Project Pat – “As Real As It Gets”

Posted on Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Tags: Project-Pat

To me this is one of the most candid interviews that we’ve featured on HipHopRuckus.Com. A few weeks ago, D.M. had chopped it up on the phone with no one other than, Project Pat, himself. The two discussed several topics from his start in the music game to his time in Hollywood on down to his love for his fans. In reading this, you’ll find that Project Pat was extremely candid and didn’t put up a front. He’s as real as it gets….

D.M.: It’s D.M. from HHR in 09’ and I got my man Project Pat on the line. How was your New Year’s man?

Pat: Aw, it was real good.

D.M.: Yes sir, Yes sir. You have a Happy Holiday.

Pat: Real good.

D.M.:You do it big for the Holidays?

Pat: Man you know, I…Um…for Chrismas man, I was in the house workin’ on this…workin’ on this mix tape.

D.M.: Oh, really?

Pat: Yeah, I was workin’ on this mix tape man. (‘The Appeal’) mix tape.

D.M.: O.k. Well, tell the people a lil’ bit about what they can expect on the tape that you put all that work into.

Pat: …Man, you know I got an album droppin’ on…on Feb. 24th…of this year, Feb. 24th ‘Real

Recognize Real’ , with the hit single ‘Keep it hood’. Man, ya know mainly what I got poppin’ off is…what they want to hear, what the T.V don’t want to….what the T.V. don’t want to bring out.

D.M.: O.K.

Pat: Strait gutta, ya know what I’m sayin’, I’m just bringin’ it strait gutta to the… to the people.

D.M.: Right.

Pat: Yeah, `cause the T.V. done got away from it man. They…They act like they scared of this now. They want everything to be pop and household.

D.M.: Right, right, right.

Pat: But, ya know, Project Pat, I just ain’t gonna be able to do that.

D.M.: (Laugh) I hear you, I hear you.

Pat: I ain’t gonna be…I can’t do it, I mean….

D.M.: …You still with me….Oh, I think you cut out on me. What was you sayin’?

Pat: I said man…I said if I wanted to, I couldn’t do that. That’s somethin’ I couldn’t do.

D.M.: Right. O.k., well can we roll the tape back a lil’ bit. Solo tape…uh, in 94’, was that your…your first sorta break onto the scene?

Pat: …What you…What you talkin’ `bout? The tape, the uh…uh lil’ underground tape?

D.M.: Yeah, the underground tape.

Pat: Yeah, that was my first break on the scene.

D.M.: O.k.

Pat: They call me ‘Tha TRU one’ erry goddamn day! (Laugh)

D.M.: “(Laugh) Right. So, how did that come together for you?

Pat: Man, um…It was good.

D.M.: O.k.

Pat: It was really good. Man, I um…I mean, it got me a buzz in tha streets and uh…ya know, I see that’s what people are on now. The mix tape game and uh…ya know, that’s what you gotta do, you get out there man.

D.M.: Right, right, right. So, that’s how you sorta came out, was the mix tapes and then…How did your relationship with Three Six come together?

Pat: Well, you know Juicy J is my brother.

D.M.: Right.

Pat: And uh…ya, know, I just….Before It was Project…Everybody was like, ya know…I was originally in Three Six Mafia, but the thing is…I had gotten locked up. So, when they got their deal, they went on the road with the people…who was out. Couldn’t roll with me `cause I was locked up.”

D.M.: Right. right

Pat: So, ya know, what we did was we uh…I just became a solo artist and um…ya know I’m a hypnotize minds right now. And it’s been love ever since!

D.M.: Right. O.k. So like, where…I know you got your stuff goin’ on in the background, but where could like the fans…if they sorta wanted to reach out to you, where could they get you online?

Pat: They could go to…MySpace um….ProjectPatsPage. It’s all one word. No apostrophes.

D.M.: O.k.

Pat: ProjectPatsPage and uh…ya know, I talk to the fans for real on MySpace.

D.M.: “O.k.”

Pat: Yeah, I talk to them directly myself.

D.M.: Right, right. Is that…You think that’s a good thing that the…ya know, like the fans can get directly at you and you can get that direct feedback?

Pat: …I mean yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to talk to your fans man. That’s, that’s the new thing now. People want to holla at you. You know what I’m sayin’?

D.M.: Yeah.

Pat: People wanna holla at you. That’s….

D.M.: Alright, yeah, you was just tellin’ the folks where they could get at you online. You mentioned the one site, could you run that back by them, so just in case we didn’t get it the…the first time?

Pat: It’s uh…www.MySpace.com…um…like I said it’s a back slash ProjectPatsPage, all one word. No commas or nothin’ like that.

D.M.: O.k. And the name of the new project…your, your solo project, is ’Real Recognize Real’ right?

Pat: ’Real Recognize Real’

D.M.: And that come out in February?

Pat: Feb. 24th

D.M.: O.k. Wanna make sure everybody knows when to go get that, and….

Pat: That’s a definite right there.

D.M.: Yes sir, yes sir. Could we talk a lil’ bit about your brother real quick and what he’s into?

Pat: Let’s do it.

