Untouchable Magazine Special Edition 2017

Untouchable Magazine special edition

CEO Note From the

Untouchable Magazine got introduced to Underworld Status in December of 2016. The Underworld revealed their story to Untouchable Magazine. Since that moment, Untouchable dedicated to pick up their story and run with it. Spending the last four months in Las Vegas, Nevada with Kufanya and The Underworld Status has been the most exhilarating experience Untouchable Magazine has had yet. We got an inside look at the Underworld Status and what they do everyday. We followed them with cameras, went to studio sessions, listened in on meetings, interviewed affiliates, and even visited entertainment lawyers. I guess it’s safe to say that Underworld Status is really about that life. They are speaking words into existence.

It’s not everyday that you come across someone’s story that actually adds up. In other words, some people do it just for the gram. We have interviewed tons of people and I would like to say that putting this issue together has been something else. After dropping everything I had to do for the next four months and moving to a new state living out of hotels, catching Ubers everyday, eating 711, falling asleep at my office desk. I had to ask myself “Was it all worth it” absolutely. I got to network with everyone hand in hand; people came from out of state like Baltimore, Atlanta, and California of course. The people that was out of state and could not make it Untouchable conducted an over the phone interview. For those that could make it, I conducted sit down interviews with them that you can find on our Youtube channel. I got to meet the artist and their managers if they had one. I talked to each one of them and heard their story as CEO.

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Untouchable Magazine went down to the gutta to find you a never heard before story. There is no other Magazine that will have this story so be sure to read all eightyeight pages of excitement. While reading keep in mind the moral of the story “Success Is The Best Revenge”. It’s crazy but its also real life how one can transition from being one of the biggest street kings to ever to do it in Kalifornia. It’s not easy letting the streets go after being in them your whole life. You have to be ready spirituality, mentality, physically, emotionally, and financially. To see the bullet wounds for myself in person than to hear his mother tell me the doctors told her “Her son would never walk again” changed my whole perspective of the cover story.

I hope that not only the next Executive Producer but also the next cover stories period. Can top this. Untouchable Magazine witnessed both the corporate side and artistic side of everything that goes down in the music industry.

Everything is not perfect and it’s not supposed to be. So with that being said you have to deal with the cards you were dealt. Untouchable Magazine wants readers to know its not how you start but its how you finish. Lets us takeaway from Kufanya Gentry A.K.A Drop Da’ Magnificent story and learn from his mistakes. Although he was shot 19 times he did not let that stop him from accomplishing his dreams. As of today he has his own company called “Underworld Status Unlimited Multimedia Group” which is available on Google. To include, he also has his own fully furnished corporate building out in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Stay tuned for his upcoming projects dropping in the year 2020. My question to every reader is how do you want to be remembered?

Zee Cousins

Instagram: @zeecousins / @itszeethough Facebook: Zepporah cousins Twitter: @zeecousins Booking email: zeecousins@gmail.com

Birthday: February 20, 1994 Nationality: African American, Filipino, and Puerto Rican Primary Residence: Las Vegas, Nevada Agencies: Freelance Known for: My lips, and eyes Status: Newcomer Muse for: Vice girls Interests: Basketball, roller coasters, museums

Type of Modeling Editorial | Runway/Ramp | Catalogue | Print Showroom | Lingerie | Swimwear | Sport/Fitness | Product | Team collaboration | Time management | Travel

Known for being flexible, spontaneous, unique style, versatile, persistent, hard-working, great at taking direction, silly personality, and precession.

Appearance and Physical Features: Age: 23 years Height: 5’10”/69.7in Weight: 165lbs- 74 kg Size: 36-31-41 Eyes: dark brown Hair: Black * changes

Skills: Good sense of style – Great facial projection.

Tolerant and adaptable.

Positive attitude, excellent stamina and communication skills.

Ability to look good at all times.

Know - How to dress up properly.

Knowledge of make - up process applications.

Excellent walking posture – Familiarity in different poses.

Ability to work under all climatic conditions with equal enthusiasm Can easily handle unexpected and problematic situations

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Contents 4

Interviews: 06

Black Collar

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DJ Igorbeatz

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Miss Rissa

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Bucket Boyz

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Mix-El Paisa Hyphy

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Kazeem

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Kuzzo Fly

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Tea Time

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Skrill Gates

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Mo Gunz

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Soulo

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YBLM

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Franchize Music Group

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Capone KC

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Gutta Boi

Features: 02

CEO Note

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Molly Jane/ Mac Dre Tribute

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Tyron Jones Medicated BBQ Sauce

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Black Collar Music Video Ad.

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Tru Touch Designs

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Apryl

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Gab

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Myke Bleze

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Jhay Black

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Untouchable Magazine Social Media

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The Butlers

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Services / Mission Statement

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Shoe Signing

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Dedication Page

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Back Cover

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Untouchable’s Dime-Pieces: 03

Zee Cousins

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Lily

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Selena Marie

Entertainment: 34

OutKast Car Club

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Alex Thiel

Fashion: 54

Brand Yourself Apparel

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Underworld Status Clothing Line

Cover Stories: 20

Victoria Mc Cornell

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Kufanya Gentry A.K.A. Drop Da’Magnificent

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Babez

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Black Collar Never mind that, it can mean different things to different minds and different contexts. Black Collar, Cali’s own and newest super-collab project, is about to own the term. Own it, live it, define it, work it, and make you stand up and experience it. Stand up and face the truth real rap is back, the rest weren’t really working it properly.

Black Collar is the name, the definition, and the truest representation of the grind that brought this particular musical power play to fruition. It is the meeting of minds and the meeting of microphones.

It is the truth no matter what. In a nutshell, it is the new description of dope realness from the West Coast.

Reality-spitter extraordinaire KBiMean, brings his Queensbridge credentials, masterful MIC metaphors, and urban tale-telling talents to the table via his adopted LA homestead.

Mid-coast Cali cult legends “Neva-

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mind”, born and raised in Oxnard CA, add the pimp and the hustle game, bringing the street truths of the West Coast to the booth. It’s the knowledge and musical craft of hiphop’s golden era of hip-hop, hazed through the Cali heat, and bombed with tar paint of purest black. It’s all black ones; it’s all black hoods, it’s all black everything. It’s Black Collar, reality rap in its purest form.

Coming out the trap with debut album “Half a Peace Sign”, Black

Collar are already that cult offering you’ve been looking for to bust open the mainstream. The triple-team flows of three of the underground’s finest are wrapped with tight truth. Reputations for rhyme realness born from the grind and determination that only those with a Black Collar mindset can truly understand. Live shows that are renowned to brim with the energy of the righteous. Musical manifestos that buck trends in the search for truer ends and music that moves. Movements set to music, respecting the fame but protecting the game. In short, putting in work.

That’s how Black Collar does. These are working class artists, craftsmen, and artful artisans. The keepers of the flame, from the underground to the million dollars prize round. The defenders of the independent spirit that birthed the music we know and love. Hip-hop. Truth hurts.

Come take your hit like a man.

Truly it’s more competition than love and nobody wants to admit it.

1. When did the group first form?

The group Black Collar first formed about four years ago. Rone Jeremy and Famous of the hip-hop group called “Nevamind”. (A group out of Oxnard California that has massed a cult following through many projects) and KB who had been doing his thing in the game many years with the “Likwit Krew” and a group named “Malcolm and Martin”. KB1Mean did a few features with “Nevamind” on a project called “ZombieLand” and the rest was history. The response to the records and the chemistry deserved to be continued. Black Collar was formed.

Rone Jeremy in Vegas, KB1Mean in Long Beach, and Famous in Oxnard. They all have to rely on times that they can get together and lock themselves in the studio to create new music. The album is finished and scheduled to be released this year. All of them being advocates for the “Regular guy” who might work at your job or be somebody you just know from around the way but that “Regular guy” got bars. Always in search of that hip-hop promotion so the day to finally tell the nine to five to fuck off. To these guys it really doesn’t matter it’s the life they have lived. The under appreciated, and the under dogs.

2. Explain what is it like trying to get everyone to come together dealing with three different schedules?

With the three members all living miles from each other. Currently,

3. What are you doing to stay relevant?

Relevance is not important. You either fuck with Black Collar or you don’t. We have their lane and they know what it is. Our main goal is

whenever you hear anything from Black Collar its fire. Slapping the listeners in the mouth and keeping the culture alive. Represent the dope shit and expose the fake.

Relevance to Black Collar is always being on point. Never coming wack. The essence.

4. Describe the music scene in Oxnard, California?

The music scene in Oxnard, California is very prideful. Everybody wants to be the top dawg in which makes for a lot of good music. Truly it’s more competition than love and nobody wants to admit it. Oxnard is a city that brought you legends like “Madlib” and the “Loot Pack”, Jro from the “Liks”, Dj Babu, and as of late fresh artist such as “Kyle and Anderson Paak”. Oxnard is the hometown of “Down A.KA. Kilo” who had a lot of success with his single “Lean Like A Cholo”. There are many styles and different lanes in the Oxnard Hip Hop scene. The town has it’s own Radio station. A major college radio station and plenty of opportunities to rock the stage with big names that comes to town. There’s lot’s of grinders in the scene right now. It’s good. I love my city.

VIDEO LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRagYKwgaaQ https://www.facebook.com/blackcollarlife/ https://twitter.com/BlackCollarLife https://soundcloud.com/blackcollarlife https://www.instagram.com/blackcollarlife/

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DJ IgorBeatz

Mission Statement: Striving to bring the world “Good Music”. Spotlighting new and upcoming entertainment while paying homage to the pioneers that made the way for “Good Music”.

We are working towards being the world’s “most live” Internet radio station while playing all the greatest hits they never heard or forgot about. We are forming a main avenue for “ Upcoming entertainment” to break their music to the world. By using the Internet to connect across the globe, we will bring forth the new and upcoming music from all over the planet right into your listening device.

We are also working towards opening our own Multi Media school, for the youth and young adults, teaching them how to deliver great music with a message as well as how to be a “Community Diplomat”. We would also teach how to bring light to the community event while hearing the “Good word” through music, all while having a great time and bringing people together.

djigorbeatz@gmail.com

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1. Introduce yourself to everyone!

To the world I am DJIgorBeatz. I go off reality that’s my acronym I am a DJ/ music producer / my friends call me the glue because I like to keep it together.

2. When did you become so involved in your community?

Since day one, it’s just where I’m at you know. I would like to look at it like it’s for my community but if I were in anybody’s community I would like to think I act the same way. Just a youngster seeing what was going on in my neighborhood and in the early late 80’s you know. I didn’t want to be apart of that so I was trying to figure out a way how to side step all that drama. It was like music just called me its been downhill every since I haven’t looked back.

3. What kind of things are you doing to make a difference in today’s world?

One of the things that’s kind of like my favorite to do right now is just to show my youth how valuable they are. I like to tell them about their ancestors and the things our ancestors have invented. How to think things like that and how to become more valuable you know my mom use to say use your head for more than a hat-rack you know. Showing them another way besides the streets you know it’s so easy to get caught up in the dope game, and gang banging and all that stuff. I just try to show them another outlet you know invent your own business even if it’s not music, just look into qualities about yourself and become your own inventor. That’s what I like to do I like to find information and give it to youth you know. Things that when I was a kid they wouldn’t tell me you know I like to gave it to them raw so they have a chance at it.

4. Tell everyone a little bit about your radio station and who you’re trying to reach?

BayLife Radio we started about three years ago and what’s crazy is it started from a radio interview. A friend of mine

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wanted to interview me on the radio as being a DJ because just before that I was a rapper. He wanted to interview me about the differences on changing from a rapper back to a DJ and he asked me when I come on the show can I DJ some and I was like “Okay”.

So, I brought my stuff over and I got on the radio with him and before the radio show was over the radio owner came in there with the radio schedule and was like you can be in on this day and this day. I ended up just being on the radio with a station called “KPR1 Radio”. What was crazy is at the time he was in the middle of expanding so in the process of expanding he had to close down for a couple of months.

I had already been there a couple of weeks and I picked up on how to build a radio station in those few weeks.

While, we were broken down I tried to build one myself and it was successful I had everything working and so by the time he finally got back up we were up and running. What are we going to call it? Bay Life Radio because we already had a production called Bay Life Productions. So it changed from a radio interview into building a radio station and the difference was with our own radio station we had our own rules. We could play what we wanted what we felt was dope. So I ended up sticking with my own radio station and we got together we are like and nine or ten DJ’s and we keep putting it together.

5. When did you become a DJ? What made you take that route and who do you spin for?

I became a DJ in 1979, yeah I was a youngster I used to think I was a DJ pod mixing off of KDIA. I used to put together my mixtape listeners to Michael Erickson. It just stuck with me I got to high school in 81 and I was blessed that our high school had a DJ crew. So I kind of got a chance to watch the DJ crew have it and I just knew that’s what I wanted to do deliver the music. I did it for a while up until 95 you know and than it felt like the music industry was leaving the

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DJ’s behind. It was new equipment, the rappers back then they wasn’t rapping about the DJ no more, so it kind of lost it’s listeners too. I decided to become a rapper a couple albums out I got a chance to work with a couple artist that are making noise. Then this new rap came and I didn’t want to do this so I was like I’m go back to my roots and I started pulling out the vinyl again, messing with the turntables.

One of my friends came out and was like “You know they make a electronic controller for that”. So I was started seeing and I was like “Oh evolution didn’t leave us behind”. We do got some new stuff for the DJ so it kind of like sparked me up. That was it.

6. What is “Reggae on The Bay” and is it still active todays?

No it’s not active right now but we gone bring it back we ran into we’ll call them “Awww Janky promoters situation”. What Reggae on the Bay was a live reggae party with two DJ’s. We took a three hour Bay cruise across the Bay over to San Francisco and back. This place was one of the best reggae dance halls, and they served Jamaican food. It was basically a mini reggae festival on the water. All different cultures came and we ran into a promoter that seen a little more greed then he was suppose to see and as opposed to get into a quick rip about things I’m quick to leave to and I said “Okay well you go head and do it”. By doing that it died down.

7.I heard your quite the neighborhood man hosting BBQ’s, serving snow cones, providing opportunities for local artist? Are there ever moments were you feel like you should have more recognition?

Naw, not at all because I don’t do it for the recognition the main reason why I do it is because it saved my life man. It took me off the streets. I was a problem and I was becoming a bigger problem and really music saved my life. It gave me a chance to look back at these young cats that was my age when I was a problem and I didn’t have

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anybody telling me that I was a thinker you know. You know in the 80’s I knew gangsters, pimps, gorillas, and hit mans you know things like that. I never had anybody tell me I could think and that I was smart, that I could build anything I wanted to build. By me being able to do that through the music it just makes me want to turn around and you know give that back to the youth.

It’s a lot of kids where our radio station is you know and they come back and forth and I hear their conversations.

You know I got a few kids myself so it makes me think “Man is this what my kids talking about”. So as a way to found out what was going on in their atmosphere I just started interacting with them. Then as I’m interacting with them they always come with the question “OG you got a dollar, OG you got 50 cent,” and I was like “You know I ain’t into all that begging” he was like, “Awwwww man” and I was like “I’ll give you a job”. So now what I do is my friends and I collect aluminum cans but we don’t smash them we just keep them in the boxes so when the kids used to ask me for 50 cent I would tell them “If you smash these cans ill give you 50 cent”. Then what we do is we save all the cans and by the time we fill up we cash them in and then turn around and give a party for those same kids that helped smashed the cans in the neighborhood. Last summer, the DJ’s and myself pitched in and brought the kids a snow cone machine you know for that same reason. After school when you trying to make you some money and you keep asking me for 50 cent, I seen you asking other people, so we invented a job for them. We got the snow cone maker and then I got my friend who a big chef in the neighborhood. We had him cooking hotlinks and the kids sold snow cones and all the money they made they got to keep it. You got to give these kids something to make their own money or they gone be looking at your money. That’s for adults too. If people don’t eat they look where food at and if you the only person with food then they gone be looking on your plate. That was the reme-

dy to that for me. I like doing things I don’t have a lot but I make a little bit look big and I been mistaken before to be rich or to have whatever because I can fix things. I can find a broke TV and make it work and now I got a nice TV. In that aspect of being mistaken that I was rich before it just made me think if everybody around you had something they wouldn’t be looking at what you have. So just from that right there if you around me I try to make you have it even before I have it so you don’t even have to look at what I got.

