Frankie Krutches Interview (with Audio)

Interviewed by R.Motions


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There is alot to be said about new talent coming out the NYC. Frankie Krutches is no exception. His Video Appearance game is crazy, his Collabo game is crazy. He has done collabos with the likes of Gravy, MainO, Vic Damone, Chingo Bling, News and Angelous to name a few. He has also blessed beats from GQ Beats to the HeatMakerz and his Dj Hitlist is also extensive. So who exactly is Frankie Krutches? Well in case you were under a rock he was the one throwing his crutch on the ground and doing his thing in CamRon's "Hey Ma" video plus countless others.

He is an entrepreneur a hustler and for what I could see, one of the hardest grinding artists out there. He is currently working on his C4 Records, and coming out with a designer line of crutches.

So I got a chance to get at Frankie Krutches in this exclusive HipHopHavoc.com Interview and you know how we get down.



R.Motions: What’s good man you gotta tell the people about yourself.

Krutch: Well I mean like I said my name is Frankie Krutches man I’m from Brooklyn. You probably saw me featured in a couple of Cam’ron videos, in a couple of DipSet videos. I was in the “Hey Ma” video; I had the Gucci crutches, I threw them down to the floor real gangsta style. I was in the “bout it bout it” video with Master P and Cam’ron. Once again I was doing what I do on the crutches. I was in the “take a look at my Life” video with Fat Joe. I had a quick little spot in the “Oh Boy” video, so you know I definitely had a couple of video appearances and all that.

R.Motions: So how you get all those appearances on those videos?

Krutch: I mean, I used to be down with DipSet so you know I was supposed to be one of the scheduled artists that were coming out after Juelz Santana in that order, but things didn’t work out with me and Jim Jones so we kinda like you know we separated to our own ways and they started doing they own thing and it kinda left me out here by myself so everything I’ve decided to do and accomplished, I’ve done on my own. You know after the video scenes.

R.Motions: Yea I hear that, cause I was peeping the joints that you sent and on one of them [feel it in the air] I was on the floor duke cause you called JR Writer; you said “He sound like a 12 year old Cam.”

Krutch: Well you know, I don’t really know him personally and I don’t choose to know him personally, but just from what I heard I just don’t like him sounding like a mimic Cam’Ron. Sounding like a baby Cam’Ron, that’s just to me is kinda wack, you know Cam came out with his own style a long time ago and perfected it, he made a lot of good music and people respect him for what he does, but JR Writer coming behind him and sounding like him; you know, using the same kind of word play, using the same flow, just being down with them; It just annoys me so I just said what I said.

R.Motions: Nah I hear that. Well I like the DipSet alot, but to me they all sound the same, it’s the same kind of flow and all that. Not that they ain’t hot or nothing. It is what it is with that one. But there was another joint on the songs you sent me called “Ambitions” and you was mentioning Jim Jones and I wanted you to touch on that situation only because you said something to the effect of “see me and Jim Jones is brothers by blood, but somewhere down the line he lost his homie some love”


Krutch: Well you know we rep the same thing, we part of the same organization, we part of the same type of lifestyle we both from the streets, we both rep the same thing so in what we do there’s laws and there’s codes and a thing called brotherly love and basically what I was trying to say was that “Regardless of anything we always gonna be brothers by blood, but somewhere along that line he lost that love and let certain situations come between our brotherhood.” He lost his brotherly love by letting certain situations past rap and past the music and past everything you know we suppose to be part of the same type of brotherhood and somewhere along that line with him getting his deal and diplomats becoming more famous and excelling themselves to another level; and things of that nature, he became a different person. So that’s what I was referring to when I said that.

R.Motions: and then you used the same ambitionz beat man; the same as the Tupac joint.


Krutch: Yea that’s the same beat I danced off of.

R.Motions: yea exactly. That’s what threw me for a loop..cause it sounded like a double jab.


Krutch: Well you know what it was? It was like alot of people; when I made the song a lot of people still affiliate me with DipSet and a lot of people assume that I’m from Harlem; just because they saw the video. You know it’s basically just a connection and affiliation that I’m trying to shake. I do my own thing. I’m from Brooklyn, I never was from Harlem. I grew up in Brooklyn. I lived in Brooklyn my whole life…I just happen to be hanging with them for a couple of years and I was associated with some of the things they were doing at the very beginning before they became so popular and in order for me to shake that label I have to specify certain things, I gotta say certain things in order for people to understand that “I Do my own thing, I got my own label, I got my own group, I got my own people.” So I chose that beat because it was kind of a breakdown of the story of what happened between me and them because a lot of the people regardless of what happened and what they know, they see me they be like oh “DipSet, DipSet, DipSet” or oh “Harlem. I love Harlem. Harlem DipSet, that’s what’s up.” So it’s difficult for me at times without fight back a fan or jump back at somebody who doesn’t really know the situation so I just chose to put it in words and made a freestyle out of it. And I just chose that beat because everybody knows me from being affiliated with them and that’s one of the reasons I chose that beat and to do it on that beat.




R.Motions: So is that the biggest hurdle that you’re going through right now?

Krutch: I would say that’s my biggest hurdle. I’ve only been rhyming for three years. I only been rapping for three years like in total. Like writing, rapping, recording all together it’s only been three years. And besides just continuously working on my flow and continuously working on my word play and my content; those three things that’s the most important thing I’m doing is working on that to become better. But my biggest hurdle in the street is to shake the tag of being down with DipSet cause that’s what people know me as so…just that affiliation is like a roadblock. So I have to run through that roadblock in order for people to understand that Frankie Krutches; he is not from Harlem he from Brooklyn, he is not down with DipSet; He got his own crew. The name of the crew is C4…and that’s what they do. So right now, that’s probably my biggest hurdle and making my way through the ranks right now.



R.Motions: I definitely want to hit on the C4 stuff right there, but there is one more joint on there; and we spoke about this before, is the “Dj’s Don’t Love me” That’s my joint right there.


Krutch: Actually, we have been getting alot of good runs with that. Kay Slay played that on Thursday on the “Drama Hour”. Slay got a radio show in New York City on Hot 97 and he played that the Thursday that just passed [week of: Sept 1, 2005] and he actually gave me a couple of shout outs while the song was on cause he happened to like what I was saying. And he is also not a fan of Big Mike, so he also got a chuckle about what I said about Big Mike. And Clue (DJ. Clue) played that on Monday on his radio show in New York. And it’s been on already like five mixtapes and another five people that suppose to be dropping tapes. And basically everybody loves that song. I haven’t gotten one bad review about the song. When somebody hears my tape that like one of the first things they say “Dj’s Don’t Love me, That’s my joint.”


R.Motions: So what’s good with the Big Mike situation?


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Stay tuned for Part two as Krutch Talks about his situation with Big Mike and his whole C4 Records and camp