J. Cole discusses his new album and where his home town.

Up top is Drake and Jimmy’s Skit “Tweet Tweet”, and down bottom is the two part interview. Read more…

Rick Ross and MTV get together to discuss Teflon Don, in this conversation, Ross tells MTV about his Jay-Z collaboration we can expect on the album.

Previously: Video: Rick Ross – Super High – Ft. Ne-Yo

Here are parts 1, 2 and 3 of T.I’s visit to the Larry King Live show. This is his first visit since being released from prison.

Cole talks to HardKnockTV about the void he sees in hiphop, his song, who dat (murda!)

XXL got to speak at length with Aubrey about his opinions, his projects and where hes at. Props XXL. *DEAD* at Drake thinking hes too good for a Gangsta Grillz mixtape.

Photography shot exclusively for XXL by Jonathan Mannion

Here, in an unpublished excerpt from Drake’s XXL cover story on stands now, rap’s next big thing talks the difference between writing rap and writing R&B records, being bored with mixtapes and why he hates the way he looks in pictures, as well as a few other things. Thank us later. (Or is that going too far?)

How many songs are on Thank Me Later?

Drake: It’ll probably end up being about 15. But it’s just, you know, I love doing R&B music, I really do. And I just always feel like to tie in hip-hop with R&B and to utilize R&B to glue it all together, that’s my trademark. That’s something that only I can do. And that’s why I will continue to do it. There might come a time where I might be like, “Yo, I just want to do an R&B mixtape, or I just want to do a whole [R&B] album,” but I don’t think so, man. I think that that is the makeup of me—melody and just the tone of my voice and all; I don’t think I could ever change that, so…

I’m waiting on the Drake Gangsta Grillz.

Drake: [Laughs] I just find that boring, you know. There’s certain people where it’s impressive, like with Lil Wayne, to hear him freestyling over other people’s beats for an hour is impressive because it’s just like, Yo, this guy never runs out of clever shit to say, but for me, people might want to hear it, but it’s just not something that I really want to give you. I’d rather just give you something that lasts a little longer than that ’cause those mixtapes never really last much longer than six months. When the songs become played out, and…

Well, it’s different now. It’s like Dedication 2 and Dedication 1 and Jeezy obviously, Trap or Die…

Drake: Yeah, but even so, do you listen to those on a constant basis or would you rather put in an album where somebody’s giving you original compositions and moments that maybe apply to your life as opposed to listening to like… I don’t know? I know to listen to freestyles over songs that maybe I’m just sick of, even though somebody kills it, there may be one or two or three that really, really, I love, but other than that, I’d rather just listen to like somebody’s music.

There are some special ones.

Drake: There are for sure.

Do you feel that you can go bar for bar with anybody?

Drake: As far as rappers? Um… I’m really still trying to become a better rapper, you know? And I still have idols. I still have people I look up to. I definitely don’t feel that I’m the best I can be nor am I the best rapper. Like I said, I just love making the music, and I’m less concerned about where I stand in the rankings and more about just where I stand with myself, like am I getting better? You know, am I the best I can be? I really don’t care about like compared to Hov or compared to Wayne. That’s another man. I’ve never been really worried about what anybody else is doing. I just use it as reference points and as influence and inspiration, but I don’t really bother myself with thinking who’s the best. ’Cause that doesn’t really matter. It’s just who’s got the songs that move people at the time. Like if you’ve got the title of being the best rapper but you don’t have the hottest songs out? To me, that’s what’s important is just like putting out consistently good product. I don’t really care how they rank me or anything like that.

How important is it to be involved in the larger rap conversation?

Drake: I definitely want to be great. You know, I’m not saying I don’t care. I obviously care. I love being mentioned in a class of people that are incredible but I mean, you can focus on that shit and drive yourself crazy…. In different genres it’s way different. I think rap is probably the most competitive genre.

Absolutely.

