Thursday, April 3, 2008

The Knux Interviewed on Hip Hop DX


Nope, not that one...

These fellas...

The highlight for me was Kintrell and Alvin speaking on the Shop Boyz. Funny stuff:

DX: What else do you draw from?
KK:
We’re influenced by everything, man. We grew up playing Jazz music, but we try to take stuff from the best of every music. We went all the way into it. It’s not how you hear other niggas saying, “Yeah, I’m into that Rock shit.” That shit fucks me up when I hear a Hip Hop dude saying that shit. They’ll have a little wallet chain on their waist and I’ll be like, “Wow.

Remember the dudes [Shop Boyz] who came out with that song “Party Like A Rock Star?” What the fuck are you talking about, Twisted Sister, nigga? This was 2007. That’s an outdated notion of what a Rock star is, and you could tell they couldn’t connect the two genres.
RA: [Laughs] We listen to everything, bruh. You don’t want to even look in our CD players. Everything from B.G. to The Rolling Stones.

Read the rest here. It's a very thorough and well-written interview and gives you a better idea of where these cats are coming from.