But, the thing is that a hit record most of the time shouldn’t have to be forced. I can’t be mad at the label either for trying to get their artist to make a great single. So I’ve been through what some of these artists is going through where the label is searching for that single. But the last album that I had put out, I put out a song with them in ‘08 called “Wake It Up,” and I liked the song, but my fanbase, they just wasn’t used to me doing that kind of music. I got with Warner Records, they gave me freedom too. So when I was with Jive Records, they gave me a lot of freedom. How has being independent helped you, especially since you’ve been in the game for so long? A lot of rappers have been catching heat for their music not sounding the same after they’ve gotten signed to a major deal. You mentioned being independent, so I guess that’s a benefit. Somebody is going to like something, so I gave them twenty songs on the Graveyard Shift and twenty songs on the Overtime Shift. So you just got to stay within your jurisdiction and envelope and find that happy medium to the point where everybody, you know what I mean.
You come with just one particular way of your sound, and then the only people that’s going to fall in love with it is a small hand full. At the end of the day, somebody is going to find something that they like. So you got to give them a variety of music. It’s so many different areas and people got different acquired tastes. It used to be regional, the south, the west coast, east coast, mid-west, now it’s just worldwide. Ain’t no liaison or nothing understand me, so why not. You know, some people love to do mixtapes five and six mix tapes a year, I want to put out you know four albums and make sure that there documented with a barcode and they’re real albums and I get paid on them. Even after I’m done with albums I go right back in there and continue.
You know put it this way, I like to record a lot of music. I know you released last year’s project separately, but why did you choose do so? You did it again this time around instead of a double disc, which I would think would be easier for you. This is the follow up to the Revenue Retrievin’ series.