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Clyde Carson breaks down rehearsal tactics leading up to the opening of his "Theater Music" masterpiece, politics involving his street single "Doin That" featuring Sean Kingston, Team Business, and the flow of Hyphy Juice in the market..
PART 1 OF 2
Baycentrik: Lets clear up the controversy with "Doin That." Were there problems including Sean Kingston on the official first single, which is now the street single?
Clyde Carson: Yeah we got hella different versions to that shit. We finna do a remix to that. What happened was the label, Epic, didn't clear it. I guess they trying to go pop with him or something and they didn't want no street record. Maybe they didn't know a nigga, who knows. But they got on it. JR Rotem did the beat, that's who signed him. For some reason, it wasnt Beluga Heights, it was the label, Epic, Charlie somebody, some industry shit. But basically the label wouldn't clear it so my label couldn't shoot no video, we couldn't promote it. It got leaked, it would have took off. But they cut Sean Kingston off the shit so I was like fuck it and we kept it moving. We just kept the original dude on it, who is Sly. He wrote "Beautiful Girls", he wrote the hook. Then we put Sean Kingston on it. That's what happened with that. That's to clear it up, some say one thing but it's another but that ain't shit.
JR did the beat, he was right there in front of me and I told him what I wanted. I was writing a verse and they had a writer in there, Sly, the homie. He on there singing, he wrote like four different hooks to the shit. Then he sang that hella hard, I was like 'that's money!' Then we put Sean Kingston on it, dropped it and they were like nah we can't clear it. You know what happened, "Beautiful Girl" started taking off. Once that started taking off, before he even shot the video to it, they was like 'oh no, we not clearing it.'
Baycentrik: So it was possibly a conflict and the label might not have wanted Kingston on more than one big single?
Clyde Carson: Fuck that it aint no conflict. That shit was weak, I wasnt feeling that shit. T-Pain on hella shit. If anything it would've helped homie out. I guess they don't know my status out here, they just know me as a new nigga or whatever. So it's nothing I'll make another.
Baycentrik: So what can you tell us about your debut album, "Theater Music"? I read somewhere that you have a concept for the album?
Clyde Carson: Well all the music is gonna be tied together, meaning it's gonna be one body of music. It's never really gonna fade off, it's gonna keep playing. I called it "Theater Music", I thought it was a dope title. Just something you can start off from top to bottom and just listen to musically, the whole album. Kind of like Blueprint, same kind of feel to it.
Baycentrik: So what is the release date looking like?
Clyde Carson: Honestly, I know for the Bay they probably curious like 'man did they put him on the shelf?' It's not that, I'm still working on my album. This is my first album, you only get one chance. I'm not trying to release it until it's time. Right now we scheduled for January but I wanna make sure it's right, all the songs, the videos, everything is correct. You see the numbers these days and it's not looking too good. I ain't trying to just put out no album. I'm more in a rush to get my face on that TV in the correct way.
Baycentrik: You see alot of Bay Area people come out on majors, they come out quietly with no promo and could be making just as much money independent than on the major..
Clyde Carson: Right, I'm in a major for what it is. On TV I gotta make sure I'm on there in a way where it's just bigger than your average shit. Independently you can make your money but now that's going down the drain because records is not selling no more. The last thing I wanna do is come out on a major, my one shot, and I just come out right now with no buzz. The buzz in the bay is nuts! Everybody want Clyde Carson to come out. But until that buzz is like that everywhere, I'm not trying to come out! I need my buzz like that in LA, I need my buzz like that in Baton Rouge, in New York, in Philly. I need everybody to be like, 'yo I need Clyde album!' Because if it's not like that what's the point of coming out, I could have came out independent! To the bay area and for everybody who checks this site out they ain't gotta worry cuz I'm finna drop this music. I'm finna release music, I just been getting my shit together and making sure it's right so I make sure when I release something it's quality. I got mixtapes coming out, I got lots of new music. You ain't gotta worry about the album, worry about the next couple of weeks you finna be hearing alot of shit. And definitely I'm gonna give yall at Baycentrik some shit.
Baycentrik: You mention having your one shot...in terms of the bay area do you think we had our chance and blew it? With the whole hyphy wave, where do you see things going?
Clyde Carson: Look at the Screw movement. You have the Screw shit going on for years and years and we had that 1 year of platinum...Slim Thug, Chamillionaire, Paul "The last thing I wanna do is come out on a major, my one shot...with no buzz." "In the bay..Everybody want Clyde Carson to come out. But until that buzz is like that everywhere, I'm not trying to come out!"
