HomeBoyRap - GIVE US A BRIEF INTRODUCTION BOUT YOURSELF
Sleepy Santino - I GO BY THE NAME SLEEPY SANTINO. BEEN NICKNAMED SLEEPY FOR OVER 10 YEARS NOW ADDED THE SANTINO LATER TO STAND OUT FROM OTHER ARTISTS. BORN AND RAISED IN SAN FRANCISCO AND SOUTH CITY MOVED OUT TO SANTA ROSA
WHEN I WAS 16 BEEN THERE EVER SINCE. RELEASED NORTE 4 LIFE IN 2002/2003 AND THEN RELEASED THE NORTHERN LIFESTYLE IN 2005. SOLD 1000 UNITS OF NORTE FOR LIFE AND 1600 OF THE NORTHERN LIFESTYLE.
HomeBoyRap - HOW DID U GET INTO THE RAP GAME ?
Sleepy Satino - JUST TAKIN IT UPON MYSELF TO DO IT. AT 16 WHEN I FIRST MOVED TO SANTA ROSA I TOOK SOME MONEY AND HIT A LOCAL STUDIO AND RECORDED AN 8 TRACK DEMO WITH A $150 KEYBOARD I BOUGHT. AT 17 I HIT THE STUDIO AGAIN AND RECORDED 17 TRACKS. EVER SINCE THEN I BEEN JUST TRYIN TO IMPROVE ON EVERYTHING FROM LYRICS TO FLOW AND DELIVERY AND WRITING SONGS AND NOT JUST RAPPIN ON A TRACK.
HomeBoyRap - TELL US ABOUT YOUR TWO ALBUMS AND THE FEATURES
Sleepy Satino - FIRST ONE WAS ALL ME AND A HOOK SUNG BY A NIGGA NAMED JUNIOR WHO I SINCE LOST TRACK OF. ME AND A POTNA OF MINE DECIDED TO PUT OUT A G.U.N. TYPE ALBUM WITH MORE OF A BAY FEEL. I WAS PRETTY MUCH HOMELESS AT THE TIME AND MOVIN FROM SPOT TO SPOT SO MY MINDSTATE WAS IN A LITTLE DIFFERENT PLACE THAN NOWADAYZ AS I WAS JUST KICKIN WIT HOMIES AND JUST WANTED TO MAKE SOMETHIN THEY COULD KNOCK THAT REPRESENTED FOR THEM. I DID THE WHOLE ALBUM IN BASICALLY A DAY. THE NORTHERN LIFESTYLE I TRIED NETWORKIN A LITTLE BIT AND MAKE SOMETHIN WITH OUTSIDE PRODUCTION THAT TOUCHED A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING.
HomeBoyRap - HOW DID U END UP HOOKIN UP WITH MIKE MARSHALL ?
Sleepy Santino - I RECORDED A GROUP ALBUM IN 2003 WIT A GROUP CALLED NTN MAFIA TITLED TWYCE BLESSED THAT WAS NEVER RELEASED. AT THE TIME WE WERE LOOKIN FOR VOCALISTS TO SING SOME HOOKS AND I HAD A # FOR MIKE MARSHALL WHO HAD JUST RETURNED FROM GERMANY RIDIN THE FAME FROM I GOT 5 ON IT. WE DID 4 TRACKS WIT HIM THEN, 2 OF WHICH WERE "PLAYA N ME" AND "GHETTO SMILEZ GHETTO TEARZ". LATER ON I WORKED WIT HIM ON CITY I LIVE IN AND IN THE BAY. THE MOST TALENTED ARTIST I'VE WORKED WIT TO DATE.
HomeBoyRap - ANY INFO ON THE GROUP ALBUM “WEST BAY SOLDIERS” ?
Sleepy Santino - SHIT YOU PROBABLY GOT TO ASK SLEEPY OR PISTOL BOUT THAT HOMIE. NAH I THINK WHAT KILLED THAT PROJECT WAS THAT WE FELT IT WOULD BE TOO REGIONALIZED AND THAT IT WOULDN'T BE SUPPORTED BY ALL HOMEBOYZ. ALSO WE LOST CHINO, PISTOL GOT LOCKED UP, REDRUM BEEN PURSUIN THE HORRORCORE THANG AND I HAVENT SERIOUSLY DONE NO MUSIC IN CLOSE TO 3 YEARS. YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS THO.
HomeBoyRap - HOW WAS IT WORKING WITH CHINO (LIL DUCE) ?
