04/05/05 | Exclusive Interview With Dirty Birdy

       It's always a pleasure to share things with everybody out there in which I truly believe, especially if it involves somebody talented and unique that's dedicated to Hip Hop. But this here goes beyond beats and rhymes - it's pure entertainment. Thank god there is still MC's around like Dirty Birdy. God knows he ain't no newcomer to the game, he's a true B-Boy who's been here since day uno. It took him some effort to be where he is right now, but best believe it's gonna pay off. WestCoast2k chopped it up with Bird in this indepth interview to discuss the highs and lows in his career, the Black Spooks project, the Inland Empire Hip Hop scene, his upcoming mixtapes & album, and much more. Birdy also dropped a freestyle for the netbangers out there, you don't wanna miss that one. Check this out and support Dirty Birdy if you like quality music!

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Westcoast2k.Net - First of all, lets go back a little bit. Tell us your story about how you came up and how you got in the game?

Dirty Birdy - Basically, I used to be in a group called The Black Spooks some years back, that was me and Sly Boogy. And prior to that I was a solo artist, I was always doing my own thing. I been on the mic since the late 80's, so I was always doing my thing but I just kinda took my talent for granted, I didn't really pursue it. That's why nobody really knows who I am until these later years, cause I didn't really smash hard on it, cause I took it for granted. So we used to be in The Black Spooks, and we had about 3 or 4 different record deals. We started The Black Spooks in like '93, but prior to that me and Sly used to be a group since like '89, but we started The Black Spooks in '93. And we got a deal in '95 with Perspective Records, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis' label. And that fell through in '96.

And right around that time when the deal fell through I was flippin through The Source, and I saw a cat with the same name as me, cause at that I was going by Shabaam. So I see this name Shabaam Sahdeeq. Mind you, I was going by Shabaam because I had changed my name from something else. So I was pissed cause I kept having to change my name. My very very first name was Kid Slice. That was my very first name. And I went from Kid Slice to Supreme KX. I got the name Kid Slice because I used to pop lock. And that was the style of cuttin' slices, kinda like DJ's cuttin' slices. Cuttin' slices was a poppin' style, so that's I was goin' by Kid Slice cause originally I was a popper, a breakdancer before I rapped. So I went by that for a while. And there were all these DJs that went by Slice this and Slice that. So I changed my name to Supreme KX, changed my name from that to Shabaam. Had that deal with Perspective, and then thats when the shit fell through when I saw that Shabaam Sahdeeq name.

So I was sittin' in my garage and shit, writin' some rhymes, and I started one of my verses off by saying "See I'm a Dirty Birdy...", just that type of shit. And that's when I changed my name to Dirty Birdy, cause everybody started laughin' and shit, and clownin like 'Ohh thats tight!'. So I been the Dirty Birdy ever since then, based on me startin' to rap that way.


Westcoast2k.Net - So you came in the game on some straight B-Boy shit, and it wasn't really the money that got you started rhymin like for most rappers nowadays?

Dirty Birdy - Ohh hell no homie, hell no. Cause see, when I started rhymin' it wasn't no rich rappers. So it wasn't about rhymin' for the money when I started. I'm a B-Boy from way back homie. I was into it before Gangsta Rap or any of that type of stuff. I wasn't into no Gangsta Rap, matter of fact when Gangsta Rap first came I ain't even like it because it wasn't true to what I was used to. I come from the era of lyrics, it's all about lyrics in the era I come from. My heroes when I was coming up was LL Cool, Slick Rick, Run DMC, and Craig G.
When I first started rhymin' those were the cats that I looked up too, that's who I wanted to be like.

I came into the game on some B-Boy shit even though I'm from California. I always respected what was coming out of the East Coast cause that was the first place that we heard any Hip Hop. Even though I liked West Coast dance music, it wasn't necesseraly Rap music back then, I thought it was more like just dance music. Shit we used to get our pop on and our boogie off to, but it wasn't really Hip Hop for me at that time. I didn't look at it like that. It wasn't until me and Sly was at the mall one day, and got a crazy harrass by some fuckin' police, that I actually started kinda feelin' the "Fuck The Police" type shit. And that's when I started to embrace N.W.A. a little bit, but before that I wasn't really fuckin' with it. But that was a looong time ago though, that was in '89.


