KLC Interview @ Da Takeover (Full Interview)

Mannie Fresh Interview @ Da Takeover (Full Video Interview)

Mannie Fresh interview @ Da Takeover Podcast

Mannie Fresh recently took part in a interview with the people of "The Takeover" podcast in New Orleans. In there they touch on a lot of shit in here. That's good to see that somebody knows about his story and his catalog sat down to chop it up with him.

04:20 - DJ'ing at an early age up to now. Some of the new stuff being watered down.
11:00 - How he grew into producing & working with Gregory D
15:30 - Discovering and working with Mac. Mac going w/ No Limit instead of CMR.
17:00 - Starting up w/ CMR & shaping the label. UNLV & Mystikal
22:45 - Meeting Juvie for the first time
28:45 - 400 Degreez being the big release breaking nationwide
33:00 - CMR not wanting him to produce outside the label. Wayne and the BLM controversy
42:00 - New Orleans not sounding the same as it used to. CMR's demise
49:00 - Working on Biggie's Born Again. Biggie showing love to the south. Working w/ T.I. on "Top Back" & secrets behind him saying "I'ma show y'all niggas what to do wit a Mannie beat!"

Interview with Juvenile & Young Juve @ Noisey

Click in the image to read the interview.

Baby Interview @ Angie Martinez Power 105.1 (April 2016)

Check out a list of the 10 things we learned about Birdman from his new interview with Angie Martinez:

01) How learning about the bible while locked up at 16-years-old gave him a different outlook on life and helped him turn his own life around. "When I was incarcerated I learned about God..It was my first time reading the bible...I changed as a person, I was really young and wild."

02) Minister Farrakhan is one his mentors. The minister even blessed Stunna's Miami home while his kids and brother were present. "That's somebody I have the upmost respect for" he says about Minister Farrakhan.

03) His mother died when he was only 2-years-old and his dad died when he was 5-years old. "I lost my whole family...I was raised with no parents".

04) Birdman lived in a boys home for years after his parents died and until his stepmother picked him up at 10-years-old.

05) Stunna lived in Canada for several years, yet has never told Drake about this.

06) Baby has a hatred toward men's suits due to him wearing them to so many funerals of people that he loved.

07) He's infatuated with walking around with large amounts of money since he became a millionaire. "It was like a dreams come true."

08) The fact that he's never loved a woman enough for her to hurt him. "I love what I do more than I love a woman."

09) That he sleeps with three guns in his bedroom with one being under his pillow.

10) NY artists that he likes? Maino and Uncle Murda + that 50 Cent's 'I'm The Man' is his favorite song right now

Turk Interview @ Forbez DVD (About Master P and Hot Boyz Movie)

Doggie Diamonds and M.Reck meets up with Hot Boy Turk fka Young Turk In NYC. Turk speaks on the Cash Money lawsuit, will there ever be a Hot Boys reunion and how angry he was when Master P took the 'Hot Boyz' name and made a movie.

Turk Interview @ The Breakfast Club

Juvenile Interview @ Combat Jack Show

Dee-1 @ Sway in The Morning (Interview)

Turk Explains Why He Didn’t Re-Sign With Cash Money Records (Interview)

Mannie Fresh Remembers Soulja Slim @ XXL Magazine

(Nov. 26) marks the tenth anniversary of the day that Soulja Slim was shot to death in the front lawn of his mother’s house in New Orleans, one of hip-hop’s most tragic unsolved murders. Slim, who started out in New Orleans’ Magnolia Projects as Magnolia Slim, worked with many of Louisiana’s finest musicians during his time, from Juvenile to B.G. to Master P and Mannie Fresh, making his mark on a region that was dominant in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

“He was just somebody who took rap to a whole other level,” Mannie Fresh says during a phone call with XXL. ”You knew all his raps and most of the stories he was saying was true to life. It was a real experience.”

