LS: What’s happenin’ witcha?

TSS: Aint nothin’, ready to do this?

LS: I been ready, ready to do it.

TSS: So you got the album out, Bred to Die, Born To Live…how much love have you been getting off the album?

LS: I aint check the stats of it yet to see how much it sold but I’m sure it’s doin’ quite good. What I do is, I stay out here grindin’. As much as I grind, I see how people who heard the album are feelin’ it, lovin’ it. They tellin’ me I got real songs, I got a whole album full of just different stuff. It’s not the same thing for the whole song. I got it where people won’t get tired of it, they just want more.

TSS: I know you’ve got some choice favorites off the album; what’s your favorite joint, the one you had the most fun working on?

LS: Hmm…you talkin’ songwise? Well shit, songwise, the ones I did with 50. They didn’t all go on the album, but it was so exciting just to work with the dude, you feel me? I always wanted to work with him since I heard his music back in the day. I was like, “Damn, if I could work with dude that’ll probably step my whole game up.” And it did, you feel me, and I’ve been ready. And when I was with him, he made it so fun and easy it was like I coulda been did this but I needed that extra push. And that dude that was there was in my position a minute ago, you feel me?

TSS: Yeah, yeah. ‘Cause I know y’all got a good relationship, you’ve talked about it before. So what do you got lined up as far as workin’ with him in the future and other G-Unit cats? I know you had Olivia along with Young Buck on the album.

LS: It’s just a relationship thing we gon’ keep flowin’, you feel me? He said he might not ever go acrosss the street and mess with another label again but we gon’ always keep the relationship goin’ ‘cause it’s G-Unit for life, you feel me? I got my own squad G’s Up that 50 is helpin’ me with so I just take it stride.

TSS: With G’s Up are we gonna see anything from them in the future with you producing?

LS: Oh yeah, they comin’ out in the summertime and right now we workin’ on their second mixtape, ‘cause I’m in the group and the first mixtape I did was actually a G’s Up mixtape just to let everybody know I’m not comin’ by myself. And then I came with the Full Metal Jacket, then the – uh, what was that shit, Expect The Unexpected.

TSS: Yeah.

LS: I had them on that then I just came out with the Lil Scrappy and G’s Up mixtape which is gonna be crazy. It’s with ya boy Don Cannon of the Aphiliates, so it’s gon’ be crazy.

TSS: I know you said your daughter’s a major influence. How much of that love and attention that you get from your daughter did you put into your album? I know it’s gotta be 100 %, but you tell me.

LS: Yeah, it’s one hundred percent ‘cause I aint never had no baby. I aint never been a father, so it’s like the love that my mama gave me my whole life is like, reflected, you feel me? I mean, if my mama didn’t give me the type of love like that I probably wouldn’t be the same dude. ‘Cause how she gave it to me was like, all my mama cared about was her kids. She didn’t give a fuck about nothin’ else, my mama would go out and hustle all night and won’t come home, you know what I’m talkin’ about? ‘Cause she doin’ it for her kids and not for herself, you feel me? So it’s like I got that same thing. When I leave to go out of state, my whole thing is like ‘I gotta take care of my daughter’, I don’t know nothin’ else.

TSS: I hear you.

LS: Personally, I hate the rap game, I hate the state it’s in now, I hate that people wanna see somebody that’s superhuman and they don’t want the real. They used to want the real, people want somebody that’s superhuman now. So it’s like, I hate the rap game but I gotta go get it for my little girl, I don’t give a damn – like, I try to put myself in the class of these other niggas. ‘Cause I don’t wanna have lil’ niggas goin’ to jail an’ can’t see they kids, can’t see their family unless they have to. When you gotta do it, it’s a whole different reason. But I got a gift my nigga, I don’t have to do that no more, I don’t have to do that shit no more.

TSS: Fa sho’. You’ve got a real serious head on your shoulders. “Shake My World” is a track that I look at as a real definition of that.

LS: Ahh, you heard that!(laughs)

TSS: The one thing some people always say is that cats from the South don’t have a certain outlook on things. I know you disagree with that. Tell me why.

LS: I disagree with that because we sat here and watched the whole rap game unfold. We sat here and watched it from my daddy to your daddy to everybody’s daddy,(laughs), you feel me? Because we down here, we didn’t have a great chance – it’s like by us bein’ down here, we not only was in slavery, we weren’t only segregated, we weren’t only jus’ getting’ beat down and called this and that, but we were also locked out of the rap game. We were heard but we weren’t felt. So it’s like now, now we can share the stuff with everybody, everybody’s like ‘wow!’, you know what I’m sayin’?

TSS: Right, right.

LS: ‘Cause we already put in, not a front but a face of craziness. Like, we go wild down here. So it’s like we don’t even calm down or nothin’ to even know what’s goin’ on but that’s what they think, feel me? But a nigga like me who go through problems everyday, I go through problems like hard, I go through real hard problems. It’s like when I come out of it, all I got is God. I’m a spiritual dude and a hood dude, I’m a real ass nigga, you feel me? So by me readin’ a lot and me just knowin’ stuff, I break down life into all kinda parts and I dissect it ‘cause you gotta do that. You gotta know why this person did that. You gotta know why he’s mad. ‘Cause I feel like if you know why a person’s mad and why they doin’ that, you shouldn’t be mad at them. You should just walk away, or look at him in his eyes and say, ‘you a real bitch for that’, you feel me? An’ keep movin’.

