PISTOL PETE EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
CHAMP MAGAZINE
The Boy Hollywood
CHAMP: What’s goodie Pistol Pete? What are you up to?
Pistol Pete: I was just in a video with Joe. Joe Crack.
CHAMP: We getting ready for the Kill All Rats album droppin’. How are you feelin’ about the anticipation of the album so far man?
Pistol Pete: Oh I feel good man, I feel blessed man. To me it’s a blessing man. It’s been a long time coming and we’ve been workin’. It hasn’t been easy but we pulled it off.
CHAMP: Of course you’re presenting this with Fat Joe. What’s your relationship like with Joe? You guys look like you got the brotherly love for each other.
Pistol Pete: Joe’s my brother man you already know. That’s my brother for a very long time. Right before the game and right before this rap game. We go way back man. Me and Joe have a great relationship. He’s always been there for me and it’s a blessing to have him as friend and a brother.
CHAMP: Just to get the clarification for the fans. Is K.A.R with Terror Squad or is it just two separate music groups?
Pistol Pete: It’s two different music groups. I’m Terror Squad. Kill All Rats is Kill All Rats. Still affiliated with Terror Squad. They a part, but they not actually Terror Squad. They signed to Kill All Rats.
CHAMP: What was the message you were tryina send with this album? What was the message you would want cats to take away from this album after listening to it?
Pistol Pete: This is an album that we put our heart in. We work hard man and at the end of the day the album is gonna represent the struggle, the recession, a side that people can relate to. These guys here: Rob Cash, Leader, and Onez, they all come from the hood. They all come from projects and the struggle. I come from there as well but beyond that I come from jail. I was in prison for a long time, and it was something that I’ve always inspired just by the struggle and my experiences with life in the struggle and the hood. We got everything that could relate to a daily life. We got a lot of club joints, got a lot of hard joints with Jadakiss. We got D-Block on there , we got Diplomats on there, we got Sean Kingston, Tony Sunshine, Ace Hood for all the people in the south.
CHAMP: Oh man! It looks like a heavy loaded album homey
Pistol Pete: It’s official man. Believe me when I tell you man I’m impressed myself. We got Leader: Young guy for the girls, for the young people, young generation, he’s really young. He’s like 18. He knows about the hood life and he know what the young people look for so he’s bringing that super swag in. We got Onez and he’s from Harlem, from the Washington projects. Spanish guy, Puerto Rican guy swagged up and he bringing that raw voice that couldn’t even tell it was him. When you see him you be like “Wow! That’s you?”. He got his own style ‘cause some guys always seems like they sound like someone else that’s in the game. He has his own identity and his own style. More importantly they got me man. I’m the face. We used to call ourselves K.A.R: The Movement, but now it’s K.A.R Mafia. It’s a mafia. We a bunch built brothers who’s loyalty to each other. We live by the saying “balls & principles”.
CHAMP: Of course I wanted to get into the name K.A.R. For a lot of people just being introduced to K.A.R and they think that it was just a name that was a direct shot at 50, now was that something you guys were named before the whole issue with you guys and G-Unit?
Pistol Pete: Yes yes. K.A.R was found in jail. When I was incarcerated and when I was in the feds. In the feds you see a lot of incredible shit like mothers is tellin’ on they sons, sons is tellin’ on they fathers, brothers bringin’ they brothers in; a lot of disgusting, disrespectful, unloyal shit goin’ on so that was like my slogan. I used to run around and be like “Kill all rats!” and at the same time, if you was a rat you couldn’t live around me. You couldn’t be around me or any of my dudes whether you were from Houston, California, Texas, New York, Massachusetts, it didn’t matter. If you followed the same morals and principles as I had, then off the rip you would’ve got on the Kill All Rats movement and that was something that I created in jail. I started the Kill All Rats. Me and this brother Tito Cruz who was killed like two years ago.
CHAMP: Rest in peace for sure man. How did that whole thing start with G-Unit vs. Kill All Rats, ‘cause it’s looking like it came outta nowhere, but what’s your side of the story?
Pistol Pete: Bottom line is this man. If you got problems with Joe you got problems with me and if you got problems with me you got problems with Kill All Rats. Kill All Rats is a movement. It’s a mafia. Meaning it’s not just a little bit. The rappers are just the guys that represent the movement. Kill All Rats is a family man and it’s a mafia man. We just got K.A.R south. We got a bunch of artists that we’ve been signing out there. We got a street fighter named Levels. He about to go pro in a few months. We movin’ man. As you know 50 got at Joe and tried to get up at Joe and all that and we just felt the need to let it be known that at the end of the day you can’t really talk that shit ‘cause you not out here in the hood. We out here in the hood, we in the projects. I just came from doing a feature with Joe in the hottest projects in the world and that’s the V & R projects. He’s a good guy from Queens, you came up, God has blessed you all blesses man, but don’t get crazy and all that ‘cause at the end of the day Fat Joe, Crack, he got a family.So we just got at them early and he’s doin’ little shit and tryina give back but we did what we had to do man. The Gay Unit, that shit went platinum out here. The streets is lovin’ that. It was a classic mixtape and we did well on it.
CHAMP: Going back to the album, who do we got on the production credits on the Kill All Rats album?