Fresh, who worked with Slim during their Cash Money days, called Slim one of the few “tell-it-like-it-is” rappers in the game, something that was lost after Slim died at the age of 26. “With Hurricane Katrina and all that kind of stuff happening, you needed somebody to rally for your city, to tell that story,” Fresh says. “Since Hurricane Katrina, we didn’t really have nobody that said, ‘I’m gonna tell New Orleans’ story, and I’m gonna stick to New Orleans.’ And what I do admire most about Slim was that he was not a follower. He kept it New Orleans.”

Just after his death, Juvenile’s song “Slow Motion,” which Slim wrote and was featured on, skyrocketed to the summit of the Billboard Hot 100, making Slim one of the few artists to ever hit No. 1 posthumously. “It was truly sad; you knew the potential of what this young kid could have been,” Fresh remembers about the day Slim was killed. “And he was just starting to blow, the world was just starting to pay attention to him. And you knew where he was headed. It was a sad moment in hip-hop. Even right now, that music is timeless. If you drop a Magnolia Slim song in New Orleans, they rally for that.”
As for Fresh, he’s splitting his time DJing and getting back in the studio, reportedly readying tracks with Wiz Khalifa, Mos Def and, perhaps, a Hot Boys reunion. “I’m really working hard at regaining Mannie Fresh as a household name,” he says. “But for me, it’s always been the long road. What the long road means is if I gotta go city to city, town to town or whatever it is, that’s what I gotta do.”

Source: XXL Magazine

In Memory of Soulja Slim (10 Years After Dead)

REST in PEACE Soulja Slim 11/26/03-11/26/13 

Real Name: James Tapp 

Hailing From: Magnolia Projects, New Orleans 

Date of Birth: September 9 1977 

Date of Death: November 26 2003 (New Orleans) 

Cause of Death: Gunned down. Reportedly shot twice in the face and five times in the chest while leaving his car on his way to visit his mum. Murderer Garelle Smith arrested in 2003.

Here is probally the last interview he did with Murder Dog Magazine; 

Is your new album similar to your last or is it something different?
You gotta improve it. The same real shit, the same gutter shit, but it’s on my own. It’s the shit how it would’ve been done if I was doin it instead of havin that muthafucka fuckin with my business.

Give It To ‘Em Raw was your first album and it came out on No Limit?
Yeah and it went gold. That was my first national album. KLC did all the production—that’s Medicine Men now, but it was Beats by the Pound. Me and them still fuck around. We fucks with Soulja Slim around like every day. They doin they thang, we doin our thang, everybody connected.

You also had another album, “The Streets Made Me”?
The bitch-ass nigga let that flop. He been worrying about some other shit, fuckin with my business.

That was also produced by Beats by the Pound?
No, P used some new producers there. It’s some producers that I still fuck with to this day that don’t fuck with No Limit no more. We just makin it hot.

Your new album is coming through Koch?
It’s called Years Later a Few Months After. I had put it out independent myself. I sold a quick like 30-some-thousand units, within 6 months, no promotion, no nothing. Ya feel me? Now I’m ready to make it official.

Who did the production on this one?
I got a few producers that I’m dealin with like Bass Heavy and Dame for Cut Throat Music. I got my own little vibe. Everything is everything, I’m tryin to start something.

I’ve been hearing that you’ve been getting a lot of radio play throughout the South.
They’s lovin it, they’s real. They’re playin “I Paid For It”. They made it happen. I gotta hit ‘em with another one like that. Before we was even fuckin with Koch we was getting like 200 spins in already. That’s what made ‘em holler at us, you know what I’m talkin ‘bout? I’m bout to do it how it supposed to be done. I need a few million, me.

A lot of people don’t realize how far back you have been rappin.
I been doin this shit like thirteen years. I started rappin when I was thirteen, lil boy, my mama used to come look for me when I’m in clubs. Bounce shit was the cool then, Bounce rappin. Everybody grab the mic, every artist. 

What made you go in the direction of music at such a young age?
Shit, I was listenin to what was poppin. If you knew how to rap your shit was real, your name was ringin, but I was a fuck-up when I was rappin. It had to do with the older I got the more wiser I got.

Do you have brothers and sisters doing music?
I got one lil’ sister, but it’s just me doin music.

