Mr. Kee

Originally published: October 2003

How'd the name Mr. Kee come about is there a story or reason behind that?

Mr. Kee: It started off as Kilo. And that started off with a couple my patnas sayin, you dope, you dope. And as a joke i was like, man I'm a whole Kilo of dope. So it was Kilo, and then basically got switched to Kee cause nobody really called me Kilo, know what I'm sayin, on the block it was always "Ay Kee, ay Kee" And another cat came out back in the day, Keylo, his album was called "Givin Up the Funk", so I was like, you know what, don't nobody call me Kilo anyway and he came out wit a album first so...

How would you describe yourself as a rapper? I mean how would you say your style is?

Mr. Kee: Chameleon.

Meaning you can adapt to anybody's style?

Mr. Kee: Basically, whether I'm on your album, whatevers basically on the beat. I can rap smooth, I can go crazy. So, I can't just say one style.

What kinda sound are you goin for on your next solo? We saw you switch it up from straight Bay Area G shit to more radio friendly shit with your group FE. Can we expect the usual thug shit from Kee on this 3rd album?

Mr. Kee: Yeah, its basically when I do my solo shit its more myself, I mean so the group album was 3 people, the main artists, Shady Shay,Droop . The main 3 people is latin, black and white, and we all got different styles so we had to cater to each other's styles. But um, on my shit its basically half and half, you know I don't wanna go all the way just thug shit and never get on the radio, tryin to make that step forward. Whether you the biggest thug in the world you gonna love the shit on there, or whether you a 17 year old broad who listen to 94.9, you'll love some shit on there. [laughs]

I know what you mean, you cant always be glorifyin street life forever, you gotta grow as an artist some time.

Mr. Kee: That aint never gone take you anywhere, It works with some people, the C-Bo's the Brotha Lynches, but they sell hundreds of thousands of copies. It works for em.

How did FE form and can we expect another group album in the future?

Mr. Kee: If anybody follows my carreer they knowI always had a group around me, I always created groups, from ITPG, to Soldiers of Fortune, to FE, so its really, FE... now you could see another album comin soon, but what I basically do because now we run our own company called "Uprise" so the group thing for me was always, its not like we are all childhood friends, or we came up as a group its always if you followed the whole career they switched up, like I said, ITPG, was Poyo Loko was in it, my brother was on it, Soldiers of Fortune was different and FE was different. So its mainly like a transport, as a company I wanna hear the street talk about whens Shady Shay's shit comin out, or whens Droop's solo comin out, so its basically like that, as a group thing.

So thats not like a mainstay thing, your not gonna be FE for the years to come?

Mr. Kee: I mean yeah, FE, thats the one that stuck, but like I said, the next album you might see, 6 people on the cover.

Any plans to release an FE DVD?

Mr. Kee: Not an FE one but im plannin on puttin a DVD in my album. We're tryin to fight this downloading shit, people are gonna download it anyway but the real cats gonna be, "Man you aint got that DVD?" And thats the only way you gonna be able to get it, and thats gonna have shit like the video with me and C-Bo "Ultimate High," we got another video we made for "Party Don't Stop Till We All Get Paid." Its gonna be filled with, basically on my next album, I got about 20 somethin songs right now, and Imma cut em down to like 16-17. Anything that got cut Is gonna be put on the DVD, so you can still hear what got cut, Its bonus music, footage, show footage and shit like that.

Speakin on your next album, will you reply on Dap for most of the production?, and would you ever work with the Bay Areas heavy hitters for beats, such as Black C, Cellski, Nick Peace, Sean T etc..

Mr. Kee: So far I got Sean T, K Lou, I got this cat named Sho Nuff, Dap did about 2 beats on it, so its gonna be real diverse, and I'm workin on some E-A-Ski, Rick Rock shit too. But on this album I'm shootin for a few different peolpe that I never really worked with.

What about in the future?

Mr. Kee: Oh in the future....thats on them, nobody knows the future. I'd love to, I grew up listenin to em, thats where alot of shit came from, Cellskis, the RBLs, R.I.P. Cougnut, shit like that. On this one I am gonna have some nice features, I don't really wanna speak on it, but I havent worked with them yet at all, but its gonna raise some eyebrows, like whoa.

Which Latin rappers do you respect, and who do you think is the tightest?

