saucywhite

no prob!! here's an old B-Bop
Interview by Black Dog Bone of murderdog magazine

There was a time that Sick Wid It and Southside Vallejo weren’t getting along. Now I see you’ve signed with Sick Wid It and everything seems to be cool. How did the change come about?

It’s been so many years of not makin no progress in the Rap game because of all the outside situations goin on. I’ve become committed to the music industry and sellin some records and just basically tryin to be a bigger man and get further ahead.

How did you really connect with Sick Wid It?

One of the key names is a guy named Ned. First of all, when I first came home from the penn in 1999 I met up with Forty on several occasions, a couple of times at his nightclub and different places. I just stayed in his ear and told him I’m ready to come on board, I’m ready to do something big for the label. He told me at that time that he wasn’t ready to pick me up, but as soon as he started signing people and rebuilding the label the way he wanted it that I would be one of the first people he called. Ned, who’s a mutual friend of both of ours, he went as a mediator in getting the deal done. Then one day out of the blue I got a call from Forty. He told me he’s ready to bring me aboard.

When did this all come together?

The initial meetings happened in July of last year. By August or September we had the deal signed.

You guys did a great thing in coming together. All of the young people growing up in Hillside and Southside will feel more united.

Right. It’s 2007, Black Dog, and all the problems that the neighborhoods had were over ten years ago—’95, ’96. It’s all done with. Everybody tryin to get along, make some hit records, make some money, build a conglomerate record label, and make sure everybody’s eating. We want to see more people out the community is eating.

What have you been up to since you came out of the penn?

When I got out the penn I was committed to doing two album. I wanted to see what kinda progress I can make after two albums. I put out the first album independent under Ether Bass Records; it’s called "History In The Makin". I got all the local favorites on that album. I got Keak Da Sneak, San Quinn, Turf Talk, Celly Cel, PSD, Yukmouth. I got all the hot names on there, and I got good response off it. Forty heard the album, he thought it was good work. That’s how I ended up signing with Forty. I got all that done with one album. Now I got my second project that I committed myself to comin out. That’s called "The Signin Bonus". That’s where I’m at right now.

The album is done?

The album is completely done. I’m tryin to drop it in July of ’07, which is 707, the seventh month of ’07. It’s all ready to go.

Who did you work with for production on the last album and this new album?

On the first album I had Tone Capone—he’s responsible for a few platinum records around the Bay like "I Got Five On It". Also I had a new in-house producer named Salin. He did most of the production on the first and second album. He’s a hot new producer out of Vallejo, California. It’s always good to work with the new talent and get a fresh sound. I’m really happy with the way this album came out. If you liked the last album, it’s just an extension of the last album with a little more of me and less features.

When we first started Murder Dog and when the Young "D" Boyz album was getting recorded you were in the penn. What happened to take you away for so long?

The name speaks for itself, we Young "D" Boyz. Before I started rappin I made my revenue in the streets by hustlin. We’ll just say "hustlin D" to protect the innocent. I got caught up, caught a few cases, caught a "transportation of sales" case. I got sent up to the State for a while.

How long were you gone
I went in ’94 and then I came home for about 10 months. Then I went back in ’95 for about 5 years. When I was home in ’94 I was able to catch the end of the recording of the "D" Boy album. That was "The Mack God Gonna Get Ya" and "Straight Game by the 32 Bars". I missed most of the recording of that album. I was caught up doin time.

In the Southside you were a legendary person. Matty Wack and Khadaffi always talked about you.

We had a pretty unique system with the Young "D" Boyz. Everybody had his role in the organization and it all worked out for the better. Matty Wack (Tony Francis) was pretty much the brains of the operation. I was more like an overseer. I was older with a little more street wisdom.

Before you came together were you all rapping solo?

We all were rappin on our own at first. Everybody was doin their thing. Somehow Khadaffi and Matty Wack hooked up and they started makin demos in the hood. I started hearin those demo tapes. So, me bein a rapper and they bein my lil homies from the hood, I went to them. I went to them and told them we should all just start rappin together. At that time we didn’t have a name for the group. We started goin to the studio and doin demos with a local producer named D-Bone. Then one day Matty Wack called me and said he’d made a new song and he wanted me to hear it. I met up with him at the Arco gas station in South Vallejo and he played the song for me. The beat he’d used was "Freaky Tales". It was mixtapes before mixtapes. The name of the song was "Young ‘D’ Boy". Immediately when I heard that song and the title of it, I looked at him and said "That’s gonna be the name of our group."

How did River T get involved with the Young "D" Boyz?