At that time what were you listening to? What inspired you to want to rap?
I was listenin to that gangsta shit, ya heard me? I was still with Bounce rappin, I know how to do that, but I’m on some other shit too. I started as Bounce. If you heard me then and hear me now you’d be like, “That nigga was before back in the game.” It was a totally different vibe. I was a lil’ kid. KLC produced all that way back. That’s the only producer I ever had, that’s the first person to ever put me behind a real shit with 16 bars and shit. That’s my nigga, my legendary. Eminem got his legendary, I got my legendary: KLC.

I didn’t know that you were working with KLC before you got with No Limit.
That’s what we fuckin with, you already know how we comin. Matter of fact, that’s the nigga who brought me to Percy Miller.

How did that happen?
’98 when I got outta the pen, ya heard me? It was poppin, then No Limit was the shit. I needed a few dollars at the time, so I went and hollered at the nigga. KL brought me down there and I just laced it on up. Didn’t sign a contract or nothin, they gave me like 60 g’s, ya heard me? Master P, weren’t about nothing, he showed a nigga how to play the game, owes a nigga a few dollars too. Know what I’m talkin about? Ain’t ‘bout nothin.

At the time you got signed you were locked up or you were out?
I ain’t never been signed. All this rappin I been doin, that’s how gangsta I am.

When you first connected with No Limit then, you were out?
I had just got out. I was readin the magazines and shit and I knew KLC was doin ‘em for P and that’s my producer. So I was goin where the cheddar was at.

I heard that you were in the pen for five years?
Six if you add it all up. Back to back. That didn’t stop nothing. I still come home and make me a fuckin album. Know what I’m talkin ‘bout? Dedicated, this is what I do.

How old were you when you went to the prison?
I been in that place so many muthafuckin times. I first went in—I got a 36 DOC number—so that’s in ’95 when you roll in that thing. That’s my DOC number, that’s when I started. From there muthafuckas keep on lockin me up. But I’m all OK now, I’m celebratin every day. I smoke it all. I been fucked up so much I could never go get burned out.

How old are you now, Slim?
I’ll be 26 on the ninth. September ninth. I was 17-18. On the juvenile tip, holdin me down. I’m about my business.

How was it growin up in Magnolia?
It built a nigga, bro. I can’t say how it was growin up cause it done screwed me up. That’s why I stole, that muthafucka grew me up. That’s why I seen it happen, that’s why I done dirt, that’s why a nigga got locked up. Everything, that’s me. I gotta leave there and get my muthafucka game tight and change right. Lotta niggaz be joke-shakin and blazzy blind like they from the Magnolia—ya heard me—a muthafucka ain’t never had a muthafuckin edge rip back then, I ain’t gonna get too technical and shit. Magnolia, it’s still the same, ain’t nothing change. If anybody wanna be trippin on the project type shit, that’s me, I’m settrippin. I’m from out the Magnolia, I’m Magnolia Slim. That’s me, I’m holdin that down. I’m a gangsta too, so it could rappin or however it go. You’re the Murder Dog, so you’re gonna put everything in there.

It’s gonna be good. You’ll be on the cover with a nice photo…
I appreciate that bro. I appreciate that so much. You musta felt my vibe.

I feel your vibe from your music. I know that you come real.
Man, you ain’t heard nothing yet. I’ma tell you one thing, the dude 50, I respect his mind. He came with some flows with that real shit. He brought it right back to the streets, ya heard me? So I’m gonna take it from there, like a gangsta supposed to. Can’t slow me down.

With the right promotions you could be as big as 50.
I know that. It’s a process, I ain’t trippin. Catch me next year after this album drop. Next year round this time we gonna be up there and do the same ol’ thing. I’m gonna be on the big Dog cover again, talkin crazy, with a whole ‘nother deal. Ya heard me? We ain’t crazy by a long shot, Cut Throat ain’t crazy. Ant and them, that’s my muthafuckas, they handlin the business with me and we make official like that. That’s how I be doin it.

