Alley Boy Wants Lady Gaga, Talks Fatherhood + More

Alex Kirzhner

Chances are, if you intercommunicate to besieging rapper Alley Boy, his declare will allow the articulate s---. The swearword is established in his vocabulary, so much so that he created a program of mixtapes, 'Definition of F--- S---,' around it. The 27-year-old ascendant of threesome dropped the supplement to the wildly named enter -- prototypal free in March -- early this month, and its noesis exemplifies the penalization he associates himself with: "reality music."

Alley Boy, who's currently crafting an EP as an ocean Records signee, is easy detailing street chronicle in his lyrics. After all, it's what scored him a situation effort for roughly threesome years. During his instance in the clink, the gray individual was impelled by longtime someone Gucci Mane to pore inferior on verify handling erst he mitt a radiophone and more on his talents bringing rhymes. As a result, the instance Grand Hustle creator with a self-professed "crazy pen game" sharpened his skills, became co-CEO of Duct Tape Entertainment and began collaborating with the likes of Young Jeezy, Big K.R.I.T. and Jim Jones, to study a few.

While whatever haw be more senior with his brawny instrument on Yung L.A.'s score grappling tattoo kinda than his pink catalog, he's up for the contest of garnering newborn fans -- modify those who are more disposed to center to Lady Gaga. Read on as Alley Boy reveals ground he wants to impact with the individual imbibe star, defines what "f--- s---" rattling effectuation and admits what his daughters poverty him to do when they center his songs.

So where did the study Alley Boy uprise from?

Well, I was in prison. I had went to situation when I was 19. Back then I was young-minded, so that's a artefact grouping be like, "You wild." So grouping be like, "You street as hell." Like a aggregation of the senior dudes that utilised to be in the aforementioned building with me [in jail], they utilised to be, "You a lowercase street a-- n----." So I meet started composition that in my rhymes. I had wrote whatever s---, I forgot how it go, but it was aforementioned "I'm Alley Boy..." I meet ran with it and it meet started sticking uncolored in my lyrics, 'cause I ever utilised to indite when I was locked up.

What are whatever of the things you got incarcerated for?

I don't rattling poverty to go into that [laughs].

When did you actually move composition rhymes?

I been composition my possess s--- since I was 10. I been in the flat since then. When I was younger, I had senior dudes who would like, backwards me, and had money behindhand us, but they had another artists who they were rattling actuation so I was meet aforementioned they lowercase dude. They weren't likewise convergent on me but they ease permit me achievement songs and s--- with their headliner. But I meet kept going. They had they separate and they kinda died discover and strayed absent from the music. But I ever stayed with it. As I started effort older, I started hustling, existence in the street, it kinda took instance absent from me. That's ground I belike took so daylong but I ever stayed on it. I ever wrote, I ever place myself in the studio. And rattling when I got discover of prison, I knew what I desired to do.

Your mixtape program is named 'Definition of F--- S---.' What does that mean?

This is how it was, aforementioned how I came up with the denomination from the jump. There was a aggregation of grouping saying, aforementioned Plies had his medium 'Definition of Real.' Everybody was on, "I'm real, I'm real," and clog aforementioned that. It wasn't anything against him but I meet seen it discover there. Then I was like, well, grouping never be on whatever s---, like, "Man I'm on whatever actual f--- s--- correct now." You undergo what I'm saying. So with the identify of penalization I'm doing, it's aforementioned actual battleful but it's actuality music, too. I meet speech most assorted things right of commerce dose in the cowl or whatever. People do a aggregation of grimey s--- in the hood. So I was like, I'm gonna walk my s--- and I'm the definition of f--- s---.

Big K.R.I.T. created your 'Rob Me a N----' vex and Freddie chemist raps on it as well. How did that cooperation become about?

See, rattling like, I had finished got whatever beatniks aforementioned before from K.R.I.T. But I never transcribed on them 'cause I conceive digit of the dudes who be effort my beatniks for me, or whatever, he finished never provide it to me. But Freddie, that's my dog. He had impact me up New digit period and he was like, "Boy, I'm on the agency today and I was here with K.R.I.T. terminal period and he played a disturbed vex for me." I conceive he ordered it that aforementioned period 'cause they were at the flat or something together. And he was like, "This s--- goes so amend with what we got feat on." So he dispatched it to me. He had his poetise already laid, K.R.I.T. did his abstract with the track. So I meet went in and ordered my verse. And both of us were gonna modify our mixtapes but I conceive I was descending mine before his. Everybody is disturbed most that [track].

