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XXL Magazine’s Southern Royalty: Gucci Mane, Soulja Boy, OJ Da Juiceman and Shawty Lo
May 26th, 2009
Atlanta’s new set of BFFs talk hip hop, beefs and bromance (just joking, lol)…If my observations serve me correctly, I think artists from Atlanta have figured out how to corner this thing we call hip hop. Many of us, well in fact a majority of us, have yet to REALLY give ATL’s simplistic style of hip hop its just due.
And to be completely honest, the more we deny those boys below the Mason-Dixon line, the more successful they become.
For instance, I HATED OJ Da Juiceman (kind of effin name is that), but this kid’s rhetoric is infectious to the point where my 5-year-old crumb snatcher of a niece has caught on.
Gucci Mane held no relevance in my head, but his comeback story is impeccable. Shawty Lo gradually chipped away at various regions with his material (still not that big of a fan) and Soulja Boy, well…you can’t deny what he’s accomplished thus far.
So to see these 4 country boys on the cover of XXL’s July issue is no surprise. Turn on your local radio station, rifle through your favorite website or peep 106 & Park and you’re BOUND to see one of their golden grills.
XXL’s EIC, Vanessa Satten sat down with Gucci, OJ, Soulja and Shawty for a lengthy discussion about hip hop, beefs, the bromance bond between the four of em and everything in the middle. Whether you like it or not, the South is here to say. AYE!
OJ Da Juiceman on coming together with Shawty Lo, Gucci and Soulja…
“I think it was a good thing. You know, Atlanta cats, we keep it 200. We don’t play soccer- save that for the folks over in Brazil, know what I’m talking about? But it’s a good look that we came together and make the hip hop better than what it is, because it aint nothing without us, ya feel me? Juiceman said that. All we got is that. The music me and Gucci make, you know, it’s just a good vibe. The music that me and Shawty Lo make, it’s a stupid vibe. And the music me and Soulja make, it’s a wonderful vibe. And if anyone say different, I wish they would, you feel me?”
Gucci Mane on Atlanta’s consistent hip hop success….
“I think what keeps us afloat and keeps us in touch with the streets so much- not saying that Houston aint got that street sh*t or Florida or Cali or New York City- but I think that the lifestyle in Atlanta is just the party atmosphere all the time. And just the people traveling, always coming down here. And the culture that just keeps us with a different, like, swag. Not even swag, just different flavor, you know what I’m saying?”
Soulja Boy on the lackluster sales of iSouljaBoyTellEm…
“I stay hot year round, which is what I do, you feel me? My first album went platinum, and I just feel everything was perfect for that. My second album, I made like 250 right now and I feel like I timed it wrong. I aint put the right single out before I dropped my album. And now I got two of the No.1 songs in the country. I got two songs in the Top 10 on the Billboard [Rap singles chart] at the same time with “Kiss Me Thru The Phone” & “Turn My Swag On.” But I just feel like I released them too late. If I would’ve dropped the singles that I got out now before I dropped my album, then my sales would be different. But everything gonna be perfect on the third album, ‘The DeAndre Way’.”
Shawty Lo on needing an interesting background story to be successful in hip hop…
“Everybody aint gotta be a gangsta. You just gotta be yourself and just be real about who you are. You respect a man better like that. Instead of just saying you did this and you did that and you ain’t did that. That makes you look bad.”
The south shall rise again!
Sincerely
Low “Gold fronts for the summer…Nah, I just can’t do it” Key
this is a real major thing cuz where im frm we been listening to soulja boy n gucci since 05 /06 i guess the rest of the world just now catching on
all these dudes are garbage,they make the south look and sound bad, they all have one thing in common…………….their in it for da love of the money, not hip hop, shame on you BET for supporting GARBAGE like this…….. ONE LOVE TO REAL HIP HOP……………………..
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