Westcoast2k.Net - So you been around for a while, but how come it took you so long to come out with an album?

Dirty Birdy - Because like I said, I had about 3 or 4 different record deals before that. And I was always in groups, I wasn't really looking forward to doing no solo stuff, cause me and Sly was doing the group thing for so long and we went through a couple different record deals, so that's why I had never been out as a solo artist cause I was in a group for a long time. Once we stopped being a group I started doing the solo thing, working, taking care of my kids and shit. But I didn't really smash hard, I guess I took for granted that I live in L.A., I live close to the city so I wasn't really trippin on it.


Westcoast2k.Net - So you been constantly in the studio recording all this time?

Dirty Birdy - I'm in the studio a lot man, I got a lot of songs recorded. I don't even work a regular job homie, my job is Hip Hop.


Westcoast2k.Net - Is it hard to stay focused during all these years without any record out?

Dirty Birdy - I mean yeah and no. Me personally, until I really get some shit really crackin I don't really care for the spotlight just yet. Cause I'm trying to have my shit lined up properly so that when somebody wanted to hear some shit, I got it ready to go, sounding good and everything. Once you get used to recording yourself a certain type of way, if you dont have access to the same shit where you're initially recording, then a lot of times you don't wanna regress, you don't wanna go backwards. That means you gotta wait until you can either afford some real studio time or somebody come along with some good shit, then that's what you do, you just wait. It's just the way it is.


Westcoast2k.Net - Do you feel like the industry has been holding you back with all these failed record deals?

Dirty Birdy - Not really, not really man. The game is what you make it. Thats what I really believe, the game is what you make it. If you wanna get out there and get yours, you gotta meet people, cause it's all about who you know. The whole game is who you know, it aint even how good you are anymore. So if you know somebody, even if you aint that good, you can get in the game. So I ain't never really tripped cause I've always known somebody that was in the game.

But like I said, I used to take my shit for granted. I just felt comfortable recording songs and having people around me telling me how tight they was. I wasn't really trippin on it until I started getting a little bit older. And started being like 'Fuck that!'. The wacker the MCs was, the more pissed off I was getting. Cause I knew I was tighter than them and they used to piss me off, and all these cats were wack as fuck and were making money just because they was trying harder than me and because they knew somebody that I didn't know. And that's all it is, it's about trying hard and knowing somebody, and not giving up even if you fail. That's what it's aaaaall about, period dogg.

So that's where I'm at now, I got my own record company, I got people investing in me, Sway & Tech is fuckin' with me real strong. So it's a real good situation, but maybe before I wasn't mature enough to handle it. If I would have blown up, who knows, I might have died cause I used to be kinda crazy.


Westcoast2k.Net - Let's get into the Black Spooks a little bit. What exactly went wrong with that project?

Dirty Birdy - Well the Black Spooks project basically fell through because it was when we went to the Wake Up, it was just a situation where they didn't want me and Sly to be a group I don't think. I think they liked us better seperate, so they wanted to deal with us that way. But I really kinda wasn't feeling that, and since they didn't necessarily approach me, I didn't say nothing to them about it, and Sly ended up rollin' with them, and we stopped being the Spooks.


Westcoast2k.Net - Did the chemistry between you and Sly work from the start?

Dirty Birdy - Well you gotta understand we cousins, so we been down since like '89, so we always had crazy chemistry from way back in the day. I'm talkin' about crazy ridiculous chemistry homie! So that wasn't really no thing. It wasn't really a question of the chemistry. It was just time for him to do his own thing, and it was time for me to do my own thing. And that's just what we did. But you know, I still love him, that's my cousin, we still kick it, we still talk shit, we still record with eachother. It's still the same shit really.


Westcoast2k.Net - Was the Black Spooks album ready to drop?

Dirty Birdy - Yeah, we had a whole bunch of material recorded, ready to be pressed, but they shelved it before it got a chance to come out.


Westcoast2k.Net - How big of a blow was that?

