DX: Let me know about your record company in regards to Atlantic.  
GM: I gotta new company called So Icy. I called it that because I felt like this was my breaking point into the game. I want everybody to remember me for that, as well as this album.  We got one artist out right now that got a CD out and that’s me. I’m the CEO and the first artist as well.  I have to wear two hats over here.  We have deal with Asylum/Atlantic so…it’s a good look for us.  We got two or three Gucci Mane projects, and a La’ Chat project too.

DX: Why have you been dissing Jay-Z?
GM: Jay-Z is so big in the game, that I’m just taking shots.  I’m taking shots at the man who on top. This is the game of Hip Hop.  I didn’t make the rules, I just play them.

DX: He said that too. So, if Bone Thugs N Harmony was at the top of the game right now, you would have threw shots at them too?
GM: Yeah…if I was in the same situation I was in at the time, I would have thrown shots at them too or anybody.  No disrespect to Bone Thugs N Harmony, because I’m a huge fan of their music but if you hungry and you want something you have to go get it.  You gotta do it.

DX: Let me know about some people who you think are dope in Georgia on the underground scene that you don’t really think is getting a lot of love.  Who should we be looking out for?
GM: I got two of them.  Mantana Da Mac, he’s from Atlanta and he has a song on the album called, “Rock On” and he’s going to be very big.   Also look out for Yung Ralph,  he gotta song called, “Look like Money” and he’s signed to Universal, so be looking out for him.

DX: Why do you think they’re hot?
GM: They tearing up the down there all over the radio, they’re getting booked for shows and they haven’t even put out albums. People should look out for them on the underground scenes.

DX:  Word of mouth, as a kid you use to write a lot of short stories and poems.  Let me into your life, what was your writing about as a child?
GM: I use to write poems about my mother as a little boy and everybody use to like them and it was publicized. I was in like first or second grade.  I would write about Black History or whatever was going on.  I was a young student.

DX: Okay, so as a child did you ever think you would be an emcee or rapper?
GM: Yeah.  I knew I wanted to be a rapper since the fourth grade.

DX: So, at what moment did you say, “Yo, I want to pursue a career as a rapper.”  What hit you in the fourth grade?
GM: Run-DMC, LL [Cool J], the big chains, the shell toes…it was really the whole culture.

DX: That hit you in Georgia?
GM: Well, I was in Alabama but I had an older brother, who break-danced and I watched him do his thing.  He was Hip Hop.

DX: That’s dope.  What do you think is the biggest misconception about Gucci Mane or southern Rappers?
GM: I don’t think there’s a misconception about Gucci Mane in specific.  As far as the south, a lot of people say that we don’t have the “lyrics.”  We might not have good lyricism, but we still got good music, like everybody else. I want people to stop saying that and just focus on the fact that we’re still making good music and still getting money.

DX: So, if you had to describe this album in three words, what words would you choose and why?
GM: Informative, hood and classic.  Informative because you’re not from the hood and you’ve never been to East Atlanta, Zone 6.  You would feel like you knew my neighborhood by just listening to the album. I take you through every corner, every hood and every street name, all the girls, all the trap boys and you’ll see everything that’s going on, on the block. It’s like an almanac of what’s going on, on the block. I said hood because I’m the poster boy of the hood and I come from the gutter.  I tell it how it is. Classic, because its my first major album and the production is serious and it sounds classic.

DX: Back to Jay-Z, if he responded are you going to respond back to him?
GM: I’m really tryna push over that, because it’s so far behind.  To be honest they reach out to me and they like me.