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>>LEADER >>T-Pain on moving from Miami to Atlanta OZONE May 2007 “I lived in Miami for six months, moved up to Atlanta, and got more shit done [in Atlanta] in six weeks than I had done in the six months I was in Miami.”
T-Pain on moving from Miami to Atlanta<< VIBE July 2007 “I got more done in six weeks than I ever would have in Florida.”
>>T-Pain on working with Britney Spears OZONE May 2007 “I just wrote a song for Britney Spears that’ll be her first single when she gets out of rehab or when her hair grows back.”
T-Pain on working with Britney Spears<< VIBE July 2007 “As soon as she does what she needs to do, the first single will be the one written by T-Pain.”
>>Young Jeezy on Slick Pulla and BloodRaw OZONE April 2007 “This is real family shit over here. This USDA shit is real… they’ve been through gangsta shit with me.”
Young Jeezy on Slick Pulla and BloodRaw<< XXL June 2007 “I don’t consider them my homies, I consider them my family. I was with these niggas in life.”
>>Young Jeezy on making hit records OZONE April 2007 “I do good music, I make records... at the end of the day I can still make good music.”
Young Jeezy on making hit records<< XXL June 2007 “I do good music, I make good records, so at the end of the day, I make hits.”
>>Rick Ross on the drug game in Miami OZONE March 2007 “Cocaine, that’s what supported the fast life of South Beach, all the clubs on the beach, and the Colombian drug lords…that’s the M-I-Yayo, the city that yayo built.”
Rick Ross on the drug game in Miami<< XXL July 2007 “People focus on the drug game in Miami because we make it look the best. When you come to Miami, you see the plush city; you see Lamborghinis and Rolls Royces... This is the city of dope”
>>Rich Boy on his subject matter OZONE November 2006 “I feel like it’s my responsibility in the rap game to bring back some real topics. People are always rapping about making money, but they don’t ever rap about the people that ain’t got shit. You rapping about a $100,000 dollar watch but these people can’t relate to that shit.”
Rich Boy on his subject matter<< XXL April 2007 “I don’t rap about things I know the average person ain’t done… Things that are so outrageous the average person can’t afford them. I know people can relate to me if I keep it on an averageperson level.”
>>Young Buck on album sales OZONE March 2007 “In my opinion, even if I didn’t sell one record my first week, I’m already successful, man. Honestly, with all respect to every nigga who quotes his numbers in sales, I’m looking to pretty much shock myself. I don’t know what I’m gonna sell. The anticipation of Buck is strong. I’m just looking to outdo my last numbers. In my last first week I did like 270,000 and I think the streets want me to do more. I think I’m gonna do way more than that.”
Young Buck on album sales<< XXL May 2007 “I’ma outsell 50 and everybody at this point. What I done realized is the streets understand who I am now. And there’s more people than I would ever thought would understand who I am. So it’s exciting for me to actually see, you know, what my true numbers is gon’ be, as far as sales from my album. But I can honestly say that I’m going to outsell everybody.”
>>Young Buck on 50 Cent OZONE March 2007 Young Buck: “I’m pretty good at voicing my opinion and I said it to 50, ‘Yo my nigga, damn. Maybe you might be a little too hard on niggas.’”
Young Buck on 50 Cent<< XXL May 2007 Young Buck: “But I don’t agree with everything 50 does. I voice it to him, and he loves me for that. Because I’m a nigga that can say, ‘50, hey, man, I don’t think that was cool, what you did…’”
>>Mannie Fresh on Def Jam record label situation OZONE May 2007 Mannie Fresh: “My dream for Def Jam is this: It’s a label where you have a lot of artists and they don’t really know each other. They know of each other, but I want to really bring everybody together in unity and say, ‘Let’s take over this. Let’s be the next movement.’ It hasn’t been a label since the old school days that’s done that. Def Jam, they got a powerful roster. They got Ludacris, Rick Ross, Jeezy, Jay-Z - so if we could all get together collectively and go out there and get it, that would be some shit.”
Mannie Fresh on Def Jam record label situation<< Scratch July/August 2007 Mannie Fresh: “I just wanted to do something different with a label that ain’t been done in a long time. I’m looking for that next movement. I just feel like Def Jam got a whole bunch of talented artists but not all of them know each other - they know of each other. Why Jeezy gotta go on tour with somebody else while his family is here? They got Jeezy, Ludacris, Jay - that right there is a tour. They got the power to do it. I’m not saying nobody was thinking that way, but sometimes it takes another vision to say, ‘We gotta get together.’”
>>Baby Boy Da Prince on Hurricane Katrina OZONE November 2006 Baby Boy Da Prince: “I went without light. I went without food. We had to hustle up, break in stores, you know, we had to put our natural instincts on forthat situation.” >>Pimp C on resurrecting old school NY rappers OZONE February 2007 Pimp C: “And remember, on the [UGK] album, I got Big Daddy Kane and Kool G Rap on a song produced by Marley Marl. I’m trying to resurrect old school rappers from NY.”
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Baby Boy Da Prince on Hurricane Katrina<< XXL May 2007 Baby Boy Da Prince: “We didn’t have lights, gas, water or shelter. I had to take a bath in a fuckin’ pool!” Pimp C on resurrecting old school NY rappers<< Scratch March/April 2007 Pimp C: “It’s ironic that some boys from Texas had to be the ones to reach back and grab Marley Marl, Big Daddy Kane and Kool G Rap and put them on in ’07. .