Baby J rapnews.com interview. 25.07.06
What's up J, how's life treating you? Well. I cant complain. What ever I could moan about life definitely been worse, ya feel me! For me it was beautiful. In the past ive always been the man behind the artist, so to be upfront, to receive the support I did for the album, especially from the hip hop community was crazy. I done the blade album ‘guerilla tactics’ that was a real honor to be involved with as blade’s a legend to me. I did the mr ti2bs – keep it movin track. Ive done some tracks on the new Antourage album – ‘ants dema swarm’, ive got tracks on the new Moorish Delta7 album, theres a new baby J album coming in October F.T.P.2 Fight the Power, which im real excited about and theres a Precha album ‘holy ghost’ due late 06 that I produced. Well, it was born from 2 things. Firstly being a producer I wanted to showcase as many of my released beats as possible, rather than just like 15. So having each mc spitting a 16 allowed me to have more mcs on there. Secondly theres a lot of up and coming mcs im feelin that I don’t always get opportunity to work with so this was a chance to give them a space to shine next to some of the big boys. Its hard arranging one mc! It got done though, big shout to Matt at Dat Sound cause he got a lot of the stuff recorded aswell. On the whole it was love as all the mcs seemed to really want to be involved. There was still a few I missed though… next time. It kinda changes the more I listen, right now, Big P, Big V and Rukus. Its funny cause everyone likes different stuff. With 66 mcs theres literally something for everyone! Someone I havnt worked with… probably Klash or big P. Klash has a natural gift and Big p because it would be some revolutionary shit! Not really. I just went for mcs I was feelin. Im not a big grime fan but I respect an mc if they got skills. Yeah. Lets get it out there, the more the better. Its good for the scene. I feel like ive thrown down the gauntlet a little, cause no one hasn’t don’t a mixtape like this before, you’ve basically got a snapshot of the UK scene right now. The more hot shit that goes out in the scene, the more it pushes the scene forward. No. ill stick to what I do best. But you will be hearing a new sound starting to come through, its time for a change… theres some stuff on F.T.P.2 that a little different. Antourage – ants dema swarm – late summer Mcs… It was needed. We aint got no d&d or cutting rooms in the UK. A dedicated hip hop hit shop. Its been running about a month now and its going real well. The idea was to have a place dedicated to give that real hip hop sound. The booth sounds beautiful and the studios getting a real buzz about it. We charge £10 per hour and we do mixing and mastering charged by the hour as well, so that means you can get an album mastered for like £150ish. Contact babystudios@hotmail.com for info. Well. I don’t know the full ins and out but as far as I can understand after the 2nd world war, the Europeans (who are a bunch of thieving bastards) were dividing up the world between the Russians the americans and the british and they gave Palestine to the jews because they’d been persecuted in the war and expected the Palestinians to move out. The Palestinians naturally weren’t really feeling this and tried to get there land back under they’re control. The Jews responded by murdering as many of them as possible and have continued to do so since. The rest of the world turns a blind eye because the jewish community controls so much of the worlds finance and business. In the end the jews will lose cause as history has taught us in Ireland, Vietnam, South Africa, when you have nothing left to lose, you don’t give up. Firstly by strengthening your family, friends and community immediately around you. To recognize that your friend/cousins/neighbours problem is your problem too. If I eat u eat. Secondly to recognize the system don’t work, that all the social ills, homelessness, drugs, failing education system, poverty, sexual violence and abuse etc. are all getting worse. Thirdly by stopping to utilize and communicate with the system as much as possible. If we don’t take part in it there is no system. UK hip hop is our voice! |