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YoungMoneyHQ.com’s Exclusive Interview With Lil Chuckee

Danny M — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:10:36 +0000

In the interview below, Young Money’s Lil Chuckee speaks to YoungMoneyHQ.com about some of his upcoming projects including the Charles Lee Ray mixtape, Young Money Compilation, School, a typical record session, Lil Twist, performing with Lil Wayne, “Girl I Got You”, influences, how he got signed with Young Money, and much more.

We’re here with Lil Chuckee! This is George Kiel on behalf of YoungMoneyHQ and NiceKicks.com, we thank you for taking the time to do this interview with us Lil Chuckee.

No problem man, thank y’all.

What’s a recording session like for you? Do you write all of your raps or do you just go in the studio and freestyle a little bit?

Nah I write, but I still try and advance my self by doing those types of things.

How is school going, and how do you study?

In the studio I just finished doing school work, shout out to my teacher Keyshia Williams. I’m doing real good, getting all A’s. School come first and I would not be doing this with my parents if I was not in school, so school is coming out nice.

How do you find time to balance all that school stuff and then be in a recording booth spitting 16?

I do it 24 hours, I do it everyday, I’m used to it and I’m new to it… that’s pretty much how I balance it out.

So we heard your going to be shooting a music video with Lil Twist soon, is that true?

Yeah most definitely. Like I said we got two songs on the album and we gonna be shooting a video real soon. It’s called “I Got You”.

How does it feel to be doing performances on stage with Wayne in front of 20,000 people?

A lot of people be asking this question and I just keep saying it’s a blessing. Once I go on that stage and I see that crowd and see their reaction on their face when we sing… it just pumps me up and gives me more energy for every show. Like I say I been doing this since I was eight and I was never a kid that was shy.

So you say you been rapping since you was eight, what motivated you to start rapping that early?

My whole family was dedicated around music. My Daddy and his family was in a group and my Mother loved rapping back in the days before she had me… but yeah I started rapping when I was eight and like I say my whole family was dedicated around music, and I love the music so much… and with my parents they help me push more, more and more with my music and right now that’s how I get music done.

So you say you have something coming out for your Mom?

Yeah, that’s coming out soon, y’all be on the lookout for that!

A lot of people compare how your so energetic on stage and stuff to Lil Wayne. What’s your thoughts on that, and has Wayne taught you a few things or have you always had that energetic flow to your shows?

Nah, I was never stage frightened or shy, and I always had energy… I do it for the fans, I give ‘em what they paid for. I love to perform, I love to do new music and love to record myself doing music.

How did you first get spotted and signed by Young Money?

I met Wayne at a video shoot, cause Wayne was featured on the video. I met Wayne there and I spitted him a couple of bars. After that he was like “I wanna do big things with you”, and shout out to my big brother Mack Maine – he was there too. Everything he seen he loved – the style and the swagger. Then Katrina came and we lost info, but then Mack Maine and Cortez Bryant was waiting at the Dirty Awards and was like “Wayne really wanna sign you”, so that’s how I became a Young Money Millionaire.

What can we expect from the Charles Lee Ray mixtape like features and release dates etc.

The Charles Lee Ray mixtape is off the chain man. It’s coming out how I want it to. I just did this song with Bushwick Bill.

So who are some of your influences in the music game right now, who do you look up to?

First I look up to myself, tryna get better, always tryna get better. But besides me, Lil Wayne, I look up to Nas, Kanye, Common. People like that, people who are deep, I love music that tell stories.

Speaking of Kanye West, what are your thoughts on what he did at the awards show?

I mean I got no comment for that, but that’s just Kanye.

You told us about your upcoming mixtape, we know about the YM Compilation, is there any other new stuff that fans need to be looking out for from Lil Chuckee such as features?

Well I just dropped a mixtape, Rapper’s Market – I need everybody to go download that, follow me on twitter – I keep posting up the link for everyone to go get it. Shout out to DJ T The Barber, if y’all hear the skits in it, that was all him.

Can we expect a Lil Chuckee and Lil Twist mixtape in the future?