8. Do you have any situation where “Success has been the best Revenge” for you? If so describe the situation?

That’s easy I’m still here as a youngster I was just about estimated to maybe only make it to be about 27. In fact I came home one day and I heard my mom arguing with the Navy recruiter about the amount of income that I was gone get because I was gone go to the Navy. At the time, hearing the argument it started making me think I had some value so I didn’t go to the Navy. Then my whole family was like “You ain’t going to make it you going to be on the streets, you gone be a bum, and a dope fein, your going to be a trouble making” and I’m none of that. I’m a thinker and I love helping people and I made it pass and I’m 47 now. So my life has been a journey and that my success.

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Miss Rissa

1. Tell everyone your stage name and how it came about?

So MissRissa actually came about there was a gentlemen who was from the south and he would call me MissRissa and he like “Yo, i’ll see you when your going to be a star” like they just call me MissRissa so that’s kind of how they came about. Kind of corny but when I started doing music I was like “Yeah I want to go by that stage name MissRissa”. I was kind of playing around with my name at first I was like “Rissa P” then I was like “That sounds like recipe haha so, I’ll was like ill just stick with MissRissa”.

That’s how my stage name came.

missrissamusic missrissamusic Website: www.missrissa.com info@missrissa.com

2. What genre do you categorize your music in?

My music is R&B Soul; I’m very soulful if you go listen to the tracks on my website it’s very soulful R&B sound.

3. Who is your musical influence?

My music influence is Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, a lot of the 90’s R&B singers like that’s what I’m inspired is the 90’s R&B era.

4. Tell everyone what single your promoting right now and where can they find it?

The single I’m promoting is “I See

You” which is on my website and right now you can only get it on my website and I’m doing that because I want to direct everyone to my website although its under construction right now I’m branding it. But there you can find all of my stuff is on my website until it’s actually official released through Itunes and Google Play and all that.

5. Shouts out?

I want to shout out Philthyswamp, The UnderWorld Status for hitting me up, and everybody who just support good music and just supports me.

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1. Why the name “Bucket Boyz”?

When I used to go out to the clubs I was known for buying a lot of bottles. On the East Coast when you order a lot of bottles at the bar they place them in a bucket. Anyone knew if you had a bucket on your table you was the man. I was buying out half of the bar every time I went to the club and that’s why I got the name “Bucket Boyz”.

2. What genre do you categorize your music in?

R&B, hip-hop, and classic bangers.

3. How important is loyalty in your camp?

Loyalty is a must. Without loyalty there is no camp. I’d run the whole camp by myself without an artist. I’m a strong-minded guy. I’m straight streets you know what I’m saying I’m not one of them Harvard or Princeton kids. I come from the hood; I come from the streets so if there is no loyal in the camp there is no loyalty at all.

4. Is hip-hop dead or alive?

Hip-hop is alive it’s real, it’s very much alive, see where I’m from the South Bronx it’s a lot of artist bringing hiphop back hard. The West Coast has been doing it so I gave the West Coast big props.

5. If you could do over one situation or approach in music what would it be and why?

Going back to renegotiation contracts for my old artists.

A few years my first three artists I had to release because the paperwork was not right. When I took care of that situation I went about it the wrong way. With that being said, if I could redo the whole situation again. I would have sit down with them and talked and dealt business better than what I did before. Because when I first did the business it was all word of mouth, and hand shakes without any contracts.

6. Shout outs?

Everybody on the West Coast, Underworld Status, OCH Radio, Bucket Boyz family, Ytell, Success Entertainment, and the whole South Bronx.

Bryantlee653@gmail.com Bucketboy23

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1. How do you want people to remember you from your music?

As being one of the first one’s to represent the Paisa movement in the Bay Area.

2. Name one key component that is missing in Hip-Hop today?

No love for the people.

3. Any advice for up and coming rappers?

Stay true, Stay humble, and keep dreaming.

4. What is it like being a Latino rapper? What kind of love are you getting?

When you’re a Latino rapper not only are you a minority but Latino’s don’t seem to support each other until they know you well and hear about you. If they see you pass by they don’t care about you. They have to know what you’re doing and what you stand for. Being a Latino rapper they will assume “Ganged Related” right away. They going to assume he is blue or red and judge off what they hear from you. The more they found out your mutual and not about trying to unite red and blue. I just want red and blue to like my music. I’m not looking for them my market is for the Paisa and when I say Paisa’s I mean “2nd Generation Paisa’s” meaning we are the ones that don’t gang bang. We are the ones that like maybe their style or some their culture but we fivestarkustoms@aol.com mix_elpaisahyphy_

don’t do that. We are more in the middle. We don’t look at that but we like their lifestyle, we might dress like them, look like them, but we are not them. Once the Latino/ Mexican community found out you don’t bang they like “oh yeah he is cool”. But the moment you do that’s when they start judging you.

5. Tell everyone about the single you’re promoting and where they can download it at?

Well we are working on our website right now that will be our homepage where we have all of our music. We will have different music in different spots. So whatever music you find on Itunes you wont find on Hulkshare. Whatever is on SoundCloud you wont find it on Hulkshare. We will be giving away a lot of mixtape music since we have a lot of it. The hit single from my mixtape will be “Mariachi Muerto”.

From my album I still haven’t decided which single to push but more than likely it will be called “El- Vote”.

It’s more of a dancing song, more Bayish, and has a feature from “The Dragon and Remy Red” 6. In your opinion what’s the difference between a soundcloud rapper and a mixtape rapper?

I can’t speak for English rappers man it’s a bunch of them. I’m doing Spanish my Spanish is different from everyone else Spanish. Mine is more Spanglish. It’s kind of like Mix Raul Pereda Paisa Music Group

I have my own language because I have my own Spanish. If I was to speak my Spanish somewhere else people would be like “What the hell is he saying”. So therefore my Spanish whether it’s on SoundCloud, a mixtape, or original it will sound new and different.

7. How did you make a name for yourself in the music industry?

Honestly, I don’t think I’m at that level yet to where I made a name for myself. I still feel like I have a lot to accomplish. I don’t feel like I have done anything, I feel like I have a lot of bread that I baked that I haven’t been able to distribute. I have over eighty songs to where I been in the room recording and I feel like I haven’t showed the people what I have cooking. So maybe in a year if someone was to ask me that question I would have an answer for you.

8. Shout outs?

Shout out to the Bay Area and the Bay Area legend “Mr. Mac Dre” Rest In Peace. That guy was huge man I love the way he think. Shout out to the whole Thizz family, special Shout out to “Mr. Don Pro” the guy who be making my beats. He been there since day one and is still there. Shout out to my cousin Young Fern for doing all my recordings at two studios back and forth. Last but not least to “El Companation” which is a bunch of people who record with me.

PaisaMusicGroup Site: www.paisamuicgroup.com

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MollyJane PL+HS is a home-spun company, formed by established professionals and marijuana activists who shared a vision of healing through a fusion of THC and herbal medicine. The partners are all people who have orbited around one another for years, waiting for the right project to come along to join forces. PL+HS’s marijuana lifestyle products, in particular Molly Jane, are what has united this team and brought their ideas to life.

“I believe in the healing powers of marijuana and other herbs. As someone who suffers from chronic pain, I’ve worked to create new

ways to use THC to new effects.

Molly Jane is the first in a series of lifestyle products we’re bringing to market. We named it a fusion of Molly and Mary Jane because of the euphoric and sensual feelings it provides on top of the marijuana. Not only does it make you feel good and assist in arousal, it also contains herbal medicine to help with sexual health.” – Michelle Kelley, PL+HS Founder Molly Jane comes in packages containing two capsules, will retail for MSRP $20, and is available in distinct male and female formulas.

It will be available in seven medical

marijuana states and two foreign countries: California, Colorado, Hawaii, New York, Oregon, Washington, Peru, and Spain.

Social Media Information PL+HS Site http://plhslife.com https://www.instagram.com/plhslife/ https://www.facebook.com/PLHSLife/

Tribute to the Bay Area Legend

Mac Dre

Mac Dre is my favorite Mc/Rapper of all time! That means throughout all regions of the United States. Mac Dre is most definitely the king of the Bay Area Hands Down! My favorite Mac Dre CD is “Ginie of the Lamp” and my favorite Mac Dre song is “Early Retirement”. A-lot of game I hold inside my system is cut throat, which I inherit, from the Mac Dre Era. I honor Mac Dre to the upmost and will honor his name through my success and always keep him alive.

Written by Kufanya Gentry

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@plhslife Molly Jane Site: http://mollyjane.love https://www.facebook.com/Mollyjane-122225918300558/

imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

(Marilyn Monroe)

Lily Nickname: Mizz Hernandez Title: Up Coming Model Goals: love fashion and eventually want to be a fashion designer Hobbies: site seeing, art museum, hiking, gym

Favorite place to visit: Hawaii Favorite Music: Brandy, Beyoncé, Destiny’s Child, Favorite Food: Sushi Favorite Movie: P.S I Love You.

mizzhernandez143 Lily Hernandez Hobbies: Being Adventurous and living in the edge, loves shooting and racing.

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Kazeem Name: Kazeem Upshaw Title: Bodyguard, Life Coach, Developer, Community Leader Birth Place: Oakland,Kalifornia  mrupshaw@gmail.com / @Zeem52

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Body guarding is not for everyone!

Please believe me.

1. What got you into body guarding?

I would have to say that it was like a calling from above. The Ability to watch over and protect was a gift that was given to me from God. 2. Who have you worked with?

My good friend E-40, Too Short, Tech N9ne, Xzibit, Pinky XXX, and a range of clients that due to client confidentiality I can’t disclose.

3 What else do you do?

I mentor a lot of youth and young adults sort of like a life coach.

I also manage a few big artist, models and DJ’s 4 Would you like to offer any advice to the people wanting to get into your field?

I would have to say get as much training as you can. At the same time DO NOT, I repeat: DO NOT force this lifestyle upon yourself.

Body guarding is not for everyone!

Please believe me.

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Victori Victoria Mc Cornell Victoria Mc Cornell

1. Hi mom how’s everything going?

Everything is going great.

2. Describe what a day in your shoes is like?

All my life I’ve struggled, I’ve watched my mom build an empire and struggle. I learned to be strong from her and her ethics of working and being a strong woman: a single mom. My mother was a single mom and I was a single mom.

A day in my shoes is working and taking care of my kids.

3. What was it like being a single mother raising two kids?

Well, when I had Kufanya I was twenty-one years old and it was freighting because I was really naïve. I was always raised like a tomboy because I was raised with brothers I never had a sister. So when I got pregnant I didn’t even know what pregnant was. I mean, “If you play with fire you get burn” and I thought I was sick and out comes Kufanya. It was scary but the love was automatic. My mother

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and I was at a toggle war with him because she thought I was too young and she wanted to raise him and I felt if I’m going to have him than I’m going to raise him. She wanted me to go to college and finish school but I figured “I made my bed now I got to lay in it” so college had to wait.

My baby comes first.

4. Were there ever days where you wondered how you were going to pay your rent and provide for your family?

Oh yeah, definitely my mom was a very good mother but she was not the type to spoil you. She was very strict and when I had Kufanya.

Kufanya and I stayed with her but I had to pay her rent. She helped me get a car; I had to pay for my car so I worked about three jobs cause back then the wages were very low.

So I worked quite a few jobs just to make ends meat and daycare. I didn’t have any help from his father

A day in my shoes is working and taking care of my kids.

I couldn’t come in the house after eleven o’clock. I was twenty-one years old so it came to a point Kufanya and I had to move into our own apartment and that really got hard.

I couldn’t just drop my son off at her house and think it was all-good.

She keeps him when she wanted too to teach me a lesson. Which was a good lesson I don’t regret it.

I just keep educating, going to different schools educating myself and working different jobs.

was in the Navy but I didn’t have any help and I didn’t want any help that was my job.

5. How did you overcome those situations?

I just kept educating, going to different schools educating myself and working different jobs. I got to a point where I was getting a lot of experience under my belt. I’m a very good worker my mother started me off at her beauty shop washing hair and learning how to do customer service. My mom was an Entrepreneur so that started me with the motivation. Staying with my mother was hard because at twenty-one she had rules.

6. How was it for you making that transition moving from your mom’s house to your own house?

It was hard and very scary you know because I didn’t know what bills were I never had to pay any bills before I had my child. Now, I had to pay bills by myself and take care of a little one that depends on me to feed him. I didn’t want public assistance I wanted to work.

Times got hard I had to live in the projects with a girlfriend of mine. It went to the extreme she had people coming in and out of the house and I just could not deal with that because I had a child. Kufanya has always been a good baby so it wasn’t a problem with me trying to make it because he wasn’t the type of child that was always crying, or needy. He was very quiet and a good baby. I went through quite a few different homes with friends before I realized that I got to do this myself. I couldn’t have all these people over my child because it’s introducing him to different things and of course he was just a baby then but he was growing up. You know back then in the projects all that was going on was selling drugs and stuff. I didn’t do drugs but I was around people that did drugs and sold drugs, my friends were prostitutes. I don’t want my child around that but sometimes you just got to do what you got to do.

7. Did you ever know your son would be so successful?

I did because day one when he was

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in “Headstart”. Kufanya has always been smart. He had a teacher that was my teacher in second grade. I knew she was going to be hard on him, and she was going to make him with a great determination. He would always write all the time and she knew he could do better and she would always send his papers home quoting it was “Messing or not good enough”. He got so angry he would cry and I would tell him “Don’t cry baby she trying to make you better.” Then he started writing so good it wasn’t even funny. I never had to get on him about his homework or him getting bad grades. He always got good grades.

As a mother I’ve always taught my son you got to excel higher than being a teacher I mean it’s nothing wrong with a teacher don’t get me wrong but I want you to hit for the presidency. I’ve always told them they could be more. Whatever they did I’ve always supported them whether they stuck with it or not; at that time I was going to be behind them one hundred percent. Since I had an open relationship with my children they would talk to me about anything. If you don’t have a good relationship and an open relationship where your child could feel free to talk to you or to explain to you what’s going on than your both in a learning process. He was a good kid, his teachers loved him, and he played sports and never discriminated against anybody. Everybody was good enough for him, he didn’t care who you were he would make friends with you. He was very exceptional.

8. Explain what it was like getting your house shot up?

Okay, now this didn’t start until my marriage, I was a workaholic so that left my kids being “Latch key kids”. A “Latch key kids” is where you leave them at home, fix food for them, and have them trained to the point

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they know what to eat, do homework and go to bed. I was only five minutes away so they know if they would get into with each other I would clock out and home come and things would be upside down.

About the shooting my kids were in the front of the house playing football and the ball rolled out in the street. My youngest son went to go get it and this truck came. The man at the time snatched my son by the collar and called him the N word.

That time the Mexican and Blacks were beefing and I were friends with their moms and dads. Kufanya is the type that if you’re his friend he will not just stand there and let you hit his friend in front of him. Kufanya goes over and knocks the dude out. Once he knocked the dude out I thought it was over with because they got in the car and left. Kufanya at the time he was going to go in the garage and put some oil into his car. My garage was in the alley and next thing I hear is the police out there. I hear all of this rectus in my garage so I go out and ask the police “What are you doing?” They responded, “We got a call a man

I had an open relationship with my children they would talk to me about anything.

with a gun”. That boy had a black oilcan; you know the plastic one with the pointed nozzle. He had it pointed at his car but in his hand and somebody said he had a gun.

The police had my baby jacked up to the wall and took him to jail and he didn’t even have a gun. I went in the house and told my boyfriend at the time I said, “They took Kufanya to jail he might have had a warrant or something I don’t know but they

They took Kufanya to jail he might have had a warrant or something I don’t know but they took him.

took him”. Anyways, I worked at the hospital at night and so I usually come home about twelve o’clock, twelve-thirty and so my youngest son was up in my upstairs bedroom waiting on me to get in the house safe. It was raining that night and he was looking down and he seen all these shadows down in the yard.

So he thought it was his friends calling him or something and out

of nowhere they just start shooting.

My youngest was about 15/16. I get a call at the hospital that my house has been shot up. Of course I clock out and I get home fast as I can, the detectives was waiting on me. The thing about it is the bullet hit my bed right where my son was laying at and right where I would have been sitting had they waited a few more hours to shoot my house up.

I would have been sitting up reading right there. They shot up they didn’t shot downstairs in my living room. They shot where they seen my baby and he ran and got in the bathroom and huddled between the toilet because he didn’t know if they were going to brake the door down or what. I think it was the same boy Kufanya knocked out that day because they came back. They rather take a gun and shoot up my

house than fistfight. I mean they shot it up really good. After that, of course I packed up. I’ve never been in trouble in my life cause I didn’t live my life like that. I didn’t understand it was hurtful so my babies and I moved to hospital housing where I worked at in Ventura.