Drake: R&B is becoming competitive, too. Especially with all the younger artists. But in I don’t know if Grizzly Bear is wondering if they’re better than Kings of Leon, you know [Laughs]. I think they all just make the music that they love and that’s kinda what I try to take away from those individuals is I just want to make the music, man, and however it turns out… I can’t sit here and tell you my music is so good ’cause it’s just not for me to decide. It’s for people to decide. The results are always evident. If you choose to ignore them and still say my music’s the best and I’m the best, that’s when you start getting lost.

What’s the difference between writing R&B records and rap records for you?

Drake: R&B records, to be honest with you, is kinda like, I mean, process wise, like the way Jay writes raps I guess or the way Wayne writes raps. Like, they don’t write things down, they just like say it in their head and are able to retain all the information in their head [that’s] how I write R&B. I don’t write down the lyrics, I kind of just stand in the booth and I just keep singing and singing until I just find melodies and words that make sense or come together. Or I just stand in there and find melodies that I love and then really go outside of the booth and think about what’s been going on in my life and try to put words to it. R&B though, I mean it’s really pretty much the same content-wise, you know, it’s all pretty honest stuff. I always try to keep in mind that both male and female will be listening to it so I try to make R&B music that’s not too sappy and not too “girl this” and “girl that” just so that like I sound like a man who’s thinking. I sound like a man who’s confident just so that it’s not awkward for other men to listen to. And then at the same time I try to keep it empowering for women. Really I just like, I like my R&B to feel a certain way and then I that feeling is usually evident so when I get there I’m like okay, yeah, yeah, this is it.

I’ve heard folks say that writing R&B records can be more difficult because there are less words to work with.

Drake: Yeah, I don’t know, to be honest with you, I kinda think that more words can often be more room for error. Like when you have to write a 16 bar verse or a 32 bar verse, which I often do, I feel like that can also be more difficult. I also feel like one of my biggest attributes or talents is finding melody. You know me and [my producer] 40 can sit together and pick melodies that other singers would probably just use as like a harmony but they just become so prominent when you use them as a lead. And yeah, to me, with R&B, I just don’t take it that serious where it’s like I’m an R&B singer and this song has to sound a certain type of way and if not then no one’s going to respect me, you know? I just kinda really allow myself to just have fun. I’m able to let go and just see what comes of it all the time. You know, because it’s the icing on the cake. It’s something that if I’m able to pull it together, I just see it as a plus. When we do get it right, it really adds a dynamic to my career.

How do you make sure you’re saying something new? I can’t imagine you’re studying the entire catalog of every rap record made from all time.

Drake: Um, I mean, I have a pretty good idea. If I come up with something that I think is really, really clever, I’m not afraid to like Google it or really start sitting there and thinking about [it]. Obviously, you’re right – there’s no way for me to figure if it’s been said before in some rap record from some guy that I’ve never [heard of], but as far as prominent things where I’m going to say it and someone right away is going to be like oh that was ’Pac or oh, that was T.I…. I really do try and make sure that a lot of what I rap about has never really been worded in the way that I put it.

Rather than reinterpreting someone else’s structure for instance.

Drake: It’s more in the words. I mean, I admire flows. I really do admire flows and sometimes I’ll flip flows that I love, like the dead prez flow, you know I love that flow. That’s one of the most powerful song’s startings ever in hip-hop in my opinion, you know, and I wanted to pay homage to that, but at the same time, like, unless I directly mean to, usually I’ll stay away from copying or just trying to emulate someone else’s whole style or the type of things they would say.

Earlier you said, you can make just rap records and cater to a small segment, like how important is that to you? Or is it all about just being successful and making records to be successful?

Drake: Like to me, I think about them all the time because you know, I really do care about what they have to say, you know? …I still go on the websites like NahRight, like, I care, I really do care. So like I said, when I do have a chance to get in a rap mode, like for example I did this song off my album last night called “The Resistance.” It’s the song that comes right before “Over” and, man, that was one of those songs where I was like, you know, I really gotta take the time and write this song because it’s an opportunity to really rap and show people that I actually do care about rap and care about what you think about my flows and care about what you think about me as a rapper even if I have a crazy hook on it, which I do… But I still factor them into my thoughts. I haven’t let them go yet, that hip hop population that’s so judgmental and maybe hates everything I’m doing right now ’cause I’m doing it on such a grand scale and they feel like not a part of it all or they feel like I’ve abandoned them and what they stand for. I still think about them all the time.