Sleepy Santino - CHINO TREATED EVERYONE LIKE A BROTHER WHETHER HE KNEW YOU FOR 10 YEARS OR 10 MINUTES. I WAS KICKIN IT WIT HIM A COUPLE WEEKS BEFORE HE PASSED AND HE KEPT TELLIN ME HOW HE COULDN'T WAIT TO GET IN THE STUDIO AND MAKE SOME NEW SHIT CAUSE HE FELT HE COULD DO BETTER THAN WHAT HE HAD DONE SO FAR. I REMEMBER THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME WHEN I WAS LEAVIN WAS THAT WE ALL GON MAKE IT ONE DAY, MEANING THE MUSIC, JUST KEEP GRINDIN. IT'S A SAD THING WHEN A HOMEBOY PASSES. HIS KIDS LOST THEIR FATHER AND HIS BROTHERS LOST THEIR BROTHER SO REST IN PEACE CHINO.
HomeBoyRap - WHAT MUSIC U FEELING AT THE MOMENT ?
Sleepy Santino - SCARFACE, THE PRODUCT, UGK, ICE CUBE, TRAE, Z-RO, TURF TALK, MISTAH FAB, DEVIN, THE GAME, SNOOP, OUTLAWZ
HomeBoyRap - WHAT GOT U INTO RAPPING ?
Sleepy Santino - I BEEN FUCKIN WIT RAP SINCE I WAS 10 JUST WRITIN SHIT ON PAPER TRYIN TO IMITATE ALOT OF ARTISTS AND FINALLY FINDIN MY COMFORT ZONE. COULDN'T TELL YOU WHAT MADE ME STICK WIT IT EXCEPT I TRULY BELIEVE I CAN MAKE GOOD MUSIC AND MAKE A CONTRIBUTION TO THE MUSIC THAT IS OUT THERE THOUGH I DONT FEEL I'VE REALLY MADE ANY GOOD MUSIC YET I FEEL IT'S IN ME IT'S JUST ABOUT PUTTIN IT ALL TOGETHER.
HomeBoyRap - WHAT’S THE NEXT PROJECT FOR SLEEPY SANTINO ?
Sleepy Santino - AT THIS MOMENT THERE PROBABLY WONT BE ANY MORE PROJECTS AS SLEEPY SANTINO. WITH MY DAUGHTER BEIN BORN AND SHADY DEALINGS WIT SO CALLED HOMEBOY ARTISTS I DONT FEEL LIKE COMIN OUT THAT WAY NO MORE FEEL ME. MY MAIN GOAL IS TO MAKE GOOD MUSIC THAT IS WHERE MY PASSION IS AT NOT TO SPEAK PRISON POLITICS OR SAY THE SAME SHIT OVER AND OVER. I FEEL LIKE WIT THE WAY SHIT IS NOW I AINT TRYIN TO LIMIT MY MUSIC BY HAVIN TO SAY WHERE MY LOYALTIES LIE IN THE STREETS. JUST LEAVE IT WHERE IT BELONGS.
HomeBoyRap - ANY OTHER ARTISTS SIGNED TO YOUR LABLE ?
Sleepy Santino - NO I DONT HAVE THE FUNDS TO REALLY PUT AN EFFORT INTO ANOTHER ARTISTS PROJECT AND ITS HARD PUTTIN ARTISTS OUT BECAUSE IF THEY DONT HAVE ANY MOTIVATION TO SACRIFICE AND MAKE IT IN THIS GAME THEN ME PUTTIN MY MONEY OFF INTO THEM WONT CHANGE THAT.
HomeBoyRap - LOT OF UP & COMING ARTISTS ARE LOOKING TO COLAB WITH YOU, ARE YOU OPEN FOR FEATURES AND IF SO, WHERE CAN THEY CONTACT YOU ?
Sleepy Santino - AT THE MOMENT NO JUST BECAUSE I HAVE NO TIME AND NEED TO TAKE CARE OF FAMILY BUSINESS FIRST AND FOREMOST. IF YOU OFFERED THE RIGHT PRICE IT MIGHT BE POSSIBLE BUT THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE THE ONLY WAY AT THIS
MOMENT.
HomeBoyRap - HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE KNOWN AS 1 OF THE BEST HOMEBOY RAPPERS IN THE GAME ?
