Boaz says that there’s a reason why he’s worked with Jadakiss and Styles P, who appear on his “Rootin’ 4 The Villain” song.
“I think right now we’re at a point where we’re just trying to keep everything authentic, man,” Boaz says during an interview with XXL. “And the people we work with is the people that’s taken a liking to the music, taken a liking to me as an artist, so we’re open to pretty much working with anybody that’s doing they thing, that wanna work and that’s on their grind. I think we took a natural attraction to those guys, maybe given the resemblance. [Laughs] It was a natural bondage, man, and it was a little easier to put together that chemistry with some of those more rugged rappers.”
Boaz also says that even though he’s also worked with Scarface and Sean Price, he wants to keep the guests on his forthcoming Intuition project to a minimum.
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“There’s so much of me on the album that I try to make it a point where I’m changing a bit or my character is changing in certain songs, so it’s like, ‘Who the hell was that that you had featured on that?’” he says of the Intuition, which is due October 21. “And it’s me. So it’s really just showing that little bit of versatility, and how you can create so many different sounds to make this same point, or exercise this same title I’m trying to get across. It’s all about having that good intuition, being able to see music from different angles.”
In July, Boaz said that his material, as well as the music of fellow Pittsburgh rappers Mac Miller and Wiz Khalifa, reflects the makeup of people in The Steel City.
“I think it’s a really good mixture because it’s like a dumb thin line between poverty and blue collar,” Boaz said at the time. “You could be on this side of the street and it looks like 5th Ave. Cross this side of 5th Ave, and you in the hood. So Pittsburgh, it’s not really diverse in that sense. You got us and you got the others. So it’s like, no Spanish, very little Jamaicans. And it gives it a sense of, ‘Yeah, it’s tough. Ain’t no hiring or nothing like that.”
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