Trunk Boiz B*Janky, Filthy Fam, N-B and Baby-Champ “The Scrapper Bike King” posed for the Bay View cameras when they caught up with me in B-Town. Photo: Apollonia Jordan

Apollonia: I'm sitting here chopping it up with the Trunk Boiz. For the people who don't know who you guys are, introduce yourselves.

Filthy Fam: Basically the Trunk Boiz come from all parts of the Bay Area - Oakland, Frisco, the list goes on. Most of us grew up together and many of us are related, but we all family. Everyone in our squad has a talent and we all bring something to the table. It started out with me when I made my own CD and I let a couple of people listen to it. After that, everybody just start jumping on the team. They knew I had a studio and we were created just like that - started the Trunk Boiz.

N-B: Yeah, just like my man Filthy Fam was saying, most of us are family who put it together. It was crazy because we all knew each other, but we never hung out together at first. One day we all just came together. When we come through, we come through thick to every little event.

Baby Champ: Every event you can catch us there. I'm Baby Champ, "The Scrapper Bike King," and I hooked up with my cousin Filthy Fam. I told him I had the little movement and I wanted to bring both movements together. So, we clicked up two and two: The scrapper bike movement and the rapping movement came about like that.

What I do as a Trunk Boiz is bring a positive message to the music as a solo artist within the group. The scrapper bike movement is getting national right now and we taking it to the next level.

Apollonia: What is the scrapper bike movement?

Baby Champ: The scrapper bike movement is pretty much a positive movement for everybody, all ages and ethnic groups. I'ma put y'all in on my little secret. What I do is put a little aluminum foil and spray paint on a regular bike and turn it into a scrapper bike.

The name scrapper bike came about when me and my other cousin Avery was ridin' around seeing all types of scrappers - scrappers better known as Pontiacs and Old School Buicks with the candy paint and matching rims.

At that time, we didn't have no vehicles; we was all on bikes. We came up with the clean idea to paint the bikes and the rims to match. At that time everybody was already on the little foil game; we just took it to the next level.

Apollonia: Okay, I can feel it. So, what does the name Trunk Boiz stand for?

Filthy Fam: Trunk Boiz stands for Trunk Rattling Unique Non-Stop Knock. At first we had just called ourselves the Trunk Boiz and then we realized what it really meant and that's what we came up with. After that, it's just been popping. I got my little entertainment label, GNDT (Gorillas ‘n da Trunk) and we ran with that too. At the time everybody had started putting slap in their trunks, and we would say, "Damn, it sounds like a gorilla in the trunk." Everybody was on it, so we just took it and ran with it. It's a cool name and it's ringing right now.

Apollonia: Tell me a little bit about ATM records and how that came about?

Filthy Fam: ATM records started when I created my own studio. I had my own label behind me, but at the time I didn't really have a manager, CEO or nothing. Pops, my dad, he put the money behind me and he started taking it from my studio, bringing it to a even bigger studio, paying for it, you feel me, getting me shows and what not.

And he just decided to start his own record label. That's how ATM (All Types of Music) record label was created. We were the first artists on his record label. He has more groups online - singers and some rock and roll. It's all types of music, so he got something for everybody.

N-B: We also got a program called "Super Innovative Team." He's the type of man that will help you with your problems and things like that, so hit him up at ATM records if you want to holla at ‘em.

Apollonia: Who are "The Chosen Few" and what part do they play in the movement?

N-B: That would be me. I came up with the name Chosen Few when we was just chillin' one day trying to think of a name for a dance group. I came up with the Chosen Few and we been rollin' with that name ever since I came up with it.

The people in the group are Filthy Fam, Rotation (me). They call me Rotation cause I like to rotate a lot. We got my man Arti Boy the Great; he the captain of the team and I'm the co-captain. We have other dancers on our squad, who aren't in our group, like Doc (Da Luv Doctor), B*Janky, The Hat Trick King - he does all the dance tricks with his hat. There are a couple of other few dancers that are on the squad, who aren't on the team. They're just our little side dancers. That's how that came about.

B*Janky: Hey, B*Janky just got in the building. I'm one of the originators of the Trunk Boiz. I'm just helping to keep this talented squad together because we got it all: dancers, rappers, entrepreneurs, businessmen, future CEOs. We all intelligent and we all corporate thugs.

Apollonia: What y'all got that's in the streets or about to hit the streets?