9. How did you react when the doctors called your phone and told you that your son had died for seven minutes?

He got shot at a lot of times you know he just been lucky. The first time he got shot I had a dream two weeks before that. God let me see him getting shot and I called Kufanya and told him “Baby I had a dream about you I said that somebody was shooting you, you were biting your lip, you had shorts on, and you were just standing their taking

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the bullets. Two weeks later, Reality hit. When they called and told me my child was shot up I fell to my knees. All I could do is say “Lord I gave him to you when he went to prison and you protected him so I’m asking you please don’t him go”. How my son made it out the hospital I have no idea it had to be the man up above. Kufanya told me he seen wings around him as he was getting shot. When they called me the doctors told me “You will not make it to this hospital to see your son alive he’s in bad shape”.

I was in Northern California at the time; he got shot in Southern California. Of course his ex wife and I drove to from Oakland, California to Oxnard, California. “Doctors told me I wasn’t going to see him alive” I replied, “The devil is a lie”.

On my way there I just prayed the whole time. When I got there they had already put Kufanya back together and did what they had to do. When I walked in that room that boy was sitting in that bed smiling at me with my picture on the wall behind him. The doctor told the mom “I don’t know what to tell you it was a miracle”. I said “No he got the blood of Jesus on him”. I said, “I gave him to God along time ago I put his name in a bible and told God be belongs to you now”. I said, “It wasn’t a miracle it was God”. People think your crazy when you talk like that but when you walking in his word you know so God told me “Not to worry about my son no more you gave him to me I don’t want you to worry no more. I’ve worried so much I almost had a nervous break down; every time Kufanya would go out the door I would hold one arm on him and tell him I love him. I never let one of my sons leave out of my face without saying “I Love You”. Then they told me “Your son made it through the surgery he will pull out of this but

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he will never ever be able to walk or run again”. So they send him home to me in a wheelchair.

10. Any advice to offer to moms or soon to be moms?

Your child didn’t ask to come here, you brought them here, always treat them like gold. Always listen to them, trust them, keep an open relationship with them, don’t do negative things to them and then tell them they can’t do it. Practice what you preach, don’t always think “My child won’t do this” because everybody child got a turning point where they make mistakes. Everybody make mistakes. Never say “No my child wouldn’t do that”. I never said that you know listen to them to see why they did it. You have to be a strong mother and listen to your child. Learn from your child I don’t care if you are older than your child, you can learn from your child because I never been in the streets. I’ve learned a lot from my son trust me that’s why I’m here in South Carolina by myself you think I’m afraid “No I’m not” cause I trust no one but God. Never give up on

Enjoy life, give your life to God and walk a straight line nothing belongs to us.

them, love them unconditionally no matter what they do wrong.

When Kufanya went to prison I still love my son; I’m not gone stop loving him.

11. Anything else you want let readers know?

Enjoy life, give your life to God and walk a straight line nothing belongs to us. We are here temporary because when we go you can’t take it with you. ladyhighstyle@att.net Relationship: Kufanya Mom

Kuzzo fly Talent nothing with hard work and contrary to popular belief there is no such thing as “Overnight Success” Kuzzo Fly has been patiently putting in work. Began his career in 2003, by forming the group “Kuzzos” with Moss Da Boss together they released their first album “Looks can Be Deceiving”.

The project was successful and Kuzzo Fly continued to work with many prominent Bay Area artists fine-tuning his stage presentation and overall showmanship. He was offered an opportunity to work with Mistah Fab. This alliance led to Kuzzo Fly performing in over 300 shows worldwide, including the House Of Blues in Las Vegas, Nevada, The DJ’s power summit in the Dominican Republic, the Fillmore in San Francisco, and south of Brazil in New York.

In 2005, he released “Smoke N Thizz” the first rap project released as a

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mixtape/movie combo. He also released the street documentary DVD “Smoklamentary” with JacobZladder Films, Moving nearly 20,000 units by word of mouth. He followed these successes by releasing a single entitled “Don’t Spill it” in the fall of 2007.

The video was picked up by MTV Jams and to date has bee featured on over 100 web channels and collectively garnered over 900,000 views.

Fly appeared in a commercial for Pepsi, a movie called, “Ghost Ride it”, an advertisement for True Blunts Blunt Wraps. In 2009, his company, Bay Kountry Entertainment entered into a joint venture with legendary rapper Yukmouth’s Smoke-A-Lot-Records.

His affiliation with Yukmouth has opened up a world of opportunities with more touring and has given him the opportunity to expand his fan base into Europe, Performing in Sweden

and Denmark with Amsterdam next on the list. He also host Smoke-A-LotRecords weekly with @realyukmouth and @iambranded interviewing such industry heavyweights as DJ Quik, Ice Cube, and Warren G to name a few.

In 2011, he linked up with Bleu Davinci of the legendary “BMF”. He is also a member of the Swish gang who are signed to Soulja Boy Tellem’s SODMG Record Label. He is currently under MSLB Mgmt. He has accomplished all these thigns while a dedicated single father to his song Lil Fly. Kuzzo Fly is a perfect example of persistence overcoming resistance.

Kuzzo Fly recently released his signature medicated BBQ Sauce which is in many medical Marijuana Dispensaries.

“Tyrone Jones Medicated BBQ Sauce” has taken off majorly in the edible community.

1. How long have you been doing music? And why did you start?

Close to 20 years now, and it was a way to get off the street. I wasn’t really rapping at the time I use to be a roadie for Master P and C Los, and my cousin Rup Dogg from Awol Records you know roll the weed, carry the crystals, park the car, go to the store, do all the little dirtbag shit. I caught a dope case and after that I was like fuck it lets get in the studio cause I don’t want to go back to jail. I don’t like jail.

2. When did you become apart of the Underworld?

Drop always supported my music.

He used to like a lot of my pictures and repost my stuff to support me on the gram. One day we were talking and he said he wanted to send me some shirts. Some “Underworld” shirts, next thing I know he sent me a box and I posted it and told him thank you and we been rocking every since.

3. What was it like working with YukMouth?

I still work with him till this day. I’m on tour with him right now. It’s good being apart of Smoke-A-Lot-Records.

Being able to work with someone who you actually grew up listening too. You know I wasn’t rapping when it was The Luniz and Yukmouth was on Rap-A-Lot. I was listening to his music and I was a fan before I linked up with him so it’s an honor to have linked up with him and still be working with him till this day. A lot of people forget Yukmouth got platinum and gold plaques. So I’m able to be around and be friends with him and RealKuzzoFly KuzzoFly RealKuzzoFly

not only become a better artist but also learn a lot of the music industry and different things from him because he been in it so long. Like he toured with Puff and B.I.G. and they been in the game forever. I used to be selling dope posted on the block listening to Yukmouth, it’s feel unreal to be able to be working with him cause I never thought way back than ill be working with him.

4. Do you think that you would have still had this relationship working with him continuously or did you think it would be a onetime deal?

First off, it ain’t a deal like that. It’s 50/50 you know. I still got control of everything. Before Mac Dre died and the Hyphy movement I used to see him. We smoked weed together and all of that, he also extended the invitation to come to Smoke-A-LotRecords to me and initially I declined because I didn’t feel like I was ready.

I guess at that time I wasn’t at my right state of mind. I was just trying to get my life together because I had just got out of jail so a lot was going on. Just the phone conservations I had with him and just being around him I know I’ll still be rocking with him because Yuk and I were like the same type of people. I talked to Yuk twice on the phone and he asked me “To come to Smoke-A-Lot-Records” and I still was like “I don’t know”.

Then Dru Down called me and said that him and Yuk was talking about me and he really want me to come over their and that’s when I came to Smoke-A-Lot- Records.

5. Are you getting played on the TyroneJonesMedicatedBBQSauce Planet of the Grapes Kuzzofly

radio in the Bay like a lot of local artist?

No I don’t get spins in the Bay I get spins in other states like Carolina and Chicago. I don’t get any spins in the Bay Area cause my music to me is not Bay Area music. My music is like Down South/ Mid West music.

I got more street music than radio.

6. When can fans expect a new music video?

Well I’m shooting one next month, currently; I haven’t been focused too much on my music because I started on my medicated BBQ Sauce. So I’ve been kind of focused more on that. Yuk just drop his album “JJ based on a Vii story” Part one and I’m on part two. So I’ve just been helping him more or less campaigning to push that album. I will be shooting my new music video next month and dropping an EP called “Kuzzo Fly” and the single is called “OG Shit”.

7. What do you do outside of music?

I got the Medicated BBQ sauce, and I co own a clothing line called “Planet of the Grapes Clothes”. We started it back when purple weed was real big because everyone was like got grapes, got purple so we started “Planet of the Grapes”.

8. Tell us your ultimate goal in music?

Just to be a little more comfortable. I ain’t never set out to be one of famous. I just want to make street music the way I make it and don’t disappoint my fans. And really make enough money to open up homeless shelters. kuzzoflymusic@gmail.com

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Tea time

Radio Personality and Artist Developer 28

I’m working with Emerald Negassi you guys are about to meet him. He’s pretty dope, amazing artist.

1. How are you?

I’m good; I’m better now

than branding yourself period if out there in the entertainment world.

2. Who are you and what do you do?

I’m Tea Time and I do a little bit of everything but as far as the music industry goes I’ve built a platform for the underground sound. I started doing radio personality almost three–four years ago and it was by accidently but it was pretty dope.

5. Explain why you got into the industry?

It was mainly because of my baby brother he started doing his own thing. It was very hard for him to do it all like the whole booking and scheduling and stuff like that so I just kind of start helping by accident and it just started happening.

3. Are you more of a radio personality or artist developer?

I do the both just because a lot of artists think that just getting on the radio is just easy. You know it’s more to it than just being an artist. It has the paperwork, and it has the brand.

6. Name of the artist you are working with?

After Hours in which was a Hip-hop rap band, they did pretty good. It was a chick by the name of C Carter she was compared to like the female Kendrick Lamar she was pretty dope.

4. What are some of the things a artist can expect going through your artist develop?

Definitely learn how to cover their basis with business. Back to the whole paperwork again branding yourself. I’m very good friends with the Real Freeway Rick Ross. Back in the day he was a six hundred million dollar cocaine drug dealer in Los Angeles and he went to prison for that. Then we have Rick Ross the rapper and he came and took his identity why? Because he never branded himself. That not for an artist it’s just so much more

7. Any advice for people trying to develop artist?

To artist make sure to ask yourself “Is this a hobby for you or a passion?” Not everybody should do music so be real with yourself you know get your paperwork.

8. What’s next?

I’m working with Emerald Negassi you guys are about to meet him. He’s pretty dope, amazing artist. I hate to say this out loud but I’ve been asked is there any talent in Vegas and from what I personally seen can think of it’s only him.

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Black Collar

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Skrill Gates 1. From an entertainer’s point of view, explain the hard work behind planning a music video? Is it hard trying to stay in character and still manage to get everyone to come out to support you?

Yeah, especially if your doing it independently by yourself. Which pretty much I’ve done everything by myself.

I have a team but at the end of the day I’m in charge and in control of it so it’s like you got there at the shoot, you got to be in character, you got to make sure everybody doing what they suppose to do, got to make sure nobody looking crazy and, make sure your outfit is on point. It’s a lot at the end of the day but anything worth happens is worth working for. You get out of anything what you put into it.

T.H.U.G 4 Life (Totally Humble Under God) 4 Life. Our goal is to empower our community by teaching them how to invest and save.

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I grew up rough and don’t regret any of it but at the same time I can help a lot with the knowledge I have

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2. When can fans expect a new music video?

In the next two months. I want to get this new single spinning and get people back familiar with me. I took the Hiatus for a while because my engineer was murdered last April. It was a little difficult for me and that put a delay on my music.

3. Are you doing live shows in your hometown?

Nope not in my hometown, I’ve been doing them in other place like Miami, Atlanta, Mostly the south. I called it the “Chitlins Circuit” where you build them little fans at them little clubs. I’ve been running in those circles building that core fan base.

4. Is there any celebrity you would like to work with?

I got list of people who I want to work with. I call it my feature list. It’s more so the people I respect in the game and that I know who make music that they really live by virus music that people want to hear. Like Gucci Mane, Trick Daddy, and Jadakiss.

5. What’s keeps you motivated as a musician?

My family, at the end of the day I got kids, music is the sound track to life in my opinion. The message more motivates me in songs as well.

6. Why did you choice the music route?

I had a story to tell and still do; music was the best way to create a platform for other things that I wanted to do. It’s all about the kids and the next generation with me. I grew up rough and don’t regret any of it but at the same time I can help a lot with the knowledge I have 7. Why should people bang your music?

Cause that shit is dope!!!!!

8. What’s next?

Film, I got a couple of film projects I’m working on right now. Not reality TV or nothing like that, just some current events in the urban community.

skrillgates skrillgates skrillgates skrillgates Skrillgates@skrillgates.com

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Outkast Car Club

1. Tell everyone who you are and where your’re from?

My name is Big Lizard A.K.A the real hop doc. I’m from Los Angeles, California.

2. What gave you the idea to start a Car club?

Well, I actually didn’t start it by myself. It was team organized thing you know a couple of us had custom rides. Plus, I always been building cars so it was kind of like a no brainer for us to hook up and make our own live car club so we could do it our way.

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3. Explain what a day would be like as a member of the Outkast car club?

Oh, It was depends on what day it is ha, if it’s a weekday you know everybody has jobs, has a whole another life but usually when they get off work they attend the car business or order some parts and other stuff like that during the week. When it gets the weekend Thursday, Friday, Saturday you know everybody pull their car out and get everything cleaned up and do whatever they going to do.

Whether they go to the store, hang out, hit a park, however it go. Usually Saturdays we would meet up and see what we gone do for Sunday. And Sunday you know how Sunday go that’s cruise night.

4. When did Outkast Car Club first start? How many members do you have? And where are you located?

We first started in the year 2,000.

Basically my buddies and I just

came with the idea to come up with that type of name and we originally started off with six members we are about twenty deep now. We are a very hand selected group to their abilities. I try to pull people out of the crowd for participants because I can help those participants with my car knowledge so a lot of time.

I’ll pull people that’s brand new to the scene and you know pull them under my wing and lace them up and send them back out there with their full night armor on when they go back on the streets you know.

5. Let everyone know how you developed a relationship with TY Dollar sign?

Oh, well, you know we all come from like the same of town I been running around that side of town for about thirty years and they like my little homies you know what I’m saying. Real good dudes, kept it solthereal.hop.doc@gmail.com thereal.hop.doc

id, been staying solid so you know we all pushed together.

6. How did you get involved with the Underworld?

Through my boy Brand Yourself Apparel Franklin. He and Drop known each other since a few years back and we all had a meeting and find out our goals are going the same direction we just held to different platforms you feel me I have cars, model and stuff like that. Frank had fashion, with models and Drop had everything. So it was kind of like a lot of little things were meshing up and I stepped all the way into the music game so that was more steam to the fire.

7. What is the Hop Doc? Okay everybody really knows me for the lizard I was giving that name thirty years ago but when I first got on the social media scene I kind of

wanted to get in on a fresh note. I wanted everyone to look at me for my knowledge not everyone look at me for who I was on the streets.

So by me not putting my name up and by not putting a picture up they had to take me for what I knew. You had to take me for my knowledge, take me for my history. No one in the lower riding game would know who I was at first. So every time it would a question that popped up on the low riding. Social media thought I would answer it and they tired to figure out who is this guy and how does he know all of this information? Because I was in it I did all of my homework I passed all of my college classes. Uncle Ted Wells, Gary May Rest in Peace, Terry Carter Rest in peace I had a lot of mentors that got me to the point that I am at this level and I cant do nothing but give it but so the next five years it’s going to be crazy.

thereal.hop.doc thereal.hop.doc

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Andres Rodriguez is a 32 year old graphic designer in South Florida.

He developed artistic skills at the age of 13. As a teen he started by drawing random characters and selling them to the neighborhood kids for a buck. As Andres grew older he became more interested in art classes; where he would try his best to make his own comic books and cards to raise his prices. Finally, in high school graphic design became part of his artistic timeline. The first thing he ever designed was a restaurant’s menu. Later on, he became more amused with the art of designing; he bought himself a program called Gimp. Using Gimp, Andres taught himself how to navigate

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throughout the software where he decided to expand and create a name for his business calling it “Tru Touch Designs”. Andres not only matured physically, but his drawing and marketing skills developed into designing mix tape covers and flyers. His customers were not only up and coming artists and promoters but also entrepreneurs. Mr. Rodriguez’s clientele expanded not only in South Florida but also in California, Georgia, Texas, New York, and The Bahamas. Up to date Tru Touch Designs has provided exceptional customers service to not only new customers but more than five years of loyal customers.

