ALL STAR 2011 - Ozone Magazine

this shit solid. I keep the people feeling likeI’m one of them, because I am. That’s why I’vebeen so successful. I’m one of the people theyrecognize and they’re like, “I’m just like thatnigga.” That’s why my core fanbase won’t letme die. I ain’t did a show in three years, butI’m able to maintain my sales and my presencethrough the internet, the publications, and themedia. That’s just a blessing. The fans won’t letme die.What project are you working on now?I just dropped Highly Aggressive Volume2 yesterday. I’ve got a documentary and asoundtrack coming out called Gigantic, whichis the untold Messy Marv story behind the rapper,the entertainer, the father, the gangster.There’s a lot of educational Bay Area history inthere too. I shot and directed my reality showMr. Ghetto Celebrity. I’ve got my clothing linecoming soon. Right now I’m working on a newLP called The Cooking Channel. I’m workingevery day.You also seem to change your phone numberevery other day. It doesn’t seem like that’d begood for business.I got a 1-800 number that I keep steady forbusiness. That’s on 24 hours so I don’t evermiss the networking and business call. Butwhen you’re dealing with a personal line,you’ve got to keep the line clean and avoidthe bullshit. Somebody’s negative energy cansuck up all the positive energy out of you. I’vegot muthafuckers calling asking for Sprint billmoney and telling me their bitch done ran off.I don’t wanna hear none of that shit, man. Mybusiness associates and my homies keep myline. But everybody else, once they wanna suckthe positive energy out of a nigga with thatbullshit, I change my number.sound the same.Do you think it’s lack of ambition or just beingtoo comfortable?I guess everybody’s comfortable with it, andI ain’t knockin’ it. But I’ma tell the world a differentstory as far as the Bay Area. But I ain’tmad. Everybody’s playing a part. Everybody’srepresenting, and that’s what it is.Have you officially changed your name toThe Boy Boy Mess or is that basically just analias of Messy Marv?I officially changed my name to The Boy BoyYoung Mess ‘cause I officially changed as a person,as a whole. I’m always gon’ be Messy Marv,but it’s the new Mess. It’s the Mess that got upout of that jail. It’s the Mess that moved out ofthose conditions. It’s the Mess that outgrew alot of people in a lot of situations. It’s the Messthat couldn’t get rich in the Bay Area and hadto move up out of that muthafucker to get hispennies. The new Mess.You’ve been pretty open in the past aboutyour struggles with drug abuse. Have youmoved past that?Yeah, I’ve been clean for two years now, nodrugs. I didn’t go to rehab. Rehab is for weakpeople. I did mine based on discipline. Ismoked the fuck out of some weed, though,and had a drink or two, but as far as the partydrugs, I don’t fuck around...The rest of this interview is featured in OzoneMagazine #84:When you go out on tour, who else from theBay do you plan on performing with? What’syour take on the current Bay Area movement?I feel like everybody’s representing. Everybody’sgot a part they play, whether it’s theold Bay or the new Bay. I just feel like we’re ata standstill because everybody feels like theycan’t leave the Bay Area. So everybody endsup with the same production and the samegraphic designer doing their cover. That meanseverybody looks and sounds the same. Thenyou get everybody putting each other onthe album, so you’ve got the same features.Everybody’s fuckin’ with the same jeweler. Niggasare buying the same outfits from the sameclothing store. Nobody knows who is who. It’s400 muthafuckin’ rappers and they all look andOZONE MAG // 55