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Basically, Wicked Material started in 1998. I was going to this alternative school because I had gotten put out of Hunter's Lane High School. In the mix of me going to the alternative school, I ran into CP. He came in the class, for the first time, that day on crutches. He had just ended up getting shot a couple of weeks before he came the class. So, I was in the back of the class writing my raps and doing what I do. He came in the back of the class and asked me what I was spitting. So I let him know what I was spitting and he was like, "Whoa. I'm felling that. You know I rap too." When he sat down, he opened up his little folder and started spitting what he was writing and I was feeling it. By us having most of our classes together, we started spending more time together and doing more writing together. We started putting together whole songs with titles and everything. He would write 16 bars and I would write 16 bars and if they sounded good together, that was a song. We had about five or six songs that we had written together on paper. When we were at school, we would spit them for other students when we would get to gym class or whatever. I had a tape that I had already done. It had two songs on it. I was with a group before I was with Wicked Material called True Thugs, so I had a few songs on there. One called "Pimp Shit" and one called "Get Em Up." CP started listening to my tape and said that he was going to bring it back the next day, but he didn't bring it back the next day. I asked him where my tape was at and he said, "I left it over my grandma's house." So, the next day came around and he didn't bring it. About three or four days later he finally told me that his big cousin had been listening to the tape and he loved it. His big cousin wanted to meet me. The next day, I went out there to meet his cousin. His big cousin asked me how long I had been rapping. I let him know that I had been rapping since I was knee high to a fly. I was about sixteen or seventeen at the time. He was like, "why don't you and my little cousin hook up and try to do something together?" We wrote more together, until about a month later, we put out a compilation called Keep It Wicked Entertainment . We had a hit on there called "We Gon Ride Together." That was back in 1998. It's 2006 now and that song is still banging. When we did that, we got together with everybody that is poppin' from Nashville, Tennessee, including Juvenile and the Botney Boys. After that, we had an established song and the city was really feeling our song. So we thought about making a separate group album. We came up with a separate album called Wicked Material: Ghettos and Projects . That gave us more of a buzz. There was a lot of other hot artists out like Pistol and Kool Daddy Fresh. We were like the youngest artist of that era. Young Buck was doing his thing too and had his name out there at the time. We did a lot of shows and we did a mix tape. The next cd was in 2002. It was called Untold Secrets . We worked on it with Mika B, Chris Kane, Young Buck, Pistol, a singer from Memphis named Christina Angel and my partner LV also sang for the group. We kept pushing it and then we did a couple of mix tapes. After we did the mix tapes, I was out in the streets. I always had a bond with Young Buck. We stayed close and everything stayed cool. Whenever we would see each other in the streets we would say "what's up." He would see me out there shining on 24's, TVs flipping down, on candy paint. That was my style. That's how I was doing it. That's how everything went as far as Wicked Material and how I linked up with Young Buck.