Paul Wall Interview

Hey Paul Wall!

Wassup what’s going down?

I’m doing fine how are you?

Ah man I’m cool I’m right here in the States right now just kicking it.

Paul Wall introduce yourself!

It’s Paul Wall baby “The People’s Champ” getting money and staying true, breaking all the haters off real bad!

Tell us where about in Houston are you from and what was it like growing up there?

I’m from the North West side of Houston but I really grew up all around the city, like all sides. It was like a different world to what I saw on TV you know what I’m saying? In Houston we got our own style so the things I saw on TV and even the music I heard on the radio wasn’t what I saw around me on a day to day basis.

Do you mean that musically on the TV there was mostly West Coast or East Coast Rap?

Yeah well you know on the radio they played mostly West Coast music and on MTV or BET they’d play East Coast music so when we listened to our own music it was mostly on the Screw tapes, the mixtapes that was how we heard our local Texas music and that’s what I grew up listening to.

What particular artists influenced you and made you want to start rapping?

Definitely UGK influenced me a lot and also my boy Lil Keke he's a real big influence on me.

Over the last year and a half you’ve been touring throughout the States and Europe with acts like Fall Out Boy, Tech N9ne, Ill Bill and now Marz on your Fast Life tour, while visiting these cities what has been the most memorable show for you so far?

It’s kind of like everywhere we go they show us a lot of love. Right now we’re in Columbus Ohio they’ve shown us a lot of love, we were in Indianapolis last night. I can’t really say which one was the most memorable, probably when I went to Italy just cause it was a different kind of place for me over there, it was memorable because it was somewhere I’ve never been before.

When you do a show in Europe do you find that the crowd response the same as a US crowd?

It’s a little bit different. Wherever Americans are living out there they always show up at your shows and come out and represent. We get a lot of Military too they come through and put it down with me. Wherever we go the local people always show us a lot of love, but yes it’s a little bit different. I think in the States we take Hip Hop for granted when I come to Europe I see they are real fans of Hip Hop but in America like I said we take it for granted.

Do you find the time to write when you’re on tour?

Yeah a little bit usually I write when I got to the studio but yeah I get the itch to write a little bit when I’m on tour.

You’ve got a new album coming out called “The Fast Life” when will that be coming out?

It’s comes out February 24th 2009.

You’ve got Akon on there and Chamillionaire, Lil Keke who else features on there?

Also on the album we got Yung Joc, Gorilla Zoe I got a new song with my boy Webbie called, “Bizzy Body” we’ve been pumpin’ it real hard and getting a lot of love from that.

Will you doing a video for that track?

Nah not yet we probably will end up doing one though.

What can we expect to hear on this album?

I got a lot of production with my homeboy Travis Braker he jumped down and did a lot of production with me we had a lot of fun in the studio. Also Beanz and Cornbread they’re some local guys form Houston they did a lot of production on there too. Other than that it’s the same raw parkin’ lot rap that I stick to you know? It’s straight hood stuff, we got some different stuff too that I haven’t done before. We had a lot of fun and I know people are gonna like it when they hear it.

For the people out here that may not know much about you, can you tell us how you got in the rap game?

I just grew up listening to rap music it was something that I was into growing up. I really liked listening to it and thought, “Hey I can do this too.” I’d see other people do it for fun and I’d be like I can do a little better than them let me see what I got.

You were in Colour Changing Click with Chamillionaire would you ever get back together as Colour Changing Click or do an album together as just Paul Wall and Chamillionaire?

Yeah I hope to do that that would be nice. I hope to do that one day.

So if you weren’t a rapper what do you think you’d be doing now?

I think I’d be a DJ because I love music so much.

And would you be a regular speed DJ as well as a Chop and Screw DJ?

Yeah fa sho and I’m a fool with it too especially when it comes to clubs I set the club off and get the club jumping!

As well as being a Rapper, Jeweller and DJ you also chop and screw music what equipment do you use to do that CDJ’s, Technics?

I use the CDJ’s I got the Technics 1200, I got the 1210’s I got the Serato jumping too so I stay active in what’s going on, whatever’s out I got to get with it.

