RubyHornet:
How has growing up on the Southside of Chicago impacted your attitude? Has that given you the sense of humbleness and strong work ethic that you have talked about in other interviews?
Gemstones: Growing up on the Southside of Chicago for me, was hard. It was really, really hard. I appreciate things more now because of my upbringing. I got morals. We didn’t have money, but we had morals. There were rules, I was taught love, and I had family. It starts from home. When I got out on my own and got a taste of the world, I knew how to play it. When certain situations would come my way, I knew what to do. I know to stop when I see an older lady going for the door behind me. I know to stop and let her go passed me. I know to go in and open the second door for her. I know that if I’m cussing and I’m around my friends and I see older people sitting around, I give them that respect and treat the older people as if they were my mother or father, and the younger guys and girls as if they were my brothers or sisters. I was brought up like that. That’s where it comes from. I just learned to appreciate life more. Sometimes I sit deep in thought like, ‘yo, I made it past 21!’ I got homies that are like, ‘Today, right now, huh!?!? That’s impossible.’ I used to smoke, I used to drink, and I know God said, ‘no drunkards will enter my kingdom.’ I think of the nights I would drink, come home drunk, and go to sleep drunk. I know a lot of people that died in their sleep, what if I would have died in my sleep, drunk? Things like that humble me. I take it one day at a time and I treat my first like my last, and my last like my first.
RubyHornet: You talk about traveling the world, and your album is called Troubles of The World. To me, music is a way to explore those troubles, but also to get away from them and not think about them for a while. What kind of balance is on your album?
Gemstones: It’s both ways. It’s basically everything in the raw. I’m not sugarcoating nothing. I’m giving it to you. Us rappers, we’re role models. I believe a lot of things that are happening in this world today are because of what us rappers are putting out here. This shorties are looking at us! They don’t want to be like Michael Jordan no more. That’s just what it is. When I was coming up, I wanted to be like Mike. It was like, ‘I want to be a doctor, I want to be a lawyer.’ These shorties now are leaning towards Hip Hop. They want to be rappers, they want to be singers, they want to be actors. The majority of rappers, everything they put out is so negative, and these shorties are doing it. They see us driving these Bentleys, and the Benz Coups, they don’t want to do what it takes to get there to get it. They just want to have it, however they got to get it. And that means to steal, kill, rob, whatever they got to do, whoever they got to hurt to get it, and that’s not right. I went with Troubles of The World because it’s basically letting kids know, it’s alright. It’s an album that says it’s OK if you want to be a brain surgeon, it’s alright. It’s OK if you wear glasses. It’s OK if you wear your pants pulled up. It’s OK to be you. If you’re 17 years old and you’re still a virgin, it’s OK. It’s cool. But these are the troubles that we deal with everyday.
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How has growing up on the Southside of Chicago impacted your attitude? Has that given you the sense of humbleness and strong work ethic that you have talked about in other interviews?
Gemstones: Growing up on the Southside of Chicago for me, was hard. It was really, really hard. I appreciate things more now because of my upbringing. I got morals. We didn’t have money, but we had morals. There were rules, I was taught love, and I had family. It starts from home. When I got out on my own and got a taste of the world, I knew how to play it. When certain situations would come my way, I knew what to do. I know to stop when I see an older lady going for the door behind me. I know to stop and let her go passed me. I know to go in and open the second door for her. I know that if I’m cussing and I’m around my friends and I see older people sitting around, I give them that respect and treat the older people as if they were my mother or father, and the younger guys and girls as if they were my brothers or sisters. I was brought up like that. That’s where it comes from. I just learned to appreciate life more. Sometimes I sit deep in thought like, ‘yo, I made it past 21!’ I got homies that are like, ‘Today, right now, huh!?!? That’s impossible.’ I used to smoke, I used to drink, and I know God said, ‘no drunkards will enter my kingdom.’ I think of the nights I would drink, come home drunk, and go to sleep drunk. I know a lot of people that died in their sleep, what if I would have died in my sleep, drunk? Things like that humble me. I take it one day at a time and I treat my first like my last, and my last like my first.
RubyHornet: You talk about traveling the world, and your album is called Troubles of The World. To me, music is a way to explore those troubles, but also to get away from them and not think about them for a while. What kind of balance is on your album?
Gemstones: It’s both ways. It’s basically everything in the raw. I’m not sugarcoating nothing. I’m giving it to you. Us rappers, we’re role models. I believe a lot of things that are happening in this world today are because of what us rappers are putting out here. This shorties are looking at us! They don’t want to be like Michael Jordan no more. That’s just what it is. When I was coming up, I wanted to be like Mike. It was like, ‘I want to be a doctor, I want to be a lawyer.’ These shorties now are leaning towards Hip Hop. They want to be rappers, they want to be singers, they want to be actors. The majority of rappers, everything they put out is so negative, and these shorties are doing it. They see us driving these Bentleys, and the Benz Coups, they don’t want to do what it takes to get there to get it. They just want to have it, however they got to get it. And that means to steal, kill, rob, whatever they got to do, whoever they got to hurt to get it, and that’s not right. I went with Troubles of The World because it’s basically letting kids know, it’s alright. It’s an album that says it’s OK if you want to be a brain surgeon, it’s alright. It’s OK if you wear glasses. It’s OK if you wear your pants pulled up. It’s OK to be you. If you’re 17 years old and you’re still a virgin, it’s OK. It’s cool. But these are the troubles that we deal with everyday.
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