With a strong solo career in the spotlight, many emcees elect to bring their friends into the Hip Hop fold. That has happened time and time again, from Eminem with D12 to Nelly and the St. Lunatics. A recent example of this comes with Waka Flocka, who has made it a point to big up his comrades and give them careers in the Rap business. In a recent interview with Fader, Waka spoke on why this was important to him.
“I gave my boys careers,” he says in the magazine interview. “It’s better than giving [it to] another rapper, [who] undercover envy you, and he just going hard trynna use your heat. I’d rather give my boys some heat.”
While he works with friends, there is some competition in the studio. Speaking on the behind-the-scenes work with his camp, Waka says the crew selects “the hardest verses” as ones that will land on tracks.
“Whoever got the hardest verses end up on the song,” he notes. “Gucci [Mane] like to orchestrate his music like, This sounds like Waka or this sounds like such-and-such… My guys, it’s just whoever write they verse first and whoever got the hardest verse.”
Understanding the impact of this business move, Waka says he know he’s helping others. According to Flocka, the goes beyond Rap.
“At the end of the day, this just some real business,” he says. “Like, people’s kid’s college tuitions is in our hands, lives is in my hands. I gotta create something long term.”
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Thought he was retiring?
how are peoples kids college tuitions in his hands? aint none of these guys going to no college
these dudes arent his friends….yg hootie papa smurf n ice burgandy r from the west coast n the only reason he fucks with them is so he gets a pass to claim blood out there….its called friendly extortion
and u wonder y he never films anything on “grove street” in riverdale….
How can he talk about the importance of orchestrating music that continues to destroy the black man in every sense? Their destructive lyrics furthermore pump negitive images into the minds of ALL PEOPLE, but the blak man suffers most. I am a fan of true HIP HOP! All black people should know about a person ( I refuse to call him a man) named Willie Lynch…google it for the sake of our race.
what u say tyler and odd future
are real hip hop and they are
sending the right message?
COME ON SON
AND HIP HOP IS NOT MADE JUST
FOR BLACK MEN,BLACK PEOPLE
OR AFRICAN AMERICANS JUST GETTIN TO MY POINT
SO U ARE SAYING THAT HIP HOP
CAME OUT IN THE 80S AND SAID
THIZ MUZIK IS MADE FOR BLACK EARS
ONLY THAT IS A BIG NEGATIVE
THE MORE SUCCESSFUL ARTISTS EVER
IN HIPHOP ARE EITHER WHITE (BEASTIE BOYS)
LATINO (CYPRESS HILL)
OR BLACK (JAY-Z)
SO IS HIPHOP REALLY A BLACK MANS MUSICK?
NO
Didn’t he quite rap?
he said he is gonna QUIT but he hasnt quite QUIT yet
You completely missed that joke, anonymous above me.