My mother listened to Dolemite a lot. We laughed at it. Dolemite was… humorously gangsta in my house. My father was a very strict man and we knew the difference between a clown or what you’d call someone serious but funny. We knew different levels of how to see somebody. For lack of a better word, you got some people who would be probably be considered more of a joke in a Bamboozled way. And Dolemite is a fucking nut. A character.

As funny as it is, I really wasn’t on to NWA. My man put me onto NWA. Mighty Real put me onto them. I was stuck on KRS One, Big Daddy Kane and Rakim. He showed me the album cover and I was kinda “ahh” and then listened to it and was still kinda “ahh”. And then I heard DOC and I liked DOC. I got put onto NWA after that and then I fell in love with NWA later in the years. Eazy-E, Ice Cube and Dr. Dre. I fell in love with them later. In 93 right before Eazy-E passed away.

The simplicity of keeping it real. That’s why when I hear a beat from 9th. It just comes that simple.

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My parents always did the hustle. We did the wop sometimes. But the meaning is I won’t sell out. I won’t do a dance. I won’t do a sell-out dance.

Remember the dancer in the Juicy video. Everything started from him. Everything in my career came from my uncle. He taught me how to dance when I was 4 or 5. I became a dancer form that point and stopped dancing in 1989 and started rhyming in 1990. You’re learning the truth about Buckshot. There’s the real Buckshot that no one would really know. I don’t fit the mold of of the Buckshot people think they know. I’m a B-Boy to the fullest. I can do everything. I can do a windmill, handstap, spider walk. I can’t do treadmills no more. THat’s like spinning on the tip. I have a documentary that will show dance in my life and early years. When I rhyme I dance. When I rhyme I’m in dance mode. “Who got the props” was the first tester of me showing I knew how to make a record. I never knew how to make a record. I never knew about the technical parts of a tracker. If you listen to George Hamilton you know he is all on the one. It’s all on a downbeat. So that style, from there it went from rhyming on the one to just me being

This line was just a representation of I was plet on. I went to every label and no label wanted to work with me. Don’t think it’s a story of “I wanna be independent and on my own”. No label wanted to work with. I didn’t doubt myself but let’s go for the ride as long as we can.