I worked with a lot of upcoming producers like I said, my man Jay Rich and a few other upcoming producers. I, of course, worked with the Heatmakerz, that's it producer-wise. I just worked with a lot of new dudes. And as far as artist goes, I worked with Young Jeezy and Lil Wayne those 2 artist I’m really feeling…so it wasn’t a problem to put them on my album ya dig. That's actually it. You know I wasn’t trying to get no big artist so people buy my record, I just wanted to do what I wanted to do, and that people buy my record for me.

How did you pick your first the first Single “The Whistle Song”?

I wanted to do something different this time around you know? I knew it was gonna be a big record, and everybody loved it also right away when they heard it. And females were really wanting it too. It’s just something so different form what hey are use to getting from me. Everybody said that it was real hot, especially from Juelz ya dig. When it came to pick the first record, it was just like I said before, I just wanted be different, and it came out beautiful.

You also did the record “Run It” with Chris Brown, how did that happen, since you do very different music?

Well, yeah in the beginning I didn’t wanna do the record, because it was a very young-sounding record and at that time I just didn’t know in what direction it would take me. But once I met him and I saw that he was working hard, I didn’t mind doing it. I liked shorty, he was cool, I mean he was tall as shit, I was a shorty to him…

Who inspired you to get into this business and really try to make it?

Oh man, there’s a lot of inspiration out there, because I’ve been listening to Hip Hop for a long Time now. You know from Big daddy Kane, to Rakim, over to Biggie and Jay-Z, just listening to all those people and really recognizing and seeing whoever contributed to the game during all this Time.

Have you ever since you started had a moment where you wanted to quit?

Nah…nothing really wanted to make me quit… maybe in the very beginning, before anything popped off… not because like my album didn’t do well, nothing like that would make me ever wanna quit.

When I came in the game, before I even met Cam, I did have thoughts like I was never gonna get put on. Or I would really ask myself if this would really be something for me, or even if something was gonna come out of this. Continued on page 3 »