Interview: Curren$y Talks "Covert Coup," "Muscle Car Chronicles," and New Warner Brothers Deal

Spitta tells us about working with Alchemist, Wiz Khalifa, and the gang of new projects he has got lined up.

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Curren$y just keeps on rolling. The New Orleans native is seemingly always in the midst of releasing new projects while working on even more new material. He's coming off a banner year in 2010 (where he released two thirds of his acclaimed Pilot Talk trilogy), but he's not ready to slow down just yet. He kicked off 2011 right by releasing his mixtape Return To The Winner's Circle and just inked a new deal with Warner Brothers. We got Spitta to stop by the office to discuss all of his upcoming projects, including his Covert Coup EP with Alchemist, his Muscle Car Chronicles, and what his new deal with Warners will mean for his career. It's Jets fool.

As told to Insanul Ahmed (@Incilin)

 

On his Covert Coup EP with The Alchemist

“I got to know Alchemist through beats. I reached out to him on Twitter about some beats. When I went to L.A. to finish the Warner Brothers Deal, I went to Al’s studio, and that was the first time I met him. We were on the same page. We were just in there rolling up, smoking, and I felt like I was around somebody I had been around forever.

On his upcoming Muscle Car Chronicles album and movie

Muscle Car Chronicles will be through BlueRoc and the dealings I had to Dame Dash. I recorded that before I did Pilot Talk I or II. We’ll put it out this summer, we’re just trying to find the right date. With all these other projects and the deal with Warner, we definitely want to give everything room to breathe. It's usually my thing to stack so much music, but I’m going to spread it out and give these retail projects time to do what they got to do. Cause I like money too, so I need to give them time to cash in right.

On his new deal with Warner Brothers Records

“They reached out just based on what I had been doing independently. I think I proved to a few companies that I was going to be a machine regardless, whether I aligned myself with a machine or not, I was going to become a machine. The companies that did step to the table, I never thought I’d be able to maintain my independence and my underground soul of how I do my shit. Just talking to Warner Brothers, they let me know they only wanted to deal with me based on what I had already done. So they would only want me to keep doing that.

On working with Wiz Khalifa on “Rooftops”

“Dude did that for Nate Dogg. This is before Nate Dogg passed. We was in the house singing all kinds of crazy Nate Dogg hooks. Nate Dogg was fine as far as we were concerned. I was in Wiz’s house in L.A. right after the Warner deal was done, it was after the Superbowl. He had to turn [the album] in on February 12, so I think we did that on February 10. He already had the hook laid when I got there. He told me like, ‘Yo, this is my fuckin’ Nate Dogg record.’”

On Pilot Talk 3, The Jet Life album, and Puff Daddy album with Chuck Inglish

“I’m trying to schedule Pilot Talk 3. I don’t know what I’ll do with that. That might be free. That might be some shit I do with Ski just to give out for free just on the strength of what we did. I just got to see what Ski think about it. I got a couple things on my plate right now, and I got projects from Trademark and Roddy that is due too. The Jet Life album is also this year, we’re working right now. I just try to give projects two months to breathe. I also got the project I’m going to do with Chuck Inglish, that one is called Puff Daddy, that’s still being worked out. I’m going to put that out through my Jet Life Recording imprint with Warner.”

 

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