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Bash: Back Again
(Audio
Feature/April, 2005)
INTERVIEW
CONDUCTED BY: Big
Will Z & Baby Bash |
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ISSUE
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Baby
Bash aka The Smokin' Nephew is back. Although he didn't real
go anywhere per se. Proudly hailing from the underappreciated,
but talent laden Bay Area, this Hip-hop and Rap artist is
prepped to make more mainstream headway with the release of
Baby I'm Back (Universal). "Working harder than an ugly
stripper man, trying to keep it in motion," says Baby
Bash when asked how he's been keeping busy since 2003's Tha
Smokin' Nephew album.
Certified gold
and creeping surely to platinum status, Bash comfortably made
the transition from underground phenomenon to major label
star. He spent time between releases touring overseas, where
he's sold millions of records. "Even on the road I write
songs everyday," says Bash of his dedication to his craft
despite a hectic schedule. "My element is being in the
studio and vibing out. That's my thing. Writing hits, hooks
and choruses." The album will prove to be worth the wait
since it is bursting at the seams with Bash's syrupy smooth
delivery and melodic grooves. Continuously growing as an artist,
his sponge like implementation of |
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styles and sounds of the many places his music has taken him
has favorably benefited his music. "Different regions got
different ways of life, different ways of talking," explains
Bash. "The Bay is the shit, but other places are the shit
too. I went to LA, to Arizona, Salt Lake City, Texas, New York,
Chicago [and] instead of being an egotistical cat, I just incorporated
everything. ‘Oh, they want some of this? Ok, I'll do it
like this for them. They want some of this? Ok.' I just networked
my own style all into one big menudo pot. [Menudo] is a Mexican
soup with all kinds of different stuff, like gumbo." |
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>>FEATURED
AUDIO: Baby Bash
>> SOURCE: WWS Magazine
>>INTERVIEW FORMAT: Windows AUDIO
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Interview
includes the song "Baby I'm Back" by
Baby Bash Fea. Akon
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BABY
BASH |
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WWS
MAG: Tell me about your new album Super Saucy? |
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The
new album Super Saucy is dipped in butter. Coming from the Bay,
I’ve got to use those fly slang words. That pretty much
sums up my album and my style of music. I’ve never been
a freestyle rapper, a lyricist, a big MC, or really try to out-rap
anybody. I’m going to try to make cool ass songs with
the buttery flow. That’s basically what my album is. I've
got Avant, Akon, Nate Dogg, E-40, the late great Mac Dre, Suga
Free, Natalie, and Frankie J. I’m working with a whole
bunch of cats on this album. Our styles mesh well together. |
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Baby
Bash, where are you from originally? |
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I’m
originally from Vallejo, California right by Oakland. |
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You
have a new song produced by Akon that also features him on it.
Who made that collaboration happen? |
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My
label, Universal, when I went to New York to mix down my album
I met him. This was before Akon even became big. Locked Up was
just barely coming out. I didn’t even know that much about
him at the time, but Universal told my manager that this guy’s
got beats and he can sing. I said let’s go check him out.
When he came in the studio, he blew my mind away. He played
that beat and I knew right away it was radio material. We started
singing the hook and it was all gravy. |
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Why
did you change your name from Baby Beesh to Baby Bash? |
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I
was on an underground label called Dope House Records and they
owned the rights to Baby Beesh. I used to use bash in my rhymes
back in the day because it rhymed with hash, grass and cash.
So I would just use it in my raps and people would just start
calling me Bash. I had acquired a new nick name. When I signed
with Universal, I didn’t want any problems as far as names,
so I said f*** it I’ll go with Baby Bash. |
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Tell me about your career. Where did you get your career started?
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I
started when I was a youngster with a group called Pada Deuce.
It was a nice little Bay Area regional group. We did our thing.
We had a little buzz going back in 1996 or 1997. I really thought
we were ahead of our time. We did a lot of slanging too. We
sold a couple of thousand, we were doing our thing. I then started
a group called Latino Velvet with my boy Jay Tee, and that blossomed.
