There's been enough building of fences with labels trying to categorize artists, limiting artists' ability to be themselves.

Mannie Fresh

Categorized in : Trying Enough Building Ability

With time, everything changes. I know I'm not the same person who I used to be. I totally get that.

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'Chopper City in the Ghetto,' real talk, it's what changed Cash Money from a Bounce label to a Rap label.

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I always felt like the trumpet or trombone player was always the coolest dude in the room.

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A lot of artists are scared when they see trumpet players show up - they like, 'Nah, that ain't what I want.' I try to tell them, 'Dude, I'll give you trademark Mannie Fresh, but it's not about keyboards and a drum machine.'

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Hey, you gotta love a gangsta girl. Even the suburban and preppy girls wanna be gangsta girls. That's the whole gimmick to it. Everybody wants to be a gangsta girl.

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When a lot of people are calling it a night at 2 A.M., New Orleans is coming alive.

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I'm saying nobody's got the guts to be a J. Cole. Nobody's got the guts to be a Kendrick Lamar. We need more of them... Everybody wants to go the easy route.

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You had Cash Money: that was just the flashy dudes. Like I said, you had different genres of rap, and we were just one of them. So that's how we fit in. What makes it all confusing - and this is where it's the gift and the curse - we never set out for hip-hop to turn into just something flashy. That was just our thing. It wasn't everybody's thing.

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B.I.G. was like the Alfred Hitchcock of rap. Like, this dude's story form was so nuts.

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For those from my era, my age, that 2Pac vs. Biggie war will go on forever about who is the greatest. But I was more of a Biggie dude.

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There will never be another Biggie ever again.

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The cool thing about G.O.O.D. Music is it's a bunch of great ideas, and I'm one of those ideas.

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I thank God I've never burned no bridges with nobody, and when it's time for me to call in my favors, they're coming.

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I don't bash Cash Money, Birdman, or none of them.

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I'm too old to be making dis songs.

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When 'And Then What' was made, Jeezy already had a street appeal, but 'And Then What' put him on the national appeal.

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I've got different drum machines that I use for different things, but I think the older ones are always the best when it comes down to getting that 808 bass.

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When I know it's like a bass song, I gotta go with my SP-1200.

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Flow Tribe is a great bunch of New Orleans guys who have that funkiness to them.

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If you know Down South production, Roland 808 is in almost everything.

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