patientlywaiting Cadillac Don & J Money Crawford, MS
HIT SINGLE “Peanut Butter & Jelly” LABEL Southern Boy/35-35 Entertainment BUSINESS BANKING Former NBA player Clarence Weatherspoon is the CEO of 35-35 Entertainment
Big Fruit: “The game is so political. Certain people want to have certain sounds in their club or on their stations. I know you gotta get your foot in the door, but once you do that you can play your cards right and say what you want.”
PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY? Big Fruit: “Basically we talking about the Chevys with the leather guts with the candy paint looking like jelly on the outside. I didn’t want to do at first. But they convinced me. So we made it catchy for the kids, but at the same time its street and grown folks can relate to it.”
INDEPENDENT’S DAY Big Fruit: “A lot of people don’t realize how big the independent scene is in Mississippi. If you throw a dime in the air you gonna hit a rapper on the head around here. It made it hard for us at first because everybody has their own clique so its hard to get support around here. But we getting love now after so many years.”
Cadillac Don: “People think we’re talking about that dance from Florida. We got love for them, but we talking about something completely different. Don’t get it confused.”
J-Money: “It was hard at first. We got neglected by a lot of people and had no support. We’re trying to show that Mississippi is just as universal as New York or Atlanta. We have a lot of dope artists in our state.”
FILLING A VOID Cadillac Don: “I think its missing a few things. But we got artists out there that’s still doing it like Common and Kanye. I think we bringing that kind of music and we adding on to what’s already going on out
Cadillac Don: “We got a variety of good songs and artists. When you hear our stuff you’ll know what we talking about.”
(l to r): producer Big Fruit, Cadillac Don, J Money
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there. But it’s hard to get DJs to play that type of music if you’re independent and trying to come up.”
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- Maurice G. Garland