- Make some noise for the biggest band
out right now, Brockhampton.
(audience cheers)
- Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo,
this is Kevin Cinema representing Brockhampton,
greatest boy band in the world, world, world.
- Well, yeah, you guys are a self-proclaimed boy band.
- No, we are a boy band.
- No we are a boy band.
- You are a boy band.
- Ain't no self-proclaimed.
Just 'cause you see some black (beep)
and some gays (beep) don't mean nothing,
you know what I'm talin' bout?
Boy band, boy band, ha!
- What drew you guys to calling yourselves a boy band?
- 'Cause we're a bunch of boys and we're in a band.
- But, I feel like a lot of times,
the name boy band gets a lot of flak.
Like people kind of reject it,
a lot of like other-- - Exactly so we want
to flip that, redefine it you know what I mean?
- Yeah.
Why is that?
Why is that important to you?
- 'Cause some boy bands suck and we want
to be a awesome boy band.
- Who are boy bands that suck?
- Well, I'm not gonna say any boy bands that suck.
A lot of those guys are pretty hot,
you know what I mean?
- Sure.
- Ain't tryna mess my chances up with dating
one of them (beep).
(all laugh)
- Well, are you guys familiar with (laughs).
You've put out two albums in one year
and "Saturation" is a trilogy.
Why is that something that you wanted to do?
Why did you guys want to release music that way?
- Because we can.
- Yeah, c'mon.
- Just to flex?
It's just a flex, that's all it is?
- No, it's not a flex it's because we can do it.
Like there's no reason why people shouldn't do it,
you know putting music out.
- I wasn't paying attention.
- [Kevin] And it works for us.
- Why put out like so much music in one year?
"Saturation" is a trilogy,
it's supposed to be like three albums in one year.
That's crazy for a lot of other artists.
- It's 'cause no ones ever done it before
and we wanna do things that people have never done.
We wanna innovate and change everything.
- Create new experiences.
- Just like Apple.
- Right, well we're getting down to the wire for 2017.
How much, like how soon are we gonna expect "Saturation 3"?
- Soon, very soon.
- You know, we're still working on it and if it's not good,
we'll push it back to next year.
- [Host] Okay. - Mhmm.
- Cool. - Right on.
(all laugh)
- Make some noise for the
biggest band out right now, Brockhampton.
(audience cheers)
Ah!
How are y'all?
Ah!
- Yeah, welcome!
Squad up in here.
- [Crowd] Brockhampton!
- Okay!
- [Crowd] Brockhampton!
- Okay.
Calm it down, calm it down.
Calm it down.
What did I just say?
(audience laughs)
- All right well you guys all live in the house
together that you guys dubbed The Factory, right?
So what goes on there?
I feel like there's gotta be some craziness
that goes on there.
- I mean we film all the videos there.
So for me, that's like the craziest because
like we've done,
we've had alpacas in the house filming videos.
We drove a
we rented a U-Haul, got in like these wild outfits
and drove down 37th street in South Central
'cause we were living out there.
So yeah we've just done like crazy videos
'cause they're all at the house, so.
- Nice.
- Place is lit.
Y'all make inmates look real cool right now,
I just want y'all to know.
Now, Kevin.
You called you guys a boy band.
But you're not a typical boy band,
you see what I'm saying?
So how you guys redefining that term?
- Happy birthday, Harry Styles.
(audience cheers)
- Uh oh!
Uh oh!
- Nah, but basically we just,
we do whatever we want and we don't follow any rules and--
- [DC] Rebels.
- Yeah.
Like yeah.
- Last time I did that I got on probation, so.
I'm chilling.
Questions for y'all, y'all want answer some questions?
Y'all good?
Okay, what's up baby?
- Yes, we do have one here with Thomas
and what's your question, Thomas?
- All right my question is for Bearface.
And I know since you only have a few songs,
what is your favorite to perform?
- [DC] Good question.
- Uh, probably "Summer."
"Summer" is good.
- [Thomas] I love that song.
- Thank you.
(audience laughs)
- All right guys, well coming up,
Brockhampton is gonna mob Times Square
with a performance of "Boogie."
Plus they're gonna sound off on Facebook stalking.
Keep it locked right here.
- Right here.
(audience cheers)
(upbeat music)
♪ Best boy band since One Direction ♪
♪ Makin' itch like a skin infection ♪
♪ Did me wrong like a perfect stepson ♪
♪ Do me wrong, you can change the song, hun ♪
♪ Who got me riled up ♪
♪ Who the lame ass wanna talk 'bout us ♪
♪ Ooo, who got me riled up ♪
♪ Who the lame ass wanna talk 'bout us ♪
♪ Ooo, come get it from me ♪
♪ Uh, come get it from me ♪
♪ Uh, uh, uh, come get it from me ♪
♪ Break necks, I'm the chiropractor ♪
♪ Come on down, you know I got ya ♪
♪ Real shit, feelin' saturated ♪
♪ We allowed this spot, the haters ♪
♪ Break necks, I'm the chiropractor ♪
♪ Come on down, you know I got ya ♪
♪ Real shit, feelin' saturated ♪
♪ We allowed this spot, eff you haters ♪
♪ When you see me in the street, they say "Willie, Willie!" ♪
♪ When you don't see me in the street, I'm like a hillbilly ♪
♪ All sad 'cause nobody wanna suck my willy ♪
♪ Now I'm sad, everybody wanna suck my willy ♪
♪ When you see me in the street, they say "Willie, Willie!" ♪
♪ When you don't see me in the street ♪
♪ I'm like a hillbilly, hands up ♪
♪ All sad 'cause nobody wanna suck my willy, hands up ♪
♪ Now I'm sad, everybody wanna suck my willy, hands up ♪
♪ They be like "what the is you on" when we hit the room ♪
♪ Move 'til these throw me in the tomb ♪
♪ Hear the sounds of the pharaoh when we spin the tunes ♪
♪ Everything feel right now you in the womb ♪
♪ Wanna motivate you in the afternoon ♪
♪ Top shelf money, that's my new perfume ♪
♪ Twist it up, let it in and inhale the fumes ♪
♪ I'm the one that's zoom if you just assume ♪
♪ I've been beat up my whole life ♪
♪ I've been shot down, kicked out twice ♪
♪ Ain't no stoppin' me tonight ♪
♪ I'ma get all the things I like ♪
♪ I've been beat up my whole life ♪
♪ I've been shot down, kicked out twice ♪
♪ Ain't no stoppin' me tonight ♪
♪ I'ma get all the things I like ♪
♪ Jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump ♪
♪ Everybody jump, jump, jump, jump, jump, jump ♪
♪ Tell me what I'm waiting for ♪
- Hi, I'm Matt Champion and I'm from Texas.
