It's time to get acquainted with a new hip-hop trio who go by the name of the Get Busy Committee (GBC) -- otherwise known as Apathy, Ryu and Scoop Deville.

All three artists have deep history in the music industry. Apathy is a rapper/producer who hails from Connecticut, and boasts memberships to legendary crews such as the Demigodz. At one point in time, he signed a major label deal with Atlantic Records, but sat on the shelf when he refused to conform and eventually left. Ryu is a veteran rapper hailing from the L.A. area, who was/is a member of Styles of Beyond, the Demigodz, and Mike Shinoda's Fort Minor. And last but not least, is Scoop Deville, a rising producer and son of popular 80s/90s Latino rapper Kid Frost.

After years of dealing with industry politics, they came together to form GBC, and make music with no restrictions, no limits and no boundaries. The result is their debut project, UZI Does It.

We caught up with all three members during their album release party in Los Angeles recently, where each explained how the group formed, the direction the music headed once they started recording, their initial doubts, and what they have planned for the future.

BallerStatus.com: Why did you guys come together to form Get Busy Committee?

Apathy: Ryu and I are best friends. I stay out here (in Los Angeles) probably six months outta the year. I stay at his crib. He's like a blood brother to me. Same with Scoop Deville, he's like my little brother. Us forming a group kinda just happened naturally. We're always hanging out together, we're always chillin' together, and we wanted to do something different musically. We had an idea of what we wanted to do. We listen to a certain type of music, and it just came out as Get Busy Committee. The last final touch was to put the name on it.

Ryu: From my perspective, it was a group formed outta frustration from past experiences. We all naturally hang out anyways. Scoop [Deville] is my neighbor, I've been rolling with Scoop since he was 15 years old, going over to him and Kid Frost's house chillin' back in the days. We were frustrated with the way things were going, the way we were being treated by people, because in our mind, we knew we had it like we could do the biggest music on the planet if somebody would see our vision. Once, we was cleared up from our situations with record labels, so we said "Alright, let's get together and turn the world on its ass. Let's do music that we wanna do, not follow any structure whatsoever, and just do everything the way we want it and not compromise at all. And, release it the way we want it."

This is the end result ... UZI Does It.

BallerStatus.com: As far as the music, how does it differ from the stuff people have heard from you guys separately and the past groups you've been in?

Apathy: Everybody knows us for doing hardcore, underground, punch-line hip-hop ... deep, crazy concepts ... rapping over a certain kind of specific beat. We wanted to have fun with it. We weren't having fun any more. I'm 30 years old, Ryu's 30-plus. We've been doing this for so long, and doing the same thing over and over again, we're just tired of it. We wanted to do something new. We wanted to do something that excited us. That was missing from the music, so we just started f***ing around, talking sh** the way that we do and it came out in the music and we love it.

BallerStatus.com: We're you guys surprised with the end result of the music?

Ryu: We were surprised and kind of uncomfortable with it, becau it's not the type of music we are known for or we usually do. What we tried to do was think outside the box and do stuff way different, and still maintain our roots at the same time. Stuff we were coming up with -- at the time -- we were like "I dunno if anybody's gonna like it. We like it, but we don't know." We were kinda uncomfortable. So, we started playing it for a few people that we trust, and people were freaking out about it. It was the best response we've ever heard outta any music we've ever done. Then, we started feelin' comfortable with it like "Ok, maybe we've found our niche here" and we just started getting harder and harder with it. It worked out.

BallerStatus.com: Now Scoop, you're known for being a producer, but you're rapping on the album. Tell us about that.

Scoop Deville: I always been rapping since I was kid. I've been around the game my whole like. My pops is Kid Frost. I seen a lot of sh**, did a lot of things, and learned that game before anything. Before I started producing, I used to look up to Tony G and Fred Wreck. We would be up in the studio making music and just doing crazy stuff.

BallerStatus.com: The way you are releasing the project is different and innovative. Instead of just the standard CD, you are dropping the UZI Does It album in an UZI-shaped USB flash-drive format. Where did the idea for that come about?

Apathy: That's all our managers. We got two managers. One of our managers, Ian, is an absolute genius. ... The USB, we all came together for the idea that it was gonna be the UZI, obviously for the UZI Does It (title). But, his idea was to do it on the USB and the packaging and bundling. That's the way things are going now-a-days. The old, conventional methods are out the door. Conventional methods of kids going into a store, buying a CD, opening it up, reading the production credits ... all that's dead. That's our generation. That's old and in the past. It sucks, but you gotta embrace what's gonna be the next trend, what's gonna be the next thing. That's the future of music. You gotta get creative with it because people aren't really f***in' with buying music anymore, so you gotta give them two good reasons: you gotta give them good music; and you gotta give them something clever to get behind.

