Sisqo: I just did a song with Marie Osmond called “Give Me a Good Song.” And she was awesome- how many artists can say they’ve worked with someone who worked with the Jacksons, to Elton John to Babyface. You can listen to the snippet now, and it’ll be out within the next few months.Īlong with that we got a book we’re working on and a lot of surprises coming up. What it is is a record saying, ‘We don’t understand you and y’all don’t understand us.’ How can we get you to understand that every time I walk out of the house I feel like I might not make it home for some reason I can’t even think of? And that’s a burden. We wanted to create a platform- and believe me, before this record got done I went to a lot of police officers and I just played it for them. It’s not like back in the day with Officer Friendly. My daughter is seven years old, and when she was five she saw the police and got scared and thought she was going to jail! Nokio: It’s pretty much asking, ‘If you understood how I felt, would you change?’ A lot of times if you talk to people, the biggest divide between the police and the community is they don’t understand the community because they don’t live around us. You get to do all the other stuff- make love, have babies off our music, but you get to a point where you have a responsibility. Us being from Baltimore and everything that went on with Freddie Gray and police brutality across the country in general we felt like we needed to say something. Nokio: We have a record called “Change” coming out. People really don’t understand what it takes to do this for real and the foundation of records. Nokio: And you can have a group that can really sing but people are so untuned to what real music is now.ĭo you guys have a favorite song you like to perform the best? Jazz: Basically it’s a fickle market right now and as an investor, who’s really going to gamble their whole pot on something if you don’t know what’s going to come back. Sisqo: You have to look at the business behind it.
The first thing that I thought when we won our first Soul Train Award- I was hype, but I wondered how much this award cost? Not that I was belittling our talent, but we know what it is. Nokio: They can’t spend the money to do that sh*t. In the 90s, R&B had so many groups from Dru Hill, to 112, to Jagged Edge to dozens others. Nowadays you kind of just go in the studio, make a record and it’s whatever, spend a bunch of money to make people think it’s good when don’t nobody know what the f*ck you talking about.īut, we’re the last part of the generation where it’s about the artist that made careers for everybody else artist development, the right records, putting us with the right producers who would teach us a lesson, we’re the last of it. Nokio: Even though we didn’t understand totally when we first started, people made sure we became marquee artists and they gave us lifetime records. It’s just amazing, just to be around each other, like we shock each other! It’s almost like you’re driven and drawn to do it regardless. Jazz: It’s the love of what you do and not just up here faking it to make it. More than anything, it’s the fans because a lot of times when you grow up- have families, you move into another part of life, but no matter what we do the dragon symbol’s in the sky. What’s the secret in a industry where groups break up, one hit wonders, etc.? Celebrating two decades strong as a R&B staple, The Source caught up with the 90s favorites during their ‘Ladies Night’ tour, sharing the marquee with fellow R&B mainstays Avant, Tank and Ginuwine as they dished on their career and why their new single, “Change,” due in a few months, is just what music needs.
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