BFochs: What's going on guys? Thanks for taking the time out of your busy schedule to do this interview. What's up? How's life treating ya?Streetz: Life is cool, we are just grinding, following our dreams and keeping busy.
Young Deuces: Yeah, life's great, progressing and maintaining...we've been getting it
poppin'.
BFochs: I'm pretty confident the BBB viewers know who you are, but just in case, how about you give them a formal introduction. State your names, where your from and who you rep please.Young Deuces: What's going on people, it's your boy Young Deuces b.k.a The Mil-town Fly Guy,
repping the Brew City/
Murda Mil all day.
EMP 4 Life.
Streetz: I'm
Streetz, 1 half of the best rap duo in the game.
SNYD, North Milly,
EMP run the city!!!
BFochs: The Midwest is easily the most slept on region in the country, namely Wisconsin and Milwaukee. Why do you think A&Rs and label executives are so afraid to invest in the talent that Wisconsin and the Midwest has?Streetz: We haven't had a run like the South, the East, or the West, but we have some of the biggest selling artists in our region. We have
Kanye West,
Eminem, Nelly and Bone Thugs N
Harmony just to name a few. You know all these artists made their mark in hip hop and we still don't get the respect we deserve. It's a known fact that we have to work harder than every region.
Young Deuces: I think they're just scared to try something new. I mean the Midwest has an original sound, but we can cater to each area, so when they hear us it's like they're timid to invest because we can be whatever. Now in hip-hop terms that's an artist...an emcee who can cater to whatever, but to these A&
Rs and others we're a liability because we don't consistently make club music. We might make a conscious track and then do a soul track and have one club track on our whole project.
BFochs: You guys killed the 'A Millie" beat, how does it feel knowing out of all the various MCs that freestyled on it that you are in the top tier for people who flowed over the beat?Young Deuces: It's one of those things where we just did it because we were in the studio brainstorming and we need to start off our day. When it was done everybody was just like "DAMN!!!" So it feels good that the world is loving it.
Streetz: I mean wow!!! Everybody who got on that beat went hard you know so we
just kept it going, we had to hold it down for the Midwest. Shouts to
Bangladesh, he did that beat, he from the Midwest too.
BFochs: In the song "Welcome 2 Da Mil" there was a Milwaukee Bucks reference. If you both had to make your all-time starting 5 for the Milwaukee Bucks who would pick? Explain each choice if you could please.Streetz: Well, Ray Allen because he's the best shooter in the league and Kareem because you know what he do. Then, I'm going with Glen Robinson because he was a beast when he came to the league. Sam
Cassell, at point and
Yi just for height, but I don't like that dude. I didn't like that he didn't want to play here, or Even Dirk, you know we traded him for Tractor
Traylor [laughs] bad decision.
Young Deuces: I'm going cheat and pull a NBA 2k7 Dream Team and go with Jason Kidd, Vince Carter,
Lebron James, Ben Wallace &
Shaq....unstoppable!!! [laughs]
BFochs: Continuing with the sports related questions, what are your thoughts on the Milwaukee Brewers inability to keep up the momentum of winning throughout the entire season? What do you think of the Milwaukee Brewers firing their manager Ned Yost? Young Deuces: I was
geeked when they were winning, but yeah, they let us down, but as far as Ned
Yost...I been thought we needed some change..so here it comes.
Streetz: Yeah man, I'm upset wit them, they did the same thing last year. They just can't execute, it's that simple...but
Yost, yeah he had to take that fall. [laughs]
BFochs: You guys have been compared to the likes of Method Man & Redman and Outkast in terms of chemistry and stage presence. Are the critics' comparisons accurate? How does it feel being compared to such great groups? Streetz: That's good to know that we are looked at like that. Both Method Man &
Redman and
Outkast play a big part in why we do what we do. We give our everything to our fans on stage and in our music. But we just want to be
SNYD and make our own mark.
Young Deuces: Yeah that's huge, I mean I'm honored to be in that category and we're going to do our best to prove the doubters wrong. I feel it's accurate because a good group has to have chemistry and be on equal levels to evolve. We're just holding it down for the
Midwest.
