BOHAGON’S 10 REASONS MY ALBUM
OZONES AWARDE NOMINE :
SLEPT-ON ARTIST!
HASN’T COME OUT YET
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I’m From A Small Town In South Georgia Up until now, people didn’t really wanna hear nobody from a little itty bitty town. The world wasn’t ready for it.
I Was Ahead Of My Time I was a lyricist from South Georgia, from a little small town, and didn’t nobody really wanna hear no real lyrics way back in the day. They just got the point the last couple years where it was cool to be country and from the South and spit some lyrics.
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I Always Get Mad At BME And Cuss Everybody Out That further delayed my album coming out. I would voice my displeasure when really I should’ve learned to be patient and go about it in different ways. I would voice my frustrations to the powers that be. Lil Jon Always Told Me The Timing Wasn’t Right He said it’s all about timing. Now I guess it’s the perfect timing for my album to come out. I ain’t never understood that. That’s why I was getting frustrated and doing a whole lot of cursing. I never understood but I understand now because the timing is right. The world is ready.
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I Switched Labels Right Before Put Yo’ Hood Up Came Out I was on BME and we did the We Still Crunk album, which was an independent album. I felt like I was on the back burner so I signed a deal over at Noontime right before [Lil Jon & the Eastside Boyz’] Put Yo’ Hood Up came out. I was on like ten songs on the We Still Crunk album, but I got frustrated and signed what I thought was a better deal. I ended up in the same situation where I had to wait behind somebody else, which was Jim Crow at the time.
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I Was Always In A Group My Whole Career I had to learn how to be a solo artist. I had to break away from being up under people’s wings and being in a group, and learn how to function on my own. The Full Time Family Album Me, Chyna Whyte, Sixshot, Don Yute, and Lil Jon & the Eastside Boyz did a whole album. It took about six or seven months and Tommy Boy didn’t know what to do with it. We were a supergroup before they had down South supergroups. Tommy Boy didn’t pick up on the album so that frustrated everybody. BME felt like they needed to put their best foot forward so they went ahead with the Lil Jon album.
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I Had To Move I had to get to Atlanta, to get to where shit was happening. I had to be where the music was bubbling. It wasn’t gonna happen with me staying in my town, in the country. I had to move to where the movement was happening, and it took a minute to get readjusted.
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Right Before They Was ‘Bout to Shoot The Video for “Get Crunk,” Jon Fell Out With TVT That was gonna be my shining moment, but he fell out with TVT. I can’t blame him for that, cause he had to get his money right. They were fucking with his money so he had to take care of his business. I had the first verse on “Get Crunk.” People always knew my voice, but nobody knows my face. People can recite verses I did in 1998 or 1999, but they don’t know my face. That’s a big part of your success. How much money you get depends on how famous you are.
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I Had To Put My Career In My Own Hands I can’t depend on the next man to do it for me. I did my first mixtape three and a half years ago, and that’s when I stopped relying on BME. I stopped relying on Jon. I stopped relying on all the powers that be to do something for me and I just got out there and did the shit myself. I made my own money and put it back into Bohagon, and that’s the most I’ve ever gotten out of my career. i’m a pimp, i’m a gangsta, all the above / and i’m worldwide, baby girl, show me some love
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