: When did you first start calling yourself Shanegutta? I seen people get shot, stabbed, use drugs, steal cars, robberies and so on… you know just the street life… it was hard to make it out of that, but you had to grow up early. She would ask me about it, I would say I don’t know… I couldn’t put it in her hand I was just a kid, I wasn’t supposed to have any money, u know… I took a lot of trips to juvenile for various reasons. I would put the money in my momma’s purse. so I would settle for fast money, every body was doing it. Shanegutta: I mean it was hard outside music - we were selling drugs by 13, Gotti and me. : What was life like coming up for little Shanegutta? Shanegutta: Look… I always had a love 4 music I knew all the old songs and was always in the mirror performing and just seeing acts like NWA, Ghetto Boyz, 2 Live Crew, that really inspired me to do this. : When you first started did you do it for the love of the music or was it like a hustle to make paper? Shanegutta: I was like 11 or 12 years old man. We was like 10 or 11 years old - this was when Paul and Juicy (Members of Three Six Mafia) were doing mix tapes out their house and Gotti got a few songs done with Skinny Pimp and Lil Jin - that’s what it was like, the very beginning. He had the whole set up - turn tables, big speakers, cross faders, the works u digg… at that time we was just lil knuckle heads and Sound would let anyone from the hood just come in and rap, Gotti was a standout at an early age. Shanegutta: Before I met him no… Gotti and I started out with DJ Sound - who is also from Ridgecrest - he was an in house dj sort of speak. Shanegutta: We actually grew up in Ridgecrest in north Memphis, we’ve known each other our whole life. We are just following two different paths right now. Shanegutta: Yo gotti and I will always be cool.
: We know you were associated with Yo Gotti, are you still down with him?
#Have any of yo gotti albums went platinum full
The rapper and now founder of his own label, Swisha Box, goes on to talk about what he’s been doing after the Block Burnaz, the work he has upcoming, and sheds some light on why he doesn’t feel too good right now about the Memphis rap scene including why he believes certain things, like the recent incident between Memphis rapper Kia Shine and Three 6 Mafia, hurts his city.Ĭheck out the full interview of Shanegutta with …. Shanegutta tells that the studio album was lost in the studio in Katrina which led to him recording in Memphis with producer Carlos Brody but again unfortune struck when the group Block Burnaz started having issues stemming from too much money and too much partying. In an exclusive interview with rapper Shanegutta, formerly of the group Block Burnaz, Shanegutta speaks on his close-knit relationship with rapper Yo Gotti, from selling drugs with the fellow North Memphian and friend to recording an album, under the label Cash Money Records, which was destroyed in the raft of Hurricane Katrina.
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