Earlier this year, fans expected to hear Quan’s debut, Until My Death, but instead, recently heard about the rapper from a recent arrest by Hampton, Virginia police. The police alleged that the Nas protégé [born Don Ferquan] was inside a hotel room with a gun, minor amounts of weed, and a large amount of cash. As fans await Quan’s album, he must contend with a legal system that may not be impartial to him. Earlier this year, the rapper told AllHipHop.com about his criminal past, and reformed vision. Will these new circumstances allow Quan to be judged him fairly? Read the rapper proclaims his innocence and speak on the Nas/Jay-Z peace treaty, Ill Will Records and his reliance on God. [Click here to read the original interview with Quan.]

AllHipHop.com: How are you doing?

Quan: Man, I’m maintaining.

AllHipHop.com: It’s been a minute. The last time we spoke, you were overseas performing with Nas.

Quan: I was runnin’ around with son [Nas].

AllHipHop.com: I’m sorry to have to speak to you like this under these circumstances. Did you want to speak your peace on things?

Quan: I’ma just touch on it lightly. Basically, I’m innocent. You know I got caught up in a f**ked up situation with some f**ked up individuals, man. It’s obvious that it’s not what the public makes it to be, or I wouldn’t be where I am at now [as an artist].

AllHipHop.com: You have been through the system on a previous occasion.

Quan: That’s the reason why, they are really trying to blow it up to be – you know what I mean – more than what it is.

AllHipHop.com: Right. What did you think of the press reports? How inaccurate was the press?

Quan: Basically, it’s a bunch of bulls**t. People are gonna take things and run with it and they’re gonna twist it and chop it up which ever way they can to make me look bad. On top of that, I’m and artist. You know how it goes.

AllHipHop.com: Were you the only person arrested?

Quan: I’m not going to get into that. At this point in time, I am the only person they charged [with a crime]. The other ones got away.

AllHipHop.com: Do you think they recognized you? Honestly, I wouldn’t think police would know your face that way, then again, I don’t know.

Quan: All I can say is that I’m in VA [Virginia], dog – the start of the Confederacy. Yeah, Nat Turner walked here. Either way it goes, you know what it is. I don’t want to get into that. I’m thankful for the support that I’ve got, and the love that I’ve gotten from the fans. I’m innocent and it’ll show. My [music] project, I’m still moving forward. Basically, that’s what it is, man. Trials and tribulations, they come and either you allow them to make you or you allow them to break you. I’m a fighter, dog.

AllHipHop.com: Did somebody…

Quan: You steadily asking me about this case man. My life is on the line.

AllHipHop.com: I feel you. Can you speak on the music?

Quan: We can definitely talk about that, man. That’s what I want to talk about. I’m here to let the world know I’m innocent. I came too far. I’ve been that route. That’s over and done with. Look at the story, it don’t even sound right.

AllHipHop.com: A lot of people felt that way like we know your history and people are like, “Why? He’s there on the edge of major success.” On the music note, I heard one new joint.

Quan: Quan: “D-Tight,” it lifts the Faith Evans beat.

AllHipHop.com: Yeah!

Quan: [sings] “I done did a lot of things, caught a lot of cases…” and even that will tell you, “Lost some of my best friends, but I’m gonna be alright.” Look, man, I’m doing music now. Let me tell you, you can’t do both.

AllHipHop.com: A lot of cats think you can do both.

Quan: That’s some bulls**t. I’m the first one to tell you. That’s some bulls**t.

AllHipHop.com: A lot of us have been anxiously waiting. We heard the Nas joint and thought there would be a quick follow-up, but it didn’t come.

Quan: I been in the lab working – grinding. I got some things poppin’ with [DJ] Big Mike and we gonna get it right. Ill Will is the family, Atlantic is the movement.

AllHipHop.com: Atlantic’s the movement?

Quan: I’m signed to Atlantic.

AllHipHop.com: Oh, Okay. I thought you were on Sony/Columbia, but I’ve heard Nas talk about possibly going to Atlantic too. I thought you were dropping a hint.

