How does Trilla sound in comparison to your major label debut Port of Miami?
Oh, man, the album is incredible, straight up. When “Hustlin’” took off, instead of me sitting down and finishing the album, I was on the road and I was doing shows and I was pretty much writing the rest of the songs for the album in the back of the promo bus. This one I got in the studio and I really got to sit down with DJ Toomp. He produced “White House” off the last album. We did an even bigger record or two on this one. Akon produced joints on the album. I just really got to sit down and collaborate versus just rapping on the beats. It’s rare today for producers and artists to work together. Do you make better music when you work with producers? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s most definitely how I like to do it. I usually get the studio time and get the producer there so we can tell each other what we want from each other and then we go from there. But in R. Kelly’s situation, we had to send him the record just to get it done in the easiest way. Besides working with producers in a more