Yeah most definitely. We just waiting on the Young Money album right now.

Thanks for your time Chuckee, we appreciate you giving us this interview man. Everybody at YoungMoneyHQ and Nicekicks.com would like to wish you the best of luck in he future.

Thank you man, I really appreciate it.

We would just like to give a few shout outs: George Kiel from NiceKicks.com for doing the interview, and of course Lil Chuckee! If you missed Lil Chuckee‘s “Rapper’s Market: Just A Sample” mixtape, you can download a free copy here.

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LilWayneHQ.com Interview With Jae Millz

Danny M — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:40:04 +0000

In the interview below, Young Money‘s Jae Millz speaks to LilWayneHQ.com about some of his upcoming projects including the YME compilation, a typical record session, the Bed Rock music video, New York Hip Hop, School, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, and much more.

We’re here with Jae Millz! This is George Kiel on behalf of LilWayneHQ and NiceKicks.com, we thank you for taking the time to do this with us man.

Appreciate it, it’s love.

Is there any news you can give us on the upcoming Young Money Compilation? The songs you did or the release date?

I don’t know the exact release date, but what I can tell you is that I don’t know what the people expect from the Young Money Compilation… I know everybody heard the Every Girl single and you know we appreciate the feedback and we appreciate the support on that single, I wanna speak for all of Young Money right now – you know they not here to speak with me… and we appreciate all of the support on the Bed Rock single… but I don’t want people to think that the whole Young Money album is just “Oh I love you, and you are the best looking girl in the world, let’s have sex” haha. Like that really ain’t the whole album… you know Wayne, you know Jae Millz, you know Gudda Gudda, you know Mack Maine, you know Nicki Minaj, you know Shanell, you know what Lil Chuckee brings, you know what Lil Twist gonna bring, you know T-Streets… like everybody got their own element. You know what Drake gon’ bring, you know if Baby get on a record you know what he gon’ bring. Just kinda knowing that, people don’t know what to expect and I kinda wanna keep it like that because there is so much on the album, it’s a Compilation… so if I was to tell you “Oh it’s hard, the Young Money Compilation is crazy, we got a bunch of bangers on the album”… I don’t know what your definition of a ‘banger’ is, but one thing I do know is – you not going to be able to say anything what we say on the album ain’t top of the line right now. Like anything we put out would kill whether it’s a mixtape, whether it’s a song that leaked, whether it’s a mixtape that I put out, or Gudda put out, or Wayne put out, or Nicki put out, or Drake put out, anything that anybody from Young Money put out that leaked, everybody run to hear it… so what do you think they gonna do when the album come and they don’t really know what to expect?

What’s a record sessions like for you? Do you write all your raps or do you do a bit of freestyling?

I’m not gonna say I can’t make a tune like I freestyle songs because I think anybody who’s set up here to just say they gon’ freestyle through their songs… to me that’s just like you rambling, so I don’t want to really say I freestyle, but there are times where I won’t write a verse. I hear a beat and I just keep saying shit in my head to myself over and over, and before you know it you got like 6 bars and you like “Well damn the verse is only 12-16, I might as well keep going” and you just slowly but surely store bars in your head until you got about a verse, and then you go and lay out. But it’s not like I go in there like “Yo check me out, off the top off the dome” I ain’t doing all that haha, it’s gonna be 2010. Sometimes I go to my Blackberry – I’m the king off that… it’s not like I’m going to look for something I don’t know already, but you go to Blackberry, you go to Notes, then you go to New, make you a New Note and just put something together real quick. I went to school for Arts so writing raps, constructing songs and putting lyrics together is like ‘Arts & Crafts’… your just piecing your thoughts together. So I kinda like writing better than just putting shit together in your head because I think of so much shit, I might forgot what I was thinking about. Life is short and I like to enjoy my time at all times, we all deal with a lot real shit. When I’m in that studio and even with Wayne or Young Money, we just enjoy our time together man, we joke, we watch SportsCentre, we play old music that we did and didn’t put out yet. It’s always work, you never wanna feel like you in the studio wasting time.

