Cruna Interview: http://www.blastro.com/audio/Blastro-Cruna-Interview.mp3
Cruna Video: http://www.blastro.com/player/crunatakemehigher.html?artist=Cruna

Cruna: The gift to sing. He also gave me other gifts with it, ya know. He gave me the gift to be able to look at life, write it down on paper, and then present it in song. So I take no credit in that. Its, its been goin' on since I was born. He gave it to me. The gospel true we know is we worked hard. We just traveled the country with all other southern Gospel groups . Takes on everybody, everybody you can imagine who came down south in the Gospel field. We've done just about everything. We've sang with them in our churches. From there there to the streets because I wanted the ends. I was chasin the Jones. I love, I was lovin' seein' these cats with the fresh clothes and the fresh cars and, you know, and I used to glorify that, so that led me to jail. From, you know, but that's not somethin I glorify. What I do glorify is that I got outta jail and I'm standin' on my own two feet and look at where I am now.

B: Was there anything in jail, a particular incident, or anything that really changed your mind about life or that has given you inspiration to do the things you are doing now?

C: Yeah my business partner and CEO of Crosstracks Entertainment, my best friend, Jasper Howard. He had just got Crosstracks up and runnin' and then had got locked back up himself, you know, and came back and he was like "look man.." and I was writin' songs and producin' my own songs while I was in there because they did let us have certain music equipment, you know. So I was honin' my skills anyway, but he might have gave me the light. He showed me that there was a light in hell that I could get to, ya know. Like nobody saw past those walls except him. That was very influential in what I'm doin' right now.

B: In the next couple of years, where do you want to take this?

C: I want, by the next couple of years..I want "A Hustler's Love Story"- the book, "A Hustler's Love Story"- the movie, the next coming album. I want success man you know. I can't front. This is what I into this for that, you know. This is what I want, ya know. You know, I want everything the Warner Bros. got to offer to give to me. Everything I can utilize, I want to do though.

B: How did you get the nickname "Cruna"?

C: It's not a nickname. Cruna means singer. So I can't call that a nickname because that is really what I do. I'm not a pro two artist. I'm an actual R&B artist. What you hear on CD is what you hear live, you know. That's why my name is Cruna. I want them to hear exactly what I just told you. People need to understand that R&B has not been anywhere. Its been here. Its still here. Its gonna continue. We just live in a rap world right now, but these next years are gonna be very big for R&B because you have artists like Cruna, Life Jennings, John Legend, Fantasia, and other artists that you see that can actually sing instead of using these props when they come to perform.

B: Yeah, I totally agree. I totally agree.

C: But I want people to know.

B: Much respect for that.