was killing us all day back in the day. They don’t have to do it now, ‘cause we doin’ it ourselves. Yeah, I’m a Blood nigga, but I’m not trying to bang on no niggas. I make music for both sides; the red side and the blue side and I hope my music can bring everybody together. We’re all black. What do you think drew Dude Dawg to you? He was in the hood. He went through all the bullshit. He saw what I was doin’ and when he heard what I was doin’ on that rap shit he came. I was kind of runnin’ from the nigga because he the kinda big homie that will tell you need to cut that bullshit out. I’m trying to hide from this nigga because I don’t wanna hear all that bullshit he talkin’ about. I’m tryin’ to shake the nigga and he sneaks up on me while I’m getting my hair cut. He laid it down on me, like a lot of big homies should do anyway. That’s what we missin’ in our neighborhood – the OG niggas coming down and telling us what’s not right. We gotta stick together. We destroyin’ ourselves without no guidance. I know some of these young niggas is hard headed. Niggas tell us something we be like, “Fuck you old nigga,” but they still got to try. That same analogy right there I put on the rap game on the West Coast. On the West Coast we kinda dead and dry out here. All the OGs ain’t comin’ getting’ at us like they supposed to. Niggas thought I was beefing with this nigga Daz, but all the time I
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was trying to let Daz know, “Instead of dissin’ a young rapper who got a deal, go get at him. Help him out. Show him what he missin’. Let him know what he need to do so he won’t fall out that muthafucka.” But it wasn’t no disrespect because I got respect for all the OG rappers. I just wish they’d come fuck with us more often. Game and Dub C reached out to me. There are the few that reached out to me and showed me love. I appreciate that. They all recognize me when they see me, but I still want them niggas to be like, “Come get on this.” We don’t have it over here like them niggas in the South. What exactly did happened with you and Daz? It had something to do with Hot Dolla right? Yeah Hot Dolla, that’s my nigga. All us young heads got to ride together. So Daz dissed Hot Dolla and I spoke up on the situation. Niggas think I was actually going at Daz, but it wasn’t like that. They probably took it the wrong way, but all I really saying was, “Don’t diss the young nigga. Don’t knock us down. We already down in the dirt already. Coach a nigga. Give the nigga some bomb ass tracks. You were the man at Death Row, nigga.” I ain’t got one track from Daz. I’m just sayin’, come get at us. Don’t diss the nigga. Show us what to do. I respect [Daz] in this game. He’s been in this game for a minute. Niggas don’t last as long as he did for nothing. That nigga got talent. It’s time for the old school dudes to stand down and put life into these youngsters. That’s all I was saying. It wasn’t nothin’ big, because I’m not the type of nigga who get to beefin’ on records. I’m from Nickerson Gardens. I was raised and taught, that if you’ve got beef with a nigga, you don’t go talk about it. You go handle that shit. If a nigga got beef with me he gon’ realize it, because I’m gon’ be at his muthafuckin’ door.