You said you went to school for Arts, did you ever think that you was going to be a rapper while you was in school for Arts?

When I was in School I started writing raps in the Junior High School… I wasn’t really too good at it. I didn’t think I was going to be a rapper or nothing like that, but I went to High School for ‘Cartoon and Fashion Architecture’. I was just that much into Art that I wanted to do everything, so in the myth of that I used to do a lot of battling and that’s really how I got cool with people.

Most of us fans agree that Zone Out Season 2 is crazy and little do they know that Zone Out Season 1 was crazy too. Can you explain your growth from both of those? We know on Zone Out Season 2 you wasn’t working with Young Money, and on the second you were. Can you explain the difference with both of them?

Well the difference is the first one I kinda recorded that in the crib in Harlem. That was just kinda like I had no deal and I just gotta put a tape out – I gotta have something on the radio, and got to have something in these streets, and got to have some shit on the internet. That was kinda like when the internet was kickin’ in and the Zone Out Season was one of the first mixtapes I ever made a ‘free mixtape’ where you can download it. I put it on my MySpace page, and so many people started feeling it I’m like “Man fuck it, I’mma press it up”. This is really how this mixtape went, I didn’t do it with a DJ, I didn’t have a deal… I just did it in the crib. I put the format together, took songs I had, I took some photo’s like everything was free. I don’t even think I’ve spent my own money on pressing Zone Out Season up. I think my homey in LA gave me $300 to press up a thousand CD’s and in between that I think I had “Holla At Playa” which was on Zone Out Season 1 and I was getting a lot of radio air-play with that.. and from that, that’s how I called Wayne like “Get on the remix with me if it’s cool”, and he was like “Send me the record”. That’s how I hollered at him and that’s how I became Young Money.

The separation between Zone Out Season 1 and Zone Out Season 2 is almost 2 years, I ain’t put out no mixtapes and that’s because when I first got around Young Money it was almost to a point where I didn’t know if I was going to be there long enough and fit in. Wayne used to tell me a lot “The way you rap I used to do that along time ago and they not going to know what you’re saying when you get up on that stage. I perform a lot and you gon’ be with me when you get up on that stage… you don’t wanna start balalalalala and the people just looking at you waiting for you to get back to the hook.” He was like “A prime example is when we go on the road and you see me perform Best Rapper Alive, they don’t know what I’m saying, they don’t know ‘Coming live from the…’, they don’t know none of that. After ‘Best rapper alive, best rapper…’ they don’t know nothing else”, and I’m kinda listening to what he’s saying and really do understand what he means. To me it’s kinda like him changing my rap, but he was trying to get me to adapt to what the people are going to spend money on: “They don’t want the Smack DVD, they don’t want the Ness battle, but when you get up on that stage they want to be able to sing your shit with you, they wanna be able to feel your shit and be able to recite it with you.” That was the separation between the whole Zone Out Season 1 and the whole Zone Out Season 2.

When it came to the time when I was like “I got a bunch of songs and I’m recording a bunch of shit” – and it’s not like I’m leaking anything from the Young Money album, it ain’t like I’m leaking records that I got with Wayne that I don’t know what do with yet… I still got a gang of shit, the artists what you like… I’m about to put out Zone Out Season 3 in another month and I just put out Zone Out Season 2 and the Virgo mixtape. The only reason I’m doing this is because it’s a flood, we in demand right now, so why not? When you not in demand, nobody wants to hear the shit you putting out. Right now Young Money is in demand.

Can you tell us how the track “Bring It Back Remix” with Lil Wayne and Fabolous came about?