Wall, Mike Jones. You had three platinum albums and a gold album. So you had alot of record sales and a big buzz in one year. The next year it wasn't about Screw no more. It's still going on and they probably still gonna put out quality music, but hip hop is trendy. I'm not gonna say hyphy is over because we always gonna get hyphy out here, but we just need to concentrate on making music for the world. Trying to keep something going that just didnt get there... When we dropped "Hyphy Juice" remix, and it was slow, and mothafuckas was feeling it, I knew. It don't matter, as long as it's hot. This is the culture, we always gonna have hyphy out here. So to answer the question...I don't think we stuck in hyphy I just think niggas need to keep making music. I just did a show at Hot Import Nights and they was going dumb to "Doin That", when I did the shit at Fanatics, all the kids was going crazy. I didn't mention hyphy one time on that, I didn't even mention where I was from. I didn't mention the bay, I just made a song. So I think artists just need to concentrate on making songs and making the hottest material we can make. As long as it's hot the mothafuckas gonna go through it, Houston gonna chop and screw to it, and the Bay is gonna get hyphy to it. But as far as trying to make a hyphy song, I'm not on that. I never did anyway. Team never really did. I don't think that's the concentration and alot of artists in the bay need to concentrate on making hot material.
Baycentrik: And that's the thing about your style...If I listened to Clyde song not knowing who you are I probably wouldn't be able to tell where you're from. You don't pigeonhole yourself into one sound.
Clyde Carson: Yeah I grew up off all the classic bay area shit and I loved it, I was also interested in all the other music too. I always loved east coast music just as much as down south music, midwest, anything that was hot I liked. Plus I moved around alot, I didn't just stay in Oakland. I stayed in Berkeley, Richmond, Vallejo, New York, all over. I've always travelled. I been soaking up game from different environments, gaining the energy trying to make something that everyone can listen to.
Baycentrik: Do you think the music industry is doubtful of what the bay can do..numberswise? Are they skeptical of dealing with artists?
Clyde Carson: I don't think the music industry gives a fuck about the bay. I don't think people are even talking about it.
Check back on Friday, October 12th for Part 2 of this exclusive interview
Clyde Carson breaks down rehearsal tactics leading up to the opening of his "Theater Music" masterpiece, politics involving his street single "Doin That" featuring Sean Kingston, Team Business, and the flow of Hyphy Juice in the market..
PART 1 OF 2
Baycentrik: Lets clear up the controversy with "Doin That." Were there problems including Sean Kingston on the official first single, which is now the street single?
Clyde Carson: Yeah we got hella different versions to that shit. We finna do a remix to that. What happened was the label, Epic, didn't clear it. I guess they trying to go pop with him or something and they didn't want no street record. Maybe they didn't know a nigga, who knows. But they got on it. JR Rotem did the beat, that's who signed him. For some reason, it wasnt Beluga Heights, it was the label, Epic, Charlie somebody, some industry shit. But basically the label wouldn't clear it so my label couldn't shoot no video, we couldn't promote it. It got leaked, it would have took off. But they cut Sean Kingston off the shit so I was like fuck it and we kept it moving. We just kept the original dude on it, who is Sly. He wrote "Beautiful Girls", he wrote the hook. Then we put Sean Kingston on it. That's what happened with that. That's to clear it up, some say one thing but it's another but that ain't shit.
JR did the beat, he was right there in front of me and I told him what I wanted. I was writing a verse and they had a writer in there, Sly, the homie. He on there singing, he wrote like four different hooks to the shit. Then he sang that hella hard, I was like 'that's money!' Then we put Sean Kingston on it, dropped it and they were like nah we can't clear it. You know what happened, "Beautiful Girl" started taking off. Once that started taking off, before he even shot the video to it, they was like 'oh no, we not clearing it.'
Baycentrik: So it was possibly a conflict and the label might not have wanted Kingston on more than one big single?
Clyde Carson: Fuck that it aint no conflict. That shit was weak, I wasnt feeling that shit. T-Pain on hella shit. If anything it would've helped homie out. I guess they don't know my status out here, they just know me as a new nigga or whatever. So it's nothing I'll make another.
Baycentrik: So what can you tell us about your debut album, "Theater Music"? I read somewhere that you have a concept for the album?
