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Jayo Felony: The Bullet's Back [Exclusive Interview]
We've seen him at his angriest, most aggressive....In 2007, Bullet Loco, San Diego's mic specialist is simply focused and ready to have fun with his music. No rap grudges, no label politics, with a situation set to fit his own needs for Loco Entertainment, Jayo has a solid lineup of new projects ready to shoot out to the public.
West Coast Rydaz caught up with Mr. One Shot Kill for the first time in years to talk about what he's been up to, talks of past label situations with G-Unit and BWS, west coast unity, and much more.
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West Coast Rydaz: Lets get some speculation out of the way. Talk about the G Unit situation that was supposedly gonna pop off for you. There was talk that you were going to sign with them?
Jayo Felony: Yeah it was supposed to go down. I hollered at 50 personally when he came out to Dago for the Anger Management tour. We was suppose to get crackin once they got back from overseas and make it happen. I don't blame it on 50 that it didn't happen because it's so many people that's under him that probably trying to keep they own situation afloat. Shit happens. I don't know what the fuck happened but I felt like I could have brought new fire to the whole camp. I woulda went over there and lit fire under everybody's ass. Probably in the future we could do something but right now I'm just pushing my own line and my own label.
I'm about to put out my own projects and my own groups and artists. No disrespect to nobody but I feel like I can be my own 50 Cent or Snoop or Eminem or whoever. I ain't playing on this mic. I do need my own camp that I can put out and mold and teach the game. I never got the opportunity to put out my projects effectively but now I am with this new family I'm fucking with. I ain't gotta worry about money or stupid shit. I can concentrate on what I really gotta do an that's put out good music and start developing my own films. Things I been wanting to do for a long time are coming to light. I'm just thankful that the fans kept me going. I see people on the street and they be like man you're starving us, we need that shit. That shit kept me going, so I could give them what the fuck they want. I'mma give them what they want and need.
West Coast Rydaz: Yeah they stay asking about you on our site, people always been wondering where's Jayo at?
Jayo Felony: Yeah I just want to tell everybody much love for all the support. There's one thing you can't deny and that's good music. I must have done something right when I was out there. I make sure to give it my all in anything I'm doing. I'm coming back full fledged. Got these new young cats from Philly, LA, and Dago rapping together on this new group called Da Bizness. That's my new team. It just gives me new energy and I'm ready to have fun and make good music and films. It's gonna be real fun.
West Coast Rydaz: So what is your situation with this new label?
Jayo Felony: The label is called Loco Entertainment. It's a joint venture with my folks in AZ. It's HMF, Hindu Mafia Family. We just family and mothafuckas behind me pushing to make it happen and make this a reality and let me be to ease. I can get away from all the bullshit and really step to the plate. So now it ain't just me trying to fight my own battles all the time, I got a camp to do that so I can kick back and be mr. nice guy and do what I do best. Just let these niggas go in there and put ya foot in ya mouth and give me what I deserve.
West Coast Rydaz: What happened between you and Treacherous Records?
Jayo Felony: Me and Treacherous Records is still cool. It's their business structure. When you look around and see all they employees leaving, it ain't nothing for me to do but to leave. I took the ownership of the album and never released it. Me and Tico and Allen, we still cool but I got to do what I got to do. My name was bigger than that label so I gotta do what I gotta do with people that know what they doing as far as putting out acts and know how to really grind with a mothafucka. Listening to my points of attacking the game to be successful cause shit is so fucked up right now.
West Coast Rydaz: So Jayo Felony has no contractual obligations with Treacherous Records?
Jayo Felony: Nah I'm straight, with my folks. I ain't got no agression to them or whatever, once they get their shit together we can do something in the future. Right now as an artist I been on one of the biggest labels there ever was so I know how the game goes as an artist. You basically get paid every month whether your album come out or not, it don't matter if the shit come out for 3 years. It's a salary every month that keeps you employed on that label. If that's not happening then it's a fishy contract anyway. It's like a mothafucka unemployed basically. I gotta keep it pushing cause I ain't no unemployed mothafucka. I got my own sacks. It's like the dope game, I got my own dope. You can put the whoopty wam on it and do what you do.
West Coast Rydaz: It seemed like a promising label, too bad things didn't work out. There were talks of you collaborating with Face for that album, did it go down?
