Joe from the excellent Perfection is Perfected recently had the opportunity to interview HD and was kind enough to share it with the fam at 100 Grand on My Wrist, and then he passed it on to us. Yuuuuup!
I met up with HD on Easter Sunday at his aunt’s house in West Oakland. Soul and R&B music blasted from the living room while we sat on the porch and talked. HD rotated between drags off a blunt and bites of his auntie’s lemon meringue pie. And in customary HD fashion, he sipped from a bottle of promethezine, which—fittingly—he stored inside a jacket pocket close to his heart. As various aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews moved in and out of the house while discussing his career thus far and moving forward, I realized how essential family is to HD the artist. Although stints of incarceration certainly have interrupted his output, more than anything else it has been his desire to do things his own way by keeping it in the family that has governed his work.
And for those of you hoping to read about HD’s beef with Lil Rue, Livewire, or DB tha General, spoiler alert: HD didn’t have anything negative to say about any of those rappers and in fact, he wished them all the best.