What format do you find the easiest CD’s, Viynl or MP3’s?

Me personally I prefer the vinyl, old skool style. I guess maybe that’s just cause of how I was raised. My boy Ron C taught me how to DJ and that’s how I learned to DJ so that’s just what I prefer.

Was Chopping and Screwing something you wanted to do or was it because Ron C showed you how to do it and you just picked up on that?

It was just something I wanted to do I had a love for it and I wanted to try it out and figure out how to do it. Me and him were cool, so I kind of just picked up on it. Then after a while you know, me hanging around and picking up on little things here and there he just sat me down and just started teaching me little by little.

So what do you think makes a good Chop and Screw DJ?

Well you got to speak through the music you’ve got to let the music speak through you. I think that’s one of the main things. But other than that you just got to get in there and do your thing you know? Try and do the same old thing but at the same time maybe try and come up with something different, something new.

Texas is home of the SLAB! Or cars to my UK peeps! What Slabs have you got?

Yeah I got a few of ‘em all Cadillac’s of cause. I got a 91, a 77 Cadillac, I got a 76, I got a 71 and a 75. I got a couple of new ones too I got a new Escalade and a new GTS but all Cadillac’s I love Cadillac’s! That’s what I stay ridin’ that’s what I stay pushing. If you see me ridin’ in something it’s got to be a Cadillac baby!

Wow so what colours are they are they all Candy Painted?

Yeah all of them Candy. I got Brandy Wine over Grey, I got a Cobalt Blue over Gold you know we always try and come with some new colours every now and then. I got California Gold that one is off the chain! I just try and stay ahead of the game a little bit with the paint, make sure I got something fresh and something new that somebody else ain’t got.

Do you change the colours every so often?

Every now and then but I go through so many cars. I fix them up and I end up selling them to one of my homeboys. We do so many car shows I just end up selling them! So I go through them like crazy just from finding old beat up ones and fixing them up and turning them into masterpieces. Once I turn them into masterpieces I get tired of them and get rid of them and move onto something new!

So you take them to Car Shows and show them off?

Yeah fa sho! I got a couple of trophies too, first, second place trophies. I got a few of them just from different car shows that I put it in.

So, Paul which car is your favourite and why?

Ahh I think my favourite one is my 1976 Eldorado Convertible Cadillac it’s the one I have on my album cover “Get Money Stay True.” I think it’s my favourite one cause it’s one of the first ones I put together, it was a masterpiece from the start.

A new year is just around the corner what are your plans for next year after the release of “Fast Life”?

Same old routine for me just getting money staying true, hustling, grinding getting out there and stacking up paper how ever I can get it! I got my new album coming out February 24th I thinks that’s probably the main thing that I got going on next year. I got a clothing line too called “Expensive Taste” you can check the website http://www.igotexpensivetaste.com/ and that’s about it that’s what I got planned out for next year.

Have you dropped an Expensive Taste album yet with Travis Barker and Skinhead Rob?

We did a mixtape but we haven’t done an album yet. You can get the mixtape from http://www.skeetv.com/ it’s a free download.

Will you be dropping an album at all?

Nah not that I know of maybe when my contract is up with my record label right now but not till then.

Do you want to shout out your website addresses?

http://www.grillzbypaulwall.com/ for your Grillz for your Ice we ship out to Europe all the time so anybody out there trying to get a Grill and get Iced up holla at me we’ll take care of you, know what I’m talkin’ bout! Also I got http://www.igotexpensivetaste.com/ you can check that out and make sure you got to www.myspace.com/paulwall and check that out cause we got that in full effect.

Paul Wall thanks for taking the time out of your busy schedule to do this interview any last words or shout outs?

Yeah thank you for the love.

Interview by Jai Boo

Out Now Diamonds and Grillz hosted by Paul Wall

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K Rino Interview

Hi K Rino!

Jai Boo.....what's going down!?

I'm fine how are you?

I'm good, I'm good!

You've been in the game for like over 20 years why did you decide to start rapping?