I had the “Bring It Back” original song with Jadakiss and it was on Funkmaster Flex Car Show album. It was really a song that was for my album and I was about to put it out, but we didn’t have a date, and everything was going back and fourth. I didn’t really want to let the record go to waste because I was getting radio play with it, and Flex was about to put his album out. So we approached him with the record and he was like “Cool” and took it. He blew the record up but of course there was never no video for it, but the record was big in the clubs and on the radio. So me being the person I am, I’m trying to figure a way to keep the record hot and stretch it, keep it going… so we got Fab to lay a verse on it, then I laid a verse on it and then I hollered at Wayne. This was the first time I met Wayne and he was more like “Just give me the beat”… there wasn’t no money or nothing, he was in New York and he did this shit right there on the spot. That’s what really made me not have so much pride when it came to asking him to get on the “Holla At A Player Remix” and it was the same thing – He didn’t want no money or nothing.

Can you give us any details on the “Bed Rock” music video?

We had a full treatment about how we gonna do the video, but you know – we always make last minute changes… we all got our own creative vibe. Whatever we do, whenever we come together we always gonna make it fun, we don’t never wanna have no boring video, we all artists in our own world, we got our own fans. There are a lot of people that love us as solo artists, individuals, as people, as a group, as a label, as a crew, they love us so we always just wanna make shit look fun. We learned our lesson with the the BET Awards… we not gonna go overboard. We gon’ watch it this time, but we still gonna make it exciting… just look for the video coming real soon.

What’s your thoughts on New York Hip Hop right now? I hear a lot of people saying that New York Hip Hop is not going too good and it’s all in the South right now, but your one of the bright spots in New York Hip Hop right now a long with Jay-Z, Fabolous and Jadakiss etc.

Man it’s still the same thing, still got the same ego, you still got the same people, the same niggas that hot, the same niggas that wack haha. It’s simple as that man… your hot or your not. I remember one time I was in that mood just chilling like “Old niggas ain’t showing love cause you in New York”… don’t say that, your shit just might not be hot or they might not even be a “Niggas ain’t showing New York love”. A lot of the time – I’m fucking with New York so I can say it, people can take it however they want – A lot of the time, it ain’t because the South is hot, the West is hot etc… it’s because a lot of people in New York don’t support niggas from New York. I’m not saying that like DJ’s, or rappers, it’s everybody. Like I’m down with Young Money and everyday I have heard people cutting my part off on “Every Girl” in New York… I’m on the number 2 song on the Billboard chart and they cutting my verse off in my hometown. I love New York though, it is what it is… that shit just making me go harder.

I left Nicki Minaj’s name out of there when I said all of those names for New York, and she doing her thing too.

Nicki the hottest chick in the game and bad… you know you can be the hottest chick, but not have the best mug. You might be the nicest chick with rap, but you might not have the hottest body… we might wanna hear you rap, but we might not want to see you all the time. Nicki is one of them girls that if you don’t wanna hear her or you think her music is wack – you wanna see her!… you wanna take a glimpse at her at least once.

Before we wrap this up, tell us about your upcoming projects coming up and if you have a album in the works, when do you expect that to come out?

Right now I’m just recording that Young Money album! I put the solo thing on hold, but I am still recording, fucking with some A-lists producers, working with different artists in the game which is a pleasure. When it’s time for me to sit down and figure out what I’m gonna do about the whole ‘solo’ situation, I’mma map that shit out and take care of it in a matter of weeks. Recording music has never been a problem for me.

Thanks for your time Jae Millz, we appreciate you giving us the chance to interview you. Everybody at LilWayneHQ.com and NiceKicks.com would like to wish you the best of luck in the future man!

Thanks, I appreciate it man… shout out to y’all, keep holding Young Money down! CMB and YM all day every day!

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Gudda Gudda Interview With LilWayneHQ.com

Danny M — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:04:08 +0000

In the interview below, Young Money‘s Gudda Gudda speaks to LilWayneHQ.com about some of his upcoming projects including the YME Compilation, a typical record session, his first raps Lil Wayne wrote for him, Guddaville, and much more.

We’re here with Gudda! This is George Kiel on behalf of LilWayneHQ and NiceKicks.com, we thank you for taking the time to do this interview man.

All day, no problem brother.

What’s going on with some upcoming projects you got? We know you just dropped Guddaville which was crazy. Is there any more upcoming things you got?

