Mixtape Monday

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Artist: Redman

Representing: Brick City

Mixtape: Live From the Bricks

411: Redman says his Red Gone Wild is coming out at the beginning of April or possibly the end of the March. The first single is called "Put It Down," but that could change.

"I don't know how everybody else does it, but Def Jam is working like whatever gets played on the radio is your single," he said. "It's just like, if I got a record that I ain't even want to be the single, but if the bi--- gets a certain amount of spins, that's my single [and] video. Another thing is they don't shoot videos off the bat no more. They wait till you get spins, then shoot. ... I know everybody is waiting to see, 'Let's see what Def Jam is going to do with Redman,' because other artists were complaining that the promotion was bullsh--. You know the routine.

"I'm not gonna be the last man standing," he added. "I'd look like a fool saying, 'Def Jam didn't do this for me, that for me.' I'm self-sufficient, self-owned. These last four years, I've been going on the road my damn self, shaking hands. Letting people know this is coming out."

Red also just dropped a new mixtape in anticipation of his LP. The legendary lyricist told us all about it.

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"Live From the Bricks." "It was just an intro from the mixtape," Redman said. "It was something I was feeling at the time, I wrote it right off the top. It was one of the first things I did for the mixtape. It started it off: 'What's this I hear, everybody trying to bring New York back/ But I'm from the bricks'