Just love of the art form, when I first heard the O.G's back in the day like Sugar Hill Gang, Grand Master Flash, Kurtis Blow up until the Run DMC era you know those cats were the people who motivated me. It was something I decided to do for fun but then you start getting kind good at it and I took it a little more seriously after that.

You used to rap with Preppy Jay and G.T under the name "Real Chill"?

Well yeah they came along a little later I started writing in like 83, I couldn't have been no more than maybe 13 years old. I met G.T probably a year later when I was like 14 at middle school and we just got cool after that, then he was cool with Jay. So I met Jay through him and you know we just formed a group in like 85/86. We became you know, like one of the first groups in the city to actually put a record out in the city of Houston.

What was the response like after being one of the first groups to put a track out and still being a pupil at school?

Well yeah it was cool for a minute it was like I said it was stuff that was unheard of at the time. Nobody was putting out records I was just somebody that everybody just knew that you could see right in school. This guy got a record out and he's sitting right next to you in Math class! You know? So that was something new, people took to it good, the record was a cool record for the time and we a got good response from it. But, it was a learning process because we didn't know anything about the music industry we didn't know much about recording, structuring songs and all that so we went through a lot of growing pains as far as the industry is concerned. We dealt with a bunch of record labels, deals that didn't go through, what almost went through, went bad, so it was really a good training ground for all of us. You know to really just get our feet wet in the game, and got our first introduction as far as how hard the industry was.

Whilst still being a member of "Real Chill" you founded "South Park Coalition". How did S.P.C come about and what was the main aim for the organization?

The S.P.C was really started because I was just wanted to have a unified squad of MC's. When I was at school I can remember the day! I was just sitting up in one of my classes just writing down the names of the rappers I was cool with on a list. At the time it might not have been no more than maybe 9 or 10 of ‘em, but I was like, "Yeah, that's The South Park Coalition" they didn't even know that they was being put into my clique! I told them! I'm like, "Hey man we the South Park Coalition!" So really at the beginning it just consisted of the MC's that I was cool with at my school. Then it branched out once I started getting in a lot more talent shows, getting round the city, meeting other rappers and getting cool with other rappers, anybody I got cool with it's like, "You in" you know? That's how it went!

And now S.P.C is worldwide!!

To date you've released about 20 albums with the newest release being Triple Darkness, can you tell us about the concept of each of the CDs?

The Triple Darkness series is what it's called and what I wanted to do was just drop 3 CDs, something that I hadn't done in my career. I‘ve always been consistent in terms of dropping at least 1 or 2 albums a year separately but I wanted to come with 3 back to back, with 3 different themes and 3 different concepts to each album. Triple Darkness is in representation of the womb of the Universe, that God created himself out of the womb of Triple Darkness and that's how I was trying to correspond it with the creation of this album, like, you know, just out of nothing to create something that gets a spark of light from my mind and put out 3 good projects. A lot of people, they'll say they coming with a triple or quadruple album and it's really not that, it's really an album and then it's a slowed and chopped version of the same album, then it's a DVD, you know it's not really a true 3 CD set that consists of all new songs on every CD and that's what I was able to do. Each album has its own personality and its own identity to it

What are the 3 different personalities?

The first one volume 1 was entitled, "Wreck Time" that's moulded in the traditional mould of all my other albums, where it's a diverse mixture of concepts and topics and just relatable songs that people can relate to, street topics, political topics, lyrics, all that. So it's just built in the same vain as my other projects.

Volume 2 is called "The Lyrics" and that album consists of just 110% lyrical songs. It's for all the cats who really are into hearing just a display of lyrical skills, that's what that album consists of. There's no street concepts none of that type of stuff its straight ripping on that album. Metaphysical, scientifical, lyrical, metaphorical, punch lines! whatever, anything that constitutes lyrics. That's volume 2.

Volume 3 is the family album it's called "Coalition Ambush" where I just brought in the clique and bought in a lot of the guys from The S.P.C and they either spit on songs with me or they contributed songs, you know solo cuts to the album that gave it that family feel. So, that's what it is.

Why did you decide to release them separately?

