Troy Ave Sits Down With XXL Before Starting His ‘Money Powder Respect’ Tour

Niyah Nel September 11, 2014 0

Troy Ave has been consistent since he stepped foot in the game. Since his 2014 XXL Freshman cover, the man has been making serious moves. Before kicking off his ‘Money Powder Respect’ tour in Chicago, he sat down with XXL to chop it up a bit.

XXL: Chicago is the first stop and you have more dates planned. How long did it take you to put it together?
Troy Ave: Shit, like a month. How long did it take? Like a month? Hovain (Troy Ave’s Manager): Yeah, about a month. About five weeks or something.

Were there any difficulties?
Not really. Everybody was excited for me to come to their city and all that. We just putting it together. It was like, “Yo, we announcing a tour.” More dates came to follow. It’s like my first tour as far as me headlining. Going out on my own. It was real exciting. There wasn’t really no roadblocks. There are a lot of us doing it on our own.

Did you reach out to anybody to help you out?
Nah, we self-made and self-paid. We’ve been doing everything on our own. This is only right. B$B Records it the No. 1 independent label on the East Coast. Now, the tour just solidifies that even more.

You are doing this tour around the same time you just dropped BSB Vol. 5 Are you bringing the whole crew with you?
Yeah, I’m bringing the whole crew out. As soon as we get back from the tour, I’m gonna be announcing my album title. The new album title and probably a date when I get back off tour.

Are you changing your album title from Major Without A Deal?
I think I might change it. I feel like I might change it. I’m on some other shit. Everybody knows I am major without a deal. It’s understood. It don’t gotta be said. It’s just I don’t know. It’s just a bunch of different milestones and accomplishments that’s coming through and happening to me. It’s like shit, I don’t know, I’ll figure some shit out. It might have a new title for them. Fire title.

Have you been working on your second album?
Most definitely. And it’s fire! Look how fire I told you New York City: The Album was? Watch this one. Shake it up, for real. For real.

You also named the tour, “Money, Powder, Respect.” Are you a fan of them?
Yeah, I am a definitely a big fan of The Lox, but I ain’t name it Money, Powder, Respect after them. Just the term “Money, Power, Respect,” it goes with me and my saying. My thing is powder so “Money, Powder, Respect,” felt so fit. My homie Chase N. Cashe, he came up with that or we came up with that together. I can’t remember. Chase N. Cashe had an influence on that.

I was probably drinking champagne and he was probably smoking weed. That’s what he like to do. I was just drinking champagne, and he was smoking weed. I was probably getting my temples rubbed by a young lady and we was playing some beats. Matching our vibe in the studio. We came up with that a while ago.