Category: Interviews

Inside the world of the baby gangster B.G.! Back in 1991, Ronald “Slim” Williams and his brother, Bryan “Baby” Williams, heard about the infamous B.G., Baby Gangsta, and soon signed him to their new Cash Money label. As Slim likes to tell it, “BG is the first artist we had. We’ve been raising him up…

I hate to open with a question I’m sure you get from lots of people, but how was this new experience collaborating with someone for the album? The thing is that I didn’t wake up one day and decide I wasn’t going to write the lyrics for this record. It was a long and winding…

Up in Crazy Town with guitarist Squirrel! You guys go from obscurity to Mtv in what seems overnight fashion, but the album has been out for a year. What are you up to these days? I’m actually going to be heading out to rehearsals. We’re working on some new material and rehearsing for some upcoming…

A chat with bassist Larry Sullivan. How are you? A bit hung over, had a rough night. Did you have a show? No, actually we had last night off. It was Anthony’s, our guitar player, birthday so we took him out and had a few beers. Have you been doing bigger shows now? Yeah, but…

A chat with Vee and Fonz How’s life these days? Vee: Busy. But it’s a good busy, right? Vee: Yep, a good busy. How did you two come together? Fonz: It started with Kay Gee. Vee came to a showcase [Kay Gee] set up with another guy and I came with another artist, and we…

You guys have sure been lucky jumping on big tours. I just heard today that you’ve joined the upcoming Matchbox Twenty and Everclear tour. Yeah. It’s going to be great. We just got off the Pearl Jam tour, so we’ve been pretty lucky. So you’ve decided to stick it out in California after basically living…

Talking life with Jessica Andrews! What are you doing? Radio shows, appearances, mall shows. All sorts of things. Looking forward to Christmas? I actually have to work almost up to Christmas, but I can’t wait to go home. I have a week off and then my birthday is right after that. How old were you…

How are you? I’ve been better. I have a little bit of bronchitis going on. Really? What are you doing working? Well, I’m a little bit of a bronchial veteran. [laughs] I quit smoking, so I thought I would escape it this year, but I didn’t. I figured after fifteen years of smoking and getting…

What happened? I thought you were going to be at the awards last night. I fucked up my back, so I couldn’t go. I couldn’t fly in time so I’m still in New York. What did you do to it? I don’t really know. Last week I fell over and I think it took a…

How did the group come together? We came together through our manager and our record label. There was an audition in San Francisco and three of the guys knew about the audition and the others heard it through word of mouth. It came together and we, one way or another, came in contact with our…