Mo Gunz 1. Tell everyone about your label? Whose sign to it? When did you start?

My label is Beast Entertainment I started it about 2005 just my boy Joe and me. Then I was just pushing for a minute and right now I got Gutta Y.L, Tammy Black, Scotty No pimping, Joe Deenzy on the beat, we got a whole team of just artist with different styles, we got the producers, we got graphic designers, I shoot videos, I promoted show so I got a couple different venues lined up to throw events. I’m just trying stay busy networking with everybody out here.

2. Are you sponsoring artist with your line to get the public to involved?

I haven’t really been sponsoring the artist with the clothing line. They would support it and wear it but I’m actually keeping it separate. The cloth-

ing line is supporting all the medical marijuana supporters. I’m just trying get my line out there and on that hype and then my music. I’m just in a whole different field with that.

3. Where can fans check out your music at?

You can go on Youtube.com and search “MoGuns” I got about eight videos on there. I got another video with Stewie Filmz one of the hottest videographer in the Bay Area right now that just dropped.

4. How did you hook up with Drop?

Drop’s been my boy from back in the day. I’ve actually known Drop besides music I just known him through streets and just being around love ones; he always been a solid people to me so I just stay in touch with Drop. He’s a cool individual.

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Apryl Success is the sum of small things repeated day in and day out

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Church Name: Trueway Full Gospel Church: Pastors Aaron and Tamelia Millsap Address: 743 W 79th Los Angeles, CA 90044 Service Time: Sunday service 12:30pm Wednesday night Bible Study 7:30pm.

Name: Apryl Weston-Jackson Apryljw@gmail.com @apryljw Title: Minister, years active in hip-hop (17years) Hobbies: Singing and bowling Favorite rap artist: YG lol reminds me of hip hop in my day Favorite food: Seafood Favorite gospel song: Tasha Cobbs–Put A praise on it Favorite album: Tasha Cobbs - Grace Church mission station: Loving people for who they are and helping them to understand what Christ did for them Vision: To change the community one person at a time

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Kufanya Gentry A.K.A. Drop Da’Magnificent

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When it comes to real movements either you supporting the cause, Jumping on the Bandwagon, or don’t mean shit at all

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Now ask yourself where was you at while history was being made

Kufanya - Is a complete genius with a high IQ level and educational skills. Kufanya’s conscious is at an all time high in a dimension that touches the realm of the universe.

Babez was our mentor and my older cousin. So as long as we went to school, did the right thing, and listened Babez was our umbrella in the game; like the whole situation raising us around that Tupac/ThugLife era. Tupac, Babez, and ManMan were my older peers. Lil Jessie, Dre 5, Mario, Kev, Alex, Big Reese were the younger ones. The knuckleheads you know it’s the branch of a tree when the seed is planted. You got the branches, and you got the leafs so when you wet behind the ears at the age 13, 14, and 15 you don’t really get that much of the luxuries but you get introduced to the luxury lifestyle. With Babez, Pac and them the lifestyle that they lived is the same lifestyle that we lived. If they went to little parties and lived around that lifestyle and stuff so did we you know what I mean? We got to taste it and stuff. Babez spent a little time with the younger ones here and there to let us know what it was and let us know what ThugLife was really about.

3. What was your relationship with Tupac?

Basically, I really didn’t have one.

My relationship was based around the whole ThugLife / Tupac scene.

Lil Jessie, Dre 5, Mario, Kev, Alex, Big Reese, and myself were all underneath Babez you feel me?

4. Describe what it was like spending your 18th birthday in prison and what lesson did you take away from that situation?

Well, actually I had my 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, and 22nd birthday in prison you know Corcoran C3, level 3 yard. It was a learning ex-

1. How are you?

I’m blessed in life 2. Tell us the difference between Drop and Kufanya and their importance?

Drop - Is a mastermind, A real street king with a few screws missing, Drop is a bit bi polar and is an emotional wreck on earth! He is very loyal and will ride with you until the wheels fall off.

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perience you know what I mean? I got my G.E.D up in there because I dropped out of high school for the streets. So when I was in prison it’s like I was on the level three yard man 17 years old I had my 18th birthday in prison with killers, lifers, and stuff so they gave me a intervention. I seen victims up in there; I was never a victim of nothing but to see it first hand out of experience you learn a lot just off that. So to get this intervention, from the killers up in there that was never going home you feel me, like they said “You’re going to see daylight you don’t want to be up in here doing life in prison”. They said, “What impress us is not coming up in here and getting your build on, yoak on, and doing all that gangster shit”.

They told me “What impress them the most is living multiple decades on the outside of the walls without dying or becoming a lifer in prison”.

So in order to do that I had to get up in there and get a G.E.D. I had to read the law of library, I had to read the Encyclopedia, and I had to get me a job up in there. Through that experience, I learned a lot. I’m actually glad I got it in and out of my system at an early age because at that time you don’t have no girl, no kid, you don’t really got any commitments you still wet behind the ears yourself man. So to be in

When it comes to Humanity, consider me a Visionary & World developer.

prison for the ages 18,19,20,21, and 22 I’m grateful I got that experience of getting an education and not adapting to that prison lifestyle.

Getting out in the year 97-98 I used it to my best advantage; just think I haven’t been back since man. I gave the prison system back their J number “J95148” way back then and everybody know the truth man when you have a J number in prison you know that’s real that’s all the way back in the 93-94 era man.

5. Paint the picture in everyone’s head why you ran away from home?

Ah man, it was all me. I had a good single mom that spoiled my brother and I. Our Mother gave us whatever we needed but after a while she did buckle up and had some rules you feel me? It’s one of them things that she said, “If I couldn’t go by her [rules] then get the fuck out”. At that point and time it was just a gesture, something that she had just said.

With me smelling the hair up under my armpits and growing a little hair under my chain, wanting a taste of that industry lifestyle so bad I ran away. Being around the ThugLife era seeing all that hustling, the luxury of the money, cars, and clothes got to my head. Once I ran away, I was a little depressed not at the world but within myself. I had a lot

I just didn’t run away and stay in that same city. I ran away and hit different cities and even went out of state sometimes just to explore and I was grateful because I was living my life like a gypsy and now that I’m older you feel me I than adapted to all walks of life you feel me? I could go to New York and already know how to adjust like the normal New Yorkers you feel me? I could go to Philly, I could go to Miami, I could go to Texas you feel me? I learned how to adapt to the situation from just running away and stuff.

of personal things going on within myself you feel me? So I really ran away and when I did I had thoughts of committing suicide. However, I didn’t want to be a coward and pull a gun on myself so what I ended up doing was running away from home and going to all the dangerous places that they said not to go.

People was like “Yeah man don’t go to Oakland over there on this side, don’t go to Richmond, California, don’t go to Oxnard, Ventura Avenue, don’t go to Compton, don’t go to Inglewood, don’t go to San Diego, Don’t go to Oak Park out there, and Sacramento” you feel me? Its like I was a drifter at the age 13, 14, 15, 16 I was out their drifting man;

6. Did you ever think you would witness death and actually live to talk about it today?

Truthfully, I already knew I would witness death at first hand but never in a million years thought I would live to talk about it. When I ran away at thirteen I didn’t think I was gone live to see fifteen. Fifteen came I didn’t think I was gone live to see eighteen; eighteen came I didn’t think I’ve lived to see twenty-one, twenty-one came I didn’t think I was gone live to see twenty-five, you see what I’m saying so sooner or later the lifestyle that I was living I knew it came with consequences of having to face the grim reaper or meet the piper. They always say everybody got a maker so if you out there in that gang infected lifestyle,

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God’s plans need for no copyrights! What’s organically divine is already done. 777 out there excessive hustling sooner or later you gone walk around that corner and the grim reaper gone be there. Like I said I Kufanya Gentry, vowed to some rules. I never got jumped onto a hood; I am just affiliated with certain gangs and stuff man. I was vowed on to a hood, vowed on to the streets, and I knew I had to pay the price whether it was prison time or death itself you feel me? When you pick that lifestyle consequences comes with it, you know what I’m saying? And death just so happens to be one of them.

By the grace of God I’m here to talk about it I’m not here to glorify it but I am here out of experience to lead by example so people don’t have to get shot up or face death because life is more beautiful than what we actually get taught. African Americas get planted and birthed to these projects, to these poverty neighborhoods and stuff. It’s a huge stereotype that African Americans must live that way and it’s sad because we got all these minorities that turn into statistics. I’m here today after nineteen gunshots to let people know they don’t have to be a statistic man if they get their self together. God allowed me to do this interview and pass this message on to let everyone know to keep faith, and go head and believe in yourself. God made me a miracle just to be able to live by example and talk about it, give you guys my testimony so you can understand you don’t want to go through hardship.

7. Explain the kind of relationship you have with you mom?

She’s my mom man we like brothers and sisters you know what I mean? All my life it was hard for me to lie to her so I was always upfront. Even the things she didn’t

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God created all of us to perfection for our quest on earth! Now ask yourself “What is your purpose” like I still let my mom know man.

There were times when I popped something, stabbed something, and fought something she was the only hear for me to vent to. I can’t believe I was crazy enough to explain to her some of the situations that occurred but everybody got to respect their mom. I have said some wrong things and we fell out, one thing is my mom she ain’t no punk so if I go head and lash out she gone lash out even more you feel me? She taught me how to survive you know, she taught me how to have a heart even though I had to lose that heart growing up in the streets you feel me? In the streets you can’t have a heart so you know she in stored a heart in me and raised me and kept me. In a nutshell, my mom is like my sister, my best friend you feel me? When I was growing up and got into it she was right there. If I got into with somebody kids she got into with they parents.

8. Why did you leave the hospital after you got shot the second time?

Well, I had died man you know that was the cold thing about it. I passed away seven minutes on arrival and I was on life support. When doctors took me off life support they told my mom and family I was crucially shot too many times in vital areas doctors were saying “He going to die he is not going to make it”. In my mind I had went through the situation with the first ten gunshots so to be shot nine more times I couldn’t take it; I was losing it. I was there with a full conscious so I looked at it as if God was gone take my life away I didn’t want to die in a hospital, hospital clothes, around people I didn’t know you know nurses and

stuff. So I ended up splitting out the hospital right away. If I had a choice on how I wanted to die I going to die the way I know my life is. If I’m going to die I want to die doing the things that I like to do in the clothes that I like to wear. I was not about to sit there and wait on death if that was the case I’ll rather run myself into death. If you got an option and your sitting in the hospital and they telling you “Oh man you only got so much time to live” why sit up there and mope and grope and just wait in the hospital for it to happen man.

Everyday that was going by I utilize my time wisely and look what happened man I mean death didn’t overcome me. I overcame death by leaving the hospital sometimes that hospital will mess you up man with all them germs and different nurses an assistances coming in there touching on you, checking on your vitals and stuff you know what I mean. I just didn’t feel safe up in the hospital man so I got up out of there thinking if God was gone call upon me he was gone call upon me anyways so I decided to go out there in society and live how I live.

9. After your mom begged you to talk to the doctors what made you go against her word?

Stubborn, just being stubborn I’m a piece of work man and when my mind is set for something it’s set.

My mind said, “Get up out that hospital and keep going no matter what the doctor said” and whatever my mom said this is my life and that’s how I looked at it you feel me? It’s like we all got our own choice and decisions in life. At this point in time when you facing death you don’t put your life in other people’s hands man you know what I mean for the simple fact they could pull the plug on you. The doctor told my mom I would never walk again; they told my mom that I wasn’t going to make it. They even told her the first time I was shot “Your son has been under too long he going to be a vegetable”. So for doctors to count me out like that was wrong you got to keep faith it’s just you and God. Put your faith into God no matter what the doctors say sometimes they could be wrong and my mom went over there pleading with them doctors man. As a champion, soul survivor I went out there and I survived on my own man and patched up my wounds and had to survive financially, mentally, spiritually, and physically and get myself together.

10. Word on the streets is you smoke 20 blunts a day; What type of effect does marijuana have on you?

Boy, Medical Marijuana; it keeps me cool somebody like me you would think after nineteen gunshots a person would be bipolar, have a attitude, and out there just on one. But when I’m smoking blunts especially Backwoods filled with that good ass green topnotch hybrid weed

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Everything on earth wasn’t meant to be!

Find your niche in life & live it. indicia and sativa mixed you know what I mean? it keeps me more mellower you feel me? It motivates me to be really productive. With me I could smoke me a few blunts and I’m very talkative, creative, and highly active. The whole time that I was recovering through these nineteen gunshots I never used any pain pills no Vicodin, no Norcos, no nothing you feel me? What kept me cool was just lighting up.

That’s how I got to twenty blunts a day lighting up. When my bones was aching I was lighting up, when I was depressed in that wheel chair I was lighting up, when I wanted to go head and beat a niggas ass I was lighting up. Whenever I was thinking of negativity I was lighting up, when I felt bi-polarness coming lighting up. After you keep lighting up that’s twenty blunts a day baby. I could afford my habit 11. What was your reaction when the doctor told you that you would never walk again?

At first I was shocked but then to actually feel it and hear the doctors actually tell me you know what I mean what can you do? Like I said I keep all of my faith in God. They told me I couldn’t do a lot of shit in life you know? Do you accept it and go off the next person word? Once again this was my life so sometimes you got to go ahead and put all your faith in God. I Repeat “Put all your faith in God” and believe in yourself, dig deep into your soul and bring out the best of you. It’s mind over matter when it comes to life man. Sometimes adversity is stacked against you and the odds are against you sometimes you got to go head and bring out the best of you. When they say

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you can’t that’s when you get to doing. And when the doctor said I couldn’t man it was my faith man.

Although, I couldn’t walk again in life that did not mean that was not going to try. You don’t sit there and accept things for how they are you try. People gone tell you in life you cannot do a lot of things are you gone accept it or you gone try? A person could tell me something but unless it’s God I don’t believe it. God holds my faith and he sees what I’m walking against. God and I knew it with that faith I already knew I could walk again.

Real talk no game wasted

12. At what age did you get your first industry check?

I want to say about 2003 or 2004, anything else you know I was gritting and grinding. I was getting industry money but it was on a hustle you feel me? Like from the age thirteen I was hustling I had coke, weed, designer drugs and stuff.

The whole time I’m hustling street drugs to the industry getting industry money going back and bubbling in the streets. My little grid was so close to the streets and the industry couldn’t know that I was undetected so while I’m on the streets my money big and when I’m in the industry I’m not no entertainment you feel me? I’m just hustling through the backdoor to some of the entertainment they needed to get high and shit. So while they getting they industry checks they also spending that industry check through the backdoor with me with whatever choice of drugs they wanted growing up. By then when I became a Ruff Ryder that’s when I first started getting my industry money right there, boy. Comparing the two from getting the checks

from the streets and getting the industry money wasn’t no comparing it because in the industry you got to wait for it man but with the streets you constantly hustling you know what I mean? If you got ties in the industry I’m not saying to hustle dope to people and this and that but its 2017 you feel me? That’s consider genocide. At the same time me growing up and everything man maybe I had to create genocide to hustle and I grew up and figured it out but you know what I mean if you got a few people in the industry boy and they smoke trees and stuff man you got a piece of that check. Believe me if your hustling to anybody in the industry or anybody in sports man. I don’t care what it is some athletes sit up there and take the enhancement drug test or they do steroids. There a steroids dealer out there man that’s a check.

Their’s people on coke, there is people doing trees that’s a check. As far as me officially I want to say 2004 or 2005 through the Ruff Rider gig but you know what I mean? Thirteen I was getting checks man from the industry.

13. When did you get on the Mac Dre wave and what do you admire so much about his music?

Man, I want to say I been listening to Mac Dre since the nineties.

I want to say like ninety-seven boy probably even before that. Mac Dre been raping since I was young man you know what I mean and to tell you the truth Mac Dre is my favorite musician of all time you know what I mean I mean that. He number one out of all time, out of anybody rapping today, past tense, underground, mainstream, Mac Dre is my number one rapper you feel me?

