Raptalk once again caught up with the Inglewood stomper Big Wy. In this interview, we talk about his new album "Big Wy Presents: The Soo-Woop Movement" which will feature The Game, Jim Jones, Lil Wayne, Mack 10 and other artists reppin' the red-rag.   

Styles: I hear that Big Wy might not be so “big” anymore. You’ve been working out and getting your nutrition game on?

Big Wy: You know, I want to be around for a little more longer. I don’t want it to get to the point where [my weight] stops me from doing what I need to do as far as my career goes and even living. I want to be here for my baby.

Styles: How have the workouts been going?

Big Wy: It’s been cool. I’ve got a nutritionist. I am doing more dieting and exercising. I fuck a little longer now. Instead of 5 minutes, I fuck to 6 [laughs].

Styles: [laughs] Hey….anything that helps in that department is good.

Big Wy: [laughs] I’ll go out with Suga Buga’s son and play basketball. We’ve got weights over at his house. I’m just trying to stay busy man.

Styles: You’ve been telling us for quite a while about a new album called the Soo-Woop Movement. What made you decide to do a whole album of all Bloods?

Big Wy: Really, the album isn’t just all Bloods. I’ve got Glasses Malone on there and a couple more cats that aren’t Bloods. With all of the hype around it, everybody wants to talk about “Soo-Woop”, due to the number one selling rapper [Lil Wayne] that is Blood affiliated. Me being a young legend out here as far as on the gangster-ism end and representing the Bloods for so many years, I took it upon myself to do this. And it’s not to represent gang-banging but rather us who we are and showing that we do business together. It’s not just ignorance that’s involved. We are who we are and we represent what we represent but we are doing legitimate power  business at a high level and not just gang-banging or other things that people look at with a negative aspect.

Styles: So when people hear this album, they aren’t to expect anything like on the Bangin’ on Wax or the Damu Riders albums? No Crip dissing and stuff like that?

Big Wy: Nope, none of that. This is not a gang-banging album. This is my album, Big Wy Presents the Soo-Woop Movement. It’s basically me featuring the movement of all of us that represent the Soo-Woop: myself, The Relativez, Jim Jones, Lil Wayne, Baby, The Game, Mack 10, Jay Rock, and others. All of the cats that are making moves and represent Damu. The music is the tales that we go through. Bloods, Crips, Latinos & Mexican gangs and everybody else in the streets – we go through the same type of things. We live the same type of lives. Stuff that we go through in jail and the streets, it’s all music that you can relate to. I also produced the whole thing.

Styles: Are you concerned at all that an album like the Soo-Woop Movement, might actually still promote gang-banging across the nation?

Big Wy: Naw, because it’s just letting people know about the dudes who represent this is like the Wu-Tang when the Wu-Tang was hot. It’s just that we come from a real street element – a high profile gang The Bloods – but it just so happens that through all of the affiliations you’ve got these dudes that are representing this situation that are selling a lot of the records right now and making most of the noise. It’s a whole movement. I have nothing on there with us being anti-Crip, anti-Latino or anti-anything. It’s just us representing us on the music biz. It’s like The Relativez – when we first came out everybody thought that all of our songs were going to be Blood-this and Blood-that. But a good majority of our fans are Crips. It’s just music. This is a record that’s going to compete. This project is also going to be visual. Once we drop the videos with me, Mack 10, TQ, Game and Jim Jones in high quality video people are going to realize that this project is fly.

Styles: How was it getting the co-operation of stars like Lil Wayne, Jim Jones and The Game?

Big Wy: We have relationships with these dudes already. I met Jim through El Dorado Red. My partner Wacko also had a previous relationship with Jim too.

Styles: Getting their companies to sign off on it wasn’t a problem either?

Big Wy: We’ve got all of that taken care of. Everybody that’s on the project is like their own boss. Jimmy is his own boss. Game has his situation but he’s his own boss to a certain extent. The one’s that he answers to, we have a relationship with them. Lil Wayne, Baby, TQ – they are their own bosses. Jay Rock and Top Dawg is my family. We do our homework and handle our business the right way to where we won’t have those kinds of problems. The songs will be cleared and they will see the light.  

Styles: How is the project going to be distributed?

Big Wy: The Soo-Woop album will be a mainstream pushed album, so we’ve got a few a companies that we are trying to get something in ink and knock out before the New Year. We are trying to get the best options. As far as Checkmate Entertainment is concerned, we have Damu Money that is out digitally right now. You can get it on Amazon.com, iTunes, Rhapsody and all of those online stores. The Damu Money series is a street album series with all original music. I’ve got a couple of cats on there like my boy from Far Rockaway, Queens named E-Side. He’s from Mitchy Slick’s Wrongside camp. I also got my boy Brooke Money, he’s from Indianapolis. I’ve got songs with Red-Rum.

Styles: The Damu Money is going to be a series of on-going albums?

Big Wy: We are going to do a volume 2 with my partners out in Texas named Studeville. He’s from San Antonio. I’ve got a couple of more cats that I’m going to get on there.

Styles: How are things going with your Checkmate Entertainment company that you started with your partner Wacko?

Big Wy: We’ve added more people. It’s also turning in to a production company. There are 7 producers along with myself. We all work together creating and writing. We sell tracks to different artists. We just submitted tracks to Sha Money for 50 Cent. We’ve got a song on Ray J’s last album. It was a song that featured Lil Kim. We are working with a lot of different up-in-coming artists like Papa Smurf, June, and Polidony. We are trying to develop artists as well as putting my records out.

Styles: You produce records too?