Dirty Birdy - It was a big blow man! Matter of fact it took a few years to recover from that because that was a major deal for us. So it was shitty, it was real shitty man because Sly been signed before to Immortal Records, I have been signed to a Gangsta Rap label called Mob Style Records. And it was just a situation where we was excited thinking our shit was about to come out, but 2Pac has just got outta jail and he has just done "All Eyez On Me", so Interscope was gettin' a lot of flack for that shit. Ice-T did the Body Count / Cop Killer thing. Rappers gettin' a lot of flack man! So them mothafuckas up at A&M / Perspective, the label that we were signed to, they was scared. They didn't wanna put our shit out, so we got shelved.

So we was just mad, as a group we was just all fucked up. We didn't know if we wanted to still be a group. It was real crazy for a couple years after that. And it didn't get back right again until '98 when we went on the Wake Up Show. Mind you, our deal fell through in '96, so in '98 when we went on the Wake Up show, that was when we got our chance again to get right. So it started all over again after that.


Westcoast2k.Net - How was the transition from being on a major label like A&M, getting shelved and then going right back to being independent again?

Dirty Birdy - It was hard! That's what I was saying when you said why it took so long and all that. Because going from recording in those top notch studios like that, to all of a sudden not recording no more, it was wack man. It was real wack you feel me? And it's a humbling thing homie, your pride is fuckin' with you, all the people that was mad that you didn't fuck with them, they ain't trying to help you. Like I said, it's about who you know, and how hard you're willing to go to get it. See I'm a hour an a half from L.A., so that used to hold me back a little bit too. I wouldn't drive all the way out to L.A., I'd be like 'Fuck it!'. And me having kids, trying to take care of my kids and all that stuff, I was like 'Fuck it' for a while. I mean I was recording at the pad but I wasn't going on the radio and really trying to make shit happen like I used to.

So it was what it was. So it was about hustlin', slangin' dope, trying to stay alive, everyday. Dirty Birdy do not work a 9-5, homie I'm a hustler. I'm a hustler and I do Hip Hop. I sell my mixtapes, I do shows, and I hustle. It was all about survivin' homie! But once I regrouped and got a new burn & desire to get it together, shit started changing. I started meetin other people, started branching out and got some investors. Now my album will be out in April! I mean there was other things that took place too in the mean and between time. I would be rhymin' on other peoples shit, you know. I mean different shit was takin place over the years. It wasn't just that I wasn't absolutely doing anything.


Westcoast2k.Net - Did they give you the Black Spooks masters or did they keep them?

Dirty Birdy - Nah man, we fucked up and didn't get out that situation quick enough, and unfortunately we lost our masters! I mean I have it for my own listening pleasure but I don't have the masters. But that shit will get leaked out one day! (laughs) In fact, presently, me and Sly have the same manager, DJ KMP, he's got all that shit cause that was our DJ in the Black Spooks. He's got real good copies of the studio sessions and shit.


Westcoast2k.Net - Did you get any feedback from the underground scene, since people got to hear this or that song?

Dirty Birdy - Aww man! It's a trip because not too long ago I had went up to Seattle to do some shit with some of my homies. And Phat Kat that's down with Slum Village outta Detroit, he came out there to do some shit and my boy that was out there was tellin' him that I was gonna be coming and he was tellin him who I was and he was like 'Ohh yeah I heard of him, I've heard of the Black Spooks. I remember them from back in the day'. All this shit! So it was like, from a industry perspective it got around. A lot of people knew who we were based on that. People that was in the industry that was waitin to come out. It was crazy, people was anticipating The Black Spooks man. It was really suprising, cause I didn't even realize how far it has spread. It was a crazy ass buzz in the industry in '95 around Christmas time regarding The Black Spooks.


Westcoast2k.Net - How would you compare The Black Spooks to the music you're doing today?

Dirty Birdy - Well the Black Spooks stuff, I was a lot more contained. It was a certain formula I had to follow cause I was in a group, so I couldn't really just be like flying solo on some ill crazy shit. That wasn't gonna work with what we were doing as a group. Now I can just do Dirty Birdy. I can just do my thing whatever I feel like doing. So I actually enjoy it a whole lot better, even though I miss rhymin' with my cousin, I enjoy it a whole lot better being solo. I don't have to worry about nothing.


