“I put myself in my own type of vibe,” he explained. “I separated myself from everybody and just concentrated on music. I never had that before. I’ve always had that with my mixtapes — there’s never anybody in the room. But with albums, there’s always people in the room giving different opinions. This time, I just went in there and did everything. When I was done, I let people hear everything. That was a better working process for me.”
“I try to do a lot of records like that on the album that are still jamming records but still have social commentary on them,” he said. “The ‘Hip Hop Police’ record is like a ‘Murder Was the Case’ record. It’s really a concept record. ... Most records now are dance records or for the club. It’s so much of that, I need to go a different direction. I think that’s why I decided to come with ‘Hip Hop Police.’
“It’s automatically different because Slick Rick and Chamillionaire, that’s automatically gonna raise eyebrows,” he added. “Slick Rick has always been one of those guys real good at telling stories. That’s what we’re doing … telling a story about a murder. The metaphor means, nowadays, just loving hip-hop and being a rapper and loving music is the same as committing a murder. ... With all the controversy surrounding rap, that’s what the record is about.”
Cham, well-known for his voice-skills, plays both himself, and the law enforcement within the song as well. “I get arrested, I’m arguing with myself,” he said. “I play the part of the police officer also. I’m trying to pin a crime on myself. The police is saying, ‘We looked at the car, we seen the Chronic you had, we seen the Clipse you had. The Diary, The Blueprint. But … if you think about it, ‘the Clipse’ is the Clipse’s CD. The Diary is Scarface’s CD. The Blueprint is Jay-Z’s CD. The Chronic is Dr. Dre’s CD. It’s hip-hop stuff. A lot of hidden stuff. Then, at the end of the song, they say, ‘We’ll give you a lighter sentence if you pin the crime on your homie.’ That’s when Slick Rick comes in.”
Cham seems to be looking to recreate his early success, as he will once again collaborate with Krazyie Bone for the track “The Bill Collector”. “It’s kind of the same formula,” he said of his new track with Krazyie. “Play-N-Skillz produced it, the guys that produced ‘Ridin’.’ It’s called ‘The Bill Collector.’ People might ask you for a favor. People that owe you money, it’s time to pay up. What reminded me of that is a record Krayzie had with Bone Thugs back in the day called [‘Mr.] Bill Collector.’ I ain’t gonna lie — that kinda inspired me.”
Cham is also feeling a new level of celebrity, as his Grammy-winning hit “Ridin Dirty” was used in the HBO hit show, “The Sopranos”.
“Once they hit me and told me they wanted to use it in ‘The Sopranos,’ I thought it was dope,” he said. “That’s one of them records that, three years from now, people still going to try and use it for something. A lot of people hit me about ‘The Sopranos’ thing, but nowadays not much can surprise me. I seen so many things, man.”
COMMENTS
Damn I've been down wit cham since his "Shyne On" track. Waitin to cop that album
lookin forward to that shit
good lookin
cant wait to hear this single, better yet the whole album. its gonna be a ridin dirty pt.2.
Best Storytellers of All-Time:
1. Nas
2. Slick Rick
3. Notorious B.I.G.
(of course, this is subject 2 discussion)
Chamill Best Lyricist Next To Marshall
psycho9914 — 6 minutes ago
Chamill Best Lyricist Next To Marshall
and nas, banks, jay-z.
OFF TOPIC:
By the way, I OFFICIALLY heard Summertime for the first time, this summer! Let's see how many times we hear it on radio stations (Hip-Hop & R&B AND non Hip-Hop & R&B) across America. Then we'll subtract how many times we hear YOUR favorite rapper's most popular song and come up with an equation for how many times over a
Legend Will Smith
is vs. your FAVORITE RAPPER: i.e. 50 Cent, Young Jeezy, Lil Wayne, Lloyd Banks (ha), Dipset Dipset all day (ha, any of 'em), T.I., and any of these other guys y'all be claiming is the BEST RAPPER ALIVE... Ha, Fresh Prince got more cake than ALL OF EM... INCLUDING JAY, NAS, 50, DRE, & whomever else... I think Will may have more cake than any other rapper...
hurt YOUR feelings, didn't I?
