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*** This interview goes hand in hand with our 40
Glocc interview, which you can check out by clicking
HERE ***
Huge thanks to the Zoo Babies (Baby Lone, Lil Boo,
Ken Bib & Loc E Loc) for taking time out to answer the questions
fans wanted to know.
(Interview was done by phone in January of 2005)
Questions Asked By : Nima
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Full Interview In Audio :
Here
To go along with this audio interview, we have some
exclusive video footage of 40 Glocc & Zoo Babies, with them talking
and spitting a verse, check that out
HERE.
If you unfamiliar with the Zoo Babies, check out two
exclusive cuts of theirs with 40 Glocc right here:
Zoo Babies - High As I Wanna Get |
Zoo Babies - Under The Sun
*** This interview goes hand in hand with our 40
Glocc interview, which you can check out by clicking
HERE ***
dubcnn.com: You're a bunch of fresh cats in
the game, first of all introduce yourselves.
Lil Boo: I'm Lil Boo from the Zoo Babies.
Loc E Loc: I'm Loc E Loc.
Lil Boo: We ain't got Ken Bib with us right now, and Baby Lone is
gonna join us in a second. Zoo Babies!
dubcnn.com: Now from what 40 been telling me, ya'll some real
cats. So tell us about your background, where you're from, the gang
life and all that.
Lil Boo: I'm from the Zoo man, Colton City. I grew up like... a
rough life, you know? I'm trying to get it! I'm thirsty man.
dubcnn.com: So how did ya'll get together as a group?
Loc E Loc: I mean we got together growing up, as kids. We always
knew each other.
Lil Boo: We used to always hang out, and rap and all that.
dubcnn.com: Who mostly influenced ya'll, coming up?
Lil Boo: I mean, really 40 [Glocc].
Loc E Loc: Yeah, 40, and Dr. Dre, Kurupt, 2Pac, all them.
dubcnn.com: What's your connection with 40 Glocc? Is he the
mentor?
Lil Boo: That's like the homie from my city, you know? It's like a
bond.
Loc E Loc: We all family though, we close like that, it's family.
Baby Lone: Yeah we all from the same hood, group up around him, same
block!
dubcnn.com: So he's leading the group?
Lil Boo: Yeah 40, he basically started us. When we was out back in
the days, playing, rapping and all that, he was just like we need to
do something with it you know? He took us to the studio, and he
started feeling us like real serious! He started looking at us and
seeing dollar signs! That's basically it.
Baby Lone: Yup, I guess he felt we was hot, took us to the studio,
we took the time to write some shit, and it came out right! So we
making the album now!
dubcnn.com: So what was the day you decided you wanna become
a rapper?
Loc E Loc: Once we really realized what we had together as a group,
everybody just willing to get together, and tell each other we can
really make it, and whoo whoo, and all that. That's what really
influenced me to do this.
Lil Boo: What really made me decide that was being in the studio,
around other rappers like 40, and like Kurupt, and just being around
them, and when I rap something, they like "Oh that was cool!" or
something, and that's when I started hearing it in the back of my
head, like I need to stop playin', and be serious with it!
dubcnn.com: You appeared on his Outspoken Vol.1 mixtape, have
you been on any other projects yet?
Lil Boo: Nah that was it for right now. And now we working on the
album, a few more songs to do!
dubcnn.com: So I hear you're doing a group album, presented
by Kurupt & 40 Glocc. What's Kurupt's role in the project?
Lil Boo: He must be puttin' some money in it or somethin', he kinda
of backing us up, getting us out there, and hoping something good
comes out of it!
dubcnn.com: He rappin' on there too?
Loc E Loc: Yeah, we got Kurupt and all them rappin!
dubcnn.com: Who do you have doing production on the record?
Loc E Loc: We got Battlecat, we got a Dr. Dre track but we don't
know if we gone use it, we got J Steez, we got a couple tracks from
Jelly Roll, W.S. Bug, Raw Beats...
Lil Boo: And featured on there we got Jayo Felony, Kokane, Bad Azz,
Butch Cassidy, Roscoe, 40 Glocc and some others.
dubcnn.com: I think the record is distributed through
Universal... correct?
Lil Boo: Yeah, Universal, they're distributing it. It's Zoo
Life/Universal.
dubcnn.com: How would you describe the record?
Baby Lone: Man, new West Coast! It's coming strong man, it's crazy.
We got shit with Battlecat, it's so blazing man. Something new from
the West! Hot!
dubcnn.com: Around what time can we expect this record to be
in stores?
Loc E Loc: '05, early 2005, February or something.
dubcnn.com: Is the record done?
Lil Boo: We got enough songs for the album right now, but we're
still doing some more, just to.. you know.. keep it moving like
that.
dubcnn.com: Everybody is trying to rap these days... What's
your point of view of the Rap Game? How do the youngsters view it?
