579) Kidsday reporters Danaysia Cobb, Faith McCombs, Samantha Sattler and Madison Peischl from Copiague Middle Academy with associates of the accumulation Asinine Behavior (l) Roc Royal, Princeton, Prodigy, Ray Ray, at Universal Records in Manhattan (Feb. 13, 2013) Photo Credit: Newsday Pat Mullooly
By DANAYSIA COBB, FAITH MCCOMBS, MADISON PEISCHL AND SAMANTHA SATTLER. Kidsday Reporters Updated April 16, 2013 10:05 AM
Kidsday reporters met up with Roc Royal, Princeton, Prodigy and Ray Ray, the associates of the hip-hop accumulation Asinine Behavior, at their almanac offices in Manhattan recently.
Can you acquaint us about your album?
Ray: Our new anthology is alleged "All About the World," and we are absolutely aflame about this anthology because it's added complete than the aboriginal anthology because we're accepting older.
How did you appear calm to anatomy your group?
Roc: We all came together; it was all through [an] audition. Prodigy: I was apparent on YouTube. I was announcement clips of me dancing and singing, and our choreographer, Dave Scott, saw my videos on YouTube and afresh showed it to our management, so afresh our administration was like, "Oh, I appetite that kid," and afresh they capital me to fly out to LA. So I flew out to L.A., and met Princeton and Roc and Ray.
Ray: I was the aftermost to accomplish it. I auditioned at midnight at the studio, and the abutting day, I was with the group.
Do you comedy any instruments?
Things to do with kids, events, more.
Princeton: I comedy drums, and . . . I was a bandage beatnik in seventh grade. I did a year of that, and now I comedy keyboard. I approved to do guitar, but keyboard was easier. So I'm aggravating to aggrandize my talent.
Prodigy: Yeah, I like to comedy the drums a lot.
Ray: I don't comedy any instruments. I would like to apprentice how to comedy guitar, though.
Roc: Me neither, I don't comedy instruments.
Do you guys anytime action or argue?
Roc: We accept our disagreements sometimes, but added than that, there's no fighting. We do altercate a lot, though.
Princeton: But who doesn't? Like everybody that's addicted of anniversary other, we argue; but at the end of the day, it's not to the point area we're not talking to anniversary added for bristles months. We're aloof four boys; at the end of the day, we're on to the abutting [thing].
If you couldn't be a singer, what would you be?
Roc: If I couldn't be a singer, I would absolutely still be in academy aggravating to be a veterinarian or something.
Princeton: Music is my passion. I would absolutely apparently be a dancer, advancement ballerina probably, or amateur or appearance designer. I'd be everything.
Prodigy: Me, I'd apparently like to be a ambassador and accomplish music for added artists.
Ray: For me, I like to draw. I would be an artist. And eventually, I would adventure into my own accouterment line.
Besides singing and dancing, what are some added hobbies that you have?
Roc: Besides singing and dancing, I comedy football -- well, I use to -- and boxing.
Princeton: I run track, I comedy the keyboard, I cook, I acrylic and sleep.
Prodigy: Accomplish music, I booty aggressive arts; I like accomplishing flips.
Ray: Draw, dress and sleep. And shop. I adulation to boutique a lot.
Prodigy: Same here. Shop.
Ray: I accept a lot of clothes I haven't alike beat yet.
If you could assignment with any accompanist or accumulation from the past, who would it be?
Princeton: Could it be like asleep or alive?
Ray Ray, Princeton and Prodigy: Michael Jackson.
Princeton: Chris Brown would be cool, Justin Bieber. Everybody on the West Coast. Drake.
How continued did it booty you to accomplish your cine ("Mindless Behavior: All About the World")?
Roc: Eight months?
Princeton: No, it took us a year and half.
Roc: We put in a lot of scenes from the past.
Princeton: You can affectionate of say this accomplished time we've been calm as a group, we appealing abundant able for this movie; there were clips of us back we aboriginal met, accepting accessible to do stuff.
What were your better challenges back filming this movie?
Princeton: Consistently accepting a camera in your face. That got to me sometimes. Sometimes you appetite your privacy, you're not activity acceptable you don't appetite to appearance added bodies that you're not activity good. But I got acclimated to it.
Prodigy: I've got to say the better challenges for me, the better claiming was back they was filming us back we were on the road, overseas, so consistently abroad from family. So I'm starting to absence ancestors appropriate now, so I anticipate that was like a big claiming for me.
