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DJ Booth: Welcome to the Zoo, of course, your debut album, received mixed reviews, and most likely did not sell as many copies [as] you probably would have like for your release. When you think about the entire process – we’re talkin’ about recording, to the release, to retail – was the project, in your eyes, a success, a failure, or somewhere in between?

Gorilla Zoe: For me it was a success. I had no recorded albums. The single Hood Figga blew up so fast. I didn’t even know what I did to record that, you know? So, I had my album done before I went on promo Boyz n da Hood, so I jumped straight out there on promo for that album, because that album was comin’ out before mine, way before mine, but then it got pushed back, you know, comin’ out before mine, but right around the same time. I had been on promo, for the songs that I’d been workin’ on for the album, because the single was blowin’ up so fast, people wanted to hear some more stuff. I think it was a great job, first comin’ [into] the game, first album. I kept it real on the album, all the way, one hundred. If you listen to the mixtapes that came off the album, I’ve learned how to use my voice; I realized I’ve got a unique voice, and I’ve learned how to use it, not only to express myself with words, but be able to tell you through the delivery, and people like hearin’ it.