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Y BEVERL A I L U J : S WORD : MIKE FROST O PHOT
I get irritated at a point. Sometimes they gotta keep they goddamn hands to theyself. So what does an asshole like to do in bed? They call me Trae the Truth. Everything about me is the shit. I’m the truth. What’s your situation right now? Are you married, got a girlfriend, wifey, friends, or what? Playa status. I’m single, man. I’m open minded, if I find somebody real, but that shit don’t always happen that easy. Right now I just stay to myself. I’m cool with people, but I’m on my lonesome. You’ve got a record on your album telling a girl to leave you alone and stop calling you. Are you basically just focused right now on the rap game? In my situation, if it makes sense, I’ma be able to deal with it. But a lot of muthafuckers, I know what they around for. If I see what they around for, shit, I might as well stop it where it starts. If a female ain’t genuine, there ain’t no need to be calling my phone or even talking to me in the first place. Do you have a little test to find out which females are genuine? If they even get to the point where we’re holding conversations like that, I’ma always peep they swag. I’ma peep how they handle real-life situations. Off top, if you ain’t even been through no struggle, I can’t relate to you. We don’t have nothin’ in common cause you can’t understand what type of nigga I am. What about celebrity women? Is there anybody Trae would like to get at? Man, you put me on the spot. Let me think. [Homeboy in the background yells, “Melyssa Ford!”] Naw, naw. She ain’t my type. I met her in person. I’m probably one of the coolest people you could deal with, but she had one of them super snobby attitudes. Once you rub me the wrong way, that’s just what that is. I’m real down to earth. Anybody who’s bold enough to come holla at me knows that I’m cool as hell. She was just on some stuck-up shit, and I wasn’t even tryin’ to holla at her like that.
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irst off, you’ve got that gangsta persona, and you’re not a real approachable type of guy. Do you have a soft spot for the ladies or are you an “asshole” 24/7? I ain’t gonna say I got no soft spot, but shit, real recognize real. If a real lady approaches me in the right way, I’d respect her. As your career has progressed, have you seen a difference in the way women react to you? Of course. I think you could’ve saved yourself that question because I think that’s how it is with any real nigga doing they thing. Is there anybody that dissed you in the past and now is jocking you? You know, it’s the same ol’ story with me. I was a lil’ broke nigga coming up in the hood. Back then I had the mouthpiece in the game, but sometimes your weight gotta be up. My weight wasn’t up. Now my weight is up, but them hoes ain’t really got a chance. I’m going for the muthafuckers who don’t really give a fuck about what I’ve got going on right now. Them the muthafuckers I respect. Do you have any interesting groupie tales about girls coming up to you after shows sayin’ crazy shit? For the most part, muthafuckers just let me know that they’ve got a lot of love for a nigga and they respect what I’m doing. Some people just want to be cool, and you know me, I’m a down-to-earth nigga, so some of ‘em get that opportunity and some don’t. At shows sometimes we’ve got girls grabbing all on us. Some niggas think that’s fly. I’m cool with that shit but 90
Maybe you weren’t famous enough yet. Man, I still ain’t famous enough for her. But we got a surprise coming up for they ass. But that girl Christina Milian, she’s the business. Mya too. Real recognize real, so tell them to bring they ass my way. Shit is real over here. What’s the difference between a woman you just fuck and wifey? A real woman is somebody I’ll be able to spend time with. Whenever they come with me I just do what I do, whether it’s on these streets or on the road or wherever. She gotta be a teammate, all around the board. With someone I just kick it with, I’m straight and to the point. It is what it is. If you were dealing with a female and found out that she fucked with other rappers, would that turn you off? Hell fuck yeah, cause half of these muthafuckers ain’t real. That’s like rule number one with me. Hell fuck nah. I ain’t dealin’ with her. Would you deal with a woman who’s married or has a boyfriend? A woman that has a boyfriend ain’t as bad as being married. Sometimes you might meet somebody who’s married and they might be realer than a muthafucker, but their circumstances might be fucked up that they’re still married and ain’t been able to get out of that. I ain’t gonna just go find someone that’s married and fuck up their shit on purpose, though, because I wouldn’t want nobody to do that shit to me. Have you had anything embarrassing happen to you during sex? [laughs] I had a situation where we was doing what we was doing, but when it got to a point where it was time to actually do it, the girl was super-intimidated. She was like, fuck naw, I can’t do this. I guess she got scared or something because she just assumed that because most niggas