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We Got The TrackingNumber to what @SeanPaine & @ZappSola_ Have Been Delivering, Both Artist 2017 XXL FRESHMAN NOMINATED W/ Mainstream Connections & Great Chemistry together On Joint recordingsĀ
@ZappSola_ & @SeanPaine Having Been Working Side By Side In Sessions With Rich Gang, 1017, Honorable Cnote, 2 Chainz, Zaytoven, London on The Track & More
Zapp Sola is no stranger to BRICKSQUAD or Gucci Mane. Everybody in the Streets went crazy for the bars laid on “Fingerwave” Remix by ZappSola. “Grown ass man, depending on a loan/ Only Real Ass Niggaz Go n Get it on they own” Sola spits that fire over premium 808 crack fueled Honorable Cnote Production.
GETHIP!! Listen To This New Release Gaining Steam “Tracking Number” by Zapp Sola & Sean Paine. They thought all Sean did was track records? Y’all better check these 2017 XXL FRESHMAN NOMINEES TRACK RECORDS!!! This shit is a hit.
Sean Paine was listed as best engineer on Complex Music website but by 2017 will be one of best new rap artists along with his buddy Zapp Sola. Both rappers represent cities in Michigan that have the worst crime rates in America. These 2 fellas gotta blow so it’s only right I put you up on them because it’s inevitable.
XXL, COMPLEX, THISIS50 , HNHH YOU NAME IT THEY HAVE ALREADY COVERED ZAPP & SEAN.
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@HNHH chopped it up with Gucci Mane’s go-to man when he was behind bars, Sean Paine.
(First Day Out The Feds is out Now)
Gucci’s engineer: “I mixed 30 of [his projects] and ‘Everybody Looking’ is the realest.” trib.al/gEM36xM
Gucci Mane is a man of many mysteries. There’s the general mystery that surrounds his life, his upbringing. There’s the mystery that surrounds his constant string of releases, despite his constant prison stints. Who truly knows what’s going on inside GuWop’s head at any given moment, anyways? Although his lyrics paint a picture, and can be deceivingly funny, he’s not as transparent as say, a rapper like Drake. It’s possible we’ll soon be granted a close look inside the many mysteries of Gucci Mane, by way of an auto-biography the rapper is reportedly working on. This book should even enlighten some of Gucci’s closest affiliates, who are also left in the dark about Gucci’s life.
Sean Paine can unwind a mystery or two about Gucci, but, as he says during our recent interview, there are many untold stories when it comes to Gucci, many that he isn’t privy too, but will (hopefully) show up in said book. Nonetheless, Sean Paine is still key in unlocking how the machine that is Gucci functions– from releasing new collaborations via prison to promoting Gucci’s upcoming movie “The Spot,” Paine is behind it at all. He’s Gucci’s executive assistant, his right-hand man, and his middle man as well while Gucci’s locked up. Beyond just being a middle man, Sean Paine is also a producer, an engineer and a rapper– he’s mixed and mastered a total of 25 albums for Gucci Mane, as well as his affiliates (he did Chief Keef’s Sorry 4 The Weight, as well as records like PeeWee Longway’s “Sneaking & Geeking” and Young Thug’s “2 Cups Stuffed”– it’s safe to say, he’s in the know when it comes to Atlanta rappers, and he’s worked with basically all of them).
We hopped on the phone with Sean recently to find out how he coordinates with Gucci while the rapper’s incarcerated and more details on their relationship.
Sean Paine: Hi, can I help you?
HotNewHipHop: “Hey, this is Rose from HotNewHipHop. Is this Sean?”
Sean: Oh yeah, this Sean how you doing?
HNHH: Iām good howāre you? You ready for this interview?
Sean: Yeah Iām ready.
HNHH: Okay, so I want to know who you are. Thatās the first place to start, ’cause I mean people know someoneās running everything that Gucci Maneās doing behind bars, but who is it?
Sean: Well, Iām Sean Paine. Iām a personal assistant
HNHH: How did you first connect with Gucci, how did this happen that you ended up being his man while behind bars?
Sean: Well, I mean from working at Patchwerk [studios] with Gucci. Basically, I went from interning at Patchwerk studios in Atlanta through Kori Anders, who was mixing and recording Gucci for the beginning of his career all the way up to Trap God.
