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00:021 on 5, 1 on the bounce, Detroit Stowe back for your poppin' R&B, it's your boy Showtime,
00:06the czar, got some special guests in studio, all the way from Florida man, thrill and fast,
00:13but y'all know him as 69 boys, what up though? Cotton candy, sweetie gold, what's up, let's
00:18two-some roll. Let's see y'all here man. That's right, that's right. Fushed off fellas, welcome
00:22to the show, how y'all doing? Hey man, we're blessed, another day above ground, having
00:26a good time. Hey man, I like that. How you feeling? Black, blessed and fly brother.
00:30That's what I'm talking about. So, I like to ask all the out-of-towners man, when the
00:35last time y'all been to the city? Man, it's been years bro, it's been years. What's up
00:39with that man, why it's been years bro? Y'all came at the right time too, it was warming up,
00:42ain't no snow, you feel me, so it's the right time for y'all to be here. The last time
00:46we
00:46was coming man, COVID hit, and then just time fell in between, but hey man, we back in the
00:52city now. That's what's up man. Turn up. Yeah, yeah. Y'all got a new record out, so before
00:58we jump to it, drop that thing, right? That's what it's called? Yes sir. Before we talk
01:01about that man, I feel like people, they don't really know the history of the 69 boys a lot,
01:06you know what I mean? So, especially here. So, talk about that a little quick man. How
01:09did y'all come together and you know, how did that come about? Oh, no doubt. Yeah, so
01:13I'm from Jacksonville, Florida, but our record company moved to Orlando, Florida, where I met
01:19my man, Fast Cash. Got you. Started the group and just, you know, we've done, we've been blessed
01:24to sell 35, over 35 million records, 15 platinum plaques, 8 gold plaques. Thanks to the fans,
01:31thanks to the DJs, everybody out there that have helped to make us a success, but in the
01:36process of building those records and building a career, it's just been a lot of hands-on
01:41with a lot of people, a lot of the line dance groups in the South, a lot of the stepper
01:45crews,
01:46a lot of the people, the dancers in life, whether it's strip club dancers, booty shake
01:51dancers, just people that dance, that has formed like a coalition or congregation over
01:56the years and helped to keep us, you know, sustained as a group. You brought up dancing,
02:02okay? Now, personally, I feel like that's what's missing in hip-hop today. Right. Especially
02:06on the male side, too much, too much gangster. Okay, I think they're oversaturated. Why do you
02:11think that it went from the dancing, or how do we get back to the dancing and having a good
02:14time? Because I feel like it's missing, man. We don't got enough dancing going on.
02:18Yeah, that's good. I think the dancing that came back, gonna say everybody really tired
02:23of thugging. You feel me? Like, yeah, they overdid it. So I feel like it's time to get
02:27back to the dancing. So I'm saturated with that right now. So, like, everybody really trying
02:31to get back out here. Plus, stay in shape. Keep your body right, too, if you stay dancing.
02:35There's a lot of positives to it. There you go. A lot of positive stuff behind it.
02:37All right. So, the name, 69 Boys, where did that come from? Because this, uh, it wouldn't
02:44have worked. Of course. Yeah, yeah. We from Florida. So, you know, and we came up in the
02:49era where we was in middle school and high school. We used to always want Luke and the
02:532 Live crew to come to us. But because they had the parental sticker, we could never get
02:58to see them. So we said when we came out as a group, we wanted to have something that
03:02was mainstream, but at the same time, suggestive. You know what I'm saying? It was, it was all
03:07just to play on what was going on at the same, yeah, at the time. Nice. What is y'all
03:11relationship
03:12with Luke? Do y'all know him? Do y'all rock with him? Or what's that about? Man, Florida
03:15is, is somewhat like Michigan. Everybody, or the Midwest, everybody's a coalition. Everybody,
03:20you know, you reach out to Luke when you need him. They reach out to us when we need him.
