Interview with Mike Bone- PowWows.com

what up I'm little Mike and I'm funny gone together we are Mike bone okay the first question is of course what track are you Chuck tar and Pawnee more Pawnee you guys are raised in Oklahoma City raised here in the city so with City natives most of them on the north side of Oklahoma City if you're yourself removed from anywhere if I do move anywhere it might be it have to be someplace like Oklahoma like Fort Smith Kansas City someone would know earthquakes in know hurricanes okay what a shoes and how did you get into this music we both started at the age of 12 which is weird because without twins huh so he started at 12 and five years younger so I started later after that I started out dancing like Michael Jackson and doing poetry and then a couple years later just fell into the rap thing and I kind of fell in kind of uh he brought me on is is like a comedy act which is kind of how I got my name just being funny guy and I we do jokes in between his set and then I slowly started to get in on songs and do my own thing that was just it was like it was you know it was a bit to be and that's how you got your nickname dancing yeah people call me little Michael Jackson and then it went from little Michael Jackson hey little Mike and I was like I kind of like that now everybody calls us that are biking funny bone and even my grandma caught me bill Mike honey bun yeah yes the only president don't call us by our stage name is my sister cousin my Toshi yes okay where do you guys pull inspiration from for your songs and as you're writing a team effort yeah our inspiration comes from God and just life situations and you don't use our life situations that we deal with our relationship with God so that's kind of like what we base our songs off of or just our heritage our culture what we know about it being from the city we're just big immense and we trying to get in on it so we do write our own stuff but occasionally I help him out or you know help me out or sometimes you have to write something for me man I'm just stuck I'm blocked well yeah we write our own stuff all over yeah we don't like to write before we hear the beat we'd like to hear the beat and then right yeah because the beat gives off a vibe and we want to stay in that vibe and they'll just throw some lyrics on the beat hope for the best we like to mold the lyrics to the beat and make it fit perfectly because I do have some songs that I wrote without a beat and I'm like there's no perfect beat for this one so it's best to write to or beat them what about mainstream artists like you have you know inspired you or who do you like is your favorite my favorites would be when I first started with the rabbit I knew I wanted to perform and since I was already you know bite not for Michael Jackson I was like some dances MC Hammer but no ice there was I liked the boy bands back then because they were singing and dancing and I was like we got to do that Mike with rocky know that when I was growing up I was listening to like the gospel gangstas Tebow and then it grew up into mr. Dale seven triple triple e in the quick but now I just like there's no mainstream artist thing anybody listen to all the artists that we listen to pretty much do it like like us it's it's underground and it all pretty much has the same message whether it be just a positive message or a Christian message doesn't necessarily win it bad I mean you've heard our stuff yes so you know it's hot if we listen to it we try to know if you listening to how we worried the lyrics we try to mmm we try to take the sound of every song that we've heard before but there's some songs that people listen to and go I can hear that on a rock and roll track that's funny cuz I wrote it for my rocky road track and something we're like you know people like when I you know that sounds like the melody from this classical song that I did like actually that is the melody from the granite hands on I just thought it sound to take different elements different styles of music and put that on and in a rap form just you know just to play with it to figures it out or you know just to be different from the styles of breath that's out there right now what one reason I want to touch on the fact that we don't miss in the mainstream artists is because the hardest nowadays they don't make me as like they used to me none of the museum is is not had no substance isn't manufactured it's all fake I mean it's just there's no meaning to it it's just you know really you took time out of your day to put that on radio where do you guys stand on bother - it's for certain beats I don't do this for certain beats or for certain singers Nancy I've used out of time but I can sing we have a song called white feet which has auto-tune on it and I'm singing on the hook and that song is like next to rain dance is our one of our most played most downloaded most loved all the ladies put it on repeat you got it on the ringtones and only reason we used auto-tune is because it it melded with the beat better if from elders is a word it it just glowed with the beat perfect you know I sang it without the huddle tanner and it was good and then the producer was like let me try let me try this Wow that's it right there just popped it right it just I just feel right so you use it for dimensions but not for right Freddie yeah it's not coma City where is your first you'd say large audience squared you perform large audience first one and when you're six large audience was for Jefferson middle school talent show I perform this Michael Jackson skit where I deejay too so I mixed from the Jackson 5 error because the Jackson errors awesome