CONCRETE - Nashville 57 by CONCRETE Magazine

concrete615.com 6-8 ....................... Mobb Deep 12 .............................. DJ GB 13 ...............Producer: The Fam 14 ................... Music Reviews 18 ............. Nashville 10: Tori Ford 22 ............... Skater: Shawn Seibert 24 ...............Promoter: Eric Holt 29 ....... Why Sole Serious - Shoe Game 28-30 ................ Bezzeled Gang Publisher: Capo Ad Executive: Capo Art Director: Rex2-tm Nash 10 Photography: Tavell Brown Nash MUA - Sherry “FancyFace” Waller Photography: Tavell Brown Photos provided by: Visual Flavour Publishing Consultant: Bryan Deese

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CONCRETE: Whats your favorite song off the new album? Havoc: Well I’m biased, I would say it’s all the joints I produced. Prodigy: I think one of my favorites is “Timeless”. It’s a dope joint. The reason it is my favorite is the concept of the song. It’s saying, ‘We still here, still doing what we do. Music is timeless.’ CONCRETE: Who was your favorite feature to work with on this album? Havoc: I would have to say Mac Wilds. He got that energy and he was a cool young brother. Prodigy: I would have to say the Lox. This is our first time we did a song together. It was dope. Kiss reached out to me cause they actually wanted us on they new album. After that we sent them a record for our album. It was a favor for a favor type of thing. CONCRETE: Is independent the way to go? Prodigy: Indie is definitely a must, but it’s also good to make other deals as well. This is business so you make endorsement deals, make other deals here and there and keep other things independent. We are going to continue doing good business cause that is what it’s all about. CONCRETE: What are the pros and cons of the music industry today? Prodigy: The cons, I would say it’s easy to get caught up in the hype of radio and what’s main stream. It’s easy to lose yourself. I see a lot of young artists getting caught up in trends, wearing the same things, talking the same slang. Nobody is different anymore. Havoc: The pros is you can get your music out way faster than back in the days with the internet and social networks. CONCRETE: Havoc you have produced some classic records. Where did you get that passion to be a producer? Havoc: Basically back in the days when we started doing music, we didn’t have the budget to acquire other producers, cause they would try and charge a bunch of bread. So we went ahead and got our own equipment, and I just started making beats from there. I was kind of making primitive beats before that with double cassette tapes. I just always had that producer in me. But at first, we were forced to make our own music. CONCRETE: What’s one of your favorite records you produced? Havoc: Man that’s hard there is a lot of them from Lil Kim to Biggie. That “Last Day” joint was pretty special for me. I also like that “187” joint by 50cent. CONCRETE: What programs do you use and do you play any instruments? Havoc: I use a lot of Native instruments and The Machine. I don’t actually play any live instruments but I did teach my self to play the key board by ear. continued on next page

CONCRETE: Prodigy you struggle with sickle cell. Does that affect your touring? What precautions do you have to take? Prodigy: I have to drink lots of water and make sure I eat as healthy as possible on the road. With Sickle Cell you have to really watch your diet, take vitamins and take care of yourself. CONCRETE: Let’s go back, What was your thoughts when you heard 2Pac diss you on a record? Prodigy: The first thing that came to my mind was rage. I wanted to go in the studio and retaliate. At that time, me personally, I wasn’t a 2Pac fan. He had some dope records, but we were in our zone at that moment so we didn’t give a fuck about nobody. We had Mobb Deep tunnel vision. We already had hit records out, we was world touring, Infamous was gold and this dude was poppin’ shit, so it was like retaliation is a must. We need to go back at this guy right now. Who the fuck he think he is? Havoc: I was like ‘why?’ I never met him before, and I don’t remember us ever saying anything about him. My first reaction was ‘where did that come from?’ but at the same time it was kind of cool, cause he was big and if we are on someone’s radar like that it can only help. CONCRETE: You have worked with some of the greats. Is there any artist you haven’t worked with that you would like to? Havoc: I would like to do a song with Kanye. Prodigy: I would say Jay-Z. CONCRETE: Really? Is that something that might happen? Prodigy: I don’t know, when you get that interview ask him. CONCRETE: If you could go back in time what’s some advice you would give yourself? Prodigy: I would tell myself to be a little more humble. When I was younger I was wild. I would fly off the handle. I would tell my younger self to chill out a little bit. Havoc: Pretty much the same. But I don’t regret anything from the past that I did cause it brought me to where I’m at now. I guess I would tell myself to stay grounded. CONCRETE: Where do you see yourself in the next 20 years? Havoc: Man, ill be like 60. Im going to say all the way to the top. You know life is so crazy and new things come about daily but I know one thing I will still be doing music, I can tell you that. Prodigy: I can see us at the Grammys at sixty. I can finally see them saying, ‘OK you guys get some Grammys now.’ CONCRETE: What is next for Mobb Deep? Prodigy: More music, more touring. This doesn’t stop, this is our life. We don’t have nothing else to do. CHECK OUT THE EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVIEW AND FOOTAGE OF MOBB DEEP IN NASHVILLE AT:

