Tre-Dot Interview

Check out our exclusive interview with Tre-Dot. We chop game about his new singles, upcoming EPs and much more so check it out. Interview is in audio and text below.

All right, we’re here with Tre-Dot, how’s it going, man?

Everything’s good, man, life is lovely.

All right, you just recently dropped two singles. Tell me a little about the singles and how they came together for you.

Okay, I’ll start with Like That. Mr. Producer, Upstate New York, DJ Tekwun. We have an entry called The Experience that will probably drop sometime this week or next week.

We’re doing a virtual listening party where two people drop at the same time. That’s part of that collection of music. I met Tekwun when I did the Soul Train Project, and he was playing my music, and it just kind of became cool.

You know, people are online and you’re just back and forth, back and forth with messages. But then he mentioned, let’s do something together one day, and that day came from Fruits of Mass, it’ll be a five song EP. And I’m like that is the first single from that that’s put out there to share with the people.

On Lonely Road was actually a song I wrote years ago, but I’m out of a situation where a friend of my wife passed away, my brother had a girlfriend, and like three years had passed away, and then my father was real sick, so I took the song, now we wrote it, we took the drums out, we kind of made it more melodic and acoustic type feeling. And the crazy story with that single is, it’s going to be on the EP Love Makes a Difference, so there’s two EPs from those two singles. But with that song, the last verse, that says something about being with my father until his last breath, I went to stay with my father in the hospital that night, and he passed that next morning.

He was sitting there with him. Yeah, so all that happened like at one time is just, it’s crazy, our music now is organically trying to work and put me at an older age, man. Like I’m at the moment, creatively.

And I think the quality of the product is much better as well. I know everybody talks about me, says that every new product, every new project is the best project.

Content-wise, quality-wise, it’s just starting to be good.

All right. Now, for that second EP, do you have the release date set for that? I know you said the first one is looking sometime next week or later this month.

Well, I’m dropping the book for the stand set. Oh, okay. Right after the virtual listening party gets done, I got a DJ to put them up next to the yellow for both the EPs.

I want to do just to have something on my bandcamp. We can turn that live and get in the chat. I’ll be in the chat and talk about it.

As soon as that thing is over, it’s going to be on bandcamp right then. You know what I’m saying? Eventually, it will be on streaming.

But I usually do streaming like a month after bandcamp. You know, I let it get on bandcamp a little bit, And I do this in my family’s street in the world, but I understand it’s what it’s about.

Absolutely. And as far as visuals, do you have any videos set to drop for either like that, or Lonely Road, or any other singles on the EP?

I’m going to get a few questions on for it. Lonely Road and like that, I’m going to shoot that video whenever I’m on tour, I’ll be in the car, I’ll shoot both of those videos on the same day. And I have another single that’s going to be on, the experience called, Yeah, That’s Right.

I’m going to shoot that video in New York. Next time, I’m going to go back to New York, I’m going to shoot a video on my block. So, before the years out, I’m going to have at least a new video of it.

Okay, absolutely. And after these EPs, do you have any full-length LPs that are in the works, or any mixtapes or collaboration albums? Just what’s up next for you?

Well, I’m on. I’m an EPs guy. I don’t think that’s a tree boy.

I’m a six-hole in the town. That’s just the way I’ve been doing it. So, I got two more EPs on the drop before the years out.

One is called Vinyl Tears. That’s what the producer called, Kwan Jai. He’s from New York, but he’s out there in Texas right now.

And I have another one called When Jack Sleep, that’s dedicated to my father. That’s what my main producer’s E-shop.

All right, we’re now nine months into 2025. This year is flying right on by.

Just what’s your thoughts right now on the state of hip-hop and maybe some of your favorite albums or songs that you’ve heard so far that have dropped this year?

I really don’t keep up with a lot of the new music. It’s like so saturated, but I have to say this. I’m very, very pleased with what Nas is doing with Mass Appeal.

I think it’s very dope. He’s taking his legacy artists and really putting them in a position to put out quality product. I like the fact that Ghostface is doing a lot of media.

You know, Ghostface didn’t use to do media at all. You know, now he’s doing a lot of podcasts, and he’s able to share his personality. I love the podcast space, because you got older artists like Memphis Bleek, now they have this whole platform.

Even with Fat Joe and Jadakiss having a platform, I think this is good things for hip hop, for the older generation just looking for their space. And I think the balance is a little bit better. You know, I think things are going good, man.

Final sales are going up. You know, there’s a lot of quality music out there. There’s always gonna be music that some people are gonna like.

Some people like sales and quality. But everything is up to everybody. I’m happy with hip hop, man.

I like Ghostface’s album. I have some friends of mine that do it really well for it. You know, I like to feel of it.

