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Mr. Sykes Interview's Jimmie Reign

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The First Lady of the Bay Jimmie Reign called in to talk this ours truly. I love this girl, she has a great personality, friendly and warm, and one of the best interviews I've had in a long time. She is a very busy woman so I'm glad she had the time to call in and talk with me. She had just flown in from Miami, working on Pleasure's (formerly of Pretty Ricky) debut album. This Girl is gonna be huge in a minute so keep an eye out, but this is what she had to say:

Mr. Sykes: When did you start singing?

Jimmie: I started singing professionally when I was about 14. My God-brothers had a rap group and they asked me to sing on a hook. And that was the first time I got in a booth and from there it's been non-stopped. Something I really like to do

Mr. Sykes: Could you tell us some recent work you've done?

Jimmie: Well I actually just came came back from working on Pleasure's album. I don't know if people know Pretty Ricky, He's a singer from Pretty Ricky They basically split so he's working on his album. I did some song writing and some vocal production on there. I worked with J-Valentine on his album he's on J-Records, I've also worked with Clyde Carson who's on Capital Records. I do a lot of songwriting and a lot of vocal production, and vocal arranging. But those are the most recent things that I've been working on.

Mr. Sykes: Are there any records that we would know? or instantly recognize... "Oh that's a Jimmie Reign record!"

Jimmie: Mmm I think the biggest thing I've done was actually something in Japan so I don't know if anyone in the United States would know it. But In Japan I had a single off a really well known artist over there. It did really well a couple of years ago. Right now we're just trying to see if I made that next big hit and hopefully I'll have that with Pleasure's album or J-valentine's album.

Mr. Sykes: So what your favorite color?

Jimmie: It's Purple

e.g. The color of this article....

Mr. Sykes: Handbags or shoes what do you have more of?

Jimmie: Shoes!

Mr.Sykes: So when did things start to pick up for you, I mean your notoriety. 'Cause I know your really huge in the Bay Area (and other places)...So when did things become big for Jimmie Reign?

Jimmie: I think probably about 3 years ago my songs started playing on the radio, and I don't know...I started having way more shows. My buzz has gotten a lot bigger 'cause from the shows came magazine interviews and internet interviews. So I guess more people know who I am now.

Mr. Sykes: "Make You Wait" I really like that song. How Important is waiting in a relationship [to you] and is this song a womens anthem....?

Jimmie: Wow I don't know if I would say that it's an anthem, it's something that a lot of women relate with. It's something That I think women should do; "Make You Wait" is from a personal experience I think it's important in a relationship. If a person doesn't know who you are going into it. And they're not willing to find out who you are before taking that next step...Then they probably aren't the best person to be with. Everybody's different but for me it's important to wait...At lest a little while.

Mr. Sykes: What artist have inspired you most in your music?

Jimmie: Definitely Amel Larrieux, she's a very big inspiration to me and her voice is amazing. El debarge, is also someone who influenced my sound. There are the great people like, Stevie Wonder, I always listen to Minnie Ripperton. I love Mariah Carey, Beyonce is a very big inspiration to a lot of up and coming R&B singers who are female right now.

Mr. Sykes: What are you doing to change the game?

Jimmie: I think that I bring a different kind of "swag," and I hate saying that word 'cause it's a little bit played out right now. I bring a different swagger to R&B I definitely, I think I'm "The Pretty Girl" but I have an edge to me. And I think that's what's missing in R&B. You get "The Pretty Girl" and you get this really gritty "hardcore urban girl" there's really no mix. So I'm kinda trying to bring both to the table. And I think that's a little bit different I that's a change.

Get more from Jimmie Reigh @: http://www.jimmiereignworld.com & http://myspace.com/JimmieReign1





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Big Urban Mixtape TV Interview's Future

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Mr. Sykes Talks w/ Future

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So I sat down with Brooklyn rapper, and West Palm Florida native Future, to actually discuss the "future" of hip-hop. This bright and talent young man had many things to say. In trying to bring life back to hip-hop and positivity back in the music.

"What I am trying to do is bring Hip-Hop back to the light now everybody's saying hip-hop is dead..."
  
Mr. Sykes: How long have you been living in New York?

Future: I've been in New York for 4 years, I came up from West Palm Beach Florida. I was 13 or 14 I came up here to live with my father, you know to follow my dream of being in the music industry. I got my first equipment at the age of 14 that was my inbox Protools, and that started me off getting me into a course I wanted to do.

Mr. Sykes: So what made you decide to come up here?

Future: I was having problems with my mother at the time and was going through a lot. So I decided it would be better for me to... separate myself from that environment with her. And come live with my father where I could get a man's guidance and learn how to be a man. 
Mr. Sykes: Who are you biggest musical influences? 

Future: Probably 50... 'cause of his determination I know everybody's gonna be like why is he choosing 50. It's really not about image to me its really about his heart and his determination... What he's been through and the fact that he put it into his music raw. I like that fact he's raw and I really feel what he's saying as an artist.

" We're not gonna hold it against you [laugh]"

Mr. Sykes: ...You have a clothing store, you do merchandising?

Future: Yeah, we have FMM clothing store, it's been shut down for a while now. 

Mr. Sykes: Do you actually design clothing?

Future: Nah we doing design clothing we have people that actually do that for us....

Mr. Sykes: How does it work having a parent as a manager having had?

Future: It's tough, its real rough you gotta separate business with pleasure. So you can't really catch too much emotions when dealing with your father as your manager. It's hard, but we stopped that whole situation because it wasn't working and I found the proper manager. 

Mr. Sykes: Do you think it can work?

Future: It can work if you're disciplined enough and if you, 'I'm saying from a parents perspective' if you have control over your child in that type of way of course its gonna work. But if you don't then its gonna get crazy. 

Mr. Sykes: "Humility is an attribute I can't rebuke. I want the finer things and its not necessarily." What inspired you to write that song?

Future: Finer things in life is basically a description of me, the person that I am. Everybody is out there for different reasons and doing what they do for different reasons. I do me just because I want to live this dream of being in the music industry, and I just want to tell people my story... the finer things in life is not diamonds, nice cars or fancy clothing, the finer things are living out your dreams and as far as the finer things in life I am trying to say: Your family, different aspects of your life could be the finer things in life; not necessarily something materialistic. 

" I ask this because people don't write songs of this nature and genre anymore, so it's refreshing to see a younger artist say those things."

Future: What I am trying to do is bring hip-hip back to the light. Right now everybody's saying hip-hop is dead. It is dead! But you know someone in the future would back and revive that situation, get back to normal....

Mr. Sykes: Who was the last person that text message you?

Future: My girl...

Mr. Sykes: What's your most prized possession? 

Future: My Girlfriend [Smiles]

Mr. Sykes: What are you doing to change the game?

Future: I'm bringing the realness back to hip-hop, there's nothing fake about me. I'm trying to be more positive in my music, lead the next generation into something that's gonna be more positive and successful, more enlightening. You fill enlightened by my music, your learning something. How to be a better person and how to live out your dreams. Focus, knowing that you need determination; so basically I'm gonna be the future. "Focus on the future, forget about the past." Thats my whole motto, to my career, to my theme, everything, my music, "Focus on the future, forget about the past."

Get more from Future @: http://myspace.com/youngfuture


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