What specifically has been keeping everybody busy the last few years?

Light: A lot. I live in Cali now. I moved out here about three or four years ago to get the acting and film thing kind of going. I have always been into trying to get into this movie thing. I just been out here really learning that side of things. Before that I was an A&R at Universal. I learned a lot and it was cool but all the politics made me say let me move to Cali and do what I really want to do. So I just been out here doing that, recording some solo stuff, working with lil west coast underground cats doing features helping them, but mostly planning this reunion thing with Mr. Man trying to figure out how we gonna do it.

Mr. Man: From radio to djs to tours to promoting to marketing to the funding. You’re not doing it with a major so it’s like everything we produce on, or little shows we do go back into the pot to make sure that this is received in a proper way. You don’t want to come out and it be a half ass thing.

Light: It’s a lot to the puzzle. I took a year out go to audio engineering school to be able to clear the room where me and Mr. Man can be in there and do everything. We just taking years to do this. For the past six to eighth months we just been traveling. We ain’t really been in the study as much with the two Germany tours. I got a website I’m putting together that will be up in about two weeks called Blueprint Modeling for the girls, putting them in commercials and videos, so when its time to do our videos and we need to call shorties [we can use them]. We just putting our hands in everything.

Unfortunately, your third member Lee Majors couldn’t get up with us for this interview. What has he been up to?

Mr. Man: Lee has a private business that he is actually running so he has been tied up with that. He’s engaged to be married, they getting ready to buy a house, so he is really in that zone. When he can come, he does come but right now he is very focused. We are very grown right now. We realize we are not going to be musicians forever. Now granted we are good at it and I’m not saying that to toot our own horn. We are probably some of the best cats that have come out in a minute but at the same time we’re not gonna be like we’re doing this for the rest of our lives. With that, we end up focusing on other things and doing other things and that’s where Lee is at. He is focused on the rest of his life right now.

What’s has helped you stay tight as group for so long?

Light: We boys so it’s not really about this group. It’s not like the Bush Babees name will live forever kind of thing. It’s more about us as men and individuals and as a collective putting our music out. We respect each other, we like to work together, and we understand where each other is coming from. Khaliyl’s from the West Indies, I grew up in the West Indies, we all was running around Brooklyn, so it was easy for us because we come from the same neighborhood. It’s easy for us to do. Even though we took this time apart when we come together we always ready cuz we know each other.

Mr. Man: It’s like we never left. It’s like that every time it never fails. If I send Light some beats I don’t have to worry and say I don’t know what he is gonna do. I send him a beat tape, sometimes we end up picking the same ones and the ideas flow together.

Light: It’s kinda like when you was kids when you got mad excited, everything was mad fun and then you got older and you were like damn you got to pay for this and this and you start realizing shit ain’t that much fun no more. You still have fun. You still getting the Pumas and lacing em up but you paying for them now so it’s a little bit different then when mom dukes was getting em. It’s that kind of thing. In the beginning it was just fun gung ho do mad songs and let me show everybody I got mad skills but then after we showed everybody we had skills it didn’t matter to nobody. It was like oh they got skills and that was it. The companies and the people weren’t jumping like they were supposed to when we needed things done. We got the love and we could have kept coming back out but at what cost? At the cost of selling our face and not getting any real support in return. We trying to be homeowners so the two had to come together eventually. Rather than sell out and go get on some bullshit we stepped back and tried to gain ownership.

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Posted by Halftime on Sunday, May 23rd, 2004 and is filed under HIP HOP ICON SERIES.