It seems like you don't like doing interviews. Not reatty. They keep asking me the same questions, man. Ask me something djfferent. A tot of maqazines and radjo stations and video shows get the same paperwork from the labet so they know what they're supposed to ask youThey're asking the same questions. Dojng thjrty interviews in one day, lcan't take that shit. Oriqinally you didn't want to do this interview because your name was brought up in our T.l. vs. Lil Flip article. Do you feel like magazines, or media in general, are responsible for a lot of the beef jn hip-hop? Welt, lwas just fuckin'with you. But nah, beef js something that muthafuckers were born with.
A lot of times it's about money, or somebody might wanna beef with you to get on your LeveL or compete with you. lf you reatly think about
rt. the whote music game lo some nrggas rs competition. But for me, it's real Ufe. I ain't got time to compete with another nigga. lt's tike T.l. said in a song: "lt's hard to compete with me when you minding your own business." So if you aren't motivated by other rappers, who are you competing against? Yourself? I don't took at it as competjtjon. I look at it as survivat, because this is the onty thing I can do. Anything else I couLd imagine doing, they'd send me to the penitentiary I never looked at it as competition cause l'm not a competjtor One thing I know is this: as long as you keep it reat, you ain't gotta worry about getting caught up in
no hes and you ain't gotta worry about getting caught up in a character. I wake up and go to sleep in character I am the character
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A lot of artists try to separate their personal lives from their careers. It's hard to do that. My music is my personat tife. A tot of artists that do that ain't reat artists. I'm reat. I say what I mean and I mean what I say. Either l've done it or l've seen it done. l'm Maurice, but no matter where I go, I'm gonna aLways be T'Doubte-D, Trick Daddy. l'm gonna always be rough to my family and in my home, l'm gonna always be the bad guy in the the me' dia, and I'm gonna atways be Mr. Freaky Deeky in the eyes of the women. I just stay the same. I gotta watch what I do now, because of the me' dia and the potjce. And don't get me wrong, aLt potice ain't bad. lt's a tot of good poUce. A good poLice, to me, js someone that wake up in the morning to go to work. That's it. Just do your job, nothing extra. Do you let your kids listen to your albums? Yeah. My son is three and my daughler rs nine. and they atready know. They tetl me lshouLdn't
say certajn words. They know when they're reciting some of the songs, they know when they get to the bad words don't even say 'em. They stop. They know how to adtib. And that's the probtem with a tot of kids growin' up, and it started with our era. Momma used to be [ike, "Go jn the room, grown fotks tatkin'." And that tets the kjds know that they doing somethjng they ajn't got no busjness doing. Now, you've got some situations where the momma telts the Lit girt, "l don't want you to go out that way cause I don't want you to go through the things l've been through. I don't want you to have to do the things I did, cause there's a Lot of things
I wish I woutdn't have did. I had you young." So now the daughter responds [ike, "Let me tearn on my own," or, "l ain't gon' be Ljke you, you can't charge me with what you've been through." And unfortunateLy, the tabtes keep turning and the daughter ends up gojng through OZONE I.AAGAZINE DEC/JAN
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