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How long have you all been performing as a group?
Da Backwudz-Actually,
we started performing together in 1997, first off we are
first cousins so its like a family affair. So yeah we
started in 1997 man you know just grindin going to a 9-5
also going to pay studio time trying to make this thing
pop. That's when we met Milwaukee Black /Major Entertainment
he produced the first single that we had "You gon' love
me," and that did pretty good and every since we met Milwaukee
Black we had a lot of record labels that wanted to get
at us from Warner Bros., J Records, Universal a lot of
different labels but we pretty much found home over here
with Dallas Austin and Rowdy Records. It's been a beautiful
thing. We've been with Dallas since 2004. Dallas has done
so much in this music business so it's a blessing to have
an opportunity to work with Dallas he's worked with Boyz
II Men, TLC, Monica, Janet Jackson, Madonna so working
with Dallas is a beautiful thing.
I also heard that you all have George Clinton on the
album. Did you all actually get to work in the studio with
him?
Da Backwudz-Yes,
that's funkadelic right there. It was definitely a good
thing to work with George. He's a fun dude, he's a crazy
cat so it was definitely a good opportunity. We also have
Nas, Slim Thug, George Clinton, Big Gipp, Mo Hagen, Killer
Mike, Cass Clay and Jim Bean.
Are you all relatively well known in the Atlanta area?
Da Backwudz-Have
you been doing shows and stuff. Yeah.
So the rest of us are just kinda finding out. I'm just
asking.
Da Backwudz-We
get love in the city.
Are there any songs on the new album that are especially
your favorite?
Da Backwudz-I
kinda like the song we got called "Mama Always Told Me,"
I was raised in a single parent home, my father wasn't
their so all the guidance and molding I just had my brother
and my moms. My brother didn't live with me, we didn't
have the same mother, it was just me and my mother in
the house but my brother was like a father figure to me
when I wasn't at home and I love that song right there
because its so personal to me ( Big Mark). And I
kinda love this song we got called "Feelin Lonely" because
it touches on those things in life that we take for granted.
Are you jumping on any tours?
Da Backwudz-Yeah
we got a couple of radio dates coming up, we are in the
promotional grind process right now. We'll probably be
on some tours after the album drops. We're trying to get
back on this MTV2 Sucka Free tour that we were on last
year and we might be trying to get on this Purple Ribbons
All Star Tour. We got a couple of things we are looking
at. We just grinding and taking it how we can get it right
now.
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