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Can you tell the readers the story behind your name
Mr. Pookie?
Mr. Pookie-Well it
aint really much. My grandmamma named me that. Called
me Pookie when I was born. So it's been my nickname my
whole life and my daddy used to call me Mr. Pookie so
I used what I had.
How did you go about selling 100,000 copies of your first
CD "Tha Rippla?"
Mr. Pookie-It
was all the on the record company how he marketed and
promoted it. We went out in the street and promoted and
went out of town. That's what we did we went out of town
and it was on the radio out there and it did pretty good.
So we hit every town that called and it spreaded word
of mouth.
I know that came out in 2000, but how long have you been
rapping?
Mr. Pookie-Rapping
like this since 93, but I have been writing poems my whole
life since about 4th grade.
What can you tell me about this new project you have coming
out?
Mr. Pookie-It's a
good one it's called Return of Tha Rippla, backtracking
from my old album. I have a few crossover songs on there.
I have something for everybody on there. I have something
for the hood cats, something for the pop artists, crossover
songs, everything I hit all angles. It's pretty good.
On this new album which songs do you like the best?
Mr. Pookie-I think
I like the crossover songs. I got a song called "Feeling
You," it's a real good crossover song and I got a song
called "Player From The Start." I kinda of show not that
much difference but more than I would show I surprised
myself with that. My favorite one on the album is one
called "Young Man." It's about me growing up from young
to now really and how it was for me when I was younger.
I read on your website you toured with Bone Thugs N
Harmony. How was that?
Mr. Pookie-That was
a blessing considering I looked up to them before I got
in the game. It was beautiful. It was a blessing. To see
they level and be on our little level to see the difference.
It wasn't much difference but it was pretty good. It gave
us a real good feeling to go to towns we had never been
to in California…Fresno, Santa Cruz, and people know about
our album and they saying our verses from way down in
Texas.
I know you mentioned Bone Thugs but what other rappers
were you interested in growing up?
Mr. Pookie-The whole
9, NWA, everybody. LL Cool J, my biggest influence was
8 Ball and MJG, them my mentors right there, they the
greatest to me.
Now I know you have been in this game awhile, what
kind of advice would you give to up and coming rappers
who want to be in this industry?
Mr. Pookie-If that's
what you want to do you have to . This game here is hands
on. Ain't no school that teach you how to do this. You
just have to go through some things to learn some things.
I say keep your head up, stick to it and you gotta be
good with your craft and talent. Nuture that and make
sure you are the best you can be and don't let nobody
stop you. Don't let anyone say you can't do this. Just
because somebody else says you can't do this, keep it
going.
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Thabiz.com 2005
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