us what we thought about Boosie, so when Boosie came to the city we got him on it to see what it would sound like. When the song came back it sounded good so we pushed it. The record was good, but once Boosie got on it, it took it to the next level. The new song “Take ‘Em Off” is doing real well too. How did that come about? Young True: It’s basically a slow joint. It was more catered towards the ladies but now the fellas like it too. It’s a whole different sound from anything that’s out right now. We put it out and everybody liked it. It’s one of those records where as soon as you hear it for the first time you’re gonna like it. It was produced by Riddles and he got a verse on the extended version. Rokstar: It’s one of those songs that makes you say wow and you’re singing along by the second hook. It draws you in and makes you wanna hear it again. Everybody has the same reaction. A lot of your music appeals to females, and then dudes eventually catch on to it. Is that your target audience? Young True: It just depends. We make music based on what we deal with in our real life, and if it ain’t someone in our record label or in our circle, we don’t deal with males at all. We cater to the ladies all day. We make music from our standpoint, and males that are like us are gonna like it too. All we really care about is the women. Not that we don’t care about the niggas, we got love for them too. If a dude sees a good girl get on something, he’s gonna get on it too. Who are some of the important people behind your movement? Young True: First of all, I wanna give a lot of love to Brian Wallace, the program director. He’s a big part of our movement. He’s the one that really believed in us and got our song on the air. We got close to 1,000 spins in our city. Also, DJ Duck and DJ Wrekk 1 are real important in our movement, James Rutherford and our CEO J. Black. Did you have to get “Supa Clean” hot in the streets before radio picked it up? Young True: To tell you the truth, we didn’t even get it hot. Most people gotta push a record for a long time in the streets. But with this song, the radio station came to us. I never even seen the radio station until they called me. I didn’t even give a damn about going
to radio and begging them to play my song. I feel like if you got a hot enough song then put it out and it’ll go where it’s gonna go. Music spreads like wildfire if it’s hot. So as soon as we made the song, we took it to a couple of DJs. DJ JF took it back to the lab and let everybody hear it. The station called us and said they wanted to throw it in rotation. Rokstar: The crazy thing was nobody even knew we was from here. They heard the song and got in contact with us and then found out we was from here. They was just blown away so they jumped on the record. Did you know the song was going to be a hit right off top? Rokstar: We was just playing around in the studio and I came up with a skeleton for the beat and he added some ideas. Once the beat was made he threw a hook on it. The crazy thing was, at first he hated the hook. He wanted to me to erase it, but I was like, nah this is something different. He thought it sounded stupid. If you really, really listen to it, it sounds funny, but it works. We really don’t talk like that. What do y’all have going on during the Circle City Classic weekend? Young True: We’re gonna be all around the city. You can catch us anywhere anything’s happening. We have like 9 shows. Our favorite spot to go to is Sunset Strip Club. We love it. We be in Cloud Nine too, that’s a nightclub. What do you want people to know about you guys as artists, people, and Nappyville as a whole? Rokstar: Look out for the album. We’re about to shoot the “Supa Clean” video. Another thing I do is videography. We’re about to do a video for every song on the album. It’ll be like the album but in DVD form so you can actually watch the album. The “Take ‘Em Off” video is in the editing booth, finishing it up. Young True: I want to let everybody know we’re down-to-earth, real people. We’re just doing what we like to do. We ain’t following no trends, we ain’t going with the new fads. We just living our lives, having fun, and making music. We’re real blessed. We got a good team around us. Our song is picking up all over the country. We feel like we’re about to do something super major and put on for our city.
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