How do you respond to the hate?

Drake: I don’t respond. I cut myself off from outlets where I would be able to say anything anyway, but it’s really not my style to really say anything to people, you know. Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, man, honestly, the music feedback I don’t really trip off of ’cause I know everybody likes their own thing so I don’t really trip when someone doesn’t like my music because what you’ll tend to do is there’ll be 40 people that say, “Oh, dope song,” and then there’ll be one guy that’s like, “Yo, this dude’s overrated, fuck Drake,” and that’s the one you’ll pay attention to. That one guy will make you feel like everybody’s online dissing you so it’s easy to get caught up in the trap of the feedback. But to be honest that’s not even the stuff that bothers me, man. You want to know what really bothers me?

What?

Drake: What really bothers me is that fact that all my life, I always get caught in the worst, most unphotogenic poses ever. Now people follow me with cameras and are just clicking away and I always feel like I just look mad different in pictures. I hate seeing pictures of myself online when I’m leaving a spot or whatever; I just always get caught laughing ’cause I’m always outside making jokes or whatever with the people, but I always end up looking so stupid like that’s the shit that I’m always like, “Man, I wish that didn’t happen,” you know? But as for people’s opinions and shit like that, it’s all good. That’s what’s going to happen. You know people are entitled to their opinion and it takes a certain type of individual to really come online and give their opinion of your music, positive or negative. I don’t know if you do it, but I can’t say I’ve ever gone online and posted underneath someone’s song, and be like, “Dope song, son.” Or, “That shit is wack.” I’ve never done that before. It’s just a certain community of people that really feel like that’s their outlet and I know that me and my friends aren’t any of them so I don’t know who those people are and I can’t really take their opinion too close to heart just because I’m not really sure what those people are made of and if their opinion’s even valid so I just kind of keep it moving.

If it all ended today, if it got taken away, what would you want people to take away?

Drake: It can’t end yet. It can’t end yet because the story’s not done. —Benjamin Meadows-Ingram

The May 2010 issue, featuring Drake & Nicki Minaj on the cover, is on stands now!!!

Nas and The.Life files talk about things I’m not particularly a fan of right now, namely Obama, Avatar, Guru’s passing, and how he views the internet has changed music.

Jadakiss, Drama and Green Lantern put out the second part of their promo video for the upcoming “The champ is here 3″ tape. Also peep the itsbongoboy interview with Jadakiss below.

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Score! I have been waiting for a picture of this to surface. I had heard about this and the gumby chain, and I actually got to see a pic of the Gumby chain.

Recently, Complex magazine interviewed Waka Flocka Flame, and here’s the interview:

Your first reaction when you heard his name was probably similar to ours. What the fuck is a Waka Flocka Flame? Now we know that 23-year-old Juaquin Malphurs is the newest artist in Gucci Mane’s burgeoning So Icey camp, and definitely is full of youthful and rowdy exuberance. The New York-born MC has already proven himself to be more than a weed carrier showing out on Gucci’s single, “Bingo,” as well providing arguably the biggest trap anthem in the last year with his breakout single, “O Let’s Do It.” Diddy even shouts him out on the remix.

Unfortunately, at a time when he should be celebrating knowing way too many people right now that he didn’t know last year, trouble has been tracking him like its got a GPS. In January, he was shot during an armed robbery. In the last two weeks alone, Waka was involved in a brawl with a group of Young Jeezy’s associates at the Atlanta sneaker spot, Walter’s, as well as eight teenagers being shot at a concert he performed at in Gary, Indiana. Complex caught up with Waka while he was on road doing shows and preparing his debut, Flockavelli, to see how Gucci is doing, find out about the scrap at Walter’s, and whether slowing down a little is something that’s crossed his mind.