Westcoast2k.Net - Who was the biggest influence on you during that period?

Dirty Birdy - I really always kinda been on my own shit. Sometimes mothafuckas try to say I sound like E-40 or they try to compare me to different mothafuckas. But I've always rhymed that way. I listen to a lot of old R&B music. I'm a B-Boy and I listen to vintage Hip Hop, but I can't really say that I listen to any of it and it influences me. Like for instance, if I listen to Killah Priest, I'm listening for lyrics. If I'm listening to WC, I'm listening because I'm from California and I can relate to some of the stuff he's talkin about. If I listen to Redman, it's cause he's one of my favorites and he's just ill on the mic. I listen to different people for different reasons. It doesn't really influence me to do anything, it's just part of the culture and I enjoy what they're doing, you feel me?

I listen to a lot of different forms of Hip Hop. Every form, any form. Really, almost any kind of music. But during that era it wasn't really nothing crackin' that was really the shit shit in terms of Hip Hop, at least not for me. Except that Mobb Deep "The Infamous" album was big during that time when we got that deal with Perspective. That was a big record, we was loving that during that time. And that Nas album with "Street Dreams" on it. I've always been heavily heavily into real B-Boy Hop.


Westcoast2k.Net - You have some more projects that never came out, like that "Bird Shit" album...

Dirty Birdy - Yeah I got something called "Bird Shit" that I did right after we stopped being The Black Spooks, as a matter of fact. That was my way of regrouping from the situation which kinda really changed a lot of shit in my life. Because it was because of me that Sly was even fuckin' with Sway & Tech. So for the situation to go down like it did, it wasn't a good feeling. But I just kept on smashing and smashing hard. So anyway, me and Crackajack got together and we did "Bird Shit" at his pad. And it was what it was, it was cool. We never put it out, but it was just therapeutic for me to just record and do what I wanted to do. And really, I don't wanna diss what we were doing, but I don't think it was really good enough at that time to come out. It wasn't mixed or nothing, it was just really raw. I did that shit and kept it moving.


Westcoast2k.Net - How was recording with Digital Underground on "Fool Get A Clue"?

Dirty Birdy - Haha yeah, that was cool. Shock G is fun as fuck, tellin' 2Pac stories all night. What we did when we first met up, we set up in his hotel on Sunsent, drinkin' a fat ass gallon of Hennessy, smokin' weed and just talkin. 2Pac was still alive at that time, so he was tellin' us stories about how Pac was when they first been on the road, stories about bitches and shit like that. It was real cool. It was funny because a lot of people don't know that Smoove was there, the female rapper Smoove. That was where we first met her at, and that led to her singing on our shit. And she ended up gettin' signed by Perspective and we got shelved! It was fucked up, it was like 'Damn, she took our spot!' (laughs). It was crazy, how the fuck did Smoove just come and get signed and take our fuckin' spot on the label! It was weird. So fuck it, it was what it was.


Westcoast2k.Net - Can we expect a collabo album with just you and Dr. Stank in the future?

Dirty Birdy - Yeah, yeah man. Stank is one of my best friends, so that's definitely something that's gonna happen sooner or later. That's my dogg, that's one of my ultimate friends right there. We get down and do our thing real though. In fact man, he produced a lot of songs on my album. When he was signed to MCA, I sang on almost every song on his album. Cause I write and sing and shit like that. That album was tight as fuck. So he regrouping too, it's all good. It just takes some time when you're doing it on your own and you ain't got a lot of money. And you're trying not to really do nothing too illegal, I wasn't trying to just go to jail.


Westcoast2k.Net - You're gonna be on the Sway & Tech album too...

Dirty Birdy - Yeah I got a joint on the "Back to Basics" album, it's another version of "23 Degrees", a brand new version. And then I got a joint on the Bobby & Izzy "Avila Brothers" album. 2005 should be a big year for me, we'll see what happens. So it's all good, it's all a matter of timing man.


