24: What made you want to be come a producer and who were some of
your influences?

Shawty Redd: I would say a little of everyone are my
influences but the biggest would have to be church. I come from a church
background.

24: Describe your style because your sound sounds like no
other producer out?

Shawty Redd: I blend 808’s and I try to do a lot of
orchestras music. For example of you were to take my drums out of my tracks you
would say it sounds like movie music and I blend it with the 808 too keep it
gangsta.

24: What do you feel you bring to the table as a producer?

Shawty Redd: I feel like I’m that producer that artist come
to for that street music even though I can make music on the other level like
the Jermaine Dupri or The Neptunes.

24: Tell me a little about Be@t Bangerz?

Shawty Redd: That’s my company and I’m trying to help other
producers so they don’t have to struggle like how I struggled in the past. Also
its not just for producers we represent everyone from producers to artist and
writers, what ever it takes to take it to that next level is what Be@t Bangerz
do and represent.

24: I also know that you’re an artist, so are you preparing
to drop an album any time soon?

Shawty Redd: I have been an artist since birth, I had a deal
with MCA when I was 18 yrs old but MCA went bankrupt and that album never came
out as an artist. I always been a artist first and I would take it to the strip
clubs and they show me love a great feedback and never take it to the radio but
know I have so much love in the strip club that the radio is messing with it
now.

24: How do you approach making your beats and do you always
have an artist in mind when you’re making the track?

Shawty Redd: I’m a artist so when I make a beat I already
have a song in mind so I’m really making a beat to a song that’s in my head. A
lot of times I might send a beat to a artist and they’ll ask me for input and
I’ll tell them what I feel they should do and if they like they’ll use it and
it’s a hit record if they don’t then its just an album filler you know what I
mean.

24: How did you end up getting together with Young Jeezy?

Shawty Redd: Jeezy is like my big brother he has been with
me since I produced “Left, Right, Left” for Drama (Not DJ Drama). So ever since
then we have been running around Atlanta doing what we do and we have been
grinding for so long that stuff we were not expecting started happening.

24: Why do you think you guys have such a great chemistry
when it comes to music clearly shown on songs like “Air Forces,” “Bottom Of The
Map,” “J.E.E.Z.Y.,” to “You Know What It Is?”

Shawty Redd: Man, I’m going to tell you like this and Jeezy
say it all the time he’s not a rapper he’s a motivational speaker and my whole
thing was I worked him and now he’s trying to work me because I’m being lazy.
He told me some real shit that I’m not even going to speak about but I always keep
on my mind and when he told me that I said to myself okay I’m going to do what
ever I can to get to that next level. I made him as good as he wanted to be and
he made me as good as I always wanted to be then the shit just took off.

24: What beat that you have done so far that means the most
to you?

Shawty Redd: I love all of my beats, from Jeezy first album
to the second album this was my second chance and in my music I was crying out
to people. If you really set back and listen to those tracks you hear my
passion in every record. I felt like I was good enough but people was boxing me
in and not giving me my shine, so I gave it my all even though I didn’t want to
mess with the music no more but I did it for my big brother (Young Jeezy).

24: It’s weird for me to hear you say this because so many
artist and up coming producers love your sound and try to mimic you for the
dark sound like you mentioned being movie music?

Shawty Redd: It’s crazy because I look at everything a
blessing for someone to try to make records like me it’s a complement to me and
lets me know I’m doing me job. At the same time I just don’t want everyone to
label me a just a producer who only can make dirty south records because it
happen before with Drama album.

24: Who are some of the artist you have been working with
lately?

Shawty Redd: Uncle Snoop has been messing with me hard I
have been writing & producing records for him all week. Daz, Juvenile, TIP,
Big Kuntry Kane, Yola, Rick Ross, Flo Rida, and I have the 8ball & MJG
single out “Hickory Dickory Dock.”

24: What’s the future looking like for Shawty Redd?

Shawty Redd: I don’t know what GOD got planed for me but its
looking good right now.