Typical Rapper Interview Responses....

[FreshAIG]

Hustle Crow shyt got me crying

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Interviewer : I'm here with INK...
INK : Thats I.N.K...not ink...
Interviewer: I.N.K?
INK : Ignorant nikka Killah
Interviewer: Ok...well..we are here so first of all..what is that you are wearing
INK : (Holds up fake gold chain) You talking about the chain?
Interviewer : I was referring to the purple and orange polka dots shirt you have on
INK : Yeah...yeah that is from my clothing line P.O.E
Interviewer : POE? Like...poor?
INK : yeah, we POE...Polo Over Everything

Interviewer: right and those guys say they never got paid, and the label says they didn't get paid cause you only sold 61k units that year...
INK: nah man they had it in for me I sold at least 100k...the way they count albums...man it's all funny...like...and the way people by albums...like if there is a family of 5 one of them will by the album and all of them will listen to it...so really I sold 5 albums but I only get credit for the one...that is how record labels jip you out of money
Interviewer:

your post is long, but people can't miss these gems

 

[Brother Jheri Curl X]

In honor of the 15th anniversary of his classic, we give you a behind the scenes look at
MC Slap'EmAwl - Open Handed.

1. WHAT'CHA LOOKIN' AT?
Slap: "This was da jump off, yo. This was just how I was feelin' at the time. Anybody coulda got slapped;
I was givin' no fuccs. I used to perform this 3 times a show, but I had to stop after what happened to ol' girl
in Detroit."

2. I'M LOOKIN' AT YOU, NICCA!
Slap: "It seemed like the natural thing to put this after the first song. It was to let niccas know that no matter
what they was lookin' at, I still wasn't givin' a fucc! I was wild in dem days..."

3. BACK HAND SIDE
Slap: "Yeah, the single...I called it that because I was hittin' niccas with all kinda stylie-lees, yo."

4. FEEL ME
Thuggest Thug: "Slap can't talk about this one. It's real personal for him. Daddy used to slap Mama up,
and he didn't know how to deal as a shorty. He was worried that he was becoming like Daddy was.
He did the whole record in one take and dipped from the studio. We never talked about it again."

5. WHAT ABOUT YA GIRL?
Slap: "This was the joint for DA HOES, mayne! Because the beat was so hard, people thought I was
comin' at 'em like regular slappin'...but if you listen, I was talmbout asses! My music got levels, son!
Im a artist! And yeah, that was New Edition on there. Every once in a while, a lady will come up and
tell me they lost their virginity to this cut. I be like "Word...that's what's up."

6. CAN YOU SLAP IT LIKE THIS?
Diddy: "I saw Slap in the club doin' this dance, and it was hot. I told him don't stop. Because I knew that given
the same cirumstances, I would not stop...because I can't stop. Uh-uh. Ioneven know where I got the beat from,
i'm just a talented man."

Slap: "I never liked this chit, but everybody was makin' dance records and it sold mad ringtones. I bet that nicca
Puff gon' tell you he did that track. It ain't nothin' but a slowed down version of that Technotronic cut (ed.: "Move This")
with some guitar plucks on it. I had to pay almost half of the single money to them."

7. TALES OF THE SLAPPED
Slap: "It's just real chit, mayne...real stories about how I was livin'. The truth."
A.D.A. Hyman Rabinowitz: "We were building a case against Mr. Slap'emawl for multiple assaults, using this
recording as tesimony. We were unable to convict him because he plead self-defense, and he sang this song
from the viewpoint of the alleged victims...his testimony was corroborated by the evidence."

8. OPEN HANDED
Slap: "I was goin' through some thangs when I wrote this. But when I did, I knew this would be the title track.
As a community, we gotta check ourselves if we ever want things to get better. So this was like my slap in the face to wake us up.
And really, sometimes we open our hands to each other not to slap - but to welcome."

Mrs. Slap: "Slap wrote this song in the hospital when I was in labor with our daughter. It only took 15 minutes.
He didn't have any paper, he just wrote it on my bedsheets. I got 'em in a box in the attic...I never felt so close to him."

9. OPEN HANDED REMIX (featuring Mos Def, Cheese Grits, & Busta Rhymes)
Slap: "As you know, my label (Hands On) was being distributed by Priority records. So I had to have Mos on there,
and Cheese was my artist, so I wanted him to shine. But to this day - I HAVE NO IDEA how Busta got on this joint, son."

10. OPEN HANDS TO THE SKY
Slap: "I was raised in the church, so I had to do a gospel cut to give it up to Jah-Jah! I was mad at Jada because I had
the sample first (ed: Sounds Of Blackness - "Optimistic"), but his album came out first. It was all good doe, we chopped up
a different part and made more gutter. It's gutter-gospel. Nobody was really doin' that. Well, Pac was, but he died.
I thought it was a good way to end."

 

[labelplant]

i read all these interviewers with the sway voice

I was thinking Charlemagne lol..

