Z-RO WORDS: JULIA BEVERLY
I hear you’re about to go away for a minute. We’re not gonna talk about that. Okay. What projects are you working on right now? I’ve got a couple projects I’m working on right now. My solo project, me and Pimp C doing a project, me and K-Rino doing a project, and I’m putting out my mixtape with King of the Ghetto Entertainment: Some Jammin’ Ass Shit Volume 1. And I can’t forget the Kings of the South Volume 2 with me and Lil Flip that’s gonna be coming out also. A lot of shit coming out right now. Are these projects mixtapes or actual albums that will be in-stores? Of course the Rap-A-Lot projects are gonna be in stores, but the rest of the other shit is mixtapes. The Lil Flip shit, the K-Rino shit, and the Pimp C shit are actual albums. There’s a lot of shit going on. With all the attention that’s on Houston right now, do you think it’s time for the rest of the world to recognize people like yourself and K-Rino? Most definitely, especially K-Rino. He’s the most talented nigga in the rap game, I don’t give a damn what nobody else say. I know I’ve got more attention than he’s got right now, but he deserves at least the attention that I’ve got and then some. We’re real about this rap shit. Our shit can’t hit the radio cause it’s not radio friendly. That’s basically it. We don’t own no diamond chains, millions of dollars, and 40 acre houses and shit. We’re on that other shit, that street shit. Who are some of the other rappers in Houston that the world hasn’t heard
yet? Shit, most defiantly Street Military. The whole South Park Coalition. There’s a whole lot of cats that are real, real talented but on a national level they haven’t been heard yet. Point Blank, cats like that have been grindin’ for ten, fifteen years and they started this shit for the Houston boys. Them niggas really deserve a crown; they kings in this shit. Kings need to get their fair shot like everybody else. Since you do represent the streets, but you’re also a rapper, do you think the street element has affected the rap game too much to the point where we’re seeing rappers like Hawk getting killed? When you talk about violence in hip-hop in Houston, it’s way different than hip-hop in any other city and state. Down here in the South, like Flip said in the Beef 3 DVD, we ain’t got too many opportunities down here as far as major record labels are concerned. We don’t get paid as often as other muthafuckers in New York. It’s hard to make money with rap money down here, I’ll put it like that. So a lot of us down South rappers, especially here in Houston, we’re still living in the streets trying to make ends meet. Half of us are still hustling, doing whatever the fuck we got to do to get by. A lot of times if you get into bed with somebody on some dirt, you can’t really get out of the bed as easy as you got into the bed. So if a muthafucker is owin’ a nigga money, you know, shit like that, a nigga got videos to pay for. We got features to pay for. Getting a chick and a blunt every now and then don’t front that bill. A lot of us are still in them 60 60
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