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	Interview with Dirty by Lil' Ray Ray Your new single "Hit Da Floe" exploded all over the South. All of a sudden I'm hearin your shit all over the radio, like outta the blue. BP: The reason it got outside of Alabama was cause we sold so many copies the first coupla weeks. We blew up in Montgomery first. Then Universal snatched it up. The song was bumpin and we had Hot 105 killin it, we had 95.7 killin it! Every night you turn on the radio you hear it, we got so many requests for it. Then when Universal come in the scene they snatched it off the shelf for a minute. So it didn't get a chance to blow until now. They released the single first "Hit Da Flow", and they're gonna rerelease The Pimp And Da Gangsta with a coupla new tracks end of February. How long did it take from the time you got with Universal until they released the single? Mike Jackson: Really Universal called us after our first album released. The album dropped on July 13, they called 7 days later. They flew us up there and wanted to sign us back then. But we already had a independent distribution deal with Southern Music. My deal was exclusive with them. At the time we came with the second album our contract ran out with Southern Music. Universal was waitin for us. They were watchin to see what we did next. By the time Pimp And Da Gangsta came out they had what they wanted. It did everything they wanted it to, plus more. Sam Goody was answerin their phone, "Thank you for callin Sam Goody, we have the new Dirty on sale, how can I help you." We really did have Montgomery on lock. They signed us November 1st of 2000. And DJ's in radio stations had the single December 15th. Shot the video December 2nd and 3rd. They moved on it pretty quick. Who did the production for you? Mr. G:. I gotta send shout outs to my boy, The Highly Respected Dr. Fangaz. He hooked up like half the tracks. Then Khao did a couple. And we got D, he's only 14 years old, and he did some cold tracks for us. Both of you come with a different flavor and a different perspective when you Rap. Can you break that down for us? Mr. G: When I was comin I'd be watchin him getting tighter and tighter. Pimp's 5 years older than me, so by me stickin with him I just got tighter. At first I couldn't freestyle, but I could write a hard rhyme. Little by little I learned how to freestyle. Now we on the same level, but it's just different sides. He's more on that pimp shit, I'm more on that gangsta shit. We don't have a lotta history on the Montgomery, Alabama scene. Big Pimp: It's like slow livin. Everybody pretty much know each other. We came up in the hood. Pretty much the hood's still the same, 'cept it got a little more rowdy. Doin this, doin that. We ride 20's. Gold, chrome, mixed, everything. When we go to other cities, other state we see niggaz is doin the same things we doin. Mr. G: You got your different sides of town. The West side is the bad side, the hood. We from Riverside. You got the East side where the White folks stayin--grass green. You got your thugs, you got gangstas there enough. How did you get started rapping? BP: My story's a whole lot different from my cousin's story. I been rappin since third grade. What influenced me--a lotta people holler Slick Rick, Dana Dane, all that was tight, I listened to all that--but what really influenced me to sit down and write something was a dude named Boo Ski that was in the fifth grade. When that nigga rapped everybody gathered round. I'm in the third grade watchin the nigga go, and I wanna do that. Let me go home and kick me something. I wrote me a whole chorus. I listen to some Rap songs, they got a chorus then they rap then they do another chorus. Let me do mine like that. I'm in the third grade and I wrote a rap called "The Insubmissive MC". Next thing, everybody ain't lookin at this nigga, they wanna look at the lil' young third grader. But to this day I pay my respects to Boo Ski, he's still around and he loves our music. When did you get real serious about it and get in the studio? BP: I rapped by myself until ninth grade. G' Stacka was comin up. He wasn't really on that Rap game until he was in the seventh grade. I got word that he done wrote him something cold. I was like, where'd you get that shit? Then he wrote another one! I'm like, I want you! And he's my cuz so I can count on him. And he got the image, the nigga looked like a rapper. I needed someone up on the stage with me. Us in the same high school (George Washington Carver High), we was winnin all the talent shows. How did you hook up with your label Nfinity Music? BP: Then we hooked up with Mike Jackson (president of Nfinity). We had met him one time when we was performin at the Apollo, but we didn't know who he was. After a year we had did a song with a dude that was singin. Mike was gonna sign the dude, and when he asked him if he had any product that he could hear, dude put the tape on that we did with him. When I exploded on a song, he's askin who the hell that rappin on there. Dude's like, Them the boys that was at the Apollo.He's like, Shit, where they at? I been lookin for them! The nigga went crazy! We're just chillin in the hood, we at my house, and they pull up. Start talkin about he's got this record label, he wants to sign us. Next two days that nigga had us in the studio recordin the whole album. Nigga had a security business, he sold that muthafucka, took that money and put us in the studio. That was love right there. Even if a nigga comes up to us with a record deal for 45 million, we ain't goin nowhere. We're gonna stay with this muthafucka. When was all this happening? BP: We hooked up with Mike end of '98. '99 we dropped our album, CountryVersatile. And it was sellin! We're sellin like 2-300 copies a day. We laid out the foundation then. Can't no other group in Montgomery come as tight as we did, cause we did it first. Even if they did, they won't get the same respect that we did cause we did it first. Dirty's pretty much the foundation of Montgomery Rap. All the other rappers respect us, and we respect them. When did Nfinity Music sign with Universal Records? Mr. G: We were doin our independent thing for a couple years. Then Mike signed a deal with Universal last year. BP: It's like we had a car with no motor. Our first one CountryVersatile was so hot. We had hits on that muthafucka. And what really shocked muthafuckas was the fact that we had talent like that in Montgomery. Then we released our second album, The Pimp And Da Gangsta, and it just got hotter. We had a huge song called "Rollin' Vogues", and that blew up on the radio. "Hit Da Floe" blew it out the water. Now we got niggaz callin us up from California, from the East Coast. Callin Mike, wanna come to Alabama. And Alabama was a state never been touched on, always stepped on. Now we got a lotta record labels lookin at Alabama. Wanna see what else we have to offer.
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