AllHipHop.com:
What about the transition from net mc to budding label stars? How different/hard
is it?
Like:
It's not difficult, we don't look at difficulty. Everything is just
done naturally and it'll take it's natural course. We don't consider
ourselves internet stars, or label stars or any of that. We just do
what we do and let it flow naturally.
AllHipHop.com:
If you hadn't chosen to have gone down the path of making music, what
would you be doing with your lives right now?
Like:
I don't know, somewhere making money or trying to. [Laughs] We're
doing that no plan, plan. I would be at my parents house, with my Dad,
eating his food, stealing my Mom's car keys driving somewhere.
AllHipHop.com:
What, if anything, has changed and/or evolved in your music - your sound?
Mibbs:
Life happens, I mean just things that happen in your life, just changes
you as a person and as rappers, we were rappers from day one, like,
we been knowing how to rap, so like, we understand how to adapt to the
times and how to adapt to the changes and just get better as a rapper
every time, every day and things that happen to you, just brings more
honesty into our music. It becomes, like the person that we are, who
we are, it comes out of our raps.
AllHipHop.com:
What, if anything has changed about your approach to the industry,
your lifestyle(s) from 2006 when the three of you as Pac Div began to
take offs and your release of the Sealed For Freshness Blendtape,
to 2009; the recent release of your mixtape Church League Champions
and your upcoming debut, Grown Kids Syndrome?
Life:
Whooo! Yeah, there is a change of lifestyle a little, we don't work
at jobs anymore, we are under a constant pressure, not in a bad way,
but to perform at every opportunity, I don't know, just opportunities,
more opportunities come our way, at our door steps and we take advantage
of it. It's no rush but this is what we signed up to do and we like
it, we enjoy it.
AllHipHop.com:
The legend goes that Biggie had to have fried chicken in the studio.
What is unique about your studio experience?
Mibbs: In the studio,
man, all we need is some water and maybe a little bit of Hennessey,
and just clean air. [Laughs]
Like:
We don't really need much, just give us a mic and we got protools or
whatever, we use, it gotta be a nice beat, that's pretty much it really.
We're not really super picky guys like that, we don't really need a
dream catcher, or anything like that or boiling pots, [Laughs]
just music, just a good microphone, a good mic.
AllHipHop.com:
What are some of the musical elements outside of what most would define
as Hip-Hop that have helped you build your craft?
BeYoung:
Everything. Everything from the older music, to the legends of the older
music. Prince, Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, those type of guys, it
might be our uncle. The inspiration can come from anybody. Anybody has
something that they going through. So we just draw from all that and
incorporate it into the music.
AllHipHop.com:
Let's talk about CA Hip Hop, how has it influenced your rhymes?
Mibbs: How it has influenced
our rhymes is that the lifestyle out here is very laid back, the air
is cooler, I mean it's not really cleaner, the air is nice out here,
like, we don't got to stress about it snowing, it's not cold out here,
it's pretty chill, it's a pretty easy place to live in, yes, it comes
out in your raps, it comes out in everything you do, the way you walk,
the way you talk, it's just easy. Everything is laid back and easy out
here.
AllHipHop.com:
So talk to us about 2009/2010. What can we expect from you?
Like:
Just expect it all, just expect the world's introduction to Pac Div,
the production to international notoriety. It's going to be everybody's
introduction to who we are and what we are about and I think people
are going to really like, gravitate towards it because its honest, its
fun, it's real, it's energetic. it's authentic, it's Pac Div.
AllHipHop.com:
Is there a release date?
BeYoung: We are probably
looking at the first quarter of 2010.