It is official; Miami is the pinnacle of new Hip-Hop in the industry today. This city has gone beyond standards keeping the vibe and hype still in effect. Between Atlanta and Miami, these two cities are holding it down. It has become an epidemic; artists are evolving and emerging all over the place. The movement is crucial, Hip-Hop is not Dead, let me reiterate that phrase, Hip-Hop cannot Die, with artists holding down the game strong as they still respect and abide by it, we are not going anywhere.

With that being said, there is one artist that is emerging rapidly across the city limits, his music speaks for itself and brings originality that hasn’t been heard of in a good while. He is known by the name Billy Blue and his tracks have been recently appearing in mixtapes with the hottest DJs in the south, flooding the underground scene.  His vivid lyrical matter fused with an attentively creative flow,is definitely the next artist up to bat following quickly behind Rick Ross, Flo Rida, and Brisco. This is the exclusive interview with Billy Blue; get to know him well because this is only the beginning.


24: Let’s begin with a formal introduction; let the fans know who you are, if they don’t already know you.

Billy Blue: This ya boy, Billy Blue, One of Dade’s Finest, North Miami, East Side, West Side. In every hood, gotta love ya boy, because I love the fans. But you know, just doing me.

24: Every major artist has a beginning of where the music, the idea, and the inspiration came from, can you describe a brief history of where it all started for the infamous Billy Blue?

Billy Blue: Wow, where did it start? I don’t know, man, one day I use to just sit back and watch people rap and I use to be like that damn, ‘This is what I want to do, yeah, I want to rap. I want to talk about what I see too.’ But you know, people talk about cars, money, shit like that, but I was like I ain’t got no money, I ain’t got no cars, what the fuck am I going to talk about, so I was fuck it, let me talk about what I see for real. We selling drugs, we doing check scams, we doing anything we got to do to get money. We selling T.V.s, robbing 24 hours a day, so I was like, you know what if I incorporate all this into lyrics, niggas are going to like it. I remember one day I was freestylin’ on the block just spitting some shit, so they was like, ‘yo, you should start rapping, you’re really good.’ So from there it just went on. Just talk about what you see and do, be real, that’s it. So it was my homeboy C-Lo, if not for him, he put me in the studio, it was my time, I lost my breath about 100 times (laughs). I couldn’t record one song, but I’m here now.

24: As a matter of fact the name Billy Blue is a real interesting name, unique I would say, what is the origin behind your name?

Billy Blue: Alright, Billy, Billy comes from ‘Billy the Kid,’ cause I was always quick to pull out for no reason really, fuck that, I just wanted to catch somebody, like, ‘What he said?’ and just pull out. So they be like ‘Quick Draw McGraw, Billy the Kid, chill out.’ It came from there, you know, niggas calling me Billy the Kid, Billy the Kid. So when I was young, my mom had passed away when I was 11 years old, 11, 12, so people use to be like ‘Damn, boy, this dude stay blue in the face every day, I mean every day just, blue, blue, blue, what’s wrong with you?’ So it just stuck with me, ‘There go the blue kid right there.’ So I just incorporated the both names in Billy Blue and I don’t know, man, I’m just me. You know, the one that’s quick to pull out, laid back, nonchalant, just fuck it.

24: Now let’s get into your music; I got to admit your style is definitely original with the delivery and the lyrical matter. Every song that I’ve heard so far entrails a vivid storyline, what thoughts fly through your mind when you actually sit down to write a potential hit?

Billy Blue: (Laughs) What happened the night before, what happened last week, like ‘Oh shit, kid, I gotta go talk about this.’ So then they was like, ‘Damn homie, you got to stop talking about everything, like for real, you going to get us fucked up.’ (Laughs) Man, niggas wives going to leave them, police going to catch them. But it’s like for real, everything I talk about is the shit that I see, everything I go through, everything I see my homeboys go though, shit I see people I don’t even know go through, so it’s like, something to talk about. You can talk about your life and you can talk about the next man’s life, because he might not be able to express it, but when he hear your music, he going to be like ‘Man, this nigga talking about me, man, I need this right here.’ That’s how them storylines come out.

24: Interestingly enough, your street single ‘Ball Like A Dog’ is a perfect example of your delivery and vivid storyline, what was the inspiration and idea behind that record?

Billy Blue: (Recites hook) ‘Ball like a dog, stunt like Hollywood, do it real big, just cause a nigga could.’ Dawg, honestly, money was slow. And like really I was just tired of being caught up, I had to get my money up one way or the other. I use to drive a Grand Marquis; you know that’s my baby, so I can’t talk bad about her even though I sold her. You know, I came up, bought me the little under cover 06′ [Mus]tang  and I came out the dealer, my volume way up , hoes looking at me like ‘Damn, this nigga clean as fuck, he doing his thang.’ So from that first verse, that’s how I felt that day. I was rollin’ in the hood, and it was like ‘What it do my nigga, you see me through the hood, my ass is grippin leather, my hands is grippin’ wood, damn a nigga so fly, I crank my music real high, and when a nigga roll by I make them hoes, ‘bing ah.’ Second verse, I let a nigga know kid, I ain’t no millionaire, I didn’t always have diamonds on my neck , I had a 9-5 just like you, I sold dope just like you, I did scams,  I robbed people, robbed cribs, I did all type of shit just like any other street nigga. So I let them know, ‘I’ve been broke before, I had no bread, I been a joke before. Man, that’s the worse feeling when hoes look at you like ‘Man, you ain’t got no money, get the fuck from around me, broke ass nigga.’ ‘But you still want to fuck through, you don’t care.’ (Laughs)

24: It is definitely obvious that you are bringing a different approach to Hip-Hop, can you give us a brief idea what your game plan is at hitting the drastically altering industry?

