DX: Khrysis, your beats are pretty ill this time around too...is this before or after you switched your equipment?
K: Mostly after. There’s only two joints that’s done totally on [Fruity Loops]. Some were with both, and most were done totally MPC.

DX: What's the new shit you're working with?
K: I’m still working on same equipment from last year. I flip flop back and forth with equipment to this day.

DX: How difficult was it for both of you to get accustomed to the new shit? How difficult was it for you to make beats, and Boog, how much did his beats change for you to rap over?
K: For me it was all mechanical. Once I learned my way around the machine it was a breeze. Like I said, we knocked 10 jams out in a month. We were in a zone like never before, and most of the songs were done on the spot.
SB: There wasn’t really a change. A dope beat to me is a dope beat. I gives a fuck what you use, what you sample, or whether or not you sample. It was the same shit: just me and Khrysis making music.
K: He'd come over and we'd bs for about an hour or so and then next thing you know I’m makin' a beat and Boog is writing at the same time.
SB: I get off work, go to his crib. He’d be halfway done making a beat, I write, he finishes the beat and we record.
K: [Laughs] We were like machines on a mission. That’s why I feel like this is the greatest album ever! In Hip Hop! But for real, our chemistry was at an all time high.

DX: But what do you think contributed to that renewed chemistry?
SS: Real shit though, we were in a zone on this joint. It was never lost; it just improved. It was just like everything was working on all cylinders.
K: We see eye to eye on so much shit it’s ridiculous. Boog is my brother for real.
SB: Shit has and always will be deeper than music! And that’s going to keep us getting more and more successful.

DX: This album also has a lot more guest spots on it. Was that a conscious decision to include more cameos?
SB: Nah, all the guests we have a personal relationship with. If not one of us, both of us. We just got cats we fucked with on songs.

DX: What about the one with Black Milk? That seemed out of nowhere.
K: It was just something we wanted to do; gotta go outside the box.
SB: There’s a mutual respect there.
K: I met him and [Black Milk’s manager] Hex at a Beat Society in D.C. we was in together. We all kicked it after the show, and shit was pure comedy.

DX: I can see that, y'all seem to have similar personalities.
K: We respect each other’s music as well. Plus I feel like he’s a dope emcee and would fit well with what me and Boog is doing.

DX: Right...it was just really weird, to hear Black on someone else's beat.
SB: That’s the thing, people sleep on him as a rapper. They try to put people in boxes, like “His beats are crazy but his raps are aight.”
K: Fuck “aight,” them shits is dope. Plus we all on the same mission: bringing music back to the music. Hip Hop is like a soap opera right now, and quite frankly, niggas is tired of it. So rather than complain about its better to be part of the solution. There's a lot of worldy issues that can be talked about, but we're not that type of artists. Even though the world seems to be going to hell in gasoline drawers, the band will pay on. We got other emcees for that, and they do it well. Somebody has to bring the variety back. If we all made the same kind of beats and rapped the same kind of raps, then shit would be boring, from the underground to the mainstream. And I see it on both ends starting to happen: if you’re underground you gotta sound one way, and if you’re mainstream you gotta sound another way. That turns everybody into robots, and that ain’t Hip Hop.
SB: True story. That’s why we don’t overthink our music; we hit the "stu and do us!" As cliche as it sounds that's what the fuck we do.