^^^^what the hell is this dude rambling on about? fucking nigga at any second is gonna start asking dudes for credentials and shit. i give him an hour.
Stop wit da pictures Rapgod. You scaring the kids with your ugly ass mug.
You look like a bleached roach. Look at your face.......how are you gangsta??? You look like you work at a daycare watching kids and changing diapers
WELL, CHARISMATIC U GO SOMETHING GOING THERE. 1ST}. SLICK RICK 2ND}.NAS 3RD}.CORMEGA 4TH}.KANE 5TH}.BIGGIE
charismatic — about 2 hours ago
hurt YOUR feelings, didn't I?
definitely not... because everyone knows you're a fucking idiot
good word play with the albums, kinda of what the game did on the documentary cd
BANKS FELL OFF GUERILLA GET OVER IT YO DAT NIGGA IS TUSHI NOW YO ROTTEN APPLE WAS ROTTEN AS SHIT HUNGER FOR MORE WAS TIGHT BUT HE AINT DA SAME NO MORE
For a sec I thought Chamillionaire was in jail
I shoulda known better
Another Studio Gangsta
Scarface The Real Truth From Houston
And the king of the south
Scarface all them niggaz from texas role model
man fuck chamillionare
Cham is commercial as fuck now
Fuck da Police
Man if you actually from da south you dont even picture texas as part of the south. Southeast true south look on ya map. Other states beyond da mississippi river aint shit. This da part of america where it be yup! Cham nice though no hate real talk.
other then that, if you say texas niggas role models and scarface real king of south yo ass on cyrstal meth real talk. uh.. im out
dog shut the fuck up ^^^^^^
man how the fuck you gon say texas ain't southern .....
that was the stupidest shit i heard all year dog...
SCARFACE
GHETTOBOYS
UGK
.......they was around before ATL niggas started coming out the woodwork....
dog go take a geography class you worse than them niggas in new york that be hatin on the south .....gon be from the south, talkin bout texas ain't from the south how the fuck???!!??????
nigga fuck you. THem aint da only niggas who rap southern that came out before atl niggas. Texas aint really south its midwest dumb ass. you da one who need geography class. yes they rap dirty south but regional they not ignorant muh fucka. ugk and then started rapping in late 80's underground. it was plenty southern niggas from ga before then asshole.
TEXAS IS MIDWEST... U DUMB FUCK!!! U DONT EVEN KNO WHERE DA SECOND BIGGEST STATE IS LOCATED AT...
lemme give you some help 'lil ignant one,'
1. type in "southern U.S. region" on google.
2. click on images.
3. then make a comment dat make some muhfuckin sense
On top of dat, past mississippi? Nigga u trippin. David Banner da ONLY nigga I kno dat BEEN reppin dat 'Sip... and New Orleans niggas been on way before him and any other niggas from what u think is southest.
Who Cares If Chamill Is Commercial...... He's Reachin Out To More People Now.... You Niggas Is Nuttin But Haters.
dat southeast cat is fuckin stupid.....if u wanna get litteral with it......the southern line in the confederacy was tha mason dixon.......tha mason dixon goes all tha way up to maryland.........so tech. maryland is part of tha south....but WE tha south dont claim them...jus like VA claim tha south they far north too, so if u in florida or somthing bro or a coastal city that means we can call u east coast cuz u not in tha south u on tha east coast.........if niggas wouldnt be trynta overanylize shit all tha dman time shit liek this wouldnt happen............belive me bro...texas is straight south.....we wer tha last ones ta get rid of slavery in tha south, other then alabama and mississippi we've had tha most racial issuse to recent date as in hate crimes homie.......know ur shit before u speak............as for chamillionaire.....tha nigga is tha truth one of tha few niggas i will listen to from my own state ya dig
South Dallas, Texas Rep
Texas is in the north of canada ....lol (-: Joke bitch
i just cant wait to him and paul wall hit up a song on his cd it was on there at first that him and paul made a song somthin groupies on ultimate victory they should just come out with a whole cd togather i liked them to gather