Sleepy Santino - IT REALLY DONT MEAN SHIT HONESTLY UNLESS I'M GETTIN PAID AND SO FAR I AINT MADE SHIT OFF OF MUSIC. IT'S BEEN MORE LIKE A BAD HABIT THEN A HUSTLE SO UNTIL I START SEEIN SOMETHIN IN MY POCKET I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT FAME. THERES NO LOYALTY IN HOMEBOY RAP OR RAP PERIOD. I DEALT WIT WOODIE(RIP) ON BOTH OF MY PROJECTS AND HE FUCKED ME OUT OF 6 G'S TAKIN PAYMENTS BEHIND MY BACK FROM URBANLIFE WHEN HE HAD NO AFFILIATION WIT EITHER PROJECT AND KNEW IT.YOU CAN SAY WHAT YOU WANT BUT THE NIGGA WAS A SNAKE. THIS IS THE TYPE OF SHIT THAT GOES ON IN MUSIC AND WE ARE AT A SMALL INDEPENDENT LEVEL AND IT STILL GOES ON. I AINT TRYIN TO SPEAK ILL OF THE DEAD REST IN PEACE NO BEEF IS BIGGER THAN A MANS LIFE BUT IT SET ME BACK TO WHERE I LOST MONEY AND DIDN'T BREAK EVEN. I WAS PREPARED TO SUE WHEN HE DIED BECAUSE I GOT THE PAPERWORK PROVIN THAT HE OWED ME BUT YOU TAKE IT AS A LESSON LEARNED ABOUT WHO YOU TRUST AND WHO YOU DONT.
HomeBoyRap - WHO HAS INFLUINCED YOU TO RAP ?
Sleepy Santino - ALL THE ARTISTS I LISTENED TO GROWIN UP FROM NWA, RBL POSSE, TOO SHORT, ICE CUBE, 2PAC, THE LIST GOES ON AND ON. I'M STILL INFLUENCED BY SHIT I HEAR TODAY MAKE ME WANT TO HIT THE STUDIO AND MAKE SOMETHIN OF MY OWN FEEL ME.
HomeBoyRap - ANY LAST WORDS?
Sleepy Santino - SUPPORT MY NIGGA REDRUM AND THE DEEP SLEEP FAMILY AND PICK UP THAT DEAR SATAN AND DEMONOLOGY ALBUMS. THE NORTHERN LIFESTYLE IS AVAILABLE IS AT CDBABY.COM FOR $5 SO IF YOU BEEN SLEEPIN ON IT PICK IT UP IT'S WORTH YOUR TIME. APPRECIATED THE SUPPORT FROM HOMEBOYRAP.COM AND THANK YOU TO SPIDER AND PERICO FOR THE OPPORTUNITY FOR EXPOZURE.
Sleepy Santino - I GO BY THE NAME SLEEPY SANTINO. BEEN NICKNAMED SLEEPY FOR OVER 10 YEARS NOW ADDED THE SANTINO LATER TO STAND OUT FROM OTHER ARTISTS. BORN AND RAISED IN SAN FRANCISCO AND SOUTH CITY MOVED OUT TO SANTA ROSA
WHEN I WAS 16 BEEN THERE EVER SINCE. RELEASED NORTE 4 LIFE IN 2002/2003 AND THEN RELEASED THE NORTHERN LIFESTYLE IN 2005. SOLD 1000 UNITS OF NORTE FOR LIFE AND 1600 OF THE NORTHERN LIFESTYLE.
HomeBoyRap - HOW DID U GET INTO THE RAP GAME ?
Sleepy Satino - JUST TAKIN IT UPON MYSELF TO DO IT. AT 16 WHEN I FIRST MOVED TO SANTA ROSA I TOOK SOME MONEY AND HIT A LOCAL STUDIO AND RECORDED AN 8 TRACK DEMO WITH A $150 KEYBOARD I BOUGHT. AT 17 I HIT THE STUDIO AGAIN AND RECORDED 17 TRACKS. EVER SINCE THEN I BEEN JUST TRYIN TO IMPROVE ON EVERYTHING FROM LYRICS TO FLOW AND DELIVERY AND WRITING SONGS AND NOT JUST RAPPIN ON A TRACK.
HomeBoyRap - TELL US ABOUT YOUR TWO ALBUMS AND THE FEATURES
Sleepy Satino - FIRST ONE WAS ALL ME AND A HOOK SUNG BY A NIGGA NAMED JUNIOR WHO I SINCE LOST TRACK OF. ME AND A POTNA OF MINE DECIDED TO PUT OUT A G.U.N. TYPE ALBUM WITH MORE OF A BAY FEEL. I WAS PRETTY MUCH HOMELESS AT THE TIME AND MOVIN FROM SPOT TO SPOT SO MY MINDSTATE WAS IN A LITTLE DIFFERENT PLACE THAN NOWADAYZ AS I WAS JUST KICKIN WIT HOMIES AND JUST WANTED TO MAKE SOMETHIN THEY COULD KNOCK THAT REPRESENTED FOR THEM. I DID THE WHOLE ALBUM IN BASICALLY A DAY. THE NORTHERN LIFESTYLE I TRIED NETWORKIN A LITTLE BIT AND MAKE SOMETHIN WITH OUTSIDE PRODUCTION THAT TOUCHED A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING.