Big Wy: Yeah, I produce. People don’t know that. Me and Lil Stretch actually produced Eastside, Westside on Murder Was The Case. We did that track. On Bangin’ On Wax 2, we did the Mafia Lane record. We did like 5 songs on Bangin’ On Wax 2. We also did Take A Nigga Like Me on the Gang Related Soundtrack. That’s our production.

Styles: So you know how to work the boards?

Big Wy: Yeah.

Styles: All this time, I never knew that.

Big Wy: I’ve been producing. A lot of stuff that you hear on The Relativez album, I didn’t put my name on it for credit. I wasn’t really tripping about that. I pretty much come with the song and the beat, then I have people come in and re-do it or to play it for me. But now I am more hands on because I took a little schoolin’ on Pro-Tools game and engineering – trying to get my frequency’s right as far as mixing is concerned. I’m going that route as far as production is concerned.

Styles: Damn. I just learned something new about you and I’ve interviewed you like 10 times.

Big Wy: There’s a lot of things that I’m about to do Styles that a lot of people don’t know. I’m not a braggadocios type of dude or I haven’t really shown it in public. If a person where to sit down in a studio with me, they would really see what goes on.

Styles: I saw you get upset recently about comments made about your Lakers Theme song. Some forum posters made some remarks about you using a danceable beat instead of the traditional hard-core stuff that you do.

Big Wy: I don’t really let that stuff get me worked up. I more or less just laugh and joke about it. With that situation, I understand where they are coming from. But as far as myself responding to comments, there are a lot of artists that won’t go on forums and do that. So for you just say what you want on a forum, I am going to let you know back that I am going to “do me.” I’m paid. I’ve got bread. You’ve got to understand that this is a music “business.” I know that fans are used to hearing me on the gangsta boom-clap, but I’m not about staying in the same area and being stuck in the same music. I grow with the times. Our message doesn’t change but by being musicians, we know what’s hot at the time, and that’s the type of music that do – and we are able to do it. To the negative comments, I’ll try to break it down for them. Most of the time, they will respond back saying that they understand and get it. I love all of the fans and those that even take the time to click on anything about me.

I got in to the whole thing about going online and talking to the fans when I started dealing with you Styles. I didn’t know anything about all of that at first. It’s a good tool and I like it, so I’ll stay involved.

Styles: Have ever taken some of the comments personally though?

Big Wy: Um…. If it’s not true. But to the ones that are just being outright disrespectful – naw. I’m a real dude, man. Sometimes you’ll have someone make a comment about my weight. But that’s all they can say. I’ve got my records on the streets. I’m a real nigga. But all of that “fat dude” stuff, I don’t take personally because I know that if I see that dude in person, it will be a whole different attitude towards me.

Styles: Recently, you released a song with Papa Smurf and G. Malone about a young man who was mistakenly shot by police in Inglewood, right there at Rally’s on Crenshaw. Then even more recently, a 38 year post office worker was shot mistakenly by the police at his apartment. It sounds like a lot of drama in your city.

Big Wy: It’s getting worse. Michael [the young man shot at Rally’s] was Papa Smurf’s cousin. We did a song called “Please Don’t Shoot.”  The dude was wrongfully killed. The Inglewood PD officer said he was nervous and scared – but maybe he just did that shit on purpose. Who knows? Then the same officer turns around and shoots somebody at their house. First he kills the kid by shooting through the car window and now he shoots through the door. The dude is shooting at people and killing them, without them even being in his range. People need to be careful in what they do because of the type of world that we live in – especially around here in Inglewood because that shit has been going on for years. They didn’t say anything about one of my little homeboys, the IPD gunned him down in the back. They shot him in the back of the head. They said that he had a gun, yet they shot him in the back of the head. All IPD ain’t bad, like my homeboy Blaylock and a few others. They are cool, but the rest of them dudes are a piece of shit, man. They just have this hatred in them.

I know you have to do your job when you deal with gangbangers but you can’t judge each individual. A gang is based on individuals. If you go in these areas everyday, then you’ll know these dudes. You’ll know who’s capable of doing what. The little dude that got killed was 5’3” and about 140 pounds – and they gunned him down by shooting him in the back of the head. Then they kill Michael at Rally’s and gunned him down after he was getting chased and shot at by some other niggas. Yet they kill him. And now they turn around and kill the mail man – shooting through the door and smoking him. That’s fucked up.

Now some of the black leaders are trying to get the Chief of Police to resign. For what? She didn’t do it. They need to go after the cop who did this and put his ass on trial – and do something about that. Let’s tear this motherfucker up! I believe in God and I love Martin Luther King Jr., but I believe like Malcolm X also and he said, “By any means necessary.”

I just try to stay out of the way of all that Styles, for real, because sometimes you’ll put yourself in a position. I am not saying that the kid shouldn’t have been out there, but late at night at 3 a.m. – shit happens to people.

Styles: People do need to be more careful when out super late.

Big Wy: Yeah, you’ve got to be more careful. You’ve got to know what’s going on in your surroundings and in your areas. I mean, when it’s your time to go it’s your time to go, but you can do some things a little different to try to avoid all of that.

People are lazy though, especially our people. If everybody and I mean everybody that lives or has lived in Inglewood went down to City Hall, something “would” change. But everybody doesn’t want to do it.

Styles: It’s good that you are speaking on these social issues. Maybe a kid will listen to it and not be out at 3 a.m. or if they do, they will be more careful.

Big Wy: You’ve got to be aware of your surroundings. If you are in the streets, you have to be street smart. If you don’t have street smarts, then you don’t need to be around in areas where you have to move fast. If you are in the inner city or urban areas, then you know that there are gangs involved. Even if you have no affiliation or don’t bang, they always seem to be the ones that get it.

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