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Interview: Immortal Lowlife - Darkness At It's Best
Immortal Lowlife - Darkness At It's Best
Interview By: GRIM

1. For the people who dont know you and your click let em know?

We are all from Memphis, Tennessee we about gettin flat foot buck wild type of music then we have the serious reality stuff too.... DARKNESS IS OUR IMAGE

2. Who makes up the group Immortal Lowlife?

Mr. Sche, Quicksta, Pimp, Pscolistic, N-Sane, Goldie, Chank, Blue, Royal T, Dolla Bill....thats my whole click

3. At what age did you get into the rap game? How old are you now?

I'm 24 now, I got in seriously about at the age of 17, i've been into music since about the age of 10, when I saw I could make money off of tapes, it was on from there... I hung out with DJ Paul alot, watchin him at Hill Crest, I did my thang across town, at school too..

4. Didnt DJ Paul produce one of yalls old tapes?

Yep. I dont have one copy, I can't catch up with that fool, I got a lot of shit with that nigga

5. When you mean you got alot of shit with him, do you mean music or anna?

NO BEEF..JUST MUSIC AND PICTURES AND SHIT

6. Who were some of your influences when you first started rapping?

I LISTENED TOO ICE CUBE, ICE T, SCARFACE, AND LOCAL RAPPERS LIKE SPANISH FLY, TOP AUTHORITY, WILLIE D, NIGGAS LIKE THAT.THE HARD SHIT

7. Yall been in the Memphis undaground scene for a long time, what all junts have yall dropped in the undaground scene?

The Black Fortress - The Immortal Thug Project - The H.I.P Compilation - The Darker Things In Life - Lowlife-Blinked On A Blunt - As We Rise

8. Out of those tapes, which one do you think was your best work?

I would have to say the Immortal Thug Project

9. Do yall plan on re-releasing some of these tapes so that listeners of your music nationwide can have the opportunities to pick those albums up?

Fa show. Its a must.I still got 100 songs I never released

10. Do you have an estimate on how many tapes you sold for any given album? I imagine your tapes sold mainly in Memphis but I know there was a huge demand for them throughout the nation, did you have much success wit em outside of Memphis?

I can't say how many the sold out side of Memphis, but I know people got them. But for memphis, I cant find not one in a store. They sold all the ones I had. I didnt even know that people were still looking for the old stuff.

11. The Darker Thangs In Life Part 2 was yall's first nationwide junt, how did it do sales wise?

They only pressed 2000 of those on the first shippment and they sold like 1,700. But they re-orderd, and cut me out the sales , I got screwed from that album, I only got the front money, I havent seen a dime more, So I left the label: 'DIAMOND PRODUCTIONNS", SO DID FLY AND GANGSTA BLAC. NOW I SEE WHY THAT NIGGA TOLD ME SO, BUT GO ON DOG..........

12. I hear you got a new cd that is bout to drop in a few months, do you want to talk bout that for a minute? any guest appearances lined up?

"Lets get Wild" is the title. Its gonna feature: Gangsta Blac, Boss Bytch, Nasty Nardo, Lil Dude, Total Corruption

13. Have you made many guest appearances on peoples tapes in the past? What albums can we be looking forward to you making appearances on?

Tony Drapers Compilation CD - Nasty Nardo-Geto Star - Mackenzie-U. G. Soul (R&B shit featuring me and Gangsta Blac) - Boss Bytch-Mans Best Friend

14. Are there any artists that you would like to get down on a track wit?

LUDACRIS, LIL JOHN, MYSTICAL, AND PAC, I KNOW PAC AINT FINNA HAPPEN

15. Who are you feelin in the rap game right now? What direction do you think the game game is going?

I feel JA RULE, OH YEAH, I DEFINITLY WOULD LIKE TO GET HIM ON SOMETHING. I THINK THE GAME IS TURNING TO "POP', THE HARDCORE IS TAKING A FALL, THE REAL SHIT IS UNDERGROUND NOW, THATS WHY ITS OUT SELLING A LOT OF MAJOR ARTIST, BUT ITS SO HARD TO STICK WITH ONE THING, EVERYONE LIKES DIFFERENT THINGS

16. You got an evil ass style, you had mentioned to me that people were questioning you and saying that you got soft lately, what do you have to say to those people who say you have gotten softer?

I'm still DARK ASS A MUTHA FUCKA. They should see my studio. One nigga wouldn't come back. For a moment, I though I was too dark. People were saying I worshipped the devil. I didnt really like that, so I leveled out. But I saw that niggas were on my "SO CALLED DEVIL SHIT", I haven't gotten soft, just tryng to reach other crowds

17. Everyone knows Memphis is full of anamosity between clicks and shit........do yall or yourself have any anna with any certain click in Memphis or for that fact anywhere?

Nope. These weak ass niggas down here dont know how to be MEN. I dont got beef anywhere, If a nigga hate me, its because I m doing my own thang. Memphis should be labeled the CITY OF HATAS. These niggas fight over gang-shit and color shit. These fake ass gang-members down here dont know shit, Its sad. I share my blessings and defeat anger with love, walk like Jesus and head first into battle

18. Well Mr. Sche its been real, do you have any last words for your fans?

Just keep looking for the DARKNESS. Immortal Lowlife is forever....Check us out on the internet at

www.immortallowliferecords.com


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