I gotta say some of the replies are comedy gold but aren't REALLY things rappers say all the time, IMO. Because of that I was actually reading them in gangstalicious voice (pause, jic)

I give y'all props, I'm cracking up, guess I'm not the only one who marathons random rapper interviews on YouTube

 

[Grizzly]

Interviewer: So what was your upbringing like?

Rapper: well you know my upbringing is just like any other rapper haha. Grew up in the slums, single mom, no pops around but my mom did the best she could you know. Section 8, welfare, but we made the best of it. Going through that and being raised by my mother taught me a lot about having the utmost respect for women. It takes a lot to raise a man especially me but she did a good job. Salutes to ma dukes man Word.

Interviewer: I feel that.. I definitely feel that. So what was the writing process for your new street single "Thots On My Dikk" and the b-side "Dikk Long, Money Long"?

Rapper: Well you know I just get in the stu and the producer throws the beat on u feel me? and I just catch this wave like..word..I just catch a wave and words just start comin to me out of no where. I swear it be like magic man once that happens I just go in the booth and let God in haha...shouts to Hov man..And since we talkin bout Hov just to let yall know I don't write. Just thought Id throw that in there. I don't even allow pens in the studio. One take and I'm done with it. Throw another beat on cause my time cost money. shyt just be effortless to a nikka like me u feel me? It be funny cause I work with new producers and they be like "when this nikka gon pull his pen out" but I be havin to tell them nah I do this shyt hands free .

Interviewer: cooool. cool. Effortless huh? So you don't mind freestyling for us then? DJ Scare-A-Rapper throw a beat on.

Rapper: Well you know i been doing a lot of press plus I just got off the plane.. jet lag. You know. *checks phone* aww man my Grandma just got into an accident in her MMA class. Nikkas had her in an arm bar and broke her elbow in 3 places. Sorry but i cant freestyle. next time man. my bad.

Interviewer: I'm sorry to hear that. Do you wanna do a verse from the single at least? Just give us a 16 or somethin man. Recite the Pledge Of Allegiance haha, just give us anything.

Rapper: *checks phone again* Aww man I just got da text. my dog just got shot in a drive-by. Nah not my mans and 'nem. my actual pet dog. See what ya'll dont understand is I'm a street nikka so I dont got time to be freestylin. Real situations go on in these streets so I dont be havin time to work on my craft like these other lyrical miracle azz rappers. My whole day is fukked up behind this shyt now. Sorry but I cant freestyle today. Maybe next time shyt will be less hectic. :mjplgl: RIP Lil Fido.

Interviewer: No doubt. Next time man. Tell the people where they can find you.

Rapper: @dikkcnormous that's @dikk - the letter c - normous on Instagram and Twitter and catch us at Club Eclipse tonight man we gon be turnin up in there

Interviewer:

 

[How Sway?]

DJ Envy: So whats the deal with you and (Insert Video Vixen)? There was some pictures of you two at the 40/40 bar last night. And Yall looked like yall was gettin a lil cozy with eachotha.

Charlamange: We know you hittin that shyt

rapper: Nah man We just cool, nahmean were just friends We met thru a mutual homie of mine since childhood and we kicked it and took it from there

Charlamange: Oh you 'took it from there' huh? Okay, so what that thang smell like ?

Angela Yee: Come on Charlamange

rapper: *chuckles* nah man we just cool, it aint even like that, nahmsayin, she cool peoples though. I fux wit her

Charlamange: Nah You dont just "fux wit her" You fukkking Her

DJ Envy:this nikka stupid.

Angela Yee: Alright next topic......

 

[NotaPAWG]

Hustle Crow shyt got me crying

same, that entire post is so spot on. and

9. OPEN HANDED REMIX (featuring Mos Def, Cheese Grits, & Busta Rhymes)
Slap: "As you know, my label (Hands On) was being distributed by Priority records. So I had to have Mos on there,
and Cheese was my artist, so I wanted him to shine. But to this day - I HAVE NO IDEA how Busta got on this joint, son."

 

[GollyImGully]

INTERVIEWER: So Tell us about your writing technique? How do you make your songs?

RAPPER: I dont write lyrics down man. whatever you heard on *names last datpiff exclusive mixtape* was just me going in the booth and just speaking my mind.


INTERVIEWER: Something like what Jay-Z or lil wayne does?

RAPPER: yeah something like that man. im cut from the cloth of the greats man so its only right I dont write my shyt. it comes from just living life. all facts in my bars




INTERVIEWER: Who do you have on the "the streets is mine vol 2?" Any surprises?

RAPPER: Man imma keep it real with you i dont really fukk with cats like that man. these nikkas industry while im in the streets, ya feel me? if it aint *names 3 randoms nikkas from his block* then i dont fukk with you. you can expect the whole *name drops imaginary rap label/crew* to be on this joint for sure

 

[duckbutta]

** Week before album drops**




Rapper: We puttin numbers on the board for Def Jam with this next one! Shout out to my nikka Pusha T! King Push, I see you! It's called "Lemmon Quaaludes" cuz when you hear it you just gonna get retarded! I'm on my "Wolf of Wallstreet" shyt. Gettin money like dat nikka!

