Stoney : What’s happening?

Your group is starting to pick up a lot of spins right now with the song, “Laffy Taffy” - we haven’t been able to put faces and names with the song, until now. Give us some background on the group, D4L.

Stoney : U got bout 5 cats from different projects. I got with Shawty Lo and he brought me to Mook B, Fabo, Lil Mark, and we created D4L (Down For Life).

How does D4L fit in to what’s going on in Atlanta right now ?

Stoney : Awh man, D4L real. We trendsetters. We got everybody tryin’ to do it like us. With the sound. With the snaps (finger snaps). It’s really unbelievable. I can’t believe everything’s happening so fast. Then we got cats out here tryin’ to imitate our songs. But everythings going real good. We just staying positive and staying focused That’s what’s happening. For real !

With what’s happening with yall right now, are u getting greater response from the ladies or the fellas ?

Mook B : Man, it really don’t matter. We just tryin’ to go forward. All the negative stuff some of these folks puttin’ out ..... It really don’t matter. We striving hard for this. We been in this for a minute. I just got in this. I just canceled all that that I was doin’. Know what I’m sayin’ ? For this right here. I feel like we on the right track and nothing ain’t gonna be able to stop us man.

Shawty, they tell me that you’re the man that put ‘em all together. What made u wanna get into the business of music ?

Shawty Lo : I didn’t have no plan on gettin’ into the rap game. I guess folks use to see me in malls and on the streets with all the big jewelry on and they use to ask me if I was a rapper. I use to wonder why they would ask me that. I guess they were sayin’ that I had the image of a rapper. Basically, after the fourth or fifth time, I said, Shit, I might as well try this shit. We were already called D4L in the hood. So I said I might as well form this rap group. I went and got Mook, Lil Mark, Fabo, Stoney, and we tried this thang. What was it, end of 2002, Mook ?

Mook B : Yep !

Shawty Lo : Yeah, end of 2002. We put a little cd out in 2003, out the trunk. Know what I mean ? That was just giving us a feel of it. We was gettin’ a buzz. We started at a carwash. Now we got our own studio. Everythang good.

A lot of folks think that “Laffy Taffy” is what kicked it off for u and may not know about “Betcha Can’t Do It Like Me.”

Stoney : It go deeper than that, yo.

Shawty Lo : It go all the way back to “Front Street.” They gone see this thang bigger than “Laffy Taffy.” “Betcha Can’t Do It Like Me” got us in the door. I guess the world just hearing “Laffy Taffy,” though.

What were yall thinking about when u released “Laffy Taffy” ? Did u really expect it to do what it’s doing ?

Stoney : Our goal was to take this to the highest level that we could take it to. We give all the praises to God for keeping us safe, and for just keeping us healthy. We know that with the life we were living, we were gone either end up in jail or dead.

What do yall have to say to all those people who are saying that D4L is just another one-hit wonder and we ain’t gonna hear nothing else from ‘em ?

Stoney : One thing about D4L is.... We so consistent and so persistent in doing what we doing. We so dedicated to this, man, that we ain’t even worried about what no hater gotta say. Cause they gone hate u when u doin’ good and love u when u down. We just staying motivated and staying focused. We serious. We trying to make any kind of legitimate money that we can. So go get that new album, D4L: Down For Life, December 6.