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CONCRETE: Where are you from? DJ GB: I’m from Indianapolis, Indiana and I’ve been in Nashville for 5 years now. I originally came down to go to Fisk University. I’ve always done music so once I graduated I just knew I wanted to DJ and stay here. CONCRETE: Who are some of your DJ inﬂuences? DJ GB: I have four, DJ Don Juan, of course who use to be Young Bucks DJ, DJ Art another dj in the city, Million Dollar Mano which is Kanye West DJ, and DJ Champ he’s from Indianapolis. CONCRETE: How would you categorize yourself as a DJ? I don’t know. I want to say I’m everything, I can do clubs, I can do mixtapes. A lot of people say their, “real DJs” but don’t know the different aspects of it. I can say that I’ve really sat and taken the time to learn the craft of DJing, I can DJ all genres I can do edm, rap, country, and gospel just because I’ve sat and learned it. If I had to categorize myself I would say I’m the Kobe Bryant of DJs. I just have a passion for it, I love DJing. CONCRETE: What do you have coming up for the summer? DJ GB: I got a project that I worked on that Keemo V dropped called Too Sedated Sedated, also Treated Tribe a group that I’m in dropped an album it’s on itunes and they have a clothing line with Stussy that’s coming out this summer, Good Weed Good People with DJ Money Green I’m deejaying and hosting that. I got a mash up project coming out with an artist called Ye Ali and it’s called Drugs & Jodeci Jodeci, I mashed his album together and Jodeci’s album together. It’s gonna be on fakesure drive and all the major outlets and that’s coming out this summer too, I’m working on some stuff with Dee Goodz as well. CONCRETE: How do you feel about the independent artist here, are you playing, or helping break records? DJ GB: I can say I’m helping break records because of the simple fact I really have a good relationship with a lot of the underground artist here. Either I deejayed a set for them, or I played their music. There’s so much good music in Nashville that people really don’t pay attention too because they don’t have the cosign from somebody major. I like the underground artist here because their hungry. They want to work, they want to be heard oppose to the people that already made it, their just kind of comfortable. A few artist that I’ll ride for is Brown, Nathan Grey, Keemo V, Young Qual, Sean Michael, Petty, Kaby, Lit, Loco, and Rikki Blu. Every person I talk to I always mention one of them if the situation is right. Nashville is really next, I can honestly sit here and say comfortably that Nashville is really the next major thing that’s about to happen to music.

CONCRETE: You recently produced the Drake record “Draft Day”.””. Did you make the beat with him in mind? Ducko: No not really any artist in mind, we had just been discussing different things we can do to make our beats stand out in a certain way, as soon as it was made we knew we had something dope but we just didn’t know where it would end up, fast forward a couple weeks and we have one of the hottest releases on the internet. CONCRETE: You sampled Lauren Hill’s song “Doo Wop” for the beat and their is a video of her spitting a verse to it, how does that feel? Syk: I can’t explain that feeling! To come up listening to and to admire that music and us using it to create and express how it inspired us! And then for her to reuse what she inspired us to do! It’s unbelievable! Ducko: Man it as crazy seeing that video, its just a real humbling experience hearing somebody of the stature of Lauren using our version of such a classic record. I wish i could tell her thank you, because those kind of feelings are rare. CONCRETE: You guys recently moved to ATL, do you feel in Nashville you can only go so far and you have to leave to take it to the next level? Syk: Naw I believe there’s a way there to! I mean to be honest draft day was created in Nashville! We didn’t have to leave but in ATL we met so many new and amazing individuals even before draft day! We were there just working and experiencing the music and the culture! We’re here now building prolly gonna go to LA and do the same and go to NY and do the same just to get my own feel of each place! Ducko: Anybody who knows me knows that my heart is forever in Nashville, and I am ﬁnding ways to bring what I have attained in ATL to Nashville and vice versa, expose some of Nashville’s talent to those that I have been able to work with in Atlanta. It just came down to the fact of we are in the studio daily now with some of the biggest guys in the game and that just isn’t available in

