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Durt Mobb Click Interview "Durty South" |
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It was
only a matter of time before two-man tag team Durt Mobb Click
sprouted past the tobacco fields of North Carolina onto
independent fruition.
Comprised of 25-year-old hometown legend Rollin' Weight and
20-year-old titan Yung Cakes, Durt Mobb Clik is by far the
flyest duo to ascend from the Tar Heel State since the Wright
Brothers. Fueled by rapidly emerging independent powerhouse
label Da Mouf Records since 2004, the group has shelled out mix
tapes like a fresh pack of casino 52s and spawned a legion of
fans along the Eastern seaboard. And now, they're back on deck
with a one-two knockout combo special edition mix tape of
Hittman DJ Bigga Rankins' Real Nigga Radio mix tape series
entitled Da Undaground Takeova and the Aphilliates DJ Don
Cannon's 28 Grams series entitled Kuntry Gangstaz released
late August. Down South.com recently sat down with Durt Mobb
Clik's Rollin' Weight to talk about their career, their new mix
tape Kuntry Takeova and the state of North Carolina hip hop. |
 Down-South.com:
Where are you from?
Rollin' Weight: We're from Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Down-South.com: What neighborhood did you grow up in
Fayetteville?
Rollin' Weight: I grew up in a hood called Wilchinson Road, but
they call it the Murk.
Down-South.com: What was it like growing up there?
Rollin' Weight: It was pretty much like growing up in any other
hood that
I've come across in America. It most Black.99% Black.mostly
poverty. They gotta few people living up the road that's doing
alright but mostly
everybody there is living in a tight situation. Everybody is
outside on the corner or at the park, the swimming pool or
whatever, just hanging out all day. If you go through there
right now it's probably on fire. Police riding through there
harassing people, stopping ya, searching ya -you know how the
game is.
Down-South.com: What type of music did you grow up listening to?
Rollin' Weight: Man [we listened to] everything that came up on
the radio. Where we're from in North Carolina there really
wasn't nobody 'round here making no music so back in the day we
listened to East Coast, West Coast when they came up and the
South when the came up. It was mostly East Coast but we listened
to everything coming up man.
The radio is political. They just push what they push which was
mostly East Coast music.
Down-South.com: I'm glad you brought that up because I've got a
question that I have been dying to ask a rapper from North
Carolina. How come most of the rap music that comes out of your
state except for your group and Petey Pablo sounds like it from
the East Coast?
Rollin' Weight: It's like in other Southern States when other
rappers want to be a rapper they ain't gonna change their
dialect but when cat from here start rappin' and freestylin'
they feel like they have to put that New York twang on it. I
guess they feel like that's how a rapper is suppose to sound.
Before the South blew up rappers sounded like that. It was like
yo, yo, yo, you know what I mean? There's a lotta people from
New York down here and they were real instrumental in places
where people weren't doing they own [hip hop] thang at. But in
the hoods in North Carolina..in the real hoods people don't
sound like that. The cat's that doing hip hop in the hoods down
here they don't pattern themselves after the East Coast. We
don't pattern ourselves after the East Coast. We sound like
ourselves. We rap how we talk.
Down-South.com: How did the Dirt Mob come together?
Rollin' Weight: Dirt Mob is really like more of a movement. Me
and Yung
Cakes are like at the forefront of it as rapper. But really
that's like a
whole situation. It's like a family thang. I don't wanna call it
what the
white man call it but I call it a family. It goes way back to
like 76. When
I came up and got down it was Durt Mobb Clik but what it was.
How we came out as Durt Mobb Clik the rap group was I was solo
and my man Cakes was solo. We were on the same record label and
we made a couple of songs together. We did one song called
"Rioting' with me, Diamond Princess from Crime Mob and Pastor
Troy. It made it on radio in like seven or eight markets. So
then after they heard that gave the label the ideal that we
should be a group and what better name for us to come out with
than the name we already was -Durt mob Click.
Down-South.com: Have you all put out an album as a group yet?
Rollin' Weight: Well actually naw, right now we have been just
circulating mix tapes on the streets.
Down-South.com: How many mix tapes have you all released?
Rollin' Weight: As the Durt Mobb Clik we have three mix tapes
out. The first one is called Hood Talk hosted by DJ Dutty
Laundry. The second one is The Underground takeover hosted by
Bigga Rankin' down there in Florida The recent one we just came
out with is called Kuntry Gangsta hosted by Don Cannon.
Down-South.com: Why are mix tapes so important to you all?
Rollin' Weight: It's not that it so important to us it's more
like we got
the radio thing going on for us in NC right now, we're about to
start this
Black College tour in the fall. It like the only place where
we're not
really, really popping like is in the streets of America. We're
hot in the
street of North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and Atlanta
but we're
trying to spread out to the Mid West and beyond. Since mix tapes
is what's happening right now to promote artists that are
unheard of.
Down-South.com: What separates your mix tape from the rest of
the artist trying to do mix tapes?
Rollin' Weight: We t really don't do our mix tapes with industry
beats, we got mostly original beats. Most of our beat are 85%
original.
Down-South.com: Are there any features on the new tape?
Rollin' Weight: We got Jody Breeze, Bonecrusher, Rasheeda,
Pastor Troy, Crime Mob, Jazze Pha, David Banner, Remy Ma and Mr.
Cheeks. The people that already got a fan base we try to get in
the studio and put our sound to theirs and then get out there
and hopefully go out and push it to the world.
Down-South.com: When are you planning on putting out an album?
Rollin' Weight: Probably in early 07. |
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Charlie Braxton © Down-South.com |
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