HHDX: In your opinion will Philly ever blow as a city in the rap game?

Gillie: Yeah, Philly about to blow up this year. This is our year, the only reason it hasn't blown up yet is cause the wrong faces been put there you know what I'm saying.

HHDX: As in who?

Gillie: All of them, all the faces that came out, they the wrong face that set the city off, they the wrong face let's just kept it real. Who in Philadelphia you ever known had an underground buzz? Only other person other than the Figgas that had a real serious underground buzz is Reed Dollarz. I ain't talking bad about nobody. Cassidy never had an underground buzz, Beans never had an underground buzz, he was taken to Dame Dash and Jay-Z and got put on. No artists that ever came out in Philly never had an underground buzz, they was just put on. When you look at the heart of the streets I am the heart of the streets of Philadelphia. I'm the only person here deal or no deal, situation or no situation. I'm the only person that can throw an event and it be 2000 people there. You haven't had the privilege to come to one of my events *laughs* and I got one at the end of this month on the 28th, DJ Drama at the African-American Museum, it's gonna be ridiculous man.

HHDX: What you think it would take for Philly to blow up?

Gillie: The right face to hit the screen, another reason Philly hasn't blow up, cause everybody from Philly that came out didn't give back. When they get hot they don't try to make another nigga hot, "Come on dawg ride off me, bubble off of this", they don't wanna do that. Every nigga from Philly wanna get on and shit on everybody else. They don't wanna get on and say let's make the city blow, they wanna get on and say "Ah nigga I'm on you not" you feel me. Instead of being real and saying "I'm on", now let's go make this record with this nigga and I'm gonna do this record with that nigga and bring the city as a whole, soon as I get my foot in the door that's what I'm gonna do for the whole city. On my DVD "Marijuana High" it's kind of what I'm doing going around displaying talent showing off all the young niggas giving them a shot, letting them be seen and heard, you know what I'm saying.

HHDX: Now tell me the whole situation with you getting shot recently?

Gillie: I got shot a few times you know what I'm saying, a pussy-ass nigga shot me, but it was about nothing, I'm still here breathing God-willing. Continued on page 5 »