DX: A lot of crews have disintegrated. What keeps the original L.O.X. so tight?
S: ‘Cause we was never put together by any managers. You got people that was placed together, that’s how they became a crew. My moms hang with Kiss’ moms, for real, they probably going out tonight on a Friday night, they talk to Styles’ moms. We all own a studio together and a car wash together, and we speak. I’m on the road, 'Kiss will come join the show to come help me and go up to the stations, and I do it vice versa. My kids hang with his kids, like we brothers for real. We do it like that. A lot of these dudes, they separate themselves and get egos. “Hey you wanna say 'Kiss is the front-man, go ‘head, I know what I’m doing, I know I got it poppin’ right now, I’m hot to death!” We don’t play; we grown men and we be banging out, still hot to death.

DX: You mentioned that you’re planning on putting new D-Block artists out such as Buck and Bully. How does your experience with J-Hood affect how you look at doing that?
S: That’s a good question, because I’m not so gung ho to work with everybody right now. [Laughs] Like “Y’all little motherfuckers aren’t going to get out there and shit on me all crazy!” ‘Cause I know I’m way bigger than him, and way more grown, so it’s not affecting me to the point where I can’t sleep. But it definitely is like, “Damn, this little dude?” You get to trust somebody and let them into your camp, and for them to act raggedy with their style and their whole swagger is corny. So I’m taking my time with people, but not taking my time putting them out anymore. With Hood, it was more like I had him as my little brother, “Nah, we can’t do this right now.” Any other label won’t do that, they don’t give a fuck, they like “Go ahead, put that project out.” They need to meet a quota, they need to meet a date. That’s what them niggas don’t know. Us? We were like “Nah, let’s keep working, man," ‘cause we tried this record, it was hot to death to us, but these deejays didn’t like it at all. He was just real tight.

DX: Even Styles had trouble getting his project out at one point, so it seems crazy that J-Hood would be tight.
S: You know what anybody can do that I recommend? You an artist… He could’ve said “Yo, on the real dog, I wanna go and do my own thing.” But when somebody asked him a question about it, he could’ve said “Those are my niggas, but I’m doing me right now. But definitely, those are my boys.” In that way, he’s doing what he gotta do, and we still got support for what he’s doing. People think when you leave a company you gotta have beef. You don’t have to have beef just cause you leaving somewhere. But I think he took the approach like what we had with Diddy, “Let The L.O.X. go,” “Let the Hood go.” Yo Hood, when we were saying “Let The L.O.X. go,” we couldn’t get away from Diddy, they would not let us off the project. We would gladly sign your papers, you just jumped out the window trying to follow a way that we did back then.

DX: And the L.O.X. and Diddy are still cool now…
S: Extra cool, and Diddy even gave us back our publishing. And I would never, ever fuck with 'Hood again in my life. I would never do business with him, I would never get back with him. I think he’s a talented dude, I think if he get his head together he could still go on to do big things with his life and God Bless him, but he’s a faggot as far as the way he’s going about shit. He’s talking “Yo those niggas over there know my guns go off.” I’m like, “When? What guns going off, where? Why ain’t the guns going off at us?” Trust me, it’s weird to us too.

DX: We recently passed 11th anniversary of Notorious B.I.G., and you big him up a lot in your music. What was it like recording “Last Days” with him?
S: “Last Days” was amazing. I remember the time when B.I.G. was like, “Yo, I got this track I want y’all on.” Right away, I don’t care what the song sound like, “Word? You want us on your album?” You gotta realize we just got over there, he brought us to the station with him to do freestyles in New York, we did a song “You’ll See,” and that went out everywhere, automatically. It was crazy that we made B.I.G.’s album. [Sings hook] “Can I Live to my Last Day,” that joint was crazy, B.I.G. was dope. I just wish we had time to get on stage more with him, you nahmean?