Quan: That’s what it is. I know there was a lot of confusion about an interview that I had did when I mentioned that I’m signing to Atlantic. Some people took it the wrong way like I don’t rock with Nas no more. That ain’t the case, and that needs to be known first and foremost. That’s my dude regardless of what. He allows me to be my own person. He watches over me and Ill Will is still what it is.

AllHipHop.com: Are you still signed to Ill Will?

Quan: Am I still signed to Ill Will? I don’t want to get into all of that. Just know, it’s all love. I got a lot of people that’s involved with my project, my career – for the betterment of my career. I’m with Ill Will, I’m with Atlantic. How I’m signed, I’m trying to keep that will me and will all due respect, it’s the same – all love. I’m going to keep it moving.

AllHipHop.com: With your album, you sing and you rap. I’m seeing a few people poppin’ up doing that. Even Tyrese is talkin’ about rappin’ and singing.

Quan: I’ll I’ma say is God got me. He brought me this far. And, my music is going to speak for itself. My album is going to speak for itself. It’s a beautiful thing. After “Just A Moment,” I had to get some things in order. Its unfortunate that these trials and tribulations came about, but I’m going to be all right.

AllHipHop.com: I believe you. What did you think of the Jay-Z/ Nas peace treaty at New York’s Powerhouse recently?

Quan: It was a beautiful move for Hip-Hop – a beautiful move for them. It is what it is. It happens and dudes don’t always agree, you have your fallouts. Me and my brother have fallouts. But, at the end of the day, it’s about the bigger picture and the bigger picture is: that’s good for Hip-Hop and that’s good for them. Now some people may not be mature enough to understand and may have their own opinions, but I applaud them. Put this pride aside, and get this paper. That’s what it’s about: getting this paper and feeding families. It ain’t all about “F you and F me and I’ll blow your head off. And n***a I’ll ride on you.” There is a time and place for all that sometimes, but not all the time and that invalidates you. I applaud all of that [with Jay and Nas]. I wish I was there, but I was dealing with a lot [legally].

AllHipHop.com: Right, right…

Quan: Beautiful things, man. My head is up. God got me, trust me. I been through the worst. I been through the worst. I’m going to be okay. I thank everybody for the love and the support.

AllHipHop.com: What’s on deck for you? How are you going to proceed?

Quan: As far as other dudes that rap and sing, do you. Its only one of me like its only one of them.

AllHipHop.com: Who are you working with on your project?

Quan: I was working with Lil’ Scrappy when I was down in Atlanta. I just been recording. However, whenever, whatever and just been getting it popping. I been working with plenty different artists. I built with the kid Wacko from UTP. Quite a few producers and I’m about to go in with Just Blaze, Kanye and possibly Scott Storch. You gonna see me on the screen again – God willing.

AllHipHop.com: You got the right label now, because Atlantic is winning.

Quan: I got a lot of support there. The whole building supports me. I’m just so mad that this bulls**t came up man, but like I said, “God got it.”My innocence will be proven. For once in my crooked a** life, I’m really innocent. That’s really talk. Ain’t no way in hell I’ll put my momma through this s**t again. Ain’t no way. She been through too much. Ain’t no way in hell I’m going to do seven years and some change and me just jump back out there on some stupid s**t. Any n***that do that deserves what he gets. And, I’ve been behind that wall. The truth is gonna come out and we gonna sell millions of records.

AllHipHop.com: Keep your head up…stay strong.

Quan: And you do the same.

Bruce Lee believed in, “The art of fighting without fighting.” The idea of creating an album with out a concept, in itself, seems almost damn near impossible, but shows true ambition. Wu-Tang affiliate, former MC, and crew A&R, Dreddy Kruger has done just that. He recently stepped up to man the controls of Think Differently.

The recently released project finds core and other Wu affiliates alongside top billing MC’s in the underground and independent markets. The prospects of ‘GZA & Ras Kass’ or ‘MF Doom and RZA’ have hyped the album, and led to fast sales through digital downloading. As he leaves this project to A&R the Wu-Tang’s next group album, AllHipHop.com spoke to Dreddy Kruger on thinking differently with this album, the evolving sound of Wu, and how much RZA charges for a beat. Peep game.