We got the Young Money Compilation coming out, no official date on it yet, but we’re working on that right now. We pretty much done, we just touching up. I’mma just be dropping more music man, keep giving ‘em new music as much as possible. The main focus right now is the Compilation and the Guddaville mixtape.

Is there any more news you can give us on the YM collaboration?

I mean pretty much, it’s just Young Money. We got too much secretive shit we got going on, it’s gonna be our present.

Yeah, we waiting on that man.

So do you have any other projects that your featured on coming up? Because we saw that you did a song with Essay Potna, and one with Spark Dawg. We see you in the Dallas real hard, so you got any other things featured?

I’ve been doing features for a few different people. I’m trying to get something together with Gucci Mane right now and I just did a joint for Beanie Sigel the other night man, that shit is crazy. Yeah, a few other things I don’t wanna speak on cause I don’t know if it’s a go yet, but I’m working though.

Do you know if your going to release an album in the future?

Yeah of course, that’s what I do this for. Probably some time in the next year, I ain’t got an album coming out in the next few months or nothing. First thing first YM Compilation, then your probably gonna get a Drake album, then you probably go anywhere from Nicki Minaj to whoever you know what I mean. But I should be around the third slot, so I can’t really speak on that til probably next year… your gonna get a gang of mixtapes from me though!

That’s wassup, we be waiting on that.

So do you think this upcoming Young Money “Bed Rock” single will be a bigger hit than “Every Girl”?

Shit I hope so. I think it got potential

Do you think you had a better verse on “Every Girl” or “Bed Rock”?

I had fun doing both of those songs. I look at those verses like they are definitely verses that I ain’t tryna spit on. I ain’t looking at none of them verses like ‘ight this one better than that one’, cause I wasn’t even trying to spit on them, like I was just having fun doing them songs. Those songs are like ‘feel good music’, it’s something you have fun doing, it ain’t something you tryna compete on. I like both of those verses, but no favorite.

A lot of people have been e-mailing me and asking me about a Young Money clothing line. Do you and Young Money have any plans to release one?

Nah, not as of right now that I know of. No one said nothing about that.

What’s been the biggest difference from rapping with Wayne during the Sqad Up days and rapping with him now during the Young Money days?

Shit, just watching him grow as a artist, just getting better and better. I was right there with him when he was writing raps, I watched him stop writing raps just doing it off the top of the head. I just got see him grow over the years, probably the best thing I got to see him do.

Lil Wayne not only grew as an artist, because you grew too. We was following you back then when you was saying stuff like “I don’t know why they call it lil’ light of mine, cause it’s like I dim that”.

Yeah, that’s that throwback huh.

Yeah, and that Gudda Gudda and Weezy.

Oh yeah you going all the way back.

Yeah, we going back over here.

That’s wassup, I appreciate that support.

So how does a typical recording session go for you? Do you just write after hearing the beat or do you go in the booth and just spit whatever you want?

I write so much material during the day, it depends on how the beat makes you feel. I got a ton of raps in my phone, so when I hear the beat and that beat makes me think of one of them raps in my phone, I automatically pop up in my head like ‘Oh, that rap will fit good on this real good’ or if I hear the beat and I feel I need to put something new on it, I automatically just start writing right there and then on the spot. Different ways, there is no certain way, however I feel the best way to get it done is if it’s me going to a rap I wrote on my phone earlier that day or a rap I wrote earlier that week. I just get it done best way possible.

Speaking of your raps, we read a recent interview where Wayne said that he wrote your first raps. Do you remember what they where?

I really don’t on some real shit, it was so long ago man. That shit was like when we where young, I forgot, I forgot them raps. I don’t even think I recorded them, they where that old. It was more like him show me how to format a verse and how to put a verse together, how to format words, he was teaching me that part.

What do you do in your spare time Gudda? We see you do a bit of Tweeting sometimes, what else you do?

I just chill man. When I get time off I just chill with my kids. I don’t club a lot, none of that. Studio that’s the main thing, and family time.

We hear you don’t be in the clubs or nothing unless you get paid to be there, y’all stay in the studio?

