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I am tryin' to get my music out here I have done shows at afro fest and Channel 14 cable t.v.I have done shows with Jerome Bryant and Ms.Mary Ore. I'm lookin for distribution and want some production I'm trying to get in the industry I been grindin 4 years & years I'm ready to shine. I have been in collaboration with Deep Dark for years, he will have our manager Madaame Butterfly upload his music and our new photo's as well.

Today is January 20, 2009; the time is 4:40 P.M.

An interview with Dark Minister, written by Redd.

Redd: Hello Dark Minister, how are you today?
Dark Minister: Straight & you.
Redd: I’m blessed thank you. I’d like to interview you so people can see how you started out and ended up here today.
Dark Minister: I am street so I hope since you are a woman you not language sensitive. Don’t be one of them writers that won’t print the truth.
Redd: I will print what you say, just the way you say it, deal?
Redd : When did you become interested in rapping?
Dark minister: I became interested in the late 70’s early 80’s. From 85 to the present I been writing lyrics and in and out of the studio laying tracks. I recorded my first one at 13 in Firebird Studio’s with Rommey.
Redd: Who were your influences in the rap world?
Dark Minister: My influences well let me see… aaah, L. L. Cool J Sugar Hill Gang, and Curtis Blow.
Redd: where did it all begin for you?
Dark Minister: My life has been the streets. It all started on the Eastside of Milwaukee, Palmer & Wright.
In the late 70’s I was in church wit mama and grandma, well that lasted until I was 16. I heard the streets callin’ and I got out there to see what was up. I’ll get back to that.
At 10 on 34th street the north side of Milwaukee, I began to write my raps. Me and a couple of my friends from 34th, when we were 13 started a break dance crew.
We called our selves the electric rockers. We came up with the idea of havin’ parties in attics, garages & basements we dejayed & we also did battle rappin’. We called ourselves trey-4 we had two separate groups within one. One crew belonged to Dark Minister the other belonged to Double R. & Keith.
REDD: What happened to your crew?
Dark Minister: I began to recruit more people to give my crew diversity. Over the years some fell to: drugs, died by the gun they lived by, then others ended up doing Federal time. The members of my crew came from the eastside and the north sides of Milwaukee.


Redd: so from the 80’s until now what have you been doing?
I was growing up with out a father, the gang life & the streets were calling me. I got caught up in the cash game,
Fast lane, dope game, pimpin’, mackin’, carrying guns. Doin all things gansta because, that’s what I knew. In and out of jail on possession of guns & dope charges. I made music in between the times I was in and out of jail.
Redd: What is the message of your raps? The raps are the life, the struggles we went through, and the nightmares we had at night and in the daytime.
Redd: is there anything else you want to tell us we did not ask you?
Dark Minister: In 1996 I ran into Maadame Butterfly and we created the Dirty Eastside recordings and T&S Entertainment which are both copyrighted to us. She is one part of the management crew. She at times has provided financial support for shows and production and distribution when we sold our shit out tha trunk.
She also helped on Dark Minister Me- Skull collaboration. She does not rap but She did the reading on the Vision Of A Burning Nation.