AllHipHop.com: Think Differently is billed to be the first collaborative Wu-Tang effort. In my mind, Iron Flag tried to achieve that, and wasn’t so successful.

Dreddy Kruger: This album will change all of that. It’s exciting. People are getting excited for a Hip-Hop project for a change. I know this because of heads that have been reaching out on this.

AllHipHop.com: Give me some examples of your A&R outlook…

Dreddy Kruger: If you have eight strong bars, and you said everything that you needed to in those eight, then you need to drop that first and then a short hook, another verse and get in and get out. I have a lot of tracks that clock in under three minutes. I want cats to be like, “Damn, I wish that I could hear more of this.” When the corporations took control of Hip-Hop and record making, that’s when the talent went drastically down. It made no difference if you were from the urban or the suburban culture. They made it as a product that they could market and sell. That’s what killing Hip-Hop. They don’t care about the integrity of it. They just are about making a quick dollar and move on to the next artist. That’s why everyone thinks that they can do this s**t. Cats are a dime a dozen. Back in the day when I would hear a Rakim album, I never imagined ever being able to do anything like that, let alone be on a track with him. I was in awe. Think Differently, has the real MC’s, the real n***as.

AllHipHop.com: Was the project originally to surround Wu-Tang?

Dreddy Kruger: Yeah, that was the whole idea. It was my whole concept. I had all of the beats first. I picked up some old s**t from RZA and a few other cats. An album with Wu-Tang productions and Wu-Tang artists, mixed in with independent artists and producers. I wanted to basically create a Wu sounding album with all of theses guest appearances on it. I’m not even talking about a Wu-Tang record. People have been waiting to hear something like this for a long time.

AllHipHop.com: How did you choose the artists? You have MF Doom, Tragedy, and Ras Kass to name a few.

Dreddy Kruger: I’ve had some of the beats for over five years. In the end, it took about three months to record the whole thing. I had the beats first. I had the whole album sequenced as to how I wanted to hear it. When I started listening to it over and over, I started A&R-ing the whole thing. I wanted to hear MF Doom on a track, but not with a Doom beat, but instead a RZA beat. I want to bring Doom into our world.

AllHipHop.com: Yeah, Doom just did Danger Doom and had Ghost Face on a track.

Dreddy Kruger: I was the A&R for that record also. I heard that record and I like it, but to me it’s a fun comical album. It’s not on a serious record. I knew that with the Think Differently project that I was doing was something that people wanted to hear. People have been wanting to hear this for about five years or so. They have been wanting to hear Wu-Tang matched up with other artists because it was something that we never really done in the past. The only artists to ever really have songs with us were Busta’, Red Man and Nas. Outside of that it’s real limited. Off the bat I knew that people wanted hear Sean Price, C-Ray Walz and Sunz of Man on an album.

AllHipHop.com: There’s the mainstream and underground scenes; Wu crosses into both genres. What do you think that album is going to do as far as uniting Hip-Hop fans?

Dreddy Kruger: I want the people to judge that. Time will tell. I just wanted to put out an album with no label politics. This is what the independent cats are supposed to be doing in the first place. I just wanted to bring back the 93’-95 RZA sound. All of these cats grew up listening to Wu-Tang, but Wu doesn’t necessarily know who all of these cats are. That’s kind of where I got the whole idea. Doom came to me four years back through a friend and wanted to have RZA on his album. He had like $5-7000 and wanted RZA to do whatever he could to do for that price. He didn’t really even know who he was. I had to break it down to him on the KMD “Peach Fuzz.”

AllHipHop.com: When Doom was was Zev Love X…

Dreddy Kruger: Exactly, but RZA didn’t really know who he was, and he never really got back to me on it. When RZA doesn’t get back to me on a project, then I know that he’s not really that interested. Like I said, the money was low and RZA gets like $40-50,000 for s**t. That’s why when I had an opportunity to do this whole project; I wanted to get Doom on a RZA beat. I told him, “Don’t worry about nothing son, you on a RZA beat… We’re about to make history.”

