Who is Tru Life?
That’s funny that you say that because a lot of people think Tru Life is a group. A lot of people know who I am, they know I’m from Tru Life. They used to always see me running in the streets and in the videos they see me with my *****s in the back, but Tru Life is me. Tru Life stands for The Righteous Uniting Everybody Living In A Fantasy Environment.
How did that Sickamore mixtape come about?
I actually met Sickamore through Saigon and that was one of the greatest things. To be honest, I was just playing the background for a minute. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to be an artist anymore. I had signed to Elektra, I had a huge deal ther but I couldn’t move, and I was so agitated with all the bumps in the road I was going through, obviously the Mobb Deep **** and losing a deal over there, and I was just stuck in bad paperwork at Dreamworks and I couldn’t move. I never really pressed Sickamore on any Tru Life ****. I would push Saigon or other *****s in my camp. When Sickamore heard my **** he tripped the **** out. He started calling me all the time and telling me we had to get my music out there, so we did “I can make you Famous Part 2” and the rest is history.
How did you link up with Snoop?
Actually, through the “Beef.” He seen me on that and tripped out. Snoop called my crib and said he wanted to **** with me, and it was on. We were supposed to get up a year and a half ago and it didn’t work out, and we ended up bumping into each other at the club recently when I was with Sickamore, and the rest is history. Then he gravitated to who I am when he saw who I was. Now that we linked up, it’s a problem. That’s the big homie right there.
I heard you guys did the Apollo…
We did the Apollo two nights in a row. When we did “New New York,” that’s when it took off. It started popping from the Apollo. That was the last record I did. I did three other records, Saigon came out. With “New New York,” the response was crazy. I brung out my whole neighborhood. We were 300-strong. DJ Enuff was sitting in the front row and his jaw dropped to the floor when he saw the energy and the movement. When that record came on, he just gravitated when he saw the movement and what it stood for. Then he started playing it on the radio.
How did that track come about?
That was a two-track that I had done in my closet off a 9th Wonder beat. Now Green Lantern, Kay Slay, Absolut, they’re ****ing with it. It’s on the mixtapes, Big Mike, Sickamore…right now it’s starting to take off. It’s more of a statement record, it’s something that had to be said with where New York City’s at.
How does that song represent you?
It represents Tru Life very well. It represents my character and what I stand for and how I go against the grain on things. I’m not with the whole gang-banging movement, NY *****s trying to get crunk. I’m not with *****s not just being themselves. I want *****s to be themselves. I don’t want to hear New York *****s trying to emulate the South. I don’t think that’s hot. I think New York *****s gotta be themselves.
Do you think New York lost it’s identity?
We gotta be ourselves. We started rap. Why we gotta act like Lil’ Jon or gang memnbrers? We got our own stories over here. We got our own classic sound, “Illmatic,” Wu-Tang, CNN, that’s what I loved in Hip Hop and that’s what’s missing from New York City. South **** is cool when you’re in the club, but I think we need to bring all our movements out and bang out. It’s like skittles man, it’s just different colors and different flavors. Everyone’s gravitating to one color. You know, you buy a bag, you want all the colors, you know what I mean?
They’re all tasty.
Exactly, you want all the colors. That’s what we need in Hip Hop, is all those different flavors. That’s what I try to do, I’m trying to show New York that we have an identity crisis. I said “if I don’t step up for New York City, who will? If the nine don’t kill them, then the truth will.” I don’t have to kill *****s by pointing fingers and calling names. I don’t have to do that. Me and Snoop got a record, I said “I don’t make diss songs, I make hit songs.” That’s not my movement. My movement ain’t to do fugazi diss records. I don’t need to diss nobody. I don’t gotta try to do what 50 did to Ja. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, I’m just saying that’s just not my style of how I do.
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New Tru Life Interview!!!!!! (talks about snoop, mobb deep,saigon and much more)
