Big Gipp recalls when Future went by Meathead as part of the Dungeon Family rap group Da Connect in an interview with DJ Nelz and DJ Prophet for Dash Radio.
“Rico Wade put out an album called Da Connect and Future was on there and Future was rapping,” Gipp says. “So Future is Hip Hop. Future is us. So I think Future just done found his niche and coming from the Dungeon Family he knew how to blow up his persona because he got [Big] Gipp, he got [Andre] 3000, he got Cee-lo, he got so many of us around him.”
The Dirty Sprite 2 rapper had been around the Dungeon Family since before Goodie Mob‘s 1995 debut album, Soul Food, was released, Gipp says. Future is the cousin of Dungeon Family member and Organized Noize producer Rico Wade.
Elsewhere in the Dash Radio interview, Gipp also gives props to Future for continuing to develop his craft as rapper.
“Sometimes, people’s time is when it’s time,” the Goodie Mob member says. “It’s not when they want it to be. I think right now Future is at the pinnacle of his stardom. When you got 3000 around there asking about, ‘Yo, Meathead blowing up, ain’t he?’ You start getting folk like 3000 – ol’ Prince of Rap start askin’ ’bout you, boy, you doin’ something. ‘Cause he ain’t even on the social media. He hates it.”
Even though the rap climate is currently inundated with talk of Xanax, Percocet and Codeine, the “Shine Like Gold” rapper insists that Future is not as high as he portrays in his music. It’s an admission Future himself as made.
“You can’t do that type of music when you high,” Gipp says. “One thing he’s doing is he’s feeding the people what they doing and they have the culture of the ‘Let’s get high’ for the last five years, so I ain’t tripping. I’m just saying that we just have to look and see that now that Future has reached the pinnacle of that it has to be something else.
“I’m not going to worry about Future because Future can actually really, really rap,” he adds. “Future just learned how to sell what he sell.”
Future, along with OutKast, Puff Daddy, Big Gipp, Ludacris and others are set to appear in The Art Of Organized Noize documentary which is scheduled to make its debut at South By Southwest this March. The documentary is also slated to premiere on Netflix after its debut.
The full interview with Big Gipp on Dash Radio with DJ Nelz & DJ Prophet is as follows:
Future is definitely Dungeon Fam! In a good way!
Future’s an innovator, something conservative backpack rap cats might start understanding ten years from now.
Yes because mumbling in auto tune is so innovative.
People were equally as dismissive about talking to a beat.
wow , Rico cousin? got a whole new look at Future. All this shit he doing now is for the dough, you mean to tell me the boy can really spit? being around one of the greatest south groups, i know he can. wow let me go bumb his shi lol ..
Oh and Ab Soul need to listen to Gipp on Future and 2Chainz fame. Its not when you want it, its when its right. TDE my group but that boy a problem i still bump TPAB, JRoc and Qs .. don’t even touch Souls ..
NIGGA PLEASE!!! HE SAID MEATHEAD(FUTURE) CAN REALLY RAP THAT’S DA FUNNIEST SHIT I HEARD ALL DAY GIPP DON’T SOUND SINCERE ABOUT DAT STATEMENT
I was apart Daconnect the group Meathead was in! He never mentioned us, never responded to my tweets, even when I uploaded our group pictures no respond. I don’t want no hand outs just wanted to give him Congrats. They know me INFINIQUE aka GEECHY BOI. I still wish him the best, but my respect is gone! DF2!
Peep some of Da Connects tracks on youtube, future sounded like 3k back then, he really can rap fam.
I never knew future was part of dungeon fam but it’s not hard to believe. Ever since he came out he separated himself from the other trap/southern rappers , always been doing it his way. Now he’s got so many trying to sound like him , and his lyrics were never awful(often simple but still effective especially with his delivery and he’s clever with how he says things) since coming out as future. His spit game on what a time to be alive was ill btw. To me he’s like a Gucci , people may hate cause it’s not conventional but still at the top of the long list of trap rap and the like.
Where has this nigga been ? I havent heard shit from him since that song he made with Nelly named Grillz
Future is wack as garbage,shot tha fuck up… Future can’t rap rather encourage the use of drugs.
Meathead? LoL. What kind of an idiot would call himself “Meathead”.. that’s some nagger shit right there. Only an ignorant black nagger would do something like that.
Shut the fuck up!
Future is at the top of the game, he got clones now lmao, people tryna sound like him. Pac and Big went through the same thing, thats when you know you made it
Dboi please shut the fuck up weirdo.Thanks
I’ll bet you a milli he knows how to spell better than your saltine, asshead mfn bitchass… Plus he’s rich as fuck and no doubt your trailer trash or living off your parents.. Js… Middle-aged going through a crisis sounding mf… Ol Henry Hucklebuck, Donald Dump, Paul Newman, butt breathe, Deer saussge eating mf.. FUCK YOU!! Cant wait til you Edomite mfs fall underneath the good lords feet.. Check Malichi and Obadiah in the Bible BIIIOTCH
OK, guy’s I’m feeling slightly agitated and more than a little pissed off NOW!!! I put an offer out to you dumb naggers an offer of some fine white booty …. What do I get in response abuse and ignorance …Yes I’m older than the average HHDX reader but with older AGE comes greater experience (wink) … If any of you stuck in the closet naggers are looking for some STICKY fun then reply below . PS (Dboi) that doesn’t include your stanky ass …There are something’s I refuse to do weirdo
The Future Group now days stocking expensive stocks of your money invested by General public and they never returns money to public. This group is now days call Future Ass group as they steal products of there own friends and try to sell these 2nd hand products in there Pantaloons store. Ask if you want to enter the hole with stolen stuff just to kiss the Laser whiten girl in or outside the store?
Future was created by Quebo Gold. Do your homework!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t know why Future afraid to come clean.