J-MOB
Forget What You've Heard
This Is What You Need To Hear
By Kevin Hammond (Kato)
 
 

MESSAGE ABOUT THE RUMORS:
Bottom line, it was a business move.  Something that all adults go through as far as more measures in your life in making a difference.  Growing up. Everybody wants what they want, so it came to a point where everybody was feeling, “I can do this.  I can do that.”  And that’s how musicians deal.  You’re gonna have to deal with things where one minute you’ve got plenty of money to pay the bills and sometimes you’ve got no money.  There was no beef or nothing like that.  It was just something that was ripe to be done.  So, don’t expect for the man to stop the music that breed in him just because somebody decides to move on to another project.

How can we beef with our brothers.  You are looking at a long term relationship.  We have spent long term private times with the brothers from JY Band.  We set down and cried together, ate together and prayed together.  We did it all.   So, we aren’t going to let business come between love and family.  Outside of the stage, you are my brother.  That goes for all of them.  We play the same music.

But, you’ve got to expect the rumors, because for one, you’ve got two of the same band in here.  In general, we aren’t playing the same show, but we are playing the same material.  You’ve got the same group that split apart, and in less than a month became two different bands.  So, everybody’s thinking, “Damn, they must be beefing” or “Such in such don’t like such in such.”  We’re always JYB.  When I say that, I’m saying that whenever you see us you see them.  Whenever you see them, you see us.  We’re both representing each other.

Bottom line, a personal relationship shouldn’t have anything to do with business.  Business is business, and that’s how it’s carried.  If you can’t respect that, then stay out of the business world and get into the crazy world.  Of course, we’re going to be playing the same material right now.  We are all from the same band.  Basically, what we are waiting for is for the music to speak for itself.  And, may the best man win.  It’s a challenge and we can’t run from that.  They are playing this music and we are playing the same thing.  One day it’s going to hit head to head.  Then you’re going to have the crowd saying, “I think Buggs and Black Poo should be playing this song” or “They should stop and let T-Bob, Wink and them play that particular song.”  We ain’t creeping, so, may the best man win.   That’s all the fun of the business.
 

MESSAGE TO THE INDUSTRY:
I don’t care what anyone says, none of us better than the other.  We need to stick together and make it all work.  Everybody wants to be better than this band.  You want to challenge that band.  Instead, let’s challenge the man with the power.  Grab his attention and tell him, “Look, we’ve got something that’s worth what Luther Vandross is giving you.  We’ve got something that’s worth what Whitney Houston is giving you.”  We got so much to offer him.  But until we stick together, we aren’t going to have anything.  That’s why we name ourselves J-Mob.  That’s our motto.  We’re mob’n like that.  In order to be in a mob, you present yourself and say this is what I want to do.   You’re in it.  Ain’t no getting out.  We aren’t going anywhere until we get too old to do this.  We’re going to take the faith and make it work.  It’s about getting out here and having them want to catch up with us, instead of us trying to catch up with them.

See, the solution is not whether this band is going to get along with that band.  That’s where we often get disillusioned.  What we all need to be focusing on is sticking together, marketing our music, and getting out of this rut of allowing it to be handled in a way of just being put into the studios by someone who pays a little money on some DAT time and throwing out a CD.  What we all need to wake up to is realizing that manner is not bringing any money in to us.   Stop being satisfied with just our faces on CDs in the stores and being noticed.  Therefore, we need to be saying, “We’re going to stick together and polish things up.  Everybody put their brains together and identify what we need to do.”  Then we can go.  Nobody’s going to take this project until it’s all together.  Nobody wants to just take Junkyard and then got to hear them talk bad about Backyard, and Backyard is playing go-go.  You don’t hear Redman talking trash about Method Man.  If they do, then they’re executing their promotion exercises.  That’s a money maker.
 

MESSAGE ABOUT J-MOB:
J-Mob have got some dynamite players for you.  We’ve got some guys that just simply ain’t having it.  In other words, bring the noise.  We’re saying it just like we were telling them when we were with Junkyard, “Bring it to the stage.”  We aren’t going to argue with you.  We aren’t going to beef with you.  We aren’t fussing.  We will see you when you bring it to that stage and bring that noise.  That’s what we like.  We love it when the champs are in trouble.  We’re never the champs in trouble.  See, the President is scared of Buggs, and the Mayor is scared of Black Poo – so, who runs the country?  It doesn’t take any money.  It takes time and effort.  We have seen bands come from nothing, and Junkyard is one of them.  Junkyard said, “We don’t have any instruments, Dog, but we’re going to make some noise.”  So, don’t tell us, just because a man has a million dollars, he’s got a fortune.  We have a fortune out there waiting for us, but we’ve just got to obtain it.  When J-Mob rises --  when the Taj Mahal rises --  when our PA Man finishes the construction of these booming systems, that’s how we’re going to come at you.
It was everybody’s choice to come up with another name.  We’ve got two band out here and both of them can’t be named Junkyard.  It’s one thing when you’re battling on stage, but it’s another thing when you’re battling stupidity.
Junkyard is one chapter of all of our lives, but the times have come and we have moved on.  You’re always going to have to make moves to climb higher.  We think it’s a step better, although some people don’t.  That’s because they are so use to familiar faces.  But, some of the biggest artist have even switched up, Prince and the Revelution, the New Power Generation, the Artist.  As long as you’ve got Roger Nelson up there, you’ve to Prince.  Just the same, as long as you’ve got Buggs, you’ve got Junk.  We’re never scared, until we’re dead.  Just bring the noise.

We’re waiting to be with our brothers to show them that we both can do this.  We want to hear the people in the public say that we both are what’s happening.
 

MESSAGE FROM BLACK POO:
There is a reason why I stuck with Buggs.  I’ve watched him give so many guys opportunities.  He taught a lot of people.  Never underestimate him. He’s kind of like a Jas. Funk.  He grew up under Jas. Funk.  In other words, Jas. Funk will be with you for one minute, the next minute he’s like, “Hey… I’m gonna go ahead and chill for a minute.”  But it’s always in him.  Anytime he hears One On One, he’s ready to start doing something.  The same goes for Buggs anytime he hears that sound that Heavy-One threw in his head – that Junkyard sound.  See, that’s something Heavy-One told him to do – don’t stop.   These were the guys that were playing on buckets and having the big bands saying, “Man, you gonna let them youngins take over like that?”  They earned their respect.
 

MESSAGE TO JY BAND:
We love you.  We’re always going to love you.  That’s why we named ourselves J-Mob because we’re all family, and we’re mob’n like that.