This is more of a one on one type of record.į: Six weeks ago, you posted an Instagram photo of you and L.A. RR: This is a personal album where it’ll feel like it’s just me and you in the room, versus me writing in a way where it’s channeling a crowd. I thought that was the beauty of it.į: How is Black Market different? What’s the concept behind it? I’m collaborating with Jay Z and Kanye West, and I’ve still got to be able to go and collaborate with the South. It was something I felt like I got to be able to do in the South when I’m at a pinnacle. Just being able to do the “Elvis Presley Blvd.” remix and go out on Elvis Presley Boulevard and have MJG and Project Pat and Playa Fly and so many Memphis local artists come together when we shot the video, it was a beautiful thing. RR: It was a special moment because outside of Memphis, you hear of certain tensions between certain people, and a lot of times it’s really just misunderstandings. I thought it was dope.į: How did Memphis respond to that record? I did something that was different, and Southern, and bass heavy. That’s why you saw the Project Pat feature and the Yo Gotti feature and of course the single “Elvis Presley Blvd.” as well as K. I had so much family there, so many artists who were from that small area that I was fans of. I was involved in the community, I opened a few franchises, I had just went to St.
I had just received the key to the city of Memphis, so there was a lot of positive energy. Mastermind was most definitely a relevant, full-out, melodic, soulful, wordplay project, versus the following album Hood Billionaire, which I really built around the Memphis sound. With you doing four albums in two years, has it been difficult to find things to write about? As my empire builds, I stay involved with the music, and it feels good.į: You often often hear artists say that they need some time to live in between albums so that they have something to write about. That’s something that you might not expect, but I love being a part of the music. I just co-executive produced a project by Teedra Moses, an independent soulful artist. I executive produced French Montana’s debut album along with Puff Daddy. I’ve been involved with a lot more things. That’s a lot of incredible music that I make with my teammates that I want to see shine, so I assist in whatever they're doing. RR: Because when there are compilations, that’s supporting the Maybach Music Brand. What accounts for this increased rate of release of projects?
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But you had two albums last year, a mixtape this year, an album coming out in a few weeks, plus possibly later in the year an MMG compilation album. But there were situations where I sacrificed more than I needed to, and I learned from it.į: In the beginning of your career, you were releasing albums on a pretty standard schedule – a year, sometimes two years apart. I may have had an opportunity to use that artist’s platform to showcase some of my shit. As a young artist at that time, I was writing up to ten songs a day, and for me it was worth it. But most definitely, I’ve written songs where I’ve gotten one thousand dollars for a song, twenty-five hundred dollars for a complete song, just-walk-away-from-it type of shit.
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