Westcoast2k.Net - What you got coming in the future, as far as solo projects?

Dirty Birdy - Besides the Sway & Tech joint and the Avila Brothers joint I'm keepin it movin with a lot of beats and shit, I make a lot of beats now. So I got Volume 2 of the Mixtape coming soon, and then my album after that. Hopefully me and Stank will be able to knock one out. I'm already workin on Volume 3 of the Dirty Birdy mixtape, cause Volume 2 is ready and I'm leaking that on your website to put up. My own website is up through SkyLineRecordsWest.com. Other than that, cats can peep out some of my joints on the Native Records website. That's who I partnered up with for my distribution, I got distribution with Ryko through Native Records. And Native is the label that MC Eiht is on. So I'm fuckin' with those cats, they some good cats. So you know, that's really wassup right now, that's what I got going. I'm fuckin with anybody and everybody really, on one hand. And then I'm trying not to fuck with too many people.


Westcoast2k.Net - What's the status on your album?

Dirty Birdy - It's called "Tweet Tweet: Mutha Fucka" and it will be out April 26th. It's raw man. I got Stank on there, Sly is on there, some local homies like Shorty Mo, Lunch, alot of up & coming rappers / singers. My homegirl Spicy T, she's on there. Oh and Nautical Vivid, this cat from the Ignorant Crew, he's on there. As far as production this cat named Lovechild did 5 beats. Fingazz did 3, and then Stank did like 7 or 8. We worked on it for like 5 months.


Westcoast2k.Net - How would you describe the overall tone of the album?

Dirty Birdy - The album is raw, but at the same time it's tasteful in a sense that the hooks is catchy, the beats bang, but on every rap I'm dirty birdy like a mothafucka homie! I'm talkin shit and swallow & spit. Even on the stuff where I'm not really offending anybody, it's raw. It's devine Hip Hop California style, that's the best way I can put it. That's what I was trying to do, just let people know where I was from. But it's a little more mainstream in terms of the beats and the hooks, but that's why I did Volume 2 of the Mixtape, cause that's a lot more raw and just boom bap-ish.


Westcoast2k.Net - What thoughts or impressions do you want people to walk away with?

Dirty Birdy - I want them to walk away entertained, I want them to walk away laughin, I want them to walk way feelin like they can just pop it in and ride, play dominoes, have BBQs, take long trips. I want them to just wear it out, cause it's not like one joint on there that you gonna like. If you like lyrics, you'll love it all the way through, if you like bangin' beats, you'll love it all the way through, if you like hooks that you can sing along with, you'll love it all the way through. So it's that type of shit.


Westcoast2k.Net - Wasn't Skyline Records trying to hook up something with Big C-Style at one point?

Dirty Birdy - Not really, one of my partners met up with C-Style and they hollered. He was just basically like 'Whatever y'all need, I look out for you'. But we weren't trying to merge labels or anything like that. He's just the big homie and was trying to look out, he just has some good game and offered his assistance if we needed it.


Westcoast2k.Net - Where can people pick up the mixtape?

Dirty Birdy - Volume 2 will be on my website, on CD Baby, I'ma have a link hopefully through your website. I really want to spread out Volume 2. It will be accessable, it won't be like Volume 1, it will be accessable.


Westcoast2k.Net - How was the response to Volume 1?

Dirty Birdy - Man it was tremendous, I got peoples hollerin at me from Japan, Australia, Germany, and all around the States of course. But it was bananas how overseas the way cats were feelin it. I had military cats that was going overseas and was like spreading, wherever they was going. Everybody that get it they spread it for someone else to dub it or burn it. That was real cool, and I was extremely grateful that people was feelin' me that way.


Westcoast2k.Net - I loved that "Everything I Love Part 2".

Dirty Birdy - Yeah, a lot of people loved it. And that was because how good that song sounded that I did Volume 2 like that. I just did a bunch of original shit like "Everything I Love Pt. 2". We loved that song when we did that mothafugga! I personally probably bang that mothafucka 20 times in a row! (laughs).


Westcoast2k.Net - So do you feel that your fanbase has increased after Volume 1?

