kids will feel Iceburg. As for me, I speak on the behalf of the hoods and real niggas. Soup: Iceburg is the youngest. He brings the freshness. He keeps everybody thinking and up to date. Fella brings that roughness. He keeps the streets in check. I bring that edge that niggas in jail or street cats that are living it right then and there wanna hear. Everybody brings their own different style and when you hear it on a track, it’s amazing. Iceburg: Everybody’s from the hood but we all represent something different. I represent the young nigga that’s into the girls and cars and wildin’. Fellas from the projects in Opalocka. Soup’s from Liberty City in Miami; everybody knows what that represents. How do you bring your different ideas together as one concept? Fella: We feel each other’s vibe. This person might not like it, or he might not like it, but when we get the vocals on a beat, he may end up liking it. Sometimes we all just vibe on the same beat or song. Soup: We just try to make something for the people when we come up with our songs. Do you ever disagree when it comes to choosing a beat or song to push? Fella: There’s been plenty of times we’ve disagreed with each other. Soup: Yeah, all the time. It usually goes my way. I got an ear. At first, nobody wanted to trust my ear. They were coming up with ideas that I wasn’t feeling so I would bring up my ideas and see what they had to say. When we started coming out with hot songs, they respected it. We had our disagreements in the beginning, but now it’s coming together. Iceburg: We got different styles but it’s like gumbo that comes together and sets it off. All real friends have they differences, but we go
through more good than bad. When it comes to beats, if everybody’s feeling it, we gonna hop on it and kill it. Most songs we write together; sometimes we each bring our own songs to the table. Would you say the Dunk Ryders are influenced by Trick Daddy’s music? Or are you going a whole different route? Iceburg: We talk about the same stuff. We coming from the same point of view, but we got our own style. At the end of the day, it’s that gutta Miami sound that’s going to bring everything together. Soup: Of course there’s an influence but we’re the new era. It’s a good thing. We’re doing our own thing. I’m Trick’s brother, by the way. We got the same mother and grew up in the same house in Miami. If you could live anywhere else in the world, even if it were just temporary, where would that be? Fella: Spain. I also like Jacksonville. Soup: I’d say West Virginia. Iceburg: I told Soup and Fella we gotta go to New Orleans. That’s one of the few places I’ve seen where them boys get down how niggas from Miami do. They really hold it down. I’d also say L.A. and Amsterdam, they got them trees over there. Out of all the songs you’ve done, which ones do you like the best? Fella: We got a whole bunch of songs. I like “Stagg.” We have another single we’re doing called “Thuggin On the Dancefloor.” Soup: I’ve got a solo song called “Girlfriend.” It’s about girls that are pushing to be your girlfriend but you want ‘em to be your friend. It’s a true story song. I got a female artist on there named Diesel that we’re thinking about singing to the label. Iceburg: I just did this song called “I’m Yo Pimp.” We got a stuntin’ song about the front of my car lifts up and I can do a 360. We got them Lambo doors. We got a song that talks about, “I might stagger, but I won’t fall.” We’ve got songs that people can relate to, not songs where people are gonna be like, “What is he talkin’ about?” One of the biggest songs in the street right now is “You Damn Right” on Trick’s album. It’s about people locked up. Everybody’s got somebody that’s locked up and they’re waiting on ‘em to come home. // OZONE | 33