This is an interview i took from:
http://www.allhiphop.com/features/?ID=1389
AllHipHop.com: I know that everybody has a lot of curiosity about you know, your relationship with your dad and everything. Can you speak on that a little bit?
Hood Surgeon: Yeah, a little bit.
AllHipHop.com: How is he?
Hood Surgeon: My dad is cool. I’m just doing my thing. I’m going through the grind like he did, like he had to go through. And so that way when I get it, I’ll respect it more, even though it’s there.
AllHipHop.com: Oh okay. So you don’t, do you ask him for help?
Hood Surgeon: No, I’m my own man. I’m capable of doing [the] same thing he did, you know. And you know how you respect something more if you can do it on your own.
AllHipHop.com: Were you close with your dad growing up?
Hood Surgeon: On that one, that’s really like personal because it’s like really something I don’t want to discuss about the childhood growing up, ‘cause I’d rather let them hear about that in the music, you know what I mean? I’ll put it like this: I went through the same thing he been through. So I just put it like that, so...I’ll tell y’all this though, I met him when I was 21. I didn’t know him growin’ up. I just, we just was right up under each other’s noses basically, not knowing that, you know, that that was my pop and he didn’t know I was his son, ain’t s**tting.
AllHipHop.com: Yeah, yeah. But you know it’s funny because you, you closely resemble him. I mean you know you really do look a lot like him, you know in the pictures that I see at least, you know.
Hood Surgeon: F**king identical.
AllHipHop.com: How was being raised in Compton for you?
Hood Surgeon: Oh man, I mean, s**t it was rough. Like, I’m just like him you know, he’s a little bit darker than me that’s all.
AllHipHop.com: You produce as well, right? You rhyme and produce, right?
Hood Surgeon: Yeah, when I was 12, ‘cause I found out, my mom told who my real father was. Ever since then, I started rapping, I wanted to be like him all his life, you know. You know, all that s**t. This type of s**t, this type of shit, like some of my good friends don’t even know, they sit here like, ‘Damn.’
AllHipHop.com: Well, thanks for being candid.
Hood Surgeon: No, what I’m here, I’m here for the truth. I speak the truth. Know what I mean, that’s [the] main thing with me.
AllHipHop.com: So production-wise, you know your own style. How would you describe it for people that may not have heard your stuff yet?
Hood Surgeon: Monsterish. Everything’s big. I don’t do little s**t. Everything is big. Not even to be like that, it’s just you know we do everything big, you know like a big statement. [I’m] bringing the West Coast back, we can’t come with no little bulls**t.
AllHipHop.com: Other people talk about bringing the West Coast back: Game and Lil’ Eazy-E. Have you made any connections with those kind of guys or anything like that?
Hood Surgeon: Yeah, I know them, yeah.
AllHipHop.com: Yeah are y’all cool?
Hood Surgeon: I’m me. They’re them. You know what I mean? They’re artists too, so we all, you know they’re in the, you know, they doing their thing for the West Coast.
AllHipHop.com: Okay, now with So Hood Records, you’re like the CEO of So Hood Records?
Hood Surgeon: Yeah, I’m the founder/CEO of So Hood Records.
AllHipHop.com: Okay, what made you start your own label as opposed to you know trying to use obvious leverage?
Hood Surgeon: Like most the people that I got, I don’t go and get people from Hollywood. I get people from the hood. I know how to run s**t. People from Hollywood, they’ll quit when s**t gets rough, you know what I mean? I got people that have been through the stuff, so they gonna hold it down regardless, whether we got money whatever we doing, you know what I mean?
AllHipHop.com: How many artists you got?
Hood Surgeon: There’s about 10 of us, honestly.
AllHipHop.com:What are you talking about on a record? What are we gonna hear?
Hood Surgeon: It’s like, you know you’re gonna hear the struggle I went through - hear how amazing it is now. [My] single is called "Paradise." I got a mix[tape] that’s on the street now called The Autopsy.
AllHipHop.com: What’s Compton like these days man? Is it the same or has it changed?
Hood Surgeon: Oh man, hell yes, it’s the same. I mean usually you can catch motherf**kers just nestling up, fighting or tripping. You know what I mean? It’s more shooting, know what I mean, honestly say, it was kinda, well I ain’t saying it was less, little bit less shooting. Motherf**kers can [check up on] my s**t and see what I been through and where I grew up at, and they’ll see that I’m not lying. I’m not gonna say I was out there shooting motherf**kers and doing all that, but I grew up around that, so I might speak on something that happened around me in my music. ‘Cause they ain’t gonna hear me say something I didn’t do.