Interview by Toshitaka Kondo

Complex: You grew up in Jamaica, Queens until the age of nine. What New York rap were you listening to?

Waka Flocka Flame: Lost Boyz, Ja Rule, Kool G Rap, and Big Daddy Kane.

Complex: Who’s your favorite rapper?

Waka Flocka Flame: I’m a student/fan of Tupac. It don’t get no better than him. But I never quote it, that’s just the real deal. I don’t want nobody to feel salty, but that’s just the real deal. Homeboy had lyrics, but he was more simple raps. He was reality.

Complex: What’s your favorite Pac song?

Waka Flocka Flame: “Keep Ya Head Up” ‘cause when shit just be fucked up, I feel like nothing but thunder going on in my life with the things I’m going through, that song told me to keep my head up.

Complex: You only started rapping a year ago?

Waka Flocka Flame: Two years ago. I was 21.

Complex: Growing up, what kind of kid were you?

Waka Flocka Flame: Gangbangin’. We’d be runnin the streets, fightin’. The average knucklehead kid. I was into basketball and drug dealing. That’s the only thing I was surrounded by. If I was surrounded by doctors and lawyers, I’d have been a doctor or lawyer. I was good at basketball, though. That was my first love. I’m 6’5 ½”. Small forward. I ain’t like high school ball. I was playin’ AAU. High school wasn’t for me. Also, I never got along with the coach. I was just disobedient. I didn’t like runnin’ suicides for somebody else.

Back in New York, a cousin of mine was bangin’ Blood, and I joined him. So then my Uncles and them, they ain’t like that. So I moved to Atlanta. They wasn’t into that. They told me, “Get the hell outta here. Go to Atlanta.” My mother moved down there, and I moved down there with her. Then I met up with some older muthafuckas, gangbangin’, but not no bloods and crips. It was like on some neighborhood shit.

Complex: Who was the first person that told you that you should rap?

Waka Flocka Flame: Nobody. Everybody told me, “Don’t do it. You don’t need to be doin’ that.”

Complex: Given that your mother and manager, Debra Antney, manages Gucci Mane and Nicki Minaj, you never had the urge to rap?

Waka Flocka Flame: Hell nah. Never. They was all my partners. Gucci was in jail though [at the time].

Complex: When did you actually first meet Gucci?

Waka Flocka Flame: A couple years before that when I was like 18, 19.

Complex: Have you had a chance to talk to Gucci since he’s been locked up?

Waka Flocka Flame: Yeah, I talk to my boy every day.

Complex: What has he been doing while he’s been away?

Waka Flocka Flame: Writing a lot, and getting ready to drop his new street album next month.

Complex: What’s the name of the album?

Waka Flocka Flame: I can’t give away the good secrets, man! [Laughs.] It might be a retail release or a little street album. I’m not sure yet. He got a couple [features]. You can never tell what he got. But I know it’s coming out the middle of the month.

Complex: This is stuff I’m assuming he recorded before he went in, right?

Waka Flocka Flame: Yeah.

Complex: Have you been visiting him at all?

Waka Flocka Flame: I can’t right now because we on the road, so we got a nice little phone relationship right now.

Complex: When’s the last time you visited him?

Waka Flocka Flame: Three and a half, four weeks ago.

Complex: When is he supposed to get out?

Waka Flocka Flame: I think it’s April.

Complex: What made you want to take rap seriously?

Waka Flocka Flame: I started getting shows, and folks started hitting me, like the fans. I put a mixtape out called Salute Me or Shoot Me, Vol. 1. I recorded off a PC computer, and just the mic in the corner in my mama’s garage, it was just me and my boy Tay, who used to produce, and we just went crazy from there.

Complex: Did you let your mom hear it?

Waka Flocka Flame: Nah, my mom wasn’t into it. She said, “You ain’t making no money. You gotta go hard.” Then my music started taking flight. Who better to manage you than your mom? People were hitting her up, and people automatically figured that’s my manager.

