Field Mob Interview

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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Buy Field Mob’s “So What” featuring Ciara on iTunes and get a free Mini Mixtape featuring a sneak peek of Light Poles and Pine Trees, out June 20th, with it. Click here to buy “So What” and get the free mixtape

 



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