SplatterTribe: Introduce yourself, and compare yourself to some sort of structure you see in the city  and tell us why you compare yourself to that.

 

J Double Up: I would have to compare myself to a tree for sure. Every tree bears some type of fruit right?. Not on nothing corny but you can look at each of my songs as like an apple or some shit lol, when you get done with one of my albums you gonna feel nourished feel me?. I bear fruit through my grindin and hard work and spread that around to whoever wanna eat as long as you respect it and don't try and cut me down if you can feel my metaphor. Aside from the music aspect I'm like a tree in that I'm a solid dude who stands firm in the face of adversity.     SplatterTribe: For anyone who doesn't know who you are, Explain what the hell Country Gutta is.

J Double Up: Country Gutta is my definition of the city of Louisville, straight up. I was thinking one day and I'm like we really don't have an Identity as far as this rap shit or our culture period, for real. Look at Houston for instance, they got they own slang home of the screwed and chopped etc. or California, lowriders, gangsta music see where I'm comin from?. What are we known for? Some horses and shit lol.
Fuck that, this is Country Gutta we got aspects of the grimy and fast paced inner city and you can drive 20 minutes and be on some back roads lookin at tractors. I embrace the fact that Louisville is Country, but it's City at the same time that makes us different and anybody else who embraces that is Country Gutta too.
 

 

SplatterTribe: What do you feel is the difference between a Rapper and a Hip Hop Artist? Is there a difference and what is Country Gutta?

J Double Up: To me that's like the difference between tom-A-toe and tom-ah-toe, pot-A-toe and pot-ahh-toe. How alotta people break those definitions down to me between hip hip and rap are limitations to a form of music that has no limitations. Basically rap or hip-hop is a form of expression and if you speaking from your heart and its real I can feel you. That's what country gutta is real music people can feel.
 

SplatterTribe: How do you define the following words?
 

J Double Up:

Music
The art of composing sounds and rhythms straight from the heart. Whether it be occopello, an instrument alone, singing or rapping over a beat or instrument. If you really feeling it that's music.
 

Entertainment
Bud Ice and a bad bitch lol. Naw real talk anything that engages somebody and brings them joy.
 

Art
A form of expression whether it be painting rap or whatever, but you gotta have some skill though to call it art otherwise you just scribbling and rambling and shit lol.
 

Life
Whatever you do between the time your born and dead.
 

SplatterTribe: So how ya get the name J Double Up?

J Double Up: It was a nickname givin to me by my brother just from me hustlin' illegal shit bread winning doubling money. I dont live that life anymore so I look at it now like my name symbolizes progression. Everything I do Imma try to do it twice as good as I did it the last time, twice as good as my competition.
 

(Tribe Note: Oh, now I see why they used to call me Lu Doit Up!)

 

SplatterTribe: If you were to start your own music hall of fame who would be your first 5 nominees (individuals not groups).

J Double Up: 2-pac off top, Miles Davis , Johnny Cash , Soulja Slim , and Mary J. Blidge.
 

 

SplatterTribe: When I say the following names, what comes to mind?   J Double Up: DMC--Run Eminem-- Baby Mama Drama Kid Rock-- A mix between rap and rock and roll best of both worlds. Johnny Cash-- Someone who lived the lyrics Ice T-- When he was a undercover police chasing pookie ( Chris Rock) in the movie New Jack City after he stole his money Lil Jon--Yeeeeeeah

SplatterTribe: I set down on a bench at the state fair this year while there with the family. The kids were riding rides, I was eatin french fries and looked to my side and saw a Country Gutta postcardish flyer/ad. How do you think it got there?

J Double Up: We order up like 6,000 of them flyers and just went out on some guerrilla marketing type shit. Everything from gettin kicked out the mall tryn a hand em out stickin on buildings giving em to everybody we see everywhere across the city. Somebody must have took that one and tossed it down. They was hatin on us lol.

 

(Tribe Note: But by hatin' on ya, they helped ya out. See I always believed in the whole throwin your own flyers down and around the garbage every so often, or 'accidentally on the ground or floor somewhere. That's when people really pay attention to them!)
 

SplatterTribe: Can you make a sentence out of the following words or phrases?

J Double Up:

Box Top-- Let me get a pack of Kool mild's with the box top.
Gutta-- I was born in the Gutta.
Magazine-- I'm vibing with this girl on the phone while flipping through the new XXL magazine.
pen-- I put my pen to work every night.
splatter-- I was faded dropped my beer and that shit splattered everywhere.
tape-- I aint listened to a cassette tape since like 93'.
 

SplatterTribe: What are 3 things that define 2008 to you?
 

J Double Up: 4.00 gas, working hard and partayin harder, get get gettin it
 

SplatterTribe: Have you heard any good jokes recently? Tell me a good one. J Double Up: There was these two men and a chic at a bar...... that shits corny. I usually just get my kicks and giggles from being witty and at the expense of somebody's self-esteem jokin on they shoes or hairline or some shit lol.   (Tribe Note: That's why I wear Fonverse's. You can't joke on Fonverse's! Especially my Fonverse Shucks!)   SplatterTribe: What comes to mind when you hear the words Splatter Tribe?

 

J Double Up: If I think of the word splatter that means something drops and it spreads, so I'm thinkin like a coalition of people who's droppin the hottest interviews and spreading news.

 

(Tribe Note: Dude, that answer is so frickin' awesome, I swear, it almost brought a tear to my eye. No lie! Like all tearin up and shit!)

 

SplatterTribe: Can you freestyle a rhyme using the words Splatter Tribe right now?

J Double Up: Doing this interview with the splatter tribe/ I like chicken extra crispy batter fried... lol that's all I got for that one right now
 

(Tribe Note: I keep my spork right here by my side / Use it to scrape your eye balls out and scoop out your insides! My bad, had an Eminem moment!)

 

SplatterTribe: Songwriting time: I wrote a verse and then a local cat named Delivery The Beast wrote another verses, now I need you to write the next rhyme.

Me: I've been bakin' my bread
one slice at a time
while you've penny loafed
I've been rollin' my dimes

Delivery: the rap games bouncer
I control the lines
the colored boy who don't always
color inside the lines

J Double Up: The times prime when I rhyme
believe I'm a get mines
Ill just charge it to the game
my card is never declined
 

SplatterTribe: Any closing comments concerning anything you want to rant about, you want know or you just want to say?

J Double Up: To anybody who has anything to do with music in Louisville or what I like to call 5-0-2 much drama lets come together and blow up we gotta get on our c-4 shit and get heard by the nation. Good lookin on the interview.
Country Gutta 4 life