HHDX: Oh so Uncle Murda was popping off like that?
UM: Yeah [laughs], Uncle Murda was getting it in ya heard, go check it out man.

HHDX:  I’m going to peep that rap shit, but tell me what made you the rider that you are?
UM: Just coming up in my neighborhood man. It was just me and a bunch of childhood friends of mine. I just decided one day that we wanted to get some money and get fly. Everybody else around us was looking good and we wasn’t looking too good. We was young like “Fuck that, we gonna start looking good”. We wasn’t like the average little niggas that come under the older dudes hustling. We gathered whatever little money we had ourselves and started hustling on our own. When the older guys didn’t really approve of that it caused a conflict, because we started getting too much money so we started getting it on. All we had was us. We ain’t had no older guys to go to, it was just us. It probably was about eight or nine of us so we had to be real tight with each other and depend on each other just to live. We wasn’t gonna stop getting money and we decided “Fuck that we gonna get this money and we gonna get it on with these niggas” so that’s where it really all started from man.

HHDX: I’m pretty sure with being in the hood trying to get your money that you had a lot of cats after you?
UM: Oh hell yeah. So we had a lot of older dudes envy of us, because we started getting money when we was about fifteen, sixteen. All them other older niggas they was already twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, they wasn’t feeling us we was taking all they money. We was getting some bread man and they was gunning at us. What made us special was that these older niggas would come shooting at us and thinking that it would scare us and they was surprised that we came right back. Right after they came on our block shooting outside the projects we came right back. As soon as the police left we came right back over there. They knew like “Damn, these little motherfuckers is serious man,” and it was on right there it was a new era.

HHDX: Being from the hood do you think a gun is the key to safety?
UM: Hell yeah only if you living that lifestyle. A gun is only necessary if you living that lifestyle hustling and doing what you do so hell yeah you get a gun. If you ain’t living that lifestyle you don’t need no motherfuckin gun. The lifestyle I was living? Hell yeah I needed a gun to survive!

HHDX: I feel you on that Murda, because I’m from the hood too in Philly but I don’t do none of that!
UM: Yeah, you don’t need a gun just because you live in the hood. It depends on what you doing.

HHDX: No doubt, so I see Uncle Murda had some drama going on.
UM: Oh hell yeah I still got drama going on.

HHDX: Well that’s what happens G!
UM: Hell yeah, I guess it’s a part of hip-hop with the lies and rumors, but it’s all good.

HHDX: What’s your beef with the cops right now talk about that?
UM: I just don’t like the cops man. I can’t stand them, they done shot up a couple of my mans and all that. They shoot people and just get away with it. I just don’t like how they go about things. They come in the neighborhoods and they just check you, harassing you, and doing what the fuck they want. I can’t stand them motherfuckers man! It’s like just because we look how we look, they got a right to come check us and feel like we criminals and I’m just not with that shit. I can’t stand it that shit really fucks with me man.

HHDX: How you feel when they say “To Protect and Serve”?
UM: Shit not us - they here to destroy us. They trying to get the young generation before they even grow up to be eighteen. They trying to make sure these niggas got rap sheets, they locking niggas up when they thirteen, fourteen just to be in the system, just to fuck them up so they can never prosper to better themselves. They just be fucking niggas up! I don’t feel like they here to protect and serve. They knocking down libraries in my community just to put up a P.O. building. There was a library in the projects for the young kids to do what they want to do and these motherfuckers knocked the library down and they got up a P.O. building. What type of example are you giving the kids with a P.O. building?

HHDX: Do you feel a lot of cops are dirty?
UM: Hell yeah! A lot of cops are dirty it’s like nine out of every ten cops are dirty.

HHDX: Tell me why?
UM: Because of the experiences I’ve been through man. These motherfuckers used to just come through with they little hoodies on. You don’t know who the fuck they is. You shooting, they just shooting back at you. These motherfuckers play dirty. They pull you over in the neighborhood sometimes and they don’t even care as they have no reason to pull you over. They just wanna get you out your car and check to see if you got a gun and they let you go about your business. They be on some “It’s a lot going on in this neighborhood and we wanna see if you got weapons”. They disrespect your rights and I can’t get with that shit. Continued on page 3 »