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Chop Dezol - Got Next
Interview By: Quinton Hatfield
 The south is dominating hip-hop as you hear over and over again. Texas is in the game with the all stars in Houston & Dallas, Georgia’s making noise especially in ATL, North Carolina has dope lyricist with Little Brother, Florida is shining brighter each day, but what about South Carolina. These states below the Mason-Dixon line is on the map as each previously mentioned state you can easily name a hip-hop superstar from there with no problem. South Carolina on the other hand, who can you think of that has the state on smash? Nobody really, but they do say in life it’s a first time for everything and its the Palmetto State will earn it’s place thanks to Chop Dezol.
Coming from the streets of Anderson, South Carolina Chop Dezol shows why S.C. is more than just a bunch of country boys running wild. They say the streets are all the same no matter where your from and will make that statement recognized in his musical grind while making a movement. Growing up in a musical family was an advantage for Chop Dezol in which he blends everything he experienced into one sound. Now with the state on his back we will see what Chop has to say and why South Carolina’s got next!
 Nobodysmiling.com : Chop Dezol first off explain the name where does that come from?
Chop Dezol : Well Chop has pretty much been my name forever, that’s what everybody in the streets call me from family to friends period. Everybody calls me Chop, the Dezol came from when cats get the tussling and all that stuff. I ain’t all that big and I wasn’t all that tall, but they started calling me Chop Dezol. Then when I started spitting it came from every time I had to rap I tried to do it big so that’s Chop Dezol.
Nobodysmiling.com : Some people will say South Carolina is very country, so talk about some of the other things that go on?
Chop Dezol : It’s a southern state, I traveled a lot of places man once you get to a level of “Have Nots” that shit is pretty much gonna feel the same to you man. The same stuff that pretty much goes on everywhere down here is all the same man. South Carolina is no different than any other place man especially when it comes to the hoods. We got a lot of Black people so you already know we live in a struggle down here. That’s all I can say about South Carolina, that’s why our music is a little different too because it’s still going down.
Nobodysmiling.com : So what part of South Carolina you from?
Chop Dezol : Anderson man, Anderson, Greeneville, Spartanburg upstate Metro that’s where I’m from.
Nobodysmiling.com : So tell me about your life growing up in Anderson?
Chop Dezol : You know it’s pretty much down pack living. Anderson is 85 South so you already know what it is with the D-game. It’s a struggle especially with the Black people man everybody is staying in situations they are not even aware of. Sometimes you can be in a situation and don’t even know it, because everybody you surrounded with is just like you. When I moved to Atlanta I seen Black people with two stories houses I said “I never seen Black people with two stories houses” they think I’m tripping. It’s different sometimes, but it’s all the same once you get in the hood.
Nobodysmiling.com : Speaking on the South Carolina hip-hop scene is it any different from the other states in the South?
Chop Dezol : The scene is different because were right next to Georgia so a lot of cats want to sound outside of Georgia. A lot of cats like the sound out of Georgia, but when you get down to the actual streets in South Carolina they love South Carolina music. You got a lot of cats doing the music thing and tryna get the state recognized for it. The radio is checking for it now, the streets already accepted it so it’s meant to be like a big push coming through right now.
Nobodysmiling.com : Alright, so being a up-comer who were some of your influences growing up?
Chop Dezol : All the ol’ school cats man from LL Cool J to N.W.A., Uncle Luke, and of course Outkast when they started holding it down in the A. When they came in doing they thing I was very inspired. I always try to tell people I grew up in a musical family, I just have a real love for music. I never really played anything, but if I got a hold of it I can make it do something. I can make my voice do something, I can do something with music, because that’s just me I love music. I’m influenced by all music man.
Nobodysmiling.com : So tell me what makes Chop Dezol a hot artist?
Chop Dezol : What makes me an hot artist first of all for one thing is that I know music. Second I know the streets, third I can rap, fourth I ain’t scared to speak on a certain topic that needs to be spoke on especially as far as my people coming up. What makes me an hot artist is just my swag and I just try to keep within my parameters. I like a lot of music so I might just do a lot of different stuff cause that’s me. I can do club music, I can ride around and let that shit bump in the trunk then I can do corner music. That’s me I’m versatile and that’s what make me hot.
Nobodysmiling.com : Chop Dezol you just mentioned what makes you an hot artist is that you know about the streets. Tell me what do you know about the streets?
Chop Dezol : [Laughs], I know everything about the streets. I know the good shit, the bullshit, I know it all from the good to the bad man.
Nobodysmiling.com : How would you describe your style in hip-hop?
Chop Dezol : My style is definitely southern, it’s southern music man and it’s still hip-hop. It’s southern music, soul music, and street music.
Nobodysmiling.com : Did you ever feel hip-hop was dead?
Chop Dezol : Man I don’t think it’s dieing, but it can go wrong just like every other gang. Hip-hop is bigger than the people doing it and it’s so much money involved it’s starting to get real ugly.
Nobodysmiling.com : What you think is the big difference between the music industry today compared to ten years ago?
Chop Dezol : The money, it’s the money and the product. The product today it’s hard to say, but nobody is taking much focus to make it now, people lack it. That’s the way they giving it to them they kind of want it now. I call it “Microwave Music”, they want it hot now they don’t want that Sunday dinner cooked by they momma no more. Another thing is that it’s controlled by outsiders.
Nobodysmiling.com : Now as far as your music grind what you been working on lately?
Chop Dezol : Right now we got this single out right now we pushing called “Pump It” with my man Sean P of the YoungBloodz produced by Collipark music. Right now we hitting the airwaves real hard, we hitting all the clubs, it was banging in the clubs last night. We just making moves with that right now, we got the ringtone, and we getting out here man.
Nobodysmiling.com : Speaking on that what is next up for Chop Dezol?
Chop Dezol : Next up is making the song number one on 106 & Park, we putting this video together. We gonna take this song real big and after that we gonna do it real big with the album. At the same time we gonna do it real big with the movement and we gonna do the thing for South Carolina. Sometimes it’s not even about me we tryna get the state on and have another way of income for cats coming out of here. It’s a real movement man, it’s bigger than me and it’s hard to make it sound simple. I’m not on that “I’m about to come in the game and kill this shit”. I’m about to do this shit and hopefully a lot more people can eat off of me on what’s being built right now with what we doing.
Nobodysmiling.com : So what will keep you in the game to get you to that top status?
Chop Dezol : If I can do whatever I want to do in the studio, if I can get in the lab and work with whoever I want to work with. It’s nothing to call other cats in the game that you want to do songs with. Like that “I’m So Hood” how all them boys in Florida got together on that song. It’s nothing when ya’ll get together for a song like that. I’m a be doing this everyday whether I’m in the studio writing, producing I want to do it everyday.
Nobodysmiling.com : Do you believe South Carolina is the next state to hold it down out of the south?
Chop Dezol : I definitely believe that man. South Carolina is gonna hold it down, because we make good music. Cats out here is making good music and speaking that real talk. We out here still living out life like everybody else is. Get ready for your boy Chop Dezol, get ready for South Carolina and shout out to that 864.
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