What’s the name of your new album? Don P: Trillville Reloaded. It’s goin’ down.
Don P: You talkin’ about the issue with Pimp C on the cover, right? All I gotta say is that when Pimp C gets out, that shit is gonna be on!
Walk me through some of the songs on the album. What’s the concept of the songs, and who’s featured on them? L.A.: Well, the intro is us three lettin’ you know that we’ve been gone and now we back. We’re household names now cause of “Some Cut,” and we just tryin’ to let people know where we been and where we tryin’ to take you.
Do we have features from the rest of the BME family on this album? Dirty Mouf: Yeah, we got E-40, Lil J from Crime Mob, and Lil Jon, of course.
After the intro, what’s the first song on the album? Don P: ”Speak Nothin’ Less,” produced by ya boy Don P. Doin’ it real big. I think Dirty Mouf’s verse on this song is one of the hottest verses on the album. Y’all gotta check that song out, that shit is jammin’. It’s off the chain so make sure y’all get that. Number three is the “Yeah” song with Three 6 Mafia. You know, it’s my trademark “Yeah.” I had it on the first album, the Trillville/Scrappy album. They was all asking why I say “Yeah.” How is it different than the Lil Jon “Yeah”? Don P: (demonstrates the difference between his “Yeah!” and Lil Jon’s “Yeah!”) Then I got the “A” and the “Yeah’s” that I’ve had for years, but niggas try to take my “Yeah’s.” Do you consider crunk music to be hip-hop, or do you feel like it’s something totally different? L.A.: Crunk music is its own general character, ya feel what I’m sayin’? That’s what it is. Crunk is crunk. So if somebody up North was like, “Oh, I don’t fuck with Trillville, that’s not real hip-hop,” what would you say? Dirty Mouf: Sounds good to me! That’s crunk! Don P: I mean, I love hip-hop, man. I’m a DJ too so of course I play hiphop records. DJ Corleone. Do y’all listen to East coast artists? Don P: Oh, yeah, for sure. I mean, I love Jadakiss. Dirty Mouf: Wu-Tang. L.A.: Shawn Carter, holla at ya boy. What do you think about 50 Cent battling Jadakiss and Fat Joe? Don P: Shit, they doin’ they thing. Dirty Mouf: Doin’ they thug thizzle. L.A.: Definitely. Don P: They rappin’ on records and they doin’ it good, fa sure.
How many tracks did you produce for this album? Don P: I think I only did two on this album cause I’m saving my tracks for Trilltown Entertainment. Besides, Lil Jon is the king. Fuck that. Go ‘head, Jon. How exactly did you get the sound effects of the creaking bedspring for “Some Cut”? Dirty Mouf: We was at L.A.’s house and, you know, we just had the recorder up under the bed and it went down. So you were all in the room together? Don P: Nah, we had slipped it up under the bed and he ain’t even know it was in there. I don’t know if I believe that. It sounds a little too crisp on the record. Don P: Anything can be done in the studio. It wasn’t really even intended to be used on a song. IT was gonna be a “skeet” but then Jon was like, “We need to get that on a song.” So we put it in the beginning, and there it was. So you guys are getting a lot more cut now. Don P: I’ve been gettin’ cut. L.A.: Yeah, ain’t nothing changed but the range, you know? Speaking of cuttin’, I heard there was a mixtape coming out about Don P and your, uh, bedroom habits. Don P: Yeah, yeah. There’s a little mixtape. AIn’t nobody really paying attention to it, so I don’t really wanna blow it up. I ain’t even gonna respond to it. It’s a lot of mixtapes where people try to single me out, I guess because I be doin’ some crazy shit other than just rappin’. I be producing and all that shit, and niggas just try to call me out for some reason. Everybody knows what the real is. When I take my shit to the streets, then niggas wanna change their minds and shit so I’d rather just not even speak on it. A lot of niggas got mixtapes out about us. That shit don’t mean shit, cause niggas ain’t makin’ no money off it. I come out with my own CD about me and it’ll sell more than these niggas talkin’ ‘bout me.
“The hood ain’t cool. A lot of people try to make it seem like staying in the ghetto is cool, but that’s where a lot of people are forced to be. Once you get that chance to move out the hood, that’s what you do.” - Don P
Are y’all on good terms with everyone right now, or are we gonna hear any diss records on this album? Don P: I doubt it. Ya know, if I’m gonna diss somebody, I try to bring it to the streets if it’s a real problem. I really don’t want to waste my time, but you might hear something from me on a mixtape or something if I’m just trying to warn a nigga.
When y’all were beefing with Lil Scrappy last year, he made a comment that y’all were from the suburbs to diss you. Dirty Mouf: Everybody from the suburbs. Can’t be in the hood too long. Don P: Your whole goal is to get out the hood. The hood ain’t cool. A lot of people try to make it seem like staying in the ghetto is cool, but that’s where a lot of people are forced to be. Once you get that chance to move out the hood, that’s what you do. You can always go back to your hood. I always ride back through my hood. But where am I gonna park my truck with 26’s at? Not in the hood! That shit gon’ get stolen. How long have you had the name Trillville? Forever. As long as we can remember. There’s a lot of people using that term. There’s Webbie and Boosie’s label Trill Entertainment, Treal from Mississippi with Reese & Bigalow, the group Treal from Orlando… Don P: That’s the originators of trill, Bun B and Pimp C, that’s they thing so of course they gonna have a label called Trill. But we got Trilltown Entertainment. The group Treal had some comments about you guys in the last issue of OZONE. Do you have a response to that article?
What’s the first project coming from your label Trilltown? Don P: We’ve got the Trilltown Mafia coming out this summer. That’s Montay C, Big Mill, and T-3. Trilltown Mafia will be out this summer. There’s been a good response to them already. Do they have the same type of sound as Trillville? Don P: It’s a lot of the same, but a little different. They still in high school, so they crazy cool. So it’s kinda like when y’all first came out. Don P: Nah, kinda like Crime Mob, but a lil’ different. I did the beats, so you kinda get a little chance to feel my vibe. Is that an independent project, or are you doing it through BME? Don P: Yeah, we’ll probably set it up so it’ll come out through BME and Warner Brothers. Anything else you want to say? Dirty Mouf: Trillville Reloaded coming real soon: June 21st. L.A.: New album, new album, new album. Don P: Shouts to my boy Eric from BME with the shirts and the shades. He do a lot more than that too, but this is what I like the most besides him callin’ me, wakin’ me up at six to catch a flight. OZONE Magazine, we got the cover, yeah! - Interview and photos by Julia Beverly OZONE JUNE 2005
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