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Michael: interviewer
Big Z: Rapper
Michael: Tonight please welcome the king of hip hop, the artist to sell over a million copies in 1 week. The one and only Big Z aka slicey dice.
Michael: So how you feeling?
Big Z: Good.
Michael: So Big Z, how does it feel when your album climbed up from number 8 to number 1 on billboard.
Big Z: well, I think I saw it coming cuz all the other albums I feel didn’t have much feeling in em.
Michael: what makes you say that?
Big Z: Like times are changing these days, kids are moving on to these songs bout clubbing, partying, drugs, drinking which I feel affects their lives. Know what I mean. Like for example this line “party all night, drink n smoke, don’t worry everything will be just right”. Now these kids who idolize these artists would follow and try to copy em cuz maybe they think it’s cool.
Michael: Well tell the fans how you grew up, you childhood and what was the journey like to reach here at the top.
Big Z: Man I grew up in an area where people didn’t have money to eat and would work countless shifts just so that they could buy diapers for their kids. It was hard surviving man. You needed to be tough in order to being able to live. I remember I use to change schools like 3 4 times in a year cuz it was hard being different. As in, on the first I’ll get beaten up for no particular reason at all. You know, just for fun, lets beat up the new kid.
Michael: wow pretty rough childhood huh. What was your dream? What did you want become
Big Z: Man I didn’t really think bout that stuff much. But I knew I wanted to make it big. You know, get out of this dump.
Michael: there were a few critics who talked about your songs as being unacceptable in society due to the language used in them. Does that bother you?
Big Z: well not really to a certain level. I feel it’s their job as being a critic to hunt for artists like me. But at the end of the day, I don’t really care. I make music for my fans. You

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