Nashville yet. It wasn’t about moving to become better, but more like leaving the house to go hunt, but when we come back to Nashville we gonna make sure we can feed the family. CONCRETE: Who is part of the production team The Fam? Syk: SykSense, Ducko Mcﬂi, DJ FU. CONCRETE: Ducko are you still working on your own music? Ducko: I currently have switched 100% focus on production, I am still writing hooks and stuff occasionally but for now I have to focus on the blessings at hand, when the time is right we gonna drop some new stuff but when I come back rapping its gonna be right or ill stick with production. CONCRETE: Any shout outs? Syk: Shout out to my family! They hold me down! Shout out to the man above watching our backs and setting us straight! Thank You Lord! My moms just know I’m working! I’m gonna bring home that Grammy, and that plaque! Ducko: Man too many names, just everybody who has been apart of this journey, every body who has helped me move forward and all the artist who have kept our name circulating through the streets by making great songs to our production. This is just for the family, I wanna make sure that i can take care of everything one day. That’s my goal.

G-Side - Gz II Godz

Now the moment G-Side fans have been waiting for. The group (S.T. 2 Lettaz and Yung Clova) reunite to deliver us this brilliant piece of work called Gz II Godz. Production on the album is handled by Block Beattaz almost in full, meaning there is not one track that won’t keep your trunk rattling and head bobbing. The single “Statue” is clearly a way of G-Side letting you know they are Huntsville legends and deserve that recognition. Another single “2004” starts off with a smooth Jazz sample and the group quickly directs their attention to these haters saying they stopped smoking with them in 2004 while the piano loops, female vocals harmonize and the synth lingers in the back ground, you can’t help but to feel like lighting up. Over all the album has a transey soulful futuristic feel to it and the fellas compliment every track. G-Side has seemed to grow as not only artist but as men as well. You can not only hear this in the stories they deliver but you can feel that hunger and passion in almost every song. Always a head of the curve G-Side seems to be on the next wave of what is to be called southern hiphop. Classic album!

Bezzeled Gang - Big Bang Theory 2

The Gang is back with another BANGer. The project starts with the song 1min, a hard hitting beat that captures your attention immediately. The track is a introduction for the people who may not be familiar and a reminder for those who are that Bezzeled Gang has been here. The Gang went back to their roots on this project and delivered us a dose of reality rap. The song “Too Much” lets you know that the struggle is far from over. They speak on everything from family deaths,hustling to pay bills,lupus,Cancer and everything else that comes with the struggle the four fellas pour their heart out, and you can’t help but to feel their pain. Don’t get it twisted Bezzeld Gang is known for Turnin Up and thats exactly what they did on songs like “All I Know”,”Club Night”,”Drop It To Da Flo” and “One of Dem”. Bezzeled Gang put on for Nashville once again make sure you get a copy of Big Bang Theory 2 you won’t be disappointed.

K-DA - Sample My Soul

If your not familiar with the Nashville rapper K-Da then here is your chance, just push play and listen close and by then end of the project you will feel like you have known him for years. Soon as the album starts you can’t help but get chills from the soulful sample based beat and K-DA’s raw emotional delivery. He transitions to “Win It All” a song that will get you ready to get up get out and get something. On the song “Side Chic Success” K-DA makes you believe he is giving you a inside look into his fantasy of another woman, he describes thinking of building a life with this side chic and how she brings the best out of him but as he ends the last verse he makes it very clear that this side chic is SUCCESS. Sample My Soul is a well put together project that deserves a listen, from the production to K-DA’s lyrics and creative concepts this is a great album.