Billy Blue: To be real, I think I’m going to touch everybody in the hood, everybody outside the hood, everybody who wants to go back and listen to the storyline, everybody who want to be like, ‘Yo, this nigga relating to me.’ I can’t say that Hip-Hop ain’t real right now, to me Hip-Hop is still there, but I’m just bringing my little flavor. I’m just bringing what was missing, what everybody stopped bringing as they went more commercial. But ain’t nothing wrong with going commercial, do you, if that makes you money, do you. But on real, let’s talk about what’s going on in the hood, what’s going on behind that backdoor, what people are really doing. Like I tell niggas on that song ‘D-Boy, so fresh on the track’ and this is what I had spit, ‘Hip-Hop this and Hip-Hop that and word on the street is the south can’t rap. Hold up, if snap rap get you hoppin’ in yo hood, I ain’t hatin’ on you homie, do it, it’s all good, mean with it’ Fuck it kid, Hip-Hop is still here it’s just evolved, everyone just doing it their way, expressing how they feel, and I fucks with that, I ain’t going to down talk anybody, ‘This man can’t rap, this man talking shit.’ You just rappin, that’s all I’m going to say, ‘You just rapping.’

24: Now it is apparent that you are coming hard at the game, what would you say sets you aside from all the other artists already in the industry?

Billy Blue: I’m talking about something they ain’t talking about, that’s it right there homie. I’m going to tell you, I talk about dope, but I don’t talk about dope from track 1 all the way to track 17. I talk about hoes; I don’t talk about hoes from track 1 all the way to track 17. I talk about robbing, but I ain’t going to talk about it from 1 to 17. But from 1 through 17, you going to hear about all that shit, I’m going to give you a bible, here man just pop this into your CD player , it’s going to show you. See some niggas ain’t born to be real niggas, some niggas were made, and some came from life experiences. A real nigga is like a person who’s been through it, vibe with his homies, he do what he got to do. He shows people ‘I’m here for you; I’m that nigga that you need.’ And this album is going to show you how to be real with yourself, accept who you are. My album going to teach you about yourself, it’s a bible.

24: I think you mention this, but what city do you rep, just let everybody know?

Billy Blue: North Miami, baby, Eastside, Westside. Little Haiti’s finest. I fucks with LH all day. But I’m a North Miami baby, from the old school 10th Ave to old school 6th Ave boys. I went to Oak Grove Elementary, went to T.J. (Thomas Jefferson Middle), and got kicked out of T.J. for stealing the principal’s car. I fucks with North Miami that’s my home, that’s my love, that’s my first love. Little Haiti, you know, I love Little Haiti because they accepted me. And now every hood accepted me. So really I’m every hood right now. From North Miami to Little Haiti, Opa Locka, OT (Overtown), CC (Carol City), dawg I got to jump up to Broward, 6th Trump Sunrise, Davie, them niggas in Davie. Dawg, there’s a lot of places, but I got love. My first home is North Miami and after that, I’m everybody’s baby. Oh yeah and them Chicos in Winwood as well.

24: Before we close this exclusive out, just to clarify rumors that have been circulating all over the city, Poe Boy was scouting you and your music, are you officially signed to Miami’s hottest label or is everything still pending?

Billy Blue: Man you put me on the spot. My manager Big Chuck got to be here to answer that question right there. All I’m going to say is I’m a part of a family, I always had a family, but I’m a part of a family now. But ya’ll already know what it is, when ya’ll see the chain on my neck, ya’ll already know, just say it’s official. But right now, my dawg Big Chuck, he’ll let you know what the business is.

24: When can the city, as a matter of fact the world, expect your debut album?

Billy Blue: The album, you know what, if I could drop this album tomorrow I would, if I could knock on everybody door and say ‘Here’s my album, here’s my album,’ I would. But right now, I got to discuss that with  that with the label. But it’s coming soon.

24: How would the fans go about contacting you or hearing some of your music?

Billy Blue: First off, 24hourhiphop.com. ya’ll going to find me there, Billy Blue and on my myspace at myspace.com/305billyblue. You know, send me a comment, send me a message.

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

Billy Blue: My present fans, keep fucking with me cause I’m going to keep fucking with ya’ll. It’s a family, I’m not the type of nigga that’ll walk past a fan, nah, you love me and I’ll love you, dawg. You hate me; I’ll love you as much as you hate me. For my future fans, be prepared for something new, you might say you don’t like it at first, but then you going to be like I fuck with it. And to the haters, like I said, as much as you hate me, I’m going to love you, I’ll love you as much as you hate me. If you weren’t born to hate, I wouldn’t be able to do what I do, I wouldn’t be me. Ya’ll my motivation and it’s like I need to give ya’ll something more to hate me for, so I could love you more for it. Holla at me whoa. I’m going to leave ya’ll with this, ‘God will give you a yellow brick road and it will lead you to the wizard.’I tell my dawgs, if you were with me from the beginning, then you’re went me until the end and if you didn’t tell me nothing and now you want to tell me something, then you ain’t got nothing to say. Big Chuck, I see you. Big Ace, my motherfucking DJ, Supanova Holla at me.