Clyde Carson: Well all the music is gonna be tied together, meaning it's gonna be one body of music. It's never really gonna fade off, it's gonna keep playing. I called it "Theater Music", I thought it was a dope title. Just something you can start off from top to bottom and just listen to musically, the whole album. Kind of like Blueprint, same kind of feel to it.
Baycentrik: So what is the release date looking like?
Clyde Carson: Honestly, I know for the Bay they probably curious like 'man did they put him on the shelf?' It's not that, I'm still working on my album. This is my first album, you only get one chance. I'm not trying to release it until it's time. Right now we scheduled for January but I wanna make sure it's right, all the songs, the videos, everything is correct. You see the numbers these days and it's not looking too good. I ain't trying to just put out no album. I'm more in a rush to get my face on that TV in the correct way.
Baycentrik: You see alot of Bay Area people come out on majors, they come out quietly with no promo and could be making just as much money independent than on the major..
Clyde Carson: Right, I'm in a major for what it is. On TV I gotta make sure I'm on there in a way where it's just bigger than your average shit. Independently you can make your money but now that's going down the drain because records is not selling no more. The last thing I wanna do is come out on a major, my one shot, and I just come out right now with no buzz. The buzz in the bay is nuts! Everybody want Clyde Carson to come out. But until that buzz is like that everywhere, I'm not trying to come out! I need my buzz like that in LA, I need my buzz like that in Baton Rouge, in New York, in Philly. I need everybody to be like, 'yo I need Clyde album!' Because if it's not like that what's the point of coming out, I could have came out independent! To the bay area and for everybody who checks this site out they ain't gotta worry cuz I'm finna drop this music. I'm finna release music, I just been getting my shit together and making sure it's right so I make sure when I release something it's quality. I got mixtapes coming out, I got lots of new music. You ain't gotta worry about the album, worry about the next couple of weeks you finna be hearing alot of shit. And definitely I'm gonna give yall at Baycentrik some shit.
Baycentrik: You mention having your one shot...in terms of the bay area do you think we had our chance and blew it? With the whole hyphy wave, where do you see things going?
Clyde Carson: Look at the Screw movement. You have the Screw shit going on for years and years and we had that 1 year of platinum...Slim Thug, Chamillionaire, Paul "The last thing I wanna do is come out on a major, my one shot...with no buzz." "In the bay..Everybody want Clyde Carson to come out. But until that buzz is like that everywhere, I'm not trying to come out!"
Wall, Mike Jones. You had three platinum albums and a gold album. So you had alot of record sales and a big buzz in one year. The next year it wasn't about Screw no more. It's still going on and they probably still gonna put out quality music, but hip hop is trendy. I'm not gonna say hyphy is over because we always gonna get hyphy out here, but we just need to concentrate on making music for the world. Trying to keep something going that just didnt get there... When we dropped "Hyphy Juice" remix, and it was slow, and mothafuckas was feeling it, I knew. It don't matter, as long as it's hot. This is the culture, we always gonna have hyphy out here. So to answer the question...I don't think we stuck in hyphy I just think niggas need to keep making music. I just did a show at Hot Import Nights and they was going dumb to "Doin That", when I did the shit at Fanatics, all the kids was going crazy. I didn't mention hyphy one time on that, I didn't even mention where I was from. I didn't mention the bay, I just made a song. So I think artists just need to concentrate on making songs and making the hottest material we can make. As long as it's hot the mothafuckas gonna go through it, Houston gonna chop and screw to it, and the Bay is gonna get hyphy to it. But as far as trying to make a hyphy song, I'm not on that. I never did anyway. Team never really did. I don't think that's the concentration and alot of artists in the bay need to concentrate on making hot material.
Baycentrik: And that's the thing about your style...If I listened to Clyde song not knowing who you are I probably wouldn't be able to tell where you're from. You don't pigeonhole yourself into one sound.
Clyde Carson: Yeah I grew up off all the classic bay area shit and I loved it, I was also interested in all the other music too. I always loved east coast music just as much as down south music, midwest, anything that was hot I liked. Plus I moved around alot, I didn't just stay in Oakland. I stayed in Berkeley, Richmond, Vallejo, New York, all over. I've always travelled. I been soaking up game from different environments, gaining the energy trying to make something that everyone can listen to.
Baycentrik: Do you think the music industry is doubtful of what the bay can do..numberswise? Are they skeptical of dealing with artists?
Clyde Carson: I don't think the music industry gives a fuck about the bay. I don't think people are even talking about it.
Check back on Friday, October 12th for Part 2 of this exclusive interview
