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Yukmouth Continued from Murder Dog Vol.15 #2 You have a track record for being the rapper featured on a lot of Bay Area albums but never having a lot of Bay Area artists on your album. What prompted the change of approach on this album? We all unifying in the Bay and hoppin on each other’s shit. It all started from the “Too $hort Loves the Bay” album. He got a lot of Bay niggas fuckin with each other. A lot of niggas had beef and wasn’t fuckin with each other and we came together from that one compilation and we continued doing music. I was able to get The Team, Delinquents, Beeda Weeda, Kafani, Souls of Mischief. It was perfect, it brought the whole Bay together so I’m just keeping the movement going. And I went back to Bay. I was in LA livin my life and I had to go home and come back to my roots, because I was getting accustomed to all this Hollywood fake ass shit, everybody fakin on each other. I had to go back home to the real and soak up the game like a sponge. All the Bay niggas was home when I did the album. Who are the current members in the Regime? We got Tech N9ne, Gonzoe, Kenny Kingpin (Poppa LQ), Monstah Ganjah, Ampichino, Chino Nino, Young Hyfe, Diesel Don, Gov-Matic, Rah Mean, Lee Majors, Dru Down, Teflon from Canada and Dorasel from down South, a click of niggas. When can we expect the Regime Religion album and UGA 3 to come out? We about to do this shit. It’s called “Regime Life The Dragon Gang Album”, so we gonna get together. It’s gonna be out the end of this summer. UGA 3 will be out this spring. We editing it right now getting it together. For the DVD I'm gonna take them where they never been. I'm gonna go over seas again to Germany, Amsterdam in the Red Light District, Australia, Alaska. I’m going around on the outside of the United States showing niggas I really do get my passport stamped. Also I got footage of Anna Nicole Smith before she passed, hella footage of Mac Dre. Hella events too, the All Star game, BET Awards, Source Awards, the Porno Conventions all of that with interviews from all the hot artists. This one gonna be the best one. This isn’t “United Ghettos of America”, this is really “United Ghettos of the Globe”? Yeah, we twisted this muthafucka because a lot of niggas been bitin my shit. I ain’t gonna say who, but I’ve been noticing a lot of niggas DVD’s been about them traveling and being at shit just like my DVD’s. When niggas initially did they DVD’s it was about them but now niggas wanna travel state to state and be at events like me so I had to step it up like, “aright nigga, get ya passport stamped and let’s see what you can do overseas,” because I’m known everywhere, not just the States I have to say I was representing with UGA Volume one because when I was living in LA I used to make people sit and watch that segment “The Thizzelle Dance” and then do the dance. Anyone in LA who learned to get stupid learned it from me and that video. Actually between UGA and Treal TV Volume 1 we started the hyphy shit before the hyphy shit really started. That was the “pre-hyphy movement” and 40 and Federation came with it and kept it going. But we (Yukmouth and Mac Dre) was the first niggas to put it on the map with the DVD’s and the dances showing niggas how we really did it. Thizz in Peace to my nigga Mac Dre. He was the nigga who really kick started the hyphy movement because as much as E-40 raps and the Federation and The Team raps… Dre had the whole image and everything that everybody was copying from the stunna shades, the Thizz face, the dance. Everybody emulated not just what the nigga was saying but how he dressed. So when you hear other niggas saying “we started the hyphy” they was dressing normal when Dre was wearing the stunna shades. He was wearing the shades before niggas started calling them stunna shades, ya feel me. He was doing that shit based on some stupid shit, been getting dumb. He started the hyphy to me because I watched it on UGA Volume 1 and Treal TV Volume 1. We started the shit and it was on from there. I named that nigga Thizzelle Washington and then he came up with Pill Clinton and now everybody else wants a code name. So at the end of the day, me Dre kicked off the hyphy and niggas don’t get credit for it. People outside the Bay think 40 kicked it off or Keak or the Federation. It was Mac Dre straight up because everybody Thizz dance and Thizz face. He’s the godfather of the shit. That makes sense because in LA we called it Thizz Dance before we heard the term “getting stupid”. Straight up, that’s Thizz Entertainment. 40 never did the Thizz dance, that’s my nigga though, I never did the Thizz dance. But now everybody did it. He kicked it off and 40 went global with it and brought it to everybody. 40 took it around the globe to where everybody know about it, he took it to another level and had niggas in Atlanta ghostriding and shit. Props to 40 and Keak because they both made that song. How did you end up hookin up with Killa Klump? My nigga at Rah Records. We been doing a lot of projects together and Killa Klump as an artist so we hooked up. But I met Killa through 3x Krazy, years ago before I even started doin the mixtapes with him. And when I did the mixtape with him we did the little video (“Neck Straight”) it had the white-t’s and Bapes and the shit was phenomenal, it had hella hits. That nigga Killa Klump is a beast. For a white dude he’s a monster, not on no Eminem shit but he’s a monster. He rappin on some real street thug shit. The “Neck Straight” video was a real popular video on Youtube and myspace. Did you expect it to be that big? Hell naw? I didn’t think it would be that fly. I didn’t know it would be that hot, it came out hot as hell. For the budget that used to put that together too. We shot that shit for a couple thousand and had the fake police cars and the outfits and locations and the comic book effects for a couple thousand dollars, we won, definitely. It came out hella hot. When is the website going to be back up? The website should be back up soon. We have a couple more changes we need to do, to make it more hot. I'm gonna let people see my face and shit. What’s the difference between Godzilla Entertainment and Smoke-A-Lot Records? Godzilla was basically for the mixtapes and the DVD’s and shit. Smoke-A-Lot is for the albums and the artists. And the clothing line is Godzilla. It’s two different entities under one umbrella What’s the status on the next Thug Lordz album? It should be coming out by the summer. Me and Bo putting the last finishing touches on it and getting a couple more features on it but right now the whole album is just me and Bo going crazy. It’s Thug Lordz Thug Money real big going crazy So Spice-1 is not going to play a bigger role in this one? You know the tragic thing happened with Spice, he’s still recovering but hopefully we can get him on the album if not the whole album. How do you feel about the state of Oakland rap right now? It’s cranking. A lot of young niggas is coming out the Bay, putting out the hyphy movement and riding that wave, the hyphy train and that’s what’s poppin right now. It’s shedding light to the Bay, it’s in and it’s making a lot of muthafuckas wanting to fuck with the Bay. I’m definitely loving what’s going on right now. It reminds of the 90’s when everyone was one. I love it When is the Luniz album coming out? Never, ever, ever, ever. Naw I'm gonna keep it one hundred, I don’t fuck with Num, Num don’t fuck with me. That’s known, everybody in the Bay Area know we don’t fuck with each other. Until then, I’m Yukmouth. We got nice deal, I’ll do it for the fans, but until then I’m good. What’s the deal with Tia Sweets and the Regime? I had her on my DVD Eye Candy. She was part of the team and got tatted up. Mutha fuckas in the Regime initiated her, she was part of the movement, blood in, blood out. It was a good look for her. Once she got that tat, her porn status went. She was an unknown porn star, she did 5 movies before she got tatted. She’s done 100 movies since then. Now that the DVD is out every nigga wanna have her in they DVD or mixtape and shit, so I know she lovin it. It boosted her shit and it’s good promotion for her. Just know that ain’t my girl, she just part of the movement. Everybody see her in the porno with the tat and be like “Yuk girl getting fucked!” Noooo that’s not my bitch she’s just part of the movement. |
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