Well what it was, was a decision that was made at the last minute. Initially I was gonna release ‘em all at the same time but then I was like, well you know what? Not to be arrogant, but I just wanted to give everybody a chance to digest each one before releasing the next one. So, I dropped Wreck Time first and waited about a month, then dropped the next, then waited a little while and dropped the third one just to give everybody time to digest and basically respect people's financial situations too. Because with money being tight if I was to drop all those at one time it's gonna cost you $40 or $50 so I give everybody chance to regroup financially.

You're a very versatile rapper who always has good concepts and subject matters, what keeps you motivated and inspired to write?

Well it's hard these days! (Laughs) Back in the days the things that would keep me motivated was several things like, my competitive spirit, just the drive that I had internally to want to get better and want to strive to be the best I could be at it; was the initial motivation. And that fuelled me, you know for years and years. Then, when you start developing a fan base the motivation shifts because the fans start critiquing and they start judging and they start putting you in categories and they start saying, "Well, this album was good, can he out do it? Can he make one better than he made?" and such and such. So, then that becomes motivation to out do your own work! Then also just the fact that, you know you listen to what's out in the industry today and you want to be contrary to that because there's a lot of dissatisfaction in the game from the fans stand point because nobody is putting out any good music you know? For the most part there's still a lot of artists that are, but, for the most part it's about 85% garbage that's put out, so that's motivation! So, all those things mixed in with the fact that you do this for a living. (Laughs)

You've toured Europe and Australia and you're still an independent artist! That proves that you don't really need to be on a major label to achieve those goals. What has been your most memorable show outside of the States?

Definitely the ones you mentioned the Australian show and the show that we did in Helsinki, Finland you know? those were probably 2 of my greatest shows! If not THE 2 greatest, because the reception that you get from the people out there and the support that they give. It's rare for an artist from a major label to really come to some of those spots that I went to, so it's even rarer for an independent artist who is operating on a smaller scale to come out there. The appreciation and the admiration was at such a level when I came out there, because a lot of those people felt like we get the music, we order the music, we buy the records, but they would never in life get a chance to actually, you know, see come out there. That was really probably some of my biggest shows but I can't discredit some of the shows I've done in the States because I get the same type of appreciation from anybody that's a supporter of mine. I get the same type of appreciation and admiration and I appreciate it equally.

Every September you put on your own show called "The S.P.C Weekend" can you tell us about that?

Oh the S.P.C Weekend was something we started it started by accident! I guess about 5 or 6 years ago some guys came down that were from the S.P.C website, just members of our message board and were dedicated supporters of the S.P.C. They just came down to Houston basically at the same time you know? D Nuts, my boy Johnny and those guys from Memphis they came down to Houston and just by chance while they were down here AC Chill was like, "Man, lets get the barbeque pit out man, get some food go to Macgregor Park and plug some music up and just have like a little picnic." And that's basically how it happened it was a spur of the moment thing and it ended up getting to the point where a lot of people showed up and everybody had a good time, we stood out there and performed and did it like that. So the next year we decided to do it again and we set a date for it and we added a concert to it where we would do a show that Saturday night and just represent at Macgregor Park that Sunday. I think it's like the 5th or 6th year we been doing it and it actually got bigger every year. Last year was probably the biggest and best year it ever was.

Yeah it was a 20 year celebration.

Yeah it was our 20 year anniversary and we really put a lot of effort into it and God blessed it to be a real special event. It was the biggest venue we ever rented out we packed it, it was full and people literally came from all over the country and all over the world just to be a part of it. You know it was really a blessing man, people came from just 10 or 15 different States and couple of countries, it was amazing we were blessed man.

You've got your SPCUK affiliate LATE, who you just did a collaboration with for his new album, would you guys be working on an album together in the near future?

Yeah we definitely been talking about it, me and Tricksta have been talking about getting down and doing a LATE, K Rino album and you know so it's gone definitely happen. It's a situation where all the work that y'all have been putting in for myself and for the whole South Park Coalition over in the UK you know I appreciate it so, without a doubt. Wolftown have been strong representatives of South Park Coalition over in the UK so yeah; look for that LATE, K Rino collaboration real soon.

With a lot of focus on the South and Houston what is the situations like out there at the moment? Do you think it's becoming a saturated market?

