 My name is Armageddon, man. I'm a rapper. You know what I mean? I'm a rapper. I started off in the Tubber Squad rap group where, you know what I mean? Cuban Link and Fat Joe and Big Fun and Pryce Beck and Triple Sakes. You don't know me. You might know me from there. You know what I'm saying? All of me. I'm a rapper, man. I'm a lyricist. I'm an artist. I'm creating all things. I've been doing this since I was a kid. I'd say fifth grade, I'm a rapper. I didn't really get serious about it until I was like 16. I met Fat Joe in the studio and he was like, you know, he put me on. He said, you're a rapper. You know, this is Red Alert Promo. This is your head. Fuck it. When I was on the radio, I was a rapper. When it first came out, it came out as a group. We all had the plan of at least going solo at some point. You know what I'm saying? When it was a group thing, I would say it came out of some shit and then they all went on to do the individual project. That was the plan. It just fell apart. It didn't go the way it was supposed to go. You know, we dropped it until we scored our album. I think Punna had already dropped his album. We dropped it until we scored our album. The next album might have been Yeah Baby and then I think Joe's album and I would say it was one of the cutest albums. I was working on it. Now, anybody who was working is just making mistakes. It didn't come out the way it was supposed to come out. The more that situation, you lose the passion. You lose the love and shit. When I pensioned off on my own, I had to reconnect with that love and that passion. I had to come back down out of the clouds and reconnect with my roots. I couldn't find myself. I couldn't find myself. I couldn't find myself. I couldn't find myself. I couldn't find myself. This is the product of it. I'm the product of that right now. You know what something? How I got on was by accident. I never really pursued it like that. I mean, at some point out there I go from pursuing like in high school without playing around. Anybody wanting to be a rapper at this time. When I was hanging out in the studio I wasn't even there on the rap shit. I was there on some artist shit. I wanted to do the fucking album covers and shit. That name was Eric Ball. He started me off. He did album covers and that's what I wanted to do. You know what I'm saying? I wanted to do some art shit. I was on some of the beats. I wanted to do some art shit. So he brought me up in the studio and I started hanging out with them in there. I fell in love with the music side of it as opposed to the hip hop. I mean as opposed to the artist side of it. That's what happened. I met Joe, I met all these different artists. I just kind of fell into it. I pulled myself in a certain position to get on. You know what I'm saying? That's probably the reason why I never came out. You know what I'm saying? I felt like it was too easy. I was just throwing it. I felt like I didn't earn it. You know what I mean? Me stepping off from you from Joe at the time and doing my own thing. Now I'm earning it. So it's all mine. I'm good with it. You know what I'm saying? As opposed to just falling into a shit with somebody giving it to you like, you know what I'm saying? I just didn't feel worthy of it. I felt too lucky. Just don't happen to niggas every day. You know what I'm saying? But now that I'm rebuilding that shit and it's all mine and I still got relationships with people and I'm stiffening relationships with people it's all good. Music wise, I mean my music is pretty much the same. It changed for a while. You can see my shit got more dark and it was more like talking about life shit. What's wrong with life and shit like that. I got that on my system now. You know what I'm saying? I know I can do that. Now I'm back on my shit. I'm back on that Armageddon shit that niggas knew me for. Armageddon shit and the world shit. It feels good to be doing that. That's the music you're going to get. So what happens if you grow as an artist and when you try to put out the music that you into now niggas can't feel that shit because they used to hold you. The first scene in an album the first fact in a while the first rink won an album. You know what I'm saying? They fell in love with that city. The connection with that city when you come out with some new shit like Jay-Z, that strip shit where he grows his music world and you come out with some new shit and it's like I said it's wack. You know what I mean? It's not that it's wack you know what I'm saying? You do some kind of bond with that shit and that's what you look for when you come out with some new shit and I realized that in the process of doing my shit I was doing all this shit I was doing all this shit as I grow in my rhymes you know what I mean? Any business any kind of marketing this plan is going to change regardless you can't say I'm going to do this try to stick to what you're going to do I'm going to try to separate situation change adapt to shit so the game plan at the end of the day is to be successful but you know it's different levels of success you know what I mean? My level of success that I'm aiming for is to be in financial do what I need to do I need to handle the camera family and all that shit and I'm good and still create other shit it's not just about music I want to create all kinds of shit all kinds of businesses it's just changing over time it doesn't stand a chance you meet new people with new opportunities to the table you meet a jeweler or somebody watch them put them together and come up with some kind of business plan so you can get some GCO do it but keep your eye on your own amazing plan which is being successful if you in school you know what I mean? if you got a good job keep working that good job I wouldn't suggest quit me a job dropping out of school and pursuing the rap it's a chance game I don't care how much you are even the wack niggas get on you know what I'm saying it's a chance game it's a lot of shit it's a combination I get kids that want to catch on me they can give me the illest look in the world like what is this shit I want to be a rapper though it's not realistic not everybody can be an NBA player you know what I'm saying you got N1, you got other little leagues you can make $50 a year $60 a year playing ball you do it you just gotta be realistic with your goals so if you are playing on dropping out of school or quitting your job you're realistic with your shit look at your budget look at your expenses on this month over the next 8 months I have a 3 year 5 year plan I'm just quitting to say I want to be a rapper it don't work like that niggas like me I was doing this from day 1 so it's gotta be 20 while you can't work at 9 or 5 and then be a fucking rapper first thing you need to do is get your songs your song structure don't just fucking rap anybody can rap for you anybody can walk out a bunch of words that rhyme and talk shit you know what I'm saying you got your song structure and I'm not talking about just get a beat throw a chorus on it and speak 3 verses I'm talking about making a real song a song that has some kind of depth to it a song that has an emotional attachment that somebody can feel that's what I'm talking about make real music don't know how to make music that's the first step second step get that music out do it online start with your family and friends use them as your fans get them to spread the word tell them what your website is you have them tell your friends get that music down get this shit out for free you ain't gonna make money on it you know what you got your music for but when you know who you are you do a couple shows you don't fucking show it in the house do something to get it out come out and see it before we got a good show you dope and you know what number one thing I tell a nigga research research online I could tell you some shit and it might not work just research online the information that you need and then it's at your hands you ain't had that shit back in the days you gotta go to the library or ask somebody something if you're lucky you've even got the internet there's no excuse why you shouldn't know how to market this shit there's no excuse why you shouldn't know how to talk to people or how to use a social network as a social network it's not for you to be up there blasting a nigga saying listen to my shit niggas don't want to hear that that's for socializing for building relationships there's a new millennium build relationships that's how niggas get to know what you're about and support you niggas don't want to be sold on them niggas want relationships with people I say that's the key build relationships learn how to socialize and always be the one for this shit this is on mcgetten akagethermusic.com I'm here with my nigga OTO and we repping PS we the best.com you heard?