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Field Mob have had two hit singles this year with
"Georgia" featuring Ludacris and "So What"
featuring Ciara. Their album Lightpoles and Pine Trees
arrives in stores on June 20th!
A lot of people just rap for fun. How did you all come
to decide that rapping was going to be a career?
Field Mob-When
we realized we was good at it. When we realized that you
liked it. We started off writing raps and riding around
smoking reefer off it. We was doing it for fun but if
you keep doing something you get good at it. We was having
fun. We would go to the park and battle niggas and we
would have the whole city fucked up. This shit just happened
just like that.
How did you come up with the name Field Mob?
Field Mob-Albany
was actually slave land. Slaves work in the what?
The field?
Field Mob-You
the third person that answered that right.
Now I was just working out in my yard, do you all ever
work in your yard or do any yard work?
Field Mob-You
wanna be a Field Girl?
I am a field girl!
Field Mob-I
work in the house. I'm a house nigga. I might smoke the
weed but I don't even cut the grass I let somebody else
cut the grass.
You all seem like such an energetic duo have you ever
been approached to do any movies?
Field Mob-Yeah
but Paris Hilton didn't want to pay me how I wanted her
to pay me to do that movie. She wanted all the close ups.
You all have such fun club type of music do you ever think
about doing any serious kind of music?
Field Mob-You
just told on yourself that you don't have the album. If
you had the album you would know that Field Mob talks
about a variety of things.
Is it out already?
Field Mob-We
have had two albums. Do your homework. The single with
us is never how you gonna figure out who we is. The single
is just what they are just for radio promotion. Go listen
to all our albums we talk about slavery, we talk about
relationships we talk about being broke we talk about
all that real shit you just listened to the singles that's
alright. You need to go get you a Field Mob CD…
Well how come they don't release those songs?
Field Mob-Well
because we didn't have as much control with the last two
projects as we do with this projects. This is us. Thanksful
to DTP, Chaka and Luda for our freedom. You gon' get to
see us this time and hear it and they are going to push
it. The elevator music in the hotel is gonna be Field
Mob. The jukebox gon' be Field Mob.
Do you have any regrets about any past business relationships?
Field Mob-No
regrets. No regrets. Everything is happening the way it's
supposed to.
Here are a few questions from
your fans. So if you don't like some of them don't get
mad at me.
How is it working with Ludacris?
Field
Mob-Oh its great. It's easy as working
with Smoke. He don't give a fuck. He creative, he smoke
weed and he richer than us. How hard is that? He got a
G4 and a mansion.
Field Mob has been around for awhile and have been very
consistent. Do you feel like people are just starting to
notice you?
Field Mob-Yeah
we call ourselves the posterpedic rap group cause everyone
sleeps on us. We know eventually it's going to come back
down.
How did the "So What" single come about and what
was it like working with Ciara?
Field
Mob-That's my first cousin. That's my
grandmother's grandchild. We came up with the same grandma
so we said let's go do it and we did it.
Are you glad that you had a chance to clear up the rumors
that spreaded around that you all had dissed New York
rappers?
Field
Mob-It aint even a matter of being glad
because I'm still shocked that they tried to use us as
guinea pigs behind that coward shit. All this time we
been gone they come back two years later and try to do
it like that. Fuck em.' Honestly, they see something in
us for them to fuck with us. The South already doing their
thing but these Niggas back with a single…Nigga's already
know me and my dog..nobody want's to see us not fan wise
but people in the rap game that don't want to see the
South progress. Me and him the icing on the cake. Field
Mob going platinum? The South den' won. That's the icing
on the cake. The craziest thing about the thing is the
nigga in The A don't like us. The A, that's how we know
we winning. Everybody coming at us the wrong way at the
same time. That's why we don't fuck with nobody. Fuck
em.'
Can you tell me what your next single is going to be?
Field
Mob-We got a song called "Baby Bend
Over." Then we have this song called "At The Park." I
think this is going to be one of them rides. It started
with "Georgia." This gon' be hellava year for us. I'm
a see you at the platinum party. Bring your best photographer
cause I'm going to be sharp.
What can you tell me about your new album?
Field
Mob-It's gonna sell over a million copies.
Its from the world greatest Field Mob Sean J, Chevy P,
Lightpoles and Pine Trees, Chevy why we name the album
Light Poles and Pine Trees? Well we are from a place called
Albany, Georgia. Where are you from baby?
I live in Virginia but I'm originally from Chicago?
Field Mob-If
you had an album and you wanted to name you album the
way we named our album and describe Chicago in a couple
of words. You would call your album…Windy Weather and
Buildings. So we are from Albany and all you see is light
poles and pine trees and that's what Albany consists of
mainly. Nothing. Country. Light poles and Pine Trees.
Miami would name their album Palm Trees and Beaches.
I've been to Georgia but I've never been to Albany. What
was life like growing up in Albany?
Field Mob-Shit.
Slow. Everyday I would wake up and ask myself "How the
hell did I get here." Me and him started this shit there
was another group that rapped but there was no rap scene.
The rap scene did not come till me and him put together
some shit. We was actually battling niggas. We was broke
as fuck. Robbin stealing selling dope whatever the fuck
we was doing it having fun just like we doin' it now.
That's what so mind blowing about this shit is that we
just breeze through this shit.
What's the best part about being Field Mob?
Field
Mob-Shit look where we from. You know
how many people from Atlanta fuss and fight all day about
who is the King of Atlanta? You know how many niggas from
New York always arguing about that? We go home and we
ain't even gotta fuss. We know who it is. That's how he
intended it to be. It's a reason why we outcasted from
the rest of these rappers and let's be real we are. My
Atlanta homeboys probably look at me and Smoke like "Them
niggas too wild or too this or too that." We defy all
the image laws. It's been done. We have done it all. We
do what they are scared to do. I ain't callin you know
hoe but everyone woman has a little hoe in them. You know
how they like Lil Kim so much. Because you personally
not gonna go out there and suck a nigga dick and just
take it up the ass. But you like Lil Kim cause she touches
on that whore side. You aint fin to go disrespect yourself
like Lil Kim but you respect her for disrespecting herself
you feel me. She gon' do what you ain't gon do but you
like it.
Ya'll are funny. You all seem to mesh so well together
have either of you all ever considered doing solo projects?
Field Mob-We
started. We have a label called FBI. That's just a natural
thing. I think its gonna be a Field Mob for everything
that's how its gonna kill em'. Imagine. They don't even
know peole in the group. I know plenty of groups right
now where you don't know everybody in the group. You gon
know everybody in this group. You gon' know the differences
and you gon' love when we get together and do something.
Most groups go do solo projects to runaway. He gon' get
paid off mine I'm gon get paid off his. We got our own
label. I'm on the road with him. We doing our solo acts
under FBI. If he go platinum I go platinum. Why the fuck
not?
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