dude is straight tight! New fresh blood in this game.WHAT DO YOU THINK??
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GAUC1ex3L4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emyspace%2Ecom%2FjoellortizCongratulations on the new deal. How did you link up with Dre?
I actually just got a phone call in May that Dre wanted to fly me out, that he had heard some songs through a friend of mine, Karen, up at Interscope. I think she had hooked it up or whatever. But he flew me out and it was crazy. It was like 10 or 15 minutes of me playing songs. He was just like, “Yo, I’m feeling you.” I’m like, “Yo, what the dilly, yo?” He’s like, “Yo, you wanna be Aftermath?” I’m like, “You’re damn right I wanna be Aftermath!”
Aftermath is notorious for signing artists and letting them sit on the shelf. Was that something you considered?
Nah, it wasn’t an issue because I’d been doing my homework on labels before I even went over there and seen what’s going on. I realize that with bigger labels, with bigger machines, you gotta make them interested. You gotta be the momentum they want to push. So I wasn’t worried about that. I knew that if we stick to our game plan the same way we got myself buzzing in New York that we would get them interested. I’ll be coming out and everyone will want to know who Joell Ortiz is so I’m cool with that.