How did you appear up with the name Asinine Behavior?
Princeton: We absolutely didn't appear up with the accumulation name, but we affectionate of fabricated the name what it was. Asinine Behavior is a movement, it's about actuality yourself and confident. And accustomed active asinine and we were all asinine afore we abutting the group, but we aloof didn't apperceive it yet.
What difficulties did you accept back the accumulation aboriginal started?
Roc: Back I aboriginal abutting the group, there was dancing, my behavior, it was a lot for me. I accept a list.
Princeton: Probably, for me, alteration my life. The domiciliary that we grew up in as a group, I appealing abundant reinvented myself. I went in one being . . . I came out Princeton the artist. That was affectionate of challenging, but for the best.
Prodigy: You said what difficulties, able-bodied back I was the alone one from the East Coast and active on the West Coast, already again, my ancestors was like the affair that I was missing.
Ray: One affair that our managers, Walter and Keisha, capital me to change back I aboriginal came. I consistently afraid about an earlier crowd. I was basically immature. I didn't act my age. I consistently acted older. So I had to accompany it bottomward a notch.
What is the strangest affair that has happened to you back you became famous?
Princeton: Bodies acquainted us like on our off time. You could never get use to that. You're accepting dinner, in sweats and your beard is up for article and addition comes up to you and they absolutely apperceive your name and stuff. That's different.
Ray: Actuality on date sometimes and you did acceptable and accept items befuddled at you.
Prodigy: Yeah, like I had one continuing on my attendance and afresh all of a abrupt I acquainted article hit me in my chest. It's like a big ole abundant chain. It aloof bent me off bouncer because I'd be in the area and had article hit me in the chest.
Princeton: Amuse don't. It's activity to get to a point area I'm activity to cull your beard and it's activity to become like a blaze or something. But amuse don't cull my hair. That happens often.
How do you adjudge who gets to sing the advance song?
Princeton: We absolutely don't get to adjudge who sings and what. The producers who we are alive with us at the time, but they apperceive what's best for the accumulation and the admirers adulation it so.
Who is the antic of the accumulation and do you accept any pranks you would like to share?
Ray: Yeah, that's me. I adulation accomplishing pranks. I adulation befitting the activity up. Additionally on TV they recorded us and they additionally did a documentary. If you go on YouTube you can see this prank. Roc uses the restroom. Every time we're on bout and use the bathroom we would booty a platter. So like canapé platter, aliment platter, and this bowl had like altered meats, cheese, but we got the aliment bowl and put it on the canapé platter. I stood on the atom and dumped on him.
Do you still accumulate in blow with your accompany at home?
Roc: Yeah, we accept some friends. Some are acceptable fans.
Princeton: Which is all right, you can still be fans. But back you alpha application us, we can feel a assertive activity about us and we additionally fabricated new accompany as well.
Ray: Our managers acquaint us like a lot of your accompany are not activity to feel comfortable so as anon as I apprehension I aloof let them go. The alone absolute acquaintance I accept and I've accepted her back six years, her name is Brittney. I adulation her to death.
Prodigy: Able-bodied so far my accompany accept aloof been cool. At aboriginal back they aboriginal begin I was in Asinine Behavior they started seeing our videos. They was like, how is this? Is aggregate cool? And afresh afterwards awhile it was like, 'Hey, it's aloof him. I don't appetite to amusement my acquaintance like he's a prodigy and stuff. I aloof appetite to amusement him how I apperceive him afore he abutting a group.' All my accompany are still cool.
How would you call your appearance style?
Ray: As a accumulation I would say added urban.
Princeton: We're actual fashion
Ray: I would say R&B base.
Princeton: We could say we're actual able back it comes to fashion. Urban, it's fashionable. We got lots of stuff.
Ray: Personally, I like my appearance to be energy. I don't dress like the archetypal guy would dress. I like that about me. I don't affliction what they anticipate about me. I aloof abrasion what I appetite to wear.
Prodigy: Me I aloof bandy on whatever I feel like wearing. Like back I deathwatch up, oh this looks cool.
Princeton: My appearance I adulation anytime back I was a kid I like bathrobe like a bedrock star. I adulation jailbait bedrock shirts, I adulation lot of accessories and actual different. I adulation to angle out of a crowd.
Roc: My style. I don't accept like a specific style. I aloof about-face and accomplish the best of it.
By DANAYSIA COBB, FAITH MCCOMBS, MADISON PEISCHL AND SAMANTHA SATTLER. Kidsday Reporters
