Down-South.com: How did you get the name Hurricane Chris?

Hurricane Chris: I got the name Hurricane when I first started rappin’. I got the name around my neighborhood and in my city from being in a lot of competitions. I was competing a lot, that’s how I got my name. I use to leave my opponents silent and they say after a storm it’s silent, so that’s where we got Hurricane from.

Down-South.com: When is your album coming out?

Hurricane Chris: October 23rd. 51/50 (Ratchet).

Down-South.com: What producers & artist did you work with on the album?

Hurricane Chris: I got Phunk Dawg, the producer from “Ay Bay Bay” he did that “Hand Clap” and he did another track on there called “Mama”. I got producers from the Ratchet movement, people that I had in Shreveport, Louisiana before we got the major distribution deal such as Ceddy Wayne. I got people from Baton Rouge and Mouse from Trill Entertainment. Most of the producers on the album that you gone hear is gone be a lot of producers you ain’t heard cause we trying to give you a sound you ain’t never heard.

Down-South.com: The album is called “51/50 Ratchet” explain to us what that means?

Hurricane Chris: 51/50 mean a 101% real. 51 plus 50 is 101, and I’m a 101% real. Ratchet is our culture where we from how we walk, talk, eat sleep, dress. You feel me? Like, hit the club don’t leave the club until the sun come up then you Ratchet, you Ratchet with it. It mean do you to the fullest, have fun, be comfortable. Ratchet, do you.

Down-South.com: How did your hit single “Ay Bay Bay” come about?

Hurricane Chris: The single “Ay Bay Bay” came about I was in Shreveport,, Louisiana, my home town. My dawg Hollyhood Bay Bay was wreckin’ the club deejaying & they started chantin’ his name. He would do his thing in the DJ booth and it became so popular we just made a song out of it.

Down-South.com: I saw you rocked the BET HIP HOP AWARDS; how did it feel to be able to rock the awards in front of everybody?

Hurricane Chris: It felt good man! And then I was nominated for four awards too, so you know Louisiana was real deep in there. It was real deep, we rocked it.

Down-South.com: You got any upcoming tours?

Hurricane Chris: Yeah, I’m on the Chris Brown tour. It start in like a month.

Down-South.com: It seems like success can be a lot to handle, especially at a young age---what do you do to keep balance?

Hurricane Chris: Man it all depends, it depends on what type of person you are. You have different problems if you a different type of person, but you know we really don’t focus on the stardom so much. You know what I’m sayin’? We focus on just keep making good music. It’s a way you can be so real that fans will realize it, and respect you as what they look at you as. They can look at us tell we ain’t no Hollywood dudes, so they don’t really get too crazy. We got respect.

Down-South.com: On your album you speak about your dad going to jail when you was 12 and that it changed your life…………..How did it change your life?

Hurricane Chris: I mean I use to be with my Dad all the time. Every time you saw my daddy you saw me. My Dad took care of me, I lived with my daddy. I was at school when they told me he was gone. I came home from school and he was gone, so it was like it wasn’t no time to prepare for nothin’ or nothin’. You know my Dad took care of me that was my parent, that’s who I stayed with. So we had to take a drastic change, I started stayin’ with my Momma most of the time. It was hard for me to get to school cause the school I went to was right by my Daddy. Financially too, you know what I’m sayin’? And he was just a big dawg. He was just makin’ sure I was straight most of the time like my Momma was doin’ everything she had to do, but my Daddy was the type of dude who would tell her she ain’t had to do nothin’. He always had me straight you know what I’m sayin’? So when he left it was a drastic change, I was 12.

Down-South.com: Your only 18 years old, most people are just now graduating high school, but still you speak with a lot of maturity. What has contributed to you being wiser than most people your age?

Hurricane Chris: I mean I guess it come from coming up from where I come from at. And going through the things I went through to get where I’m at right now like I been rappin’ for ten years you feel me? But we just recently got a distribution deal nine months ago. I mean growin’ up in Ratchet City and like I told you about my Dad bein’ incarcerated I had to grow up real quick livin’ in the neighborhood that I came up in: Cedar Grove & Ratchet City. It was a lot goin’ on where I had to grow up and be a big dawg like when most 13 year olds was playin’ with toys or somethin’ I was worried about how we was gone pay rent.

Down-South.com: On your mixtape with Don Cannon “Louisi-Animal”…You let your Mom tell yalls story on the intro. Tell us about your relationship with your Mom & what it means to you?

Hurricane Chris: I got a real strong relationship with my Momma I had that for a real long time. My Momma she cool I can talk to her like she ain’t my Momma. I been had a real strong relationship with her since day one. She the reason I’m here today. My Momma pushed me, it’s been alotta time when we wanted to stop doin’ it but my Momma she made sure I stuck with it. That’s why I’m here today.

Down-South.com: I know you got that “Hand Clap”, “Ay Bay Bay”, and the “Ay Bay Bay Remix” as your singles already, so what’s gone be the next single off your album “51/50 Ratchet”?

Hurricane Chris: We just dropped a new single called “How Playa’s Rock” the Earth, Wind, and Fire Remix from “Do You Mind”. We about to shoot a video for that it’s produced by College Park.

Down-South.com: Speaking of the “Ay Bay Bay Remix”…You got a chance to be on the same track as The Game, Jadakiss, Boosie, etc…How did that feel to get that type of love from established artist your first time around? A lot of people don’t get features like that until their second project, and you definitely held it down.

Hurricane Chris: It felt real good. I ain’t really look at it like getting a bunch of people on a record. I looked at it like gettin’ people on the record who would do the record good. You feel me? Not just gettin’ them on there because of they name or who they are. And everybody on there wanted to get on there just as much as we wanted them on there. So it wasn’t like we had to call people more than one time. Everybody was ready to work, they came to video shoot. Baby came, Jadakiss gave us everything we needed so it was a real vibe there so we rolled with it.

Down-South.com: Alright man, that’s it for the interview. Any last words you want to say….?

Hurricane Chris: In Stores Now! (51/50 Ratchet comes out) And if you want that “Hand Clap” ring tone text CLAP to 66555.

Interview by: DJ Die Rich

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