That was another twenty to thirty thousand fans following. I
then went to Houston to see South Park Mexican, and that dude
had it cracking in Texas. I fell in love with the whole atmosphere.
The cost of living was cheap. They had shows every single week.
In the Bay Area, they were blasting fools so you couldn’t
have too many shows. I just started doing shows and making a
living in Houston. The Bay was kind of staggering at the time.
I got with South Park Mexican and I started writing for him.
All of a sudden, his fan base started embracing me. So, I combined
my fan base from the Bay in California with the Houston fan
base. That was before I made a radio song. I made a radio song
a couple of years ago. That was when I made Suga Suga. Next
thing you know, it changed my life. |
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What
makes you different than most other artists in this industry? |
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I’ve
always just been into my own thing. I don’t really listen
to too much rap myself, so I don’t even know what’s
going on in the rap game. I listen to a lot of reggae. I’m
more of a reggae fan. If I do listen to rap, it’s old
school Mac Dre or E-40, the real underground s***. My music
is all about the song. It’s not really about my rapping
skills. It’s not about anyone’s singing skills or
production skills. To me, all the collaborations have to sound
good just to make the song sound good. I really care about the
song more than I do about anybody’s verse. I want the
song to sound tight. I like to create a good song. No matter
if I have to rap, spit or make a funny noise, whatever I got
to do to make the song tight. That’s what I do. |
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Who
are some major connections that helped you blow up? |
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Well,
of course South Park Mexican helped me blow up in Houston. My
manager Charles Chavez, we gave him the demo CD of Suga Suga,
and he was actually the one who got it on the radio and got
it blown up. We have the same management company as Frankie
J and Natalie so we’ve got a cool little umbrella there.
He put me on there, helped me out, and got me Universal. That
was a big jump for me. |
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Who
are some of your influences in the music market? |
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My
favorite rapper was Mac Dre. Mac Dre is probably the biggest
influence as far as rap. That was what made me want to rap.
I’m an Ice Cube fan. I love Lenny Kravitz. I love a
group called War. I like a lot of old school cats. E-40…
That is who I listen to. It’s so funny that my music
is main stream, but I don’t even listen to main stream.
That is the weirdest thing to me. I don’t wear a bunch
of jewelry. I don’t ride around with fifty people in
an entourage. All I do is save my money and buy real estate,
or put my money in the bank. I’m not really Mr. Outgoing,
but I do what I got to do. I relate to the regular people.
How many people can go out and buy bling bling? All these
people rapping about killing up s*** and buying all this s***,
but how many regular people can really relate to it or can
really do it? I’m the regular guy. |
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Out
of every spot that you’ve been to, which spot has shown
you the most love? |
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It’s
crazy because lately there has been love everywhere! I’ve
been overseas to France, Germany, and Sweden. I sell the most
records in Los Angeles. I sold like 100,000 records there alone.
It’s so crazy. I could not sell thirty records in L.A.,
and now I’m selling 100,000 records. Of course the Bay,
they recognize that Bay game. Of course Texas, I love Texas.
Chicago shows love. Arizona shows love. Dog, I really don’t
know who has the most, it seems like everywhere we go, we get
a lot of love. |
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I
know you used to drive a Mitsubishi right? What are you rolling
with now? |
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Yeah,
Ahah. Now, I’ve got the 2005 Navigator, the STS Cadillac
and a little Corvette. |
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Bash,
realistically, what can we expect to see from you in 2005? |
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Of
course the Super Saucy album is in stores. You’re going
to see Baby Bash, Natalie and Frankie J going on tour all over
the United States to a town near you. I see myself writing for
other people. I love to write. I love to get high, smoke some
purple and write. That’s really my get down. A couple
of celebrity basketball games, whenever I get a chance, I love
to hoop. I’m not going to put out any clothing line or
anything like that. I’m more of just a chill person. You’ll
see me just doing shows and stuff like that. We’re doing
a Jay Leno show that’s coming up, we’re doing TRL,
Good Morning America coming up soon, and you might see an MTV
show. I’m going to be popping my collar, jacking my slacks
and dusting my kicks. |
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