KRAYZIE NEWZZ
Sup everybody! This section is all that latest newz on Krayzie. See...i'm not the kinda person who likes to read articles, so i'm gonna post up only the stuff WE really care about.
So, the latest on Krayzie is that his album should be coming out around October. And all this info is 100% accurate cuz I got it from the August 1998 edition of The Source Magazine. The article is called Mo Thugs, Less Problems.
It starts off talkin' about how Bone has grown in the past four years. How they broke rap sales records & established themselves as platinum-selling heavy-weights with a knack for originality.
After Easy-E passed away they wondered where their destiny in music lay. So bone had to venture to the other side of the game-The business. Masterminding the battle plan is the slim, laid-back bone known as Krayzie. With the help of Bone, Krayzie organizes the next crop of talent set to represent the saga via their label "Mo Thugs Records". The new members of the already multi-platinum Mo Thugs, were brought on their new album Volume II by Krayzie, who is known to the family as papa bear Krayzie.
What sparked your transformation from artist to businessman?
Krayzie: It was during the time of the first Mo Thug Scriptures album. I was really just into the music, but then I started lookin' at it like, "maybe I need to get into the business part of it." Just so I know everything that's going on and don't be stuck in the dark. I know everything about the studio, but then when I leave out the studio, I don't know nothing else. I wanna know it all. Everything.
You plan on venturing off into other things? Krayzie: Yeah, oh yeah. Right now I'm working on openin' me up a restaurant and a hair salon in Cleveland. We got Thug Wear, our clothing line, comin' out. We're trying to get into these movies. We got a documentary comin' out called "The Future Shock." Just a little documentary with us talkin' 'bout everthing that people wanna know about Bone. The 'real' comin' from us. Not none of them lies you read on the Internet, or nothin' like that.
What was your vision in putting this album together? Krayzie: The vision of this album was just to make Mo Thug be known. For everybody to feel Mo Thug. Everybody heard the first Mo Thug album, but right now, we're tryin' to make everybody feel Mo Thug with this album that we are puttin' out. That's why we come with so many different varieties of music. We was basically tryin' to hit every field of the music with the different artist we got on the album.
What's the process behind choosing artists to be on the project? How do you pick your Bones? Krayzie: Well. most of 'em were already down with us. Been down with us before we was even down. It was like the ones that was that was riding with us had been riding with us for al that time, so they automatically had the shot; plus, they was tight. As for as the new artists, they basically came to me. They was already tight with they talent, so all they really needed was the tracks and support to go behind them and everything was cool.
Who took the weirdest path to the project? Krayzie: Man, there's a couple of weird stories. I mean Thug Queen called me on the phone at my office one day and just rapped to me on the phone. I just happened to answer the phone and she was just telling me what she was doin', how she was livin', and she was trying to make it, tryin' to do something. So I hooked up some studio time and told her to meet me at a studio in Cleveland. She showed up. I had a track that was already made, so I was like, "go on and let me hear what you got." 'Cause when I listen to people, if they ain't got a demo, I like to hear how they sound with a beat, 'cause anybody can rap and they can sound offbeat; but to a beat they can sound totally different. So I told her to go to the studio. She starting rappin' for me and I was like, "man, she got a nice little flow. I can do something with her."
Powder came to my house, knocked on my door one day when I was just in my house. He knocked on my door telling me he can rap, telling me his whole story about how he came down from Nashville. And Felicia, we was on tour in Houston in concert and I was on the stage rappin'. And when I went to the back to tke a break to drink some water, she walked up to me and asked me if she could sing for Mo Thug. I was like, "yeah, if you can sing." I told her to wait 'til we got off the stage. Then she sung for me. I was like, "man, it's off the hook." So I was just like, "come on, meet me in Miami."
Why isn't Bizzy Bone on the album? Krayzie: We basically gave him his concentration time to work on his album. Make sure ain't no flaws in it. So he won't be disturbed by nothin'. It's all good, 'cause he still rollin' with the program. When you hear his album, he still be screaming Bone. They gonna hear Bone on his album. They gonna hear Mo Thug members. He still screaming Mo Thug. Everything still the same, it's just like, with so many of us--including Bone members too, 'cause there's five Bone members--everybody gonna always be busy, 'cause there's enough to go around for everybody.
Is everyone in Bone releasing a solo project? Oh yeah. Bizzy working on his solo right now, he should be droppin' in August. Flesh is working on his soli slbum right now. Mine should be comin' out around October. Then Layzie, then Wish at the end.
Are you religious Krayzie? Krayzie: Oh yeah, very. My whole family was Jehovah Witnesses.
So you choose your words wisely? Krayzie: Oh yeah.
How has the death of Tombstone (Graveyard Shift) affected the Mo Thugs program? Krayzie: Man, it's been hard, 'cause Tombstone played an important part in the Mo Thug family, as well as with personal family. Like with me, he was my brother in law. As far as music wise, it brought the Graveyard Shift project to a total stop. It really threw everybody off 'cause nobody was really expecting that to happen. They was really set up to be released right after Poetic Hustlaz's album. It was supposed to be II Tru, Poetic Hustlaz, Graveyard Shift, and then on down the line. But that set the album back.People stopped hearing about Graveyard Shift, so they stopped asking about them.
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