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BIOGRAPHY:
KIDD KIDD
Sometimes it feels like rappers care more about the
clubs than the streets. Kidd Kidd ain’t having it. As
rugged and resilient as his hometown, New Orleans, Kidd
Kidd knows that hip-hop without the real, isn’t real hip-hop.
That determination fires up “All On Me,” Kidd Kidd’s
first mixtape on G-Unit Records. Released in advance of
his full-length debut, “All On Me,” is the soundtrack to
the streets, Kidd knows perhaps too well. “When it
comes to New Orleans, what do people really know besides
Mardi Gras, Lil Wayne, the French Quarter and Master P?
Nobody really knows how corrupt it is. How real it is. But
what’s so crazy, is that the city is so grimy and crazy but we
love it. I’ve been shot, I’ve seen friends killed, but I’m still
there. I can’t get away from it and I don’t know why.”
The blistering “From Out the N.O”. is a tour of that “other”
New Orleans. “These days everybody is talking about
the same thing but everybody is not the same person.
Everybody didn’t experience what I have and I’m just
pointing it out. Like, I’m the best killer with the flow
when it comes to New Orleans. Ain’t nobody can do it
like me because I’m in the N.O. Ask people and they’ll
tell you. Equally unflinching is “New Warleans”, with
lines like “you thought Katrina was the worst thing that
happened to us? You thought that FEMA money was
enough? But we gotta get it by all means. Trying to
survive in the city of New Warleans.”
“It’s like a constant war out here. New Orleans is such
a small community. You know you could do something in
Brooklyn and never find out about it in Queens but down
here everybody is connected.”
Another highlight is “No Will Smith. “Laced with a rolling,
bumping groove, “No Will Smith,” is Kidd esta- blishing
who he is by letting folks know who he isn’t. “I’m comparing
myself to everybody else in the game and telling them
they wanna listen to me. Like I say, “I wanted to rap like
Jay-Z, but I was broke! I wasn’t intelligent to have that
Nas flow. I tell ‘em I’m no Will Smith. I’m just a real
ni**a rapping some real sh”t. I’m letting people know
don’t expect too much commercial outta me.”Formerly
known as Nutt Da Kidd, Kidd Kidd made his bones in
2002 as a member of Sqad Up, a New Orleans based
crew formed and featuring Lil Wayne. “I met Wayne,
I spit live on the spot and he hooked me up.” Sqad Up
toured the South and distributed their explosive mixtapes
but the group and Wayne split in ‘05. Kidd kept grinding
and dropped several mixtapes. It was around this time
that Wayne and Kidd rebooted their relationship. Kidd
joined Weezy on the road and they recorded a handful of
hugely popular mixtapes. But Kidd and Wayne soon
parted company. Rumors swirled as to what really went
down; and Kidd addresses them on the dramatic
“Confessions.” “A lot of people are saying, ‘oh well Kidd’s
mad that he’s not with Wayne anymore. This song is
about what really went down. We had our differences
and I chose to go my own way. Everything is cool.”
In May 2011 Kidd released The Reallionaire. The buzz
record, “Better Walk,” sampled 50 Cent and shortly after
hearing it 50 reached out to Kidd in hopes of working
together. As luck would have it, 50 was about to start
shooting a film in NO and assumed that he and Kidd
would have the chance to meet but ironically Kidd was
in Queens –a few blocks from 50’s old hood. After straightening out the logistics, Kidd and 50 met and immediately
started laying down tracks with 50, even going so far as to
bring a mobile recording studio to the film set. Asked to
explain the chemistry and Kidd offers, “50’s a real individual and a true artist and I think he heard that in me.
He doesn’t want me to water things down. A lot of people
wanna change you and I’m not for that.”
After 50 left NO, Kidd planned to do some recording in
Atlanta but at the last minute decided to stay home to
attend a family function. While standing in his mother’s
driveway preparing to leave, Kidd was ambushed by two
gunmen. 32 shots were fired with 6 striking Kidd in the
leg and abdomen. After five days and a grueling all night
surgery, Kidd was released. While home recuperating
50 who had phoned Kidd in the hospital- asked if he was
able to fly to Atlanta to get on Tony Yayo’s “Haters,” as
well as film the video. Still in pain but determined to
seize the opportunity Kidd flew out that next morning.
“No matter what anybody wants to say about 50, “Kidd
says, “at the end of the day for him to fuck with
someone like me? It’s a risk.”
There are a lot of rappers who will tell you what you
want to hear, but very few who speak the truth. “I just
want people to realize there’s still good music that’s out
there, I’m trying to come from nothing to something and
seen people try and fail. So that’s what’s inspired me to
keep going. I gotta be that dude who knows what’s
going on out here.”
“It’s like a constant war out here.
New Orleans is such a small
community. You know you could do
something in Brooklyn and never
find out about it in Queens but
down here everybody is connected.”