SRN is back with part 2 of our exclusive
interview with Max Minelli. He offers his
thoughts on the Jigg music prevalent in his city.
He also drops game on why certain artist sell
records and others don't.
He also speaks on the possibility of another
interview with Max Minelli. He offers his
thoughts on the Jigg music prevalent in his city.
He also drops game on why certain artist sell
records and others don't.
He also speaks on the possibility of another
classic record with him and Young Bleed.
So check out what the Baton Rouge legend had to say below.
You can read the text or listen to audio.
So check out what the Baton Rouge legend had to say below.
You can read the text or listen to audio.
Max Minelli (Part 2) - (May 2008) | Interview By: Big T
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SRN: Now I’m in Shreveport and we got a lot of cats doing street music, but right now
the biggest thing that’s popping is the Jigg music, which started in Baton Rouge of
course, but in my area we’re getting a lot of backlash against the Jigg music. What’s
your take on the Jigg music?.
Now when you say backlash, what ya mean? Like…niggas hating on it?
SRN: Pretty much from my perspective the fans…ya average fans who just want to
party and let it be natural, they loving it. But your average rapper who ain’t jigg, he is
super against it.
I mean…this how I feel bout the jigg music. Naturally, I’m going to love because I’m
from B.R. and that’s where Jigg started, so I feel like the Jigg shit is a lil bit of all of us.
You know what I’m saying. Now the thing about is I understand what niggas feel like,
but I don’t look at shit like that. I look at it like it’s for what it’s for. You know you can’
t… A lot of time in rap, people compare shit to shit that don’t need to be compared to
it. You know what I’m saying. If you look at other forms of music you don’t hear
people saying… uhh fucking Omarion, he ain’t tight as Luther Vandross, because it’s
known… it’s not even a question… like Luther Vandross is a whole other level from
Omarion. You see what I’m saying. That’s how I feel like rap… certain shit is for
certain shit. Jigg music is for the party, it’s for the club, it’s for when you out having a
good time. Now on Sunday afternoon when you go in a whole other zone, you might
not want to listen to that and that’s cool. Because emotions run like… throughout the
course of the day you feel all kinds of different ways. You feel happy, sad, mad,
fucking depressed, you know what I’m saying. So music is just the voice of emotion
man and Jigg music is the voice of one emotion. So not to hate it because it might
seem more popular or it might seem like when you go to a club, all you hear is Jigg
music, but that’s where that one emotion comes from. It matches up with that and
what it is man to be mad at something like that is just another way of being just a
hater. Just get your weight up. Don’t hate that. Don’t hate these niggas cause of
what they doing. They just doing what they can. They probably wish they could make
a record like Jay-Z, but they can’t. It’s a two way street but at the end of the day if
you making good music bruh, that shit going to shine through no matter what kind of
music it is. Jigg music, Bounce music, Blues, fucking east coast rap, whatever, if it’s
good… if it’s the truth, it’s going to shine through.
SRN: One of my favorite Max Minelli songs off all times is Make It Better Than The Last
Time, and that came out quite some time ago…
Ten years ago.
SRN: Fa sho…when do the world get another Young Bleed, Max Pain collab, cause yall
put that down man?
Uhh, I don’t know bruh. That just something that’s up in the air, I guess.
SRN: Are you open to it?
Am I open to it? Yeah I’m open to anything bruh…I’m open to anything. I’m out chea…
I don’t hate nobody, I don’t hold no grudges against no man for nothing, so I’m open
to everything. Now is that in my hands? I don’t think it is, but if it ever came around
to it, I’ll be down with it.
SRN: You come real deep and one thing about you is you make complete albums
when you drop. You make complete albums that you really can listen too, and like you
say, take you through a bunch of emotions. Why you think the rest of the game ain’t
really catching on to that and why you think ultimately that it just ain’t the thing to do?
Man, this what I think bruh. Honestly, I feel like… I blame that shit on record labels.
When it come down to the come down, I blame record labels for that. The reason why
I say that is because you will come across a song that’s what people call a hit… like
that’s the best thing out of everything, everybody just searching for hits [inaudible]
Say you come across a song… somebody makes a hit, but it’s like a club song, or up-
tempo song or whatever and it’s like one big…everybody try to copy that, you know
what I’m saying, and it’s like people been trying to copy that for like damn near 70
years now. It’s like everybody been trying to do the same thing [inaudible] and from
an artist perspective… You really can’t blame the artist because all artists doing is
what they think they can do to eat. Record labels are the ones who control and
dictate what an artist going to do. Because if record labels put out 10 blues records
with raps, guess what rappers going to start making? Nothing but blues records,
because they just feel like that’s what you got to do to get on. Right now it’s all about
songs. All muthafuckers want to do is make a hot song. Nobody wants to be a
character, nobody wants to have an album that’s talking about a whole bunch of
different shit. Niggas just want to have [some hot songs] to do some shows. That’s
where the game at now. That’s why niggas don’t sell records, because people don’t
even know you. They don’t know nothing about you. People buy records of people
that they feel like they know and they relate to on one level or another. People they
done seen grow, people that they done watched since they were on an underground
level. Like you say that you been listening to my shit… you done listened to all my
albums, you done seen me grow, you done seen me go through different shit in my life
that I done went through and you probably feel like you know me just from listening
to my music. So that what labels don’t give artist a chance to do no more. We all love
Jay-Z cause we remember Reasonable Doubt, and we remember the nigga coming
from this to this to this. We love Ice Cube or we love Tupac because we seen him go
through all this shit. It wasn’t just Tupac was the dude that hopped on that
everybody like, but we don’t know nothing about this nigga. I feel like… that’s what
niggas don’t do. Nigga’s ain’t going to do it because niggas feel like it ain’t about that,
or nobody don’t care about that. I feel like…I’m going to still do it because I feel like if
everybody trying to jam up in this lane right here, then this lane over here is just
totally wide open and I’m going to jump in this lane and just ride. I’m going to draw a
line over here man, and if you want to come over here, cool. If not, cool. It just ain’t
for you. That’s how I feel about my shit. If it’s for you, it’s for you. If it ain’t, it ain’t.
the biggest thing that’s popping is the Jigg music, which started in Baton Rouge of
course, but in my area we’re getting a lot of backlash against the Jigg music. What’s
your take on the Jigg music?.