D.M.: O.k. Your brother, just to run it by the people again, is Juicy J, right?

Pat: Mmm Hmm.

D.M.: And he’s from Triple Six?

Pat: Mmm Hmm.

D.M.: O.k. Now…like…do you know what he’s currently, ya know, into or what they workin’ on?

Pat: Um…a new album.

D.M.: O.k.

Pat: Yeah, they ‘re workin’ on a new album.

D.M.: O.k. You…you gonna be makin’ any guest appearances we can look for?

Pat: Aw man, you know I’m a be all over that thing.

D.M.: (Laugh) O.k. Didn’t you have…didn’t I catch you on the T.V. doin’ somethin’? Like awhile ago?

Pat: Adventures In Hollyhood’?

D.M.: Yeah! O.k. It was like a ‘reality show,’ right?

Pat: Mmm Hmm.

D.M.: Could you…could you, ya know, tell folks about that a lil’ bit?

Pat: …Aw man, we just was…they offered us a situation where we get on T.V., they put us in lil’ situations…we was like man, any T.V. exposure is good exposure. We was like yeah, let’s run it.

D.M.: O.k.

Pat: And um…it was cool, but it just…they was talkin’ like they was gonna do a…a movie, but I don’t, (Laugh) I don’t know man.

D.M.:Right, right, right.

Pat: Yeah, but uh…yeah.

D.M.: And when did that happen?

Pat: When did the show air?

D.M.: Yeah.

Pat: …In 07’.

D.M.: O.k. Yeah, I know it was a lil’ bit ago. Yeah, I just wanted to put that out there so like, if the fans didn’t know, ya know, you was on there. Um, is there like…I guess I wanted to know like, what have you picked up since you’ve been in the game? Ya know, like what did you not know before you hit the music?

Pat: …Well…when I first got out, I noticed that uh…people was more on the mix tapes then anything.

D.M.: O.k.

Pat: And when I first got out, I wasn’t payin’ attention to that.

D.M.: Right.

Pat: But now, I’m like…I see what it is.

D.M.: O.k.

Pat: And um…’cause, ya know, when we was in the game…it wasn’t like that. But uh….Yeah, that’s, that’s the movement right there. The mix tapes, especially in the south.

D.M.: Yeah, yeah. And would you…O.k. You from Memphis, right?

Pat: Mmm Hmm.

D.M.: Shout out to Tennessee by the way…What would you say the difference is, from like…you notice, I’m sure you’ve travel a lot. What would you say the different regions…what would you say was the biggest difference from where you come from.

Pat: …(Laugh) Um….I just…really, all over.(Laugh) All over is kinda different.

D.M.: O.k.

Pat: Ya know, just what people say, talk, do…it’s just different.

D.M.: Yeah, I’ve talked to some folks who say like, the Mid-West kinda rough. Ya know, they don’t show they artists love and what not, but uh…you haven’t experienced nothin’ like that?

Pat: …Naw, I’ve always had love in the Mid-West. Always.

D.M.: O.k.

Pat: Always. It was always love. I ain’t never…Cleveland or…Indianapolis, Cincinnati. I did Cincinnati when I first got out this last bit I did. And when I got out, I went up there to Cincinnati and rocked! I’m talkin’ `bout I had a… (Sigh) I had a ball.

D.M.: O.k. I’m glad to hear that man, `cause I guess everybody’s experiences ain’t been the same. Ya know what I’m sayin’. I guess, I wanna know as like a personal thing, what would be, ya know, the most memorable thing that you’ve done since you’ve been in the industry?

Pat: …Mmm…Sold a million on (‘Mista Don’t Play’) (Laugh).

D.M.: I’m sorry, I didn’t catch that.

Pat: I said, sold a million copies off of ‘Mista Don’t Play’.

D.M.: (Applause) O.k. I hear that. (Laugh) I hear that. Any people like, that you’ve run across that really stuck out to you.

Pat: …Um…yeah, we was in L.A. We was at um…we was at the Playboy Mansion. We was doin’ uh…Hugh Heffner’s birthday party. We was performin’. And um…uh…Donald Trump was up in there.

D.M.: Wow.

Pat: That’s what I said was Wow.

D.M.: (Laugh) Wow.

Pat: The man. The real man. The real money.

D.M.: Was he…was he noddin’ too?

Pat: Naw, he was up in there hollerin’ at the girls. (Laugh)

D.M.: (Laugh) Wow. Well, I do wanna say thank you for takin’ the time. I ain’t gonna take too much more of your time boss.”

Pat: Oh, its fine man.

D.M.: Yeah, I just wanted to get that out there. ‘Real Recognize Real’. And you said you was workin’ on somthin’ else, uh…that was commin’ out soon. Isn’t it…or did I misinterpret that?

Pat: “Nope. The album is ‘Real Recognize Real’. February 24th.

D.M.: O.k. And Happy New Year, ya know what I’m sayin’, uh…I guess, check us out, Hip Hop Ruckus. Your boy, Project Pat, ‘Real Recognize Real’, go pick it up and you have a wonderful day sir.

Pat: Man, I so appreciate you.

D.M.: Alright then.

Pat: O.k. Homie.

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