24: How long have you been rapping?
P.M.: For about 10-11 years. It’s been a long
time.

24: What made you want to get into music?
P.M.: Just the love for the art. I grew up like anybody
else, being a fan of it. I grew up on a lot of NWA, Ice Cube. Of course B.I.G.,
Pac, Big Daddy Kane. The whole game, just seeing it, and wanting to be a part
of it, gave me the desire to want to do it.

24: Who are some of your influences?
P.M.: I look up to Rakim, Big Daddy Kane is my favorite
MC. Ice Cube, Kool G Rap, Public Enemy, LL Cool J, Run DMC, Slick Rick, everybody.
I’m a fan of the game.

24: For a lot of people that don’t know,
you were a member of the rap group Iconz and had the hit with ‘Get Fucked
Up.’ What happened with that situation?
P.M.: It was what it was. We had a good working relationship.
It just got to the point where they didn’t understand what direction to
take my career in. It was a mix up of visions. I had one vision on how I saw
myself coming out and they had another vision, and it just wasn’t working.
At the end of the day, business is business and you got to move on. They’re
still cool. They’re doing their thing and I’m doing mine. That’s
what it is.

24: After you left you went to Royal Dollar Records?
P.M.: Yea Royal Dollar Records. Everybody knows that
they were distributed through J Records and it was a South Beach base label.
We did what we did, but at the end of the day, business-wise, dude’s head
wasn’t in the right place. It wasn’t focused. It wasn’t a
situation that I wanted to be. I was blessed that I can get myself out of situations
once I’m in them. A lot of artists that are in bad deals get stuck in
them. It’s like iron clad and you can’t get them out of it. At the
end of the day, he understood and he’s not holding me back. I’m
free now to do my own thing.

24: Speaking of being free, there is a rumor
about you close to signing a major deal?
P.M.: I’ve been back and fourth from out of
town. We’ve just been having meetings. I’ve been doing my own thing,
as the whole city knows, for the past several years and it has drawn big enough
attention to where I’m fielding offers from majors as far as deals. It’s
looking really good. I can’t let the cat out of the bag yet, but just
know, Miami is going to know it’s going to be a problem. I’m going
to seal the deal with the whole movement right now.

24: What features are you going to have on your
album?
P.M.: I don’t know. At this point, it’s
so premature. I’m working on cuts for an album. I prolly got like 30-40
records done. But it’s like when you sign that deal, you’re working
on 30-40 more records. Your album is never done until you have that release
date. You can do 100 records and two albums worth of material, but [the label]
wants to change it right before the release date. I don’t know who the
features are going to be. I would like to work with anybody that’s hot.
I’m a big fan of Will.i.Am. I like to work with a lot of producers. Rappers
are cool to, I’ll work with them. But, on the production side, Kanye [West],
Cee-Lo, and Pharell.


24: If you could work with anybody, like your dream artist, who would it be?
P.M.: I say Busta Rhymes. Just because I like artists
that give you a sense of creativity, that challenge you. Like Busta outshines
any feature he’s on. Any feature that he’s on, Busta takes the track.
You’re just waiting for Busta’s part to come on. Busta is a real
creative artist. I really respect what he does and brings to the game and the
energy level he puts on the record. I definitely would like to work with him
and soak some of that up.

24: Are you originally from Miami?
P.M.: Yea. See the thing that people don’t understand,
out here, people say ‘oh he doesn’t sound like he’s from Miami.
He got a New York flow…’ But I was born and raised in Miami. North Shore
Hospital. Everybody knows it’s right around from Central Senior High.
I grew up in Liberty City. I’m just fortunate enough at a particular part
of my life that I lived in New York for a little bit. When my pops and my mom
separated, my dad moved to New York, so I would spend a lot of time up there
because I was a fan of that sound. I was a Wu-Tang Clan fan, a Black Moon, Brand
Nubian. I listen to that type of music. Miami at that point, in the mid 90’s,
they never really had much we could look up to besides Uncle Luke, JT Money
and 2 Live Crew. Anyone besides Poison Clan, Uncle Luke wasn’t really
saying anything that really grabbed me. No disrespect to Luke, but he’s
a pioneer and he pioneered the whole girls in video thing. But as far as lyricist
and levels of somebody that had something to say on the mic, no one was doing
out here, until people in the south like Outkast or Goodie Mob started coming
with lyrics and open the door for southern lyricist.