I like the Raekwon album. I like to feel of it. It’s a good album.

It disappointed me a little bit, but I still love the fact that he put out something. I like the Freddie Gibbs project without permission. I thought that was pretty dope.

I mean, I’m just a dope producer. At the top of my mind, that’s what I liked the most as far as what just come on recently.

Yeah, it’s crazy you said that about Ghostface. I think for the first year after Wu-Tang’s first album came out, you didn’t even see his face. He had a mask on.

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It was easy. Ninety-four, ninety-five before, probably until Iron Man came out. I didn’t even know what Ghostface looked like.

Well, that’s a beautiful thing going on in hip-hop that I see. Because, you know, hip-hop is all about branding. It’s always been about branding.

Sometimes not seeing your face is actually an image of yourself as well. But nowadays, when people get to know you and really get to know your personality, man, it goes a long way, you know, with your brand. And Ghostface actually has a dope personality and a great sense of humor that nobody’s ever seen.

You know what I mean? So now you see that. You know, so even if you didn’t listen to the album, the kind of motivation to get to the album is the more sort of totality of the artists, like with the Wu-Tang, there were so many of them and were so structured, and a lot of them were so young, they didn’t reach out to the media.

And then they also had restrictions as far as not being able to do collaborations with other people. So now seeing Ghostface do songs with people, and Raekwon do songs with people that they weren’t able to do back then, you know, it’s refreshing for a listener that actually loves the culture of them, so it was definitely a refreshing alternative.

Yeah, I remember, I think Snoop said that in the interview, too. Death Row was set up like that, too. Death Row was all in-house.

They didn’t do anything outside of their own crew. I think the only one even on the Chronic was Bushwick Bill was the only one that even appeared, and he just did an intro and an outro. That was it.

So, absolutely.

It’s a gift, it’s a gift, man, a curse. You know why it’s being done business-wise? But as an artist, you know, I mean, you know, Meth Man wrote the code and did the song with Biggie or whatever, but you know, as an artist, it’s like you’re limiting yourself to working with all of these dope producers and all of these dope artists, and then now, you know, people are older and addict on out here, you know, breaking their neck to try to work with all of these people at the last, you know, in the fourth quarter with two minutes left, one o’clock, which is still refreshing, man, but you’re looking at 20, 30 years in the game and not doing collabs with anybody outside of your crew, even working with outside producers, man, it sounds crazy now.

Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. All right, do you have any upcoming shows or Twitter-Ace or anything coming up for you, want to let the people know about?

I don’t have any shows going together. You know, my father was battling, you know, for health issues the last couple of years, so I’ve just been laying back this great, great, great, building up my catalog. Probably in February, I’ll do a live show with a band.

It’s gonna be like a virtual live stream kind of thing. Still putting together how I’m going to. I’m gonna do it, what I do is straight through my website.

I’ll do it through YouTube. I’m about to do the first one, like a free joint, and just have a lot of merch and a lot of music. I don’t know, I might even record the live one and have that as a live album.

I got a lot of alternatives, man. That’s the beauty of music, now you got so many options. But I’m looking at trying to do that in February.

Okay. What’s your website information, social media, everything for people looking to check out your music and see what you got going on?

Okay. My major website is tredotmusic.com. T-R-E-D-O-T music.

My clothing brand is Love Mad, 1985. L-U-V-M-A-D, 1985.com. Love Mad is short for Love Makes a Difference, which was my father’s trial circle in 1985.

The Brooklyn, New York show, the brand was named after him before it’s passed. Instagram, my main site was boystraight.b-o-s-s-t-r-e-d-o-t. I have another Instagram page just for my music, tre-dot-music.

I have another one for my podcast, the blackmail podcast, that is Tre-T-R-E Podcast, I mean trepodcast.com. TikTok was boystraight.x, Twitter or whatever was boystraight. That’s why Facebook, I don’t care about Facebook.

I mean, I’m more than able to find people I need to know, okay.

All right. All right, well, that’s all the questions I have for you. Appreciate you getting down for the interviews.

Any last words or shout outs you want to get out there to the people?

Yeah, man, follow my podcast, The Black Male Podcast. Follow me on Instagram. Just follow me on social media, man.

I’m active, man. I got a lot of stuff going on. I mean, like I said, I got four EP’s that’s going to drop before the year is out.

You know, the DJ’s been good all across the country, man. I mean, the blogs have been, you know, just putting in the work and, you know, helping me get the sound out there, man. I got a lot of stuff going on, a lot of content.

Plus, my plans are bad. You know, we got some new hoodies that’s going to be dropping. Yeah, just proud of me, man.

I got a lot of good stuff coming on. They’ll never get spammed. I’m not going to be all the end-boss talking.