“British hip hop is almost like indie music at the moment,” he continues, “that’s
how it feels to me. We need more artists and more characters to step up and sell
records across the board. Man like Skeme is wicked, Big P, Danny Vicious, they
are gonna be taking shit to the next level, shit that people ain’t gonna expect and
it’s going to build this thing up. A club like Scratch is 90% white, while Ludicrous
in Hammersmith is 90% black and they’re both hip hop but it’s two totally different
crowds. The new thing has got to be to find some artists that can cross that
barrier and bring the whole shit together into one big audience. Now we have this
strong foundation we have to build on it.”
In the end it all comes down to one thing - performing: “Some man now they just
want to go into the studio and record a tune, they don’t even want to go on stage.
Me and Skitz play all over the place and I get into that Rodney P mode and once
I’m on stage that’s my thing. There ain’t no big money in hip hop here, so man
gotta know how to make money outside of music, then you can do the music for
love. Being on stage with your people, it’s the elixir of life. I do shows now for 18
year old’s, they don’t know who I am other than I got a tune on Skitz’s album, so
we start with a blank sheet and I’m still killing it, serious, I’ve been reborn! Them
young motherfuckers still can’t keep up with me, I’ll still out-drink them, out-smoke
them, out-rap them and fuck more girls!”
If you missed ‘Gangster Chronicles’ in 1990 get your history lesson now
(big up Source/Wordplay). As far as the future goes: “I got to get all this
new music out in time for summer, and believe me a lot of people are gonna have
a lot of words to eat. I’ll promote myself because when I talk this shit I’m
actually me, the Riddim Killa!”
Check ‘The Killing’ video
(big up Oswald Boateng for the garms)
www.rodneyp.com / rodneyp@hiphop.com
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