C.P Da BabyDon & A One - Brick Money

This project takes you straight to the trap house. All the production is handled by 28-36 and features artist like Yo Gotti,Tha City Paper, Lil Vac from Bezzeled Gang, C.U.B, Fluid Outrage, Lito, Quanie Cash,Hi-C and Dice just to name a few. With a title like Brick Money you can’t expect much more than dope boy rap which you get plenty of on this project. While the over all concept of the album stays the same it never gets boring. The production does a great job keeping your attention and the variety of styles from each artist makes you anxious to hear whats next. A-One and C.P Da BabyDon did a great job compiling all these records for this Nashville compilation. Support real street music and get you a copy.

CONCRETE: What’s your biggest turn on? Tori: My turn on is a guy that will treat like I’m the most imoprant person in the world & go over and beyond to make me happy. CONCRETE:Whats your biggest Turn Off? Tori: My turn offs are stubborn, neagtive and rude men with NO drive! CONCRETE:Favorite Designer? Tori: Christian Louboutin CONCRETE: Three artist we would ﬁnd in your iPod? Tori: Donnie McClurkin, Nicki Minaj and Luther Vandross

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HomeTown: Nashville, TN Measurements: 40F-28-40

CONCRETE: Where are you from? Shawn: Nashville, Tennessee - born and raised. CONCRETE: Do you ride for anyone? Or have a sponsor? Shawn: No I just been riding with the FU crüe for a little bit. CONCRETE: When did you start skating? Shawn: I was about 7-8 years old, and I’m twenty-four now. CONCRETE: Do you skate goofy or regular? Shawn: I skate goofy. CONCRETE: What’s your favorite tricks you can land? Shawn: Just pumping as hard as I can shutting the park down with speed. Sick high early grab I guess. CONCRETE: Tell us a little bit about the Thrashaholic Vol.1? Shawn: Well that name came about from Thrasher and Trapaholics. The music I’ve been doing it going on 8 years now, just kind of by myself in the box. We were skating one day and talked about throwing some rhymes down and I had the stuff to make it. We just started throwing it down and everybody else just started joining in. CONCRETE: Do you do all the production? What programs do you use? Shawn: Me and another guy named TN Gage produce the tracks but I work in FL studios if I have to I will use Que Bass or use protools. CONCRETE: Will there be a Thrashaholic Vol.2? Shawn: Yes volume 2 is already done we have the track list going. Look out for volume 3 and some solo mixtapes. CONCRETE: How would you guys deﬁne your sound as the Thrashoholics? Shawn: Well Project Pat is huge inﬂuence on the Thrashaholic’s because he’s from memphis with that Memphis sound and his rhymes are just funny and that’s the biggest thing wanting to be funny. I know a lot of dudes are real serious, You can do whatever you want to do but the whole thing behind Thrashaholics is to have fun, be funny, and hang out with your friends. CONCRETE: Do you feel like people like lil Wayne are starting to take skate boarding into the pop world, how do you feel about that? Do you feel it’s generic or that their really embracing the culture? Shawn: I just kind of think it’s a fads, I think things are marketed and stuff. As far as getting it mixed in with skating I think in a sense it’s kind of funny. I think the culture is going to sprout itself regardless. Like us we’ve been skating and then we’ll do some music and honestly I think that’s how it should be instead of you gotta do music and then out of nowhere bring skating into the picture. CONCRETE: Any shout outs? Shawn: Everybody on the mixtape, helping out with this and having fun with it but more to come. Expect Thrashaholic Vol.2 about June 20th.

