B.G EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW W/ CHAMPMAG.COM

BG EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW W/ CHAMPMAG.COM
Hollywood
CHAMP Magazine

CHAMP: B Gizzle what’s goodie homey!

BG: I’m coolin’ what’s happenin’ with you baby?

CHAMP:  Just out here in Toronto with the weather all crazy but we maintaining you know what I mean?

BG: I feel you, last time I tried to come to Canada, I was coming from Detroit and at the border they turned me around.

CHAMP: Lol. They’re tight on the border man like any little thing on your record their tryna turn you back for that but there’s ways you can get around.

BG: I guess. It was after the hurricane around 2006 and I tried to come over there for the casinos and they turned me around.

CHAMP: Yeah man now we definitely wanna get everyone out here in Canada aware of the album you just dropped “To Hood 2 Be Hollywood”. This is like your 11^th album that you dropped, how does it feel to be 11 albums in bro?

BG: Album number 11 and that don’t even include all the other albums. All my Chopper City Boys would make it 14/15 albums but these are just BG albums. I think that’s more than Jay-Z shit.

CHAMP: I think he only dropped 10.

BG: Yeah yeah and I started when I was 13 and I’m 29 so I might still have four or five in me.

CHAMP: You still got a lot in you. This is being released from your own label Chopper City and I read that T.I did the executive producing on this album.

BG: Yeah he co-executive producer on the album. It’s a joint venture. It’s Chopper City/Atlantic/E1. We worked out a way where we can do a joint venture with Koch (E1) that’ll end my contract with Atlantic. So I’m a free agent. I’m a free agent and I got a lot of options on the table. Koch wanna give me a better deal, me and Baby consulting on a regular basis, a couple of labels wanna consult because they know what I’m capable of. I got a silent fan base. My demographic is like I got a lot of internet people that grew up with me, so I got fans from14 to 40 lol.

CHAMP: Now I was peeping the production on this joint and I’m actually liking what I’m seeing. Who do you got on this album?

BG: I got Mannie Fresh, KLC, J.U.S.T.I.C.E League, Cool and Dre, Bass Heavy, Savage, Mista Raja, I got a lot of different producers on this album man to give it that incredible sound.

CHAMP: Who are some of the artist on this joint we got featured?

BG: I got T.I on the album, Young Jeezy, Lil Wayne, Juvenile, Lil Boosie, C-Murder, Me holdin’ the album down, I got an artist Gar on the album. The album well rounded. The album off the chain. If you ain’t got it  I know what to take it for. You need to know what to take it for ‘cause I know every artist you interview, they tell you they album this they album that, but I’ma keep it 100 the album is incredible.

CHAMP: With BG you can’t really accept less than what he’s already done. You’ve been coming with heat so it’s expected that each album you drop is fire so I’m not gonna expect it to be worse than what you put out already man ‘cause you been bringing fire for years.

BG: I step it up every go round.

CHAMP: Exaaaactly

BG: Every go round I step it up. I got to. My fans ain’t gon’ accept nothing less from me so I gotta step the album up everytime.

CHAMP: Now of course you had mentioned Juvey and Weezy are on the album as well. People are looking at the Cash Money Reunion like Dr. Dre’s Detox   album. What in your opinion is the hold up  on it actually happening?

BG: The reunion is being worked out as we speak. It might end up being the middle of 2010 or the third or fourth quarter of 2010 but you will get it.

CHAMP: Was the release of Turk a factor?

BG: Turk locked up right now but he be home real soon. He’s going on six years so he should be going to the halfway house soon.

CHAMP: On the album you got the joint “Chopper City is A Army” and we know the legendary “cash money is the army better yet the navy”. If you can educate the people on Chopper City and what we can expect from the camp?

BG: You can expect rough, rugged, raw, uncut, street, New Orleans aka New Iraq type music.

CHAMP: Going back in history and seeing things now. Did you ever think Cash Money would be as big as it is now?

BG: I mean I knew we was talented. With the records that we was selling before the deal, I knew that the streets was feeling us, but I never would’ve thought that we would’ve end up selling the millions of records that we sold.

CHAMP: What’s your reaction when people call you the “Down South Legend”?

BG: Oh I am the Down South Legend man. You gotta give me my props, you gotta give me my respect for my longevity. Just weathering the storm and overcoming all the obstacles and everything that was thrown at me. Even when I left Cash Money a lot of people thought my career was over with and I proved everybody wrong ‘cause I’m still here and I’m still relevant. It’s still Chopper quality music.

CHAMP: Definitely hear you on that. What’s the next single we got coming off the album and what else can we expect from BG for 2010?

BG: The next single is “Back to the  Money” featuring Magnolia Chop. We already got the remix done for that featuring Baby and Lil Wayne.