Like I said I been on Mac Dre movement since man I don’t know how long man. That boy was in prison he got out man did his thang, started his own little label. Made it into a company boy pushed his whole movement and independently did something in life. That is the Bay Area king and it ain’t nobody ever going to take that from him like I said that’s my favorite rapper of all time.

14. Illustrate why you started Underworld Status Unlimited Multimedia Group?

I had so many skills I went to school for and I actually started Underworld in 2009 as a offspring of me dropping out of Ruff Ryders. I had dropped off my vest you know and threw it in, and I wanted to go head and get my own lifestyle since I was apart of a lifestyle of the Ruff Ryders and planting it on the West Coast, the streets, and part of the entertainment world. I wanted to go head and do my own thing and start me a brand, build it and develop it so I came up with Underworld Status. The Reason why Underworld Status was the brand name is because on the streets I was more of a boss figure you know what I mean? Like a mob figure you feel me out there in them streets. So to go head and ask what’s your status my status is in the Underworld you feel me? So Underworld Status is that brand name and I actually started pushing it as a Car club and a Clothing Line. The Car club didn’t really fly because it wasn’t that many participants that I could choose from who would have the same vision I see for the Car Club so I started pushing it as a clothing line. I had some Sony affiliates that I started working with in 2009. So I

built a relationship with these Sony affiliates you know what I mean and they showed me how to build my brand and develop it into a bigger based clothing line that would reach the industry. So I had myself inside a development you know what I mean and like I said I started going to school and learning fabrics and everything about the clothing line but than I didn’t stop there. I continued on learning on marketing, event planning, photo-shopping, doing photography work, doing visions, using cameras.

I had found a passion for just going to school and learning so I didn’t stop learning at school. Man with the fashion I continued on learning so as time went on I started looking at my company and was like “I could go only so far with fashion”.

So I started opening up my doors with my skill levels that I went to school for man and when I stopped and looked at all the pieces that I had. This is where Underworld Status came in I started getting a little buzz on social media and people started coming to me and by this time you know I got industry experience. Enough to go head and give people good quality work with my skill level so that’s when I formed Underworld Status.

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What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire! You can achieve.

15. How did you make the Underworld Status from a car club and shirts until what it has become today?

Man, independently pushing, distribution on my own man, you got to get out there sometimes just like I was out there manufacturing and distributing dope out there on them streets man I did it the same way man. I know a population of forty-three states from the West Coast to the East Coast. I went door to door, sale campaign, I went networking, social media, website, ecommerce. I took an ecommerce class so between me being on the streets and being a bookworm it went hand and hand and just came over due time. I started in 2009 we developed a shirt 2010, by 2012 it kicked off. They always said man when you start your own company especially in ecommerce, or anything fashion or something when you brand build it’s going to take three, four, five years man for you to pick your company off the ground.

All honestly It took me 2009, 10, and 11. By 2012 we was rocking and rolling man. By 2013/2014 that’s when that million came in. You don’t sell stuff overnight you might not even tip off a good year but if you go head keep your books right man, and keep tally on everything you got. You look at that longevi-

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ty process you know what I mean.

From 2010 until present day right now, oh you better believe out of that Underworld Status the official Underworld Status black shirt man.

Our shirts were in high demand believe me it was up there. You got to stick with it you know what I mean stay consistent don’t try to stack high try to stack long man. When you go longevity you are going to make a mill off your product just keep it going consistently.

16. How important is developing the youth and the next generation in your opinion? And why do you stress it so much Man I stress it so much because it’s my life; it’s really my life now it’s my job and my duty. It’s something that I promised God that I would do you feel me? Through out my life man I feel like I created so much genocide hustling out there on them streets. So, now I hold in a little guilt when I look at these youngsters and see how hard it is for them.

So without me being a hypocrite you know what I mean I go head and lead by example and extend a hand. We have to be there for the younger generations; these youth they need us man. How can these youth go head and develop to who they gone be? How are they gone have options? How do they know right from wrong? We have to build that grid between us adults and the younger generations man. I would gave my life to help them out its not about me no more I’ll sacrifice my life to make the younger generation more better. The stuff I’m doing today I want to better three generations/ four / five / six generations under me and at this point and time I’m doing that. With the development I got right now the

youngest I deal with is probably six.

I got a intern coming in here that’s eleven years old you know what I mean I’m reaching out to the youth right now as we speak. That’s all I could do I don’t want to do nothing else but sit here day in and day out to see how I could these youth live better for the future 17. What steps did you take in order to transition from Legendary street king to now being Executive Producer/ CEO of Underworld Status Unlimited Multimedia Group?

First all I had to rehabilitate my mind, I had to gather my thoughts, gather myself as a person. I had to take myself and put myself back into the lab to reserve myself. Being out there as a street king man hustling big time dope, pounds of trees, and just being a cutthroat in the game.

It takes a lot especially if you ain’t had the short end of the stick. What I mean by that is having your door kicked in or having them jack boys come and jack you and do all that stuff. When your able to go head and consistently get your bread out there on the grind man its hard to pull away. So when you pull away you got to find something that go find something that going to rehabilitate your mind it’s like a twelve step program. You don’t have to be strung out on dope to have to go to a twelve-step program. What if your just addict to the hustle you know what I mean so you need a twelve – step program to go head and do it.

I got into this development of mine and started to focus on school and my clothing line, being the event planner, and so on. I’m still going to school right now as we speak so that’s part of the development and part of my rehabilitation for me not

While everyone think its industry! I’m providing ya’ll ghetto ministry! Pure Raw Entertaining Reality. to turn back to a street king and get out there and move. Now am I an active street king? Yes I am because I still deal with the streets but on a positive business aspect. I’m trying to go ahead and put entertainment back into the hood. I’m trying get some of these people that’s in the hood with entertainment out there and heard of. I’m bridging these gaps that’s missing from success to the neighborhoods. So as a street king I’m doing king stuff. People got the concept messed up because you say you a street king don’t mean you have to be out there causing genocide. A real king goes ahead and he empowers the people; he helps the people become powerful, he finds ways of making the kingdom and the people powerful.

So as executive producer now I’m in position to help other successfully benefit in life and get a little further. So as a Street King/ Executive Producer/ Bookworm I’m taking all that formula and mixing together and this is what the people getting out me. Right now, I’m an active street king because I deal with these people you know what I mean? I’ll go out there and help them people out man you know what I mean.

Let them know its time to get a education, pick up a book, and learn how to read and write. If you don’t then don’t be afraid of what people tell you go head and work that nine till five. If it’s gone pay your bills and take care your priorities then do it man. It’s kind of like being a philanthropist at the same time as doing executive producing from becoming the street king.

18. If you could describe your company in two words what would it be?

World Development

19. How do you want Underworld Status to be remembered?

I want Underworld Status to be remembered as a real lifestyle that’s there for the youth. I want it to be something that’s implanted in every neighborhood across the United States that will help every youth developed to what they will become.

I really don’t want underworld status to be remembered I want it to carry on. I want it to be a lifestyle that carries on from generation to generation to generation.

20. As Executive producer let the people know what’s your region?

My executive producer’s box is from the Bay to L.A to Las Vegas. Sharing the West Coast with the respected L.A. Reid who is an executive producer in the region of Los Angeles.

21. How and why did you end up in the executive producer chair?

Also while being Executive Producer tell us about Philanthropy and you as a Philanthropist?

I deal with both the music and movie cinema industries on a business aspect as an independent entrepreneur dealing with entertainment lawyers, distributions, corporations, building tour dates, grids, and platforms for all talent and entertainment. Basically with me I just want to give back as a Philanthropist while Executive Producer. The worst thing that really hit my con-

scious and what I feel guilty about is when I pass away I died with so much gift, talent, education, and game that I could have blessed other people with. That’s greedy and selfishness you know what I mean all my life I just been living with the me and I attitude, and just waking up worrying about myself. I was not really worried about other unless they was really fucking with me you know hands on and on a everyday basis. Other than that people that gradual walked by you know what I mean I basically didn’t care about they well beings and how they was doing. So a lot of that stuff I had held and still do that’s what make want to do for the people. A lot of stuff that I’m doing as Executive Producer like I said, “I’m producing just to give back”. A lot of stuff is going to be horror, drama, crime, and mystery. You know I love crime, Horror, and Mystery movies.

The work that I’m putting out you know I’m taking my time and being patient know what I mean a lot of stuff is going to grow and blossom like a flower. Ain’t no need to rush the best things they come last because people take they time. A lot of people rush and pre-promote stuff know what I mean so I’m just staying tunnel vision, focused on what I got to do. I got Underworld Status Entertainment you know the record part of it, I got Underworld Status Unlimited Multimedia Group; that’s the machine. It consists of production, marketing, distribution, fashion, management, basically everything it’s the machine around the entertainment. I sit here and try to tell these youth they got to take they time and educate there self and develop their self. A lot of these people want to be artists, rappers, and musicians but at the

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About my hater’s: this is where I decide if I forgive or forget, not. My success came with hurt. same time I took the route of being an executive. Now I pick up a book, read, write and learn how to make executive decisions not just for myself but also for my team.

So it’s a lot that goes hand and hand with the territory know what I mean all this shit ain’t easy I work fifteen to twenty hour days, I got to deal with multiple people, I got to network its like a sector I got to have my hands on everything you feel me not that I want to but I got to make sure everything is organized and taken care of. I’ve always had a God given heart I think that’s why God gave me this chance to go head and to continue on living do some of his works at the same time do some of my work.

He gave me the ability to help people and that’s all I want to do as a Philanthropist you know what I mean I just want to help people.

Of course I’m be a motivated/ inspirational speaker right now I got work to do and I really don’t

want to go out there pre-maturely talking to people I make sure that hands on I got experience. I got so much experience at my age today everyday is a learning lesson so everyday that I wake up I’m creating history and testimony and I’m learning know what I mean? I’m on a platform right now to get people to stop, look, listen, and see the reality that I’m about to produce like I said its education form they could accept it or they don’t have too. I love my work it’s a passion; it’s a passion to work with different people and help people out. All I tell the people is to believe in yourself, believe in your dream, chase them and paint that picture. Don’t let nobody tell you that you can’t do this or that. You can do anything I’m telling you that man I been shot nineteen times and here I am right now just running my company, I’m executive producer/CEO, in both the music and movie industry. You got to believe in yourself.

Basic Info Title: Philanthropist, (C.E.O) Chief Executive Officer , Executive Producer, Life Coach/Developer/ Visionary Favorite Movie: The Road Favorite Color: Red And Raider’s Silver

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Favorite Foods: Soup And Salads Birth Place: Oakland,Kalifornia Birth Month And Zodiac Sign: April 12 And Zofiac Sign Is A Aries Hobbies/Intrests: Bowling, Camping, Shooting Range, Working On My Own Cars, And Philantropy/ Photography

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Se len a Marie Years active: 5 years modeling 7 years singing Featured Music Video: 15 Book for: Event Hosting, Brand Ambassador, Modeling Team City & State: Hayward, California Favorite Food: Pizza and Tacos Favorite Album: Kehlani - Crazy Sexy Savage Ultimate goal with music: Have own album and work and music full time. Go more into music than modeling and expand international Favorite quote: what is meant to be will be, God so loved the world, love is patience; love is kind

Age: 32 Booking Email: nvs.models@gmail.com Agency Name: NVS Models Target audience: Woman from 18 plus Hosting: clubs, own events, performances, Clothing modeling, promotional for Budlight and BMW Clothing brand: True Boss Clothing, G Baby Clothing.

Skills: Fashion modeling, promo modeling, video modeling, photography skills, video work, working on TV Show that plays uncensored music videos, Hobbies: Sing, take photos, make up and hair, craft.

Accomplishment: I got to be in E40 music Video and I got to meet Trina

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Soulo 1. When did you first begin making music and what lead you down that route?

I don’t think in life I ever had an option my story in life is kind of like the Jackson’s growing up. The dad rehearsing, the kid’s constantly over your routines and stuff like that. I believe at a young age three I started getting paid to play in bass guitar in church. Present day, I play every instrument and every style. It’s been a long time I believe I’m a young old man.

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2. Tell everyone about your up-coming single? Who is your target audience? When is the release date? And where can everyone download it?

Right now it’s available online on all the major music streaming and downloading sites as in Itunes, Spotify, Amazon. The name of my band is called “Mr. Jazz and Soulmatik”. The world knows me as Soulo. The name of the single is “Let Me” and I was kind of forced to release another one it’s called “Best for you”. My main target audience is mostly the grown and sexy but new ears are always a plus, because I think music is a big part of what you see of what’s going on today. Nothing against the other genres but life is of some type of significant and it should have some type of meaning. So my music is about healing, loving, and life situation. Check it out

3. Describe what it’s like dealing with everyone in your band time and attitude. Is it hard getting everyone on the same page?

It’s definitely a learning experience. When you’re not a solo artist you have to take into account of numbers it made it a little difficult but we actually decided to go independent a long time ago. Life is very interesting we been supporting ourself by playing for other artist, supporting what they do, and put what we do kind of on the back burner. We never stopped recording or anything like that but it has been a little challenging not to really dip into that; we here now life is real interesting, and got some beautiful music for you because of the things that life brought upon us, learning the things that we had to go through individually. Independent it’s a whole new meaning to it; it gave us another truth to our sound as well.

4. You mention headlining tours? How did that come about? Where you getting paid back then or was it a TLC situation?

Well we had to cut out a few heads back then. There were

some unnecessary angels; a lot of people that was getting paid probably got paid more then what we did. It kept us busy but it was once upon a life, long time ago. I think it’s been over a decade since my last album that I released. This next album that I do have coming up its not a specific release date you can Google “Mr. Jazz & Soulmatik” and go on to the website and found out upcoming times for release dates and shows.

5. How did you meet Drop?

You know life is interesting but I don’t believe in coincidences I actually met Drop through my wife. He is a real good friend of a long time of my wife. I believe when I first met him it was probably about fifteen years ago maybe. In that time I learned of his story back then and it was “wow” to hear and to hear where he’s at today it’s another “wow”.

6. What do you do outside of music?

I’m a father, husband that’s hard work right their y’all but it’s definitely worth wild. You know I think that’s really what life is all about because what you pour into, you can take from, what you take in, you can put out.

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Its money well spent YBLM say’s your not going waste your money if you pay for the ticket.

1. Explain to everyone where the name came from?

See it’s two names for it. The first is “Young Bosses Living marvelous” and “Your bitch like my music”. At first it was “Your Bitch Like my music” but when we got a manager he talked us up out of it he was like “Yall wouldn’t want that as yall face” so Will he came up with “Young Bosses Living Marvelous”. So once he said we can’t have it like that we was like “Alright” well call it “Young Bosses Living Marvelous”. The Manager was like he fucks with it and that’s who we are. Young Bosses Living marvelous but your Bitch likes my music.

2. What kind of love are you getting from your city? Are you doing shows in your hometown?

Awwww, man we got a lot of people that fuck with us and we haven’t even dropped anything.

We dropped one song (laughing out loud) and we got love. We got real love like we could put out the rest of our music right now if we wanted to but why when they rocking with it so tough. Were just trying to get our fan base up right now. We got a back order on hats. We always got keychains.

3. When did you guys meet your manager Doe CEO of Dixon Management?

I met Doe November 2016 through my cousin telling me to come to the studio. This is when it was just three of us and Kennan wasn’t around.

He said but this the thing “Come to the studio and try to bring your homeboys if you can”. One was unavailable but Kyrie and YBLM Real get in the studio and they rap a song for Doe and he liked the song. We told him like “Yo you gone call us back we already know you gone call us back you feel me” so we sent him the song that same night. Next morning, he called us back. It wasn’t

even a next morning because we went in the studio at eight o’clock at night and left at right in the morning and he called us by noon to tell us he wanted to put us on.

Kyrie says, “He called me as soon as I was getting off work I’m on my way home and bro was like yo we got a deal” and I was like “What you mean”.

He said, “You got a manager fam”. He replied, “You got a manager and all that”. So I’m like “hold on, what you talking about. Doe was like “Long story short Will cousin you know what I mean this and that and some words was said. He was like he likes our song, he fuck with us, he want us in the studio. So I’m like “Alright bet”. From than it’s just been take off you know shit we performed at Coast2Coast and out of forty artists we came in third place. We just told ourselves from than “it’s meant to be”.

4. What can fans expect when they come to an YBLM show?

You can expect for us to shut shit down ha. Just know when you show up to an YBLM show it’s going to be live. It’s money well spent YBLM say’s your not going waste your money if you pay for the ticket. That’s what we do we show up and show out if it’s our city or not. That’s what we do show up and show out. That’s our thing that’s how we got to carry it.

