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Guaranteed Human. Wake that ass up. Early in the morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. Jess Hilarious. Sholomey and the guy. We are the breakfast club. We got some special guests in the building. The legendary. The clips. What's up, fellas? What's up? Is it the clips or is it clips? It's clips.

Is this clips? Okay, because I say the clips. What's up, fellas? What's up? Is it the clips or is it just clips? Is it just clips? Okay, because I say the clips too. No, it's just clips. You call that shot. He acts a lot. I want to ask you all. So it's just clips. What's the origins of the name for people who don't know? So that came from Full of Clips. I came up with it. And at the time, Fat Joe had the full Eclipse crew. So we just shortened it to clips. Okay. Now, I want to go back, right? Because you guys have been in a long time. Yeah. For a long time. So I want to start from the history. Of course, I know you guys for a long, long, long, long time.

So what got you into rapping and to form the group, the clips for people that don't know?

Always been a fan of hip-hop like anybody else, you know.

My older brother was into the whole cardboard box, breakdancing, boom box, rapping when you had to push play and record

and rap directly into the box.

Absolutely.

And yeah, man, just coming up, just coming up under that.

And we went to Chad's house one time and Pusha, he wrote his first rap and Farrell was like y'all should, you know, be a group.

His first rap was incredible, but before that it was just me rapping over there.

Now, when you first met Chad and Farrell, right?

Yep.

Y'all are totally opposite.

So how did y'all even meet and even learn each other? Because

growing up in Norfolk and Virginia, like it's totally two different sides. So what made y'all even say, you know what, let's connect with these guys who were wearing tight shirts at the time and tight pants that look like skateboarders. They look nothing like y'all at the time. They might have been serving them. No. I was serving them.

So what made y'all say, you know what,

let's link with them and start this whole rapping.

So, you know, actually, so I was a DJ, DJ Alex in Virginia Beach lived down the street from me. And we went out and we rented a drum machine and we got the drum machine but we couldn't work it. And you know, we had to turn it back turn it back in soon we had paid for but you know we was going to have to turn it back in before we even had chance to use it and he was like you know let's take it to my homie's house and we went over there and it happened to be chad and he knew how to work it and you know that's just stuff that we were doing before clip that's where it started yeah so when. So when did y'all take it serious? When did you say, you know what? This rap thing is something I'm going to take serious. I'm going to get off the street to say this is what it is. I'd have to say that was in meeting, Farrell. And me and Farrell and, you know, it was Farrell.

It was the Teddy Riley coming to Virginia.

You know, we began to see that it was a real thing.

That music was actually attainable in arms reach.

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