Dirty Birdy - Yeah, I definitely feel like it's increased. And I'm really looking forward to it gettin bigger. But Volume 2 is just about makin Hip Hop fun again, about giving you something to look forward to when you listen to it. It's about not every song sounding like the last song that just went off and shit.


Westcoast2k.Net - The mixtape sounded just like a real album.

Dirty Birdy - Yeah that's what everybody says! Same with the new mixtape, it sounds like an album. I didn't wanna rap over other peoples beats. I didn't wanna do that, I wanted to do it unorthodox. The way I did it, is I did it over original beats with samples that I couldn't afford to clear! (laughs). So I just got a gang of shit that I couldn't afford to clear. I did like 6 beats, Stank did like 4, Crackajack did like 2 or 3, I did one with Fingazz, my boy CMT did one. It's just crazy, it's absolutely bananas homie, I love it.


Westcoast2k.Net - It seems that you put in as much work on mixtapes as on albums!

Dirty Birdy - I mean honestly, I recorded the album in 5 months, and I did my new mixtape in 2 weeks. I probably could have done the album like that, but I didn't record the mixtape where I recorded the album at. As far as recording the album, I had to book studio time, I had to wait for available studio time, I had to make sure the producers was able to be there. That's why it took as long as it did.


Westcoast2k.Net - Do you feel like people still sleeping on the Inland Empire?

Dirty Birdy - It's like, you got people that go out and represent the E real nice, then you got people that go out and they misrepresent the E really bad. I mean the I.E. already has a reputation, or just San Bernardino period, for just being fuckin' dirty. The crime rate is bananas out here, at one time it was the highest in the country. But at the same time L.A. dont respect San Bernardino because it's a small town compared to L.A., and its an hour away so they come out here and be like 'You country mothafuckas'. They don't really have no respect for the I.E.. But with Sly, they used to make him say he's from L.A. and shit like that, cause not a lot of people familiar San Bernardino and the I.E..

But I don't give a fuck. I rep my city homie, I don't care. They can hate on it if they want, I don't really feel like they hating on me. To tell the truth, I don't really feel like they give a fuck either way. I just wanna let people know where I'm from, so that the other people that live here ain't ashamed to come out and say that this is where they from.


Westcoast2k.Net - Who are some of the artists that misrepresent the I.E. in your opinion?

Dirty Birdy - I don't wanna name them, that aint cool. They ain't disrespecting me so I ain't gonna say nothing about them. But I'm just saying, they get out there and their shit aint all the way polished. And then they wanna go on the radio, go to shows and just do shit, and it just makes the E look wack. Cause they hollerin out they from I.E. and all this shit, and their shit just aint tight enough yet. And they don't know it, because instead of being hard on themselves and being they own worst critic, they just listen to everybody that's on they jock, all their little friends and shit. They don't really listen to somebody that don't know them. That's the best critic, somebody who dont know who the hell you are, cause they ain't got no reason to lie to you. They'll tell the truth about your shit.


Westcoast2k.Net - You being from the old school, how much has Hip Hop changed over the years in your eyes?

Dirty Birdy - From a business perspective, Hip Hop is way better now. You can make a lot more money now, cause the game is different now. It's easier to make beats now, it's just different. But the quality of the music was better back in the day, in my opinion. I think when labels started signing cats that was wack, and people that didn't know no better started buying records, and they was blowing up, I think that started making people work not as hard when they was making their albums.

Because if somebody can put out a raggedy ass record and it sells a lot, that makes the next man feel like 'Well shit, I ain't gotta be taking all this time, and try to write hard lyrics, and this and that. I can just come with some bullshit, and the kids will buy it cause they don't know no better.

So that made the quality of the music go down in my opinion. Cause people don't buy really good sounding Hip Hop no more man, they only wanna burn it. And the wack stuff everybody wants to buy it. You got a few really really good cats that deserve to be where they are. Like your Jay-Z's and your Eminem's. I even like Snoop Dogg. Snoop Dogg representing and doing his thing everytime he come out. But you got some people, in my opinion, they just horrible. But I can't hate on them cause they out there doing they thing, they got more fans than I do. So it's like whatever.