Filthy Fam: Our first album, self-titled "Gorillas in the Trunk" been circulating through the streets. Now we pushing the EP, which has over nine new songs that we just put down in LA.

N-B: Yeah, that's something that everybody can relate and bounce to. They all hits too. The songs are going to be on the radio when it get to that level.

Filthy Fam: For the song not to be on the radio, I think it's one of the hottest songs out there. We got the song out called "Cupcake No Filling." If you ain't heard it, you probably need to be listening.

We also got the scrapper bike video on YouTube with about 1.7 million hits on there. It's still poppin' and it's still life in that, so we just trying to take it to the next level. We got the Scrapper Bike Critical Mass poppin off on Halloween. That's a national scrapper bike movement. I don't care where you at - Japan, Paris wherever - I want you to remember that Halloween is Scrapper Bike Day and we want this movement and legacy to keep going forever.

Apollonia: Would you guys describe your style of music as street, hyphy or gangsta?

N-B: We make all types of music and that's what our record label stands for. We make positive music, gangsta music; our music is versatile.

Filthy Fam: Whatever people want to hear, we gone got it for you. If you're a gangsta and you pick up our CD, you're going to feel it. We got some party songs and club bangers too, for all the people who want to go dumb. Although that's not what we represent, but at the same time we keeping it lit.

N-B: Everybody know, they see us in the streets selling CDs, promoting our music.

Baby Champ: Ridin' them scrapper bikes.

N-B: We on the scrapper bikes, we not playin' - 22s on the bikes, candy paint whatever.

B*Janky: If you really want to label our music, you can say that we got that feel good music. We make you feel good once you pop our song in the CD player.
Apollonia: Do you guys have anything to do with the Thizz Nation? Right now we trying to build our own nation, but we got some connections.

Baby Champ: I affiliate with Thizz Nation. FAB is my folks and we close friends with FAB. He threw us on stage at one of his performances. Thizz Nation and the Trunk Boiz are all good and it's all Bay Business. Everybody got their own movement.

Filthy Fam: That's how it got to be. If the Bay put it together like them catz do in the South, nobody would be able to stop us because everybody coming out here and biting the Bay style anyway. If we stick together and use that unity, the Bay would be unstoppable.

Apollonia: What other ways are you guys promoting your music, besides myspace.com?

Baby Champ: The scrapper bikes. People already know who started the scrapper bike movement - the Trunk Boiz - and when they see us we on our scrapper bikes. That's a whole different movement.

Filthy Fam: That's a different type of business and that's an investment and an invention.

Baby Champ: The Scrapper Bike King invented it and for all you busters out there trying to copy my style, quit playin'.

Filthy Fam: We got the scrapper bikes, YouTube, we be everywhere slappin' our songs from our cars, bumper stickers and we got flyers. It's real big and we all over, even out in Atlanta. This movement has touched a lot of places already and it keeps going.

Baby Champ: For the scrapper bike video to have 1.7 million hits on the Internet, that's worldwide.

Apollonia: If someone wanted to hook up with you guys and do some business, how could they hook up with you?

Baby Champ: You can hit up "The Scrapper Bike King," up at www.myspace.com/thescraperbikeking.

Filthy Fam: We all have myspace pages, so if you can, hit our main page up at www.myspace.com/datrunkboiz. Everybody is on our Top 10, so hit that page up and you can hear some of our songs and check out our music. And like we said before, we also have the scrapper bike video on YouTube.

N-B: Also, hit up the website www.atmrecords.com and check out our company and see what is going on. There are also contact numbers on there where you can call and book us for shows and all that. Stop by and listen to our music and other artists that are on the label. Buy a copy of our song of the myspace page ... it's just a dollar.

Baby Champ: We also got the scrapper bike contest poppin' off right now. If you go to atmrecords.com and purchase a song, your name will automatically be added into a raffle to win a free scrapper bike that come with everything - the slap, the rims and all. It will be custom made by me.

Apollonia: Is there anything else you guys would like to add before we call this interview a wrap?

Trunk Boiz: We just want to say thank you to all our fans for supporting us and getting us where we're at now. This wouldn't be poppin' off like it is now if it wasn't for you guys. We want to give a shout out to all my squad members who are not here - they at where they at, Free Reece and J-Dubb. Be on the look out for the Trunk Boiz, because we are the future.

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