What do you do exactly when it comes to working on the album?

DJ Skee: I do a little bit of everything. We go through beats and shit. Do little segments on the record (and) help with the song concepts and all that. We work on the vibe and go with the chemistry.

Will your presence on his album be similar to DJ Drama's on T.I.’s album?

DJ Skee: Nah, not really. We just focused on the music and shit like that. If something like me being vocal comes up and it works, we'll keep it. But we ain't trying to force nothing like that.

How has Game's situation changed since he split-up with G-Unit?

DJ Skee: Honestly, it's been better because now he can fuck with Nas, Fat Joe, Jada, and all of them. Being in G-Unit he couldn't mess with certain people because they had beef with them. Now all he gotta do worry about the people he got beef with, which ain't that many people.

You were around G-Unit when he was a member; what is it like on the outside looking in?

DJ Skee: It was like any other shit. They did their thing. They were getting money and they had one of the best runs in Hip-Hop. There's no taking that away.

The current mixtape you have out right now; how long did it take to get it done?

DJ Skee: It took about a good week of recording. I'm always looking for beats and whatever; I just threw some old stuff up there and Game did his thing. Game work ethic is retarded.

How many songs can he knockout on a good day?

DJ Skee: Shitttttt... realistically, he can do about 3 or 4 songs.

The feedback from the mixtape has been that it plays like an actual album LP.

DJ Skee: A lot of dudes are quantity over quality. I'm more quality. That's how I do all my mixtapes with Game and all those are classic. Everytime we drop something it shuts other things down. We (are) getting airplay off mixtape tracks. 'One Blood' was just a mixtape track. Now it may be the lead-off single for the album. That's what sets my shit apart from other DJs.

It sounds like some of the joints were songs that didn't make the album. Was that the case? You just put some throwaways on the mixtape?

DJ Skee: Yeah, it's like this one joint we did. We had this beat and Game had already laid a hook for it and everything. He just didn't fuck with it for like a year. We were going through old beats and it popped up and we were feeling it. We went to Aftermath and they were like, 'That's already on Tony Yayo's album.' We didn't even hear Yayo's album (little chuckle) so we didn't know if they were for real or not. We bought the album and sure enough it was on there. Continued on page 3 »