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  OMAR CRUZ
"I'm sure you have heard a lot of Latino rappers in the past 5 years here and there but who can you honestly say that you have said, “god damn that muthafucka is crazy” about? I feel proud that muthafuckas look at me that way because I definitely try to be that dude to raise that bar lyrically, production wise and every other level. I'm trying to compete with whoever is supposedly hot out there, Latino or Black it don't matter. I think a lot of it has to do with those artists that you mention who maybe didn't do as much to bring other people up. I'm not blaming them for not bringing up other artists because I know artists like Cypress and Kid Frost tried to put people on. But I can’t speak for them and know exactly what they did to try and bring people up, but I know that I'm doing what I can to make sure that I'm not the only one."
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omar cruz: hip hop needs me

That song is a big deal to me and I feel proud when I hear that because
I hear a bunch of dudes just spittin' and doing what they do. I don't have to do that, I could have just been chilling working on my album just doing me. But I think that's the problem, dudes need to reach out. That's the only way we are gonna hear more of them and the only way we are gonna come up. So I'm just gonna go ahead and be an example for what dudes need to do.

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DJ Battlecat: Producers Series - Nothing But The Funk Pt. 1
You know a beat maker is a beat maker, that's all he do you know? He makes different rhythms. But if he happens to be musically inclined to where he is putting melodies or sounds over it, it doesn't make him a producer. It just means that he has ideas. It's like a...
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DJ Battlecat: Producers Series - Nothing But The Funk Pt. 2
2Pac wrote a letter to Interscope. The record was already done, but he wanted a remix for the single. He reached out to the label and said "hey I want to get Battlecat and Warren G and a couple of other cats to do this remix." The letter went something like...
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DJ Jazzy Jeff: Thinking Outside The Box
There is a lot of times that I feel bad for the United States because I'm like "you're missing out on so much good music" because unfortunately you turn on the radio and you only hear 10 songs...
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Royce Da 5'9: As Live As it Gets Part 1
So I think that when I was turning in records and it wasn't like Dre producing every song and Eminem and Snoop featured on every song which will sell itself, they didn't know what to do with it. They didn't know how to market a Royce just standing on his own. So...
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Joell Ortiz: Press Rewind

It was discouraging because it was for reasons outside of music. Weight issues, I didn't have that look, one label told me "you don't have that twinkle in your eye." That was the funniest one because I came from the bottom, from the projects in Brooklyn. So...
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Steve Rifkind: Timing Is Everything
I had the final say on who to sign and who not to sign, but I really went to my A&R people. They passed on Jay-Z and they also passed on Eminem. So it's something that you know ‘til this day I don't know why they passed or why they didn't pass...
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RZA Of Wu Tang Clan: The Way Of The Samurai
Dr. Dre is a master homie, trust me! All that shit niggas try to say, "blah, blah, blah," that nigga is a master son. There is nobody who ever touched the board that made Hip-Hop sound as...
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Phat Kat: It's Game Time
The Hip-Hop community in Detroit when it first started was real small and we was like the outcasts of the city. If you wasn’t kicking the gangster rap or any of that type of stuff then we was considered the outcasts...
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Raekwon Of Wu Tang Clan: The Iron Chef
I just look at what Dre and RZA both got that’s different but its ill. Now imagine having them together, it's destruction. And with a nigga that could rhyme though, that’s dangerous....
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Ill Bill Of La Coka Nostra: The Cult Leader
We are about to go in the studio with Alchemist, Evidence has got some brand new shit for us, Fred Wreck has some heat for us. Snoop is about to jump on a track, Bun B is about to jump on a track. Muggs did 2, I did 1, Cynic did 1, Jacken did 1 and Q did 1. So...
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Sick Jacken / Psycho Realm: The Legend Of The Mask
A lot of these groups started saying "lets do an album but we are gonna have two singles" and that's the era where you had a dope album and then you had 2 corny songs that you had to skip. Those are the 2 singles that the label would request...
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Cynic Of Sick Symphonies/Street Platoon
Right now I'm supporting Jack on this Muggs record that they are featuring me on and man just hopefully get into the Street Platoon record and continue working with Jack on the Spanish record. I just produced some shit for Ill Bill's record. I did a few songs for...
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Crow Soto Of Sick Symphonies/Street Platoon
I think people look at us like it's not their type of music because the majority of our fans are Latino and to me it's just Hip-Hop and it's always been Hip-Hop. Every time it's always, "so, you guys do Latino Hip-Hop..." We don't do Latino Hip-Hop, we just do Hip-Hop and...
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