What do you think the new generation of rappers are doing right?
I think a lot of the successful ones know how to use social media in order to create the sense of a real movement behind them. Nowadays it seems like the major press has an agenda as far as who they push and who they don't and so I feel like rappers nowadays have to sort of play into that and play a certain role to have people pay attention to them. I feel like you have to be more of a personality then a musician nowadays and a lot of new rappers try to do that.
What do you think they’re doing wrong?
I think a lot of rappers think they can just record over a beat they got off Youtube, swag it out and try to get famous. Of course this usually results in terrible music because they have no idea what they're doing. Obviously there are different levels to music but sometimes you have to ask yourself where did the good music really go when you hear a lot of the stuff that gets burn nowadays.
Can you describe the moment you realized you want to be a rapper?
It would probably be when I saw my older brother Tank get a lot of attention in our neighborhood when he was freestyling and when I tried and found out I was pretty good too. Then when we were young and doing our own group thing and got signed, that definitely took things to a whole new level because now we were traveling and doing shows everywhere. I've just kept it up ever since then.
How has the response been to “Blink Away”?
It's been good. I think a lot of people aren't used to someone like Sean Price spit over a Southern style beat and so that's definitely been a fresh new sound for them. I'm glad people dig the song and what it's about because having eight siblings, the thought of possibly losing one of my brothers or sisters to violence is a very real possibility.
What’s your stance on gun control?
I think it's just a complicated situation. Being from Texas, they can never make guns illegal here or try to control things too much because people would go crazy. So it's something that we're sort of just stuck with. They try to do the gun control thing in places like Chicago and New York but sometimes it feels like that's just another way they can try to throw young black people in jail.