OZONE MAGAZINE NEVER MIND WHAT HATERS SAY, IGNORE ‘EM TIL THEY FADE AWAY THEY FADE TIL ‘EM IGNORE SAY, HATERS WHAT NEVER MIND MAGAZINE OZONE YOUR FAVORITE RAPPER’S FAVORITE MAGAZINE T-PAIN E-40 BOSS HOGG OUTLAWZ GORILLA ZOE PITBULL UNK REMEMBERING SHAKIR STEWART OZONE MAG // YOUR FAVORITE RAPPER’S FAVORITE MAGAZINE T-PAIN E-40BOSS HOGG OUTLAWZ GORILLA ZOE PITBULL REMEMBERING UNK SHAKIR & MORE STEWART 28 // OZONE WEST // OZONE MAG OZONE MAG // // OZONE MAG OZONE MAG // // OZONE MAG OZONE MAG // // OZONE MAG OZONE MAG // PUBLISHER/EDITOR-IN-CHIEF // Julia Beverly MUSIC EDITOR // Randy Roper FEATURES EDITOR // Eric N. Perrin ASSOCIATE EDITOR // Maurice G. Garland monthly sections interviews GRAPHIC DESIGNER // David KA 15 10 THINGS I’M HATIN’ ON 34 BLEU DAVINCI ADVERTISING SALES // Che Johnson, Richard Spoon 22 ARE U A G? 52-53 BOSS HOGG OUTLAWZ PROMOTIONS DIRECTOR // Malik Abdul 72 BOARD GAME 68-69 GORILLA ZOE SPECIAL EDITION EDITOR // Jen McKinnon 73 CAFFEINE SUBSTITUTES 54-55 PASTOR TROY LEGAL CONSULTANT // Kyle P. King, P.A. 74 CD REVIEWS 62-63 PITBULL SUBSCRIPTIONS MANAGER // Adero Dawson 26 CHAIN REACTION 70-71 ROB G ADMINISTRATIVE // Kisha Smith 24 CHIN CHECK 60-61 UNK INTERNS // Jee’Van Brown, Kari Bradley, Torrey 44 DJ BOOTH Holmes 28 DOLLAR MENU features CONTRIBUTORS // Anthony Roberts, Bogan, Char- 12 FEEDBACK lamagne the God, Chuck T, Cierra Middlebrooks, 36 OZONE SPORTS Edward Hall, Jacquie Holmes, J Lash, Jason Cordes, 22 HOOD DEEDS 64-66 SHAKIR STEWART Johnny Louis, Keadron Smith, Keith Kennedy, K.G. 51 INDUSTRY 101 Mosley, King Yella, Luis Santana, Luxury Mindz, Marcus DeWayne, Matt Sonzala, Maurice G. 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Printed in the USA. 0 // OZONE MAG interviews 34 BLEU DAVINCI 52-53 BOSS HOGG OUTLAWZ 68-69 GORILLA ZOE 54-55 PASTOR TROY 62-63 PITBULL 70-71 ROB G 60-61 UNK features 36 OZONE SPORTS 64-66 SHAKIR STEWART LLOYD PG 58-60 PG 62-64 BG & CHOPPER CITY OZONE MAG // 11 Send your comments to [email protected] or hit us up at www.myspace.com/ozonemagazine I’ve been reading OZONE for a long time. I used to get copies over at ing. Richmond and Petersburg are running the show. Don’t let them BME. I have worked in music for over six years, but I left three years rag-ass bitches down in VA Beach fool you. We’re up here making ago because I got tired of the shadiness, lies, and people not want- good street music and begging these fuck-ass DJs to put our shit on ing to pay you. That’s why I love this magazine so much. I’m proud of the radio. They turn their shoulder and put them beach boys on. It’s Julia’s success and her ability to stick to it despite the bull and drama. bullshit! I ain’t mad at it because it’s all VA, but the Clipse ain’t the - Leslie Purifoy via Facebook, (Atlanta, GA) hardest group in VA, trust me. They’re good, but go to Petersburg or Richmond and stand on the corner and rep with those cats. And to Charlamagne da God, I know you’re a DJ and you took offense to Hey Too Short, I just read your $hort Stories column. Your article the saying “the DJ is dead” but yo, that’s the truth. When DJ Unk got in OZONE is the first shit I read every month when it comes out. I on the mic it was a wrap. Mixtapes are good for new artists, but let’s just got through watching you on VH1’s Hip Hop Honors. I’ve been be honest, who the hell wants to buy a record with DJ Khaled yell- checking for you since 1984. I’m from Omaha, NE, but now live in ing “We the best!” over every track? That’s reason #1 the DJ is dead. Orlando, FL. I remember when my homeboy used to bring back Polow da Don doesn’t need to be rapping either. Y’all need to be your tapes from Cali. I’ve been hooked ever since. When you came breaking records. Come to Richmond, VA and break some records to Omaha in 1989 you let me and my little crew get on stage while for us, dawg. you performed. I’m 37 and I know your Hip Hop Honors award is - Mic Archie, [email protected] (Richmond, VA) long overdue. It’s bullshit that they took so long, but people from the West and the Midwest know what’s up. - Chris Mudd, via email (Orlando, FL) Great 2 Cents this month, JB. I have faith you can make it to the Olympics, and I’d fo’ sho’ put my bread on you in a race against Jeezy. I cannot tell you the difference that you made in so many people’s - DJ Supa C, via email (Houston, TX) lives this weekend by covering the Ohio Hip Hop Awards. My phone has not stopped blowing up since Saturday. We have been waiting so long for the industry to show us love and now OZONE is going JB, I was recently put on OZONE Magazine. I must say I enjoyed to be looked at as the forefront. The idea behind OZONE was a well- reading it because you touch on the issues that other mags don’t. I executed and ingenious plan. You focused on areas that everybody really love the fact that you feature a lot of underground artists. On else was overlooking. You have breathed so much life back into an another note, I’m very intrigued that you are a young woman with industry that has often become deaf to the underground Hip Hop your own magazine. You are a huge inspiration to me. movement. OZONE has taken off and now it seems every magazine - Jessica, via myspace (Alabama) is trying to fake the funk by piggybacking your concept. I saw a couple mags (who will remain nameless) go from a one page article to having half the magazine dedicated to indie Hip Hop artists. We OZONE is the Southern artists’ Bible. It is the real shit. But I live in can see through their bullshit and I know Ohio does too. the upstate of South Carolina and I feel that we aren’t represented - Rick Rucker, via email (Cleveland, OH) at all. There are hot cats up here just like there are in Columbia and Chucktown. TD the Don and Lil Ru did a show this past weekend here along with a local artist called Carolina James. Is there any way JB, I read your 2 cents in the Three 6 Mafia edition, and all I can say we can get up in OZONE? Our events go unnoticed.