FSD: There were rumors circulating that DGainz was part of your management team, any truth to that?
Spenzo: D Gainz plays a major roll with me. He’s not a manager, but by the way he deals with me—you would think so. He would shoot me an idea and I would go with it, because I trust him.
FSD: You’ve recently released the video for your song “For My Set”, but you took it down less than 24 hours of its release. What was the reasoning of the removal?
Spenzo: We are just going to work more with it. We are just going to bring more energy to it. It was nothing bad; I just didn’t want to have a negative image. First of all the song wasn’t meant to be a hood song, but people are going to take it how they take it.Lashae and I are going to work with it a little more. When we drop, they are going to be happy with the results. Shout out to Lashae, she’s on the come up.
FSD: It goes with no debate that the new sound of Chicago is “Drill Hop”. Do you ever feel like you need to capitalize off the sound to take your career to another level?
Spenzo: Hell no!
FSD: Can you elaborate on that?
Spenzo: Just like it was Crunk music, all of that stuff goes out of style. So I never felt like I had to say four words each line like—“Slap My Momma, Won’t be no drama” [Laughs.]. I guess it’s live above the influence. I never felt like I had to dumb myself down. I know I can do better than that. But for some people in the hood that’s all they know– I can’t knock them. When they talk about drilling, they talking about everyday life and it’s true to them. It’s just not me; I’ll never talk about shooting because that’s not me. But to be honest I listen to all of the drill music more than I do my own music.
FSD: So what’s next for you?
Spenzo: A mixtape is definitely coming out real soon. It’s going to be a big progression from the previous tape. It’s crazy that the last song we put on Ain’t You Spenzo? was “Go In”. I don’t like that mixtape to be honest. [Laughs.] Producer-wise though, I have Chase N Dough, DGainz, Paris Beuller, J Boogie and Young Chop. Also Cannon, he made a crazy beat for me actually called “Go Crazy.” But feature wise, we might have Chance the Rapper and Chief Keef.
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