24: Are there any artist from Miami that you
haven’t worked with that you would like to work with?
P.M.: Not really. I respect everybody and what everybody
is doing. At the end of the day, if they hot, we gonna work. If you hot, I’m
gonna work with you. But you gotta be hot. You don’t gotta be a big name.
You could be a dude trying to get on [and] you hungry and trying to get ahead
and reach out to me. I’m not the hardest dude to get at. A lot of people
think I have this non-approachable thing about me. It ain’t like that.
I’m just on my grind and on my business and no disrespect to anybody,
but I just do what I do.

24: Are there any producers that you haven’t
worked with that you would like to work with?
P.M.: The one’s that I want to work with, I’m
getting ready to get in the lab with them right now, Jim Jonsin and Big D, even
though they’re not together anymore, I still want to work with those two.
That’s pretty much it. I’ve worked with pretty much everyone out
of the MIA. I’m a staple in this hip-hop community in Miami. I’ve
worked with everyone I want to work with. All these dudes are my colleagues,
so I see them on the regular, so that’s what it is.

24: You currently have “Be The One”
getting airplay on the radio which was produced by DJ Entice. How did that come
about?
P.M.: Entice shot me a beat CD. His studio is right
across the hall from ours and we’re in the same building. So he would
come over to the studio and play stuff and I heard that beat and said ‘that
shit is crazy.’ The record was a Shai sample and people remember that
record. One thing led to another and we just knocked it out. I got a good response
from it and that’s the reason why I started getting the buzz that I got
to get these offers [from labels]. We just went from there. Entice is doing
his production thing and people are starting to hit him up for beats. Shout
out to Entice.

24: Is that a street single
right now?
P.M.: That’s just the leaker right now. The
buzz records to get everybody [talking]. We’re getting a good response
on it. We’re getting to the point where it’s picking up spins and
we’re thinking of going to video with it. I’m working on new stuff
now to back that up with and follow up with.

24: You are also featured on DJ Khaled’s
album on “Future of Dade County.” How did that all come about?
P.M.: I’m going to keep it 100% real on this
one. Me and Khaled had our issues in the past. He’s a cool dude. Shout
out to Khaled. We were at a point where we were going through some things and
me being an artist, I was venting my frustrations as to why certain DJ’s
out here don’t show local artist love. At the end of the day, I just notice
that if I continue to be persistent and be patient and prove myself worthy of
getting the shine that I deserve, it was gonna happen. Finally he saw that and
respected that and said ‘I gotta give that nigga a shot.’ Regardless,
You can’t get rid of me. I’m here. You can’t stop me. He reached
out. Diaz Brothers did the track. I worked with them before, so they were like
‘we gotta get P.M. on there. How are you going to have the future of Dade
and not have one of the most talked about dudes coming out of Dade right now.’
Everybody else on that record is being talked about and looked at right now.
It’s only right. I ended it off. I felt as if that was one of the hottest
verses. Not just that song, but on that album

24: How do you feel as being label one of the
‘Future’s of Dade County’?
P.M.: It’s funny because I’m in my later
20’s, so to be labeled as the future of Dade and a lot of them dudes that were
on the record with me are a younger than me, it’s funny but it’s
still a blessing at the same time and an honor. They know and see what’s
going to happen. Where I can take Dade County and the city as a whole. I’m
just grateful for that. I’ve gotten a lot of exposure from that and a
lot of people saying that they’ve heard me on Khaled’s album. At
the end of the day, it’s a blessing to be considered the future. A lot
of cats came and went. You look at dudes that had deals and lot of dudes from
Iconz, they can’t even get another deal to save their life. They’re
not heard from. You know how many people came and went and can’t get back
out now. I’m just blessed that I still have the opportunity to still be
considered part of the future.

