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Cursor on pause, within seconds the flash of action alerts Kay Konnect that the lyrical cat renown for his split-ya-wig wordplay and alignment with wild-style rhyme-slayers THE LOX/D-BLOCK has dropped his first solo debut.  If the blocks of any hood Your browser does not support inline frames or is currently configured not to display inline frames. schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />USA are still sleeping on Sheek’s solo pursuit, refresh ya face, and take a walk witt me. 

SixShot.com turns it up with a Sheek Louch exclusive which follows his successful solo release to the streets.

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Wake up hood, Sheek Louch’s energy on Walk Witt Me burns like the flames in the background of the Turn It Up scene in his Mighty D-BLOCK (2 Guns Up) video.  Rewind, the album is as banging as the facility mates stomping to Jada’s intro…everywhere we go…you know the rest.

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However Sheek’s album delivers the lyrical goods from the cook-up spot to the block perfectly balanced, a little sentiment coupled with street truths.  As a matter of fact, Sheek’s angle on Walk Witt Me proves a man can fight opposition without a suit-and-armor army.  He took on the remote streets alone while his loyal THE LOX/D-BLOCK squad stood in the shadows of support.  Still they remain his crutch, but instead of carrying sick weight, they watch him to step to the face-plate of the heated streets as a lone-gunner.   

On Walk Witt Me, Sheek clearly wakes the dead that doubt D-BLOCK.  He imprints the company in capital letters.  D-BLOCK is steady-ready for capital gains.

SixShot:

Now folks in the (internet) chat rooms regard you as the best kept secret, although you’ve been in the game for a minute. How does it feel now to be recognized as that?

Sheek Louch:

Wow, I didn’t know that.  That’s the word?

SixShot:

That’s the word.  I’ve been surfing trying to see what they’re saying.

Sheek Louch:

Man, I’m loving it.  I’ve been on the streets man, it’s ridiculous.  When I do my shows, you gotta see the shit man, because it’s like I got the group love before…but now when I go out there--they all came to see SHEEK.

SixShot:

Sheek!

Sheek Louch:

(Energetic) They’re like do this song…do that song, do that song.  The love is ridiculous man and I’m loving it.  And I love it even more because the video didn’t even drop until like a day or two before the album came out….It’s ridiculous.

SixShot:

So basically the word is all there right now.  So did you like how you positioned (on the charts) now that you’re out?

Sheek Louch:

I came in number 9 on the Top 10.

SixShot:

(Recognizing) We know this!

Sheek Louch:

You know what it is with me too?  I had a lot to get off my chest.  You know what I’m saying?  I’ve been waiting so long and I watched everybody’s growth.  I watched everybody’s mistakes and I figured out my moves and what I wanted to do.  That’s why I didn’t flood my album with features.  I just did Jada, Styles, and J-Hood.  Those are my features.  That’s my camp.  That’s my stars.  I didn’t want to make it a compilation album, cats only rap four times on their own album.  That’s wack!

SixShot:

That even shows the loyalty among your crew.  I’m listening to the back drops and you’re still shouting out Styles and everybody in the back. 

Sheek Louch:

No doubt!

SixShot:

Now what about those people that ain’t recognizing your solo power?  How are you gonna get at them on the next album?

Sheek Louch:

You know what I’m gonna do with this next album?

SixShot:

What?

Sheek Louch:

(Laughs) Hit ‘em the same way.  I’m gonna hit them the same, but I think on this next one (album) I’m gonna do a couple more features of some cats that people wanted to hear me with, you know what I mean?  But I’m still gonna give them all the Sheek man and keep trucking on like that.  I can’t go out there and try to be somebody else, and try to please this dude, when I got thirty other people who like the way I been doing it.

SixShot:

No doubt!

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SEARCH:  Favorite cut on the album?

RESULT:  Walk Witt Me, Track 7

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Sheek Louch:

Probably would be Walk Witt Me.

SixShot:

Walk Witt Me, which is gonna lead me right into there…because you know a lot of people in the chat rooms have been saying that the song is a classic.

Sheek Louch:

Really?  Damn I gotta get on the computer!

SixShot:

You gotta get in the chat rooms.  That’s how I try to feel everything out.  If I say you’re hot, I’m only one person.  But if I hear point one million viewers (listeners) saying that…that’s something different.

Sheek Louch:

Right!

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SEARCH: Trials and tribulations of Sheek Louch

RESULT:  I Ain’t Forget, Track 6

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SixShot:

Everyone is saying right now that I Ain’t Forget and Walk Witt Me are classics.  Because (the song) is not necessarily pointing the pistols at them, it’s kind of embracing them (the fans).  Everyone is going through that pain (i.e. you hate people, shit is fucked up, and everything is crazy).  So how do you feel about that song? Would you be doing more like it?  Just really getting sentimental and (letting) people see the other side of you.

Sheek Louch:

Of course, I mean I did that song, not on no gimmick.  It was just like how I wish things were, but I know it would never happen and I’m just rapping, you know what I mean?  I just wanted to get off a different side of Sheek…like ya’ll hear the mix-tape stuff and the gritty-grimey stuff, but I just wanted to let you know that I have another side to me too.  I’m not all concrete, you could see my heart beat and I bleed blood like you, and I understand and I feel it.

