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What's behind the title of your new album 'Da Game Owe Me?'
It basically means I been payin my dues to the game and now I feel like it's time for the game to return my dues. I know I'm not through payin dues, don't get me wrong, but I feel like I've paid plenty.
I heard that real soon you might be getting locked up, that you have a case?
That's just a rumor. Gossip surround you in this music business. People always think that they know your business because of what they heard from other people. But you're hearin it from the horse, I'm gonna be around as long as God let me be around. I'm gonna keep on deliverin this word. It's just a rumor.
What I heard was that some time ago you had held up a grocery store and that your case is coming up. That's no true?
No, man, that's a rumor man, just rumor.
Right now your career is on the way up. You had a big hit off your last album, a lot of people are talking about Playa Fly.
On the last album, Movin ON, me and Gangst Blac collaborated over a track that was made by a producer called Black Out. We got together and came up with an idea, called it "Nobody Needs Nobody." We pursued it to the fullest, about things that we was goin through, tribulations and trials. The truth shall set you free, so they say. We just told it like it was and gave it ou all and we received a great response from it.
Your dad was a professional musician?
He was singing. He had a singin groug called 'The Ovations. He was in the music business ever since he was 16, and he passed away at the age of 54. During that time the music business had its ups and downs. He had seen the top and he had started at the bottom. He had found other means of makin income, but I brought the music back into him before he died.
You did a song before your father passed away?
Yes sir. He acturally forced himself on the track. he took it upon himself, took a trip to the studio and laid his vocals down himself. Ain't nobody insisted on him doin anything, he just decided to put himself on there like it was a goin away present or something.
You have a big family?
I have couple of sisters biologically, but I have a family of brother that I have organized and we go by 'The Minute Made Mafia.' We operate our own record label now.
Did this album come out on you own label?
No, 'The Game Owe Me' was the last release off of Super Sigg Records. The next two albums that I release will be on my label. One will be the new Playa Fly album, possibly in the year 2000 entitled 'The World Turns.' And I'm thinkin about releasin an album to introduce my label to the world.
What part of Memphis are you from?
I'm from the celebrity part of Memphis. I'm from SPV, Sour Parkway. Now I reside on Fly Street. They have street in my neighborhood named after me.
A lot of people don't know you've been layin it down for a while.
I been in the game for a while. I began with Three 6 Mafia. I started out with them cats, me and Gangst Blac and Skinny Pimp, we all did. But on theing lead to another, I decided to pursue my career on my own.
You're excited about this album?
I couldn't begin to describe the way I feel about this album. This is one of my most prestigious works. I fee the effort that I put into it, and I've listened to some of my so-called competition, and they ain't talkin about what I'm talkin about. All people ain't gonna listen to what I got to say, I know that, but the people that do choose to take the time to listen to waht I got to say, they're gonna know why the game owe me.
I can't uderstand why some really wack artists get major deals and radio play and all that, whil someone as talented as you is being slept on. Do you think about that?
I think about it every day and every night, Black Dog. I be forced to listen to it. I'm a music lover. I'm not just in this for the money. I been lovin music all my life. I inherited it from my father. I listen to it and I've had to suffer the consequences. If you listen to teh top 10 songs that they play on the radio every day, only half of 'em talkin about something that you possibly wanna hear, while half of 'em just the beat keep you listening. When they gonna let me shine?
Who did the production for you last album?
The same producer worked on both of these albums. A coupla tracks on my last album, 'Movin On,' were don by other producers, but the cat that I give all the credit to is Black Out. On 'Da Game Owe Me' he did the entire album. He is an up an coming producer here in Memphis. He's got my vote for the best producer. He been workin with me ever since my first album, 'Fly Shit.' We have grown together.
You got into music as a really young kid?
I used to sing in the Sunshine Band in church. Used to play around with my dad in his little studio. but as I got older I got into the game and started doin other things but the music.
Last year anybody I talked to from Memphis was talking about Playa Flay. Were you surprised when you had such a big hit?
I was surprised. I acutually wrote a couple other songs on that album for the radio. The couldn't ever play the whold song in the club cause people got so rowdy, fightin and tearin the club up. then they picked taht song up on the radio and the demand was so strong for it due to the activity goin on in the clubs.