Halftimeonline: What!

Grand Daddy I.U.: He didn’t want to do that. He wanted to go and gather all these motherfuckers and all this other shit. Then here 2 Pac come popping all this bullshit. I’m screaming on them like ya’ll ain’t doing nothing to me. Then some off duty cop they had rolling with them pulled out so I smacked him with a bottle cuz I used to always drink 40s back then. I threw the bottle at him and just jetted. I had to get out of there. [That wasn’t the end of it though] Pepa used to run a pool hall called Sharky’s back then so we knew where he was gonna be at. So the following week we go down there. I got my man posted by the door like yo when you see him coming up the stairs give me the signal and I’m coming across the street to let that nigga have it. I was gonna shoot him cuz back then I wasn’t about no bullshit back and forth. Pepa peeped how the situation was going down and called him and said don’t come through the front door. Afrika Islam came to me outside like yo you’re looking for Treach right? I said yea. He was like he just went out the back door, I heard him call his man saying bring the car around back. So we get in the car and we chasing they’re car through the fucking Lincoln Tunnel.

Halftimeonline: Haha!

Grand Daddy I.U.: That shit was crazy but them niggas got away. Then I saw him again at Q Gardens. When I came up in the spot this girl was like there’s mad rappers in here. So and so is here, Treach is here.. and she don’t know what’s going on so she’s just running her mouth. I’m like word Treach is here where’s he at? She was like he’s downstairs. I was like word how many people he got with him? She was like 5 or 6 but it was just me and my man. So I turned to my man Big Snow like yo you ever been jumped before? He was like nah. I was like are you scared? He was like nah so I said fuck it let’s go. We went downstairs and I said first I’m gonna try and get this nigga off to the side so it’s just me and him and if they jump me I’m gonna get a couple blows in. But them niggas started surrounding me and my man started blending in the crowd haha. Not for nothing but that nigga left me. But Treach didn’t want to fight. If he would have swung all of his boys would have just piled on top of me but he was just like whatever. Then security came and took us to another room to try and make us squash it but we didn’t. I didn’t see him for years after that shit and then I saw him and he came up on me like what up soldier? I’m like word? And the niggas had the drop on me to. Me and my man was at Wendy Williams party and I went to the bathroom and it’s like Treach and ten Jersey dudes smoking weed. I was like oh shit these niggas is gonna whup my ass in this bathroom tonight. I was like fuck it take your lumps and see if you can get this nigga later but when he said what up soldier and gave me a hug I was like what up. Now when I see him it’s all love. That shit is washed up now.

Halftimeonline: I gotta give you respect for that one cuz of the reputation Treach had back then. For you to go and find him. If I was him I’d be like this dude is crazy I’m Treach! Cats were intimidated by him. Even now they don’t mess with him.

Grand Daddy I.U.: Yea, he was doing a lot of shit back then bullying niggas but he’s cool. But for anyone it don’t matter who you are if you talking about you’re gonna break my jaw on stage nah man.

Halftimeonline: I heard Treach fought Kay Gee.

Grand Daddy I.U.: Yea, I heard something like that on the radio. I heard Kay Gee got in his ass though.

Halftimeonline: For real?

Grand Daddy I.U.: That’s what I heard.

Halftimeonline: Damn, I’m sure you got mad war stories but seeing all that and seeing how hip hop has changed what makes you want to be back in the scene?

Grand Daddy I.U.: Because that’s all I do man. I love music. Ever since I was young I was a music motherfucker. I’d ask my aunts and uncles to buy me records. I can’t get up and work nowhere. Hell no, that ain’t even in my nature.

Halftimeonline: So what artists do you like in the game right now?

Grand Daddy I.U.: I don’t know. I don’t listen to none of that shit man. I haven’t listened to the radio in like a year now. I used to like Jadakiss but I haven’t heard anything lately. I used to like Jay till he retired but the last few verses I heard form him were like what the fuck? What happened? That shit he did with Beyonce was terrible. This was the nigga I was saying was the illest.