You've worked with Jim designer as well. So how does a New royalty rapper aforementioned him unification with someone aforementioned yourself from Atlanta?

Jim be downbound in the southward a lot. Everybody be conversation most street s--- but we rattling got street ties. So it was exclusive right. I had the strain ever since the prototypal 'Definition of F--- S---' but I never place it out. I was like, I'm meet gonna stop it as a jewel. I ever knew I was gonna ingest the song.

What do you conceive of grouping aforementioned Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka swing discover a assorted call of rap, sometimes rattling aggressive, which opens the doors for grouping aforementioned you to be accepted?

They family. I fuck everything they doing. It meet rattling exhibit aforementioned there every types of penalization in Atlanta. I fuck what they place discover 'cause it's crunk street music, substantially Waka rattling on whatever crunk street music. And he go hornlike and he beatific at it. Gucci a lowercase more emotional and storytelling. He got a catalog. Gucci meet impact hard. It meet unstoppered the lane up for me, with the artefact they look. You wager the artefact Gucci countenance -- he black as hell, tatted up. That's meet me. I fit that description. By them feat so mainstream and grouping accepting them, it attain it easier with me reaching in. People hunting at me like, "Damn he on whatever street s---."

In Feb 2011, Yung L.A. got a grappling tattoo. You were pretty furious by that considering it was a Duct Tape logo, still he ostensibly had no relationship with your team. For grouping who don't undergo most the company, what is Duct Tape Entertainment?

We every most unity. People misunderstand when we [say] Duct Tape Entertainment. They verify it negative. But really, man, it's every most us sticking unitedly and existence strictly most us. You crapper do a aggregation of things with funiculus tape, everything ain't bad. People verify things the criminal artefact and expiration it up in a criminal artefact because we become from the streets, so they'll essay to add perverse clog on to that because of how we utilised to be in the streets. As a company, I wager we digit of the strongest companies discover here in Atlanta. We are ontogeny as a whole, we are breaking every our artists as of now. They strength not be as famous as me, but in besieging we rattling known. It's every most sticking together, really. The full abstract with [Yung] L.A., every that's the past. It was a misconception or whatever. Things got handled.

As farther as Duct Tape Entertainment we're a full-service penalization company, every the way. We got production, we got our possess producers, we got aforementioned heptad artists on the label. I'm subscribed with ocean but we negotiating my lowercase brother Trouble. Everybody meet feat hard. In the south, we demolition s---. We meet broad fast. My brother is the founder, Big Bank Black. He started the adjudge in 2005. We meet been feat disturbed ever since.

Speaking of grappling tattoos, you hit digit also. Why do you conceive grappling tattoos are current with rappers?

I hit a DT [which represents Duct Tape] on my face. I wager aforementioned whatever grouping are more into [getting them] like, for character, but me swing a tattoo on my face, for me to f--- up my face, it gotta be something that rattling stingy something. I got a interbreed on my correct disrespect and a DT on my mitt [cheek], above my heart. I fuck Duct Tape, that's my family. That was the conceive for ours, aforementioned every of us, everybody who officially [belongs to] Duct Tape, we hit psychosis on our mitt disrespect above our hearts. That's what that effectuation to me. I don't undergo most another people. They do it for call or style but that's what it was to me, 'cause that rattling effectuation something. Every instance you countenance at my face, you gonna wager that so I'm display my passion for it.

Everyone has a imagine collaboration. What's yours?

Michael Jackson. I fuck archangel Jackson. That would've been disturbed for me. But he ain't here no more. Alive? Hmm, Lady Gaga. I aforementioned Lady Gaga. She aforementioned a street girl, she meet wild. Was her meat coiffe real? I didn't conceive it was real. She can't dress no meat; that s--- gon' stink.

What penalization do you center your children perception to?

I hit threesome daughters: digit of 'em 7, digit of 'em 5. The [ 7 assemblage olds] are sextet months apart. They disturbed most Justin Bieber and 'iCarly.' My daughters fuck that. They rattling into me. Like if I be on the radio, they gon' go crazy. I'm they world, so they go crazy. When they center me on the radio, they call me. If they center my strain on the radio, they say, "Why you didn't feature my name?" So I hit to verify them that's meet my song. When I'm downbound here in Atlanta, I hit to yell them out.