Sedrew Price Interview

I2G chilled with one of The Viva’s (Las Vegas) best MC’s in Sedrew Price for a exclusive interview. We discuss his latest project, The Day After Tomorrow, which is available for free download on his myspace, his thoughts on hip hop and the Vegas music scene and much more so check it out.

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Illuminati 2G is here with Sedrew Price how’s it going?

Good, good. I just want to say I appreciate you for having me. Thanks that is good lookng out.

No problem. Tell me a little bit about how you got your start in hip hop and who are some of your musical influences out there.

I got my start in music, probably in high school. I used to listen to certain rappers and listening to their lyrics it would make me go wow, like how do they do that. I used to think these dudes were very creative. I used to make beats and I made them on Music Generator on Playstation. I used to make beats for my homies around the crib while I was playing basketball. What happened was I started rhyming to these beats and then I lost my Playstation. So then I started rhyming and battling around 2004, 2005. It then was progressed from there.

As far as musical influences, man it really started with Hova. That is my dude and he was the one that really got me into breaking down lyrics and just appreciating the art of hip hop. Just going back and learning the history and see other artists that I like. Nowadays I listen to TI, Jeezy, Lil Brother, Blu. It really just ranges from left to right.

You dropped your new project, The Day After Tomorrow, a few months back. Tell me about the release a little bit and how it differs from other projects that you have released in the past.

The release was cool. It was more of a mature look and it was a step outside of the box. The reason why this release was so different is like for my first 4 mixtapes, I was just trying to rhyme and perfect the craft. With the Rebellion, it was more to it then rhymes. I wanted to make real music and tunes. With TDAT, it was the graduation of hard knocks. Learning how to write songs, it was my most musical project to date. I tried alot of different beats and deliveries and reach alot of different audiences with TDAT and it really represents the graduation. I feel like alot of dudes are following each other, it’s kind of like the storm. For me to pave my own way is me surviving the storm. For all of the real dudes lefted doing it, I am trying to get them all together as a resistance. That is the whole theme of TDAT, survival of the storm.

Tell me a little bit about how the single, Independence Day, came together for you.

Independence Day came together for me because locally, as I grew and matured, the music reflected my life. As my music changed, my life changed. Alot of guys that I used to associate with and kick it with, I don’t really kick it with no more. Not on no beef, because I do not have beef with anybody. It is just that I am really trying to focus on the music, and alot of dudes really cannot understand that. They will take it out on me and say oh dude does not come around anymore. When really it is like nigga I’m grindin. So it is like the track Independence Day was a press conference to my city. I have not gone anywhere, I am here for us. Niggas is mad that I am not around, but I am trying to hold it down. That was the whole theme to that, this is the graduation. Now that I have learned to write a song and hold it down for us, now let’s grow and get it popping. It was my own press conference for them.

Do you have any personal favorites from the project?

I would say Follow Me would be one just because it is ironic because it is probably one of the hardest songs to follow. I like it from a musical sense I tried to orchestrate the flow. I tried to be really musical with the flow on that one. I think alot of musical people appreciate that song. I also like 20/20 because alot of people think that Vegas is all about the hotels and the techno scene and the clubs so we just took that, remixed it and added some hood drums. If you want Vegas then we gonna give it to you. You have to listen to the project as a whole with a open mind. You have to listen to it as a whole to appreciate it as a whole. I really do not want to single any particular songs out.

So what’s up next for you now that the project is out? Are you going to put out another mixtape or work on a upcoming album?

Yeah myself and a couple of my dudes are working on releasing a best of. We releasing that, just to let people know where I came from because now there is a bigger audience and people are just now listening to TDAT for the first time and are not knowing where I am coming from. So we are going to releasing that to catch guys up and then we are going to release Gone Till November. That should come out around my birthday, and then we will release The X Files. All of the songs that are unreleased that did not make projects. Give people the real foundation so that we can build and grow. Hopefully we can take that and just get it popping from there.

What are your thoughts on the hip hop scene in Las Vegas right now?

It is getting better, because when I started it was nothing. But now people are starting to get together and do more shows at more venues and get professional with it. It is positive right now, we just really got to perfect our craft and we will be fine. People just got to keep an eye out, we got a couple.

If you could create your own supergroup of local artists, almost like a Slaughterhouse type thing, it could be 3 or more MCs, who would you have, including yourself in your group?

Oooh let me see. If I could have a supergroup I would probably have my boy Supreme, my boy Jazz, my boy Trayo definitely, Tony Boy, Lil Will and Reallionaire Jream too. Those dudes right there really put it down right there. But those are the generals that I feel like grind like I do. In Vegas, there are alot of groups that do they thing too. Like Lil Will the whole Hands Free crew, that is a group. Then there is Campfire, they are like Wu-Tang. They are like 90 deep. I would fuck with all those generals and then I would fuck with those groups. As some of my guest features I would say. I got big homies, BDK, they were the ones that brought me on, on some UGK of Vegas type shit.  I don’t know that is a tough one.

Do you have any upcoming shows or tour dates or anything that you want to let the people know about?

Nah not really, it is real random right now. Wherever I can get, I get. New York I should be heading there in the next month or so. I did the Dunk Exchange here a couple weeks ago so I might be doing the next one in San Francisco. I am in LA alot so hopefully if I can get to you, I will.

What is your myspace or website information for people looking to check out your music and see what you got going on?

www.sedrewprice.com, www.sedrewprice.imeem.com, www.twitter.com/sedrewprice, www.facebook.com/sedrewprice. Everything is Sedrew Price, just to keep it all consistent.

Alright well that is all the questions that I have for you, appreciate you getting down for the interview. Is there any last words or shoutouts that you want to get out there to the people?

Thank you, I appreciate the time man. Hopefully everyone will be looking out for your boy man, we coming. Holla at me.

Appreciate the interview

Aight bro.