How did SBU (Supreme Being Unit) form? Did you want to be famous right off the bat?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nSBU was a name that Mindbender invented in 1991. We were in Ottawa with the rest of the Nextraterrestrials. We were all talking about making group names, people were throwing ideas around. SBU stands for \u201cSupreme Being is You\u201d\u2014everyone\u2019s a Supreme Being and everyone\u2019s in our group. We\u2019re an international group: whether you\u2019re retarded or rich or poor, white or black, it doesn\u2019t matter, you\u2019re an SBU. It used to be Mindbender, Conspiracy and the third member was Kelron, our producer, but he changed his name to Nick Knox. He looks like Evil D from Beatminerz, he\u2019s kind of like a Premier type of producer. I\u2019m basically the DJ and Mindbender\u2019s the lead MC because he\u2019s more socially activated. I\u2019m sort of like the Phife Dog of the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Did you do any shows?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nIt was hard for us to get into clubs so we did a lot of talent shows, restaurant shows; underage stuff because we weren\u2019t of age to get into clubs. We did peoples\u2019 house parties. We\u2019d do shows in Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So how did you move to Edmonton?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nIn 1998 I was traveling across Canada and I was in Toronto with Mindbender and he didn\u2019t want to let me live with him because he was living with his girlfriend; so I ended up being homeless in Toronto, sleeping on people\u2019s couches. It was the only time in my life I\u2019ve never had my own place. I was waiting to buy a ticket in a Greyhound station to come back to Edmonton and they arrested me for trespassing. I think it was racism. I spent a week in the Don Jail, went to court, got totally discharged; they didn\u2019t fine me, they just kept me a week in jail. After that I didn\u2019t like Toronto so I\u2019m like \u2018Mom, I\u2019m moving back to Edmonton.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Who did you hook up with when you came back?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nWhen I came to Edmonton my first crew that I was down with was the Dungeon Crew: Billy, FBI, Butta, Touch, Tanner Lane and Owen. Shout outs to the Dungeon. From about 2001-2003 I used to hang out with them, before I was part of the LBA crew. The Dungeon guys were cool, they had really good beats, but their quality was high that their output wasn\u2019t good. They\u2019d work on a beat for like 8 months and it would be on the Premier level, but they only had one song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After that what happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nIn 2002 I met Chazmo and Max Prime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How\u2019d you meet those guys?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nI think I met Chazmo around the clubs. My memories of LBA are kind of hazy. This is how I think it went down: I met Max Prime or Chazmo first, then I met Addvice, then Chris Plus and last I met the Blurb. Chazmo made up the name and we just decided to roll as a 6-man crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What\u2019s happening now in LBA?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe reason why I left LBA was because I felt there wasn\u2019t enough love between the members. In Nextra, out east we\u2019d talk everyday, we\u2019d smoke weed everyday and write songs everyday, but we wouldn\u2019t have any money. Out west nobody gets together, but we all have money. Nobody gets together. People have their own lives to live, so I figured that LBA didn\u2019t need me \u2018cause nobody really said much. People were just always doing their own thing. When we did get together to do albums and stuff, it was cool, but it just wasn\u2019t as often as it was out east. Right now LBA is: Chris Plus, Chazmo, Max Prime, Addvice and Nato. Blurb and Conspiracy are not in LBA anymore officially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I never throw songs away. I mean I have a couple songs that are really crappy, but I still have the songs in case someone else likes it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Another reason why I left LBA was because they were like \u2018oh, throw this song away\u2019\u2014I never throw songs away. I mean I have a couple songs that are really crappy, but I still have the songs in case someone else likes it. I never lose music, ever. Shout outs to all those people who have all their original songs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What happened with Blurb?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nI guess they just decided to kick him out because we didn\u2019t really fit the picture of the LBA that they\u2019re trying to make now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How are they trying to portray themselves?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nLike a 4-man crew of perfectionists. Blurb\u2019s kind of sloppy and I\u2019m kind of sloppy, so they just got rid of the dead weight they didn\u2019t need\u2014that\u2019s how I view things. I think they\u2019ll do better off without us because they are perfectionists, they work hard at their craft: they rewrite songs, work out songs and memorize songs for shows. I was sort of like the Cappadonna or Moka Only member of the crew: where I\u2019m not really there at all the shows, I wasn\u2019t memorizing all my songs; I wasn\u2019t fully participating \u2018cause I didn\u2019t feel like there was a lot of communication for me to know what to do. I like being asked or told to do something\u2014I can\u2019t read minds. I hope all the best for the LBA crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n