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Connfinement: Start off by introducing yourselves and letting the reader’s know exactly what your part in the team is.
Real: This is Real, the producer at STR studios and a general
Soup: This is Soup and I’m a artist / producer at STR studios. You know how I get down.
Stradegy: This is Stradegy better known as Nobles. We all generals in this shi$ just signing in.
Duece: This is Duece “el torro” from STR studios and I’m also a producer and artist. You know how we do. We making this happen.
Big Neene: This is Big Neene aka the general of the STR street team so holla at me.
Street Connfinement: There’s someone else here, he’s part of the STR family but he’s quiet. But I’m a let him introduce himself.
Boon: STR. This is all family right here. I’m wit the movement, I don’t rap but you know I’m here.

Street Connfinement: For those who new to STR why don’t you let the reader’s know what STR stands for.
Stradegy: We’ve been doing this for a minute but for those who are new to us STR stands for Stop The Run Productions and we out here making this real music. We just trying to give the people what they lacking especially in this watered down bubble gum bullshi$ they supplying us with. We stopping ni$$a’s runs if they ain’t down. Get down or lay down, hate or love it.
Soup: True story cause STR is the initials of my government. We do what we talk about and this is what we do. We the real shi$ ni$$a. Anything we get on we over accomplish whatever it is we’re trying to do.

Street Connfinement: Talk to us about the thought process behind a track when you’re all in the lab together.
Duece: It’s more like a group effort coming up with the concept of a track so there’s not too much pressure on one man. We feed off each other as a team.
Big Neene: I feed off of everyone else’s energy so if they want to roll up a dutch in the process then I’m with that.

Street Connfinement: Talk to us about some of your upcoming projects.
Duece: We got the “Walking Tall” album by my man Big Neene, “Real Talk” by my man Real, “Stradegies of War” by Stradegy, followed by my CD “40 Days, 40 Nights” and then finally my man Super Shawn “Soup” titled “No Mercy”. Soup is fresh home from the bing today and made the interview so stay on the look out for that. Oh, and I almost forgot me and Stradegy got a collaboration CD dropping “Never Enough” which will be coming soon. You can check us out at TheWorldIs.NotEnough@yahoo.com
Big Neene: I’m also working on this mix CD titled “Bat” which is a compilation album with a lot of other unsigned artists so if you trying to get on the CD make sure you get at us. The CD is like the story 300 where it’s us vs. the industry.
Real: Besides our music I just want to remind the people how we got our distribution services where we can burn CD’s and giving them an opportunity to get their music out there. We definitely hooking up with Skillz Unlimited out of PA, so we spreading out and I just want people to know that this is what we do. We’re more than just a group or label. We’re family and can’t nobody STOP OUR RUN!
Stradegy: Make sure you look out for “Stradegies of War” which should be out sometime in the middle of May. STR will be in South Beach this Memorial Day holding it down in the clubs just pumping the CD’s to the people. Also I got the mix CD “Stradegies of War” for the album with just raw shi$. Nothing but freestyles and exclusives.

Street Connfinement: Tell us what makes STR stand out from the rest what goes down when STR is on stage what’s the energy like?
Real: You know we like to feed off the crowd so we give out that energy that we gone want to take back in. So it’s like more of a joint venture. The crowd feel us or we feel the crowd, we go back and forth with them. It’s like moving, it’s like a motion almost like a dance. Us and the crowd. Almost like the tango. The hood tango.

Street Connfinement: That’s that crowd participation. Lots of artists don’t get that. They on stage and people ain’t feeling ya music they get mad as a motherf**ker.
Soup: We like to bring that energy almost like a freestyle session. Like right now if we start going verse for verse, line for line how you gone feel that cause it’s real. That’s the type of energy we like to bring to rock the crowd.
Big Neene: Man I just lose my mind on the stage; I ain’t even gone lie to you. I go bananas if my ni$$as there, I don’t care if it’s three people in the building. I’m a rock them, I’m a rock wit my ni$$as, and we all gone be down like a team. Cause we a squad, you can’t stop us. .
Stradegy: This Stradegy, we know we got that energy. We get on the stage, it’s like once you grab that mic it’s on. Once you see the crowd moving, you see everybody running to the stage, you get that attention, you know what it is. We opened up for Hell Rell and we seen them dudes over in the corner, they was rockin to our s**t. They was feelin us cause they know we a movement.

