Monday, December 04, 2006
posted by Chi-Chi at 12/04/2006 | Permalink
Ying Yang Twins chats with AOL Black Voices about their love for strippers
The Ying Yang Twins recently sat down with AOL Black Voices. I'm laughing at what they had to say about falling in love with a stripper. Good times, indeed!
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"D-Roc (D'Angelo Holmes) and Kaine (Eric Jackson), also known as the Ying Yang Twins, may have first popped into your consciousness with the nasty-but-infectious club anthem of '03, 'Get Low,' with a then-unknown rapper/producer named Lil Jon.
Sopping in the hot energy of sex-talk, and bouncing on booty-heavy basslines, the Ying Yang Twins followed up two years later with the smash single 'Wait (The Whisper Song)' and are now back with their seventh album, 'Chemically Imbalanced' (Nov. 28).
Riding high off the first single, 'Dangerous,' with Wyclef Jean, and a 'Sin City' inspired video, Ying Yang is undoubtedly hoping for as much gold and platinum as the grills they rock on their fronts.
The Twins stopped by the Black Voices offices to chop it up with us and talk about "scrippers," the ego of East Coast hip-hop, and how being on an indie is the way to go.
Have you ever been in love with a stripper? Uh uh. Can't be in love with a stripper. I'm trying to talk to her, and she'll give me the runaround. And somebody comes to talk to her at her job and she's everything for $5 or $10 dollars. That's her job description, though. You can't hold it against her. As long as they're tippin', she's taking off. That just don't work.
How'd you come to sign with an independent label? What are some of the advantages and disadvantages? The advantages are with what we do, we've created our own lane. Whereas before D-Roc or Kaine hit the scene, rappers weren't pushing the issue of making female songs period. We've been rocking for like 10 years, so what we do is a definite gotta-be-around part of hip-hop. You can stay on top of your green with those indies. And it's a war to do that with majors. They got so much bread; it's all structured for you to come out in debt. So you always owe them. We pretty much do what we want to do, say what we want to say, because we know how to say it. Messing with an indie, it's a shorter room of people to get your point across to.
How long do you think the South's dominance of hip-hop is going to last? Forever.
We got Jay-Z coming out, we've got Nas coming out... That's what's wrong with y'all. The East Coast is where it started. Then it migrated to the West. It just migrated to the South. The hatred level is up. But y'all making it seem like [New York rap] is out the picture period. Look how long we got [expletive] on. And just sat there and waited. When we get on, y'all start hating. When we wasn't on, we wasn't hating, we looked up to y'all. Sometimes, I think the East Coast should be called the "Ego Coast."
The only difference is why people don't like East Coast rappers and West Coast rappers like they dig us is because y'all act like when you get money, another [MF] ain't nobody. And you are not the consumer of your CDs, man.
What about the risque lyrics to your songs? I have a 10-year-old daughter.... Now, hold up, we've got a Wal-Mart version for the kids. It's got a parental advisory on there. Some of these parents forget that. Now I'm not the guardian of your child, so I can't tell you which version to buy. But you can. My whole thing of it is, if you're going to try to stop us, you might as well close all [strip clubs] down in the world period.
So was this your strategy -- to do songs for women because the men will come? Right. Mr. ColliPark said he was selling sex, and the Ying Yang Twins had to comply with the boss man. We rap for the normal person. A normal person could say, "I did that too." 'The Whisper Song' -- you know why it's popular? Any man can do that to a female. It could have been any man whispering, not just Kaine and D-Roc.
One thing about all these artists these days, a normal person can't really see themselves doing what the artist is talking about, they can only dream for it. See, I ride down the street in a 1990 Chevy Caprice. It ain't hard for a black kid to get. I can't turn in the block in no Lamborghini. That ain't cool. So it ain't like we lying. This is strip club tales, the freaky tales. Real talk."
Sopping in the hot energy of sex-talk, and bouncing on booty-heavy basslines, the Ying Yang Twins followed up two years later with the smash single 'Wait (The Whisper Song)' and are now back with their seventh album, 'Chemically Imbalanced' (Nov. 28).
Riding high off the first single, 'Dangerous,' with Wyclef Jean, and a 'Sin City' inspired video, Ying Yang is undoubtedly hoping for as much gold and platinum as the grills they rock on their fronts.
The Twins stopped by the Black Voices offices to chop it up with us and talk about "scrippers," the ego of East Coast hip-hop, and how being on an indie is the way to go.
Have you ever been in love with a stripper? Uh uh. Can't be in love with a stripper. I'm trying to talk to her, and she'll give me the runaround. And somebody comes to talk to her at her job and she's everything for $5 or $10 dollars. That's her job description, though. You can't hold it against her. As long as they're tippin', she's taking off. That just don't work.
How'd you come to sign with an independent label? What are some of the advantages and disadvantages? The advantages are with what we do, we've created our own lane. Whereas before D-Roc or Kaine hit the scene, rappers weren't pushing the issue of making female songs period. We've been rocking for like 10 years, so what we do is a definite gotta-be-around part of hip-hop. You can stay on top of your green with those indies. And it's a war to do that with majors. They got so much bread; it's all structured for you to come out in debt. So you always owe them. We pretty much do what we want to do, say what we want to say, because we know how to say it. Messing with an indie, it's a shorter room of people to get your point across to.
How long do you think the South's dominance of hip-hop is going to last? Forever.
We got Jay-Z coming out, we've got Nas coming out... That's what's wrong with y'all. The East Coast is where it started. Then it migrated to the West. It just migrated to the South. The hatred level is up. But y'all making it seem like [New York rap] is out the picture period. Look how long we got [expletive] on. And just sat there and waited. When we get on, y'all start hating. When we wasn't on, we wasn't hating, we looked up to y'all. Sometimes, I think the East Coast should be called the "Ego Coast."
The only difference is why people don't like East Coast rappers and West Coast rappers like they dig us is because y'all act like when you get money, another [MF] ain't nobody. And you are not the consumer of your CDs, man.
What about the risque lyrics to your songs? I have a 10-year-old daughter.... Now, hold up, we've got a Wal-Mart version for the kids. It's got a parental advisory on there. Some of these parents forget that. Now I'm not the guardian of your child, so I can't tell you which version to buy. But you can. My whole thing of it is, if you're going to try to stop us, you might as well close all [strip clubs] down in the world period.
So was this your strategy -- to do songs for women because the men will come? Right. Mr. ColliPark said he was selling sex, and the Ying Yang Twins had to comply with the boss man. We rap for the normal person. A normal person could say, "I did that too." 'The Whisper Song' -- you know why it's popular? Any man can do that to a female. It could have been any man whispering, not just Kaine and D-Roc.
One thing about all these artists these days, a normal person can't really see themselves doing what the artist is talking about, they can only dream for it. See, I ride down the street in a 1990 Chevy Caprice. It ain't hard for a black kid to get. I can't turn in the block in no Lamborghini. That ain't cool. So it ain't like we lying. This is strip club tales, the freaky tales. Real talk."
AMEN!