Mack also talked about his new gothic epic The Beauty Queen. The film was directed by Thomas McGully who is also a photographer for Time Magazine. Mack says, “It was a great experience and I got to work with a lotta good people.” The movie went so well that Mack ended up meeting some underground St Louis artists named Ruka Puff and Bigga Brown at a club while he was shooting the film and decided to work with them on his album. “I just happened to go out with the guys from the movie set and they took me to this underground club,” Mack reflects about his initial meeting with the guys. “Ruka Puff and them were there performing. When I saw them on stage, I went crazy. I had to do something with them.”

So how does Mack 10 feel now that he’s getting older and his kids are growing up and life is moving a little slower due to lots of responsibilities? “I feel that with the more a person experiences, the wiser they should get. I also found that there were things I could never have to much of in life, like dirt (Real Estate) property value and location is everything and it’s better to have lots of land instead of lots of cars. Cars depreciate in value as soon you drive off the lot, where as real estate makes your money grow.”

When asked about his Westside Connection homies Ice Cube and WC and whether they will ever do another album Mack says,“No way. There won’t be another album.” When asked why he states, “Because we were originally never supposed to do a second album but a lotta people just kept asking us to do it so after 7 years we did it but there won’t be another one. I mean my relationship with those guys is cool, Cube is doing movies and WC is doing his thing and I’m making music and that’s just how it is.”

So with all of that said what is Mack 10’s next goal? “I plan to just keep doing what I do. My new album will be out on September 27th and then I’m putting out Red Café from Brooklyn who I just signed to my Hoo Bangin label. He’ll be coming out the 1st quarter of next year.

How does Mack want to be remembered when it’s all said and done and age finally catches up to him? “I just want people to say that I was one of the real ones.”

That he is. Keep mackin’ Mack.