| |  | | MTV Radio Network: When did you guys get started?Wuv: Marcos and I got together about nine years ago when we were in high school. We met through a friend, and we got together and started jamming in a garage and playing crazy stuff for all our friends. Then Sonny was doing something with hip-hop with some of my other friends, and we asked him to try to blend in some hip-hop flavor with our stuff. We borrowed Traa from my uncle's funk band, and he never left, and it's been P.O.D. ever since then.Marcos: We borrowed him and kept him.W: Yeah, we borrowed him, then we stole him.MTV: You guys have been doing this for a long time, long before it became hip to mix rock and rap together. Any feelings about that?M: No, it just opens more doors for us, and the fans that have been following us through the years, they know the truth.Traa: We've pretty much been the same way for the complete eight years we've been together.MTV: What would say success is for you guys?Sonny: Just the opportunity to have our music spread out to a wide mass of people. We always had a desire to play music and we have fun playing music. That's what we do. That's what we love to do, but when your music is able to go out to the world and a whole bunch of people are able to grab it, if they like it and listen to it and enjoy it and vibe to it, that's success to us.MTV: You're touring with Primus. Are you big Primus fans?T: I'm honored to be on the same stage with [Primus bassist Les Claypool]. He's influenced probably every bass player that I know. My first introduction to rock music was through Primus.MTV: You were on "Politically Incorrect" recently, too. What was that experience like?W: It got into different stuff. Do we believe that prayer works? Do Christian bands have groupies? Stuff like that. It was cool.MTV: Do you feel apprehensive being labeled as a Christian band?W: Well, yeah. I mean we're Christians all the way, no denying that, but everybody labels it Christian Rock. You don't here them saying the Beastie Boys is Buddhist rap. They didn't say [Bret] Favre was the Christian MVP of the NFL. It always just seems to be an issue, but you know, we play music, so if you want to just listen to music, cool. If you like the music, then hopefully you will listen to what we have to say, but by no means are we trying to force anybody to change. That's the responsibility of the individual. We've been doing this for eight years, and we're going to continue to do it.T: What we believe in inspires us to write what we write.W: If it's sex and rock and roll that inspires you and that's what you want to sing about, then cool. We're just talking about life, life as we know it.
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