Setting the scene: After a late night
out, it’s early in the morning, well at
least for me, Ha ha. I bring you CTE’s
own Slick Pulla who tells me why he is
up so early cause Lord knows I am not
used to this. Ha ha! Peep the interview
below.
Slick Pulla: Hello, how you doing?
Hello, I’m pretty good. Why don’t you
introduce yourself to us and let us
know who you are.
Slick Pulla: What’s up world, this is
Slick Pulla, the voice box of the block.
CTE! USDA!
How long have you been rapping? Is it
safe to say you started doing your
thing on different mixtapes?
Slick Pulla: I been messing with the mic
for about 7 years now. Once the CTE
Movement started, we put together a
series of mixtapes that led up to now.
We start in the streets and it boils off
into the rest of the world.
If you were not an artists, what could
you see yourself doing?
Slick Pulla: I’d be getting it how I live
the G way, the trap. I’m a type of
brother that don’t fold into the creases
of what everybody else is suppose to
do. I’m determined to get it the way I
want to get it.
Explain to my readers what trap is?
Seem like trap originated from Atlanta
and even your album is titled,
“Trapublican”.
Slick Pulla: That’s the name of my
movement, the whole Slick Pulla
movement. I call it the Trapublican
Party because we don’t fold to the laws
of what the ordinary person does. We
do our own thing around here, at CTE.
Trap is the place in the hood where
you get down. We not republican or
democrat, we our own government,
and our government is from the streets
so that’s where trapublican party came
from.
How did you link with Young Jeezy and
the whole CTE and USDA Movement?
Slick Pulla: They found me over in the
trenches. They was digging my flow
and my swag, and the rest was
history.
What’s good with the mixtape you
recently released? How do we cop it?
Slick Pulla: I dropped “Election Day”,
and you can get it off my MySpace or
really off the streets. We don’t sell our
mixtapes, we just press them up and
give them out hand to hand in the
streets, to DJ’s and our homies in
different states. You can also get it off
one of the mixtape websites and get a
free download or www.myspace.
com/slickpullathetrapublican
Can we look forward to any upcoming
tours?
Slick Pulla: When I press up my promo
tour, I am going to cut them to
primaries. My whole marketing
campaign is “Vote for Slick” and we will
have the pens, pencils, flyers, flags,
and t-shirts to pass out. I will be in
Chicago very soon, and bring the
whole hood out. I will get your address
and phone number and send you
some CD’s and materials. We are
going all out.
Ok that’s what’s up, it’s like a whole
presidential campaign?
Slick Pulla: Exactly, presidential
election.
Your marketing strategy sounds good,
and I know artists have had to be
creative in the marketing and
promotional concept, with how the
industry has changed. What is your
take on that?
Slick Pulla: I’m not just the kind of cat
that wants to be just an artist. I have a
versatile mind set with other things I
want to do. I don’t want to be just an
artist because when things get rough,
that’s what you gonna be. You gotta
be willing to drive because if you don’t,
things get rough on you.
What advice would give those artists
who are out here striving to getting into
the game?
Slick Pulla: Just stay down and take
the initiative and get in the streets and
make things happen with your music. A
lot of cats get in the mode where they
hear someone is in town, and they will
sit around and wait for a cat to come to
town and ask for them to sign them.
Oppose to starting your movement. Its
not hard to start a movement in your
own hood. Your home team has to be
behind you first before anyone else
can understand you. Like when an
artist come out and nobody knows who
he is, and the hot single comes and
fazes out, they have nothing to fall
back on because their community was
never behind them. Get your home
team behind you and then take it to
the world.
What is a day in the life of Slick Pulla
like right now? How does it feel being
Slick?
Slick Pulla: Get up, do interviews and
all that early, shoot through the hood
and holla at the homies, shoot through
and holla at the little ones and
whatever I need to help them with, then
its time to go to the studio at that point.
Usually when I get in the studio, I might
not leave until 7 or 8 in the morning.
Start the process all over again until
the weekend, then we got shows on
the weekend.
So when you get a free moment, what
is Slick sippin on at the club (or in the
studio) these days?
Slick Pulla: Goose, Patron, or Rose.
But Goose and Patron are the main
ones.
Tell the ladies your status.
Slick Pulla: Slick Pulla is single and
grinding.
What’s a night on the town like with
Slick?
Slick Pulla: Man you should have been
here last weekend. Wednesday we
went to T.I.’s party*, it was a dressy
event. They didn’t think CTE was go
come G’d up like we did, dressed like
Al Capone and Frank Nitty. Thursday
and Friday we was at the Compound
and it was just crazy. You missing out
on the parties, we shut the city down.
We do a lot of parties so I got you
when we do another party.
Iight that’s what’s up. Appreciate
chatting it up with you and look forward
to hitting up some of those events.
Keep me posted with the whole
movement.
Slick Pulla: I appreciate the love, thank
you very much.
No problem.
**Note, this interview took place prior to
T.I.’s arrest. He did NOT have a party
last week. Ha Ha! Have the judge
thinking a party went down at the crib
cause of me. No Sir!