Mr. Kee: [laughs] I think Pun was the only one that really, really, made me listen to em. And its not even like, I can't sit here and front, "oh RIP Pun I got all your albums," He didn't make me wanna rap, it was more like, outta anybody out there, I was like, "Yeah thats tight, Id love to bump into him," and its not even like a battle thing, its more like, I'd love to put my skills up against him, I like to up my skills all the time. But as far as anybody else, the only other people that I ever really heard and respected was 10sion, Louie Loc, them 2 cats, I mean theres a few out there but as far as growin up and shit like that, it was never Kid Frost, it was never Lighter Shade of Brown, it was never Cypress Hill, you know what I mean? Thats no disrespect they all did their thing, they were famous off it, but none of them ever made me wanna rap. I'm more like Latin than my competition, than the whole world is. Its like Beesh got his hit record out, but like I said I don't consider it competition, I'm happy that thats goin down because thats opening doors, so hopefully radio embraces me when I get there, like look I'm tryin to do it too. I don't consider it competition, I consider it, it's all a ladder. Raisin that bar.

Which artists influenced you to start rapping?

Mr. Kee: There was Rakim, he was the first one, then basically from there its never just one person that influences you. As somebody who tries to better himself everyday, you get influenced almost everyday. From Rakim got me started, then its hearin the Brotha Lynch shit, E40, and then its E40s and Jay-Z's came out it was inspiration for bein independent, so its like inspiration every day really. and then now its like hearin an Eminem verse and wanting to go home and write. I get inspired everyday to hearin my own folks rap, Dap and cats like that. So I try to surround myself with inspiration cuz if not, then shit, you aint ever gonna develop.

What new cats from the bay are you feelin right now? Who do you see blowing up?

Mr. Kee: New cats? I can't even really get into names, cause its alot of people I've worked with, doin verses with, and heard some shit. Its just the sad thing about it is, we all need distribution, cuz this Bay Area distribution shit, these City Halls and Bayside, they aint gonna do shit. I could sit here and tell you, yeah I love this cat and this cats dope, but without the chance man they aint never gonna shine. They all need the break--I need the break, I got a bigger name then most these can't and I aint even got a break.

Your come up in the game was pretty quick it was a surprise.

Mr. Kee: Yeah and thats when things were good, things were good at City Hall, things were good with the Black-N-Brown compilations and the 14 Kt Dreams. Now its like, these computers man, these computers are fuckin shit up right now. When you're independent and your goal is to sell 2000 copies, I mean thats a small goal, but when you get downloaded, I mean shit your sellin hundreds. Your lucky if your sellin hundreds. It hurts the major cats too, they go platinum, 2X, 3X, but coulda been 6X platinum, I mean they feel it too, but we feel it more. I mean shit, if your just tryin to sell 5000 copies man, and it only sells 1000 cuz its downloaded that hurts. Its 2 different scales. And the thing that hurts more, independent its usually cats tryin to work 9-5 and hustle on the block and puttin their heart and soul into it, thats why it hurts more.

Will you re-release ITPG? Its out of print and the fans are fiendin for it.

Mr. Kee: I keep hearin that all the time so what Imma try to do is after I release my next album, I'm tryin to bring the name back one more time, try to get a little bit hotter, and thats why, I mean the albums gonna come out soon. I still aint got no date or nothin, I ain't tellin nobody nothin, I'm just tryin to be so top secret, from the features and I barely just slipped to lettin you know a couple of the producers. Because what I'm tryin to do is, theres cats that are like "Whens 24 Hours Later comin out?" I switched the title so many times, I'm tryin to make it a little bit harder for the downloaders you know what I mean? But I was sayin, after the album comes out, try to get the name back out there, my first album was called 'Livin On the Ultimate High.' That was the very first album, had six songs on it. So what I'm gonna probly do is, put a CD out where the covers split in half, you'll see the ITPG, you'll see that cover so you actually get everything on one cd. Cuz they werent long CDs so they could probly fit on one. So imma just put em both together just for the fans basically. Its just more I'm tryin to get the hype back up, I was gonna call my album "First Shot, Last Chance" and that had meaning to it too, where this would be like my first shot, and damn near feelin like its my last chance. Like a state of emergency cause on this album, I swear to god man, everybodys gonna be like, "what the hell is Kee doin, this niggas crazy." From advertising to promotion, to radio, everything, I'm just goin all out. Imma leave it as "The One."

Whats with the 10sion & Kee album? Will that ever happen?

Mr. Kee: Oh yeah. Thats positive right there. When we talked about it, Me & 10sion, it was more on, lets just cool out a minute and both try to, If we just put it out tomorrow, it would do good.

