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Yung Redd - once and for all go peep that www.ozonemag.com ya bitch
By Matt Sonzala


This was taken in the backyard of KPFT during Damage Control. Yung Redd performs live with H$E (Yung Redd & Lil Ron) at the Backroom, 2015 E. Riverside Dr., Austin, TX, SXSW, Wednesday March 16th at 9 p.m. Which means you have to get there early...

You first came out back in the day as a part of HSE, which was a group with Lil Flip. Who else was in HSE?
HSE was the first album we put out in ‘99, I was still in high school. It was me, Lil Flip, A.P. and Hump. Hump didn’t rap but he was on the cover. To date that record sold 100,000. That was the first release on Sucka Free before anything.

So you were one of the first artists signed to Sucka Free.
I was the second artist signed to Sucka Free. Flip was the first. I was in a talent show in high school, Worthing High School, me and Flip went to the same school, and Flip came backstage and was like, “What was the song you did?” And I told him and that ended up being one of the first songs on the HSE album. It was a song called “As the World Turns.” At this time, Poppy was in HSE too, from the G.R.i.T. Boys. It was me, Poppy and Lil Flip. By this time, my partner Jason died, and after he died I took his place and that’s how I got into HSE.

So what are you working on right now? Is this a new HSE record or are you coming out with something on your own?
New HSE record, the final one and it’s called The Paper Route.

Who all is HSE now?
It’s me and Lil Ron. Last niggas standing. This the last one before I do my solo. This one is better than the first one to be honest man. Cuz we got 3-6 Mafia, David Banner, Killer Mike, Young Bloodz, Scarface, Trae, Paul, T.I. I got a lot of big names on there.

How did HSE go from being you, Flip and A.P. to you and Lil Ron?
Once A.P. came out the group it was me and Flip just two deep, and then Lil Ron came in after he left the Swishahouse so we just put him down. He paid his dues. You know? He helped us go platinum with the nationwide success we was having. And Flip just recently stepped. He’s still signed to Sucka Free, but he’s not affiliated. So that just left me and Ron.

Did you have any problem with Flip leaving?
Naw, I didn’t have no problem with Flip leaving. I just told him really must keep it real, holler at me. We was gonna still do projects together even though he was gone.

How are things at Sucka Free right now?
Man you know there’s still a lot of money to be made. Money still being made, and you know, there really ain’t no problem, we just putting out this album right now. Sucka Free as a label is still signed to Sony, I just asked to be off.

For HSE or for your solo stuff?
For my solo stuff.

So this new HSE will be you and Lil Ron under Sony/Sucka Free?
Yeah.

Do you feel like they’re giving you the support they were giving Lil Flip? Do you feel good about Sony’s involvement in having an HSE record?
I mean really, like with Flip album when they put out Flip album, we was promoting it ourselves, they come in secondary. So I’m not even looking for ‘em to put that big push behind it. I’m gonna have to do it by myself.

Well that’s always been kind of the Houston way.
Yeah, man so you know how that is.

Have you been doing anything besides working on this album?
I did every volume of the SLAB CD’s. Swishahouse CD’s. 2 Fast 2 Furious Soundtrack. Really just a lot of undergrounds, all the mixtapes. I did a Kay Slay mixtape, I’m doing something for Green Lantern coming up. That’s basically all it is, you know what I mean?

Who all did you work with on production on that album?
Juicy J, David Banner, these dudes that worked with Aaliyah called In The Trunk.

Is that Static and them out of Louisville?
Yeah, his producers called In The Trunk. That’s what I got going on.

Are you working on the solo record too?
Yeah I’m doing that at the same time. I’m shopping for beats for it. I’ma do it on a larger scale.

So you’re saying you got out of your Sony deal for your solo record, so does that mean you’re not gonna do your solo record with Sucka Free?
See it’s up in the air. It ain’t no money problems or nothing like that you know what I mean? It ain’t no beef I just want to do my own thing. I’m 23 now. I want to do my own thing man.

So 23 and you’ve been releasing records for 6 years?
Yeah since I was in high school. I just want to do my own thing because I know the business now.

Has Hump been like a mentor for you?
Yeah Hump showed me the game. I been knowing Hump since I was 14. And really he never, never screwed me out of no money or none of that. I always been able to buy a house, whatever I wanted to do, anything you know what I’m saying?

You’re 23 and you have a house?
Yeah. Like Lil Ron is barely 20. So we just doing our thang man. A lot of cats be talking in the streets and they want to know what we be doing because we stay so low. But they gonna see. My album is gonna speak for itself though.

and that'll be about it for this post...

das erste fand ich auch müll, aber dieses wird geils. redd war auf den slab teilen geiler als alle zusammen und deswegen behaupte ich einfach das die neue cool wird. im tss sagen sie es gab noch eine nach der ersten "the re-score" hiess die, soll auch scheisse gewesen sein. trotzdem setzt ich auf die pladde, yung redd ist in top form zur zeit.

soll geil sein. meine ist seit montag unterwegs zu mir...hab noch kein grosses cover gefunden. kost nur 9 bucks...

1. H.S.E. (Yung Redd & Lil Ron)
2. Ball Til I Fall feat. Three 6 Mafia
3. Dat Good
4. Tha Whole Day Through
5. Real Talk feat. Paul Wall & Russell Lee
6. Move
7. Skit: "Tha Paper Route"! P2
8. Street Lights feat. Scarface
9. Swallow My Pride feat. Gritboys
10. Wood Wheel feat. Killer Mike
11. Get Mine
12. Hustla
13. What They Talkin Bout feat. Trae & Paul Wall
14. Wind feat. Gritboyz
15. 7-1-1 feat. Gritboyz
16. Real Ni**as feat. David Banner & Yung Wun
17. Rosewood
18. Stacked Up
19. Same Ol Song
20. Skit: Game 4 Sale
21. Tha Paper Route

geilst...meine is sicher auch morgen da. aber zur not...im on, holla.