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"I just used to listen to Master P and UGK albums all the time such as Ice Cream Man and Ridin' Dirty til' the point that it used to be stuck in my head. And I'd just re-write they songs without the cursin' and all that. That lead to me making up my own songs using their content at a very young age.", Ripno speaks on his early memories in music.Starting OutBy the 4th grade, Ripno began to showcase his talent alongside a childhood friend "Lil' C". "Lil' C used to only BeatBox while I would freestyle for the class when the teacher would leave. I mean literally freestyle and didn't know what I was doing, just making words rhyme. And my peers were impressed because of the fact that I was one of them with talent. On the Recess breaks, I would go outside and hang out with the older kids sometimes. They would be drumming on old school desks outside and rapping so I would join in."FIRST RAP GROUPLater, that summer Ripno had starting collecting all cassette singles that had the instrumental version of songs on them. He would then record his own freestyles on tape. Before he became friends with his future kid-rap group acrossed the street. "Well, it was this lady who used to hang out with my mother when they were young, she used to always invite me to her kids birthday parties, halloween parties, ect. along with a lot of others I grew up with. So I became homies with her two children at the time, it was another Lil' C, and older brother C-Mac, and I was J.P. at the time. (laughs) J.P. stands for Juvenile Playa, actually. Just some stuff I thought was cool. So, we would always hang out and they knew I could rap so I taught them to write their own bars and freestyle along with me. So, I formed a group with them and called it "The City Boys". They always had a lot of music around the house like cd's with instrumentals on em' and all kinds of musical toys that you record on so I began to make a lot of tapes with them for a while. Then, we were thinking about getting signed to a major label around the time a lot of young artists began to really invade the game. We were just tryna do whatever it takes. We did talents shows, went to the local studio, and performed gospel raps at church. We were good, but they always knew that we needed practice. I remember our first performance on stage. I wrote a song called "Who's that Girl?" I wrote the whole thing except Lil' C's verse because I knew he wouldn't understand so his dad wrote his. We performed and they showed us love. I'll never forget about that group because they made a big impact on who I am today. They made me real comfortable with doing music instead of being shy and hiding it."MIDDLE SCHOOL CONNECTSAs Ripno, being the oldest member of the group "City Boys", he attened Middle School, "McCall Junior High School" before they did. So through those 3 years. He linked up with three members of his next group or should I say label. The three members were Lil' C from 4th grade, Lil' J (uncle Joshua), and Bucky Teezie. "So during my 6th grade year. I'd just be in class writing raps all the time. I had tablets full, it was only practice. But by then, I was learning computers and all Windows PCs have this program on it, "Sound Recorder". I used to be at my cousin and other friends house who had computers at the time recording songs on there. I figured out how to play the beat in the background and record vocals to it. It was a one take kind of thing there no adlibs and stuff but I'd hardly ever mess up and start over. Then my uncle Joshua taught me to burn the songs I would make on cd. So I'd just be at his house hangin' out with him all day then we just started to make music together. We would download every instrumental we could find off the internet and just freestyle over them." Ripno and Joshua burned their first cd together and began to let their school members hear the cd. Later on in 7th grade, he met Bucky Teezie. "Me and Bucky we used to just crack jokes in class together. Then, one day I was writing raps and let him read them. I found out he rapped too, so when we would just be practicing writing raps together until' I got my Dell PC for Christmas. So I had already knew how to record somewhat on it, I went straight to recording with my boy Lil' C. I got Bucky on my team officially as a solo artist. But me and Lil' C were a duo. So we'd be recording together everyday after school and on weekends. Lil' C's older brother Kash heard our CD and he began to get back into the music thing and started his own label Krushal Block. He taught me a lot because he had already been on a local Independent label "Real L'n Records. They had a cd in the streets in a lot of cities near by. And their lead single was on one of the radio stations we'd listen to. He introduced me to the real recording programs with better sound quality. So I began too look for them myself. I found Magix Audio Studio 7 on the internet and downloaded the demo version. It wasn't enough features to do what I was planning to do so I went out and bought a real copy of it from Office Depot. Soon as I got that, I made a cd called Straight Wreckin'. I gave it out to all my homies and girlfriends. People began to know about me in the city."LEARNING THE GAMERipno had came up with a label name Slabhouse Records, he began to be practice the independent side of the music business. Once again, he found another rapper and they made history together on their own.HOOKING UP WITH F.BEEZY"My out-of-town kinfolks came to visit one summer, Me and my older cousin F.Beezy became real tight with each other so he stayed at my crib for 2 weeks. Then I went to Arkansas (Ashdown & Wilton) to stay with them for a few weeks. In that little period of time, me and Beezy had started on our music. It was nothing like I ever experienced before, I was 13 years old and he was 16. Beezy had his driver's license and everything. He was driving so we would be just hangin' out and doing pretty much whatever we wanted so I felt grown. We talked to my Uncle Freddie about doing music and he really took us seriously and helped us. He bought us, blank cds, keyboards, to make beats, and plenty of ink and cd labels along with jewel cases. So me and Freddie recorded our 5 or 6 track album slash mixtape called Straight Wreckin' 2K2. I was known as The Ripper back then. I made a few beats, wrote some hooks, recorded and mixed the songs, and printed up cd labels. I kept a few to sell at school after I returned back to Tallulah and he sold cds at his school."HIGH SCHOOLAfter that summer, Ripno and Lil' C were back in the lab. Ripno & Lil' C had began to perform together on the stage. "We had a positive kind of song that we made to perform at a school ceremony during school." Later on that year, the radio station, 100.1 the beat in Monroe, LA was hosting this Talent Show for a grand prize. I made a beat on Fruity Loops and wrote a song called Ballah Talk. We showcased that for a first time to an out of town crowd. So we did that song on stage, and the Monroe crowd was showing us love. Most of the people in the crowd from our school were older and they aint wanna show no love. I was pissed off about that, because I felt like we should of won that money. (laughs)"MORE EXPERIENCEThe summer of Ripno's freshman year in High School, F.Beezy came back to visit and Rip went to Arkansas for a month and a half. They were back to the lab and had a point to prove. "This time, I went back and Beezy had his own car with rims and sound system. So we would just ride around everywhere from all around Arkansas, Kansas, and Texarkana, TX. Just really peepin' the scene and seeing how other local artists were doin' it. So we recorded our 2nd album "Rags 2 Riches". With that album being done like that, I have to say that we had stepped up our game up a notch. This time we had a 4-page booklet, the whole package just looked professional. We dropped off cds to a store in Texarkana, TX (CD Wharehouse). They had a underground section in the store where you could find all local artists. That was the best selling selection of cds they had as far as rap music. And finally we were apart of it, so that was a real big experience for me. We moved about 200 copies of that CD.":::...i'M ON SOUNDCLiCK!!!...:::
