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OZONE MAG // 5 INDIANAPOLIS,MAP IN SUPER BOWL FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3 SAtuRDAY, FEBRUARY 4 Leather & Lace hosted by JWoww, Wale @ Sensu - 10:00 PM WEEKEND EVENTS Carmen Electra, Jenny McCarthy, & Gucci Mane @ Bentley’s Bar & Grill DJ Pauly D - 9:00 PM @ Regions Bank ThuRSDAY, FEBRUARY 2 Tower 50 Cent, Pitbull, & Lil Jon concert 7:00 PM @ Bud Light Hotel Mike Epps & Friends starring Snoop Run-DMC Concert for House of Dogg & Wiz Khalifa - 8:00 PM @ Bank- Restoration Africa - 8:00 PM @ Madame Jim Jones & Nelly @ Cloud 9 ers Life Fieldhouse Walker Theatre SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5 EA Sports Madden Bowl XVII f/ Nas & Coors Light Silver Bullet Lodge Party f/ The Roots - 5:00 PM @ Bud Light Hotel Ice Cube & Travie McCoy @ The Vogue R Kelly @ The Venue Birdman’s Birthday Party @ Cloud 9 Theater J Cole @ Sensu - 10:00 PM 8Ball & MJG @ Bentley’s Bar & Grill OZONE MAG // 7 Jon Connor Words by Julia Beverly 8 // OZONE MAG movie so people can see and understand represeNTING flINT, MICHIGAN, joN what it’s like in Flint because our story hasn’t CONNor’S NAme HAS beeN geNerAT- been told yet. Right now, the only thing they ING buzz AS A NewComer TO WATCH have to go off of is Michael Moore movies, IN 2012. ozoNE CheCkeD IN WITH THIS and he does an excellent job. But I don’t think soN of A MINISTER TO FIND ouT whAT Flint’s story has been told from the perspec- MESSAGE HE’S PREACHING. tive of somebody who’s actually living in the poverty and living amongst all of the craziness Are you signed to a major or independent? that’s going on. Em did a hell of a job with 8 I own my own independent company. Me, Mile for Detroit and I feel like it’s my responsi- my team, Cleeze, Jason Richardson, and my bility to do the same thing for Flint. We’re only man Young Savv. We’re doing it independent 45 minutes away but it’s different. and shopping our situation around. Flint, Michigan isn’t exactly a hotbed for rap music. When the recession hit, the car manufactur- Were you seeing what other artists had accom- ing industry in particular had some heavy plished independently from other regions and losses. People also have the perception that felt like you could bring that same success to you can buy houses in Detroit and Flint for your hometown. When I was young, like twelve a dollar and that those areas were hit much years old, I came up seeing Master P and No harder than other parts of the country. Is Limit and Cash Money and Slip-N-Slide and all that accurate or media sensationalism? these independent labels doing their thing. As It’s accurate. I’m not a dude that’s going to just a kid I always wanted to do that. I idolized that sit here telling sob stories in interviews, but it’s idea of just being an entrepreneur and taking fucked up. It’s bad. Even when I was a kid Flint matters into your own hands. It probably wasn’t as bad as it is now. When the economy doesn’t seem that way now because the game crashed in Flint and the automotive industry has come so far, but when you think back be- left, that was something that offered hope at fore Master P and No Limit, New Orleans really one point in time. Back when my mother was didn’t have that nationwide appeal that it has growing up, you know, you either went to col- now. He took his hometown and brought it to lege or you went to work in the [auto] shop. a point where the whole world was rocking But that’s not really here anymore. There’s a with it. Cash Money did the same thing and couple plants here and there but it’s not like it added to that movement. I was looking at used to be. It’s not flourishing, and more than Houston and J Prince’s movement with Rap- anything, the worst thing about poverty is A-Lot; they made Houston pop off worldwide. that sense of hopelessness. That’s what Flint, I didn’t want to just come in the game and be Michigan has now - that sense of, “What am I a rapper. I wanted to become [an inspiration] going to do?” Everybody can’t rap, everybody like they were to me. I wanted to do that; take can’t play basketball. And you end up with my hometown and make the whole world rock that whole crabs-in-a-barrel mentality. Every- with me. Just seeing the pioneers and cats that body’s trying to get up but you’ve got to pull came before me let me know that I could do somebody else down to do it. So people are it. If they could do it, I definitely could do it. I turning to hustling and doing other things, wanted to be what Jay-Z is to Brooklyn, what and that might sound like the typical cliche Wayne is to New Orleans. That’s what I’m going rapper story, but nothing is exaggerated to be to Flint, Michigan. about Flint. Anybody coming from Flint knows they went through some shit to get out of The most common perception we have of there. Even me having this interview with Michigan Hip Hop comes from Eminem and you right now, this shit is not real to us. We the whole 8 Mile visual. Do you feel like that can’t fathom the idea of me being in OZONE Jon movie was an accurate portrayal of what it’s Magazine and doing all this stuff I”m getting like to come up in your state? to do. We haven’t had any rappers come out Battle rapping was more of a Detroit thing. 8 of Flint in like twenty-five years. So honestly, Mile was a pretty accurate depiction of Detroit, the media isn’t showing enough. It’s one being an industrial town and how he worked thing for y’all to read about it, but it’s another at the auto plant and all that. In Michigan as thing for y’all to come here and see it. That’s Connor a whole, you know, once you get out of high what I’m going to bring to the people. It’s school, if you don’t have anything else planned like Tupac said about the Vietnam War. Once you end up working at the auto plant. As far people saw the Vietnam War on TV and how as Flint, I don’t think the world has seen an ugly it was, all the murders and killings, for accurate depiction of Flint yet, and that’s what us to stop the Vietnam War. It’s so fucked up I’m going to bring to the table. In 2012 I’m in Flint and nobody is saying anything about planning on writing my own straight-to-DVD OZONE MAG // 9 JON CONNOR CONTINUED: mother always told me, “Just be careful of the it, so I’m gonna be the voice of the people. I’m message you’re putting out there, because going to show people how ugly it is and maybe people are listening to you.” Hip Hop is my society, people, the government, whoever, will ministry, and my dad understands that. The do something about it. For real. I care about my things I preach in my music are just to do city, I care about my people. So I’ll be the voice of the right thing, use your head, use common change. As a young artist with a lot of potential, sense.