Street Connfinement: Let’s talk about your latest CD and some of the songs on it. Also explain what they mean to you.
Soup: Yeah, No Mercy, this my first LP. No Mercy, this s**t is like for real. This is like my life story. It’s like everything I go through. I’m a real ni$$a. I’m a in and out of jail ni$$a. I got kids and all that s**t but it don’t even matter cause I’m in and out of jail, so that’s like the real story. So if you listen to my s**t it’s like the real story. You understand what I’m going through, and it’s like a million other ni$$as out here who understand what I’m going through so No Mercy is like for real for real. When you say No Mercy it’s like No Mercy! To all you herb ni$$as, and all you real ni$$as, No Mercy, that’s like plain and simple. If you listen to it you’ll understand it. No Mercy.

Street Connfinement: Yeah, that’s what’s up. When that s**t drop, it’s out, ya’ll go cop it. Listen to it, support ya Connecticut artists. These dudes is putting work in. Same way you go buy D Block CD or whoever CD, go cop STR CD at the same time. Let’s talk about some upcoming projects for STR. What’s coming up with yall, like shows, interviews, DVD’s or anything else coming up?
Stradegy: You know, right now we ain’t got no shows coming up. Right now we waiting, something supposed to be poppin off at Toad’s Place. My boy Big be with K Slay and Papoose. But other than that we ready for whatever. Anything that’s going on we want in. We want to be involved with anything that’s going on. So anybody out there looking for talent make sure you look up STR Stop The Run Productions.
Real: I want ya’ll to also be looking out for the STR Ni$$as Can’t Stop The Run video. That’s gone be hitting CT real soon. Ya’ll make sure ya’ll show us some love man, this real s**t man, and that’s like the anthem for ya boys.
Soup: For any ni$$as that wanna battle just come see me. I guarantee ya’ll ni$$as can’t see me. I do what I do.

Street Connfinement: I’m telling you man, Soup is serious. He’s putting the crown on the line. You stop the run you a bad motherf**ker right now. They like they ain’t gonna get violent with ya’ll, they want ya’ll to pick up the mics man. That’s what they trying to get at. Let me get it right. It’s not about the gun play but they do that too, the street play. Street Connfinement: That’s right, the one play like Nas said, “One Mic”. Five mics they coming at ya’ll.
STR Together: It’s not about the gun play; it’s about the one play.
Stradegy: This is for them ni$$as that watch us more than these fu$kin females do. They know how I get down in these streets, I’m a gwap getter and I get it.
Big Neene: Ni$$as know me, I’m from around the way man. You try to air anybody in my team out, I don’t give a f**k if it’s a one on one battle I’m getting on it I’m tearing you apart cause I don’t even battle like that. I done put ni$$as careers on hold. My battling days is over. If you come out and you try to air Deuce, Strategy, Real, or Soup I’m gonna air you out. It’s gonna look real ugly.
Real: Aye, let me elaborate on that. I want ya’ll ni$$as to know that STR man we is f**king so deep right now. Everything we touch is fire. Anybody we collaborate with is fire. Ni$$as know what we do man. We out here f**king setting the mark man. Ni$$as is scared, ni$$as don’t even want to act like they notice what we doing but they know. So for ni$$as that think that we only a few deep ni$$as nah. Man we f**king by the hundreds going to the thousands.

