To dispel the rumors, no, Little Brother is not breaking up.  When one member leaves a duo, that's called a breakup.  When one member leaves a trio, that's called an evolution.  But no one has officially left the group.  We're still here, and we're still moving forward.

HipHopDX: Foreign Exchange did pretty well. When can we expect the next installment?

Phonte: Me and Nic are gonna start the Foreign Exchange when I finish the Little Brother record up. We kind of did some preplanning for it and we mapped out the guests that we want. We already have a few tracks set aside and I got song ideas in my head and choruses and verses for it. But we haven’t started recording yet. I’m just focusing full time on the new Little Brother record. I would say, look for Foreign Exchange possibly Summer ’07. I could be totally off base but summer or fall in ’07 but definitely sometime in ’07.

HipHopDX: We know you’re very opinionated, poignant and open. I wanted to allow you to sound off on various topics. So, I’ll shoot out some topics and you can give me your take on it.

Phonte: That’s cool.

HipHopDX: You may have already answered this but…Radio!

Phonte: Hm…“Radio…Suckers never play me.” (Laughs…) Naw…

HipHopDX: Man, when I was writing that, I knew you were going to say that!

Phonte: (Laughs) Yeah, man…“Suckers never play me…” Naw, radio, man? I don’t listen to it. It has no place in my life. I just don’t listen to it. I stay as far away from it as I possibly can.

HipHopDX: Fair enough. Next Topic: The stop snitching movement.

Phonte: That shit is ignorant. I think people really got a misunderstanding of what that really means. Back in the day, in the 60’s and 70’s and Civil Rights or whatever, Stop Snitchin’ kind of referred to cats running to the police and snitching on what we was doing with the Black Panthers. You didn’t want a snitch in your crew telling the feds what we were doing. It was kind of like a thing of empowerment. We were trying to pull ourselves up. But now, it’s kind of taken on a different meaning. That shit is kind of stupid. I look at it, as bottom line-Don’t fuck with mine and I won’t fuck with yours. If I live in the hood or whatever, and I see a dude selling crack…as fucked up as it sounds, ain’t shit I could do about that. You selling to your loyal customers. Them n-ggas is gonna buy from you anyway. It hurts but it’s like ‘Fuck it. What can I do?’ Continued on page 5 »