Hip-hop crews come together and some make an impact and some don't. If you ever paid attention to some of the legendary crews in the game most of them stayed together through thick and thin no matter what obstacle came ahead trying to break them up.

Honestly, many people know a lot of these groups are put together and most members don't even know each other from a can of paint. I can say though that the ones that do stay together have a strong bond that will never separate and New York hip-hop crew The League expresses that.

Co-signed by Sha Money XL and DJ Kay Slay, The League is a four man hip-hop crew here to bring back the true essence of hip-hop while also taking it back to it's birthplace. Sixshot.com gets with 1/4 of The League (Flip) as he speaks on the crews brotherly bond, the importance of their consistency, and their love and respect for Sha Money XL.
 
The League is a pretty good hip-hop crew, dope lyrics, good image, and ya'll making a good impact on the game. What keeps The League hungry and motivated to strive for success?

Before the monwy it's just a passion for doing it so you gotta love hip-hop. We love the lyrical aspect of it, we love riding hooks, we just love what we do and that what keeps us hungry. We keep up the grind, because we feel like the world has something to hear from us you know.
 
Talk about your other crew members, what you admire about their work ethic, lyrical ability, as far as their talent?
 
As far as the crew is concered we all inspire each other. You got your Jay-Z's, your Nas's, we all grew up listening to the 90's hip-hop, but as far as the group is concerned when we came together we started inspiring each other. It makes us go harder and stronger just by us inspiring each other. What we do amongst ourselves makes us more powerful as a group.
 
In hip-hop a lot of indsutry record labels put a lot of groups together. Talk about the whole story with the League and how they came up?
 
Most definitely, we all grew up together so we brothers first. All that putting a group together shit that's bullshit. It is what it is for it's aspect, but as far as were concerned we all grew up together so we know each other in and out. No matter what happens we will all stick together and ride it out to the end.

When all of ya'll is in the studio cooking up those hot tracks do any any arguments happen like "Yo I'm not feeling that"?

We never really had any arguments with each other is far as the studio is concerned. When we tell somebody something is not popping then we leave it right then and there. It's not that we really much argue, matter fact it's even better for us because we have more ideas. As far as the group is concered it's a lot of ideas as it's four of us. When we put our minds together it's just more ideas for the song so like i said brillaint minds think a like.
 
The League is from New York and as always people been saying NY is not the same. What ya'll gonna do to put the city back on the forefront of the hip-hop scene?

The way I feel about New York hip-hop is more like the tower fell. It's not about where you from it's more about good music so as long as you coming with real music and not following the same script as everybody else your gonna make it in life. Just keep your music original, just push, and your gonna make it.
 
Hey Flip you just keeping it real your not into all that regional shit!
 
I'm not really all into the regional shit. I t's just like I said it's not about where you from it's all about hot music. Of course it's not all on New York right now, because the way the industry is it lacks on to everything that's popping. So wherever it's popping it's real business like so of course they going to keep moving on with the business and latch on to what's making money. You know how the industry is they just want to latch on to what's popping and keep rolling like that. Like I said the towers fell and they will be rebuilt and we gonna make sure of that.
 
Ya'll got a hot record out "Beastin" produced by Sha Money XL. how did ya'll get down with Sha Money?

We grew up together, we knew each other for like ten yearsstrong now maybe twelve and we just recognized each other's talents. We've been rocking with Sha even before he got on. He recognized our talents, he did the beat, we did the rap, and went to the studio and layed it down. Ever since he been in the game he attached us to him and we been cool ever since so now we on our way up and he just helping us with that.
 
How much respect you got for Sha Money, because you know a lot of dudes in the industry when they from the same hood they forget about they homey's. How you feel about him getting to the level where he's at in the music business and come back to show ya'll love?
 
I respect him you know, but at the same time you can know somebody that went to school to be a lawyer and that's what they do. You can't expect him to come back and be like "Alright your gonna be my paralegal now". It's the same issues with the music business. If your going to go hard and grind with something that's what you do and make a career out of it. You can't expect everybody from the hood to latch on your back and be like just because he made it he gonna put me on and make me famous. That's the mistake a lot of cats be making, you can't expect to blow just because somebody else is on and popping... that's his career.

Now if your an artist on your grind the same way they will respect your grind the same way. With The League we have our work ethic and he see what we do and we see what he do. I respect him for recognizing our talent and our grind as of course were from the same hood. We work the same way and is heading the same direction so we will achieve goal which is success.
 
For all the crazy hip-hop fans out there can you explain the meaning behind The League?
 
The meaning behind The League is hunger, passion, and success. Like I said it's for the love of music and we got a message for the world to hear.

Ya'll also been working with DJ Kay Slay, how did The League gain his support, because he's a major DJ and he's not going to mess with you if your wack?
 
We started rocking with Slay like two years ago when out joints was bubbling on the underground. The song was called "Collect" he respected the song and wanted to put it on one of his mixtapes. He respected our talents and we respected his. About four or five songs later he just took it to another level and just hosted our joint. We just builded a relationship from there as the industry is all about building relationships.
 
J-Hatch says that at all his events it's all about building relationships.
 
Right, it's all about building relationships.
 
How will the crew maintain all the politics and bullshit in the industry being an upcoming crew?
 
The industry is the industry it is what it is. As long as you stay focused and on the right path stay in one direction. Stay on the same page with whatever team you moving with and you will be good like that. Be consistent as what I would say to all the other rappers out there. If your not consisent in your music they will forget about you quick. It's too many rappers out there as the industry is oversaturated so whatever you do you gotta stay consistent. When your on top that will help you stay out for a very long time.
 
How do you feel about the whole movement with the underground hip-hop scene. A lot of people are saying it's on the forefront right now as it's a lot of bullshit ass music out here?
 
It's a lot of bullshit ass music, because it's oversaturated. Everybody thinks they can rap when they really can't. It's like you got a lot of oversaturated bullshitand they just put a lot of wack cats and stage and the promoters is getting a lot of money. the underground is the underground it's not mainstream so you going to have a lot of bullshit. Underground got a lot of good talent so it's a catch-22 situation. That's why I say you got to stay consistent doing what you do until you get your name recognized.

This interview was conducted and written by Quinton Hatfield for Sixshot.com