D.RAIDA PACK: FIRST OFF WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR TAKING TIME OUT TO DO THIZ RAIDA PACK INTERVIEW. WHY DONT YOU GIVE PEOPLE A LITTLE HISTORY ABOUT YOUR CAREER SO FAR, FOR THOSE THAT DONT KNOW.

PARADIME: Well, nuthin too special. I been rhymin since the late 80's, and never stopped. I've worked with everybody from Kid Rock and Kracker to D12 and the Dreadnaughtz, and we juss gettin started.

D.RAIDA PACK: WHEN AND WHAT MADE YOU GET INTO THIZ MUZIC THING-THING?

PARADIME: There was no question since I was a tike. Man, this shit is what I was meant to do. I did shitty in school and fucked around too much, and I could play ball, but no college was takin an idiot, so hip hop which had already been my life stepped up even more, and I was like "let's roll wit it!"

D.RAIDA PACK: WHAT WOULD YOU FEEL INSPIREZ YOUR PROJECTZ WHEN YOU SIT DOWN TO BLAZE NEW ISH?

PARADIME: Juss life. Somethimes I get off into thoughts that might be out there or whatever, but most the time it's straight up daily routine on paper or tape. It all depends on the day and the track.

D.RAIDA PACK: WHAT IZ YOUR LATEST PROJECT? AND HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THE PROJECT AS FAR AS PRODUCTION, FLOW AND TEXT? AND WHAT IS YOUR FAV. TRACK ON IT?

PARADIME: The new album is "VICES" it was released last month nation wide on my label, Beats at WIll. I got production from D12's KonArtis, Moss, AMF, Hush and even Mike Clark. The shit is foul. I just let this one come out the bowels and shitted on cats. It's a deeper look inside me than the last album, and basically you figure me out in this one. My favorite track is a song to my boy Rae who got killed last year, it means much to me, and all our peoples, he was a "Lay it on the line" type of cat who would draw or swing for his boys.

D.RAIDA PACK: HOW CAN OUR READERZ GET A COPY OF YOUR PROJECTZ OUT?

PARADIME: It's at all the Tower and Virgins across the country, and alot of the other chains. In Michigan we got it at all the Harmony Houses. And online its at Bestbuy.com, Towerrecords.com, cdnow.com, amazon.com and all overseas cats can get it at Amazon.com UK.

D.RAIDA PACK: DESCRIBE WHAT YOU FEEL ABOUT THE DETROIT HIP HOP MOVEMENT GOING DOWN RIGHT NOW, AND WHAT DO YOU SEE FOR DETROITZ FUTURE?

PARADIME: Detroit is off the chain right now. It don't matter what no one says. We are the cutting edge of hip hop and that's it. You gotta say NY put it out there, LA made it gangsta, and Detroit made it sick.

D.RAIDA PACK: HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THE TRADITIONAL DETROIT SOUND?

PARADIME: Grime. Dirt. Filth. Diesease.

D.RAIDA PACK: WHAT OTHER EMCEEZ DO YOU BUMP?

PARADIME: Right now in the disc changer it's a rotation of D12, Ghostface, Dialated, my album, Musiq, Nas, ans a couple Jay Z's.

D.RAIDA PACK: WE KNOW THAT YOU JUST GOT DONE RECORDING A ALBUM, BUT DO YOU HAVE ANY GUEST APPERANCES OR NEW PROJECTZ BEING WORKED ON?

PARADIME: Yea, some I can't legally say, but theres some shit in the works. Me and the KonArtis is workin on a bunch of shit and I got some acts I'm finn to put out, juss waitin on some loot before I open my big mouth.

D.RAIDA PACK: WHAT DOES PARADIME MEAN TO YOU? WHO IS HE AS AN ARTIST? AND WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IZ HIZ STYLE?

PARADIME: He's me. and I'm juss me. I take no shit, give no fucks and like to spit. And my style is whatever I wake up to.

D.RAIDA PACK: WHO WOULD YOU LIKE TO WORK WITH IN THE INDUSTRY? (DEAD OR ALIVE)

PARADIME: Hmmmm. I dunno. Of course if you gonna include dead cats, Big. But alive? I'd like to work with Timbaland and Premier. I dunno, I guess whoever got loot!!!

D.RAIDA PACK: DO YOU HAVE ANY SHOUTOUTZ TO BLAZE INTO THE CYBER WIND?

PARADIME: I love alot of you all, and hate more. So to those I feel, Peace and to those I don't, fuck off.

Thanx