Chino Grande Interview: “Product of my environment”

1.YOU HAVE BEEN RELEASING SOME HIGHLY ACCLAIMED PROJECTS DURING YOUR CAREER, WHAT PROJECTS DO YOU GOT COMING NEXT

MY SOLO ALBUM, MR.CHINO GRANDE PRESENTS “STILL ACTIVE”. I GOT A DOPE ASS PROJECT THAT I WANNA CALL A MIXTAPE. NOT SURE YET THOUGH, CUZ SOME SHIT IS ORIGINAL NOT SAMPLE. REAL DOPE ASS MUSIC I BASICALLY BEEN TUCKING AWAY FOR A MINUTE. SHIT I’VE STACKED ALONG THE YEARS. THEN WE GOT CHARLIE ROW CAMPO PRESENTS THE “CAMPONEROS” ALBUM, CURRENTLY 1 SONG INTO STOP STUDIOS GANGSTERS PART TWO AS OF LAST WEEKEND. BABY JOKES MIXTAPE AND SOLO ALBUM, FRESHLY RELEASED THE MR. MIDGET LOCO “BLOODLINE FLATLINE” ALBUM AND “XICANO SLOW JAMS” OUR VERSIONS OF SLOW JAMS THOUGH. IT’S NOT ALL LOVEY DOVEY AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT. BUT OVER ALL SICKNESS.

2.HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR SOUND?

UNIQUE. BECAUSE PEOPLE TRY TO BE OTHER PEOPLE SOMETIMES. IM JUST ME. I DONT CARE OF WHAT PEOPLE THINK OR SAY. IF THEY LIKE IT FIRME, SI NO, THEN THATS COOL TOO. NO HARD FEELINGS. I REPRESENT THE STRUGGLE OF A PEOPLE NOT JUST MYSELF, AND WHEN IT COMES TO MUSIC I DO LIKE EXPERIMENTING ON SPITTING DIFFERENT ESTILO’S (styles) AS APPOSE TO THE SAME ONE TRACK STIELO ALL THE WAY THREW. I LIKE TO KEEP UP WITH THE TIMES AS WELL AS BRING BACK THAT OLD SCHOOL PACHUCADA.

3.YOUR MUSIC IS VERY PERSONAL AS YOU SPEAK ABOUT YOUR TIME IN THE STREETS, WHAT MESSAGE WERE YOU TRYING TO SEND WITH SONGS LIKE “SUICIDE NOTE” AND “BAD CAUSE IM BROWN?”

SUICIDE NOTE WAS WRITTEN WHITT IN LIKE 2 OR 3 HOURS OF MERINATING AT MY PRIMOS PAD. I HAD JUST RECIEVED INTERESTING PHONE CALLS WITH MY BABY MAMA, AND PRETTY MUCH THAT ROLA WAS A HEART TO HEART WITH MYSELF AND THE WAY I WAS FEELING AT THE MOMENT.OUTSIDE OF THE RAP AND GANG BANGING. I HAD TO DEAL WHITT AN EXCRUTIATING PAIN I HAD NEVER FELT BEFORE IN MY LIFE. WHICH I BASICALLY CAME UP WITH WRITING THIS LETTER AS YOU KNOW CALLED “SUICIDE NOTE” TO MYSELF.

“BAD CUZ IM BROWN” WAS WRITTEN AT THE DEAD END STUDIOS WITHIN A FEW HOURS AS A REUNITING WITH KAST AND FAME AFTER A MINUTE OF BASICALLY NETWORKING WITH OTHER PEOPLE. WE ALWAYS CARRIED A GOOD CHEMISTRY WITH THE BROTHERS, SO WE WERE DISCUSSING OTHER BUSINESS AS THE IDEA CAME ABOUT OLD SCHOOL EAZY E DAYS. WE WERE TALKING ABOUT HOW WE WERE LIKE A MODERN DAY N.W.A. NOT TRYING TO BE LIKE THEM. JUST THE FACT IF WE WERE IN THERE TIME ERROR, WONDERING WHAT WE WOULD SOUND LIKE. MR.CHINO GRANDE, YOUNG TROUBS, AND MIDGET LOCO. AS WE CAME UP WITH “BAD CUZ IM BROWN”.

4. ON YOUTUBE YOU HAVE QUITE A LARGE FOLLOWING, ANY PLANS TO RELEASE A DVD?

HELL YEAH. WE PLAN ON RELEASING A DVD WHITT PURO MUSIC VIDEOS AS WELL AS WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO CALL A DOCUMENTARY ON THE ROW AND HOW IT CAME ABOUT.COMING SOON.

5.HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE BEEF BETWEEN HI POWER AND MADD GLOCK?

I COULD CARELESS ABOUT FOCUSING ON ANYTHING ELSE BESIDES MY CAMPONEROS. WHEN EVER WE HAVE AN ISSUE. BELEIVE WE WOULD ADDRESS IT AS WE HAVE IN THE PAST. EVERYONE HAS THEIR OWN ESTILO AND WE HAVE OURS. THE LAST OF A RARE DYING, AND INCARCERATED FEW.

6.MANY PEOPLE BACKED YOU UP WHEN YOU CALLED OUT SNOOP DOGG AND B-REAL FOR THEIR SONG “VATO”. IS THERE STILL BEEF WITH THEM?

I SIMPLY FEEL LIKE THEY TRIED TO MAKE US “VATOS” LOOK BAD. HOW I DEAL WITH IT. IS MY PERSONAL BUISNESS.

7.WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE WEST COAST RAP SCENE IN GENERAL?

ITS NEVER BEEN PREPARED FOR SOMETHING LIKE US.

8.WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR YOUR COMPANY CHARLIE ROW CAMPO?

LET TIME EXPLAIN TO YOU BETTER THAN I CAN.

9.HAVE YALL BEEN OFFERED A DISTRIBUTION DEAL FOR THEM YET?

WE GOT DISTRIBUTION WHITT URBAN KINGS RIGHT NOW. SO AS LONG AS HE CONTINUES TO TREAT US RIGHT AND WERE BOTH ON THE SAME TIP. FIRME! WE SOUND SCAN MORE THAN PEOPLE THAT BRAGGED ABOUT IT WHEN WE FIRST STARTED. SO WE NEVER DID IT FOR THAT THOUGH, WE DID IT FOR THE LOVE OF OUR PEOPLE.

10. I WANNA THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME CHINO, ANY SHOUT OUTS BEFORE WE ROLL HOMIE?

I WOULD STAY HERE FOR EVER SAYING NAMES BUT LONG STORY SHORT ANY BODY THATS EVER BEEN INVOLVED WHITT THIS MOVEMENT WE WANNA SAY GRACIAS. GOOD OR BAD. IT’S BEEN A LONG BUMPY ROAD BUT THATS JUST THE LIFE WE LIVE. GRACIAS A TODOS AND CON TODO RESPECTO. GRACIAS. YOUR HOMIE MR.
CHINO GRANDE

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