Video: MTV Mixtape Daily - Young Dro
via MTV
Shot to the heart. Young Dro was putting the finishing touches on his album P.O.L.O. (Players Only Live Once) when he walked into the Grand Hustle office and found out the entire LP was already on the Internet.
“When I walked in the office, couldn’t nobody look me in the eye,” Dro said. “They was looking down. You had Jim Jonsin beats, some of the best production I ever had on there. When I saw it I was like, ‘Oh my God. OMG.’ But then I said, ‘I’m gonna patch it up.’ ”
Dro shook off the shock and came to accept the fact that he would have to record more songs.
“The album got leaked, so we going back in the studio,” he explained. “We gonna get Cannon beats, we gonna get DJ Toomp beats, we gonna sew the album up and act like it ain’t never bled. No leak.”
P.O.L.O. is now slated to drop sometime in January 2010.
“If you a real player, you only get one life,” Dro said. “I’m still a player and I still got one life to live. I’m still in that Polo.”In the meantime, Dro says he’s thinking about putting out five mixtapes — the first is R.I.P.: (I Killed That Shit) with DJ Don Cannon.
“I been waiting for years — he finally called me and said, ‘I wanna do the tape with you,’ ” Cannon said. “I was like, ‘Yes.’ We got new beats, a bunch of freestyles where he killed [other artists'] beats. The whole thing is, ‘I killed that.’ Some people are gonna get mad he killed their beat.”
“I kill everything I do,” Dro insisted. “If you see me in some clothes, I killed that. If you see me in my whip, I killed that. If you hear my flows, I killed that. I be killing stuff. Then we putting rests in peace to — everybody talking swag this, swag that — I killed that. I’m the #1 guy, I’m gonna kill it. R.I.P.”
Joints to Check For:
» “U Don’t Know Bout It.” “It was explaining where I stay or where I live you don’t know about it,” Dro said. “Before you go out telling everybody your business, ‘You don’t wanna know about this, shorty.’ If you ain’t where I’m at or where I live, I can’t tell you about it — that’s breaking the code.”
» “Mo Money Mo Problems.” “The ‘09 ‘Mo Money Mo Problems’ — it’s me, Mac Boney and Tip on there,” Dro said. “We just giving it to them how we seen when we was able to get money and do our thing. We giving it to the public — we still in the streets, we still in the ‘hood, we still corporate, but there’s problems around the money we’re making sometime.”
» “Don’t Know Y’all” “The single ‘Don’t Know Y’all’ on the album, it’s cats out there on the street that act like they know what I been through or act like they was there when I got shot or my mama got shot,” Dro laughed. “I be driving and they flagging me down. When you flagging me down, partna, you don’t know me. Me and the boy Yung L.A. on there. We shot the video in the ghetto. We shot the video in the ghetto. … It was in Chapel Forest on Simpson Road. We had Mike Epps come to the ghetto and see the ghetto children. We was amongst killers and gorillas, but we gave back to the ‘hood — we let the children dance and get their rock on. It’s gonna be real big.”
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November 9th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Original red pack skittles >>>>
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COSIGN
I felt his pain nn Hangover when he got groady when they thru ole boy’s fanny pack wit the skittles in there,
“HEY THERE WERE SKITTLES IN THERE!!!”
shyt pissed me off too
November 9th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
diamonds look like minute made
grand marquis same color as a gatorade (c)
droPlugNovember 9th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
This Darksides ad is wack
November 9th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
At the rate I was going as a yute, Skittles and Starburst would’ve definitely been the catalyst for any onsetting diabetes had I not stopped crushing sweets years ago. Add tooth decay as well.
November 9th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Boos Bigelow Says:
November 9th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Mr. serv on> jay electronica
^lol
November 9th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
good material at a slow pace > garbage at maximum pace
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i could see how Drake’s music might not be some niggas cup of tea, but to call the shit garbage is a stretch.
needless to say though Jay E got this rap shit…I been trying to put as many of my niggas on as possible, and everybody make the same ‘caught a whiff of doodoo’ face while hearing the 3rd verse to Exhibit C…Imma pull a Dblock and make my own mix with some old shit and the newer joints he just released.
November 9th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Young LA> Young Dro
November 9th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Dro singin on OMG > Trey Songz on LOL
November 9th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Comments
November 9th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Lol….Jay electronica gets no respect when he said “I’m from that mag to that melph, to that calliope”….
Then he calls the street car a trolley stop?…LMAO….If that nigga was to bump that shit in the melph niggas and bitches would rob this nigga from the jump.
November 9th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
*listens to exhibit C for the first time*
November 9th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
# b-ease Says:
November 9th, 2009 at 11:32 am
how Buddens took an L when he’s already on to the next?
^^
He was with her for five years. You know as well as I do that shit’s still gonna sting. Especially an emo as nigga like Joey.
^
A hope he dont think she was faithful for five year…
*dry snitches*
November 9th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
holy shyt!
November 9th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Why are nahggers writing essays over fif takin a pic with tahiry? There are more important things in hip hop right now.
