what u feel to realize is that the homies didnt wanna be on no East Trippin CD..we made them songs for fun...not to get famous off the shit...thats when we wasnt serious with this rap shit and was making shit for the homies in the set..now we make shit for everybody....Slick Rick the homie and he looked out on the beats and shit..but nobody said put that shit out there like that...East Trippin is a way of life..thats how we was living at the time...so i made the song..my nigga hogg free styled his verse at the end...that cd made us rappers..we was like damn yall like this shit...so we kept rapping and still rapping till this day....Herb on half the CD...half his songs off his album on the cd....we was fucking wit Rick like that...we just recoreded with em..we was with Reese..and when I say us or we im talking about me and Tiny O....
I feel ya, i know there is always two sides of a story. I talked with rikk even though we done talked about this a few times, and all the history as far as the rappin, I was living in dago in 89 and remember rikks music, I was at a few of the functions God father ed..Shannon Bo , and no one was really on no rap shit ( at least seriously)..maybe big june
I know actions speak louder then words, but Rikk really cares about his homies in skyline, shit.. through out the whole south east. Like me and him was talking a few hours back...we all have our faults, and things dont always go according to the plan. I was wrong Rikk and Daddy S did try and push some c.ds, but he didnt make any real money, if you take in all his time and efforts he didnt even break even. You know a low level/ local producer averages around $500 for a beat across the U.S...so factor that in for beats...another $15-20 Hr for studio time for a lower level studio.
I was thinking and this is opinion...If it was not for rikk ( as far as rappin) there might not have been the baby skar...with out skar maybe no shannon-bo..no A.K. no regg nutt..no bossman hogg.. south reese that might have meant no Stormin Norman. Not to say that none of yall deserve a limelight or couldnt make it on your own, It is extremely possible that Rikk was the spark, that kept the flame going. One series of events that get changed could effect a whole lot of people ( kind of deep if ya really think of it)
When I first heard the easttrippn yes it was like 3 volumes, though I just heard Rikks 12 songs I was impressed by you tiny o and the others....herb was only on the m slick diss track....reality is the rap game is harder tp really do it big and people realize they aint gonna get no real spins....so why make them radio songs? what yall had with rikk was special ...Im not saying rikk is the best producer, but he knows how to put all the pieces together. Skyline is deep with talent...shit dago as a whole, but majority of artists think so big, but can not handle what is in front of them...cater to this region, changing up doing club songs like most are doing aint working..people outside of dago can get that anywhere...but there is only one dago.
Stormin..I always got something good to say about you and when i talk with Sau or Dave Moss I say you have a certain sound that I think is marketable..because originality and you dont step out of your element and try and be Jay.z etc etc..I aint crazy about club songs..but I wish ya luck so since 2000 aint that when easttrippn was released whats going on with the project? You say yall serious about rappin...let us know whats going on.