Rapper:

 

[Tommy Knocks]

Rapper: ...I mean, a lot of these rap cats is basically frontin. Anyone that knows me knows I'm for real. I'm not for play. I'm in the streets all day except for when I got an interview or a show. So my rhymes reflect my lifestyle. You know I'm certified and authentic. That's why the album named "Ways of a Thug"

Interviewer: Word, word. So what's the best way to reach you.

Rapper: Well I got a blog, words-of-a-thug.wordpress.com, or you can hit me up on twitter @DatThug, or facebook.com/thuginthesestreets or even on instagram at stillathug, I got a page on Pinterest too...just search for "thug interests", or holla at me on Google+ forward slash "dont-test-a-thug".

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Why am I reading these in Busta Rhymes and Thugnificant voices with Envy as the interviewer.

 

[Tommy Knocks]

On beef with actual thugs:

"These nikkas dont know I run these fukking streets, I'm a muthafukkin real nikka, Imma GAWD outchea, they want some problems, they can come get it crackin with the GAWD. Call me YOUNG GAWD in this bytch, I part seas nikka, GAWDNIFICANT"

**gets shot 3 times in the chest, once in the leg, bullet grazes the side of his face**

"You know, GOD was on my side, GOD had other plans for me, by the grace of GOD I'm still here. I just wanna give a special shout outs to GOD"

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( insert westcoast rapper)

interviewer: You been making a lot of noise lately, hot new single, putting the westcoast on the map, tell us more about that....

westcoast rapper: Yea man, you know, we aint really got no one out here, I feel like I'm the only one representing the westcoast right now.....carrying the whole coast on my back, you feel me? doing what I gotta do to represent.

interview: oh word, so who you got featuring on the mixtape?

westcoast rapper: Snoop, Dre came through with a few heaters, got Odd future on there, K.Dot on a hit banger, Jay Rock, Whole TDE squad on like half the tape actually, Nipsey, The Game, you know we actually touring together in 3 months, my nikka Tyga, Lil B, Shout outs to the BasedGod, you know, a whole fleet of westcoast artists.

 

[ThaRealness]

Question: What rappers are you listening to?

Answer: I don't listen to rap

This is some shyt Rick Ross would say. Such a high level of one-upmanship

 

[WOAHMYGOODNESS]

This is some shyt Rick Ross would say. Such a high level of one-upmanship

Kanye said he didnt listen to rap in his house

 

[Tommy Knocks]

Nardwuar: I’m Nardwuar the human serviette and I’m hear with —

**points microphone in his face**

Rapper: What’s up, it’s ya boy Hustle Crowe, fresh off the streets of Baltimore aka Bodymore!

Nardwuar: Hustle Crowe, welcome to Vancouver, British Columbia.

Rapper: Appreciate that homie.

Nardwuar: So, Hustle Crowe, tell us about your music.

Rapper: Well, I’m a street nikka first and foremost. Slangin, shootouts, had broads on the strip, all that. I was never no musical type of dude, but, about a year ago, I started rhyming for fun and my peoples encouraged me to do it cuz they said I’m gonna end up dead if I keep trying to get this street money. So I dropped a mixtape and we just started killin the streets, feel me?

Nardwuar: Tell us about your father.

Rapper: Well, uh, pops was, uh, you know he —

Nardwuar: He was a concert pianist and a producer for Frank Zappa!

Rapper: Yooooo! How’d you know that? That’s crazy, fam! Damn, you gotta be with the FBI or something (laughs) Yeah, man pops was crazy.

Nardwuar: Well, Hustle, I have something for you here.


** Nardwuar pulls out Xeroxed poster**


Nardwuar: It’s a talent show poster that you were in back at Institut Le Rosey, a boarding school in Switzerland.

Rapper: Wow! Damn, you crazy, man, you — you really did your research. Yeah, I went to boarding school cuz my parents didn’t want me to end up dying in the hood, feel me? And, you know I had to holla at them Swiss hoes out there

Nardwuar: And in that talent show, you and three friends did a cover of Coldplay's "Fix You”

Rapper: Damn, Nard, you crazy as hell! You just, uh, you --you--you just be doin ya research don't you? Yeah, you know, just wylin’ trying to, uh, do what we had to do, feel me? That’s part of being a hustler, you know? Knowing your environment and just, uh, just doing what it takes to survive, feel me?

Nardwuar: Speaking of survival, I found some old photos —

Rapper: Yo, not to cut you off but I gotta bounce, soon fam.

Nardwuar: But, wait, tell us the significance of this!

**Nardwuar pulls out a polaroid of Hustle Crowe smiling and hugged up with Barbara Streisand**

Rapper: Yoooo! That’s crazy that you even have that!

Hustle Crowe.

 

[labelplant]

this is true of any music profession tho

I don't watch/ listen/read to a lot of interviews from other genres but in my experience this is
true. However the thread title isn't "Interview Responses ONLY Typical to Rappers"..