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H.I.T.M.A.N. hat geschrieben: Zitat:  WordofSouth.com: What exactly got you into rapping?
Trae: I got into rapping by being a victim of circumstances; it was a hard situation with my brother. Mainly my older brother got hit with a life sentence, so he kind of inspired me.
WordofSouth.com: You keep your brother's name alive in your music, is there any chance of him getting out?
Trae: Yeah, I think money talks, so if I ever come to that situation…
WordofSouth.com: What happened to get him that life sentence?
Trae: Long story short, he ended up with capital murder.
WordofSouth.com: If he was out, do you think you'd be on the same level of success?
Trae: I mean, everything happens for a reason, if he was out, I might not have been rapping, but if there's a situation where he do become free, I'm gonna elevate my shit 10 times more, because I'll feel more comfortable because my brother's home. So if you got a brother like that, you'll never feel right, you'll never really feel comfortable.
WordofSouth.com: What was some of your music influences growing up?
Trae: Of course him, ya know DJ Screw, Street Military, K-Rino, Pac, uh, muthafuckin' Spice 1, South Central Cartel, C-Bo, ya know a lot. I fucks with every area of street niggas.
WordofSouth.com: A lot of the public think that Houston music is only about candy paint slabs, rims, and sippin' syrup. For someone who has yet to hear your music, what is it about Trae that separates you from that stereo type?
Trae: I know that, but any motherfucker that listens to my music, can understand my music speaks for me. If they can't understand that, then fuck em' our music ain't for them. We don't consider ourselves to be hip-hop; we don't do the lyrical battles.
WordofSouth.com: How would you persuade someone who may not have heard your music before to give it a chance?
Trae: First off, you ain't gonna ever meet another nigga who can honestly say that they're the truth and the people agree with him. You know I'm gonna give it to 'em live and direct and I'm gonna tell you right from wrong, 'cause some people telling wrong shit and it don't really guide a lot of people.
WordofSouth.com: You are a rare case of a listener feeling the emotion in your music. Why do you think listeners can feel that over a lot of other insincere artists?
Trae: 'Cause, I can't talk to nobody about my problems, and the only way to express my problems is through my music. That's why they know it's real. I keep a lot of my problems bottled up inside me. That's why it's good, it's bad because I go through it, but it's really, what the fuck I'm going through. That's why I ain't able to cry, I could try to make myself cry and it won't happen. But at the same time somebody could hear my song and they gonna cry for me.
WordofSouth.com: Right, kind of like "Make the Song Cry"?
Trae: Yeah, matter fact I got an answer to that on my album called "Song Cry," on "Restless," it comes out July 25th, the song is called "Song Cry." I feel where he coming from.
WordofSouth.com: You have always harmonized your hooks. Why is that?
Trae: All of my cousins do, you know Z-Ro do, I do, my momma was a singer, I mean all of us, that's just what we known to do.
WordofSouth.com: From past albums, I see that you are the type of artist to give haters their 15 minutes of fame by putting them in the light. Why do you feel that it is your obligation to do this?
Trae: Ah, you know sometimes I feel like doing and sometimes I don't. I blow a lot of people up before, but as soon as I do that, I end their careers at the same time. I try to separate, my street life from this rap life because for me trying to be where I am and take care of my ABN family, and I can't be out here tripping with these cats like that. You know my brother's well known in these streets. A lot of people care about him.
WordofSouth.com: What was the deciding factor that made you choose Rap-A-Lot?
Trae: I think at the end of the day, they understand me. With J (Prince) being from the streets and me being from the streets, we got a mutual understanding. Me and J got a lot of love for each other. I kind of look at him as like a big brother, just like they look at me as another lil' nigga who wanna be like him. I got the streets, I got the grind, I got the hustle, I got the smarts, and I got the business mind.
There was a situation where I was with Universal, and the situation came up and we was like, "fuck it, let's get it." He believed in me just like I believed in him. Me and him we gonna prove a lot of people wrong.
WordofSouth.com: How has the daily operation changed since being with Rap-A-Lot?
Trae: I mean ain't nothing changed, I still do me, I just work hard, and I do it my way.
WordofSouth.com: Is your label included in this deal?
Trae: Naw, I'm not signed to Rap-A-Lot; I'm signed to my own label, its distribution through Rap-A-Lot/Asylum.
WordofSouth.com: How come there's been such a long delay with "Restless"?
Trae: Because I be going through some real life shit.
WordofSouth.com: Do you think it's going to receive the right amount of attention to succeed? On the other hand, do you feel like you are receiving the right amount of promotion right now?
Trae: Right now, it's just gonna do what it's gonna do. You know it might be a set up album or it might be a phenomenal album where it's just gonna take off on its own. So, that's all I can really say about it.
WordofSouth.com: Did you take a different approach doing this one vs. your previous work?
Trae: No, because it was already done before I signed with anybody.
WordofSouth.com: Would you say that "Swang" is somewhat of a preview of the album feel?
Trae: It's gonna be all around, anything bra, I rather show you better than I can tell you and you only got a week to wait.
WordofSouth.com: You've started doing mixtapes with other DJ's; do you check up on them to make sure they're pushing the product out so people can hear you?
Trae: Naw, I feel like they can holla at me if they need something. If they support it I appreciate it, if they don't… you know its love with me.
WordofSouth.com: After the album, will we see a new ABN album?
Trae: Right now, I don't really know because you know Z-Ro's doing four years, so that'd be kind of hard.
WordofSouth.com: You don't have any music that you were working on saved up?
Trae: Yeah we got something saved up, but if you're talking about a whole album? We got a song on my album that was off the ABN album.
WordofSouth.com: Alright, so maybe a mixtape feature or something of that nature?
Trae: I mean you never know; I talked to him the other day. So with us, anything is possible, there might be a point in time where he can record while he's in there. Anything could happen.
WordofSouth.com: After "Restless," what do you have planned?
Trae: Working on a movie right now, trying to get the exact title right for it, doing a video, you know I got a lot of stuff on lock right now.
WordofSouth.com: What's next for S.L.A.B.?
Trae: Well, it's gonna be a hold up, but we gonna drop "Seven Years of Running." That's gonna be some of the greatest hits. We gonna drop S.L.A.B. 5 and from there on I don't really know, I gotta take it one day at a time.
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