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Trae The Truth Talks About Signing With T.I And Grand Hustle. Never Leaving Houston & His Relationship With The Jadakiss/Styles P And The Lox.

TRUE Magazine talks with Trae The Truth about becoming the ‘go to guy’ in his city. What does it mean after all these years of grinding to finally represent your city in this new Hip Hop age. TRUE Magazine asked Trae The Truth about is relationship with Jadakiss, Stlyes P, and Currency. Who He just opened up for on the Jet Life Tour in Houston TX. Trae The Truth talks about holding Houston down to the last breath and people think because he made it, that he’s moving out of Texas. Well That’s not the Case. TRUE Magazine also asked Trae The Truth about Signing with T’I's Grand Hustle Label. Check The interview below.

Futuristic Blogger: Trae What’s going on?

Trae The Truth: Yeah Yeah, What Good homie?

Futuristic Blogger: Appreciate you doing this interview with TRUE Magazine. Let me ask you man, last week you were at the warehouse in Houston Texas with Styles P and Curren$y, Y’all opened up the Jet Life tour there in Houston. Tell me about the and How does it feel to be the Go to guy in your city??

Trae The Truth: I mean you know it, It most defiantly a blessing. Styles P is like a brother and Curren$y the homie too. So I really be out there for support.

Futuristic Blogger: No doubt, That’s what’s up!! Speaking on Styles P and the Lox, I notice you on Jadakiss new Mixtape ‘the Consignment’ On a track called “We Getting Money”. Tell me about that track man.

Trae The Truth: You Know I had a track called, ‘Getting Paid” with Wiz Khalifa. And Jada Loved the track a lot. Jada said I’m going to have to touch that track sooner or later. So I was like F*ck it,  Let’s do a remix. The crazy thing about it, he was actually flipping it. Meaning tongue twisting. And You know that Aint never really been Jadakiss style. Yeah, That was Crazy.

Futuristic Blogger: Yeah man, we definitely enjoying Jada Kiss new Mixtape ‘the Consignment’ and your track “We Getting Money”. Y’all make sure to check it out and download it. It’s the summer banger.

Still speaking about Jadakiss. Like I said you were just on stage with Styles P as well. Tell Me about The Lox. Obviously you are a fan of the Lox. Tell me how long you been a fan of the Lox. And how did y’all even Collab?? You know, in the Industry.

Trae The Truth: I mean you know, I’m a TRUE person who loves music. I always been a fan of the Lox. They do their thing and we can relate. They just from another hood, another state. Most of the time, Same shit goes on in every hood. So by far, we just related. I don’t remember exactly when we linked up. I know the first record we ever cut was called “Smile”.  That was a real Big track, and you know from there, them just my partners mane. Whatever I do I try to keep Jada and Styles included. And Whatever they do, They hit me up. Whatever they need handle, whatever they need me to do. We got a video coming off called “We getting Money” . That video already been shot, so we working.

Futuristic Blogger: You everywhere right now. You on the new Future album “Pluto” right Now on a track called long live the Pimp.

Trae The Truth: We shooting a video for that. We going to shoot the video for that in Houston. That’s going to be a crazy Crazy record. Shooting that video in Houston. Me and T.I got a.. Shout out Tip. you Know I’m ABN/Grand Hustle now. We got a lot of records getting ready to come out. We got a record with Me, TI and Ludacris. So you know man we working.

Futuristic Blogger: Man, You going in this year Trae The Truth. That’s definitely what’s up. The “Let it Go” Freestyle and video doing real well on the internet. It got the internet going crazy. One last question.

Since signing with Grand Hustle, How has it change for you? I know you are a hustler, and you stay on your grind. How has the grind change for you?

Trae The Truth: I think that, I always keeping the same mentality. It’s always more work for me to do. Because if it get to comfortable, I’m not working enough.  So it’s by far much more work for me to do. I’m really out here to make the world a believer. Some How Some Way.

Futuristic Blogger: Right, Right. For everybody who is not following my homie Trae The Truth on Twitter Y’all make sure y’all follow my man’s Trae The Truth on Twitter @ TRAEABN

Trae The Truth: Yeah, Yeah That’s @ TRAEABN follow me, cause I always keep you posted on what I got going on.

