Kid Bookie Interview

After recently dropping his free promo, I caught up with South London MC Kid Bookie, to check out his views on the scene, the South Soldiers situation and what the young up and comer has got in store for us next !

Me: So Kid Bookie…give us a little bit about yourself..

Kid Bookie: I’m just an MC from South London, Greenwich sides, looking to be a respectable member of the scene really.

Me: I see. A lot of people said they wasn’t feeling you after your appearance on Westwood, but opinions certainly changed when you dropped your promo “In The Making”, how does it feel knowing you’ve swayed people’s perspective ?

KB: It’s good and feels healthy to know when I put in the work it gets noticed. But its a downer on some sides as I first like got heard on Westwood’s show last year September with hood stars Dot Rotten and Voltage, and didn’t show my ability, people will remember and try not to give me a second chance, so I have a lot of potential fans to persuade really.

Me: Do you feel the listeners are all to ready to jump on mistakes then or is it there right?

KB: It goes down to who your most familiar with, people like to hear familiar voices, so when a new voice comes in its hard to really capture the audience as they feel more in tune to artists they already know. If you heard me from last year times and locked off from listening to me since then you won’t see the improvements, but if you have recently got into me I guess its easier to change opinions as I’m in the process of mastering my flow and writing in general which always makes me improve gaining more of a fan base.

Me: Ok I heard that. So now you’ve dropped your promo what can we expect next ?

KB: Well to be honest, it was slightly half hearted with old tunes and new material, but my next project is a little EP called ”Aftershock” featuring local MC’s from my part of south like P Money, Jendor, Little D, Dot Rotten, Desperado and then out of the ends MC’s like Lee Brasco, Scru face and more. I’m putting in a lot of time and effort as I’m getting a lot of positive comments on the Myspace, youtube videos of me and fans on the MSN, so its giving me a better push. Obviously I still have the potential listeners so hopefully this new project can open a lot of ears for me and more support in the music.

Me: Well it’s nice to see you working with McCs off your own ends, did the locals provide your inspiration for MC’ing or did you find it elsewhere ?

KB: Definitely locals, spitting is still fairly new to me, started 2007 around march times, always listened to it before though, had P Money, Desperado, Gully Rainjah on repeat during school times, as they were local it was fairly easy to see them. Once I started I did one of my first tunes with P Money, and then met up with Firmer Dee did a few tunes and then met up with Desperado, he was a big part for me as he definitely was a strong influence to me, he recruited me to South Soldiers and I became more aware of the scene giving me an insight to more MC’s which I gained more knowledge about, Dot Rotten as well was an inspiration, definitely pushed me a lot in my music, a lot of love for that.

Me: As people may or may not no, you’re no longer with South Soldiers, what happened there ?

KB: Umm .. haha, well it came down to I think, getting to complacent within the group .. I stopped really putting effort in and sitting back, and despa and the rest were always working pushing the group, I was just generally being a wasteman sitting under your local lamppost bunning a joint, so he basically had a deep talk with me and decided what was best, was also going through a madness with the family, and shit just wern’t going good.

Me: Oh I understand, what’s your current view on the grime scene ?

KB: It’s strong and weak in some ways. Well in my opinion, strong for a lot of the top MC’s are all pushing each other getting a lot of there material around the whole of the UK but weak as in no one really wants to work with each other, that’s where I’m trying to break that, one tune on my CD called ”Bars & Flows”. I had the idea to just bring different ends together, with Double S from north, Voltage from East, Youf from south west, and Jendor and Mega from South East, unity is better and everyone working with everyone structures a scene and pushes it forward.

Me: Yes “Bars & Flows” has had some big feedback, was it complicated getting all them MC’s into the studio ?

KB: Na not really, I just basically rang them and said when your free go studio and record a 16 on the beat took around a few weeks or so as the line up changed so many times, Ice Kid was originally on it, Little D, Scru Face, Vertex, Dot haha it was a madness..

Me: Ahh I see I see. Bars & Flows was produced by Z Dot, is he one of your fav’s and do you have any producers where you think “oh if I work with them that’ll be sick ?

KB: I rate Z Dot he’s always had a bigger outlook for me, I’m glad to push him and yee, I want to work with Joker and Silencer, hard producers, but I do enjoy working with one up n comer called SickWun (VERY HARD), Skeamz and Dot Rotten as well are producers I enjoy working with and lacing there beats.

Me: Ok. What about MC-wise, anyone you’d like to collaborate with ?

KB: J2K, Manga, there’s quite a number .. hopefully I can get to them in the future.. I should be doing a few vocals of Wiley’s beats..but that guys to unreliable

Me: Well he is the self proclaimed godfather lol. Do you agree, who’s your top 3 ?

KB: Regardless of what anybody says you gotta respect the clown, Durtty Goodz, Crazy Titch and probably my brother dot, all hard artist’s.

Me: Ok well tanks for taking time out to speak to us, any shoutouts ?

KB: Yeee big up YOU fam , for supporting me, big up Scru Face, Despa, Dot Rotten, 12, Youf, Littles, Jendor, mega big up all the the DJ’s supporting me and boom, keep checking up on me cah i got new things to offer, safe brother.

So there you have it..

Check out the promo CD “In The Making” here: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?m2ez4mrnntm

Or

Catch Kid Bookie on the myspace: www.myspace.com/kdotbookie