Bush Babees article from July 1994:

When I first heard the name The Bush Babees, I conjured up images of a bunch of pre-facial haired kids in oversized clothes jumping around, thus I put the record aside. A short time later I got around to playing the single "Swing It" and it hit me. The three MC's (Babe-Face Kaos, Y-Tee, and Mister Man) came at me with an amazing amount of energy and three very different delivery styles. After their initial offering, I was both anxious and curious, so I spoke with Babe-Face Kaos about The Bush Babees.
Toast: So what is it like trying to get a record out these days?
Kaos: Being that rap radio is just flooded with everybody coming out everyday, you've got 50 million rappers trying to come out. It's almost kind of easy to come out with a record, because every guy down the block knows somebody. So I feel its kind of easy to come out with a rap record.
Toast: Are there a lot of venues for you to perform at in New York City?
Kaos: Oh, most definitely. In New York there's a lot of venues, but it's just the quality of the venues, you know, that may not be that good. You may not want to deal with them.
Toast: Where have The Bush Babees performed?
Kaos: Out here, we've performed at most of the clubs. But soon, we're about to get up at the Fever, which is one of the first hip-hop clubs. So far we've done just about every hip-hop club there is. We did some shows at the Ritz for example.
Toast: Break it down how you hooked up with Warner Brothers Records.
Kaos: We used to just do shows together, then we met this guy who had something to do with BMI. He hooked us up with BMI, and we signed with BMI. Then he started shopping us to different labels. One of the first labels he shopped us to was Warner Brothers. This was on a Friday. That Friday we was just kicking it, and we went up to Warner Brothers with no demo tape. We had a tape with beats on it, and we just started rhyming live over the beats. That was on a Friday, and on Monday we were going to Los Angeles to hook-up with Benny Medina of Warner Brothers.
Toast: So that was pretty quick.
Kaos: Yeah, it was real quick, but we've all been individually trying to do our own thing before we got together, but as a group it was pretty quick.
Toast: You signed to BMI?
Kaos: Yeah, broadcast music....you know, the thing that calculates how many times you get on the radio? Like ASCAP. We did things kind of backwards. Usually you get signed to a label, and then you hook up with an ASCAP or a BMI. But we went to BMI first because the guy liked us.
Toast: How did you hook-up with the other members of The Bush Babees, Y-Tee and Mister Man?
Kaos: Mister Man met me at a club and we just started writing and doing stuff together. Before he met me, he saw Y-Tee at a club, but he never really talked to him. Then he met a guy who knew Y-Tee's cousin's father's brother type of thing. He went through all of those people and got Y-Tee's beeper number. He beeped him and was like, 'Yo I got this group and I want you to join'. And thankfully Y-Tee didn't have a 'who the f**k is paging me' type of attitude. He was like, 'let me give this a try'. We gave it a try, and it worked out.
Toast: What did you perform up at Warner Brothers on that Friday?
Kaos: The first single, "Swing It" was one of those songs that we performed. A jam called "Remember We", "Clear My Throat", and mostly all of the things we did ended up on our album. Obviously we changed some things around, and added some more production.
Toast: What can we expect from the forthcoming album, Ambushed? You guys displayed many different styles on the single, "Swing It".
Kaos: On the album, you can expect the same thing, a lot of different styles. But in this, you can also expect more than one set tempo of music. You can expect a lot of energy because we're a very energetic group. You can expect a lot of lyrics that you can listen to and rewind, and really pick up on what we're saying. You can expect a lot of different moods and tempos. Its an emotional ride.
Toast: Who did the production on your album?
Kaos: We monitored most of the production that was going on.
Toast: So you guys were the executive producers?
Kaos: No, we're not the executive producers. Actually we are, but due to the powers that be, we're not. You know what I'm saying? But Jermaine Dupri (Kris Kross, Da Brat, Xscape) did two tracks, Nikke Nicole, who did that Sweet Sable cut on the Above the Rim Soundtrack, did two tracks, and Salaam Gibbs who did the "Nappy Heads" remix for the Fugees.
Toast: So not only do you have different lyrical styles, but on the album, you also have a lot of different styles production-wise.
Kaos: Most definitely. Hip-hop fans really can't go wrong because there's got to be at least one style that they gotta like. Us as individuals are all different styles, so we try to not come out as one style. MC's back in the days didn't have just one style. MC's rhymed about what they felt like rhyming about, so that's what we're trying to do.
Toast: Who do you admire lyrically?
Kaos: MC's that started me out and made me pick-up a pen were Big Daddy Kane, Organized Konfusion, Rakim, and KRS-One. Today I like KRS-One, Nas, and A Tribe Called Quest.. Right now we're working with A Tribe Called Quest on our second single, "It's Like This". We're shooting the video soon in New York. Ali produced the beat.
Toast: Explain the significance of the name, The Bush Babees, obviously you're from Flatbush.
Kaos: Yeah, me and Mister Man are from Flatbush so we said let's call us The Bush Babees. But then Y-Tee came in and he's not from Flatbush, he's from Manhattan. So we were like, 'Yo, we're all West Indian'. Back in the West Indies they called people from the ghettos and the urban areas bush people, and we're just babies to the hip-hop world, so that's how we got the name, The Bush Babees.
Toast: Now you're from Trinidad. How much of an influence does that have on your music?
Kaos: A lot of influence. I grew up listening to a lot of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Supercat and stuff like that. So when I'm saying things in my rhymes, I might say something that has to do with an old reggae song. A lot of my flows come from old reggae songs.
Toast: Do you prefer being in the studio or being on stage?
Kaos: On stage, definitely. I like to improvise. I like to get on a freestyle.
Toast: What do you see as the biggest problem in hip-hop today?
Kaos: The biggest problem today is that everyone is on this 'keep it real' kick, and people are taking it as 'keep it real hard-core'. But you have to keep it real to yourself. If you were writing about sneakers, and then you got a deal, write about sneakers on your record. Write about what you like to do. You don't have to keep it hard-core. I don't think some people are being themselves. If every rapper would be themselves, do you know how far hip-hop would go? You'd have so many different styles, but hard-core is what the masses want. Everybody's got to have a hard-core image.
Toast: What's next for The Bush Babees?
Kaos: We're about to drop the second single and soon to shoot that video. We're gonna do some touring, but we're really waiting for the album to drop in late August.
(Article written by DJ Toast in July 1994. The article originally appeared in numerous national music magazines.)