Complex: Do you have any plans of hustles outside of rap?
Blu: I don’t want to be a rapper for a long time. I’m trying to put out as much music in a time span that I have planned. I’m dedicating a certain amount of time to music, the same way I’m going to do with film. After that, I’m planning on writing books or something. When you change as a person, you‘re trying to let the people know where you’re at, but they think you’re somewhere else. Because my music is so personal, people think they know you based off of it.
Complex: Can you dispel the rumors about you getting an offer from Roc-A-Fella?
Blu: I think people are saying that because of my little line on “First Things First.” I said, “I ain’t trying to sign with the R.O.C.”
Complex: So a deal was never on the table?
Blu: My homeboy met Jay-Z and asked him why he ain’t worked with Dilla. That’s the closest I’ve ever got to Jay-Z.
Complex: What about signing with Death Row?
Blu: I was trying to get the deal back then. I told him [Suge Knight] I didn’t know shit about a contract. I just want a house and a car. He was like, “Aight.” [Laughs] I remember he brought me in a room all these niggas were watching TV, he shut off the TV, and he was like, “Bust.” And we just busted an a cappella. I kicked a hundred bars and he was like, “Okay.” That was that.
Complex: So where did that leave you?
Blu: He offered me a deal before he heard me bust because my cousin was engineering there. He heard my songs and shit. I thought it was about to go down—talking about signing lyricists, New West and all that. I was down. This is what happened: my boy was like, “Yo, I went back to Oakland. Don’t sign to Suge. Let’s work on this album this summer and you’re going to sign to the Roc by the end of the year.”
Complex: Do you like their music?
Blu: Yeah, I respect them man. I respect what they were doing, where they are trying to take their music. It’s just smart. Like XXL asked me what generation I thought it was better. 10 years ago. ’98 or ’08? I was like ’98. I’m just meeting some of these dudes now for the first time. I’m eager to see where everybody goes. It’s a lot of ill cats out there. And it’s a lot of ill cats I ain’t even heard.
Complex: Do you feel that you’re kind of ahead of the pack, artistically?
Blu: Nah, not at all man. I’ve got a lot of catching up to do, man. You got cats that were like, man I put out a mixtape a month for the last year. I was like, “What?” Yeah, everybody’s on they shit though.
Go check out his album, "Below The Heavens" if you haven't already, Classic.
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