But you gotta work on your own names individually right?

Mr. Kee: Exactly. My album, he just got an album put together with his boy chops called Hard Head, so everything helps, everything that hes doin helps, everything that I'm doin helps, and because thats gonna happen regardless. Its gonna be called Tequilla vs. Hennessey. Yeah thats gonna happen regardless, thats future, thats destiny. Cuz we even had a cover up on one of my websites, a weak cover we put together, whatever, and got hella hits on that, like "Ay whats that all about, whens that comin out?" So that was good, it was like fate puttin it out there. They wanna see that. You know I can even put out my new album comin soon or whatever, I wanna start that. I want a real big buzz for that, thats gonna be a nice album I don't want it to go to waste.

Will you hook up for any more collabos with Black-N-Brown again?

Mr. Kee: Um, I mean yeah, thats really on...I mean my contracts done, so I don't know if thats what your askin. But I talk to Goldtoes, we chop it up, so whatever he needs its all good. I think hes puttin out another 10sion album, so if they need me on that.. You know he got other artists, he still doin his thang, Black-N-Brown aint stopped.

What was your relationship with Cougnut? Were yall close?

Mr. Kee: As far as Cougnut goes, the sad thing about it is, it was startin to get good. With him. Like i said, him bein a legend, and him bein on 14 Karat Dreams, working with him like that goin to his house and startin to kick it with him more, it was a sad thing about it. We was really tryin to kick it. And I'm startin to be on a better level, but its not like we was best friends or nothin, we was folks tho. And the thing that really got me too, man [his death] was on my birthday. I'm gettin taken out to eat and I'm gettin all these phone calls and tryin to be happy and sad at the same time, you know what I mean?

Are there any songs you did with Cougnut that haven't been released?

Mr. Kee: I did some shit for his stuff, so, man I don't know who has it or what, but I did a couple things for him. Matter fact, I think the song I did with him, I think Louie was on it, I did it at some dude's house, it was a studio they had, so yeah I done stuff with him, I never heard it at all, I aint got control of it all but, hey.

Whats your opinion on the current Bay Rap scene, and what do you think needs to be done for it to blow up and shine like it did in the early 90's?

Mr. Kee: The early 90's everybody was independent makin good money. Thats why it was shining. It doesnt mean that we could go to Idaho and the knew us. Bay area was shining itself period, you talkin bout "I Got 5 On it" and "Playaz Club", It was all nice, like I said it was the independent. It was the independent money. Everybody was makin good money, everybody's CD was gettin them 7 or 8 dollars a pop. Makin good money sellin thousands of copies and life was lovely. Now anybody and their mother can walk to a distributor and get it put out, the shelves went like bein 1 row, to 3 rows. And that sounds like it should be good, you know cause I used to walk into those tape stores and see just 1 rack of rap, and be mad, like there should be more rap. But now its like it got outta hand. Too much. I mean anybody and there mama could go in there like I said, consignment distribution, cause distributors don't give a fuck no more. Give em their shit you sell 100 copies they kick you off, but they made that money. Record stores don't care on consignment cause they not paying you, they pay you if you sell, they don't have to if you don't. They don't lose nothin but shelf space. Basically, bottom line the bay area is clogged with shit. The rap buyers at the stores they aint listening to shit, they don't care. Which on one hand is bad for the dude tryin to come up and put their shit on their shelves, but I mean, like I said, my raps, if you weak, yout patnas better let me know cuz if not, you just wasting your time, your takin up shelf space, you doin too much and its time to get another job. Thats some shit talkin, but thats how I feel, your takin my space. Takin space from these cats that are really hustlin and really got skills. Cause you got a fan that walks into a store, buys 2-3 cds, and they all suck, how many times he gonna wanna come back?

The thing is also, when you got a compilation with big names on it, with like say JT and Mr. Kee, and its the same recycled shit, that puts a bad name on the artist.