River T stepped up to the plate when lotta people wouldn’t step up to the plate. In ’93 and ’94 when E-40 was just getting big, Mac Mall was big from the Crest, N2Deep was big, the Luniz were getting big, Keak Da Sneak with 3 X Krazy—all these Bay Area groups were growing. We were just a little local group that needed an avenue to get our records out. River T—I called him the man with the money and the power at the time—he stood up. He came forward and told us he wanted to get us in the studio and get a record going. A lot of people made us that promise at that time, but River T was the only one to follow through with it. That’s how River T became the executive of the group. He was the one that was willing to invest money in our future.

You were working with people from the Crest Side back then. Khayree did a lot of the production on the Young "D" Boyz album.

Khayree did a lot of the production. But when I came out there was a lot of tension between South Vallejo and the Country Club Crest. Khayree’s artists were primarily Crest artists—Mac Dre, Sugawolf, Mac Mall, Ray Luv, Young Lay—they were Northside artists. We never had a problem working with Khayree in the studio, but bein that the streets had a powerful voice over the music business, we kinda had to follow the voice of the streets. That’s where the conflict came in as far us continuing to work with Khayree. Khayree went ahead and got a deal with Atlantic, but due to the tension on the streets we weren’t able to push through to that deal.

That album was a real masterpiece. You had all the elements to make it work—the music, the lyrics and delivery.

We had unbelievable results off the album People took to us like back in the day. I remember when NWA came out and it was a new type of sound because they were so Gangsta. They came out with that mentality and people just caught onto it. At the time we came out the dope game was real big. Hundreds of thousands was bein made in the streets by multiple cats in my neighborhood. We just came out preaching that street gospel. We didn’t look for violence, we were more interested in how much money we could acquire through the sales and transportation of narcotics. We was doin a lotta dope sellin, we was doin a lotta pimpin with women. We basically just gave ‘em what we knew. And they took to it like fish in water. That response from the Young "D" Boy album is my motivation today. I want to bring the "D" Boy flavor to the table and push it through this Sick Wid It label, so we can all make a lot of money.

What’s going on with Matty Wack and Khadaffi now?

I got good news for you! Matty Wack just touched down May 5th, Cinco de Mayo. Khadaffi is also out and ready to go. We’re trying to get a record going right now. I want to oversee the whole project and get it out by the end of this year. The album will be called "The Return of the Mack God". I’m lookin for some production revenue on a Young "D" Boy album right now. Anybody that wants to come to the table with that, we want do get this album done ASAP. I got a lot of people asking me for another "D" Boy album. I know it will be a great success.

To me that album really captured the essence of a time and place. It was so authentic.

You actually moved into our neighborhood and lived on the same streets where we was getting money at. You got to see it firsthand. You didn’t get to see it, you got to live it. I got copies of that first Murder Dog with Young "D" Boyz on the cover. I love your loyalty. Hopefully we can step up and show the world that what you believed in in the beginning is still alive.

I was in the Southside for 6 or 7 years. The whole atmosphere of that area came into Murder Dog because I was all around there.

Every day all day. We kinda consider you a Young "D" Boy, Black Dog. I remember when I first came home and first met you, you had a Young "D" Boy T-shirt and a Young "D" Boy hat on. You were representing for us everywhere you went. I loved that!

E-40 made a good move in reaching his hand to the Southside.

Forty made a big move. I got much love for Forty and much respect. I’m committed to Sick Wid It and E-40 right now. He put me in a position where all I gotta do is stand up and make some good records and I can win.

I haven’t heard of any new artists coming out of South Vallejo for a long time.

I got a couple of new artists comin out for you. The first one is Griff the Riff. He’s a young hot MC right now, "D" Boy flavor. He’s the younger brother of a big name in our neighborhood. His brother’s name is Joe Blow. Joe Blow is no longer with us—he was killed by gunfire a couple of years ago. But we got his brother in the label. I got a friend running a company now called Up Against The World Records. Another cat doin something outa South Vallejo is Blockhead. The Blockhead Brothas got an album comin out called "The Tennis Shoe Pimp". We got a couple of new artists formin in the hood. We got a lotta talent out there, but there’s been no executive avenue for it. That’s the problem.

It looks like you might be the one of open the doors.

That’s my goal. I figured somebody had to be the bridge so that South Vallejo, Young "D" Boyz, and all the artists in the neighborhood will have a way to present their music to the market. That was part of my motivation for tying in with Forty. It’s nothing bigger in the Bay Area then E-40. He’s the top of the food chain.

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twosaucy

we need a discography of them in the download section... the only one I got of theres is Straight Game... That shit is a classic!

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