Showbiz & A.G.

I think one of them, I think Black Sheep may have been on there one time, and they tore that down, if I recall.

Showbiz and AG had a couple of times where they were on there as well.

Um, I wanna say, um, from what Bob Powers said, uh, after Busta laid his vocals down for Scenario, they all went-

What did he say?

Um, and, you know, these are ...

Like I said, Muhammad, Jazzy Jay, Baby Chris, Red Alert, um, Bio, all these brothers was around, you know, A Tribe Called Quest.

'Cause remember, Bio was manag- managing Showbiz and AG.

And, um, you know, the Shaka Zulus was around these brothers, like, real heavy, you know? And, uh, all the elder Zulus have a great admiration for A Tribe.

I just went for it, you know.

I was One week I'd be in the Bronx with AG from Showbiz and AG, and then, you know, I'd be in Australia with a fruit bat on the end of a fishing rod because I'd been flying over there to promote Northern Sophistic Soul and, you know, FedEx.

It was all, you know, this is sort of pre-mobile phones and the internet wasn't used that much.

It was fax machines saying, "I would like a rapper to come over here and I'll pay him £800," and then you'd send the fax [laughs] and you'd get a fax back, you know.

He'd open the back of his white van, and then inside of the white van, which would've been normally like a trader's van, there'd be rows and rows of import records that had just arrived from the airport, and you'd have to un- you know, do them on your, on your jeans until there was holes in your jeans to get them out and to listen to them.

And you'd have to buy on site.

Go, "Yeah, I've got this new, um, you know, Showbiz and AG 12 inch.

How many do you want?" "Oh, I'll have six." Bang.

...

I heard a lot of, from you, Southern groups.

Because Southern groups, why, why wouldn't you?

No, no, I'm saying it's interesting because the earlier groups, like if we don't do Run DMC, if you don't, because, because they, the, it's two rappers and a DJ, right, or else it's a rapper and a producer who's not rhyming.

That era was over by the time the South blew up.

By the time the South blew up, it was two rappers.

four.[laughs] Kid 'n Play.

[laughs] Kid 'n Play was fine.