Mr. Kee: Exactly. Another problem with Bay Area, is nobody wants to pay good money for you, you got cats that are buyin verses from cats that got verses from other cats that got verses from other cats that got verses, and then now you hearin the same Mr. Kee verse on 3 albums and you might be lookin at me like I'm an asshole because you thought I went there and rapped the same verse. Cuz Bay Area we all hustlas, everybody's tryin to out-hustle the next person. I go outta state dude and when I ask for $500-$1000 I get it. No problem. And they're like thats it? I ask for that out here and they're like, "Man wassup wit a 100 dollars and a thing of Henny?" We're all hustlas. We all hustle each other. They could have a pocket fulla money and theyre like "I got 50 bucks for you dog," and everybody wanna use, "come on we folks I got no job this is how I live its my job" And they'll be like "well if so and so did it for $200 or Andre NIckatina did it for whoopty whoop.." and its like, I said it on the end of my Bay Area song on Latin Plague, when I mentioned all the Bay people at the end. I'm like muthafuckas gettin $100,000 a verse, $50,000 a verse, nobodies up in game. If so and so charges this they gonna look at me and laugh. Like "What? You want 1000 from me?" Cats like me towards the bottom of the barrel are like damn, are you serious? He charged only that? I can't charge more then so and so. Basically bottom line is, Bay area is real sloppy, I mean some cats makin music just for the block, just for their listening pleasure. It's so easy to press up CDs now. Some cats just want their just want their hood fame. Man I want the world, and everything in it.

Do you think local radio stations such as KMEL and Wild 94.9 show the Bay Enough love?

Mr. Kee: Not at all, not at all. There was a time like a month ago or so, they had "Bay Area hour" or somethin like that. And everybody was juiced like, "man thats coo they tryin to do whoopty whoop!" I was mad. Bay Area Hour?? Shit! Half the day or somethin. An Hour!? We suppose to backflip and be like oh god they tryin to help us out. Thats crazy. An Hour. We live here, your in our backyard. This is our spot, I mean especially, I aint gon' say no names but you'll know who it is by "The Peoples Station" [laughs]. What people? What people you talkin bout? New York cats? East Coast? Down south? I mean thats all they play, Down South and East Coast, and like I say when they say you get a Bay Area or West Coast Wednesdays or shit like that. I mean thats coo, because theres DJs and Radio jockeys and whatever that are tryin. They can't do nothin about, I mean I run into cats all the time like Strawberry, cool as hell, Strawberry from 94.9, cool as fuck. Would love to sit there and play Bay shit all day. The higher powers. Its really gettin mad at the radio or whatever but know who your gettin mad at. You can't just see Chuy Gomez on the street and just try to fight him. He got nothin to do with nothin. And you can't slip him no money, and you cant do nothin, he cant do nothin about it. Its jus basically higher cats, thats a whole nother subject. And just the other day someone requested Cougnut. They played candy paint, "Shining Star." Its C-Fresh! I called in and I'm like "When you gonna play that Cougnut?" "I just did" and I'm like man don't disrespect a legend like that! Man they don't know their shit! You really just thought you played Cougnut? Play some Scandless, do somethin. So I mean its like, man they try to act like "yeah we're all for the Bay," but like I say you get radio people from all over the country, they interact, they leave, they come here, The Baker Boys, they go, know what I'm sayin. How you gonna boot Franzen and Trace dog and get them outta here when they were playin shit too!? Its just all funny. Its monopoly money. Clear Channel takin everything, they own the world. The mentality of the Bay Area, man you cant just run up in there and put a pistol to em. Then you got 20 thousand lawyers on you. [laughs]

Yeah they might premier somethin like, Keak da Sneak's new single but then they'll just go right back to the rotation of the same 10 songs.

Mr. Kee: Its basically like, "Man here, shut up."

Here it is, shut up, we pleased you, now back to regular programming.

Mr. Kee: Now back to Roc-a-channel, Roc-A-Fella radio and all that stuff. [laughs]

Whats your thoughts on the mixtape scene and would you consider putting one out?

Mr. Kee: I put out a mixtape called Doin Too Much, I only did 100 copies though. I did that for the hell of it. I got a little machine at the house that I practice on, called the VS8 80, a 8 track digital machine, cause I don't write raps no more I put em all on that, since my last album The Latin Plague. Since my last album I haven't even written no raps. Its not that I freestyle, I write in my head. So basically, when I made a mixtape it was all the shit I just practiced. I didnt think about makin a mixtape, I just take instrumentals and rap to em, and then I have hella songs and my Manager Will was like, "put that on an album," I was like fuck it, this is just practice to me anyway. I ain't trippin. Yeah, thats how the mixtape came out. But the best thing about mixtapes is thats how cats can get heard real easy, thats how as soon as a beat comes on that everybody loves cause its on the radio whatever, you got their atenttion, now you gotta come tight.
I always throw somethin in at a show or whatever, cause that gets the crowd pumped, you know you rappin over, In Da Club, shit like that, the best thing it does especially for a local artist, it gets peoples attention. Sometimes you got some weak ass beats or whatever and you might got skill, but if the beat don't catch somebody they gonna turn that shit off. So thats better if you got skills and cant afford no beat, shit put some shit to some platinum beats, and send it out, don't even sell em, just hand em out everywhere,I mean your burnin cds anyway at home anyway so burn up 100. [laughs] And hand em out, sell em for a dollar whatever, but that gets your little name out there and people are like he got skills. Thats what we're not doin no more, that word gotta spread, dude is dope, its like you can't just sit at your garage and you wanna be a rapper now and never really went to a hotel party and battled somebody, or didnt just run around, its suppose to be the word I mean thats how it was back in the day, the word. "that kid Mr. Kee is hot man, hes runnin round handin out his tapes and shit."

