My name is: Streetz
Straight outta: Bahamas (resides in Atlanta, Georgia)
This is my story:
I grew up around a lot of hustlers; everybody is going to get it however they got to go get it. I watched my mom get shot five times right in front of me, at the age of 12. My pops is a street dude.
A lot of the stuff that rappers were talking about, we were actually out there doing . . . the big cars, the crew, the money, and all that stuff. [So it was] better for you to say you're going to be a drug dealer than [become] a rapper or something because people would laugh at you.
This is my influence:
In the Caribbean you listen to everything: Bob Marley, Sizzla, Nas, Jay, Big, Pac. You couldn't wait to get they albums cause you wanted to hear what they were going to say in each song and I think that's what's missing right now [in hip hop].
Jay-Z had his way of talking about stuff and it would relate to my dudes, what we were going through, and me and he wasn't even there.
When Streetz was in his late teens, he and his friends would bring famous rappers out to perform in his homeland. At the age of 17, he met the late rapper Big Pun and, seizing the moment, decided to spit Pun a verse: "I'm the type to ask you to vibe and get crazy/ I can fuck the earth and make the sky have a baby."
This is why I'm hot:
I'm going to say how I feel; I'm going to make those records that allow you to walk with me. Like, this is my life I'm giving you. People aren't buying records any more. People are buying into movement(s) and the records are secondary, that's why the sales are not showing. If you look at any successful artist, T.I. to whomever, they are selling records due to the fact that you bought into them. This situation that I'm bringing to the table, it's going to be the truth again. I'm never going to hold my tongue. I feel like that's what's missing now 'cause when we had artists like Tupac, he gave you everything about him. That's what made you love him, and that's what I'm bringing to the table again. I'm giving you the whole story. I didn't just come out here with, "Oh, I just got the biggest money in the world." I didn't want to give the people that. For every year that [a label] didn't let me in, I'm going to make them see why they should've let me in.
Listen:
October 16, 2007 @ 5:52 pm
YOU DON'T KNOW ME: Streetz
New-jacks stake their claim... In their own words.
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Comments
1.
LOU says:
STREETZ IS DOING HIS THANG!!!
November 8, 2007 at 1:19 pm
2.
P. says:
hottest nigga right now
October 26, 2007 at 12:38 pm
3.
dj naughty says:
BAET IN DA TRUNK CLUB BANGER
October 22, 2007 at 1:30 pm
4.
MD. KAMRUZZAMAN says:
no comments
October 21, 2007 at 8:37 am
5.
smitty says:
CONGRATS VIBE FOR FINALLY GETTIN IT RIGHT
October 20, 2007 at 10:32 pm
6.
lupe says:
STREETZ IS THE MAYOR DOWN HERE
October 20, 2007 at 6:20 pm
7.
Shotta Boyz says:
242 In Da Place !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tyme for the world ta see how gutta da islands iz!!
October 20, 2007 at 3:19 pm
8.
305 boy says:
COLD LINE f**k THE EARTH N MAKE THE SHY HAVE A BABY. THATS SOME NAS 98 SHIT
October 20, 2007 at 2:39 am
9.
TRAP SQUAD says:
BIGGIE HAD island roots as well as shyne busta rhymes so you"ll should expect greatness from the islands BROOKLYN IN THE HOUSE. STREETZ KEEP DOING IT BIG
October 20, 2007 at 2:37 am
10.
SEXY LADY says:
OHHH DEM LIPS ANYTHING OUT OF THOSE LIPS GOT TO BE THE BEST
October 19, 2007 at 5:22 pm
11.
FIREMAN says:
THIS THE NEXT NIGGA. REAL MOTHERFU@@IN STREET NIGGA ALL DAY.
October 19, 2007 at 5:21 pm
12.
drama says:
interesting i guess a new nigga would show up right when TI foxy 50 cent jay z prodigy is going to jail or getting to old
October 19, 2007 at 2:13 pm
13.
percy don says:
MUSIC NEEDS A NEW STORY I TELL U THIS HE HAS THE LOOK STORY AND SO FAR MUSIC WILL WAIT TO SEE HOW IT TURNS OUT
October 19, 2007 at 2:59 am
14.
JDubb says:
the islands is the truth its time some1 shine light on it im voting 4 you streetz
October 19, 2007 at 2:46 am
15.
LIAH says:
streetz u fireeeee just listen to ur myspace page U A CUTIE
www.myspace.com/iamdastreetz
October 19, 2007 at 12:27 am
16.
dj pencil says:
da hottest dude in the hood right now hands down
October 18, 2007 at 11:56 pm
17.
The Main Dealer says:
That ni@#a Streetz, now right there is a real stand-up dude who has a grind, hustle & swagger which makes him a TRUE star.
Not many have it, but this cat is the one who puts the "P" in persistent!!!
You can't tell him "NO," and if you do??? He will defenitly be the one to define you as Wrong.
.... the streets ain't READY, but the REAL StreetZ is!
October 18, 2007 at 10:18 pm
18.
C Gutta says:
!!!!STREETZ DA TRUTH!!!! REMEMBER I TOLD ULL 1ST STREETZ IS THE NEXT ONE. GOOD TO FINALLY SEE U GETTING YOUR DUE THE HOOD BEEN YOURS
October 18, 2007 at 7:42 pm
19.
mitchy says:
heard this dude on the radio the other day didnt know who he was like his story. cant wait to hear more. banger
October 18, 2007 at 7:38 pm
20.
STACY says:
NICE READ. IS THIS FROM THE UPCOMING VIBE ISSUE
October 18, 2007 at 1:13 pm
21.
FRANK says:
CANT EVEN HATE RECORD IS HOT. MUSIC NEEDS A NEW FEEL WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE IS HE IN THE MAGAZINE TO
October 18, 2007 at 12:46 am
22.
NASSAU says:
STREETZ IS the major OF THE caribbean keep doing it BIG DRED WE LOVE U AND SUPPORT U
October 17, 2007 at 7:48 pm
23.
mack man says:
real shhh streetz that song is crack too
October 17, 2007 at 7:44 pm
24.
tisha says:
dam them lips hes fine streetz u could get it
October 17, 2007 at 7:43 pm
25.
DJ DRU NYCE - DEF DJS says:
BE MORE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR "STREETZ" & "DJ DRU NYCE" AS WE PLAN TO PRODUCE A MIXTAPE SOON . . . . STREETZ IS THE TRUTH . . . IT'S ALL IN THE NAME!!
October 17, 2007 at 2:44 pm
26.
BLAZE says:
FIRE!!!!!!!
October 17, 2007 at 12:59 pm
27.
MAISH says:
HE BEEN THE BIGGEST THING IN THE HOOD THAT BEAT IN THE TRUNK IS THE CRAZIEST RECORD OUT. KEEP HITTING THEM STREETZ
October 17, 2007 at 12:28 pm
28.
CINDY says:
HES FINE I LOVE HIS SWAGGER
October 17, 2007 at 12:24 pm
29.
rich says:
dam thats real homie seems like he has something to bring 4 real musci is crazy
October 17, 2007 at 12:21 pm