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Babez (ThugLife) “Keep Your Head Up” Music Video South Central Cartel (Spice 1, Pac, Mc8,) “I Get Around” Music Video

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my cousin he actually had a label called “Underground RailRoad” and he signed Tupac. He noticed Tupac had extraordinary talent so he immediately got his money together and put Tupac on.

1. Tell everyone who you are and what you do.

My name is Babez. I’m from Richmond, California. As of right now, I’m an I.T. technician but prior to this I used to be a producer and a performer. I used to perform with Tupac and Thug Life. I’ve lived the life, the struggle, and been through all the channels.

2. How have you made a name for yourself?

Well actually, I did some investments in the music industry.

As far as the streets uh “wow”! Every part of it I made a name for myself.

An infamous name should I say; yet it turn full circle. As my career lifted with the ThugLife thing I used it to my advantage to push forward with it with what I knew and how to actually incorporate it into the industry.

3. What was it like raising the legendary Dre 5 and Drop A.K.A Kufanya Gentry?

Well those are my cousins. They are my immediate cousins; you know not distant at all so we were all raised in the same household, from my grandma’s house to my aunt’s house. You know we were all just tied in. You see, I’m like three or

four years older than Drop and I’m like six years older than my cousin Dre. They were younger so I didn’t want them around. I was always a fast kid and I was always into stuff that guys who were older than me were into. So I for sure didn’t want these young dudes around me.

They would follow me all the time.

I would hate for them to follow me but they couldn’t miss it. They couldn’t miss it because I was kind of like the “Catalysis” in the game.

You know that’s how the game was back then in the 80’s. You know coming up through the early 90’s Drop couldn’t help but to bare witness to that you know what I mean. When I’m around I didn’t want them around, you know. I didn’t want them to follow me but yet it tuned into you know “You know you guys are older now, so I can welcome you guys aboard”. I brought them up to my condo and we all chilled you know Drop used to come from LA. We were a tight niche family so it was no way they could have missed what I had on the table back then. Those are my younger cousins but we are more like brothers. I showed them the ropes whenever they had any kind of issues or whatever they didn’t know about the streets or a difficult

situation, there I was. I’m their oldest cousin and I’m the first son in that generation.

4. Explain what was going through your mind when you heard Drop got shot?

Well, when Drop got shot I was in prison. When they told me where it happened I wanted to sweat somebody from that city. I wanted to go back into prison and sweat somebody from that city because that’s like my brother. Immediately due to my state of mind, I had no control all I knew is these guys in here from where that happened.

I was baking wild due to the environment. I forgot what year it was it was like 2012 or whatever I didn’t get out till 2014. All I could do was call Drop I had a cell phone in prison. I would call Drop and I would call Dre. He would tell me blow by blow what’s going on and my Aunt Jeanine would tell me. I was just tripping you know I had met some guys in prison that actually knew my cousin Drop you know that was initially when they said they were from “Oxnard” so I was like “Okay”. This was the first time he got hit. Than I met some guys that were from the scene where he got shot at. Immediately,

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when I heard Drop had got shot I immediately went to them and start asking about “What yall heard, what yall know, and what’s going on out there?” Just tripping you know that prison mentality um yeah but I took it hard.

5. The second time Drop got shot did you think he would even make it?

Nah, I didn’t. The second time was really when I tripped, I actually got kicked out of that one prison.

I mean but beside some more things that were going on but you know it was back to that mind state okay “My cousins got shot over here where yall at you know what I mean so forget yall”. I switched up because somebody gone be sad about what’s about to happen to yall up in here I’m sad about what happened to my cousin out there. So I was totally hysterical that was my first cousin you know he

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wasn’t no distant cousin he been from LA to the Bay whatever that’s still my cousin. We been through everything as I said he’s more like my brother I don’t have a brother those were my brothers.

6. What made you invest in Tupac and the ThugLife Movement?

Well, my cousin he actually had a label called “Underground RailRoad” and he signed Tupac. He noticed Tupac had extraordinary talent so he immediately got his money together and put Tupac on. He did everything necessary to make it possible for Tupac.

However, they had a mutual friend named “Layla” and she knew “Digital Underground” actually she knew A-Tron; Gregory which ends up being Tupac’s manager. She knew “Digital Underground” and once “Digital Underground” heard Pac they couldn’t separate their self from him. Interscope brought

the “Underground Railroad” out for Tupac and made my cousin the road manager for Tupac. So at this point, everything was looking cool but I was still in the streets. I didn’t see any legitimacy in doing anything but the streets and what I was doing. So I was all gun-hoe about putting money into the label.

However, Tupac ended up being homeless and had to stay at my apartment in Pinole, California and you know we just talked. When I came in from doing what I do we had talked all night then he took me on a few shows. After I done a few shows with him and he seen how I performed; which I didn’t even know I had the talent you know he couldn’t separate himself from me so he brought me on tour. After we went on tour and I started seeing the in’s and out’s of the industry Tupac made a proposition telling me I could put some money up for Thug Life. He said that me him and

my cousin Man-Man could break bread. So I went ahead and made the investment than it was just ongoing tours, shows, videos, and appearances.

7. Were there times when you felt like you didn’t get the credit you deserved?

Yes, there were a lot of times where I didn’t get the credit. There were times where the whole investment didn’t turn out in my favor so I was bitter about that. I had a near fatal accident and when I came out of a coma they had my money. They gave me the money that they owed me and when they gave it to me I was dissatisfied. So I kind of tore away from the whole Tupac scene because I was bitter with everyone you know I was bitter with everyone!! We than went on the “Arsenio Hall” show. I done some choreography that was just something I do that’s just natural; it naturally comes to me. If I’m in a situation or I’m in an environment where there’s music or anything of rhythm I’m gun whole. I’m right in so I didn’t expect any praise or anything like that but yet I’ve actually been everywhere with Pac. You know what I mean from the beginning to where I remember Pac couldn’t even drive a car. My little cousin taught Pac how to drive a car this is how far we go back. In Marin County, California when we had the episode Frankly Beverly had a fundraiser there. Than some guys out there from Marin kind of got upset with Pac because they felt like he wasn’t representing Marin or whatever and they tripped. Me being from Richmond, California Marin is a far climb from Richmond.

So I reacted I couldn’t believe it I’m like “You scared of these dudes”.

So once Pac seen that and how I reacted to the guys; I mean really they held him inferior because he

was actually from the jungle day so at times you know he would be up against it with these dudes. When he seen how I reacted to that that’s when he bought me in and than you know we end up going to jail for murder. The little boy got killed out there in Marin. The Outlawz, my cousin, and myself had another group called “The Kids”. They were also Pac group they went to jail;

Today it’s some artists out there that have style but really don’t have anything to say.

everyone went to jail but I stood up you know. It’s not just that it’s a lot of things that I know I didn’t get the credit for; I fore sure didn’t get paid for it. I had business in me but you know it evolved to me noticing that I had to just do for me and that was the thing.

8. What was it like working with Pac as a friend as opposed to working with him on set?

Yeah, and on that side I think back than I was like 19 years old. So I was real young, spry, and wild. Pac actually rescued me you know cause I got caught up in some

dealings you know and I ended up on the run. So Pac actually took me up under his wing and took me on tour rather than let me stay there and get caught up. At times you know Pac and I would get into it often because I knew Pac. I knew him from square root one so anytime he would attempt to raise his voice; and I would watch him raise his voice at Atron the manager, and at my cousin you know, even at Man-Man because Man-Man worked for him but I didn’t work for him I was just along for the tour you know. I did get paid each show of course but that was nothing to me so at times we would clash big time. It was times we were on time and we didn’t even speak for like three shows. We be on the bus together and don’t have nothing to say you know what I mean because I couldn’t understand; I couldn’t separate the two the business from you know having fun and at times I was totally out of line.

9. How do you feel about today’s hip-hop?

Today it’s some artists out there that have style but really don’t have anything to say. They have bars but don’t have anything in their bars that will actually draw you in.

I mean they got the “I’ll shoot them up, I’ll kill, look at me now, and I think she like me” and you know that kind of stuff it’s not deep like it was. Back than it was deep you had to be deep I mean I did shows with everyone and one thing I known about them they were into what they were doing and plus the artist were ThugLife. They were into what they were doing.

10. Describe how the situation went you found out Pac had got shot and died in Las Vegas?

At that time it was some bitterness with me as I explained before

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because I didn’t come out you know. I felt I should have came out and plus at that time I was young.

Shoot I probably was um “20”, “22”.

I had so many homies die before Pac you know and than family not just homies.

11. You being a D boy and all, why did you stress the legendary Dre 5, and Drop A.K.A Kufanya Gentry about going to school so much?

I went to school I graduated though I stepped outside of you know doing what I was doing. I still graduated and I didn’t want to see them grow like all the guys their age from my hood because we were not from the same hood.

My cousins and I weren’t from the same hood. I was from across town. There were a lot of guys their age and I didn’t want to see them go that route not my cousins; I bought them a car you know and told them “you guys don’t have to hustle for a car or anything here go a cool one right here fixed up with music and everything”. I continued to say “Just drive it you don’t have to get in the game yet”. The game was calling them you know so I didn’t want them to walk the same road that I than walked. I than seen some terrible things, I than seen some terrible things I didn’t want them to see. Ultimately, it became the past because you know that’s that dirty game.

12. Was there a situation where you and Pac actually got into it?

Yea Pac and me got into more than once. One time we were in Miami and these dudes tripped out because Pac didn’t want to do the show. Pac Said “If, if, if, the audio is not working I’m not going to perform and have somebody saying that my show was bullshit so if you guys don’t get your audio together were not going to

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perform”. So those guys in Miami say “Oh yes you are”. So now I’m like where do we stand now? So we got up out of there, got in the limo, they threw bottles and rocks at us, and this and that you know.

You know I was in there drunk. I was into my alcoholism by than and I rolled down the window and was like “Fuck yall” this and that you know how I would do if I were on the street. Pac was like “What you doing man” I said, “What the fuck are you talking about man?” because you know we had a different soul.

I mean we had the same soul but yet different because he was from one place and I was from another.

The place I was from we didn’t bow down to certain stuff that he probably would of. I mean the person he became wouldn’t but at first. So he was like “man what you doing that shit is stupid”. I said “Who you calling stupid”. I seen the dudes talked to Pac and he ran. I told Pac “that was me with you I’m the one who stepped up for you”. So I said “When we get back to the hotel its on”. He was only paying me $250 a show that was nothing to me; that was something to just pay my rent when I got home or something you know. So when we get to the hotel its on I’ll catch a plane back I don’t need you; I got my own money and everything so it’s on. So than my cousins was like “Man how you gone get out here and embarrass me like this? I can’t believe you out here acting like this you know we wasn’t raised like this man you wrong”. My older cousins and me are two different people you know what I mean so he couldn’t understand how I felt towards Pac. Than it was the alcohol, dealing with the alcohol it was that time.

Than there was a time we were in Atlanta at “Jack the Riper” and I was messing with this thick chick and the homie Big Syke was with

her friend. Long story short Pac walks in the room because we shared party’s room while on the road. Big Syke had seen me go to the elevator and everything with her. The next morning it was kind of a little bitterness hanging around with Pac and myself. He knew ManMan wouldn’t let me whoop his ass.

Now he really felt like you know! He didn’t really cross any lines because it wouldn’t have been about ManMan stopping me. We clashed when the homies asked how was it and I replied, “Oh it was good”. Pac said, “oh man he lying”. Pac straight called me a liar about some pussy right? So immediate I tripped; I wasn’t going to let this one go this time but you know I just tore it off.

13. Any advice to offer to Go-getters out there?

Man keep it thorough man, and keep your eyes on the prize. Don’t turn away from it because once I did I slipped. If I had stayed watching my money, maybe lawyered up, or you know just step outside of the ghetto side of my character and got into the business aspect of it. Maybe I would have had more. I would have been rewarded for it. If you expect rewards than you got to put in the work and earn it. The streets are not cut out for you to actually succeed. You can’t succeed in the streets at some point you have to spin around and march forward with something positive and legitimate you know. If you stay in that lane than you gone get ran over there always a bigger truck.

14. Any shout out before you get out of here?

I just want to give a shout out to my nigga “Syke”. May he rest in peace love you know what I mean? Also the whole “ThugLife” Crew Moe, Rated R, and Mack 10 and of course my cousin Drop for making this all possible.

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Music 1. Tell us when you first started making music and how did you know it would be for you?

I started making music twenty years ago. I grow up to music. The funny thing is I grew up in a household where we woke up listening to Marvin Gaye, Luther Vandross; moms and them was playing it. I had a crazy uncle that stayed with us he listened to rock and roll so there was Led Zeppelin playing upstairs in his room. As two kids we were just getting into rap so it was us huddling behind the little tape listening to “LL Cool J” back in the day “ I’m bad, I’m bad”.

2. Did people try to knock you when you first started out? What kind of love was you getting?

I’m keep it 100; so the crew I ran with it was a rap group so yeah. We made music my youngest brother and my uncle they was the head of our rap crew. They were the focal point of us, and our drive and push. When it came to music I expressed myself sometimes; here and there from time to time but the focus was always on them. So I was the one always in the background. I was the one at the studio session sitting with the engineer listening

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and learning that was my position growing up in the music industry. I moved to Houston about ten years ago and I built my own studio from the ground up. I wasn’t an engineer but I sat in there for one year; Youtube and all the books I could read and I became an engineer. I taught myself how to mix, master, how to do all the avenues than I started producing. So for the last ten years I’ve been in Houston producing.

I got 32 independent albums under my belt as a producer. Than, kids stop coming to get their music and I had all these albums that were finished and I’m like “aww”. I got frustrated and I was like “you know what? Guess what? Today is the day”. So over five months ago I shut my door from producing and I did my first song “Bright Lights”.

This was my official first song as an artist. So I was like “Fuck it” I’m record it. I wrote the song, produced it myself, it’s my beat, I recorded myself, I pushed the bottom, ran in the booth, rap, came back out, did it over and over and over, I went in there I mixed it, I edited it, I mastered it, and I put the song out.

I was like “Fuck it if nobody like it they don’t like it, they like it they do, whatever, who cares” I just need to do this. Four months later, here I am and it’s not been a day off since I dropped that song.

3. What does being an artist mean to you?

I ain’t gone say you got to be a role model. You have to be that person.

Being an artist means when I wake up I’m Franchise Music. When I go to sleep I’m Franchise Music. I live him this is who I am this is not a character this is something I accepted. Kevin is rare he’s around here sometimes but to be an artist you have to live that. You have to believe in that person; it’s a personality thing you know my woman tells me all the time it’s like ten of you living inside there I say “I know your right”. Sometimes it comes out

as Kevin and sometimes as Franchise Music but you have to become that person. You have to see that person and look in the mirror; not the person you always thought you were but who you want to do.

My first song was “Who Me” and that song was a reflection of me staring in the mirror saying who do you see “Kevin or Franchise Music”.

That day when I wrote that song it clicked.

4. Where do you see yourself in the next five years?

My goal is to be sitting behind somebody’s desk. Signing checks for the new up and coming artist. I got to say I love the artist part out of it I love making music. It’s been in me and I got stories to tell and until my story is done I’m going to continue to write music. On the other hand, I’ve always loved sitting behind the boards. I fell in love with that aspect of finding the next artist, critiquing them, and helping them, and being in the booth, and building a report.

I want to put them out. That’s why I’m into the show so much because I actually like that part of the music to go and find new talent and tell them “Aye your good you need to push it” and help them. That’s what my position was the last 20 years I was a “Support guy”. Well now I know it’s about business but I want to be back in the engineer chair. I want to be the CEO of the company I don’t want to be a rapper for fiver years. I’m here to make my impact get my little notch in there and sit my ass down somewhere and let the kids keep doing this stuff.

5. How did you hook up with Drop and what was your experience like?

Man, let me tell you something that guy right there is my big brother. I have two younger brothers other sibling I don’t have an older brother that’s my big brother. Drop and I grew up together as a kids in the same neighborhood our moms

were friends. We fought each other we fought other people we went our separate ways, we came back as older adults again, he was my mentor, he was my brother he saved my life basically. We parted again and once again God brought our back together at this point in my life. It’s funny because when I needed him he always shown up and here he his again with God plans. That’s one of my angels I consider him one of my angels I got a few of them he’s one.

