PHYZIKAL CONTINUED: harvests the fruits of their labor. Who are you working with as far as features and production? The first producer I worked with down South was Jazze Pha, and I’ve worked with Drumma Boy and a few others. You’ll hear a lot of variety on the album. I’ve got Waka Flocka Flame and Roscoe Dash on a record. I’ve got Jazze Pha on there, Dream on there, and my homie Bohagon on there. There’s a lot of people. I’ve got a cut from back in the day with Yelawolf. Beyond the music, what are your goals? I just want people to know that I’m a man first. I’ve got family problems, I’ve got out-here-hustling problems. Everything that other people are going through, this is what I represent. So I try not to have my music be put into one category. We need to get back to the element of music, because people need that right now. We’re living in a real fucked-up nation. We’re in the path of Babylon and Rome right here in America. I think this is like food for the soul right now; good music. Just giving the people good music about different topics. That’s what I want my fans to know. You’re comparing America to Rome and Babylon from more of a spiritual perspective or economic? Economic. When you abuse something for so long, one day it will wear out. It’s like your car. If you don’t service it in the proper order, it’s going to break down on you. If you take care of it, it’s going to take care of you. We ain’t been taking care of ourselves. I hear you have a reputation for snatching rappers’ chains. What’s that about? Yeah, I wouldn’t say I’m “known” for chainsnatching, but a couple of chains done got possessed, you know what I’m saying? A couple of chains got too heavy for a nigga’s neck. That’s what happened. Give us a hint. I mean, niggas know what it is. I’m not going to incriminate myself but niggas know what it is. With a couple of them, it was real personal. What did you do with the chains, sell them? We just parlayed them around. We did a little bit of everything with a lot of niggas’ shit, feel me? It was just a respect thing. A couple of niggas had disrespected me. But beyond that, we need to really be talking about some real shit in 2012.
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Do you think the world is going to end in 2012? I don’t think it’s going to end because it’s already been over with. That’s how I feel. We’ve got a black president in this shit so it must be going under. They’re letting us become presidents now? It’s time to get the fuck up out of here. (laughs) I want to put that in the music – tell niggas about politics. Tell niggas how to raise their kids. They’ve got these bad ass kids that don’t want to listen and don’t want to go to school. They don’t even go outside and play no more, they just play video games and sit in front of the computer. That’s what the fuck niggas need to be rapping about. Instead niggas are out here dancing and shit, you feel me? We’ve got to understand the power of words. You feel like we’re speaking on the wrong things? I ain’t saying that. I’m just saying at a certain point in time, some niggas gotta be able to mount up. If nobody’s doing nothing but that jiggy dance shit we ain’t got nobody o mount up. A lot of niggas want the option to listen to some real shit but there’s nowhere for them to go, feel me? They stuck with this shit on whatever radio station listening to this nigga jiggy rapping all day long. I ain’t taking nothing away from nobody, but somebody’s got o bring some kind of sense into the community at the end of the day. Back in the day if you didn’t have a sense of loyalty or something, you’d get it from somebody that was in the neighborhood. A nigga in your neighborhood would put you on game, like the big homie. Niggas are looking at rappers now like the big homies, but rappers ain’t acting like the big homies. Niggas’ morals ain’t like the big homies. What’s your vision to give back to the community? I feel like people need to know themselves. A lot of people don’t know who they are. If Weezy has hot records and gets tatted up, then a thousand other niggas get tatted up to be like him. He’s doing the shit out of originality, just being himself. There’s just so much shit happening in Hip Hop that isn’t original. Muthafuckers out here acting like it but they ain’t really about that shit. So more self-awareness? Yeah. Like, even people that don’t rap. They’re over here trying to live somebody else’s life because they don’t really know themselves. They’re not going to find the natural-born talent within themselves because they’re not