Hip-hop duo Audio Push are long gone from their jerkin’ days, now Oktane and Price Tag are airing it all out on their new mixtape Truth Be Told. 

MIXTAPE DOWNLOAD: Audio Push Truth Be Told

The hip-hop duo are signed to infamous producer Hit-Boy’s label and they’re working on breaking out of the “dancing rappers” stereotype and focusing on what’s important: the music.

Audio Push stopped by the GlobalGrind offices to discuss their relationship with “N*ggas In Paris” producer Hit-Boy, and how he almost threw in his music towel. 

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Audio Push Talk Being Signed To Hit-Boy, Their Celebrity Crushes, & Their New Mixtape Truth Be Told

Check out the exclusive interview below! 

You guys are signed to Hit-Boy. Was he behind the production of Truth Be Told?

Price Tag: On Truth Be Told, he didn’t produce one record. We didn’t want him to do it…I produce, and we have a team of producers. One of them is Hit-Boy’s understudy Ray Real. We really want him to executive produce and oversee the project as a whole versus produce all the beats. We’re going to have him do that on our album. For Truth Be Told, he just wanted us to do us, and it worked out amazing.

How did you guys link up with Hit-Boy?

Price Tag: Hit-Boy has known us since we were young. I was the first person to ever rap on a Hit-Boy beat. I met him like the first week he started making beats, and he met me right when I was fresh at rapping. He’s the one who told us to become a group.

Oktane: It’s bigger than that! He’s the dopest producer in the industry right now. This time last year, this time two years ago, we were in his crib when he was thinking about quitting music, and that was still our bro. That’s our brother! It just made sense for us to build this team, build this brand that is going to kill everything.

You’re saying Hit-Boy was thinking about quitting music?

Price Tag: Everyone goes through it at times like, “Man, I’m over this” because this dude is a workaholic. He has thousands of beats. We’ve dealt with lots of different producers, and they’ll only have like 30 beats. He can go into the studio with anybody with thousands of beats!

Oktane: He’ll ask what type of beat you want. They’ll name it, and he just click “Hit-Boy 38” or “Hit-Boy 47.” He has so many beats.

He has like an archive of beats.

Price Tag: Yes! It’s crazy, insane! Of course everyone gets that time where it seems like there’s some type of a drought. He even changed my mind state.

It’s just a positive thinking type of thing where everything you’re doing, how you go about, you’re thinking nothing but positivity. He started doing that, everything literally changed. Now you’ve got “N*ggas in Paris,” “Lay It On Me,” “Theraflu!”- all smash hits

Read more: http://globalgrind.com/music/audio-push-hit-boy-he-was-thinking-about-quitting-music#ixzz1s8J4VBYf

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BREAKING NEWS !!
Posted Nov 25 2011 7:03PM – Updated Nov 26 2011 4:14AM
NEW YORK (AP) — NBA owners and players reached a tentative agreement early Saturday to end the 149-day lockout.
After a secret meeting earlier this week, the sides met for more than 15 hours Friday, working to try to save the season. This handshake deal, however, still must be ratified by both owners and players.
“We’ve reached a tentative understanding that is subject to a variety of approvals and very complex machinations, but we’re optimistic that will all come to pass and that the NBA season will begin Dec. 25,” Commissioner David Stern said.
The league plans a 66-game season and aims to open camps Dec. 9.
“We thought it was in both of our best interests to try to reach a resolution and save the game,” union executive director Billy Hunter said.
The Christmas Day deadline created a sense of urgency because that schedule is traditionally a showcase for the league. This season’s three-game slate was to include Miami at Dallas in an NBA finals rematch, plus MVP Derrick Rose leading Chicago into Los Angeles to face Kobe Bryant and the Lakers.
A majority on each side is needed to approve the agreement. The NBA needs votes from 15 of 29 owners. (The league owns the New Orleans Hornets.) Stern said the labor committee plans to discuss the agreement later Saturday and expects them to endorse it and recommend to the full board.
The union needs a simple majority of its 430-plus members. That process is a bit more complicated after the players dissolved the union Nov. 14. Now, they must drop their antitrust lawsuit in Minnesota and reform the union before voting on the deal.
Because the union disbanded, a new collective bargaining agreement can only be completed once the union has reformed. Drug testing and other issues still must be negotiated between the league and the players.
The settlement first was reported by CBSSports.com.
Participating in the talks for the league were Stern, deputy commissioner Adam Silver, Spurs owner Peter Holt, the chairman of the labor relations committee, and attorneys Rick Buchanan and Dan Rube. The players were represented by executive director Billy Hunter, president Derek Fisher, vice president Maurice Evans, attorney Ron Klempner and economist Kevin Murphy.
When last talks broke down, the sides were still divided over the division of revenues and certain changes sought by owners to curb spending by big-market teams that players felt would limit or restrict their options in free agency.
On Nov. 14, players rejected the owners’ proposal, which included opening a 72-game schedule on Dec. 15, announcing instead they were disbanding the union, giving them a chance to win several billion dollars in triple damages in an antitrust lawsuit.
Two days later, players filed two separate antitrust lawsuits against the league in two different states. On Monday, a group of named plaintiffs including Carmelo Anthony, Steve Nash and Kevin Durant filed an amended federal lawsuit against the league in Minnesota, hoping the courts there will be as favorable to them as they have been to NFL players in the past.
Now, players will dismiss that lawsuit and get back to the business of basketball.
The previous CBA expired at the end of the day June 30. Despite a series of meetings in June, there was never much hope of a deal before that deadline, with owners wanting significant changes after saying they lost $300 million last season and hundreds of millions more in each year of the old agreement, which was ratified in 2005.
Owners wanted to keep more of the league’s nearly $4 billion in basketball revenues to themselves after guaranteeing 57 percent to the players under the old deal. And they sought a system where even the smallest-market clubs could compete, believing the current system would always favor the teams who could spend the most.
Initially, the salary cap emerged as the biggest obstacle. Owners first proposed a hard cap, but players fought hard to maintain the current system that allows teams to exceed the cap through the use of various exceptions.
The league was adamant the system needed some adjustment, because the old rules gave too many advantages to teams who could afford to keep adding to their payrolls. So the league’s proposals targeted the highest-spending teams, seeking to eliminate the use of the midlevel exception by teams over the luxury tax and prevent them from participating in sign-and-trade deals.