Quelques infos sur The Black Wall Street

Ce mois ci Game devra se présenté devant le tribunal pour avoir menacer avec un flingue un mec a Los Angeles, dans un terrain de basket, puis Game avait été libérérer contre 50.000$ le lendemain (voir la vidéo ou il fesait le con dans la prison lol), il risque 5 années de prison....


La mixtape "Blood Brothers" en commun de Lil Wayne et The Game ne sortira pas ce mois ci, car la tape n'as pas encore été terminer, The Game et Lil Wayne sont trop occupper pour se revoir dans un studio et enregistrez d'autres sons ensembles. Par contre Nu Jerzey Devil a travailler avec Lil Wayne a Miami.

DJ Skee l'été prochain va sortir son 1er album, sa sera une compilation comme l'as fait DJ Khaled avec son album We The Best ou Listennn, bien sur il y aura tout le BlackWallStreet, et on peut s'attendre a n'importe quel featuring, Skee est pote avec tout le monde, même avec les ennemis a The Game (obliger ce con il va sortir une tape pour le G)



DJ Skee est interveiwer dans le nouvelle mag' de XXL, voila l'interveiw en anglais

DJ Skee "To The Top"



Fearless
determination and an unparalleled work ethic helped Scott “DJ Skee”
Keeney ascend to the rank of one of the West Coast's biggest DJs.
Already an official member of The Game's Black Wall Street family, Skee
also has gigs at L.A.'s Power 106 FM and Sirius Satellite Radio. While
born in New York City, Skee's nomadic childhood found him moving back
and forth to Florida, Texas and Minnesota. During his high school years
in Minneapolis, Skee began DJing, releasing mixtapes and spinning at a
local radio station on Saturday nights. During the summers, though,
Skee would always travel back to NYC. It was during one of those trips
back home that a then 16-year-old Skee met legendary DJ Stretch
Armstrong and became his apprentice. During the course of paying dues
with Stretch, Skee was introduced to Loud Records CEO, Steve Rifkind.
Possessing a keen business sense, the teen sensation drafted up a
proposal on how to make Loud bigger than it already was. Rifkind was
impressed with the youngster's gusto and ideas, and offered Skee a
position at his SRC marketing company in L.A. Over the years, Skee, now
23, proved his worth and went on to orchestrate marketing campaigns for
artists such as Akon and David Banner, and companies such as MTV, Nike,
Playboy, Roc-A-Fella, Daimler-Chrysler, HBO and Motorola. The Caucasian
DJ, however, is mostly known for his work with The Game and Black Wall
Street. The two linked up after Game signed with Interscope Records and
Skee went on to host Chuck Taylor's You Know What It Is and Black Wall
Street Journal mixtape series. In 2006, he also produced Game's G-Unit
diss track “300 Bars.” Now, DJ Skee is looking to expand his resume
with several new projects, which include a new collaborative mixtape
with The Game and Lil Wayne entitled Blood Brothers and an official
compilation album. XXLMag.com speaks with one of the West's hardest
working DJs to get the lowdown on his relationship with Game and his
early entry into the hip-hop industry.

You've been in the game since you were 16-years old. How did you get on at such a young age?

I
got connected with Steve Rifkind back when he was at Loud [Records]
through [DJ] Stretch Armstrong. We started running around with Stretch
because I went out to New York all the time. He randomly connected me
with Steve. From there, I saw what Steve was doing with Loud and I just
happened to fix up a proposal about what I thought he was doing wrong
and what else he could do to really help Loud as a brand. He loved it,
sent it out to everybody in the company and took me out to New York
again to meet with [the Loud staff]. Then he [offered me a job and]
moved me out to L.A.

What
did your family think about you leaving home to pursue a career in the
music industry? What about with finishing high school?


I
graduated high school actually early so I could move out to L.A.... At
first [my parents] were against it. They didn't know what it was or
what I was doing. But, I felt like it was an opportunity, just like
getting drafted out of high school. How many chances do you get to go
work for a CEO of one of the biggest record labels of our generation
and learn all that and really get the chance to be taken under his
wing? So I was like, “Fuck it, man.” It was worth it, [but] it was a
gamble. But shit, it paid off. Not saying that college isn't important.
I definitely was going to go to college and do all that shit, but this
opportunity presented itself, so I mean, what's the worst that could
happen?

What projects did you wind up handling?


Steve
really brought me on for his marketing company, SRC. Eventually, I was
running the marketing company after a couple years. I also helped
during the transition when he didn't have a deal and was [leaving] Loud
and starting up SRC [Records]. I was there that first year. The first
artists I really handled were David Banner and Akon. I really helped
launch their early careers, so that was an incredible experience.
Especially now seeing Akon on top of the world. I remember we were
doing parties out here [in L.A]. It was at a beach house in Santa
Monica. We were dragging people out of the house to come hear him.
Nobody knew who he was [and they] didn't want to hear him. Now, to be
able to see him as one of the biggest artists in the world is crazy.

With your work on Power 106 and Sirius, have issues of payola in hip-hop radio ever come up?


It's
crazy. I've never taken money to play records, but you see it go
around. You can honestly see it in the stats, too. That's how dudes are
coming out of left field, just having a hit and then leaving. Payola
can only get you so far. You got to have the whole package. You can get
4,000 spins on BDS [Broadcast Data Systems], but a lot of these dudes
that are gettin' spins aren't selling records. You got to build your
whole career. If you have that hot record, you don't need payola. If
you're really building a career, hit the streets, get your buzz up and
just come with that record that's undeniable. The radio stations are in
business to keep listeners tuned and if listeners want to hear you,
then they're going to have to play you. It's that simple.

Did you learn anything working with Stretch Armstrong that was beneficial to your career today?


[I
moved around a lot as a kid] but I used to spend my summers in New York
and just rolled with [Stretch] everywhere. This was when he was when he
was doing his show on Hot 97 and doing some of those first Murder
Mixtapes out there with Whoo Kid years ago. I just sort of watched what
he did and followed his steps. That kind of turned me into the DJ I am
today. Like how he used to be that dude in New York and broke all these
big artists and still kept it in the street—even though he still
commercialized and capitalized off of it. I'm kind of following some of
those same movements that I saw him do.

How did you become close with The Game?

Me
and him literally built from the time he first got signed. I got
connected to him through the group of people he was first working with.
We just built instantly as soon as I heard his first 16 bars. I was
like, “Yo, this dude is a superstar. Let's roll.” So we've always been
close. Then we started working together heavily when I did “300 Bars”
for him. He came to me with it like, “Yo, have this all over one beat
and shit.” So I came back like, “Yo, this is how we should do it.” Ever
since then, he's like, “You're doing all my shit.”

The Game said he's retiring after his next album. Is that true?


We'll
have to wait and see. He's still [touring overseas] but he's over there
listening to beats we send him everyday. So we're working on the next
album. We actually got all the street joints done.

How's the Lil Wayne and Game mixtape, Blood Brothers, coming along?


Man,
that shit is incredible. We're just trying to get it done. It's tough
with both of their schedules. They're two of the top artists in the
world, especially Wayne right now. [He's] on fire. But Game is touring
and doing all his shit, so it's just impossible to get them in the
studio together. But it's coming [along].

Now that
you've made a name for yourself, have you thought about releasing an
official compilation album like other DJs and producers have done?


Absolutely,
that's coming. We got some shit done already. We've been talking about
[doing] some shit later this year, but I don't think we're going to be
able to pull it all together in time. So I'm hoping maybe next summer.
The timing's got to be right. It's got to be something classic. I'm not
just gonna put out compilations with all my homies. I'm going to make
some incredible music that people are going to bump forever.