"Eventually we made it up there," Deck would recall in an interview with Jonn Nubian in 2019. "I remember Busta Rhymes, and Leaders of the New School, QTip and Phife Dawg being up there at that time. You had to freestyle on the Stretch and Bobbito Show and prove to the people you were ready to take on that platform."
"Our manager Mook had a Scorpion, a 2 door car and we would drive that car everywhere for radio and college promo tours," added U-God. "I still have the pair of Timberland boots I wore back then that I call ”the boots that paved the way." After we started making money I put those boots up in the closet."