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00:021 on 5, 1 on the bounce. Detroit Stove 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
00:12fast, but y'all know him as 69, boys. What up, though?
00:15Cotton candy, sweetie gold. What's up? Let's tootsie roll.
00:18Y'all here, man. That's right.
00:20Full Star fellas, welcome to the show. How y'all doing?
00:23Hey, man. We're blessed. Another day above ground, having a good time.
00:27Hey, man. I like that.
00:27How you feeling?
00:28Black, blessed, and flat, brother.
00:30I don't know. That's what I'm talking about.
00:32So, I like to ask all the out-of-the-towners, man. When the last time y'all been to
00:35the city?
00:36Man, it's been years, bro. It's been years.
00:38What's up with that, man? Why it's been years, bro? Y'all came at the right time, too. It was
00:42warming up. Ain't no snow. You feel me? So, it's just the right time for y'all to be here.
00:46The last time we was coming, man, COVID hit, and then just time fell in between. But,
00:51hey, man, we back in the city now.
00:52That's what's up, man.
00:53When we turn up.
00:54Yeah, yeah. Y'all got a new record out. So, before we jump to it, drop that thing.
00:59Right? That's what it's called.
01:01Yes, sir.
01:01Before we talk about that, man, I feel like people, they don't really know the history
01:04of the 69 boys a lot. You know what I mean? So, especially here. So, talk about that a
01:08little quick, man. How did y'all come together? And, you know, how did that come about?
01:12Oh, no doubt. Yeah. So, I'm from Jacksonville, Florida, but our record company moved to Orlando,
01:18Florida, where I met my man, Fast Cash.
01:20Got you.
01:21Started the group and just, you know, we've done, we've been blessed to sell 35, over
01:2535 million records. 15 platinum plaques, eight gold plaques. Thanks to the fans. Thanks
01:31to the DJs. Everybody out there that have helped to make us a success. But, in the process
01:36of building those records and building a career, it's just been a lot of hands-on with a lot
01:41of people, a lot of the line dance groups in the South, a lot of the stepper crews, a lot
01:46of the people, the dancers in life, whether it's strip club dancers, booty shake dancers,
01:52just people that dance, that has formed like a coalition or congregation over the years
01:56and helped to keep us, you know, sustained as a group.
02:00You brought up dancing. Okay. Now, personally, I feel like that's what's missing in hip hop
02:05today. Right. Especially on the male side. Too much, too much gangster. Okay. I think
02:09they're oversaturated. Why do you think that it went from the dancing? How do we get back
02:13to the dancing and having a good time? Because I feel like it's missing, man. We don't got
02:16enough dancing going on. I think the dancing that came back, I'm going to say everybody
02:22really tired of thugging. You feel me? Like, yeah, they overdid it. So, I feel like it's
02:27time to get back to the dancing. So, I'm saturated with that right now. So, like,
02:30everybody really trying to get back out here. Plus, stay in shape. Keep the body
02:34right, too, if you stay dancing. There's a lot of positives to it. There you go. A lot
02:36of positive stuff behind it. All right. So, the name, 69 Boys, where did that come
02:42from? Because it wouldn't have worked. Of course. Yeah, yeah. We from Florida. So, you
02:48know, and we came up in the era where we was in middle school and high school. We
02:51used to always want Luke and the 2 Live crew to come to us. But because they had the
02:56parental sticker, we could never get to see them. So, we said when we
02:59came out as a group, we wanted to have something that was mainstream but at the
03:04same time suggestive. You know what I'm saying? It was all just a play on what was going on at
03:09the
03:10time. Nice. What is your relationship with Luke? Do y'all know him? Do y'all rock with him?
03:14Or what's that about? Man, Florida is somewhat like Michigan. Everybody, or the
03:17Midwest. Everybody's a coalition. Everybody, you know, you reach out to Luke when you
03:21need him. They reach out to us when we need him. Because coming from a state where the music
03:27that we do is our focus music, but we have to transmit it to the world. So, Georgia
03:32might like bass or anywhere in the Southeast region may like bass. Detroit is unique because
03:38this whole area, Michigan, loves bass music, party music. So, we're able to come here, but
03:44a state right next door, they may be into slab music or thugging. So, for Florida, all of the
03:50artists congregate and work together. Loop, JT Money, Pitbull, DJ Khaled. That's why you
03:59see a lot of the artists together. Khaled blew up. He grabbed T-Pain. He grabbed different
04:03people that's just right there.
04:04Yeah. Bass 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 called Miami bass initially because it started in Miami.
04:23Got you.
04:23Back with MCADE. And it started as a music that necessarily didn't have lyrics to it. Because
04:30the key in Florida was, if you got a car, you put 10-15s, 10-12s, whatever in it, and
04:37then you put the amps in it and just make a whole lot of noise, you know? So, we called
04:41it 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
04:51became our music. And it started in Miami, but Atlanta, Dallas, Charlotte, a lot of the
04:58major markets, because, you know, they have a lot of parties in the big party scene, they
05:03adopted the music as well.
