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There’s something about the State of Mississippi that breeds hustlers among young Blacks who live there for a substantial period of time. Perhaps the just the brutal poverty, combined with the State’s ugly history of racial segregation that instills in many young buck to urgent sense that, in this world, nothing is given but rather earned or taken by any mean necessary.

 

As a rapper/Producer/web designer/graphic artists/entrepreneur Dub G understands this philosophy better than anybody. Name a record that has come out from the Mississippi Gulf Coast area and odds are he’s produced it, rapped on it or designed the group’s art work and/or web site. But in the midst of all of this hard work, Dub G still finds time to write, produce and record his second LP entitled Executive Status. Recently he had hit Jacktown to do some production for P-Boy Stone’s upcoming album and between sessions we took time to chat about his busy life.

Down-South: What’s going on Dub?

Dub: Man the same old thing. Chilling and parleying.

Down-South: You’re from the Mississippi Gulf Coast area.

Dub: Yeah, I’m from a little town down there called Pas Christian. It’s a little town just right outside Biloxi.

Down-South: Were you born there?

Dub: No, I’m from LA originally. You might as well say that I’m from the hoods of Mississippi. I moved down here when I was three and I’ve been down here every since then.

Down-South: What Pas Christian like?

Dub: It’s a small little town where everybody pretty much know everybody else that live there. It’s really nothing too big about the Pas.

Down-South: What kind of music did you grow up listening to?

Dub: I came up on a lotta gospel, a lotta gospel. My grandmother was a religious leader. She sang at the local church. She played the piano at the church too so it was a lotta gospel music, a lotta old school jazz and blues…a lotta Billie Holiday, a lotta O’Jays, the Four Tops stuff like that. With an old grandmamma like that you know how stuff goes.

Down-South: How did you get into rap music?

Dub: I came into the game kinda late. I came around when Snoop Dogg first came out. That’s when I first started getting’ up on it.

Down-South: Danm, you did come into it late Dub.

Dub: Yeah, I did come into it a little late. I know my roots in hip hop ain’t that deep, but they are deep when it comes to Black music in general. But as far as hip hop is concerned I first started getting into it when Snoop and Death Row started popping off. So Dre and Snoop are my first influences.

Down-South: Okay, I know that the Mississippi Gulf Coast is close to New Orleans. How far are you from the NO?

Dub: About 35 minutes.

Down-South: So you probably heard a whole lot of New Orleans music coming up too?

Dub: Now that is true. I was listening to NO music when they started jumping off round there in TT Tucker, DJ Irv’s time. Right there when Mannie Fresh and Gregory D was still a group. I got into a lotta they stuff. I listen to Pimp Daddy, Kilo G, a lotta early Cash Money stuff.

Down-South: When did you go from being a fan to a participant in the music?

Dub: Ah, that story there is kinda wild. It was in 93, around the same time Snoop came out. One of my cousins, my lil’ cousin named 17 at that, he and two other cats had a little group called Tha Hustlaz. They was rapping and everything and my lil’ cousin came to me and asked me did I wanna get in the group. So I joined the group and we started getting everything cracking. In a about a year and a half after that, we did our own bootleg tape on a little karaoke machine. We got it around the hood. I talking ‘bout we was slanging tapes. We didn’t even know what was going on you know. We started doing block parties. My name started ringing. We switched the name of the group to the KGs. After a while everything started to getting’ real big. That’s when we started taking it kinda serious.

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 Down-South: So you were once a member of the KGs?

Dub: Uh Huh, I was an original member of the KGs. It was four of us. It was Lil Hound, 17, Newport…we call him Port and myself. I was the fourth own. Now Port, he went to jail before everything went down. He’s about to touch down in two or three years. We got him when he touch down. But year I was an original member of the KGs.

Down-South: Okay now you’re a rapper and a producer, tell me which one did you start out doing first?

Dub: At first I started rapping. And when I finally started producing was when my boy, Brian Ashley over at Big Talk Entertainment who was doing damn near everybody’s music on the Coast. He was kinda a real big figure down there. He told me that whenever we was ready to make that big jump to come down and see him at his studio. It was about 1995, when we got with him and recorded our first studio track and we got all hyped up over there and we started recording tracks, doing a little bit of everything everywhere. We had a little bit of turmoil, but we got through it.

Down-South: When did you do your first solo album?

Dub: My first solo project, I’ll never forget that. It was in the winter of 99. I had got into the production side of the game back then. That when I said to myself, well if we’re gonna do this big then we’re gonna have to go ahead and do it so I went ahead and worked on my album, the KGs’s album and another album all at the same time.

Down-South: How many units did you move on that one?

Dub: I sold about 5,500 units on my first album. Then we came back with the KGs album in January of 2000. We started getting lotta notoriety from that. We got write up in a couple of magazines and our name was ringing like crazy all over the place. Since then we’ve kinda been ducked off, re-upping, getting the production skills better, getting the rapping skills better, learning the business aspect of the game to the fullest.

Down-South: Speaking of business, you’ve started your own label Big House Music…

Dub: yeah, I’m president, CEO, artist/producer fro Big House Music. I’ve got everything incorporated since May of 98. We’ve started our own graphic company and got real, real big on that. So we’ve just been rolling in all aspects of the game right now.

Down-South: What’s been happening as far as other artists on the label?

Dub: We’ve got Lil’ Hound and 17 from the KGs, they’re both coming out with solo projects. We getting ready to drop off 17’s double disc Welcome to Mississippi. Later on this year we gonna drop Lil Hound’s on the prowl so we’re back into the same thing working on three albums at once. We’re trying to get the same thing jumping off like we did once before, the only difference now is we know the game a little better.

Down-South: Okay tell me about your new album Executive Status?

Dub: The new album is called Executive Status and we’re looking for a release probably sometime in June, July. I’ve got Mr. Serv-On, ya boy David Banner, Choppa, Beelow and P-Boy Stone. I’ve got a good lil host of cats on there that showed love and came through and did the do with me. It’s on and popping with this one here!


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