24: What is your name ?

Samo: Samo

24: Samo, talk about what you do and tell me about yourself?

Samo:  first of all ya know I rap I promote myself to the streets of Little Haiti to North Miami to Overtown to Opa-Locka right now im working on west palm beach working shirts and just trying to get a deal.

24: What record are you promoting right now?
 
Samo: I got this record called “you got it girl” and I cant say I put on 99jamz but when I got to 99jamz they have this lil thing called local love I sent it thru a email I don’t know if they playing it or not but that the only song im pushing right now.

24: How did you come up with that song, what is it called?
 
Samo: You Got It Girl.

24: Tell us about that song.

Samo: It like a main stream am girl when I first meet ma lil girlfriend in the lil club I had to spit that fire game to her. Like you got it girl you got the looks.

24: And you wrote the lyrics?

Samo: Yes I write

24: Who produced the track?

Samo: It was a track that my dog was a long lost friend he had produced it and he sent it down to me and I was thinking about it and heard it and I was like oh snap and I jumped right into it.

24: How long have you been rapping for?

Samo: I ve been rapping since I been 3 probably like my momma told me when we first came from Haiti it was like poverty I was 3 or 4 and I was playing the guitar rapping.

24: You were playing a guitar?

Samo: Yeah.

24 You still know how to play?

Samo: Nah, I lost that way back, but I still do my rap thing.

24: What separates you from the other rappers in the business?

Samo: Cause me, like other rappers, like I see a bunch of rappers out there ya know they only rapping  bout ya know slanging dope  killing and my set and yo set but me I get in a bunch a fields if im rapping hood imma do it only hood like k killing if im rapping main stream for radio ill do it mainstream form like you got it girl I can do gangster, love, jazz I can do clap fingers and poetry writing.

24: Do you feel like your rap came from your skills at poetry?

Samo: Yea like thro back days in elementary like I don’t really wanna say but like days when my dad wasn’t their and he left us there to starve and for us to hustle our own way.

24: How do you feel like that affected that your music, ya know like with your dad leaving and you guys were left to fend for yourself, how do you think your music was influenced by that?

Samo: I feel like dat cause like I feel like dat cause the reason I feel like that is cause the reason I feel like is like ok it takes a man to raise a man  that’s right but me I ain’t have a man to raise me all I had was my mother my mother was my farther so that’s telling me that im stronger than my dad im always be here standing strong on my own 10 toes and ten fingers.

24: So do you have any kids, or any family or brothers or sisters?

Samo: I got my Haitian brother he just came from Haiti and he on his rap and I support him and he support me I got my lil sista and I got my cousin that just passed away rest in peace {inaudible} so I’m trying to code it down real hard like basic every venue I do I got a tee shirt or poster to let people know he gone.

24: So how do you let people know how to find you and is there a web site that you are working on and what do you have planed for the future?

Samo: I got a bunch a music videos on youtube.com

24: How do you find them?

Samo: Go to www.youtube.com/sammosupport305 and then you’ll see a bunch a my blog and music videos I just got through shooting a video on the Ace Hood song ‘Hustle Hard’ with my own verse.

24: What else you would like your fans to know about you Samo?

Samo: I look up to a lot of fans I see a lot and the people out there forget about forget about the true music of Hip-Hop, it like the person im looking up to that every fan should know is Soulja Slim and 2Pac.

24: What was it about them that inspired you to be like them?

Samo: They showed me the keys to the streets they showed me the path that I can take without getting locked up with out getting shot at even though they died when they got shot at but they been out here a log time and they have hood classics they showing the real rap game they showing what rap is really about and rap is about your past and your life and how you living and was living and how you living now past and present.

24: Yeah, that’s true so true. Rap should be your life and should reflect in your music as an artist.  Who do you aspire to work with producer wise, what producer do you think have the sound that you would like to be associated with?

Samo: I don’t really know a lot producers cause I don’t really focus on producing but only producer I could look at is Swizz Beatz, he got some good work I don’t know any other producers right now.

24: What is your next major thing you plan to do in your career in rap?

Samo: Right now, I’m just working on T-shirts each paycheck I get ya know right now I’m just working on shirts right na I’m just working on straight promotions passing out my cd to the labels and trying to get a deal and I do ma thing

24; How many songs do you have on the mixtape?

Samo: I got a CD out called Sammo Vol. 1 and my first mixtape got 21 tracks and you can find that on www.datpiff.com.

24: Are you originally from Haiti?

Samo: Nah, my parents are from Haiti and I’m from here, but the way that they raised me we were going back cause were struggling so you know god is gonna bless us with a lil something.

24: What do you plan to do about the rap business and how it going more toward the internet. People downloading music, How do you feel about the rap business at this point because of the internet?

Samo: I feel like the rap business is hot and booming and internet exposure internet is doing it major part in this rap game the best thing to do is promote yourself on the internet.

24: Why don’t you tell your fans about how you write your music and what inspire your music and what inspire your lyrics.

Samo: The way I write my music is like yes, I’m doing a lil something hustling ya know and working as a security guard.  When I’m working night shift and I’m writing and writing and writing when a customer pull or a visitor pull up or whatever and they start talking to me any kind of way and I get angry so I just write it down to the lyrics and that motivates me more like one day you see me here and one day I’m not gonna be here no more.

24: What female you know right now, I mean you don’t need to know them, but somebody you would want to take home and smash? What girl in this business would be the first to get it from Sammo?

Samo: Keisha Cole

24: When the next time you gonna get back in the studio? What’s your next project?

Samo: Tomorrow morning bright and early im in the studio. My next project is free style called I aint going back and the hook goes “I aint going back to them busters, I aint going back to them cluckers” im talking bout I going back to them same home boys that did me wrong and they see me im moving forward so they talking bout me and trying to fuck my {inaudible} I ain’t going back to them I use to come back and forgive and forgive cause like god says to be forgiven you got to be forgive ill probably forgive them but I aint going keep it 100 with them boys  no more imma just keep it moving.

24: How do you feel about the haters?

Samo: Haters, I just laugh at em they are free promoters. I got a lil hater that I know now he use to chill with me I use to out of my money pay for his studio time and just cause I told him if the rap game don’t work out go back to school and get your GED I got mine so im straight so if the rap game don’t work for me I got something to fall back on I tell him to go do it too and he took it the wrong way and I heard a diss song that he made on a mix tape and he saying fuck Samo I look at that as he promoting me so when somebody ask who Sammo is they look it up and find me.

24:What about your team?

Samo: Oh yeah, I got like it’s like it’s funny. I got young cats and hem boys pushing me heavy it thru the school they let people listen to it and they be like oh snap oh snap this kids sound like real fire. Id like to give a shout to Penguin Wingie, Drinnath, Edwin and everybody else.

24:How does your mom feel about you being a rapper?

Samo: She says go for she said she had a dream that I told her, woke up one morning and I said you not going back to that hotel you aint gonna let them try you with cleaning up there mess so she was like go for it and she praying for me everyday when she go to church my mom plays a big role in that.

24: What else would you like to tell 24hourhiphop.com?

Samo: What I’m trying to tell the viewers and you is that I know a lot of flaw rappers and I know a lot of flaw people and I see you through it in garbage ok you got to think about it, when you taking another person hard work and you through it away you got to think about how much bread they spent to make that cd with their face on it feel me that hurt if you don’t like to work just say you don’t like it what ever label need me im here im a free agent holla at me I’m working 24 I don’t care just holla at me.