6. How important is loyalty in your camp?

You know what I’m not even gone lie. Personally, me right now I’m having a struggle with that issue. My crew for some weird reason kind of left me. We started something for a purpose it was to get somewhere this is what we wanted we wanted this. But we were all into the music thing so you know it doesn’t matter who got there it was just this was the push. Over the years, we all grow up we all got a family, responsibilities, and you know I accepted that it took me a long time to have my son eight years ago to understand responsibility so I respected that. However, it’s weird I swear to you I did four shows last night. Now, most of my people are in California but I have a lot of my people here with me that have come from Cali and ended up living here in Houston. I cannot get one of them to go to any of my shows.

Now it’s not hostile I see them, you know all the invites have been sent out, and like I said through the years I’m that guy that always determined, I’m going to be the guy to push us, and I’m going to say “hey we still have a direction were going I don’t care how we get there but we got to get there”. I’ve been very supportive when I don’t like shit I’m that nigga that will tell you what’s on my mind. Doesn’t mean I don’t love you doesn’t mean I wont die for you but it’s weird that the more that I push to where I’m trying go the less people that are their with me.

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I had a show about two months ago first time I ever broke down since I started this music thing. It was actually with my boys that were here.

We were supposed to do the show together. Nobody showed up for rehearsals all week but we had just done a show prior to that. I get to the show nobody’s talked to me and nobody’s showed up. I got on stage did this show of mine that I was suppose to do with my boys and none of them ever showed up. So I’m standing on stage and I’m like, “okay you got a back up plan go with your back up plan”. It just didn’t work the DJ switch the music for me and I could not remember the initial song.

This lasted about a week. I refused to listen to it on the radio or anything. I really couldn’t remember it because it had really hit a switch that shut my brain down. The fact that none of my boys showed up to the show you know we was suppose to be together and at that point I just walked off stage. First time ever in my life I was so embarrassed and I was like you know what “if I bounce back from this, there’s no stopping me”. So I was like “you know what I’m going to do this now for me”. I was doing it for everyone else because I believed in that. Guess what, I woke up the next day and I was like you know what “Today’s a whole new day I’m do this for the fans because the people I grow up with are always going to be the people that I love”. I haven’t spoken to a few of them in a few months but if they called me today I am that dude I’m showing up I don’t give a fuck. However, when it comes to this dream right here this is mine.

So I wake up now and I’m just Franchise Music, I’m Franchise Music for my fans, I’m Franchise Music for the people who actually do the show the support that’s who he there for. Kevin he’s always going to be Kevin if I’m just your cousin, or whatever we were growing up okay kevlartheone@gmail.com Kevlartheone363

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than that’s fine. You don’t have to be supportive and I will never go to a show looking for your face or anybody face in the crowd other than the people I don’t know. When I get on stage now, I’m looking for anyone I don’t know I’m trying make eye contact with you because I don’t know. I’m not looking for anyone I know anymore. Actually, I used to play baseball and I was good at it as a kid. I remember the first time I hit a homerun I looked in the stands and not my Uncle, my Mom, no one was there and I never played baseball again. Same with football, I played football and I was actually really good no support I would have allowed that to happen have I not been the man who I am today. I finally realized “Nigga you been doing this shit on your own for twenty something years”. I told myself “Who do you call for help you never called anyone for help”.

You get those phones calls you never called anybody saying “hey help me”. So why would you allow that or anyone to stop you from doing what you know you can do and what your actually fucking good at.

I’m thinking “how many artist can push the bottom go in the booth and record their damn self come back out do it how I do it however long it takes, take after take, than get in here edit the music, mix and master their music and put that shit out as radio quality and that’s ready to go. How many can do that?”

So I decided nothing stopping me I show up at my shows one deep. I go on stage one deep, unless I take my girl and son with me and its one of them shows than I show up one deep and I leave one deep. Franchise Music is just me at this moment in time. I don’t sleep much I do all the marketing, I do everything in retrospect because this is just shit I just learned. I learned all of this through out these years I thought franchize_musicgroup FranchizeMusicc

I was being supportive but actually I was learning. I learned all the engineering; I knew how to get on a board when I brought my first board and mess with the tools and do the fades because I watched people do it. So I was thinking all this time being maybe envious no one would let me be an artist they were already focus on other artist in my crew and I I’m like “nigga you learned this shit over all these years sitting back because your actually even worth more to the game now than you are as an artist. You’re an actual engineer you can do your own shit you do not got to get up in no studio just give me my money. “How many albums you want ill push them out myself no problem.”

You know what I’m blunt. I don’t take anything in life that’s as happened to me as a bad thing I take it has a learning experience. I just want to fix the errors once the errors happen. We all fall not all of us get up some people make mistakes and don’t learned from them. Me, I’m going to learn from my mistakes because I have children you know I got a son and I refused to let them go down the either one of the paths I went down. I’ll kill one of mine before that happens so I got to learn how to be more efficient. I got to learn how to add more shit to my plate and continue to be able to maintain over a long period. Since I moved to Houston, Texas this has been was the longest I’ve ever been in one spot. I’ve been in the same place for ten years since my son was born. God as a plan and once you see that he will take you right where he wants you to go. I’ve accepted his plan as well as my plan and I’m just running with it. If they like it they can join it if they don’t they don’t have it that’s the beautiful thing about being a human being we can all make our own decisions.

Franchize Music Group Website: www.franchizemusic.tv

Name: Jordan Chidi Alphonsus Known as: Jhay Black, Black, and Jhay Bleezy Birth Details: Born September 19, 1988 in New Orleans, LA

Education: Obtained Associate and Bachelors Degree in Media Production. Currently in school for a Masters Degree in Business.

Professional Experience: Worked as editor, director and cameraman for various videos. Interned under the R Group, with the company called Real Streets Films.

Featured video work for Chili of TLC, promoting her Handbag store opening in the Buckhead, Atlanta Area.

Jhay Black Email: jhayblack@hotmail.com or jhayblack@gmail.com Website: jhayblack.com Phone: (404) 838-6902 Message line: (747) 215-0588 Featured Videos at: YouTube.com/jhayblacc

Did video taping events for Gregg Street of radio station V103 in Atlanta Produce for various artists at DMG Studios (Don Music Group). Worked in the studio with Zaytoven.

Signed to BET for usage of my beats in television programming.

Cable Television: BET About The Business, Bravo newlyweds the first year, Comedy Central Guy Code, MSG Bracket, NATL GEO EXPLOR Brain Games, VH1 100 Sexiest artist hour 5 20 1, Womens Ent Cutting in the ATL, MTV Girl Code, MTV2 girl and guy code, NBC Universo Rein De Realty, TVGN O Holly Night, MTV2 Guy Code, Esquire Network Knife Fight, Currently working with friends and other associates making beats assisting in putting mix tapes, and performing at clubs and other venues.

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Alex Thiel Title: Boxer Nickname: ATG

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Age: 23

One of the biggest reasons why I am so competitive is due to my twin sister growing up and beating me in everything I was also the youngest of 5.

Things I enjoy other than boxing is spending time and influencing people any chance I get.

Later in life, I can see myself a motivational speaker or coach of some sort.

I have a passion for filmmaking and photography; I have a growing Youtube channel called “RINGDREAMS”. Most of the content is following my boxing journey and other boxers who all have desires to be the champ one day!

I want to be remembered in the boxing game as having one of the best jabs ever. PERIOD I train at the oldest gym in Las Vegas, Nevada established in 1953 called “Johnny Tocco’s”.

Legends like Sonny Liston, Evander Holyfield, Marvin Hagler, Mike Tyson, and Floyd Mayweather has trained there.

Birthday: July 18, 1993 Hobbies: »» Finding ways to eat big yet healthy meals at the same time »» Stand up comedy is something I’ve always enjoyed »» Spending time with family and friends »» Hidden passion for Writing Poems and Raps »» Enjoy a good pick up game of 5 on 5

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Capone KC 1. Describe the music scene in your hometown?

Ah man, its very diverse you know you got different genres. You got what we like we like to call it “Mob Music” kind of like the Bay Area.

Than you got the new age, the trap kind of sound, and we right in the middle so it’s a lot of different sounds. But the music I do you know what I’m saying we like to call it “Raw Realty” kind of like the NWA’s and the Tupac Shakur, and Biggie Smalls that was coming up.

2. What producer would you like to work with?

I follow a few you know what I’m saying. I love the up tempo beats. I would love to work with a Zaytoven and Dr. Dre. Them like some monsters.

3. Tell us about your current project?

Right now I’m doing a series of mixtapes just trying build a little buzz and fanbase. One of my projects I’m naming it “Legend but I’m still breathing”. I been through a lot in

my life faced death a couple times.

I feel like I’m one of the great M.C.’s that’s doing this music you know.

Than I’m going to do a follow up to that one called “Born in the struggle”. I was thinking about doing an EP I was gone name that “IamPandora”. Me, like I be out you know promoting my mixtape, doing a lot of stuff, selling my cd’s and merchandise. I met people and they just say I listen to “Pandora” you know what I mean.

4. How do you stand out in your small town?

Man you got to do a lot of politicking it’s kind of like when you run for president. You got to shake hands with everybody you know what I’m saying. Do a little bit of everything when you a local artist and independent. I just try to show my face everywhere do local shows all; I been to a few places out of town.

5. What mood do you like to be in when you’re writing your songs?

My music it comes from strictly life

experiences. I try to write all the time you know what I mean no matter if I’m feeling good, sad, and mad because whatever your going through brings out the best music. Usually I try to have an upbeat mode but sometimes I than wrote to humble situations. I’ve been through so much so I just try to write whatever I’m going through and put it in story form.

6. What genre do you categorize your music in?

I wouldn’t say it ain’t no country rap music, it’s a form of gangster rap but like I mentioned before I would call it Raw Reality.

7. Who is your inspiration?

Well I had a cousin that use to rap, when I was coming up I was young, he was about four years older than me he did songs with tech nine. He was a local artist where I’m from he inspired me a lot to do my music.

But as far as industry artist I could say artist like Tupac, E-40, Mac Dre, Too Short, Spice 1.

City and state: Kansas City, Missouri caponekccartel@gmail.com StevoneCapone kc cartel and Tha real Kansas City Cartel 816

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Myke Bleze Born and raised in Compton, California. Myke Bleze used music as a way to escape the turmoil brewing within the city. Growing up with no father or mother.

His grandmother and aunt took his siblings and him in, and helped them get through the rough times. Myke Bleze mother moved his brothers and sisters to Las Vegas, Nevada in 2004. Over the years Vegas has become his family’s 2nd home and they appreciate the hospitality. Myke Bleze’s purpose is to bring everyone together and go against direction.

To my son Aaden, daddy loves you with every breath of life in my body. To my daughter Hinata, daddy will always be there no matter what. To my family and all my friends. Where we going?? How far? As to my wife Ayesha, I love you unconditionally. Last but not least to my Mother, you are the greatest.

Myke Bleze @mykebleze @mykebleze

Birthday: November 21, 1991 City and State: Las Vegas, Nevada Title: Artist

Myke_bleze Soundcloud.com/Myke-bleze Reverbnation.com/mykebleze4

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Gutta Boi I love what I do so I just feel blessed that this is what I get to do for work.

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1. What’s Gutta about your music?

Well back then I was doing that type of music, running with that crowd, always in and out of trouble. Where I was raised I was dealing with a lot of different things, I’ve made some transitions to more commercial music but the name is part of who I am.

2. And where did you get the name?

I got it from my big bro one punch.

It came about when we were 17 always getting into fights.

3.How do you gain new fans as an artist?

Interacting with your fans everywhere you go either from shows or social media. I try to respond back to a lot of people I don’t just read their messages.

have no need for cherries on that end. Me, I just keep on progressing on what I need to do to build my own lane.

6. Tell everyone about the single?

My “Get Lost” record is supposed to be the biggest record of the summer. I dealt with my boy J.R Castro on that. It will be on every blog site, XXL, The Source Mag, it will be in California with “ DJ Carisma”, Hot New Hip Hop, Hip-Hopnation. com, as of Summer 2017 it will be on all the radio stations on the west coast, power 106.

4. Is there anyone you wish to work with in the near future?

Lil Boosie, Bun B, and Bryson Tiller.

7. How did you get to this position you are in today?

Well putting in over time really, some of it cost money just to get myself through the front door and some of its just connections. It’s an ongoing process with a lot of sleepless nights. I love what I do so I just feel blessed that this is what I get to do for work.

5. If you could change one thing about Hip-Hop what would it be and why?

That’s tough because me being from the West Coast I like where it’s at on the west coast side of hip hop right now. All that other generic shit that right out right now I really don care for. I don’t really

8. What are you going to do to stay on?

Stay focused and continue making music. It’s important for me to progress and stay relevant in this industry and so the only way to do that is to continue producing content.

Social media is a huge factor in my music career so staying connected

with my fan base personally is very important.

9. Are you looking to get signed?

Of course, but it has to be the right fit. No one is in this game for free.

We all are trying to secure the bag.

Being signed takes a commitment by both parties and we have to be on the same page.

10. Do you have any videos that fans can check out?

My new video will be out April 2017 titled “Get Lost” featuring J.R Castro. It will also be on Bet Jams, MTV Jams, Music Choice, a lot of TV stations.

11. What do you do when music is not going on?

If it’s not music or anything, pretty much I be wit my daughter, hanging out with my family, or plotting on the next move. I really don’t ever sleep, if I’m not in the studio than I’m working on something that’s going to get me some type of recognition.

12. Shout outs?

Shout out to everyone who been helping me on this EP that I got coming out. My producer Black Box, JR Castro, Mckinley Ave, my managers Ashley James, James Ennis, and all my fans and supporters.

American emerging Producer and recording artist GB (Gutta Boi) based out of Los Angeles CA has returned with another urban bop! This time, the promising new act has teamed up with American R&B Singer-Songwriter Jr Castro & Mckinley Ave to deliver a new single called “Get Lost” produced by Blackbox, a summery HipHop infused piece, with some influences from tropical music. The result is really fresh! The song is another taste of GB’s upcoming EP which is expected to be released later this year.

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Hafwit Rapper/Actor Hafwit started out in a group called “B’Nezha” with his cousin Omar Gooding along with friend Young Meaz.

Now, he is working on his solo album “#WelcomeToTheHafWayHouse” dropping this summer. He is working with a few known artists like Roscoe from “DPG”, Sid from “Slip Knot”, focus and more. Hafwit is also known for his acting abilities has been seen on the BounceTV hit show “Family Time” season 3 episode one, also filmed with “Sistah hood of Hiphop”. Hafwit is featured on “The Goon Platoon vl 1” hosted by Tiffany Pollard mix ape on Soundcloud and Datpiff along with “Broken Cuffz” mixtape. @hafwizzle @Hafwit13

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These were the same shoes Kufanya Gentry wore the night he was shot nine times on March 14, 2012 at Quality Inn Hotel in Modesto, California.

As I walk through the valley of death I fear no man but god All of Kufanya friends signed the shoes

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Kufanya was everything to me, we were like best friends, we were lovers, we were everything and I saw nothing past him.

1. Tell everyone your name, age, where you are from, and something’s about you?

My real name is Francine when it comes to family and friends but Drop calls me Steph. I’m originally from Oxnard, California or you can just say Ventura County I lived all over Ventura county, Southern California, the Bay, Las Vegas I lived all over the West Coast basically.

2. Briefly describe how Kufanya and you survived that insane hotel robbery/shooting?

The night that we went through was a very traumatic situation. We were in Modesto, California. We

were staying at a hotel, taking care of some business, and a friend of ours went to hang out with her in her room. While, we went to her room we ended up having a very unpleasant surprise of one of her guest. I don’t know how to explain it. I don’t exactly how many details when it comes down to the logistic of what she had to do with it and her involvement with it. However, what I do know is we were basically held at gunpoint, they were there to kill Kufanya regardless that was the plan it was obvious. They knew that I was an asset to Kufanya so they knew to take me hostage. If I was not going to corporate, then

of course they were going to kill me. We were robbed at gunpoint when he was holding me hostage, he kept pistol-whipping me then he held the gun to my head.

3. How bad did that traumatize you? Was there times when you didn’t want to go outside or you couldn’t be around certain people anymore because you didn’t trust them because you were just traumatized and fearful of so much that has happened within that one night?

Well honestly it was the second time that we had been in an incident where guns were being pulled out.