24: How do you feel about the whole ‘Miami
Movement’ that’s going on?
P.M.: I’m gonna be 100% honest on that. Again,
no disrespect to anybody. A movement is not just 3 or 4 dudes. Larry Hoover
had a movement. He ran the disciples out of Chicago. Macolm X had a movement.
The Black Panthers was a movement. In order to have a movement, there has to
be unity. There can’t be 3 or 4 people in the circle and not let anybody
else in the circle that can help you. If you align yourself with everybody in
a row, when you go to war, you got more soldiers. Right now, you hear Ross,
you hear Dre, you hear Khaled. That’s considered the movement. That’s
cool. But in order to have a movement, when you go to war, you gotta bring your
secret weapons. If we going to war against New York, and you know you got a
nigga that can spit with some of the illest rhyme niggas in NY, oh shit, you
spit that, then I got P.M. Let me call P.M. off the bench, come get them niggas.
It’s like a team. I don’t think niggas move like a team and see
that whole team concept. A movement is a bunch of people. Khaled captured it
with the album ‘Listennn.’ It was a good effort with ‘Future
of Dade.’ It was a good way to say this is the up-and-coming artillery
that we got, if you get out of line. We gonna hit you with the front line first,
and if you get passed them, then you got to get to the big dogs. Once people
really grasp how to say it’s a movement and really involve everybody,
I think we’re gonna be good. Because right now, I still think that everybody
isn’t being involved in the whole movement to the fullest, as they could
be. With me, a lot of people see P.M. as a threat, and I don’t know why.
I’m a cool dude and very humble. I would give the shirt off my back to
somebody if I had to. I read the interviews and I read the articles and everybody
is shouting out and nobody is mentioning P.M. And it’s cool cause nobody
has to like me. But at the same time, I don’t deny if somebody is hot.
If you ask me an honest question in an interview, yea I think he’s hot
and I’m a fan. Most rappers out here, they forgot what it is to be a fan
of something. Everyone wants to be a rapper and off the bat they feel like they’re
better than you. They’re not fans anymore. Look here, I challenge anybody,
any MC in the 305 to a battle and I’ll smash them, in a good way. It is
what it is. I think the whole movement thing is going to get bigger, but they
have to understand what it is to have a movement. You can have a team, but that’s
not a movement. You can have your starting 5, the squad, but that’s not
a movement. A movement is somebody that gets everybody together and move on
each other. Back to Khaled, at the video shoot, the ‘Born & Raised’,
that was a monumental thing for Dade County. Everybody and their mama from the
crib was there. That’s what we need. We need a photo shoot like what Atlanta
did on the Source cover. We need that. Khaled can do that. That’s a movement.
That’s some G shit. If you call everybody and we take a picture and sell
some T-shirt’s. A great day in Miami. Once we as artists start thinking
like that, then we’ll have a movement.

24: Are you looking to do anything outside of
music?
P.M.: Actually, I’m exploring my options right
now. I’m starting to read scripts, movies and get into that side of things.
I want to use music to open up doors for other business ventures. I want to
start a marketing and advertising company that promote for music. There are
other things, some real estate. That’s what I’m going to do, use
music to channel other options.

24: What are your goals as an artist?
P.M.: In this day and age, with the way music is going,
there isn’t going to be anymore Jay-Z’s and Nas’ and LL Cool
J’s that put out 10 albums. You’re good when put out 2-3 solid albums,
if you invest your money and make it work for you, you’re set for life.
I’m just doing what God blesses me with. The fans turn on you so quick,
one year you’re hot and the next year you can’t get off the ground
to save your life. Which ever way the ball bounces, I’m going to take
it and run with it.

24: Anything you want to promote?
P.M.: Walking Money, my label. That’s another
venture I’m trying to get off the ground and get some artists on that.
We got to brand the P.M. name first. Walking Money is the record label.

24: Do you have any artist?
P.M.: My man Tommy Trouble. We looking at a few act
and MC’s out of state. We don’t just want to be a Miami label. We
want to sign people from different areas. Shout out to 305DJs and people on
myspace. Check me out www.myspace.com/pperiod. Y’all go online and check
that out. I like to reach out to people there. People hit me up and go online
and critique my music. Just keep it moving. Walking Money. Shout out to my management
team. I got some of the strongest managers in the game. Shout out to Jerald,
Shawnte. Shout out to DJ Entice and Drop, super engineer who puts everything
together. Also, R&B singer Tamia is coming back out and I’m on her
new single. I got the smash remix with Pharell. That’s it.

Interview by: Ryan 305DJs