DJ Booth: What is a personal priority for you moving forward? Is it, studio albums, just Crooked I, is it a sophomore album for Slaughterhouse, is it overseeing your label? What is numero uno on your list?
Crooked I: Numero uno on my list, to be honest with you, is probably the new Slaughterhouse album. That might be really number one on my list. I mean, I’m gonna hit the game hard with my own solo album. All this sh*t I’ve been through, I’m tryin’ to drop a nuclear bomb on the industry, you know what I’m sayin’? I know that’s comin’, and when that comes I’ve gotta be very available – my time has to be strictly for that project. It’s been a long time coming, that’s coming. I think I might wanna go work on Slaughterhouse II first, but I’m not sure. Don’t quote me, because I don’t know, man. I get off this tour, I get back to California, start driving through the city of Long Beach, and I might say, “You know what? It’s time for me to blow the whole industry up real quick.”
DJ Booth: In a way, do you view a second Slaughterhouse LP as an assisting gateway toward more personal success?
Crooked I: It is a gateway towards more personal success, that’s for sure. But I work, man, so I could go and do a Slaughterhouse album and jump right back in the studio and do something solo. ‘Cause the songs that I did intend to come out, as far as the Boss project I was about to drop and all that, I’m just gonna load the web up with that stuff for free. I’m going in fresh for the solo [album]. But like you said, getting back to your point, it is a gateway, and I could probably walk in and get a more crazier deal, instead of turnin’ down – what’s up with the record industry the