HomeBoyRap - HOW DID U END UP HOOKIN UP WITH MIKE MARSHALL ?
Sleepy Santino - I RECORDED A GROUP ALBUM IN 2003 WIT A GROUP CALLED NTN MAFIA TITLED TWYCE BLESSED THAT WAS NEVER RELEASED. AT THE TIME WE WERE LOOKIN FOR VOCALISTS TO SING SOME HOOKS AND I HAD A # FOR MIKE MARSHALL WHO HAD JUST RETURNED FROM GERMANY RIDIN THE FAME FROM I GOT 5 ON IT. WE DID 4 TRACKS WIT HIM THEN, 2 OF WHICH WERE "PLAYA N ME" AND "GHETTO SMILEZ GHETTO TEARZ". LATER ON I WORKED WIT HIM ON CITY I LIVE IN AND IN THE BAY. THE MOST TALENTED ARTIST I'VE WORKED WIT TO DATE.
HomeBoyRap - ANY INFO ON THE GROUP ALBUM “WEST BAY SOLDIERS” ?
Sleepy Santino - SHIT YOU PROBABLY GOT TO ASK SLEEPY OR PISTOL BOUT THAT HOMIE. NAH I THINK WHAT KILLED THAT PROJECT WAS THAT WE FELT IT WOULD BE TOO REGIONALIZED AND THAT IT WOULDN'T BE SUPPORTED BY ALL HOMEBOYZ. ALSO WE LOST CHINO, PISTOL GOT LOCKED UP, REDRUM BEEN PURSUIN THE HORRORCORE THANG AND I HAVENT SERIOUSLY DONE NO MUSIC IN CLOSE TO 3 YEARS. YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS THO.
HomeBoyRap - HOW WAS IT WORKING WITH CHINO (LIL DUCE) ?
Sleepy Santino - CHINO TREATED EVERYONE LIKE A BROTHER WHETHER HE KNEW YOU FOR 10 YEARS OR 10 MINUTES. I WAS KICKIN IT WIT HIM A COUPLE WEEKS BEFORE HE PASSED AND HE KEPT TELLIN ME HOW HE COULDN'T WAIT TO GET IN THE STUDIO AND MAKE SOME NEW SHIT CAUSE HE FELT HE COULD DO BETTER THAN WHAT HE HAD DONE SO FAR. I REMEMBER THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME WHEN I WAS LEAVIN WAS THAT WE ALL GON MAKE IT ONE DAY, MEANING THE MUSIC, JUST KEEP GRINDIN. IT'S A SAD THING WHEN A HOMEBOY PASSES. HIS KIDS LOST THEIR FATHER AND HIS BROTHERS LOST THEIR BROTHER SO REST IN PEACE CHINO.
HomeBoyRap - WHAT MUSIC U FEELING AT THE MOMENT ?
Sleepy Santino - SCARFACE, THE PRODUCT, UGK, ICE CUBE, TRAE, Z-RO, TURF TALK, MISTAH FAB, DEVIN, THE GAME, SNOOP, OUTLAWZ
HomeBoyRap - WHAT GOT U INTO RAPPING ?
Sleepy Santino - I BEEN FUCKIN WIT RAP SINCE I WAS 10 JUST WRITIN SHIT ON PAPER TRYIN TO IMITATE ALOT OF ARTISTS AND FINALLY FINDIN MY COMFORT ZONE. COULDN'T TELL YOU WHAT MADE ME STICK WIT IT EXCEPT I TRULY BELIEVE I CAN MAKE GOOD MUSIC AND MAKE A CONTRIBUTION TO THE MUSIC THAT IS OUT THERE THOUGH I DONT FEEL I'VE REALLY MADE ANY GOOD MUSIC YET I FEEL IT'S IN ME IT'S JUST ABOUT PUTTIN IT ALL TOGETHER.
HomeBoyRap - WHAT’S THE NEXT PROJECT FOR SLEEPY SANTINO ?