For those of us with classic albums in our music collection, we should agree those special sets are marked by defining moments. The relevance of Mobb Deep’s muchheralded gritty sophomore album The Infamous is popularly credited to their smash single “Shook Ones Pt. II”; its impact proved timeless, a true force among songs praised throughout hiphop lore. Truthfully, the entire album is much greater than the sum of one. Projecting great detail through stellar wordplay and storytelling, MC/producer Havok and his best friend/aggressive partner in rhyme Prodigy took listeners to the most unsafe areas of their Queens, NY surroundings. “Trife Life” is exemplary of these characteristics. Scored with an ominous beat accented with crackling snares, pounding bass, and a dope-yeteerie melody, verse one finds Prodigy scripting an ex-lovers plot to exact heart-broken, murderous revenge; in the second, Havok visualizes how a stick-up attempt was provoked to a fatal outcome. The defining moment happens at the 4 minute 53 second mark: after two high-powered rhymes the beat goes completely silent, seconds later the track returns with a banging, instrumental vengeance! That’s hip-hop! Though most of the music here is handled in house, The Abstract aka Q-Tip (of A Tribe Called Quest) contributes a trifecta of moody swings – “Temperature’s Rising” (featuring Crystal Johnson), “Drink Away the Pain”, and “Give Up the Goods” (featuring Big Noyd). Each joint hits like a closedfist. As it stands, which is undoubtedly the test of time, The Infamous is as much about production as it is well-written lyrics. It’s a complete album chocked with highlights worth playing repeatedly from beginning to end! - Joe Walker

CONCRETE: Where are you from? Eric Holt: I’m originally from Hendersonville grew up and went to Hillsboro high school from there went off to college at Howard and came back to Nashville and started working for myself. CONCRETE: Who all is involved in Love Noise? Eric Holt: Love Noise was founded by ﬁve individuals myself, Bryce Page, Lasalle Chapman, Chip Hockett and Antoine Nunn. The ﬁve of us started Love Noise 13 years ago and it was basically a platform for positive music. Common type hip-hop and at the time neosoul was real big so Jill Scott, Erykah Badu those type of things that you wouldn’t normally hear in a club you would hear at our events. As we developed Love Noise it became a Sunday night regular event at the Barcar and those Sunday nights just became legendary in the city. That bubbled over to having our own radio show with 92Q which we carried for 6 or 7 years. Nowadays it’s just me and my business partner Bryce Page that do the day to day. CONCRETE: Give us one of your best show memories? Eric Holt: I’ll give you two, it’s so many but one is a local show, it was MLK weekend. A Sunday in the basement of Barcar and we use to manage this group called Biscuits and Gravy. They were 14-15 year old high school kids and that Sunday we decided to do a old school hip hop tribute so these kids memorized with a live band all the old school classics like Big Daddy Kane, Slick Rick, Rakim and they played it all live. It was great to see how music connects the generations. My second most dynamic memory in music for a national artist, I would have to say its a tie between Big Krit at Mercy Lounge about 3 years ago and School Boy Q. I say those two because meeting the individuals and talking to them about music and how passionate they were, listening to their music and then seeing their show it was seamless. They we’re passionate artist and communicated it to the audience and it was all positive vibes. CONCRETE: What sets Love Noise apart from other promoters ? Eric Holt: I mean the main thing these days that sets us apart is that it’s not too many that have been doing it as long as we have and the ones that have been there as long as we have they are not in the same lane. We mainly do concerts, we do parties and events as well but that’s not our main thing and it never has been. Even when we were doing the Sunday nights, it was about the open mic it was about the live performance aspect of that event. That distinguishes us because there aren’t to many concert promoters that focus on urban music. I think we’re probably the only ones that just focuses on urban music that’s been doing it for 13 years. CONCRETE: You have any shout outs? Eric Holt: Shout out to CONCRETE man. Y’all been in the game as well and doing it. If your new in town or if your old in town, if you love music check out lovenoise.net A special thanks to Nashville for supporting us for 13 years. We would not be here if people did not support us.

