Q Da Kid - JukeBOX Interview

Q breaks it down about Def Jam, explains his current situation, what music he likes & what motivates him to grind. Here's a few questions from the interview, to read the full thing visit JukeBOX.

JukeBOX: Tell us your history and where you're from.

Q Da Kid: Flatbush, Brooklyn born and raised. Basically I grew [up] in a musical family...my dad was a drummer and my uncles also played in bands. I started rapping around the age of 10 listening to dude like Rakim, [Big Daddy] Kane, Juice Crew...those were the people that influenced me over the years. I landed a group deal with Violator Records, and at the time I didn't really know the business, so we basically got shitted on...but like they say, "you live and you learn".

What happened between you, Gravy and Red Cafe? Can we expect a reunion track from y'all?

Nothing happened, just sometimes people grow apart. The business can do that to you but personally we all cool, we just all got different dreams and roads we wanted to take, that's all it was, but Red [Cafe], that's my dude, we from the same hood, same block, and Gravy I haven't seen in a while, but I'm sure he good. Yeah I would love to do a reunion track with all us, that would be dope...just to be together again like back in the days, just vibing a laughing, making that heat.

How did you meet Jermaine Dupri and how did your deal with TAG records come to fruition?

[I] met JD a few years back in the club, [when] I was really grinding, doing remixes. It was a DJ (DJ Shakim) who was Bow Wow's DJ also and he used to play in the hottest clubs. He used to drop all my joints in the club and got me a buzz which JD started to watch, and one night Shakim called me to the DJ Booth and I [saw] JD and he came to me like 'what's up, what you doin' with yaself', and I told he I'm grinding, trying to get on...and he took my number and called me the very next morning. The TAG deal came about out the blue when JD got the situation. I got a call like 'this new deal with TAG, it's gonna be a lot of marketing money and promotion, you want in?' and I was like 'HELL YEAH!'

What projects will you be doing in the future?

I'm currently working on this EP, I Am Him Part 2, I got a reality show in the works and I got a film that was sent to me [that] I'm going over, so hopefully that goes through 'cause I wanna venture into other avenues and doing bigger things, not just in music, but in film, TV, investing, etc., just making life comfortable for me and my family...