Complex: When you first got the beat for “O Let’s Do It,” how fast did it take for you to record that song?

Waka Flocka Flame: 10, 15 minutes.

Complex: Did you know it was a banger right away?

Waka Flocka Flame: Hell nah. Other songs of mine go harder than that. “O Let’s Do It” is just pop. That shit came outta nowhere. For real, a lot of people didn’t even know that was me. They thought it was just some other guy. [Laughs.] People walk down the street and saying, “I didn’t know you was the one singing ‘O Let’s Do It!’ I love that song!” I be like, “Oh, for real? Shit, I like it too.” [Laughs.]

Complex: When did you realize that the song was going to pop off?

Waka Flocka Flame: When I was in the club in Atlanta, Figure 8, right by Greenbriar Mall, and the club went crazy around.

Complex: How big of a deal was it when you first heard Diddy shout you out on the remix for “O Let’s Do It”?

Waka Flocka Flame: I feel good, man. We gonna shoot the remix video in Georgia, on the South Side, around Riverdale and College Park. I ain’t heard Diddy rap like this since Biggie.

Complex: You had an interesting line in “O Lets Do it,” where you say, “Ever since they killed my nigga Trap/Start poppin pills and actin’ crazy.” Can you explain that line?

Waka Flocka Flame: We was in the same clique. We’ve been running around together. He was a young dude. Younger than me. He got murdered. Got shot in the head with a Tech 9. It had to be like a couple years ago. I had to be about 19, but he was about 17. I had a lot of death in my family. My little brother and my dad died. When he died we didn’t know what the fuck to do. I’m dealing with it going through Ecstasy pills, more smoking, and more drinking.

Complex: Was his death a gang-related or a drug-related thing?

Waka Flocka Flame: Nah, the guy who did it just did it. Nobody know what the hell he did it for. He just did it. He got locked up for it. He shot my partner in the back of the head. He was shooting at everybody else in the house. They were playing cards. Supposedly, they went inside the kitchen, right? And Trap turned around and he just shot him in the back of his head.

Complex: What happened with your father and brother?

Waka Flocka Flame: He got incarcerated and he died when he came out of jail. We’re not too sure on that. My little brother was 10 years old. He got hit and ran over by a car. This happened in 2000.

Complex: Shifting to the recent XXL Freshman cover, people were saying they felt you should be on there.

Waka Flocka Flame: Yeah? I don’t care. Man, I ain’t into that. A lot of people are entitled to their own opinion. I can’t say nothing about that. I can’t get mad ‘cause folks don’t feel like I’m not a freshmen. I keep doing me, go hard, and one day you get respected for your talents and if you don’t, you don’t. That’s what we call life.

Complex: You’ve spoken in previous interviews about reading a lot of books…

Waka Flocka Flame: Yeah, I love to read. Like, brainiac books. Philosophy. Glad you know that. War shit. Like Art of War, Art of Seduction. Just good shit like—I think I read a lot of stuff.

Complex: Got it. You were involved a robbery recently where the alleged assailant took a picture that popped up on the Internet with him wearing your chain. Did that bother you?

Waka Flocka Flame: I don’t feel like they took it. Taking it is snatching that joint off my neck. They ain’t do that.

Complex: Do those types of videos and pictures seem silly to you?

Waka Flocka Flame: No, it don’t matter to me. I like it.

Complex: It doesn’t discourage you from rocking your chain?

Waka Flocka Flame: Hell nah. I just copped a new chain. You ever heard of Fozzie Bear from Muppet Babies, that says, “Waka waka waka waka”? I got that. That’s my new shit. Got a lil yellow Fuzzy with the yellow watch green, and shit.

Complex: I had read that you got hit on the head with a bottle at a club one time?

Waka Flocka Flame: Oh, well you know I’m a wild cowboy. I go to the club, party, drink, shit…I don’t know. I’m a cowboy. I love to fight.

Complex: [Laughs.] What do you like drinking in the club?

