You guys have a new album coming out? Kane: (rapping) I got a ten-foot pole that’ll go in yo’ hole / Take yo’ soul, make nut come out yo’ nose / Ha, ha, ha, fall all on yo’ clothes, bitch / Now that I got you in the bed, I’m gon’ pull yo’ hair / Snatch yo’ ass up out of here, I’m gon’ pull yo’ hair. Interesting. Kane: Me and D-Roc got something for these niggas. For every nigga, I’m gonna spit a rap on y’all cause I’m gonna tell y’all that. Gangsta like Frank Nitty, don’t want the keys to my city like P Diddy / I just wanna rep for the neighborhood / So when you slide through my city I can always keep the word that the flavor good / Now I don’t sell this and I don’t sell that / But I dwell where them boys get them cell cases at / To a thug that might be thinkin’ young grip ain’t street / You ain’t gonna up your ranking if you worryin’ bout me / Your mind on the decline, your line on thin / If you don’t find something to do wit’ ya time you won’t win / I ain’t tellin’ y’all fuck niggas again / Y’all can’t fuck with the Ying Yang Twins / They hated on me before I got a grip / I got it now but still they don’t give a fuck / I’ll be a fool to think that y’all like me / I bet it’s some niggas that don’t know me that wanna fight me / Ain’t too many niggas that can rap that excite me / A lot of these niggas walk around here tryin’ to bite me / You can’t recite me and you might not like me but don’t dislike it, get like it BITCH! D-Roc: Yeah, what he said. So now that we’ve all heard “Wait,” we are waiting to hear what your album is gonna sound like. D-Roc: It’s gonna sound like what he just said. Our album is called U.S.A.: United States of Atlanta. It’s gonna explain that you better understand Atlanta after you hear this album. We made an album for everybody that thinks Atlanta is just about crunk music. It’s not. You’ve got people that go to church in Atlanta, people that work in Atlanta, people that sell dope in Atlanta, you got skrippers in Atlanta, you got bums in Atlanta. Atlanta is not just crunk, but still, people been getting crunk in Atlanta since I was zero years old. Twenty-six years I’ve been getting crunk in Atlanta. Crunk has been the way of Atlanta since Atlanta been Atlanta. Kane: I don’t consider crunk to be a movement. I just consider the East and the West coast and then there’s the South, cause we wasn’t making enough noise to be like them. So now life goes in a full circle. D-Roc: HANNNNNNNNNH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kane: Life don’t go in a boomerang. D-Roc: HANNNNNNNNNH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kane: So now it’s time for the third coast to get they fair shot. D-Roc: HANNNNNNNNNH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kane: Cause the East coast and the West coast been controllin’ the game since it started. D-Roc: HANNNNNNNNNH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kane: The third coast in there now. Don’t get mad. We got 63% of the game. D-Roc: HANNNNNNNNNH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kane: And it ain’t because we fake. D-Roc: HANNNNNNNNNH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kane: Like my homie Jeezy says: real talk, nigga! What other types of songs do you have on there besides the “intimate club music” songs like “Wait” and
(l to r): Kane and D-Roc
“Pull Yo’ Hair”? D-Roc: Everything. We got a gospel song on the album, an Al Green remake. Kane: We got a war song on the album for the soldiers called “Ghetto Classy.” D-Roc: We got a song called “Live Again” with Maroon 5. That’s for the strippers that are tired of working at the strip club? Kane: Me and my brother wrote the song. I wrote the hook and Maroon 5 sunt it. I’m just lettin’ you know before it get out. We wrote that song. You want me to sing the hook for you? Sure. Kane: She stuff off in this lil’ room (room) / Wit’ nothin’ else to hold on to (to) / Her life is in a lil’ box (box) / She wondering, will it ever stop? (stop) / Life of a stripper / I’m so sick and I’m so tired of this club / I keep crying every night cause the years pass me by / I give up, I’m all in / My whole life is full of sin / This road is a dead end / I wanna live again. But it sound like Maroon 5 wrote it. I told my momma, I was supposed to be a white boy (laughing). Hey, since this is for OZONE, since I did the hook I’m gonna go ahead and do the rap. D-Roc: This is live and direct. Kane: From the nipple to the bottle, never satisfied / But the money got you doin’ things to mess up your pride / But you really just tryin’ to get by / Every day you lookin’ up in the sky / Sometimes shit gets so hard it really have you bothered / First you sigh, then you cry up a whole puddle of water / It seem like shit ain’t never gonna end / Merry-go-rounds turn to whirlwinds / Wait ‘til it turns into a hurricane / If you see joy, you got to see pain / Shit in the world ain’t ever gonna change / Even when you die, it’ll be the same / You ain’t lookin’ at my circumstance / Jobs ain’t callin’ so you forced to dance / Hopin’ and prayin’ for a second chance / Just wanna put back on yo’ pants / Walk out the club and throw up yo’ hands / Tired of being disrespected by a man / Sayin’ this shit ain’t right for you / A nigga been yellin’ all night for you / Gotta do what’s best for you / Walk up to the club and tell ‘em YOU’RE THROUGH!
What inspired you to cut your hair off, DRoc? Kane: He wanna be the Ying, and I’m gonna stay the Yang. D-Roc: Nah, I cut my hair, cause, don’t I look cute? (laughing) Nah, cause I wanted to go on more of a business look. Don’t I look cute though? You’re going for a different look and a different sound this time around? D-Roc: Yeah, yeah, yeah, cause you gonna see a lot of business comin’ out of Ying Yang this year like HANNNNNNNNNH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our business gonna be on point like HANNNNNNNNNH!!!!! What kind of business ventures do you have coming up? D-Roc: Everything! Everything I put my hands on. I’m tryin’ to make it go gold. I might open up a soul food restaurant. I might open up a Laundromat. Hey, I might do anything. Ying Yang gonna venture off this year. Just be on the look out. I might make my own car and call it Yingsu. Who else is featured on the album besides Maroon 5? D-Roc: Man, you got me on the album, and my brother on the album (laughing). Nah, we got Mike Jones on the album, Lil Jon, Teedra Moses, Pitbull, Jacki-O, Anthony Hamilton. United States of Atlanta in stores June 28th. Bet when you buy our album you gon’ be satisfied. I ain’t even got a copy of the album yet. I been waiting for a copy my damn self. My boss man won’t give it to me, but when he do, ain’t nobody gonna know. Kane: We puttin’ it down for our folk at OZONE as only we can. It’s the Ying Yang Twins, we doin’ a lot of things so we got to cut the time short. So now it’s time to say goodbye / To all our OZONE friends / Thank you from D-Roc and Kane / And we make the Ying Yang Twins / Gone! - Interview and photos by Julia Beverly OZONE JUNE 2005
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