Buckshot
I saw you perform in DC at a Lyricist Lounge tour and you were hosting but when you came on you just started rocking the crowd. I was like damn this is how you are supposed to host a show. What’s your mentality when you get on stage?
I go into the zone that god created me for. Right away I’m on some other and stay in tuned with the crowd. Some of the things I love is when I’m in the crowd and I hear people say things like come hard or you better represent or naming they click when I’m rhyming. There are always some clowns that get down like that and I love it because I’ll drop my song and bust a verse to shut them up quick and have the crowd like who is he talking too? You don’t want to do that at my show because I’ll embarrass you in the crowd. I’ll have niggas looking at you like your not even a rapper and Buck just shredded you down.
Every time I’ve seen you perform it has never been a let down.
That’s why I give thanks and that’s why the most high keeps me around because I didn’t blow to the extent that I could or should but I know that I’m here. I get records played and interviews to speak my mind and that’s what this whole thing is about. There’s a lot of rappers like De La Soul and a bunch of other people that are gone that’s not going to get a chance to do that. My album ‘Melody Man’ is gonna be fire. I’m working on something right now.
I know ya’ll was cool with Pac what was it like being with someone who hated so many people.
He had legitimate reasons. We had drama with Big at the time but Pac didn’t stress that like oh ya’ll got beef with that bitch ass nigga too. Before I got up with Pac to do that album everyday I woke up in the morning I wouldn’t brush my teeth or wash my face until I pressed play on this cd to play ‘All Eyez on Me’. I know that whole album by heart. I listened to that album everyday and I think that had a lot to do with me being brought to Pac because our energy just connected.
By you being so close to him what went through your head the moment you heard he was killed?
I died on the inside kid. I was tore down kid. It did a lot to me spiritually and music wise and everything. I believe but I don’t believe it to this day. I cringe when I start thinking about it but I get over it and deal with it. When Aaliyah was taken it was the last straw because I did a song with her too. She was like a cousin of Tek. Her father and Tek’s father were real tight. That’s how we got to meet Aaliyah and do the track. I sat in the studio and wrote the chorus with her and she just got in there and just sung. She was just a talent from the jump. When I lost her it was like you’re kidding me. I got on stage with her. She brought me to the Garden, I never been on that stage in my life. The only time I had been on that stage was at a big concert with her featuring Bone Thugs and me and Busta Rhymes came on with mics because I had ran into her backstage.
A bunch of people kept saying you was dissing Busta on the Stay Real joint when you said ‘Frontin like you from the ave, Busta bus this.’ Any truth to that?
Hell no! That’s how one track minded people are. When I said busta that’s just Cali slang for sucka ass nigga. The god is cool with me and that’s really it in a nutshell. He’s from Long Island but he been in Bk so long I give him that respect. That’s childish. People kill me. They think I’m a weak minded person but then when they speak to me they find out the total opposite and that’s why I’m able to survive in this game so long.
The issue with Rock has been publicized a lot but I heard he performed with you guys at the Total Eclipse album release party. What’s the situation with that? Is that dealt with and maybe there is a possibility for a Fab Five reunion or is it just a cordial relationship right now?
More cordial. Rock was never my enemy. He made a lot of decisions I didn’t agree with and he made a lot of decisions that I was like what are you doing but I had to respect the fact that he made those moves on his own. I was the type of dude that sacrificed my whole career and my whole life because I didn’t want anybody telling me what I could or couldn’t do. I wanted to give him the opportunity I didn’t have so how would I look being a hypocrite and not let him go do that. I said you want to go do your own thing then do it and it was what it was. The album never came out whatever but Ruck and Rock are working on a Heltah Skeltah album called ‘Dirt.’ I don’t know if your going to see a Fab Five reunion because you got OGC still dealing with issues themselves. You will see another Heltah Skeltah album, Ruck got his album coming out right now called ‘Monkey Bars.’ Rock had a chance to do his thing and he wasn’t with us, now it’s Ruck’s turn to do his thing and he is with us so Rock will see Duckdown is an independent label that rocks the commercial level. We on that major label plateau but at the same time we aren’t there because we don’t have the money to pay off people but we get played on Hot 97.
May 4th, 2006
buckshot u da man !!! keep on we follow U ova sea !!
August 29th, 2006
Damn…I don’t hear anything about BCC these days. 50% of my favourites tracks from the 90’s came from y’all.
I remember meeting half of BCC in Ottawa on Teks birthday. Buck and Rock were on fire on stage that night. Rock had the crowd control and Buck had presence.
Buckshot ripped one of the 1st blackmoon tracks ever out and most cats didn’tr know it. This was around OGC ‘Da Storm’ time and most kids were pretty new. He saw me mouthing the lines with him and spit the rest of his verse just to me. When he finished he nodded his head and winked. That was some shit. To have some artist directly appreciate your appreciation of their performance and their song.
The whole click was pretty chill and they had crowd interaction on a level that you don’t see much from other acts these days.
Peace and good luck to Buck and his BCC brethren.