Waka Flocka Flame: Strong liquor. Patron. Hennessey. Four, five margaritas.

Complex: I was reading about how you got struck with a baseball bat one time?

Waka Flocka Flame: We were playing a game called “Inner Hawk” where you under-hand pitch the baseball. It’s like playing baseball, basically. And I cot-damned smack the ball out of and started talking shit. We got in an argument, and I threw the bat down and I swung on him. And then I don’t know how he ended up with the bat, but he swung on me with that muthafucka.

Complex: You’ve also had your head rammed into a steel gate?

Waka Flocka Flame: Oh, hell yeah. You know back in elementary school you was telling, “Yo Mama” jokes? I was talking about this nigga’s mama at lunch, like, “I’ll fuck your mama!” And he was a big, big, big-ass 5th grader. When I was coming out of the school, I was walking with my girl and my hand was over her shoulder. He just jumped on me from the back, and head-locked me. When he jumped on me, he was in a running motion, and he slammed my damn head into a steel gate.

Complex: Speaking of fights, you recently had one at Walter’s with some associates of Jeezy. What happened?

Waka Flocka Flame: A lame nigga called Slick Pulla tried me, walked up, snuck me, my partner dropped him, and all hell broke loose. I walked in there, and we caught eye contact. He said a couple words and I knew he didn’t have it in him so I started walking off. He turned around and walked in another direction. I went to go buy some pants, and Slick ganged up on me on the low, snuck me on the left side of my neck. It just popped off. He was not the person who put a little black eye on me. It was probably someone he was with. I just came back at them. I don’t want no one thinking he did something to me.

Complex: Everyone was really surprised because Gucci and Jeezy recently ended their beef.

Waka Flocka Flame: Hell yeah, I’m surprised. That’s what I’m thinking. I don’t know what to say about it. It don’t got nothin’ to do with no Jeezy and Gucci. It’s all about Slick Pulla.

Complex: Okay, so this isn’t going to re-ignite the beef with Gucci and Jeezy?

Waka Flocka Flame: Yeah, that beef ain’t got nothin’ to do with them two. That ain’t got nothin’ to do with this. That’s not how nobody over here feels. It’s just me and buddy, that’s it.

Complex: Did you have problems with Slick from before this even happened?

Waka Flocka Flame: Hell nah. That’s another rumor. Talkin’ bout we got into it in Miami. I ain’t never in my life seen him before that time. He trying create a buzz ‘cause I guess his career dead. That ain’t how you do it ‘cause I ain’t with that hip-hop shit. He emotional, that’s how I look at it.

Complex: Did you talk to Gucci about the whole situation?

Waka Flocka Flame: Gucci ain’t thinking about it. He just said, “Handle your business, do what you gotta do, bruh. Fuck that. That’s the problem with success.”

Complex: Everyone saw the picture below with you with the band-aid and they were like “Damn, what happened to Waka?”

Waka Flocka Flame: Hell yah! I’ma do that! Of course! I ain’t finna hide. I got snuck. Slick Pulla ain’t bust my eye. Someone did something from the blind side, from the right hand side, and hit me in the eye. When I turned around to see who did it, I just seen them in the background runnin’.

Complex: Did you get Slick at all?

Waka Flocka Flame: Who that? You talkin’ about Martin Lawrence? [Laughs.] [Editor’s note: Waka’s Martin reference is probably related to this tweet] I don’t know, it wasn’t me man. I ain’t do nothing. It was my arms.

Complex: Are you concerned about seeing Slick again?

Waka Flocka Flame: Hell nah. Them folks don’t go to no clubs. They only go to three clubs: Velvet Room, Miami, and Dream. If somebody wants somebody, they can get ‘em. This shit is America. They know my shows [dates] on the Internet. They just want publicity, that’s what it is. I’m about money. I got family and friends. We talkin’ about the shit we tryna build over here. We monopolizin’. We on that Donald Trump shit over here. I don’t know what kinda shit they on.

Complex: There’s no hard feelings towards Slick then?