TSS: Yeah, ‘cause I know you’ve had problems with Trillville and Pastor Troy in the past…it seems like beef seems to come at you for no reason. What’s your take on that?

LS: I mean, it’s just one of those things where if you’re a blessed person, you’re a child of God…that’s what happens. It’s like when you in school, and let’s say you was a blessed child – like when I was in school I was a blessed child. I didn’t know it, I didn’t see it, I didn’t know I had potential to do anything. All I did was try to hustle up some money by sellin’ a lil’ weed in the hallway, sometimes I might skip school and sell it – half the time I aint even go to school. But when I went to school, niggas was hatin’. I’m talkin’ ‘bout, I did everything different. Everything I do, I always been a different type of nigga. I dyed my hair blond ro be different, niggas was jonesin’ me right? Niggas was jonesin’ me, but you know it was a blond haired nigga every day in school after that.

TSS: (laughs)Yeah.

LS: You feel me? It was like a blond haired nigga every day in school after that. And I’m like, ‘what the hell is goin’ on?’ I changed my shit back to black just ‘cause I’m like ‘damn, okay’…I had it fro’d out an’ everything, cuz. I had pretty bitches, I did everything different. Niggas was hatin’ hard. Niggas will always talk but never wanna swing, feel me? And I could never understand why everybody hated me ‘cause I didn’t even know nobody. I’m from a whole ‘nother side of town, I’m from Zone 3, Southeast. I moved from the suburbs out to the east side over in Ellingwood to go to this one school an’ they just hatin’ for no reason. I’m like, ‘hey I don’t even know y’all motherfuckers. y’all not even the east side, y’all are like in the middle.’(laughs) Now I look back and I see why they were hatin’ because I had potential, you feel me, I’m a blessed child. They always gotta hate. I’m no different from God, I’m no different than Jesus Christ. They hated on him, why? ‘Cause he was a blessed child. All day every day. He asked God the same question, you feel me?

TSS: I feel you man, I feel you.(laughs)

LS: I just look at life like that, I break down life like that.

TSS: I understand man, I understand totally. You mentioned certain spots in the ATL in another interview, like Pin-Ups…that’s one spot I’m up in when I’m down there…

LS: (laughs) Right.

TSS: So do you get a lot of play in the strip clubs? I know certain songs get pushed by strip club DJ’s.

LS: Yeah, yeah, yeah! I get a lot of push, matter of fact it don’t even be the singles, it be like other little songs that the hood love, you feel me? And it’s like when they love it, by them lovin’ it, they’ll play it. Like a DJ told me, “Money In The Bank” is cool, you got a lot of other songs, cool…but they wanna hear this right here. They wanna hear this ‘cause this the strip club song. Just ‘cause it aint sayin’ nothin’ ‘bout no bitches, that don’t mean it aint no strip club song ‘cause a strip club song is a street song. the strip club is the street so they want what’s in the street.

TSS: I feel you on that. So you mentioned earlier how you’re not feeling the rap game. Do you see yourself going the A&R route, being more on the business side?

LS: I mean, you know I got my own label. I’m a CEO, G’s Up/ Crunk Incorporated. I got Crime Mob if you haven’t heard of ‘em. I put them out a year or two ago an ‘they sold without even a big push, they sold like 300,000 to 400,000. Now we fittin’ to put them back out in February and ‘Hated On Most’ is the title of the album. We got two girls, Diamond and Princess they comin’ out with an album after that. And I got G’s Up, which is me, my little brother Chris the young and the crunkest, joe dollar and jay stacks which are The Blood Brothers. And we pushin’ them things real hard so by the summertime it’s gonna be real crazy. I’m tryin’ to do it big and I say G’s Up ‘cause I’m God’s little thug and God is up, you feel me? So it’s like, I’m puttin’ all together, I got my whole plan.

TSS: I see you doin’ your thing there, player.

LS: It’s a solid plan though, everybody don’t see it comin’. They blinded by other rappers, I can’t say no names, they blinded but I got ‘em. I got too many niggas down here, too many niggas that co-signed me in the A. And the A is on fire right now, you feel me? My nigga Jeezy co-signed me, my nigga T.I. co-signed me which I really don’t need that consignment, but I fucks with them so hard and they fucks with me so hard that they just co-signed the hell outta me. I got Lil Jon, I got all the real niggas – shout out to Block – niggas just been out here grindin’ nigga, you feel me? Outkast got love for a nigga, that’s big; Outkast got love for me, I grew up off that.

TSS: No doubt, no doubt. Thank you for blessin’ us with this interview man.

LS: I thank you for listenin’, my nigga. I thank you for listenin’.

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