NF: Yeah, I saw that you had a little thing on MTV Artists! It’s got videos for some of your tracks. How did you get that?
V: I’m gonna post all my videos on there, all fifteen of them. Actually it’s 20. I’m gonna post all my videos there and on my Youtube channel, which is called “Rapper Viper.” I’m gonna try to get atleast one or two on WorldStar HipHop, but they’re really expensive. They are charging like 700 bucks to upload one video into their database for just that one day. It’s a decent investment because once your video is in the database, it’s in their search engine. But I’ve got an alternate website that I want everyone to know about, if you are an artist. It’s called “World Rap Star.” I’m trying to compete with WorldStar HipHop. The website is not fully functional. I’m gonna be letting artists upload their videos for under ten bucks at the beginning.
And also I wanna put something out there. We never talked about YCDESC [You’ll Cowards Don’t Even Smoke Crack], that’s kind of the album that put me out in the limelight. The whole purpose of the album was really to show the gritty side of hiphop and the gritty side of rap, and actually I respect the fact now that people are seeing me as an artist and not a drug user or anything like that, because the whole purpose of the song, if you listen to it, it was about addressing anything that you have that you may be afraid of. Growing up as a kid I vowed to myself that I would never be afraid of anything. It was really kind of a slap at the industry to say “a lot of rappers are scared to say certain things, and I’m gonna say it because I can.” But at the same time, I’m a musician. So of course, and a lot of people don’t know about this, we underground artists have probably done about every drug there is to do, so it’s not about doing drugs, it’s about sending a message: don’t be afraid of anything out there man, because if you are, it’s gonna make you a judgmental person. And sometime down your life, you gonna have to deal with whatever it is you afraid of. It’s best to deal with it while you are young and get through that, get past it, and move on in life, than to be afraid of it and not deal with it until later on in life when you late. You might not be mentally prepared to deal with it.
Another reason I did that song was, when I was younger man, I was selling dope. That was part of my thing in college, to make extra money. And when we used to cook with my gang, the Five-Nine Boys, when we used to cook dope, we used to always check our batches you know, you’d have to take a blow of it. Because if you were selling some BS on the street to a customer they will rat you out quick. So you have to check your batch to make sure you sellin’ a good batch. And I just made the song because, letting the people know, you know, don’t be scared of it, you know what I’m saying? Do it and let it go. That’s why I never got a dope case. I always sell good dope. Good powder, good work, everything was always good. So I never got a dope case. All these other clowns out here, sitting in jail now, can’t get nothing, can’t get assistance, cuz assistance has been taken from them cuz they got a dope case. In Texas, once you get a dope case, you can’t get any kind of assistance from the government. So, you know, I still got all of my stuff man. Cuz I never caught a dope case, you feel me?
NF: I feel you.
V: I’m a college graduate, I’ve got a business degree from U of A, I’m a real estate agent, I’ve got a website called FreeMovers.com.
NF: I was about to ask you about that: how’s that going? That’s the website where I actually got your number.
V: Yeah. FreeMovers.com, that’s my baby man. I started that concept back in the late 90s, and I had one competitor here in Texas, but he never decided to take his company public. I’m taking mine public.