Street Connfinement: Got Damn! Now, now I like that. Now let’s talk about collaborations. Any CT cats ya’ll working with? I need to know they names man.
Stradegy: On the real the only CT cats I’m working with is STR productions. Only CT cats I’m working with is ni$$as that’s already down with my team. I can’t work with nobody else. Anybody else I work with is IL and HUO Productions, which is my little brother. And STR productions, you know we working wit all of them. IL and HUO Productions.
Duece: All our s**t, we do what we do and to maintain, and the family. We can’t work with everybody else. You know we don’t work with trauma sending men. My ni$$a J Rock that’s in the Carolina’s right now, Scoob, ni$$as from all over. Cousin Bootsie, Trigga, he’s a big part of the movement. He come and vibe with ni$$as and put it down. There’s a lot of ni$$as out there man that I just wanna acknowledge man.
Stradegy: Yeah I did a track with L to the Gunz. And you know my boy Chad Dawson “The Champ”, we got a track wit him too “What Goes Around Comes Around”. Collabos? We collabing wit STR! If you ni$$as feel ya’ll got the movement like we got, and you feeling the energy that we got holla at us. The Champ! He’s boxing and he’s rapping. “What Goes Around Comes Around”, the track. They know what it is man.
Real: Yeah we got some females that sung on a couple tracks. Let’s give a shout out to Tonya, Tonya Dorch and Candy from the Hill. So you know we working wit a lot of different artists from around. My man Chris, Jamaican Chris we out ranking. That’s how we do so. Butch definitely, he showed me how to rock on the beats anyway. Back when I was a lil young ni$$a so I gotta respect my ni$$a Butch. He still around. My man DR at Top Ten Studios. That’s how we doing it man.
Stradegy: I gotta send love to my boy Menage too man. He’s another part of STR. He ain’t make it right here right now. But he’s another part of STR movement. He’s another ni$$a ya’ll gone hear about that’s from the hood. Real ni$$a, about his business.

Street Connfinement: Now I want to sit back and talk about what it’s like when people see your CD’s out and they notice you. What’s the response from that?
Soup: I mean you know we get a good response from the people out there. They love our music so there’s probably some haters but they stay in the background we’ll never even get to see them. But when people see our music, they hear our music they love it. We got like what a thousand CD’s out right here In New Haven alone. People buying the music. We just giving CD’s away, people buy them. So it ain’t nothing man, they love the music. That’s just the mixtape right there for the newest volume 1.

Street Connfinement: Yeah that’s what’s up man. One more time, I heard someone talk about MySpace man if ya’ll wanna give ya’ll information out. I know each one of ya’ll got a MySpace. Alright just shout out ya MySpace, ya info, you know whatever, who you are.
Stradegy: MySpace Stradegy@yahoo.com.
Soup: I just came home today so I ain’t got no MySpace. But if you give me a week I’ll have all the MySpace you want.
Big Neene: Aight this is ya boy Big Neen. I ain’t got no MySpace but I’m on STR the whole team. Long as my team and I’m up there s**t I got MySpace. But I will be coming with my own MySpace too. Big Neen, holla at me.
Real: Yo what’s good, this is Real. We working on a multi-dimension space, www.stoptherun.com . That should be up and running within the next month. We just trying to make progress. We got a whole bunch of spaces man. All you spaces is MySpace.
Duece: Yeah, well you know we got more than one MySpace on different sites but the one I want people to hit up right now is TheWorldIs.NotEnough@yahoo.com. When I way it’s nothing but fire up there, it’s nothing but fire baby. Signing off

Street Connfinement: Any last words?
Real: I want to say one more thing before I sign off too. For all the people out there, the new and upcoming artists in New Haven or wherever you at, I want ya’ll to remember one thing. The world is full of negativity. Everything around you is negative. And only time you gone be positive is if you move positive. You gotta put all that other stuff beside you and block out everything, everybody trying to bring you down and make sure you get yours. You gotta step forward with your good foot forward best way you can.
Stradegy: All that I tell you is that the album be out next month May. Crazy fire on there, club track Mama See To It, Deuce “ell torro” got a club track wit my lil cousin Lil Brittney Top Bosses. Street Life, it’s all types of crazy stuff, I Tried So Hard, it’s all types of stuff on there. So May, middle of May it’ll be out.
Soup: This Super Shawn. If you listen to J Random MySpace.com you will understand what I’m talking about. That’s my little brother. I just came out of jail today, and my lil, brother he look up to me. So if you listen to his s**t, you’ll understand where I’m coming from. My little brother is the truth, and before you know it I’m gonna be the truth.
Big Neene: Yo this Big Neen here. I gotta say ni$$as look out for my album Walking Tours, lot of motivation, versatility, gangsta s**t, s**t for the chicks, versatile. It’s all about bringing you up man, getting you outta the hood. And I’m a give you life stories, I’m a give you real s**t on my s**t. and for all you haters out there stop hating man. I’m just tipping you off man.

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TheWorldIs.NotEnough@yahoo.com