The song ‘Ordinary’ appeared on MTV’s ‘Viva La Bam’, how did that come together?
O: I think the music supervisor for that show and a few other MTV reality shows was sent a copy and they was feelin it. I’m pretty sure Bam has a say in the music on his show…I heard indirectly that he likes that song a lot. That answer was kinda boring wasn’t it? I should have made something up. How’s this? Bam told us he was gonna quit his own show if he wasn’t able to use the track. We told him we wanted $50,000 for it. He was hesitant, so we settled for a KFC Death Bowl. What made you decide to put out a rap record mingled with rock influences/live guitars? N: We were just really unhappy with the state of hip-hop right now. The mainstream has turned into club music and the underground scene is nearly dead, and there was nothing inspiring. Most everything we are listening to these days isn’t hip-hop, give or take a few hidden gems. So when we sat down to write this album, we didn’t want to be a part of the problem… we wanted to really make something that had some musical substan
