Who gets more respect, Black Milk the rapper or producer?
BM: Definitely the producer. I don’t even mind that. I just rap cause I can and that gives me a way to do shows and get on the road and perform for the people and see the crowds [with] people’s hands in the air [and] singing the words to the songs. If I didn’t rhyme I wouldn’t be able to do that. XXL: Do you feel Detroit hip-hop is slept on? BM: I’m not saying that we don’t get no type of love or no type of exposure. I think on the underground Detroit murdered almost everything. When it comes to the underground scene we do our thing from the beats to the MCs. But we need to take it a step further and try to do it on a bigger level and a bigger scale and get more exposure and get more fans because the underground is cool but I feel like more people need to hear the music that we’re bringing. I feel like we do get slept on—not actually by the people but, the media, the BETs, the MTVs [and] the record labels. I’m not saying that I’m really pressed to get on a major label, I’m not even pre
