Interview by Blackdog A lot of rappers from your time seem to have disappeared but you are still here. How do you keep it going? I think what keeps me going and keeps me current and in tune is I’m always a fan of hip hop in general. You know from the first time I...
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Charlie Braxton
Interview with Charlie Braxton by Black Dog Bone I knew you as a person who wrote for magazines. It’s only lately that I found out you also write poetry. I read some of your poetry, and I was amazed. Were you writing poetry at first, or did it come later? Thank you very much. I...
Finger RoLL
By Matt Sonzala I thought a lot about my time at Murder Dog and the great times that I had traveling, meeting a lot of artists throughout the underground in different cities and different places all over the country, and one of my favorite places to go was Gary, Indiana. Gary, Indiana in the late...
K-Rino
Interview by Scott Bejda You just celebrated a huge milestone in your career, 40 years in the game. I believe you came out in the same year Too Short came out, 1983. How do you explain your longevity brother. Well God is great, #1. In 1983 I wasn’t in the business side of it, that...
RBX
RBX by Scott Bejda RBX! How are you doing brother? Man, I’m well, I’m striving, ya dig! There’s a lot going on in the industry so I stay focused on what I learned as a youth with turn tables, graffiti, and trying to look fly for the sisters. The whole elements I stay attached to...
Mizz Nique
by Black Dog Bone How did you get into hip hop, rap, singing, whatever? Um, basically the emotion and everything that I experienced growing up and the culture that I have. There’s different ways to speak to people and I started off with poetry but what better way to make it emotional than music. So...
Scott Bejda
I would say you were one of the first persons to do a Podcast on Hip Hop/Rap. before Murder Master I hadn’t even heard about a Podcast or what that was about. Right in fact I started in the same year the term Podcast was coined by some guy in the UK. At the...
Telly Mac
By Black Dog Bone So, Telly Mac, tell me about where you are from and how you came up. Man, I’m born and raised in the Fillmore, San Francisco, Bay Area you know what I’m sayin’? I started my rap career back in 1996 on Get Low Records, JT tha Bigga Figga you know what...
V-Town
By Black Dog Bone You’ve been doing music for a long time, I think from when you were maybe 12 or 13, but at that time it was all in the streets. You make a tape you sell it, you make a CD you sell it in the streets. But now everything has changed and...
DJ Big House
Interview by Charlie Braxton DJ Big House, tell us a little about yourself? I’m from Pass Christian, MS. I’ve had my hands in the entertainment business for over 20 years. Everything from production, writing , djing, design, management, plus music has been apart of my everyday life since I was 10. I’m currently doing project...