Futuristic Blogger: No doubt, one  last question. Last week you tweeted. ‘I dont know why people think, because I got a deal I’m going to leave Houston. Get this shit clear, I am Houston man.

Trae The Truth: You know cause I work a lot. I move around from City to city, to State To State. You know to the shallow mind, They think Oh ‘Trae got a deal, he ain’t going to be out here No more’. I’m like nah, I ain’t never leaving Houston. PERIOD!! You know even when I have to get up and go out of town or work a lot, I’m still rooted here. You know, I’m going to get it together. I’m going to balance it out.  Cause Houston is where I’m at to the Death.

Futuristic Blogger: Before we go, one last time, let everybody know we can expect from Trae The Truth the next couple of days, weeks, months and this year.

Trae The Truth: ABN  Renegade is in stores right now. You can go coup that. That’s most definitely my most prize possession right now. I got the video I’m on 2 getting ready to come out.  Actually I got 8 videos about to be released. They gone have to get ready for me.  It’s coming Mane. Download my I AM TRAE App. For your IPhones and Androids. It keeps you updated on everything.

Futuristic Blogger: Thank You my brother for doing this Interview with TRUE Magazine.

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Where did or can you say Young Duse originated from and why did you choose Hip Hop?

-Young Duse originated from my dad & I having the same name. I am Ronald II (second) so I just changed that to “Duse” (deuce) and put young in front.

-I chose Hip Hop because I love everything about it. It has been a part of my life since I was a kid.

Who gave you the name Young Duse and will you be like Bow Wow as you get older in the game and drop the young out of it?

-I gave myself the name. Yes, I will drop the young out of my name as I get older because I won’t be a young rapper in the game anymore so as I mature so will my name.

You’re from Reno, Nevada what’s the Hip Hop scene like out their?

The Hip Hop scene in Reno, NV. is pretty non-existent except for the Bay Area natives that brought their music here.

What is Hip Hop to you?

Hip Hop to me is good music, competition to see whose music is hotter and trying to be on top. Growing up my vision or idea of Hip Hop came from watching Bay Area rappers like The Lunizs, E-40, The Delinquents, Too Short and B-Legit. I admired the fact that their style was so different than other West Coast rappers. Their lyrics and independence made you believe that you didn’t need a major record label backing you to do good music and become famous. That to me is true Hip Hop.

Since Hip Hop is your love what could you do without in Hip Hop that you feel will make it better?

I don’t believe that there is anything in Hip Hop that can be taken away because everyone has their own unique style that makes Hip Hop what it is today. But if I had to pick one thing it would be the unhealthy beefs between rappers. Like the beef between Tupac and Biggie cost them their lives whereas the beef between Kanye and 50 Cent was merely a competition between two colleagues that not only increased their record sales but also advanced their careers.

Your song with YG is a dope song who came up with the concept and why did you feel YG was the best fit for that one song?

I came up with the concept for that song. It was already done before he got on the track. I chose to have him on it because I feel like our lyrical styles are similar and felt like he could give the song an extra kick.

What do you plan on adding to the Hip Hop community lyrically, mentally and for yourself?

Lyrically I plan on adding positive music that kids and adults can enjoy.

Mentally I would like to help spread the message to other young cats like myself that we can all achieve the same type of success without killing each other to get it. And that by helping support each other’s craft we can continue to bring great music to the world.

As for myself, I plan on growing lyrically as an artist, reaching other audiences outside of Hip Hop by crossing over in to main stream.

You’ve been into music since you were very young, did you know since then that that was exactly what you wanted to do or did you have other options in your mind along the way?

The first time I ever rapped was around a crowd, I was about 11. I got a real good response from a lot of people that were my age and older and they told me that I should keep it up because I had talent. I think they saw something that I didn’t even know I had myself yet.

