{"id":7823,"date":"2011-02-01T00:43:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T00:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/?p=7823"},"modified":"2022-06-07T21:26:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T04:26:19","slug":"dante-ross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/dante-ross\/","title":{"rendered":"DANTE ROSS"},"content":{"rendered":"

INTERVIEW BY STEVE OLSON<\/strong>
\nINTRODUCTION BY STEVE OLSON<\/strong>
\nPHOTOS BY MEL D. COLE AND IVORY SERRA<\/strong><\/p>\n

L.E.S. from the get go… It\u2019s what you know\u2026 From the streets to wax\u2026 File it under \u201cKnowledge.\u201d Let the masses follow\u2026 D. Ross, letting it flow\u2026 It\u2019s how you get it done, son\u2026 And then some\u2026<\/p>\n

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“Whether it\u2019s getting to be associated with having a hit record or signing a group, luck has so much to do with it. If you\u2019re perceptive and your energy is right, you end up getting lucky more often then not or more often than most.”<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What\u2019s up?<\/strong>
\nWhy don\u2019t we start the interview?<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve started.<\/strong>
\nWow.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how we roll.\u00a0The game is on.<\/strong>
\nAll right, so what do you want to ask me, Steve?<\/p>\n

Okay.\u00a0Listen. Where were you raised?<\/strong>
\nI was raised in New York City in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.<\/p>\n

Where were you born?<\/strong>
\nI was born in San Francisco, California, in the Mission District on Lucky Street. My dad still owns a house there.<\/p>\n

When did you roll to New York?<\/strong>
\nI was two and a half years old. My parents split up and my dad stayed there and we came here.\u00a0I\u2019m a New Yorker, but I do have California roots.<\/p>\n

You were born in California. Period.<\/strong>
\nI was.<\/p>\n

Relax.\u00a0Of course, you\u2019re a New Yorker.<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m a New Yorker who likes California.\u00a0L.A. is cool. San Francisco is better. The West Side of L.A. is great.\u00a0I love Venice and Santa Monica.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t like South Central?<\/strong>
\nI like Compton.\u00a0That\u2019s my favorite, Lynwood, Compton.\u00a0That\u2019s my shit.<\/p>\n

Not Englewood.<\/strong>
\nEnglewood is too nice. It\u2019s too close to Culver City.\u00a0It\u2019s too nice now.<\/p>\n

What did you do in New York as a kid?<\/strong>
\nI got in a lot of trouble.\u00a0I wrote graffiti, skateboarded, got into a lot of fights in the street and hung out with a bunch of crazy Puerto Ricans. I got bussed to this smart kid white school with a bunch of ghetto kids. The city was my playground. I had very little supervision as a child, so I just went crazy. I was a little hoodlum who got into skateboarding and graffiti when all the kids on my block were selling drugs or mugging people.<\/p>\n

How old were you when you got into skateboarding?<\/strong>
\nI was about 12.\u00a0Around the age of 14, I actually got on my skateboard and left my neighborhood as much as humanly possible because everyone I grew up with was getting into mad trouble and it was my salvation. Then I went to school with a bunch of middle class white kids, so I met all of these kids in junior high and they turned me onto Led Zeppelin, and I started to understand what it was like to have a normal white person\u2019s childhood a little bit. I realized that being on my block I was going to get in a lot of fucking trouble. My mom got me a skateboard.\u00a0I got really into skateboarding and got out of my neighborhood until I moved to Brooklyn because it was just too fucking crazy.\u00a0Everyone was getting into so much trouble.\u00a0I just didn\u2019t want to get involved. Drugs were everywhere and crack was just coming out.<\/p>\n

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