Joe Hound
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24: How did you get your deal? Joe Hound: Basically, there was a new record
label coming out, Skeleton Key, that wanted to do some work with Cool-N-Dre. They
were asking about me and we were like we can do that. It’s an independent
deal, so we keep our masters, we keep everything. The money was right. They were
saying the right shit. So we did it. They were an up and coming independent company
giving us the right money, so we did it. We just got the paperwork together and
it was on.
24: What were the terms of the deal?
Joe Hound: We’re probably going to do
3 albums with them. The first album we’re knocking off right now. The
first single is ‘Choppers.’
24: How long have you been rapping?
Joe Hound: Forever. I picked up on it when
I was like 8-9. Since then it was a wrap. That’s what I want to do. I’ve
seen motherfuckers perform and that was it. I said this is the life for me.
This is what I need to do. I have been doing it forever. Fuck a job, this music
all the way.
24: How long have you been with Epidemic?
Joe Hound: I’ve been with Epidemic since
the jump. But before Epidemic, we we’re all with another label called
Heat Music back in 99. Cool-N-Dre were producers for Heat Music and they put
me on Heat Music. After that fizzled out, they said fuck it and started their
own shit and that shit popped off and they started getting work. They said ‘Hound
just keep riding with us, we got you.’ Epidemic kicked off in 2001-2002.
So it’s been 5 years.
24: What’s your earliest memory
of hip-hop?
Joe Hound: What made me really want to do hip-hop
was back in ’96 around when Pac died. When I saw the x-rated version of
‘How Do You Want It’ video, that’s when I basically said I
need to do this.
24: What projects you have going on?
Joe Hound: I got the album ‘Misery Loves
Company’ coming. I did ‘The War 1’ mixtape. I got a good response
off of that. I got ‘The War 2’ mixtape coming soon. I got a Mista
Mac heat rock on that called ‘War.’ That shit is gangsta. I got
a song called ‘Welcome to the Bottom.’ With this deal, we’re
looking to do a movie too.
24: How do you feel about ‘hip-hop
being dead?’
Joe Hound: It’s easy to say hip-hop is
dead when it’s not coming from your region. As far as the south, it’s
alive. If you don’t want to call what cats are doing in the south hip-hop,
then whatever it is, it’s working. It doesn’t seem dead to me. Some
people might say as far as underground hip-hop, there isn’t a major market
for that. I love what the south is doing. It’s only going to get better.
We have a lot of talented artist down here and the rest of the south. We still
haven’t seen Alabama yet and other regions as well.
24: How do you feel about Snap Music?
Joe Hound: I like some of it, I don’t
like all of it. It’s good club music. I might not bump it in my car, but
I’ll get a vibe off of it. I didn’t like ‘Laffy Taffy’
but I liked ‘Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It’ and I like Monica’s
‘Let The Beat Drop.’
24: Who are your favorite artists dead
or alive?
Joe Hound: Aww come on man. Biggie, Pac, [Bob]
Marley, [Marvin] Gaye, [Sam] Cook. I don’t know much about Cook but people
put me on him. I like Lil’ Wayne, Jay-Z, 8ball & MJG. I like those
cats.
24: What do you feel like you’re
going to bring to the game when your album drops?
Joe Hound: I got the best producers in the
south. The best producers in Miami, Cool-N-Dre. It’s a new vibe. It’s
not going to be garbage. We did the Rick Ross. Now it’s time for somebody
to stand next to Ross just like Ross stood next to Trick [Daddy]. I’m
going to bring fire. I know what people like. I studied all that. I’m
gonna make one big pot of gumbo and I’m gonna let it boom.
Interview by: Mista Mac
