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FSD: You guys have a strong fanbase on the west side, particularly with middle and high school kids. Can you describe how that connection was cultivated? You guys grew up over there right?
Lil Trav: We knew a lot of people in the neighborhood, they got us more people in other neighborhoods, more fans.
Bobby Hustle: They the king of fiestas, of fefe’s, they took it to the little kids and all that and they made it super popular. It was already happening, but they made it popular.
FSD: I’ve noticed your songs have a strong sense of melody and pop instincts. Do either of you have any formal music training?
Lil Trav: No.
Lil Ceno: Thats just our flow thats how we rap.
FSD: So you’re sort of self taught?
Both: Yeah
FSD: Do you guys remember who your first favorite artist was when you were growing up?
Lil Trav: Uhm, Lil Wayne.
Lil Ceno: Lil Wayne, Jay Z.
FSD: You’ve stated that your music is “turn up music” as opposed to the more widely known “bop music.” Do you find “bop music” to be limiting?
Lil Ceno: No, not really it’s just, we just not no boppers, we not boppers. Everybody be like, every time people approach us they be like, “Do y’all know how to bop?” Naw we dont know how to bop, we aint no boppers, that aint what we do. We just make the music and then people just found their way of bopping to it.
FSD: So you would rather people just come at it as “music”? No genre?
Lil Ceno: Yeah. Turn up music! We got party-like music.
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