Black Truth News: So what you got new? What can the people anticipate coming from you musically and outside of music?
Carona Barone: Well right now you can go on itunes and get Scarface album the “work ethic;” I’m on two songs on there, produced by Joe tracks from Houston. You know man that was a privilege, getting it in with Face. You can a;sp check out the mixtape called “Middle Freedom”. Got lot of mixtapes on Datpiff; you can check me on youtube also Facebook. That’s C-a-r-o-n-a B-a-r-o-n-e, basically you can Google me. Anywhere where there’s some music and entertainment. You may see me there.
Black Truth News: Lets us know how you fitting into the new Chicago movement. The extra exposure the city has gotten lately. What is your role inside the movement?
Carona Barone: Well what I bring to Chicago music in general, is just balance, because everything is night and day. We in the world where our country goes to war; so there is going to be violence. We fall in love, so there is going to be love. It’s going to be support for the shorties. It’s going be so many aspects. Chicago has always been a melting pot of great music. Ever since the old Chaka Khan Days, and Earth, Wind and Fire, and all the way up to the R Kelly and the Kanye’s and even to the Chief Keef’s. Cause you got to remember, those shorties just speaking about what they going through and these outlets.
You know Chicago got a movement right now; and it’s big. Shout out to the Crucial Conflicts, the Do or Dies, Twista, and Kanye West, and all the people that came before us. You know what I bring to it, like I said is balance. I bring that flyness but a witty edge to it. But yet I’m from the West Side of Chicago. I know what struggle look like. I know what pain feel like. I’m also intelligent to know what to do and how to do it. But I’m just bringing what Obama brought to Chicago. Something to believe in. Something bigger than what your surroundings look like, something to have faith in; I’m giving people an opportunity to see they life in a bigger light. See they aint to got to settle for nothing; to be able to use what they hardship about and become something.
So Chicago culture definitely won’t be anything without the Carona Barone, The Bears, and the guys that are out here battling. People at first you didn’t know about but now they do know about.
Black Truth News: Sometimes people lose the passion for Hip Hop. What’s your daily motivation?
Carona Barone: Number One is my son. You know he is two years old and I see him as being a light. And I want to be able to wake up every day and see my son say my father is about something, he go out outside every day and grind. He gon do whatever he got to do to care of me. You know hip hop is my sanity. You know music is my sanity. Music is my soul speaking. No matter what I’m speaking about; I’m talking about everything, so every day I wake up, I feel empty if I’m not doing music, because that’s my heart beating.
What make me want to go to the studio, knowing that music has no limits; like James Brown said, “there’s no right or wrong way to do music. You just got to feel it”. Become what you supposed to be. And brothers like Tupac. That inspired me. You know because I got a chance to freestyle at Pac’s birthday party a long time ago with Treach. You know what I’m saying? Stuff like that doesn’t happen every day.
So me going to places and Hip Hop took me there. Basketball ain’t take me there. Selling rocks aint take me there. Gangbanging aint take me there. My soul, my music took me there. My music took me to something positive in the most negative surroundings. So my motivation is music, my son, life in general and just growth period.
Article First Appeared in The Black Truth News Volume 3 Issue 10 October 2012