Reintroduce yourself to the world. 

For the record, I’m “Mr. Nobody Needs Nobody” himself. Mr. “Crownin’ Me”. Mr. “Just Awaken Shaken, once again it’s on”. Mr. Minnie Mae Mafia. Mista Man. King Of Funky Town. 

What age were you when you recorded your first song? And what song was that?

 Oh Boy, I guess bout 14. The title of the song was “Don’t Never Test This Pimpin”.

 What inspired you to become a rapper?

 Actually, I don’t consider myself as a rapper. I consider myself as an artist. And what inspired me to become an artist was that the rapper from my city, this local DJ from my city was releasing a lil’ underground mix tape with rappers on them or what have you. And I just felt like you know, tell my side of the story. I want to represent for my hood. And I felt like I could do it better than half of them niggaz doing it anyway, because I was just always inclined to write poetry or whatever the case might be.

How would you describe yourself and your music?

Reality, yeah you know, not fabricated. No where near falsified, just everything genuine and real. Like, I said, reality. 

In reference to the song “Crowning Me”, it seems you put others before yourself, do you consider that a blessing or a curse?

 Well you know, a lil’ bit of good in everything, a lil bit of bad in everything. You know how that go. So with that being said, it’s just a flip of the coin. What may be an umbrella to block the rain today may not be used tomorrow or may be used tomorrow to block the sunshine. So with that being said, it’s a two-sided coin. So I just couldn’t put it on a scale and weigh one more than the other. It all just depends on the situation at the day.

 What influence did growing up in both a Christian & Islamic household have on you?

 If I didn’t get anything else out of it, I got the knowledge that there is a God. And He do exist, regardless of what your route is, you give respect to Him. Whether you catch a boat to get to Him, catch a plane, or ride a train. The destination is inevitable and it does exist. And that’s the biggest influence that I got was that. The fact of the matter or the knowledge of the situation that God do exist and you have to pay homage and respect. And you’ll receive blessings in return. Regardless of which avenue or which road I take to get to my destination again. And basically if it didn’t do anything else, it inspired me to know that there is a God.

 What can society as a whole do to close the gap between the two faiths?

 It isn’t one in particular thing they can do. It’s just a course of action or chain of events that has to take place. For every action there’s a reaction so I can’t say one action in particular. I can say look both ways before you cross the street and maybe it’ll make your day better, but at the end of the day, it is what it is. So you know, it isn’t just one action that can take place that can make a situation better. Because every action gone cause a equal or opposite reaction so no matter how much right you try to do, some muthafucka somewhere still trying to do you wrong. No matter how much correction you try to do, it’s still somebody you know waiting to get a lil’ more bucker. It’s always a tree out there taller than your tree. It’s always a lil’ herb out there fire than your herb. Its always a  broad head out there fire than your broad’s head. So something’s going to happen regardless, no matter how hard you try.

 But no, it isn’t just one action or something negative to bridge the gap. Just as hard as me and you try to bring it closer together, you best believe it, its gone be somebody somewhere trying to pull it that much farther apart.

 What do you believe the American Constitution’s foundation consist of?

 Man, you know, I don’t know too much about that, only what I learned in grade school. I don’t keep up with it you know. I learned enough to get up out of the grade. I’m just like that, I’m a Taliban. I’m eating out the same bowl with Osama Bin Laden and the rest of the Al Qaeda. I’m living by them laws now and the constitution, damn the American.

 In reference to the song “In God We Trust”, you said “Put aside your fame & wealth and you might find something you can cherish more than life itself”. What do you cherish more than life itself?

 Everything is in it, first and foremost the existence of God being in my life. That’s something I cherish more than life itself. My son, Third, the list go on and on. You know what Joe said, ”the mercedes benz, it wasn’t enough, ya cognac and vodka-it wasn’t enough. Ya gold visa”.. ya know what I’m sayin? It aint gone neva be enough mane. At the end of the day, one part of life that has to take place, that’s the ending. You have to do, so with that being said, how can you put it on a pedal.

So why wouldn’t you find something you can value for. Anything? Maybe your talent, your ability to reach people and change their lives, and have them relate to issues you’ve been through all your life. Have them feeling like they’ve been knowing you all of their life, because they’ve been listening to your music for 10 years. And it really makes their day to interview you and stuff like that. So, I put aside my fame and wealth and I’ll cherish more than life itself, the fact that I have an affect on somebody else life like that.

