ISA is the acronym for International Secret Agents, which is the “passion project Wongfu Productions and Far East Movement (FM)” geared towards uplifting the community while “showcasing he brightest and premier talent among Asian and Asian Americans.” With their last two sold out successes, the boys undertook their third endeavor in Southern California at the San Gabriel Playhouse on September 6th.
With that said, on September 5th, the boys of Wongfu, FM, David Choi, and many other artists and groups came together to give back to the community by holding workshops for kids who could otherwise not receive such mentorship in the arts at the San Gabriel Asian Youth Center.
They held classes for dance, film, photography, music, and even business. After the instruction period, the kids and artists came together and showcased what they learned in front of their peers.
After the press conference, private interviews were held where even we learned a thing or two about what the artists themselves and even got to catch up with some of our friends.
Far East Movement
PS!: What’s your next project?
Kev: We’re working on a new album right now and we’re throwing around different names right now. It’s more along the lines of “Girls on the Dance Floor“. “Animal” was kinda like a learning process, trying different styles and “GDF” was one of the last songs we did for that. The public reception has been so good on it that we kinda wanna make a lot of songs along that vein.
Proh: We are going on a 50 city tour with LMFAO and Shwayze.
PS!: You’re all up in the mainstream.
Kev: That’s the goal. Our goal is to lead by example and break into the mainstream and cross over by doing music we love. We love party music, we’re not deep dudes, and sometimes we do deep songs but right now we’re heavily into the dance scene and the party scene. You can’t deny it when you enter a club…y’know.
Proh: We’re also concentrating on doing another ISA and doing more 4C the Power things. Trying to do as much as we possibly can. We don’t really have a lot of time in this world, so you gotta make as much impact as you can. We wanna work with as many people and artists as possible and get more out there and help the community as a whole.
PS!:What do you think of Korean Entertainment in general?
Kev: We have a little interesting story.
Proh: Tonight we’re meeting up with Deux’s _____ for his birthday at where Crown J is performing. He actually called to invite us.
J: I’m a big a$$ fan
Proh: Yeah, we got the whole old school CDs that came in the plastic bag and everything.
Kev: We got that song with Se7en for his American album. I don’t know what’s going on with that but….yea, but we have a lot of respect for a lot of these artists. We didn’t know a bunch about it, but as we got to know it, they opened our eyes, even websites like PS! and a lot of the KPOP websites, we hadn’t discovered until we started working with the artists. Dude, it’s a movement. It’s a serious crazy movement. We’re blessed that they are accepting of us because there are superstars out there and we are just here.
Proh: The one thing we realized is you can’t do this by yourself and having more great artists doing different things makes everything so much easy. As long as their making music and you stay connected it just gets the word out faster.
PS!: What would you advise for people who are wanting to get into the music scene?
Kev: Go to 4C the Power.
J: Nice… hahaha.
Proh: The number one thing is you gotta stay serious and dedicated to your craft. As long as you focus and keep going towards it, that’s a huge thing. It may seem weird going to different events and meeting people, but you never know who you’re going to meet.
Kev: One in particular was there were only four people in the crowd but one person was from E! Entertainment and put us on the “Daily 10” on E!.
Proh: You just gotta stay dedicated and take your practice as seriously as possible.
PS!: Just for fun and to add some spiciness, what are some quirks you guys have?
J: I can’t say. Hahaha.
Kev: Every night before I go to bed… when I wake up in the morning there are ice cream wrappers and I’m like “Where the…” and then I realize that late at night I go to the freezer and I have to have an ice cream before I go to bed.
Proh: I never knew that…
Kev: Yeah, I know it’s addicting like crack. It’s a bad habit. I can’t walk by a freezer and not look at what flavors they have.
J: I’m all about the old school ice cream you know like “Jaws” and this grape icy…
Kev: When he’s bored, he puts his hair in his mouth.
J: ???
Kev: Naw, just kidding
Proh: I don’t know about quirks but we breathe music. If we’re not making music we’re working on music, if we’re not doing that we’re on facebook, myspace. We’re internet nerds. All the tweets and facebook that’s all us.
Kev: We’re not very spicy that’s what he’s trying to say. We’d be tofu…
J: We’d be Jook.
Kev: Yeah, just plain jook with no spices.
Proh: But you know what we gotta lot of banchan around us (points to the other artists).
David Choi
PS!: Anything new? Working on anything new?
Dav: I’m still working on my second album. I’ll be in Korea in October working on a couple of things. There’s some Popular DJ doing Monday shows, doing some famous festival in the first week of October, going on a West Coast tour with Kev, Happy Slip and Quest Crew, going to SDAFF. In November, I’m doing a West Coast tour here in Vancouver Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, LA, and San Diego. So yeah…
PS!: Excited about Korea?
Dav: Yeah, I’ve never been there in my life and my dad’s side of the family is there. I’m looking forward to the food, sight seeing, the festival, I’m just looking forward to seeing the culture and that.
PS!: So any new developments on the girl front?
Dav: Do I have a girlfriend? No, I’m so busy. I’m really busy, I can’t do anything…
He’s single and ready to mingle, girls~~
Kev Jumba (The Asian youtube sensation)
PS!: What triggered your first video ever?
KevJ: It was just me and my friends making a music video, and we did like two of those and I found out it wasn’t as cool as we thought it was. So then I started watching video bloggers and they would talk about their life, and I was interested in video blogging, but I didn’t want to be like one of those video bloggers where they talk about your life. I thought it was boring, so I mixed up stand up comedy with video blogging and that sort of created vlogging. I think I was one of the first Asians to do it, and being one of the first Asians to do it, they sort of latched on to it and now it’s grown to where it is now.
PS!: Are you working on something right now?
KevJ: I just put one out the other day and right now I’m working with ****** on something hush hush. It’s more of a higher production. People are usually used to seeing me video blogging, but I kinda wanna show people I can do acting and other types of comedies, so we’re trying to produce higher produced content. I also have another channel calledJumbafund, where we put more casual contents.
PS!: What do you think of Korean media/entertainment?
KevJ: I’ve never been to Korea but I have Korean friends and they listen to Korean pop, and I know the whole look you’re talking about. It’s interesting, I haven’t really delved into that demographic or that particular genre, but it’s an interesting media and I look forward to maybe participating in it.
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