Growing up, who would you look to as your musical influences?

Damn! Now this is a tough question. I say that because I was influenced by a variety musical genres within my household. My moms bumped that old school Motown as well as the 70's/80's R&B era. My aunt played alot of alternative and pop music. My pops played alot of rythm & blues while my grandmother was soley into playing christian gospel. But it was me who brought hiphop in the house and being that I had all these different forms of music being played I came to like and appreciate the significance of them all. So I'm influenced by a wide range of artist & music. But I would have to say that these two genres and their artist most influenced me. In old school...I'm most influenced by artist such as "The O'Jays", "Stevie Wonder", "The Isley Brothers" and "Marvin Gaye". With the 80's pop and R&B I would say such artist as "New Edition", "Micheal Jackson", "Luther Vandross" and "Debarge". In hiphop...man, theirs just too many to name. I'll say "Run DMC", "KRS-1", "ICE-T", "LL Cool J", "NWA", "THE BIZ", "Beastie Boys", "Too $hort", "Heavy D", "Snoop Dogg", "BIG", "Rakim", "PAC" and "Jay-Z". I would say those artist have the most influence on me in Rap. But I will say this as well..."Frank Senatra and Ellis Fitzgerald are the shit"

When did you know you wanted to be a rapper?

I knew I wanted to be a rapper the very first time I saw RUN DMC and LL Cool J in concert on the first "Fresh Fest Tour". And when Jam Master Jay was cuttin' up that Run, Ru...Ru...Ru...Run on the turntables to bring Run out...man that shit had me going. I was already in luv with the music and the culture. But seeing them perform live, struttin' across the stage and doin' they thing. I knew at that very moment I wanted to rapp. Unfortunately my efforts to pursue rapp would be placed on hold only to be put forth alot later in life.

You got a dope mixtape out now, can you let heads know what's good with that?

Well, we threw all of the latest hits and hot beats on a cd and I basically just blazed(literally speaking) the shit out of them with witty, edgy, street savvy rymes. I wanted every bar of every beat to feel punch drunk when I was done. So listeners of all types would be like damn, that n***az nice and can blaze tracks even hotta than the original artist themselves. So I wanted this to be a real attention getter, feel me?

What's your next project coming up?

Well, our next project coming up is our "StreeRunnaz MixTape Vol.II...Sieze and Disist" which is being mixed down now, just chillen' in the cuts waitin' to overshadow alot of music, huh. Which will have all the artist from the StreetRunna family appearing on it such as Meez aka The No.1 Draft Pick, True Knocks, Wolverine and the newest edition to the SR & TKP(True Knocks prod.) family, female vocal sensation "Adrianna". As far as albums go, I got 12 "HOT" ass albums sitting in what we call the vault that has neva seen the light of day, just waiting to breathe life into the airwaves and speakers. But for now we're just focusing on the newest mixtape of ours to give people a taste of what we do and doin' shows you know.

A lot of people say HipHop is dead, how do you feel?

Hmmmm, I don't think hiphop is dead at all because to be dead is to no longer exist and we both know that that's not the case. It's just evolving into more of what it has to become, just like life. I mean the hiphop culture has infiltrated every culture and society of today. From clothes, to music, to style, to sports, to commecials, movies and so on. So every aspect of the music and the lifestyle is constantly evolving adapting to the times and change wether good or bad. It wouldn't be beneficial to have one without the other. Because the bad helps us take notice and appreciate the good. So in lamens terms hiphop is is still growing up as we all are. But no matter what...I Luv this shit.

Shout Outs:

I wanna give a shout out to all the pioneers of hiphop who paved the way for me to be giving this interview...1 Luv. Shout out to my city Oakland...stand up, it's time. My cuzzin's who believed in me from day 1, my family who supports and encourages me, B. Kayser (aka Mr730) for giving me the oppertunity to do this interview, all the hustlaz who taught me the game within the game of life, the entire SR & TKP family, DJ Classic, my pops and my sister...my gaurdian angels and last but never least a shout goes out to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for His many blessings...other than that and checking out www.streetrunnaz.com for more info. it's a wrap.