In Part 2 of AHH’s Waka Flocka interview, we talk about beef,lyrics and this feelings on getting shot.  

AllHipHop.com: I asked people on twitter to ask Waka some questions. Some people wanted to know if you care about the “Real Hip-Hop.”  

Waka Flocka: Come on bro, like, who don’t care about that? I ain’t saying nothing about that. I said I don’t need no lyrics. Lyrics ain’t getting me paid. It ain’t. That ain’t got me paid. I’m just speaking how I feel. So what a person thinking they lyrical, half the people that we’re talking about, talking bad on me ain’t lyrical. That was just a part of that era. If you don’t know the era you don’t know music. But people be quoting from that era like they lived through that era. Them folk born in the 80’s man. Folks in the 80’s was 20-something years old, you wasn’t even 5 years old, how the hell you know what was going on right there and then.  

They talk about “pick up a such-and-such album, pick up this album,” and if I get to rapping like that, what somebody going to do with my CD? Fling that s**t out the window. Them folk don’t want to hear that man. Hip-Hop is for development. It just ain’t for standing still, going back and remaking old songs. That ain’t cool, remaking folk’s songs. I honestly don’t think that’s cool. I might quote a person because that quote went hard, but people trying to say who’s “lyrical”, it ain’t lyrical man. 

AllHipHop.com: You would lose your fan base anyways if you did that.  

Waka Flocka: Yeah, in my opinion, they wouldn’t respect me for that. They would probably be like “You ain’t even on that, why you trying to prove a point to people that don’t even know you.” I don’t care about what all they got going on with their lyrics. You can have that…[people] like “Aye, you got simple rap.” Yeah it’s got me straight. Put your words in the club, you got about 1,000 words in one verse, nobody wants to hear that man. They drunk, they in the zone, or they mad. I just come get your party crunk, that’s it and dip. I ain’t come to let you sit in the car, listen to my whole cd, and make you go through emotional problems, Come on, I ain’t even into all that.

AllHipHop.com: What’s up with you and Brisco? Right after you got shot, he just made this song that was like raw. It was so raw. I don’t know where it stems from really.  

Waka Flocka: I didn’t think it was raw.  

AllHipHop.com: You didn’t?  

Waka Flocka: Hell nah, it wasn’t all that. But I felt like he got emotional. This n####, I ain’t even know nothing about him. The only thing I heard from him was a Lil’ Wayne song but, I ain’t finna to diss that man. That’s on him. That’s how he feel, that’s how he got emotional, it is what it is. I ain’t even going to worry about that man.  

AllHipHop.com: So you don’t have any other beefs?  

Waka Flocka: I don’t even eat red meat so beef isn’t even my category. Give me some fish, and some chicken.  

AllHipHop.com: How do you feel like the internet played a part in your success?  

Waka Flocka: That’s where I did my promotion. My first mixtape, I ain’t even press no copies of my mixtape. I was just straight on the internet. I was paying people to blast. I ain’t even let my folks know I dropped a mixtape, I did all that on my own. I ain’t go to no studio because I was really underground. I really did it for fun…and it popped so I’m going to run with it.  

AllHipHop.com: Well, some dudes, I don’t know if they had any involvement in your shooting, but they were on the internet posting up with your chain.  

Waka Flocka: Yeah man, that’s crazy ain’t it?  

AllHipHop.com: Yeah, that’s wild.  

Waka Flocka: I like that, it was good promotion too. They made me rich though, I didn’t know how they look…a bird or a dog could have shot me. I ain’t even see his face. 

AllHipHop.com: What you mean a bird or a dog?  

Waka Flocka: Like a animal, I thought a animal just flew down [imitates a gun with his hand and makes the sound of it being shot]. Ain’t no human did it. Who knows? That might not be them that might be them. 

AllHipHop.com: You don’t care? 

Waka Flocka: Hell no! 

AllHipHop.com: Why not?  

Waka Flocka: For what? 

AllHipHop.com: Because people assaulted you.  

Waka Flocka: He ain’t assaulted me man, he ain’t even know he shot me.  

AllHipHop.com: He didn’t? 

Waka Flocka: Hell nah, he was running. He did just like this [imitates a gun with his hand, points it in front of him while looking behind him], blaow!  

AllHipHop.com: I thought you said they were trying to take your life.  

Waka Flocka: Yeah, but he was scared. I was in the driver seat, he put a gun right here [points to left side of his head]. “So wassup I’m trying to kill you” I’m like, “S### you ain’t gotta kill me you can have this, [starts taking off rings on his fingers] this cheap ass jewelry.” I mean it ain’t cheap, but hey, this s###’s priceless. So I take my chain off, I’m stepping out of the car, he backed up. I’m like, “S### I mind as well go, fight this n####, take it from him, and show him what to do with it.”  

But, once I grabbed it, he reacted quick. While I was in a punch…[lifts up his arm as if punching and then points to his arm right below his shoulder as if he was being shot] boom, and when it hit, it hit my ribs and lungs. He thought he hit me in my chest, he thought he shot me in the side, he don’t even know he hit me in my arm, right here [shows scar from bullet wound].  

AllHipHop.com: That’s your first time getting shot?  

Waka Flocka: Hell yeah, I hope its the last time cause I don’t glorify bullets. 

AllHipHop.com: Oh yeah…you hang out with Nicki Minaj?  

Waka Flocka: Yeah, not no more, she’s stupid booked up, that’s my partner though. She’s cool as hell, and she’s fire with the rapping. Don’t get on no…..with her because she’s going to smoke your ass.  