Do you go by Magnolia Slim or Soulja Slim?
Magnolia, that was my name back in the game. It was Magnolia Slim, but when I left there and dropped the nationwide album, when I was fuckin with P, I just said “Fuck it I’m gonna call myself Soulja Slim because these muthafuckas ain’t respectin that this fuck ‘soldier’ shit was invented and originated by me.” Soldier Reeboks and all that shit there, that’s the code I used to live by, and I still do to this day.

You were the one wearing camouflage first too.
Man, I put this muthafuckin soldier shit down and I’m trippin if a nigga say I didn’t. If any nigga wanna say I didn’t then he better tell me straight like that. Master P caught onto that image and took it to a national level, but I know you were doing that way back. That nigga probably passed up 4 million tryin to get 10 million on a nigga. Give me the muthafuckin 4 million. Don’t matter if the muthafucka won’t holler at me, typa nigga like that. Tryna get money on top of money, more than what you…if the people want me for 3 million, now let me go on about my business. I’m a real nigga, I ain’t look for no contract with you. I’m fuckin with you on loyalty. I’m a friend. I ain’t never did no fuckin contracts with Rap, Rap game like it’s supposed to, from the jailhouse to the street. The nigga was real at one point in time, I ain’t gonna take nothing from him.

Definitely, No Limit was an incredible movement.
I ain’t talkin ‘bout No Limit, I’m talkin about Master P. And they gonna wanna know where I’m talkin crazy from. Give me my muthafuckin money!

Is that why you left No Limit?
Yeah. The nigga ain’t gonna break no fuckin bread. He had his mind focused on some lil’ TV shows and Lil Romeo, which I don’t knock him for that. But this that real shit right here. Look, this shit done took over, this real shit took over. You’re fuckin right! I’m ‘bout to do my thing, baby

You started your own label?
Cut Throat Committy Records. I started that when I was in jail. I used to be fuckin around talkin about Cut Throat Committy Records, you know what I’m talkin ‘bout? Fuckin with a nigga, sayin you gonna get 2%. Just fuckin around. I just made it official right now, I’m just tryin to build it. I signed with Koch. I’m hopin that they’ll push this shit and keep this shit real, hold the beat.

A lot of people don’t know too much about your history…
Check this out: if they don’t know about me, they better start knowin about me cause guess what? I’m a helluva jig and my presence is known.

Mannie Fresh Updates His Projects (Interview with Vibe Mag)

Interview with 3D'Natee (WomenOfHipHop.Com)

Our friends from WomenOfHipHop recently interviewed 3d'Natee. In there Natee explains how hip-hop saved her life, talks about female rap scene, his idols and much more. Here is a extract of the interview; 

What artists do you listen to currently?
I love that old classic sh*t like Biggie’s Ready to Die or even as far back as Teena Marie and Betty Wright’s projects but currently I’m working on my project, The Coronation, so I’ve been playing a whole bunch of Na’Tee in my household! I’m just preparing these records for the world so I’m usually either listening to that or tracks that were submitted by producers. I did download the new JadaKiss mixtape but I haven’t played it yet.

Who do you think are the top 5 female rap artist of all time?
In no specific order and solely based on lyrics, I’d say Lauryn Hill, Foxy Brown, Lil Kim, Eve, and me. Ha! Now I know a couple people might get tight about my list, but I just turned 25 so I grew up on those ladies right there. In middle school I thought I was Lauryn Hill. I had dreadlocks and everything. In high school, my best friend cracked my copy of FoxyBrown’s Broken Silence album because I used to play it so much. But, honestly I couldn’t just narrow it down to 5 because Ms.Jade, Shawnna, Mia X, and a few others deserve to be on that list too. They all meant a lot to me coming up.

