Juice: We would just rather spend that money back into our business to borrow millions of dollars from a label, to have to owe back.
We want to sell this merchandise so we can make you guys better merchandise. I’m not selling this merchandise to go buy a nice Lamborghini. Yeah of course, but to me, it’s like what’s deeper is explaining to people, ‘Yeah we made that, but guess where that money goes right back into? The same system.’ That’s how it keeps getting bigger and better. So yeah, we made multiple fucking m’s off merchandise over the time that we’ve been selling merchandise. We invest all of our dollars right back into the group. At the same time, what’s very important is that we invest our money into ourselves, more than anyone that I know. We tried our best not to really talk about money like that, because we don’t want it to be a thing also where we’re trying to take everybody’s money. I think me and Juice have been saying that low-key for a little bit. Meechy: Man I sacrificed that money and that fame to have control of my destiny and my music, our music and our destiny rather.Ī post shared by FLATBUSH ZOMBiES on at 1:28pm PDTĭid you guys really make a million off merch? It’s like what did we change? If anything we changed to grow as people and better artists, but we never compromised our vision for an opportunity or a look. I think a lot of people compromise their vision to get on those shows. I don’t know if we would even make it to those same avenues if we didn’t stay independent and stay true to our vision. Those are all from staying true to who we were. People say we’re in the industry or whatever, sometimes I laugh, ‘cause it’s like are we really? All the things that we’ve received, you know playing Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel.
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I think that’s way more worth and speaks a lot more volumes than being under some big umbrella corporation that produces movies and music and TV shows and clothing, of course, if they invest all this money, eventually something is going to stick.Įrick: There’s always been this kinda like cloud over the industry like we don’t know. You could get us more notoriety, but the victory would be so much better us three or our friends and family and our team and everyone that we have here we got that together, on our own. You’re not really here for what we’re trying to do and the vision of where we’re trying to take this. So I don’t care what kind of money you have. Me and Erick knew each other since we were four-years-old. Me and Juice used to split sandwiches together and decide on like if we were going to buy a dub of weed later. They don’t know what it was like to split a chicken sandwich. In a streaming era where labels are snatching up anyone they can, why is it important for you guys to keep the operation independent and in-house? So he warmed it up for us and we shut it down. I feel like that was a bit more of a hip-hop crowd that are more into the music than the first day. The second day we went on after Jaden Smith. How was it? How did the fans respond to the new music?Įrick: It was good. You guys performed at the Breakaway Music Festival last weekend. However, the adversity only seems to have strengthened the three men.Īrriving in New York after a performance at the Breakaway Music Festival, the three discussed why they’ve stayed independent, the conviction necessary in never compromising their vision, and life after Vacation In Hell. Discussing the project, it’s evident they’ve weathered a year that would erode away at the foundations of most groups. Emotionally, it’s a dark album even for a group that’s known for reveling in dark imagery. On Vacation in Hell, the three weave loose stories of death, existential crisis, and brotherhood. We were dying to have our own tour bus, have our own thing going at the time, we were manifesting the things that are real now, which is two albums, and our own tour, and making our own name in hip-hop music.”įor nearly a decade, Flatbush Zombies have been independent and, more importantly, stayed together. “As much as at the time may have just have looked at it like another show. “People follow our story and I think that we made an impact that day,” Erick explains. As the Zombies settle into a phone call, that performance becomes a symbol for their career. Earlier that day, a fan had described seeing Meech, Juice and Erick at that same show.
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