Yup, Word of Mouth is the best promotion

Mr. Kee: Word of mouth is the best promotion, exactly, because like I said, some cats got beats, things to make beats in their garage, things to make graphics and never even leave that mothfucka. They could do the whole shit and put it on the shelf and wonder "why they not sellin?" Nobody just looks at a cover like hey that looks tight.

Who in your opinion is the most raw lyricist in the Bay?

Mr. Kee: Quinn always been one of my favorites, 40, still ahead of his time, those are a few. You kinda caught me off gaurd but when I think lyrics man theres people who make me pumped! The Killa Tays and Guce, theres cats that get you pumped, C-Bo and everybody, but like I said lyrics wise, Quinn's dope, E40s dope, theres other cats like freestylin wise you know Locksmith, my own crew. What I'm tryin to bring to the table too, you gotta fuse it together too, like one of my lines on my album "Theres not a word out there that rap aint used, it all depends how ya do it, when ya do it, who ya do it to." Man you can say, I shot em in the back, flip that shit, slug to the 2rd vertabrae, you can simply say, I shot em in the back, I mean try just really try, sit there n concentrate. Its own style its on delivery, you gotta sit here, "I'm lyrical miracle," its no back pack rap its really just up the game man, were gettin looked at and laughed at as far as West Coast rap goes and shit like that, "all you guys talk about is guns and blah blah blah, whoopty whoop" its time to just use your brain. Pick up a fuckin thesauraus if you got to. Do somethin, up the game up.

What do you think needs to be done for the West Coast to dominate and get back on top?

Mr. Kee: Um, Man really if I could answer that question I could answer why I'm not platinum. Its really no answer to that. I could speak on the Bay Area, I'm from here, I see cats all the time. As far as the West Coast as a whole, now we talkin on the whole nation, why the whole nation doesn't dig it. Even the Bay Area thing, why doesnt the whole nation dig it? I don't know, I'm not from where these cats are from, I mean you go Down South, they dig Chopped and Screwed shit, I don't. So I mean really you gotta be able to cover the whole board, thats what I'm tryin to sell like on my shit, Your probly not gonna like the whole album, you yourself. I mean theres gonna be 2 or 3 songs that your like what is he doin? But its gonna be the cats over here that dig it, and the 3 songs you like, they don't like. So you can never please anybody ever. If you got one song the Down South likes and one the East Coast, and the rest the Bay Area or West Coast, I mean you cool, you cool. Its 2 different ways, west coast is already thugged tryin to get a little more lyrical with the thug shit, and East coast was lyrical and tryin to get a bit more thug. So its blending all into the middle. Now its nobody style no more its who can do it better peroid.

Which rapper out there do you is the best overall artist?

Mr. Kee: Eminem. Especially now that hes makin beats and shit, hes lyrical. Concepts, now hes makin his own beats so now hes turnin to a total package too. As far as, I don't really listen to too much outside shit. I sit here constantly with my headphones on, with my shit, critiquing my shit, my old shit, my new shit. Thats what I constantly do, I get handed CDs all the times from cats and I don't try to mean no disrespect, but I see them again and theyre like "Did you hear that shit?" Man, you know what dog, its still on my shelf in the package with the rest of em, I mean I'm tryin to collect shit too, so its not like I didn't wanna hear it. Thats why I tell cats gimmie 2, gimmie 2, especially if I was on your album. I'll listen to one and keep the other one the shelf, and if I don't listen to it its probly on my shelf with my whole collection. So like I said, if you don't listen to your shit all the time, your doin somethin wrong, I mean you need to be listening to your shit and critiquin it all the time, some cats think, just knock it out and its cool. Shit I been in this game a long time I still critique my shit, I still practice. I still wake up in the morning and just rap over any fuckin beat, just to stay sharp. Its always somebody, theres another Mr. Kee out there...theres another Mr. Kee out there tryin to take my shit, tryin to take my spot, as soon as Kee's gone I'm in there, or if hes not gonna leave I'm gonna knock him out of his spot. So I'm stayin sharp.