Jayo Felony: Yeah me and Scarface was doing our thing. We was out there with him in Texas trying to put it together. The label wasn't pushing they line and doing what they supposed to do. Me and Face been cool, I was on his Last of a Dying Breed album. While I'm making this other move it won't take nothing to reach out to him and make it happen. That was on my juice it had nothing to do with the label.
West Coast Rydaz: Do you have any plans for the recordings intended for the Treacherous album?
I got em locked down but at the same time I want to give people some new shit. I did that a couple of years ago. I wanna give people fresh up to date hot shit they need to hear from me. So I can compete with the best and blow the rest of em out the fuckin water.
West Coast Rydaz: So you have some artists under your wing, talk about them a bit.
Da Bizness is some young up and coming cats that's off the hook. I got my boy Tech, he raps and produces, he's one of the main producers out the group. I got my boy Baby Down out of LA, my boy Baby Skar out of Skyline, San Diego, and my boy AK from Philly. It's a mixture of the best of the west, as well as Philly all in one group. It's gonna be westcoast tracks and you hear that Philly accent and that westcoast shit together it's like something new. We sound good as fuck together. The way my boys get down, they send me the songs with the hooks and the lyrics already on there so all I gotta do is put my verse in pocket and come with the track subject matter so it makes it easier on me. I don't have to be on a mothafuckas head. When they send me some shit it be hot already. So I just put my parts in and put the cherry on top.
West Coast Rydaz: So there's no development needed, they got it together and you just step in and put it out there.
Jayo Felony: Exactly. It makes me wanna do it that much more cause I got a tight circle around me that knows what the fuck they doing.
West Coast Rydaz: So which projects do you have planned to release besides them?
Jayo Felony: I got a new mixtape coming out in May called "Time is Bread". I'm back handling my business and I'm rapping over other people's tracks that I know the world would like to hear me rapping over these type of tracks. I put the most notable tracks and rapped on them and made some off the wall shit. It's gonna be some hot shit to heat the streets up for the summer while I get the album together and put together a masterpiece. My new album is coming out around August is called "Don't Get Meatballed". That's the new project. That's talking about how mothafuckas is quick to pick up a gun but scared to take it from the shoulders. If it wasn't that way alot of good mothafuckas would still be here. Whether they get knocked out or knock the next mothafucka out, take em from the shoulders, bruise and scrape a mothafucka up, walk away and keep living. Alot of good mothafuckas would still be around. That's basically what I'm saying on the "Don't Get Meatballed" project. I got shit on there that's for everybody. Not no bullshit or gang shit. I got shit for down South, East coast, West coast, everybody. They can get into it and it's coming from the heart. To let them know Jayo Felony is one of the best that ever did it on thet west coast. It's showing mothafuckas what I'm made of, not just from the westcoast but in this game period. I got the opportunity to do what I know I can do but at the same time I see alot of these big rappers bite my shit from every coast. From east, south, and west I hear alot of my shit in different mothafuckas music. So I must have some something right. But I'm about to come back and take what's rightfully mine. Put the crown on my mothafuckin head. This is a bragging game that we in so I'm gonna show em what the fuck I do.
West Coast Rydaz: Your sticking to that same Jayo formula, that aggressive style?
Jayo Felony: You know that. I gotta keep it me. I gotta keep it 100 even though I gotta appeal to the masses. I gotta do me and keep it real at the same time but keep it paid. I keep to my roots but I'm still showing mothafuckas I can go out the circle when I feel like it.
West Coast Rydaz: What's the story behind this Jayo and Spice 1 album?
Jayo Felony: That's not supposed to be even out. I wouldn't release material that's not all the way up to par. That's not up to par, that's not something I would release to the public. Somebody went and stole the fucking project that me and Spice did years ago. The tracks that's on there is not even from my boy Lorenzo Green Eyes. It's not even his tracks, he's the one who did the whole album. Somebody went and somehow stole the album from him, remade the album, put some wack ass tracks on there and threw the shit out there. But that is not suppose to be out, I probably would have never released that, I was just in return gonna do a mixtape for Lorenzo with all original beats on it that he could release just from me myself. So that album isn't supposed to be out and wasn't ever coming out. They already did a cease and desist on the shit so they could take it off everybody's websites so I could do what I do. So just to everybody out there, whoever got it keep it, I don't give a fuck what you do with it but I'm finna show yall what my real material do. There is no Spice 1 and Jayo album. Nothing against Spice 1, that's my boy but this is a business and there is no such album period.