Waka Flocka Flame: Fuck that nigga. Real talk. I don’t got no hard feelings for him, but it’s fuck him. I ain’t finna look for him, travel for him. I won’t even give a nigga that much time. There’s 24 hours in the day, that nigga can’t even get a minute. That nigga a duck. I ain’t finna look for no duck. I’m good. Let him worry about getting out the half-way house.

Complex: The other thing you were in the news for was at your concert in Gary, Indiana, where eight teenagers were shot. What ended up happening there?

Waka Flocka Flame: Shit, I don’t even know. They said somebody was firin’ shots. They said eight little kids got shot. I ain’t have nothin’ to do with that. My blessings go out to all their families. I ain’t gonna let it happen again. If there’s something I could do, I’d help, but I ain’t have nothin’ to do with that. Why would I encourage “Little Kid” gang violence? Thirteen, 14, 12 years old, eight years old get shot. Come on, man. I ain’t even on that. They can’t say we caused that, ‘cause Gary, Indiana is known for gettin’ it poppin’.

Complex: So were you around the venue when the shots starting going off?

Waka Flocka Flame: I don’t know, I probably was [around], but I ain’t hear nothin’ ‘cause I was in my tour bus. I got video recordings of me leaving. I even had a little kid on the stage rockin’ my jewelry rappin’. I ain’t even gon’ feed into it. Real talk, if I was gonna have some little kids pop off, I would have them pop off on some other niggas. But that ain’t even how I rock anyway. I pop my own shit off. If I’ma pop somethin’ off, I’ma do it. I ain’t finna have no little ass kid do it.

Complex: Has your mom talked to you at all about the incidents?

Waka Flocka Flame: Hell yeah, my mama been concerned about my life. That’s a mama. We cool with it, bro. It’s life. I’m dealing with it. That’s the only thing I can do. I can’t complain about it. Can’t do nothin’. I gotta just handle every situation that comes in front of me accordingly. Everybody be thinkin’ I’m just wild, crazy, loose moving, and militant. I think about everything I do, everything I say. I strategize.

Complex: Right.

Waka Flocka Flame: I don’t know why people over here be thinkin’ that I’m wild, dumb, and ignorant. They got me fucked up. And I like them for thinkin’ that, so when I do songs, they gonna be surprised, like, “Damn, Waka could do that?” Like that interview [about] Method Man, everybody was shocked that I said that. They belittling me, them folks. They think a little bit, they don’t think a lot. They expect Kanye West to be brilliant, right? When Kanye West does some stupid shit, they gonna be mad as hell like, “Damn, that ain’t like Kanye!” That’s just how people look at you.

Complex: Would you say all these incidents over the last couple weeks has made you considered calming down?

Waka Flocka Flame: Hell nah! It ain’t like I come out here lookin’ for trouble. I ain’t doin’ no lame shit like that. All these incidents, they don’t make me calm down. I call this shit livin’ the good life. I got shot, get into a fight, hey man, this shit fun.

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Bonus Download: Waka Flocka Flame Feat Diddy, Rick Ross Gucci Mane – O Let’s Do It (Remix) | Alternate

Damn, this is sad… Dj Premier spoke to rapradar about Guru’s condition when he saw him, and how there is no way that Guru could have been using twitter or written anything that Solar alleges he tweeted/wrote. According to Premo, Guru’s hair had grown into a huge affro, and his fingernails were “as long a ruler”. I cant believe that Solar is getting away with this shit. Noone going to sue his ass or make him accountable for his actions? There should have been no reason for Solar to neglect Guru so much, that shit is just wrong.

“I guess you don’t have the time to do that when you’re falsifying documents”

“The fucked up thing is that he died alone. You suppose to have mad people around you. There was nothing but silence and that respirator. [Cuz that lame ass nigga stopped everybody from coming.]”

I sure hope that Guru is brought to justice, and Solar gets his. I wouldn’t be mad at all if someone curb checked his punk ass for this, who knows what else he did behind closed doors.