Montreality chopped it up with Gudda Gudda while he was in Montreal, Canada two months ago. Double G speaks on Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter IV album and says he recorded some music for it, his key to success, his upcoming projects including the Global Warming mixtape, the “Willy Wonka” music video from Wayne‘s I Am Not A Human Being album, and more.

Here is an interview XXL Magazine recently did with YM President Mack Maine. They discuss Mack‘s The Laxative mixtape, being the president of Young Money, Birdman and their White Boyz collabo mixtape, Lil Wayne and his release, YM Debit Cards, and more.

XXLMag.com: You just dropped The Laxative mixtape; what prompted that release?

Mack Maine: Yeah, it was just some old shit, though. That’s why I called it The Laxative, man, that’s songs from like ’07, ’08. We clearing that out before I start the new shit. A lot of them songs are old. I got like over 200 songs sittin’ in my computer and like 100 sittin’ in this iPod. I was listening to some of that shit and it’s not old to new ears, so I was like let me put some of that out. And they’re loving it and I didn’t explain the concept yet, so I think they think it’s up to date or something.

Also if you really listen to it there are a lot of imperfections on the tape and I love it like that because it’s raw. It don’t have ad-libs on a lot of songs. A lot of people don’t know, that whole mixtape, I actually freestyled it. I know how to come up with a verse without writing and thinking my verse in my head. But what I mean by freestyle, I actually went into the booth and didn’t know what I was gonna say. And it was one-take; I don’t really punch in at all. I did a tape called Freestyle 101 a long time ago. I was a battle cat when I was younger… There’s not a lot of time for me to record all the time. I go to the studio 12 at night and I might have a conference call at eight or nine in the morning. So I’m leaving the studio at like six in the morning.

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I just spotted this Short Dawg interview on my bro James’ site with Ozone Magazine. Short speaks on his music, his upcoming Fresh album, Lil Wayne, Young Money, his mixtapes and plenty more!

You were signed back in 2005, but still haven’t had an album drop. How hard is it to stick with music through all the setbacks?
It has its moments where it’s tough because you have a lot of obstacles as a new artist when the albums don’t come out. In my situation it was an issue dealing with Russell’s new label and the president and a lot of beef that I didn’t know was going on, it was beyond my control working at Def Jam at the time. A lot of things went haywire and then I had my own situations with lawsuits and all that type of shit. People think just because you’re doing music you don’t live an actual real life and shit goes on in people’s lives, and on the creative side you get discouraged and shit, but you know that just comes with the territory of doing anything. It’s just as hard as being an athlete, you got to work hard at it and believe that it’s going to turn out for the best.

What would you say you were able to learn from all that?
I learned that being consistent is most important because regardless of the situation you’re in you still have fans at the end of the day. They don’t give a fuck if your situation is not as good as it’s supposed to be, they just want to hear that music, so you have to stay consistent through all of that. I just learned to be more wise with my surroundings and stay on top of my music and everything else will work itself out.

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Chuy Gomez interviews Young Mula’s Tyga and Shanell backstage at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. They speak about Lil Wayne, YMCMB, both their mixtapes, Twitter and more in the video above!

In the video above, Cash Money President Birdman and Young Money President Mack Maine gives us fans an update on what we can be looking out for this year from the YMCMB team! They give us some mixtape release dates, info on singles dropping, and some upcoming videos we can be checking out for. Any time now, we can be expecting Drake’s “Miss Me” music video, Ashley Ring’s “Moving Target” video (Wayne shot his parts before he went to prison), and a Shanell single with a video called “So Good” featuring Tunechi and Drizzy.

Shouts to DG

Check out the video above to see Young Money’s Jae Millz doing a promo for his upcoming mixtapes: “The Virgo Part 2: He Still Nasty” which will be dropping this month, and “Dead Presidents” which will be hosted by DJ Whoo Kid.

Here are some outtakes from Drake‘s interview with XXL Magazine which did not make it in their current issue that is on newsstands now. He talks about the difference between writing rap and writing R&B records, hating the way he looks in some pictures, being bored of mixtapes, haters, and more!

How many songs are on Thank Me Later?

Drake: It’ll probably end up being about 15. But it’s just, you know, I love doing R&B music, I really do. And I just always feel like to tie in hip-hop with R&B and to utilize R&B to glue it all together, that’s my trademark. That’s something that only I can do. And that’s why I will continue to do it. There might come a time where I might be like, “Yo, I just want to do an R&B mixtape, or I just want to do a whole R&B album,” but I don’t think so, man. I think that that is the makeup of me—melody and just the tone of my voice and all; I don’t think I could ever change that, so…

I’m waiting on the Drake Gangsta Grillz.

Drake: [Laughs] I just find that boring, you know. There’s certain people where it’s impressive, like with Lil Wayne, to hear him freestyling over other people’s beats for an hour is impressive because it’s just like, Yo, this guy never runs out of clever shit to say, but for me, people might want to hear it, but it’s just not something that I really want to give you. I’d rather just give you something that lasts a little longer than that ’cause those mixtapes never really last much longer than six months. When the songs become played out, and…

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