show through older Jackson's from with the afro and then I went to from that Nintendo Billie Jean and then black and white and then I went into the newer stuff that was it was but not only did I mix it from that and I was dancing in it I started out with afro music was changing up I ripped off the bell bottoms which was basically covering up some knee pads if people was like Dell most awesome he like grew up Michael Jackson but on stage is like I won that talent show and I didn't expect to win and there was like the whole crowd was like it was watching art students and a bunch of other teachers and a whole bunch of parents big show I did and I was like the stage is where I need to place shows I think it was with him was that the I think it wasn't the State Fair yes my first big show it was the Oklahoma City State Fair we did the bandshell stage Oklahoma City you know what that said and it was a it was a pretty packed event would have been it was but it was it was called feeding the 5000 5 I came up with three Indians in high school it's actually song I wrote and like had to collaborate with me maybe what how many years it's been a look I really said no five which is when I graduated it was my senior year in high school every year I would perform at the talent show my senior year it was classic they didn't have a talent show I don't know what the reason was and I was like oh I gotta go out with a bang this is my year you know I've got a rock the stage somehow so I found something to get into was the Brotherhood assembly and I asked how do I get into this they said if I did something it had to be educational and ethnical so I got to work yeah the books this is the first time I started really studying my culture and my heritage my background and really just dab it into my native roots and with the rain dance in the rain dance you know that's the first time I'm performing was that Northwest classroom and further down the road we came up with the remix which is what everybody knows now is the original and what we did on America's Got Talent and he hopped on it we did a music video for it but his comments we hit ever since I didn't really research nothing I just wanted to sound like literal John thank you good luck if you know us and you followed us from day one you know that Mike actually started out with the yeah way before Little John even broke out he says listen it's away and all his friends know bits I was listening to like Metallica and scream anything that had screaming I liked it I like the dis guy name his name was miracle and he screamed I like the mystical and he screamed onyx cuz they screamed and I was just like anything that scream I like it so you know I started out like my first Scream is he was called bounce was loved and everybody was like saying are you trying to sound like mystical now when they go back in here and they go all you trying to sound like Little John Little John wasn't even created I was screaming like that way before a little time it happens you know I did the sideways didn't want yeah one like that and next thing next thing I saw I sure was doing the sidewalk was watching then I had the had the skates like Hillary Hilly's and I danced on him I brought him at the ball this guy was like hey I'm selling these shoes they're gonna be the next big thing and I was like okay yeah I buy some I don't really behind on the shoes but for the fact that I was like those are traveling shoes so that's worth something cuz I always made fun of people but I didn't know that she was we've got a calculi we got a calculator on dude got a hidden pocket why is it they would eat up do it right up at night so you guys know where you walk in and I was like well shoot don't even have to take drivers there for these shoes and go makes time I seen them I see I should dancing it I think oh sure is tracking me stealing on my stuff somebody's watching missions still in our movies you know what he did he just came out she can't dance I can dance him he didn't even look stable morning we came out you know great to follow you know right asking about America's Got Talent where did you guys actually audition it we auditioned for America's Got Talent the San Antonio in Texas okay you're what led up to that see the thing was two years prior we had an audition for America's Got in Dallas and this was not the celebrity around if there's an initial audition you got to go through it even go to you know so nobody said we just waiting in line all day and then you go to this room with these no-name judges and they're like go in you know there's no sound system there's no lights two microphones and they're just like go and so we do our thing and they're like no we're not looking for rent two years later they call us and they're like hey our producer saw your video we loved it we would want you guys to audition and we're like like I'll tell you what take the video and use that as a submission and so they took that they caught us begged and I ain't you guys made it you made it to the celebrity round San Antonio get your tickets bla bla bla and so we go down to San Antonio we're at the stage blow the judges away and what do you think about the behind the scenes and we we heard everything was like you know scripted stuff which I mean it's Hollyweird so it's it's it's a little it's different like it was an experience to get to watch it on TV you like wine it took you know seven days but for TV it just took like 30 minutes my TV is amazing they made us look taller I'm not at my head I think he looked at nervous on us ain't it funny I couldn't help it even though things was being important things they hit like all in our faces like Rob