DX: Any hate?
Will: Oh, yeah, definitely.
Robert: Of course, somebody ain't hating, you not doing something right.
Will: This is the thing, aside from us being male guys in a group singing, people get the wrong idea. People be like, "Are they gay?" No, come on, we love women.
Mike: Love em!
Will: So, that’s pretty much the only hate thing we ever get. But we know where that comes from. We sing and some people think that’s soft.
Que: Especially, when you got five men and women are coming at them -- you got some dudes that don’t give a fuck, and you got some dudes that are going to hate. Its just hate and we don’t get that energy. We don’t feed into it and we laughin' at the end of the day and keep it movin'.

DX: Did the five of you have a bond even in audition stages?
Que: You know what’s crazy? The first audition, when I first walked in, I was saw Will and I was like, "Damn, I like him, man.”
Will: I did too, man. 'Cause he was singing.. I came off the elevator and seen how he was singing and I was like, “Man, they gonna get dude."
Brian: Get this, I met Will like five or six years ago on tour..
Will: Yeah, I was on a tour like five or six years ago.. and my group, at the time, was getting off the tour and his group was getting on the tour. They when they came back to Chicago, I met him.

DX: Before and after the first episode of Making The Band premiered -- Were any of you offered record contracts by any other major labels?
Que: Before the band I was in a situation with Sony.
Robert: I’ve been signed before this, he’s been signed before this, [points to all the members] he’s been signed before this, he’s been signed before this.
Brian: We not rookies.
Will: We rookies to this level that its going to right now, but we’ve put the grind in. The grind has been put in. I was almost about to quit. My grind was almost over. I been doin' it for a long time.
Que: I had a scholarship at Five Towns College and I was scared because I dropped it. So, I was like, “Damn, I’m taking a risk. If I don’t make this band...” I was nervous if I didn’t make the band then I was going to lose all that money. It was just such a tricky situation.
Robert: We all gave up a lot to be here and get a deal. I gave up my crib, my car, you know what I’m sayin'? We gave up a lot just to come here and not know if I we were going to make it or not.
Will: The hardest thing for me was working and being away from my son. To go from me being there, every day since birth and then to up and leave. I’m getting more used to it now. But like that first day, I almost didn’t come out, I almost didn’t get on that plane. It was like that hard. But I knew that if I lose my dream, I didn’t know how much I could do for him. I knew how much it could change our lives, period. But that one point, leavin' my son, I had to question why I wanted to do it.
Robert: The best thing about this for me is just knowing that I actually fulfilled a dream that I’ve had since I was a baby. Just seeing it manifest and the whole thing take place. That’s the best thing. But the worst thing -- You know, I just got one of those families that are really close. We one of those families that do everything together. There’s nothing I can do wrong. We just that type of family and I think being away from them is the hardest thing about this whole situation. Being away from home.

DX: You said you gave up a lot to originally compete. How did that all of that work out with bills? Did the production company give you money towards your rent at home?
Will: Man, no. I mean, they gave us a little money, but not like enough to pay rent and all that.
Robert: They give you a little money and I wasn’t about to be paying rent on something that I probably wouldn’t see again in 6-7 months.
Brian: They should have paid a little rent, but I’m not saying that.

DX: So, now you’ve already had two seasons on a major network, before releasing your debut album, Day 26. Are you guys seeing any money yet?
Brian: We’re seein a lil sumptin' sumptin'...we aight.
Will: We ain't driving the same cars before we made the band..
Group: [Laughs]

DX: Any of you starting to notice the pressures of fame? Any family members coming at you now for money and such?
Que: Oh, I got a story you gotta hear. I ain't gonna say who. I ain't gonna say which family member. But I was at an event with my family and one of my family members pulled me to the side and told me that they were going to be getting married. Here’s what they asked me for.. [Drum rolls on table].. $30,000. I looked at em like, "What?" That’s crazy.

DX Your self entitled debut album has just been released. Tell your fans where they can get it and what they can expect.
Will: The single got me, “Got Me Goin’” is available on iTunes. Album in stores March 25 and we coming to a city near you this summer on tour [with Diddy]!
Que: Brian calls our music,, “Raw & B”…
Brian: Cause its real. When you hear the raw emotion you can really hear what we’re saying.
Mike: Day 26!