Who is your favorite female artist?
A few years ago I would of said Lauryn Hill or Fox. Now days I’d say me hands down. It’s not even to convince your readers to check out my music or to Segway into more talk about myself. It’s really because I feel like as an over all artist, I give the listener so much of myself and I do it in ways that evoke emotion. I do it in ways that make you laugh, cry, dance, but most importantly, I do it in ways that make you think all while displaying lyricism. For example, my record SWITCH (The Timbaland Mix) was just me going in lyrically while making you laugh and rap along at the same time. Then there are records like Dear Father where I captured the emotions I felt at 10 years old when I learned that my father committed suicide. We haven’t had a female artist to do that, I mean all of that, in a very long time. So honestly, if I wasn’t Na’Tee, I’d still say ‘Na’Tee is now my favorite female artist.’

What has hip hop done for you outside of hip hop?
HipHop started off as just a way for me to vent. My parents were crack addicts and I was so embarrassed about my upbringing as a child that I never used to talk about it. I had to get those thoughts out though. So I used to write about it. I was always that girl who’d battle my other rapping classmates at school but those verses I wrote about my family were more like pages from my diary so I never use to rap those. At that time hip hop was my therapy. Sh*t, it still is. That’s why I’m so passionate when I mention these whack rappers who are f*cking up the game. Hip hop is like my best friend. My confidant. I used to sell drugs and there were many nights that I opted to go to the studio instead of spending just one more night in the streets. Those very nights I lost some of my closest friends and a few of my cousins to the prison system and to the grave. So I’d say hip hop prevented my demise.

Read the rest of the interview HERE

Mannie Fresh: Record Labels Will Be Gone in 20 Years

The New Orleans rapper/producer discusses Mac Miller and Macklemore achieving success without a label, saying he's not surprised one bit.  "You don't really need the machine right now," says Fresh. "There's a bunch of lies and b.s. being told to make some other dudes money," he adds. 

Fresh also weighs in on whether he thinks their success is partly to do because they're white, and also says record labels will be a thing of the past 20 years from now.

Courtesy of VLADTV.com

Lil Wayne Talks About Turk In a Interview

Rare MTV Interview to Cash Money Milionaires (1999)

Taken from MTV News. 

Ozone Interviews Hot Boy Turk

Recently released after serving over 8 years in prison, Turk, formerly of the Hot Boys, 
speaks on reuniting with Cash Money, kicking his heroin habit, and more. (Oct 2012)

B.G.'s Last Interview Before Goin 2 Prison in Q93

(EXCLUSIVE) Interview With Turk from Prison!

"My official release date is 10/12/2012

[EXCLUSIVE] Here is a very special moment for the webpage. In exclusive, from Forrest City (Low) prison we contacted Turk and we asked him several questions and have reviewed his musical career. Also, I must say this is the first exclusive interview to Turk in years.  In 2005, Turk was convicted on federal charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm, a fugitive from justice in possession of a firearm, and an unlawful user addicted to a controlled substance in possession of a firearm.  

He was sentenced to 10 years of incarceration. In 2006, he entered an Alford plea in Tennessee state court to second-degree attempted murder, based on the same incident, and was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment. Now, Turk breaks his silence in this interview from prison: 

What up Turk? What is your current situation right now? When is your projected release from jail, in October??

What’s thuggin’ my G!!!! My current situation is that I’m incarcerated at Forrest City (Low) Federal Penitentiary. My official release date is 10/12/2012.

Your inprisonment is one of many in the hip hop world. You always said that you’re innocent like other rappers like Mac and C-Murder. What’s happening between rappers and the US justice?

I know that it’s a conspiracy going on. We making a whole lot of money and we are black, so the first chance they get, they’re attacking like pirannas… trying to take us out the game.

The fans have been about 4 years without any news about you. Why the Free Turk movement started in Internet the last year and not before?

It all was in god’s timing… I was fighting in the court for my freedom and I really didn’t want all the publicity being taken the wrong way… by the powers that be. 

I’ve seen Capito, Bun B, Lil B, Ke’Noe and many other rappers supporting you. The Free Turk Movement each day got more fans and rappers. What is the first objective with this campaign?

The Free Hot Boy Turk Movement now is first letting the world know that it’s my time and I’m coming 10 x’s a 100. 

Emani Da Made Woman & Turk

The hip hop scene was shocked about the murder of your brother and your request for help in Ozone Magazine. Does the response of the people and the hip hop community have been positive?