05:05Got you. Did you feel a ways when you started hearing it in Atlanta and the Charlotte's
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, you can't be mad at someone for
05:20doing your style of music if they're bringing light to what you do.
05:24Nice. You just have to get out there and do it too, so that it all piggybacks each
05:29other. Nice. 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 Kitty
05:40Kitty was going to be the first single. And we went to a club in Daytona Beach, which was
05:44about an hour away from where we were staying that night because Bethune-Cookman College was
05:49there. We went to the college night. They dropped the Barry White record and the club went
05:53like, dumb. I was like, yo. I went to the DJ after the club. I was like, hey, man, please
05:57let me get a copy of that record you played when the crowd lost it. He was like, I can't
06:01give you my record, but I'll put it on cassette. We took the cassette back to the studio, sampled
06:05the cassette, the beat from under it. My partner, J. Ski, was coming in from Cracker Barrel. He
06:11had bought a Tootsie Roll bank up under his arm. He walked in the studio. Oh, that's jamming
06:16right there. Hey, man. And he just said, he known for just saying anything crazy. And he said
06:21that. And it worked. We did the song literally in about, it was less than 30 minutes that
06:26we came in, had the beat, laid it down, and took it to the radio station. And two weeks
06:32later, we was at the state fair performing the song in front of 5,000 people.
06:37Fass, what was that like for you, man, seeing 5,000 people react to your song?
06:42Yeah. Hey, it was amazing. You know what I'm saying? But for already coming off the road
06:48doing shows, big shows like that, that was coming down, doing some bass music shows now,
06:55that was like, oh, man, look at these people out here. You know what I'm saying? You get
06:59like butterflies on the inside. You got to go out here. You're in the crowd, holler. Hey,
07:04man, that's a whole different feeling, man. Yeah, really. Well, y'all performed here in Detroit
07:08for the first time. What was that energy like? Y'all remember? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It was
07:13amazing because most of the times when we got brought to regions up north, whether it was
07:18Milwaukee or Columbus or Detroit, it was in the major venues where over, you know, 10, 20,000
07:24people. So it was live there. And then the after party at the strip club, it was live there
07:29too. Nice. Did y'all think that it was going to be the record that it is now? Because when
07:35I was
07:35younger, they were still playing on the radio like it came out two days ago. You see what I'm
07:40saying? So now it's, what, 20 years later, 30 years later, and they still playing that song. We
07:44play it on our station now. And, you know, even if we go out to a party or something, they
07:49turn that
07:49on, it's going up. The party going up. You feel me? So did y'all know that after y'all
07:53recorded it,
07:54or was it like, you know, we just got a hit on our hands and we're going to ride this
07:57wave?
07:57Man, 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
08:09pray that the world do. But no, we had no idea. I think we all prayed for it. And through
08:14faith,
08:15we was believing for something. But did we know for sure that it was going to be as big as
08:20it was?
08:20Man, even now, like, whether it's the cheerleading crews that do it, because we got a call back in
08:272013 to 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 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 a major record. He came
08:54from
08:55Snap. I got the power. He was with that crew before we met. So he's been a part of lifelong
09:01records a long time.
09:02What was that like, man? Hey, fire. Well, it was like a world experience, you know what I'm saying?
09:09Coming up young, getting into the game, going around the world, doing that type of stuff.
09:14I was doing house music then, you know what I'm saying, like CC Music Factory, that type of stuff.
09:19Yeah, that's where I started from before bass. Man, I got into that. I already knew how to do bass
09:24because I was into Luke, you know what I'm saying?
09:26Got you, got you. But I was really doing house music too, at the same time.
09:31Who's some artists y'all like listening to right now? I mean, either from Florida or just in general that
09:34y'all like? Y'all got y'all eye on?
09:37I still, I still listen to, I got, I'm kind of, I'm kind of, I like my Whitney Houston, you
09:42know what I'm saying?
09:43I like house music still, but you know, I definitely listen to our old 1990 Quad album. I still love
09:50to play that one.
09:51Got you, got you. What about you? For me, I like Post Malone. I like John Merritt.
09:56I like Doja Cat. I like a lot of stuff that's just, you know, just good feeling music. You can
10:02put it on Sunday and drive and you just...
10:05Catch the vibes. Yeah. 100%. Y'all got actually two new records I kind of messed up. So you got
10:10the record out with Cupid.
10:12Right. How did that come about? It's the... That flex. Yeah, that flex.
10:17Yeah, yeah, man. That's a blessing, man. What happened was right before COVID, we had started getting booked.
10:24Well, I can't even say right before COVID because it was about 2013, they started booking us on the Southern
10:30Soul shows.
10:31And down south, we call it the Chitlin Circuits because it's, you might have Atlanta and then you might have
10:37Macon.
