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He was so high that the conversation stopped making any sense. Everon's been ther, whether it was courtesy of grain alcohol, a tightly-packed vial, tainted weed, or a shot of that vein-popping shit. But trying to talk to Yungstar on night over the phon was som ol' extra mission, cause not only was he toasted, but his thick Houston, Texas accent required a U.N. translator's assistance. So I hung up and just aborted the mission.
"Sorry about that," Yungstar said, over an embarrassed laugh. He called back the next day when thing were much clearer for him. "I'm feelin much better today." Yung is the lates player on Houston's rap scene. Rolling with DJ Screw's Screwed Up Click, he tapped Lil' Troy's hit single, "Wanna Be A Baller," with a freestyle session that, in his opinion, pushed the song to one million unit status. You would think it's be all gravy from there. "It went platinum and I ain't get no money for my freestyle," he claims. "It was marketed off of me and my skills. He [Lil Troy] offered me like $10,000 and I though about it, but I felt like I should've gotten more."
Like a gang of other rappers, Yung first slid into the rap arena on some hustle shit. But thanks to his manager Den-den, that lifestyle got deaded. Yungstar admits he would never go back because he has a family to look out for now and being CEO of his own Straight Profit Records (his LP, Throwed Yung Playa was recentley re-released by major Epic Records) gives him an out, but he's somewhat philosophical aobut taking that path.
He concludes, "If you got dirty money you cand do something with it. You ain't got to stay on the streets. There's more than one way to skin a cat. Ther's more than one way to make money." You understand?