SixShot:

You know on I Ain’t Forget you mentioned you didn’t like the glamorous life too much. Are you more hood to a certain extent?  Is that the best reflection of you?

Sheek Louch:

I’m hood.  I’m street all day.  Either way you put it…that I can’t change.  I’m hood and I’m gangster all day.  In that song I Ain’t Forget it was me kinda like giving it up to the DJ’s who kept my street vibe going, who put me out there all crazy. 

I even spoke on that song how Kiss came out with that song on his album but the hood thought it was moist, and how Styles’ promotion was weak.  I just spoke on that stuff…like the best reflection of me…like I stepped back and I watched all this stuff, and how they wanted me to do the album.  Basically that’s some real shit, what I told you.

SixShot:

Like I said…that goes back to that loyalty even within the crew you’re embracing and recognizing even the weakness of what everyone else wasn’t seeing.  And back to the DJ’s, I know you said in an old (DJ) Kay Slay interview (The Source Magazine, 2003) that they (DJ’s) were (partly) responsible for pushing you.  (Big shout out to the DJ Chubby Chub of Hot 97.7, Boston!)

Sheek Louch:

Yeah, Chub is on there!  I gave it up man, because at the time when my boys said…yo! do a freestyle…I did one freestyle…after that I was number one on every mix-tape and people just started asking when is your joint coming?  So I gotta give it up to those people like the mix-tape DJ’s and mix-shows that actually held me down.  Like yo!  I didn’t have nothing mainstream for them to go on.  I was just hitting them like that and you would swear I had like albums out in the streets.

SixShot:

Now if you could go back, because I know the (DJ) Clue days like yesterday.  If you could go back to your exclusive (DJ) Clue days, which song that you guys (The LOX) did, or you did would you drop on Walk Witt Me?  Taking it back to the late 90’s!

Sheek Louch:

I don’t know if you remember this song called (rapping) “L-O-X, chest-to-chest”

SixShot:

(Reciting) “back-to-back, glock-for-glock, mack-for-mack!”

Sheek Louch:

Yeah that right there!

SixShot:

That might bring the essence back!

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SEARCH: Off the radar storytelling

RESULT: 3,5,4 (Tarrentino), Track 11

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SixShot:

Now on 3,5,4, you painted the perfect story on there.  Do you plan to get into films?

Sheek Louch:

I would love to man.  Me and Kiss, we’re in a movie called Honey coming out with a bunch of other people, but I want to try some real acting, because even in that movie we were the rappers in there. I’m just gonna take it one day at a time with that, because I respect these cats.  That’s a whole other ball game.

SixShot:

Now you mention in D-BLOCK that ya’ll might want to get into pop music, a rock band…this is back to I Ain’t Forget again.  So what plans do you have for D-BLOCK?

Sheek Louch:

I gotta tell you straight up we got an artist named Stephanie Lynn, she’s straight Gwen Stefani (comparison to alternative group lead, No Doubt)

SixShot:

Cut it out…

Sheek Louch:

She’s sickening.  By the time ya’ll realize we got our hands on her, we got something to do with her…you’re gonna be like get the hell outta here! 

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SEARCH: Hood anthems, soldier music

RESULT: Ten Hut, Track 9

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SixShot:

Now is Ten Hut the assistant anthem to Mighty D-BLOCK because that is…Whoa!

Sheek Louch:

(Laughing) People making it like it is man!  Ten Hut we just got the vinyl pressed up on that for the streets, for the Flex shows and the Chub shows (big up again!). 

SixShot:

Crazy! 

Sheek Louch:

The next single we’re going with is How I Love You (Track 10).

SixShot:

You got to!  Actually you know it’s crazy because some people in the chat rooms were really thinking you were talking about a girl…

Sheek Louch:

Naw! Not at all, I wanted them to think that though.

SixShot:

They did, but they got it confused when you said the thing about putting it on to Jada and Styles.

Sheek Louch:

Yeah, yeah! Jada and P!

SixShot:

That’s what opened up the door!  You see I’ve been studying the people.

Sheek Louch:

Yeah, you’re on your shit! You’re on your job!

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SEARCH: off the hook party cut

RESULT: OK, Track 2

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SixShot:

How’d you put the puzzle together with the OK cut?

Sheek Louch:

Cocoa Chanelle was trying to take a meeting with me to play me some tracks, but at the same time I’m saying to myself Co Co Chanel???  I know she’s a DJ but…she’s a girl, she don’t have no hot tracks.  But she came in there and I was like oh my gosh, out of twenty joints she had nineteen…right there I was like aw man, I had to go with that, she gave me that party joint I needed on my album and there it was…

SixShot:

One more question.  Everyone wants to know your business relationship with Super Mario.

Sheek Louch:

Super Mario right now is in the streets running around as we speak.  He’s in these big meetings.  He’s the president of D-BLOCK.  Super Mario runs the label on the day-to-day.  Me, Kiss, and Styles own the label, we’re the CEOs, but he deals with everything else.  He runs it, he makes the decisions.  He calls us to confirm everything.  He’s the man. 

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