You ever try your hand at producing?

Mr. Kee: On my earlier shit. On Ultimate High I did a couple beats, on ITPG I did a few beats.

Is it the type of thing you wanna keep on doing, or it just wasn't your thing?

Mr. Kee: Nah I loved it. I loved doin it its just I had equiptment around me. I had the equiptment around me to where I was like lemme try this shit. So I loved doin it, But I don't got my equiptment, but its not somethin I'm tryin to save up, Its not important to me. Thats somethin I feel like, I can get away from the rap and do that and eventually I wanna sit here with a fat ass studio. Own my own business with a fat studio and then sit around and just drink hennessey all day and make beats and get fat. [laughs] Make 60 an hour on studio time. Its somethin I know at least I can do it. So its not like I'm havin this dream of doin a studio and being a producer and never tried it. I know some Pro Tools and shit like that, I'm always styudying, watchin, askin questions. Me havin somethin like that wouldn't be like I'd be a new booty.

Speakin of other cats music, what do you got in your CD changer right now?

Mr. Kee: Shit like All Eyez On Me. I just got back from LA and thats what I heard all the way back. I got CD folders full of shit, from the Dogg Pound,etc. Its mainly older shit, every now and then I'll cop somethin, like i got the new E40. But while I'm in work mode I really don't listen to anybody elses shit, I don't wanna feel like I'm feedin off them. So when I write my shit and work on my own shit, as soon as my albums done its like whatever. Its almost like training for boxing or for football you don't really wanna go off and do nothin else if your concentratin on somethin.

Whats Sativa been up to?

Mr. Kee: Shes workin on the caldenar, as far as music wise shes in the same boat as Shady Shay, Droop. Basically on more and more request, nowadays in this game you gotta supply people that are hungry and not try to make hella food and nobodys hungry. But she gets alot of requests, shes been on other cats shit too. She has an advantage as bein a female, so she looks good on stage. She does get the phonecalls and people try to get her on shit and do shows or whatever, so she does have the advatange to where Shady and everybody else tryin to get their shit out there too. But a couple cats have even been tryin to get at her to gettin her on there label, but I'm not for holdin any body back.

Whats the deal with Droop?

Mr. Kee: Droop's a whole nother character, hes like me he likes to work. He likes to do his own shit, hes actually paying for his own studio time and gettin his shit done. Thats what I like, I don't realy like nobody sittin waitin for somethin to happen, I never could. I never had a Mr Kee that I could look up to or be in his group. You gotta take matters into your own hands sometimes and thats what people like. He performs this one song called "Booty" at shows, that he just recorded, and that motherfuckers dope too. He got about 3 songs done towards his shit. Hes on my new album. We got a couple on there, one radio, one crazy ass one called "Analyze This." One thing about Droop, hes not the pretty boy, fruity singer dude [laughs] He'll sit there in a bar fight and then go sing somewhere. Hes street so thats the good thing about him. You can even hear it in the song that he did the September song "I was runnin these streets.." He puts that in his shit and thats what I think he will get over on. Even the thug dude will put it on for his bitch and be like baby this is how I feel about you. I went to jail and whoopty whoop. He got a few faster songs, where hes cussing. Bitch and all that.

Any rapping coming from him or just all singing?

Mr. Kee: Man he rapped on the FE album. The hook was yall aint good on my team, called "True Life" or some shit, hes rappin on that, he ripped too.

Are you doing any shows anytime soon?

Mr. Kee: I don't have nothin planned right now. The last show I did was in Monterey, that was like a week ago. I'm not lookin for it, we're not really pursuing it. The FE album is doing what its doing so that has its own shows and shit too so as far as me, I don't got nothin planned Like I said I'm tryin to work on my shit. I've done a couple shows where I try to throw some of my songs on it, don't really know em that good, you know. [laughs] Its like I'm tryin to hold on. Like I said I'm not really lookin for nothin now. Some shows pop up. Its to the point where I'm done tryin to chase shows and go here and rap for free. If the phone rings and its money, I'm there. Lets go.