Young Buck
Straight Outta Ca$hville

       By
Rohit Loomba

Outta Cashville - Nashville, Tennessee, u know who this is....G - Unit to the fullest. First off,
we’ve seen the making of your new video. Could u tell us a little bit about it ? Well, I really
wanted to capture the hood, with it being my first video. It’s a club record, though. The single’s
entitled, “Let Me In.” Meaning, in a sense, let me in the club. Let me in the game. Just let me
shine and do my thang. U feel me ? U know, bringing my city to the light is very important with
me. I’m from Nashville, Tennessee, and the first thing I think comes to people’s minds when u
tell em that.... is country music. We have nothin’ on the hip - hop scene to highlight us, except,
8 Ball & MJG and a few other ones - Triple 6 Mafia. And they not even from my area. They from
Memphis and I’m from Nashville. So.... bringing my city to the forefront is real important. That’s
why the title of my album is Straight Outta Cashville. I got the concept from Str8 Outta Compton.
U know, I felt like... thru that album, them dudes (N.W.A.) established who they were and what
they were about. And that’s really what I wanted to do with my album. What about the rest of
the album ? And what are your goals with the album, right now ? I wanted to make my album
a Dirty South slash everythang else. U know what I’m sayin ? In the circle I’m in, all grounds
are covered in a sense. U got 50, Banks, Yayo for the East. Now we got the West with the new
member added on, The Game. Then with me out here, I’m from the South. So playing my part
and representin’ my roots was real important. I had to get that down South feel. So I worked
with producers like : Lil Jon, Triple 6 Mafia -DJ Paul from Triple 6 Mafia. I worked with him and
Juicy J. on some tracks. You’ll probably get more southern features on my album, than on any
other record. I got T.I., Ludacris, Lil Flip, David Banner, Stat Quo, and a new kat I’m bringin’ to
the table, named D. Tay (from my hood). As well as, the family - 50, Game, Banks. I got Snoop,
Daz..... I got a lot of features on my album, but it’s not one of those albums where the features
make the album. I spreaded this out and really made it right, so that the world could really get
a good feel for me, too. U mentioned D Tay. Didn’t u release an independent LP with him ? I
think it was called, Thuggin’ Til The End. Yeah, that was the first album I ever did. Me and him
got together and we were workin’ with a kat, a Jew dude, that’s giving me a little problem,
named Jeff Pringle. Matter of fact, now that u speak on it, I been tellin’ these kats in the
business to watch ya self. And watch what u do and record. Cause here it is, I’m puttin’ out an
album, and he’s (Jeff Pringle) puttin’ out that same old album with a new cover on it. U know
what I’m sayin ? And throwin’ it out around the same time my album drops. So....that was one
of the very first projects that I ever did. That was my homie. And still is my homie. So what
kinda lessons did u learn from that project ? I learned a lot, man. I learned that it’s u that
makes your career happen. It’s really your work ethic that determines what happens for u. Your
quality of music is a big part. As well as, the business end. Watch what u sign. Watch
everythang. The whole thang. Have lawyers watching lawyers. U feel me? Tell us a little bit
about your experiences with Cash Money, and what happened there. For the most part, it
was cool. U know what I’m sayin? I look at everything that I went thru in the past as a learning
lesson. Cause I’m winning now. Cause it’s all good. For the most part, it was all good. Except
for the simple fact that I felt like I wasn’t given a fair opportunity. I was never on a project that
the world heard. And I was really with them around that time. And not just as a tag-a-long, but
as someone who was lookin’ to make they rap career happen over there. It never got to a point
of me even signing a contract. So, it was more of a thing of me just tryin’ to make my thang
happen. And really, nobody tryin’ to help me - in a sense. I’m 23 now. I met them dudes when I
was 16 or 17 years old. Me and my circle, even back then, we were hustlin’ in the streets. That
attracted Baby. To see young hustlas doin it. To see young niggas really doin’ they thang.
Everythang they was rappin’ about, we was livin’ that shit at a young age. I was introduced to
Baby at a young age, by a kat named Lil Jimmy (my best friend). He’s in the federal
penitentiary. From there, it turned into my rapping. And Baby would let me rap in front of Turk
and Wayne. In a sense, it was a battle. Everybody left the situation on.... yo, that nigga good.
Then a couple of days later, I was gettin’ a call from my homie. Sayin,’ yo, this nigga Baby
wants u to fly to New Orleans and do yo thang. Then I come down there, and that’s when the
games began. I was 17. Fresh outta high school. I dropped outta high school in the 9th grade.
I kinda started housing myself with them niggas. I would stay with Baby. Ridin’ around with
him while Turk and Wayne was in school. I think their career started takin’ off and they pushed
me to the back. I went back to Cashville and got in the streets. Doin’ my thang. I started puttin
out independent shit again. It only cost me $300 to press 1,000 cds. I was selling that shit out
of a gas station next to Tennessee State University. Later on, Juve told me he had his own
thang going on (UTP). He had his own studio. His own artists. He was serious about that shit.
He wanted me to go on the road with him. His words to me were, at least with me, you’ll have
a fair shot be heard. Me and Juve were always cool. We happened to be in New York on Juve’s
studio bus, and the driver (C. Low), said, I think I might know a way to get in touch with 50 (50
Cent). 50 ended up comin to the bus. He had brought Banks and Yayo with him. We ended up
droppin a track on the first mixtape called 50 Cent Is The Future. I had an 8 bar cadence. I
ended up playin’ a record for Banks and he liked it. He took it to 50 and said... yo nigga, u gotta
hear this shit. The record ended being “Bloodhound,” on Get Rich Or Die Tryin. For me, my
loyalty started right then and there. Cause in a sense, I was a nobody. He didn’t have to do
that. Here he is standing in the middle of Eminem and Dr. Dre. Fifty never promised me
anything he couldn’t do. He just said....look, when I’m able, I’ll be back to holla at cha. And
that’s exactly what he did. So it’s G - Unit to the bone grizzle. G - Unit to the end. U heard me ?
Yall be sure to go out and get that new Young Buck cd, Straight Outta Cashville.