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We were being shot at you know it was the second time something traumatizing like that happened to me. It was obvious of course to the point where I had already had post-traumatic stress syndrome so with this it added on top of it but I was already in the mind frame of, fear nothing but God and trust nobody. Kufanya was everything to me, we were like best friends, we were lovers, best friends, we were everything and I saw nothing past him. I was completely selfless when it came to him so when I was being held at gunpoint yeah okay I was thinking about, “Okay, at any second I could die”, of course you know life don’t flash. People say your life flashes before you when you’re about to die. Okay yes you think about the things that matter the most to you, but at the same time it’s like you mentally prepare yourself, like this could be it, I’m ready to go. The main thing of the whole night that I would never forget is when I was being held at gunpoint. At any time, my life could have ended because this man was ready to kill, he was there to kill to come up and that was it. He wasn’t there for nothing else; he was there for business so I looked at Kufanya. He was standing in front of me like ten feet or not even maybe like seven feet away from me and the guy was holding me at gunpoint. I looked at Kufanya then looked at his face, and I could see it in his face sorrow. He felt sad and bad because he knew that I was in a situation again. Not again but I was in a situation because I was with him, you know what I’m saying? So, he looked at me with a face of I am so sorry and that’s when I seen his face of sorrow but power instead.

Power to the point where the facial expression he gave me I felt that he knew. I saw in his face that he felt sorry but at the same time it’s all or

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nothing. Power. It’s like I’m going for the Augusto face, like I’m about to do what I got to do, like fuck that shit, like this isn’t going to be it for you. The facial expression that he gave me I knew I was going to live.

4. Wow. Were there moments where the killer would basically ask information about Kufanya to you that you didn’t feel comfortable giving him and Kufanya was like “Oh give it to him, give it to him you know let him just kill me”, did he persuade you to just give it to him the information or how did that go?

No, of course, he asked me where the fuck is everything? The killer took me hostage because he knew I was the one that was valuable. I knew where everything was.

I’m the one who was basically his everything so automatically I’m the key. So yes of course he was asking me “Where the fuck is the money, where the fuck is everything at, where’s the valuable shit”. He’s talking business and I’m just like I don’t know, I didn’t talk or nothing I let Kufanya speak.

5. He had you at gunpoint and at any given minute he could have pulled the trigger and blown your brains away, you chose to let Kufanya speak although the killer was speaking to you, what made you do that?

Because I knew if this motherfucker was going to kill me he would have fucking killed me no matter what. So why am I going to say shit, cause regardless if I’m gone die I’m gone fucking die. To keep it real that’s what it was. All I could do is look at Kufanya like this is it and if this is it then I’m ready to fucking go. When I gave Kufanya that look that’s when he gave me that look a look that said “No, sorry but am about to” Power. Like I’m about to

do what I got to do and when he gave me that look I knew I was going to live. Then I told him “I love you” and he told me “I love you” then he was like “I’m sorry and I love you”. At that moment, I knew he was going to do something so I moved. Someway somehow by the grace of God the shooter didn’t pull the trigger, but I was able to get out of his arms. That’s when Kufanya charged at him and the dude shot him in the stomach. Then Kufanya start beating the shit out of this guy, and the guy still had the gun didn’t let it go. So, when he kept shooting in close range while Kufanya is just fucking him up and beating his ass.

6. Wow! In the midst of all of that going on, you did not get shot?

Yeah, because I got behind Kufanya when he charged at him I was able to jump. Then, I got out the shooters arm I was able to fly forward, and when I flew forward to the floor, that’s when Kufanya A.K.A Drop charged at him and the shooter shot him in the stomach, they

er that is used at weigh stations for a semi; they would have to check their tires. The bitch had it next to her the whole time sitting right there and she didn’t even give an effort to help anybody out. So were going back and forth and like “I’m like I’m the one who must live no matter what because I am the valuable asset, I’m the one who knows everything about Kufanya, I know where everything is, I know where all our investments are, where our money is, all the money we had. I cannot. We both can’t go out”. All of us are not going to die tonight. I have to make it out of this shit.

were fighting and tussling I just kept hearing gun shots. I don’t know how many bullets exactly it was but I just know he keep still shooting at Kufanya but at the same time all you hear is tussling and fighting.

Unfortunately, one of the bullets that went through Kufanya’s leg went through my hand when I was behind and I didn’t know until after the situation ended.

7. So, you got shot? What was the owner of the room doing while all of this was going on?

Yes, I got shot. No I never felt it.

So while there fighting I’m trying to figure out what the fuck to do.

I’m looking at the girl like you need to do something. All of this is your fucking fault. You need to do something. I’m so pissed off because then I see the whole time this is going on there is a fucking tire checker next to this girl. She had a weapon the whole time. A tire checker is like a short bat its strong if not stronger than a bat. It’s a tire check-

8. So, did you ever think that she set you up or the whole situation was a set up? It’s like she sitting there with a tire checker and she didn’t do anything?

Well of course, I had no doubt in my mind. So automatically I’m thinking they’re fighting tussling so that way I don’t get shot. Drop is very strong he knows how to fight. So, Drop threw the guy he was literally messing this guy up like bad. I know they went into the restroom and they were fighting in the restroom. You would hear gunshots every now and then the shit was crazy. He threw him in the tube because I went to look and I was like I don’t know what to do.

There was nothing there. If there would have been a weapon there like I didn’t know what to do. Even with the tire checker I was like “What do I do”. I didn’t know whether to take it and risk my life. I just felt like I couldn’t be the one to go out in the situation because Drop is already fucked up he already had a gunshot in his stomach and were running out of time. I don’t even know how many gunshots went off. I was in such a hard situation because no matter what I didn’t want to leave Drop. At the same time I knew I had to live no matter what because I’m

the one who knows everything. It was like one of the craziest situations to been in and I was literally like fuck that shit I’m going to survive this shit.

I can’t go out the door into the hallway because there’s got to be someone waiting on the other side of the door. This dude can’t be by himself I’m not fucking dumb. So, I went to the window and I jumped out.

9. Wow! So, you don’t even know how the police got there or who called them?

When I jumped out I landed and ran to the grand entrance of the lobby.

I told the clerk “You need to call an ambulance there is something that is happening upstairs we’ve been robbed”. I continued to say, “My everything is upstairs getting shot they are trying to kill him. He’s going to fucking die; you need to call an ambulance now like call the fucking police”. Not just that they are probably going to come to finish the job they know that I am a witness they probably going to come and finish me off so I was like “Just get me to your back room”. Then the girl who was in the room with me came to the lobby. She had also jumped out the window after me and she was like “Oh my God your shot”. I was like, “Okay, fine I’m breathing I don’t care I didn’t feel shit”. I didn’t feel anything. All I cared about was the lobby calling the ambulance to save Drop life again.

10. How did the police react once they got on the scene?

They were pieces of shit. When they got there we were in the back of the office. I was pumped up like “No we are not going to leave this and that”.

And she’s like “But your shot look at your hand”. I was running my hand under water like I didn’t really give a shit I was like “He is going to fucking die.” I was just fucking lost because all I could think about was Drop like

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fuck as much as we fight is this it?

Regardless that’s all I could think of I know that’s fucked up for us to be in this position. Suddenly, you hear the elevator like ding-ding-ding from the lobby and I was like shit, here they come, they about to come finish us off you know. I thought it was the guy coming to finish the job, so then I was like that’s it. The elevator door opens and I hear someone in pain and shit and when I looked it was Drop in the elevator full of blood.

Obviously, he is in a lot of pain so I grab him and pull him to the couch.

I have the other girl help, and everybody starts to help me get him to the couch. I told them to “Bring me fucking water I don’t care how many times you go back and forth just keep bringing me water”. I start pouring the water on his body and making him drink it. Slapping him making him stay awake.

even though they slander me and my name they hacked my family everybody knew my life, everybody knew what I was doing, what I was going through, instead of me. Basically, to them I was like a mob wife I was like main chick that was tied to a whole big thing. My family knew I was part of a big capital murder case.

11. So, did you think he would survive that time at the hotel or no?

I had a lot of belief and he is a strong person. I thought he was going to die but when I had seen him in the elevator I feel like I was his guardian angel. At that point I felt like it was my job to keep him alive right now. I felt like I was going to keep him alive.

12. Did the police offer you a plea deal if you told on Drop? I mean after all they were on him for three years?

I don’t know I guess I always been a real solid person and we were not on no completely love shit. We weren’t on any completely street hood shit. He just wanted to make sure I was solid and that I had everything I needed so nobody could teach me shit. So, when I gave my mental completely to him he molded me to something unbreakable. I already knew the rules and guidelines to the street and the street codes. I was going to stay with him no matter what

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13. How did that make you feel that your family and the public start thinking this stuff about you?

Did that make you feel insecure?

No it made me feel like I’m not public enemy but I’m not the general public enemy. It made me feel like my life is different nobody walked in my shoes, so this is the life that I’m gone lead. I don’t know how to explain it; I just live that life to the fullest.

14. So, what was going on with the feds jacking you guy’s cars and personal possessions?

When he got shot the first time in

front of my house. It’s like he was set up in front of my house. After he got shot and I saved his life I did the same thing. That’s crazy the exact same thing happened. I thought it was them wetting up the street and I just heard guns big guns going off and I was like “Oh shit, what is this”. I was like what is Drop doing outside right now? I started tripping out. So when I go outside and I didn’t see nothing but a car, the color of the car I don’t remember exactly but I saw somebody running. Like running low with a pistol in his hand shooting, so I yell, “Drop” When I yelled, Drop. The person that was shooting stood all the way up, looked at me, and shot at me. I automatically had a fast reflex and fall to the ground and start crawling and shit. Still not giving a shit, the guy ran out of bullets. When he ran out of bullets I ran right past him.

I couldn’t see his face because he was wearing a white hoodie and he had a ski mask on that or his face was too fucking dark. That’s when I ran to the truck and the dude ran right past me jumped in the car and just took off. I got to Drop underneath the car and you could just smell gasoline leaking all over him.

I pulled him with all my might; I got underneath that truck and pulled his ass out. Everybody start coming out on the block all the neighbors and shit and all I kept telling everyone was “Call an ambulance get a truck”. I told everybody the same shit, “Bring me water like tons of water”. I kept telling everybody to “keep pouring water on his body.”

I just kept making him drink water.

I was slapping the shit out of him making him stay awake.

15. Did it feel like it took forever for the cops to come?

No the ambulance came exactly seven minutes. From the time, they were called in they came in exact-

I am thankful that I am still here and I am able to give back because right now my daughter is twenty-four months but this little girl she ain’t gone have it easy I’m gone give it to her raw.

ly seven minutes. We were already going to get him in a back of a truck they just had to pull the truck up and I was ready to put him in the back of the truck to go but the ambulance came right in time and they took him right away. Honestly, that time they did they part, they saved his life like they really did. They got on it right away they did their job to save his life. The second time in Modesto I felt like they wanted him to die because when they came it was eleven minutes that time. It took eleven minutes from the time we called and he was already going in and out. I was like “He’s fucking dying” and there all just asking questions and looking at him they are seeing where he is shot they are taking their fucking time and I was there flipping out like why are you not trying to put him in the ambulance and just go. You know I was just so pissed off and they were just like “You need to worry about yourself look at you your shot, why do you care what is happening to him”. I was like “Fuck you, get him in the ambulance and save his life you guys are just taking your sweet as fucking time”.

16. Why do you think that occurred to you? Do you think it was racism was it like they got paid, was it a set up what do you think?

I don’t know it could be so many things when it comes to the law enforcement. It could have been a set up. It could have been that they already know our profiles and they didn’t give a fuck if you let them off

you know it could have been a lot of things. The detectives from the first situation called the district attorney from the second situation and was like “You know who’s out here shot”. He’s not gone snitch on nobody about it because we had him shot over here and he’s a mob boss. So, the first time he got shot they didn’t allow me to go in my house because when they shot at me a bullet went through my house it went through my front door and into my house. So then my house was considered part of the crime scene so therefore they were allowed to search it. I could not leave I could not go to the hospital I couldn’t do shit because I wasn’t going to let them search shit. They asked me and I said no get a search warrant. They told me I was going to have to stand there and wait either way they were going to search the house. I waited for this girl name Yvette to come it was Drop peoples. She showed up, I waited, and the detective showed up with a warrant. He showed me the warrant and I took him in the house. I let them search the house they asked me “Was there any other weapons in the house” I said “Nope”. They found a couple of things that they didn’t give a fuck about nothing. They said all they cared about is guns, drugs, money and murder. He’s already probably fucking dead so that’s our murder. Where the fuck is the guns and the money at, that’s all they cared about. They found a little bit of money a couple of thousands

whatever I don’t know how much, they found a little shit.

17. It sounds like an inside job now that I’m listening to it from your perspective. It sounds like the cops even down from the ambulance was literally hating or something.

The girl that they brought to my house was trying to make me take the wrap for everything that’s the one thing that made me iffy about her ass. Saying “Why don’t I just take the wrap so Drop don’t get charged” and some more bullshit. I told her, “Bitch why don’t you take the wrap”. From that moment on because they knew that I was solid they wanted to see me break you know. They tried really hard for example anytime Drop and I wasn’t together they would send niggas on me to get me distracted to catch me slipping to try to get me

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caught up. They would try to do a lot of shit. They kept fucking with us they took our shit they vandalized our cars. That day, Drop and I went to the beach to smoke a blunt so I can just catch my breath because my grandpa had just passed away in front of my eyes at six o’clock in the morning. Tell me why when we get to the beach the police pulls us over and were like “What the fuck we are just chilling we didn’t do shit”. They had their guns drawn, dogs out searching the car like they didn’t give a fuck they just came like we were big time criminals, the shit was crazy. It was always random shit like that happening to us.

He had a lot going on mentally and physically because his body was never one hundred percent so we dealt with a lot and it was hard dealing with someone who is going through that. I was going through my own shit to but I couldn’t deal with my own trauma because I was too busy on my P’s and Q’s being on top of everything because of him you know. Like if a fucking doorknob turned and I didn’t hear that shit, shit was going to turn up. I really had to be on top of shit. He trained me to be his protégé so he wasn’t mentally physically fit but guess who had to be? Me.

18. With all that said, are you happy that he has changed his life and is now an Executive Producer in the music industry making movies and music.

Oh yeah it’s definitely a blessing I am really proud of him and happy. It’s funny that he got into that line of work because I could never seen it before but shit he is bossing you know.

20. Kufanya said you made him better by walking away from him.

Yeah shit got ugly between us and I was just fed up. A lot of shit shouldn’t even have happened but he trusted into people. I had to meet up with him and let him know that’s it. Once I walked away it was for good, I let go and he realized it. I told myself “I’m going to try something different, I’m going to try seeing someone different even if he’s in the industry himself”. Once I moved on and I let him know that was my last straw and I couldn’t do it anymore and I changed.

19. Do you feel like that situation made the both of you closer?

I believe that it made us closer. I believe with the mentality that Drop had it made him able to trust me more because he knew that I was solid. At the same time he was dealing with a lot of demons, a lot of built in anger, and trust issues.

21. So, did you ever make trips to the hospital to visit him?

The first time I stayed overnight

with him, the second time yeah I was there with him too but I don’t remember I think his mom was there too, I think we were all on a rotation type thing.

22. Is there anything you would like the readers to know?

The only thing that I can say is the street life, being about that life, all that shit is nothing to brag about.

All the people that been about that life are the ones who can say that shit. It is not something to brag about you know what I’m saying you really have to deal with your consequences. You know if that’s what you are going to do than do it. Don’t go fucking snitch, don’t go fucking tell and do all the bullshit it’s just so ugly nowadays. The street life is nothing to fabricate and brag about because that shit is real. I am thankful that I am still here and I am able to give back because right now my daughter is twenty-four months but this little girl she ain’t gone have it easy I’m gone give it to her raw. Everything is just so fabricated when it comes to the music nowadays when it comes to everything.

Everybody is bragging and boastful the streets are ugly and everybody is just trying to glorify it. The shit is nothing to be glorified because when you go through the real shit, and get your real cards pulled. It’s funny how many people crumble with that shit.

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Have faith, believe & keep God 1st! Keeping it real. No filter. My daughter is my life.

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Tribute To God Dear God, Thank you for my life, I really appreciate you so much! I try, Lord knows I really do try! All I can do on my life now is lead by example! God you have used me as your tool to let the world see that you do exist and you are real to all existing life! As long as one believe in you God and themselves and understand to keep faith all the way through the good times and bad times, then anything we all imagine can come true. If we stay productive, active then all our dreams, goals, and visions will be thought, spoken, and prayed into existence! I thank you god, I fear you and honor you as king of this universe! Amen Written by : Kufanya Gentry A.K.A. Drop Da’Magnificent

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