From the South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Crazy like a “Pornostar”

Miami rapper Garcia explains why there's so much ass in hip-hop.

by Colleen Dougher

July 18 2007

This week, Miami rapper Garcia released Life Unscripted, which is not only the follow-up to his 2004 CD, Anti-Social, but, as he notes early on the disc, "the story of my motherfuckin' life." That story is a colorful one and includes everything from the rapper's everyday personal struggles to his NC-17-rated experiences with gold diggers, tourists, big booties and porn stars. Garcia (Crazyhood.com) recently spoke to City Link about these topics and more, including his proud membership in the Itty Bitty Titty Committee.

What inspired your song "Pornostar"?

"Pornostar" is about a guy trying to get a girl to let him film while he has sex with her. That's something that every guy at some point in his life tries to do with some chick. Every girl [has] had an experience somehow, whether the guy tries to hide a camera and she catches it, or the guy's just straight-up blunt with it. With all the celebrity sex tapes going around, I thought it would be a cool concept.

What about "GaveHerDat"?

Me and [executive producer] N.O.R.E. have a real appreciation for girls with big booties. That's just me being from Miami and growing up around a black and Latin environment, and there was just ass everywhere; you know what I'm saying? And you have to shout out to big-booty girls, because you have to.

In the intro to that song, you talk about how breast size doesn't matter, because it's really all about the size of a woman's ass, anyway. How do your female listeners react to these songs?

Some take offense to it, and some like it. If you really see it for what it is and you know that it's just entertainment and us just clowning around, then you know that it's cool. N.O.R.E. and I were in the studio talking, and he said he was a member of the Itty Bitty Titty Committee. I felt like I was, too. I'm not really into girls with, like, fake boobs and fake lips and fake all that shit. I like more natural-looking women.

Are your songs big in strip clubs?

"GaveHerDat" is starting to get worked in strip clubs. In Miami, if you don't have strip club support, you aren't going to have [that song] popping on radio because that's how you really know if a girl can dance to it. In a club, you put a record out nobody knows, they're just standing around looking at the DJ like, "What the hell are you playing?" But if you put it on in a strip club and the stripper can dance to it, guys get an appreciation for a girl's body moving to it. … If the girl dances to it, a guy's going to like it.

When it comes to sex and nightclubs, how does Miami-Dade County compare with Broward? Is Broward a prude, whereas Miami's a slut?

Miami has always been a whore. It's like this: In Broward, when you've got a club, the tourist population isn't as thick as in Miami, and wherever you have a high tourist population, at least 50 percent of that population is trying to get laid. It's just, "OK, I'm going to get laid tonight and never have to talk to this guy again" or "I'll never have to see this chick again -- screw it." But in Broward, you go to a club and chances are that person lives in Broward. So you might run into that dude at Publix or you might run into that girl at another club.

What's the most extreme thing a groupie has done to get your attention?

"The most extreme shit a girl has ever done to meet me is to say she's a singer and rapper and wanted to come to the studio to work with me. She gets there and doesn't sing a lick of rap and can't write a lyric at all. And two seconds later, she's trying to take her clothes off and [I was] like, "What the fuck is going on?"

Why are there so many ass songs in hip-hop?

Pretty much any sexual song hip-hop's ever released is ass-oriented, because that's the hood: The hood loves ass. White people in [Los Angeles] like fake titties. It's just a cultural thing. As for blacks, they love what God gives them, and God gives them a lot of ass.