Interview | @RooshWilliams: A3C Grind [Video]
I had a chance to catch up with Houston rapper Roosh Williams while out in Atlanta for the A3C Hip Hop Festival. We discuss many things from working with Doughbeezy, the history of Houston music and whats in his A3C survival kit. He even spits a Queen Bobbi Freestlye:
Queen Bobbi: What brings you out to the A3C Festival?
Roosh Williams: Man I’m just coming out here cause we had a chance to perform on that Straight Outta Texas Showcase. So I’m just trying to network & fucking grind, you know & let people know what I’m about really.
Is this your first time at A3C?
Yes ma’am. This is my first time at A3C & my first time in Atlanta.
Your first time in Atlanta. What do you think about the women?
Yo! I love them, to be honest with you. I love Atlanta. Atlanta’s been great. Beautiful black women in the city. I don’t even know how to say it any other way.
Tell me a little bit about the scene. Were you surprised by any of the artists, did you get to meet any of the artists that you look up to?
One thing that really surprises me is that I walked by Young Guru like 15 times.
I have not seen him yet.
I haven’t said anything to him. I just keep walking by him like “hey” & I salute him every time. So I mean it’s cool. I’ve seen Statik Selektah. The thing that really surprises me is all the media that you meet like the bloggers. I met some people from Complex, The Source. I think that’s a big benefit of this whole event.
Yea networking is definitely crazy. Now you were at SXSW right?
Yes ma’am we did the South By Nice Kicks show.
So tell me what is it like when you have SXSW, which is a music festival in general, then you have A3C, which is strictly Hip Hop. What are some of the differences that you notice? Do you think [A3C] easier to navigate because it’s only Hip Hop?
Yes I definitely do. One big difference is like [at A3C] everything is at the Masquerade so everything is like centralized for the most part at one venue. You run into the same people. The recognition, they see you everyday so you can really strengthen that. But when you’re at South By is a free-for-all. Austin, it is so big down there.
Get in where you fit in.
Exactly. You might see some people you might not. It’s really a crapshoot, but [at A3C] it’s a lot easier.
So there are also a lot of Houston artists here. Did it surprise you that so many of the Houston artists made it out?
Actually yea. I mean I knew they were coming, but you know to see like Propain, Dough, myself, I’m probably going to miss somebody on accident, Keke, Killa…to see how Houston kind of took over that night [of the Straight Outta Texas Showcase] was cool.
Lil Keke shut it down.
Yea Keke shut it down. “Got to be a G’ til the day that I die. ”
Ok so tell me what projects do you have coming out or if you have one out already?
I am working project. It is currently untitled, but it is going to be the biggest thing that I’ve done to date. It’s going to be a full, all original project. I’m looking at dropping it hopefully within the next 2 to 3 to 4 months. It just depends. I’m taking my time with this one.
Sometime before we die. Hopefully the world doesn’t end in December.
Hey I hope not. But nah it’s going to be easily the best thing I’ve worked on. I’m just trying to line everything up. Videos, promo…have everything ready so when I get going I can get going. I don’t stop moving.
A lot of people want to know & of course, I want to know myself, how do you rap so fast? Is there a technique or is that your thing?
Honestly I kind of learned how to do that almost a year ago. I just find the beat & I figure out how to fit inside of it. I just try to pack as many rhymes as I can & hit that drum; you know what I’m saying. I can’t give my techniques away.
I’m not a rapper so I don’t get what you’re saying.
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