AllHipHop.com: You’ve got so many artists on here. I wanna know, who couldn’t you get on?

Dreddy Kruger: I didn’t have enough time to reach out to them, but we might be doing some remix s**t. Mos Def is really on a major label. It’s Wu-tang reaching the indi. culture. I didn’t really want to go outside of that. I could have got cats like Redman, but those kinds of cats on major labels, they get enough exposure. I was gonna’ put Mos on a song with GZA too.

AllHipHop.com: I could see Mos and Little Brother doing some stuff on the album…

Dreddy Kruger: Yeah, but not on a Little Brother track, but rather a Wu sounding track. I even wanted to hear how Little Brother sounds on some of our stuff. 9th Wonder, his stuff sounds low and distorted. It has kind of a demo sound. It’s good, but when your stuff is coming over the air and now you have cats with Ipods, you hear everything through head phones. It all makes the difference.

AllHipHop.com: Was this project a way to get lesser known Wu affiliates familiar to the masses?

Dreddy Kruger: That’s one of the things that has been f**king up Wu projects in the past. All the B-artists, people get tired of that. They want to hear cats that they know. What you have to do is sprinkle them in. I didn’t want to put too many Wu or underground cats on it.

AllHipHop.com: I’m surprised that no one has attempted to do a project like this before.

Dreddy Kruger: That’s what I told all the independent cats. We bring it all together and we can run some s**t. Look at Big Boi. He has a new compilation and is also signed to Virgin, but the [album] ain’t what it could be. Do you know the type of power this cat has and what he could do with that kind of major label backing?

AllHipHop.com: Why wasn’t Ghost on it?

Dreddy Kruger: I was going to put one of the Ghost/Doom records on it. His label, he’s on Def Jam, it’s not as simple as people think. They don’t know the type of business, stress and pressure that I had to put down. Def Jam didn’t want anything to come from Ghost until his album came out.

AllHipHop.com: How does it feel to be on the other side of the mic? You worked for Wu, now you’re ordering cats around.

Dreddy Kruger: I don’t look at it like that. I look at everything as “we” and not “me.” I’m trying to do everything for the king. I saw a weak link that we had. I’m trying to fix that. We don’t really have an A&R to put music together through an executive stand point. Everyone wants to be an MC or producer. RZA is the only business minded cat out of all of that cats that roll with us. My first s**t was Masta Killa’s album, then with Black Market Militia. They gave me the blessing to step further. People loved it. I had every Wu member on Killa’s album all stapled in throughout it. He was not overshadowed. He definitely still shined.

Finally. After a banner year full of endless cameos, Bun B offers his first solo effort – Trill. The rapper’s tour of duty has been well documented with UGK, his enduring group with incarcerated Pimp C. Although the story’s been told again and again, there are aspects of the Houston vet that have yet to be uncovered. Songs with Chino XL and Self-Scientific? Bun’s advice for Little Brother? Punk Rock Music? Underground versus commercial? The President of the South or the president? Fearless reader, allow yourself to be educated about Bun B.

AllHipHop.com: Do you feel that Trill is significant in restoring the Rap-A-Lot name and brand?

Bun B: Pimp C and myself probably wouldn’t be rapping today if it wasn’t for a label like Rap-A-Lot. We don’t like to let legends go to waste. Legacies don’t go to waste in the South. Rap-A-Lot Records is a reflection of the city of Houston as well as the South. We always wanted to see the label taken back to the glory – the height of the Geto Boys fame, or whatever.

James [Prince] has always been a big supporter for all of our success and the furtherance of all our careers. It was only right to try and reciprocate that love and bring it back to him.

AllHipHop.com: In speaking on the restoration of Houston’s image, were you emotionally invested in this year’s World Series?