HNHH: How long ago was that?
Sean: I wanna say 2011 maybe. Thatās when I came from Full Sail University, I went from Full Sail to Patchwerk, and then at Patchwerk I went from interning to doing assistant engineering under Kori. So how I started was interning, and I got familiar with Gucci through that. My very first session was with Waka [Flocka], his engineer had pulled me in, thatās how I got taken off the intern list to assistant engineer of sessions, so my first paid session was with Waka Flocka.
HNHH: So in terms of your career path you were initially trying to be an engineer?
Sean: I mean I was tryna rap, producing and rapping, like Kanye, I do all that. So that was my way in the door, through engineering, I guess.
HNHH: Are you still rapping right now?
Sean: Yeah I still rap, I got a CD out right now with Lil B the Based God, Riff Raff, Bankroll Fresh, Icewear Vezzoā¦
HNHH: Okay cool. So you ended up becoming closer to Gucci Mane by becoming the assistant engineer at Patchwerk?
Sean: Yeah I was assistant engineer, then I became tracking engineer for him there. So I started recording more, cause at first I was sitting in, assisting, interning. Then I started tracking, actually operating the SSL boards, recording all his vocals.
HNHH: Whatās your day-to-day like now that heās behind bars, do you consider you work for him full time, or is it kinda freelance?
Sean: Iām a freelance engineer, currently in California or Miami and I go back and forth from there to Altanta. Iām between the three cities. Basically me and Gucci talk almost every day via CoorLinks.
HNHH: Via what?
Sean: Via CoorLinks, itās a way to talk to prisoners in jail.
HNHH: So thatās how he can tell people what he wants to tweet and stuff?
Sean: Yeah, thatās how he communicates, through CoorLinks.
HNHH: Ahh ok, is he allowed to use the phone and stuff or he just does CoorLinks?
Sean: Yeah he calls, like once a month, just to check in and see how Iām doing or whatever. We talk besides music, and then when itās something important he might call and record a verse, I might record a verse for him.
HNHH: Okay yeah, so some of his new collaborations, the recent ones, some of them are recorded through prison and some [are] old?
Sean: Yeah some of them are recorded through jail, he calls on my phone and Iām recording it.
HNHH: Is the quality there? Can you tell that it wasnāt recorded right in the studio?
Sean: Nah, I mean I kinda engineer it so you canāt tell that itās recorded in jail.
HNHH: That also adds some mystery and confusion, like how is he hopping on this brand new song with a verse that sounds recent.
Sean: Yeah, Gucci calling in from jail doing that.
HNHH: Apart from just like, dropping songs, does he have a method in terms of what he wants to release while heās locked up?
Sean: Heāll be out shortly, so the method was, letās get everything on the hard drive and piece it together the right way, and market it the right way, and do it in segments. Heāll call me and heāll tell me his thoughts, so like every month heāll give me an agenda like, āSP, we need to drop two CDs this month, so go in the stash and see what we got, and if itās any verses I need to do, hit me up and Iāll hit you and record āem.ā
HNHH: So you kinda go through all the music he has in the stash and you figure out whatās good, what you wanna drop.
Sean: Right, and then Iāll go about on my own, cause we canāt communicate all day long, so heāll tell me what to do, like drop this, this and that. Then Iāll be like okay, since Iām socially active and I see whatās going on, I reach out to these artists. He tells me to reach out to a lot of the artists heās dealt with, but a lot of the new ones, thatās me knowing like okay this artist is hot, this artist is bubbling. Looking at fansā comments, like you know, they was always saying Riff Raff and Gucci should do something so I bridged that gap. So when he gets out, shit heās got more features than anyone else.
Iām also tryna touch him in the underground markets and reach out to artists in the underground scene too and get them on board. Even the new artists that pop up, like Fetty Wap hot, Gucci Maneās on the #1 record. Gucci called me and was like, āI wanna get on āTrap Queen.āā
HNHH: He knows whatās up.
Sean: Yeah I mean, he can hear some of the music. I believe they can hear some of the stuff in there if itās through a major distribution company, major release, I think they can get those in there.