 Why do you think your music has remained up to date this long?

 Reality, its real, reality is down to earth mane. Its easy going mane. It’s like that chunky soup with McNabb’s mama and them be on that commercial. You know already mane it’s high energy good for you.  (It’s) Full of vitamins, protein, minerals and all that good stuff. It makes you strong. (It’s) Advocate and adversaries out here on the battlefield. It’s reality. It talks about subject matter that’s not fads or fashions. It talks about test of time situations.  

What does the game owe you?

 *imitating Tony Montana* The world Chico and everything in it. I want what’s coming to me. And what’s that Tony? The world Chico, and everything in it. 

Is there anything in life that you regret?

 You know it’s an experience. If its something they retrospect in their past that they wish they could change, they as the term is used, “regret”. But at the end of the day, I live by the logic that you can’t take it back so why waste my time pouting and being pissed off about it. I need to just adjust the situation and use it to my advantage. Yeah, I learned from my mistakes, that’s the way I was raised, but at the same time, I’ve also learned in this period of my life not to have too many regrets because you’re not doing anything but wasting energy and time. Bitching to yourself about something you can’t change anyway.

 Why cry over spilled milk, I like drinking Moet too much, and I like drinking purple stuff and they don’t stop making cows and niggaz don’t stop milking cows so you know life goes on. 

What would you say to the youth growing up in crime infested poverty who think there isn’t any other option, but to live the life style they are accustomed to in their environment?

You have to pick up your own shovel mane. You have to dig deep and find what’s inspiring you. If you subject yourself to a certain statue of limitations, in that aspect, all you gone settle for is less. If you want more, you’ll do more. If you want more, you gone go get more. You gone try to strive big, you aint gone settle for that. So it aint about what I can tell a person specifically. It all boils down to your desires, what floats your boat, what makes “G” happy.  

What’s good for one doesn’t have to be good for two. Just because it pleases me doesn’t mean it has to please you. So with that being said, if a person want to settle for that, being subjective to them. Man look, just as easy as you sat out on that corner and sell rocks mane, you can walk the streets and pick up cans. You can try to recycle something, you can wash cars, you know.

Its just this pride thing and you worry about what people think when they ride through the fast food restaurant lined to see you in the fast food window. You can’t let “so and so” see you there. It aint about that! But you don’t want them to see you in jail or hell either, but you’re willing to take that chance so it’s really about what you find in yourself. Your desire, your integrity, your gut instinct to want to strive. I had a choice to make. This is what I chose. I asked God to give me this over that. And this is what he gave me.

 It got to the point where the streets was cold to me. The game got old to me. The paper got old to me. They sold they soul to me. I paced myself. Takin’ step by step. They callin’, my mafia brothas if I need some help. And mob all over all the broken hearts I left. And shine upon all you bitches all by myself. Where, right beside my dog, standing one for all. And everybody who love me, ya know I mob for yall. Shockin’ shows and souls who chose to oppose M-Three and still I scream Nobody…uuh ohh.

 Do you feel being incarcerated hurt or helped you as an individual and an artist?

 Man, shit, how in the fuck living in the shadow of a got-damn box can help a grown ass man?  I’m a man and a half so how in the fuck can that help me? You learn from it, but it didn’t help me. I was a better muthafucka before I went to the box. It didn’t take going to the box for me to learn that I was doing some shit I aint have no business doing. I knew that before I went there. Damn right, it hurt me. It slowed down my career. It took me out of the life of my son. Out the life of my daughter, my family, the mob, all the lives that revolved around me.

 Picture me being the sun, and the whole solar system is my mob. And all of a sudden, you just take the sun away from the solar system. You got lil innocent planets out there man, lil innocent satellites, lil innocent moons, and stars that just revolve around me, being their nucleus. And you take that away from them. That’s the shit that hurted me the most, how the people who was innocent by-standers had to got-dammit do the time too, because they was taken away from me. I was taken away from them. Nah, it aint help me at all. Only thing out there, I learned to like reading. I never ever enjoyed reading. But I love it now, I just don’t never find time to do what I’m looking for. Time I can pull up and buy me a book and read or something. Cuz I’ll read like four-five hundred pages in a nights time. In one sit, if I’m right, got me a couple of sticks to burn.

