DIRTBAG: DON OF DADE

24: What’s Good Dirtbag? You
know since this is a Dirtbag interview we got to start this off with a
YEEEEEEEEEEE!

DIRTBAG: (LAUGHS) Yea, You
already know! YEEEEEEEEEEEE!

24: Everybody knows you have
a new label right now, and you have a new single out right now with Monica, so
how do you feel about your new situation right now?

DIRTBAG: Yea you know ya
boy got to pay debt. God Blessed, you know what I’m saying that I’m still in
the game doing my thing. I  jumped up
with Slip N Slide. They’re putting it down, Def Jam doing the distribution, its
still Epidemic with Cool and Dre, its all love. You know I was wit Jive Records
at first and Jive, Jive was doing just like their name, which is
JIVING, so I had to make a quick move on that. I sat down with Ted and Ted got
me in the there. He hooked up the new single with me and Monica “Ain’t Tryna To
Hear It.” It’s breaking on the radio stations right now, its doing fantastic.

24: Yea that’s what’s up!
What’s the name of the album?

DIRTBAG: The name of the
album is Dirty Business. Its coming out October the 9^th
you
know what I’m saying and that’s a REAL big thing for me to let you know. I’ve
been putting it down, all my fans know, before “Dirtbag” it was “Joe Vicious,”
so you know  we keep it hood forever. I
never had an album actually come out so, that’s why it’s so big because finally
we got an album coming out. Dirty Business October the 9^th. I got Rick Ross on
there, I got C-Ride on there, I got Trick Daddy, I got Plies, I got Trina and
we, we, we doing it big. Joe Hound, Dre (from Cool and Dre) got on there and
started singing for me and we’re doing big things.

24: Speaking on Joe
Vicious, where can we get them those old mixtapes from with tracks like “Small
World”(laughs)?

DIRTBAG: (Laughs) Yea I
mean, its like, there were a lot of situations that happen with that label
there, but for sure, as soon as this Dirty Business album drops, you’re gonna
see somebody dropping those old school Confessions of the King. So just lay around
for it, its gone pop up, you know how the business go.

24: In your opinion
what’s a classic album?

DIRTBAG: Classic Album?
Ahhhh!! that’s a hard to say! There have been a lot of good ones. ‘400 Degreez’
(Juvenile), ‘Ready to Die’ (Notorious B.I.G.), Master P ‘Ghetto Dope’, Tupac ‘Me
Against The World.’ There are a lot of good ones, ya feel me?

DIRTBAG: Oh yeah! Gator
Boys in full effect. I’m saying they be riding and dying. You know Gator Boys
aren’t just a rap group, that’s my family. Look out for Gator Boy Records, we
got my Gator Boys coming out by next year, ya feel me? I got everything. I got
my movies. I’m still doing Booker Fuller Films, we gonna get that started. First
thing I gotta do is go ahead and slam this team up and let them know ya boy in here
and they we gonna sweat it out.

24: How you get the
name Dirtbag?

DIRTBAG: Well I got it
from the truth. The truth is when I was acquainted with Cool N
Dre, this had to be like around say like 2000/2001. I’ve been
fucking with Cool N Dre since like 96′.  I was recording and I was kind of drunk or
whatever and I was slurring my words, and Cool was like “tighten up! tighten
up! Man you slurring ya words, man stop being a Dirtbag,  tighten up !” And I was like dawg even if I
do tighten up this how I talk. So I said fuck it ! I am a Dirtbag, if that’s
what it means (laughs) so then that’s how it came. So I was like fuck it,
that’s my style that’s me. So if you saying stop being that, I can’t stop being
that because that’s me. So that’s the real truth. If you really wanna know the
truth, the truth is Cool. We took it and we ran with it.

24: What advice you
got for up and coming artist who’s on their grind trying to push some singles
now?

DIRTBAG: The number 1
advice I have is no matter what happen, always keep your money in your self,
always keep promoting you. Before you go spend money on video’s and fantasy cars
and all that stuff, work the radio make sure it bring the money back to
yourself. For the independent, it doesn’t happen over night, it takes time. The
main thing even if you get signed by a big label and they give you Boo-Coo
cash, you take that money and put it in yourself instead of getting the Benz,
get the Vibe magazine for a whole year. I ain’t saying don’t buy a crib cause a
lot people get signed they broke and they need to go get a crib. But don’t go
try to get no mansion and extravagant shit, put the money back into you. It’s
only 10% talent and the rest is business. So what ever cheese you get, you got
to put it back into yourself. That’s how you win, you hear me?

24: Any shot outs?

DIRTBAG: Shots out to my
Gator Boys off rip. Shout out to all my niggaz out there getting cheese, peace
to Slip N Slide and Epidemic Records, all the underground stations, shouts out
to Kyle Kyle make sure you get this right the D-Boys at the underground
stations is what got me the only way and the reason why I can keep going you
know what I’m saying. Shouts out to Kyle Kyle and JR at 89.1. Crunk Boy, Punch
One, Prime Time and Junior at 89.1, DJ Black C-Ready Buddha Lover at 97.7. My dawg
Show Time at 88.7. Those boys made me. I’m saying it again because that’s real.
The underground kept me hood.