patientlywaiting Al Gator Atlanta, GA
REPRESENTING College Park STATUS Indie (signed to Black Ice Music) COSIGNER Kool G Rap COLLABORATORS Too $hort, The Game, Young Jeezy PRODUCTION The Alchemist, Focus (Aftermath Ent.), Anthony Dent, Midi Mafia, Mr. DJ from Organized Noise, Kanye West, Nitti, Justus League, Rick Rock ROLLING WITH THE RIGHT CIRCLES “My brother owned the label and started the crew Playaz Circle (I-20, Lil’ Fate, Tity Boy, and Dolla Boy) back before they started rolling with Ludacris and became DTP. I was just doing production and one day I started freestyling in the studio and everybody said I was dope and should rap. So I left the beats alone. I’ve only been rapping for two years.” GETTING THE HOOK-UP “All these producers have been giving me beats for my mixtapes. I’m getting a lot of free shit, that’s all that is in a nutshell. But my album is
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gonna be nuts, because I got every heavy-hitting producer in the game wanting to be a part of what I’m doing. It’s a head start but at the same time it could work against me because people expect you to do good when you got them type of muthafuckas around you. It kinda evens out.” MIXING IT UP “I have a [DJ Drama] Gangsta Grillz mixtape coming out in December and I got a [DJ Smallz] Southern Smoke coming after that. I’m working on a West Coast mixtape, and I got one in Texas I’m about to drop. I’m about to drop 5 mixtapes. It’s to the point where every region has been jumping on it. Everybody done heard what’s going on and everybody wants to hear me. And it’s not just because I’m from the South, I have to credit it to my individuality too.” THE INTERNATIONAL GRIND “I’m recording every night. I don’t want to sound too arrogant, but I’m doing at least four or five songs every day. I have more of a buzz in the United Kingdom and Australia. The overseas crowd grabs you more, they grab on to new things faster over there. Over here [in the United States] there is a lot of competition, so it just depends on what niggas want to hear.” - Maurice Garland (photo: Katching Casez)