Lil Boo: My point of view ain't really about rapping right now, it's
just about stuff that I did, in my life, and for it to be heard by
other people, and just feel me. To know where I'm coming from.
That's what I make music for, to make myself feel better, and expose
the situation I've been in, us doing what we do..
dubcnn.com: It's really hard to get regular radio play,
unless you have a big budget behind you... Real talent isn't
showcased anymore by the media. What do you think caused this to
happen? Why is the real stuff overlooked?
Lil Boo: It's just that there's a huge quanitity of music, and it's
gotten really hard to get heard. It's like if I put my song on the
radio right now, and they play it one time, then alright, if people
hear it, it got me heard. But the thing is, they gotta keep
requesting it, and it's gonna be banging. It's not gonna get
anywhere if it just gets played and not heard. People gotta hear
you, like you, request you. If nobody's hearing you, radio play
ain't shit. Okay, you got played last night at 3:30 in the morning.
Nobody heard it. You know what I mean?
dubcnn.com: Do ya'll have a single picked for the record yet?
Loc E Loc: We got a few songs we're gonna choose from... We ain't
really got it picked right now, cause we're not sure what we wanna
hit'em with. Club shit, or whatever. I mean if we just got out there
right now on some straight west coast street shit, people prolly
gone look at us like oh that's played out. But if we come out with a
club bangers, then they gone feel it. Then they gone get the album,
and then they gone hear what we really got to offer.
dubcnn.com: The record itself is gone be street though?
Lil Boo: Oh no, it's all us. But you gotta have something for the
ladies!
dubcnn.com: What's your personal goal you're trying to
achieve with the Zoo Babies?
Baby Lone: Man I just wanna have fun with it man! For everybody to
hear this shit, feel this shit man. And make money off this shit!
Zoo Babies, man.
dubcnn.com: Alotta times, in groups, after a while there's
beef created between different members of the group. Are you afraid
that might happen to ya'll?
Baby Lone: Nah man, we like too strong together. We like brothers
man. We grew up all four of us, since we were 3 or 4. And we ain't
never had beef!
dubcnn.com: Coming up from California, who are ya'll trying
to hook up with in future, do collabos?
Loc E Loc: Oh man, Mobb Deep, we fuck with them, so that's nothing.
Me, I like Jada, I wanna do something with him. Busta Rhymes, people
like them.
Lil Boo: Yeah I'd fuck with Busta, he's cool.
dubcnn.com: You've been rolling with 40 Glocc and the
Riflemen alot, how has the experience been?
Lil Boo: I mean, it's good, it feels good. It keeps you motivated,
and just want to do it. I mean watching them do it makes it seem
like okay this is the right thing. They doin' it, so I'ma get it
done. Like they're doing their stuff, and I'm there, and then we get
down, get in the studio, lace that, it's nothing!
dubcnn.com: What would you say have been the main things
you've learned that you weren't aware off since getting into the
game?
Lil Boo: Like really, I learned that I gotta keep going, I gotta
stay on top of my game. Cause ain't nobody gone do it for me. I
gotta stay on top of MY game. I gotta be a part of everything that
goes down with the rap game. I gotta be a part of it. When this is
cracking, or that network is cracking, you gotta be a part of it,
move around, be active. That's pretty much what I learned. I gotta
do alot of networking, gotta know alot of people.
dubcnn.com: What are you bumping in the whip right now?
Lil Boo: I'm still banging Pac man.
Loc E Loc: Yeah! Pac. And 40 Glocc! Mobb Deep, Riflemen.
Lil Boo: Look this is what I got right now. Pac, Alchemist, I listen
to what I'm around. Riflemen.
dubcnn.com: Baby Lone: Man I'm feeling the Zoo Babies man,
and 40 Glocc! All the rest of them niggaz I ain't feeling them man.
I'm feeling Game though, he's hot right now. But 40 Glocc & the Zoo
Babies fo sho.
dubcnn.com: After this first record, what are the future
plans for the Zoo Babies?
Lil Boo: I mean we probably gonna come with solo projects. We gonna
do our best at it. And then we can come again as a group. It's
really all on us. Whatever we feel like doing, if we wanna do solos,
we gonnna do solos. Or keep hittin' them with the Zoo Babies!
dubcnn.com: Have you been working with Y.A. too?
Loc E Loc: Yeah, yeah we fuck with Roscoe and them. Fo sho.
dubcnn.com: That's about it for the questions, is there
anything else ya'll would like to say?
Lil Boo: Yeah I wanna give it up for my nigga Baby Lone, Ken Bib,
gotta give it up.
Loc E Loc: To everybody out there get ready for the Zoo Babies album
it's coming. It's hot! Blazing!
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