24: Introduce yourself to
everyone that doesn’t already know who you are and tell us where your from.

Compton
Menace from Black Wall Street. The name is self-explanatory.

 

24: Who were some of the
artist that inspired you to get into the music industry?

I
was a couple people man. I was listening to Method Man, Big, Pac, shit like
that. Game was a big inspiration in getting into the music industry too.

 

24: What was the Hip hop
scene like growing up in Compton?

The
hip-hop scene was majority gangsta rap due to the areas and all that. It was
the MC Eiht, DJ Quik, the neiborhood gangster rappers that’s known from the
West Coast so you know it’s really gangbangin’.

 

24: You are signed to The
Game’s label, Black Wallstreet. How did that come about?

It
came together through a mutual friend that brought me around. I was one of the
goons of the crew. I just took the music seriously once Game brought it upon me
and here I am.

 

24: What is the best advice
Game has given you about be in the music industry?

You
never know who to trust! (laughs)

 

24: What does Menace bring
to the table as far as West Coast hip-hop is concerned?

I
feel like I bring realness to the table. It’s all straight gangsta-rap hip hop
but it’s all real music and that’s it basically.

 

24: What do you have to say
to people who feel that your promoting gang violence in your music?

I’m
not promoting gang violence. I’m just telling people what type of experiences I
went through and the people around me. That’s should tell you what not to do if
you don’t want to be in those types of situations that I talk about. I’m
promoting what not to do.

 

24: Do you think the beef is
creating unnecessary tension between Bloods and Crips?

Yea
because everybody from somewhere or if they not from somewhere, they know somebody
from somewhere so that automatically causes tension between Bloods and Crips on
that beef shit. Like me and Nipsey [Hussle] we cool. We had shows together
every week with Bloods and Crips everywhere and nothing happened. No fights, no
nothing, just daps and shakes. We sayin cuz, they sayin blood but it’s all love
because we know where each other came from so we understand it’s about money
now. It ain’t even about the Bloods and Crips shit anymore.

 

24: Right now you are
engaged in a high-profile beef with 40 Glocc. Can you briefly describe how that
came about?

Basically
that came about him always shooting shots at the camp and I was overseas one
day, I think I was in Spain or something and we was on Ustream and the dude
said my name so you know me, I’m the type of dude to approach a situation when
I see it rather than go on a track and say something about it so when I saw him,
I approached him and he did what he did and lied to the world and now he’s
tryna run from it but I’m just keep it 100 with it. It ain’t even no big beef.
It’s just a man being a man. All he has to do is catch this fight or apologize
and that’s it. Nothing to do with guns, nothing. Man up.

 

24: Will there ever be an
end to the beef between you and 40 Glocc?

Yea,
the beef will end right after this interview if 40 Glocc was just to man up and
apologize for lying to the world or just come catch my fade, which is a fight
in other terms, a one-on-one fight between a man and a man which it is suppose
to be and it’ll be over.

 

24: Can you tell us about
how you came to be involved in the Yukmouth/Suge Knight incident?

Well
I just know a couple niggaz that know a couple niggaz man… that it. I had
nothing to do with it. I don’t know what happened or nothing. I just know a
couple niggaz that know a couple niggaz man… that owe a couple niggaz.

 

24: Do you think your
involvement will cause any beef between you and Yukmouth?

Naw.
Yukmouth know what happened. Yukmouth was there. He know I wasn’t there. I
can’t help who I know and he can’t help who he know. I can’t help what happened
to him and he can’t help what happened to him so if he had any tension towards
me, it would be just him mad at himself and the whole situation because he know
what happened because he was there.

 

24: Are you worried that the
beef will overshadow your music?

Naw
because my music overshadows the beef. I make real legit music and it’s all
good music that people can relate to people are starting to love so it could
never overshadow the music. It might overshadow the next man’s music but not
mines.

 

24: Tell us about your debut
album.

I
have a debut street album called Menace 2
Society: CPT Reality. I got a street single on there called Blood Niggaz featuring Lil Wayne and
Mitchy Slick. I got a single on there called Reality and I’m going to shoot
another video to a song called Slow Down
and you can go cop that at www.menace2society.tk for pre-sale right now and
you also get a chance to win my ’96 Impala.

 

24: When was the last time
you spoke to Lil Wayne?

I
spoke to Lil Wayne the day before he went to jail just to give him my support
and let him know just to get it done. He’s worked so hard, by the time he get
out it’ll be like he was never gone. Young Money all over TV, he’ll be home
before you know it.

                                                                      

24: How do you feel about
the current state of West Coast hip-hop?

I
feel real comfortable with West Coast hip hop because I feel like we on the
horizon right now. Game been holdin it down for a long time, Snoop been holdin
it down for a long time, and their handing it over to the younger generation
it’s in a good place right now.

 

24: What else are you
working on?

I’ve
been working on a whole lot of shit. I got a collab album coming out with
Mitchy Slick, I got a collab album coming out with Dirty Money Ent, I got a
couple mixtapes coming out. After this house arrest shit, I got one coming out
called House Arrest. I’m working. I
got a single coming out for the summer called Tonight featuring Sammie and Tyga
and I’m working on something with Chris Brown right now and Gudda Gudda from
Young Money. You can also catch me on Game’s tour for the R.E.D. album
performing and promoting my album too so make sure y’all check me out in a
state near you.

 

24: How would the fans go
about contacting you?

You can get at my twitter
at www.twitter.com/slimmmenace,
my myspace at themenacebws@yahoo.com or you can go to my blog at www.menace2society.tk where you can also get my album at.

 

24: Thank you for providing 24hourhiphop.com
with this exclusive interview, do you have any last words for your present and
future fans?

Make
sure you cop the album called Menace 2
Society: CPT Reality at www.menace2society.tk it’s a good album so check
it out. On my twitter I be dropping different songs so people can get a feel of
what I’m doing. Support the movement; Black Wall Street. Shout out to Game, he
got a album coming out called The R.E.D.
album so be looking forward to that this year and everybody else on Black
Wall Street doing they thing; Kamasi, XO, Juice, Lil Elijah doin his thang,
Clyde Carson, and L.A. Goon. Everybody doin they thing right now. Black Wall
Street. Also shout out my homie Mahad Dar from Symboliq Sounds Entertainment.