BFochs: You guys have had some very nice achievements so far in your career such as a feature in The Source Magazine in 2006, a slot on an And 1 DVD, support from various DJs/radio stations, the award for upcoming artists of the year at the 2006 Get 'Em Magazine Awards as well as a recent nomination for 'Indy Group Of The Year' at the 2009 Southern Entertainment Awards. Out of all those listed and the success of your mixtapes which one means the most to you and why?Young Deuces: I say the SEA Award because that is solely based upon our peers and streets, and for us to be recognized for our craft is great. Especially when your peers are involved, I mean they say there is so much hate in the industry but, there is a lot of love and this just proves it. Then the streets is behind us tough, and you just don't get nominated for nothing...you have to be working & grinding.
Streetz: They all mean a lot to me, but The Source placement did it for me. I grew up on that magazine and to see myself in it was just crazy, I can't explain it
BFochs: Let's switch gears a moment. Who are you guys rooting for to win the presidential election this November? If you could rate the job the Bush regime did in the White House on a scale of 1-10, 1 being worst 10 being best, how would you rate it and why? What do you think of the government possibly bailing out the big companies that have had great financial losses and not helping out the hard working Americans who have lost their homes in the mortgage crisis?Young Deuces: Bush is Bush and he did what he did. I'm not on his side at all. I say he did about a 0. Fuck big businesses they fucked up their money, why should they get bailed out? I'm
Obama repping...I repeat,
OBAMA REPPING! "It's time for a change."
Streetz: Man,
Obama in '08, that's all I'm going to say...and for Bush I rate him a negative 3. He fucked up a lot of lives and still counting. You know they say the government is for the people, but lately it hasn't seemed that way and this election we got coming up is the biggest ever. I'm happy to be able to vote you know.
BFochs: You have gained sponsorship by Lil Jon's Crunk Energy Drink company and 2520 clothing. How did those come about and will we see anymore endorsement deals in the near future?Streetz: Well, both of them are feeling what we are doing for the Midwest and were willing to put there products behind us. Of course we will have more things in the future.
Young Deuces: Yeah that was just a result of heavy grinding. Of course there are more to come, just stay tuned.
BFochs: Wisconsin and Milwaukee has a deep talent pool full of a lot of different types of artists. Will we see any collabos with any Wisconsin artists in the near future?Young Deuces: Oh we got a lot coming with
Scalez, Scott
Knoxx, Six City, Royal
Fam, Lil Rock, a
mixtape with the Swag
Boyz (
Meech &
Drez) which is going to be BIG, Tone
Da One and
Yung Mone. Man we got a lot coming.
BFochs: I know you are very tight lipped on your upcoming projects, but can you shine a little light on anything you got going on for the BBB viewers? What do you think the future holds for EMP Entertainment and Streetz & Young Deuces? Where do you guys see yourself in lets say, 3 years from now?Streetz: Well, we are writing songs for a lot of artists. We got
Aliesa Nicole &
Taliaferro' coming out, two very talented R&B singers. We are working on a
mixtape and a street album titled "Hustlers Don;t Sleep." In the next three years we will be label owners and businessmen and still be moving forward.
Young Deuces: All I'm going to say is we are "Heavy In The Streets."
BFochs: Any shout outs or comments before we wrap this thing up?Young Deuces: First we have to shout out our fans, without them we wouldn't be nothing. Shout out to
BFochs and his whole community. Shout out to all the
DJs, artists, and supporters of
Streetz & Young Deuces!
Streetz: Shout out to the whole Mil and all our fans out there who keep riding with us. Also look out for
SNYD T.V. (
Http://www.YouTube.com/StreetzNYoungDeuces) and our
EMP Entertainment artists.
BFochs: Thank you once again for the opportunity to do this interview, I truly wish you guys the best in anything you do in the future.
Streetz & Young Deuces, as you know from reading above, have been nominated for a 2009 Southern Entertainment Award for 'Indy Group Of The Year.' Help
SNYD take home this award in January now!!! Below is a link for the voting ballot, every vote counts so rock the vote!!! Also, you will find a link to an online petition. If the petition gets enough signatures
Streetz & Young Deuces will get to go on a
CRUNK ENERGY DRINK sponsored tour! Sign today! You can also check out
SNYD's/
EMP Entertainment's official sites below too!