November 9th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
pics > pic
November 9th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
whoa! jay e went in on this! they cut the last verse on youtube
November 9th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
i36.tinypic.com/jkuo2u.jpg
^ I was on a lunch stroll and seen this, it looks an awful lot like Seths work (milkcarton status)… so I snapped the shot.
November 9th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
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MAODAY
MAODAY (11/8/2009 at 10:49 PM)
Report Violation
“im on iversons team on this one…he ultimately wants to win”
So why’d he sign with Memphis, if he wants to win? O that’s right, because NO OTHER NBA TEAM HAD ANY INTEREST IN HIM! Now he’s not only not going to win, he’s not going to play. If he could’ve just kept his mouth shut for one season, showed everyone that he CAN be a team player, perhaps a contender would have signed him next year. Now he may very well be done, not because he can’t play anymore, but because he’s a whiny, self-absorbed, selfish, immature brat who makes Terrell Owens look like a team player.
I don’t know why the Grizz even signed him in the first place, they’d be idiots to impede the development of Mayo and Gay, and never mind AI taking their minutes, just having him on the floor with them impedes their development, because AI is about AI all the time.
So, Memphis’ ownership and management are idiots, and AI is a spoiled brat. A match made in heaven…
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DAMN - kay slay
November 9th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
wow @ Jay E knowing about gratiot and hartwell. cats beg for so much change thru there I usually blow the lights
November 9th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
plug what song you listeing to?
November 9th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
plug what song you listeing to?
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exhibit c. if I can hear three more songs like that I’ll be a fan. beats gotta be equally nice as that just blaze beat tho
November 9th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
exhibit c. if I can hear three more songs like that I’ll be a fan. beats gotta be equally nice as that just blaze beat tho
^ did you issue yaself a late pass.
Dear Moleskine>
November 9th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
whoa! who made the beat to exhibit a?!?!??!
*nods head to beat with the sour face*
November 9th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
so how is a guy who makes an exhibit C, a Dear Moleskine to collab with the likes of Curren$y… I don’t get it.
November 9th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Jay electronica’s flow is an imitation of Nas…I mean almost the exact same
November 9th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Kay Slay is a clown.
To any philly nahggers
What does “drawn” mean? I hea philly niggas say this and I laugh, cause I have no fucking clue what this means.
November 9th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
I spit that wonder rama shit…
November 9th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
# cOLD Says:
November 9th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
so how is a guy who makes an exhibit C, a Dear Moleskine to collab with the likes of Curren$y… I don’t get it.
^^
You must not listen to Spitta, if u did you’d understand.
November 9th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
so how is a guy who makes an exhibit C, a Dear Moleskine to collab with the likes of Curren$y… I don’t get it.
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he seems to mention alot about N.O. in the few songs I heard. is he from there? or did he just spend alot of time there…
November 9th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Jay electronica’s flow is an imitation of Nas…I mean almost the exact same
^ why yes, yes it is.
November 9th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
cOLD Says:
November 9th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
so how is a guy who makes an exhibit C, a Dear Moleskine to collab with the likes of Curren$y… I don’t get it.
^^
If this were the Firm, Currency would be playing the Foxy role (ll) to Electronicas AZ, and Mos’ Nas, so to me it does kind of makes sense. Plus they’re both from the NO.
November 9th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
comments
November 9th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
he seems to mention alot about N.O. in the few songs I heard. is he from there? or did he just spend alot of time there…
^ yea he from the N.O… but far as I’m concerned he’s a transplant from Mars.
November 9th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
is he from there? or did he just spend alot of time there…
^^
I’ve wondered the same thing myself, but from all indications, thats where he grew up.
November 9th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Jay electronica’s flow is an imitation of Nas…I mean almost the exact same
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why you say that? because he’s nice? I dont hear it…
November 9th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
*Still tries my hardest to ignore Jay E*
J/K. I’ve just recnently seen the stanning for duke within the last month or so, I guest he was the everyday topic on nah when I was on my vacation.
I’m bout to check some of his shit out in a minute
*still waits for someone to give me the philly definition of “drawn”*
November 9th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
whoa! Mos is goin in.
Mos on Collabos = top 5
November 9th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
He from the third ward, but I thought he lived all over….aint nothing 3rd ward about…accent, style or nothing…He’s stillmatic nas with a lower voice.
November 9th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
# Plug Says:
November 9th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Jay electronica’s flow is an imitation of Nas…I mean almost the exact same
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why you say that? because he’s nice? I dont hear it…
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Lol…dude is aight, but thats where it stops…Listen to nas flow and then listen to Jay electronica….dude is a replica
November 9th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
exhibit c. if I can hear three more songs like that I’ll be a fan. beats gotta be equally nice as that just blaze beat tho
^that was nas-like in its soul and execution
November 9th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Chuck Hamilton is back. While annoying as fuck homie is talented. I hope he does well and deads all that extra shit.
November 9th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
RIP, LOVE that mixtape! LOVE Dro