03:23Because coming from a, a, a state where the music that we do is our focus music, but we have
03:30to transmit it to the world. So Georgia might like bass or anywhere in the Southeast region,
03:35region may like bass. Detroit is unique because, uh, this whole area, Michigan loves bass music,
03:41party music. So we're able to come here, but a state right next door, they may be into slab music
03:47or thugging. So for Florida, all of the artists congregate and, and, and work together. Loop,
03:54uh, JT Money, uh, Pitbull, DJ Khaled. That's why you see a lot of the artists together. Khaled blew
04:00up. He grabbed T-Pain. He grabbed different people. That's just right there.
04:05Bass music for people who are not familiar with that. It's a type of dance, right?
04:09Yep.
04:10I would say y'all were part of the innovators or, you know, help grow that. Okay. Describe
04:14what bass is and how did y'all help contribute to bass music?
04:17Nice. Miami bass. Well, it's, it's, it's called Miami bass initially because it started in Miami.
04:23Got you. Uh, back with MCAD and it started as a music that necessarily didn't have, uh, lyrics
04:29to it because the key in Florida was if you got a car that you put 10, 15s, 10, 12s,
04:35whatever
04:36in it, and then you put the amps in it and just make a whole lot of noise, you know?
04:40So we
04:40called it bass because you had bass in your car. But as it grew, the girls would start coming
04:46around to the car rallies, dancing to it. And then rappers start rapping to it and it became
04:51our music. And it started in Miami, but Atlanta, Dallas, uh, Charlotte, a lot of the major markets
04:59because, you know, they have a lot of parties in the big party scene. They adopted the music
05:04as well.
05:05Got you. Did you feel a ways when you started hearing it in Atlanta and the Charlottes?
05:08Like, that's not exactly Miami bass, but okay. I hear y'all.
05:12No, I'm grateful. Even like with what DaBaby doing now. Like, you can't be mad at someone
05:19for doing your style of music if they're bringing light to what you do. You just have to get
05:25out there and do it too so that it all piggybacks each other.
05:29Nice. Uh, y'all hit Tootsie Roll. How did that come about, man?
05:34Oh, man. We was like, okay. Honestly, we was in the studio. The album was done. Here,
05:40Kitty Kitty was going to be the first single. And we went to a club in Daytona Beach, which
05:44was about an hour away from where we were staying that night because Bethune-Cookman
05:48College was there. We went to the college night. They dropped the Barry White record
05:52and the club went dumb. I was like, yo, I went to the DJ after the club. I was like,
05:56hey,
05:56man, please let me get a copy of that record you played when the crowd lost it. He was like,
06:00I can't give you my record, but I put it on cassette. We took the cassette back to the
06:04studio, sampled the cassette, the beat from under it. My partner, Jay Ski, was coming in
06:09from Cracker Barrel. He had bought a Tootsie Roll bank up under his arm. He walked in the
06:14studio and was like, oh, that's jamming right there. Hey, man. He just said, he known for
06:19just saying anything crazy. And he said that and it worked. We did the song literally in
06:24about, it was less than 30 minutes that we came in, had the beat, laid it down, and
06:30took it to the radio station. And two weeks later, we was at the state fair performing
06:35the song in front of 5,000 people.
06:37Fass, what was that like for you, man, seeing 5,000 people, you know, react to your song?
06:42Hey, it was amazing.
06:44Yeah.
06:44You know what I'm saying? But for already coming off the road doing shows, big shows like that,
06:51that was coming down, doing some bass music shows now, that was like, oh, man, look at
06:57these people out here, you know what I'm saying? You get like butterflies on the inside. You
07:01got to go out here, you're in the crowd, holler. Hey, man, that's a whole different feeling,
07:05man. Yeah, really.
07:07Well, y'all performed here in Detroit for the first time. What was that energy like?
07:10Y'all remember?
07:11Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was amazing because most of the times when we got brought to regions
07:17up north, whether it was Milwaukee or Columbus or Detroit, it was in the major venues where
07:22over, you know, 10, 20,000 people. So it was live there. And then the after party at the strip
07:28club,
07:28it was live there too.