Yeah, basically.

I know you said Gucci Mane earlier, but who else in the music game would you like to collaborate with that you haven’t done so with yet?

Shit, I got a few people. Pretty much every artist that I wanna work with I already started speaking to them about working together. There was Jeezy, the Gucci situation… pretty much all my favorites that I listen to. Oh Kiss of course, Jadakiss.

We heard there could be a possible Sqad Up song on Guddaville, could there be a possible Sqad Up reunion some time soon?

I can’t speak on that right now.

What’s the deal with the “Amazing Love” and “Lethal Injection” tracks that you did for Wayne, could they be on Rebirth?

They might be, I dunno since they leaked… I dunno if he gonna use them or not, but they might be.

What is your favorite song off Guddaville? We have a few favorites over here, but we tryna see if they match to what you think is a favorite?

I like the “Intro” and the “Outro”, they my two favorites, and the joint with Nicki and Short Dawg “Always Love You” – I like that one too. Shit I like a lot of them, “Getting To The Money”… I made sure that when I put this tape together I enjoyed every song, it wasn’t more like he putting songs on there just cause I got them. I made sure every song on the tape I liked. Sometimes as artists as we record songs we might not like them, but the people might like it… I didn’t go with that, I had to enjoy the song to put it on the tape.

It’s really like an album, because you used a lot of original beats on there so you could really classify that as an album.

Uh umm, it was my first time putting out a project too. So I wanted to make sure its hot, and I didn’t want to do the normal and just rap over other people’s beats. I just wanted to make it a nice project so people can respect the work more than anything.

That mean we can expect that Guddaville 2 to surface some time soon right?

Yeah, I’m working on that. I don’t have a date or anything but I am working on it.

Thanks for your time Gudda, we appreciate you giving us the chance to interview you. Everyone at Lil Wayne HQ and Nice Kicks would like to wish you the best of luck in the future man.

I appreciate it, likewise, same to you.

We would just like to give a few shout outs: George Kiel from NiceKicks.com for doing the interview, Greg Gates and DJ Ill Will for setting up the interview, Fredd Martins for editing the audio, and of course Gudda Gudda! If you missed Gudda‘s “Guddaville” mixtape, you can download a free copy here.

Gudda Gudda Interview With LilWayneHQ.com is a post from: Young Money HQ

Audio: Angela Yee Interview With Nicki Minaj

Danny M — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:31:34 +0000

Nicki Minaj speaks to Angela Yee at the BET Hip Hop Awards about some of her upcoming projects including the Young Money Compilation, shooting a video next week with Gucci Mane and Bobby V, and working with Cassie, Mariah Carey and Usher.

Shouts to Rap Radar

Audio: Angela Yee Interview With Nicki Minaj is a post from: Young Money HQ

Video: Backstage With Young Money Entertainment (Part 1)

Danny M — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:15:43 +0000

Lil Wayne’s label, Young Money Entertainment, is quickly becoming a force in hip-hop. With the recent solo success of Drake, Nicki Minaj, and Tyga, the rest of team is ready for their time to shine. Now that the America’s Most Wanted tour is over, they are putting the finishing touches on the Young Money Compilation album. In Jabari’s interview, the camp talks about touring as well as bringing the “rap crew” back into the game.

This is a must watch, and damn I’m really looking forward to this compilation album

Video: Backstage With Young Money Entertainment (Part 1) is a post from: Young Money HQ

Young Money – Bed Rock (Feat Lloyd) [CDQ]

Danny M — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:16:29 +0000

Here is the full, official version of the new Young Money single called “Bed Rock“. The song features Lloyd, and the artists from Young Mula on this record are Lil Wayne, Gudda Gudda, Nicki Minaj, Drake, Tyga and Jae Millz. You can download this song below:

Download: Rapidshare

Enjoy and like Lloyd says: “It’s Young Muullaaa baaabbyyyyy”

Via LilWayneHQ

Young Money – Bed Rock (Feat Lloyd) [CDQ] is a post from: Young Money HQ