GUTTA BOYZ
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here are y’all from? Orange County, 700 block. Representing Pine Hills.
How long have you been rapping? We’ve been rapping since we were 13 years old, just doing shows and going to the studio. At first it was just play-play, but we’ve been serious about it for about three years. Me and my niggas been doing this since we was little, now we trying to do big things. We’ve been a group for about three years. When we were young we were just doing shows back and forth, putting together little solo albums. But we stayed in the studio and stayed focused, stayed grinding, doing whatever it takes to get that love. We’re just trying to put the whole city on the map and represent. How did you two meet? Well, we’ve been together since we were in middle school, doing our lil’ thing. Out of the whole camp, there used to be about ten of us working together but it was only me and him that was real serious about it. We had a track together called “Handle That” that everybody was going crazy for. We stuck with it and decided to grow with it. Why did you decide to call yourselves the Gutta Boyz? We the Gutta Boyz cause that’s gutta, gutta. We representing that struggle. We ain’t
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no niggas that’s gonna brag about all the shit we got, cause we’re still in the struggle. We’re still here. We still gotta get to where we gotta go. Everybody reppin’ that gutta. You gotta be a gutta muthafucker to represent for the gutta. What sets you apart from the rest of the rappers trying to get on? We bring versatility to the industry, man. We some cold muthafuckers. Lyrically, I feel like we the shit. Ain’t nobody in Orange County fuckin’ with us. Shout out to Treal, though, they’re my dawgs. I feel like everybody’s doing their thing, but we all gonna stick together at the same time. We bring that versatility. We’re young, raw, talented-ass niggas. Everybody should look out for us because we here, and we ain’t going nowhere. If we gotta carry this whole city and this whole state, we gonna do that. Everybody get their grind and shine on, but who’s gonna get their grind and shine on like the gutta gutta? What’s the single you’re pushing now? Right now we workin’ on this single called “Go Live.” That’s for everybody around Orange County. People say we get buck and go live down here. That’s the hot new single we’re pushing. We also got “Ridin’ and Swervin’” with Pastor Troy. That’s that hit single. Right now we’re still grinding in the streets. That’s where it’s at right now. We’re getting different calls, but we’re trying to target the streets because that’s where we came up. - Malik Abdul