it was a loan draining process long drying process they got us running and doing this over and over again like walk from that to that and do it again and acting sorted now her people that she always is that's a lot of shoes that's a lot of shoot man maybe was just it's as long and they just not letting record and a lot of walking so overall do you think you guys had a fair shake as far as everything well yeah I think we you know we blew it at the part we do what we do best we performed like you know they're feeling crew and their editors they did what they do they the show we did our best and they like our best oh you know here's what it is is there anything you didn't different I'll pray well I think I would have talked to more people and probably to make more connections like numbers and email addresses some of the acts that were there there was so many acts there's no coolness but that was the best part of this makeup friends with someone X and I think I think we spent too much time with certain few lakhs we could have been making with a lot of other ones like I really wanted to meet that band the apeman I'm arguing we only met them a couple of times and I really didn't really don't talk to me I only make that little scream ogre like two times and I didn't talk to her I didn't know she was a scream ogre if I would have known that would be my best friend I think it was exactly how yeah okay so you're back in Okolona thing now post-show what's changed I hear you already halfway famous here you no longer see all the way famous I guess people it took us like 30 minutes to get in and out of the store being stopped and now it takes like two hours restaurant waiters there's just come out here with me or am i yeah I take all the pictures you want like I would get in it already here and I'll call the city so we used to it it's just one so now we get it but the week it aired our episode aired then we were in Branson Missouri and walking through the mall and getting stopped left and right and people are taking pictures and going oh my god see we're not used to is people gone America's Got Talent portentous recent night bommai wrong and didn't they take pictures with us but this was a whole different thing and this isn't a whole different state and so we felt like we were at home kind of you know the people they kept getting stuck we have the king stopping and like the people that picture was like if you hold the camera our friends are like find a camera would be over there really what's the feedback from you know your hardcore fans about you being on the show what happened I just like to say it went how it was supposed to go yeah and it went exactly as planned we did we did our show I mean all our fans have noticed no we have we do a show we was a crack as we krump did the crunk they didn't like the Crocker so a lot of our fans are like mad and like we got a I mean if you go on YouTube you see all the comments on the America's Got to video there's like cussing out America's Got Talent there's an F them and you know who is Howard Stern he doesn't know what happened tellin is and Donna that like somebody when was that they commented about hiding : said what was her telling again oh yeah everything about her is Photoshop and this is not recentness this is these people are fans you know Mike I'm just they don't need to hate on how's the judges it's good everything is good yeah we we were happened they was expecting me rap and more dance and we wanted you know dancing up to par so you know they're like well we're more what we had and what they wanted didn't meet their expectations the judges expected us to dance we didn't know that so we just went out there with the thought okay we're gonna do the song yeah and you know we didn't have a routine really but we did what we did we had a couple months that we normally do on Ice Man and they were like that was it you know like I said they wanted more dancing I mean what they expected what we expected just kind of didn't come together you guys grew up in to see um what about like how are you receiving the Native community goddess how's that been the Native community all reservations everybody is just supporting us fully I love it it's we're getting love all the way up in Canada it's cancer while thinking as I said and they're dead loving us the Navajo Reservation is just evil myself aboriginals and Australian yet Native people are in Australia you know they hid myself getting a lot of good response a lot of good feedback a lot of people just love what we're doing in there like minutes it's time it's time you know somebody from the Native community made it out what's next for Mike Bowman what is we want to take over the radio station my plan is to get maybe like an endorsement deal where we're trying to work open some doors with maybe like maybe a car company you know like the small ones my gosh a dozen across maybe we could even do a commercial with Shaq in the back you know maybe like Nike do they have the shoes for Native Americans they have a song about that shoe and the other before that hmm that's good we're gonna rerecord that to make it more better up to date a better quality we're gonna prank that just recently got to perform it for the project coordinator and the manager of the n7 division of Nike and they loved that I'm also trying to get in some doors with some other daytime talk shows maybe even a late-night talk show my Ellen DeGeneres or Conan O'Brien you know maybe perform halftime for the Thunder another door we're trying to get in cuz halftime show pick a card what is that this is Courtney is this the album featuring the hit song brain dance and right feet one