07:30Nice. Did y'all think that it was going to be the record that it is now? Because when I
07:35was
07:35younger, they were still playing on the radio like it came out two days ago. You see what I'm
07:39saying? So now it's, what, 20 years later, 30 years, and they still playing that song. We play it on
07:45our station now. And, you know, even if we go out to a party or something, they turn that on,
07:49it's going up. The party going up. You feel me? So did y'all know that after y'all recorded
07:53it,
07:54or was it like, you know, we just got a hit on our hands and we're going to ride this
07:57wave?
07:58Man, I think every artist, every record an artist make, that record is their baby.
08:04Okay. We think as artists, every record that we put down, we can hear it. We just have to pray
08:09that the world do. But no, we had no idea. I think we all prayed for it. And through faith,
08:15we was believing for something. But did we know for sure that it was going to be as big as
08:20it was?
08:21Man, even now, like whether it's the cheerleading crews that do it, because we got a call back in 2013
08:28to remake a little snippet for the national cheerleading contest for one of the cheerleading
08:33crews that wanted to put their name in it. Well, the next year, they had to fly us up to
08:37Jersey
08:38because it was 13 teams. Then the next year, 18. So every year, we, Tootsie Roll is a part of
08:43the
08:43national cheerleading contest for, for kids 13 and up. And it just keeps reinventing itself.
08:51You know, we just blessed to have it. But Fast, he been a part of major record. He came from
08:54Snap.
08:55I got the power. He was with that crew before we met. So he's been a part of lifelong records
09:01a long time.
09:02What was that like, man? Hey, fire. Well, it was like a world experience.
09:08You know what I'm saying? Coming up young, getting into the game, going around the world,
09:13doing that type of stuff. I was doing house music then, you know what I'm saying? Like CC,
09:17Music Factory, that type of stuff. Yeah, that's where I started from before bass. Then I got into that.
09:23I already knew how to do bass because I was into Luke, you know what I'm saying? Got you, got
09:27you.
09:27But I was really doing house music too at the same time.
09:30Yeah. Who's some artists y'all like listening to right now? I mean, either from Florida or just
09:34in general that y'all like? Y'all got y'all eye on? I still, I still listen to, I
09:38got, I'm kind of,
09:40I'm kind of, I like my Whitney Houston, you know what I'm saying? And I like house music still,
09:45but you know, I definitely listen to our old 1990 Quad album. I still love to play that one.
09:51Got you, got you. What about you? I like Post Malone. I like John Mayer. I like Doja Cat. I
09:58like a lot
09:59of stuff that's just, you know, just good feeling music. You can put it on Sunday and drive and you
10:04just catch the vibes. Yeah. 100%. Y'all got actually two new records I kind of messed up.
10:10So you got the record out with Cupid. Right.
10:13How did that come about? It's the, yeah. That flex. Yeah, that flex.
10:17Yeah, yeah, man. That's a blessing, man. What happened was right before COVID,
10:23we had started getting booked. Well, I can't even say right before COVID because it was about 2013,
10:27they started booking us, um, on the Southern Soul shows and down South, we call it the Chitlin
10:33Circus because it's, you might have Atlanta and then you might have Macon, but in between that you
10:38have Douglasville, you have Sylvester, the little small towns that never get nothing. So we would go
10:44through those markets and DJ Trucker, which was the major DJ, uh, one of the guys that was starting that
10:50Southern Soul in the club thing. Cause they really be on track just and having parties out in the
10:55field. So they brought it to the club scene and we was there. We met Sir Charles. Sir Charles put
11:00us
11:00on a record that record did well that COVID came and that held that record up. But when it did
11:05come
11:06out, Cupid was right behind that. He was like, Hey man, I just dropped the record. I see y'all
11:09got a
11:09record with Sir Charles. We want to, I want you to come jump on this record with me. We did
11:14the record,
11:15man, and went out and shot the video at the rodeo and that record took off too. Yeah.
11:19Nice. Fire. Fire. Uh, y'all new record out right now. Um, drop that thing. Yeah.