Well the market is saturated, but it's not that much that the market is saturated it's what it's saturated with. It's saturated with a lot of trash to be honest with you. You know you're sifting through a bunch of garbage and trying to find a diamond, and there's not many diamonds in the trash can. It's a lot of people out here doing music but it's a lot of followers in Houston, not just in Houston in the industry period. There's a lot of people that's followers that's just keeping their eyes and ears focused on the radio and the video shows and that's dictating what type of songs they make and dictating what type of image they trying to portray in their own careers instead of just waking up in the morning and saying, "Ok this is who I am and my music will be a reflection of that." I think that's what's killing the game because it's got to the point now where you hear one rap record and you done heard them all. You know I don't know how it is out there but if you at a club or you at the mall or just out in the streets or you go to a car show people put 10 or 15 CDs in your hand. Let me give you an example, if I go to a car show I might run in to 50 rappers out of those 50, 10 or 15 of them might put a CD in my hand, like, "Hey man check out my CD or check out my mixtape" and it's the same! It all sounds the same.

So, that's the problem you know? It's something where nobody is doing anything that tries to stand out or differentiate themselves from the rest of the pack. That's what made music special, when we was coming up you had a whole roster of artists that were out but they were all different, everybody sounded different. You know that when you got the Big Daddy Kane album it wasn't gonna sound like the Too $hort album. You know? So that was the beauty of it. But know everybody started doing the same thing, as soon as the beat comes on everybody, "Woow, hey, yeah!!" (Laughs) you know what I mean? It's like come on man! All the beats sound the same everybody rapping on the same beat! It's hard enough to sell a CD now it's to the point where, man I don't even want your CD for free! You can't even give away your CD because you've stagnated the game you've stagnated the growth of the game by not being original.

A lot of people have been saying that "Hip Hop is Dead" what is your take on that phrase?

I don't think Hip Hop dead I think that the people who are still representing Hip Hop in its true form are not being given the platform or given the opportunity to express it on a wide scale to where it can be exposed to the audience and to the masses. Because, there's a lot of people that are still going strong their still spitting real topics, their spitting hot lyrics and coming up with strong concepts, so Hip Hop is not dead in that sense. But, from an industry stand point, the industry put its hand in the game, and from an industry stand point it's on life support! Because, the type of things that the record companies are putting out, the type of stuff that the radio stations are playing, it's nothing that contributes to the growth and is nothing that contributes to the perpetual forward movement of Hip Hop, so in that light people look at it and say, "Well, Hip Hop is dead." But nah it's not dead! Then, on the same token the people who are saying that, you know? You have to make sure that number 1, you still representing it to the fullest and number 2, that you're not saying it because you've got hatred or you got jealousy or envy in your heart for another coast or another set of individuals who are profiting from it at a time when you might not be profiting from it.

With more people having websites and the networking sites like sites like Myspace, Face Book and Bebo etc, do you think it's got easier for an independent artist to get heard and promote their music?

Well it's easier because the power is in your hands now more so. It's taken a lot of power away from the industry people because, yeah you can set up a myspace page or website and just set up shop and sell your CDs on-line and expose yourself and promote yourself on-line to millions and millions of people. So, in that regard yeah it's easier but on the flip side you still dealing with the saturation factor. Because just like it's a rat race in the streets it's a rat race online too, because everybody still doing the same thing on-line that they doing on the streets! They just hustle in the streets by day and then by night they hop on the computer do the same thing. So the principles don't change the rules don't change you still have to have a strong sense of originality about yourself in order to stand out, but the internet and the on-line hustle have given artists a lot of power to take things into their own hands.

Tell us about your website http://www.southparkcoalition.com/

South Park Coalition.com that's the website that's the home base. Basically you know its home to every artist in The S.P.C. Any information that the fans might want to receive or know about any of the artists in the clique they can go to http://www.southparkcoaliton.com/ . The individual members have their own myspace pages of course but the home base is the website. We got a message board so any of the fans that want to come on and just comment and about SPC music or any music we got all different types of categories you can speak on. You can read about us, read about the history, we got bio's we got pictures, SPC radio it's one of the most extensive websites on the net so you get a full thorough understanding of what we all about if you just scan through our site.

