Young MannieCONCRETE: Give our readers some background about you as an artist.Mannie: About five or six years ago, me and my niggas formed a little neighborhood group. You know, how everybody starts off. We started a little group called the Young Stars. My niggas were from University Courtyard. Our projects are like damn near the same, but they are two different sets of projects. Four of them started a group. We all knew each other and went to school together, so we decided that we all needed to come together. We were like "fuck it," we need to come together. One of the little niggas in the group happened to be Troy's little cousin, so he introduced us to Troy and it's been going down ever since.CONCRETE: What role does your dvd series play into your upcoming album?Mannie: We have really been promoting the [upcoming cd] through Episode I and Episode II. We are about to do a mix tape too. We've really just been promoting hard and trying to give the streets a taste of me as a solo artiiio artist. Most niggas go solo and they ain't even hard. You know what I mean?CONCRETE: Who is handling the production on the album and what is the sound like?Mannie: I've got a nationwide sound. If the right people hear it, I can sell a million records with ease. I don't just have that down South [sound]. I'm me. I'm on all kinds of beats. I don't even have a favorite rapper. I might have down South beats and spit like a New York nigga on one track. So both of them can feel it.CONCRETE: Where are you mainly promoting now and what spots are you focusing on?Mannie: I'm really trying to reach out to the hoes and the youth. When I say the youth, I mean people who are nineteen and twenty years old. Maybe a little bit younger but [I'm reaching out to] people my age. That's the hardest age to be alive at right now. When you're my age, it's fifty times harder trying to survive in the streets. So I'm really trying to reach them. I do everything that an average street nigga would do but i graduated from school. I ain't no dumb nigga. I might smoke weed or whatever. I hang with niggas that gang bang every day but I don't do nothing that those niggas do. I'm just letting niggas know that they don't have to do that and they can still be a cool ass nigga. Just do you.CONCRETE: What has been the hardest thing about putting together a solo project?Mannie: The recording is so fucking easy. I can write a hit in an hour. You feel me? As soon as I hear the beat, I can make a hook and my lines. In five seconds, I can make a serious ass hook. Not just some simple shit.CONCRETE: Who else will be featured on the album?Mannie: My niggas have been trying to get me to get features. I just really want to go hard. Not necessarily yo prove a point, but when you say that you're going to be great niggas just thing that you're talking. I ain't going to tell you that I'm going to be great, we're going to see. I'm going hard and I really want to go hard by myself. No features at all. I just want to do something different. Youuudon't ever hear that from anybody. If you're going to buy my album, I want to give you "me," one hundred percent. It's going to shock you because I'm going to be on so many different levels that it ain't going to get boring.CONCRETE: Do you have any other projects planned after the album drops?Mannie: I have Episode II out right now, featuring me. I've also got a mix tape with DJ Whitey coming out soon. Then my album is coming out. We might drop that on an independent label but we're really trying to drop my album on a major label. We expect it to be that big. If the dal is right, we're going to do what we do. Other than that, we're really focused on dropping it on an independent label and get everything.CONCRETE: Do you have a single that you're going to work for the radio or shoot a video to?Mannie: We've got a couple of singles. We have about four or five really. One track is called "Silly," featuring Robin Raynell. It was produced by C-Roy. I've got another track called " For My Niggas Worldddwide," basically reaching the youth that I was talking about earlier. There are a couple of other tracks that we're pushing. I can't think of them off hand. We're probably going to shoot videos to all of them.CONCRETE: Is there anybody else that you would like to work with in the future if things pop off for you?Mannie: I ain't no arrogant ass nigga. I want to work with everybody in Cashville. I want to pull of what them Atlanta and Texas niggas are doing. I ain't arrogant, I'm me. So, for all y'all niggas out there rapping, fuck with your boy. It's going down.CONCRETE: How do you feel about the the local scene and the mood amongst Nashville artists?Mannie: Niggas are so fucking arrogant and everybody feels like they are the best. You're' supposed to feel like that but being arrogant doesn't get you anywhere. That's just going to get a nigga killed. Just thinking that you're better than the next nigga. You ain't no better than me. I ain't no arrogant ass nigga. I've got love for niggas. I wannnt to see a nigga shine. When I see a nigga on 24's, I'm going to say that nigga is rollin' clean. I ain't going to [hate]. That's some bullshit. I'm just a humble nigga.CONCRETE: Is there anything else that you would like to tell our readers?Mannie: Yeah. I'm starting a movement called Self Made Rich Niggas. It can't be compared to anything else. It's kind of self explanatory. I've got niggas that rap with other groups and signed with other clicks, but we're all self made rich niggas. If we get ten niggas from ten different gr9oups, that's ten different fan bases. If we all fuck with each other, when I drop my album, all ten of them can go hit their fan base. We could sell 100,000 instead of one of us selling 10,000. Know what I'm saying? I also want to give a shout out to my nigga Troy, first of all. All of my South side niggas, all my Mob Owned niggas, keep your heads up. We're going to see better days. All of my family. My grandma, my momma, for holding a nigga down, my three little sisters. They aare the loves of my life. Shout out to all of my niggas out there doing their thing.
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