AllHipHop.com: Do you feel other artists do that now?
Hood Surgeon: Oh yeah, lot of artists do that, [such as] Game.
AllHipHop.com: Yeah?
Hood Surgeon: He is the West Side story. I ain’t tripping on that fool though, man.
AllHipHop.com: Yeah, yeah now --
Hood Surgeon: I don’t know, he’s just scary man. I mean I don’t know.
AllHipHop.com: Yeah, he’s real cool with your dad though. Has there been, you know --
Hood Surgeon: Yeah, I just know the real on him, man. I went to school with him. He ain’t nobody.
AllHipHop.com: Nah, nah saying it sounds like a little friendly competition going right now. Now it’s funny to me because Game kinda was seen as, you know the new NWA so to speak --
Hood Surgeon: Nah, nah. You know what it is? I ain’t even gonna say it’s competition. It’s just look and see who’s better. You know what I mean? He ain’t f**king with us over here, man. I honestly, honestly could say, my sister and like my pop, man. You know what I mean, like honestly the n***as that I’m with, we head-busters man. We, my people we escorted Game at the club in Rosaritos, so. ‘Cause he was scared and s**t, you know walk through the crowd with him and stuff.
AllHipHop.com: Anything else you want to say to people or relay?
Hood Surgeon: Man, f**k the world. The West is back.
AllHipHop.com: I don’t know how y’all feel, but I feel like Game did a good job bringing the West back to the forefront. You know what I’m saying, ‘cause --
Hood Surgeon: He did a good job as far as sending the resume to the West Coast.
AllHipHop.com: Yeah.
Hood Surgeon: I’m gonna get the job. We ain’t getting the national recognition. Honestly, the only person that can bring the West back is probably my pop, in a real way, so who better than his son?
AllHipHop.com: Let me ask you this, this is more of a personal question, but when is the damn Detox album coming out?
Hood Surgeon: He working on it.
AllHipHop.com: Yeah, okay.
Hood Surgeon: I am the Detox.
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Honestly, I think this kid is full of shit...
http://www.allhiphop.com/features/?ID=1389
AllHipHop.com: I know that everybody has a lot of curiosity about you know, your relationship with your dad and everything. Can you speak on that a little bit?
Hood Surgeon: Yeah, a little bit.
AllHipHop.com: How is he?
Hood Surgeon: My dad is cool. I’m just doing my thing. I’m going through the grind like he did, like he had to go through. And so that way when I get it, I’ll respect it more, even though it’s there.
AllHipHop.com: Oh okay. So you don’t, do you ask him for help?
Hood Surgeon: No, I’m my own man. I’m capable of doing [the] same thing he did, you know. And you know how you respect something more if you can do it on your own.
AllHipHop.com: Were you close with your dad growing up?
Hood Surgeon: On that one, that’s really like personal because it’s like really something I don’t want to discuss about the childhood growing up, ‘cause I’d rather let them hear about that in the music, you know what I mean? I’ll put it like this: I went through the same thing he been through. So I just put it like that, so...I’ll tell y’all this though, I met him when I was 21. I didn’t know him growin’ up. I just, we just was right up under each other’s noses basically, not knowing that, you know, that that was my pop and he didn’t know I was his son, ain’t s**tting.
AllHipHop.com: Yeah, yeah. But you know it’s funny because you, you closely resemble him. I mean you know you really do look a lot like him, you know in the pictures that I see at least, you know.
Hood Surgeon: F**king identical.
AllHipHop.com: How was being raised in Compton for you?
Hood Surgeon: Oh man, I mean, s**t it was rough. Like, I’m just like him you know, he’s a little bit darker than me that’s all.
AllHipHop.com: You produce as well, right? You rhyme and produce, right?
Hood Surgeon: Yeah, when I was 12, ‘cause I found out, my mom told who my real father was. Ever since then, I started rapping, I wanted to be like him all his life, you know. You know, all that s**t. This type of s**t, this type of shit, like some of my good friends don’t even know, they sit here like, ‘Damn.’
AllHipHop.com: Well, thanks for being candid.
Hood Surgeon: No, what I’m here, I’m here for the truth. I speak the truth. Know what I mean, that’s [the] main thing with me.