So what next for K Rino and The SPC?

Urhhh I don't know, lately I just been chillin,' I've noticed a lot of people say they been seeing my on-line light on myspace a lot! I just been really taking a break just been chillin, 'maxin' and relaxin' not doing too much, a little recording here and there. I've been working with Rapper K trying to help him finish up his album and any features that I end up doing I do those and any shows here and there. Nothing in the works as far as an album right now, you know? anything could change but right now I'm just chillin' right now! (Laughs)

Well K Rino that wraps up the interview I'm gonna let you go back and chill!

I appreciate y'all keep doing ya thing tell the family I said what's up!
Peace

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Interview by Jai Boo
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Big Pokey Interview

Hey Big Pokey!

Hey how are you sweetie?

I'm fine! How are you?

I'm good, I'm good.

So, Big Pokey you're an original member of Screwed Up Click how did you hook up with DJ Screw?

Man it was a long time ago, I met Screw a while back it was a long time ago and he was doing a CD a little after that I had met him again and we still remembered each other. One of my homeboys from the hood, he went over there and we talked to him and we ended up doing a tape or whatever and it kinda just went from there.

What was DJ Screw like to work with?

Oh man it was fun! The whole thing about it was, when we were doing what we were doing, we was having fun you know what I saying? We had a lot of fun he kept it interesting you know, the tapes kept screwing we were in it for the passion and no one there knew it was gone end up getting serious like that.

After featuring on many mixtapes you dropped your first album "Hardest Pit in The Litter" in 1999 what other solo albums have you released?

I followed that with, "Dope Game 2000" and I did "Da Sky's Da Limit" joint then those are all the albums I've dropped I've been on mixtapes and compilations but those are the only albums I've dropped. I'm getting ready to do now my 4th solo.

Your 4th solo album is called "Evacuation Notice" which is out on Koch Records can you tell us about this release, what can we expect to hear on there?

That's right. The "Evacuation Notice" is like an album before the album or whatever to just heat up the scene or whatever. I got some hot joints on there it's just really to warm ‘em up and get ‘em ready for "The Hurricane" that will drop at the top of the year. My fan base they've been waiting on The Hurricane for years or whatever but I've never released it so now I'm gonna get ready to release it. This album here is gonna heat ‘em up and warm ‘em up for it. I got some hot joints on there so you k now I'm expecting big things for it.

Why did you decide to call it Evacuation Notice?

Because "The Hurricane Sensei" is my album and that' finna drop so this is like warming ‘em up with the "Evacuation Notice." Everybody knows there's a hurricane coming and you know when a hurricane coming you have to move out and evacuate.

Tell us about "The Hurricane Sensei"

I put a lot of work in to it you know? I took my time picking these tracks whatever, I've been through a lot and I'm expecting big results. I got a lot of hot songs a lot of concepts, and like I say since I dropped my last solo I've been through a lot, so I got a lot to tell the world.

Well you lost Big Hawk, Big Moe people like that how do you cope and hold it all together?

Well you know at the end of the day we know one thing, we come and we go you know. In the same sense you know I lost my mother and as a matter of fact it makes 3 years today.

Oh I'm sorry to hear that.

You know I'm still here and for the ones that's not here, I gotta represent for ‘em you know because I got to let the world know it ain't over with. Hawk, Moe you know Screw, Fat Pat, Mafio, Gator you know all the ones that's not here we gotta keep their names alive.

So, the first single off "Evacuation Notice" was with Slim Thug on the track, "Boss Hogg on Candy"

Yeah that's the one we have gone with whatever, we getting played on the radio on things and it's doing pretty good. I got a couple more on the Evacuation Notice that can go for singles, so, we'll see you know what I'm saying? I like to let the streets pick ‘em.

When will Evacuation Notice drop?

Evacuation Notice should drop on Labor Day and ya'll can look for that it's got some big things on it which leads you up to Hurricane Sensei that's gone drop at the top of the year. So, ya'll stay looking for that man!

