Inna Maddness

Inna Maddness

A reality lifestyle orientated group from the South East area of Washington D.C.  When one may think of D.C., you may think of the White House, the President, the Capitol, 9/11, or maybe even war.  Yes it?s true that?s what?s going down in the Dirty District.  In South East there are neighborhoods full people living in poverty on the chase for capitol with the use of drugs and other ways of a come up, these conditions here would drain the spirit out of nearly everyone who lives there.  South East is not the place you would not want to visit if you?re not familiar with the struggle.  Inna Maddness, meaning (one?s inner hunger, temptation, willingness, desire to see fit for the better).  With the use of the meaning of Inna Maddness, there?s sure to be a way that just about everyone could relate to the I.M. movement. Despite the negative support the city shows to most area rappers or rap groups in D.C. Inna Maddness opposite of others defiantly hold their ground.  Producer/Artist, K - Zar, along with his partners Flee Bag and Bugsy Streets, makes this up-and-coming rap clique.

"If you have a desire to do something, and when you put your mind and focus on what your out to do, then that?s your Inna Maddness" says, K- Zar. "Like for example when you need to hit a lick for some paper ?money?.  It?s the way you go about getting what you need for your reason or situation. Going hard to get it by any means that?s your Inna Maddness."

That single-minded determination is key to the group?s success. Adopting an "all for one, one for all" attitude, I.M. have been gunning at their craft for nearly a decade, honing their talents on both the mean streets of D.C. and, more recently, in the studio.
When I.M. was first assembled the group consisted of another member Mike ?Nay-Nay? Womack, but tragedy struck the crew in the summer of 1998 when Nay was slain on the cold streets of D.C. The group vowed to hold it down for their homie and I.M. rolled stronger.  A few years later the group added another member Marcus ?Black B.? Williams but the same as with Nay the streets took hold to the group again with Black B?s death as well. 

Soon after that, the crew took their abilities to the streets with their entitled CD ?The Life We Live?, and the action really began to heat up. "I.M. used their notoriety in the streets of D.C. to have people all around them buying CD?s.  ?At first I couldn?t believe it people was going crazy and sh*t like we were the new wave N.W.A. but then it just started to stick," Fleebag remembers.?  Bugsy would start a rap off with the hook and me and we all would follow up spitting that motherf*cking fire. We just kept going with it, and it got crazy."

Their reputation for spitting out hot rhymes grew, and at no time I.M. was know as that sh*t in D.C.  I. M. began attracting interest from rap labels including at the time Loud Records own E. Nicks, but when Loud folded the group took it back to the Streets with their Mix tape move ?Certified Gangstas Vol. 1 & 2?. With the challenges and distractions that can come with being touted as "the next big thing and the hardships of the streets," that only deepened the group's determination to stick together. "This game is crazy, but as long as we're together, nothing can break us up," says Bugsy. "It's a game that makes a weak n*gga break, and if we'd have been weak n*ggas, we would?ve been broke. I learned that we're real strong, and nothing can take us apart."

Whether recording as a group or as solo artist, that cohesiveness is evident. In fact, the group?s first single ?Yall Think Yall Hott? took the radio in D.C. (WPGC & WKYS) like no other.  The buzz on the streets for I.M. was even crazier.  The group sold over 3000 CD?s independently in an area not-so known for being independent for rap artist selling CD?s.  Going from the streets to the radio on a large scale with, "Yall Think Yall Hott," set I.M. totally away from any other ?local? rap thing in D.C.

"We were in the Studio one day, getting right with beats playing and Bugsy kept saying over and over, ?A lot of yall think yall hott but we hotter? for a show intro, but ?I was like sh*t let?s use that for part of a hook we was searching for? Zar remembers, and in no time it was a rap.? Yall Think Yall Hott " the debut single from the CD, with other songs that are surly just as good or even better. Once we come up with the hook, that's all we needed, because the hook is what makes the song. The hooks and the beats, that's how it is." "At points in our career, we fell from who we were and got mixed up in the street life," reveals all. "But to stay away from the wall you gotta get back focused on other things, cause it?s either getting shot up or locked up is the end result of the streets.

Growing up in D.C., plainly affected I.M. in more ways than one. The bond between the crew is clearly tight, and I.M. is determined to tough it out--together--in the hard-hitting hip-hop arena. Ain?t nobody bringing it like I.M.  The Maddness is coming and if you think you know what you about to witness, you don?t know until you feel it first hand. 

I.M. real rap from the streets to the rest of the world.

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