HNHH: And you were saying heās going to be out soon?
Sean: I believe heāll be out soonā¦Sooner than later. I know his movie will be out very soon, 10/17.
HNHH: How long ago was this [movie] filmed or planned? Cause Gucciās starring in it, right.
Sean: Yeah heās definitely starring in it, heās directing it.
HNHH: When exactly did this all come together, how long ago?
Sean: I mean he just hit me up through CoorLinks, ‘Iām bout to drop this movie on my National Gucci Day, itās my 10-year anniversary, I wanna give the fans something to appreciate.’ He had it done right before he went in, he had it all done.
HNHH: The book too, was that something he had planned before he went to jail?
Sean: Nah, that was while he was in jail, we was just brainstorming. I was like, ‘Wop, you could write a book, cuh.’ Cause everyone got something to say about Gucci but donāt nobody really know Gucci. I donāt even really know who Gucci is, like through middle school, through high school. I was like, ‘Wop you should really write a book.’ Cause he a legend, I put him up there with Biggie and Pac and everybody. Gucciās impact on hip-hop is huge. Iām riding around in Florida, people still listening to the old school shit, still.
HNHH: For the book, is he gunna have a co-author, someone he wants to write it with him?
Sean: I think heās in cahoots with Neil [Martinez], I think he used to be with XXL. But Neil is helping him with the book, him and Neil would talk before he got transferred over. Him and Neil would have long conversations, Gucci just told Neil whatever. Me, I donāt even know what Gucci told him, off-press. This is secrets, the auto-biography on the real, on Gucci, his life. I think it actually might be a top-seller, to me.
HNHH: I think if itās done right it could be really amazing.
Sean: But heās doing a movie to the book too, I think thatās what gunna be big.
HNHH: Oh okay, so heāll do a biopic after the book drops?
Sean: Right. But for now, 10/17 āThe Spotā movie is droppingā¦He created a LinkedIn account.
HNHH: Yeah, was that Gucci Mane, from prison, was like I wanna do that?
Sean: Yeah thatās him. Me and him collab to come up with ideas, but he definitely says go with it or donāt go with it. He definitely comes forth with ideas and asks my take on it. Donāt get it twisted, Gucci is running his shit.
HNHH: Yeah, itās just kinda interesting to find out how it works with him being in jail but still releasing so much content.
Sean: Yeah. With the movie we gotta get creative, this is his very first movie. We getting drops and all these entertainers and athletesā¦
HNHH: To help promote it since heās not out to promote himself.
Sean: Yeah. Thatās the way weāre promoting it now. The movie also has a soundtrack to it too, and thatās what Iāve been working on.
HNHH: Word yeah, the song we premiered was off it [“No Problems”].
Sean: Yeah thatās the one with Rich Homie and PeeWee Longway who just did a song with my main man Zapp Sola. ZappSola up next.
HNHH: Yeah it was really dope.
Sean: But itās definitely way more songs. C Note is helping to produce a lot of it, London on Da Track is helping produce some of it, C4 Bombs is producing a track on there. But for the most part, itās Honorable C Note.
HNHH: Howās the movie releasing? Is it releasing online?
Sean: Itās gonna be on iTunes and every other digital retailers.
HNHH: Once Gucciās outta jail, whatās your plan?
Sean: He says as soon as he gets out he gonā hype me up, he wants me to be on the executive shit. Of course we gonā hit the road, heās going on that tour, thatās gunna be crazy. Everything will be back rollingāitās still rolling now though, while heās locked up.
HNHH: How many people are on his team helping him do things while heās in jail?
Sean: He got lawyers of course and all of that stuff, but itās SP. Of course, Keyshia holding him down, but for the most part Iām the middle man, thatās why we on the phone. Iām doing a lot though, itās just me and GuWop.
HNHH: Do you find you have less time to focus on your own career cause youre focusing on the stuff for Gucci?
Sean: I mean I aināt even gunna lie, I didnāt really care to be a rapper like that, I just would be rapping and shit when I be bored. And then, hey, I was reaching out to these artists, and I said damn these some big names and they got on my shit for me. So Iām an engineer-turned-rapper, after this interview, fuck it! [Laughs]
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