![]() ![]() Though your new fans may or may not know, there have been earlier DRF projects such as "Players 4 Life" and "Guns" by The Deadly Game Clique. Who am I to tell them what to do? We're all homies and that ain't gonna change.īWFP: 5. They deserve much props for everything they've done. LowDown has been in this rap game for many years. If DogGay is treating them good, then that's all that matters. I got nothin but love for LowDown and DjMT. Are you still down with Never and Lowdown, since they is signed to DogDay?Ĭrooked: Most definitely. D-NUT, U.D.I., Closed Caption, Funk Daddy, Crooked Path, Million Dollar Dream, Shay Deffa, Andre (Dre Dog) Nickatina, Herm, Darkoom, U.N.L.V., and that's just off the top of my head-there's more.īWFP: 4. But they really don't know what's going on in this rap game. The only rap knowledge they have is 'cause they used to work with this underground rap one-stop in Oakland. One of them is an ex-punk rocker and the other one is an ex-mail clerk. They try to look like this down ass label, but the truth is that they're these old white people who don't know dick about rap. They keep a PO BOX in Oakland, but they have their office in beautiful Emeryville. The two crooks who run that label are fuckin phonies. We just cut out the middle man and now we make all the money ourselves.ĭogGay is a bullshit label. NO other group that they've had has ever put out as many albums as we have in one year. We've been putting out albums BEFORE and AFTER them. They offered us $40,000 for our latest movie BLOOD & TEARS, we told 'em to fuck off! And we kept our movie. I wanna make this perfectly clear-WE left THEM. How do you feel about DogDay records since the departure?Ĭrooked: I feel great. This year alone we've released damn near 14 albums-solos and group albums combined.īWFP: 3. ![]() I don't even have a copy of our first tape. We don't even have some of our older shit. ![]() How many cds has DRF released in total? (including solo cds)Ĭrooked: Honestly, I lost count. Even though they stayed with that other label, they're still down with us.īWFP: 2. On a track titled "STILL DARKROOM"-that's for the non-believers. As a matter of fact, Never and Lil Wyno are on the new Darkroom album-HOMICIDE KINGS. And Despite what some people believe, LowDown is still with us. Other homeboys down with us are Dub, the newer, youger homeboys-J-Loc and Sapo, A.L.G-he's also in LowDown. Then there's a few rappers who've been with us since we started Darkroom. Darkroom has always and will always be the founding members. But Duke, Dyno and Me are still holding down the fort. Unfortunately, Dee-Roll quit rapping and moved away. If you have our older CDs, you'll remember his name. He's from the Acorn projects in West Oakland, Ca. Me(Crooked), Duke, Sir Dyno-We started the Darkroom along with Dee-Roll. We hooked up and started the Darkroom in 93'. We started performing at shows, car shows and shit. Anyway, at the same time in Tracy, Ca, Sir Syno was pretty much doing the same thing with his group-G.U.N, in the Central Valley. If you were a rapper in the Bay Area-those were some of the places you would go to sell your shit. We would go to Stop, Look & Listen in Fremont and stores like that. We'd go to T's Wauzi in Eastmont Mall and Durant Square in Oakland. So we would go to every independent record store that we knew of in the Bay Area. We're from Hayward, Ca and Oakland is only five minutes away. We would go all over the Bay Area and sell our tapes out of a backpack at malls and wherever there were homeboys around. It was a black and white maxi-single that was shrinkwrapped with a hair dryer. Well, Duke and Me put out our first tape in 1988. A lot of people think that we're new to the rap game or that our first CD was Penitentiary Chances. Who are the core rappers of DRF?Ĭrooked: The first thing that I wanna let people know is that we have been doing this since 1988-over 12 years now. This interview took place over the weekend of June 23rd to June 25th:īoomin' Words From Portsmouth: 1. This is what the title says, an interview with the Darkroom Familia member named Crooked. Interview with Crooked of the Darkroom Familia I decided to make this a seperate thread so it wouldn't be lost in all the drf/lowdown related topics that are up right now. ![]()
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