How is The Beast Is G-Unit gonna be different from The Beauty Of Independence?

Tony Yayo: I think this EP here is more raw. I got a record on their called “Boy, Boy, Boy” and the beat reminds me of some real Wu-Tang shit. Banks got a joint called, “Doper Than The Last One,” I felt like it was real, real raw. Real hip-hop. Buck as well, he got a record called “6 Million Ways” on there and Kidd Kidd’s “Big Body Benz,” so yeah I felt like it was more raw and more street.

Are you working on a solo project right now?

Tony Yayo: Yeah, I’m working on the El Chapo mixtape now. I put out a whole cast of mixtapes, you know the Hawaiian Snow where I found Danny Brown, shouts out to him. Then I had the Gun Powder Gurus editions that I let out and now I’m gonna let the El Chapo 3 out since I haven’t dropped something in a while.

You guys have performed a couple random shows recently, are you guys planning on going on a full blown tour?

Tony Yayo: Everybody’s asking for it, so once everybody starts asking, that’s when we go, you know what I mean? Like a full-fledged tour, overseas and all that. I think the fans keep us going. I’m just a little guy from 134 and Guy Brewer who made it way farther than he ever thought he would. I think the best part for me is that music can break the color barrier and the language barrier. Someone from the suburbs can still have their own issues, you know? [laughs]. Everybody goes through their own personal shit and if the message in the music can make a difference for you that day, that’s a beautiful thing. For me to be in Paris, Germany, Russia, Brazil, Africa — to me that’s the best thing ever to go to a country where people know my song, but don’t even know English. We came from the struggle bro.

What’s your take on the industry these days?

Tony Yayo: The game is just different now. It transitioned from getting your music on radio, getting spins, and hiring a street team to do promotions or whatever. It’s changing to the Internet now, so websites like y’all hold just as much weight as the DJs for real. That’s why at the listening session [for the new EP], we had just as many website people there as we did DJs. I feel like everyone’s in the matrix these days. I wake up the other day and see my daughter on her iPhone, my son on his iPad, my other son on his phone [laughs]. The Internet is a gift and a curse, man. Sometimes I hate it, sometimes I love it.