What other artists feature on both albums?

Well on the Evacuation Notice I got a label called Mobb Style so I got my boys on there. I got a couple people out the Screwed Up Click on there. You know I got Paul Wall on there, I really been just putting too many people on there. But my Hurricane Sensei really I wanted to be more me on there, I'm gonna put a few features on there or whatnot but mainly I'm gonna give ‘em a lot of me.

Who were your musical influences when you were getting in the game?
Oh man Street Military, South Park Coalition, Scarface, Geto Boys you know I grew up on all that man. It's been a lot people that I've listened to you know, NWA, stuff like that.

What part of the Southside of Houston are you from and what was it like growing up there?

I'm from Southside of Houston Texas, Yellow Stone that's where I'm from. You know it's just like every other hood. Good times, bad times, hard times, it's going down over there you know?

Southside had beef with the Northside back in the day does all that still continue?

You know what? Nah and that's a good thing and I'm glad for that. You know, but everybody gone represent they side and do they thang. But you know, it's a way to do everything but one thing I like now, is the way the city is functioning as a whole. You know what I'm saying? Because the city was divided in half you know Southside, Northside or whatever and stuff like that but now the city is functioning as a whole. It's a beautiful thang man I like to see everybody doing thangs and getting money and doing they thang so nah it's not going on like that anymore and that's a good thang. Everybody is representing for the house man and that's Houston.

Yes that's definitely a good thing! Big Pokey can you tell me what is your favourite screw tape and why? If you can pick one because I know there's hundreds!

Man I have a few because Screw moved so many tapes. June 27th was a hot one, because that was one that was real, real popular and it was one of my homeboy's birthdays and all of us over there and everybody got on there and did pretty good. Tracks and Schemes I like that one that one was me and Lil Keke on there and you know a lot people really took to that tape too, it was a hot tape, so those are 2 of my favourite tapes.

Tell us Mobb Style Records is that your own label?

Yeah it's my label, actually me and one of my best friends who passed away, he passed away right before I did The Hardest Pit. And we came up together whatever and you know I just been keeping it going ever since. Me and lil brother Chris Ward you probably heard if him?

Yes from Screwed up Click?

Yeah we grew up togther and known each other all our lives. That's my label and his label you know. We just keep it alive man you know that's what it is Mobb style it's more than just a record label it's a way of life.

Do you ever think Screwed up Click would get together again to do an album or mixtape?

Well you know I don't know, I hope so whatever or what not you know probably I the future or something? Right now everybody has their own agenda right now, you know everybody is trying to concentrate on their solo careers whatever which it is cool. But I mean I would like to see us come together and do it again you know? Just for the Click or whatever just to let ‘em know man it ain't over with you know? We lost a lot of people and it knocked the wind out the click whatever but it ain't knocked the player out ‘em man we still here. And we gone represent it till it's over with.

That wraps up the interview. Big Pokey good luck with your albums, is there anything else that you would like to add?

Hurricane Sensei is getting ready to drop at the top of the year, the Evacuation Notice will drop on Labor Day (September 1st) and in the meantime, swingtime me and my squad we getting some shit together to for the Mobb Style project. So right now we working there ain't nothing out there that we'd rather be doing, this is what in do. So you know we ready to get it popping baby!

Interview by Jai Boo
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The Outlawz Dropping A New Album

August 5th 2008 sees Tupac’s protégés release their new album “We want in”

The Outlawz have written, produced & featured on over 60 million albums sold worldwide, yet have never released an album on a major label or enjoyed mainstream radio & video support. Although the group has worked with major artists from TI, Eminem, Young Buck & Keyshia Cole to E-40, Snoop, Biggie & of course Pac, the Lawz are rarely invited to award shows or contacted by producers of TV specials dedicated to their mentor.

We Want In is the Outlawz declaration to music moguls, program directors, industry gatekeepers and hip hop bosses that with all due respect, they want in the game. Dubbed the street LP, 1 Nation Entertainment and Gold Dust Media will launch We Want In throughout North America, the UK, Japan, New Zealand and South Africa on August 5th.

Out Now Late - 2Thousand&LATE

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