MORE FROM THE INTERVIEW
JG: Everyone knows the reasons for your beef with Master P, but now there are rumors on the net claiming you have beef with Scarface and Too Short. Would you care to clear those rumours up? Is there any beef?
Yukmouth: Yes, I have beef with every nigga that try to step on my toes. So if them niggas steppe don my toes yes I do. Yes I absolutely do. And the whole thing is, that me and Too Short we cool. Me and Too Short. He gave me his 2 way and shit, he’s cool in person, same with Scarface. Scarface, we on the same fucking label. This nigga, I named this nigga ‘Uncle Face’. That’s what I call him. This’s my nickname I gave him. ‘Uncle Face’. Now he got Ludacris, everybody calling him "Uncle Face" but he hate me so much. He hate Yukmouth, he rapping and dissing me and shit, but smile on my face. And got everybody calling you a nickname that I made up for you. I mean, cut the drama, nigga, you wanna dress like me, you wanna act like a motherfucker, rap like a motherfucker; you even asked me to write your rhymes for your new fucking album! It don’t take Yukmouth two years to do an album; give me a month in the studio and it’s done. And nigga’s know that and they feel that shit. People dig that I probably am the next person to come up on Rap-A-Lot and he probably see that shit too. So, I mean, good old fashioned emceeing is about, to see who is the best. So, I guess he chose to try and challenge me on the Too Short album. Where Too Short was dissing me and my nigga [Numbskull]. And now, if you on my label and we label mates and shit, and you know I’ve spoken with this nigga, and you hear this nigga’s first verse clowing me why would you get on the song? Period. And we label mates, why would you get on the song, hear him talking about me and then make it look like he talking about me, nigga, cos you right behind his fucking verse, where he’s dissing the shit out of me.
JG: Yeah.
Yukmouth: You feel me? So that’s why there’s beef. They stepped on my toes and I’m just defending myself. I ain’t got no millions man. I ain’t got no millions and shit, and sitting in a house off the beach and shit. And got millions of dollars to be Def Jam South executive and president. None of that shit man. I’m Yukmouth straight from the motherfucking projects and dirt. Moved into a town house, got four storeys, a couple of vehicles and I’m doing my thing. I’m not no important ass rapper, leave me the fuck alone. Why motherfuckers always wanna push my button man? Let me blow first, the talk shit to me. Let me go triple platinum then talk shit. Right now, I ain’t even got to the level I need to be at, ya’ll niggas on me. I mean, it’s cool though, fuck it man. It’s all good, but I’m always going to defend myself and I’ll never bow down. Even if the nigga Eminem came at me, he’d get it, period. Any nigga, I don’t give a fuck. And I respected Scarface, Scarface is one of my favourite rappers ever. Then this nigga turn around I gotta battle against this nigga and rap? Fuck it, so be it. So be it. It’s nothing man, I’m a man. Niggas step on my toes, I’mma knock his ass out. Period.
JG: Tupac named you as one of the One Nation emcees he respected and wanted to appear on his One Nation Project. Now that the One Nation album appears to be close to seeing a release, are you gonna be on that?
Yukmouth: I don’t know man. I’m gonna say there’s a lot of hating going down when it comes to a Pac album, that’s all I’m gonna say man. Motherfuckers was doing it right man. Pac did albums man, he was working with niggas from the Bay. ‘All Eyez on Me’ to ‘Strictly 4 My Niggaz’ to, to, all that shit. Pac hooked up with his niggas from the Bay. He always had Richie Rich on the album. He’s always have my nigga C-Bo on the album, he’s always have E-40 and B-Legit. Rappin 4-Tay, he even had my nigga Dru Down on the album. NOW, since this nigga passed, none of that shit go down no more. It’s like, it’s only a Pac and The Outlawz album. Every fucking time. And that ain’t how Pac had the shit and they know that shit man. Niggas need to get back to the basics and quit trying to blow up off this nigga’s name. I mean, everybody could blow and get they money, there’s enough money for everybody. But do this shit right man. Do it right man. Do it how Pac would do it. Don’t do it how you would do an album, my nigga, and just take over the nigga. I mean, come on man, make the right choices man. And quit being so motherfucking greedy and so selfish man. Pac knew everybody, and rolled with everybody, and put nigga’s on the album. And the way it’s going now, ain’t none of that shit happening. You hear the Outlawz, you hear an old motherfucker here and there, but you don’t hear a real Pac album man. Is you feeling me?