Pistol Pete: We got Butta Beatz, we got Street Runner, we got Team Famous, we got some Scott Storch shit, we got a lot of good production man. A lot of good production.
CHAMP: You’re called the King of Rikers Island. That’s a huge name! Where does that derive from homey?
Pistol Pete: (Lol). That’s the number one question and this time around it was the last question! It was just...I guess they called me the King of Rikers Island because I put in a lot of work when I was there. When I was there it was tough man. It wasn’t as easy as it is now. Now they have a lot more gang members. I was there when it was there too, but not it’s even more flooded and I’m not down with no gang or nothing, I always believed in…My thing is morals and principles man. If you violate me and you down with a gang that’s 30 billion in the same jail that I’m in, I don’t give a fuck. At the end of the day it’s consequences man and I’m good to let it be known when you violated. The reason I actually was called King of Rikers Island is because I was one of the first predicates on Rikers Island. I was one of the first guys that walked around with shackles on my feet and shackles on my hands and handcuffed with mittens on and all that.Before they had this thing called red i.d and mittens and stuff like that I was one of the first guys already with handcuffs and shackles and stuff like that walkin’ around and getting special visits and all that. I was in there with Larry Davis, Pappy Mason, Fat Cat. It was tough. It wasn’t too many Spanish, Puerto Rican guys, that was really puttin’ that work in. I was like that one that really put that work in, so that’s where that King of Rikers Island came. Let me tell you something. It’s nothing to really praise at the end of the day. It’s something…I mean Rikers Island dedicate all type of things to me but the bottom line is Rikers Island is not a place to be and jail is not the place to be either. At the end of the day, it’s about being out here in the streets and being free and being able to accomplish the things that you want to accomplish and your dreams. I want the youth to know that although I’m considered the Rikers Island King, and it’s all great, at the end of the day, that’s not what it is. It’s about bein’ out here with your family and doin’ the right thing. A lot of guys come home from jail or parole and they think they got to go back to sellin’ drugs and feel like they don’t have a chance because they on parole and all that. That’s not true. If your mind and your heart is into it, and you wanna do what you wanna do,you gon’ be alright man. You gon’ survive and you gon’ succeed.
CHAMP: Of course, like you had just said, a lot of people have that respect for you. Even artists in the game as well. I remember hearing a joint where Hell Rell was biggin’ you up…
Pistol Pete: Yeah, Hell Rell, Game, Cam’Ron. I fuck with all of them. The game has a lot of love for me man. A lot of good guys. The game’s funny. The game’s a selfish game and it’s not an easy game but at the end of the day, you gotta stay true to it.
CHAMP: How do you feel about the constant comparison to Suge Knight?
Pistol Pete: I’ve always been considered the Suge Knight in the east and all that, but at the end of the day that’s all cool. I don’t praise that like Suge Knight is my man, that’s my dude, I fuck with Suge Knight when I go out to LA. I fuck with Big U, Nipssey (who’s a new artist coming out). As far as me being considered that, it is what it is. I guess I earned it. I’m well respected and loved out here in New York. I’m a good guy, good brother and I help out. I’m that guy that comes through with U-Haul on Thanksgiving Day and give out Turkeys to my hood.
CHAMP: That’s what’s up man! Going back to the album now. What’s the single we got coming off the album and what’s the video we got coming as well?
Pistol Pete: The video’s crazy. We did a video man and I’m satisfied with it. We did it in Miami. It was a great look, lot of girls, motorcycles, cars. It’s at a house club. Joe said on his verse on that single Oh Baby “my nigga Pistol Pete he don’t know how to act so I gotta leave him home ‘cause the party be a wrap”. So instead of going out to the club, we kept the party in the house. I can’t really be goin’ no where ‘cause when I’m goin’ anywhere I got 30 goons with me so it’s like fuck it we’ll film the party in your house. It’s a great video man. I’m happy with it. The second single is with Ace Hood and it’s Girl Wanna Have Fun. It’s a club joint and it’s a good joint. As I been readin’ a lot of people that be commentin’ and the DJs are very excited about this. They never thought we was gon come out with a joint like this. Girls Wanna Have Fun is a good joint. It’s a happy summer joint. Just because we K.A.R, doesn’t mean we gon’ be shooting and killing the whole album. It’s about bringing that sound and that different touch.
CHAMP: What else can we expect from K.A.R for the rest of the year? We got the album dropping Any other side ventures or anything you guys are working on that we should look out for?
Pistol Pete: I’m working on a film. I got a film that I did called Death Before Dishonor. Before I started the whole K.A.R entertainment, before I even got into the music, I was into doing documentaries and films. I did a film called Death Before Dishonor, I did a film called Hip Hop Police. On Death Before Dishonor, I sold like 170,000 and I was real successful on that. I’m doing Tales From the Pen right now and with Trust Comes Betrayal, which is a short film straight to dvd. I got Ray J who’s gon be the star on that flick. I also got another joint I’m working on called Kill All Rats: The Movie with Cam’Ron in it. I got a lot of things going on. As far as that is concerned, you can also look out for Rob Cash. I’m working on his solo album, and the future album for K.A.R, the name of it is gonna be The Extermination Continues.
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