AllHipHop.com: So production-wise, you know your own style. How would you describe it for people that may not have heard your stuff yet?
Hood Surgeon: Monsterish. Everything’s big. I don’t do little s**t. Everything is big. Not even to be like that, it’s just you know we do everything big, you know like a big statement. [I’m] bringing the West Coast back, we can’t come with no little bulls**t.
AllHipHop.com: Other people talk about bringing the West Coast back: Game and Lil’ Eazy-E. Have you made any connections with those kind of guys or anything like that?
Hood Surgeon: Yeah, I know them, yeah.
AllHipHop.com: Yeah are y’all cool?
Hood Surgeon: I’m me. They’re them. You know what I mean? They’re artists too, so we all, you know they’re in the, you know, they doing their thing for the West Coast.
AllHipHop.com: Okay, now with So Hood Records, you’re like the CEO of So Hood Records?
Hood Surgeon: Yeah, I’m the founder/CEO of So Hood Records.
AllHipHop.com: Okay, what made you start your own label as opposed to you know trying to use obvious leverage?
Hood Surgeon: Like most the people that I got, I don’t go and get people from Hollywood. I get people from the hood. I know how to run s**t. People from Hollywood, they’ll quit when s**t gets rough, you know what I mean? I got people that have been through the stuff, so they gonna hold it down regardless, whether we got money whatever we doing, you know what I mean?
AllHipHop.com: How many artists you got?
Hood Surgeon: There’s about 10 of us, honestly.
AllHipHop.com:What are you talking about on a record? What are we gonna hear?
Hood Surgeon: It’s like, you know you’re gonna hear the struggle I went through - hear how amazing it is now. [My] single is called "Paradise." I got a mix[tape] that’s on the street now called The Autopsy.
AllHipHop.com: What’s Compton like these days man? Is it the same or has it changed?
Hood Surgeon: Oh man, hell yes, it’s the same. I mean usually you can catch motherf**kers just nestling up, fighting or tripping. You know what I mean? It’s more shooting, know what I mean, honestly say, it was kinda, well I ain’t saying it was less, little bit less shooting. Motherf**kers can [check up on] my s**t and see what I been through and where I grew up at, and they’ll see that I’m not lying. I’m not gonna say I was out there shooting motherf**kers and doing all that, but I grew up around that, so I might speak on something that happened around me in my music. ‘Cause they ain’t gonna hear me say something I didn’t do.
AllHipHop.com: Do you feel other artists do that now?
Hood Surgeon: Oh yeah, lot of artists do that, [such as] Game.
AllHipHop.com: Yeah?
Hood Surgeon: He is the West Side story. I ain’t tripping on that fool though, man.
AllHipHop.com: Yeah, yeah now --
Hood Surgeon: I don’t know, he’s just scary man. I mean I don’t know.
AllHipHop.com: Yeah, he’s real cool with your dad though. Has there been, you know --
Hood Surgeon: Yeah, I just know the real on him, man. I went to school with him. He ain’t nobody.
AllHipHop.com: Nah, nah saying it sounds like a little friendly competition going right now. Now it’s funny to me because Game kinda was seen as, you know the new NWA so to speak --
Hood Surgeon: Nah, nah. You know what it is? I ain’t even gonna say it’s competition. It’s just look and see who’s better. You know what I mean? He ain’t f**king with us over here, man. I honestly, honestly could say, my sister and like my pop, man. You know what I mean, like honestly the n***as that I’m with, we head-busters man. We, my people we escorted Game at the club in Rosaritos, so. ‘Cause he was scared and s**t, you know walk through the crowd with him and stuff.
AllHipHop.com: Anything else you want to say to people or relay?
Hood Surgeon: Man, f**k the world. The West is back.
AllHipHop.com: I don’t know how y’all feel, but I feel like Game did a good job bringing the West back to the forefront. You know what I’m saying, ‘cause --
Hood Surgeon: He did a good job as far as sending the resume to the West Coast.
AllHipHop.com: Yeah.
Hood Surgeon: I’m gonna get the job. We ain’t getting the national recognition. Honestly, the only person that can bring the West back is probably my pop, in a real way, so who better than his son?
AllHipHop.com: Let me ask you this, this is more of a personal question, but when is the damn Detox album coming out?
Hood Surgeon: He working on it.
AllHipHop.com: Yeah, okay.
Hood Surgeon: I am the Detox.
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Honestly, I think this kid is full of shit...