Ryu: You might not like Get Busy Committee, but everybody likes UZIs with USB clips in them. We figured people would buy that and just say "Wow, and this record that I got that come pre-loaded with it is a great record too." Kill two birds with one stone. We got gun stores in Texas ordering these UZIs that don't know who the f*** we are, but they're still coughing up $20 bucks for them.

BallerStatus.com: You guys are doing it on your own label, independently. Why? You've had that major label support in the past, so why indie?

Apathy: It's not like we're jaded. A lot of people take it as that, like "Oh they're jaded, they're angry." It's not that, it's just that if you get tired of dealing with bullsh**, you're not gonna go to the bullsh** anymore. It's as simple as that. There's nothing too deep to read into it.

Ryu: The thing is this: when you do an album that you feel is a great album, it's a time capsule. You have to capture that moment in time. We could've actually went with different labels. We had labels offering, we had people who weren't labels with sh**loads of money that wanted to put the record out. That would've been a process though. This one is the stepping stone for the rest of our career. We're gonna put this one out now! It only got finished two months ago. It's already out. We've been paying dues for so long, it's just our turn. That's it.

BallerStatus.com: Apathy, you had a deal with Atlantic in the past. But things never really panned out. Would you consider doing through that again?

Apathy: I'm over it. It would have to be something crazy guaranteed that's outlandish that doesn't exsist and nobody would be willing to do. I'm just dis-enchanted. It's not like labels haven't hit us up, and don't wanna do stuff together, because they have. We're just not feelin' it anymore. It's all bullsh**, man. It's all f***in' illusions, it's all lies. And ... that's a comfortable statement.

BallerStatus.com: Tell us about the direction of the music.

Scoop Deville: It was more of being fans of 80s music and different 90s records -- putting it all together in a pot. We didn't really hold back on anything. We said everything we were gonna say and its gonna be hard to follow-up with the next. ... this could be a big thing.

Apathy: What we mostly listen to, most kids would sh**. Because if they got in our cars with us and listened to our musical tastes and iPods ... we don't cruise around listening to the newest underground things. We listen to some old school hip-hop, but for the most part, we're listen to Diplo and Switch, or Major Lazer, or Santogold ... it's not the typical sh**. Plus, we really grew up in the 80s, we're 80s kids, so we're influenced off that type of music. Ryu put me up on a lot of Cure and Morrisey, and a lot of stuff I didn't listen to too heavy before. That just came out in our music, like old Latin Freestyle that I grew up on as a kid, or old electro L.A. breakbeat b-boy sh** that Ryu used to be up on. We just putting no limits on it. I mean, we did like old 90s R&B [on some tracks] -- we actually sampled Jodeci, and we did another joint that sounds like Jodeci.

BallerStatus.com: What is your favorite track on the album and why?

Ryu: My favorite track is "I Don't Care About You," because it's so different than anything else we've ever done. I wasn't sure that we could pull a song like that off, and it's fantastic. I've never a song that I've done -- aside from anything with Fort Minor -- where I heard it and been like "This is a hit! This is gonna go!" KROQ started playing it and pretty much validated it.

Scoop Deville: Definitely "My Little Razor Blade", because that's the record that set everything off. It's just Ap and Ryu on it, but that record right there has always been my favorite on the album. The second one would have to be "Say What", because that was a team effort, and we kinda all show our rhyming skill on it.

BallerStatus.com: For a kid that hasn't heard about the group, why should they go out and pick up UZI Does It?

Apathy: It's something different. It's refreshing. Every track on it is fresh. It's dope. It's a fun album. You can have fun and not take it too seriously. If you're one of those dudes that's like "Yo, I just wanna sit in my basement and feel crazy about the world". It's not that album. It's an album to have fun with (laughs).

BallerStatus.com: How is it working with another producer?

Apathy: It's seamless, there's not problem whatsoever at all. Scoop and I work so perfectly, plus we both and work in the same program, which is ACID by Sony. Being that we use the same program, we both know how to do it. Scoop will be sitting there like "Yo, throw some drums on this sh**," and I'm like "Cool" I sit down and start f***in' with the drums. We just back and forth working with the production. It's fun working with somebody else. You get a different perspective. Sometimes it's frustrating and sometimes it's more fun.

Scoop Deville: It was cool man. We just had a lot of experiences doing the record, talking about just regular stuff that goes on with us. It was dope.

BallerStatus.com: What's next?

Ryu: We put this record out and we're gonna get on the road. We're putting together our stage show right now, which is gonna be like unlike any stage show any rapper has ever done. ... There's a lot of visuals involved, a lot of electronics and things of that nature that have to be done correctly. When we roll this out, we wanna be known as the best group on the stage. We're not doing this hold your nuts, walk around rapping sh**, because it just doesn't work anymore. Step your game up.