RESTAURANT: Seafood Sensation Owners: Jamal Britton and Darren Morgan Hometown: Both are from Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love. Founded: Established in 2002 Top Selling Items: Alaskan and Shrimp Platter and Grilled Tilapia Platter A Statement from the Owners: We’re from Philadelphia the City of Brotherly Love. It started from a mutual friend of ours back in 2002. Seafood is our specialty because of our sensational sauce that goes over the food. CONCRETE: What sets your food apart from others? SS: We put a lot of the brotherly love in each and every platter, and did I mention our famous sensational sauce and seasoning. Location: 2719 Jefferson St. - E, Nashville, TN 37208 Phone: 615-678-1069 Hours: Mon-Thurs 11am-10pm • Friday-Sat 11am11pm • Sun 12pm-8pm

CONCRETE: Steezie has been making a few solo moves like dropping his RAW project, can we expect solo projects from the rest of the gang? Bezzeled Gang: We always working and sooner or later all of us will drop projects. We going to cover the whole year with Bezzeled Gang. PS drop one, Cali, Vac, Steezie and then we drop a group project. PSG: I’m dropping one song and its gonna fuck up the whole city. I told you when I come home I’m going gorilla. CONCRETE: What’s the key to staying together as a group? Bezzeled Gang: We cut from the same cloth. This ain’t no group, we family. The city was the ones who started calling us a group, but we was family before that. We’ve known each other for more than half our lives. Money can’t tear that up. It’s two faces one tear. How could we enjoy success without each other. CONCRETE: Can you tell us about the singles off the album? Bezzeled Gang: The ﬁrst one we will be releasing a video to is the song “Too Much”. It’s real relatable. Whether you going through it with your baby momma or out here in the streets getting hated on it’s “Too Much”. If you working all these hours and they want to short you on your ends, a female has to go and strip for dollars it’s “Too Much”. Cali: I got my inspiration for the hook from Boosie cause that was my shit back in the day. I was going through some real shit when I made it though. I had just went to jail, got into it with my baby momma and my homie got hit like ten times all in the same week, and just like that, it came about. Steezie: We got so many records on this album for the next single we are going to just let the people pick. We already have the ﬁrst one but whatever record everyone gravitates towards next, then we’ll push that one. CONCRETE: Any Shout Outs? Bezzeled Gang: Shout out to everybody that fucks with us. Keep supporting the gang and we gonna keep dropping that real shit. Shout out to WOLO, shout out to all our real street ni**az. Free Frig, Free Bread, Free Baby Don, Free Hambino, Free CTE, Free Slick. Big Bang Theory 2 out now and we are already working on the next one God’s Work Work. BANG!

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CONCRETE: What’s the feel of your new album Big Bang Theory 2 2? Bezzeled Gang: It’s more heart felt. It’s reality rap. All of it’s real life instead of just party records. On the ﬁrst Big Bang Theory we would have the homies in the studio and we were just having fun. On this one it’s back to the Music City Miracle. We were back in the studio really working. This album was more thought out. I think it’s more relatable. Steezie: Like he said before we was partying having fun, but we had to get back to what we really do that reality rap. Anybody can make party records but when it comes to that real life shit, if your life ain’t real ain’t no one going to believe it. CONCRETE: Who are some of the producers? Bezzeled Gang: Bandplay, Sel Sizzle, Hot Rod, TN from Beat Boys, Armored Sound, Syk Synse, Troy Money, Wee Wee, Gotham City and Kangaroo. CONCRETE: Who are some of the features? Bezzeled Gang: We got Tha City Paper on there. We got Lito on there, we got Boo Rossini from CTE, we got Young Breed with MMG, Hambino, Novacane and Ego. CONCRETE: Now that PSG is free how is the chemistry with the group being back together? PSG: I got that vibe, but honestly when I get in the studio, sometimes I get frustrated. But Lil Vac push me. He stay on my ass and keeping me motivated. It’s a good feeling, Im back working. Lil Vac: It’s the feeling of the complete group now. For a min all they got was Vac, Cali and Steezie and a lot of new fans thought it was just us three. CONCRETE: During the creative process do you guys write together?

Bezzeled Gang: Sometimes we write together and sometimes we write alone. It’s easy for us cause we been doing it together for so long. We normally just drop the hook over the beat after we have picked a topic. That’s how we all get on the same page. Normally people just send us beats so Vac, Steezie and Cali may have songs to these beats then we all come together and jump on them as a group. It doesn’t take all of us to be together anymore cause we know how each other thinks. CONCRETE: How long have you guys been a group? Bezzeld Gang: Well it started off as Bezzeled Out Productions at ﬁrst then we got with PSG and Lil Vac. But it had to be around ‘98 when we was in high school. So over 15 years but we known each other since kids. continued on next page