JG: Yeah.
Yukmouth: You really don’t hear the essence, like ‘All Eyez On Me’, like ‘Me Against The World’. You don’t hear no shit like that man. You just hear, like a Pac compilation with him and the Outlawz. Pac and The Outlawz. That’s what it is every time they put it out and that ain’t right man. Even though the Outlawz is fly, them niggas rap and rep it – but Pac was reppin more shit than the Outlawz. He repped the West motherfucking coast man. West coast man. And he was putting his west coast niggas down on his shit, as he did it. That’s why he came with the One Nation shit, cos he was tired of just being West Coast, he wanted to get everybody involved in time. East Coast niggas, Midwest, down South and West coast niggas. And they not doing that. Pac had a vision to unify this shit, that’s my same vision. I have a vision to unify shit, that’s why I came with the Regime. The Regime is my Outlawz, that’s my clique. And my niggas make my clique different from other motherfuckers. We not just from the West Coast, we from everywhere man. Unified. We from the East Coast, from the Midwest, got niggas Down South, and we run the West coast. We run this shit; we unified. Other cliques, niggas be from the same city, same hood, that’s that. We unified. We step off a plane in New York we covered by Mob bosses, nothing can happen to us. We go down South, we straight. Mob bosses. Nothing can happen to us. We go Midwest we straight, we mobbed out. Regime niggas everywhere, most of them ready to do what they gotta do. That’s what Pac wanted man. Pac wanted niggas like that, everywhere he could go and just be cool man. A motherfucking thug nation. United. You feel me?
JG: Yeah.
Yukmouth: That’s what the Regime is. That’s what my movement is. And I’m not no self-centered, selfish motherfucker. I write raps for people. I write choruses. All my songs, any bitch or nigga that sing on my shit I pick that up. I made "5 On It"’s chorus. I made all that shit man. I puts in work for everybody, not just for me. They’ll tell you. Yukmouth is a workaholic and he gone make sure everything is right. I’m orchestrating everything. I’ll write you a rhyme, whatever needs to go down man. Yuk is good when it comes to making fucking music man. And he’s dedicated to it. You know? That’s what motherfuckers know about me when they get in the studio with Yuk. And that’s why they probably say that "okay you remind me of Pac", because of my work ethic or [because of] the type of music I do. But I’ll never be Pac dude. I’m gonna be Yuk and Pac gonna be Pac. That’s that.
JG: What can we expect to see from Yukmouth in the near future?
Yukmouth: Shit man, I got like 3 groups on the side man, as well as my solo shit. I’ve got the Regime, I’ve got the Thug Lords and I got the Luniz. And Yukmouth. So you’re gonna hear all those projects come out. And my label gonna kick off on a super smash fire this year! Smoke-A-Lot Records. And I’m looking for a distribution deal so I can get the Regime shit popping. And that’s it, you gonna see a lot of me in the cameras, cos we got a new distribution deal where motherfuckers gonna push the albums this time and there ain’t gonna be no, just put an album out and expect it to sell word-of-mouth. We gone really see visuals and all that shit this time. And you’re gonna see a lot of your boys cos I’m in it to win it man. Until I’m sitting on $20 million man, I will not stop. Period.
JG: What do you think of Kurupt signing back to Death Row?
Yukmouth: To each his own man. I mean, it was all bad for them niggas back in the day, but you never know. Suge’s probably changed. Suge probably really wanna give nigga’s their publishing. He probably really wants to give [them] millions of dollars upfront cos they can handle they shit right, you know? Yeah, I’m feeling it. I don’t think he’d have gone over there if he thought he was going through the same bullshit he was going through at first. I don’t think he’d be going there, I mean, he’d be going there period.
JG: Okay, thanks a lot for doing the interview. Have you got any shout-outs you wanna make?
Yukmouth: Regime Life for life man. Look out for it, it’s coming, self-titled "Regime Life". Look out for that new Yukmouth album coming soon, called "Godzilla", and look for that new Luniz album coming. All this shit this year. The new Luniz is called "Oakland Raiders". That’s what it’s gonna be like this year, real nice roster. Me and C-Bo, we doing our album the "Thuglords" album, should be at the end of the year. Then the Regime should be at the beginning of the year, so there’s a lot of shit that gonna come out. Everybody, peace, love, do your thug thing. Keep smoking big weed to the brain and fuck a bitch. Don’t never put no bitch before yo’ partners. Money over bitches! One.