I appreciate all the support I got from fans and friends during my loss of Ronald “Rilo” Smith; that was the hardest thing I ever dealt with. I never cried hard until I lost my lil brotha. Rest In Peace Rilo – It’s a block party every year!!!

So, what artists have contacted you in jail to help you get through your situation since the first days?

It was plenty rappers reaching out to me since I been locked up… B.G., Juvenile, Lil Wayne, Ke’Noe, Emani Da Made Woman, Rocko, T.I., Paul Wall, Trae Tha Truth, Capito aka The N.O. Capo, Waka Flocka… just to name a few. 

Which Cash Money/Laboratory/YNT former member has been trying to help you the most in your situation and what have they done for you?

Everybody has done what they could for me and I appreciate that because some niggas get in these types of situations and have nobody. Steve who was my homeboy and manager also did for me before he was found murder. 

How much material have you recorded since you've been in jail? What are some of the stories you have witnessed in the pen or been through yourself since you been in the pen?

I recorded a couple mixtape songs while in jail. That’s on my YouTube Account. I have seen it all while being in the (pen) man, it’s too much to say right now, but you can get exclusive stories in my book “The Autothugography of Turk”. 

When you get out, what are your future plans in hip-hop and as a free man? Do you plan on moving back to N.O.?
Family is first when I get out, then it’s back to work… the album, my book, my movie and YNT empire. Of course, New Orleans will always be my home but I’m moving to Atlanta and Miami though… 

Once released, how soon should we expect the new Hot Boys album to drop?

All can I say, you can expect the Hot Boy Turk album to drop very, very soon!

Rumors said that you’re truly resigning with Cash Money Records when released? As now, are you finished with Laboratory Recordz and Ke’Noe?

Me and Ke’Noe good, and I’mma just say it like this… “Cleveland wanted Lebron, but he went to the Heat… I’m going where they winning!"

Hot Boy Turk in Magnolia Projects during Cash Money days

Was there ever really an unreleased album "Untamed Guerrilla"? If so, will it be released?
Yes! I don’t think I will release it because I’ve grown to another level… Young –N- Thuggin but I’m grown up. 

Talk about your record label. Who is on the official roster for your YNT Music label?

YNT is inspired from my first solo album with Cash Money (Young N Thuggin). I felt it only right to brand my label since I’ve the leverage right now YNT empire where. (Visions get inspired). 

 YNT we all gone eat, we got next!! I’m looking for young (acts) who can represent what YNT stand for. Right now, we have a female artist called Emani da Made Woman out of Memphis and myself.  

I think that you’re working in some projects like a book. Can you explain that? When is the tentative title for your next solo album? Who do you wanna work with?

I’ve wrote and autobiography with co-author Terrance “Tea Mack” Mcclurge while being at Forrest City (Low) Prison. This is straight raw and uncut about my life. I talk about me being on heroin’cocaine and my days at Cash Money Records. My album title is “The Audiothugography of Turk” and also I want to work with whole Young Money, Maybach Music, Good Music and whoever else going hard. 

Remembering the Hot Boys era, who was your closest road dawg during your Cash Money days?
Me and Lil Wayne was very close during the Hot Boys era and I talk about a lot of our moments we had in my book. 

How did you get signed to Cash Money? With who you was rapping before and how did Baby & Slim discover you?

These information it’s all in my book!

What is your favourite rappers right now? And your influences?

My favorite rapper right now, and forever will be myself!!!!  My son influences me..

Shoot out to my fiance (Erica) who has been there through thick and thin, my momma Pam, my son, the whole New Orleans (Uptown and Down Town). RIP Rilo and Steve,  and I want all my (f)riends (a)lways (n)ever (s)hady to know, that I won't let them down..

Free B.G… I gotcha’ dawg --- when I touch down and all my team YNT at Forrest City and around the world. 

Keep it Thuggin. 10 x’s a 100…. 

From CMDEGREEZ.com we wanna thank Turk again for his time and patience in this interview. 

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