After the shooting, but before the black eye. After the arrest. After the comments about lyrics, but before he was fodder for TMZ. I sat down with Waka Flocka Flames. I wanted to meet this person. This is the one that everybody had been talking about, even though I personally had not heard much of his music at that time. My friend’s daughters from Alabama had heard it though. Credit them for making me more interested in this guy. Now my boy’s daughters are clamoring to intern for me because they want to meet Waka too. Interesting, this Waka Flocka Flame guy is. He’s got haters like a tenured, rich rapper, but the adoration of a segment of Hip-Hop that’s not so interested in lyrical prowess. Through it all, Waka seems content in the idea that hate trumps indifference any day.

AllHipHop.com: Well, first of all, good to meet you.  

Waka Flocka: Good to meet you too, likewise.  

AllHipHop.com: You’re definitely a big talk-of-the-town type of individual these days. First of all, the whole shooting thing put you on everybody’s radar beyond the underground scene. Can you talk about your progress beyond that? How you’ve come to this point, being so popular.  

Waka Flocka: I don’t even know. I just stayed in my mind, went hard, and s**t popped.  

AllHipHop.com: How would you describe your style of music?  

Waka Flocka: Hmm, different…Yeah, it’s different.  

AllHipHop.com: What’s your creative process? What do you put into it, as far as what you put down on paper, and eventually what gets to the people? 

Waka Flocka: I really just go off how I feel.  However I feel, that’s how I go. I never ever just create the concept. It’s hard to create the concept and run with it, because you keep your mind boxed in. So I really just, go with the flow.  

AllHipHop.com: How’d you get down with Gucci?  

Waka Flocka: Through the management. My manager, that’s my Momma, my real Momma. So I had met him. I got down cause I hung with him, felt him out, he’s a good person. So why not rock with him?  

AllHipHop.com: Okay, so you weren’t like friends from back in the day or nothing like that? 

Waka Flocka: Nah.  

AllHipHop.com: Okay so how long have you and Gucci known each other?  

Waka Flocka: It’s been some years, probably about 5 years.  

AllHipHop.com: Do you guys bounce off each other creatively? Are you in the studio together?  

Waka Flocka: Gucci bounce off Gucci. I don’t know how he makes that music. Homie can probably make about 12 songs in a day, and still want to go out and party. It’s in him. I don’t know what I feed off. I, sometimes, gotta be in the mood to rap. I’m never in the mood to rap everyday. I might be in the mood the next day to do some business. I’m more like a brainiac person. That’s why I be thinking about what I do.  

AllHipHop.com: You think too much?  

Waka Flocka: Yeah, sometimes I over-think stuff.  

AllHipHop.com: You catch a lot of flack, how do you feel about that? 

Waka Flocka: I like it.  

AllHipHop.com: You do?  

Waka Flocka: I love it, if there ain’t none [no hate] you ain’t doing good. I don’t want folk patting me on my back, because it’ll make me feel comfortable mentally, and I don’t want to feel comfortable.  I want to feel like I’m disowned. Somehow they gotta love me. So the haters, they gotta catch up, I hope they catch up.  

AllHipHop.com: It’s funny because when I was with my best friend from Alabama, his daughters were talking about you the whole time. What’s interesting is that they’re teenagers, so I was getting a whole different perspective on your movement, and how people feel in general aside from a hate standpoint.  

Waka Flocka: See, I really rap for folk from my generation, because when people come out young, they always come out with the girly stuff, or the flashy “I’m rich” type stuff. Why ain’t nobody talking about the aggressive stuff? Folks aggressive where I’m at, but we hungry. I tried to go get the jobs, that don’t work. Them folks ain’t hiring…they ain’t doing nothing. They talking about some cutting taxes, give some job money! So I rap aggressive. AllHipHop.com: Is it true that you’re really from New York?  

Waka Flocka: Yeah, I’m from Queens, Northside.  

AllHipHop.com: How long were you here?  

Waka Flocka: Until like fifth grade.  

AllHipHop.com: And you moved? Your mom moved you down there?  

Waka Flocka: Nah, I was getting into too much [trouble] in New York. I was moving too fast. They told me just move to Georgia to play basketball.  

AllHipHop.com: Did you excel in that?  

Waka Flocka: Yeah, I just went down there to play basketball and that ended.  

AllHipHop.com: How’s having your Mom as your manager? 

Waka Flocka: That’s like my sister anyways. When I grew up she was like my Momma, my sister and my Daddy. So it’s just natural.  

AllHipHop.com: Okay, okay, alright. Everybody wants to know how you got your name from the people I talked to. Waka Flocka: My boy Gucci he said “Wacka Flacka Fling” like “Aye bruh these joints threw their shooters up”…some crazy s**t like that. And everybody probably thought he was saying “Wacka Flacka Flame,” so s** t I just went with it.  

AllHipHop.com: Do you feel like your style of rap, and what you rap about were a result of your conditions and your economic conditions?  

Waka Flocka: Yeah, that’s how I feel. Like a person who is just sick and tired of just going through the hell they’re going through. I use music to relieve my anger, so I don’t physically contact a person. I’m always mad at somebody, because folk always do lying s### all the time. I rather go in the booth and expose your ass before I put my hands on you and do some damage into you. There’s a lot of people who feel like me. A lot of people mad right now, and folks still coming out with that “Yeah I’m in the club popping bottles!” Man, you don’t need to pop no bottles to get drunk honestly. You can take like two, three double shots and you in the zone…I’m more on reality talk.  Part 2 Coming Tomorrow