Now when you say backlash, what ya mean? Like…niggas hating on it?
SRN: Pretty much from my perspective the fans…ya average fans who just want to
party and let it be natural, they loving it. But your average rapper who ain’t jigg, he is
super against it.
I mean…this how I feel bout the jigg music. Naturally, I’m going to love because I’m
from B.R. and that’s where Jigg started, so I feel like the Jigg shit is a lil bit of all of us.
You know what I’m saying. Now the thing about is I understand what niggas feel like,
but I don’t look at shit like that. I look at it like it’s for what it’s for. You know you can’
t… A lot of time in rap, people compare shit to shit that don’t need to be compared to
it. You know what I’m saying. If you look at other forms of music you don’t hear
people saying… uhh fucking Omarion, he ain’t tight as Luther Vandross, because it’s
known… it’s not even a question… like Luther Vandross is a whole other level from
Omarion. You see what I’m saying. That’s how I feel like rap… certain shit is for
certain shit. Jigg music is for the party, it’s for the club, it’s for when you out having a
good time. Now on Sunday afternoon when you go in a whole other zone, you might
not want to listen to that and that’s cool. Because emotions run like… throughout the
course of the day you feel all kinds of different ways. You feel happy, sad, mad,
fucking depressed, you know what I’m saying. So music is just the voice of emotion
man and Jigg music is the voice of one emotion. So not to hate it because it might
seem more popular or it might seem like when you go to a club, all you hear is Jigg
music, but that’s where that one emotion comes from. It matches up with that and
what it is man to be mad at something like that is just another way of being just a
hater. Just get your weight up. Don’t hate that. Don’t hate these niggas cause of
what they doing. They just doing what they can. They probably wish they could make
a record like Jay-Z, but they can’t. It’s a two way street but at the end of the day if
you making good music bruh, that shit going to shine through no matter what kind of
music it is. Jigg music, Bounce music, Blues, fucking east coast rap, whatever, if it’s
good… if it’s the truth, it’s going to shine through.
SRN: One of my favorite Max Minelli songs off all times is Make It Better Than The Last
Time, and that came out quite some time ago…
Ten years ago.
SRN: Fa sho…when do the world get another Young Bleed, Max Pain collab, cause yall
put that down man?
Uhh, I don’t know bruh. That just something that’s up in the air, I guess.
SRN: Are you open to it?
Am I open to it? Yeah I’m open to anything bruh…I’m open to anything. I’m out chea…
I don’t hate nobody, I don’t hold no grudges against no man for nothing, so I’m open
to everything. Now is that in my hands? I don’t think it is, but if it ever came around
to it, I’ll be down with it.
SRN: You come real deep and one thing about you is you make complete albums
when you drop. You make complete albums that you really can listen too, and like you
say, take you through a bunch of emotions. Why you think the rest of the game ain’t
really catching on to that and why you think ultimately that it just ain’t the thing to do?
Man, this what I think bruh. Honestly, I feel like… I blame that shit on record labels.
When it come down to the come down, I blame record labels for that. The reason why
I say that is because you will come across a song that’s what people call a hit… like
that’s the best thing out of everything, everybody just searching for hits [inaudible]
Say you come across a song… somebody makes a hit, but it’s like a club song, or up-
tempo song or whatever and it’s like one big…everybody try to copy that, you know
what I’m saying, and it’s like people been trying to copy that for like damn near 70
years now. It’s like everybody been trying to do the same thing [inaudible] and from
an artist perspective… You really can’t blame the artist because all artists doing is
what they think they can do to eat. Record labels are the ones who control and
dictate what an artist going to do. Because if record labels put out 10 blues records
with raps, guess what rappers going to start making? Nothing but blues records,
because they just feel like that’s what you got to do to get on. Right now it’s all about
songs. All muthafuckers want to do is make a hot song. Nobody wants to be a
character, nobody wants to have an album that’s talking about a whole bunch of
different shit. Niggas just want to have [some hot songs] to do some shows. That’s
where the game at now. That’s why niggas don’t sell records, because people don’t
even know you. They don’t know nothing about you. People buy records of people
that they feel like they know and they relate to on one level or another. People they
done seen grow, people that they done watched since they were on an underground
level. Like you say that you been listening to my shit… you done listened to all my
albums, you done seen me grow, you done seen me go through different shit in my life
that I done went through and you probably feel like you know me just from listening
to my music. So that what labels don’t give artist a chance to do no more. We all love
Jay-Z cause we remember Reasonable Doubt, and we remember the nigga coming
from this to this to this. We love Ice Cube or we love Tupac because we seen him go
through all this shit. It wasn’t just Tupac was the dude that hopped on that
everybody like, but we don’t know nothing about this nigga. I feel like… that’s what
niggas don’t do. Nigga’s ain’t going to do it because niggas feel like it ain’t about that,
or nobody don’t care about that. I feel like…I’m going to still do it because I feel like if
everybody trying to jam up in this lane right here, then this lane over here is just
totally wide open and I’m going to jump in this lane and just ride. I’m going to draw a
line over here man, and if you want to come over here, cool. If not, cool. It just ain’t
for you. That’s how I feel about my shit. If it’s for you, it’s for you. If it ain’t, it ain’t.
