BNG MAG® December/January 2015 (Vol.-1/Issue-3 | Page 26

My main goal is to be one of the greatest to do it . Period . Eventually own my own label . Open up different businesses and use what I have to push the culture forward . Learn from the past players in the game . You seem to be influenced by old school Hip Hop, who from the “golden era” do you enjoy? I really rocks with the old Jigga, Big L, Biggie, Nas, Snoop, Tribe Called Quest, Rakim, Wu-Tang, Naughty by Nature and the list goes on and on. Shoot anybody you can think of from that era. I like that whole era mostly because that’s all I heard & saw growing up...you had to keep it real, you had different styles, the flows was crazy. Everybody was doing they’re thing even the southern rappers [like] OutKast, UGK. I even was put on that Screw. It was dope. I’m also influenced by rappers later on after that whole Cam’ron and the Dipset movement, [like] Ma$e, & Kanye at that time. “We literally had nothing but a mic, laptop, and some speakers.” I knew hip hop was for me at a young age. My pops raised me on everybody from Rakim to Naughty by Nature to Chino XL who is like a Uncle to me. He knew and hung around a lot of the rappers back in that time and he brought me everywhere he went so I always figured I would do something in entertainment. Wrote my first song at 10 but I stopped cause as I got older I figured it wasn’t realistic enough, but it always was part of my life. [Hip Hop is] my main focus but if I wasn’t doing this I would have something to do with it. Whether it’s something with media, blogging, radio, anything similiar to what [BNG MAG] doing. Your song “Garage freestyle” was dope, was it really done in your garage? I Love this question yo, me and my homie bugged out off of this one, but yea it was actually done in my garage the homie matt bought the equipment so we can start our own studio since it was so hard to get studio time anywhere else and if you know me and matt we down to work whenever and wherever [laughs] we literally had nothing but a mic, laptop, and some speakers. I felt like freestyling on Terror Squads “Take Me Home“ But it came out dope and we just decided to throw it out there.