Westcoast2k.Net - Dont you feel that the media tries to hold back the real Hip Hop?

Dirty Birdy - I don't really think they try to hold back the old Hip Hop, I think they unaware of it. But thats because you got all these young ass interns that was fuckin little bitty kids when the real Hip Hop was out. So they don't even fuckin know them, much less care. They grew up on the bubble gum shit anyway. So when they get to be in a position of power, they don't know who to sign or who to put out. They try to please the older dudes higher up, they try to keep they job so they puttin' out some bubble gum shit that can sell. Cause all they care about is the dollar, they don't care about the culture or the quality of it. They just care about the cheese.


Westcoast2k.Net - And that's the same people calling Hip Hop from the 95 era "old school"...

Dirty Birdy - Yeah, that ain't old school at all homie! That was just the other day to me! 95, 96, please! It was some cool shit out during that time, but it wasn't no monster shit out at that time, at least not for me. Don't get me wrong, some good shit came out. B.I.G. came out, a lot of good shit came out, don't get me wrong, but it's not like 87, 88, 89. Or even 92, 93, 94. Whooo! Man, I would have loved to came out then, made me a grip of money and get out the game!

But now I'm barely finna come out. I'm just like... the way I am right now, at this age coming out with all this shit I been through, I don't give a fuck homie. If anybody disses me, I'm shitting on them! But not on my album, I save they ass for some mixtape shit. Don't wanna give nobody no album love homie. But on a mixtape, anybody that says anything about me, I don't care.

And there's some little punk on WakeUpShow.com or some shit, that be tryna talk shit like I'm supposed to care. He's some idiot talkin shit but I don't really give a fuck. I ain't even heard of this fool. I'm doing my job cause you know who I am, I don't know whoever the fuck you are, I ain't never heard you do shit. So I thought about just dissin dude really bad, but if I diss him, other cats is gonna diss even if they like me just so I make a song about they ass. I'm not gonna do no dumb shit like that. But if another MC diss me that's out, you're gettin it. I don't care who it is, anybody, I don't care.


Westcoast2k.Net - Do you still go out and battle?

Dirty Birdy - Not really man, I mean I been battling since back in the day. Right now I'm really on a paper chase. I ain't really trying to prove anything to people that don't know who I am if they just wanna battle or some shit. Fuck all that, niggas be trying to steal and bitin' rhymes! I used to battle when I was coming up. But nowadays, if a cat wanna battle on some wax, that's cool. But as far as meeting somewhere on some high school shit, I ain't about that shit homie. I'm trying to get my cheese, fuck them mothafuckas. I know what I can do!


Westcoast2k.Net - What is Birdy doing if he's not in the studio recording?

Dirty Birdy - If I ain't recording, or kickin' it with my kids, then I'm makin a beat, writin rhymes, smokin some weed, I'm readin or I'm hustlin. But my kids is really what made me started smashin a little harder. Just being a father. I don't let my kids listen to my music. So that just made me wanna smash and get mine in other ways, because it ain't no joke. If you care and if you're a halfway decent person or decent parent, you gonna be trying to leave something for your kid. Especially if you a man and you got sons, you definitely wanna set a halfway decent example for them so they can know how to be.


Westcoast2k.Net - Is there anything else you wanna say?

Dirty Birdy - I just wanna say for the record, in my music I talk a lot of shit. I don't personally have a beef with any rapper that's out, so I hope none of them take offense to my mixtape. I just wanna tell everybody that supports the mixtape that heard it through Westcoast2k or whatever, that I appreciate that shit, and I got some tight shit coming for them people that's ridin' with me. Everybody that's ridin' with Dirt, I'm fuckin' with you strong, and I got some dope ass shit coming for them people. For the people who don't know me yet, I got some dope shit coming for them. For the people that know and don't like it, fuck you!

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Dirty Birdy's album entitled "Tweet Tweet: Mutha Fucka" will be in stores April 26th on Skyline Records with distribution through Native Records. Click here for more information. "The Mixtape Volume 2" will be available in mid April.

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