Bun B: I’m God-damn proud of them ‘stros, man. ‘Cause of the fact that they weren’t even suppose to make the playoffs. You look at these guys, they where 15 games under .500. There was no way they where supposed to make the playoffs, or much less win the pennant. In Houston man, we are real grateful for what we did. We are not going to look at a trip to the World Series as a downer. Last year we made it to the playoffs, we didn’t win, we was happy being there, happy to be in the club and next year, we’ll get ‘em.

AllHipHop.com: Why do you call yourself “President of the South”?

Bun B: I did that ‘cause I really want to stand up for us right now. I want us to be represented by us and for us. We in the South, need to learn how to stick together and ride together. I think it’s just time for some pure leadership. Like on a honest level, on a street level, on a community level. And that’s what I hope to do. We’re not concerned with Bush’s politics. We’re not concerned with what’s [happening] on Pennsylvania Avenue. We’re not concerns with what’s going on inside a five-sided building [The Pentagon]. We’re not concerned with none of that s**t right now. ‘Cause obviously, their priorities aren’t us. I think it’s time for us to start making ourselves our own priority. So I’m going to use this time and this forum I have with my album being out right now to speak on s**t, and to try to unite my Southern people.

AllHipHop.com: How have you kept your legendary status untarnished?

Bun B: You have to give it up for the next generation, point blank. You can hover around the top, but eventually, the baton gets passed. You can either pass the baton voluntarily and hopefully out of respect, they’ll give it back to you. Or you can hold on to that b*tch until somebody comes and takes it. And the spectacle of the baton or crown being taken from you, can damage your image so bad that it’s no coming back from it. It looks more presentable to the public if you’re like, “Yo, this the next new n***a right here, give it up to him right now.”

AllHipHop.com: Your musical tastes extend beyond Hip-Hop, tell me about other things you dig…

Bun B: I like a lot of early 80’s Punk music like Black Flag and Dead Kennedy’s. Some of the Ramones stuff too. I really dig Dead Kennedy’s, and I’m a Sex Pistols fan. ‘Cause if you think about it, the same timeframe of that music [was] when early Rap was breaking. Whether it was Hollis, or coming out of Queensbridge or coming out of the Bowery or Hell’s Kitchen – all of it was out of poverty. Whatever you want to call it, it’s below standard living. There is a certain intensity and rage that come out of living in that type of world, and the way that they view the rest of the world, because it’s not comfortable where they sit. That’s the same mentality that Rap had in its inception. The same mentality that Punk had. ‘Cause I can feel like that, mothaf**kas are p##### off. And I can buy it a little more from them than I can from Rap, because I’m too closely tied into the performance and the artist, and Rap music. ‘Cause I be p##### off, mad, and angry, and I be wanting to vent. But some of this Rap don’t do that. I listen to Radiohead every now and then. I’m still trying to figure out how they make that s**t. There’s really just an art of the music that they put together. I really have no clue on how they sit there and put that type of s**t together. But I’m not going to sit there and try to decipher it. If I like it, I just like it.

AllHipHop.com: As far as Punk and Rap, the 80’s were an interesting time…

Bun B: Well, we all got our music from the same source in the 80’s. There was no BET, there was no VH1. We was watching Friday night videos, the s**t on USA that used to come on all night and f**kin’ MTV. So we would sit around and listen to Billy Idol and Rod Stewart and Michael Jackson. We all watched the same s**t. White kids in New York. they went to the Black corners. They partied down town, walked through the park, they didn’t hang in the park, but they walked past the park. Everybody was getting the same music from the same place. We all relate a lot better to each other than we think we do. That’s why when you be at a concert you be thinking, like if you go to a Jay show or a 50 show, you see all them White boys. And you be like, “These White boys gonna get f**ked up.” They don’t. You always think they do, but they don’t. They be the ones that’s partying too hard.

AllHipHop.com: Fans have always valued UGK’s underground sound. Is that be lost on this, a more commercial album?

Bun B: Well it’s not a UGK album. Anything that UGK made before, wasn’t that commercially successful. So people didn’t get a chance to accept it. We made songs like “One Day” and “Diamonds Up Against the Wood” all these were big in my region. It’s not that these records weren’t big…they never impacted these records to the East Coast. They never impacted these records to the West Coast. So it took time and word of mouth to get that s**t out there.