West Coast Rydaz: Speaking of old projects, what ever happened to Riflemen? Is that ever gonna see the light of day?
Me, Kurupt, 40 Glocc and Prodigy, we still pushing Riflemen but I'mma do what I do right now and maybe in the future it might come out through my label because I got my shit together. I got the right team together and after I do what I do it won't be a problem to compensate all the artists the right way so everybody will wanna do this project. We had a bigger buzz than a whole bunch of mothafuckas that dropped albums. That was my baby, I came out and named the group and I was pushing that line coming with some way outlandish raps. We was having fun with that, so I'm definitely gonna make sure that at least by 2008 that we put that Riflemen project out there to the public. That's what they want!
I see that the rap game is getting back to the real music, it's starting to get back to rap was. Everybody and they mama wasn't a fuckin' rapper and they next door neighbor and everybody trying to rap. Then they come with one fuckin' record and that record, "pop ya fingers, throw ya mama across the table, lift ya booty up, shake, snap, crack". All that bullshit mothafuckas coming out with and have one catchy song and the rest of they whole album sound like shit! Now the rap game is getting back to -- if you can't really rap, niggas ain't feeling that bullshit. That's how it should be because that's what made rap special, everybody couldn't fuckin do it. If my nephew could go say 'oh i just made a new dance, Slap Ya Mommas Ass' and now that's a hit, this shit is gonna be watered down forever! So now it's getting back to the real mothafuckas that really know how to do it and that's how it needs to stay. That's what sets rap aside from anything else. Even in the heyday of rap like back in 88, you had like 10-15 artists out and all of em was different but all of em was dope. That's what rap needs to get back to. When you had the Biz Markies, the KRS Ones, Rakim, Eazy E, NWA, DOC, mothafuckas like that that all was dope but had they own styles. That's what rap was, everybody couldn't do it. The fans are not getting fooled by, ok you got another smack ya momma with the BBQ rib in the face. Now that's a hit, or chicken noodle soup or some bullshit, everybody on that shit and when they record come out it don't do shit because the fans ain't getting fooled like that. It sound like shit! It takes away the essence of it when everybody and they mama doing it.
West Coast Rydaz: So who are some of the producers your working with on these upcoming projects?
Jayo Felony: Right now I'm fucking with my boy DJ Silk who did "Whatcha Gonna Do", "Hotta Than Fish Grease", we always work together. I'm fucking with my boy Joe Leimburg, he works with Snoop, he plays in Snoop's band. I got my boy Nottz who did the shit for R Kelly and Snoop, he did the shit on Game's record on 2 occassions. Them is my folks from VA where I was born at, I been knowing them for years so they definitely gonna have they hands in on they project to the fullest. I'mma holla at my boy Fredwreck, my boy Jellyroll, and a couple of more artists that got that fire. Havoc from Mobb Deep too.
West Coast Rydaz: What's up with you and Game. Were you ever close to talking business with Game?
Jayo Felony: Me and Game is cool. We made that record for the mixtape together. When I was in the county I was reaching out to him chopping it up about possibly doing a situation. But when I did the mixtape we just was having fun, in there freestyling and clowning. I didn't even know it was for a mixtape I just thought we was in there rapping on a track. But it is what it is. It's like this, I don't got no gripes with nobody, I'm not with that rap beef bullshit, I'm trying to get mines and have fun and do what I do. In he future we might could do something, it's basically about this westcoast. I'm just proud of niggas doing they thing and keeping the light on us. So many niggas try to count us out so it's much love to everybody. Let's get this money and show everybody what we can do. I'm tired of us not getting the respect we deserve as lyricists, not just MCs, rappers. We do this shit! We can compete with anybody. If you don't believe that, [laughs] I can definitely show you. Anybody from any coast, I'll stand in front of anybody and show em what I do. May the best man win. I'mma let my music speak. This mixtape finna hit they ass up, "Time Is Bread". I'm finna smack the shit out of them with this album "Don't Get Meatballed" and I got another project coming out called "Got My Mojo Back". So I'mma just keep putting out material out with my new situation with Loco Entertainment/HMF. Now I can finally put out records consecutively like I never got a chance in my career. Now I can give the fans what they want from Jayo Felony.
