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You just go in the studio and do good music.ĪK: And it works. YKIGS: If you guys start working on a new album, how do you guys balance between what’s hot on the radio right now and what’s true to you guys?ĪK: You just do good music. He’s one of the ones that are gifted on that talk box. I brought one of my sons out to jam with us and he’s going to play keyboards. It’s just something that the new artists have jumped up on and are like “Oh Wow.”ĭW: You’re going to see it tonight. For us it’s all about Roger Troutman & Zapp. YKIGS: A lot of people love it, a lot of people hate it so what is your take on autotune?ĪK: It’s cool. When I do see it, I know how he gets down and he’s fly to me.
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I watched a little bit, but I don’t watch a lot of television. YKIGS: Have you been watching “The Voice”? YKIGS: Who are some other artists you’re interested in listening to? There are a lot of new artists that I really dig and I think they really understand what R&B and Soul music is about.
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It’s just putting a new twist on it, so it’s cool.ĭW: I think it’s coming around in some full circle stuff because I can hear that soul in that youngster Chris Brown. It’s different, but they still use the elements of the old school so it’s not a far departure. YKIGS: AK: Technologically with all the different sounds with synthesizers, keyboards, and things like autotune. Then now R&B is Hip Hop and Hip Hop is R&B. Then a transition came in and I was part of the Hip Hop era when Sugar and Kane came out. That was only the Grammy we ever got and the Grammy is all about the people.ĭW: It’s changed. That was beautiful and we got a Grammy off that album. She’s one of those who are going to be around for life. That was a great honor to work with someone like that. She called me and said she wanted to do something like we did at the House of the Music so we flew Tony! Toni! Toné! up there to New York and we made a beautiful song happen in one session. We met then and she was signed to the label and she ended up getting dropped and moved over to Sony. At the time, Keyshia Cole was living there and I was working on Destiny Child’s last project. How did that song come together?ĭW: Alicia came to Oakland and hung with us at a spot called the House of Music. YKIGS: I want to ask you about a song you guys did with Alicia Keys called “Diary”. We love the support and we love the fact people are still digging real music and that’s what we represent.
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*Laughs* Truly, just to be able to meet this next generation of folks that’s enjoying our music and understanding they could feel of genuineness in it, I guess that’s what made it last. Before we got a deal, we used to do it like this. How does it feel knowing you guys are still relevant?ĭW: It feels good because it’s always been about the music and the people. YKIGS: I know the reception that you guys have got throughout the arenas has been great despite the fact you guys haven’t put anything out in a while. I always believe when you got something to say, that’s when you put something out. We’ve just been trying to pick up more dates and trying to travel and experience with each other. Are we going to hear something from you guys in the near future as far as new album?ĭW: We’ve been back and forth on the table about that and Amar is looking at me like “What are you going to say now?” We’ve been wanting to do this project and we definitely will because it’s real and I believe in it coming natural.
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YKIGS: You guys have been in the industry for a long time. They talked about what the future holds for the group, the background behind the Alicia Keys classic “Diary” and also what they think of R&B today. YouKnowIGotSoul had a chance to catch up with Amar Khalil and D’wayne Wiggins of Interview: Tony! Toni! Toné! at Soulstice 2011’s Meet and greet a couple of hours before their performance at the Orpheum in Vancouver, Canada.