HHDX: After you guys went shopping, you tried to impress the crowd with your rhyming skills. The motto usually goes, “There’s a time and place for everything.” Where you trying to impress the onlookers with your skills?

JB: It was totally me. Here’s the thing: We have these cameras following us. It was a rule that we weren’t allowed to say that we were doing the (White) Rapper Show. I figured that I’d show them [the crowd] what I was doing. There was a line in there… where someone said that I sucked. [Laughs] But the verse that I spat turn into a song on MySpace and people love it. I’m not going to care if people are too scared to clap for me. It doesn’t matter to me. I’m going to continue to show people that what I’m doing is worth checking out.

HHDX: So, y’all lost the modeling challenge, Sullee is getting pissed and you guys have to come up with a song and an accompanying video. But both the song and the treatment were heavy clichés in hip-hop. So, what kind of message do you think that you were relaying to other fans (both young and old) of the culture?

JB: I feel that the (White) Rapper Show is a heavy cliché in hip-hop. I don’t know how I can just win a challenge where the song was broken in the strip club and was rewarded by girls giving me lap dances. To where I do a video and it’s called typical or cliché. Through it all, it’s the same guy giving us the reward saying that it’s not a positive look. Weren’t we just in the strip club? It’s just one of those things that no one really looks at, but the whole show is a cliché. The show is making fun of a stereotype. Come on now, let’s be honest… if we did the same video with a better budget, then it would be more accepted. But because it looked low budget, it was trashed. This is how I feel about it, history is bound to repeat itself. When we met Kurtis Blow, he told us about hip-hop history. He was talking about how the people were tired of the Disco era that influenced hip-hop. They wanted something different. Right now, hip-hop is in the state of that same disco era music. People are talking about how much money and flash they got. I think it’ll evolve into something different, but right now, the culture is big corporate business. It’s just one of those things where it’s a catch-22. Big Business is not going to lose money. So, in the end, it’s not about the message I’m sending in the video, because all I’m really going to say is to follow your dreams, God and you’ll be able to be a success. Continued on page 3 »