West Coast Rydaz: This way you can be your own boss and theres no wait or anything holding you back.
Jayo Felony: Exactly. I was trying to do some shit with Koch but dealing with them funny mothafuckas...I got nothing against Koch but the mothafuckas I was dealing with probably wasn't the fuckin people I probably needed to be talking to at Koch. It's some funny shit, they on they own dick. I'm like nah I can't fuck around like this cause these mothafuckas don't know they ass from they face and don't know what the fuck good music is. I gotta show mothafuckas what I do. Then the shit they bump and act like it's hot, that shit is garbage!
West Coast Rydaz: What's your opinion on this whole Game/Gunit rivalry?
Jayo Felony: Things happen. I really don't have no say on that shit cause it's not me. That's not my business, it is what it is. I'm not the one to speak on any side and one day they get back together and I'll be the mothafucka lookin funny! I don't know how the situation is or how cool or bad it is cause it's not my business. I'm only worried about Jayo Felony and what the fuck I'm doing. Much love to both sides of them, get this money that's what it's about. Everything else is bullshit.
I done been there with the beefs and all that shit. I'm the first one to tell you, that rap beef shit is bullshit. Cause first of all you gotta talk about a mothafucka and all that, you disrespecting they mama, and all this stupid shit. Then when you see a nigga mothafuckas is hugging, squashing the shit. So it's like what the fuck is the point. I don't even wanna talk about nobody on a record and then a nigga have to do something, you fuck around and incriminate yourself. On some real shit, fuck that, let's get this money. This is all we got is our music.
West Coast Rydaz: Speaking of beef, last time we talked you were going hard at Daz, Snoop, DPG. How did you fit in the picture with DPG reuniting, was it squashed on your end when Kurupt squashed it?
Jayo Felony: As far as that situation it was bigger than Kurupt and Daz, it was about the west coast. It was too much turmoil between westcoast artists. Mothafuckas had to cut that shit out and come together and get this money. That's what the westcoast conference was about, everybody coming together and settling they differences so mothafuckas could move forward and bring the west where it need to be. Not just for the west but so we could collaborate and start bridging the gap with east coast artists as well as down south and when it comes to it we all got love for each others music. It just be the bullshit shield that we allow the media to build up. On some real shit, mothafuckas dig each others music. I got favorite artists from down south that I like to bump as well as east coast. East coast love our shit as well as down south. In New York they support they own shit as well as down South. That's what the westcoast needs to do. We play more of their shit than our own shit, we need to support our own shit. It has nothing to do against no other region, if we aren't supporting our own shit how we gonna have new up and coming artists to keep this shit alive? It's impossible.
West Coast Rydaz: Are you in agreeance that "Hip Hop is dead"?
Jayo Felony: Man I really don't give a fuck about all that shit! I'm trying to make heat. You could be dead, you could be alive, I told them mothafuckas years ago fuck Hip Hop, it's Crip Hop! So I got my own thing crackin [laughs] I'm just finna push and do me and get this bread.
West Coast Rydaz: So Hip Hop might be dead but Crip Hop is alive and well.
Jayo Felony: Crip Hop is alive and big! [laughs] I'm finna show you mothafuckas what it is! We just about to have fun with it, whether you Damu, Crip, whatever the fuck. I'm about my bread so just know that. The thing about me, I got crip fans, blood fans, white fans, chinese mothafuckas. Everybody got love for me and I got love for them. It's about making good music.
West Coast Rydaz: Anything else you would like to add before we wrap it up?
Jayo Felony: I just want everybody to know that Bullet Loco back for that ass. My alias is One Shot Kill. I got it on my neck and I'm finna show you mothafuckas what it finna do! This new mixtape bout to come out, watch out for my group Da Bizness. Watch out for these feature films, the folks that did the Tombstone movie, so all I gotta do is come with the proper scripts and they gonna give it to the proper people. Much love to my folks at HMF for getting me to where I need to be. This mothafuckin bread is right and niggas finna eat baby! Watch out for everybody Jayo Felony bout to put out. From here to the east coast, down south, all other shit. Mothafuckas finna have fun with this shit, get this money. Crip Hop Biatch!!!!! Eat a dick!!!!!!
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