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Friday, 22 January 2010 00:00 |
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Badnews: Its obvious your from Texas, and I say obvious because of the Texas style I pick up from you when I hear your records. Your from a small town in Texas, not from a big Texas city like Houston or Dallas that has a big hip hop culture so what was was it like growing up in a small town and what other musical influences did the town have on you other than hip hop?
Chalie Boy: Growing up in a smaller town Hearne and Calvert, the music is like actual radio waves... it floats all over. Relatives I had in bigger cities brought all types of music to the country. We have a local radio station that gets all the music but it's mostly mainstream you know the same old songs from the music labels but, we listen to blues and jazz. We listen to a little bit of everything. With my mom being a musician at a church of course you listen to gospel music or just knowing the gospel area more because she herself would try and go learn up on the more recent gospel songs and older hymns and all that, but growing up as a kid I heard N.W.A., Roger and Zapp to Luther Vandross around that time I'm trying to think... from the older heads like Grandmaster Flash to 2 Live crew, Dr. Dre, Snoop you know? We all listened to just about a little of everything.
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Saturday, 05 December 2009 00:00 |
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"I started writing poetry when I was like 14, rapped a little in high school then started writing songs my sophomore year in college when my brother started making beats. I stay inspired primarily by the people I work with. All the producers, emcees and other people that I get to work with. And really just good music keeps me inspired to keep writing and making music."
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Wednesday, 02 December 2009 03:29 |
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Badnews: How did you get into the music business?
K. Michelle: I got into the music business by grinding. Basically I Preformed in China with the Chinese orchestra, came back, put my music on myspace, within a month the rapper Ma$e had flew me out here (Atlanta) and presented a situation for me, so I stayed out there and was busy cutting demos and meeting people and was just determined that someone was going to let me in the game.
Badnews: That's crazy, so you said that Ma$e actually help you out. What kind of feedback did you get from him when it came to your music?
K. Michelle: Well I don't want to give Ma$e the credit of discovering me, he actually wanted me to come to Atlanta where I met with him. He did say my music was very heartfelt and very soulful. But the man who was really responsible for signing me was MeMpHiTz because by the time I got to him, he got the kind of artist I was, and he just took it and ran with it.
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009 00:00 |
 Everything Atlanta is compacted into this new interview. Hiphopbase got a chance to speak with Atlanta hip hop vet Killer Mike on his new project Underground Atlanta, and nothing less from Killer Mike, he keeps it 1,000 and reps his city well all at the same time... sometimes a difficult task for most of the other artists from Atlanta or anywhere else Hiphopbase: Do you think everyone who was suppose to win the VMA's won or did you even want to watch it (laughs)
Killer mIke: (laughs). I watched the re-broadcast honestly... I was watching True Blood brother (laughs). But I don't man... it's Kanye what can i say. It's the VMA's, it's the same thing every year.
HHB: The question i have is do you think he would had done the same thing if there was a rapper on stage?
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Tuesday, 04 August 2009 00:00 |
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 Badnews: Jagged Edge signed with Slip-N-Slide Records earlier this year. Now this is a label that's really known for its hip hop artists, what made you all sign with them?
Brandon Casey: At the time, we had been entertaining a couple of offers, and the reason why we chose a hip hop oriented label just seems that their willing to get there hustle on. And I think that is the state of the game right now... your not really going to be able to sell the kind of records that a multi-platinum selling artists is use to selling right now, its not going to go like that, your going to have to hit every corner of the market to squeeze out that million sale at this point in time of the market. So we felt that that hustle along with that brand should be a winning combination.
Badnews: Did you have any doubts with signing with the label before you accepted the contract?
Brandon Casey: I wouldn't say "doubt"...my mother always told me doubt was a negative energy.
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