I’m cool and happy to see everyone out there doing their own thing and doing albums, but what I was really disappointed in was the whole Death Row outlook I mean you had people on Death Row that was suppose to be your family and just because Death Row broke up don’t mean your family should break up- the personal relationships that you had with different people should never have broke up, know what I mean? I am just disappointed in a lot of people who pretended that they was real with that shit and now years later people are acting like they don’t know each other, I mean everyone knew me so I ain’t hating on no one out there but just know that I’m not really trippin off of y’all on the same token because I feel if it should of being love then it should have all stayed love!ĭo you keep in touch with anyone from Death Row part from Suge? I know- that was such a big thing in Hip-Hop that no one will ever pass. It’s good to see a comeback from Death Row artists, because even though it has been such a long time, people are still interested! I recently got a chance to hang out with Danny Boy (ex Death Row) and he is starting to come back and do his thing. I am just out there living, I got so many different avenues- one of them will get me to the right spot!
Yeh.Riskie is jack of all trades, I’m still drawing, managing a few groups out here, and working on the website.
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I really appreciate that, you know it’s been slow over the last few months because we’re trying to get alot of other things done it’s hard trying to get everything done but we’re still working on it!Īlong with the website, you’re still doing painting and designing- so you must be on the go full time? I already checked out the videos and interviews- they’re great, and I think you’ve hit the competition right on the head so to say! I talk to him on that phone at least once or twice a month. Me and Suge never fell out, I just seen him a couple of weeks ago. How was your relationship with Suge Knight? I also start doing some promo and stuff on commercial radio- because I picked all of that up on Death Row, and after Suge got locked up I started to learn some other stuff. What happened after your days at Death Row ended?Īfter the Death Row days, things were kind of haywire, and at that time I had just started to mess around with my homeboys OFTB and they were transitioning from leaving Death Row and had just started their own record label called ‘ Flat Broke Enterntainment’ I was doing a little bit of art work for them. I started at Death Row right after Christmas in 1995. When did you first start working with Death Row? I am known to the world as Ronald Riskie Brent, I was the one responsible for doing all the covers on Death Row Records and personally known for doing the Makaveli cover for 2pac! So Riskie, do you want to tell the readers a bit about yourself? Rap Ireland‘s Darren Mc Nelis recently caught up with the artist to find out more about his illustrious career in the world of hip-hop. Not limiting himself to airbrushing and album covers, Riskie is versed in painting everything from pictures to murals, customizing articles of clothing, and much more.
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His latest patrons and supporters include ‘Tha Realest’, who has been a long time supporter of his work, Luniz rapper ‘Yukmouth’, dancer ‘Tommy the Clown’, and Affion Crockett from MTV’s Wild’N Out, who was seen sporting Riskie’s artwork on the red carpet for the ‘Waist Deep’ movie premiere. He also designed album covers and inserts for Snoop on the ‘ Snoop Doggy Dogg’ and ‘Tha Dogfather’ albums, Daz Dillingers album ‘Retaliation, Revenge and Get Back’, in addition to Nate Dogg’s ‘G-Funk Classics, Vol 1 & 2′.
He completed several album covers for the label, including Death Rows Greatest Hits and Christmas Album. Other members of Death Row also began to embrace Riskie’s art work. Due to Pac’s untimely death, he never got to witness the success of the album, however, he did get to witness Riskie’s finished product for the album cover. Tupac informed Riskie of his vision for the album cover, and once Riskie had the idea sealed in his mind, he set out to create one of the most talked about album covers in hiphop. Based on the quality of his first assignment, Riskie was commissioned to complete the album cover for one of the most illest and influential albums in Hip Hop- Tupac’s ‘Makaveli: The 7 day Theory’. Riskie’s first project for Death Row was the insert for Tupac’s renowned album- ‘All Eyez On Me’.
In 1995, artist Ronald ‘Riskie’ Brent caught the attention of Death Row CEO and rap mogul Suge Knight, who introduced him to Tupac Shakur.