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When I called to interview "Ganxsta Ridd," lead
rapper for the infamously frightening Samoan
group, Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., he wasn't home.
Figures. He was probably out maiming some
babies or knocking-off convalescent homes.
"Is he gone for the rest of the day?" I asked, sure
the interview would be postponed at least a week
until he got out on parole.
"Uh, no...he's at church. Can you call back in an
hour?" asked a shaky, feminine voice.
Startled and embarrassed for letting my stereo-
typical Samoan-gangster fantasies get the best
of me, I called back later that Sunday and spoke
to Ridd myself.
"That whole 'big, bad' image is something
we're trying to get away from," explains Ridd, in
the studio with his group and family members (nine
out of ten members are from the same family).
Known for their thundering size and less-than-
church-friendly" disposition, after their first album,
New Funky Nation, Boo-Yaa used to be synony-
mous with pretext "Don't Fuck With... So was it
all hype? Are these boys from Carson (east of
Compton) a bunch of hymn-singing pussycats?
"Yeah, we're big guys. We can't get away from
it. It's in our blood," says Ridd. 'Have you ever
seen a small Samoan? But," continues Samoan
Godfather, the leader of the five-mem-
ber harmony section (a.k.a.
T.R.I.B.E. KI.N.G.S.), "we want
to change things this year
with our new album.
Instead of people say-
ing. 'Don't fuck with Boo-
Yaa T.R.I.B.E. we
would rather have them
say "Man, your guitar
rips, or, "Your bass play-
er is incredible."
"We want to be known
and respected for our
music, not our size or how
long our hair is," says Ridd.
"The one thing we really let
everybody know is that we
are Samoan.
There's only a handful of Samoans in LA and Boo-
Yaa is our way of making noise and bringing our
people up. We're proud of being Samoan."
What differentiates this crew of four main group
members (Godfather, Ridd, backing vocalist Kobra
Konvict and bass player Monsta O), four in the
harmony section, and two additional musicians
from other Samoans, is they represent the urban
gangster Samoan from LA not from the island.
"We're not N.W.A., they represent the black
community of gangsters, and (Kid) Frost, he's for
the Mexicans, so we're letting everybody know
that Samoans are some crazy gangsters, too."
says Ridd
But the ten member group is also very loyal to
their family, their music, their hood and conse-
quently, their gangs.
"Our 'hood is all Samoan. The gang that I ran
with is called West Side Piru," says Ridd. "Piru is
another way to say Bloods. I wear my red rag on
stage, my colors, but I don't drive around carrying
my rag and trying to sweat everybody. But, I'm also
not going to say that I'm not active because there
are still fools out there that want to test me, and
when they come, they come." says Ridd
"We also got two Crips in our group, but they're
family, so we know they're Crips and they
know were Bloods, and when
it comes down to doing
Boo-Yaa business, we
don't be set-trip-
pin," says Ridd
"We're going to
make
this
happen.
As eager
as the
group may be to shed its gun-totin', gangbanging
image with the new album, which they claim will
be more hip hop and less live, the Boo-Yaa
T.R.I.B.E. were born and raised among all the
madness, and it seems unlikely that the anger and
emotion could ever dissolve, even if this album
does hit and they earn enough money to move out
of the hood, which is what they want to do.
Godfather tells how his youngest brother, King
Folsom, got shot six times outside of their house
the day before they were set to go on the Lolla-
palooza tour, "He's massive, he was lucky he lived.
He's 65, about 450 lbs. It's just nonsense, but you
can't do nothing about if you live here, except
protect yourself and watch out for your family,"
says Godfather. "I go out to clean my yard and I
gotta get one of my brothers to watch my back."
When a reporter from The Source came out to
LA to interview Kid Frost after the magazine had
dissed Frost and Boo-Yaa in an earlier issue, he
was met by the whole posse and taken to a car
show, where there happened to be three killings
that day. "We had to put that guy in check," says
Godfather. They had written that in LA the rappers
were blowing (the violence) out of proportion. So
we made sure he found out the hard way. We were
just saying, "Why dis us? We're just trying to tell
you how we live, you can take it or leave it, you
don't gotta buy it," says Godfather. "He went
back and the review said, 'Boy, those boys in LA
don't play. I think we got everything straightened
out with them."
The new single, which is noticeably more hip
hop-flavored and boasts tighter post-production
(by Will Roc) is called "Rumors of a Dead Man
and is featured on the soundtrack for the movie
South Central. The first single was supposed to be
a track called "Shoot 'Em Down," but it got pulled
because the content reminded distributors of
the content in Ice-T's Cop Kiler."
As I ask Ganxsta Ridd for
his last words, he spreads
a call for unity and dis
sent: "Love, peace
and fuck the
po-lice!"
-Johanna
Rees
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