Obie Trice Explains Leaving Shady Records In 2008

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Obie Trice Explains Leaving Shady Records In 2008
DX: 2008 was the year you parted with Shady Records. What was the whole premise behind that?

Obie Trice: The thing with Shady [Records] was it was an Interscope [Records]-type situation. Me and [Interscope Records Chairman] Jimmy Iovine was having issues back then. I was kind of reckless, not on time, certain things and he didn’t want to further the project with me so we tried to work it out but it just didn’t come to a head so I had to do what I had to do. [Eminem], you know that’s his boss so he really didn’t have any say-so in that. It was more of a Jimmy Iovine/Obie Trice-type situation. That’s still my family though, Shady Records. As you know Eminem is on the album doing production and performing so we still going to get this money together, nothing changes that and that’s my brother forever, me and Em forever close. It was more so just a big company/Jimmy. I miss the Big Boy's [Neighborhood] radio show. It’d be seven in the morning when I’m supposed to be there in L.A. and I got there and the Interscope rep took me out and we hung out and I kind of barricaded myself in a room. You know I was young, fresh out the hood, jumped into this music thing. It was a little overwhelming for me, I didn’t seize the moment when I should’ve so I had to move on and that’s just how things go, it’s a business first and that’s just how it was. Everything cool though, those are still my people over there at Interscope and Shady, that’s family for life.

DX: Has anything changed regarding your relationship with Em since leaving Interscope?

Obie Trice: Nah, me and Em still kick it man. I talk to Em almost every week so we still friends, still business partners and nothing’s really changed. I’ve got my own situation now, new company. We’re not in the studio everyday like we used to be but it’s still fam, his daughter play with my daughter you know what I’m sayin?’ so it’s all good.

DX: Speaking of Em, you’ve got him and Dr. Dre on this album. How do they complement you in the making of Bottoms Up?

Obie Trice: Working with Dr. Dre is great man, you know, that’s my homie and he’s always looked out for me. He always gives me advice on things to think about despite music but just life in general. Just to be able to have a Dr. Dre who still reaches out, who still looks out for me on music, that’s a great thing for me, I’m blessed, you know?

Obie Trice Explains That Proof Is His First Cousin, Recalls News Of Death
DX: Someone else you were really good friends with, Proof. I know you and him went back a while. What were some of those moments like with him until he passed?

Obie Trice: Well you know Proof was like a cousin to me. He had a baby by like my first cousin so we was close - we found that out later on in our relationship, but that was my man. He was a real person and that’s hard to find nowadays out here, real people with good intentions and things like that. A lot of people can’t handle those type of people so I learned a lot from Proof. We was real close and I’ve got so much footage of me, him and Eminem that I plan on putting out to show my Shady experience and all the things that we did like unseen footage man. It’s just crazy like that was my brother as well as a labelmate.

DX: What was that moment like when you found out he was gone?

Obie Trice: It was crazy, like here in Detroit, we always get like silly death threats. Sometimes it’ll be like four in the morning and someone will send a text through the phone talking bout Proof got killed and shit like that or Obie’s dead and you know, this type of shit goes on back then in Detroit. When I found out that it was actually true, it was probably like four in the morning and a good friend of his called me crying and shit and I knew then this is the real deal and I previously got shot in the head, like three months before him and I almost got killed, I almost died [from a shooting], you know what I’m saying? So he was at the hospital for me when that happened to me and then three months later he got the bullet to the back of his head and he ain’t make it. So you know that was real hard for me man. It took a long time for me to keep it moving after that.
DX: You’re 34 years old right now. I know of a lot of artists, when they get into their thirties they maybe start to make more reflective music, you could consider more “grown-up” music. At this point in your career, is that where you’re at? Are you moving into that reflective stage?

Obie Trice: Well you know shit don’t stop the older you get, you know what I mean? It’s constantly trials and tribulations in life, period and even my social environment, the people I’m around, they go through things and I go through it with them. It’s more talking about things that I’m going through. I look at people like Nas and I look at Jay-Z and I look at Bun B and I look at these cats that have been in the game for a long time. I know it’s for the kids too as well but it’s also turning into an adult genre because of the pioneers are still here and creating great music. You know, I know 50-year old, 55, 60-year olds that listen to Hip Hop. Hip Hop is such a big industry and it’s constantly growing even bigger. I don’t even put no age bracket on it man. I’m getting my grown on though [laughing], but you know what I mean.

DX: If you’re talking about those younger guys though, specifically in Detroit, it seems like a new leaf is coming through. You still have the classics like you, Em, Royce but you have newer guys like Big Sean for example. What do you think about the new cats in Detroit?

Obie Trice: I’m always an advocate of Detroit artists. Big Sean, that’s what’s up, I’m a big fan of his, I appreciate his music. Of course Royce [Da 5'9], Eminem, D12, these guys is talented dudes so I’m always appreciating new talent man and it don’t matter if it’s from Detroit or anywhere, wherever you’re from because there’s gonna constantly be young and new artists so I’m a fan of the J. Cole’s, I’m a fan of Big K.R.I.T., cats like that, cats coming in so I’m a fan of Hip Hop itself so I’m always for ‘em.

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