I appreciate that you appreciate me

Here are some excerpts from a interview I recently did for a hip-hop publication. I don't think I will get in trouble posting it here... if they had any sense they would let me put the name here so you can pick up a copy when it comes out. My luck, it will be strictly a web page interview. Big shout to Kareem Stilva and his whole staff... plus the chick with the coffee bean coupons.


KS: Sev DeMy, I don't think a lot of people know who you are, but I feel like the ones who do really fuck with you. How do you feel about any kinda fanbase you have and what your doing to feed them?
SD: Yea... I mean, I don't consider myself popular by any means. But I do feel like I am carving myself a niche. I still like my album and the videos help people attach a visual to the whole thing. I really have enjoyed being creative so its more about that than being some "cool rapper guy". Without giving my age, I'm a little too old to be out there trying to compete with these young boys.

KS: Do you feel like hip-hop has an age now? or its getting split into age groups?
SD: The last thing I wanna do is divide us anymore. I mean Jazz and Rock definitely have genres, but with hip-hop, as soon as you label something it comes under attack by the other genres like "thats not real". I know my shit is real. I have done most of the things these kids are talking about. Sold the dope, had the cars, jumpoffs etc. But that life gets old and you also have to decide what you are going to tell people about life and about yourself. All the people that have been close to me in my life know what my struggle is about so it's almost comforting that I don't have to constantly restate to the public who I am. I don't think i fit in some genre but you can't throw me in with Souldja Boy or UGK or Mos Def or the Cool Kids.... I just do me.

KS: That is kinda what I see. You can see your influences in your music but they seem less music related and more style influenced with the way you carry yourself. Do you have other ambitions outside of music?
SD: I have a short film that I wrote and hope to produce and direct in the fall, if that goes well, bye bye music... ya'll can have that shit.

KS: Really? No more, DeMy, if the film goes well?
SD: Don't let me get ahead of myself, it's just a short film. I do feel that as far as longevity with a career, film will have more to offer me

.... that's all I can print for now, I'll let you know when the full interview come out, thanks for being bored and reading..