take one the ladies put on repeat your strive to do the crazy you know 22 songs on that bad but yeah oh my god okay come on it's all crazy thing is we've got fans of all ages all races we've got Oh white ladies that love our music we've got young little kids that love our music and babies like babies people they don't even like rap yeah like our music my country guys a lot of music bikers music we even got deaf fans which is amazing that's our favorite part we had this deaf there's a couple of deaf guys that come up to listen to like I really like music well they have interpreters that say that no it's just like the beat and they feel it is what they said they also said like the way that how we use the transitions in our song it does I guess it doesn't feel the same as other music so I don't know what it is feel different it's what about future CDs you guys said are you working on the next project where Jean okay for the preview way all right about next day I was gonna be titled Oh City as a mouse can be 1000 City thanks my change but that's got sneak-peek tracks of what's the car we got a one of our songs on the radio right now called freshest one of the title track is called old city which will they perform in this we might shoot a video to we bout to which is it's like a praise and worship song and it's basically saying we're about to praise and we're about to represent Christ anywhere you know like bone will we don't really say it like that and she could be about to do it big it's been overall just do it being done so this arms on YouTube you can look it up we bout to also same thing with this one we all like halfway done CDs with 12 songs on it we're not gonna be done until we have like 20 or 22 songs and then we'll protesting yeah everybody's waiting rat ten right and everything coming up say got all over albums and I like you got some new yet and the like we're working on that we've been busy yet shows we got caught up with America's Got Talent and I'm like just traveling now so you got a lot of stuff from play we don't fish that rap so we like to take our time with our music and make sure that you know it's a hit what you're getting and not just something we threw together it's it here yeah and not just seven songs and we filled the CD up we'll try to get at least 20 songs if you know cuz that's all the CD can hold we try to give you what you pay for yep what shows you guys that booking shows what's the schedule look like all of our shows are listed on reverbnation comm / mic boom mic boom in my case BOE and he and Mike bar music.com that's under construction right now and you'll be able that shouldn't be the next spot to get all the hotness all the merchandise t-shirts and so that's why I'm gonna ask my shirt okay matter of fact you can get t-shirts on reverbnation right now people are getting us click on the store the rain dance shirts you can get my barn shirts you can get all kinds there's a bunch of designs go to reverbnation comm / mike blonde if all else fails just google us okay and there you guys community is important what would be your message to the younger generation coming up now as far as staying with their dreams and staying out of trouble our message to the younger people mine will be that you don't sit to the side and let life pass you by because the worst thing that can happen is you could be somebody you know you can you can do something you can inspire people you might do something amazing something somebody's never did before and you might inspire to change people's lives and that's a great feeling and that's why we do what we do my message would be you don't have to always try to fit in I was always the different one in high school and look where I am now me trying to be different it makes me stand out and a lot of people everybody want to be famous but everybody want to follow the trends stop following trends and be yourself or be a different kind of person people will be like I want to be like that you can't be like somebody else and be like I want to be like that smokin ain't gonna get you nowhere drinking don't handle benefits everything that these people are doing that a famous now they're talking about it's so fun I mean they do that because they're rich already and they can I mean but at the end of the day it's not only a temporary high and you know I'm I feel bad for they you know how they really feel you know they destroy their bodies and they they're not going away I mean I'm making no progress and they're they're destroying the future generations I mean you could be that person that revives us you know you got dreams you know do it and do good with it yeah we see two parts a twist he said listen to the lyrics of the music that you listen to and hold the artist accountable for what they say because if they're not you know bettering you in your life or motivating you to do better things with your life then that's a problem for you and that artist because he's leading you down the wrong path and you you're just following them so I know I got a quote I say don't go down a dead-end road thinking that's gonna get you somewhere you know yeah all these people you see like on cops and they get caught up doing this doing that you know trying to be cool trying to fit in and you know whether it's you know sleeping around doing drugs I mean and then at the end of the day it's not gonna get you anywhere it's not gonna get you anywhere you want to be yeah okay you guys send off little Mike and funny ball from Oklahoma City you got to stay native stay blessed and if you need a party thrown call my bomb

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Published: Wed Aug 28 2013