10:37But in between that, you have Douglasville, you have Sylvester, the little small towns that never get nothing.
10:43So we would go through those markets and DJ Trucker, which was the major DJ, one of the guys that
10:50was starting that Southern Soul in the club thing because they really beat on track just and having parties out
10:55in the field.
10:55So they brought it to the club scene and we was there. We met Sir Charles. Sir Charles put us
11:00on the record.
11:01That record did... Well, that COVID came and that held that record up. But when it did come out, Cupid
11:06was right behind that.
11:07He was like, hey man, I just dropped the record. I see y'all got a record with Sir Charles.
11:11I want you to come jump on this record with me. We did the record.
11:15And went out and shot the video at the rodeo and that record took off too.
11:19Nice. Fire. Fire. Y'all new record out right now. Drop That Thing.
11:24Yeah.
11:25Alright. Talk to me about that one, man. Y'all back out putting music, man. How does that feel to
11:29y'all first off?
11:30Man, great. And the funny thing is, we always service our audience. So we've done a new record for the
11:36bass audience every year since 2013.
11:39Nice.
11:39But this record, it just grew legs on its own. And honestly, it was us. After hanging out in the
11:47Southern Soul audience or genre, which everybody aged from our era hanged there.
11:53Most of the DJs in that genre played bass music with the trail ride stuff.
11:58Mm-hmm. So hanging out there, we got to see a lot of the line dance crews come out. They
12:06dressed alike. Pink cowboy hats. Purple cowboy hats. Yellow. The whole outfits.
12:11And we would start being like, hold on, man. They dressing like us. They stunting. And they'll have routines for
12:17every song.
12:18So being in the genre before we put a record out, because we always say, man, we want to come
12:22in and we want to feel it out. We don't want to just jump on what the trend is and
12:26put a record out.
12:26Right. So hanging out over there for about eight years, we finally said, this is how we want to make
12:31our mark here.
12:32We want to pay homage to all the line dancers, all the stepper crews, because they out here stepping to
12:37our music still to this day.
12:39Nice.
12:39So that way, every city we go to, we invite a line dance crew to come out and show us
12:45how they would step to this record.
12:48Most line dance records, you tell the person, this is how you do the dance. With us, we say, look,
12:53show us how your crew would step to this.
12:56So when we did the video shoot down in Valdosta, DJ dropped the record. All these line dance crews came
13:02to the floor and none of them was doing the same dance, but all of them was doing a lot.
13:05Man, it was amazing. It looked like the dance floor of old. It was just full of people.
13:10Fire.
13:11Just dancing. So this record has been just inspired by all the line dancers, all the trail ride steppers, all
13:17the 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, I
13:25feel like it's too much.
13:26It's oversaturated with all the thug stuff. You know what I'm saying?
13:29So 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.
13:35I know y'all busy, so I'm going to let y'all go. A couple more questions real quick.
13:39Y'all in the city this weekend, all right, tell people what y'all got going on and, you know,
13:43where they can find y'all at.
13:44Tame Bar & Grill, 6ix9ine Boys there. We're there tonight.
13:49Friday the 20th is going to be a live event. Make sure you come out in the city.
13:53If you've never seen the 6ix9ine Boys show, stretch your muscles, because we're going to be having a good time.
13:58Rock 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.
14:04We're going to come to see how Detroit going to step to our new jam, man.
14:09Drop that thing, worst behavior.
14:10Oh, plus we got the main mafia family steppers from down South Carolina,
14:15because they're going to be stepping, showing you how they do it.
14:17So 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,
14:23so they can keep up with the 6ix9ine Boys and get back to that good feel,
14:26that good dance music, man.
14:27Tell them all y'all social media platforms and everything like that.
14:29Yeah, you can get on my social media.
14:32And mine is on Instagram, it's fastcash69boy.
14:36That's on Facebook, IG, all that.
14:40Just making sure y'all come out here and see a big show with us.
14:43For sure.
14:43And if you want to keep up with 6ix9ine Boys, the shows, the dates,
14:47everything we got going on, the music.
14:48Official 6ix9ine Boys on IG, 6ix9ine Boys fan page on Facebook,
14:53and official 6ix9ine Boys on Threads and TikTok.
14:57Now, we still learning TikTok now, because we ain't up on that,
15:00but we got to be patient with us on that.
15:02That's the place to put y'all dance music on, because y'all learn,
15:04they put a routine together quick on there.
15:07Yeah, do that.
15:07All right, okay.
15:08So TikTok, we coming.
15:09But in the meantime, official 6ix9ine Boys, holla at ya boys.
15:13All right, man.
15:13It's Showtime, Nizar, 6ix9ine Boys.
15:15Appreciate y'all fellas for coming in, man.
15:17Y'all welcome back.
15:18Thank you so much, yo.
15:18Anytime, man.
15:18Thank y'all.
15:19We out here.
15:19Peace.
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