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Für mich hat Trae mittlerweile im Vergleich zu den meisten neuen Tracks von Z-Ro einen besseren Flow als er.
"Platinum" und "The Mule" gefallen mir auch nicht, aber mal abwarten.

When did you first start out doing music?
Man I started out doing music when I was 12. My first time being heard on wax was in 1997 with Zro, Look What You Did to Me, and G-Rapp the General. That’s Lil Flea brother from Street Military.

How old were you when that Zro record came out?
I was 16, 17 somewhere around there.

So it wasn’t too long after that that you started doing the Guerilla Maab project right?
Yeah, Rise came out in 1999, right when I got out of jail, that was 1999.

How long were you in jail?
Not really long man, I had caught a aggravated robbery case by being young and crazy. I was on the streets. It was a blessing. I didn’t do nothing but probably some weeks in jail, but I was on paper for like two years for aggravated robbery. They tried to give me close to 40 years. But it was a blessing man, the DA knew my lawyer and they felt they could give me another chance for me to not mess my life off. Cuz I had been doing music, so I was already known for that. They ended up doing that to where I only got two years deferred, but if I had messed up on that deferred probation then I’d have did the max that I could do on that case.

Well, that is a blessing. How many solos have you done so far?
Well I only did two solos, but the albums all together combined me and Zro anywhere from 16-20 albums. Then I had 20 mixtapes, 5 all flows, then I got another solo all flows that’s coming out right now.

So for all flows is that all you or do you have some guests?
Well the only features I got is from my immediate family, SLAB. That’s really it.

I always admired that about you too cuz you work with Zro and with SLAB and you guys are actually all family right?
Yeah, in the same house. SLAB is our whole family, but at the head is Lil Boss, J-Ton and Lil B.

There’s a SLAB full-length coming out too now right?
Yeah, The Anthem. It’s a hard album, it’s a classic. They don’t even really have no features on there man, because I want to show the world that they jammin’ without features. I got me and Zro on there. And Billy Cook and maybe a few more, but they can do it on they own. They do got one classic song on there representing letting people know that they the youngest out the H, but all us support them like you got me, Bun, Hawk, Mike D, Zro, Paul Wall, lettin’ em know that it’s all one big team. The streets rode for us and now the streets gonna ride for them.

You’ve put out some of the biggest projects in Houston between Zro, SLAB and your solo records, your last solo was one of the biggest independents last year. Do you feel like this year is going to be a strong year for you? Because it seems like there’s a lot of eyes on Houston.
Yeah as far as our family, ABN and our family right there I think it’s gonna be a big year. Zro’s solo coming out. You got my solo. You got the ABN. You got the SLAB. I mean it’s gonna be a big year for us. We gonna have to start moving at all times because you know our team, I feel our only competition is us.

Is that Assholes By Nature album still gonna come out?
Yeah that’s gotta come out, we just in the process of debating who we gonna let put it out or if it’s gonna come out independent.

Do you deal with Rap A Lot at all or is that just a Zro deal?
We always gonna deal with them cuz they considered family with us man. I don’t care what nobody say about them. They done showed us love from day one, so we ride with them too. But as far as the project, we ain’t sat at the table to figure out who gonna do what yet. We just taking our time.

When’s the ABN album gonna come?
I don’t know man. All the albums really done, my solo album the only one that ain’t really done right now. And the ABN is like the closest to being done, cuz SLAB is done.

How do y’all stay so consistent with the projects? How do you guys get to put out so much music?
I don’t know man, that’s what we do. People always wonder why we be so serious, and I sit back and let ‘em know, we keep a lot of shit we go through inside our chests. We ain’t the type to go talk about our problems to nobody so that’s what make us good at what we do in this music shit, so we go through shit on a day to day basis. That’s why we have so much shit to talk about. That’s why I’m glad we go through shit. I hate that it be how we go through it but it’s good that we do go through it because without that, shit, what would we have?

So have things been real hard lately?
Aw yeah, we go through so much shit dog it’s like retarded. If one of us ain’t in jail, or one of us ain’t in a shoot out or one of us ain’t fighting, I mean, it just be so much shit and there’s always something negative. Half the time we don’t even want to answer our phone because we don’t know what it is on the other line telling us.

So why does that happen to y’all so much? You stay so consistent and seem to stay so busy, why does that happen with y’all so much?
Maaaaan, I think that’s just, God got a plan for everybody so. We probably going through this cuz in the future we ain’t gonna have to go through nothing. He’s probably preparing us to be a bigger man than what we is right now.

Well you guys never seemed to be small men. You always seemed to handle your business.
And you know right now I’m on some, I’m really, really trying to be a grown man, you know I got a child and you know my reputation for… you talk about me on a CD I’m gonna beat yo ass or I’m coming to get ya. Even this year, I been going through it. I know they told y’all a lot of shit so I just been trying to cool a little bit. Right now I’m trying to not let people get under my skin man. I got a solo underground coming out called Drama. People been really pissing me off so I had to let ‘em have it, but after this man, I’m gonna start letting these cats make it. Cuz I ain’t got time to be entertaining that. You know, we from the streets, so that’s our mentality, which I ain’t gonna ever change that, but I just gotta be smart man. My brother doing three life sentences, I can’t be there. I don’t even want him there.

Who’s your brother?
My brother Dinky. Yeah I don’t want him there, so I damn sure don’t want to be there.

So why do you think you see so much adversity? You guys seem like the type of guys who should be more looked up to.
We always looked up to, so every hood gonna ride for us, but you always gonna have your roach ass niggas that mad cuz everybody like us. Now don’t get it twisted. We don’t have any enemies. Our enemies may be every one out of three or four thousand. So it ain’t like it’s the whole south is hating us right now. Like right now I’m going through some shit in Austin, but really 90% of Austin got love for me but it’s this little ten percent of these roach ass motherfuckers that’s mad cuz we come out there and we sell units and we do a lot of live shows and people love us to death so they mad. As opposed to working they ass off to pay they dues, them motherfuckers wanna wine about the shit. I really don’t take disrespect at all.

So how do you avoid that sort of thing?
It’s kind of hard to say bro. I can only take it a day at a time. It’s like one of my lyrics on Drama, on a song called “To Each His Own,” I say “They probably want me in jail, cuz they know I keep something to spray…” Therefore I’m gonna go at you toe to toe and if I just feel like you trying to harm me, everybody know I stay strapped 24/7 so it’s like they trying to buck me to make me get locked up. Just like last year I ended up catching a bullshit case being in a shootout that wasn’t even our fault, it was the fact that motherfuckers up there on drugs trippin’ with theyself and can’t handle they drugs and wanna get buck. I ended up having to pay for that. I started going through a whole nother case. I’m going through so much bullshit, like right now I’m going through a case, it’s our whole ABN family against a whole certain precinct police station. Not no one policeman, I’m talking about literally where it’s like warfare. We come out our house they itching to come get us. It just be a whole bunch of shit we go through but you know that don’t do nothing but make me a stronger man. They want me so bad right now but they ain’t got shit on me. It’s just a whole bunch of shit dog. People see the things that we have and they don’t understand that we live real lives. We ain’t in no fairy tale shit. I’m gonna be consistent till they put me in my grave and hopefully when they put me in my grave it’s still gonna be consistent.