When we came out, radio was solely your avenue of getting your music out and getting your music heard. I do wish that radio was a lot more influential as far as our genre of music is concerned. Everything is social media now, which kind of actually puts a lot of the control back into the hands of the artist. SILK: Right about now everything is viral. What other avenues or channels or new tools do you plan to use to get this music to the ears of the people since radio isnвЂ™t the main avenue anymore? But, radio programming as changed a lotвЂ“ even the radio stations aimed toward grown folks. GFM: You have blogs like us checking for you and holding you down. ThatвЂ™s kind of how we were able to easily stay in our lane and stick to our sound. They have kids and families so they need the kind of music they expect from SilkвЂ“ which is more mature R&B. Our generation of music is coming back around, because all of our fans are older now and mature now. I canвЂ™t wait to collaborate with him one day, but our music from the вЂ™90s is coming back around to this time now. Keep your sound consistent for who you are.вЂ™ Even though I love Chris Brown, I wouldnвЂ™t try to come out and do a Chris Brown type of R&B record. SILK: Keith Sweat gave us advice a while back. Speaking of that, as you put the album together, musically how were you able interweave the Silk sound of the вЂ™90s with whatвЂ™s happening now in music and make the album 2016 ready? GFM: You mentioned that itвЂ™s not 1992 anymore. WeвЂ™ve been getting some good reviews on it and hopefully that continues to push forward. But, you definitely will hear the growth when you listen to this album.

ThereвЂ™s still that sexy, sensual, baby-making music on there. ThatвЂ™s not to say thereвЂ™s not that baby-making music on there. I think youвЂ™ll find that and hear thatвЂ“ the growth and maturityвЂ“ once you listen to this new Quiet Storm album.

I think weвЂ™ve done a good job of marrying the twoвЂ¦ of meeting somewhere right in the middle. ItвЂ™s not 1992 anymore, so youвЂ™ve kind of got to grow with your fans. But overall, the lyrical content and just us growing up. There are various producers on thereвЂ“ some producers that you may be familiar with from some of our other albums and some new. WeвЂ™re on an independent label right now and this is an album that we kind of have pretty much done and put together ourselves. Overall, weвЂ™ve assumed a lot of responsibility. The picking of the songs and the lyrical content of the songs. SILK: I think weвЂ™ve assumed a lot more responsibility as far as this album is concerned. WhatвЂ™s the biggest difference in the young men who formed the group years ago and the mature gentlemen who make Silk today?

GFM: Big G said that you wanted to be more mature in your approach to your creativity. We just finished up this album Quiet Storm for 2016, and weвЂ™re here to present the Quiet Storm album. But, we never stopped the grind and we never stopped pursuing to do an album. We did have few years off of the commercial side of the businessвЂ“ videos, awards shows and things like that. WeвЂ™ve been recording for the past six to eight months in the studio recently, and came up the album Quiet Storm. SILK: Basically weвЂ™ve been touring all over the world. Tell the Grown Folks what youвЂ™ve been doing and where youвЂ™ve been. GFM: This is the first album in ten years. We talked about the groupвЂ™s new album, Quiet Storm (OUT TODAY) and the mission to bring back the sensuality and anticipation to music otherwise known as foreplay. Grown Folks Music had the opportunity to speak with the R&B veteran group Silk.

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