Halftimeonline: What impact do you think you’ll have or expect to have when putting out another project? What would you consider a success?

Grand Daddy I.U.: Independently for me if I sell 100,000 I’m good. I don’t even want to fuck with major labels. With them if you don’t go platinum you might as well hang it up. For an independent artist if you sell 100,000 you got bread. I’m not even looking for fame. I just want to get money doing my music. These cats be having all the fame but when you see them in the streets they only got $5 in their pocket. Like Babs from Making of the Band. I used to produce joints for her before she got on the show. I did mad joints for her. She was talking about how she was walking down the street in Brooklyn and everyone’s running up to her not realizing she is broke as shit. She was like that shit don’t feel good. But there are some independent niggas you never heard of getting that money and they can walk down the street and be in peace.

Halftimeonline: If you had a chance to go on national television and voice your opinion on hip hop what would you say?

Grand Daddy I.U.: I’d tell these New York DJs to stop that bullshit and start playing some New York fucking music. All that dirty south shit is cool but how can you be from NY and not play NY music. That’s bullshit to me.

Halftimeonline: So you would just bring it to the DJs? What about the fans? They are culprits as well.

Grand Daddy I.U.: Yea, the fans are stupid they don’t know anything.

Halftimeonline: Haha

Grand Daddy I.U.: They don’t know shit. Whatever the radio play and keep playing that’s what they are gonna say is hot. So you can’t really be mad at them because they don’t know any better. That’s why they call that shit programming. They are programming motherfucker’s brains to like that shit.

Halftimeonline: So since you’ve left the game do you think the industry has gotten better or worse?

Grand Daddy I.U.: Definitely worse. The music got worse but there are mad opportunities for the few that can get in. Cats are doing movies, commercials, clothing lines and mad endorsements off of one hit. Mike Jones got his own sneaker. Lupe Fiasco had his own sneaker before his album even came out. On that note it got better but the music ain’t even music no more it’s hot trash.

Halftimeonline: What about the beats since technology and techniques have advanced over the years?

Grand Daddy I.U.: Nah, the beats got worse because back then we had shit that was still classic. You could play some of that shit from back then right now at any club like ‘Make the Music with Your Mouth.’ None of this shit right now is gonna be around ten years from now. No one is gonna want to hear that shit because there ain’t no soul in it. It’s just bullshit. The beats now are just bubble gum.

Halftimeonline: Are you still producing?

Grand Daddy I.U.: The shit I did for Ice-T was the last shit I did for a known person but I always do shit for cats around the way trying to do something. They don’t be having a big budget but they can throw me a couple coins so I don’t have to work. I do my own production but if I had a big budget I’d get a couple dudes like Primo.

Halftimeonline: I know you had a joint with Extra P not too long ago.

Grand Daddy I.U.: Yea, yea haha that nigga is funny. He’s a funny ass dude.

Halftimeonline: You gotta expound on that man what are you saying?

Grand Daddy I.U.: He called me one time like yo I need you to get on this project with me for some shit in Japan. I was like aiight no doubt. He was like listen man I got the dude with me right now. We are gonna come to your crib and I need you to sign this paper that says you are definitely gonna be apart of the project. If you sign it then they’ll release the check and I can give you a little something. So I’m like no doubt bring the nigga over here. They came over and I signed the papers for him. Man I ain’t seen that motherfucker since. Matter of fact I saw him when I did a show and I was like Paulie Goggles where’s my money at? He was like nah chill, chill. Since then I haven’t seen him. He called one day like yo I’m gonna bring that money before the week is out. Haven’t heard from him.

Halftimeonline: We’re supposed to be doing an interview with him real soon.

Grand Daddy I.U.: Word when you see him tell him to give me my motherfucking money.

Halftimeonline: Haha

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Posted by Jbutters on Tuesday, November 21st, 2006 and is filed under SICKWIDIT, LOST & FOUND, INTERVIEWS.