Hell Rell’s debut album For The Hell Of It is finally out and the street is loving it.

The Dipset member recently chopped it up with Sixshot’s Quinton Hatfield about his album and the status of the relationship between Cam’ron and Jim Jones.

You titled your album For The Hell Of It and a lot of people want to know, did you really make this album for the hell of it?

HR: Yeah, not in the lyrical context form. I didn’t go in it and say whatever the fuck came out of my mind. I recorded freely, I didn’t say I was going to go in there and make a club record, street record, or whatever. I just let my musical bug just bite me.

What’s up with the cover with the bullets in your mouth, how did you come up with that idea?

HR: That was kind like a little gangster swag to it you know. I go through a lot of magazines and I always see somebody showing off they grill. I kind of wanted to give the same effect, but with a twist to it. A gangster feel to it instead of gold-fronts, I wanted some bullets in my mouth.

The streets is finally glad you came out with an album, but a lot of people want to know what took you so long to come out?

HR: I had to develop myself, you know artist development is lacking in the game right now. I was hot as a rapper, but I felt I had to get more into artist mode. I wasn’t used to sitting in the studio all fucking night, 3-4 in the morning. I wasn’t used to none of that.

I came home from doing three years, usually a dude would fall back, I came home and went right into it. I felt I had something to prove, then I felt I had nothing to prove like “Fuck that I’m falling back” and just chill.

Then I just started noticing niggas careers just started popping off like right in front of my eyes. We brought Paul Wall out in Summer Jam 05’, you feel me. He wasn’t popping he was on that 'Tipping on four fours', he wasn’t popping. Now look at him now, watches, jewelry stores, several albums out, reality just smacked me in the face.

I’m like “Hold up Rell, you gotta get back on the ball now”. You home, you done ran through some money, now let’s get back to the career. I just pretty much went back in.

The last time [we spoke] you did tell me that Cam’ron thought you was crazy for not showcasing your talent.

HR: It was that also too.

How it feels to have an album out and the streets loving it right now?

It feels good, because I feel like I got to the people and reached the people I needed to reach. At the end of the day if there is no connection then there is no energy. I feel like I connected with the streets. Everywhere I go I get the love and appreciation for the music that I like putting out. I’m feeling it, I’m just mad that industry ain’t giving me the love I need, because my album is going-unlooked so I wasn’t a breath of fresh-air.

That goes back to what you were saying before with the marketing and being on Koch.

HR: Yeah, pretty much. You know Koch is a distribution company, but they run it like a record label, it’s a big difference. I gotta be hands-on on everything so I’m back to the drawing board. I got like 15 new songs, 50 old songs so I’m just still recording. The DVD is about to drop Welcome to Hell so you know I’m just grinding man. I’m feeling good and I’m happy that the streets got what they wanted.

Why do you primarily make your music for the hustlers and gangsters out there?

HR: Because they the ones who supported me through my career. I was on Diplomatic Immunity Part 1. That came out in 2002-03 and I was in jail so I didn’t get a chance to see the success of the album in the street. I didn’t get a chance to go to none of the shows or nothing like that so while I was incarcerated the streets didn’t forget about me.

My prison address was floating around the streets so you know niggas just be writing me sending me money out of nowhere like “Yo Rell, keep spitting that shit I like your verse” from off the phone. Out of the mail it would be 50 dollars, 100 dollars, 200 hundred dollars, so I was getting money from niggas in the streets I didn’t even know just off the strength of one verse.

I only did one verse over the phone so I’m like “Alright damn, I see where my level is at”. MTV didn’t want to come see me and do a special on me locked up so at the end of the day it was the streets that paid attention to me. The streets was keeping me relevant, the streets was showing the love, so at the end of the day I put out an album for them.

Not saying my album’s single was going to be street and have that same feel to it, but it ain’t just gonna be a street album all the way through. I feel as if the streets needed that and hip-hop needed it also.

Let’s take it back to earlier in your career, where you come up with the name Hell Rell?

HR: That came from me going to Elmira Correctional Facility in 1998. They put me in a cell where the toilet was stopped up, roaches and mice crawling around, shit was filthy, dirty, motherfuckers yelling all night. As soon as I got into the cell I was like “Damn you really in Hell now Rell”, it was like “Damn Rell, you really in Hell”. Shit just start sticking, a nigga next door ask me my name and I said my name “Hell Rell” and I just ran with it from there.

So they had you in the shit-hole for real huh?

HR: Yeah, that shit was hell. I just took off the name of what I was living man. I didn’t go name myself after no Gotti or no mafia dude that I could never really relate too. At the end of the day I took all the names that suited me at the time. Who knows ten years later I might call myself Heaven Rell [laughs].

[Laugh], Hell Rell you have a hot song on the album with Styles P, how did ya’ll too come together to do a song when people thought ya’ll had beef?

HR: That’s why I reached out, because it was a misconception that we was beefing. I had put out freestyle prior to that and I clamored myself to be the hardest out whether Styles P like it or not. It wasn’t a shot at him it was just me claiming the fame or whatever and the streets kind of twisted it up.

I said you know what I’m a do a song called “The Hardest Out” and who else is better, but P to get on there. I reached out to him, sent him the track, he was feeling it, he knocked it out, and made the album.

Hell Rell besides the talk about the album, I was on the Internet recently and I read a rumor saying that Juelz wanted out of Dipset, can you speak on that?

HR: Juelz is Dipset for life. At the end of the day whatever business ventures he do outside the set that’s on him, but he still binded to the recording contract with Diplomats. He still here so you really can’t listen to the rumors.

Any status on the Jimmy and Cam situation?

HR: There is no situation, Cam and Jim is brothers they go through their little shit. One thing you gotta realize is that Cam and Jim are childhood friends as opposed to Dame and Jay-Z. Them niggas met each other as mutual friends and started business like that.

Cam and Jim got the same houses, slept on the same sheets, so the relationship is deep-rooted. For niggas that didn’t come up around them around that time to try to even get into the mix of that is a no-no. All I can say is that their brothers, it ain’t no break-up, and pretty much Cam is just gearing up basically for his next album.

Back to the album what’s your favorite song and why?

HR: “Paper Boy”, that’s my favorite joint because soon as it come on it sound like you about to go to war. That’s “Ride Out” music, you know I always had a lot of beef so you know I always felt myself riding around looking for niggas. Like if this nigga did that to my cousin, so I always had my type of music when I was riding around looking for niggas whoever I was looking for. I felt that was a track if you had to go put in some work or something that would motivate you that you would want to play that.

What’s next up for Hell Rell and final message for Sixshot.com?

HR: Yeah I’m a seventeen shot kid so you know Sixshot.com is what’s good. Look out for my restaurant it’s called Rugger’s Ribshack so you know come get a plate. All the dishes is going to be named after weapons so you know you can come get a automatic dinner, shit like that you know. Hell Bound the clothing line and Top Guns is the label so look-out for some artists under that brand.

This interview was conducted and written by Quinton Hatfield for Sixshot.com