When will The Nacirema Dream come out?
At this point, I would say late September. It’s not us. If I could just go to a pressing plant, do the artwork, shrink-wrap it and give it to the world tomorrow, I would do that right now. There’s a lot of politics in the game. There are a lot of other people involved in making this project work to the best of its ability. It is what it is. We’ve been patient and the fans have been patient, but remember, in between the time we’ve been feeding them. A big part of the mixtape game has shut down since DJ Drama’s arrest. Has that hurt Papoose at all? Nah, not at all. First of all, when we do mixtapes, we just put them out. We just put it out there and then the bootleggers do what they do. The mixtape circuit is still there. With the internet, if I play a record on Shade45 at 8:00, it’s already posted on sites at 8:30! There’s still DVDs. Papoose is getting ready to go overseas for two weeks to tour. He’s getting about $18,000 a show. We’re hardly doing bad over here. Never that! We’re doin