Sleepy Santino - AT THIS MOMENT THERE PROBABLY WONT BE ANY MORE PROJECTS AS SLEEPY SANTINO. WITH MY DAUGHTER BEIN BORN AND SHADY DEALINGS WIT SO CALLED HOMEBOY ARTISTS I DONT FEEL LIKE COMIN OUT THAT WAY NO MORE FEEL ME. MY MAIN GOAL IS TO MAKE GOOD MUSIC THAT IS WHERE MY PASSION IS AT NOT TO SPEAK PRISON POLITICS OR SAY THE SAME SHIT OVER AND OVER. I FEEL LIKE WIT THE WAY SHIT IS NOW I AINT TRYIN TO LIMIT MY MUSIC BY HAVIN TO SAY WHERE MY LOYALTIES LIE IN THE STREETS. JUST LEAVE IT WHERE IT BELONGS.
HomeBoyRap - ANY OTHER ARTISTS SIGNED TO YOUR LABLE ?
Sleepy Santino - NO I DONT HAVE THE FUNDS TO REALLY PUT AN EFFORT INTO ANOTHER ARTISTS PROJECT AND ITS HARD PUTTIN ARTISTS OUT BECAUSE IF THEY DONT HAVE ANY MOTIVATION TO SACRIFICE AND MAKE IT IN THIS GAME THEN ME PUTTIN MY MONEY OFF INTO THEM WONT CHANGE THAT.
HomeBoyRap - LOT OF UP & COMING ARTISTS ARE LOOKING TO COLAB WITH YOU, ARE YOU OPEN FOR FEATURES AND IF SO, WHERE CAN THEY CONTACT YOU ?
Sleepy Santino - AT THE MOMENT NO JUST BECAUSE I HAVE NO TIME AND NEED TO TAKE CARE OF FAMILY BUSINESS FIRST AND FOREMOST. IF YOU OFFERED THE RIGHT PRICE IT MIGHT BE POSSIBLE BUT THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE THE ONLY WAY AT THIS
MOMENT.
HomeBoyRap - HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE KNOWN AS 1 OF THE BEST HOMEBOY RAPPERS IN THE GAME ?
Sleepy Santino - IT REALLY DONT MEAN SHIT HONESTLY UNLESS I'M GETTIN PAID AND SO FAR I AINT MADE SHIT OFF OF MUSIC. IT'S BEEN MORE LIKE A BAD HABIT THEN A HUSTLE SO UNTIL I START SEEIN SOMETHIN IN MY POCKET I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT FAME. THERES NO LOYALTY IN HOMEBOY RAP OR RAP PERIOD. I DEALT WIT WOODIE(RIP) ON BOTH OF MY PROJECTS AND HE FUCKED ME OUT OF 6 G'S TAKIN PAYMENTS BEHIND MY BACK FROM URBANLIFE WHEN HE HAD NO AFFILIATION WIT EITHER PROJECT AND KNEW IT.YOU CAN SAY WHAT YOU WANT BUT THE NIGGA WAS A SNAKE. THIS IS THE TYPE OF SHIT THAT GOES ON IN MUSIC AND WE ARE AT A SMALL INDEPENDENT LEVEL AND IT STILL GOES ON. I AINT TRYIN TO SPEAK ILL OF THE DEAD REST IN PEACE NO BEEF IS BIGGER THAN A MANS LIFE BUT IT SET ME BACK TO WHERE I LOST MONEY AND DIDN'T BREAK EVEN. I WAS PREPARED TO SUE WHEN HE DIED BECAUSE I GOT THE PAPERWORK PROVIN THAT HE OWED ME BUT YOU TAKE IT AS A LESSON LEARNED ABOUT WHO YOU TRUST AND WHO YOU DONT.
HomeBoyRap - WHO HAS INFLUINCED YOU TO RAP ?
Sleepy Santino - ALL THE ARTISTS I LISTENED TO GROWIN UP FROM NWA, RBL POSSE, TOO SHORT, ICE CUBE, 2PAC, THE LIST GOES ON AND ON. I'M STILL INFLUENCED BY SHIT I HEAR TODAY MAKE ME WANT TO HIT THE STUDIO AND MAKE SOMETHIN OF MY OWN FEEL ME.
HomeBoyRap - ANY LAST WORDS?
Sleepy Santino - SUPPORT MY NIGGA REDRUM AND THE DEEP SLEEP FAMILY AND PICK UP THAT DEAR SATAN AND DEMONOLOGY ALBUMS. THE NORTHERN LIFESTYLE IS AVAILABLE IS AT CDBABY.COM FOR $5 SO IF YOU BEEN SLEEPIN ON IT PICK IT UP IT'S WORTH YOUR TIME. APPRECIATED THE SUPPORT FROM HOMEBOYRAP.COM AND THANK YOU TO SPIDER AND PERICO FOR THE OPPORTUNITY FOR EXPOZURE.