MarVo: Man it feels great of course, we just discussed it’s been a hard struggle tryna get on Sixshot.com. Eventually God makes everything come together for the good and now we are here. I feel honored to be on one of the most popular websites in the game.

Sixshot.com: Well it’s a Street Knowledge Entertainment and Supreme Money Makers Affiliation!

MarVo: All day man! Street Knowledge, Q The Question, my man Trel Mack, Supreme Money Makers the team we forever getting the dough, you already know what it is. Chi-Town to Philly all day.

Sixshot.com: I heard you was in Atlanta right now grinding, so what going on in the “A”?

MarVo: I’m down in the A working with Young Money, Young Mula baby. I’m down here jumping on a couple joints, brainstorming, throwing out ideas, hooks, just networking. We just down here grinding trying to connect with everybody. We getting our network on connecting with the outside. We call it our long range game, our three point game keeping it strong [laughs]. I’m just out here making beautiful music man.

Sixshot.com: So what it’s like to leave Chicago and get down with the dirty south?

MarVo: Being in Chicago is the city of hate. I love Chicago, because it made me who I am. It’s always a pleasure to go somewhere where people show love. I get love down here and as I said before I had to make it known what I bring to the table. Once it was known to everybody they recognized “Dude is Hot”. It feels good to go somewhere unknown and get love. If anybody on the street sees me like Young Money, Wayne’s people they gonna say “What’s Up MarVo”. It’s a great thing and another form of getting my name out there, getting my buzz strong, and keeping it that way.

Sixshot.com: The stuff you be spitting to be an upcoming artist is crazy. I like to ask where did the idea come to spit like a young Nas or Scarface?

MarVo: My struggles in life man. I’m a young dude, but I’ve been forced to be around a lot of major street and business people. I’ve been in every type of realm that existed on the planet earth. I’ve been around all kinds of people. I got my first record deal when I was 15 so I’ve been around the game for quite some time and seen a lot of things. Everybody knows about the city of Chicago, of course people call us the city of hate. I don’t nickname it that, I call it the Windy City. Its cold, but it’s fair and it will make you or break you. When I look at myself I have to say it made me who I am. I seen a lot of death, destruction, drug deals, I’ve seen it all. It makes me wanna educate people on the hood and that you don’t have to fall for all the bullshit going on in the streets.

Shit is fucked up out here and I feel the black people are usually misguided. I want to use my gift to stare people in the right direction and show them like “Hey I’m like ya’ll too”. I see people everyday selling bottles of water for a dollar on the corner. You don’t gotta sell drugs, that’s the short way out. Selling drugs creates a materialistic type of person so you think “Okay I’m a go buy a car”. Now the little dude is looking at you with the rims on the car and think “Okay I’m a do that too”. He don’t understand that 1/1000 probably make a success and the odds are against him. I prefer to educate my people man and give them that real deal. Check out that joint me and Trel Mack did “No Love”, that’s my joint right there.

Sixshot.com: You definitely beat me to it about “No Love” with Trel Mack, I was just about to mention that.

MarVo: That’s where it starts, it’s no love in the heart of the city. It’s us hating on each other that’s keeping us divided. We just gotta put it together and learn how to love each other. Like I said on  No Love “So if you put a little love in ya mix and subtract the slugs whether from ya mug or ya clip, we can finally stop stepping over blood on the strip, of the brothers and the sisters that we love and we miss” [laughs].

Sixshot.com: Yeah like Furious Styles said your words is like a movie where you can picture it.

MarVo: [Laughs], It’s something like a vision if I see it in my mind first then I write it down. One day me and Yung Berg was doing a song some time ago. He keep talking shit like “Damn nigga, you still writing ya verse, I been done”. It took me an hour to write my verse then when I layed my verse down the whole room was quiet. Niggas then saw why I took an hour.  A lot of songs I’m riding the same pattern all the way through just to show niggas “Hey my vocabulary is higher than most of these niggas.”  You gotta top what’s out here already if you want to be the best. Supreme Money Makers we think to be supreme first before anything. That’s why it’s Supreme Money Makers. It ain’t just about making the money it’s about being supreme and the money will come. I at least want people to understand where I’m coming from as I don’t want them thinking too hard. They’re not used to thinking hard no more, because music has become so simplified that’s everybody’s punchlines is super dumbed down.

Sixshot.com: It’s crazy how you got to dumb it down for people these days.

MarVo: Exactly, because they are not thinking. The music out right now is “Lean wit it, rock wit it, lean wit it, rock wit it,”, no thought was put into that. Somebody was saying that and was like let’s turn that into a hook. I feel like I can shit on them, because it’s over for them.

