don’t really believe in your project? One Cash: I feel like it’s a bit of both. I felt like they were just giving me the runaround. I tried to speak with a couple different DJs and I just didn’t really like the way they were coming at me. It wasn’t good business. I’m pretty new to the music industry and normally when I do business with somebody I feel like there should be mutual respect. I feel like these DJs don’t have that respect for every artist they’re speaking to just because they’re not known yet. Tay Baby: You know what? That is some real shit. Me personally, that’s why I don’t even be in the clubs like that. I don’t be out there like that because I’ve kinda got a temper. I’m well known to snap on a bitch so I just try to keep myself away from all the negativity and fuckery because I might have to slap me a bitch. They be trying to disrespect a nigga’s pockets and shit. I don’t like that shit. If I pay you some money I want to get what I paid for. Are there any particular DJs you had an issue with or are you just speaking in general? One Cash: In general. There was one particular nigga but I don’t feel like putting his name out there. I ain’t tryin’ to start no problems, it’s just the simple fact that I don’t wanna give that nigga no free promotion because he don’t wanna do it for nobody else. Tay Baby: You know they be with that bullshit. They spinning the music and they basically feel like you’ve got to kiss their ass. One Cash: I really feel like in this whole music industry – being in the streets, I’ve really been out here for a minute – and it’s not to knock the next man saying that they don’t hustle, everybody does what they do, but I feel like these folks are perpetrating things that they’re not. It’s a bunch of smoke and mirrors. Everybody’s trying to be gangsta and put it out there like everybody’s got keys of this and pounds of that, but it’s really just ridiculous. I know a lot of these folks and they ain’t got no money and they ain’t out in these streets like that. I feel like in this whole music industry, most of these niggas locally, I’ve met them and we just ain’t the same. I’m different. I don’t come from that shit and I don’t understand why these DJs act like this is some play-play ass-kissing shit. It ain’t really about that. Nig-
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gas are really from this shit. Tay Baby: Basically, take the money and spin the music or take the money and have the mixtape done within a reasonable time and everybody will be happy. Do good business. One Cash: I just feel like it’s a fraud, man. A lot of people really be trying to sell niggas dreams and make people think a lot of stuff is one way when it’s really not. They’re telling a bunch of kids to sell dope and do this and do that and come up and you’re going to have all this ice and diamonds and all that, but really, it’s a lot more to it than that. It’s a lot harder than that and most of these niggas ain’t gonna make it and are going to end up locked up. These niggas are acting like they’re the dope man’s dream and have been so successful in the game when really I ain’t never heard of ‘em and I ain’t never seen ‘em. There aren’t a lot of outlets in Orlando for local artists to get their music heard. What are the routes you’re taking? Tay Baby: Honestly, this is my plan. I’m just buying 1,000 CDs a week and passing them out in the middle of the hood, sliding around in the car and giving one to everybody that’s moving. If you’re 7 years old or 74 years old I’m throwing you a CD. If I’m on the cover of the magazine, everybody that’s moving, I’m throwing them a magazine. I’m my own street team. I do all that myself because the radio station is not gonna help you out until you’ve actually got some kind of name behind you, and then they’re still skeptical depending on your image and what you’re talking about and who you know and how you know them. Really I don’t know too many muthafuckers, so fuck it. I gotta make my own contacts and get out there in the streets and pass out my music. We ain’t got no underground stations anymore so fuck it. You’ve just gotta spend a whole bunch of money that you ain’t gonna get back no time soon. Lots of it.