BayUndaground.com conducted an interview with Crooked of Darkroom Familia. Here's a little sneak peek. It is a long one, so the rest is on the website - http://www.bayundaground.com/int_crooked1.html.
[ Bay Undaground.com ] : In 2001 you released (among many) the "Men Of Honor" cd. 2002 brought only A.L.G.'s second solo and Young D's debut. Then in 2003 I think there was only Dyno's solo. Comparing to previous market floodings why were you guys so silent in 2002 - 2004?
[ Crooked ] : I wouldn't say that we were silent. The majority of artists out there release one album a year and some of them release only 1 album every few years. We simply released only a few CDs, but we never stopped doing this Darkroom thing. Also, we've been very busy with the movies. We're always working on movies all year long. We're not always filming, but we're always doing something with the movies. We're always writing new scripts and working on pre-production for the latest films or actual production on the latest films. And that takes up a lot of our time. Also, me, Duke, D-Roll, Oso, K.I.D., we're all married and most of us in the group have kids. So family life also takes over. Especially for me, Duke and D-Roll. We're not youngsters in our 20s with no responsibilities anymore. We're in our 30s with wives and kids. Plus the movies that me and Duke make are much bigger than the music, and we love to write, direct and produce films, so that's our main thing. But we still do rap and we hit the studio real hard in 2007 because it became fun again and it still makes money.
[ Bay Undaground.com ] : In 2004 the situation slowly changed as "Return Of The Living Vets" came out. Then "Family Reunion" in 2005 and "Northern Cali's Finest" in 2006. Finally 2007 was one of the best years for Darkroom Familia fans (7 cds dropped). Why did the game change so rapidly?
[ Crooked ] : We were thinking really hard about retiring from rap. We've been doing it for so long. Since we were kids in 1988. And basically rap didn't excite us anymore, the cops and feds were out to get us, we had Darkroom members catching cases and fighting federal racketeering charges and we really didn't need to rap. So it kind of became not worth it anymore. I didn't need the money. We busted our asses hustling like crazy for so many years and we were able to buy houses and get the fuck out of the ghetto a long time ago, and we've got a great career making movies so we didn't really need to keep making music.
FULL interview click here.
[ Bay Undaground.com ] : In 2001 you released (among many) the "Men Of Honor" cd. 2002 brought only A.L.G.'s second solo and Young D's debut. Then in 2003 I think there was only Dyno's solo. Comparing to previous market floodings why were you guys so silent in 2002 - 2004?
[ Crooked ] : I wouldn't say that we were silent. The majority of artists out there release one album a year and some of them release only 1 album every few years. We simply released only a few CDs, but we never stopped doing this Darkroom thing. Also, we've been very busy with the movies. We're always working on movies all year long. We're not always filming, but we're always doing something with the movies. We're always writing new scripts and working on pre-production for the latest films or actual production on the latest films. And that takes up a lot of our time. Also, me, Duke, D-Roll, Oso, K.I.D., we're all married and most of us in the group have kids. So family life also takes over. Especially for me, Duke and D-Roll. We're not youngsters in our 20s with no responsibilities anymore. We're in our 30s with wives and kids. Plus the movies that me and Duke make are much bigger than the music, and we love to write, direct and produce films, so that's our main thing. But we still do rap and we hit the studio real hard in 2007 because it became fun again and it still makes money.
[ Bay Undaground.com ] : In 2004 the situation slowly changed as "Return Of The Living Vets" came out. Then "Family Reunion" in 2005 and "Northern Cali's Finest" in 2006. Finally 2007 was one of the best years for Darkroom Familia fans (7 cds dropped). Why did the game change so rapidly?
[ Crooked ] : We were thinking really hard about retiring from rap. We've been doing it for so long. Since we were kids in 1988. And basically rap didn't excite us anymore, the cops and feds were out to get us, we had Darkroom members catching cases and fighting federal racketeering charges and we really didn't need to rap. So it kind of became not worth it anymore. I didn't need the money. We busted our asses hustling like crazy for so many years and we were able to buy houses and get the fuck out of the ghetto a long time ago, and we've got a great career making movies so we didn't really need to keep making music.
FULL interview click here.
