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  • » Name: William E. Ketchum III
  • » Location: East Lansing, MI
  • » Member Since: 04/12/07
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September 06, 2007 | Tags: none

What's good y'all? This is my second week back at school, so with that, my still (attempted) takeover of the journalism industry, actually living this hip-hop shit (Including Rock The Bells, three shows last week, dogs, all in different cities. Acting like gas isn't cripplin' cats) and trying to do things like eating and sleeping too, shit's been crazy as far as time is concerned. Still, I thought I'd give y'all a brief rundown of what I've got in the works.

DJ Drama


Just in case y'all didn't see this yesterday, peep it. Me and Drama are homies, so in a HipHopDX exclusive, dude basically laid it all on the line. Highlight:

HipHopDX: Speaking of Wayne, shortly after the raid, there was an interview with MTV News where he said that you and other mixtape DJs had to “smarten up,” “play the game fair,” and to look at DJ Clue and Khaled as examples. A lot of people looked at those comments as disrespectful; have you spoken to him since then?

DJ Drama: ... I’m going to say first and foremost, I respect Lil Wayne, and when it comes to that microphone and what he does in that booth, the boy’s a problem. He’s on top of his game, I will never take that from him. But when the raid happened, and he made those comments to MTV, it was a stab in my back. ... I had issues with that, as did a lot of people, because a lot of people knew the impact I had on his career, there’s no denying that. Lil Wayne was definitely here before me, but niggas will tell you that they ride more to Dedication 2 than the Carters. Especially in a situation where…loyalty’s a lot, man. And when Wayne had those problems with Gillie, I made a decision on my own based on the work that me and Wayne had did when the nigga was tearing his ass. And for someone to turn around when I was at my low point, and say, “You need to do it right like Khaled and Clue?” OK, that’s what’s up, dog.
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Next week: Will.I.Am

I nabbed uber-producer Will.I.Am for DX's Producer's Corner section (whattup Mel!). Homie's hilarious, and his realness is beyond measure. A clip:

HipHopDX: Eazy was a gangsta rapper; how did your sound progress from ghostwriting for him, to the pop-friendly sound you’ve established with Black Eyed Peas? How difficult was it for you to transition your beat-making like that?



Will.I.Am: When I was rolling with Eazy, I was just a straight-up killa. He found me straight from the streets. I had like two bodies under my belt, I was in and out of mothafuckin juvenile hall and shit, I was straight up rugged raw. I used to slang crack and mothafuckin twinkies and shit, robbed the liquor store. Then finally, I just started selling my shit out of ice cream trucks, and then the little kids used to run to the truck when they heard the ice cream song. I’m like, “Oooh, this is a hot little market here, this ice cream truck shit!” So with the Black Eyed Peas, I just took it to the next level, and just started making ice cream truck music. You know what I’m saying? Slangin’ mothafuckin lollipops. [laughs hysterically] I can’t even hold a straight face.
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I've also got Salaam Remi talking about everything from Nas to his own pops' history in music, Sicknotes (Obie Trice, "Cry Now;" D12, "How Come") breaking down producing in the Detroit hip-hop scene, Khrysis (better than 9th? Just my opinion...), Oddisee (honestly, one of the illest producers in the industry, independent or not), and others. And that's just the shit that I'm actually telling y'all about.


As far as blog topics, future ones include:

Diggin In The Crates

(Don't worry, I haven't forgotten.)

Why "MI" State's Hip-Hop is Better Than Yours

Featuring Black Milk, Guilty Simpson, (both pictured), Royce Da 5'9", OneBeLo, Elzhi/Slum Village, Buff1, Othello, Mr. Porter, and much, much more. (And yeah, my hoodie game has stepped up a little bit)

William E. Ketchum III's interview memiors

Including, why I say that the post-1995 DJ Quik is a bitch. (As if the above album cover wasn't enough)

That's all for now.

Ya boy!



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