Sixshot.com: But then again you do got to blame the industry for pushing that out to the masses.

MarVo: I don’t blame the artist at all, because I’m a nigga from the hood. If you come get me out the hood and say “If you rap about money, hoes, and clothes... I’ll give you a car, a chain, and some change in ya pocket.” They thinking shit, I was just a drug dealer five minutes ago, I’m a rap whatever the fuck ya’ll tell me to rap about if rap ain’t my thing. It just so happens to be I’ve been doing this all my life so I take this seriously. They talk about the state of the music industry that nobody is buying records you have to take that principle and apply it to the block. If you put out some bad dope ain’t nobody gonna buy that shit. Even if you got all the clientele you gonna die out, because everybody gonna try it once and then you gonna burn ya clientele, because people gonna say man that was some bullshit. They might come back and shop with you again and if you burn them again they ain’t gonna spend they money with you no more.

They gonna go to who got that shit. That’s the reason why record sales are so low. Then you got niggas like Lil Wayne going platinum still, because he’s the only one coming with great music. There are no B.I.G.’s in the game, no Jay-Z’s, back then it was a lot of niggas who was spitters. Right now it ain’t a lot of that, it’s just a bunch of simple catchy ass songs. They getting lazy so they blame it on the game being fucked up, because they ain’t do they job. Nah nigga the game ain’t fucked up you just ain’t doing ya job. Stop signing Lil Jimbo ya cousin, go sign the nigga that’s hot. The nigga who is actually spitting from the heart and passion about what he do. I want to go on a run and get out.

Sixshot.com If you notice a lot of those one hit wonders the reason why there gone is because they put out music with no substance. Most artists that put out music with no substance end-up disappearing.

MarVo: Oh yeah. This is my analogy, 90% of the people only party 10% of they life. They can’t relate to that shit, they listen, because you play it on the radio. The people don’t control what get played on the radio I don’t give a fuck what nobody say. I got a song called “Just Breathe” and everybody who listens to that song be like “Man that’s how I feel, I just want to breathe and get the fuck away from life”. That just shows you people want the type of music they can relate too, music is the soundtrack to life.

The economy is fucked up, I know niggas ain’t spending 20, 50, 100 dollars to get in the club no more. Gas prices is shooting through the roof, everybody is struggling.  Niggas ain’t popping Cristal, niggas didn’t even get to taste Cristal. Niggas can relate to their car breaking down and having to take the bus or train to work. At the end of the day people will always go with what they feel. Kanye will always go double or triple platinum, because he will always make music people can feel.

Sixshot.com: You got a lot of managers that brag “Yeah I take care of my artist” and all that. A lot of artist careers be in jeopardy, because they got managers that don’t do a damn thing for them. In your case you have a damn good manager Nyatu who helps you do what you have to do. How it feels having Nyatu in your corner?

MarVo: Nyatu got me out of my first deal. A lot of people wonder why I’m loyal to dude and fuck with him so strong. Dude came along, got me out of my first deal, and inspired me to be great. When I first started fucking with Nyatu he was like man you gotta set the bar. A nigga like Nyatu definitely inspired me to be great. Managers don’t give a fuck about artist they just care about making the money 9 times out of 10. It’s just a good thing having him in my corner, I can really say dude has been there for me.

Sixshot.com: Well you know you got to keep it popping with Trel Mack making those hits [laughs]!

MarVo: [Laughs], You know what we need to get Trel Mack on my joint man “V for Vendetta”. We liked that “No Problem” record. I’m a dig in the crates and find something, watch what I pick, I’m a find something [laughs]. I would rather fly to Philly and do a joint with ya’ll in the studio. However we got to do it we gonna make sure that happens. I definitely wanna stay in touch with ya’ll brothers, because ya’ll done a lot for me and I really appreciate that. I haven’t even meet ya’ll in person and ya’ll have done more for me then niggas I’ve known for years. Ya’ll some good brothers and God gonna bless ya’ll for that. I really believe that with my heart.

Sixshot.com: No doubt man it’s all love. Supreme Money Makers, Street Knowledge, Sixshot. We all on the rise together homey!

MarVo: I appreciate it brother, I wish I could show you better than I can tell you. I appreciate Street Knowledge Entertainment, I appreciate you Q, Trel Mack, and everybody who jumped on the “No Problem” record making it a street anthem. I appreciate everybody out here grinding putting real content in they music so we can go ahead and take the game back raising the bar. Let’s keep hip-hop alive real talk.

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