 Will there ever be any collaborations with Gangsta Blac, Black Out & Terror?

 I don’t know. That’s the answer to that question.

Down-South.com did an interview with Pastor Troy about 5 years ago and he told us you two did an album together, any truth to that?

 No, there’s not any truth to that. We suppose to had did an album but actually we never recorded it.

Any upcoming albums and projects to look forward to?

 *chants* “In stores soon Mafia All Day, New Fly and I hate ya had to wait”. Other than that, just taking it slow so I can do it some mo’. Show some love, keeping it real, mobbin far as I can see. Just trying to enjoy the life.

 Tell us bout the horses ya got in ya stable? 

I got Thaistik The Bearilla, Mista Tito, Mista King Tito my by brotha and Miami Maine up in this thang. That’s the mob. Can’t forget Joe Soprano. He just a mob himself. He isn’t an artist but he’s the mob. But first and foremost, we got Thaistik, the “Bearilla”, me personally myself Playa Fly, Miami Mane, Mr. King Tito, Joe Soprano, got my lil brotha Stone Cold out there, he lurkin somewhere. My brotha London Fog. I got access to niggaz like Nigga 9, Killa Murphy, and you know Mafia All Day for real. 

How has the internet benefited you? 

Myspace. www.myspace.com/playaflymuzik . I promise, it’s a great connection, beautiful asset, and its one for one. I believe myspace did a lot for me. It did a great job for me. It’s a powerful marketing and testing tool. I also believe it’s a big ole’ bootleg scheme to it at the same time. Aint doing nothing but finding away to give ya music away so. Anyway, I just hope people go buy the record. Don’t support the bootleg, buy the album. Support the movement. 

How many more years you think you got left as an artist? 

I don’t know how many I got left. I got a lifetime, I just don’t want it. I love being an artist, I just don’t appreciate the music business and the people that’s in it. Because they have contaminated it so much. It aint fun no more, everybody’s trying to rap. Everybody trying to watch the money so it aint music no more and my passion lies with making music itself. It aint in actual selling the records, although, I do enjoy the benefits. Collecting the checks, doing the shows, collecting those balances and depositing them. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy making the money, but at the end of the day, my passion lies in inventing. Making music, being able to tell my story. Reaching, preaching, teaching to you. As the public, and getting the love shown back in return for the love that I show. That’s what I do it for. I can see myself doing this a little more, but I planned this to be all over with and done by now anyway. Even though I know life is a lot about plan. Fans like “nah mane, so why ya gonna stop rapping dog”? I’m not saying that, I’m just sayin man look, I’m not going to be up here 35 yrs old like Master P and expect me to be rappin all this old shit. I just don’t want to be doing it. I didn’t try to get my label to executive cheerlead produce other artists. I really got to secure myself as an artist so I can succeed and make sure my brothers get their foot in the door, get their toes wet and make a little money. Then I’ll sit my ass down somewhere for life. Be a father to my son. Be a father to my daughter. 

So, tell us about the new single..

The single that we are rolling with right now, this single is titled “Da Truth”. Its produced by a producer from Memphis that currently resides in Atlanta, by the name of Yung Juve. Affiliated with SoSo Def. We recorded it at Patchworks Recording in Atlanta Georgia. Me, myself, and I..Playa Fly. The Universal Heart throb. Solo artist on the single titled Da Truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. And its an eye poppin, jaw dropping, heart stopping, head bangin, ear rangin’ out the fram achin, ya know.

 I ‘preciate ya support, contact ya local radio stations and request it and lets try to do it real big. I should be shooting a video for it sometime soon. I’ll advertise it, let everybody come out and participate and be a part of it. Just going for what I know.

The album is complete, I just don’t have a release date yet so I won’t lead everyone on, but we aint waiting on me to record anymore songs. We just trying to get our game plan together before we run out there on the court.

 Any last words?

 In stores soon Mafia All Day. New fly and I hate ya had to wait. Don’t support the bootleg. Buy the album. Support the movement. It’s the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. www.myspace.com/playaflymuzik On behalf of Minnie Mae Mafia, Minnie Mae Muzik, I would like so say Mafia All Day, say no more, Sap Sucka!!!

• Playa Fly "Da Truth"
• Playa Fly "Horses"