Where are you from? Bradenton, Florida. I’ve been rapping for six years.
Are you planning to sign with a major? I’m trying to keep it indie for now.
How would you describe your style? What’s your affiliation with C Wakely? Gangsta. Real. Basically I rap about the typical things. C Wakeley is good friends with my manager DonCars, money, women. ald Ted Smith. They were buddies a long time ago, so we hooked up. Wakeley’s a good dude, So what makes you different from other rappers? so y’all indies need to mess with him. My voice. I sound like me, but if I had to compare to another rapper, I’d probably say Trick Daddy. What’s the difference between Tampa music and Bradenton music? How did you start creating a buzz for yourself? No disrespect to Tampa, but Bradenton’s got its I did some mixtapes and I was with a group called IBC own flavor. It’s a little more street than Tampa. back home. We were pretty popular in the neighbor- There ain’t too many people in Bradenton doing hood. We had a hot song called “Oooh, shit!” club songs like they do in Tampa. You could tell Tampa music right away, but you know, the guys Why did you decide to go solo? that’s rapping in Bradenton, you can’t really tell I got in a little trouble and had to do some jail time. where they’re from. They went their way and I went my way. I was in jail for about ten months back in 2002, for simple battery. Will it be hard to be the first to break through? Nah. You gotta know how to hustle, and I know While you were in jail, did you have the chance to how to hustle. That’s what it’s all about. You gotta hone your rap skills? be able to grind and stay motivated. I like to win, Yeah, I wrote about 500 songs while I was in jail, and I don’t like to lose. when I got out we put them in the streets. Do you have any shoutouts? So it inspired you? My manager Donald Ted Smith, C Wakeley, and Yeah. See, I was the money behind the IBC group. We their families. My number one DJ Big Dawg and thinking about doing a group project again but I don’t the Buc City DJs, the whole Florida, Manatee know when. Hopefully in the summer of 2006. County. What’s your current project? How can someone I’m dropping the Million Dollar Man album in January, contact you? putting it out independently in FYE and other stores. Check me out at www. Cartel4Life.com, email Who’s featured on the album? me at Chill2Hot@aol. BloodRaw and Tom G are on the single “Bop Wit It.” com, or for booking call Smoke from Field Mob, Mr. Magic, Gucci Mane, 334 941-773-7878 or 352Mobb and a lot of my local homeboys are on there. 246-4495. Dimensional Sounds out of Tampa produced most of the album.