- Hi, I'm Merlyn Wood and originally I'm from Ghana.
- My name is Dom McLennon.
I'm originally from Connecticut.
- I'm Bearface.
I'm from the UK.
- My name is Kevin Abstract.
I'm in a group called Brockhampton.
♪ It's hard to tell what the prayer compelled ♪
♪ You can find me dancin' in between the raindrops ♪
- Brockhampton is a boy band that
works out of LA.
We make all our albums at our house,
all our videos in our neighborhood
and try to do what we can with what we have, really.
♪ This is not supposed to be a way of living ♪
♪ Tear my temple down into a prison ♪
- When I was younger, like before I met all these
really talented musicians,
I was listening to like, I mean,
Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis,
what my dad would put on.
- When I was younger a lot of what my parents would
put on was like, like, classic R&B, soul,
like Motown and then eventually I got into
like beats and producers
and started getting into like bands
and stuff like that that.
♪ And I know that I'm acting foolish ♪
♪ Could you pick me up around noon-ish? ♪
♪ Oh yeah we coolin' ♪
- I definitely take a lot of inspiration
from southern hip hop from Houston,
people like OutKast.
So growing up listening to stuff like that
really impacted me on how I make music today.
- Yeah, and like even being like from a different place
than some of these guys.
When I like went to meet with them down south,
I gained a lot of appreciation for artists
I never heard of like Big Mo.
I remember like the first time like Joba
and I got in a car together,
like he put on J Dillon, I was just like what?
Holy crap like I just like wasn't expecting a kid
from Texas to know anything about Detroit hip hop
or anything like that, you know, so, it was really cool.
♪ I know it's hard, but we need each other ♪
♪ Know it's hard, but we need each other ♪
- I was in the fourth grade and
I wrote this remix to a song called "Party Starter"
by Will Smith.
And I took it to class the next day
and showed this girl,
her name's Taylor Little.
And she laughed at me, bro.
Like big time like laughed.
It made me really sad
and I didn't write raps for a while, but like.
- [Matt] Did you have the beat playing?
- There was no beat, I just showed it to her.
I showed her the lyrics.
- Oh didn't even perform it?
- I think she just thought it was like kinda cute
that I was like trying to be a rapper
but also like it just wasn't good.
For like two days I stopped writing music
but then you know, I got back into it.
(eerie music)
- St. Percy it's a,
we don't really get calculated with like
our songs and stuff until we start to figure out
what the album is.
So like we'll have
a lot of songs and then realize we don't have
enough rap songs on the album to like balance it out.
And that's where St. Percy,
that's how we made St. Percy 'cause there
were not enough rap songs.
I don't think there were any, really.
♪ Need to find the reason to make you believe me, baby ♪
♪ Young NOLA, PlayStation, controlling ♪
♪ Send 'em just to get 'em, I hit 'em when it is over ♪
Sometimes I just want to capture a,
like a specific mood and spirit
and I wanted to capture like,
I guess the spirit of like Lil' Wayne
and New Orleans and Master P.
And that's why I say Young NOLA
'cause I'm thinking about Lil' Wayne.
Means nothing really.
♪ How you do that right there, boo ♪
♪ I'm bamboozled, yeah ♪
♪ Legs go up behind the head like leopard ambushin' ♪
- For me on St. Percy I was just having fun, honestly.
- Me too.
- I just was,
writing to enjoy whatever I was putting out.
- That was the first verse I wrote in my house.
And like when we all got our own places
and stuff like that,
I remember actually Merlyn came over to my house, like,
in like January, around that time.
And we made like this really cool song
and I just like had this fun verse
that I wrote on that and I was like,
oh this is kinda my type,
but never did anything.
And then heard St. Percy when I walked
into the hotel that they were making it in
and I was like, holy this is perfect for this verse.
Like so I just like recorded it like immediately.
♪ Say Brockhampton, Brockhampton mother ♪
♪ Say Brockhampton ♪
♪ One, two, three, go ♪
- St. Percy was like very personal.
It was like music as therapy to me.
- Why was it personal for you?
- 'Cause I wrote my verse about
a friend that died and they said it was suicide
but I think he got murdered.
Every time I hear those lyrics,
I think of Kimo Abdullah.
♪ And they keep on hittin', ♪
♪ My ain't quitting, ♪
♪ They way too legit, aye, oh ♪
- Five years from now I'd like to see a really
solid discography that we're all proud of.
A lot of great music videos we're proud of.
Good tours.
And you know just like more people
listening to our music.
- We gotta make sure we're headed there.
Yeah.
- Can't be complacent, that's for sure.
Gotta keep pushing, keep applying ourselves.