(In this Interview, Hot Radio 93.6's Jockey Prabhav Arora is Interviewing the rapper "The Game")
Prabhav - Allrigght! Welcome back to Hot 93.6 radio, you know it the best radio on the scene. And today we got my brother The Game with us
The Game : Holla! Holla! What's good New York, I hope y'all be grindin' good, stacking that cheddar ain't a cake walk.
Prabhav: Alright homie, we heard your latest track "All Eyez", there were some dope bars in that.
The Game: You know it brotha, the song is just a reflection of my life.
Prabhav : That sh** was dope though! Anyways, that song talked about your more playful side of life but what about your song "My Life" with Weezy (Lil Wayne), that song had you catching feelings no?
The Game: Homie, that's what I'm about. I live good, but I gotta help my Compton brothers out too. That song just reminisces the hard moments in the hood and how the violence needs to stop brotha.
Prabhav: True dat homie, True dat! So how do you think you music influences your community?
The Game: Man, you be asking emotional a** questions yo! But that's aight, I got the answer for you. Basically man, my music talks about staying strong, and standing up fo' what's right and respecting the grind. What that means is brotha' that them white cops gonna try and holla at you for not doing nothing but being black. My music tells my brothers and sisters is to stay strong 24 x 7.
Prabhav : That's cool dog, but in your song "My Life", you be talkin' about how you had to sell drugs to make a livin', fight the police and etc.
The Game: Homie, that was my circumstances back then, I even done time fo' that. If you listen closely, I'm telling the listeners to stay clean of drugs and live within they means.
Prabhav: I can respeck that. Your song also talks about the shootings that go on in yo' hood, you wanna talk about that?
The Game : You damn right I wanna talk about that. Man, that sh** is tragic, there's homies dying left right and center, thinking they part of some crips or bloods, man that's some bulls***. Especially, in Compton Homie I see kids like 8 years ol' holding up 44's and taking shots! Get outta here!
Prabhav: Do you feel your music has addressed this or inflenced this topic in any manner?
The Game: Fo' sure homie, haven' you heard my song "California Vacation" with good ol' Snoopie?
Prabhav: No brother, what it be about?
The Game: It talks about how the Bloods and Crips needs to get they sh** together and how me and Snoop roll with both of them. The point of the song is to show us homies need to unify, so we give no reason for the po-po to take shots at us.
Prabhav: Preach it Brotha! On that note we're playin' "California Vacation". Thanks for joining us at the 93.6 crib Game!
The Game : Don't sweat it homie! Stay fresh and safe New York.
You effectively replicate the conventions of this text type and capture an authentic voice. The challenge with an interview and the issue you face in this post, is not really addressing language. You refer to the what, but not enough the how. This could perhaps be resolved by including specific lyrics in the interview that the game could address and explain.
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