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<p>Dirty Dingu$$&nbsp;Mcgee</p><p>Image that July 4th 2000 is the present month day and year.&nbsp; The exact month day and year that the Ruff Ryder&rsquo;s, dropped the street&rsquo;s classic, Ryde of Die Vol. 2.&nbsp; &nbsp; Now let&rsquo;s journey a few months before this date, for one second, close your eyes, open your mind and just portrait that Swizz Beatz just created the legendary rap track for all gangsters, WWIII (World War 3), on Ryde or Die Vol. 2.&nbsp; A track that echo&rsquo;s like a drug, flooding all reality, overdosing the listener with Hip Hop&rsquo;s rawest sound, gangsta rap.&nbsp; Now again, image, that Swizz shot that track over to Ruff Ryder founders, Dee &amp; Waah with just one rapper in mind to supper the track&rsquo;s thanksgiving.&nbsp; Just one gangsta rapper, who&rsquo;d incarcerate the light on the track and dungeon it with the city&rsquo;s dark realty.&nbsp; Embracing the&nbsp;gruffness of Scarface&rsquo;s stories, the arrogant word arching of Jadakiss, Yung Wun&rsquo;s southern twang and Snoop&rsquo;s mesmerizing presence on song.&nbsp; A gangsta artist who could&rsquo;ve portrayed Denzel Washington&rsquo;s character of Harlem&rsquo;s Frank Lucas, without ever glancing at a script, in one swift motion he would&rsquo;ve walked thru doing the entire movie before the first lunch break.&nbsp; If this album change was to have occurred a few months before that July of 2000, it would&rsquo;ve been slightly different; it would&rsquo;ve gone something like this.&nbsp; &ldquo;State yo&rsquo; name gangsta&rdquo; Dirty Dingu$$ Mcgee, &ldquo;Who you representin&rsquo;&rdquo; Gangsta Music Coalition, &ldquo;You gon&rsquo; hold it down?&rdquo; Haven&rsquo;t I always &ldquo;Enough said than niggah&rdquo;&hellip;..</p><p>Big Dee: First and foremost, how did your name, Dirty Dingu$$ Mcgee, come about?</p><p>Dirty Dingu$$ Mcgee: My parents, actually, my mom&rsquo;s &amp; my step pops.&nbsp; When I was younger, I was a rough kid I was a little grimy sucker.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s was this movie that they knew about, an old school cowboy movie.&nbsp; Frank Sinatra stared in it, the character in the movie was Dirty Dingus Magee, and basically he was just like a scoundrel, *laughs* he was a grimy person, at the end of the movie Dirty Dingus got away with the money and the girl.&nbsp; When I was a kid I was rough, I was always beating up people, shit, when they&rsquo;d see me coming they&rsquo;d call me Dirty Dingus, what my step pop&rsquo;s name me.&nbsp; *Laughs* When I started rapping I just took the shit.</p><p>Big Dee: For those in the hood who don&rsquo;t know you, can you break down your background?</p>