A.C.R.E.

The future of the Texas music scene is looking very bright and
the next artist up on inkstarzz.com is one of the reasons.
Spittin tight bars and focused on creating his legacy, A.C.R.E.
Man is one of the artists that you should be on the look- out for.
If you didn't know.... Act like you know!





Inkstarzz.com: What's up with you? How you doing, man?

A.C.R.E.: I'm doing alright. I just got back home in Texas City. I'm out
here visiting my family.

Inkstarzz.com:  How is everybody doing after the storm (Hurricane Ike)? Is everything cool?

A.C.R.E.: We made it through. There were a couple of lil things. One of my homeboys in Galveston lost his studio
that I was recording in, so we just trying to get a new comeback after that.

Inkstarzz.com: I hope everything comes out alright. At what age did you start rapping?

A.C.R.E.: Well I was musically inclined around '96. Back then I wasn't really into rap music until I hit the 7th grade. I
hooked up with one of my homeboys when I was 15 and I dropped my first lil CD when I was in a group.

Inkstarzz.com: What was the name of the group?

A.C.R.E.: The group was called "T.T. Click"

Inkstarzz.com: What inspired you to grab the mic? What inspired you to start rapping?

A.C.R.E.: Growing up, I really didn't have too many people that I could run to, to talk my problems to. After awhile,
when you sitting by yourself for so long... I just started jotting down music. I started jotting down things that were on
my mind. I looked up and it was a rap. I just started trying to really push forward. It all has been going so fast for me
right now, man, I really don't know.




















Inkstarzz.com: So you're from the great state of Texas. Do you see a difference in the up-and-coming
Texas artists from the artists that have already been on?

A.C.R.E.: Well where I'm from, Texas City and the Galveston County area, I see a complete difference in music. A lot
of known artists out of Texas, well the most known few, they talk about their cars and their grills. There's only a
chosen few in H-Town that still keep it what it is, keep that real Hip-Hop. That's like Scarface, Z-Ro and Trae. As far
as upcoming artists, I feel down here where I'm at, there's a lot of people that's trying to bring a different style of
music. I really can't say as far as the whole Texas cus I haven't been north that far.

Inkstarzz.com: What do you feel separates you from other artists?

A.C.R.E.: I really feel like my style, my swagger….. well I really wouldn’t say my swagger, I really just call it my
confidence in music. Ever since I was young, a lot of people will tell you that they called me conceited or something
along those lines. I was so confident in my self and confident in my music. I feel like now I want it to be true. I don't
wanna lie about anything. It's 100. Most artists, they rap about things that they want or things that other people have.
I feel like I can't talk about that cus I don't have it, but I know there's another person that's waking up every morning
going to a 9 to 5 trying to find something to eat. I know that person. So, what makes me different than a lot of
different people or various artists is that I try to keep it 100 with my fans and I really don't try to lie about too much.

Inkstarzz.com: If you could use one word to describe your flow, what would it be?

A.C.R.E.: One word to describe my flow....hmmm, that's a good question (laughs). I would have to say unique. It's
very different. It's very original. Growing up, a lot of people told me that I sounded like this person, or sounded like
that person. As I matured, when people hear me, they can't say "man, you sound like this person". Now I 'm just in my
own lil league.

Inkstarzz.com: Have you worked with a lot of up-and-coming artists? Is there a certain clique you work
with? How much are you open to working with other artists?

A.C.R.E.: Well to be honest with you, I started my career in a group. I went my whole career in music in a group. This
is my first out coming as a solo artist. A group was something that I felt like I needed, something that I feel help me
succeed more in bringing out my career. As time progressed, I noticed that aint nobody gon work hard as I am in
getting myself out and promote myself. So right now, I deal with a couple of people from my city, like three to be
honest. Well they're not from my city; they are from Galveston County in general. I'm messing with a promotion
company in H-Town and I'm messing with a lil female artist, but as far as any groups, I don't really deal with groups
like that. I'm not any time soon.

Inkstarzz.com:  Are you into production? Have you ever gotten into the producing side of things yet?