Do you think it was easy for you to get into music and not caught up in the streets of Philadelphia 

Music was always the soundtrack to the inner city neighborhoods. Especially in the 90’s when hip-hop blew up on a large scale. I have good parents that always provided so I never really had a need to hustle or do crime. I always had an urge to rap from the first time I heard hip-hop. Something just told me that someday I would be good at it so I tried it and stuck with it.

how would yo define your musical style?

My musical style is Philly hip-hop soul music with a raw edge.  I am a versatile emcee that can do any style of rap/hiphop music and still make it sound the way authentic hip hop is supposed to and to God I am greatful for that gift.

what do you think of music now compared to music that you grew up on?

A lot of music nowadays sounds like they just throw it together real quick and put it out. There’s no substance to what they’re talking about. Nobody wants to write about serious issues anymore. A lot of the new artists are dope too though & sound like the music I grew up listening to like J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Big Krit, etc.

what made you not get a nickname and just work with your real name? something that most artists don’t seem to do? I’ve had rap names in the past before I chose to just use my government. It’s different and people tell me that my name has a nice ring to it!

you tweeted “I won’t sign to any label unless they do something for me that I can’t do for myself!” what does this mean to you? 

All I meant by that was signing to a major label isn’t what it used to be. Labels don’t have money to throw around the way they used to. The key nowadays is to do your own thing and let the labels come to you with something to bring to the table that can help you increase your fan base and financial situation. I’m not saying I wouldn’t sign to a major label but I really enjoy being an indie artist. I have creative control over all of my music. I write what I want, pick my own beats, present the music the way I see fit, etc

what do you think of artist who get recognized world wide without the help of the radio or a label?

Artists like those aren’t just artists. They’re grinders with a special gift of being appealing to the world. A lot of people think they have talent because their small circle of friends says so. That’s cool but if you really want to know if you have what it takes, you have to put your music out there to the world & see if the world accepts what you do.

how are you getting exposure without the label?

I use twitter, facebook, instagram, bandcamp, red bull academy, etc. to get my music out there to the masses. Everybody is on the Internet these days so that’s what I use to promote. I also hit up every major hip hop blog and try to build relationships with the people who run those blogs so they will know my work it quality after a few listens & wont mind posting it to their blogs

do you feel like luck or talent helps artists out the most? 

You need a little bit of  both. Luck and talent. I’ve been lucky a few times and it actually helps you to progress if you capitalize off of the luck you’ve received. Talent is the key though because if you’re not talented, nobody will really appreciate you.

have you spoken to John Bussigross since/before the shoutout on espn? 

I spoke to John Buccigross on twitter before he shouted me out on Sportscenter. I sent him a tweet telling him he should check out my music and he hit me back a few minutes later after he listened saying he was going to shout me out on sportscenter the next day and he did. I still cant believe he did that! It was dope! Shout out to John Buccigross from Sportscenter!

very few artists say they have been mentioned on espn has this had an effect on your fan base?

Lets just say that the Sportscenter shout out got me a few more fans on twitter and facebook! I wouldn’t say its gotten me a ton of fans. If my homie 215DJA hadn’t DVR’d it and sent it to me, people probably wouldn’t have believed me!  He gave me that evidence I needed!

how did it feel like to work with great artists like talib on your uprising?

I actually wasn’t in the studio with Talib Kweli. We were just on the same album by the same producer, which was Chops from the Mountain Brothers.  I was honored to have Chops reach out to me and ask me to be on his album with such a huge lineup of established artists. Especially being that no one knew who I was. It shows that he believed in my talent a lot and still does.

youre finishing up an album, how do you plan on marketing it?

 I’ll market my album the same way I’ve been doing it but I have a few other avenues that I’m going to try this time and I think it’ll help more. I have a few tricks up my sleeve.

How do you want to be remembered?

I want to be remembered as one of the best emcees of all time. I think I have what it takes to be that. I also want to be remembered as a person that was able to be successful at whatever he put his mind to. At the end of the day though, being remembered as a good person that loved God & his family is the most important thing.

thank you for interviewing with us.

you can listen to Kev Turner’s music on his bandcamp at kevturner.bandcamp.com and follow him on twitter at @kevturner215

-Rebecca Cruz (@Creepitreal_)