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This is a Squad Up interview from Down-South.com...
Down-South.com: How did the Sqad hook up?
Supa: All of us we were like raised together since birth. This (pointing to Young Lo) is my brother and these two (pointing to Gudda and T-Street) are like two of my best friends. And we hooked up with Nutt, we kinda got with him on the rap tip, but all of this was from birth. [We've known each other from] middle school till now. Wayne, he was put with us. We was the Squad
before Wayne. This is the real family here.
T-Street: We basically all raised each other.
Down-South.com: Nutt you're the only one who isn't from NO East. How did you hook up with the Sqad?
Nutt: Well like one of the older cats in the hood knew Lil Wayne and knew that I be spittin' so he brought me to 'em and he told me to spit. So I was dang, here I am a lil boy in front of Lil Wayne. So I spit for him and that's how I got down and I done been family since.
Down-South.com: So how did Lil' Wayne get in the group?
Supa: Well, ya see how we present ourselves. We were some of the baddest bag carriers out there. I mean we were looking better than the St. Lunatics when we were on the road with them on the Nellyville Tour. We running around signing autographs as Super and Kapa. So fans thought we were somebody already. Wayne was first gonna open up a clothing line. He was beginning to see a little money so he was trying to do something on his own. But he really didn't have the nuts to go against Baby. When he really didn't have to go up against dude so that's how everything got started. He was so nervous that he was scared to even start a rap group for fear of what Baby was gonna say so he started doing the clothes. He started cuttin' up shit and bleachin' shit. He had gotten into the Giovanni design mode. So when he had came way outta left field when baby told him to start a business finally Baby told him to just rap. So niggas went into the studio and started playing in the studio till we really got good at this shit.
Down-South.com: Okay, once you guys got hot and everybody was waiting on a Sqad Up album but it never came out, why?
Supa: Man dude was nervous. We had gotten to the point that we were doing shows performing all of our mix tapes and some of Wayne's stuff. Man we did 90 paid dates. Like we were really that hot! I was saying man they gotta see what we see. But you know how niggas go to selling niggas them dreams and shit. Wayne kept telling us "I got yall. We gonna do this." Even though we were rolling with Cash Money it should have been no problem. If you're a hustler you gonna do what you're supposed to do. So time kept passing and nothing happened. At the same time Chingy started blowing up I felt that we should have blew up too because we had started off with more of a buzz than Chingy had when he came out. We had more of a foundation than that cat and J-Kwon. everybody that came out then and blew up. If we get that kind of push..if we get any kinda marketing behind us then we knew we were going to blow up. We had did all of the marketing already. We got people to already like us before they even seen us. People thought that Gudda was bigger than Bonecrusher. They thought that T-Street was just big and black. Now when they see the cats they see that they look better than anybody that's out then they go damn, it a whole other ball game now. That's because they see how marketable we really are. So we're like when are we gonna come with an album? They were like well let's just do another mi tape. We had started to get aggravated with the mix tapes. Volume six, nobody wanted to do it, nobody.
Wayne was doing it to relieve pressure because everybody was asking him -we got this fan base now what you wanna do with it? I done took the position to where I managing. I'm like man let's go and get a web site. I told Wayne lets get some t-shirts. We were just making our CDs and burning them and passing them out. I was the one who said let's get some covers and shit. I told him man I not telling you to leave Baby and shit I'm just telling you lets step it up a bit and show him that we serious about this shit. He'd be like naw, I'm gonna wait for Baby. I'm gonna wait on Baby.
Man it had got to one point in New Orleans where there wasn't no Sqad Up buzz. here it was stronger than ever and I was like damn, this shit can really happen. So it was like it's now or never, man. But Wayne was like wait for Baby, wait for Baby. I was like Wayne we got a better chance rolling on our own, if you ain't gone roll then you ain't gone roll, straight up.
Down-South.com: How did the Sqad hook up?
Supa: All of us we were like raised together since birth. This (pointing to Young Lo) is my brother and these two (pointing to Gudda and T-Street) are like two of my best friends. And we hooked up with Nutt, we kinda got with him on the rap tip, but all of this was from birth. [We've known each other from] middle school till now. Wayne, he was put with us. We was the Squad
before Wayne. This is the real family here.
T-Street: We basically all raised each other.
Down-South.com: Nutt you're the only one who isn't from NO East. How did you hook up with the Sqad?
Nutt: Well like one of the older cats in the hood knew Lil Wayne and knew that I be spittin' so he brought me to 'em and he told me to spit. So I was dang, here I am a lil boy in front of Lil Wayne. So I spit for him and that's how I got down and I done been family since.
Down-South.com: So how did Lil' Wayne get in the group?
Supa: Well, ya see how we present ourselves. We were some of the baddest bag carriers out there. I mean we were looking better than the St. Lunatics when we were on the road with them on the Nellyville Tour. We running around signing autographs as Super and Kapa. So fans thought we were somebody already. Wayne was first gonna open up a clothing line. He was beginning to see a little money so he was trying to do something on his own. But he really didn't have the nuts to go against Baby. When he really didn't have to go up against dude so that's how everything got started. He was so nervous that he was scared to even start a rap group for fear of what Baby was gonna say so he started doing the clothes. He started cuttin' up shit and bleachin' shit. He had gotten into the Giovanni design mode. So when he had came way outta left field when baby told him to start a business finally Baby told him to just rap. So niggas went into the studio and started playing in the studio till we really got good at this shit.Down-South.com: Okay, once you guys got hot and everybody was waiting on a Sqad Up album but it never came out, why?
Supa: Man dude was nervous. We had gotten to the point that we were doing shows performing all of our mix tapes and some of Wayne's stuff. Man we did 90 paid dates. Like we were really that hot! I was saying man they gotta see what we see. But you know how niggas go to selling niggas them dreams and shit. Wayne kept telling us "I got yall. We gonna do this." Even though we were rolling with Cash Money it should have been no problem. If you're a hustler you gonna do what you're supposed to do. So time kept passing and nothing happened. At the same time Chingy started blowing up I felt that we should have blew up too because we had started off with more of a buzz than Chingy had when he came out. We had more of a foundation than that cat and J-Kwon. everybody that came out then and blew up. If we get that kind of push..if we get any kinda marketing behind us then we knew we were going to blow up. We had did all of the marketing already. We got people to already like us before they even seen us. People thought that Gudda was bigger than Bonecrusher. They thought that T-Street was just big and black. Now when they see the cats they see that they look better than anybody that's out then they go damn, it a whole other ball game now. That's because they see how marketable we really are. So we're like when are we gonna come with an album? They were like well let's just do another mi tape. We had started to get aggravated with the mix tapes. Volume six, nobody wanted to do it, nobody.
Wayne was doing it to relieve pressure because everybody was asking him -we got this fan base now what you wanna do with it? I done took the position to where I managing. I'm like man let's go and get a web site. I told Wayne lets get some t-shirts. We were just making our CDs and burning them and passing them out. I was the one who said let's get some covers and shit. I told him man I not telling you to leave Baby and shit I'm just telling you lets step it up a bit and show him that we serious about this shit. He'd be like naw, I'm gonna wait for Baby. I'm gonna wait on Baby.
Man it had got to one point in New Orleans where there wasn't no Sqad Up buzz. here it was stronger than ever and I was like damn, this shit can really happen. So it was like it's now or never, man. But Wayne was like wait for Baby, wait for Baby. I was like Wayne we got a better chance rolling on our own, if you ain't gone roll then you ain't gone roll, straight up.
-and yeah, I hoped for the Squad Up album.. 
but it never came man..
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