AllHipHop.com: What’s the biggest obstacle you’ve faced in your career?

Bun B: Probably dealing with Pimp C being locked up. In the sense of …I guess you’d say I’ve made it my responsibility to keep this thing alive. Pimp was [recently] saying, “You’ve put a lot of s**t on your shoulders, Bun you gonna be alright.” But I just feel obligated ‘cause I know what me and the kid been through. And I know what the kid would do for me in my situation. But it hasn’t been easy. But I’ve had a lot of support , Rap-A-Lot really stood up for the UGK s**t – more then a lot of them, if you ask me.

AllHipHop.com: How much time does he have left?

Bun B: He’s supposed to go up for probation next month.

AllHipHop.com: How’s it looking?

Bun B: It’s lookin’ good. They don’t have to pop him. He doesn’t have anything in his file. But you know how they look at you. So we trying to get a petition going. We gonna get a bunch of letters from rappers and some more professional people. It’s something that we really pray on. We just men, we just people, it’s really out of our hands. We do what we can and leave the rest to God.

AllHipHop.com: What made you go so hard with the Free Pimp C movement? Do you think that’s going to be helpful in that side of things?

Bun B: I hope it does man. I never meant for it to go as far as it did. The Free Pimp C Movement initially started probably in the first month or two of him being gone in. Like rumors started coming in that we where breaking up, and the rumor I had heard was that I had went and signed with The Roc. This was in Houston. So I was like, “Nah, let me go out here and let these n***as know that I ain’t signed wit’ nobody.” They were like, “Yeah, he don’t care about his man. He want that n***a to stay locked up forever.” So out came “Free Pimp C, UGK For Life.” It really just started as damage control. But then I’d go to places and people would be like, “Free Pimp C.” So. I had my mans with the t-shirts and stuff. So he made some and I made some and everybody wanted to f### wit em. This is my man Dave Marsell. He runs Antown Fashions in Houston. So he went tog the family and talked to the family and let the family know that he was going to be making shirts and he’s keep them down with the shirts. So he’s the only person with the rights to make them. It’s kind of like the Snowman and all of that. Everybody wants to be apart of something like that, of something real.

AllHipHop.com: You were the cameo king of 2005. Was that your idea, or you just being approached?

Bun B: Nah, people just kept coming. Part of it was Rap hustling and going out doing features for money. Part of it was people reaching out like “Bun I got this project come get on it, it would be a good look.” And that’s people like Lil’ Jon, and Ludacris and Chingy. The other part of it was like people saying “I know what you trying to do right now what can we do to help?” We have a album here you can come do this that or whatever – that’s where Jeezy come in. I understood the kind of music that Jeezy was going to be making, and I knew there was going to be a lot of hating. And I didn’t want that early hating to stop him from what he needed to do. The only thing that’s going to stop Jeezy is Jeezy. I had let him know that from the beginning. I was like, “What you’re doing is going to transfer like a mothaf**ka. People gonna be scared at first. People going to resent you at first. Keep mashing. Remember who you’re representing. Keep mashing.” S**t, ain’t you can’t stop him now. Same thing with Lil’ Webby. With the Lil’ Webby and Lil’ Boosie situation, these are people that a friends of ours signed. So Pimp came in and was like I’ll do the artist and music and that will be my contribution for so much of the label. And y’all put the money in, and that will be y’all contribution, and we’ll put all our labels together. And that’s where Trillville Entertainment comes from. with Boosie and Webby. And that’s not just in the South, I’ve done the same thing with Casual in Brooklyn and make sure that he gets a good look. I’m f**kin’ with Jae Millz now. I’m f**kin’ with Chino XL on the West Coast.

AllHipHop.com: Not too many people can move from Jay-Z to Kweli to Self Scientific to Jeezy to Chino XL…

Bun B: Well, l I don’t think to many people want to. A lot of them are comfortable in their own skin and take the easy route. You just really have to be real with people. I think that right now in the game a lot of the real cats are seeking each other out. You can’t judge a book by its cover.

