Young Dolph Respects Bobby Shmurda’s Hustle In Getting Epic Records Deal

Young Dolph has consistently feeding his fans with new material a slew of mixtapes. These days in the rap game, there’s really no proven formula on how you bubble out of the underground and into mainstream recognition. Still, the Memphis-bred rapper salutes the work of Bobby Shmurda, who quickly rose as a hot topic in pop culture after his Schmoney Dance Vine went viral earlier this month.

Shmurda’s “Hot N***a” – which was produced by Jahlil Beats - helped him secure a record deal with Epic Records. Since then, the Brooklyn native has had the single serviced to iTunes and will have a major remix featuring French Montana on the way. He'll eventually have a major label project under the imprint, too.

The major labels knocking on your door once you get hot isn’t anything new to Dolph, either. For him, it comes down to if the opportunity will make sense.

“Notes gotta be right. Check gotta be right. Contract gotta be right. Relationship gotta be right,” Dolph tells XXL. “If that all right, we can just make a whole lot of money. I'm not trying to regret nothing in my career.”

Dolph’s been on an upward trajectory ever since we featured him in The Come Up last October. Sticking to the hustler’s mentality of keeping your customers satisfied, Dolph has delivered A-1 tapes like Cross Country Trappin’, Felix Brothers with Gucci Mane and PeeWee Longway, and High Class Street Music 4 (American Gangster). These moves seems to be working for the budding rapper, where he believes Shmurda’s instant shot to stardom was just a different way of grinding.

“He did that and popped off. However that popped off for him that's what's poppin'. I respect that,” Dolph says. "Some folks sitting on their ass and not doing nothing. Not taking [any] chances, nothing. He shot the video. He made the song. He going hard for his city. Shit, he popped off. It just is what it is. He’s a hustler. Just like everybody else. No matter how fast it happened.”

Dolph’s been deemed one of the street rappers that’s got next to blow out of Memphis. With Yo Gotti and his CMG artists already making waves, Dolph plans on creating his own legacy with Paper Route Empire. In the meantime, he’s continuing to go the extra mile, even taking necessary risks to grow his buzz.

“Go all the way out. Whatever you are thinking about. Just point blank period,” Dolph says. “You gotta go all the way in. You can't be playing halfway or you are gonna get halfway results. What you are gonna put it in is what you'll get out of it. That's what I had to learn.”

On the road to the top.