Khayree Shaheed (Murder Dog Magazine)

[SMMWest]

Even though I work for STREET MASTERS MAGAZINE, I gotta give it up to Black Dog Bone (Murder Dog Magazine Owner) for his personal interview with Khayree of Young Black Brotha Records.
That was the most complete and perfessional interview that I have seen in an urban publication in years.
Khayree really expressed himself in the interview, dropped "real" knowlege and facts about the industry and the truth about his status money wise all these years after the Atlantic Records deal and after the success of Mac Dre (R.I.P Andre'), Ray Luv, Young Lay and Dubee. The industry as a whole needs more people like Khayree in it.

Now if STREET MASTERS MAGAZINE could just do an interview that good with the man and the machine Kontac then we would be in pretty good shape.



Street Masters Magazine WEST
http://www.streetmastersmagazine.com

 

[Beasty]

So u really just gon make a thread without the scans or posting the interview?

 

[Beasty]

http://www.murderdog.com/august_2007/Khayree-Shaheed.htm

Damn he really exposing KMEL in this interview.He speakin real talk tho.

 

[T1]

Dope dope interview...Thanx for postin that...

 

[Arson]

The GOAT.

 

[Dana Dane]

So u really just gon make a thread without the scans or posting the interview?

For reals....why don't you just PM kontac and ask for an interview.

Hell, I'll interview kontac for you. Get at me.

 

[DJ Mark 7]

Sure its nice when an "insightful" article is written but it also helps when you're interviewing an INSIGHTFUL, INTELLIGENT PERSON...I mean you can have the greatest interviewer in the world but if every other word out of the subject's mouth is "yadidawhawhashaboobala" then it's gonna end up crappy as well.....Khayree deserves alot more credit than he gets

 

[DJ Mark 7]

Just read the article and it WAS really good. The only thing I disagree with Khayree on is that he NEEDS the radio to sell records. Mac Mall "Illegal Business" sold a DUMB amount of copies with little or no play....Shit most of the Strictly Business/YBB records barely had any radio support. Also you gotta look at artists like Andre Nickatina, ICP and others who while they might not be MY cup of tea, sell alot of units without radio exposure.

 

[dzellian]

I RAN INTO KHAYREE A COUPLE MONTHS AGO HE IS A GOOD DUDE AND HE'S SPEAKIN THE TRUTH. FUCK THE RADIO.

 

[Beasty]

Just read the article and it WAS really good. The only thing I disagree with Khayree on is that he NEEDS the radio to sell records. Mac Mall "Illegal Business" sold a DUMB amount of copies with little or no play....Shit most of the Strictly Business/YBB records barely had any radio support. Also you gotta look at artists like Andre Nickatina, ICP and others who while they might not be MY cup of tea, sell alot of units without radio exposure.

I think in this day and age u need radio 2 break new artists.Andre Nickatina has a fanbase that dates from the mid 90's when u had outlets like The Box where underground artists could get exposure.Now with the internet downloading if u are a new artists u need 2 be heard by the masses via radio.KMEL dont seem 2 like 2 play conscious music.They celebrate ignorance more than conscious music.But whenever u have white ppl owning it u gotta expect them 2 portray blacks as coons.

 

[Toro]

Thanks bout to read this right now, Khayree definitely one of my favorite producers ever.

 

[mackglider1]

i can understand that point of view, but its a cycle and 95% of cats are just feeding into it hoping that they can make it big and get on kmel if they make an album and pick a single with the SAME EXACT bullshit ass topics, this isn't even just young ass kids still in high school that have no idea about the real world yet, there is some grown ass men that are either incredibly ignorant or just gullible and think that the only way to stay successful is to ride whatever trend is going on at that moment instead of focusing on making quality music from a unique perspective....some artists act like its possible to cheat people and fool them into buying records with some clownish gimmick, but that shit will never be long term, quality music is the only thing that will have real longevity

 

[Toro]

Damn good read.

 

[esefcee]

good interview. the very first tapes i bought were strictly business / ybb. those were the days.

 

[SMMWest]

So u really just gon make a thread without the scans or posting the interview?

I am new to this computer stuff (My co-worker C-4 put me up on getting another computer). I didn't know where to get a link to it, and I don't have a scanner. I read it straight out of Murder Dog Magazine. Thanks for posting up the link.

 

[DFresh77]

We’re looking at a situation where Hip Hop music has been reduced to teeny bopper music. Especially the radio, all they play is music that a 14-15-16 can relate to. The music is geared to that mentality. If I’m 16 years old all I’m thinking about is pussy, some weed, where the next party at, hangin with my potnas. I’m not thinkin about the struggle. Real life situations that Hip Hop/Rap music used to address, we’re not addressing that now because the rappers are so desperate to be on the radio. Bay Area rappers are so focused on the radio so everyone thinks they have to follow a certain sound, a certain topic, in order to get on the radio. I say, Fuck the radio! I’m not gonna try to dance for the radio in order to be heard.

THE REALEST SHIT ANYONE HAS SAID ABOUT THE BAY AREA HIP HOP/RAP SCENE...TRUE MOTHAFUCKIN STORY...

 

[tweeze]

that think for yourself track on his myspace page iz bad azz lol



he sould let me flow to that

 

[THIZZ.I.IZ.]

Fuck yea lets see some tweeze + khayree

 

[Nevasoba]

Good ass read! Khayree a real coo down to earth ass cat.

 

[regimeforlife]

i can understand that point of view, but its a cycle and 95% of cats are just feeding into it hoping that they can make it big and get on kmel if they make an album and pick a single with the SAME EXACT bullshit ass topics, this isn't even just young ass kids still in high school that have no idea about the real world yet, there is some grown ass men that are either incredibly ignorant or just gullible and think that the only way to stay successful is to ride whatever trend is going on at that moment instead of focusing on making quality music from a unique perspective....some artists act like its possible to cheat people and fool them into buying records with some clownish gimmick, but that shit will never be long term, quality music is the only thing that will have real longevity

i couldnt have wrote that better