11:25All right. Talk to me about that one, man. Uh, y'all back out putting music, man. How does that
11:29feel
11:29to y'all first off? Man. Great. Well, and, and the funny thing is we always service our audience. So
11:34we've done a new record for the bass audience every year since 2013. Nice. But this record,
11:40it, it just grew legs on its own. Um, and, and honestly it was us. We fought after hanging out
11:47in the
11:47southern soul audience or genre, which everybody aged from my era, hang there. Most of the DJs in
11:54that genre play bass music with the trail ride stuff. So, um, hanging out there, we got to see a
12:04lot of the line dance crews come out. They dressed alike, pink cowboy hats, purple cowboy hats, yellow,
12:10the whole outfits. And we'll start being like, hold on, man, they dressing like us. They stunting.
12:15And they'll have routines for every song. So being in the genre before we put a record out,
12:21because we always say, man, we want to come in and we want to fill it out. We don't want
12:24to just
12:24jump on what the trend is and put a record out. Right. So hanging out over there for about eight
12:28years, we finally said, this is how we want to make our mark here. We want to pay homage to
12:33all the
12:34line dancers, all the stepper crews, because they are here stepping to our music still to this day.
12:39Nice. So whatever way, every city we go to, we invite a line dance crew to come out and show
12:45us
12:45how they would step to this record. Most line dance records, you tell the person, this is how you
12:51do the dance. With us, we just say, look, show us how your crew would step to this. So when
12:56we did
12:56the video shoot down in Valdosta, DJ dropped the record. All these line dance crews came to the floor
13:02and none of them was doing the same dance, but all of them was doing a lot. Man, it was
13:06amazing. It
13:06looked like the dance floor of old. It was just full of people just dancing. So this record has
13:12been just inspired by all the line dancers, all the trail ride steppers, all the big steppers,
13:18and hey, man, we just happy to be able to put it out in the system.
13:22I'm glad y'all putting out dance music, because like I said at the beginning of the interview, man,
13:25I feel like it's too much. It's oversaturated with all the thug stuff. You know what I'm saying?
13:29And so I like to hear the dance music. I like to hear getting back to having fun.
13:33So I'm glad that this record is out. I'm glad that y'all still doing that. I know y'all
13:36busy,
13:36so I'm gonna let y'all go. A couple more questions real quick. Y'all in the city this weekend,
13:40all right, tell people what y'all got going on and where they can find y'all at.
13:44Tane Bar and Grill, 69 Boys there. We there tonight. Friday the 20th is gonna be a live event. Make
13:52sure you come out in the city. If you've never seen the 69 Boys show, stretch your muscles,
13:56because we're going to be having a good time. Rock going to be in the house doing his thing.
14:00Hey, the whole city's coming out and we're going to be showing y'all. We're going to come to see
14:05how Detroit going to step to our new jam, man. Drop that thing, Worst Behavior. Oh,
14:11plus we got the main mafia family steppers from down South Carolina because they're going to be
14:16stepping, showing you how they do it. So it's just going to be like a family reunion in the club.
14:20Where can people find y'all new music, social media and all that stuff so they can keep up with
14:24the 69
14:24boys and get back to that good feel, that good dance music, man. Tell them all y'all social media
14:28platforms and everything like that. Yeah, you can get on my social media. Mine is on Instagram,
14:33it's fastcash69boy. That's on Facebook, IG, all that. Just making sure y'all come out here and see
14:42a big show with us. For sure. And if you want to keep up with 69 Boys, the shows, the
14:46dates,
14:46everything we got going on, the music, official 69 Boys on IG, 69 Boys fan page on Facebook,
14:53and official 69 Boys on Threads and TikTok. Now we still learning TikTok now because we ain't up on
15:00that, but we got to be patient with us on that. That's the place to put y'all dance music
15:04on
15:04because y'all learn, they put a routine together quick on there. They'll do that. Okay. So TikTok,
15:08we coming, but in the meantime, official 69 Boys, holla at your boys. All right, man,
15:13it's Showtime Dazar 69 Boys. Appreciate y'all fellas for coming in, man. Y'all welcome back
15:17anytime, man. Thank y'all. We out here. Peace.
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