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NEWS : STORIES
You could say things are getting crazy for B2K. For one thing, the red-hot R&B group is already planning two albums, due before the end of the year, to follow up their March self-titled LP. And then there's the fans they've been seeing on the
"The craziest thing I saw was this girl had some jeans on and she glued [press clippings from magazines] all over herself," B2K's Omarion said recently. "She had pictures on her arm, on her forehead. She went all out. She did the damn thing." The guys plan to give her more CD reviews to wear with album number two. "Our sophomore album, we haven't thought about [the title] yet, but it's gonna be something crazy," J-Boog said. "Our first album was self-titled, so now we gotta come with a tight title. We have to really think about it." They'd better think fast — the fellas hope to have their second LP of new material ready for a December 10 release. "Raz-B had a concept that we were going be talking about: We're not robots," Boog said of a possible album theme. "Sometimes people in the industry take you for a robot. People don't really think about you, they just think about what they gotta get. Other than that, [we'll have] some real-life stuff, something people can relate to. We tried to go for that on our first album, but with our label having their involvement in it, we kind of didn't get to do it as much as we wanted to. The second album, we have a little bit more control." "We're gonna write too," Omarion jumped in. "Get some of that mon-aay!" Omarion, who plans to implement some his guitar- and piano-playing skills on the LP, said their wish list of producers includes the Neptunes, Timbaland, Jermaine Dupri, Tricky, Fred Jerkins and Platinum Status. Plus the guys themselves want to handle some track-making duties. They had their first taste of producing while completing their holiday album, Santa Hook Me Up, due in October. "Lil' Fizz did some rap songs on there, and he got to produce some of the vocals on there along with his brother Romeo from IMX," Boog said. "I got in there a little bit, but Fizz did the bigger part of it. We plan on all working together when we do our new album." "We got the traditional [songs], like 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' and 'Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,' " Boog continued. "We did some new stuff too. Lil' Fizz's cousin Jhene is on the Christmas album. Platinum Status produced the album. We have songs with TG4 and IMX." Their whole camp was present during the recent video shoot for "Why I Love You." "We got to play basketball for a minute," J-Boog said. "We wanted to play for longer, but we had to shoot the actual scene. We shot it in L.A. All our family was there. It was kind of funny because it was the first time our girl group TG4 was actually at a video shoot. It was a good experience for them." The shoot went a lot better than the Scream Tour 2 kickoff show in Memphis. "Man, you wouldn't believe this, we only got to rehearse for that whole show for a week [before the concert]," O said. "We just got our show how we like it. The first show in Memphis, we didn't have our pyro, we didn't have all our stage." "A lot of stuff was pretty messed up," Boog said. "We're getting everything together. We had to change some stuff around, but it's all good. This is our first arena tour. And performing in front of all those fans every night, that's something you can't even explain." Like Jay-Z says, after the show is the after party. That is, unless you have to do a ton of post-show interviews, which B2K often do as late as midnight. "We don't really get a chance [to party] 'cause they're working us so hard," O said. Perhaps it'll be a different story when he starts work on the gospel musical "The Fighting Temptations," a project that also has Cuba Gooding Jr.'s name attached to it. "I'm supposed to be playing this guy called Jimmy B," Omarion said. "He's from the South; he's from the ATL. So I have to go down to the ATL and get me a little ATL action. I ain't been reading the script, but I did get scripted for that. Plus the whole acting thing, I'm into that." This report is provided by MTV News
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