BIG BOY RAPS WITH OMARION ABOUT B2K BREAK-UP

As you know, B2K is currently having internal issues in which they're all looking to resolve. Just in case you missed it, on January 6, 2004, Big Boy and company interviewed Omarion, a bemused and disheartened member of B2k to discuss matters regarding these issues.

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Big Boy: What is the current status of B2K?

Omarion: Yes, B2K has broken up.

Big Boy: Was there something that led up to it, were you guys fighting back stage, were you guys just not getting along. What made a group like B2K which I feel is like prime time and ready to shine even more, album out, always touring, new movie coming out.

Liz: Constantly number one on the video charts, you guys are blowing up everywhere.

Big Boy: What would make you guys say B2K can't happen?

Omarion: You know what Big, It wasn't just one situation I mean you've been around us and you've seen how tight we are man. It wasn't a thing that just happened, it was a series of things that have led up to this point and yeah we got into it a couple of times. It was recently at a show as you know at the universal amphitheater.

Fuzzy Fan: That was on the 27th.

Big Boy: Wow, wait wait, you all got into it?

Omarion: Not like got into it like we were fighting or anything but we were getting real close.

Big Boy: Really, at the show?

Fuzzy Fan: You all finished that show, and you guys canceled some shows after that right?

Omarion: Well na, so that we wouldn't get sued or anything, business is business and we had to keep it moving and put aside our differences and go ahead and do them shows.

Fuzzy Fan: Yesterday (Jan 5), B2K was saying that the last time they talked to you was the 30th of December.

Omarion: Ya, it was around that time because what happen was I don't know if you guys know but they've been saying like, I broke my leg and stuff like that and that is off. I didn't break my leg but I was very sick we had a show to do in D.C. and we had to do two shows that day and my body wasn't ready for that yet it it was like the first leg of the tour and we went to the hospital after that. I got an IV and everything and they did some CAT Scans and stuff like that on me and they wanted to do some major procedures just to make sure I was ok and I was like I don't want to do nothing in D.C because all my family is back home and everything. So I went back home and we stopped the tour. I was like, let me go back home for a second and we'll start the tour back up. Went home, made sure everything was ok, everything was cool. Then we was like calling to like, you know, we need to make sure we finish this tour, we got that dates fixed up and everybody changed their number. While I was in the hospital, I didn't get no calls from the boys and it was just like, that's it.

Big Boy: Now we were watching 106 and Park yesterday and you know man, we consider you our little brothers, everytime we see you, it's always a beautiful situation and, let me ask you this, as far as Fizz, Boog and Raz. They were saying more of they did a tour that was like 6 months and when they came off the tour that they didn't make a dime and they're throwing a lot of it on management also, does that play into part?

Omarion: Oh yeah, that's one of the real big parts that's playing in this whole thing because I mean look Big, I love Chris, but I am a business man and when all of this stuff was being said, about the management, you know me and my attorneys and my mother, checked all our books and all of our records and we went up there to our management company and checked all our financial checks, everything and they hadn't sent out one dime to me.

Big Boy: What about the other guys though, did they do the same thing?

Omarion: Anytime, any checks are issued out, we all get the same amount. It wasn't no favoritism, it wasn't none of that. Business was handled properly. And where I just get more mad at the situation is that you know like that's Raz's cousin as you know, but it wasn't as easy as them being men and calling Chris and saying this is something we wanna do or we feel like this or we feel like that. You know we've been with this dude for 5 years. At least have the respect to pick up the phone and be a man and handle your business instead of it being you know like we can't get in touch with him and then everything is public. Everything is like this about Chris, everything is like that about Chris. But like I said man, I really do love them dudes you know what I mean like, aside from our differences and everything and the group being broke up you know Fizz having his solo album coming out, Raz got his artists and everything, you know. I really wish them dudes good luck you know.

Big Boy: Hey Omarion, you're almost talking like you guys can't settle the differences with B2K and the break up.

Omarion: No, it's not a thing that can't be settled because I believe it can be but at the same time Big Boy, I think everyone is growing up in their different directions, wanting to do their own thing and wanting to be their own man. They are all 18 and I'm 19 and I think they definitely want to do their own thing which is no problem cause they're looking out for them and just how they're looking out for themselves, Omarion has to look out for hisself.

Big Boy: Let me ask you this Omarion, what was the moments and the best parts of being a member of the group B2K.

Omarion: Performing man, performing. That was definitely, you know, like, for real Big Boy, man all of that was lost. When we did that show, it was not the same. It's not the same drive. It's not the same anymore. And of course people gonna like think it's a majority thing, because all three of them decided to stay together and I'm still with Chris Stokes and there is no way like I said I'm a business man. There is no way. If Chris was stealing anything away from me would I still be over there. You know what I mean, with my younger brother getting signed over to TUG, you know what I mean. I was really really comfortable with TUG.

To be continued...

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