 Rich Boy | Lil Scrappy  |
Watching your career, I’ve always wondered if you were ever going to be able to shake the legal problems.
Man, I just had it, man. God had to help me to get my mind right. Man, I’m good now. I ain’t with this foolishness. All that ol’ mess and garbage. Everybody want to be tough. Everybody, man, I’m a real street nigga and all that ol’ bullshit. Man I been locked up with these cowards. These niggas don’t do nothing but tell something man. Niggas ain’t 100 out here. They don’t come to me like that ’cause they know I know better. It’s so many gimmick dudes out here it don’t make no sense. Now, I don’t knock no man for his game ’cause I used to be a con artist, myself, for a living. I don’t knock no man for his game but it’s too many gimmicks out here it’s retarded. But the thing is, I see the people go for it. So my thing is, G. One thing about people, which I always knew, they can always be fooled. So I mean, you know, I don’t try to expose no dudes or nothing like that. I don’t get into that. You know, like dudes be like, Man, I’m fixin’ tot ry to expose some of these niggas. If I say something ’bout somebody it’s gonna stick ’cause niggas know I ain’t no lie ’cause I don’t never do that. I ain’t even gonna do that because I don’t hate on nobody, nobody’s game. I mean if you a con artist out here you trying to get something on, you know, get it on. I could care less. It’s funny man. I’m gon’ get mine.
So are you in it for the paper or for the music?
Man, come on, bro. I’m in it for the money, man. I ain’t in it for the music. I’m straight in this all business. I’m in it for the money. If it wasn’t no money, I wouldn’t be in it. Yeah, I know I be meeting people that be having passion for this and all that, and that’s cool. I’m sorry, man, I’m here... I’m over here right now fixin’ to… I got all these quarters now and that. I’m sitting here putting these quarters in these wrappers. Putting these quarters in these $10 wrappers. I’m fixin’ to go to the bank and cash in. I’m just doing something, you know what I’m saying. I’m just talking to you doing something, but look, it’s all about the money. I mean, I take pennies.
Do you enjoy being in the booth then or is it more like a job? Do you go in the booth to get something off your chest or simply to collect a check?
Naw. My thing is, it’s a job, bro. It’s all a job. It’s. I mean I might rap about situations in life. I might rap about something I’ve done or I rap about how I would have had it, you know what I’m saying, if I was in a situation. But it’s all in the plan and it’s all a job. I mean, if I got to do a show… I got to do two shows this week. I got to go to DC. After I leave DC I’ve got to go to Birmingham. It’s all a job, man. That’s all it is. It’s just a job. It’s nothing else. You know, a lot of people be thinking they on the road. [Messing with] them hoes. I did that when Three 6 Mafia was out, when I was doing all the driving and passing out the mixtapes and the posters and all that. I did that when I was first getting in the game when I got out in ’97. I was knocking off the hoes then. But, you know, once the album dropped, it was all about the money. It was all about cheese. That’s it. I ain’t trying to have no dates with no broads. You ain’t fixin’ to get me caught up in no Ray Charles. You done lost yo’ raggety ass mind [saying] “I got forced.” You ain’t fixin’ to get our money. Hell naw. I got a gal. I’m straight. I don’t need nothing else. Man, what? I’m good.
It’s interesting to hear you say that about rapping just being a job because I think it’s an unspoken truth that Mista Don’t Play is a southern classic, like front to back, the raps, the sound, everything. I’d definitely say it was one of the classics out of the Hypnotize Camp.
Dig that. I’m tell you something like right now right. All these major labels, they don’t believe in a lot of the music that’s street right now. So they don’t promote. That’s why back in the day when Biggie and them was out and we was out, rap was bigger. Gangster rap was bigger than R&B. But now R&B is bigger than gangster rap. It’s like it done flipped. And it’s like they not messin’ with nobody who talk about guns and… They’ll mess with you, but the songs you want to come out with, they not gon’ let you come out with. They ain’t gon’ let you do it. They mess with you for a second, you don’t sell nothin’, they gon’ drop you. But you know my thing is, I’m cool. I asked for a release from Sony when I had came out of jail because they didn’t do the album right. Right now my brother and them still with them and they ain’t doing them right neither. They don’t be letting you come out with the music you know the people gon’ like. They want crossover music. They want…
They want another “Stay Fly.”
Man, that’s a trip you said that ’cause that’s what they say. “Make another ‘Stay Fly.’” But you know, it’s cool, man. You know, my brother sticking it out, they burn with it you know what I’m sayin’. I mean they getting’ money, they multi-millionaires off the game. I mean they made they cheese so I mean, they can’t complain. You know, I mean it’s all good. I just hate it for them because I just know that it’s a lot of songs they be havin’ that Sony don’t even pay no attention to. To me it’s weird. It’s like you got a good song like that and you gon’ sit up here and say it’s not bumpin’? It’s like the people up there don’t have an ear for urban music. And they don’t believe in it no more. They don’t believe in it. They think, Aw they gon’ fail. I mean, they may, you got your own opinion. I beg to differ, but you know, I’m out here in these streets, I’m in the clubs. I be seeing what’s poppin.’ But I guess they know something I don’t know.
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