Can you tell me about Treach and friends allegedly releasing vermin in the Tommy Boy offices?
Snakes and rats, yes. Naughty By Nature is the reason why, in the record industry now, [artists] have 360 deals. These days, the record companies are losing so much money that when they sign somebody, they’re signing them to a 360 deal, meaning they want your records, they want part of your publishing, part of your merchandising. If you’re gonna have a film career, they want part of that. If you want to open a lemonade stand, they want part of it. Everything you’re doing. We started that. When we got put on, we were, like, “Vinnie, you’re running the merchandise and fan relations. Treach, you’re running the film company. Kay Gee, you’re gonna run the record label.” We started that, and we were the first artists to do it in that capacity with all that momentum we had. Next thing you know, every other artist started following suit. When we put out our second album, we went to [our record label] Tommy Boy and said, “hey, we have our merchandise and we want to put pictures of that in the i