A.C.R.E.: To be honest, I started producing back when I  turned about 16, my mother bought me a keyboard. I don't
remember if it was Christmas or my birthday. I started making beats and my brother, he brought over this Casio© and
I was able to open up and make tracks with tracks and put 'em all together. With what my mother had bought me, I
could only do like 4 tracks and I had to get my homeboy, well this boy I grew up with and his name is Dollar Bill, he
taught me how to put the track on the 4 tracks. When I got a lil older my brother brought the Casio© and it had 8
tracks. So I started making beats and a lot of my homeboys that I grew up doing music with at the time, they ventured
off to college now, they used to always tell me "man yo beats fire!", "Yo beats cold!"," Yo beats good!". I was like
"Man, whatever, man. This garbage to me". So really I started like that.

Inkstarzz.com: Out of everybody in the industry right now, is there one artist or one producer that you
would like to collab with?

A.C.R.E.: One artist.... man it's not really one artist. A producer.... man, I really would love to work with whoever is
producing Scarface tracks right now. It's amazing how... man I feel like they're sleeping on him. I don't know what
other people listen to, but my album is Scarface. I keep it in my CD deck, man. I listen to that Scarface from beginning
to the end.

Inkstarzz.com: What's a goal or a dream that you would love to fulfill industry-wise?

A.C.R.E.: It's crazy when I tell people what my dream is, they kinda... man I don't know if they feel it, but my only
dream in the industry is creating a legacy. To be able to, when they say [Tu]Pac or when they say [The Notorious]
Big, my name is brought up. Not as far as how their life was led or as far as what they've done. I want to be able to
tell my kids and my kids' kids to remember me. When they say Galveston, Texas or LaMarque, as music, my name is
mentioned; As far as moneywise and fame, It aint even really about that for me, man. I feel like if I keep going by what
I want in life as I create my legacy in this world, I feel like everything else just come with it.

Inkstarzz.com:  Are you working on any mixtapes or anything you want to tell everybody about?

A.C.R.E.: I'm working on "Lost in Thought: Volume I". I wrote that mixtape
as my first coming out mixtape. I try to keep it straight truth on there.
That's why on some of the songs on there you might hear me say,
"A.C.R.E Man truth". When I say A.C.R.E Man truth, it mean that I'm
keeping it straight 100 in what I'm saying to you. When I say A.C.R.E truth,
it means that everything that's bout to come out my mouth is exactly to a
point, no lie, no quips to make it sound good. A.C.R.E "Lost in Thought"
coming out. I'm working with D.J. Mentoz and he got two mixtapes coming
out. You can find me online. I got a lot of features so there are a lot of
people's albums you can find me on right now.







Inkstarzz.com: How do you feel about battle rapping or rap beefs?

A.C.R.E.: My career, as far as getting my name out in my city, started from rap beefs. They had a thing out here back
in the day called “The Slam Book". One of the dudes I used to do business with.... you know how them books used to
be, man. You get a book and you said something in the book that you felt about that person and the whole book go
around school and everybody just write what they wanna write about a person in that book. Well they got creative
and made a CD like that and what they did was paid people to get in their studio and say what you wanted to say
about a person in school. Where I'm from, man, we small so if anything is said or if anything that came out, man it's
out there! It's gon be out there and everybody gon hear it. So I would have my little issue with a dude and that's what
really got me out there and a lot of people  used to come around singing the songs that I made bout the dude. As far
as rap beefs now man, they don't put no money behind it. It don't make me sleep good at night. It doesn't feed me. It
doesn't feed my family. It doesn't give me no recognition or the respect of other n!&&as, but it's more hate. As far as
I'm concerned, I got enough hate on me now to be not even trippin on some beef. I don't feel like no dudes in my
league. I grew up with a lot of tracks and I felt like, ya know, these dudes gon get their feelings hurt tryna come back,
but they gotta understand how I started. If that's how you wanna do it we can, but I feel like it's no need for that, man.
We need change like Barack Obama say man, I'm going like that.

Inkstarzz.com: Do you have any contact info that you wanna give everybody?

A.C.R.E.: You can hit my Myspace at myspace.com/acretruesouth or hit my manager Ms. Angela at myspace.
com/newcenturystar or hit her phone up at (512) 468-6801. She handles all my contact business when I can't get to
my phone. I really appreciate a lot of people hitting me up with messages and contact. I've been getting a lot of
feedback on that "Act Like You Know". Trust me I'm about to bring some more music.

                                                                                        Interview by: Sonnie Vanison
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