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 Q: Who are your favorite Chi rappers?

A: (Payroll) Snypaz, PsychoDrama, even Twista. Really, I think Twista like the sickest nigga in the world...I honor Twista even though he'll work with anybody...I just think that me, Cap-1, Shawnna, Twista, Bumpy Johnson...all these Chicago artist niggas should be under one umbrella and we shoulda had our own label. The thing that pisses me off is niggas run off and go help build other labels up...Its so many niggas I can name who would have made our bidness the shit. Why you run off and try to get under someone else umbrella? I'll never understand...

Q: Did you feel it (Walk Wit Me) would be a classic?

A: (D.A. Smart) I felt like that was the shit. When I wrote it and heard it myself, I said, damn that is the shit. Trax loved it. Luck didn't like it too much. It was different to me. It wasn't like nobody else shit...and plus niggas wasn't sayin' GD, BD, MC in records. They wasn't hollarin' no gangs on no record because back then you probably had got yo wig split. So I guess that's why its a classic, its an anthem because its the first ever done like that. So I'm actually proud of that.

Q: How did you meet The Legendary Traxster?

A: (WhiteFolks) Me and Trax first met...it was 1993. We were both part of a rap crew, The Illstate Assassins. Bunch of cats came up in the same crew, Toxic, Cayex Illah, the boys from Mob Axshin, Big Rap one of the founders of CWAL, D. Villa still to this day one of the rawest females comin' out of Chicago, out of rap period. We was all youngsters tryin' to get in the rap game. Trax was in a group called D 2 Tha S, and I was doin' my solo thing. We were doin' songs together amongst the crew. Mufuckas just came to relate. The crew at that point was tight like a family. One week led to a month, led to a year, led to many years and now comes that these are the mufuckas you grew up with, that you came up with. Me and Trax worked and met at that time through the Illstate Assassins.

Q: Song of choice?

A: (Hit of MCGz) I have to say the Great Lakes Remix. I say that because that shit was just raw...when we wrote that shit, that's when niggas use to be in the streets every mothafuckin' day. Niggas done slowed down, don't be out there tryin' to be all wild like that no mo'. But back in them times, we was out there everyday all day. So that's all the fuck niggas was feelin'. That shit represent GI to the fullest, Chi-Town to the fullest, the whole Midwest to the fullest. Cause its some real niggas that be doin' that dirt around these parts. These other mothafuckas be rappin' about that shit, them niggas ain't doin' that shit. We knowin' that shit and they gettin' rich. Let these niggas thats really out here livin' that life, spittin' that raw shit get that money.

Q: What is "The Movement"?

A: (Shala of Qualo) The movement was pretty much started when we realized, when the four of us were walking down the block one day out West and a car went by playing Gun Shots, Warfare. Which is a classic single we have in Chicago. It was crazy...right after that, we was walking and two guys approached us and they were fans and it clicked that like everything we have is because of the collective people around us. The fans, the supporters, the women we were walking with who did all our business at the time. We were in highschool and we were like man its a movement behind what we doin'. Like we speak to the people's hearts, we speak to the depths of they souls. Cause we comin' from the heart, so it goes to they heart. So we realized we had a movement around us that was actually pulling us forward and we were representing a collective of people. So we decided to call it what it was...

 Q: What's the history behind the song "Cold Blooded"?

A: (Dawreck of Triple Darkness) We was workin' wit my man Fly. He was helpin' us out wit a lot of stuff as far as our music. We had put out the tape Niggaz Just Don't Know...the streets was lovin' it, so Fly had came in and started doin' all the business work...soon as everything started comin' together, he got locked up. That's where Big Rap came in the picture. A lot of people don't know that Big Rap was the one that really took us over...we had a little dough, got some beats from Trax. We only did the one song though...cause we was gon' put it out like a single and we got another beat from Soundmaster T, that's Cruise Wit Us...Before we put that out, I remember Fly said its gon' be Chill Side, Kill Side. One side we chillin'...one side we on some straight killin' shit...that was Cold Blooded. Traxster came, he had laced a beat. I went in there, I spit my verse, he was like, hold on let me change a lil sum. Then you know, that's how it came about.

Q: Who should "make it" from Chi?

A: (K-Smoove) As a group I think PsychoDrama should be havin' they well lit fan of they just due. I really like the vibes and the points made about them as individuals and all about them like as a whole thing together...as far as 'gevity and long-term of somebody puttin' it down that I think worked hard for it, I think Triple Darkness need they turn in the light right about now...so right now hittin' closer to home to me, it would be those two groups.

 Q: How did you start rappin'?

A: (Heartstoppa) I wasn't really on this rappin' shit. Since I was a shorty, I always been on some get money shit...while I'm gettin' money, I'm listenin' to music. I'm listenin' to these niggas like man these niggas ain't on that shit. I'm on this shit...I can say this shit...I might as well start doin' this shit and gettin' some money on this shit...that's how I got into this lil music basically. I get down, so I can talk about that shit, know what I mean?



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