AllHipHop.com: More and more, people are gravitating to new things…

Bun B: I like Little Brother, man. But I wonder… The Minstrel Show”…I wonder who’s apart of the minstrel show? I know what they mean, but I think a lot of the people that they think are against them would pull for them. I really like them and I like their music and I know they are not making what everybody down South is making right now, but that don’t mean we against you.

AllHipHop.com: Do you think they attacked you?

Bun B: I wear a lot of jewelry and s**t. I would be considered on of those flossy type n***as. But it’s deeper than that. If you know me, you know that. I don’t know but I do know that a lot of n***as like those cats’ music. But you have to be careful ‘cause you don’t know, you could be turning away people that might be supporting you. I learned that going through the game and my years. Some of my biggest supporters in the game where the least likely people I would have thought, like Chino XL. This cat pushes for me hard. He’s getting me on the air in New York. Hit me in Philly Phil, getting me on [Cosmic Kev] giving me good looks. Never would have thought in my years that Chino XL would have been the cat to hold me down on the West Coast. And I love these cats man.

AllHipHop.com: I guess they’re just criticizing the game…

Bun B: I hope that’s what it is, ‘cause if that’s what it is, then I’m all behind them. ‘Cause it’s hard …this game is hard and you can’t knock cats for how they are getting in. We are all blessed to get into this game. ‘Cause it’s like they are in “the show” now, so be careful. I think a lot more people would support them. They North Carolina n***as. I just really like them cats. I listen to this album faithfully. I never knew that 9th Wonder was from North Carolina. I never know that s**t until I saw some press on them. I’m like, “Give me some of that heat.”

AllHipHop.com: I don’t know what happened, they haven’t sold the units people thought…

Bun B: Man, you have to associate s**t right. Y’all from down South man, we’ll support you. Don’t be surprised [that] the South is gaining up. I think they would lean more towards the South. I don’t think they believe that.

AllHipHop.com: You think they see themselves as New York focused?

Bun B: They like Hip-Hop, and I understand that. But down here…I read in the article that they don’t make the kind of Rap that people make today because they didn’t grow up on that type of Rap. They grew up on NWA and A Tribe Called Quest. So did I. Everybody did. I want to say the right thing about them cause I like them. I really want to find them cause I want to talk to them. I want to make sure that I didn’t get them misinterpreted and that I didn’t get a clue. I want to push for them n***as. They have some of the best music on the shelf, right now. I think they should have gotten a better look.

AllHipHop.com: I wanted to ask you about this song “Keep Pushin’.” How would you describe that song?

Bun B: It’s a keep ya head up for the hustle. Yeah it’s a motivational type song for the hustlers. I know it’s hard out there on the grind, especially now, it’s even worse. Finding work is funnier than ever. So if that’s what you want to do and that’s how you going to get it then just keep ya head up, man. Don’t let these haters keep you down.

AllHipHop.com: Has anything come out regarding the Lil Troy and Scarface snitch accusations yet?

Bun B: Man I don’t even know. I’m in the streets, I’ve seen fliers, but I don’t know.

AllHipHop.com: Lil’ Troy’s putting out fliers?

Bun B: Yeah, if it’s a file the show it and let that be known. Ain’t nothing nobody can say if his paper works. But there are so many beautiful things around unity going on in Houston right now, and I hate to see this from some people that’s been representing from Houston for so long. Lil’ Troy put out one of the first record labels in Houston. Everyone is an OG. I just hate to see this type of situation from Houston right now.

AllHipHop.com: Can you talk about your relationship with the Internet?

Bun B: I f**ks around with the net a little bit. I mainly be checking out the blogs and s**t, seeing what the streets are saying about me.

AllHipHop.com: What are they saying?

Bun B: It’s fittin to go down. People from different regions where curious from the songs with Jeezy and Jay. They figure this n***a is really trying to do something. They realized it wasn’t just going to be a little album.