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Interview with Mr.Serv-On
- 0:03 Upbringing near 6th & Baronne Uptown, the importance of those cross-streets, UNLV
- 3:06 Block parties in the neighborhood, importance to history of rap and bounce
- 4:53 Musicians in his neighborhood
- 6:35 On his early years of making music, early influences, his military career, his decision to pursue a career in music
- 11:13 Meeting KLC and MC Dart, Parkway Pumpin Records, hustling
- 15:23 Traveling to Oakland, California with Master P, Mia X, and KLC. Early Parkway Pumpin’ days, early shows, growing up with Master P and his brothers, how he got his stage name
- 23:30 The Miller brothers (Master P, C-Murder, Silkk, Kevin), the importance of basketball, Kevin’s murder
- 27:17 C-Murder’s possible release and murder sentence
- 30:00 Early No Limit successes, his track on the Substitute soundtrack, the first track Master P says “unhh” on, Parkway Pumpin/No Limit tactics, Master P’s freestyling, “Im Bout It, Bout It,” Ice Cream Man, importance of KLC to No Limit’s success
- 39:45 Getting New Orleans radio play, violence, Tupac, Biggie
- 43:09 No Limit recording studios, game plan, the move to Baton Rouge
- 47:27 Racism, discrimination against them in Baton Rouge, living in the Baton Rouge Country Club
- 51:54 Why No Limit chose to relocate to Baton Rouge
- 54:00 No Limit vs. Cash Money, no rivalry, media
- 57:52 Serv-On’s Life Insurance album, violence, youth violence, codes
- 1:03:45 Impact of violence on the music, new artists, complacency, Hurricane Katrina, influence of New Orleans artists
- 1:17:26 On being in Texas for Katrina, losing his mother in the Superdome, reconnecting with his family, decimation of New Orleans post-Katrina
