Shady Detroit politics have been making the news for quite a while, as new corruptions are exposed. But Westside Detroiter Big Herk has been highlighting the griminess of the city lying outside his door for two decades. His real life accounts from the streets have become infamous within his music and he’s holding nothing back. Since taking the solo route after working with Rock Bottom for years, Big Herk has dropped one solo album and several mixtapes. While enjoying the buzz from his Got’Cha Back Entertainment label’s (click here) Playtime’s Over Vol. 1 mixtape, he’s preparing to keep rap fans addicted with his second solo album, Overdose. It’s only right that MichiganHipHop.com talks with one of the pioneers of Detroit underground music about the importance of versatility, what it takes for new artists to impress him, and the bizarre chain of events that has prevented Overdose from being completed already.

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Waajeed “The Eternal Mixtape (RIP Baatin)”
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From Willie The Kid’s mixtape with DJ Drama and DJ Head Debiase, “Gangsta Grillz: The Fly,” which drops on 9/9/09.